Miracle in the Making

I thought you had to preach a funeral there for a second.

I'll do for free though, Barry. It's all good, my friend. 5

bucks. I like that.

I just got to know, guys, do you believe in miracles?

I mean, come on, somebody, right?

I mean, holy smokes, I go back and forth like just the emotions

are insane this week. And I just listened to the

worship team. Just tears in my eyes for God's

grace and his power and provision.

And we're going to walk through just miracles a day.

And I want to start just recently, Easter Sunday.

I mean, there were so many miracles on Easter Sunday.

This is incredible. And you cannot get past this.

Come on, somebody. We had eight people start a

relationship with Jesus on Easter Sunday right here at Real

Life Church. Come on, dude.

I can't think of a better way to end a series in heaven than

actually people getting there. Amen.

I mean This is why we exist. I mean, there are souls that

need Jesus and you can't have Jesus by heaven have not Jesus,

right? And to actually put their faith

and trust in Christ and it never gets old to me.

So I've never forgotten what it's like to actually be that

person that sat in that seat and heard the gospel the first time

and just breaks my heart. There was so many people need

Christ, but man so thankful that God is using our church Amen.

We had five people commit recommit their life to Jesus and

I mean that's incredible as well.

I mean you have people are like recognizing I'm living my own

path. I'm living less than God's best.

I'm wrapped up in a false identity or false way of life

and I'm just going all into Jesus like a surrender moment.

Absolutely amazing Amen. So you have 13 people that came

on Sunday that said I'm drastically changing my through

the power of Christ. So I'll go to God Amen.

It's just can't give it up. Man, just can't, cannot get past

that. Just some highlights.

It's, it's just incredible. We had over 50 connection cards

which represent over 100 people that are new to our church so we

could connect with follow up, love on, share the gospel, cheer

them on. We had 13 people baptized, Amen.

Amazing. I know you guys are back today.

See a lot of you guys and some of the people that came out.

Man, it was amazing to, to talk to people.

By the way, I was praying for her family.

You guys been praying for, for Heather and their family.

Well, guess who came out Easter Sunday?

Heather and her family. Amen.

So answer the prayer, right? And I mean, so many stories, but

people came in that were coming out of some church, heard in

different situations and literally in tears because of

how welcomed and loved they felt last week.

I mean, amazing. Like they just felt it from you

guys. You guys became like the, the

whole hospitality welcoming team and they could just feel it.

And there's cultures and churches, you know, you can feel

like, you know, the weight or like the weight lifted off and

just to see that it's like, it's just all glory to God.

But it's because God's using you guys's grace and your, your,

your ability to love people. So it's cool to see that.

And then we had families. There's a whole Rd. that came

out or two. There's a family of 23 people

cheering something on getting baptized.

And the feedback was, but we absolutely loved it and they

were excited to be preached from the Bible.

And I thought, man, that's kind of sad, you know what I'm

saying? Like what church you've been

going to brother? Like what else are they sharing?

You know, but I was like, we'll take it, man.

I just thank you Jesus right from the word, Amen.

And there's families that came out last week that hadn't been

in years and that came out to your Sunday.

I just want to say thank you guys for, for inviting, but also

for caring people here to real life church, caring people to

Jesus. We talked about that, that that

paralyzed man that the four friends brought and you guys did

it. Amen.

I mean, you think about this. We had 13 people playing your

visit that showed up and walked around everything.

We had a record Sunday attendance.

We we have never been in the six hundreds and last week we were

in the seven hundreds. This is like, thank you, Jesus.

Like we're skipping. And it's been that way all year.

Honestly, it's been really amazing.

Like if you look at last year to year, like week to week, it's

been up 15 or 20%. Easter was up 23% over last

Easter. And that's all glory to God.

Amen. So there's just miracles.

I mean, just you guys and God doing it.

You know, we're just trying to stay all the way and say God

just move and just keep preaching the word and be

faithful to what he's doing. So I also want to celebrate a

few things this last Saturday, I guess that's yesterday.

It's been a long week. Yesterday, wow, feels like I

liked him ago. We had real life men, did an

amazing job serving our city so well.

We had about 30 guys come out to the Hope Center in the morning

and I'll show some of these pictures.

We broke into groups and went out.

This is the group that went to Hard In Hand.

There's some new guys have been coming out here as well.

Next picture. They did some shelving in the

the basement, some different things in the building.

Hard hands, an amazing ministry in the city.

Just giving back and caring for people.

Give it up for them. By the way, come on, somebody,

and there'll be more opportunities with them.

Got a great chance to meet some of the guys I didn't know there.

They've some new leaders and stuff and they have opportunity

there to serve. And so we'll send people.

Amen. And he's like, you guys got some

trades. I'm like, yeah, a little bit.

A little bit. Yeah, we can might do that, you

know, next picture. So here, here's another crew

going out. Man, I love look at Rick.

Rick's the guy in all black. Come on, somebody.

If you need somebody to take somebody out, you know you're

going to go to war. That's your man, dude.

High and tight. He's got the hat on, but high

and tight. Marine, Come on.

Semper Fi. He's right.

He's back there. It's real crazy.

Look at you, man. You're like, we're like, man, we

serve. Just love it.

All right, next picture. Look at these guys.

So, yeah, there's two different crews here.

We show up to a house and I'm not going to name who it was,

but it's Patty Dizzell, and this is her floor mat.

Check this out. Turn around.

Unless you bring brought wine. Come on somebody.

So I walked in. I was like, hey, I brought the

wine. Come on in, pastor.

Oh, it's like that's great. That's the best floor mat.

She's probably embarrassed I put on there, but all right, next.

So there's all sorts of stuff the guys did.

I mean, and you may think, oh, that's just small, just that

dude. It means the world, the people

you're serving. There are people that we serve

that just going through health stuff, family stuff, you know,

somebody might want to call. I know we have old school terms

shut insurance like they can't make it out.

And so I said, who can we serve? Well, let's serve people in our

community. Give them back and people in our

church that made you a hand up. And the guys did fantastic.

And I only give a big shout out to the guys came out.

But also I don't know. There he is Scott Jermaine.

This was his heart, his passion led the way put together.

So give it up for the the bald, the beautiful right here.

Scott Jermaine. Yeah, fantastic team.

So all glory to God, Amen. And those are miracles in the

making, right. And then you you might have

heard about the Belden Cinema 8 May heard a little bit about

that. Oh man, that was it is like been

flying a kite in the hurricane of God's goods and grace.

I mean, I've never been so extended.

Like what is happening? You know, I'm usually I'm like

the excel guy, you know, I'm usually like, let's have this

planned out. And it has been moving so

quickly. But between like conversations

and contract, we're talking like 12 days.

Like it is insane. Like how God is sets up, we'll

talk about it, but I don't go back all the way to how this

started, right? Like because I think God

doesn't. I think God trying to bless

everybody, but I think the ones who can take opportunity, the

ones are ready for it. The ones are looking for it.

We talk about this lot, right? Seeing what everybody sees and

do what no one does, like being prepared.

Well, we've been preparing for a season and I'll go back like in

time just a little bit to last would have been I believe it

have been October and we launched a little series called

Difference Maker and right before that series, we actually

did a series. You guys remember the first

series was on that good, huh? I'll give you a hint, Mark 928.

You'll remember when I say this. And when he, Jesus had come into

the house, his disciples asked him probably, why could we not

cast it out talking about a demon?

And he said that then this kind can come out by nothing but

prayer. And you guys remember that

series we did, We did a whole like section of time where every

week we're like, man, we're going to prayer and fast and

we're going to prayer and fast. And that led the way.

And it is just only certain things that happen through

prayer and fasting. So if you talk about a miracle

that happens, miracles are always preceded by prayer and

fasting. Like every revival, every

awakening, everything of God's move always comes because

somebody's on their knees and it's somebody starving to death

for God's glory. Somebody wants God more than

anything else. And we, we, we, I don't know if

you remember that, but that glory to God, Amen.

Like there's something for your soul that can only happen to

parent fasting, that there, there's identity there there's a

confidence that there, there's a boldness.

We are outside of our league because of Jesus, Amen?

But why not, right? Does he not own everything, does

not control everything? Like we, we need him.

We just need our ability and my talent and my whatever is he, he

needs. We just need to rely on him and

his strength and his power. And that's what fasting and

prayer does. And so does something your soul

does something to your family. We talked about that, but we

talked about it does something for our church.

And it's only through prayer and fasting that revival happens,

that God's power is there. And we pray for this

specifically, we prayed that God would give us divine

appointments and would give us divine favor.

You guys were praying for that. God did it.

Amen. He did it like there, there's no

way that this deal comes together because we had some

kind of math and it just was like going to work it.

It happened because God moved in somebody's heart and God moved

somebody else's heart. And then this person was

generous and this person brought connection and this person

helped out and all of a sudden there's something happening

that's only because Jesus can do it.

Amen. Like, I feel like what is

happening right now, God is showing off because he's the

only person that could ever get the glory for what has just

happened. There's nobody else.

Like he can't be like, man, that that that board, that staff team

or this like, dude, it's only Jesus.

Amen. And so I think there's something

a little different today. I can feel it.

I can feel the connection, the energy.

I mean, there's pep in the step put even putting the stairs on

that Barry almost died on. You know, people were excited,

you know, Whoo, yeah, man. And I started thinking as like,

you know, in, in some ways, like we've been counting, like how

far we've gone, like this is, I don't know.

You've been tracking how many steps we've been doing.

You're OK. Yeah, it's over 400, right?

Like, so like we've pulled up every two trailers for over 400

plus times. And I today I walked up and I

thought this may be the beginning of the end of pulling

up a trailer. Is that crazy to think about?

Like you can like start counting down.

I'm like, oh, dude. And I'm back here in the worst

being started. And it kind of hit me and I'm

like, man, I just can't believe it.

You know, I'm just like absolute shock, like crying back here,

just like, dude, I'm, I'm lost, you know, like I, I honestly

don't know. I'm so unprepared today for what

God's doing. And, and I think it's just

amazing. Amen.

Just to be a part of the story. And so we've been praying, you

know, and we prayed for this. We prayed to secure our first

permanent space, secure our first permanent space.

And there's been a lot of different ideas.

And I've honestly, I've looked at probably every space in town.

I've done a lot of been a lot of things and seen a lot of things.

I've looked at every space. If you were to take a map and

you're like laid out on the floor and you said, Lord, if

there's any building we could have, you'd ask God for a

building. You would have asked God for the

Belden SIM 8. Like there is no other space

that is a better space. I mean, it's set up for

assembly. It's an icon in the city.

And God in his grace and mercy, through divine favor and

gracious of people, has allowed us the opportunity to step into

that space. It's insane.

I mean, God, glory to God, Amen. And so if you're here today and

you're like, what is this guy talking about?

Because maybe one person. Is there anybody who did not

know that this has happened yet? Dude, right there.

Come on. Yes, Julian's like this, like

the mom, the only one. Well, I was going to replay the

video if you missed it. So this is for Julian.

So check it out. Give it up for.

Julian Real Life Church and I'm so excited and humbled that I

can officially announce that we're under contract with Belden

Cinema 8 Mitchell Theatre right behind me.

How incredible. This place is an answer to

prayer. I've literally been praying for

this space that our church could be in it since 2016.

If you're back, if you're on our team, back.

Over my shoulder. At the Hope Center and you guys

been praying and fasting. We sat in the room and we said,

hey, one day man, you guys are going to plant seeds and God's

going to move. Well, this is what God is

growing. How absolutely amazing this is

25,000 square feet. It's got 8 theaters.

This place to do ministry and expand and just be a light not

just to our community but around the world.

You might ask why Mitchell Theatre and this place really

dropped in our lap. We saw this theater post out

that they were closing down in August and then moving on from

some development in town. We thought, man, let's just

reach out and see what God may do.

And by their graciousness and God's grace through Brian

Mitchell and Willie, their team, they want to give us back to

some of the community that's giving back, that's serving,

that's making a difference, and can be a light and difference

maker for years and decades to come.

And so God just made a move and we're so grateful for these

guys. I want to give a shout to

Willie, man. He's been praying for God to use

this theater as they were moving out.

And it's really answer their prayer for him.

It's also prayer for answer prayer for us.

And so we're super excited for what God's going to do.

You might ask what's next? One, I would say celebrate,

thank God's on the move. This is like a Red Sea crossing

for us. I would just say celebrate

taking the moment. This is going to be historic for

life, for a church and really for the King of God moving

forward. Two, I would say pray there is

still hurls across. You've got inspections and due

diligence. Pray for divine favor.

We got architects, designers, engineers, you know, GC Subs,

all the things, a lot of extra work and energy on the team and

just pray for wisdom, divine favor, strength and just clarity

and direction as we design and lead in this space.

And then last thing I'd say is to be giving be a part of what

God is doing here. I know you guys made all

difference as difference makers and we stepped.

Out by faith. So we can change there forever

and this place is going to change a lot of there forevers.

You can imagine initially goes out.

And so if you're a difference maker, I'll say thank you.

If you've not yet stepped in, there'll be a link in this video

below the video and you can begin to give and just cheer on

the things of God and sow some seeds literally at the ground

floor for God to move. And we're getting more clear on

this on Sunday. I feel like I'm a just caught up

with a a kite and a hurricane of grace.

I mean, it's it's incredible guys doing.

And so we're going to mind hard round this.

This moves so fast. That's so cool, and we're going

to be at Kentucky Trail at 91040.

Five and just leaning in and celebrating big what God is

doing Legit legit. That's the first time I've seen

the video. So nice job, Julian.

That's that's the project, man. It's just God's goodness.

Amen. I mean, I, I'm still just in

shock just even seeing it and it's quite just a blessing what

God's going to do. So what that looks like right

now, we are in the process of inspections.

Due diligence gives us the ability we we need to or want

to, we can walk away from the deal.

There is zero part of me that thinks that's a good idea, but

we're looking at, you know, obviously parking lot HVAC, roof

infrastructure, that kind of stuff.

But thank you, Jesus. I mean, what an amazing time it

is like I just thought, man, I told Holly the team I was like,

man, I've I've yet to be the season of ministry where it has

been so much like out ahead of us and God is doing so many

incredible things. It is just a special time.

I just thank God for it. And so I've been dreaming about

this space. Like I've been just thinking

like, you know, God, what can we do in this space?

And so let me cast a little little vision that's on my

heart. I'm not I'm not saying this is

going to be turnkey. We're walking in.

Amen, God can make another miracles.

Amen. But but, but I'm just saying,

let me, let me just like tell you what I'm seeing.

So some of y'all are going to go to the movies tonight.

I'm going to see what you're thinking on this, but I'm

thinking of walking in and that first theorem left, big theater

like worship center, next theater, worship center

expansion, right, Put 2 together as one.

I'm thinking the right theater, like man, let's turn into the

big hub. We hang.

That's the hang right. We do a little coffee shop up

front, up front, you know where the concessions are.

We do kids ministry in the second, third theater.

Like we got room to go up. It's tall as this building, you

know, if we got to go to 2nd floor down the road, right?

But I'm thinking walk into the hub and there's a community

space, right? Like there's so many people in

the community are dying for an event space, place to put

tables, chairs, like APA, I'm talking about all sorts of

stuff. But you could use that.

Community becomes part of the building, make that available to

them. Now I'm going to dream a little

bigger. Now we're like put an entrance

on a side by PetSmart, do some stuff outside for fun, bring

some food trucks in, have some some community life people come

in, hang out, that kind of thing.

Kids space. This is way big.

If someone wants to write the check for this would be amazing.

Amen. But I'm like, all right, put

some glass on the side of the theater.

We're going to walk into big kids entrance.

And then the glass, you can see this awesome like tunnel town

kind of world where it's like, that's going to be really fun.

If I can get a part of that. So kids may play a part of what

God's doing and then kids come in and go life changing spaces

and rooms. We have an amazing kids team

that love Jesus and kids love Jesus.

By the way, I will tell you on Easter Sunday, we found out that

this building, it's not maxing out at this space, it's actually

the kids space. Just want you to know, there

were sixty kids in the second hour elementary class in a

library that's portable. Come on, somebody so great

problem to have parking. We had three deep cars up in the

grass. I didn't know we had to help

people how to park. But if you were one of those

people, like they'd park back-to-back to back and people

are trying to find a way out of this place.

So essentially all I'm saying is we can't do three anymore

without doing more spaces. So we had to be 4 on Easter to

be in this building. So it just it's just crazy, like

what a whirlwind of issues to have.

But look at that space and like, well, how can we do ministers

really, really well here? And one of the options that has

really been on the table behind the scenes, it's not in the

contract. So I'm just going to put us out

to pray for it. But the ability to actually

leave some space there for some theaters and it's been behind

the scenes and been conversation.

Why don't you pray for that? Because that'd be an amazing

deal for us to invite the community in to play part of

that story. And they could come in and

enjoy, you know, you can leave church and be like, Hey, I'm

going to catch a movie, right? But be a great way to to serve

the community. But it'd have to work out like

got asked to do some divine favor appointments on that.

There's chairs, there's projectors, there's all sorts of

stuff that happens on that. But we're just asking God to

move. Amen.

I mean, we had nothing to do with this.

I mean, you back up two weeks ago, we're like, get ready for

Easter. And now it's like 2 different

worlds. So I'll just be praying for

that. Be praying for, you know, God to

give us asphalt that price. Come on, somebody pray for to

ask for a gift for free. We'll pay for a price up again,

but just for miracles right Divine favorite divine

appointments to move the needle and I just know got to do some

very special stuff in this space and I can see life change happen

there. I can see community life happen

there. I can see young people being

sent from there. It's really cool behind the

scenes, not about the space. We we're literally at the same

time the same time this is happening.

We're talking to ministries in Thailand about to bring the

gospel to different villages and meeting with people in Cairo in

Lebanon to take ministries there and do underground church there.

We've we have real connections that we were out there last

year. And I'm like, Laura, this is so

amazing. What if this building was the

beginning of like a movement that went across the world?

Like what if we like trained gay men?

Dude, give it up for that, right?

Like it's cool reaching our community, but how can we use

this to like church planting residency through our church,

Like having space for that, having office space.

I mean, it's just, it's just absolutely amazing.

And how incredible that you could walk in like 2 minutes

from the Hope Center next door to the movie theater.

Amen. And so I will say, thank God,

it's just been so good. We, we walked through a series,

our first difference Maker series and we went through

numbers 13. I was to remind you guys of what

we asked God for and it was that moment where they go into the

promised land. And it was really one of those

moments where they, it was like a holy moment, right?

It, it's a moment like that sets up.

We're going to stay in the woods for 40 years ago in and they,

they, this is kind of a once in duration moment.

We talked about you guys remember that and they sent the

spies in, they sent all 12 in and, and they, they're like,

this is flowing milk and honey. It's beautiful, it's amazing.

And then two of them are like, we should do it.

And 10, we're like, we're afraid.

And this is what we talked about.

If you remember back in #13 it says they, this is the spies.

They get Moses account. We went into land in which you

sent us. It does flow with milk and

honey. It said here, here is its fruit.

But the people who live there, they're powerful.

The cities are fortified, they're very large.

And we're, we even saw this sense of Anarch there, that

Amalekites live in the give and Hittites and Jebusites.

Amorites live in the Hill Country and the canines live

near the sea and along the Jordan.

And they were paralyzed with fear.

And we talked about what it takes to have faith.

And for most people, vision and faith ends at the first obstacle

or opposition. Most dreams die in the safety of

our minds. The dreams just end because it

got hard. It got difficult.

People didn't believe in it. Didn't they recognize some

people didn't believe in our dream on social media.

Anybody see that? Dude?

Thank you, Jesus. Amen.

I mean, I don't know. I'm not perturbed.

I'm tickled to death. I think it's amazing.

Like, I mean, you are saying it, right?

Like, man, you might, you remember Pirates of the

Caribbean, You're the worst pirate ever heard of.

It's like, but you have heard of me, Amen.

I mean, you know what? If people have critical opinion,

hey man, we're praying for them. We've outlasted critics.

It don't bother me. I didn't even read it.

Honestly. It's like Lord just use it

because somebody says something and then somebody else reads it

and he goes, I didn't know about that.

There's a church coming in and God will use it.

Amen. Like I don't it doesn't bother

me at all. I'm tickled to death.

I think it's amazing. But this is what happens.

There's there's people that are just seeing fear and seeing

obstacles. And then Joshua and Caleb will

step in Numbers 1330. It says, and Caleb signs the

people for Moses and said, what should we we should go up and

take possession land for we can what we can what it's on the

screen. I don't think it is.

You guys didn't memorize Numbers 1330 for we can what?

Help me out? We can certainly do it right.

And if God's in it, then what can stop it?

And that's what they're saying. Like we saw God part the Red

Sea. I mean, if this is the

opportunity puts in front of us, like, who can really say no?

Like, why not go? And they had they had this the

vision to see past the obstacles and the the faith to see past

the problems. Yeah, there's going to be

obstacles. Amen.

And and, and, and sadly, like in my world, in my level of

leadership, most people around me, they see a little too small,

just real honest with you. Like it's just what it is.

Like there's just not a lot of great men and women of faith

that see beyond the problems that exist.

But I'm just choosing to. Amen.

I just choose to see a little further.

I'm not saying I have the best faith in the world, but just a

little further to what God can actually do through a space like

this. Some people saw giants, other

people saw God's promises. It's pretty interesting.

Like we talked about how this worked out, like we had

personally thought the deal was the virtual theater are been

bought by Petra. Like we're like, oh, it's gone,

you know, but we're like, well, maybe we have a chance to to

rent it out, you know, and maybe down the road that he comes to

us or something. It became very apparent through

social media that was not the case.

And so we saw what everybody else saw.

There's a theater that's closing down.

There's an opportunity in front of us and we did what no one

else won't do. And we just reached out.

Amen, just reached out and said, is there an opportunity?

And it just started coming together.

I mean, it's just there's a little bit of wisdom of like

we've been preparing, we've been looking, We we saw everybody

else was kind of looking around and we saw and said, God maybe

just use this and God moved in people's hearts and put this

together. Amen.

So it's just this is kind of a Kayla and Joshua type of faith,

right? They believed like we could have

a new home there. Like we put our family there,

like this place is fruit and honey.

Like there's potential, there's new life on the promised land.

Like they saw that and like we're willing to go and we

recognize when we did this message that and you may know

this, but they're the only two people ever to make it from that

generation into the promised land, Amen.

So for us today, this is like a once in duration type of moment,

Amen. I mean, it really is like you're

going to look at the back in time, like remember we used to

be at that school. Do you remember that?

Were you from those days? Right, That was me here.

Put the popping print, you know, like you're going to, you know,

we're doing the building. I'll be getting more and more

less hair. We see every time I see pastors

and building initiatives, I'm like, you'll be on the building,

man, I can tell, right? It's just good, though.

I mean, this is good, but by faith, like it's a one

generation type moment. We, we committed to this.

We decide not to be people who sell it for the wilderness.

You guys remember that we're we're not going to be in the

wilderness. We've been doing portable for

almost 9 years. Oh, by the way, I forgot to say

this. So the contract, you probably

know when does that actually happen?

So and it'll be cut back, but they're going to keep the movies

open through through the summer. We got big blockbuster hits and

stuff. August comes, they're going to

start winding down late August. I'm not sure the date they're

actually closing, but our paperwork closes on the 15th of

September, 2 days before our 9th birthday.

Is that credible? And I wish you would have looked

at that, because I've been. Like let's just move it to the

17th. Brother, you know what I mean?

But God is good. So nine years like in the

wilderness and we're like, maybe we can, maybe we're not doing 9

more like God will make a way. God will make an opportunity.

We're like, we're not going to be a status quo.

We're not going to be apathetic. Like we're going to move

forward. And I don't know about you, but

like I'm ready for a miracle. Like, and not just like in a

building, because the building is a building.

I'm ready for the miracle to happen in people's lives.

Like I'm ready for people to come to Christ.

Like I'm so ready for people to be sent out from our church.

You don't even understand like the need for the gospel to be

going across the world like you, you don't even see it yet.

And there's just so much opportunity for us to make an

impact here. So make an impact there.

And then your family and friends can know Christ and we can

disciple them and grow them and send them out in gospel

planting. Like who cares what they do?

I mean, there's some of you guys here today.

I see you that are like, dude, I'm just hungry for the gospel.

Send me, use me. Like come, come, come under the

tree for a while and then like be sent out or how we're going

to do it, right? Like, who cares?

We don't own anything, Amen. If today's not proof that we own

nothing, I don't know what is. And so we just kind of say just

Jesus, right? And for some of you today in the

room, like you've been able to look for a miracle, like you may

be looking for a church, you're looking for God, you're looking

for the right place, you're looking for freedom.

You found it. Jesus just did it in a very well

what real way, and he'll do it for you, Amen.

And so we're going to do something special.

We're going to have a invitation and we're going to do, we're

going to have an altar call here in a minute and we're going to

have some songs we're going to worship.

And and I think giving back to Jesus of what he's done and just

lifting up praise. So if you can't just pray,

people say, Father God, just thank you so much.

God, we are so grateful God for what you're doing.

God, we don't deserve anything. We don't deserve any of the

glory. God, it's only you.

God, you've made a way. You've moved in people's hearts.

So we are grateful for every person who has said yes along

the way. We stand on the shoulders of the

school district and behind the scenes for custodial and all

these people who've just paved the way.

But God, you open a new door in a new season, God, and we trust

that you're going to provide for it.

And so, God, we give you gratitude.

I'll pray for one group of people in the house.

That's those of you that you know you need to say yes to

Jesus. Those of you who walked in today

not knowing who we are or anything about real life.

And you're starting to recognize like there's a God universe that

is a miraculous God that can do great things that can cross the

Red Sea and can provide spaces that we don't deserve, but God

can do it. And that same Jesus came and

down across from your sins, the Bible says if you call on him,

he'll save you and make you new and he'll change your sin,

exchange for all his righteousness and make you

whole. And so today, if you need Jesus,

the Bible says the day is today a salvation.

If you call on the Jesus, you'll be saved, forgiven and made new.

And so if you need Christ today, let me be looking around.

Just raise your hand high in this place.

I mean, I need Jesus today like I need a miracle to have my own

life. I give the gospel to go out.

This is what this church is all about.

If that's you, I'll pray for you.

Just just pray to God yourself and the prayer is not saved.

You appear to me to say, Father God, thanks so much for loving

me not to send Jesus when I was at my worst.

God, you've bent your best, you've seen me, you know me, you

love me, you know every sin, every wrong thought, but you

choose me and you die on the cross for me, God.

So I surrender my life. God is no longer about Sean.

It's only about me. God, it's all about you and your

glory. And so God lift you up to him.

Pray in Jesus name, Amen. Come on, church, give it up,

baby, for God's glory day. Amen.

If you guys could do something, stand to your feet real quick.

We're going to worship and I want to encourage you guys.

How do you respond to a miracle? And you see this all throughout

the Bible. Singing is a response to a

miracle. They cross the Red Sea and you

got Moses and Miriam. They sing with loud voices.

Matter of fact, they wrote some Psalms in the psalms from the

cross in the Red Sea. They wrote it down in Psalm form

for us to have today. They had some dancing.

Amen, Miriam. She got out the tambourine and

danced for the Lord. And may bring your tambourine

today. Come on somebody.

We've had some tambourines, you know.

Now David, he danced for the Lord.

I don't recommend getting naked the day, but he did shout.

Shouting. I mean the walls of Jericho fell

and they they shouted praise. We can hear some shouting today.

Man be excited. They laid the temple foundation

to Ezra and they shouted, they they gave generosity.

It wasn't just emotional. They they sacrificed when they

opened the temple. They sacrificed.

They did offerings. When the Ark of the Covenant

came back, David gave offerings. Just paving the way.

I mean just worship. Giving is worship.

They testified. This is pretty good.

A lot of guys did this already. Psalm 6616.

Come and hear what the what the Lord has done, like you're

sharing the miracle. I mean, it's just amazing.

Like you'll go out this week and then you hear about what's

happening. You hear what God did.

That's worship. Amen.

Use it for God's joy. And there was weeping.

I had a few guys that texted me pictures.

I mean, I am crying right now. Just so humbled and so, so

grateful. Some of you guys already went

out in front of the theater and prayed and said, Lord, you know,

God, thank you God, use this place.

And so I want to do is I just want to, I don't want to be like

the the 9 lepers don't come back.

You know what I mean? I don't, I don't got to the

miracle. And we're like, oh, cool.

Like we got to go back to Lord, Amen.

And so these, these altars are open and we're the one that

comes back and just says, thank you, Jesus, whatever way,

whatever style, however you're going to do it.

But we're going to sing a couple songs.

But I want you to do it with a heart full of gratitude for two

full songs. He deserves our whole life to

worship Jesus, Amen. And so this song is going to

play and we're going to roll. So thank you, Jesus.

Amen. Sean said the altars are open.

If you want to pray, if you want to lift up your hands, you want

to sing, you want to kneel, grab a friend.

We're just going to praise God for what he's done.

You're good and I'm Wednesday. You're strong and I'm Wednesday.

You're constant. I witnessed it and I'm confident

that I'll see it again and again.

You love and I witnessed it. You heal and I witnessed it.

You save and I witnessed it and I'm confident that I'll see it

again and again. You're good and I witnessed it.

You're strong and I witnessed it.

You're constant. I witnessed it.

And I'm confident that I'll see it again and again.

And you love it. I'll witness day.

You heal it. I'll witness day.

You said it. I'll witness day.

And I'm comforted I'll see it again.

Witness your faithfulness. I've seen you breathe life

within. So while pour out my place

against your worthy got your worthy of all of it.

Your promises never fail. I've got stories I'll let you

tell someone. Pour out my I praise again.

You're worthy. Gosh, you're worthy of all of

it. To the broken of Witness Day.

To the hurry of Witness Day, the lost.

I will win this day. And I'll tell them this.

I'll tell them what I will. There's to my family of Witness

Day, to the city on Wilder's Day, to the nations on Wilder's

Day, and I'll tell the Mass, I'll tell the world, our God, we

give you the praise in this place.

God, our praise is. Just giving you your breath.

Back. We have so little to offer you,

God, but our lives, our praise, our trust in you, God, we offer

that to you today. God, you're on the move and we

trust you. And let today be a stake in the

ground of your faithfulness. God that will remember, give you

all the glory. Lift him up because I witnessed

your faithfulness. I've seen you breathe life

within. So I pour him out praise again,

'cause you're worthy, God, you're worthy of all of it.

Your promises never fail. I've got stories I live to tell.

So I pour out my praise again, 'cause you're worthy, God.

You're worthy of all of it. Because Christ is my firm

foundation, the lock on which I stand and everything around me

is shaking. I've never been more glad that I

put my face everything Jesus because he's never let me down.

He's faithful through generations, so why would he

fail now? He won't.

He won't. I still got joy in chaos.

I've got peace that makes no sense.

So I won't be going under. I'm not helped by my own

strength that I build my life on Jesus 'cause He's never let me

down. He's faithful in every season,

so why would he fail now? He won't, He won't.

He won't fail. He won't fail.

He won't. No, no, no, no.

He won't fail. He won't fail.

He won't fail. I lift him up.

Christ is my firm foundation, a rock on which I stand with

everything around me shaking. I've never been born bad that I

put my day in Jesus. This.

He's never let me down. He's stable through generations,

so I would need them now. He won't.

He won't. He won't me.

He won't me. Blue, But my house was built on

you. And I will say with you, and I'm

gonna make it. Blue.

But my house was built on you. I'm safe with you and I'm going

to make it through. Rain came with bloom.

My house was built on you and I'm safe with you.

And I'm going to make it through.

Yeah, I'm gone. I'm gonna make it through.

Stop standing strong on you. Yeah, I'm gonna make it through.

As my house is built on you. Christ is my firm foundation,

The Rock. On which I stand when everything

around me is shaking. I've never in my life when I put

my bath in Jesus, he's never let me down and stable through

generations. So why would he fail now?

He won, He won. He won, man.

He won't be. He won't.

He won't. He won't.

He won't. No, he won't.

Come on man, I could have. That's right.

All glory to God. Man is so good.

Man, I could have stayed in that moment felt like for hours just

worshipping all that God has done.

I mean, what a reminder today that miracles still happen and

we're witnessing that. And it has just been so amazing.

And why don't you guys go ahead and take a seat.

I mean, some of you for the first time today recognize the

miracle of Jesus in your life and you prayed that prayer and

you raised your hand and you accepted Jesus today.

And if that is you, we are so excited for you.

We would love just to walk alongside you to resource you as

you take the step with Jesus. You can let us know that

decision. We'd love to help you.

You can grab that connection card that's on your seats, fill

out your information there and check that box that says I've

committed my life to Jesus. And you can drop that in the

giving buckets as they pass here in just a few minutes.

By doing that, we'll drop you a free book in the mail this week.

It's a short but powerful pact, a book that will help you in

your journey. Also, before you leave today,

grab a red bag. There's a table right before you

exit the worship center and side is a free Bible and just a few

other resources for you. We would love just to walk

alongside you in this journey. And I want to talk to those of

you who are newer with Real Life Church.

Maybe this is your first time here with us at Real Life

Church, or maybe it's just the first time in a long time.

And we are so excited that you're here.

We welcome you here. So glad that you chose to spend

your morning right here with us. And we really don't want

anything from you this this morning except for this.

We'd love just to simply know that you were here for you to

introduce yourself to us. And you can do that by grabbing

that same connection card. And you can fill that out, fill

out your information there. You can check first time here on

that card as well. You can take it on out to the

new here booth when you exit the worship center, there's somebody

there that would love to just greet you.

Or you can also drop it in the giving buckets as well.

And we would love to see you back right here with us again

next Sunday, man. Shawn had talked about one of

the ways that we can celebrate this is through generosity.

Because what better time than right now to celebrate all that

God is doing. After 8 1/2 years of being

portable, God truly opened a door.

And that's not normal. What just happened for our

church, It's not normal. It's truly a miracle and all

that God has doing for us. And when I think about that,

every dollar we give towards this truly is a seed.

And it's a seed being sown not just into a building, but a seed

being sown into the community and the lives that need to know

the hope and power and freedom that is only found in Jesus.

And what an opportunity and a time to do that.

Man. In December, just a few short

months ago, we started giving towards our difference maker

initiative to be able to say yes when an opportunity came for us

to find our first permanent home.

And we filled out commitment cards and we started giving to

that. Really a difference maker is

this. It's somebody who gives

generously by faith for their forever.

I mean, what an opportunity we have right now to be difference

makers, to sow seeds not just for people who are here now, but

for people who haven't even come through the doors, who don't

know the hope of Jesus. We have an opportunity to do

that. So I want to invite you to be a

difference maker. If you feel called to do that,

there are commitment cards on your seat.

You can fill those out. Just committing to give above

and beyond. If that is where God is moving

in your life, we would love for you to do that.

Be a difference maker with us. If you call real life home,

there are a lot of ways that you can give here.

You can check out the screen there.

There you can scan that QR. You can head to our website, you

can text to give. You can drop cash or check in

the giving buckets. They're going to pass here in

just a couple of minutes. There's also a giving box right

in the back. You can drop cash or check in

there as well. And as always, if you or your

family find yourself in any kind of need this week, food,

clothing, shelter, really whatever that looks like as

these buckets pass, please reach in, grab any loose cash that you

see just so that we can be a blessing to you, a resource this

week, to you and your family. And I'm going to invite Logan

Hardy up here to this stage to lead us out this morning.

Oh man, I don't know about you guys, but this has just been

such a good morning. Out of all the words that come

to mind, grateful is the first one.

And here's another thing I'm grateful for.

I am grateful for anybody that's in here that is newer or new ish

that came out to check us again after Easter.

So if that's you, everybody just give it up for these people.

In the same vein, I'm talking again to you that are in here

that are newer next week. We have such an awesome

opportunity for you to get connected a little bit deeper

with our church. It's something that we call the

welcome party. Like I said, it's going to be

next week in between the gatherings.

That'll be 10:20 to 10:50. I think it's going to be 30

minutes. And if you are newer, this is

your opportunity to get to know the leadership here a little bit

better. It's to get plugged in and make

some new meaningful friendships within the church.

It's going to be your best opportunity to hear a little bit

more what real life is about, what we strive for and how you

can get plugged in here and maximize your talents to serve

and what opportunities might be before you to get to know God

deeper. So if that's you, you're in here

and you're newer, I would love to see you next week at our

welcome party. And I have one other

announcement equally as important in the Hub.

When you go out there, when you leave, we have doughnuts.

So keep the celebration going. Get a doughnut and just

celebrate everything that God did here over this past week.

If you need prayer or something to talk to, have somebody down

here for you. And otherwise, I'll see you guys

all next week. 9 and 10:45 I remember whoever finds Jesus

discovers real life and purpose. See you guys next week.