Sweet Victory with Pastor Andrew Richardson

Welcome to the MetaCurch Podcast.

My name's Clayton.

I'm the pastor here at MetaCurch.

And my hope is that today's podcast finds you at the perfect time in your life that God uses it to inspire and enlighten you.

I hope that you enjoy today's message.

How are we doing, MetaChurch?

Ooh.

Y'all feeling good today?

I'm it I'm excited, man.

I had my coffee with oat milk this morning.

Ooh, anyone, any?

Y'all look too happy about that oat milk.

I'm just saying.

We're feeling good this morning.

Hey y'all, my name is Andrew.

As Pastor Clayton said, I lead our youth, the youth ministry at City Church.

I'm excited to be here today.

It's it's it's so good to be here because I absolutely love your pastor.

Anyone love your pastor, Pastor Clayton?

He's super awesome.

I love your church and what God is doing here.

It's funny because like I feel like family.

I feel like that weird cousin that like shows up to family reunions and everyone's like, Do y'all know who that is?

And he's just eating the kettle, and it's just like, just let him.

There's always leftover kits, so you know how it is.

But I'm here, uh, I feel like family, and I'm really excited about what God is doing here at MetaCurch and what God is going to continue to do today.

And I heard that y'all just got through a series, a gospel series, through the book of Jonah, and so many people took that next step of believing in Jesus and getting baptized.

There's like 60 something people that got baptized.

You can clap for that.

That's awesome.

People that are making that declaration of faith and saying, Jesus, I believe in you, and showing it to the church and showing it to their friends and to their family that they have put their faith in Jesus.

So I have a question for those of you that uh maybe made that decision recently and for everyone else in the room.

And the question is, how are you doing?

Like, how are you doing?

Some of you are like, I don't know how to answer that.

Uh but you know, we I I think we we hear that question, and you probably hear it multiple times throughout the day, and you're just like, I'm doing fine, whatever.

But genuinely, like, how are you doing?

If you've made that decision, if you've believed in Jesus, how is life going?

How are you doing?

And the truth is that oftentimes after we believe in Jesus and we take that step of baptism, we expect all the problems to go away, but oftentimes they don't go away, they get worse.

Life gets more difficult.

And there's probably a lot of people here in this room that if you were to genuinely answer the question, how are you doing?

your response would be not very good.

Maybe you're sitting here or you're watching online and you just don't feel like you are winning in life, like nothing good is really happening right now, which is why the title of my message today for those SpongeBob fans is Sweet Victory.

Sweet victory.

And if you watch Spongebob, you know what I mean.

Hey, will y'all pray with me?

God, I thank you.

Thank you that you are moving and working.

God, I thank you that you are here present today.

I pray that you speak to all of us, God, that through your word, through the scriptures that we are going to look at today, that we can all walk away knowing that there is victory.

We don't have to live life defeated, but we can live in victory.

God speak to us today.

And in Jesus' name, everyone said, Amen.

Alright, so victory.

The definition of victory is simple, right?

It means to defeat an enemy or an opponent in battle, a game, or any competition is to triumph, to succeed, to win.

Anyone here like to win?

If you're not raising your hand, what's it going?

No, yeah.

Some people raise their hand too quick.

They're like, I won.

I raised my hand the fastest, right?

It's true.

Like, we all like to win.

We all like victory.

It's the moment where you attain success.

It's when you feel not only feel like you won, but you actually won, and everyone is just cheering for you.

It just feels intoxicating.

It's the moments of victory that we dream for.

Maybe it's in an organization or it's a fight for a relationship or it's a new house or car, something that you were finally able to purchase.

It's those moments of victory, of winning, that just feel so good.

It's when you post on Instagram, hashtag winning, like it just feels good.

Oftentimes, the feeling of victory that makes it so much better is it comes from the opposite side of a difficult time.

So, any sports fans in the room?

Yeah?

Yeah, you're probably tired because you were watching football last night.

But there's this guy, you probably heard of him.

His name is Deion Sanders.

Prime time, right?

You know Deion Sanders.

And uh feel like you either like him or you don't.

But Deion Sanders uh was a Hall of Famer football player, really good, uh turned football coach, coached at a smaller school, did great, helped turn the program around.

Now he is at uh the University of Colorado.

And here's something you gotta know about the school, about the University of Colorado football team that he is at right now.

They did absolutely horrible last year.

Their record was 11 or 1 and 11.

And if you don't know sports, that means they won one game.

And I don't think you have to know much sports to know that only winning one game out of 12 isn't the best, right?

So they were horrible.

So they brought in Dion, and it was crazy because the expectations were high, but they were also like, I don't know, maybe they'll win four or five games.

All the sports people were looking at their schedule thinking, I don't know what they're gonna do.

And the first game of the season, they played TCU.

Is there any TCU fans?

No?

Okay, that's why then.

Uh but they played TCU, and uh TCU was the runner-up from the national championship last year.

So they almost won the national championship, going against a team the first game of the season, that only won one game the last season.

So we would all assume that TCU would win that game.

Well, if you know what happened, TCU lost.

Deion Sanders came with the win and they won, and it shook up everything, not just the school and the fans, not just football fans, but all around the nation.

Everyone was just talking about them that much more.

And the reason I tell you this is because what made this victory so sweet is that on the opposite side of that was a difficult time.

Winning one game to winning a game that they should have had absolutely no chance and winning.

It made that win so much sweeter.

So, what about us then, right?

What about us as followers of Jesus?

Like, aren't we supposed to experience victory?

And I don't think I need to sit here and list all of the trials in life that are going on, but aren't you probably here today asking God, where is victory for me?

God, when is victory coming?

And as followers of Jesus, we go through life and we feel beat down and exhausted, asking the question of how can we walk in victory?

How can we find true victory through the challenges of life?

And my desire today is that every person here, if you've believed in Jesus not too long ago, or if you've been a follower of Jesus forever, my hope for you today is that God would speak to you directly and you could have the confidence and you could be able to walk out of here experiencing victory, no matter what is going on in your life, because God has you here for a reason.

He has created you on purpose for a purpose, and victory is possible in Christ.

So let this spark something inside of you, put aside all the distractions, all the things that you're frustrated with, and let God speak to you today, spark something inside of you so you can walk out of here, walking in victory.

And if you're here today and if you're watching and you just don't know what you believe yet about God, man, I am so glad you're here.

And my prayer is that after hearing about an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful, all just amazing God, that you would make that decision to believe in Him today.

And we're gonna look in the book of Romans.

And as you probably are aware of, any time we look at scripture, it's important to understand the context.

It's important to understand what is going on, who is writing that book.

It helps us paint the picture of what is going on and what the author's purpose is for writing this letter.

So the book of Romans was written by Paul.

Paul was formerly known as Saul, and Paul was radically saved by God, and it was after that transformation that completely changed his life that he lived a sold-out life for God, where he actually writes a lot, a majority of the New Testament and what it means to follow Jesus.

He radically reframed what it meant to live a victorious life, and he helps those in Rome know how to as well.

So, in this passage that we're gonna look at today, Paul is going to address three things that are holding us back from victory.

And the first, and I think is probably the most simple but important, is that we oftentimes don't pursue victory in faith because we aren't sure if we're even qualified.

I'll say that again.

Oftentimes we don't pursue victory in Christ is because we just don't feel qualified.

Let's look at the passage.

This is Romans 8, verse 30.

Romans 8:30

And those he predestined, he also called.

And those he called, he also justified, and those he justified, he also glorified.

What then are we to say about these things?

If God is for us, who is against us?

I'm gonna read that again because I'm I don't know, we're a little quiet today.

But if God is for us, then who is against us?

He did not even spare his own son, but gave him up for us as well.

How will he not also with him grant us everything?

So we need to first understand, and I think oftentimes whenever people read this passage or passages like this, their first thought is dang it.

Like if God's the one choosing people, then he's not gonna pick me.

If if God's the one who is calling people, like we see in this passage, then he's probably going to look over and not call me.

But what we see, which is very important, is that this calling that God has is not for select people, but the calling that God has is for all people.

Can we say all people?

Ooh, we awake, y'all had oat milk too, that's great.

Um, but what we see is that this calling is for all people.

God is the one who has called each and every person for a specific reason, for specific purpose.

And what I love about God is that our God does not make mistakes.

Our God's not creating us and like, oh shoot, accidentally put too much funny in that person like he did with me.

But it's just how it is.

He's not, he's not all up there making mistakes, telling the disciples, I think I messed up with this one, I think I accidentally made him too tall, right?

No.

God doesn't make, some of y'all were here for that word, that God just doesn't make mistakes.

And that is important to recognize that he calls us for a reason, for a purpose, to live a victorious life.

But it's hard and almost becomes impossible for us to live a victorious life in Christ if we don't even recognize or even feel worthy of it.

Because when we don't feel worthy of something, we overlook it.

But this verse proves it.

It says that we are called and then reminds us that he did not even spare his own son, Jesus, but gave him up for us.

God says, I believe in humanity, I believe in you so much that I'm going to give Jesus to die on the cross for you.

The days of feeling, the days you feel disqualified from victory, that you have to quit looking at yourself and look at Jesus.

Because the truth is, if we always look to ourselves, we will always feel unworthy.

We will never feel good enough.

But if we look to Jesus, who came to this earth to die on the cross for our sins, then we can have victory because it rests in Jesus.

You know how uh maybe y'all just aren't as awkward as me, but this happens to me all the time.

Is whenever you're in public and someone waves and you think it's for you.

Is that too real?

Something y'all happened this morning and you're just like, Andrew, why you bring it up, bro?

No, it's true.

And I I love it because it's so awkward, but I've decided to lean into it.

And whenever someone waves to me, I'm just like, oh, no, I'm waving to you, right?

And you just like really play into it.

Uh but oftentimes the reason we're so like confused is because we're like, they have to be waving to someone else behind me.

And sometimes they're like, can we just like let's can we just pause and acknowledge that if you ever wave to someone and you didn't mean to wave to them and wait, they wave back to you, let's just all decide now, just pretend you meant to do it.

It'll save, it'll save the awkwardness.

Let's just go through life being happy, it'll be great.

But no, the truth is that when we look back, expecting that that person is waving to someone else, we're disqualifying ourselves.

And we do that in our relationship with God.

God says, Hey, I choose you.

And you're like, they mean that guy?

No, God, you're talking about my boss.

That dude's pretty cool sometimes.

No, but we never are able to acknowledge that it's God that is choosing us.

And the reason that we can't get there is because the past hurts and pains and experiences feel too much.

But it is God who does not make mistakes, it is God who is all-knowing that when he created you, he knew how you would mess up.

He knew the mistakes, he knew the things that you would get into, he knows what you did last night, he knows what you did this morning, he knows what you did 10 years ago.

And God says, I know that, but I still choose you.

That is our God.

He looks to us and us feeling unqualified and not like we can do anything and unworthy.

God says, No, I choose you.

You are called.

He knows the hurts and the pains.

And why he does this, why would a God do that?

So simple.

It's because of love.

It's because of a foundation that we see in this passage is love.

It's rooted in God's love, and he's able to look past all the things in your life and recognize what you are capable of because of his love for you.

Such a simple truth, but please get this.

God loves you.

And you probably say that to other people, but do you recognize it for yourself?

Do you recognize that he actually does love you?

So the first step in walking in this sweet victory is recognizing that you are chosen.

And here is the great thing.

You don't have to stop and wonder.

Today is the last day where you have to wonder, am I one of the people that God has a purpose for?

Because the answer is yes.

No more going around life asking who me?

Because the answer is yes, you.

And here's the important thing about that is if we go around life feeling so disqualified, asking the question of who me, we are missing out for what God has for us.

There might be someone at your home, at work, at wherever you are, that needs to hear about Jesus through you.

So you saying God who me is not helping that person to know about Jesus.

Because He's put you where you are for a reason.

So who me?

Yes, the answer is you.

You created on purpose for a purpose.

Feeling disqualified, I think, is oftentimes one of the only, not one of the only reasons that we feel like we can't live a victorious life.

And Paul kind of unpacks some more in this passage.

And the next thing that we see that really derails us from living a victorious life is suffering.

Suffering.

What do we do?

What do we say when suffering happens?

When you lose your job, when your relationship of years ends, when a loved one dies, when you get a certain medical diagnosis and you just don't know what the next day is going to look like, when you don't know if you're gonna be able to pay for rent for the month or what's gonna happen, if you're gonna have to move away or what.

When suffering hits, when the hard times come up, how do we reconcile ourselves being called when times are tough?

And the first step to victory in Christ is knowing that we're called, and the second step is that you are not alone in the suffering.

Let's continue in the passage in Romans 8, verse 33.

Romans 8:33

Who can bring an accusation against God's elect?

God is the one who justifies, who is the one who condemns?

Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more has been raised.

He also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us.

Who can separate us from the love of Christ?

Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword, as it is written, because of you we are being put to death all day long.

We are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

There's a lot there.

Like, oh man, let's pause there real quick.

But there's something obvious that we just can't overlook.

And it's the fact that others will be against you.

Some of you are like, amen, to that.

Did you see the driver earlier?

They were against me.

They weren't yep.

There will be people against you.

There is a spiritual battle.

We have to recognize that, that there is persecution and affliction and distress.

But by saying these words, Paul is letting us know that there is an attack on us, but not to worry, because nothing can separate us from God's love.

And I love this because Jesus himself says something to this.

Jesus in John 16, verse 33, he's talking to his disciples, to those that are followers of Jesus.

John 16:33

He says, I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace.

This is Jesus.

You will suffer in this world, be courageous, I have conquered the world.

And here's something we need to pause real quick and understand is that many people, when they uh have this idea of what it means to be a follower of Jesus, feel as if that means there is no issues.

Like I'm gonna believe in Jesus, and everything is gonna be great.

There's gonna be no suffering, no pain.

News flash.

That's not that's not it.

That's not it, bro.

Like that's not what we see here.

You're probably like, dang Andrew, that's super encouraging.

Being a Christian is gonna be hard.

But but I love this because Jesus made clear, he didn't just say, You will have suffering in this world, so be courageous.

Good job, buddy, right?

He didn't just slap us on the back and say, You got this.

Be courageous.

No, he said that he is with us and has already won the battle.

That we have a God that is not dead, but a God that is alive and that is with us and working through us during times of suffering.

I don't want to pause and take a moment to speak directly to the people in the room that are going through an intense time of suffering.

Where you just feel so separated from God.

Maybe you're here right now and things are just overbearing.

You could just barely get into the room today.

Not even coffee could get you where you need it to be.

You just barely got here today with whatever is going on.

Maybe you feel so alone, like God has not only left you, but maybe you feel like no one else is there for you and no one else loves you.

Please, if you do not hear anything else today, I need you to hear this.

If you are going through suffering, you are not alone.

You're not alone.

It's simple, but it's truth that you need to understand.

You have a church that loves you and cares for you.

You have a pastor and other staff members and pastors that love you and care for you, but ultimately you have a God that is there for you, that is present in your time of need, that recognizes what you are going through and says, I see you, I know you, I love you, I care for you.

So if there's anything, anyone in here that is wondering if suffering has pulled them so far from God, hear the truth this morning is that it hasn't, and you are not alone.

Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.

These aren't these aren't my words.

This is God.

Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.

God did not leave you, and He will not leave you.

So I'm a I'm a youth pastor, um, and I work with youth.

It's in the title, so you probably could guess that.

Uh and it's it's funny because if there's any teens in the room, sorry, love you, but the truth is teenage relationships are ridiculous.

Like I'm just gonna put it out there.

Like, teenage relationships, like I've gone to summer camp, taken groups multiple years before, and there's usually at least one person that has five relationships in the span of a week, right?

It's ridiculous.

It's like Monday morning, they're like, Oh, I met this girl, she's so great, I don't even know her name, but we're dating now.

And then, like, like five hours later, you ask him, Hey man, how's it going?

Like, what's Going on?

He's like, ah, I she got mad that I didn't know her name, so she broke up with me, right?

Like you just, and then, and then the next day, it's another person.

And the truth, and the reason I share this, is because that is not our relationship with God.

Our relationship with God is not, I think I love you one day, I'm gonna block you the next day.

Somehow that was too real for you.

I'm sorry if I sorry, sorry if I stepped on something.

Like I said, you have great pastors that would love to talk to you about that.

Oh, but anyways, that's not God.

You can have courage in the season because He is with you.

You can have courage in the chaos, you can have courage and the craziness, you can have courage and the confusion because the courage is rooted in Christ, not your circumstance.

You can have courage because Christ is with you.

So who can separate us from the love of Christ?

The answer is nothing.

Nothing.

And when we are able to grasp the truth that nothing can separate us from God's love, then we can truly begin to walk in a victorious life.

You were called, you are not alone in the challenging seasons, and yet some will still assume that they don't have what it takes to live a victorious life.

Maybe you're like, Andrew, I okay, I understand I'm called, and I and I understand that I'm not alone in the suffering, but I just don't feel like I have the ability, I don't feel like I'm capable, I don't feel like I have the power to be able to walk in victory.

Maybe you don't feel like you're strong enough, smart enough, powerful enough, in the right position at work, whatever it is.

Paul wanted the church in Rome to know the spiritual reality of those that are in Christ.

Here it is, verse 37.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors.

We are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

And I love the language that Paul uses because we are more than conquerors through Christ.

So if it has not been made clear, this is what I don't want.

I don't want us to walk away from this message today, assuming that us and our own power can claim victory.

What I want you to know and walk away with is that we can claim victory through Christ.

Is that it is through him, because if the victory is just on us, then there won't be much victory.

But if the victory is rooted in Jesus, then there will be victory.

Paul just continually hits us in the face with this truth is that we have the ability to push past things that are holding us back, the things that are holding us back, including sin.

We are more than conquerors, more than victorious, but it's not based on us.

Let's look and see how this passage ends in verse 38.

For I am persuaded, this part gets me hype.

I love this.

Here we go.

For I'm not persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, or any other created thing, he's covering all the bases, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let that be so clear this morning.

If you are a believer in Jesus and trust in him, you will be justified.

But here is the truth is that you will still struggle with sin.

Let me say it another way.

If you are a believer, you will still struggle with sin.

The presence of sin doesn't go away at the moment of justification, of salvation.

The penalty of sin does, but the presence of it is still there.

But the presence of God does not leave either.

So we have the ability to overcome the presence of sin and hold sure to the fact that our spot is secured.

And if you have questions about that and weren't here last week, uh I was able to catch it online.

Pastor Noel did an absolutely amazing job talking about being sure in Christ and knowing about your salvation.

But it's through being able to understand that we are saved and we can walk in confidence, knowing that we have power to overcome the presence and the present nature of sin.

Because nor height, nor depth, nor anything will be able to separate us from God's love.

And this word separated just simply means isolated.

And it's a powerful word because when you are in Christ, there is no isolation away from him.

And I don't have the full game plan for the from the enemy, from the devil.

I don't fully know what he's trying to do.

But if I could take a guess, I would think that what he's trying to do is to make us feel isolated from God, make us feel too far gone, make us feel like our sins are too much or like no one could ever love us.

If he could just get us to think that and to feel that, then he would be good, which is why we need to hold on to the truths in the scripture.

And I would challenge you is the passages that we are going over today to memorize it.

So when there is a time in your life, in your journey where you just feel overwhelmed, you can quote back the scriptures and say, No, my God says that neither height nor depth will separate me from the love of God.

My God says that I am more than conqueror.

So what this world is bringing, my God says that I'm greater in that through him.

And if you're able to have those scriptures memorized, we can speak it against what is going on.

Because through Christ, please, please hear this.

Through Christ, we can have victory.

Because of Christ, because of God, we are capable.

We started our time talking about the deep human desire to experience moments of victory, scoring the winning basket as a kid, which I would do all the time.

Just kidding, I I wish.

It did happen once.

I'm gonna hold on to that forever.

Or maybe it's a moment of getting into your dream college or marrying your perfect partner or making the job that you wanted to get at work or buying your first house.

We we all yearn for and seek these moments of winning, and then we oftentimes feel unqualified, and then suffering in life happens, and then insecurities, and it all robs us of the chance to experience victory.

But what Paul does here, what we've unpacked, is that he gets to the core of it.

He actually redefines victory at the fundamental level.

We think of victory in terms of moments, but that's not how he sees.

Victory is not a moment.

Victory is a person, and his name is Jesus.

This is something I need you to get.

Victory is not a moment, it is a person, and his name is Jesus.

So when I say everyone can have victory, that is a truth because it's not in a moment, it's in a person who's Jesus.

We are called not because we earned it, but because Jesus earned it for us.

We can suffer well because Jesus has gone before us and shown us how to suffer well and handle challenges of today.

And we are capable, we are more than conquerors because of our God who lives in us, not the strengths that we have on our own.

Victory is a person, which means that we can live a victorious life no matter your circumstance.

We just need to wake up every day and choose to walk in victory with Him.

Because victory is not a moment, it's in a person.

It's in Jesus.

So something about me is I grew up in a Christian household.

I was a church kid.

I was essentially as close to a pastor's kid as you could get.

My parents worked or were at the church, volunteered in uh worship ministry, different other ministries.

My mom eventually became uh the kids' director at the church.

So I was pretty close to a pastor's kid, and I remember I was a typical pastor's kid, right?

I was one way at church, one way at school, and life was okay, things happened, but it was it was life.

And I remember around middle, around high school, first year of high school, y'all.

If there's anyone who's a freshman in high school, I'm sorry, but high school is just so much more difficult than middle school.

I'm sorry, but it is, it's true.

And I remember my first year of high school uh when people just got meaner, life just got tougher, and sin just got easier.

It was just one of those things that was difficult.

And I started to just constantly feel defeated.

And I remember one morning where I was just done.

Anyone had some of those mornings before?

We're just done.

And I remember uh my mom was trying to wake me up for school.

She did like any like parents in the room, you know, there's usually about three phases in waking up a kid, right?

The first one, some of y'all already laughing.

Hey, I haven't even said it.

You're like, yes, I have to wake up my kid.

Anyways, the first one is normally like, hey sweetie, get up, like it's time to get up, right?

The second one is, well, you better get up.

The eggs are ready, like you better hurry.

And the third one is the bus is here.

If you don't get, you're missing school, right?

Like there's normally three phases.

Uh, and I remember uh it was closer to the third one when my mom started to realize like something's wrong.

Like this isn't just Andrew not wanting to get up, this is something serious.

Uh and I remember sitting on the edge of my bed just defeated, just like crying, saying things like, Mom, I don't want to be here anymore.

I don't I don't care.

It was just a deep depression in that moment.

And I remember in that moment, I didn't care about anything.

I didn't care about being the lie to my non-believer friends at school.

I didn't care about pursuing Jesus.

I was just done.

I felt defeated.

And as I sat on the bed, my mom sat down and looked at me with just boogers just everywhere on my face.

I remember she said something so powerful.

She said, Andrew, God has put you where you are for a reason, and God is using you.

Meta church, God has put you where you are for a reason, and He is using you.

It was in that moment that I was able to realize that the victorious life did not come from myself.

Because if it came from myself, I would constantly feel defeated.

But it came from the God who was able to wake me up that morning, who was able to make me realize through the words my mom spoke that I was not alone, that he was there in the middle of my suffering, and that through him I was more than capable.

It was because God had me there for a reason.

And meta church, if God has called you, he has put you in this place for a reason.

You can persevere past the pain and the suffering of life.

And I was able to look past the moments of defeat, to look past the difficulties of life, and to be able to trust in the character of my God who has called me and purposed me, and purposed me and put me in there for a reason.

Because my God is more than able.

Because through him we can do more than we could ever imagine, because our God is alive, he is not dead.

Newsflash church, we don't serve a dead God, we serve an alive and active God.

Today is the last day that you walk around defeated, that you walk around like high school Andrew did on his bed that morning.

Today is the last day, church, that we walk around defeated because we know of a God that defeated death in the grave, and we know of a God whose strength is more than ours, and we know of a God who is able to overcome all sufferings, all trials and temptations.

He is there with us through these things that victory is possible through Jesus because we are called, we are not alone, and we have power.

And here's the thing.

Here's the thing that I wish I could go back and let high school Andrew be very clear of is that when you walk in victory, it overflows.

It affects those around you.

Your coworkers start asking questions, saying, How is that person at work when someone in their life passed away?

How are they not severely in a moment of not even be able to be here?

Because my God is there with me, people start asking, hey, how are you even able to go to church every Sunday after the suffering that you have experienced?

And the answer is because my God is there with me.

Because when we have a God that is there for us, it overflows and people notice.

We live in a hurting city, we live in a broken world, and when our world and our city understands that our God is working through us, there is victory and it affects thousands of people.

Church, can we live in victory?

Because of our God, he is the reason we're here today, he is the reason that we walk in victory, he is the reason why we can worship, because our God is great, it is because of him that there is breath in our lungs, it is because of him that we are here today, and it's because of him, our great God, that we have victory.

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