God's Kingdom is Unstoppable // Unstoppable series (part 5) // Pastor Drew

Clay, it is already a good start to this

Sunday. Amen. Amen. Amen. Guys, for

real, if

you all you got to do say, "God, the

rest of my life, I don't know how long

it's going to be. I don't know how short

it's going to

be." If you make that decision, you make

that commitment to the

Lord, I want to I I just I just praise

the Lord because it's the greatest

decision you will ever make.

And it's it's I I've been able to have

the conversation. I'm a little extra

amped today. So, you're going to have to

give me

grace. I got three kids getting baptized

today. And it's been so fun having these

conversations going, "Hey, you're young,

you're eight, you're 10, you're 12. Are

you sure as you grow older that you're

gonna want to stick with this commitment

because this is a this is till the

grave? It's a big decision to make when

you're young. It's a big decision to

make when you're old. It's a big

decision to make at any time. But it's

the greatest decision you will ever

make. You will ever make. And I

guarantee you, I've made a lot of

decisions I regret. Anybody with me?

Anybody with me? Come on. Yes. You will

never regret giving absolutely

everything to

Christ. You will

not. So, what I want to do is I want to

I want to get us started

here. I don't know about

you, but I feel like I've heard this

statement. We're in unprecedented times

way more than I'm comfortable with

recently. Anybody with me? Right? Like,

oh my goodness. Have you heard about

this this

international like issues going on?

We're this is

unprecedented. Can you believe this this

virus that shut the whole world down?

It's absolutely

unprecedented. The technology that's out

there, the the the powers, the the

corporate powerful people and all these

policies and and it's

unprecedented. I don't know about you

guys, sometime I'm I'm getting sick of

it.

It's easy in the world that we live in

to start to feel totally out of control,

right? Like whether it is whether it's

like what do I do with

AI? Whether it's like how like what's up

with these taxes? Didn't we ditch

England for less than this, right? Like

whether it's all these powerful

organizations that are telling me what I

got to do and and how much I got to pay

and whether I can have a house or not

and like all this stuff. And I'm like, I

feel like I'm just this little pawn in

this big pool and I don't really know

what to do. And it feels a little bit

outside of my

control. I don't know about you guys, if

you've ever

felt out of control because what am I

supposed to

do if I'm a fan of AI or if I'm against

AI?

What what does it

change? What if I'm afraid of what it's

going to bring? Well, I I don't I don't

know. What can I

do? Seems like that ball's already

rolling. The reality is is that if you

look at this type of feeling, whenever

you go, man, the the it seems like

there's bigger, higher, more powerful

people than me that are determining a

lot about my life, more than I feel

comfortable

with. And if whenever you feel that,

believe it or not, that's actually more

common than not throughout the history

of specifically within the Bible as

well, within Christians and followers of

the Lord. You see that? This is more

common than them going, "Oh man, I'm in

this place where I just I trust my

leaders. We got a great king. We got a

great authority above us. It's a good

power that is in

control sitting on the throne. And the

reality is is that more often than

not when we when we think about the the

people that are in the the places of

power and leading these organizations

and these governments. And we like to

think about powerful people like

Superman.

really

powerful, also really good and just

wants to help, just wants to defend the

everybody else and wants to be

compassionate. When in

reality, most evidence points to it's a

little bit more like

Homelander. Anybody

familiar? Put your hand down. You should

not be I don't I'm

kidding. Homelander to my I haven't seen

I haven't seen the show The Boys, but

there's this there's it's The Boys,

right? Right. I'm not making that right.

It's the boys and there's I So I I chat

GPT this so I know I know a little bit.

I know a little bit. Okay. Kind of a big

deal. Uh no, Homelander is like this

more honestly more realistic Superman.

He's Superman. All got all the powers.

Everybody loves him, but he's an

absolute narcissist and he's crazy and

he's unpredictable and he's getting

crazier as the show goes on. Is that

accurate? Yeah. Okay. So, he's like this

violent, crazy, super powerful dude

that's probably more realistic if

Superman was

real, right? Because we all got sin

inside of us. And as you get more money,

as you get more power, as you get more

authority, usually what it does is it

just amplifies whoever you already

are. And so, this is the this is the

problem. In fact, anytime I feel that

weight of out of control, what do I do

about these powers above me? Romans 8:31

Romans 8:31–39

through39, that's been our passage for

this series, is the best passage to read

on this. Can we read this? Go to the

word when you're nervous. Go to the word

every single time. Romans 8:31. Here we

Romans 8:31

go. I'm going to pull it up until we get

it up on the screen. Romans chapter 8:31

says, "What then shall we say to these

things? If God is for us, who can be

against us? Come on. He did not even

spare his own son, but gave him up for

us all. How will he not also with him

grant us

everything?" Who can bring an accusation

against God's

elect? God is the one who justifies.

Who is the one who condemns? Christ is

the one who died, but even more has been

raised. Where are we at? Hold on. I'm

losing my spot. Here we go. Has been

raised. He is also at the right hand of

God and intercedes for us. Verse 35. Who

can separate us from the love of Christ?

Can affliction or distress or

persecution or famine or nakedness or

danger a sword? As it's written, because

of you, we are being put to death all

day long. We're counted as sheep to be

slaughtered. Verse 37, knowing all these

things, we are more than conquerors

through him who loved us. And then this

is the core passage. Verse 38 through39.

Here we go. For I am convinced, I am

persuaded that neither death nor life,

nor angels, nor rulers or demons, nor

things present or things to come, nor

powers, nor heights, nor depth, nor any

other created thing will be able to

separate us from the love of God that is

in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Now, this is one of those truths that we

know

it, but man, we miss it in our hearts so

many times.

Right. Right. It's not my natural

reaction to come out of a diagnosis

conversation with the doctor, get bad

news, and go, "Oh, but I know God's

bigger than this." That's not

natural. I know when after the

conversation with the boss and and I'm

like, "My job is in jeopardy, but don't

you worry. I know my God is bigger than

my job. Amen. I feel

good. That's just not natural, right?

That's not We We don't We don't feel

that. Maybe I can like try to disciple

and lead my soul into believing that

when in reality, because I know it, but

I

don't. I kind of hope it to be true.

It's been true

before, but right now feels like the

exception. Anybody with me? Anybody been

there where it feels like this problem,

this issue is

bigger. And I know God's bigger. I just

don't see how he is

ever going to overcome this

one. See, the passage that we're focus

the words that we're focusing on today

is I'm persuaded that neither rulers nor

powers will be able to separate us from

the love of God. So that that word

powers is actually in Greek the original

language this was written in is dunamos.

It's the word we get dynamite from. It's

like powerful. Not just like hoa

president powerful, right? Like got

power, right? Dynamite is not just a

firecracker. That stalker can do some

damage. And so this is this is this deep

power whether it's spiritual or whether

it's authority. And I don't think that

Paul when he's writing this is concerned

about powers of good, right? We're not

worried. No one gets home from work and

goes, "Oh man, I got this boss. They're

amazing. I'm afraid they're going to

give me a raise. Like, what am I going

to do?" Like, I think they're really

going to treat everyone

fairly, right? Like, no one no one fears

that. No one's worried about good

powers. We get concerned about people

who are in power and the powers that are

around us that are outside of our

control that also look like their powers

of darkness. Whether that's a person or

a spiritual entity or feeling or or

trajectory that's heading us that we see

is leaning towards darkness.

See, this

is this is where today what I want to

talk about and I want to speak into

this. Whenever you have that that

moment, whenever you feel that in the

world and the unprecedented world around

us, remember God's kingdom is

unstoppable. His kingdom is absolutely

unstoppable. And my favorite passage

that highlights this is actually in

Daniel chapter 2. If you guys want to

Daniel 2 · chapter mention

open up your Bibles, it's Old Testament

Daniel chapter 2. We're going to be uh

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skimming through this kind of like

skipping rocks, bouncing from right

right through it. But here's the idea.

When we talk about the kingdom of God, I

don't want us to think about this.

Sometimes people think the kingdom of

God, oh, okay, America, right? The

kingdom of God, because this is God's

blessed nation. Wrong. When we're

talking about the kingdom of God, we're

not talking about geopolitical Israel.

the kingdom of God. There's this there's

this trend that's that that tends to

lean towards and move towards this this

move called Christian nationalism which

which tries to make political the things

of the Lord that are

spiritual. And I agree with some of it

that yes, morality needs to be based on

something. Just like in a household, I

build my rules based off of something.

The nation's laws has to be built on

something and it should be built on the

word of God. But I cannot

mandate spiritual practices. The Lord

himself didn't even do

that. He says, "I want you to choose

whether you're going to follow me or

not." And this is and so we've gotten

the all these all these pendulum

swings that Christian nationalism says

everybody we need to mandate

Christianity in our nation.

The other side says, "No, we need a full

separation of church and state, and we

need to make sure that no one that

doesn't step a foot in church ever hears

about

Jesus." There's this segregation that

neither one are good. And we got to

figure out there's a truth that lies in

the middle here. See, the kingdom of God

is not the US. The kingdom of God is not

Israel. The kingdom of God is not any of

these things. The kingdom of God as we

see within the word of God, it's

actually the movement and the activity

of God on the

earth, particularly through his people.

I see the kingdom of God moving all the

time. It's his people. It's his hand in

motion. Usually, it involves his people.

A very small amount of time is just God

doing his

thing. That's the kingdom of God. So

when we talk about the kingdom of God

being unstoppable, that's what we're

talking

about. Okay. So now our question, go

back to Daniel chapter 2. Here's the

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question. When what do I do when I'm

under ungodly

authority? You may have a boss in this

room so you don't have to like I I'll

I'll phrase this not just for right now,

but period. If you've ever ever been

under a leader, ever been under a boss

that you're like that's that person is

just a bad leader. They they are they

are here for themselves and everybody

else is the step that they can step on

on the way up. Anybody? Come on. Right.

I know I'm not alone. I've been there.

I've been there. I've had it. It's so

frustrating. So, where they're at, where

what is going on in Daniel chapter 2,

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this is they're exactly in the same

spot. So, this is before Jesus has ever

come. This is uh after Israel has done

like hundreds of years of being really

really crappy at following God. Like

really bad. So bad that God's like, "I'm

done. We're going to take a break. I

just need to I I I need a timeout. Okay,

I need a little space." You're on the

couch for a little bit, right? It's that

kind of idea. It is I'm I need some

space. And so what does he do? He

exiles. They were in this promised land.

God promised it. It's amazing. They keep

messing it up. And so he's like, "I'm

done. I'm taking you out. I'm using

Assyria. I'm using Babylon to come over,

take you over. Now you are

slaves. You had freedom, but you didn't

carry the responsibility with the

freedom. So now you're

slaves." And they're under this at this

time of Daniel. They're under the king

Nebuchadnezzar. And Babylon is not just

The reason you've probably heard of

Babylon isn't just because it's in a lot

of Bible stories. It's because it's one

of the most powerful dynasties that has

ever existed.

It is ruling the known world. And so,

King Nebuchadnezzar, if he rules over

Babylon, that means that there's

multiple other kings that he is in

charge of. And he has conquered anywhere

he goes, he

conquers. And he is on this high horse.

And so, he goes over to Israel. He

conquers Israel. And we see in scripture

that God allows this, that this is led

by God. It's not just the enemy at work.

We've talked about that sometimes. We

attribute it to Satan where God's like,

"Actually, that one was

me. I'm working something through you

right

now." And here's the reality. This is

there. So, they're in this exile. And

then we get this this amazing It's about

600 years BC, 600 years before Jesus.

And you get amazing stories in the book

of Daniel. You got the Daniel fast. If

you've ever heard of that, that's Daniel

Daniel 1 · chapter mention

chapter 1. You got the stories about

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, not

bowing down to the to the the statue,

and then they get thrown in the fiery

furnace, but they walk back out alive

and unined. Right? Amen. You get Daniel

praying when praying became illegal,

getting thrown into a lion's den. The

lion's mouths are shut. He comes back

out and it's all these amazing things.

You get a hand that literally appears

out of nowhere and begins writing on the

wall in the palace. You got all this

incredible stuff. All these stories come

from here. And one of the stories in

Daniel chapter 2 specifically is about

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Nebuchadnezzar's

dream. Nebuchadnezzar has this dream and

he's asking and Nebuchadnezzar is like

the the like he's a volatile king. He is

a little bit nuts. Even when he does

stuff right, it's like the wrong way.

Okay. He said, and when he realizes how

great God is, he's like, "God's amazing.

Everyone should follow him." And then

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who

he's talking to are like, "Yeah, yeah, I

know." And he says, "So if you don't,

I'm going to rip you limb from limb and

burn your house

down." All right. Can we pull that back

a couple steps? Right. That's

Nebuchadnezzar. Like that's him. He's

like, "Do the right thing even in the

wrong way." He's a little bit crazy. And

so this is this is he has this dream and

what does he do? He says, "I had a

dream. It intimid scared me and it's for

real. It's like a real dream, not like a

not like a that was weird. It was like I

know this dream comes with power. I know

it comes with authority. I know there's

something behind it, but I need someone

to tell me what it means. And there all

the wise men go, okay, tell us the dream

and we'll tell you. He goes, uh, you

have to tell me the dream that I

had and then you have to interpret the

dream for me. And of course, they say,

"That's

impossible. That's impossible. How am I

ever supposed to do that? No one can do

So he's like, "Okay, I'm going to kill

y'all." That's literally his response.

He's, "I'm just going to kill all the

wise men. I'm going to kill all the

dream interpreters." Daniel goes, "Time

out. Hold on. Wait. Give me a second.

Let me talk to the giver of dreams. I'm

going to talk to

God." And he goes and he prays. He seeks

the Lord. The Lord reveals the dream to

him. And then he goes back to King

Nebuchadnezzar. And this is this is all

a summary. You can read this in Romans

Romans 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2 or Daniel chapter 2. And he

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says, uh, and and get, can we get the

picture up? The picture of the statue.

This is the dream that he has. And he

has this dream of this massive statue,

this towering way bigger than anybody

can can build on their own. And it's got

this head of gold, and it's got this

this chest and arms of

silver. And then it's got this bronze.

It says waist and thighs. It's got this

bronze waist. and then iron make up the

legs. And then if you can see the feet,

it's a mixture of clay and

iron. And he tells this to the king.

Like this is incredibly specific. And

then you see this rock that comes in.

And when it comes in, it smashes the

feet. The whole thing gets turned, not

just crumbles down, but gets turned into

dust and it's disappeared. There's no

evidence of it. Totally gone.

And it's it's it just came with this

dread this dream did. And

Daniel in verse 30 chapter 2 verse

37. This is what he starts with. And he

models here what it's like to live and

to operate under ungodly authority that

we can model as well. He starts off with

this. Your majesty. You are king of

kings. The God of heavens has given you

sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.

Wherever people live or wild animals or

birds of the sky, he has handed them

over to you and made you ruler over all

of them. You are the head of

gold. Now, he could have just said that

last sentence and stuck with it.

What Daniel does is he's revealing God,

but he's also giving incredible honor.

As you see, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach,

and Abednego, all four of them give

incredible honor to this king that

literally they're talking to him about

the command that should kill them. And

every single time that they're talking

to the king, they're talking to him

right after he's about to or trying to

or hoping to kill them or just attempted

to.

And so this is they're not just like,

"Oh, I think we're on good terms right

now. I think we're okay." And what do

they do? They still come with high

honor. Oh, king, majesty, the king, you

are a king of kings, not the king of

kings, but you are a king who's over

kings. He gives incredible honor uh in

Romans chapter 13. So, five chapters

Romans 13 · chapter mention

after the main passage for this series,

Paul writes this down. He says, "Let

everyone submit to the governing

authorities. Since there's no authority

except from

who?" Except from God. And the

authorities that exist are instituted by

God. So then the one who resists the

authority is opposing God's command. And

those who oppose it will bring judgment

on themselves. How do I operate under

ungodly authority? Number one, I've got

to honor my

authorities. I still have

to Honor's such an unknown principle in

Western society in in America. We're all

very individual. We don't want to

highlight or give honor to anyone else.

We want everyone else to know, "No, no,

no. I I did most of the work on that

project. That was me." No, no, no, no.

You don't understand. I'm the one who

I'm the one who transformed. I'm the one

who's doing the workouts and so I and I

transformed my body, right? I'm the one

over here, dude. Don't watch out. I'm

the one who restored that relationship.

I'm the one who fixed that. I'm the one

who solved that problem. I'm the one who

did that. Like, we love the credit.

Honor gives it is generous. Honor gives

credit and glory to other people and

says, "No, you you're the reason I'm

here. I want to honor you. I want to

celebrate you." In fact, if you look at

how does God move? Faith and honor are

two of the key principles that God moves

through in our in in in our actions. He

moves through faith. And then what do

you see when Jesus goes to Nazareth and

he's not able to do any miracles? It

says because a prophet is without

what? Honor. In his

hometown. There was no honor.

Sometimes the problem that I'm seeing in

my workplace isn't because my boss has

got to fix it, but because I whether

it's in work, whether it's at home,

whether or wherever it may be, wherever

you face

authorities, maybe the problem is that

I'm not modeling the honor and therefore

setting up the right relationship there.

I want to encourage us to lean deeper,

lean harder into

honor and learn how to honor in ways

that are

illogical and frustrating and don't make

sense. I'm going to try to find

something good to say about this person

because it's hard to that kind of honor,

right? We have as our leadership

behaviors, we have a bunch of leadership

behaviors. One of them is honor. We

believe that it's a important part of

any organizational structure. And this

is what we say. Every person around me

is deserving of both

positional based off of the position

that they carry and personal honor

because they are made in the image of

God. Honor is not optional. It's one of

those things.

Trust,

dependency,

collaboration optional. Honor not

optional. Love not optional. Forgiveness

not optional. Honor is one of those

things. It's not optional. It's not

earned. It's

given. I think this is what's different

between honor and respect. I can respect

your skill set or I can not respect your

skill set, but I can still honor you.

Right? You don't want me painting a

mural on the side of your house. You do

not want that. Do not respect my skill

set. That would I would not I would not

do that. So here here's the big deal,

right? Honor your authorities. Number

one,

until until there's a limit. There's a

limit at which we honor our authorities.

And it steps right into step number two.

When under ungodly authorities, honor

your authorities until it's time to

honor God's authority first.

And you'll see this throughout the the

reason Daniel's talking to

Nebuchadnezzar is because he chose not

to honor the authority. You just go,

"Oh, the command's been given. No, I'm

going to go before the

king. You give me a diet. No, no, no.

I'm going to change my diet. I I I need

to do this diet. You tell me not to

pray, it doesn't matter. I'm still

praying. You tell me to bow down. I'm

not bowing down.

I honor authority until it they're

trying to supersede and it causes for me

not to obey God's authority. Acts 5:29,

Acts 5:29

this is what happens. Peter is literally

before the high

priest, the spiritual

leader, and he's being asked, "Stop

preaching about Jesus. Not stop

worshiping Jesus. Not stop praying to

Jesus. Now, you can still go to church.

You can still hold all that stuff. just

stop preaching about it. Stop being so

outward about your faith. It's it's

bugging people. It's offending people.

Me in particular, he's

saying. And this is what Peter and the

apostles replied. We must obey God

rather than

people. I honor people because of my

honor for the Lord. And so therefore,

when you tell me to dishonor God by the

way I honor you, I already know what

decision I've made. And I will honor my

authorities until it's time for me to

show that my honor is ultimately and

only to and from and for my God, my

king. So we see this and then the

reality. So I

honor my authorities until Can we get

those points back up? And then we see

Jesus

actually in Matthew

Matthew 28:18

28:18 talks about this. So all authority

comes from God. Right? Then Jesus says

in Matthew 28:18, he says, "All

Matthew 28:18

authority in heaven on earth belongs

to me, has been given to me."

It's one of his many claims of deity

where he identifies himself not just as

a man but as God

himself. All authority has been given to

me. This is where I want us to conclude

here. If we can get the band to come up.

Know the

endgame. Know the end game. Know what's

actually going to happen. Because here's

here's if we can get the statue. Let's

get the statue up. this

statue. Y'all wondering what the

interpretation of the dream was? Here we

go. You are the head of gold, the

Babylonian Empire, one of the greatest

empires ever. Powerful, strong, full

sweeping, the

head. But after you, Babylon will

die. Babylon will be taken over by a

middle Mesopotamian Persian Empire.

And in about 580 I want to say let me

see where is that where is I'm not good

about 539 about 539 you get this new

empire that comes in 539 BC he says but

that empire will

end and then you've get about 331 BC

you'll get the Greek empire and that's

the bronze mid and

thighs and then the one that most of us

are familiar

with. Then there will rise up a Roman

empire, a new empire. And he didn't have

names for this at that time. This is 600

years prior to

Jesus. And for the feats, it's iron. Oh,

it's this fiercely strong empire. And

guess what? It's going to get divided

and it's going to be cut into iron and

clay. And that doesn't mesh. That

doesn't mix.

And so during this

time, the Lord is revealing to you that

during the time of the Roman Empire, he

doesn't have that name, but during the

time of this iron empire, it'll begin to

split and there will be a new empire, a

new kingdom that gets established. And

this rock that's cut from by no man's

hand and thrown out will conquer every

single one of these and will show that

there is a kingdom that stands that

lasts forever. And guess who that is?

That's our Messiah, our Lord Jesus

Christ. Right at that same time that is

prophesied 600 years earlier.

What's

amazing is that this is this is why many

Jews don't love to study the book of

Daniel because it prophesies the date of

the Messiah and it lands on Jesus

birthday. Here's the

reality. I don't care how powerful the

powers around you look.

I don't care whether you're a fan of

President Trump or not. I don't care if

you are a patriot or you hate this

nation. Our president will not be

president forever. Our nation will not

be powerful forever. There will come a

crumbling down. But I will tell you,

there is a kingdom that never

will. There is a king that will never

step off of his throne. There's a king

whose power only

increases and that's the king that I

follow. Amen. Can we stand around

here? God is still king. See, when

everything seems unprecedented, what

that means is God is about to lead an

unprecedented

victory. Christ is king. His kingdom is

unstoppable. Even when the world's out

of

control, God is still reigning. Even

when it looks like evil is in charge,

even when I'm nervous about who's at who

who's who's moving the pieces around

right now, I'll tell you what, it's

either led by God or allowed by God. So,

we're going to be

okay. I got a promise that lasts much

longer. So, what do we do with this?

What do we do with this? First of all,

we've got to honor. We've got to honor

the

authorities. I encourage you, any

authority that you have a hard time

honoring, this is how you do it. Pray

for

them. Every single one of us, regardless

of your political stance, needs to pray

for every single president that we

have. We need to be praying for our

political leaders. We need to be praying

for our workplace leaders. We need to be

praying for our HOA

presidents. We need to be praying for

all of them.

Choose honor of your authorities because

here's the reality. This picture shows

that their power is limited. Limited by

God and limited by time. It's not going

to be forever. I cannot guarantee I

cannot guarantee you're going to have

your job tomorrow. I cannot guarantee

your boss is going to have their job

tomorrow. I cannot guarantee that you're

going to be living tomorrow. I can

guarantee you, you will come face to

face with the King of Kings and the Lord

of Lords. And that at that moment,

everything else is going to fade away.

Nothing else is really going to matter

all that

much. And I want to ask you to respond

accordingly. So,

honor according to the authority that

God has

permitted. And for those of you in this

room, I got some leaders in this

room. And what I want to ask for you to

do is to steward. The authority is not

from you. You didn't get yourself on

this

mountaintop. He put you there. Authority

comes from God. You're in a place and

for a purpose to honor and to glorify

God with your position. Steward your

role for the sake of his glory.

Boldly. Boldly.

When's the last time you got told you

had to shut up because you're preaching

too

much? I'm getting told that right now.

But just kidding. That's the clock

there. You got You got grace for me.

Okay. Okay. And then this is what I want

to say. I want to say

this. I can't tell you where to invest

and where not to invest. I can't tell

you what what what bets to make. I can't

tell you what's going to win you. But I

can tell

you go all in and double down on Christ.

The authority there is the only thing

that's going to last. For some of you in

this

room, I want to ask for you to respond

to the poll that the Lord's doing in

your heart to say, "It's my

time. I say yes to

him. I'm going for the King of Kings.

I'm not going to choose find a political

leader. I'm not going to try to become

my own leader. I'm not going to try to

pursue my own thing. Maybe that's part

of the the the role that God has for

you. But guess what? God's got a greater

role. God's got a greater power. He's

got a greater thing. And it is all

coming from him and going right back to

him.

Amen. And so I want I want to ask us,

let's honor, let's

steward, and let's

surrender. If that's you in here and you

go, I'm gonna surrender to the King of

Kings for the first time ever. For the

first time in a long time, would you

just put your hand up real quick just so

I can see you? I want to be able to see

because I don't want you to be alone. I

don't want you to be alone. Come

on. Come on. Where you at? I know we got

a couple of you in

here. God's

moving. This is your chance to respond.

I saw

that. Come

on. This is boldness. This is courage.

And I want to ask for you to respond and

just come find me after. We're going to

be right outside. We're going to do

baptisms. It's going to be a blast. Find

me

after. Say, "Hey, I I need to get some

stuff right with the

Lord." Okay. Can we pray?

Heavenly Father, right

now I ask that in all the fears and all

the unprecedented times, we are not

afraid. We do not have to be afraid

because our fear is rooted only in the

Lord, not in man, not in

technology, not in powers of this world.

No, not any other created thing can stop

the incredible love of God. So we

declare no matter what you have our

undying

allegiance. You have our lives. I pray

that you would correct our view of the

politicians. I pray you would correct

our view of the authorities around us. I

pray you would correct our view, dis

disciple our hearts, discipline our

hearts that we may honor those in

authority around us, and we may steward

the authority that you've given to us.

In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray.

Amen. Amen. Come on, can we give a hand

for the word of the Lord?

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