Where Are You | Pastor KJay Johnson | Radiant Church TXK

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If you're taking notes, the title of my sermon is Where are you?

Where are you?

I know what some of you guys are thinking like I'm at church.

Like that's that's where I'm at.

I'm at church.

Yeah, you you are at church.

Hold on, where's my chapstick?

Where's that?

Hold on, hold on.

Hold on.

I can't, yeah.

Uh no, no.

I can do a lot of things, but I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't go out chapped.

Hold on.

Okay, they're going to get it.

I can I can last a couple minutes without it.

Wait, I got it.

It's in my pocket.

It was just hiding.

There we go.

Praise God.

Can we get God a shout of praise for that?

He was preaching to his chapstick.

Where is it?

Okay, we know where my chapstick is at now.

So where are you?

Where are you?

And it's a beautiful question.

And it's a question that we're all familiar with because this is the question I used to get growing up from my mama when I was out too late past the streetlights.

Boy, where are you?

This is a question when my wife sends me to get food up the road, and I've been gone for 35 minutes, and she like, where are you?

This is a question where when you're supposed to be somewhere, you're running late, they're like, Where are you?

You like, I'm outside pulling up.

You ain't even left the house yet.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, where are you really at?

So this is a familiar question.

Where are you?

But I'm not asking that question in a simple way.

I'm asking this question in the deepest way possible.

And the way I'm asking this question in is what we're gonna discover through the rest of the message.

So let's lean in today, okay?

All right, so as I transition, one of the things that we struggle with when it comes to being believers and Christians is sometimes we forget what's most important.

Sometimes we forget why matters most.

Sometimes we forget what God is actually trying to do.

Sometimes we forget why we were actually sent here.

Do you ever just sit down and do you ponder the deep questions of life?

Because if you think about life in its totality, it's kind of depressing.

You come, you're born, you live, you go through this phase where you're pooping on yourself, someone's cleaning you up.

Next thing you know, you grow up, you pay bills, you have kids, you raise them, they become adults, and they're like, you don't, then they get 16 and start talking back, and they're like, you don't know anything.

You're like, bro, you 16, you're like, you're dumb.

Um but they think they know everything, and then you raise them, and then you have times you're like, man, I should have.

Then they give you grandbabies, and you're like, you know what?

That's why I let you stay here for that grandbaby, right?

Then you go through that phase, then you get old, then all of a sudden, somebody's wiping you again.

And this is the cycle of life.

And you leave the same way you came, and you're like, what was the point?

What's the point of life?

The point of life is making disciples and being a disciple.

That's the whole point.

The point of this life is are you going to heaven and who you bringing with you?

That's the point.

That's what that's what matters.

That's what matters most.

That's what's most important.

And in this life, sometimes we forget what's most important.

And it reminds me, um, my wife, she she makes steaks, and you know, all you guys that grill steaks, that's amazing, right?

But how often do you grill a steak?

Like once every three months.

So we found the process to have steaks on the daily.

We air fry them, we marinate them and do all the things overnight.

We put them in foil, we air fry them.

They are delicious, they're phenomenal.

One can make the argument, maybe even better than a grilled steak.

I don't know what the air fryer does, but Jesus in that air fryer, there's a connection somewhere.

I ain't found it yet.

I'll tell you about it.

I've seen the air fryer bring dead fries back to life, okay?

Ain't nothing else in the world.

The microwave is tried, the stove is tried, that air fryer could bring dead fries back to life.

I'm at the air fryer like the resurrected king.

Like, like it's resurrecting stuff around here.

And all it requires for her to make my air fry steaks is just foil.

So one day she came to me, she's like, hey hon, can you go pick up some foil from Walmart?

Like, of course.

I'm a super husband.

That's what we do.

I got you.

And I went to Walmart to get some foil.

But you know, when I walked in, I was gonna go get some foil.

I said, you know what?

I'm gonna grab a buggy.

And I got me a buggy.

I said, I'm not just coming back with no foil, girl.

I'm gonna show you I can do this.

Went in there, got some milk, some cereal.

Oh, she liked those.

Ooh, her favorite chips.

And I'm I'm in there buying stuff, filling up the cart, showing her, you know, how well she did when she chose who she would marry.

And I'm I'm putting it all in the cart, and I get home and she is so excited.

Uh-oh, you got my favorite cereal?

Yeah.

Oh, oh, you got this?

Yeah.

And she's looking at all the things I got.

She's excited.

Oh my God, you remember to get this?

You got dish soap?

No way.

Yes.

You got tissue?

Yeah.

Like I got everything.

And then she's like, uh, uh babe, uh, where's the foil?

Ah.

See, what happened was there was a lot of instructions when I went in there, okay?

I walked in, they got clothes in there, they got shoes in Walmart, they got face products, bathing products, they got all kind of stuff.

They got chicken, they got lemonade, they got oatmeal cakes.

Did I say they got oatmeal cakes?

And when I got in there, there were so many good things to buy.

I got distracted and I bought everything except for the one thing she asked me to buy.

Because I got so distracted with everything else in Walmart, I forgot what was most important, and that's the foil.

And so many times in life we get so busy with the job, the career, the car, building our success, building our life that we get everything except for the one thing Jesus commissioned us to get, and that was discipleship.

That was to be a disciple and make a disciple.

Don't get everything and miss out on the most important thing.

Don't miss out on the foil of life.

What's most important here?

And I know you ain't heard this a lot, and it ain't been preached a lot, and it ain't really popular.

So, in our world today, we've replaced being disciples and making disciples with being church attenders.

So instead of making a disciple, we just come to church.

And coming to church is a beautiful thing, but it don't replace being a disciple and making a disciple.

And I got a question for you.

Are you a disciple or are you a church attender?

You can be both.

I suggest being both.

My next question for you is this.

Where are you?

Like, where are you?

And I'm not asking your location, I'm not asking your address, I'm not asking if you're in church, I'm not asking if you live in Texas, County, or the surrounding areas.

I'm asking you a question.

Where are you?

And hopefully today I can help you find the answer to that question.

John chapter 1 verse 39.

John 1:39

We're gonna learn how to answer that question today.

Where John chapter 1, verse 39.

John 1:39

Let me know when you guys got it.

And he reads, he said to them, Come and see.

They came and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day.

He said to them, Come and see.

They came and saw where he was staying and remained with him that day.

So a lot of times when we think of Jesus and the disciples, we think the first encounter was when Jesus met them.

We think their first encounter was Jesus saying, Hey, follow me and I'll make you fishers of men.

Jesus encountered his disciples earlier.

He actually encountered them before then.

And the first thing Jesus asked his disciples wasn't to follow him, the first thing Jesus asked his disciples was to come and see.

To come and see.

And they went where he was staying and they hung out with him, they asked him questions, they came and see.

They were allowed to come observe.

And I want you to know the first phase of discipleship, the first phase, there's no requirements, there's no works, there's no heavy pulling, there's no heavy load.

God is saying, Hey, just come see.

Just come and see.

Hey, come to church and just see.

Maybe you're in church today because all of a sudden your spouse is happy and you're like, Why are you happy?

Let me go see what they're doing over there at that church.

Like, like, like, like my drunk uncle ain't drunk.

Let me go see what's going on at the church, right?

You're coming and seeing.

I want you to know that's okay.

It's okay to come and see.

It's okay to come observe, it's okay to come and sit in and lean in.

Jesus welcomes people to just come and see.

But so many times the church aren't so gracious.

The moment you walk into the church, they're like, you need to break up with your boyfriend, you need to just not throw away all your music and literally hang yourself upside down.

And we got 45 prayer meetings, you need to be at 46 of them, or your judgment condemned.

You're like, whoa! Just seeing what's going on here.

And they make it so heavy because what it is, is it's an emphasis on religion, not relationship.

Religion, not relationship.

And religion says do, Jesus says done, religion says slave, Jesus says son, religion puts you in change, but Jesus sets you free.

Jesus is the God that you want to see.

So come and see him.

You don't have to see what they said, you don't have to see what other people have done.

You come and see Jesus and let Jesus show you who he is.

Let him build a relationship with you, let him show you that he loves you and he cares about you.

Let him show you that you can come as you are, but he loves you so much he won't leave you there.

Because sometimes we come into the presence of God, and Christians will say, Shame on you, but Jesus says, Shame off of you because he carried your shame on his cross.

Right?

So come and see.

Come observe, come figure out what this is all about.

Come see who Jesus is, come see what it's like to be a disciple, come see what it's like to be a Christian.

And many disciples started right here just at the come and see phase.

And when they came and saw, they saw he was different.

They saw he's not like religion.

They saw, man, he wants a relationship with me.

They saw that they could be close to him, not distant.

Every other God, every other religion, you're far from God.

But in faith, we're close to Jesus.

We get to be right next to him and close to God.

Come and see.

Come and see who he is.

That's what the lady at the world told her at times.

She said, Come see a man that told me everything about myself.

Come see a man that changed my life.

Come see a man that broke my chains.

Come see a man that broke my yokes.

Come see a man that broke my despair.

I want to invite you in the city of Texas County.

Come see a man.

Come see a man where his power can make depression and anxiety pack his backs.

Come see a man that he can heal you.

Come see a man that can restore you.

Come see a man that can put your marriage back together.

Come see a man that can put your faith back together.

Oh, come and see.

And Jesus invited people to see all throughout the Bibles.

He would feed crowds and he would feed multitudes and he would let people see.

And I know you might not see Jesus in this way, but Jesus was the master marketer.

Why?

Because what is marketing?

Marketing is allowing people to see.

And he was a master marketer.

Do you think it was a mistake that he multiplied fish and bread and fed over 20,000 people and over 5,000 men?

No.

What was he doing?

Well, um, if 20,000 people saw a food miracle, what are they gonna go do?

Girl, let me tell you what happened over there at the hill.

Girl, Jesus was multiplying everything.

Girl, it was fried catfish and everything.

It wasn't even greasy, but it would still taste like it was fried good.

Oh, let me tell you something.

That bread, oh, I'm telling you, you can't eat that.

That's better than roll house rolls.

We got cheddars coming.

The biscuits at cheddars don't even taste like that bread.

Let me tell you about Jesus.

Come see a man.

He was a master marketer, and he invited everybody to come and see.

Why?

Because the requirements are low.

Well, he's not asking for nothing, he's not giving you required, you got you don't gotta do nothing, you don't have to perform.

Jesus said, Literally, you can come and belong.

Before you have to behave, you don't have to do anything, you don't have to work, you just come at first, and then after you came and saw that his way is better, then he comes to you and then he says, Come follow me, and I'll make you fish as of me.

Now he asks you to follow, and following is harder than seeing, because to see you can sit.

But to follow, you gotta leave.

So now as you start following Jesus, now you gotta start leaving some stuff.

Now you gotta leave that pride, now you gotta leave that fear, now you gotta leave that shame.

Now you gotta leave that porn.

Now you gotta leave that insecurity, now you gotta leave that worry, and now you're having to leave things because Jesus is fought, because Jesus is leading you away from your sin, your problems, your insecurities, your shortcomings, your wounds.

And now he's leading you.

So now you're going through this process of finding freedom.

Where's Jesus leading you?

He's leading you to freedom.

That's what he's leading you.

He's leading you to freedom, he's leading you away from everything you've been through.

What your parents put you through, he's leading you away from that.

What your family put you through, he's leading you away from that.

He is leading you, and now you're following Jesus.

And Jesus says, Follow me, follow me, follow me.

And you have to follow Jesus, and now you're going on this journey with Jesus.

And if I ask you, where are you?

It should be somewhere different than I was yesterday.

Somewhere different than I was last month, somewhere different than I was last week.

But sadly, if I asked you where are you, you would probably give me the same answer today that you gave me a year ago.

And if that's true, that means you have stopped following.

You stopped following.

Because to follow Jesus is to be led away from your flesh, led away from your fears, led away from your flaws.

That's what it means to follow Jesus.

So Jesus is saying, Follow me, and I'll make you.

And he's leading you, and now he's leading you, he's leading you free.

I know I got free because the other day I was driving.

And then do you know, like, like I'm one of those people, and I'm just gonna blast myself.

Ain't no waiting.

I'm impatient.

I'm just an impatient person, and I'm a very impatient driver.

Do you know those drivers where you have to stop like and literally it just look like like you're you're at the front, they're behind you, and soon as the light turns green, they're beep! You're like, how did you hit the horn that fast?

Like the light just turned green.

It's like you're literally like Becker sitting like this, waiting to hit the horn.

Those folks crazy, right?

Those folks, me.

That was me that beeped at you.

It was me.

I did it.

I'm waiting, cuz you should go, because you should have somewhere to be, and you should have to be there right now.

Are you driving slow?

I don't understand it.

And when you get boxed in, my wife was driving to church this morning, she got boxed in.

I'll just chuckle.

And the reason I chuckle is nobody boxed me, I would go around all y'all.

And I'll make the sharpest slap while looking.

To let you know you need to get up off this road.

Where are you in a hurry to?

To the gas station?

I'm in a hurry home.

But where are you rushing home?

Have you seen my wife?

Rushing home too.

Praise God.

I'm in a hurry to work.

I'm going somewhere.

I don't know, but I gotta go and I gotta go now.

And then Jesus comes along.

There we go.

He's like, hey, I'm gonna need you to follow me right out of rubber rage.

Come on, come on.

Funniest story of my life.

A lady blocked me in at the light, and then I hit the horn, she hit the horn, we was going back and forth.

We went back and forth.

Me and this lady, we was rubber raging, we was hitting the horns, we act a foo, I acted a foo, and she acted up foo.

We both pulled up the church.

Boy, I tell you, we both pulled up, the church was at this church function.

Luckily, I went to Pastor, praise God this time.

And I looked at her, she looked at me, I was like, She was like, We just like, bro, we are sinners, but we're following Jesus, and he's leading you out of all that, he's leading you out of fear, he's leading you, he's leading you.

Husbands, you should be better because he's leading you, wives, you should be better because he's leading you.

Follow me and I will make you.

He's leading you, he's leading you to freedom.

Then the third thing, he says, deny yourself, and this is where it gets tough because you have people walking around with crosses on their neck, and that's okay.

But do you know what a cross is?

This is not a positive logo or symbol.

A cross on your neck is like having the uh an electric chair on your neck, it's like having a lethal injection on your neck.

This is not a pretty symbol, this is a bloody symbol.

And it symbolizes death.

A cross means death.

You don't get to that cross and not die.

It means death.

And Jesus said, deny yourself and what?

Take up your cross.

Which means first, Jesus.

See, Jesus is right here.

This is where Jesus starts showing his real colors because at first he just said you can come, you can sit on the couch, you can eat fish and bread, you can hang out, there's no requirements, it's all cute.

Then he said, Follow me and I'll make you.

Okay, make me then, Lord.

Follow.

And it's still kind of cute.

He's getting some bad things off me, but I don't want that guilt anyway, right?

But then he's like, deny yourself.

And now he's leading me to a cross to kill me.

Do you know Jesus' will for your life?

It's for you to die.

That's it.

That's it.

Not physically, no, no, no, no, no.

It's for you to die to your will, for you to die to yourself, for you to die to your ways, for you to die to your sin, for you to die to your shame, for you to die to your frustration, for you to die to your addictions.

He wants you to die to the point where you get to the place that Apostle Paul said, No longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

Which means you should no longer live at a point.

When you get in a denial of yourself, you don't live.

Christ lives.

So all of a sudden, it's been times where I'm on a romantic day with my wife.

And then because Christ is alive, he's like, go pray for that person.

I'm like, I don't want to pray for that person.

I want to sit here and eat.

No longer I live, but Christ who lives in me, praying we do.

There's times where the Lord is like, hey, I want you to serve someone.

I'm like, I don't want to.

No longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.

There's times where I'm in arguments.

And I'm wrong.

And sometimes when you're dead wrong in an argument, it's kind of embarrassing because you like, like, like, have you ever been in one of those arguments and you was fighting hard, and then you walk and you was like, dang, I kind of forgot, dang, they was right.

Like, dang.

And then you walk in and you like, do I stay gangster with it?

Or do I like go and like out myself?

Well, typically I stay gangster with it, you know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm saying?

But no longer I live, but Christ who lives in me.

My wife is my witness.

I was wrong about that.

I forgot about this.

I'm sorry, she's smirking.

I'm like, bruh, you know what I'm saying?

No longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

So when you get to that phase of denying yourself, you don't live, Christ lives, you don't live, Christ lives, you no longer live.

You've been executed, he lives.

So he starts off with come see, no requirements, come follow more requirements, and then all of a sudden he turns up the heat.

Go deny yourself and go die on the cross.

And he even told one group of people that was following him, eat of my flesh and drink of my blood.

The Bible said they left away.

Sorrowful.

That's too much.

And a lot of us we leave away sorrowful because what Jesus is asking us is too much.

There is a point where he is going to say, You have to nail those things to the cross.

Your fornication is cool.

You can come with it.

Jesus will love you.

He will lead you.

But at a point, he's going to ask you to nail it to the cross.

And at a point, you will not be able to go no further until you go through the cross.

And some of you guys for 15 years has been stuck at the cross.

Some of you guys for 10 years have been stuck at the cross.

Some of you guys for five years has been stuck at the cross.

In other words, you have to ask yourself, where am I?

And am I progressing?

Am I growing?

Because a lot of you guys is you're not growing.

Well, I'm at the I'm at the deny myself, face.

That's where I'm at.

Yeah, but you've been there for five years.

When is your access gonna be denied?

And we get stuck in these progressions and these sequences of discipleship because we don't grow.

And then we get to the fourth step, which is go make disciples.

Go make disciples.

And now you've gone through the cross and no longer your life, your life is no longer your own.

And now you're making disciples.

And you said what the apostle Paul said, follow me as I follow Christ.

Follow me as I follow Christ.

I don't follow Christ, don't follow me.

Follow me as I follow Christ.

And now you're leading others out of death, and you're leading others out of pain, and you're leading others out of bitterness and brokenness.

And then Jesus says, Go into all the world and make disciples.

And now you live with this God consciousness where everybody you see is a potential disciple.

Everybody you see, you're like, that's a potential disciple.

Every time I go to a restaurant, this is an opportunity to make a disciple.

So you know what I do every time?

I leave a scripture on the receipt.

And I leave a Jesus tip.

A Jesus tip.

I have left a tip and I've seen somebody get delivered.

Oh, look at Mukoshenek in my shata.

I've seen demons come out.

Like you leave a tip nice enough, somebody get saved, get baptized, slain in the spirit.

Had a waiter come back, blah, blah, blah.

I'm like, you leave a tip nice enough.

Why?

No longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

Why?

Because I don't want to leave that tip.

I want some new shoes.

That's what I want.

But I don't live no more.

He lives in me.

Can we give him a shout of praise?

What are you saying?

Are you saying manipulate people with a tip?

Maybe.

He said, compel them that they may come into my house.

That's what he said.

Read the Bible.

What I'm saying is this.

We live our lives in such a way we show Christ.

Christ is generous.

Christ loves.

Christ serves.

Christ blesses.

This is who he is.

Which means that's who you are.

Can I go a little bit deeper?

Okay.

We'll go a little bit deeper now.

Where are you?

Are you in a phase?

Were you coming to see?

Or maybe you're following everyone.

Or maybe you're denying yourself and dancing your way.

Or maybe you're making disciples.

And they heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Then the Lord God called to Adam and saying to him, Where are you?

So he said, I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself.

I want you to know.

The question that's on the screen.

Make sure it's on the screen.

Okay, there it is.

You never know, right?

The question that's on the screen.

It's not a question that I'm asking you.

It's a question that God's asking you.

He's asking you, where are you?

And it's a question that he asked Adam.

Now, why did he ask Adam this question?

Because Adam ate the forbidden tree.

Adam had sinned, and now he sowed figlies to hide himself, and he's hiding among or behind the trees.

And then God comes and he says, Adam, where are you?

And I want you to know in this moment, God wasn't asking Adam where he was so God could know.

God was asking Adam where he was so Adam would know.

God already knew where Adam was.

How do you know God knew where Adam was?

Because Adam responded, which means God was right by him.

God knew where he was at.

He hid, God found.

So God wasn't asking so God can know.

God was asking so Adam could know.

And Adam knew exactly what God was talking about.

Because here's what Adam didn't say.

He didn't say, I'm over here behind the fig trees.

He said, I was afraid and I was naked and I hid.

Translation.

He wasn't telling God his location, he was telling God his condition.

When God asks you where you are, he's not asking you for your location, he's revealing to you your condition.

And Adam answered rightly.

He said, I was afraid, I was naked, and I hid translation.

He said, I'm in fear, that's where I'm at.

I'm in shame, that's where I'm at.

And I'm in hiding, that's where I'm at.

And you have to know where you are because some of you guys in here, you're the same way that you are hiding in fear.

You're hiding in lust, you're hiding in guilt, you're hiding in unforgiveness, you're hiding in in bitterness and in frustration.

You've been hurt, you've been let down.

People wanted things from you, people had expectations of you, and now you are hiding, and the Spirit of God is saying, Where are you?

He's asking you where you are because you are in hiding.

And I want you to know something.

God will find your hideous seek.

He will find your hiding place when you go high go seek.

He will find your hiding place.

How you know he'll find a hiding place?

Because he's omniscient, which means he's all-knowing, but he's omnipotent, which means he's omnipresent, he's everywhere, and you can't escape God because he's everywhere.

How can you hide from someone that's omnipresent?

Which means he's present everywhere.

So God will come to your hiding place and he will come and talk to you and minister to you and say, I have more for you.

I'm gonna heal you, I'm gonna restore you, I'm gonna bring you back to life.

He will meet you in your hiding place.

Some of you guys are in hiding places right now, and the Spirit of the Lord is meeting you and it's telling you it's your time to get free now.

It's your time to get delivered now, it's your time to get healed now, it's your time to get restored now, it's your time to have change broken off of you.

It's your time right now to break the back of the enemy, it's your time to be set free, it's your time to be delivered, it's your time to be restored, it's your time to be a disciple.

Where are you?

Where are you?

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

Where are you?

It wasn't for God to know, it was for Adam to know.

Where are you?

And the reason why you asked it is because if you watch the sermon I preached to you, it could feel it's derogatory to be and come see, but it's not because everybody got to come see.

You you can't be anything until you come see.

It's not derogatory to be and come follow because everyone has to follow.

It's not derogatory to be and deny yourself because everyone got to deny themselves.

It's not derogatory to be in the phase where you're going to make disciples because we're all called to make disciples.

No part of that process or that phase is derogatory.

So when I asked you, where are you?

I wasn't asking you which one of those labels or stages of discipleship you're in.

I was asking you for the same reason God was asking Adam.

And what he noticed was at first, here's where the Bible says Adam was.

He walked in talk of God in the kula today, which means he was in God's presence and he was a lover of God's presence.

He made mistakes, and what did he do?

He heard the presence of God and then he hid.

He said, Adam, where are you?

Because I noticed you have exited my presence.

Because if I come see, guess what?

I'm with him.

He said, Hey, come where I'm at today.

You're with him when you come see.

If I go follow, guess what?

I'm right by him.

I'm following him.

If I deny myself on the cross, he went on the cross.

There was there were two criminals right next to him.

You know who they are?

They are us.

We are right next to him on the cross, which means wherever we go, he said, I'll give you authority to make disciples.

When you go out and make disciples, lo, he's with you always to the end of the world, which means you're always in God's presence.

So when he said, Adam, where are you?

he was saying, You have exited my presence.

And I want you to notice that.

I want you to know that you're not in my presence, you are hiding.

Some of us gotta come out hiding.

And why is the question, where are you, so important?

It's because if you put out your cell phone right now, even in Walmart or Dallas or any destination, your cell phone can give you directions to any destination in America.

There's only one reason why your cell phone can't give you directions, it's if you turn off your location.

Because if you turn off your location, it can't direct you because it can't locate you.

And when you fall into your sin and your shame and your folly, and you hide, what are you doing?

You're going off grid, you're turning off your location, and you're turning off your location because you're exiting God's presence.

And God said, I'm different in navigation because I know where you are, even when you turn off your location.

But I need you to know where you are because, like navigation, you won't follow my directions without your location.

The question of where you are ain't so much about location, but it's about locating yourself so you can follow directions.

Because directions is predicated on location.

God can give you directions, but you won't follow those because some of y'all, he's saying repent, but because you think you're holier than now, you can be directed to repentance because you think you're somewhere that you're not.

Which means you have to answer the question, where are you?

And there's only two answers to this question.

It's not about come see, come follow, deny yourself, or make disciples.

It's I'm in your presence.

Here I am, Lord, use me.

Or I'm out of your presence and I'm in hiding.

And how do you know which one you're in?

Because if you came and saw the progression to be to go and follow.

And if you came and followed, the progression should be to go deny yourself.

And if you denied yourself, the progression should be to go to make disciples.

Sometimes you can do these out of order, but if you're doing nothing and you're moving nowhere and you're stuck in the same spot, you turn off your location, you're in hiding, and you're off grid.

And I just want to encourage you to turn back on your location and receive the directions of the power and the power of God, and he will lead you into truth, and he will lead you into all righteousness because, like a GPS system, it don't matter how many turns you missed, it don't matter how far you got off grid, it don't matter how lost you get, if you give it your location, it will give you directions back on your course.

And if you would turn back on your location, you can receive his directions to get back on course.

Oh, somebody give God a shot of praise in this place.

Wow, what a powerful message.

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