God’s Persistent Love: A Journey from Shame to Grace || Pastor Nathan Mesa

So well, good morning, Patriot family. How's everyone doing on

this beautiful Sunday morning. I'm gonna ask how many of

you were with us last weekend for Resurrection? We can

here at Patria. What an incredible service we had across

all of our campuses. We had over sixteen thousand people,

literal people on all our campuses from Alameda to Pomona

to here in Rancho. And that doesn't count the thousands

that also watched online. Here's what I know what took

place last week. Jesus was glorified, people were healed, people

were set free, and lives were changed. And if you've

been with us the last couple weeks, the series we've

been in is see clearly, and I believe we all

have been seeing Jesus a little bit more clearly over

the past couple weeks. So as we go into this weekend,

it's the last weekend of our series, and I believe

God wants to speak to places in us that still

may feel a little unclear even after Easter, because let's

be honest, after last weekend, we returned to our life

on Monday. We returned back to work, our kids went

back to school, our life continued to life, and so

does the reality of everything around us. And here we

are the week after Easter. Jesus is alive, the tomb

is empty. You know he's real, You believe he's real.

And yet you might be here today and still feel

a little stuck. You might be here this morning and

you still may carry a little We're a little worry

or shame or fear upon you, maybe some disappointment. You see,

the celebration has passed, but the struggle may still remain.

And so today I want to.

Talk to the person that has ever asked the question

can God still love me even after what I've done?

Or the question can God still use me even after

I've messed up?

And if that is you here today, then I want

to tell you you are not alone.

You see, there's someone in the Bible named Peter who

knew that feeling all too well. He was a leader

among the disciples. He was bold and impulsive. Peter walked

on water, and he spoke bold words of loyalty. He

was deeply devoted, but he was also so humanly flawed,

and when it counted most this is what you know

about Peter.

He denied Jesus. I want to rewind a little.

Bit to the night of Jesus's arrest found in Matthew

twenty six.

You see, Jesus among.

The disciples, was at Passover and they were having the

Last Supper, and Jesus told Peter, Hey, Peter, before the

night ends, a rooster will crow, and you will.

Deny me three times.

And Peter's response was filled with so much confidence, as

he said, even if everyone falls away, my Lord, I

never will.

But later that evening.

Now in John eighteen, Jesus was arrested and as he

was hauled off, he was hauled off near a courtyard,

and the Word of God says that Peter followed behind

him to see what was happening to Jesus as he

was arrested. And Peter makes his way into a courtyard

and there was a charcoal fire and people were around it.

Peter goes to warm himself up next to the fire,

and he was overwhelmed with the emotions of what just

took place.

And he could see his Lord and Savior in the distance.

And as he's there, he looks.

One way and someone goes to him and says, aren't

you one of his disciples?

No, I am not.

He looks the other way, and someone else goes, aren't

you one of those that follow? No, I am not,

And a young servant girl notices him and says, weren't

you the one in the garden with him? No? I

was not, And in that moment, the rooster crowed, and

what Jesus prophesied happened in the life of Peter. And

you see, from this moment on, I believe there's a

concern that Peter had. And the concern that Peter wrestled

with was one shame and guilt that covered him over

his denial.

Does Jesus still love me after what I did?

The second concern that Peter had was the potential fear

that his calling was canceled. Maybe I really blew my

chance to be a part of his kingdom. Or the

last concern that Peter may have wrestled with was the

devastation about losing a relationship with his Lord and savior.

I cannot believe that I let my Savior down.

You see, Peter thought his failure disqualified him. But I

am so grateful that Jesus didn't leave Peter in his

concern or with a distorted view of who he was

in this Morning family.

Through John twenty one.

We will see Jesus's love a little bit more clearly.

It is a love that doesn't flinch at our failure.

It is through the resurrection of Jesus that he redeems

our shame and our failure. He restores what's been broken,

and he calls us forward with a grace and purpose

that only he can. If you have your Bibles, you

can turn with me now to John twenty one. And

so as we pick up now, it is now after

Christ's death and resurrection, and everything felt uncertain Peter and

the other disciples.

They didn't know what was next. For all they knew.

Jesus was gone, gone, and he was gone forever.

But we will soon see.

As we pick up in this chapter, Jesus now is

beginning to reveal himself to certain followers, to show that

he truly is alive. And as we pick up in

verse three Simon, Peter said to them, I'm going back

to fishing. And they said to him, well, we will

go with you. And they went out and got in

the boat, and Peter went back fishing, and six others

followed him, say fishing. You see, after his failure and

after his denial, and after his shame, Peter went back.

To what he was familiar with.

You see, his net represented his performance. It represented what

I control. It represents the skills that I have. It

represents what Peter knew. It was safe, it was predictable,

it was comfortable. And you may be here today and like, wow,

that's wild for Peter, But I ain't. No fishermen, and

most of us are not fishermen. But we all have

some nets that we have returned to when we have

experienced failure or shame or sin within our life. Old habits,

bad patterns that we go and pick up again. You see,

For some of us, we return to our network. These

are the people that we put before God, our boss,

our co workers, our group of friends, maybe even our spouse.

For some we return to our net worth. This is

the net of the things that.

We put before God.

The bank account, the cars, the position, the title, the diploma. Agree,

I want more and more and more. For some of us,

we return to our safety net. These are the things

that God has often delivered us from, but we can

so easily fall back to. This is the substances, the alcohol,

the smoking, It's the negative emotions like anger, and envy

that we fall back into.

Some of us we go when we grab the inter net.

Oh yeah, this is the thing that is so accessible

via a phone, where we believe the authority of Google

over the authority of the word of God.

I know what the word.

Of God says, but Google says that I'm sick and

I have this disease. You see, the Internet is where

we go to show the reels of what's happening in

our life on social media, but the reality is our life.

Is in shambles.

The Internet is the net where we go to and

we retreat in our room and we visit those that

we really shouldn't be visiting.

And the last thing we.

May pick up is the net flicks and chill. Oh yeah,

this is the relationships that we know we should not

go back into.

This is the.

Side chicks and the side homies that we call up

when we want to dive into some sexual sin. And

here's the thing, family. Instead of running to Jesus, we

go back and we pick up these nets, and we

believe the lies of the enemy and the lies in

our head that say, because of our failure, God doesn't

love us anymore. And next thing, you know, entangled in

these nets is emotions of shame and guilt and condemnation

and regret.

And we try to go on with our life.

We try to raise a family, we try to love

our spouse, We go to church, we go go to work.

We even try to lift our hands. But guess what,

we can't because we are so entangled in these nets

that we've returned to, when God never intended for us

to run back to the nets that we once encountered.

You see, Family, Peter was stuck. He was stuck fishing.

Nothing was working. His old ways weren't working. As we read,

they couldn't catch nothing. But there was Jesus on the shoreline,

and he said, Peter, I want you to throw the

net on the other side. And as he throws the

net on the other side, they go and they catch

in an immeasurable amount of fish. And it was in

that moment that Peter realized, oh my god, Jesus is alive.

And he gets out of the boat and he runs

into the arms of his master.

You see, here's the thing.

Family, if there was anyone anyone that had the right

to confront Peter.

It was Jesus. Yo, Why did you deny me. Peter,

What were you thinking?

Why did you pretend to not know me in the

courtyard that day?

But Jesus doesn't say any of that.

We're gonna pick up now in John twenty one in

verse fifteen, will you stand with me for a few

of these verses? And it says in John twenty one

in verse fifteen, when they had finished eating, Jesus said

to Simon Peter say, Simon, Simon's son of John, do

you love me more than these? And he said yes, Lord,

you know I love you. And Jesus said, then feed

my lambs. And Jesus said again, Simon, son of John,

do you love me? And he answered yes, Lord, you

know that I love you. And Jesus said, then go

and take care of my sheep. And a third time

Jesus said to him, Simon, son of John, do you

love me?

And Peter was hurt.

Because Jesus asked him the third time do you love me?

This translates as Peter was annoyed, why are you asking

me this, Jesus?

And he said, Lord, you know all these things. You

know that I love you.

And in verse nineteen he says, then go and feed

my sheep.

And in verse nineteen, excuse me this.

In verse nineteen, Jesus said this to indicate the kind

of death to which Peter would glorify God. And then

Jesus said to him, follow me, you may be seated.

Lord.

We thank you Father for your word this morning. God,

we asked that you continue to reveal yourself to us. Continue. God,

may that we may see your love in a new way.

May I be a broken vessel Father, for you to

use in Jesus's name.

Amen.

You see, in this powerful moment, Peter was not alone.

There were other disciples that were around them having breakfast.

But Jesus singles Peter out directly. Why because the first

point about Jesus's love is that his love is personal.

Three times Jesus asked him, Simon, son of John, do

you love me?

I believe family, this is not by accident whatsoever.

The three questions that Jesus was asking was to mirror

the three denials that Peter had towards Jesus. That every

time that Jesus asked Simon, son of John, do you

love me? These were not questions of condemnation in any way,

but they were invitations for Peter.

To find healing in his life.

Each question was a step for restoring Peter's heart. It

was a chance for Peter to find repentance and a

reminder that his failure isn't the end of the story.

I imagine as they were sitting around the fire, it

might have sounded something like this, where Jesus told Peter, Hey, Peter,

I know you've messed up, and actually you probably needed

to mess up because you were so confident in yourself,

thinking that you would never fail or never fall. And

if you didn't have failed, you might have thought that

you would be better than everyone else. But now through

your failure, you understand it's not about your past.

It's about my past.

And you now see how deeply you need my grace

in your life. You see family. It was in this

moment that Peter gets it. He doesn't have to run away.

He can run towards the love because he knows it

is real. Jesus was desiring to draw, to draw Peter

back into.

A relationship with him.

Jesus actively sought after Peter. He was rebuilding that shame

that Peter had upon his life. But I don't want

you to miss this family. In the scripture, we read.

Jesus says, Simon, son of John, do you love me?

Wait? I thought his name was Peter.

Well, Peter was the name that Jesus gave him early on,

but his birth name was Simon, son of John. And

he goes and says, Simon, son of John. He doesn't say, hey,

Peter the Rock. He doesn't say yo, leader of the

early Church, come here. He doesn't say hey, mister Denial,

come here. No, he says Simon. He goes back to

his original name. He goes back to their very first encounter.

Jesus is desiring to peal back the layer after layer

of Peter's identity before the failure, so that he can

reset his understanding of who he is.

And I get this as a father.

You see, when my oldest son, Ezra, was about three

years old, we went on a little adventure to Target.

And so as we were hanging out in Target, of

course we do the loop, and we do the toy

section and then the food and then we end up.

In the clothes.

And we were in the clothes and I was looking

for some clothes for him. And you know how little

ones are. They're playing under the clothes rack and they're

running all around, and next thing, you know, I didn't

see him out of the corner of my eyes. So

as I'm looking through the clothes, I say, hey, Ezra,

come here. A couple seconds later, he doesn't show up,

So then I look behind myself, Hey, Ezra, Ezra, come here.

I'm right here. No Ezra still.

By the third time, I'm a little bit more anxious

and urgent, so my voice gets a little bit elevated.

Ezra, come here, Daddy's over here. Come here. Nothing.

By the fourth time, I am now running up and

down the aisles, and I'm using his full name, Ezra Metsa.

Come here, Daddy's right here. Listen to me, Ezra, Ezra,

come here. I wasn't yelling at him because I was mad.

I wasn't yelling at Ezra because I wanted to embarrass him.

My voice raised because I love him and he's my son.

I wasn't calling out his mistake, but I was calling

out to his heart as a father, that he would

hear my voice and he would want to return back

to me. And I believe that is exactly what Jesus

was doing with Peter Simon, son of John. Do you

love me? Do you really love me, Peter. He wasn't

speaking to the image that Peter builds. He wasn't speaking

to the disciple. He wasn't speaking to the leader. He

was speaking to a child of God. It wasn't about

his position. It was about him as a person. Family,

and Jesus does the same for you today. He knows

your name, he calls upon your name. He desires a personal,

real life relationship with you. His love today, family has

nothing to do with what you do or what you

don't do. It's not based on your performance. It's not

based on your past. It's not based on you trying

to do everything right and.

Be perfect for him.

It is completely about what Jesus already did for you

and I on the cross.

That is where his love comes from.

Jesus doesn't wait for us to clean up ourselves before

loving us. And we see this in Romans five eight.

It says, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

That is a love with no strings attached, that he

would die for you and I. You see, once Jesus

begins to restore Peter's heart, he begins to heal his shame,

and he begins to quiet his insecurity. It's at this

time that he can begin to restore. Peter calling what's

incredible about Jesus's love is this family.

It doesn't just heal and forgive.

His love doesn't just draw you back in, but it's

a love that also sends you out.

What do I mean by that?

He meets you where you are, but he never leaves

you where he finds you. Why? Because his love is

purpose driven. That is our second truth today. You see,

after Jesus affirms his love to Peter, watch what happens

every time that he says, yes, Lord, I love you.

Jesus responds with a mission.

In verse fifteen, he says, if you love me, then

go and feed my lambs.

What does that mean?

Jesus is saying, go and care for the young in faith,

Go and invest in new believers, Go and share your story,

encourage them, and lead them. He says in verse sixteen,

if you love me, then go and take care of

my sheep. What is that he is sending Peter out

to be a shepherd? Go and protect the flock. Lead

with humility and compassion in your life, be an example

to them. And lastly, in verse seventeen, he says, Peter,

if you love me, then go and feed my sheep.

What does this mean? He's telling Peter to go out

and nourish the body of Christ, to go and share

the word of God, to prioritize scripture and live it out.

Go make disciples, Go build community. Turn to a neighbor

and say, his love has a purpose. Peter, do you

love me more than catching fish? Do you love me

more than your old ways? Do you love me more

than these other disciples? Because if you do, Peter, then

I have a purpose for you. But I need you

to step into your calling again. You see, the same

man that failed, the same man that denied Jesus, was

now being entrusted to go out and lead God's people.

Family. That is the grace of God.

Because with a repentful heart, grace doesn't just wipe away

our past, but it calls us forward into a new purpose.

I want you to remember back in Matthew four, in

verse nineteen, this is when Jesus first meets Peter and

his brother. And if you remember the story, Jesus approached

them as they were fishing, and he said to them,

follow me, and I will make you what fishers of men.

In other words, Jesus was saying, Peter.

I've got a calling for you that is bigger than

you catching fish. I've got a calling for you that

is bigger that you don't even see in your life.

And if you want to step into that calling, it's

gonna require you to drop those nets and trust me fully.

You see, Family, Jesus hasn't changed his mind about Peter's purpose.

Nothing's changed from the first day that Jesus met him

to showing up again on that shoreline. Peter just needed

to remember who called him in the first place. You see,

God's restoration family is not just a return to what was,

but it is a transformation into who God has always

intended you to be. We see this in Second Corinthians

five seven. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new

creation has come.

The old has.

Gone, and the what the new is here. The grace

of God doesn't just bring us back to where we were.

You see, the old is gone, but it propels us

into what we were always meant to become.

Family.

You see the pain you've walked through, the failure you

thought that was the end, the moment that shame kept

upon you and wanted you to go and hide. God

can use it all for his glory. Jesus never says

you blew it. I need you to go and sit

this one out. No, he steps in right in the

middle of our mess, and he looks at us in

the eyes, and he calls us by name, and he says, hey, Nathan,

do you love me? Yes, Lord, I love you. Then

I need you to get back in the game. I

need you to go and feed my sheep. I need

you to get up again and start walking out. That

purpose grace that forgave you, Nathan is the same grace

that wants to send you out into what I I

have for you.

Before I married.

And met my beautiful wife, Sinas, it was about fifteen

years ago, there was a season in my life where

I suffered from extreme anxiety and moments of mild depression.

And I'm so grateful that the Lord has healed me

through many of those seasons and those emotions in my life,

and He's given me tools to help navigate them. But

I'll be honest with you, there are still moments today

where the anxiety rises back up, and it often is

manifested through physical pain or a mental anguish or an

a panic attack that comes upon me and.

Satan is so cunning when he comes in with.

Those cruel and quiet whispers in our head. I don't

know if anyone's ever experienced them before.

And see they come to me and they sound like this,

You're not.

Really a Christian if you're suffering from anxiety. Hey, where

is your so called faith right now in this moment? Hey,

I thought you're promised joy and peace. Where's that at

right now? You don't look like you got any joy

and peace.

And it's in.

Moments like this where I've questioned my worth, I've questioned

my strength, and in the past, I've even questioned my calling.

But I'm so grateful for my wife and a conversation

that we had where she came alongside me and she

encouraged me, and she said, Nathan, Jesus hasn't stopped loving

you because you're hurting or because you've been hurt. Nathan,

understand that his love doesn't walk away from you when

your mind is heavy or your heart is anxious. His

love doesn't come to shame you, Nathan. His love comes

to heal you. And in these moments, I know he

needs you to embrace his love so that he can

begin to heal you, because He will use what you

are going through to help someone else one day, to

help set them free and to help them find freedom.

It was in that moment, family, that I realized, it's

because of what I've been through and what I may

be going through that makes me better at what God

is calling me to go and do.

And the same is true for you today. The same

is true for you today.

You see, just like Peter, you may have stumbled and

you're sitting here and you are at church, which is amazing.

You may feel like you've fallen or that you've walked away.

But I want to encourage you today that the same

voice that called you in the beginning, the same love

that came and knocked upon your heart, the same love

that came alongside and forgave you, is the same love

that calls you today and desires you to walk in

the purpose that God has for your life. I love

what pastor Sean Johnson has said. He says that God

only uses broken people. Why because what other kind are there?

We're all broken, but we believe the narrative that I

can't be used by God because I am broken or

because of my failure and God's like, no, no, no,

You're the only kind of.

People that I do use.

Look at my word, look at the people that were

broken and failures, but I use them for my glory.

And Jesus goes after you, and he calls you by name,

and he desires to give you a purpose. And it

is a reminder of his love that it never wavers,

no matter where you have been. Our last true this

morning is his love is always persistent. Let's take a

look at verse eighteen and nineteen. Turn to someone and

say his love is persistent. It absolutely is. You see

in verse eighteen and nineteen, Jesus tells Peter the truth.

He doesn't sugarcoat anything. He says, your future will include

suffering and sacrifice. Peter, It's gonna include some hardship. It's

not going to be easy, and it's not going to

be perfect. But I still desire a relationship with you.

And Jesus says in verse nineteen, Jesus said to indicate

this kind of death by which Peter would glorify God.

Then he said to him, follow me. You see, the

first time we see this invitation, we already discussed it

was back in Matthew four when Jesus met Peter Simon

at the time and his brother for the very first time,

and he said, follow me.

That was the first invitation.

You see, the word follow me in the Greek is akolotheo,

which means more than just walking behind someone. The word

in the Greek implies discipleship, or imitation, or loyalty or

what I love.

It means companionship.

Not only did Jesus pursue Peter the first time, but

he pursued Peter again, and his love remained so persistent.

Because Jesus desired a companionship with Peter again. I could

stop right there and this message be done. Because the

disciple who failed, the disciple who denied Jesus, the one

who returned to his old life, is now being invited

to be friends with Jesus again, and the same word family,

The same invitation is true for us, but the meaning

is a little bit deeper this time around, because after

this failure, Peter understands and knows what grace feels like,

and he knows what it means to be given another

chance and family.

He does the same for you and I.

Today, Jesus is simply inviting you to follow him, whether

it is the first time, the second time, the fifth time,

or the tenth time.

You need to know that there is.

A savior who who love excuse me, you need to

know there is a savior whose love doesn't stop chasing

you at all, because his love remains persistent.

You know.

Last summer, my family and I went on a little

road trip down to San Diego, and as we got

on the fifteen Freeway, we hopped in the toll lane.

And as we were making our way down the fifteen,

we were talking to the boys. I was talking to

my wife, and I got a little bit distracted, and

next thing you know, instead of staying on the fifteen Freeway,

I veered left a little bit, and next thing you know,

I'm on the toll road, heading on the ninety one westbound.

And if you've ever been on that toll road you

understand you can't get out the barricades for miles. So

now me and my type A nature, I'm mad. My

whole day is thrown off. Everything's messed up. I'm over

here yelling at the kids. I'm yelling at SNAs. It

was her fault because she should have told me it

was coming up, but she was mad because I was

looking at my phone and that's why I missed it

in the first place. And so we're on the ninety

one westbound and I can't get out at all.

And the next thing, you know.

The next letout is right before the two forty one

two sixty one, and so I get off real quick

and I get on that freeway and next thing you know,

I'm taking that all the way down to the five

and then down to San Diego. And I added a

whole other forty minutes to our drive. You see, here's

what's stuck with me.

Family.

The moment I veered off onto the ninety one freeway,

my navigation system didn't freak out.

It didn't say, excuse.

Me, yo, you're making the wrong turn.

Hey, idiot, you blew it.

No, the navigation system simply says recalculating, and as it recalculates,

it offers me a new route to get to the

same destination. You see, family, the goal didn't change. The

path adjusted a little bit, but the purpose remained the same.

Get to San Diego to be with my family.

And that's exactly what the love of Jesus looks like.

He doesn't toss you aside when you've made a mistake.

He doesn't look at your failure and say, man, I'm

so done with you. He doesn't cancel your calling. He

doesn't rub the mistakes in our face. When we drift family,

or when we get distracted, or when we're disobedient, or

when we sin, when life gets heavy and the shame

creeps in, he doesn't.

Walk away from us.

He offers the same grace filled invitation that he has

from the very beginning, and he says, my son, my daughter,

will you follow me? He meets us where we're at,

and he says, will you follow me? We still mess

up and fail, and he meets us again and says,

will you follow me? And we miss, We fall again,

and we make a mistake, and he says, hey, I

still love you.

Will you follow me?

The invitation keeps coming and coming, because that is the

persistent love of our father. And so when we choose

to follow him, what are three practical steps we have

to do?

The first is we have to surrender.

We have to let go of the nets that are

so comfortable to us, that try to entangle us. The

very thing that he ran back to after the failure,

the very thing that Peter thought he'd be able to

go back to do he wasn't able to do.

And that's what we have to do in our life. Family.

It's surrendering to the things that God has for our life.

The second is is we have to trust God. We

have to have faith when things are unclear. God does

not give us a five to ten or twenty year

plan in his word.

We do not know what that looks like.

But He does give us his word, he does give

us his presence, he does give us the Holy Spirit.

I may not know where this road leads, but I

know the one who is leading me every step of

the way. That's what trust looks like. And the last

thing is we have to make a commitment. We have

to make a choice daily. We cannot serve Jesus and

serve the world at the same time. We cannot serve

Jesus and hang on to the nets in the other hand,

we have to lay it all down and pick up

our cross daily and make that commitment each and every day. Family,

as we've seen here in John twenty one, we don't

just see Jesus restoring Peter's heart, but we see him

repurposing his identity for something greater.

You see, Peter once.

Stood by a fire and he said, I don't know him,

but if you've.

Read the word of God.

Fifty days later, at Pentecost, standing in the fire of

the Holy Spirit, Peter preached one of the greatest sermons

and saved three thousand people and launched.

The Early Church.

What made the difference in the matter of days is

that Peter had to let go of the nets. He

accepted Christ's love and forgiveness, and he began to walk

out in the power of the Holy Spirit.

In his life.

And if he did it for Peter, I know he

can do it for you today. I know he can

do it for you today. So, family, as we leave

here today, there comes a moment where we must release

what's familiar.

We must relief, release what is safe.

We have to release the nets that try to tangle

us so that we can receive His love with open hands.

His love, I want you to know today, is a

love that is personal. It is a love that is

filled with purpose, and it is a love that is

a persistent and it's chasing after you even in this

very moment. Let's pray, Dear Heavenly Father, we are so

grateful for your love.

God.

We are so undeserving God, but yet you still chose

to die on the cross for us that you had

us in mind. God, you saw before you are failures,

you saw before you are mistakes, you saw before you

are shame, and you chose to die on that cross

so that your love could be poured out that we

may have a personal relationship with you.

Oh God.

Father, I thank you Father for loving us despite our failures,

and like Peter, you simply invite us to follow you again.

So may today, Lord, we be bold to declare our

love for you. We receive your love today in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Can we give God a handclap this Sunday morning.

Family, We're gonna.

Get ready to leave here together in just a moment,

and I'm gonna ask everyone to stay in your seats

because this really is the most important part of the service.

I want to talk to the person that maybe has

not had the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as their

personal Lord and savior. There's really nothing more that I

have to say, because this whole message is about the

saving grace of Jesus in our life. And Jesus comes

to you with his arms wide open, and he desires

to have a relationship with you today. And you may

be here and you're realizing that what you've been doing

is not working, and you are ready to come and

run like Peter into the arms of your savior. If

that is you here today, then I want to lead

you in a prayer. It's not the prayer that saves you,

but it's the positioning and the belief in your heart.

And so I'm gonna invite you to say this prayer.

I'm gonna ask everyone to bow their heads, and I'm

gonna ask everyone to say the prayer. But if you've

never after Jesus into your life and you are ready

to make that commitment, you're ready to repent, you're ready

to turn to him, that I invite you to say

this prayer with everything in you. Today, Dear Jesus, I

ask you to come into my life to cleanse me

and make me whole.

Father.

Today I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord

and God raised him from the day the dead. Today

is a new day. Today my sins are washed away

in Jesus's name.

Amen.

And hey, come on, come on, patriot, Let's give Jesus

a handclapper what God just did. Hey, family, we don't

want to embarrass you, but if you did say that

prayer on the counter of three, I'm gonna ask that

you raise your hand boldly, just like Jesus ran to

Peter boldly. I'm gonna ask that you raise your hand

boldly for what Jesus just did in your life. I

see hands already, one, two, three.

Will you raise your hand today?

Family, We rejoice, Heaven rejoices, praise God. You just made

the greatest decision that you will ever make in your life.

And the greatest thing I want you to know is

that He loves you today. There's nothing that you've done

that keeps his love from you.

Today.

Family, I'm gonna invite my wife up. I'd love to

say hello to you in the foyer. God bless and

have a beautiful Sunday.

Hey man, that was a great message. I forgive him

for that detour because I was annoying that dame.

But that was a fire illustration.

So if I had to go through that for that.

That's all right for I me.

Okay. So for those of you who just gave.

Your life to Jesus or recommitted your life, to Jesus.

We are so excited for you, but you might be wondering, Okay,

what do I do now? If you want to go

to www. Dot Grow dup Faith, you can download a

really easy that is written by our founding pastor, Pastor Diego,

Growing your Christian Walk, and that's going to be able

to tell you just what the next steps are because

we want to walk alongside you. We definitely want to

be able to be there for you and just kind

of give you the tools about what do I do now?

Okay I'm a Christian? What do I do now? So

that's going to help you with that. And so we

are just so grateful and honor that you would join

us today. I'm going to pray us out and if

you have any questions, please feel free to ask anybody

that has a badge and we'll be able to point

you in the right direction. Heavenly Father, we thank you

for today's message. We thank you for waking us up

today and getting us to church today. Father, we thank

you Jesus that you are so personal, you're so purpose driven,

and you're so persistent in your.

Love for us.

Let us not forget that this week. Let us go

into this week, reminding ourselves about your love for us.

Just like with Peter, you love us the same. In

Jesus Mighty name, we pray Amen. Have a blessed week, everyone,