Pastor Daniel Mckee

Good morning, everyone. Oh, I'm recording John Michaels

listening right now. To me, it's always a privilege

and honor to speak at Salt Church.

You guys are one of my favorite people on planet Earth.

For those of you that do not know me, I am Pastor Daniel.

I've been a staff pastor at Lighthouse and Gloucester for 20

years or so. I'm the executive pastor and

man, I just love Jesus, all right, You know, I have, like

many of you, put all my chips on the table in front of our King

and said, hey, can you arrange my life to bring glory to your

name? And so Jesus stands above

everything in my life and will always.

And, and so I just try to live that way and I just love him so

much. So I try to love like Jesus.

I try to live like Jesus. I try to lead like Jesus.

I want everything to be about our King because he's done so

much for me. And so that's where I'm coming

from today. So yeah, I've accomplished

things in my life, but whatever. I think if you follow Jesus long

enough, you will see his glory be revealed in your life and

people will be affected in a positive way and, and praise God

for that. But I just want to speak from my

heart this morning. Thanks again, Natalie and John

Michael for inviting me here. I have a couple Sundays a year

that I can get away from Lighthouse and I choose Salt

Church every time. So and and so I just I feel like

I have a word now. I have shared this word a few

weeks ago. So.

If you heard it then and don't be disappointed because.

It is on disappointment if. You are disappointed.

That's my my. Teaching and if I could get

somebody to hand out some notes. I'm, I learned this from Pastor

Ken. We'll have some notes.

So if I get off track, there it is.

That's what I was supposed to say right there.

And if you want to join, turn to Luke chapter 15.

Luke 15 · chapter mention

My family gives their love to you.

They are at home. Jennifer is steadily recovering

from from a stroke 8 months ago, so she's doing well.

And so the family's at home and that's where they are at.

All right, So turn with me to Luke Chapter 14.

Luke 14 · chapter mention

Maybe it's just for me. Come on somebody, if you don't

go to church and feel the love of God, then come on, you got to

find it. Find another church.

But the spirit of of the Lord is in here today.

So. If you could, could just.

You, you don't have to stand up, just put your hands out like

this in the act of receiving from the Lord.

Oh Lord, we come to you today. I just thank you for your

unconditional love that cost you everything that you did for us,

what we could never do for ourselves.

You lived on this fallen world and did not sin, and then you

gave up willingly your life upon that cross so that we can have a

relationship with you. Father, you didn't Jesus, you

didn't state that God raised you from the dead.

And Lord, that love, I just pray for that sacrificial love to be

shed abroad supernaturally in every heart here today.

Lord, that our Sunday would be effective, that our Mondays and

Tuesday, may we have moments where we just take a deep breath

and realize that you have done for us what we can never do for

ourselves. Yes, we are called to work, but

we are called to work from faith, not for faith.

Your faith, your love is what compels us.

Father, I pray for that love to be shit abroad, not to others,

but. Individually, as you would.

Call each and every one of us by name and say you are my son, I

love you, you are my daughter, I love you.

I'm well pleased with you. I want to pray for that to

permeate every part of these next few minutes that we have

together. That your love would be shown,

that would be displayed, that would be received, that it would

be something that would shift our mindset, the atmosphere.

It would change everything. Your love changes everything.

God is love and your love never fails.

When we choose you, we receive love.

When we operate from that love, our actions will never fail.

And so Lord, I pray for that confidence, that boldness to

abide and live from that love. And I'll give you all the glory.

We give you all the glory in Jesus name, Amen.

Can you remember a time? Where you had like the best

birthday party ever. Think for a second.

You did you have one you had did you just recently have like the

best? Birthday.

Party ever. Not recently, but one of the

ones. OK, all right.

I remember. My best birthday party was. 1987

and that was a long time ago. And you can do the math.

But I don't do math anymore, so yeah, I'm past 40 and the.

Yeah, so that was a long time ago, but I was. 11 years old and

I didn't realize how awesome the birthday party was until I've

had a series of. Birthday parties that didn't go

according to plan? That makes sense.

I mean, sometimes things happen in your life and you're you look

back and you're like, I should have enjoyed.

That more Anybody there should have enjoyed that moment.

Well, it was 1987 and my team the.

Redskins Any Redskins fans in? Here, All right.

I still call them the Redskins. You can cancel me, but you got

to forgive me. Either way.

The blood of Jesus forgives me. There's still the Redskins to

me. The Redskins went to the Super

Bowl, and back then the Super Bowl had a chance to fall on my

birthday, January 31st, 19. You can put January 31st on your

phone if you want to get me something.

January 31st, 1987, the Redskins go to the Super Bowl on my

birthday. Praise the Lord, I wasn't even

serving him back then, but he was like, I got you.

You're coming to me so excited. They're playing the Denver

Broncos. All right.

Now, the Denver Broncos happen to be my wife's favorite

football team, and I didn't know her back then, but I remind her

of 1987 all the time. And like you remember that time.

All right. So they threw me a big birthday

party, had the cake and everything, and you know what?

It didn't disappoint because when the game was played. 42 to

10. Come on, the Redskins whooped

them. Doug Williams.

Come on, Art Monk. I mean, you had some great

football players, but I. Was like the best come on,

somebody the hogs don't, don't, don't let, don't take me down

that rabbit hole. That's the story that's not

there. But that was the best birthday

party I ever had. Have you ever had a party that

you planned that didn't go according to plan?

Like that one was kind of like, I wish I was in 1987.

I've been like, this is awesome. Whoa, alright, now I'm playing

things in my life and I'll tell you what, most of the time what

I expect to happen does not happen.

Sometimes I am disappointed with the results of said party.

Now let's take that just a little bit further.

Maybe you have experienced things in your life where you

thought it was going to go 1. Way.

And it went the total opposite way.

Yeah, yeah. I'll share.

I'm sharing stuff that is. Back so I don't have a

counseling. Session with you.

I'll leave that up to the Holy Spirit.

He's my counselor and so he'll work things out to me.

I don't have a counseling session here on Salt Church, but

here's here's one that I was super disappointed with in 2020.

I was. Graduating with with a from.

Region in a particular degree and I had vision.

I had, I had, I had visualized. Anybody practice visualization?

I do it all the time. Good stuff, good stuff.

I had been in the studies. How many go to have gone to

college? Going to college?

How many are out of? College.

Thank you Jesus, thank you. How many are in college saying

help me? OK.

All right. Well, I spent a whole lot of

time in college and I would use visualization to be like my

preferred future was coming. One of those things was I'm

going to walk across the stage, so rewind when I'm writing a

paper and I would like you, you've experienced this.

I used up all my brain cells and this thing is due and I don't

have anything. And then I would say, OK, just

pause. Jesus help me.

There will be a. Time.

Oh, that's right. Where?

All my family were gathered to celebrate me accomplishing this

great task. And I'll be walking.

On that stage and reaching university and I'm.

Going to be in my whole new thing and I'm going to.

Stand like a man and I'm going to grandma.

The degree across that. Stage and I was like yeah, thank

you Jesus and then we're going to party.

It's going to be great. What a day and this particular

degree I was getting on the other side of it.

I was getting a raise on top of that.

Come on somebody. So every time I got discouraged,

I would think about that, Oh, I have a couple more Dimes in the

bank account and I'm going to go in then in 20. 20 This thing

happened. They cancelled every graduation

and. It was called COVID.

So I'm sitting over there thinking, I had all this stuff

and it starts in March and then my graduation is May.

And I don't know, but if you fell in that trap where you were

like, this is just going to be a week, this would be just a week,

OK, this is just a month. I'd be like.

But I remember feeling disappointed now.

Good. Thing is, I have a.

Sweet daughter named Joy. And joy, man.

She is such a blessing to our family.

She's. Probably 14 at the time.

She goes outside. We live on a.

Second story. Flat and she goes into the yard

and she puts out a couple chairs.

And she? Puts out a little podium like.

This and she makes a. Little.

A little. Degree and she rolls it up and

puts a little twine on it and she says dad, what I want you to

do is I want you to I want you to put on your cap and gown

because. The family's going to have a

celebration for you today. And so I sat in my yard, and I

was the valid. Victorian.

I gave a speech and. Everything you know, I'm like.

Yes, Sir. We're all gathered here today to

hear from me. Top of the class.

Nobody knew I was lying. It was cool.

It was great. His blood covers whatever.

That was a joke. I didn't really do it, but.

No, I wasn't valid before. Won all the awards, but the Lord

kind of redeemed it. And I remember talking to one of

my good friends, Doctor Lynn Westman, and she's a counselor.

Do you anybody in counseling? Like is that your field in here?

I love counselors. I love.

Counselors. Well, Doctor Lynn Westman, she's

one of my heroes and she counsels me and I don't even

know what's happening. Like she's got that anointed.

You have those friends. Like some of the friends don't

have the degree. She has a degree.

Someone has those friends where they just grab stuff out of you

and then they the Lord uses that gift to just fix you.

I don't know how he does that. I'm like a man.

I'm. Just I'm fixed and like, how did

I get here? Well, I would talk to Doctor

Lynn and I said, she said, how are you doing?

And I said I'm disappointed. She's like, why?

And I and you know what, I had stuffed that disappointment.

You know why? Because there are people going

through worse things at that particular time than me not

getting my degree and walking across the.

Stage. I mean, people were losing

their. Lives and what I did was I was

like, in light of what everybody else is going through, I'm not

going to deal with that emotion, not how it goes when you're

having those emotions. We want to stuff them, but the

Lord wants to. Heal.

Them and so I was trying to be like, well, Doctor Lynn, all

this stuff happened she. Says whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a

second. Spend some time and let's

process that for a second. With the Lord about.

Being disappointed and so there are three ways.

Let me talk to your. Soul, just for a second, and

then we'll get to where? There are three ways things hit

us in life. It's external, internal and

theologically external. Internal theologically let's the

instance of me not walking that day, external wasn't it came at

me, did not expect it. Internally, I experienced the

the onslaught of what was coming at me and it produced something

in my soul. Does that make sense?

Am I tracking with you? It produces something.

Now, what most people don't factor in is how important

theologically fancy word for how you view God, how that

determines and effects those other two.

This is why it's really important that you read your

word. This is why it's really

important that you study the word, because how do you view

God? How do you view Jesus?

Now let me just give some of you just the hey, hey, this is the

way out. Jesus is perfect theology.

Amen. All right.

And you can think about that for a whole long time.

Jesus is perfect theology. OK, so if I go to Jesus, learn

from him because you're not following me, you're not

following John Michael, you're not.

You're following Jesus. Now all the other individuals

follow Jesus and then we do this thing together.

But you are called to follow Jesus.

And if he is perfect theology, then he is going to help you

navigate through life situations.

All right, so listen here. Here's the deal.

When things hit us externally, if internally something's not

right, it will cause this, this, this spinning out in your life,

so to speak, because you're not viewing things correctly.

All right? So if you censor yourself, OK,

well, here's Jesus. Here's one theological thought

that I'll just send you home with.

It's crazy some of the things so simple, but you could spend a

whole lifetime thinking through this.

Jesus was fully God and fully man Amen.

What the world? What does that mean?

He was fully God. So in the Book of Revelation,

Jesus is the king of kings coming down in the with the

White Horse. He destroys everything and he

doesn't even need any help. He got people behind him.

He he he wraps this thing up all by himself.

Jesus is fully God who but he is fully made when he was on earth,

and that means he experienced a whole lot of what we experience

as fallen human beings. Now Jesus did it all without

sinning, did it all without misstep, but he experienced what

we're he experienced on earth. Are you with him?

OK, now I have used that understanding theologically to

get me through a whole lot of stuff because there are times

where I'm like, Jesus is coming and he's going to destroy all my

enemies. That's not where I'm at today.

There are also times in my life when I'm struggling with.

Stuff that is just real and I need the king to.

Sit by me and help. Me out in my mouth.

I need Jesus, the one that. Talked to his disciples.

And said I no. Longer call you servants, I call

you friend. I need the king, that is.

Suffering. I need the king to help me.

And here's one of the things and that that's helped me in my

life. I hope it, I hope that helped.

Think through it because sometimes we're like waiting for

the conquering king when he's saying, I just want to sit with

you, dear, and tell you how much I love you.

I, I just want to encourage you, dude.

You are doing a great job leading your family.

Come, come to the King, Sit down with him, sit with him.

Well, there is one thing that happened to me and I was, I was

reading the scriptures and I had never come to Jesus with my

disappointment. It's so strange to me that I had

never come to Him with this disappointment.

So there was something that I struggle with that I would try

to own. Is there manly men in here?

I like, I know it's John Michaels church, you got manly

men in here and there's nothing wrong with that.

I think we should be men. We should be men in lead, right?

But there is things that we go through emotionally that we have

to say, how do I, how do I work this thing out with Jesus?

How do I sit with him and be like, how do I net?

Well, one of the things that I had never done is I had

experienced disappointment because we all do.

That's number one. Disappointment is common to us

all. I had experienced disappointment

and I had tried. To get on the other side of it

in my own strength with not it, without inviting the Lord with

me, does it? Am I here?

He and I was reading the passages and I came across Luke

Luke 14 · chapter mention

chapter 14. Now in Luke chapter 14, we have

Luke 14 · chapter mention

this situation that plays out. You can follow along.

I'm going to paraphrase it until we get to our verses in verse 15

through 24. It's the great banquet is the

parable Jesus shares in Luke chapter 14.

Luke 14 · chapter mention

Find Jesus. He's impassioned.

We all right His like he is. People are coming after Jesus.

He's about to die for the sins of humanity.

They're about to hang them on a cross.

It is Passion Week and people are coming at them and the

Pharisees want to take him out. Like this is no joke.

Jesus is, they're after him. He gets invited to come to a

Pharisee's house and he attends. Jesus didn't run away from

conflict. He ran into it and then went

through it. He sits in this Pharisee's house

and it's a setup. It's like Jesus come to dinner

with us. We're setting you up.

All eyes are on Jesus. Matter of fact, they bring in

somebody that is sick just to see if Jesus will heal him on

the Sabbath. Now, Can you imagine if you read

this passage, Can you imagine being that sick guy?

Come on, Why don't you come with me to this house?

It's like, why are you inviting me here?

There in this, in this particular issue, the guy is

dealing with swelling of the body, like he's his liver is

messed up or something. His body's not acting right.

They pick somebody that's sick, they're like, come to this

thing. All right, Jesus is there, All

eyes are on him. Jesus says, hey, do you think

it's lawful to sin and to heal on the sound crickets.

Oh, they knew what they wanted to say to Jesus, but those

Pharisees, they didn't have the courage to say anything to the

King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

He says, hey, silence. He turns.

And he heals the van. It was so cool.

I don't know what verse it. Is four or five.

He heals him and sends him on his way.

They invite this man in here as a set up to see if Jesus would

heal him on the Sabbath, but they're all ticked off.

Trying to kill him over Jesus is like, hey, if your kid fell in a

ditch, if your oxen fell in a ditch, when you pick him up and

he heals this man and sends him on his way, he's like, look,

this party's not for you my friend, go ahead and leave.

Sends him on my management being that sick guy.

Come on, that's the best party he ever went to.

And then he begins to talk to them.

So then he says, I think it's he notices how the guests pick the

best seats. You know what, I think in

America, if we would just do this one, we would go a whole

whole far away. Teach your kids this.

Don't take the best seat when you come in a room.

That's a McKee rule. Here's another McKee rule.

Liters eat last. Don't come into the room and

take the best seat. So Jesus is at this Pharisees

party and he sees people jockeying for position and he

says, look, this is not how this thing is supposed to work.

If you come in and you see the best seat and you sit in it,

then you're liable to have the, the, the person that's running

the show come in and say, hey, look, that was reserved for John

Michael. You're sitting in John Michael's

seat. No, he says, the best thing you

can do is find the the seat that is farthest away so that when

the host comes in, they'll say, hey, why don't you come move up

in here, right? And he's teaching them how the

Kingdom works. He's in on in real time.

That's how Jesus is talking in real time.

He's saying this is what's happening.

This is what should happen. Then he says, OK, well, here's

the deals. What's happening is that you

guys are just inviting all your friends to come to your parties.

The best party you could have is if you went to the to to invited

people that really couldn't afford to come.

The cripple, the lame, invite them to the party.

That's how a party's supposed to go.

Then let me see if I caught it all.

I think I did good. You can read it later if and

text John Michael if I missed it.

So then in verse 15, let's pick up in verse 15.

Are you still with me this morning?

OK, verse 15 when one of those at the table with him heard

this, he said to Jesus, blessed is the one who will eat at the

feast in the Kingdom of God. Pharisee ask this to Jesus.

Jesus is prime. Teach them something.

This Pharisee says hey, it's good to know and we're all going

to be eaten up in that. Kingdom of Heaven.

And what Jesus is trying to teach them is that the Kingdom

is not only the Kingdom to come, it's the Kingdom now.

And you can take that home with you like you can have the

Kingdom now. Today.

The Kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy

Spirit. The Kingdom is at hand.

And Jesus is trying to tell the Pharisee guys, you have been

waiting for something that is here right in front of you.

It's me. And then he tells this parable.

Now parables are awesome. How many like parables?

You should read all the parables.

I think there's 37 parables that Jesus writes.

They are really, really good stuff.

So here's the parable. And then let's let's tag it into

disappointment because one of the things I just didn't, didn't

click with me was that Jesus has been disappointed.

And maybe that's just for me right there, but the fact that

Jesus was disappointed gave. Me, the strength to walk.

Through disappointment and when I.

Read this parable I saw. Keys to overcoming the villain

of disappointment to being on the.

Other side of of. Disappointment and it starts

with this first one, Jesus replied.

A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many

guests. At the time of the banquet, He

sent his servants to tell those who had been invited come, for

everything is now ready. Jesus prepares this banquet and

he's saying everything's been ready, everything is ready, and

he's invited people to come. You know who he's talking to?

He's talking to the Pharisees. He's saying you have already

been invited. The table has already been set.

Come then in verse 18 it says, but they but they all alike

began to make excuses. The first said I have bought a

field and I must go and. See it?

Now let me just pause. Who buys a field and then goes

and sees it? Right.

That's a lame excuse, 19 another said.

I have just bought 5 yokin of oxen and I'm on my way to try

them out. Please excuse me who works at

that time of. Day third excuse, which I think

is the best. Excuse.

There's still another said. I just got married so I can't

come. John Michael would not like

that. Well, what wife would not want

to get all. Dressed up and go to a banquet

that's already. Been prepared.

So what Jesus is saying to these Pharisees is that you have made

excuses. Now listen, I'm not going to

harp these excuses because you're here.

Today on a Sunday. Morning and you've.

Decided not to. Use any of those excuses.

But we have used all those excuses, right?

So let that sit for a second as you encourage others to come to

the. Local House of God.

As you you know, it is so easy in our world to make up a lame

excuse to not coming. I think Jesus would be more

pleased that we were just honest.

Yes. Right, so he.

Sends out this this request and here's the deal.

Like in ancient, in this time in Jewish time they would go door

to door and invite you to banquets.

So that means. Like they would, they would say,

OK. Are the clerks coming?

Yeah, we're coming. I'll put you down.

Are you guys coming? Yeah, I'll put you down.

I got you. I see you, darling.

Your family coming. I got you.

I got you. I got you.

And they would get a rough estimate.

And whoever is playing the church picnics.

You live this a rough estimate on how many people are going to

come. Then they would send out the

official invite. So then the official invite

would send up in your inbox and you'd be like, OK, then you make

the excuse right. So Jesus is talking to these.

So the so here here. So everybody deals with

disappointment and how to overcome this disappointment is

I need? I need one of those sheets.

I had it written somewhere. Resolve, Disappointment leads to

adaptability. It leads you to adapt.

Now listen in this in this particular parable, Luke chapter

1421. Let's get there real quick.

So they make the excuses. The servants came back and

reported this to the master. Then the owner of the house

became angry and ordered servants go out quickly into the

streets and alleys, out into the towns and bring in the poor, the

crippled, the blind and the lame.

In order to resolve disappointment, you need to

adapt to your present situation. Does that make sense?

There's there's this in this parable.

He was quick to adapt. He's like, OK, I invited all my

friends and all my friends didn't come because they had

lane excuses. Well, he didn't stay into in the

disappointment. He adapted it and said, OK,

well, now here's what we do. We go out and we invite the

cripple, the lane. We bring them in.

One of the ways to resolve disappointment is to see what

the opportunity is. That is presented itself.

In my situation, when I was talking about graduating, my

daughter Joy adapted, didn't she?

She saw the disappointment from Dad and she made a quick

decision to say, we're going to redeem this.

The longer you stay in something, the more it seeds in

you. And I'm not saying you can't

work through your emotions now. And everybody is wired a little

bit differently. So sometimes we like to think

our way out. Sometimes some people feel their

way out. I get you.

I'm not here to try to figure out who you are and how you're

wired. That's insanity.

I'm saying once you identify the disappointment is familiar to us

all, Look for the opportunities. How can we shift this?

How do we resolve this? How do we adapt?

All right, now listen the the next one and I got some points

there for you in verse 22 and 23, resolve disappointment leads

to perseverance. Verse 22 and 23, Sir, the

servant said, once your order has be done, been done, but

there's still room, then the master told his servants, go out

to the roads in the country lanes and compel them to come so

that my house will be full. And everybody said, Amen.

There is always room in God's house for more people.

All right, resolve, disappointment leads to

perseverance. Now let me just push a little

bit here. OK, in all love.

Let me get back into my love. Sometimes I'll get to the

exhorting. Thing it's.

Time to build some perseverance. In your.

Life and the way that God does that one way is because we live

in a fallen world and we have to adapt and we have to persevere

through some stuff like if we could just be like, OK, magic

genie Jesus. Last time I checked in the IMS

Iams of Jesus, the seven Iams, there wasn't the magic genie

Jesus. I am discipleship.

Following Jesus is a process. We go through stuff.

I'm here to tell you that on the other side of that resolved

disappointment is a bigger, better promise on the other

side. And there needs to be in the

body of Christ, there needs to be this call to surrendering to

Him and persevering through stuff.

Because on the other side of your disappointment is

opportunity. On the other side of

disappointment is, is something that Jesus has in store for you

Now, Did He 'cause it? I don't know.

Some stuff comes externally, some comes internally, some

comes because we're just hanging around people that are in fallen

world. Sometimes we take on more stuff

than we can. Sometimes we have an expectation

of what we think God is doing, but he's going to do something

different. Sometimes we have this, this,

this, this, this, and this. Can I tell you a lot of things

that I wanted to do in my life or had planned to do in my life

have come out totally different. I mean, just been different and

it's not been bad. But if I had a stayed in the

season of disappointment, like if you're still in

disappointment in this year, next year and next year, come

on, come on somebody. It's time to say, you know what,

they disappointed me. Call it what it is.

A spade is a spade, but the blood covers it.

And I'm moving on because we can't stay in disappointment in

this in this regard, because there are people that are going

to hell all around us and we need to get over ourselves.

OK, That's as hard as I could go in the loving.

Are you receiving it? Like so there's something in

your life today. I'm telling you, Jesus sent me

to you today. There's something in your life

that you got to say. I'm going to set that free and

move on. Yes, I was disappointed, but now

I'm resolving my disappointment because just like Jesus was

disappointed in the Pharisees that they were going to kill

him. They literally killed him.

Jesus came to save the Jews and the very people he came back to

nailed him on a cross and insulted him.

And we're so thankful that he died and he came back for them.

You talk about disappointed, Jesus was disappointed.

So it's time. It's time.

It's like, OK, today, let's just break free of that mess.

I don't know what it is in your life.

Maybe you planned something that didn't work out.

Maybe it's a relationship. Maybe it's something internal.

External things just didn't go the way they were supposed to

go. It's time to say, OK, OK, In

order to have a fresh start, in order to see the new thing that

you have in store for me, I got to let go of this

disappointment. And I know in order to let go of

this disappointment, I need to let you perfect in me something

that is of you. On the other side of

disappointment is strength, my friends.

I mean, what is in you will come out of you.

Can I tell you that out of the abundance of the heart, the

mouth speaks when things are calm, You need to be putting

some good stuff in you. Because when the storm comes and

the trouble comes, what is in you is going to come out of you.

And if you will learn how to mitigate, manage walkthrough

disappointment now, when things maybe aren't so, so hard pressed

on you, when you get into the situation, you will do things

without thinking about them. All right, enough so he says.

So my house will be full. Resolvement, resolve,

disappointment fortifies your faith.

It fortifies your faith. Now listen in this particular

parable, and I hope you caught it.

And Jesus shares parables so that we keep you so we can get a

truth to it. There's always room for people.

In God's house. And this and I and I love Salt

Church because there's room for people to come here.

Don't get to the place where you have not made space for somebody

that doesn't know what you know about Jesus not being able to.

Sit there because churches. Are known for being the screen.

Door to what Jesus is. Doing in somebody's life and we

can get on these other side of these seasons.

And be like, look, my life looks a whole.

Lot more in order than it did back.

Then. But it wasn't me that put it in

order, It was him. It was His word becoming flesh

in my life. And if I get.

Prideful, like the Pharisees, I will say my life is in order

because I And then when there's somebody in utter chaos, life

falling. Apart that could do your three

things that you haven't swore for their life and it would

magically get better. Struggling over there, but we're

way over here and we're saying they don't have a.

Seat at my. Banquet.

Don't be that church. Don't be that individual.

Jesus says, go out and get those yes, that are hurting and

bringing in. What is Jesus saying in that

parable? He's living this out.

He's saying, Pharisees, if you followed me around, I'm the one

that's healing that that man that you brought in here that

was sick. Matter of fact, I've come here

and I've poured out my life for the least of these.

Amen. He's saying I'm already there.

He's telling the Pharisees that's me, that's what I've

done. If I was going to throw a

banquet. And then he says this.

He says go out and compel them. That word compel, That's an

interesting word. You should look it up because it

literally means to compel, to state strongly to convince

matter of fact, there in, in church history, there have been

churches that have taken that word, compel to the extreme and

they have caused a whole host of harm.

You know what they did? They looked it up and it was

compelled. And so they define compel

screaming and yelling and compelling from the rooftops, in

the sideways and byways, in the bushes and hedges.

Who, who hides behind the hedge? But look that, he said, go to

the hedges. I, I, I, I'll think about that.

Where are the people that are hiding?

Behind the hedge when do? You get to the place where

you're thinking strategically about how do we get people that

don't even think about? Church to come here to come to

him. You know what's interesting

about this parable? Let's not come here.

It's goad there. And a lot of times what we do in

our church, the only thing is bad it's we've created a

banquet. Come everybody and Jesus is

saying go yes and compel. He's saying go out there and

then Brendan here, he well, that's inconvenient.

Jesus. Well, yeah, but there's room in

my house. There's.

Room in my house. This is why, personally

speaking, I love. The church.

And I don't just love lighthouse in salt.

I love the church. Because every local expression

of the church is an. Opportunity to reach people that

no one else is reaching. I love the church.

The Church is the answer in our world.

Amen, but there. Needs to be this participation

from the followers of Jesus. That say, you know what?

I'm going to do things. No one else is doing to reach

people that no one else is reaching.

And you're only going to do that on the other.

Side of discouragement. You're only going to do that on

the other side where you're like, OK, I've learned how to

manage my. House I've learned how to.

Manage my relationship with Jesus and I don't I don't get it

all right and thank the Lord because that makes that that

brings me right to his feet every single time.

But I am healthy enough to look out for the interests.

Of others. And.

Bring them into a relationship. With Jesus.

So can you stand with me this morning?

Again, let's finish the way we started.

Just put your hands out in the act of receiving from the Lord.

Jesus, we just love you, just love on the King, we love you.

Jesus, we love you so much. You are so good to us.

You are so good to us. You are so good to us.

Thank you. I'm going to ask this question

because I don't know everyone in this room.

Jesus did for you what no one else could do.

He lived a sinless life. He.

Gave his life up for you so that you could have relationship with

Him. Says in the scriptures that

whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and the reason why.

Jesus is the. Only way while one of the

reasons is because he didn't want to complicate things here

on earth, some people are like, hey, there's so many ways to.

God no, there's one way. And his name is Jesus, and so

there's no debate. About it you.

Can only come to God and the Father through Jesus, and He has

paved the way for you to do that.

And it's called the good. News.

It's not bad news. It is.

Great news and the great. News is that you have.

Sinned and fallen, that's a bad news.

Sin and fallen short of the glory of God.

But Jesus did for you, which you could never do for yourself.

He has washed. Away he has taken every sin of

humanity upon himself, and he willingly gave his life, and the

Lord raised him up so that we. Could have a relationship.

With him and. All you have to do.

It is so simple, is call on. The name of the Lord.

You just say Jesus, I need you, Jesus, I need you.

And if there's anyone in here today, I'm going to count the

three, but there's nothing. Special about the number.

Three, I'm just. Letting the Holy Spirit draw you

to Him and today's your day. Today is the day of salvation.

Today is the day where your life is brand new in Him and the

weight of sin, the burden of sin will just float off of your life

and you will be His forever. If that's you today, all across

this room, just lift your hand up.

Anybody, anyone. How many this morning?

How many this morning? All right, my second call.

Is that I? Know during this message that

there is something, some kind of disappointment that has been

tripping you up and Jesus just sent me with a message to Saul

Church to let's not get tripped up about what God has already

settled. It's time to move on.

It's time to take the step. Today is the day that you

resolve that disappointment. Amen.

So if that's you today, just lift your hand.

I'm not calling anybody up. I just want to.

See a hand? If the Holy Spirit is there you

go. I see those hands.

How many more? How many more disappointment is

coming to us all? How many more?

All right, say this with me, Lord Jesus.

Lord Jesus, I give you this disappointment and Lord, I pray

and Lord, I pray for your grace and your love to overwhelm me,

to overwhelm me in Jesus name, Jesus name and just let that go.

Hallelujah. And here's my counsel to you as

to you need to manage that decision that you've made today.

Sometimes I put stakes in the ground.

My family puts stakes in the ground and the reason why is

we're saying we're no longer going there anymore.

This is a new season. Today is a new day.

And so you. Just put a stake.

Sometimes you need to put a stake.

In it and then move. From it.

So Laura, thank you for lifting burdens today in Jesus name.

We trust you in Jesus name. And here's the last call to the

church. It's a call to all of us.

It's a call to all of us. Pray this prayer with me, Lord,

Lord, give us, give us your urgency, your urgency for those

people, for those people that we are to reach, that we are to

reach in Jesus name, in Jesus name.

When I pray for supernatural urgency, urgency that had

intention, urgency that was strategic urgency to reach those

people that don't know you and what I pray for that seed to be

distributed in Jesus name, in Jesus mighty name, in Jesus name

and all God's people said Amen. God bless you guys.

We love you. I love you.

Thank you. Peace be upon you.

Thank you so much.