Pastor David Kalamen | The Salvation Matrix | July 26, 2026

Well it's it's so good to be with you this morning.

What a week.

Got the smoke on the outside, but the fire on the inside.

Is that what you feel?

God's up to something this morning.

I honestly believe that.

I'm just not saying it out of to say it.

Get ready for what the Holy Spirit's getting ready to do.

I think it's really important that you keep an ear listening and an eye watching, a heart that's responsive, because God's up to something.

That shout, I've been in the ministry many, many years, and that shout that went up this morning was spiritual.

It wasn't just physical, it was spiritual.

And we don't know why the Holy Spirit led us in that shout.

But we will know why.

Because ahead of us there will be breakthrough and walls will come coming down, not only personally but corporately.

So thank you, Lord, for the shout.

Amen.

And thank you so much for leading us in worship this morning.

What a joy to be here.

I want to say thank you for those of you who prayed a couple weeks ago for Mike Matvieshin in the hospital.

Um God is breaking through on his behalf as well.

When we talked about praising the Lord with our lungs, I mean he had a collapsed lung through uh a bull ramming him and knocking him down, and then for a couple minutes basically butting him, broken bones and in the neck, in the back, and ribs, and punctured lung.

It's uh amazing how resilient the human body is.

But he was in very, very critical shape, and the Lord's bringing him through.

He's breathing again.

Um a lot of the a lot of his uh medical uh diagnosis is come becoming regulated well.

So just continue to pray and lift him up before the Lord.

Um I believe he's gonna come through this with an incredible testimony and and think it talking about testimonies last week when I was here and I listened to Cassie and Emily and Nick uh share their testimonies.

I had had a chance to be involved in the foundations class with them.

But what came across in their testimony and sharing last week was so genuine and transparent.

Um it reminds you of the power of the testimony to actually break through on behalf of many people.

You may not listen to me because you I don't share your background, but you'll listen to someone like them who says it was come from your background and experience breakthrough and salvation.

What a what a wonderful testimony.

And then I saw Jennifer here today, Steve and uh Jennifer Therion.

But Steve is watching online.

I know there's other people that are watching online this morning, so I'm just gonna say a big shout out to you because there's a lot of the Christian Center family that are global that connect with what's going on on Sunday mornings here.

And I want to say hi to you, Steve.

Uh Jennifer told me to say that, but but Steve was uh responsible for an awful lot of our technology and the advancement of this uh uh this ministry into uh education as well as served for many, many years at the Sound Desk helping, and I just want to express my gratitude.

We're in this series of talking about building the church and expanding the kingdom, and um I asked Pastor uh Brody if if I could share on something that has been really uh engrafted into my heart like I have not felt for years.

I've been a pastor for many years, and I've seen many people give their life to Christ, but I haven't always seen the stickability, a true and a genuine conversion, where people have actually lasted a long, long period of time because of their salvation.

And uh my concern has been that people really get to understand what actually transpired in the midst of their salvation.

And so um I've asked him that uh for the privilege of speaking on it next Sunday as well.

I don't believe what I have to share with you will fit into one message.

Matter of fact, it wouldn't fit into a year's message, but um I really do feel uh and I'm grateful for the opportunity to carry this theme forward next week as well.

It will build the church and it will expand the kingdom.

I want you to, I know you've been standing a lot, but could you stand for the word of God?

1 Corinthians chapter 2, 6 to 13, reading from the message translation.

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Um those who know me, know me, I do ask people to stand when they read the Word of God, because the Word of God is profound, it's inspirational, but it's God breathed.

And there's something about when I you know read the scripture to you, but there's something even greater when you begin to read it and hear what you're saying yourself.

And so sometimes the revelation of it comes to you in the midst of you declaring it as well.

So I'm gonna take the privilege of maybe jumping in and reading between the lines uh in a second, and then we'll move forward.

But uh, let's read it together from the message translation, 1 Corinthians 2, 6 to 13.

Paul writes, we, of course, have plenty of wisdom to pass on to you once you get your feet on firm spiritual ground.

But it's not popular wisdom, the fashionable wisdom of high-priced experts, that will be out of date in a year or so.

God's wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes.

He's setting you up.

Paul is setting you up with this statement.

He's saying what you think you got is a whole lot more than what you think you got.

God's setting you up by saying that what he started in you is in the interior.

He works from the inside out.

Religion works from the outside in, but God works from the inside out.

Let's read on.

You don't find it lying around on the surface.

It's not the latest message, but more like the oldest, what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us long before we ever arrived on the scene.

The experts of our day haven't a clue about what this eternal plan is.

If they had, they wouldn't have killed the master of the God-designed life on a cross.

That's why we have this scripture text.

No one has ever seen or heard anything like this.

Never so much as imagined anything quite like it, what God has arranged for those who love him.

In other words, if the devil actually knew what he was doing and trying to destroy you through sin, he wouldn't have done it.

Because what you're going to experience coming out of sin into what God has for you is so phenomenal, he would have not done it.

Think about this.

So phenomenal that no eye is seen, no ear is heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man all that God has prepared for you.

In other words, he thought he won by getting you to fall into sin.

But God's winning by getting you to fall up into righteousness.

Let's listen.

He says, but you've seen and heard it, because God by his spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.

We learned it from God, who taught us person to person through Jesus, and we're passing it on to you in the same first-hand personal way.

Father, thank you for your word.

Thank you for exciting our spirit this morning, for what you are about to do and what you have done and what you're going to do.

We thank you, Father, for your word.

Let your word be engrafted into our heart this morning.

In Jesus' name.

Amen.

You may be seated, thank you.

There's no more beautiful word in the English language from my perspective, outside of the word Jesus than the word salvation.

Salvation.

Paul refers to it as salvation as the highest expression of the wisdom of God.

In other words, what God had planned right from the beginning.

If things got messed up, God had a greater plan.

And he was so far thinking ahead of our mess that he came up with an eternal purpose and an intention that is now can blow your mind in terms of God's intentions.

Once you come to understand it.

Paul refers to it as the God-designed life, a life that no one's ever seen, no one's ever heard, no one has even imagined what God has prepared for those who love it.

What does it mean to be saved?

I truly believe this with all my heart, that few believers truly understand.

The incredible measure of the salvation that Christ has provided.

If we truly understood it, there would be such joy, such gratitude flowing in the body of Christ.

What happened the moment you accepted Christ in your life?

Well, a lot of people don't know that something actually happened.

Well, they know that they raised their hand and said the sinner's prayer and then walked out the door and maybe signed up for a new Christian class or a foundations class.

But do they know what actually transpired in a moment of time that they opened their life to Christ?

I don't think many people do.

They don't know what happened immediately, they don't have an understanding of what's going to happen gradually in their life from that point on, and they don't understand the ultimate plan God has with salvation.

If they did, they would go past the doorway and the entryway and start running around in the house that's God's building for them.

This is the gospel, by the way.

The word gospel means the message.

It's the power, the Bible says the gospel is the power of God unto salvation.

In other words, there's power in salvation.

Power to shift and change you in a way that you cannot believe.

It's the greatest power in the world.

The power of the gospel working salvation in your life.

Changing you utterly, transforming your life.

Salvation is not just about saving you from something bad.

It's about saving you unto.

Jump off the cruise ship into the water, and somebody throws you a life preserver and saves your life for you just to jump off the ship again?

The gospel isn't that, rescuing your life so that you can go repeat your behaviors.

The gospel is about not just saving you for today, but saving you for eternity.

And the gospel is all about teaching you how to swim.

Praying the prayer to be saved is just the start.

Conversion is a lifetime experience as God fashions a God-designed life in you, and you really have no idea how good it could get for you.

Satan thought he had won.

God didn't just save you, He didn't just redeem you.

He justified you as if you never sinned.

He restored you, renewed you, transformed you, revolutionized your life.

He made you better than before.

He made you better than Adam.

You say, oh man, it wouldn't be a bad idea to go back into the garden and be like Adam and Eve and look what they had living in paradise.

You're better than Adam.

Why do I say that?

Because Adam said, did uh Adam had not sinned, didn't understand the grace of God, didn't understand mercy.

But we've all sinned.

We've gotten an understanding of what it means to break the heart of God and break our own heart in life.

And now we we know how far we've come from and how far God has lifted us above our mess.

Our salvation is a better than.

Number of years ago, I was coming back from Calgary in a ministering at a conference there.

I was on the plane, it was the middle of winter.

I was sitting next to a guy, a young man like me at that time, who was reading a book called The Road Less Traveled.

There's a man named Dr.

Peck, uh, Scott Peck that wrote that book.

This young man, and you can put his picture up there if you want, he's not a young man anymore, but he was an oral uh surgeon from Orange County, Southern California.

And he had flown up to Benth to do some uh hell skiing in the mountains, and I struck up a conversation with him because I'm I'm you know in a burly uh jacket and everything.

He's sitting there in a t-shirt, so he's flying from Calgary to Vancouver down to LA again, so he's all ready to get off the airplane.

So that caught my attention a bit, and we struck up a conversation, and I I knew a little bit about the book, and the book is a really nice psychological manual on treating people nice and learning it to discipline life and understanding what it means to travel this road along with other people.

It's a very nice book.

But in the midst of my conversation with uh the doctor, I asked him this question.

I said, Have you ever done anything that you knew was wrong?

But went ahead and did it anyway, even though you knew it would hurt you, and it would create circumstances that would hurt you.

And he said, Well, yeah, I I I've done that.

Everybody's done that.

That's sort of like the human condition.

I said, Well, yeah, have you ever wondered why people do that?

They do what they know is wrong, even though they know it's gonna hurt them, and they go ahead and do it anyway.

That's very self-destructive.

So we started talking about this, and I shared with him what scripture describes as the culprit behind this, this problem that is this irrational problem and dysfunction that is fun happening in the life of the human uh the human life.

And it's the heart.

God calls it the heart, the nature of man.

No one can operate on their heart when their heart is sick, when the heart is deficient, when the heart is dysfunctional, no one can open up their own chest and operate on their own heart.

It requires someone on the outside, a surgeon, to look at the heart and fix it on that level.

And he understood that as a surgeon.

So I remember years ago a uh a neighbor of mine, uh, we saw the ambulance come into the driveway, and uh we rushed over to see how things were.

And this man had had um a uh pacemaker placed upon his heart, and what had happened was his heart had hardened.

He had had a number of times this had been done, his heart had hardened to a point where there was nowhere to put the pacemaker to trigger the electrical responses that he needed, and he had passed away from a broken uh heart that was hardened.

So as I was talking to this surgeon, I I explained to him, I said, we don't just need a pacemaker, we actually need a heart transplant.

And and what God provides in our life is a heart transplant.

And by the way, I'm a heart transplant doctor.

I can't deal with your physical heart and operate on it, but I can operate on it spiritually.

We can deal with what's wrong on the inside that keeps on causing us to do what we know we shouldn't.

The plane landed, and I got off the plane into an incredible blizzard, walked in, and I was uh sitting around the baggage area to retrieve my baggage, waiting for someone to pick me up.

And uh Stephen got off the he got off the plane and he ran up to me while I was at the baggage carrier at the carousel, and uh he tugged on my arm and he said, I need inner heart surgery.

And I had a chance at that moment in time right there to lead him to Christ.

My wife and I had a chance to visit him a number of years later down in California, and he was going on with the Lord, which is wonderful.

In 1999, there was a film produced by an American Australia uh Australian company, a Sky-Fi action film, and you have to be a little bit older to remember this, but hey, it's coming out and it's it's it's got some relevancy called The Matrix.

Anybody ever heard of that?

Yeah, yeah.

It depicted a dystopian, that's the opposite of a utopian, a dystopian, simulated reality that was created by machines used to subdue the human population.

Very interesting movie.

And the meta-narrative of that whole uh movie was simple.

There was a computer programmer, his name was Neil, which is kind of a play on new, and he learns the truth that this simulated world is operating and controlling him and everyone else, and he leads a rebellion to free humanity from this dreamlike unreal world.

He wants to enter the real world, he wants to see where reality actually lies.

And the story comes with a bit of a warning.

It says, Essentially, there's a prophet in the story that says, listen, the only way out of this simulated world into the real world is to enter the matrix.

And if you enter the matrix, I want you to know you can't go back.

Once you go in, once you get in, you can't go back.

Interesting, so it carried a little bit of a threat.

The movie deals with the essential question there's got to be something more.

There's got to be something more than what I'm experiencing.

I believe that is the quintessential question that is harbored in the hearts of many people throughout the years.

There's got to be something more than what I've going through.

Got to be something more than what I've experiencing.

Gotta be something more than uh what I know about.

Come on.

I don't I wouldn't doubt that you've said it at one point in your life.

The question, of course, is, and it's a question of the ages, it's the discourse of every philosopher, and on the cry of, I believe, every generation, there's got to be something more.

And it because it doesn't take very long before disillusionment enters into the heart when you're living in this world.

The injustice, the pain, the misery, the disease, the sense of the human predicament, the sense of loss of hope, to despair, the stuff that goes on that seems to be constantly brewing every single day, percolating in front of you, going, it's not necessarily going to get better.

We all long to be free.

To know that there's more.

There's something beyond this, that our life is worth it to press through all of this mess to get to somewhere.

Anybody?

Do you somebody have a Kleenex that I could have?

Maybe I have one.

Yeah, thank you.

I'm I'm preaching so well I'm causing myself to cry.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

So the film asks this how can we know what's real?

Humans believe that they live normal lives, but most actually are trapped in a simulated reality, and I'm gonna call it the Matrix.

Neo's journey, it centers on waking up from this deception and confronting the truth that he's in a simulated environment.

And the matrix represents systems that control people's thoughts and choices.

They move uh the the movie explores a future where technology has become so powerful it enslaves humanity to its own wishes.

Now that's written, what, almost 30 years ago?

I think we're living in that right now.

The Matrix resonates so deeply, I think, with people even today, even though we would consider it sci-fi, it's actually become a popular understand uh idea within philosophical circles.

One of the most powerful philosophical influencers of the 21st century is a man called Yuvat Noah Harari.

He's the mentor of people like Gates and Zuckerberg and Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum.

A forum, by the way, is attended by a lot of our Canadian politicians.

This is what he says in some of the stuff he presented at the last World Economic Forum.

He said, history began when humans invented gods and will end when humans become gods.

The whole idea that humans have this soul, this spirit, this free will, it's over.

Soon most of our most of the words in our minds will originate in a machine.

I just heard from AIS today, he goes on to comment saying, about a word that is coined, uh that it coined, that AIS coined by themselves to describe us humans, and they called us the watchers.

Not the players, the observers, the watchers.

AIS will soon become the originator of most of the words that will penetrate and rule your mind.

They will mass-produce thoughts that will determine what and how we think.

That narrative is being controlled as we speak globally.

So the matrix represents illusion, a false reality that keeps humanity asleep.

And Neo's journey in this movie mirrors the spiritual awakening that many people experience when they realize the world as they see it is not ultimate reality.

There's something beyond this earth, this kingdom.

What's reality?

What's truth?

Is there something more?

Can we move from where we are to this freedom?

What is the way?

Jesus, of course, made that statement to answer to his generation and to all generations.

He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man gets to the Father except through me.

Unless you have a relationship to Jesus, you don't have access.

So the Bible is clear that there are two realities.

The movie basically talks about two realities, one controlled by machines and the other a new reality.

But I'm going to break it down and say the spiritual and natural reality.

In the book of Kings, 2 Kings chapter 6, there's an account of a king of Syria that is actually wanting to attack Israel.

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And every time he plans to attack in the tent, formulating the plans, he goes to that site and Israel's no longer there.

And ultimately he's beginning to feel that there's a traitor, a betrayer around the table.

And one of the men stands up and says, Hey, it's not us.

It's this prophet in Israel, Elisha.

He knows what we're saying in the tent.

And he tells and warns the king so that when we get there, the king's not there.

He said, Well, Israel can't be the target then.

We've got to get Elisha.

Where's Elisha?

Well, he's at a little place called Dothan.

So he sends the entire army to take out Elisha at Dothan.

And Elisha's servant is up on the wall that day doing his uh daily jog, looks out, sees the army of Syria surrounding this little place called Dothan.

Comes back to his uh his boss, Elisha, and says, Listen, we're in trouble.

There's a mess.

You got to come see what I'm seeing.

And he leads him out and says, Look, uh, look at what's happened here.

And Elisha looks out, and uh the young man looks out and he says, uh, listen, uh, we're surrounded.

What are we gonna do?

And Elisha says, Um, don't be afraid.

Those that are with us are more than are with them.

Don't be afraid.

Now, this is, you know, I'm sure if you were a young man looking at that and going, you know, I've been with them a long time.

Here's my resignation.

Or maybe he's just getting a little bit senile and seeing stuff that's not real.

Both of those equations are not great.

But he says, Lord, I pray you open his eyes that he can see.

Okay?

Open his eyes so that he can see beyond the natural, beyond the normal, beyond the what is, beyond what your eyes can see and your ears can hear.

And the Bible said the Lord opened the young man's eyes, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around about Elisha.

Well, the Bible says that about you, by the way.

Did you know that you're you're surrounded by the angels of heaven?

That they're shouting words and song and singing songs of deliverance over you all the time.

You're not alone.

So, in a moment of time, he began to understand there are two new two realities.

Okay?

One is natural and one is supernatural.

Oh, we know that uh in the natural way when we take a look at science.

Science says, well, basically you've got to be observable and measurable, and oh, you know, all of that, the scientific method.

But but then how do you get a quart of love?

Give me two kilograms of courage.

See, there are things in life that go way beyond the natural that can be touched or felt or weighed.

And it's a spiritual reality that God wants to bring you into.

There is a supernatural realm above and beyond the natural realm.

Now, was it true that the Syrian army was there surrounding the city?

It was true.

We don't deny true.

But I wasn't saved by true.

I was saved by the truth.

Tell it now.

Now, the word truth, Jesus makes a statement.

He says, He said, Um, if you're my disciples, you'll be in the word, and the word will be in you, and you will know the truth, and the truth will free you.

The word truth there in the Greek means the reality behind the appearance of something.

In other words, are you gonna live your life on the basis of what you see, or are you gonna live it on the basis of faith in what you don't see?

But you see by faith, that you know by faith.

I tell you, there's totally two different perspectives.

If you're gonna live by looking at the Syrian army, you're gonna have fear, you're gonna have panic, you're gonna have anxiety by what you see.

But if you live by what Elisha saw in the spirit, the truth sets him free and he's at peace in the midst of a very difficult situation.

So we have choices in life, right?

What kind of world are we going to live in?

We need to be saved.

We need to be saved.

Whose words are you going to live by in this generation, in this 21st century?

Words manipulating the narrative of what is real life by AIS?

Or are you going to live by the Word of God?

Is the Word of God gonna get inside of you and you're gonna go, I'm Christian, I'm in this world, but I'm not of this world?

I'm a citizen of Canada, by the way.

Uh I got into trouble one time at the entering into our country when they asked me my citizenship, and I said heaven.

I wouldn't advise anyone to do that.

How many of you know I've got dual citizenship?

And when I pray, I pray that the kingdom of heaven come.

That it be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Hallelujah.

Because there's a different reality that I live with.

I'm thinking of that which is above and not beneath.

I'm thinking of that which is in him and not in me.

Something has shifted.

Now, this is the salvation matrix that I want to talk to you about and I want to expand on next week so that you.

This is a little bit of a teaser, okay.

In Matthew chapter 11, verse 12, Jesus says this to his disciples.

Matthew 11:12

He says, the kingdom of heaven suffers violent assault, and violent men seize it by force.

The kingdom of God, meaning that other that other reality suffers violence, and violent men take it by force.

It's a very interesting term, and I've I've looked at it so many different ways, and then I began to study the Greek in this, and there's a word for violent, it is byazeta, and it means to be subjected to force, to force one's way forward, or to advance with compelling power.

Now, a good analogy to describe that word of this transition from the kingdom of this world to the kingdom of God is the word matrix.

Now, its reference is pictorial.

To help you understand what he's talking about here, he describes it as the baby in the womb that is about ready to come and enters the birth canal, the matrix.

How many of you I'm I'm not a woman, I'll make it very clear.

I don't know about the pain of childbirth.

I can't identify with that whole process except I was there.

I saw what my wife went through.

But I can say this that when that baby chooses to come, it's coming.

And you can't hold that baby back.

Once it enters the matrix, there's no turning back.

Hello?

And what Jesus is saying through this statement is, do you really mean business?

Do you really want to be out of that, this earthly kingdom and into the kingdom of God?

Do you really want to know what heaven feels like?

Do you really want to see beyond what you see, feel beyond what you feel, hear beyond what you hear, have a revelation of what could be rather than what is?

Do you really want it?

How badly do you want it?

And he poses that that that principle of essentially, you've got to want it just like that baby wants to be born.

See, the born-again experience is not like, oh well, I got nothing else to do today.

I mean, life is a mess, but it can't be worse, so I'll try Jesus.

Uh-uh.

No, no, no, that's that's not going to get you there where God wants you.

He's saying that there has to be a genuine drive and compulsion inside of you that that comes from a place of rashly looking at life and going, that's the way my life is right now, and it feels controlled.

I don't feel I feel like a slave.

I feel like I'm being pulled in all kinds of directions.

Uh, my life is not my own.

I need out.

There's got to be something more.

You've got to recognize you absolutely need help to get from where you are to where God wants you to be.

That you can't do it in your own power.

You can't do it in your own power.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

For many Christians, their foot crosses the threshold of the church.

They get an understanding of Christianity, but they stay where they got in.

It's like the little boy that kept on falling out of bed.

Mom and dad kept on putting them back into bed, and finally they ask the question, What what why are you falling out of bed all the time?

He says, I guess I just sleep too close to where I got in.

Is that something that is relevant for the modern 21st century church?

You're sleeping too close to where you got in.

You haven't advanced into what God's calling you into, what eye is not seen, ear is not heard, what neither has entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love you, love him.

They stay at the threshold and they don't enter the home.

They got enough of religion to immunize them against true Christianity.

They call themselves Christian.

They have had an encounter with God, but they didn't go beyond where God called them into everything.

Now there's a story years ago.

I'll be I'll be done soon.

Starting to cry again.

A story I heard of a man who was making a transatlantic ship uh crossing, boarded a ship, paid for the charter, had worked hard, saved his money, bought a one-way ticket to America.

While I was on board the ship, the story goes on that he stayed in the stateroom.

He ate crackers and cheese and sardines and was trying to make it away his way across uh into America.

The cabin boy would come in and clean up the room every once in a while, and one day he just said to him, Why are you spending so much time in your room and eating so little?

The man said, Well, I only had enough to pay for the ticket.

The young man responded by saying, Don't you know that the ticket gave you an all-inclusive right to everything on the ship?

Okay.

Are you hearing what I'm saying this morning?

You have an all-inclusive right.

Your sons and daughters.

Your sons and daughters.

Of the king, of the universe, the king of kings.

You have access like no one else has access.

When you gave your life to Christ, you opened the door into something so phenomenal you cannot imagine what is before you.

I got this letter this last uh week.

About 40-year letter.

And I won't give you the names, but I'll just read the letter to you, can I?

I thought it was really interesting because I was speaking on this issue of salvation, and so the letter shows up.

You don't know me, but my brother and I in April of 1986.

So how many years ago is that?

40?

Can't believe it's 40 years old.

We arrived at the evening service at KCC as non-believers, homeless and addicted to drugs, where your dad, he was this was written to Brody and passed on to me.

He said to your dad, myself, was preaching.

We often would go down to the lighthouse where we could get donuts and coffee for free.

That was one of the ministries we had on the street.

Then one Sunday night in April of 1986, we were asked to go to the evening church service.

We didn't want to go, but we liked the free food.

So we sat at the very back of the church, halfway through the service.

He says, Your dad, towards the end of the service, said there were two people that God had been searching for.

That was us.

Two long-haired hippies with leather jackets.

We looked at each other and we wept as we met our Savior that night and gave our heart to the Lord.

Everyone there, hundreds of brothers and sisters, stood and praised God that evening.

Today my wife and I were at a secondhand store looking for a frying pan, but instead found this book, The Life Per Life Purpose by David Caluman.

And I've been praying.

I don't know what he's doing in a secondhand store.

But I've been praying, he said to the Lord.

To renew my first love and burn within me as he did that night with my brother when we became born again.

He says, I thought you might be encouraged by that testimony and how much your dad played part in my salvation.

Wonderful letter, encouraging to a pastor.

Because not everybody, you don't know how many people are actually listening to what you're saying, and it's just going, you know, over their head.

What I'm here to say to you today is there's a whole lot more.

Salvation is the most magnanimous gift that could possibly be given to you, and it opens up a life in front of you that every day it will take you the rest of eternity to search out.

And you haven't even scratched the surface.

Matter of fact, the Bible says that the angels in heaven shake their heads over how gracious and merciful God has been to us sinners.

And the plan that He has created for us for eternity.

They just they are in awe of God's mercy over us.

So if I can have the team come forward, I just want to say this to you.

Next week we're going to explore the amount of stuff that God has provided for you.

I'm not even going to be able to touch it all.

I I might even have to just go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom to you because it is so deep and overwhelming that your minds will go, I can't believe it.

Well, believe it.

Believe it.

This is the wisdom of God that Paul was talking about here in First Corinthians chapter 2.

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He was saying it is a wisdom that God has been preparing to redeem people on a level that you cannot believe.

And are you just, have you bought the ticket?

And are you just staying in your stateroom?

Are you just hanging out?

Or are you going to press into the matrix, push into everything that God has for you?

Now, maybe some of you here today, you don't know the Lord, and you have not entered the matrix.

You know, you're saying in your heart, there's got to be something more.

Got to be something more.

I'm telling you that there is a whole lot more, more than you could possibly fathom.

And you don't need to stay where you are.

You can enter the matrix.

Now, here's the prophetic challenge to you.

Once you enter the matrix, there's no turning back.

You mean business?

You really want to get to where God wants you to be, take you from where you've been to where He wants you, then you're going to have to have that aggression as a baby being born.

Entering into the birth canal.

I'm moving out of this womb into another world.

If you're here this morning and that's you, and you've never given your life to Christ, just raise your hand and say, Hey, I want that.

I want that for my life.

I don't know if you're here.

Yes, anybody here?

If not, you bring as many people next Sunday as possible and let them know the incredible value of salvation for their life.

They need to hear this.

You can't just be saved and enter like the lepers did into the Syrian camp and find all the food that they wanted.

It's not good for us in this day of good news to sit here eating when there's a whole city that's dying of starvation.

That's a great word.

Establish your word in our heart right now.

Ignite a passion in us to move beyond the threshold into all that you have intended for our life.

Hallelujah.

Thank you for your salvation.

And Lord, what my eye is not seen, I want to see.

And what my ear is not heard, I want to hear.

And what is not entered into my heart and imagination, I want you to fill my imagination with all of the contextuality of this wisdom of God in your provision of salvation.

Lord, draw me up.

Draw me up.

And if I if there are those that do not know you, Lord, I try that you draw them into this matrix.

In Jesus' name.

Hallelujah.

Would you say in Jesus' name?

Would you say, salvation come?

Salvation come.

Hallelujah.

Say it again Salvation come.

Hallelujah.

Salvation come.

Hallelujah.

Thank you, Lord.

Bless you.