Born To Win

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5. My voice is not what it normally

is and so if I have to stay at a gear.

Or two lower, which I promise I'm probably going to get

excited and get out of that, but.

I hope I'm over the. Medicine I took last night.

After I made my toast and put the peanut butter back, then I

realized I'd put the cheese by the peanut butter instead of the

refrigerator and I thought. Oh, I hope that's the only thing

that goes wrong. Today.

So anyway, hopefully I can stay focused and keep my mind.

Where it needs to be? But first John chapter 5, verses

1 John 5:1

1. Through 5 y'all you've probably.

Heard of the legendary football? Coach by the name of.

Vince Lombardi, best known for leading the Green Bay Packers to

I believe 5 NFL championships and a couple Super Bowls by the

time they were called Super Bowls in the 1960s, this man had

a lot to say about winning. Some say that what he said could

be attributed to an earlier coach by the name of Red Sanders

of the UCLA Bruins. But whoever said it listen to to

what these famous words on winning were winning then said.

It's not a sometimes thing, it's a all the time thing.

Winning is a habit. You also would go on to say

winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Well, regardless of whether he said it or originally or

somebody else said it originally, there's no disputing

the fact based on these words and many others, that captures

the reality that human beings are obsessed with winning.

And it's not just NFL coaches. It's mom's on the T-ball field

where there's no scoreboard but they're keeping it on their

phone. Mom's on the soccer field, it's

dad's. When I was coaching Thursday

night flag football with eight-year olds and I was

deciding how much more I was going to rib these refs for the

either bad 'cause or rule changing.

They were doing on me. Right.

And I thought, man, you got to calm.

Down these are 8. Year olds, right?

So we want to win every year. I mean, you can look in sports

in every direction. I've I've even read where every

year professional cyclist are caught with hidden tiny electric

motors on the inside of their bikes to secretly give them a

physical boost as they compete as a cycle.

I mean, people are obsessed. We as Homo sapiens are obsessed

with with winning. I'm not necessarily saying

that's a bad thing. The question is, is that

philosophy sound though? Is winning everything?

Well, you might be tempted to say no.

I actually want to propose to you this morning that that is

true. Winning is everything.

There's only one catch. There's only one real win that

matters. There's only one real win.

Winning is everything, but there's only one real win that

matters. In fact, the Bible says you can

win the world and yet forfeit or lose your soul.

You can win at everything else there is to win at except this

one thing and be a loser. Ultimately.

Winning is everything, mark it down, but there's only one win

that ultimately matters. What I want to show you from

first John 5 is simply that truth.

This. Morning is that winning is.

Everything in title of the sermon.

Is born to win. Born to win, The question is and

John's been asking what? How do you know?

Questions. And answering them.

Over and over, the question this morning he's writing to answer

is how do you know how to win? At the win that ultimately

matters. How do you know?

How to win? Listen to 1st John. 5 verses,

one through 5. John writes Everyone who

believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and

everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of

him. By this we know that we love the

children of God when we love God and keep his commandments.

For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments, and

his commandments are not burdensome.

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world, and

this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith.

Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who

believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

If winning is everything, the first question we need to ask

and answer is who wins? Who wins?

Here's John's answer. You ready?

Who wins #1 believers who are born of God, love God and love

one another. Who wins?

Let me tell you who wins. Believers who are born of God

love God and love one another. Notice what he says in verse

one. Everyone who believes that Jesus

is the Christ has been born of God.

It really doesn't get much simpler than that, right?

Everyone who truly believes Jesus is Lord has been saved.

John says all right, winning really is spiritually that

simple, but is it that easy? Well, let's see, because we need

to really understand what John is saying.

First of all, when John says everyone who believes, he has

more in mind and than just mental or intellectual ascent,

right, He's not meaning simply agreeing that something is true.

John means not only recognizing the truth of something, but more

importantly, accepting that truth by appropriately

responding to it. And there's a difference.

You might believe that your car runs only on gasoline, but you

don't appropriately respond to that truth until you pull up to

the pump and pay the money and squeeze the handle and fill your

car with gasoline. You might believe that the sun

can burn your skin. You might agree that that's

true, but you've not appropriately responded to that

truth until you apply sunscreen. You might believe that seatbelts

save lives, but you've not appropriately responded to that

truth unless you what? Buckle up.

There's a difference between believing or agreeing something

is true and actually appropriately responding to it.

All right? True belief, mark it down

always. True belief always effects one's

behavior. John is not saying everyone who

agrees that Jesus is the Christ has been saved.

What he's saying is everyone who's believed and appropriately

responded to that belief with repentance of sin turning to the

Lord Jesus as Savior and surrendering their life to him.

That's the person that's been saved.

Can I ask you, have you been saved?

I'm not asking you, do you believe in Jesus or do you

believe Jesus is the Savior? I'm asking you, have you pulled

up to the pump and pumped gas? I'm asking you, have you applied

sunscreen? I'm asking you if you've buckled

up, if you've surrendered your life to Jesus because he lived a

sinless life for you, died on the cross for your sin, and was

raised from the dead. Thirdly, to offer you eternal

life. And there came a point of

decision in your life by faith when everything changed because

you decided to follow Jesus, Amen or not Amen in your life.

Has it happened? Has it happened?

That's what John says. Everyone who believes that Jesus

is the Christ has been born of God.

It says born of God. What does that mean?

This is the terminology Jesus uses in the conversation with

Nicodemus in John chapter 3, right?

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And Nicodemus is a spiritual leader and yet he's asking Jesus

basic spiritual questions. Jesus looks at him and says, hey

man, listen, you don't understand, you got to be born

again. Nicodemus didn't have a clue

what Jesus is talking about. But Jesus is not talking about a

new physical birth, all right. He's talking about a spiritual

birth where God, by his power, based upon the fate of someone

in him, in his son, Jesus acts dynamically and transformatively

on an individual where he causes their soul to be birthed from

death and made alive and become a new creation. 2nd Corinthians

517 if any any woman, boy or girl be in Christ, have faith in

Jesus. Not just intellectual ascent,

but sunscreen on, buckled up, seat belt on, faith in Jesus.

That person is made alive by the power of God.

They are literally birthed into life.

The Bible calls it regeneration. The Jesus calls it new birth.

Have you been made alive? Everyone who's been born of God

is those who've accepted this truth, right?

Everyone into verse one, John writes who loves the Father,

loves whoever has been born of him.

Now, if you're paying attention, John just switched terminology

on you and that should catch your attention.

He says here, whoever loves the father, you would have expected

him to say whoever's been born of God then loves whoever's been

born of him. But he says whoever loves the

father. Why?

Because John knows that if you've been born of God, guess

what you're going to naturally do?

You're going to love God. Did you know that I did not have

to teach my children to love me? You don't have to teach your

children to love you. It's kind of coming to an end

now, sadly. My oldest is 13.

Not my love, their love for me. I didn't mean that.

That came out bad. What I meant was again, that's.

Cheese peanut butter thing, but. What I meant was one of the

primary demonstrations of their love my girls when I pull into

my. Driveway No one.

Taught them to come. Running down the driveway

driveway screaming daddy when I come home from work right now.

That's what I meant. Starting to come to an end all

right there. My oldest is 13 and kind of

caring about other things. Right, but when you've been.

Born of God, no one has to teach you to run down the driveway

saying, I love my heavenly father, right?

John says. Whoever loves the.

Father, that's who's truly. Has been born of him.

That's one of the clear signs. You're spiritually alive, right?

That doesn't have to be taught. Doesn't mean, doesn't mean my

the love of my. Kids for me is perfect.

Doesn't mean my love for my Heavenly Father or your love is

perfect. It just means it's.

Present. It's real.

It's. Undeniable.

It doesn't have to be taught. It's coming natural, right?

Is there an instinctive love not only for God, but John says

here, those if we love the Father, that we're going to love

those who have been born of Him. So not only did I not have to

teach my kids to love me, I didn't have to teach my kids.

To love one another. Now you may be saying, Kyle,

listen and listen. Mine are right there too.

They can fight, kick and scream. And gnaw and agitate and.

Pull each other's teeth out just about right.

I mean, your kids may do that too.

Mine do. Too.

But you know deep down there's a love they have when we lost my.

Son in Bass Pro my daughters were.

Crying just as much as. I was, we found him by the way.

But anyway, that's a different story.

But. Deep down, you don't have to

train or teach to love those born of the same family to which

you belong. Do you see that borne out in

your life for brothers and sisters?

Is there an instinctive natural native love for those in your

church family part of the. Family I've got.

Other brothers and sisters in Christ.

Y'all winning is everything but only one win matters.

So who is it that wins? It's those that have been born

of God and love God and love. One another, that's who wins.

OK, that's the only win that matters #2 though winning is

everything and #2 how do we know we are winning?

How do we know we're winning? We're winning when our love for

God looks like obedience to God's commands.

How do we know that we're winning?

We know we're winning when our love for God looks like

obedience to God's command. This is verses 2 through 3, John

writes. By this we know that we love the

children of God when we love God and obey his commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.

Some people think it's possible to love God and not obey him.

Baloney, John says, and he stamps out that possibility.

There's no love for God without obedience because love for God,

John says, looks like obedience. All right.

Loving God and obeying God are not 2 separate things.

They are in fact one in the same.

John says one of the clearest signs we've been born of God is

if in fact we love God and love for God looks like obedience.

All right, again, back to my kids.

Nothing my kids do. I mean, I actually, when I

thought about this, I thought I could probably think of a lot of

things. But one of the primary things,

if not the greatest thing that my kids do that just show their

raw, instinctive love for me is when they do what I would want

them to do without me telling them what to do right.

When they respect me enough and they honor me enough, when they

love me And it shows up by just they're doing what they know

would please. And and by the way, kids,

despite our sin nature and we are little sinners.

And I've said that and you know it's true.

And I am too. But deep down too, you know, God

has given us a desire to please those we love.

And and and and deep down my kids and your kids they they do

even though sometimes I can get interrupted and obstacled by sin

and hardness of heart. But deep down there is there a

desire to please, especially when they're young in responding

to authority in their lives. They desire to please.

Is there in your life evidence of that desire to please God

just like your kids have that data to show their love by

pleasing the same operation for us in our lives.

So there's born of God. They're all to be that

instinctive desire to please God.

No, it doesn't mean our obedience to God is perfect.

It doesn't mean my kids. Obedience to me is perfect.

But is it present? Let me ask you this.

If you just did a. Little evaluation.

Is your love for God looking like obedience?

To his commands right now in your life.

Let me ask you some. Diagnostic questions Are you

ready? Let's just go back to the.

Basic set of 10 God's given us. Not all of them, but a few of

them right there. Thou shalt have no other gods

before. Me.

Right, God says, hey, I'm supposed to be first.

So let me ask you, is God getting your greatest loyalty

of? Above and beyond anything or

anyone else in your life. Is God getting your greatest

loyalty in every area and sphere of your life?

Or is something or someone getting?

A greater loyalty, a greater priority, a higher place, by the

way, sometimes. That person getting a higher

place than God in our lives is me, myself and and I.

Yeah, what about? You shall honor your father and

your mother. I'm talking to the young people

in the room. I see some of you.

Let me give you 2 words, teenagers, attitude and actions.

Number one, to honor means to respect.

And the primary way you're going to respect.

Your parents is in the way you speak to them and the way your

body. Language responds to them when

they're talking to you and your. Attention you give to them and

the way you're reflecting that attitude of a good attitude or

bad attitude to your parents. So attitude and then your

actions, your actual behaviors, so do you actually do what

they've asked you to do are? You honoring?

Their wishes. Are you obeying their commands?

Are you following through on their intentions right now?

Listen, teenagers, I know you may feel a little old for this,

but if you don't learn this, if your parents didn't tell you

this, all right, God wants you to hear this, I believe.

And parents, if you're still raising young ones, you need to

use this language I believe will be helpful because guess what,

You may feel like, well, I don't necessarily feel like they have

to do that to me. Well, listen, God wants them to

do it for him. He's given you for them to

practice on, all right? So what we're going to do is

teach our kids to obey right away, all the way with a happy

heart. Teenagers, you need to write

that down, all right? Because it's applicable right

now. And this is the way God wants

you to relate to him all the way right away with the attitude of.

A Come on now. Happy heart, all right.

That's when honoring one's parents looks like.

You know why God wants you to honor your parents?

Because they're the first authority figure in life.

Because God's prepping you to respond to him as the ultimate

authority. By the way, I'm getting off

track here, but parents, listen to me.

I realize right now sometimes I hear this thing.

Well, he's just two. She's just three.

She's just four. She doesn't know any better.

Listen, I'm just going to tell you you're wrong.

You can try to correct me later. I'm just telling you you're

wrong. They know better, and let me

tell you if you. Don't establish authority and

response to. Obedience when they can do

things you know they should understand by three age 3 and 4.

You've waited too late. You've waited too late.

And again, you may disagree with me and that's fine, but I'm

telling you from a. Place of that's well studied.

And I've seen that, I've told you when my mom took me in the

bathroom before I was when I was about two years of age and went

7 rounds with me to my behind. You think I'm kidding y'all?

Don't remember this. Y'all laughing like y'all don't

know this. 7 rounds because she had instructed me to tell a

young girl I'd pushed. I was sorry.

Either it was 2 or. 3. The seventh time, the 7th time I

finally said I'm sorry and she said after that she didn't have

a problem with me. But if you don't start, if you

don't start early. You'll start too late.

All right, all right, back to sermon.

Here we go. You shall not murder, Jesus

says. If you hate in your heart,

you're guilty. Of what?

Of murder? And remember, John defines hate,

not of digging a hole and throwing you in it.

But of just anything that's. Less than a lack of true what

love? Anything that's less than acting

for the good of another at your own expense.

Even your enemies. All right.

What about you shall not commit adultery, right?

So the Bible talks about adultery as sexual activity

outside the bounds of marriage. When you're married, that's

outside of God's will. By the way, God says if you lust

in your heart, you've committed what adultery.

It's not just a physical action thing.

It's a from the heart thing. And by the way, the Bible uses

another word fornication for sexual activity outside of

marriage for those that are not married as forbidden by God

because God designed sexual activity between a man and a

woman in the in the bonds in context of marriage.

Teenagers, please hear me. You will bless yourself if you

save yourself for marriage. You shall not steal, including

your taxes and your tithe. I didn't think I'd get an Amen

there, but I tried all right. You shall not covet, live

desperately, wanting what everybody else has.

You shall not bear false witness.

Are you speaking the truth and nothing but the truth and only

the truth? No matter who and where you're

what you're with? Loving God.

Y'all looks like obeying God. You realize you can really take

a pretty accurate measure of your love for God by just doing

a little. Analysis of your obedience,

right? Because obedience to God.

Is a measure of your love. It's a how?

It's a how it's put into practice, right?

Winning is everything. How do we know we're winning?

How do we know we're? Winning.

We're winning. When our love for God.

When our love for God. Looks like obedience to God's

commands. Let me just pause for a second.

Some of you are winners in the room.

You're just not living by winning right now.

Let me explain. Alabama won yesterday.

Praise God. But there was a point.

In time when they weren't winning but they were the

winners of the game. OK, I'm doing this.

On a South Carolina game and not a different game, All right.

So anyway, you can be a Christian and be a winner, but

not live like you're winning you.

Can have come to Christ and accepted.

Him and have have have received. Eternal life, but have gotten

the score flipped upside. Down and the world's kind of got

you where it wants you. And it looks like you may not

win in the end, but you're you're a winner.

You're just not living like you're winning.

Your love for God is not looking like.

Obedience to God's commands. And you, you got some

adjustments to make in a time out at a halftime.

God, would you look and inspect me and see God, you've made me a

winner, but I'm not living like it.

So what do I need to change? What needs to happen for for me

to actually live like I who I am?

All right #3 what does it take to win?

Faith is the win. What does it take to win?

Faith is the win. This is verse 3 through 5.

And his commands are not burdensome, John says.

Now don't be mistaken, John does not mean to say that God's

commands are easy or automatic. They're anything but that.

God's commands are in fact demanding.

It's not easy to follow Jesus today or live a life fully sold

out for him in the world we live in.

It's going to take every ounce of spiritual courage and

vitality and ability that God, by the power of the Holy Spirit

can give you and has given us. And yet by this John is saying

God's commands are not oppressive, not God's commands

are not a burden. God's commands, y'all are not

life taking. They are life giving.

The truth will set you free. God has given us his truth and

his commands. So how can God's commands be

both demanding on the one hand and yet not burdensome on the

other? One verse 4 tells us, it says

for everyone who has been born of God, there's that terminology

again, overcomes the world and this is the victory that has

overcome the world. There it is our faith.

John says, why are God's commands not burdensome?

Because of the new birth. If you've truly been born again,

you've been given a new set of desires, and if you've been born

again, you've been given a totally new power, the person of

the Holy Spirit within you. So by a new creation, because of

a new birth, you got new desires and a new power to do what you

never wanted to do, no, never could do on your own before.

And this is how God's commands are.

You try to do God's commands without being born again, you're

going to frustrate yourself into oblivion.

You can't do it. You can't behaviorally modify

yourself into being a Christian. A Christian is a new creation

born of God by faith in Jesus. And when faith in Jesus happens

and the new birth happens, you're a new creation.

And now you're released to do commands you now know how to do

because you have understanding in God's Word.

And you have the power to do that because you have the person

of the Holy Spirit living on the inside.

So you can do that which you couldn't do before.

You would want what you never wanted before.

All right so to be born again is to be saved, brought to life by

God's power. When someone's born again, they

literally, John says, overcome the world.

They have overcome the world. They are overcoming the world

and they will overcome the world.

And although this is not an easy thing, right, This is the power

of God in our life, the world. Y'all are all the forces and the

powers of the evil pitted against God and his people.

And to overcome is to conquer. It's to win.

It's to defeat everything that is opposed to God.

Y'all know a multibillion dollar enterprise that is named for

this Greek word here that means overcome?

Can you name it? Somebody said it.

Who? Said Nike in the back.

Mitch Nike is named, now we pronounce it in English, Nike.

But actually the word comes from the Greek goddess, her name for

victory, which was Nikkei. But this is the word to

overcome, to have victory. And now even a shoe company and

all sorts of sports accessories is named after this very word.

But how is the victory won, right?

How is it that those born of God overcome the attacks and the

temptations and the traps in the draw and the gravitational

downward pull of the world towards rabbating?

It's God, it says. This is the victory that

overcomes the world. Our faith.

Not your works, not your best efforts, not your best wishes or

desires, not your hardest tries. But our faith, our fate.

Why is it? What does it take?

To win, it takes faith. Faith is the victory.

I want you to listen to what God's word says about faith.

I don't have time to read this whole chapter.

I'm going to try to. Hit some highlights.

Y'all ready? Listen to faith.

Now faith is this is Hebrews 11, the assurance of things hoped

for. It's the conviction of things

not seen for by it the people of old received their commendation.

Look at verse 4. By faith Abel offered to God a

more acceptable sacrifice than came.

And then if you drop down to verse 5, by faith, Enoch was

taken up so that he should not see death.

Verse 7 By faith Noah being warned by God concerning events,

yet is unseen and reverent fear constructed an art for the

saving of his household. Look at further.

Verse 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to

a place that he was to receive as an inheritance by faith.

Verse 9, He went to live in the land of promise in a foreign

land. Verse 11, By faith.

Sarah herself received power to conceive.

Verse 12. Therefore from one man as him as

good as dead were born descendants, as many as the

stars of heaven, and as many as the innumerable grains of sand

by the seashore. Look at verse.

Drop on down to verse 17 By faith.

Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac.

Look at verse 21 by faith. Jacob when dying, blessed each

of the sons of Joseph, verse 22 by faith.

Joseph at the end. Of his life.

Made mention of the Exodus Look at verse 23 By faith.

Moses when he was born was hidden for three months look at

verse 29 by faith. The people cross the Red Sea

look at verse 32. What more shall I say?

For time shall fail me to tell of Gideon and Barack and Samson,

Egypt, them David, Sam and the prophets through faith.

Y'all notice a theme? Do you know why the?

Victory is simply our faith. Because Jesus.

Won the victory, and our victory comes by faith in His.

Victory because our faith in him joins us with Jesus, the

overcomer, the one who said, hey, in the world you're going

to have trouble. But take heart.

I've what I've Niked, I've overcome the world, those by

faith in Jesus, overcome by faith because not that we're

trying to win, we're joining the wind that Jesus has already

secured for us on the cross by when we win.

By faith in Jesus as we win. But don't miss verse 5.

What does it say here? Who is it that overcomes the

world except the one who believes that Jesus is the?

Son of God, in case you were wondering.

That's a rhetorical question, I kind of believe.

That's like Bible trash. Talk right there, holy and.

Sanctified Hey y'all show me somebody overcome the world by

something different than faith. You can't do it.

The Bible. Says that's preacher trash talk.

That's the best I can do. Right there, it doesn't happen.

There's no one. There's no winner.

You're not going to find a winner.

Don't even try to go look for one, can you?

You can look for one if you want.

There's no ultimate winner in this world who's won at really

what matters and when he gives everything.

But there's only one win that matters.

Go find me a winner. Someone that's not done it by

faith. I want to show you a little

video clip of Scotty Scheffler. I've showed this to the men on

Tuesday morning, but I want you to see this video clip after he

won his second Masters in 2024. I just want you to listen to how

he processes. Winning the Masters versus the

Christian life. Check this out you.

Say constantly that your identity is not in your golf

scores. What is it about winning and

competing then that you find satisfying?

You know, that's a really good question.

I, I was sitting around with my buddies this morning.

I was, I was a bit overwhelmed because I told him I was like, I

wish that I didn't want to win as badly as I did or as badly as

I do. I think it would make the

mornings easier. But I, I love winning.

I hate losing. I really do.

And when you're here in the biggest moments, when I'm

sitting there with the lead on Sunday, I really, really want to

win badly. And my buddies told me this

morning, you know, my victory was secure on the cross.

And that's that's a pretty special feeling to know that I'm

secure for forever. And it doesn't matter, you know,

whether or not I win this tournament or if I lose this

tournament, you know, my identity is secure for forever.

Doesn't. Matter if I win this tournament

or not. What do you say?

Let me translate. I've already won the win.

That matters. Now listen, I'm no masters.

Champions and let me just tell you how this worked out in my

life all right and Dad. 'S in the room.

Listen. Closely, because if you didn't

have this, you need to be this. The Christian life is a lot like

what would happen when I would walk up to the batter's box,

play a Little League baseball. Bottom of the sixth inning,

couple men on base, maybe tied up or down by run. 2 outs, maybe

full count. My dad either coaching the first

baseline or the third baseline in that moment, could be the

final pitch of the game. Might win, might lose.

My dad would call a timeout, walk up to me, put his arm

around me, and say something like this.

I don't know how many times I heard it, but it was a bunch.

Son. Doesn't matter what happens

right here, no matter what, I'm going to love you.

What was my dad saying, Kyle? It doesn't matter whether we win

or win or lose at this game. You're already a winner in life

because I'm your father and you're my son, and nothing could

ever change that. Listen, as a Christian, every

single day you step up in the life of the batter's box, OK?

And with your eyes on. Jesus, your coach, he puts his

arm around you and says, you know what?

Ball or strike today? Swing or miss, home run, single

strikeout, win or lose. At work or at school or on the

team or your activities or whatever.

I want you to know you're my son.

You're my. Daughter, you've already won.

Nothing could change my love for you.

All you got to do is step up and trust and obey.

Swing the bat by faith and guess what?

Trust me for the results. But you've already won by faith

in Jesus. John and priest Tim are about to

come. Here's what I'm going.

To ask you, I first just want to ask you, are you a winner?

Are you born again by faith in Jesus?

I'm not asking you if you agree with me that Jesus is Lord or he

Savior. I'm asking you if you've buckled

up. I'm asking if you've put on

sunscreen. I'm asking if you've pumped gas.

I'm asking if you've surrendered your life to Jesus.

There's a difference. Are you on his team?

Because if you're stepping up to the box on his team every day,

you've already won. Now you just having fun living

for the Kingdom of God till God calls you home doesn't mean you

won't get hit by a. Pitch every now and then, too,

all right? But you've already won.

Are you a winner? Do you need to step out from

where you are in case, say, Kyle, I believe Jesus is real,

that he exists at his Savior, but I've never buckled up by

faith in Jesus Christ. It's time today.

Would you step out? Would you come?

Let me ask you this, are you a winner?

But you're not living like you're winning.

You're letting the world win because you've got things in

your life. Your love for God doesn't look

like obedience right now. And the score is flipped on you.

You don't really know what to do.

You need to call a timeout and say, God, show me what's going

on in my life, and now I need to lay down whatever I've picked

up. That's not healthy.

That's not true. That's not setting me free.

Bring me back to a point of trusting and obeying you by

faith. You're a winner.

You got to live like. One by putting it into.

Practice. Do you need to come and?

Get on your knees because. Maybe you've never heard.

Or maybe. You need to be reminded of that

every day you wake up if. You belong to.

Jesus, God is your father, You're his son or daughter and.

Nothing could change his love. For you and you're already.

A winner and you just want to say thank you, Jesus.

God help me wake up and get in the batter's box tomorrow with

that on my mind and heart. Nothing, knowing nothing can

change that. I don't know.

I don't, I don't know where you are.

But you were born to win, and winning is everything.

You got other things you're trying to win at that don't

matter. That you need to lay down so you

can just seek to give your life energy to winning at what does

matter. I don't know how you need to

respond, but I'm going to ask you to.

I'm going to pray. Then we're going to stand and

respond to Jesus in His invitation to win Heavenly

Father. I pray you'd have your way.

I pray, Father, that. You tell us how to.

Respond today to you in Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Would y'all stand with me? Our encouragers are close.

You step out and come. You step out and come as the

Lord calls.