The Stumbling Block | Pastor Julian Lowe

Family, would you do me a favor, Stand to your

feet and please welcome our very own pastor Julian Lowe

all the way from Patriot Cherch. Come on, give that

praise to the Lord. Give that praise to God. Come on,

if you're grateful, anybody grateful for what the Lord has

done in your life, I'm gonna just give you twenty

seconds to praise the Lord. Just twenty seconds. God, We

thank you. We are so grateful, We're so grateful. Stay

standing for just a second. You know, I grew up

in this region. I went to Eisenhower High School in

Rialto and lived in Samernardino, and I didn't know this

church was here. I didn't know Rancho had a thriving

church where people were meeting God. And I needed it.

I needed it. This was one of my highest honors

to come back to my hometown and home region and speak.

And before you sit down, you know, I want you

to underst stand something about what's happening here. This has

gone beyond a church. This is gone beyond a ministry.

This has gone beyond what's happening in the room. Here's why,

no matter where you're watching from the ministries happen in rooms.

Revivals happen in regions. There's never been a revival that

happened in a room. I don't care how long you

clap your hands, you could praise them to your lips.

Are chat. If what happened in the room doesn't move

to regions, it wasn't a revival. I'm telling you this

right now. So if you're watching online and you're watching

this video, or you're watching whatever has happened, that's because

the church is in revival and the gospel's going to regions.

And so my thing that I want to understand, want

you to understand before I even get in the word,

is that I'm humbled that Pastor Adam would ask me

to speak into a move of God like this one.

And I am acutely aware of what the Lord has done,

is doing, and will do in this place. And I

pray that nobody from the outside will ever be able

to see the glory of the Lord in this place

more than you can. And so maybe before we get

in this world, maybe just close your eyes for a second,

Maybe just ask the God to open your eyes once again,

so what He wants to do through you for you,

not just in the room, not just in your life,

but in this region. This is special. Thank you God

for what you're doing. Thank you God that you're using us.

Thank you God from our pastors. Thank you God for

the legacy. Thank you God that this grown man who

grew up in this same region a little boy is

saved and now ministering and gets the chance to share

and preach. So Father, we thank you Lord for the

grace that's in this place and the mighty name of Jesus.

Come on, Amen, Amen, Amen, turn to your neighbor and say,

our black brother is back. Our black brother is back.

And then go ahead and have his seat. Go ahead

and have his seat. Yes, sir, if you're taking notes,

I want to preach a message called the stumbling Block.

The stumbling Block. You understand the title of that message.

Towards the end, the stumbling Block. Over the last season

of my life, you know, I've always tried to make

sure that I'm in alignment with the Lord, reading the

Bible and having devotional times. But more often, more recently,

I'm becoming obsessed with the life of individual people in scripture.

And I was doing this about people's lives, whether it's

David or Daniel or Elijah, or whoever that may be.

I got on Abraham for a while there, and I've

discovered through this study that there's only a handful of

people that are talked about in the Old Testament, but

they don't arrive to the New Testament. I would imagine

would be really important. If somebody's talked about in the

Old Testament and they don't arrive to the New Testament,

that's a really important person. One of the people that

was talked about in the Old Testament didn't arrive into

the New Testament, believe it or not, was Judas. The

Bible says that God would raise up someone to betray Jesus.

Now this has nothing to do with my message, but

isn't it interesting that God would raise up somebody to

betray Jesus in order to get Jesus to the cross.

Some of you got to Jesus through betrayal. Thank God

you search their phone. Come on, who am I talking to?

Because it was your broken heart that brought you into

the House of the Lord. Somebody knows exactly what I'm

talking about today. Judas was office side about in the

Old Testament. Another person is, obviously Jesus Jesus first was

mentioned in Genesis chapter three when God says he would

raise up someone, some offspring from Eve that would destroy

the offspring of the serpent, and that offspring his heel

would crush the serpent's head. And this is a prophecy

of Christ. Now we would know that because that's throughout

Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel, and the list goes on

and on about how much Jesus was prophesied about. But

another person that is sometimes overlooked, that was talked about

in the Old Testament and showed up in the New

Testament is John the Baptist. John the Baptist, a man

who would prepare the way for the coming of the Lord.

Here is what's crazy. We think God shows up in rooms.

We could have the Patriot Conference, or you could be

at this service, or you could be at the next service,

and your prayer might be God, I pray that you

would show up, and that is a valid prayer. But

I want to submit to you today that if indeed

the God that we prayed to show up indeed shows up,

he didn't show up unannounced. Someone somewhere prepared the way,

someone's been praying, someone's been serving someone's been giving in

this very region, people that you've never even met, prepared

the way for the coming of the Lord. You're in

this seat today because someone was in that seat twenty

years ago and prepared the way for the move of

God in this region. The anointing on this church is

so strong. How do you not know that that anointing

even though I never stepped foot in this room, but

the authority of this house over this region hit a

young boy named Julian in sam Bernardino. And now Pastor

Julian showed up. And if it wasn't for the anointing

over this region, convict Julian could have showed up. Someone

had to prepare the way. Couldn't Jesus just show up, Yes,

of course he could. But the Bible says that he

sent someone to prepare the way. And Isaiah forty speaks

of this prophecy about this man who would show up

and prepare the way. Isaiah forty, verses three and five

says this, the person who will prepare the way for

the coming of the Lord will be a voice of

the one crying in the wilderness. Wait a minute, what

prepares the way for the coming of the Lord is tears. Tears.

You know, the Bible says if you sow in tears,

you will reap with joy. And I would suggest to

you that if you're never cried, you're not sewing hard enough.

I would imagine if you took a microscope or some

type of you know, DNA machine, and you would look

in the deep recesses of the carpet in this room,

you would discover that the seeds of revival have been

watered with the tears of the saints. I don't know

anybody who's done anything of any any significance and they

haven't cried. We cry over our children, We cry over

our families. And I believe that what prepares the way

for the coming of the Lord is when we cry

over a region. You know, when I would drive through Samnardin,

I wouldn't always cry. I would complain. And God didn't

say he raises up a voice of planing in the wilderness.

He raised up a voice crying in the wilderness. You know,

we drive around our city and we think we know

everything when we see things wrong in our city. Now,

by the way, Rancho was Beverly Hills compared to Salmon

Dedino praise God. We was trying to make it to Rancho.

We're like, Lord, I'm over there, off of a E

Street in Sarmondino. There was two places that we considered

the promised land, Rancho and Redlands. Anybody know what I'm

talking about? Lord, If you could just get me the Rancho.

When they built the Ontario Mills wall, we will walk mall,

We will walk around and dream. Lord, if it be

your will, let my house be off of Haven. Anybody

else know what I'm talking about. Anybody moved from rial

to to Rancho and you felt like Abraham walking through

the wilder anybody, But oftentimes we drive around the city

and I feel like me. We drive around in La

and we immediately become like angry politicians, experts like, Oh,

they gotta clean up, they need to clean this up.

And you shut down the freeway again. Oh you put

down the freeway to two lanes. Look at all the

homlies say, look at this, look at the graffiti. And

what if God says, Hey, why don't we start complaining

and learn to water the seeds of revival with the

tears of the saints. He raised up a voice to

cry in the wilderness and look what it says about

John a Baptists, that this prophetic tears will prepare the

way of the Lord. It will make straight in the

desert a highway for our God. And every valley shall

be exalted, and every mountain and hill will be brought low,

and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the

rough place is smooth, and the glory of the Lord

shall be revealed. And watch this, all flesh, when we

prepare the way for the coming of the Lord. Anyone

can with skin on can tell it's God. All flesh

shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord

has spoken. Fast forward to the very last chapter of

the very last book of the Old Testament, Malachi, chapter

four gives yet another prophecy about John the Baptist preparing

the way of the coming of the Lord. Listen to

what it says. It says, see, I will send the

Prophet Elijah, not the actual prophet Elijah, because the prophet

Elijah was swept up in the heaven. But it's talking

about John the Baptist will come in the power and

spirit of Elijah. I will send the Prophet Elijah to

you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.

The power of God will manifest itself, the same power

that Elijah had when he said it's not going to

reign for three years, and it didn't. Elijah stopped rain.

Elijah lit an altar on fire with no accelerant, no gasolene.

And it says that I'm raising up a prophet like

this type of Elijah with the power of God. Here

is what's crazy. When we think of the power of God,

we think of healing, and the power of God does heal.

I hope you come to the healing night. The power

of God does restore. The power of God does transform people.

Prophesy by the power of God, the same power that

raised Christ from the dead. Listen you, But yet, when

you see this type of power being released in the

man who will prepare the way for the coming of

the Lord, and mentions none of those miracles, What is

the power of God gonna do? Verse six tells us

it will turn the hearts of the parents to their children,

and the hearts of the children to their parents, the

original translations, the hearts of the fathers, the forefathers. The

power of God will show up and transition legacies from

one generation to the next. No wonder God's going crazy,

and I feel like that needed a praise right there.

Come on, go ahead and praise God wherever you are at,

which means when Pastor Diego transitioned to Pastor Adam, that

was more than a plan, that was power. So the

power of God has increased to turn the hearts of

the fathers. When I met Pastor Adam, what God was

doing in Pastor Adam and in Pastor Ashley was using

the power of God so that he would carry the

burden and the legacy of his father. And because Adam

said yes to not just the plan, but the power. Now,

what God is doing at Patriot Church can increase to

where no eye has seen and know hear, has heard

what the Lord wants to do. And what you think

happened between Pastor Adam and Pastor Diego is also happening

between you and your children. I'm talking to anybody praying

for their kid right now, who's they're not walking fully

with the Lord. The power of God is moving in

this house because the power of God transitioned the church

and the power of God. It was not about church,

It was not about titles. It was about the power

of the Lord.

Transitioning spiritual legacy, the tears of the old saints mixing

with the tears of the young saints, and together they

water the seeds of revival.

And this is what prepares the way for the coming

of the Lord, transition from one generation to the next.

And it says, or else I will come and strike

the land with destruction. Without this type of transition, re

legions are destroyed. Regions are destroyed. Interesting enough, this is

the last chapter of the Old Testament, and virtually the

last sentence of the Old Testament, that God would raise

up someone in the power and spirit of Elijah to

turn the hearts of the fathers to the hearts of

the children. And then you turn the pages of your Bible,

and whether you turn to Matthew one, or whether you

turn to Luke chapter one, or whether you turn the

John chapter one, or whether you turn to Mark chapter one,

any one of the beginning of the Gospels. As you

flip the pages of Malachi chapter four, you, my friends,

have flipped the pages four hundred years. All Bible scholars

agree that in between Malachi and Matthew, in between Malachi

and Luke, four hundred years have gone by, and no

one can find or or discover or not in any

scroll a single thing God did or said. Once called

this four hundred years of silence. And after four hundred

years of silence, God says He's going to raise up

a crier. Isn't that interesting? Because in the book of Exodus,

how long did Israel cry? They cried for four hundred years,

But their cries was in the response to slavery, and

this cry was in the response to silence. To this day,

in the church I pastor in Los Angeles, people are

still plagued by slavery and silence, their slaves to their sin,

and they cannot hear from God. But yet God raises

up those who are willing to sew so much it

would bring them to tears. And it is those tears,

and that's sowing that prepares the way for the coming

of the Lord. What Pastor Heron did was not just

an offering message. That is a prophetic act to sow

into revival. And if we can't sow to revival, we

missed the fact that God loves to sol back into

a revivalist. Did you hear what I'm saying? So four

hundred years, let's just turn the pages. Four hundred years.

You might have returned the page four hundred years. Somebody's like,

where's he going? We'll get there, So Luke chapter one,

verse forty one through forty three. Here comes John the Baptists.

Here comes John the Baptists, And Luke, excuse me not,

Luke chapter one. Luke chapter one, verses eleven and seventeen,

My apologies. We're gonna hear a story about Zachariah's father.

Then an angel of the Lord appeared to Zecharia's fop.

I mean to John the Baptist father, Zachariah, standing at

the right hand of the altar of incense. Verse twelve

says when Zechariah saw him, he was startled and gripped

with fear. But the angel said to him, do not

be afraid. Zachariah, your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth,

will bear you a son, and you are to call

him John. He will be a joy and a delight

to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth,

for he will be great in the sight of the Lord.

He's never to take wine or other firmented drink, and

he will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Even before

he is born. He will bring back many of the

people of Israel to the Lord, their God, and he

will go on before the Lord in the spirit and

power of Elijah. And there it is to turn the

hearts of the parents to their children, and the disobedient

to the wisdom of the right. Is to make ready

a people prepared for the Lord. Guys, four hundred years

of silence, and God shows up and repeats himself, says

the exact same thing he said four hundred years ago.

I want to submit to you that some of us

come to church for a new word when we haven't

done the old thing. Can I help somebody today? God

repast himself like a dad. Some of y'all are parents.

Any parents gotta repeat themself? Come on, raise your hand

if you gotta repeat yourself. Boy, when my family had

to repeat themselves, you was in the danger zone. Don't

make me say it again. One time my dad had

to say something three four times and threatened to punish

me in a way that went against science. He said,

I slapped the black off of you. You don't listen

to me one more time. I almost got up here

looking like Pastor Adam. Thank God I obeyed and got

to stay black. Anybody know what I'm talking to praise

God that I got to stay black and walked in

obedience to my father. Almost came up here looking like

Pastor Adam. If I wouldn't obethe my dad and make

my father repeat himself, the Lord says the exact same thing.

Four three hundred years later, some of us get in

the presence of the Lord and we feel like we

can't hear him. And it's not that we can't hear him.

He's just repeating himself, because it's that one thing that

you got going on that prepare the way for the

coming of the Lord. Fast forward in Luke chapter we're

still in Luke chapter one, Verses forty one through forty three.

Elizabeth is now six months pregnant with John the Baptist,

and Mary's pregnant with Jesus. And John the Baptists and

Jesus are cousins, like real cousins, not like how we

call people cousins, like real cousins, like everybody that's my cousin.

You just met him. And watch this. Mary is pregnant

with Jesus, and Mary says hello to Elizabeth, who's pregnant

with John the Baptists, and it says in verse forty one.

When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb,

and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and in

a loud voice, she exclaimed, blessed are you among women,

and blessed is the child you will bear? But why

am I so favored that the mother of my Lord

should come to me? John the Baptist was so annoyed

failed with the Holy Spirit that from inside his mother's womb,

he could recognize who Jesus was. And we can't see

him unless he does what we want him to do.

And John the Baptist can see him from his mother's womb.

Fast forward, John the Baptist is now out of his

mother's womb. Moving in ministry. We had a baptism recently,

the big what do we call the big baptisms that

are coming up baptize America. Y'all baptized so many people.

Y'all baptized so many people. Praise God for that. I

want you to fathom. John the Baptist is in literally

a baptize is real moment. He's baptizing so many people.

And somebody asked him a question while he was baptizing.

In John chapter one verse twenty four through thirty four.

And these people that asked him a question have been

sent from the Pharisees. And they asked him, then, why

are you baptizing if you are neither the Christ, nor

Elijah nor the Prophet. John answered them, I'm baptized with water.

But among you stands one you do not know, even

he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal

I'm not worthy to untie. These things took place in Bethany,

across the Jordan, where John was baptizing. So not only

did John the Baptist recognize who Jesus is from inside

his mother's womb, but John the Baptist, in the middle

of thriving ministry, said, there is one among you whom

you do not know. I can recognize who Jesus is

while I'm serving him. The Bible says the next day

Jesus coming toward him. He saw Jesus coming toward him,

and he said, behold the lamb of God. The day before,

when he's just doing ministry and Jesus was in the crowd,

he said, there's one among you whom you do not know.

The very next day, as the proximity increased, the revelation

got greater. He went from there's one among you whom

you do not know, to Jesus approaching him, and he said,

everybody stop. The day before he's baptizing, he stopped to

know one. He just said, there's one among you while

I'm baptizing whom you do not know. But when Jesus

approached him, he had everybody stop. Don't look at me.

Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin

of the world. This is he of whom I said,

after me comes a man who ranks before me, because

he was before me. I myself did not know him,

but this for this purpose, I came baptizing with water

that he might be revealed to Israel. And John's spirit

begin to bear witness. I saw the spirit des sind

from heaven like ad and it remained on him. I

myself did not know him. But he who sent me

to baptize with water said to me, he on whom

you see the spirit descend and remain, this is he

who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen,

and I've borne witness that this is the Son of God.

So John the baptist recognizes who Jesus is from in

his mother's womb in the middle of a thriving ministry.

He recognizes who Jesus is. There's one among you whom

you do not know. And then the very next day,

as Jesus drew nearer to him, he said, behold the

lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

This is I testify to you that this is Jesus,

the Son of God. We'll fast forward Jesus. John the

Baptist sees a jankie king by the name of Herod

who has taken his brother's wife life. And I'm paraphrasing,

I'm reading from the SBV, the Sam Bernardino version, and

so like, I'm gonna write this version one day and yeah,

and all these people are gonna read it. It's gonna

be crazy. So I'm just gonna read it to you

from the San Bernadino version. So it was kind of

like a Mari Povis show where John the Baptist confronts

Herrod and says, your wife is jankie. That kid, you

are the father all that stuff, right, And so Herod

he confronts them and he shades them in front of everyone,

embarrasses the king so fast forward. The king is now

the party with this woman and they're dancing at the party.

They're singing, it's going great. They're like, just the smile.

Damn girl, he's pointing out there living in a lonely word.

They are party, he's feeling and he turns to her

and he said, girl, you look good. You're looking real good. Girl.

Anything I can do for you? And this was a

custom of kings when they were pleased with someone would

ask them, is there anything I could do for you?

And you could say whatever it is you wanted, and

because the king was so mighty and the king was

so powerful, they would do it for you. They would

ask in front of the guests, and whatever your answer was,

they would give it to you in front of the guests.

And you know what she said while she was dancing.

She said, Babe, I want John the Baptist's head on

a platter. And the King said, oh snap, I'm stilling

to ask BV but you get him run. And so

the Bible says that he doesn't want to kill John

the Baptist, but he has to because he promised in

front of everyone, and this was the tradition. So he

has John the Baptist thrown in jail and sentenced to death.

And the very next verse we are going to read,

Bible scholars say, John the Baptist has been in jail

about a year. Coincidentally enough, this is likely the time

where he would actually be executed. As I read this

next verse, I want you to just visually picture yourself

in John the Baptist situation, because, as John the Baptist,

the Bible says, we're getting ready to read a letter

that John the Baptists got word to Jesus. And it

is very likely as he is writing this letter, he

can hear the executioner sharpening the acts. And this is

what John the Baptist says. In Matthew eleven, verses one

through six, it says, when Jesus had been finished instructing

the twelve Disciples, he went on from there to teach

and preach in their cities. Now verse number two. Now,

when John heard in prison about the deeds of Christ,

somebody say deeds of Christ. So he heard about what

God was doing for other people. Do you get what

I'm saying? He heard what Jesus was doing for other people.

While in prison for a year, he heard about what

his cousin was doing for other people. He's in the

worst situation he's ever been in his life, and he

heard about what Jesus was doing for other people. All

he did was serve God. All he did was prepare

the way for the coming of the Lord. He was

the voice crying in the wilderness. And now he's in

a situation hearing about what his own cousin, the son

of God, is doing for other people. He said, when

I heard about the deeds of Christ, he got word

to Jesus, and listen to what the word was in

verse three? Are you the one who is to come?

Or shall we look for another? Wait a minute? Isn't

this the same John the Baptist that from within his

mother's womb he leaped. He leaped in such a way

his Oh, Mama, God, filled with the Holy Spirit. He

could see who Jesus was from inside his mother's womb.

Isn't this the same John the Baptist that when he

was baptizing thousands of people at the Baptized Israel event,

he said, behold, there's somebody among you whom you do

not know. Isn't this the same John the Baptist? The

very next day, when Christ drew near to him, he said,

behold the lamb of God, who takes away the sin

of the world. I testify and declare that this is

the Son of God. But the moment he's in a

situation that Jesus is seemingly doing nothing about. Are you

the one? Or should we be waiting for someone else? Oh?

In church, when Pastor Daniel's leading us well, fighting back

the dogess.

You name yase Us ain't and needs de feeded, and

we will shout it out, yeah yeah, Or wait till

that debt get in the mail, wait till you get

that student loan bill.

Are you the one? Or should we be expecting someone else?

Singing along in church, going to all the events, but

you are on your third healing night and your back

still hurts. Are you the one? Or should we be

expecting someone else? I submit to you. If it can

happen to John the Baptist, it can happen to you

and I. There's been times in my life where God's

going crazy, the church is growing, the marriage is great,

the kids are thriving, and then all of a sudden,

I'm doing the same things I've always done serving the Lord,

and I hear about the deeds of Christ that God

is doing in other ministries, and I start asking God,

are you the one? Every time I come to Patriot Church,

say are you the one? I parked in Goofy and

waited for the tram, and when nobody came and got me,

I just walked in the building. That's how big this

building is. I just had to. I took a picture

of where I parked waiting for the tram like I

was at Disneyland. No tram showed up, so I just

start walking and fifteen minutes later I was in the building.

Come on, ladies, some of y'all bring shoes in your

purse to walk to your car in this parking lot.

That's how much God has blessed this church. You put

your heels on in church and then put your slides

on to get to the car. God is so good.

But if you're not careful, you've been praying for what

God is doing to another person. And when you hear

about the deeds of Christ some Patriot Church, you go

back to a way sistant saying are you the one?

Or should I be expecting someone else? Here's the thing

Jesus actually answers his question. And I believe I've been

sitting here by the Lord to answer your question as well,

because if you are a church of this, in this reach,

in this many regions, there's somebody in the room that

is praying for something, believing for something that God is

seemingly being slow to answer, and it will change you

from God is fighting for us, pushing back the darkness

to are you the one? And so Jesus actually answered

John the Baptist question in the same way I believe

he wants to answer yours. Let's see what Jesus said

to John the Baptist. Verse four out of Matthew eleven

says this, go and tell John what you hear, and

see the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the

lepers are cleansed, the death here the deador being raised up,

and the poor have good news preach to them. And

blessed is the one who is not offended by me.

You know in that word offended is translated stumbling block.

Jesus said, you will be blessed if what I'm doing

for others doesn't offend you, because you're still waiting on

what you want me to do for you. Listen this,

Listen the way you answer the question. These are physical

things with spiritual implications. The blind receive their sight. That

means people's eyes are being open to the love of Jesus.

The lame are walking. That is the Kingdom's dominion. That's

why we're having a healing night. The lame are going

to walk. The lepers are being cleansed. This is a

picture of what the blood of Jesus does in the

life of people when they believe and repent. The death

ears are being open, the dead are being raised up,

new life is being given, and the poor has good

news preached to them. So, if you are going through

something in this room right now and you're like God,

where are you? Are you the one Jesus is answering

the question in the same way. Look around, watch online,

Look how many regions we are in. I know you're waiting.

But God would say to Patriot Church, tell Patrio what

you hear and see the blind or receiving their sight,

the lame or walking, the lepers are being cleansed to death.

Here the dead are being raised up, and the poor

is getting preached too. If you are in a regional revival,

you will eventually experience a personal revival, but we go, Oh, no,

it's not my season to serve. I'm still waiting on

the Lord to do something for me. Oh, it's not

my season to give. I'm still waiting on the Lord

to do something to me for me. And you don't

realize that you have to prepare the way for the

coming of the Lord every time you give, every time

you serve. And I just want you to know that

the laying are being healed, the Gospels being preached. Do

you know how beautiful it is what God is doing here?

And Jesus would answer the question the same way. Now

here's interesting as we close, and I want to invite

them team to come up. Thank you Lord. All over

every location, every every region, every campus. The Lord wants

to meet you right where you are. And I don't

know what you're praying for, and I don't know what's

going on with you. But the Gospel being preached, the

dead are being raised up, the lay of walking the

death for hearing. Eyes are being open to the love

of God. What a beautiful thing? Can I be honest

with you, Nearly everything I ever wanted to do in

my life before meeting Jesus, I didn't get to do

nearly everything. And I realized a couple of years ago.

Thank God he didn't answer those prayers, because God is

using me to open the eyes of the blind, that

the death's ears would hear, that the Gospel would be preached,

that the dead would be raised up, that the lepers

would be cleansed. My highest desires in life have compared

to nothing to my greatest honor. What an honor it

is to be in this room, What an honor it

is to steward this platform for just the thirty five

minutes that I got a chance to do. What an honor.

I wasn't smart enough to pray for this, I wasn't

holy enough to ask for it. I wasn't enlightened enough

to believe for it. And God did it anyway. God

did it anywhere, and so in every location, right here

in this room. I want you to buy your heads.

I want you to buy your heads. And the Bible

says this because of this cross. This stage is shaped

in the shape of a cross. And I believe that

it is so profound because Jesus was hung on a cross,

and there's somebody in this room that has not repented,

and repentance means to change your mind after being with God.

We've been in the presence of God, and God wants

to change your mind and have you follow him, whether

you're doing that for the first time or you're coming

back to the Lord. The blood of Jesus redeems. Through

the blood of Jesus, It purchases, it cleanses. Maybe you

are a leper, and a leper just means that your

life is stained and bruised with sin. But here's what

I know. The Bible says He was pierced for our

transgressions and bruised for our iniquities. And what does that mean?

The transgressions the blood flowed from Jesus for the sins

that flowed from you. But what is a bruise. A

bruise is blood under the skin. What is an iniquity?

Sins in you that you have not yet even done.

So the blood of Jesus covers your transgressions, the sins

you do, and the bruises cover the things in you

you have yet to do. It is all cleansed by

the blood of Jesus. And somebody needs to receive him

right now. And if that's you, no matter where you are,

no matter what location, you're watching from or if you're

in this room right now, can you lift your hands

and say I want to receive Christ for the first

time or come back to him. Just lift your hands

right now, Just lift your hands right now. Thank you Lord.

You see hands in this room. I know there's hands

online and in another campuses on locations, And I want

to pray for one more group of people because for you,

you're already saved. And while your eyes are closed, I

want you to picture this stage not in the shape

of a cross, but in the shape of a throne,

because the cross is for your forgiveness. The throne is

for the region. And when we put our dreams, our

goals are pain and our soul called once in needs

on the throne of our hearts, and we take Jesus

off of it, we have no effectiveness in the regions

God has called us to. So someone today, would you

let God answer your question to the things you've been

praying for. I believe God will do it. Would you

let Jesus answer your question today and say to you

the gospels being preached, the dead are being raised up,

the eyes are being open, the ears can hear, and

the lepers are cleansed and I'm using you and this

church to do it. If you receive that today either

one of those prayers, can you say Amen, Amen, and Amen.

Come on, clap your hands, Patriot Church, give Jesus some praise.

It's one of my highest honors to speak into this community.

I love you so much and I can't wait to

see you soon.

If you made that decision tonight, want to pull your

phone out and go to your web browser. Type in

grow out Faith to receive a free resource from our

founding pastor, Pastor Diego Mason, and we just encourage you

and challenge you to come to church every every Sunday for.

Fifty two weeks straight one year.

If you just come to church every single Sunday, you'll

see God and move and grow just too quick announcements

if we have our mass baptism happening soon and so

if you want to sign up for that, you can

always go to Patriot ot Church and get more information

on that. But second is we have missions in the courtyard.

Please be slow to leave if you want more information

on what we're doing.

In twenty twenty.

Six, we have our missions activation in the courtyard to

continue the good news of Jesus Christ. So stop by,

grab some information here what we're doing in twenty twenty

six for our missions.

And if you need.

Additional prayers, our prayer Teo will be up here to

pray for you. Let's pray, Father God, we thank you

for this word. We thank you that you've encourage your hearts.

I pray that let it not just be information, let

it not just be what we just hear, but what

we do with the information. I pray that our hearts

are transformed and moved in a way that apply the

truth that we just learned to prepare a way to

have revival.

In this region.

Father God, and I pray that as you continue to

sow into this ministry, I pray you so into families

and husbands and wives and kids and continue to lead

Patreton the way that You've called us to go. We

give you all the glory and honor in Jesus' name.

We pray, and God's people say, hey man, Amen, We'll

see you guys on Wednesday next week. God bless