Christ in You | Robert Martino | World Outreach Church

Jesus said, "Let not your heart be

troubled." In John 14:1, "Let not your

John 14:1

heart be troubled. Believe in God,

believe also in me.

In my father's house are many mansions."

You know, those mansions aren't really

going to matter when we get there. Come

on, thank God. But, you know, when we

get there, he's all that's going to

matter.

>> If it were not so, listen to this very

carefully. If it were not so, I would

have told you. I go to prepare a place

for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you,

I will come again to receive you to

myself.

That where I am, there you may be also.

I I would endeavor to say everything

that the Lord Jesus did when he stepped

out of time, out into time and space

and became a baby and grew up as a man,

as a human being, and took all of our

sin, all of our sickness. Come on,

somebody. All of the persecution, all of

the oh, chastisement for our peace. He

took everything.

Huh? took it to hell, paid the ultimate

price for it, came up out of there

victorious. Amen. Why? So that we could

be with him.

Huh? So that where I am, you can be.

You ever thought about that?

Yeah. I thank you, Lord. Everything

you've done for me, for this time on the

earth, I'm so grateful, man. I I know

what he's done. You know what he's done.

He's so good. He's met our needs. Come

on. He's even paid our bills at times.

Come on. He's healed our bodies. In

fact, we can walk in health because of

it. Listen, he he's he's done so many

good things. He's put us at the right

place at the right time. You know, all

this stuff is so good and I'm so

grateful. But there's something more

important. And that's the place he's

prepared for us to be with him for all

eternity. His heart motive is for us to

be with him forever. That's how much he

loves us.

Oh man, I think we all need to think

about that a little more some.

He said, "Let not your heart be

troubled."

You know, so many things in this life

just trouble, trouble, trouble.

It's time to trouble the troubler.

>> I know he's brought trouble to my life.

[snorts]

But I'm gonna give him some trouble. In

fact, right now I'm giving him some. He

don't like any of it. He don't like it

when I'm in my prayer room and I'm

praying and spending time with God on my

face. He hates that. He hates it when

I'm in the word and I'm I'm studying

God's word and and I'm praying for

tonight's sermon. Oh, he hates it. You

know why? Because God's going to move

and touch somebody's life and he don't

like that. Well, too bad. How sad.

because I get what I believe

>> and I've already believed it and I've

already expected something good to

happen for somebody in here tonight

>> because that's what it's all about. I'm

just the vessel but the master's in the

house and he wants to touch somebody.

That's what he does. I said that's what

he does. He touches people.

Man, I don't know where we're

Thank you, Lord.

You know, I'm learning as I do this

more. You know, there's something about

that room back there.

There is something about that room back

there. And uh but you know, I'm finally

getting to a place, and I'm just going

to be a little transparent here, that I

I just don't get so concerned anymore

when I'm looking at my notes that I've

spent weeks and weeks on meditating and

I'm going,

"Uh oh,

what is that? Where are we going here? I

don't even know what this means."

But he does.

He does. So we see here in in this first

verse of John chapter 14, let not your

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heart be troubled. Believe in God,

believe also in me. And then he goes on

to teach his disciples that God is me

and I am God.

You need to believe this. They were so

hung up on the human side of Jesus that

they were missing the supernatural Jesus

who was God on the inside. And so they

were they they kept questioning some

things here. But then we get back down

here to verse 27. And I let me just

start at verse 26. And I want to read

this to you. It says this, "But the

helper, the Holy Spirit, whom [snorts]

the Father will send in my name, he will

teach you all things and bring to your

remembrance all things that I said to

you.

Peace

I leave you." That means peace is

available, somebody.

>> That means it's available.

>> Peace I leave you.

My peace I give to my peace I give to

you not as the world gives you know the

world's peace is very temporary you know

something good may happen and it's like

yeah oh I feel so much better and then

you know something else come along but

Jesus peace is eternal it comes up from

on the inside of our heart it's the joy

of the Lord down on the inside and when

we just look on the inside guess what

here comes peace it doesn't matter what

we're facing

>> all Right?

[snorts] Then he goes on to say, "Let

not your heart be troubled, neither let

it be afraid." It's amazing he said this

twice in the same chapter.

And one thing that I'm seeing in this

chapter is this is a verse that we've

been sitting on for some time here. And

that's verse 12. Most assuredly I say to

you, he who believes, let's just stop

there for a second, you know.

>> [clears throat]

>> We can say yes, I believe.

But do we?

Jesus said,"Most

assurely I say to you, he who believes

in me, the works that I do, he will do

also."

I've been [clears throat] challenged on

this.

The Lord has been challenging me on

this.

Because the troubler brings tribulation

to keep you from doing these works.

If he can keep us in the natural just

like the disciples kept getting stuck in

the natural side of Jesus, right? Not

realizing that he is God.

The troubles of this life,

the enemy's, he's real good at it.

In fact, sometimes we're real good at it

in our own life

because it's not the trouble that's the

issue. It's what we do with it when it

comes because it's coming,

right? What are we doing with it? That's

just the question. What are we doing

with it? But Jesus said, "He who

believes in me,

the works I do,

he will do.

Most assuredly I say to you, he who

believes in me,

the works I do, he will do also. And

greater works than these he will do

because I go to my father. And then he

goes on to say this.

Now, now you need to really think with

me here for a second that this is very

powerful words. This is the words of our

Lord and Master. These words are eternal

words. These words are full of power.

He upholds all things by the word of

his.

These are powerful words. He goes on to

say this. He said, "Whatever you ask in

my name." You know, that has to be

connected to his works.

This ain't going, "Well, I need a BMW."

Lord, give me a BMW. I ask for BMW. No,

that's not what he's talking about here.

HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE WORKS.

You know, as I was meditating on this, I

started to think about some things and

and I'll tell you a quick story of the

pond. Everybody want a pond story? So,

you know, we just had that cold weather

come through and and one afternoon I

went out to the pond and the water was

just fine. Nothing was frozen,

everything. And I had a what fountain

out there and I'm like, "Ah,

it'll be okay."

And then I got a text from mom

[laughter]

and everything was froze.

And I felt that

because it's a brand new fountain, man.

It's nice. And you know, you can't if it

freezes up and bursts, it's it's not

going to be any good. So, guess what? I

had to put on my

But, you know, I remember taking a big

old rock and I'm going to say, "Oh, it

can't be that thick."

And I threw it out there right by the

fountain, you know, out in the middle.

And it just bounced.

And I remember Pastor Mark talking

about,

you know, when you walk and you step out

in faith, sometimes you go, remember

when he was back in Michigan, you just

you just put your foot on that ice a

little bit and then you start to just

see see if it's good, if it's right, you

know, and you take another step, you

know.

Yeah. Catch what I'm saying there.

Anyway, so I had to get that out of

there. So, I had to put on the the big

boots

and I had to break the ice.

If I was going to get that out of there,

I had to break the ice all the way to

it. You know, the And it's cold.

And I don't like cold. I'm originally

from California, you know, so I'm still

not used to any of it. But I'm breaking

this ice and I'm breaking this ice and I

break that ice all the way. You see,

sometimes when we see somebody that's

sick, we got to break the ice.

If you believe,

if you believe, you will do these works.

Belief will make you take a step.

That's so good. I'm preaching myself

happy. It will make you take a step. If

you believe something, you can't be held

still.

I knew that that fountain was coming out

of that pond. So, I had to take some

hard steps to get it out. But guess

what? It came out and it's in good

shape. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus.

You know, one of the things that trouble

me is sick people.

If I see somebody in a wheelchair, I'm

troubled.

because uh we know who's behind that

and I really don't want to see him in

there.

And the biggest thing that I've dealt

with in my life

was what if something don't happen

or if I go over and pray with them or is

it going to make them feel bad or

uncomfortable

or if I would just be led by the spirit?

Because see, the spirit of God's going

to take you places you're not

comfortable with. If you think it's all

going to be an easy little, oh yes, it's

just a nice little glide. No, he is

going to take you places. It's not

comfortable. You'll have to step into

something that's going to challenge your

faith. And I think about guys like Smith

Wigglesworth who did not care. He was

not moved when he commanded something.

He did not give an option to another

answer.

>> This is going to happen because I know

who is in me and I know I can do these

works because I believe and he said if I

believe in him, I'm going to do those

works.

>> What keeps us from getting to that

point? Did you see that?

spit. [laughter]

I wasn't looking at you, though, so

we're good.

You know what I mean, though?

You know what I mean?

You know, it's one thing to see somebody

hurting and then just get all in your

heart and go, "Oh, man, I just hate

that."

But the love of God has been shed abroad

in our heart by the Holy Ghost.

The greater one is on the inside of us.

The same spirit that raised Jesus

straight out of the grave to the place

of all victory.

Come on, somebody.

So maybe it's time that we as believers

in the house and we start breaking some

ice.

>> Let's just believe.

Be led.

be led, but don't don't let being led be

an excuse to not do something

because you're saying in your, "Well,

I'm just not led."

We all know his voice. Jesus said it in

John chapter 10, "My sheep know my

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voice."

And guess his will is what? To heal. to

set free, to deliver. And right here, it

tells us it's his will for us to do his

works,

to do his works. I'm excited about it.

I'm excited about it. Now, again, when I

say be led, I'm not going to just jump

out like Smith Wigglesworth and start

punching people and, you know, I'm just

not going to do that.

But I'm going to let the compassion of

Jesus Christ that blows up on the inside

of my heart move me to walk through

whatever I got to get through on this

side and all the troubles I got to deal

with to get to that place so that person

can be free.

>> That's what we're to do. We are the body

of Christ. That's what Jesus did. He

went around teaching.

>> He went around

>> and he went around

We know it. He's so good to us.

>> So, I find it interesting here that

right sandwiched between, "Do not let

your heart be troubled." We see this

scripture saying, "He who believes in me

will do the works that I do." You know,

it's the troubles of life

that hinder our faith.

>> [snorts]

>> True.

There was a time in my life I was

walking through something pretty

difficult for me. And um

and it seemed like that the trouble

wasn't just one here and one down the

road. It just seemed like they were

coming, [laughter]

right? They just kept coming.

And I didn't if Oh, I just wish I would

have been here then and know what I know

now. But thank God he gets us through.

Amen. But but

so many things that you you're getting

hit with a and all of it is a ploy

because the very power of God is on the

inside of you

to overcome all of that. The very power

of God is on the inside of you to change

the circumstances in other people's

lives.

And the enemy doesn't like it.

He don't care if you go to heaven. He

just want to kill you because he knows

how powerful you are.

Right. But let me say that one more

time. He He doesn't care.

He just He He just rather kill you

so that power is not released from you.

And if he can keep you, listen, you're

really dead if you're getting

overwhelmed by tri trials and

tribulations and you're allowing those

in your life. Listen, we do have a

responsibility in this one.

Guess it's okay for me to go here

over in uh I'll just let Jesus do the

talking. How about that? Over here in

John chapter 11, we see the story of

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Lazarus.

such an awesome, inspiring story and

it's great. It's powerful. There's so

much in this chapter that you could

probably spend weeks and weeks and weeks

just teaching on it. I couldn't, but

somebody that's a real good teacher

could.

I could probably preach pretty good for

a while. But but there's so much in

here. But we see here

in this chapter,

Jesus really shows us how to over

overcome trouble and what you do to do

that.

It's really good. Right here in verse

32, it says this, "When Mary," this is

uh John chapter 11. When Mary came where

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Jesus was, now this is Jesus is already

there, you know, he's already spent two

days away and then he's already there

where where uh Lazarus is and the family

is and all the people are. And it says

this, "Then when Mary came to where

Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at

his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you

had been here, my brother would have not

died.

Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping

and the Jews who came with her weeping,

he groaned in his spirit and was

troubled.

It's amazing. This is the same exact

word that is in John chapter 14 verse

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one and John chapter 14 uh verse 27.

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This word troubled. It's the same exact

word.

Yes.

Hallelujah.

>> This word troubled means to shake. You

ever been shaken by anything?

Means to trouble. It means to disqu. You

know, if you go over to Psalm 42,

you find you find David's telling his

soul, why are you disqued within me? Get

up and praise the Lord.

>> We did a little bit of that earlier,

didn't we?

>> That's what we do.

How about this? To unsettle. You ever

been unsettled about anything? Have we

ever been unsettled? How about

perplexed? How about anxious? How about

a little bit more tr transparency?

Um I remember the first time I got asked

to do to do announcements.

Even even better than that, the first

time I got asked to speak, that's a

whole story in itself

because of the honor I have

because of the fear of the God I have,

[laughter]

you know, and and and and those things.

And and and it was a process for me to

get up here because I don't take it

lightly.

I mean, I I there are times I try not to

look this direction just to get through,

but because I honor and I want to do it

right, you know, I just want to be a

blessing. I'm here to help, hold up

their hands and help my pastors. I mean,

that's my heart. That's all I care

about, you know. But I had to deal with

some other things. I was being troubled

every time almost for for some time.

And then the Lord helped me see it. Why,

Robert?

Robert's son, not Daniel's son, Robert's

son. Why? Why are you Why are you even

thinking about that? Am I with you? Am I

in you?

Yes, sir. What are you doing? Do you

believe or not?

You know, sometimes it's good to have

that talk with the Lord and say, "Oh,

yeah. Yeah, maybe I say saying one

thing, but really right here it's a

little different."

You know, the children of Israel, God

said this. He said, "What? Their lips

worship me, but their hearts are far

from me." And so, you know, I'm thankful

for that. But we see here that Jesus was

troubled and he did something about it.

And and we all have to do something

about it. And I guess that that might be

a little bit of where I'm going tonight.

You know, um if we do our part, oh man,

he's so faithful to do his.

And the one thing that will help us do

our part is to always think about others

first. It's what he says to do. Love,

love, love, love is the key to

everything, right? In fact, over in 16,

John chapter 16, he said, "Love your

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neighbor. Love your brothers. Love them

no matter what. Just love. Let love come

out.

Because when love is there, that means

you're more concerned about them than

your little tribulation or your little

trial. Because really, it's little. To

God, all of these things we walk through

are little to him.

Yes, he loves us and he cares and he

doesn't like it when we go through

things. You know, he doesn't put those

things on us.

He doesn't. I know he didn't put what

was on me on me,

but I know who helped me. And I know who

got me over. Come on, somebody.

>> So Jesus, it says here, let me get back

to my place. Jesus says here, verse 33,

therefore when Jesus saw her weeping and

the Jews that came with him with her

were weeping, he groaned in his spirit.

This word groan meaned indignation. It

was an anger aroused by something that

was unjust, unworthy, or just plain mean

that was going on on the inside. He was

ticked.

In fact, I like to call it the God kind

of mad

because this was an attack of the evil

one on his friend and his friend his

friend's family and all these people

that love this man and it didn't make

him happy.

He wasn't happy about it. So down deep

he groaned. He was probably travailing

in prayer. I believe he was this is all

a story of prayer as well here. He was

praying.

He was praying.

He was talking to the father through

this. He was praying.

He was talking to the father through

this.

He was praying.

He was praying. He He wasn't talking to

his disciples about it. He didn't call

his mom. What do I do about Listen, you

hearing me.

He was praying.

He was talking to his father.

And he was troubled deep in his spirit.

He was he was troubled. He was troubled

and he was shaken

because he was a man. He was the son of

man.

This is one of the areas he took for us.

just one of many, many, many. But right

here, we see that when he took this

trouble and what he did with it shows us

exactly what we can do

>> and how we do it. Amen.

So it goes on to say here, let me just

read on a little bit. Says this,

he was troubled and he said, where have

you laid him?

Where have you laid him? You know, the

first thing I think about is first of

all, he's praying. He's being led by the

spirit. He's always led by the spirit.

He's very troubled. He's very upset in

one respect. Probably on the God side,

the God mad kind, you know, and then on

the other side, he's troubled as a man.

He's troubled.

And this time, he's just saying, "What

next? What next?" You know, he took a

step. Where you laid him? Uhoh. That

opens up another door. What's this mean?

What's this mean?

Then he goes on to say this. He says,

uh, they said to him, Lord, come and

see. And Jesus wept. Here we go. We see

another side of the man. This word wept

here means. So, let me say this for

anybody in the house. Here's

[clears throat] a study tool for you. If

you ever need to know what a word means

in the Greek, all you have to do is go

to Rick Ren [laughter] Rick Rener's

books. Everybody knows that, right? So

good. But this word actually means

[clears throat]

he cried out loud. He burst into tears

and sobbed. And it's evident because it

goes on to say uh that the Jews said,

"See how he loved him."

This word troubled actually means it can

cause grief.

But all of us know that when you go

through grief, you don't hold on to

that. If somebody steps over to heaven,

you may grieve, but you don't hold on to

that. That that can turn into some bad

stuff, right? You we we don't do that.

We don't sit in our grief CUZ WE KNOW.

>> I SAID, "WE KNOW."

And some of them said, "Could this man

who opened the eyes of the blind also

have kept this man from dying?

This is your friendly family

or your neighbor or your worker that has

no faith,

right? Trying to spread a little bit of

that unbelief so that you hear it and

then you start what? Questioning.

Questioning.

Then it goes on to say, ' Then Jesus

again groaning in himself.

He came to the tomb

and it was a cave and a stone laid

against it. And Jesus said, "Take away

the stone." This was momentous. This was

words coming straight out of his spirit.

I believe he was being led by the spirit

into this place. Come on, somebody. This

trouble was not going to have the

victory. The troubler was not going to

win this one. And he believed. He

believed number one who he was. And he

believed who was in him. And he said,

and he even said this to the disciples,

even if you can't believe the words I

speak, believe by the works that God is

in me.

That same spirit.

>> Oh, come on. Say it with me. That same

spirit. That same spirit that raised

Christ from the dead,

that same spirit

of God himself.

That's why it's to your advantage he

left. So that same spirit that was in

him that done those works would come on

on the inside of us. Holy Ghostfilled,

tongue-alking believers.

I don't know about you, but I'm getting

more excited just thinking about it

because I'm full.

I'm full.

And we're full of that power to do the

works.

But the troubler, the troubles, what we

hold on to, what we take on in all of

that, right?

Okay.

So he tells him to take away the stone.

Then Martha,

sister of him who was dead, said to

him,"Lord, by this time there is a

stench, for he has been dead for days."

You know, he doesn't quit.

They don't quit. He doesn't quit. Here

comes another one. Here comes another

one. Here comes another one.

You see, if if if if the enemy could

have kept Jesus from raising Lazarus

from the dead, we find out at the end of

this that many lives wouldn't have got

born again.

Because when he raised him up, man, some

people got on. THEY SAID, "WHY YES, I

believe."

Hallelujah.

Makes me think about this. So good.

So good. When we step out and we start

to do the works, we're going to win the

world.

We're going to if we do it the way Jesus

did it, one thing Pastor Mark tells us

all the time, he says, "I just want to

know how he did it because if I can

figure out how he did it, then I know

how to do it. And if I do it the way he

did it, then it'll get done." Doesn't he

say that all the time? And guess what?

I'm hanging on that word.

I'm hanging on it tight.

And Jesus is showing us right here. When

he was troubled, what did he do? He just

took steps of faith and said no. Toward

it, not away from it.

I'm getting excited.

That same spirit.

Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to

you, if you would what?

Believe, you would see the glory of

God." You know, that's right to us right

now, tonight. Right now, if you believe,

you'll see the glory.

And if we can keep that as our focal

point as we are praying, as we are

worshiping the father, as we're out in

our workplace, as we're out in the

shopping or whatever, as we're anywhere

we're at in the world, and we are

continually having our ears open to what

the master is saying to us,

that same spirit. And you'll know.

And we can trouble the troubler.

We can trouble the troubler.

We can trouble the troubler because then

we can go lay hands on that sick person

and see them get healed. We can go

minister the gospel to that person and

see them get saved. Oh, come on,

somebody. We can go and let the Holy

Spirit that brings that word up from the

inside of us and speak to that person,

that person that's about to commit

suicide,

we don't even have to know it. And man,

they're free.

But if the troubles outweigh the faith,

we got trouble.

But we are the troublers to the

troubler.

We are the body of Christ. We are

already in victory. We've already won.

We stand in a place of victory. We

already stand in a place that's won.

We stand in the place where everything

is done. All we have to do is put our

hand on it. All we have to do is put our

hand on it. Put our faith. Put our hand

on it. Come on.

I'm so excited. Jesus is our greatest

example. He showed us right here. AND

GUESS WHAT? LAZARUS, COME FORTH.

And he did not question what he said. He

did not expect a different outcome from

what he said.

It makes me think of Smith Wigglesworth.

makes me think of these great giants

that did these miracle healing things

and all these powerful things God did

through their lives and they didn't

care.

They just believed.

And when they said it, that's it. It

settled it. It's done. They're free.

They're healed. THEY'RE GOING TO GET UP.

THAT CANCER IS GOING TO COME OFF. THAT

TUMOR'S GOING TO FALL TO THE GROUND.

>> [snorts]

>> NOW, the Lord has to tell you to do some

of that

like, you know, punch, slap, or any of

that, but he doesn't have to tell you

that when you see someone to start

looking on the inside because then he

starts to lead you.

And there are so many lives,

so many people hurting. In fact, tonight

we we stopped at Quick Trip before we

got here and I came outside and I was

putting something in the trash and this

lady come walking up and I could just

hear her from behind me and she was

talking on her phone through her, you

know, and she was so distraught.

She was so upset. She was hurting.

She was troubled.

It's all around.

And we are the light of the world. We

are the body of Christ. We are the hands

and the feet. Amen.

That's why when we start to just think

about Jesus being on the inside of us,

his spirit and him being in the room and

him walking through here like Sunday

morning,

that's real stuff. eternal things,

impartation things were happening.

My goodness.

And it's all in us. Amen. It's all in

us. Say, "It's in me."

>> Larry Keaton said it best. You got the

goods.

>> Amen. We got the goods. So, let me just

end with this.

Let not your heart be troubled. Do what

the Lord says. Obey his command. Don't

let it be trouble. When troubles come,

start to trouble the troubler and watch

things happen. When the trouble comes,

start to look at what I can do, how I

can be led, how I can be uh the hands

and feet of Jesus

and your troubles will fall away and

people's lives will be changed. Amen. Do

you agree with that?

>> Father, we thank you so much for your

word. We thank you for your time and

your word. Lord, we're so grateful.

We're so grateful. We thank you for your

spirit

that lives on the inside of us.

We thank you, Father. We thank you,

Lord. You said that we could do your

works if we believe.

If we believe. If we do what you say to

do, we can do it. If we believe. If we

believe. I thank you, Lord. Your word

tells us

if we believe. If we believe. That's

your word. If we believe we can do what

you're what you did on the earth, we

thank you. I thank you for that. I I

don't have to try to figure out how to

do it. I I don't have to come up with my

own power to get it done. I I don't have

to. I just thank you, Lord, that we can

just listen on the inside and know that

the greater one on the inside of us, the

love of God that's been shed abroad in

our heart, oh hallelujah, will flow from

us, Lord. The compassion of Jesus that's

in us.

We'll see the sick healed. We'll see the

lame well. We'll see those who are lost

come to Jesus. Hallelujah.

Make us a blessing, Lord.

Let that be our cry.

Make us a blessing in this world,

Father, to those you love. You love

everyone.

I thank you for everyone in this room.

I thank you for the privilege it is to

speak to them. And I thank you, Lord,

that we are all people of faith here. We

love you. And I ask you to touch every

person's life right now in this room and

those watching online.

Those that may be walking through

something, those that may be troubled at

this moment,

those that may be facing something very

difficult.

Those that may be dealing with something

in their physical body.

Those that may be hurt over a loved one

that's not born again or or there's some

strife in a family. Lord, that these

things that come to steal and kill and

destroy, I come against it in the name

of Jesus right now.

I come against it

and I don't accept any other answer but

FOR YOU TO STOP IT.

Stop your troubling in the name of

Jesus.

I thank you, Holy Spirit, for your sweet

embrace.

You'll embrace these folks. You'll hold

them close to your heart, Lord.

[laughter]

Yeah.

And they'll sense it like they are right

now.

Right now.

I thank you for that.

And if there's anybody in here that's

never made Jesus the Lord of your life,

I don't want to not give you the

opportunity to meet the master,

the God that paid every price for you

just to have you, just to love you, just

to bless you, and just to be with you

forever. He loves you that much.

Hallelujah. So grateful to him. Or maybe

you're here and you know Jesus, but

maybe you've kind of got off track a

little bit. Maybe you found yourself

maybe at the wrong place at the wrong

time, but you know he loves you so much.

His arms are always wide open. He's

always ready for you just to say, "Yes,

Lord. Yes, Lord. I I need to come home.

Oh, he's so good to us." Amen. He's so

good to you. He loves you so much. And

maybe you're here and you've never been

filled with the Holy Spirit, with the

evidence of speaking in tongues. I tell

you, oh, one of the most powerful things

that can happen in your life is to get

filled with the Holy Spirit. And you can

pray in another language, pray mysteries

out. You can pray to God the Father in a

language when you don't know how to

pray, you know how to pray. And you can

pray in the spirit. Hallelujah. And

he'll edify and build you up on the

inside. Oh, because he loves you so

much.

I said he loves you so much.

If there's anybody on one of those

calls, just lift up your hand real

quick.

I'm looking across and I know it's a

Wednesday night, but

hallelujah. We thank you, Lord. We thank

you.

Come on, somebody. We thank you, Lord.

We thank you. Come on. We thank you. We

thank you. We thank you. We thank you,

Lord. Oh, we're so grateful to you,

Father. We thank you.

Oh, we thank you. We thank you. We thank

you. We thank you.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank

you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you,

Lord. Well, he's good to us. Amen.

>> So glad to be with you all tonight.

Thank you so much. Love you all so much.

Have a great rest of your week and we'll

see you Sunday. Okay, don't leave yet.

We still have some announcements. So,

>> praise God.

Was

anybody else blessed by that word from

heaven?

Praise God.

Man, I think sometimes it's so easy to

just like take for granted the truths

that are coming from the Bible, from

these stories because we've heard them

before. And, you know, we [music] can

get into our own

uh we can be in our head about what we

think something means. But, man, it's

just uh

just the truth. Praise God. And for me,

what stands out is in this particular um

story of the gospel is just like the

humanity of Jesus.

The humanity of Jesus that that we don't

have a high priest that cannot be

touched with the feelings of our

infirmities. Hebrews said, you know,

um because I feel like for me, you know,

there can be this I'm not a personally a

person that likes to cry and stuff like

that, you know. Um, I am a masculine

male, you know, but

but Jesus, you know, is literally the

alpha, bro. You know, like he he's the

alpha and the omega. And he him seeing

them weeping, he caught those feelings

as well [music] and like had compassion.

And it's just so vivid to me seeing him

with tears

moving towards the tomb with a

determination,

you know, that he knows this whole thing

is about to turn around, that this whole

thing is about to flip. And I bet it was

pretty epic. He's like, "Roll the stone

away." You know, it's just

it's just awesome. Praise God.

Amen. And uh just knowing that no like

you don't get any like more of a

hopeless situation than dead. They've

already like put you in the wrapping

situation in the tomb, you know, the the

thing is already like the stone is

already on the cave. But but we have a

God who who can go to the the lowest

lows and and he feels our pain and he

can raise us back to life. And uh praise

God. I'm just so thankful for that. That

know that'll put a tear in a masculine

man's eye. Come on, somebody. Praise

God. So, I'm just so thankful for that.

Well, um

again, if you're a first- time guest, so

glad that you came to us. Please text

the word welcome to 918-2157066.

Um we uh have a free drink for you in

our cafe. Speaking of cafe drinks, we've

got a couple of cool new cafe drinks in

the cafe. Um, we've got this

chocolatecovered strawberry latte,

um, which looks delectable. And we have

a chocolate raspberry latte, which just

looks great. So, um, at this moment, I I

wish that I were a first- time guest cuz

it would be real neat to have one of

those. If anyone is feeling any

generosity,

praise God. Um, so if you're a first-

time guest, we're going to treat you to

something like that. With that said,

that's all of the announcements that we

have. Let's go ahead and say our vision

statement together. We live by the word.

We're led by the spirit. We love the

world. You guys have an awesome rest of

your week.