Understanding the Kingdom of God (Pt 1) : From Faith IN Jesus to the Faith OF Jesus

So in terms of being a fit and strong church, I'm going to be taking a change of tack where I want to talk to you a little bit

for a number of weeks around the Kingdom of God. What does it mean? I'll reference it just now.

But Jesus talked more about the kingdom of God than any other subject.

There is an invitation to enter the kingdom. As a matter of fact, you cannot even be born again if you're not in the kingdom.

And there is a kingdom that is overcoming other kingdoms.

And I want to talk a little bit around that. And even this morning in worship, there was such a sense, isn't it,

of the kingdom to come resting on us where God is glorified. I mean, I checked my time.

I couldn't believe how much time had gone in worship. You almost cannot say you didn't sense God here this morning

in his presence, in his glory, and he's absolutely amazing. So.

So I'm going to be calling the series Understanding the Kingdom of God. And I just want to give a quick aside

to many of you who are parked so far away you literally started walking half past eight to get here.

We are working on something. Okay, half past seven, sorry.

We are working on something. All right. I know the church is full, the parking is full, the kids church is full.

We understand that. We are working on stuff and we will let you know as soon as we know.

So just keep praying with us. But God is good. So I got a quote for you.

A famous Swiss philosopher whose name is not important, said, beautiful people don't just happen.

Now, I'm sure some of you look at the mirror and think, rubbish, of course they do.

But I want to say to you, beautiful people, not attractive people.

Beautiful people don't just happen. Beautiful people are the kind who shine with an inner brightness.

They seem to just radiate, isn't it? Now, these people don't happen by accident.

They're formed. They're forged often in the fire and the challenges of life.

You will often see the most beautiful people are those who have passed through and come through the other end

with the grace of God literally radiating from them.

They are the clear evidence they've become a people of love. They are, in my opinion, disciples.

Disciples are those who are immersed into the teaching of the Gospel of Jesus.

I think the biggest problem we have, I'm going to touch on two of them now in Christianity today

is we're making disciples by teaching them to do certain things only.

And the things we're doing isn't being undergirded. Or buttressed by the way you believe.

And I think people try to copy Jesus without having a revelation of the kingdom of Jesus.

And I want to say to you that we need to put our trust in the person of Jesus himself.

Not just believing in his death, believing in his life, not just believing in his substitution atonement,

but in how to live with him in God's kingdom.

And a little bit of that comes in the parables, the actual stories of Jesus.

We have to place our confidence in Jesus to show us the way how to live with him step by step.

And so I'm going to try, not today, but over the next little few weeks, I'm going to try and look at some of the parables

because they reveal the kingdom of God in ways that theology and doctrine just can't do.

The parable seem very simple, don't they? If you read the parable, it's like, yeah, okay, I've got that one.

But actually they're incredibly deep. They teach us two things.

They teach us the heart of the Father, and they teach us the ways of God.

The parables that Jesus taught, and I'll talk a bit more detail about those at some point,

but one minute you're listening to a story about a disobedient son wondering what to do with him.

The next minute there is a father who lavishes upon a son that the rest of us would reject.

And you're caused to look at it differently. There's the story of a farmer who pays the same wages

to someone who came at the last hour of the day, to someone who worked the whole day.

And God challenges your and my sense of fairness and justice.

God talks about seeds that are sown, which is somehow how the word of God gets into you and breaks into your life.

Parables are the doorway leading into the powerful reality of the kingdom of God.

And I think once you hear them, they revolutionize you.

They show you what's possible. So that's the one thing we need to talk about, is how are disciples made?

It's not just what you do, actually. It comes down 100% to what you really believe,

because you act out what you believe, not what you pretend. It's the thing you hold on to.

A word came this morning of somebody, for instance, who builds a puzzle and just can't figure out one end from the other.

The pieces aren't fitting. And he said in worship he received a thing that says

that actually God says our lives are like that puzzle.

And the problem is you're always trying to see the right one, which starts at the corner.

But you need to find Jesus the center.

And only when you actually build your life around him does everything else make sense.

Until that point, you're just trying to shuffle so that things work better.

I'll give you a scripture this morning. If you have a Bible, you can turn to John 1:14.

John 1:14

John 1:14. I'm reading again from the new living translation this morning.

John 1:14

John chapter one from verse 14. So the word I'm talking to you about parables. The word.

God speaking his word. So the Word became human or the Word became flesh. Listen here.

And made his home among us. His home. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness,

or grace and truth. Full.

Full of unfailing love and faithfulness. Full of grace and truth.

And I went something full. I think when it overflows. He didn't just have a bit, he overflowed.

And the disciple John writes this. And we have seen his glory. Why? Because they lived with him.

We've seen his glory. The glory of the Father's one and only son.

John, the cousin of Jesus, testified about him when he shouted to the crowds,

this is the one I was talking about when I said, someone is coming after me who is far greater than I am,

but for he existed long before me.

And then the disciple carries on from his abundance. We have all received one gracious blessing after another.

Or we've received the grace of God.

For the law was given through Moses, but God's unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.

No one has ever seen God but the unique One who is himself.

God is near to the Father's heart and he has revealed God to us.

First thing I said to you, we need to relook disciples. Can I say this?

I think the second thing we need to relook is how do we do church?

When I read my Bible, don't you think something very different went on in the life of Jesus compared to church life today?

Churches spend a lot of money and churches exhaust themselves trying to get people to come to church.

Whereas Jesus spent a lot of time trying to hide away from people.

Imagine we try to hide our church because we're so busy. We actually close the doors.

Don't let them know we're meeting. Close everything. Stop the advertising.

We don't want them to know we can't cope.

Churches beg bribe, use social media, trying our best to get people's attention so we can grow our numbers.

And there were times Jesus almost seemed to dissuade people from following him.

It's like the one time he said, don't follow me. Another guy said, don't talk to me.

Another guy, don't let anyone know I did this. Another guy comes and says, lord, I'll follow you wherever you go.

To him, Jesus says, a fox has a hole, a bird of the air as a nest.

A the Son of man is nowhere to lay his head. Paraphrase, do you really want to live like that?

He seemed to shock people, to almost get them to go away from him.

When then, when his support was at its highest peak with a whole lot of people following him,

he said, come and drink my blood and eat my flesh. Come and cannibalize with me.

To which vast crowds left him. What's going on here?

I think perhaps we have emphasized the message about Jesus over the message of Jesus.

In other words, how have you looked at what he says, how he requires us to live?

You can't understand the kingdom unless you understand the king who taught about the kingdom.

And I think we are very shallow in our telling people you need to come to Christ to have your sin forgiven.

And we focus on salvation as the big thing. It's simply an entry point.

Real life only starts once you are born again.

To be born again simply means there you are. The whole of your life with God waits ahead of you.

And that's why I think when Jesus called people to follow him, he put a standard up where they understood

the only way in is you die and you enter a kingdom that's going to invade you at every level.

And you're going to have to take that on. I mean, I think we preach saving faith

without necessarily talking about how did he live, what did he tell us, what did he believe?

So my first point to try and get us to understand, I've got nine of them, so don't stress.

They're not happening now. Nine introductory statements before.

Five other statements before I start the very first parable.

But what I want you to see is when you embrace the kingdom of God, you actually have to start with the faith of Jesus.

It's number one, the faith of Jesus. Matthew and Mark tell us of a night

when Jesus and his disciples were in a boat and there was a massive storm. Do you remember?

That's Mark 4:38. The storm raged. Jesus is sleeping through it.

Mark 4:38

You get a hint immediately that Jesus is at peace in the midst of a storm because of his understanding of the kingdom of God.

He goes and lies down in the middle of a storm and sleeps. What were his disciples

Doing at the exact same time they were shouting, lord, save us, we're gonna drown.

They literally expected to die at any minute. Finally, they woke him up, said, you must do something.

And this is what I want to show you. They had faith in Jesus.

We wake you up. Don't some of you. When you're going through crisis in your life right now,

you got to pray and fast and shout. You got to wake up Jesus,

because whatever's happening, he ain't listening to you. Lord, it's a new year. I'm here.

They didn't understand this. He wakes up Matthew 8:26, calms the storm and then says,

Matthew 8:26

why are you afraid, you people of little faith? Their faith in Jesus was good,

but they didn't have the faith Jesus had which would fend or fear at every level.

They were in the same storm. Had they had the faith of Jesus, they would have said,

this is a roller coaster we didn't have to pay for. Praise God, let's do this.

Because there's no way this boat can go down because he's there. Simple.

Where's your faith? We're in the same storm and I'm not freaked out. Actually, it's very soothing now.

It's not true, okay? I've been on a boat, you chunda the whole way.

But you know what I'm saying, It's soothing. It's rockaby baby on.

Jesus is sleeping in the storm. The disciples aren't. One's got faith in Jesus,

but you've got to get to the faith of Jesus.

And when Jesus taught the parables, he was talking about a violent kingdom and that's going to come

and overthrow kingdoms in our lives. When we start to understand we have to have faith in God.

And we got to have faith the way God wants us to have faith.

I was going to say this last week. How many Christians have a testimony of their salvation,

but they do not have a testimony of ongoing overcoming in the things of God

because they got faith in Jesus, not the faith of Jesus.

In fact, in Matthew 9:27, the disciples were amazed. And this is their comment.

Matthew 9:27

Who is this man? Even the wind and the waves obey him. Who is this man?

I mean, they're following him. They know he's Jesus. And when Jesus does something,

Jesus is going to do it. Who is this guy? They need to grow up in their faith a little bit.

They need to start to understand who he is.

Paul gives an example of this, and I haven't got time to go in there really deeply, theologically.

But if you've got a Bible and you open it to Galatians chapter 2 and verse 16, you will see.

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Well, let me go there. Galatians 2:16. The theologians have had a huge discussion

Galatians 2:16

on this particular verse, just so you know, trying to understand which one to put.

So I'm just going to put all of them a bit like the amplified Bible, Galatians 2:16.

Galatians 2:16

Yet we know that a person is made Christ with God by faith in Jesus Christ.

Does your Bible say that? Huh, Most of yours.

Unless you're reading a King James Version which says not faith in Christ, faith of Christ.

The Greek word Greek two words is pistis christo, which could be translated faith in Christ

or the faith of Christ. And the scholars tell us it's whether you interpret

the genitive Christo objectively or subjectively.

So the Greek structure reads something like this. Yet we know that a person is made right with God

by faith in Christ, the faith of Christ or the faithfulness of Christ.

So what Paul is trying to show us in this passage is that to have the faith of Jesus,

you got to obviously have faith in Jesus. And when you believe in him,

you start to believe what he believed. And then you start to see, okay,

I'm starting to see how to grow as a Christian. I don't only believe in Jesus.

I start to believe the things Jesus believed. What were the things Jesus said?

What were his declarations about my Father, about my kingdom, about life, about religiosity?

What were the statements Jesus made? Because those statements came out of his belief in,

in the kingdom of God. So I would ask you, not only do you believe in Jesus this morning,

do you believe what Jesus believed when he was here? Do you have or can you grow

in the faith of Christ? It's an inward faith that radiates through every dimension of who we are.

Jesus had tremendous faith in God His Father, and he had faith in the kingdom.

He emphasized it, I think, 126 times he talked about the kingdom in the Gospels.

So I want to talk to you, number one, about the faith of Christ.

Lord, when I see what Jesus did, when I see what Jesus taught in the Gospels,

have I sunk myself into that, that I understand what it means? Have I owned it for myself?

Because I need the faith of Christ, not only faith in him. How could Jesus do the miracles he did?

How was he so sure of the things he did? It was his faith in His Father

and in the principles of the kingdom of which he was king. So that's number one,

number two for this morning, this Kingdom has one overarching characteristic.

It brings life. This kingdom brings life. A dictionary definition of a kingdom is this.

A kingdom is a society of people with a structure in which there's one person,

a king or a queen, to whom all of the citizens offer loyalty, service and respect.

The sovereign's part of this relationship is to provide care, protection and service

for the good of the people. And I want to suggest to you that the kingdom of God is very similar.

So you could define it like this. The kingdom of God is a society of people

where there is love, service and respect for the king and there is care, protection and service

for those who live in the kingdom. The kingdom of God operates more like a family

or a well functioning neighborhood where we care for each other, we love each other,

we're living out to like a vehicle. You, you're able to live out towards each other

because of something God is doing in you. Where our relationships go into problems,

where they, where they fall apart, where things go wrong. It's because the kingdom isn't there.

There is ego, there is self, there is flesh, there is ambition, there is ego.

There is all these little things masquerading as Christian life and Christian service

and Christian leadership and Christian experience. But it's just a masquerade.

And then you get people where the life of God begins to fill them and they become,

as the scripture says, a reflection where the glory of God comes from them.

That's those beautiful people where Jesus just emanates from them in every way.

And they show they are children of a kingdom that gives life.

If I can define it like this, the kingdom of God is the range of God's effective will.

Or simply God acting in this world where what he wants is done.

Where what he wants is done.

Jesus showed that a kingdom of God is not a thing of times and places.

The kingdom of God is a thing of the heart. Where's the kingdom that's at hand? It's in you.

You don't go there to find the kingdom. Height, depth over the sea under.

The kingdom of God is within you, Jesus said, because it's a matter of the heart.

It's a thing you can't hide. You look like a strawberry, but you taste like a lemon.

Not a lot of life.

Think about human governments. Human governments often function on principles

of forced deception, coercion, brutality, the power of death.

All human governments have the power of death.

But what they lack is the ability to give life. And that's what the kingdom of God has.

Do you know? It's our Greatest currency, it's life.

This life is based on the new birth. It's an entry into the kingdom of God.

We're invited to bring our lives as they are into the eternal life of God

in his everlasting kingdom.

So what God's asking is, would you take your kingdom, your society,

and would you surrender it to me? And would you take my one upon yourself and also eternity.

If the kingdom is here, it means eternity is already in progress. Eternity doesn't start later.

So on the day you're born again, you're eternal. There's no later, it's now.

There is a fullness later.

And in a couple of weeks I'll start to talk to you about the implications

of the already and not yet kingdom of God. Why, when we pray for the sick,

are some healed and some aren't? If you don't understand the kingdom,

you either put too much pressure on yourself to pray or too much condemnation

on the person being prayed for, without realizing that when the King comes,

upon occasion, there is a breaking through of the kingdom and its effect and people get healed.

But it's not yet. It comes in part when it is full.

One day every tear will be wiped away, every grief will be removed. But not now.

Now there are signs of the kingdom breaking in. And it seems to me that when the kingdom breaks in

is when the kingdom is being preached. So when the kingdom is preached,

the kingdom is broken in as an evidence of a kingdom to come.

There is still a battle, but eternal life has started. In fact, John chapter 17, verse 3

John 17:3

gives the only biblical definition of eternal life. And it says this, this is eternal life.

That they may know you, Epinosis, know you well, deeply, that they may know you,

the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. And so in this relationship

to know you, an interactive relationship where everything we are,

we bring into our relationship with God, which is eternal. So you make a decision today,

on the 26th of January, that you are going to leave nothing out of this kingdom from today.

You're going to throw everything into it. And what's not meant to be in that kingdom will burn.

But what's meant to be in that kingdom will come alive.

Because you are going to be a custodian of life by the way you live, by the way you think,

by the way you talk. You're going to be a giver of life. And when you live in the kingdom of God

by the Spirit of God, your life begins like Jesus, to be full of grace, truth, mercy and goodness.

You almost can't help it. How do you know? Someone's been too. Mauritius, check the tan.

How do you know? A volley at the sea in Durban. The zinc that goes like this.

The suntan cream. The language. Kdar, kdar.

I remember when I lived in Durban, I come from Durban. It was the Kdars.

They were the Afrikaans telling the dad, there's the sea. Kdar, kdar.

And when I grew up living in Durban, we always said the Kdars are coming. Now I am one.

But Romans 14:17 says the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking.

Romans 14:17

But what is it? It's righteousness, it's peace, it's joy in the Holy Spirit.

I become a living advert of the fact that something is always happening to me

which happens through me, of which you become a recipient. And that is the power of the kingdom.

Churches, come to our meetings. Come to our meetings. Our meeting is better than that, guys.

Meeting. Come to our meeting. We don't offer meetings, man.

We offer a king. But not only a king, we offer a king who's changing us.

So when they come to us, they say, what a wonderful group of people.

You're an advert for the king. I mean, you and I both know we go to churches

where the word is preached, Jesus is sung about. But man alive,

I wouldn't spend more than three seconds in that place.

Because the kingdom of God is real and persuasive as it invades you that it can invade others

and we don't make it happen. It's a gift. You receive the kingdom,

you receive God's work in your life.

Do you know you can be the bitterest little grumby, grumble copy practitioner in this place

and you can become a man or woman of praise. But tomorrow morning,

by allowing God to get a grip on you and taking the things that keep you sour

and giving them to him, that you can become sweet again. Why? Because you receive,

it's a gift. You don't change yourself. There's no self help in Christianity.

It's Jesus helps me through the invitation that I give him and then his kingdom invades me.

Someone once said the best advice to go to heaven is go now by living your life with God.

Live eternally now by living your life with God. Don't just have faith in Jesus.

Have the faith of Jesus. Don't just talk about him, walk with him.

Don't just sing to him, embrace him. I hope you're hearing me.

Kind of what Jesus is saying. Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Repent means turn around, change your behavior. The language.

Repent for the kingdom of heaven that is at hand.

The language is. There's constant renewal. There's constant change.

The kingdom of God is always at hand. It is present. And when the Bible speaks of heaven,

so Matthew says the kingdom of heaven is, the other gospels say the kingdom of God.

It's the same thing. What he means is when he says the kingdom of heaven is at hand,

means God is acting in this world. God is acting right here and right now.

Which is why In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 33, Jesus says, Seek first the kingdom

Matthew 6:33

and his righteousness, and then things will be added to you. Why? Because God is acting.

Not in the world, in your world. Because he's extending his reach through you

at any given moment. And so the parables and the words of Jesus in the Bible,

when we look and we obey and we put faith in what Jesus has said, God acts through you.

I think you're getting this quite clear. Hey, last point. 3 out of 9.

Today, Mark texted me and he said, brew, how far are you going to go?

I said, let's try for 13. A few laughing faces later, we settled on maybe five or six.

I see Mark, you win again. It's going to be three.

Number one was. Put it up, Mark. Number one is the faith of Jesus.

Not just faith in Jesus. He was totally settled in who he was at all times,

wasn't threatened, coerced. The faith of Jesus. Number two.

The overriding characteristic of the people of God is there's life there.

Kingdom, eternal life. That's why church is such a joy. Can you imagine?

All of us were still here and there was no Jesus. Come on, who'd come back?

Week two. Let's be honest. The only reason you go back to work, most of you,

is because you get paid end of the month. If your boss came and said, I'm not going to pay anymore.

Oh, please, I'm not here for the money. I'm here for my incredible work environment.

Liar. But here, you're here because of the life. Third one.

This is amazing. For me, in the kingdom, God offers himself to you.

Wow. You know, even though God's actions throughout Israel's history were well known to them,

that Israelites struggled to embrace God as their king.

Do you know, on Mount Sinai, Deuteronomy, chapter five, the people of God

refused to speak directly with God. They said, moses, go ahead of us. We need a mediator.

God appeared for the people and they said, we don't want to do this. You go and

Then Moses had to come down with laws and commandments. And now you've got Moses,

laws and commandments mediating between God and man. Where in Deuteronomy 5,

God said, I want the people to come to me. I will be their God, they will be my people.

No, put an intermediary in place.

Later on, it got worse. By 1 Samuel, chapter 8, the people went to Samuel and said,

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we've had it. We want a human king like the other nations.

We don't want God himself over us. And you see, that's what religion does today.

I'm a Methodist, I'm a Catholic, I'm an Anglican, I'm a this, I'm a that.

I'm putting something between me and God. And that something is always going to determine how I live.

I have laws, I have rules, I have this, I have that. There's always something when I want to tell you.

Point three today is God offers himself to you and I. Hence the importance of the incarnation.

At Christmas, where Christ comes to dwell among us in human form,

they rebelled against God and said, give us a king. Give us a king. We want a king.

And we all know David, Solomon, then the disasters that happened thereafter.

And isn't it interesting that when the kings were starting to go so wrong in their leadership,

when Israel had split between Judah and Israel, known from then on as Judah and Ephraim throughout,

that suddenly the prophets start talking a new language. It's only after Israel rejects God

as king in Deuteronomy, and after Israel rejects God as King in 1 Samuel chapter 8,

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saying, we want a king, the prophets start speaking of God's heavenly rule.

The God of heaven starts to emerge in the New Testament. It's a new language

preparing the way for the dramatic announcement of John the Baptist,

who was the first to stand amongst the people of God ever and say,

repent for the king, repent of your sin, turn to God, for the kingdom of heaven is near.

John the Baptist went to the nation of Israel and he introduced what the prophets have been saying.

Stuff your king, stuff your rules, repent and turn from your sin,

for the kingdom of God is here. God once again is going to come here

and introduce himself to you and I. And he will have no intermediary but himself.

That is the cry of John the Baptist, and that's why he was amazing in his day.

People in this world who are far away from God agree with me. They live on their own.

They use the resources of their natural abilities. They're out there trying to survive,

trying to get their way, trying to secure themselves, trying to advance themselves.

There's a lot of unhappiness in our world, from people struggling to run their own kingdom.

Because the problem of living in this world is you structure your life, you plan that.

Then things change. From family issues to government issues to financial issues to health issues.

You plan your life, and then bang, something happens to mess it all up.

You raise your kids up, and then they go and they go make their own decisions.

Now you got, oh, no, what now? How do I live? What a reflection on me as a parent

and all those things. Because there's a kingdom out there of which we don't have control.

It's a tough job. And they also discover in the world, when you try to run your kingdom,

everyone else wants your kingdom too. Hence, burglar bars, Rottweilers and guns.

We know someone else wants your kingdom. They there, they're knocking.

They want everyone. They just covet, fight. They're angry.

And then Jesus comes with an introduction to a kingdom. And he says, good news,

everyone can come. You don't have to live that way anymore.

Come to me, you who are weary, you who are heavy, come to me. I'll give you rest.

Can you imagine? It's Isaiah 26, Isaiah 28. I offered them rest.

I came to them, I offered them rest, but they just didn't want it. Can you imagine

what it meant to Israel under Roman oppression when Jesus came and said,

like John, his cousin, there is a new kingdom coming because God is offering himself

to you again. You're not excited, but I am. We can give our kingdom to God

and receive his kingdom in return. As citizens of God's kingdom, we seek to honor him.

We pray for his will to be done. When you say, oh, Lord, let your will be done.

Can I tell you where to start? With your own life. Don't pray, Lord.

Change that oak. Lord, I said I gotta counsel this guy. Lord, I just want to.

I just want to. Hey, start with you, sort you out.

Lord, I offer my life a living sacrifice before you. Then we pray for God's will to be done.

Everywhere Jesus calls us to put our confidence in him.

Eternal life is God with us. And then I need to close with this phrase.

I just. God comes to us, is point number three. He offers himself to you and I.

And then he says this. If you say yes, and you come to me, and you walk with me

and you follow me, I will no longer call you a servant. I'm gonna call you a friend.

John 15 from verse 14. You are my friends, if you do what I command,

I no longer call you slaves or servants because a master doesn't confide in his slaves.

Now you are my friends. Since I've told you everything the Father told me.

I told you God gives himself to us, right? You didn't choose me. I chose you.

I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit so that the Father will give you

whatever you ask for using my name from the day you turn to Jesus.

There's a beautiful distinction made where he says, from today, I call you friend.

I have the faith of Jesus. I am a giver of life, and I become a friend of God.

That's what it means to enter the kingdom of God. Wow. Stand with me.

Thank you so much for being a part of our meeting today. Can I just ask two things?

The first is if today the message has in any way been useful to you,

would you mind just maybe liking it or putting perhaps a statement down or comment down

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maybe you can subscribe to the channel, do whatever, just so we can know what impact

this message may be having on you.

And secondly, you may be someone who's saying, greg, I hear you.

And this hope that Jesus has for us can come into my heart and it can change me.

But the reality is that I don't even know if I know Jesus.

I want to say two things to you right away. The first is he's near you right now.

The Bible says if you believe in your heart that he is the Lord,

and if you confess him with your mouth, you will be saved.

Which means you just need to where you are, turn to the Lord Jesus Christ even now

and just say, lord, here I am. I recognize who you are. I confess my sin to you.

I acknowledge you as Jesus Christ, the Lord of all, the Son of the living God.

And I want to follow. I want to become a disciple of yours.

I want to give my life to you, Lord. And you can pray that prayer right now

between you and the Lord. Secondly, you can get hold of us.

You can see the telephone number, you can get hold of us and say, hey,

I've given my life to the Lord. Can you help me from here on out?

And we could either send you some material, we can put you in touch with a really good church

near you. If you live in our area, you can come to us. You can follow us on YouTube.

But it is good to get connected into the family of God, to get connected into a local church

that your life changes being surrounded with the family of God. Please stay in touch.

God bless you.