The Danger of Decisionism: Why ‘Living for Jesus’ is Not Salvation

• Faith Commitments and Making Room 00:27:05 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor introduces the series 'Make Room 2.0' and the theme of making room for God to move, citing Leviticus 26:9-10.
• Principle of Preparation 00:28:03 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor explains the principle that one must make room first before God will fill things, and that God doesn't waste blessings on those who don't prepare.
• Stretching for God 00:30:37 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor discusses the necessity of 'stretching' (expanding one's capacity) to allow God to do the supernatural.
• Making Room in the Mind 00:31:09 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shifts focus to making room in the head/mind for God, referencing Matthew 22:37.
• Power of Thoughts 00:32:49 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor emphasizes that thoughts run life, citing Proverbs 4:23, and that life goes in the direction of dominant thoughts.
• Control of Thought Life 00:34:19 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues that individuals have control over their thoughts, citing 1 Peter 1:13 and refuting the idea that thoughts are uncontrollable.
• Methods for God Thoughts 00:37:46 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor lists three ways to focus on God's thoughts: reading the Word, listening to the Word, and engaging in worship.
• Spiritual Warfare and Sin Nature 00:39:17 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor discusses the battle of thoughts, identifying bad thoughts as a product of the sin nature rather than just demonic activity, citing Mark 7:21.
• Capturing Thoughts 00:41:37 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor teaches that the key to spiritual victory is controlling the thought life and taking every thought captive to obey Christ, citing 2 Corinthians 10:5.
• Taking Thoughts Captive 00:42:18 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor instructs believers to actively capture bad thoughts and cast them down in the name of Jesus, using the metaphor of stomping on bees.
• Setting the Mind Dial 00:43:40 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a spring-loaded dial to explain that believers must continuously reset their focus to 'things above' throughout the day, not just in the morning.
• Invitation to Salvation 00:46:32 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor invites those unsure of their relationship with God to raise their hands and pray a prayer of repentance and acceptance of Jesus as Savior.

• Sermon Illustration 00:28:18 ▶️ 📄
  > A widow on a fixed income made a faith pledge she couldn't afford, gave extra monthly, and received money from unexpected sources, exceeding her pledge.
• Sermon Illustration 00:42:07 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a beekeeper or someone stomping on bees to illustrate capturing bad thoughts and casting them down in the name of Jesus.
• Sermon Illustration 00:42:07 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of thoughts as 'little bees buzzing around' and describes the action of taking bad thoughts captive and stomping on them in the name of Jesus.
• Sermon Illustration 00:43:20 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes a 'mind dial' that is spring-loaded, requiring believers to reset their focus from earthly things to 'things above' multiple times throughout the day.

• Pastoral Charge 00:43:00 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor signals an intent to share a personal testimony or final illustration, though the specific action is cut off.
• Pastoral Charge 00:45:22 ▶️ 📄
  > Raise hand to indicate willingness to make room for God.
• Pastoral Charge 00:46:52 ▶️ 📄
  > Raise hand and verbally affirm desire for salvation assurance.
• Pastoral Charge 00:47:23 ▶️ 📄
  > Repeat the sinner's prayer aloud to accept Jesus as Savior.

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[00:14:30] Welcome to Lake City Church.
[00:14:56] Lake City Church, if this is your first time, go ahead and fill out that guest card, either online or in your worship guide.
[00:15:01] Take that to the Welcome Center.
[00:15:02] We have a special gift waiting just for you.
[00:15:04] Thank you so much for joining us.
[00:15:06] Coming up September 26th, we have our annual car show.
[00:15:09] All proceeds will be going to Lake City Youth Camp.
[00:15:12] We can't wait to see you and your sick car.
[00:15:14] Coming up September 27th, we have our Next Steps Luncheon at 1 p.m.
[00:15:18] If you want to meet the lead team, learn more about Lake City Church, or just get connected, we invite you to join us.

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[00:15:23] so excited to invite you to a special event on Wednesday evening, September the 30th. We're calling it Building on the Word because right after the 6.30 to 7.30 Wednesday night live, we're going to have an opportunity to go into the new building and write scriptures and prayers
[00:15:41] on the walls. This is incredibly important because every person that will come into this building for years and years. Generations to come will be able to stand on the word of God and lives are going to be transformed. Hope to see you Wednesday, September the 30th. Coming up October

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[00:15:59] 7th, we have child dedications. Parents, this is a great opportunity for you to dedicate your children to knowing and loving the Lord. Our marriage conference is coming up on October 16th and 17th. Strong marriages build strong families and we want to intentionally invest in what God
[00:16:14] is brought together. Save the date. If you're a man and you know it, Ironman meets every second and fourth Saturday of the month. Be there or be square. Thank you so much for joining us this
[00:16:22] morning at Lake City Church. For more information or to register for any of these events, go ahead and tap the tag on the seat back in front of you. And remember, we love you. God loves you.

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[00:16:31] Make it a great day. Come on, church. Give God some praise this morning. Who's excited to be here?
[00:16:37] Man. Hey, look at your neighbor real quick. Say, you look good.
[00:16:40] hey if you're married in the room you definitely need to say that come on and you need to go to marriage conference invest people all right hey this is a portion we call giving back to God as
[00:16:52] they throw the four ways to give on the screen we want to say thank you for your generosity this is a giving church you know in in Matthew 6 I know that you guys understand this concept it's
[00:17:03] Matthew 6 19 where the word says do not store up for yourself treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy but store up for yourself treasures in heaven you can't store up physical things right you store up eternal things and you know what eternal things are people and you know what
[00:17:25] we're doing as a church it's we're making room for God to move so people can know him amen and when you give when you're when you when you say Lord you can have all of me you can have all my
[00:17:38] heart. The Bible says you cannot serve both God and money. When you give your money, when you're saying, God, you can have my possessions, what you're really saying is, God, I want to make room
[00:17:48] so people can know him. Amen. Amen. Y'all stand on your feet this morning. We're going to continue to worship. And just as we pray this morning, pray for the eternal things. Pray for people. Pray for
[00:18:00] your family. Pray for this community. Pray that God will know them, that we make room for him to know them and we make room in our hearts. Amen. Amen. Y'all close your eyes this morning. Maybe
[00:18:10] lift a hand to him. Holy Spirit, have your way in this place. You are good. We serve you. We love you. We value you because Lord, where our treasure is, we know our heart will lie also. And this
[00:18:26] morning, Lord, we want it to lie with you. We thank you. We worship you in Jesus name. Amen.
[00:18:35] Come on, church, let's worship him this morning.

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[00:18:37] And of this leg of the journey, and that is the opening of the brand new building.

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[00:24:34] I need your help.
[00:24:35] I need every one of us to ask God, what can I do to be a part of this phase of the make room journey?
[00:24:45] And how can God not only change my life, but use the resources that he has given me and help me to share those resources so that we can complete this vision, we can finish strong for what God has for us.

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[00:25:01] We are making room because God has so much more He wants us to do.
[00:25:05] We're making room because there's more kids in the Mooreville area that need to know there is no junior Holy Spirit.

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[00:25:11] We make room because today's transformation is tomorrow's legacy.
[00:25:16] We're making room because we're hungry for His presence.

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[00:25:19] We're making room because God made room for us.
[00:25:23] Amen for that. Amen. Good morning, everybody.
[00:25:27] Oh, it's so good to see you guys this morning.
[00:25:30] Hey, I want to start off by just saying thank you, by thanking you, everyone who filled out one of these little cards that I passed out last week.
[00:25:39] I call it a challenge card, challenge, make room 2.0 challenge card.
[00:25:44] And if you filled one of these cards out, I prayed over you early this morning, early this morning, and I will continue to pray for you every day.
[00:25:54] I don't know how long, for at least a few years.
[00:25:57] But if you didn't get a card, we have a card available on the table on your way out in the lobby.
[00:26:03] Also, we have some Make Room 2.0 brochures.
[00:26:08] If you haven't received one of these, I really would like you to have one.
[00:26:11] And it's a beautiful brochure that explains our expansion project and how you can get involved.
[00:26:17] So lay hold of one of those out in the lobby, if you will, on your way out.
[00:26:22] Okay, you guys ready to jump into God's Word?
[00:26:25] All right, Father, we just say thank you that we can be here this morning.
[00:26:29] Life is good because you are a good God.
[00:26:32] And Lord, today we are so enthused that you live inside of us.
[00:26:37] Holy Spirit, as we were just singing, God, you do whatever you want to do.
[00:26:41] Do whatever you want to do in our hearts, in our lives, in our family.
[00:26:45] God, I just pray that you would move, do incredible things, and may you receive all of the glory.
[00:26:50] Father, we pray all of this in the mighty and the powerful name of Jesus.
[00:26:54] And everybody said amen.
[00:26:56] Hallelujah.
[00:26:57] Thank you for the yo's.
[00:26:59] This is week number two in a series I call Make Room 2.0.
[00:27:05] On Sunday, October the 18th, which is just three weeks from today, we will receive our two-year faith commitments to help make room for more people to hear about Jesus and have their lives transformed. But more importantly, this series is a challenge for all
[00:27:24] of us to make room for God to move in our lives, for God to move in our families, in our church, and in our community. Our theme verse comes from Leviticus 26, 9, and 10, and you've heard this,
[00:27:38] and you're going to keep hearing it for a few more weeks, so hang on, buckle up.
[00:27:43] God says this.
[00:27:44] He says, I'll look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers.
[00:27:49] He's certainly doing that.
[00:27:51] You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.
[00:28:00] There's a principle that God works within, and it's this.
[00:28:03] You have to make room first before God will fill things.
[00:28:07] God doesn't waste his blessings on people who don't prepare to receive them.
[00:28:11] So first we have to make room and then God will bring in the new harvest.
[00:28:18] There's a wonderful widow lady in our church.
[00:28:21] She's living on a fixed income and she has been a part of our church's journey for a number of years, quite many years now, including giving to help build this building that we're sitting in as I speak.
[00:28:37] Well, three years ago, when we were asking people to pray about what they should make as a faith pledge over a two-year period, she didn't think she could give very much.
[00:28:48] But as she prayed, and she's a woman of prayer, she's a woman of faith.
[00:28:51] As she prayed, she felt like God gave her a dollar amount that she should write down on her faith commitment card.
[00:29:00] It was a figure that she could not give unless God provided the money.
[00:29:08] She began giving a little bit every month over and above her regular tithes and offerings.
[00:29:12] She was making room for God to move.
[00:29:16] And guess what happened?
[00:29:18] At the end of the two-year period, she had not only met the faith pledge in that amount that she had written on the card, but she actually exceeded it.
[00:29:27] It was amazing.
[00:29:28] And she told me, she said, Pastor Rob, money just started coming from totally unexpected sources.
[00:29:35] and she also told me this was just last Sunday she told me I started saving six months ago so I am able to give even more than I did back then I'm like wow wow that is so exciting this
[00:29:50] lady understands what it means to step out in faith in order to make room for God to move and guess what he did if you make room for God to move he will move and I just can't wait to hear
[00:30:02] your story of how you responded to God's challenge to make room and how he supernaturally fills it it's going to be amazing I can't wait in Isaiah 54 verse number two God says enlarge the side of
[00:30:16] your tent to make room for more children and then the next word says stretch remember that word stretch out the curtains of your dwellings do not spare them lengthen your tent robes and make your stakes firm in the ground. Here's something that we all need to understand. It's that in order
[00:30:37] to make room for God to move, it's going to require us to do some stretching. It's going to require us, me, you, all of us to do some stretching. The question is, are you willing to do some
[00:30:48] stretching or are you willing to allow God to do something incredible through you that you in your just can't do? Are you willing to allow God to intervene and do something supernatural that you cannot do without him? Last week, I talked about the need to make room in your heart.
[00:31:09] And today, I want to talk about the need to make room in your head, your mind, your thoughts.
[00:31:19] Remember where Jesus said in Matthew 22, 37, he said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart. Remember that? He then went on to say, you shall love him with all your soul and with all
[00:31:30] of your mind. And so in this statement, he was showing us the importance of making room for him in our head, in our head space. To put it into perspective, your brain is an amazing God-created
[00:31:46] machine that just happens to sit on top of your body. It can store more information than the Library of Congress, which at last count was holding something like 200 million volumes.
[00:32:01] Some psychologists tell us that each of us, even some of us slow thinkers like us in the South, some, they say that we have somewhere along the number of 70,000 individual thoughts every single day, 70,000. And even more amazing is that your brain only weighs about three pounds,
[00:32:26] but your brain is infinitely important because what you think determines the kind of life you live. No wonder Jesus said, make room in your head. Proverbs 4.23 makes it brutally blunt. It says, be careful what you think because your thoughts run your life. That's profound, isn't it?
[00:32:49] It is. What I think runs my life. What you think runs your life. Why don't you say it with me?
[00:32:56] Repeat. What I think runs my life. Come on, let's try to get it together. What I think runs my life. It does. And here's the thing. Every thought has an agenda. And the agenda is to shape
[00:33:12] your philosophy and values of life and move you in a certain direction. For instance, unhealthy thoughts about yourself move you in a certain direction. Unhealthy thoughts about others move you in a certain direction. Unhealthy thoughts about money move you in a certain direction.
[00:33:32] Unhealthy thoughts about sex move you in a certain direction. And unhealthy thoughts about God move you in a certain direction. On the other hand, healthy thoughts about yourself, others, money, sex in God moves you in a positive direction. Here's the principle. Your life will go in the
[00:33:52] direction of your most dominant thoughts. If you don't like the direction of your life, if you don't like the way your life is going, you have to change your thoughts.
[00:34:05] You have to change your thoughts, and you have to make room in your head for God to move. Proverbs 23 7 tells us as a person thinks in his heart so is he peter puts it this way in first peter 1 13
[00:34:19] talking to christians he says prepare your minds for action be self-control what what you mean i have control over what i think yes absolutely yes 100 now i'm sure you don't view it this way but
[00:34:39] some people, whoever they are, some people honestly believe they don't have any control over the thoughts that just happen to come into their mind. It's like, oh, the television just chooses whatever channel it wants. No, actually you control the channel. You control the channel
[00:34:58] of your mind, the channel of your thoughts. And just to be clear, right living begins with right thinking. Margaret Thatcher, the late prime minister of Great Britain, said, watch your thoughts. They become words. Watch your words. They become actions. Watch your actions. They
[00:35:22] become habits. Watch your habits. They become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. So how can you make room in your head for God? Well, number one, think good thoughts.
[00:35:38] good thoughts, healthy, wholesome, positive thoughts I know this sounds really simple but the easiest way to keep bad thoughts out of your head is to replace them with good thoughts so concentrate on good thoughts, Paul lists some good thoughts
[00:35:54] in Philippians 4.8 saying whatever is true whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things now so you've got to be intentional about thinking good thoughts
[00:36:14] and if you're intentional about thinking good thoughts it will displace the bad thoughts number two the second way to make room in your head for god to move is think god thoughts god thoughts god's thoughts are recorded right here in the bible that's why it's called the word of
[00:36:32] God, the thoughts of God. In Psalm 119.11, the psalmist said, I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. In the Old Testament, the word heart is used more than
[00:36:45] 800 times, but more than 200 of those times it is referring to the thought life.
[00:36:52] So when the psalmist says, I've hidden your word in my heart, he's actually saying, I'm meditating, I'm thinking about God's thoughts, and those God's thoughts have kept me from sinning.
[00:37:04] God thoughts displace evil thoughts.
[00:37:09] Psalm 1, verse number 1, talks about the person who focuses on God thoughts, and it says that they'll be blessed.
[00:37:19] It says, quote, His delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law He meditates day and night.
[00:37:27] He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.
[00:37:32] in all that he does he prospers so when we think god thoughts we're literally making room in our heads for god to bless our lives that's pretty cool isn't it make room in your head and you're
[00:37:46] making room for god to bless your life and by the way here are three easy ways to focus on god thoughts number one read god's word read it read it read it number two listen to god's word every
[00:38:01] one of us in this room, I venture to say, have a smartphone somewhere on your person right now, or in your pocketbook or something. There's an app called the Bible app that is so easy to get
[00:38:14] on your phone, and all you do is set that thing, and it will play and read the Bible to you all day long. Listen to God's Word. A third way to just get your mind on God thoughts is to engage
[00:38:28] in worship. Again, there are apps you can have on your phone to play worship music. There's K-Love on your radio in your car. There's YouTube worship videos. My favorite is just make up my own
[00:38:41] worship songs. I'm driving down the road, and I'm just singing, especially when Diana's not in the car. She doesn't really like it too much, but when I'm by myself, I'm just saying, Lord, I thank you
[00:38:51] for this beautiful day. Lord, I thank you for my beautiful wife. I thank you for my family. I worship you you are god almighty i sing all these amazing worship songs nobody hears me but god
[00:39:03] himself and he loves it but engage in worship fill your head with god thoughts and he'll fill your life with blessings number three the third way to make room in your head is to think
[00:39:17] critically and by that i mean pay attention to what's going on in your head these days we hear a lot of people talking about spiritual warfare. And make no mistake about it, demonic activity is very real, and it's going to become more intense in these last days. But the most fierce
[00:39:40] spiritual battle you'll ever face is the battle of your own thoughts. James 1.14 makes it very plain it says everyone is tempted drawn away and enticed by the devil no enticed by demons no everyone let's read it again everyone is tempted drawn away and enticed by his own lust in other
[00:40:06] words his own thoughts his own desires and so the reality is that bad thoughts unhealthy thoughts ungodly thoughts they're all a product of living with a sin nature thanks to the fall of Adam and
[00:40:19] Eve in the garden every one of us are born into sin and evil thoughts are a part of our sin nature some might say well people are basically good they're basically honest they're basically loving
[00:40:36] in kind. No, they're not. Jesus described the sinful heart in Mark 7, 21, saying, out of men's heart come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit. Wow, the list goes on. Lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly. Folly just means foolishness. Verse 23,
[00:41:06] All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean.
[00:41:13] So yeah, the devil is real, but these things are already inside of me.
[00:41:17] They're already inside of you.
[00:41:19] And the temptation is to follow our own sinful thoughts and desires rather than God's thoughts and God's desires.
[00:41:26] And just for the record, it doesn't matter how spiritual you are, bad thoughts will come your way.
[00:41:32] And the real issue is what do you do with those thoughts?
[00:41:37] Please hear this.
[00:41:39] The key to victory in your spiritual life is to learn to control your thought life and align it with the word of God.
[00:41:46] That's the key to spiritual victory.
[00:41:49] 2 Corinthians 10.5 says, we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God.
[00:41:57] And we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
[00:42:04] So I have an image in my mind.
[00:42:07] I see thoughts in my mind like little bees buzzing around.
[00:42:13] And there are good thoughts.
[00:42:15] And then there are bad thoughts.
[00:42:18] Whenever I see a bad thought buzzing around, I take it captive.
[00:42:24] And I throw it down.
[00:42:26] I stomp on it.
[00:42:27] In the name of Jesus, I say, fear, I capture you.
[00:42:32] I cast you down in the name of Jesus.
[00:42:34] Anger, I capture you.
[00:42:35] I cast it down in the name of Jesus.
[00:42:38] Discouragement, I capture you and I cast it down in the name of Jesus.
[00:42:43] Yeah, try that.
[00:42:47] Let me ask you a question.
[00:42:48] What's buzzing around in your head?
[00:42:50] If it's a bad thought, take it captive and cast it down in the name of Jesus.
[00:42:58] I want to share one other little image I have in my mind as I wrap it up.
[00:43:04] It comes from Colossians chapter three where it says, set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.
[00:43:16] And so I see this dial in my head.
[00:43:20] I call it my mind dial.
[00:43:23] And at the top of the dial, it says things above.
[00:43:27] In other words, godly thoughts.
[00:43:29] And at the bottom of the dial, it says things below, earthly thoughts.
[00:43:34] And every morning in my prime time, I set my mind dial to things above.
[00:43:40] But here's what I've learned, and this is for every one of us.
[00:43:44] This mind dial is spring-loaded.
[00:43:47] Some of you need to realize that.
[00:43:49] You don't just set it in the morning and leave it.
[00:43:51] No, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
[00:43:53] No, it is spring-loaded, and sometime in your day, something is going to happen.
[00:43:59] Something's going to come around in your mind, and that thing's going to flip like this.
[00:44:05] And so throughout the day, you've got to reset your mind dial.
[00:44:11] Start off in the morning, set it in prime time, early in the morning, but sometime during the day, you're going to have to set it, probably for most of us, multiple times throughout the day.
[00:44:21] Set your mind on things above.
[00:44:24] So what's your mind set on?
[00:44:27] Is it set on things above, or is it set on things below?
[00:44:32] Really, the question is, are you ready to make room in your head for God to move in your life?
[00:44:38] I believe you are I believe we all are individually I believe as a church we are we're saying God come on move inside of us let's go ahead and pray Lord thank you so much
[00:44:51] for your word thank you for what you show us in your word and now Lord I just pray that you would help us help each one of us Lord we love you and we say thank you
[00:45:02] for you showing us the truth of your word in Jesus name would you go ahead and stand together with me As we stand in this moment, I just want to have a quick prayer for everybody in the room who says,
[00:45:18] yeah, I'm going to make room in my head for God to move.
[00:45:22] If that's you, would you just raise your hand?
[00:45:25] I want to just say a quick prayer.
[00:45:27] Everybody who says, I want to make room in my head for God.
[00:45:30] Lord, thank you for hands all over the room.
[00:45:34] I pray that in these days ahead, beginning with right now, Lord, that we would set our mind dial on things above, not on things on the earth.
[00:45:45] Lord, I pray that when those bad thoughts come into our minds, that we would take those thoughts captive and cast them down and stomp them in the name of Jesus.
[00:45:55] Lord, I pray that you would help us to align our thoughts with your word.
[00:46:00] Lord, I pray that as an individual, as a man, a woman, a young person, boy, girl, Lord, I pray that we would all just begin to control our thoughts and line those thoughts up with your word.
[00:46:13] Help us to make room in our head for you to move in our lives.
[00:46:17] God, I pray your blessing would come on us individually and as families and as a church like we've never experienced before.
[00:46:26] I thank you for doing it in Jesus' name.
[00:46:29] While our heads are still bowed and our eyes are closed, I want to pray one more prayer.
[00:46:32] or maybe you're here this morning and you're not really sure where you're at in your relationship with God, but you want to open your life to God and you want God to be in your life.
[00:46:44] You want to receive His love.
[00:46:48] You want to receive everything that He has for you.
[00:46:52] If that's you, would you just raise your hand and say, yeah, I'm not really sure about my relationship, but I want to be sure.
[00:46:58] I want to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jesus Christ is my Savior, my Lord.
[00:47:03] God bless you.
[00:47:05] Anybody else?
[00:47:06] God bless you.
[00:47:09] Just say, yeah, please pray for me.
[00:47:11] Father, you see the hands that were raised, and now, Lord, I just ask that you would give my friends the assurance of their salvation.
[00:47:21] I'm going to pray a simple prayer.
[00:47:23] I'm going to ask that everyone in the room repeat this prayer after me.
[00:47:27] If you raised your hand, just pray this prayer along with the rest of us.
[00:47:31] Maybe you didn't raise your hand, but you know that you should have.
[00:47:35] I want to invite you to pray this prayer with the rest of us.
[00:47:39] Pray it from your heart.
[00:47:40] God will hear you.
[00:47:41] Let's pray it together.
[00:47:42] Say, God, I know that you love me because you sent your son Jesus.
[00:47:48] And he died on the cross for my sins.
[00:47:54] Today I repent of my sins.
[00:47:56] And I ask you to be my Savior, my Lord.
[00:48:02] From today on, I'm going to live for you.
[00:48:05] in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Come on, y'all. Let's give God praise. We give you glory. We give you honor. Lord Jesus, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you prayed that prayer, we have some
[00:48:20] resources out in the lobby. Make sure you get those resources. Maybe you're a guest with us this morning. One of the things we do every Sunday morning is we share together in the Lord's Supper,
[00:48:31] Holy Communion. And so we have gluten-free in the front. We have regular communion on the sides.
[00:48:39] And in just a moment, we're going to receive it together. I want to pray, Lord, we've taken communion together here at Lake City so often, but today is a special day because you are making real to us,
[00:48:59] more real today than ever before, how much you love us.
[00:49:04] God, that you loved us enough to send your only son, Jesus, to come and he died in our place on Calvary's cross.
[00:49:13] And it's because of your love, it's because of his sacrifice that today we can have salvation.
[00:49:19] We can have forgiveness of our sins.
[00:49:22] And so we just say thank you.
[00:49:24] And God, we commit our lives to you.
[00:49:26] We love you and we praise you.
[00:49:29] In Jesus' name, amen.

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[00:49:32] To us, as we go back out this week into our workplace,

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[00:52:52] through us, that you would move through us, that you would bring others to come to know you and that we would be vessels and represent you.
[00:53:01] Jesus, you deserve all the honor.
[00:53:04] So it's in your mighty and powerful name that we pray.
[00:53:07] And everybody said, Well, Lake City Church, we love you.
[00:53:11] God loves you.
[00:53:11] Make it a great day.