A Laughable Faith, or a Shallow Gospel?

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]:
Well, go ahead, if you're at home, grab your coffee, pull up your blanket a little bit, and grab your Bible and your notebook.
[00:00:09] God has a word for you today.
[00:00:10] God wants to speak to you today.
[00:00:12] God wants to speak to your family today.
[00:00:14] If you're in the house, do the same.
[00:00:17] Come on, are you ready to elevate your faith?
[00:00:19] Aren't you ready to elevate?
[00:00:21] Has God been doing it already?
[00:00:23] He has, hasn't he?
[00:00:25] Here's how I know.
[00:00:25] He's been tugging on you.
[00:00:27] He's been pulling on you a little bit.
[00:00:30] People have been pulling on you a little bit.
[00:00:32] People have been pushing on you a little bit.
[00:00:34] And what you think is discomfort is actually God expanding your faith.
[00:00:40] He's expanding your capacity.
[00:00:42] He's answering your prayer.
[00:00:44] In a way that you didn't even know it.
[00:00:46] This morning we are gonna be in Hebrews chapter 11 and then Genesis 19.
[00:00:52] Hebrews chapter 11 and Genesis 19.
[00:00:55] I wanna preach about Sarah this morning.
[00:00:59] Hebrews 11, 11 says this, by faith, say faith,
[00:01:04] By faith, Sarah herself received power to conceive.
[00:01:11] She received to conceive.
[00:01:14] How many of you know you don't just receive so that you can get spiritual goosebumps in a moment?
[00:01:20] There's a purpose to the reception.
[00:01:23] Every time God moves upon you, there is a moment of conception.
[00:01:27] You receive to conceive.
[00:01:29] We receive for ministry.
[00:01:31] We receive for a purpose.
[00:01:33] We receive to pass something on to other people.
[00:01:37] We receive to pass something on to the next generation.
[00:01:40] You receive to conceive.
[00:01:44] By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive even when she was past the age since she considered him faithful who had promised.
[00:01:57] One verse, one line, one sentence about Sarah.
[00:02:03] Is that true?
[00:02:05] Absolutely.
[00:02:06] It's in the Bible.
[00:02:07] It's not a trick question.
[00:02:08] God is not a man that he should lie nor the son of a man and that he could say something false.
[00:02:14] All scripture is God-breathed and useful for correction and teaching and the edification of the saints.
[00:02:20] And so we know that sentence is absolutely true, but can I be honest with you?
[00:02:27] Today, that's the Instagram version.
[00:02:31] That's the Instagram version.
[00:02:34] I want to go behind the scenes a little bit.
[00:02:38] How many of you know that something can be fully true but it's not the whole story?
[00:02:45] I've been to a few funerals over the past 28 years.
[00:02:50] I'm kind of, probably I'm kind of strange, but there are some funerals like Saints of the Church.
[00:02:59] They're 90 years old, 92 years old.
[00:03:02] I actually kind of enjoy those funerals.
[00:03:06] I mean, there's sorrow there, but there is a celebration of a life well lived, a life.
[00:03:13] I like preaching those funerals because I don't have to lie.
[00:03:20] I wouldn't lie.
[00:03:24] But I've been to other funerals, and you know how we are at funerals?
[00:03:28] We eulogize, we memorialize, we say all the good things, and it's not that the good things are not true, it's just sometimes, sometimes there's just more to the story.
[00:03:48] Sometimes there's some some things that we leave out I don't want to leave anything out so everything that we read about Sarah is absolutely true but I want to take you behind the scenes so the context in Genesis chapter 18 Abraham and Sarah have already said yes to the Lord they have already began the journey of leaving what is comfortable leaving what is familiar leaving the relationships leaving the protections and
[00:04:17] And in Genesis 18, they get a visitation from three men.
[00:04:32] But we learned later that at least one of those men is
[00:04:36] The Lord, Yahweh Himself.
[00:04:39] The Bible uses the word Yahweh, and so we know that Yahweh Himself is present.
[00:04:45] And so we don't know if these other two men are possibly angels, or maybe is that a pre-incarnate visitation of the Trinity?
[00:04:54] Is this the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit showing up?
[00:04:57] Like, anyway, these are important, these are important guests.
[00:05:00] And let's pick up the rest of the story in verse 9.
[00:05:04] They said to him, Where is Sarah your wife?
[00:05:08] And Abraham said, Well, she's in the tent.
[00:05:11] And the Lord said, I will surely return to you about this time next year.
[00:05:16] And Sarah your wife shall have a son.
[00:05:20] And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
[00:05:23] And now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years.
[00:05:27] I love how the Bible says stuff sometimes.
[00:05:30] The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
[00:05:36] So kind.
[00:05:39] So Sarah laughed.
[00:05:42] Sarah laughed.
[00:05:43] Sarah laughed to herself, saying, Am I not worn out?
[00:05:47] My Lord is old, and shall I have this pleasure?
[00:05:49] And the Lord said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh and say, Shall I indeed bear a child now that I am old?
[00:05:58] Is there anything too hard for the Lord?
[00:06:02] At the appointed time I will return to you about this time next year.
[00:06:05] And Sarah shall have a son.
[00:06:09] But Sarah denied it, saying,
[00:06:11] I didn't laugh, for she was afraid, and he said, No, you laughed.
[00:06:20] Hold on!
[00:06:22] I thought Sarah was a woman of faith.
[00:06:26] There are about 3,000 people named in all of Scripture.
[00:06:30] There are only 16 that God chose to be in the Hall of Faith that singled out, that said above all.
[00:06:37] There are some pretty important names that are left off of that list.
[00:06:41] But Sarah made it onto that list in all of Scripture.
[00:06:46] Sarah.
[00:06:47] was a mother.
[00:06:48] Sarah was a woman of power.
[00:06:50] Sarah was a woman of declaration.
[00:06:53] Sarah was a woman of faith.
[00:06:55] But here, if you go behind this story,
[00:07:01] Her initial reaction is to laugh.
[00:07:04] Here's what I want to preach to you this morning.
[00:07:07] I want to preach about a laughable faith.
[00:07:10] A laughable faith.
[00:07:12] The first thing that I want you to understand in your life is I want you to get a hold of some laughable promises.
[00:07:20] I want you to get a hold of some laughable promises.
[00:07:23] Why did Sarah laugh?
[00:07:25] Sarah laughed because the dream that God began to download in her heart was so big that her only human response was to laugh.
[00:07:38] I love to laugh.
[00:07:41] Laughing's my favorite.
[00:07:43] People tell me I have a recognizable laugh.
[00:07:46] My children tell me, Dad, we can hear you laughing all the way across.
[00:07:53] It's my favorite.
[00:07:54] I love to laugh.
[00:07:56] Don't you love to laugh?
[00:07:57] But how many of you have begun to laugh when you shouldn't have been laughing?
[00:08:06] We were our family several years ago.
[00:08:10] We were at a church service.
[00:08:11] It was in a different state.
[00:08:14] I was not here.
[00:08:15] Y'all, you can't be a Christian and not laugh.
[00:08:20] You can't go to church and not laugh.
[00:08:23] Funny stuff happens in church.
[00:08:26] Sometimes you gotta laugh.
[00:08:28] and we were at a church service and I won't go into the details but something happened in the service that was funny but it shouldn't have been funny and it was not a large church.
[00:08:40] The Witherup family were a large portion of the congregation
[00:08:45] And so I watched my daughter and my nephew, they were sitting right in front of me, and I'm just, I'm breathing already.
[00:08:54] I'm breathing already.
[00:08:55] I'm like, okay, we're just gonna breathe through this.
[00:08:57] We're gonna work through this moment, you and me, Jesus.
[00:09:00] And then I glance up and I see two sets of shoulders just start to shake.
[00:09:06] And I'm like, oh dear God.
[00:09:10] So I moved from praying for myself till I started interceding God.
[00:09:15] There was nowhere to go.
[00:09:18] There was no, you were either in the church or out of the church, right?
[00:09:23] The lobby is about three feet big, and I'm just praying, God, give them control.
[00:09:29] Give them the spirit of control in this moment, and God helped us.
[00:09:34] He blessed us.
[00:09:35] We made it through that moment, but sometimes laughter is a gift, but sometimes we use laughter as a defense mechanism.
[00:09:46] Sometimes, don't get me wrong, sometimes sarcasm is funny, but sometimes you're using sarcasm just to be mean.
[00:09:54] Sometimes you're using sarcasm as an excuse not to believe the thing that God put in your heart and put in your life.
[00:10:01] And because you've been through a few things and been through a few situations and because people have disappointed you, you've read the expectations of man onto the expectation of God.
[00:10:11] I don't know, Sarah, we don't know too much about Sarah's background before this, but I don't know who in Sarah's life
[00:10:17] I don't know who promised her that they would show up for her dance recital and wasn't there I don't know who promised Sarah that they would be there for her I don't know who was in her life before Abraham but Sarah was carrying the baggage
[00:10:33] I believe of some past hurt some past unfulfilled expectations in this moment and she laughed but I want to I want to turn it while she was laughing out of a little bit of previous disappointment and doubt she was also laughing because the promise was too big here's what I want to tell you you've got it you got to pick up that purple crayon if you don't want to know what I'm talking about go back to messages not now
[00:11:02] Watch it online.
[00:11:02] Wait till this video is over and you can just let the YouTube playlist continue.
[00:11:07] You got nothing to do anyways.
[00:11:13] If some of you started drawing a picture, you need to keep drawing.
[00:11:17] You need to keep drawing until what is on that page makes you laugh and makes you shake your head.
[00:11:23] Not laugh because you're such a bad artist, but laugh because of the largeness of the dream.
[00:11:28] You need to start laughing.
[00:11:30] You need to start laughing.
[00:11:31] I release laughter.
[00:11:32] God there's no way God there's no way God there's no way unless you come through there's no way God unless you do this in my family there's no way God I pray that your kingdom builders dream this year is so big that it makes you laugh God there's no way there's no way you didn't mean that many zeros God you didn't mean you didn't mean got that
[00:11:59] Keep drawing.
[00:12:00] Keep dreaming.
[00:12:02] Get a laughable promise.
[00:12:04] And then here's the second thing that I want to go back to the juxtaposition of those two verses of Sarah, verse 12.
[00:12:13] Verse 12 in Genesis.
[00:12:15] So Sarah laughed to herself saying, Am I worn out?
[00:12:18] My Lord is old.
[00:12:20] Shall I have this pleasure?
[00:12:21] And Hebrews 11, by faith, Sarah laughed by faith.
[00:12:26] Sarah laughed by faith.
[00:12:28] Sarah herself received power to conceive even when she was passed.
[00:12:33] What she laughed about in the beginning, she conceived in the end.
[00:12:38] See, Sarah began with doubt.
[00:12:41] Sarah doubted and laughed about it, and Sarah is in the hall of faith.
[00:12:47] I want you to know this today.
[00:12:49] Don't you dare.
[00:12:51] Let the enemy convince you that your moments of doubt will keep you from living a life of faith.
[00:13:00] Sarah had a moment of doubt, but she lived as a life of faith.
[00:13:07] You're gonna have your moments.
[00:13:09] Tell your neighbor, I know that's true.
[00:13:13] We've all had our moments.
[00:13:18] Some of those moments are private moments.
[00:13:21] Some of those moments are private moments of doubt, private moments of fear.
[00:13:26] Some of those moments are public moments.
[00:13:29] Some of those moments, everybody saw us fall.
[00:13:32] Everybody saw our failure.
[00:13:34] Everybody saw us boldly declare something that we are still waiting on.
[00:13:40] And then what happens in those moments is we tend to go back into our laughter, not our good laughter, but our evil laughter, our Dr.
[00:13:47] Evil laughter, our diabolical laugh,
[00:13:50] is trying to extort one million or one billion dollars out of somebody and and we go into this evil villain mode or we go into this sarcastic mode don't get stuck the enemy that here's what the enemy does to people of faith he tries to get you stuck in your worst moment Hannah preached a powerful word pastor Hannah preached a powerful word about this on Wednesday
[00:14:17] But the enemy wants you to just get stuck in a moment.
[00:14:20] There's a great work of literature, Charles Dickens, who's very well known for the Christmas Carol, but he wrote another work called Great Expectations.
[00:14:31] And there's a character in Great Expectations.
[00:14:33] She's one of the most haunting figures, I think, in all of literature.
[00:14:37] Her name is Miss Havisham.
[00:14:39] Miss Havisham grew up as a dreamer.
[00:14:41] She grew up with faith.
[00:14:43] She grew up wealthy and privileged, and she lived in this mansion.
[00:14:47] But fast forward decades later, if you walked into Miss Havisham's house, she's still wearing her wedding dress,
[00:14:56] from 50 years ago.
[00:14:58] The cake, her wedding cake is still in the certain room.
[00:15:03] The clocks, she stopped every clock in her house at 840.
[00:15:08] What happened at 840?
[00:15:10] That's when she got the letter from her fiance calling off the wedding.
[00:15:14] and Ms. Havisham ended up living the rest of her life stuck in a moment.
[00:15:21] Stuck in a moment.
[00:15:22] That's what the devil is trying to do to you.
[00:15:26] He's trying to freeze your clock at 840.
[00:15:29] He's trying to remind you of the worst mistake that you ever made.
[00:15:33] He's trying to remind you of your failure.
[00:15:36] He's trying to remind you of your doubt.
[00:15:39] I want to remind somebody this morning that time moves on.
[00:15:44] Look at your watch.
[00:15:46] Look at that clock.
[00:15:47] Is it stopped?
[00:15:49] Maybe because your power's out and you're watching this on an iPhone plugged into a power source.
[00:15:55] By faith, you only got 12%.
[00:15:58] I extend your battery life in the name of Jesus so that you'll watch the end of this message and you say something like this but pastor even though I know the time goes on it's 8 40 every day and every time the clock strikes 8 40 the devil takes me back to that moment of my failure takes me back to that moment where I was betrayed
[00:16:21] God takes me back to that moment where somebody left me but I want to remind you today that 840 tomorrow is not 840 today the Bible says that his mercies are new every morning time marches on you serve a God that moves forward and he's taking you with he's taking you with him as he moves forward in your life
[00:16:51] Here's the final thing that I want you to know from Sarah.
[00:17:00] Stop passing your mantle to Hagar.
[00:17:09] Stop passing your mantle to Hagar.
[00:17:12] We all have a Hagar in our life.
[00:17:16] Hagar is somebody that is probably close to us.
[00:17:20] And Hagar is more educated than you.
[00:17:23] and she's prettier than you and you think she's a better mom than you and she drives a better car than you and some of us have learned in our lives to hold hands with Hagar and we just walk around with Hagar and every time the Lord tries to give us a promise, we just pass it to Hagar because we feel unqualified and Hagar, you're just dragging around Hagar with you everywhere you go.
[00:17:51] God, I'm not good enough for that.
[00:17:53] I don't have the degree for that.
[00:17:55] Stop it.
[00:17:56] Stop passing your mantle to Hagar.
[00:17:59] Nobody else can raise your kids.
[00:18:01] TikTok can't disciple your kids.
[00:18:05] But when God, you are, let me say it this way, you are the only person in your life that can birth and raise your Isaac.
[00:18:14] If God wanted Hagar,
[00:18:17] To raise Isaac, God would have given Isaac to Hagar, but he didn't.
[00:18:22] He gave Isaac to you.
[00:18:24] So you got to raise your Isaac.
[00:18:26] You got to stop passing it.
[00:18:28] You got to stop passing it.
[00:18:30] Oh, I can't.
[00:18:30] I can't get involved in ministry.
[00:18:32] I can't go to Multiply Family Council.
[00:18:35] Somebody else is serving in the nursery because you passed it to Hagar.
[00:18:39] Somebody else is serving in youth ministry, discipling a small group of young men because you passed it to Hagar.
[00:18:46] Somebody else is singing three times on the stage on the worship team.
[00:18:50] Somebody else is doing three ministries because you keep passing it to Hagar because you feel unqualified.
[00:18:58] If you want to laugh at something in your life, laugh at that word.
[00:19:03] Laugh at that word.
[00:19:04] Let me give you, here's the funniest word that I know right now, qualified.
[00:19:09] That's funny.
[00:19:11] Oh, that's funny.
[00:19:13] Qualified.
[00:19:18] I don't want to tell you too much because you won't come back next week.
[00:19:24] There isn't a person on the planet more unqualified to hold this microphone on this stage than me.
[00:19:35] But God didn't choose me because I was qualified.
[00:19:42] Somebody asked me the other week, Pastor, were you ever afraid to stand in front of people and talk?
[00:19:52] I laughed.
[00:19:55] homiletics class Southeastern College at that time we had a class called homiletics so that's a big fancy word for preaching teach you to teach you to preach and there was homiletics chapel and you got extra credit you got three points extra credit if you spoke or led worship
[00:20:20] And I was so terrified to preach that I chose to lead worship.
[00:20:29] You say, Pastor, wow, you've been hiding that?
[00:20:33] I didn't know you can lead worship.
[00:20:35] I can't.
[00:20:41] I know three chords on the piano, which actually maybe I could leave.
[00:20:49] I'm just kidding.
[00:20:55] I can't carry a tune.
[00:20:58] I make a joyful noise.
[00:21:05] Aren't you thankful that God doesn't choose qualified?
[00:21:09] Sarah wasn't qualified.
[00:21:13] Hagar was qualified.
[00:21:16] In the natural, Hagar was the one.
[00:21:20] Hagar was the one.
[00:21:22] But the mantle that God has given you, it's yours.
[00:21:27] It's yours.
[00:21:27] There is a ministry that only you can do.
[00:21:30] There's a family member that only you can reach.
[00:21:33] There's a neighbor that only you can invite.
[00:21:36] Stop waiting for Hagar to show up and invite the family down the street to Multiply Church.
[00:21:42] Stop waiting for Hagar to say yes to going on the missions trip.
[00:21:47] Stop waiting for Hagar to serve in media ministry.
[00:21:50] Stop waiting for Hagar to give the offering in Kingdom Builders.
[00:21:55] Stop waiting on Hagar.
[00:21:58] Come on, Sarah.
[00:22:00] Come on, Sarah.
[00:22:01] You received to conceive.
[00:22:04] You received from the Lord to conceive.
[00:22:08] Birth that Isaac.
[00:22:12] We go to my Aunt Joyce's house every year at Christmas, and Aunt Joyce always has, she's got great food and great games.
[00:22:22] We'll always play a game, and I know this game has been around.
[00:22:25] I'm late to the party on this, but we played with the cousins and everybody.
[00:22:30] We played spoons.
[00:22:31] Have you ever played spoons?
[00:22:33] and the whole so if you've never played that the object is so say there's five people around the table there are four spoons so think like musical chairs there's one less than there are people and you start with four four cards in your hand and you just keep passing the card you just keep passing and the object is to get four of one four four like four fours or four kings and the first person to get
[00:22:59] For they'll reach for a spoon and everybody's got to reach for a spoon and the person without the spoon is out and you just pare it down but the whole the whole game the muscle the muscle memory of the game is just you got to keep passing you got to keep passing you got to keep passing you got to keep passing and if you're not careful you'll activate the muscle memory of passing and you don't even realize what's in your hand
[00:23:23] Some of you spiritually, all your life, you've just activated the muscle memory of passing.
[00:23:29] Passing, I'm not smart enough, I'm not good enough, I have too much failure in my life.
[00:23:33] If people knew that about me, if people knew what I did 10 years ago, and you've just activated that muscle of passing, and you don't even realize what God has put in your hand.
[00:23:42] God he's preaching to somebody this morning he's activating something in your life on your couch in your kitchen he's activating I believe that we're gonna have more multipliers this year than ever before I believe that when we have multiply family council this house is gonna be filled because nobody we're stop passing we stop passing it's not about my ability it's not not about me it's about what God has placed in my hand
[00:24:11] So 14 years later, Sarah laughed 14 years.
[00:24:17] She had 14 years to either rehearse her failure or to build her faith.
[00:24:26] How many of you know probably both were going on at the same time?
[00:24:31] She was maybe rehearsing a little bit and building and the rehearsing got less and the building because God delivers in a moment and God delivers over time.
[00:24:42] Come on, say amen.
[00:24:44] I believe in deliverance at the altar in a split second and I believe in Christian counseling.
[00:24:49] I believe that God can break your bad eating habits in a second and I believe in going to the gym.
[00:24:55] I believe in instantaneous and progressive.
[00:25:01] So 14 years later, she births Isaac.
[00:25:07] Maybe Isaac is three months old.
[00:25:11] And Sarah walks past the crib and she looks down.
[00:25:17] She starts playing with Isaac a little bit.
[00:25:22] Do you remember that moment when your child or your niece, your nephew, they laughed?
[00:25:32] I wonder when Isaac's first moment of laughter was, when he had that cute little baby laugh.
[00:25:41] And then I wonder what happened in Sarah's heart.
[00:25:46] because because that could the enemy could have used that how many of you know the enemy will use small things to send to trigger you and send you spiraling downward oh oh my god I remember I remember so she even even after she had birthed the promise even after she had given birth to the thing that God had put into her life how many of you know the enemy doesn't let up on you even after you
[00:26:12] You step into ministry even after you're serving, even after you're believing.
[00:26:17] He'll use small things to send your mind.
[00:26:21] I remember when I laughed.
[00:26:23] Maybe I'm not the person.
[00:26:24] I birthed it, but I'm not the person to raise it.
[00:26:28] She could have begun to spiral, but she didn't.
[00:26:32] Here's maybe why she didn't begin to spiral in that moment.
[00:26:38] Because she had already named the boy Isaac.
[00:26:43] Anybody want to take a venture and guess what the name Isaac means?
[00:26:54] He laughs isn't that just like God to take your worst moment and rename it into a miracle to take your worst defeat and rename it into a promise to take the thing in your life that you were ashamed of come on somebody give God praise in this house I serve a God that can
[00:27:19] He can rename some things.
[00:27:27] He laughed.
[00:27:28] He laughed.
[00:27:29] Go ahead and stand in your living room.
[00:27:37] Stand in your living room.
[00:27:38] I want you to lift a hand to a God.
[00:27:41] God, you can take my smirk.
[00:27:41] You can take my doubt.
[00:27:44] You can take the moment when I didn't believe you and I pray that you will rename it and turn it
[00:27:46] So with heads bowed and eyes closed all across the house, this house or your house,
[00:28:00] What have you been passing?
[00:28:03] What mantle in your life have you tried to be to pass?
[00:28:07] What anointing?
[00:28:08] What calling?
[00:28:09] What is God asking you to do?
[00:28:11] What is He asking you to build?
[00:28:13] What is He asking you to say yes to?
[00:28:15] Is He asking you to join a group?
[00:28:17] Is He asking you to lead a group?
[00:28:18] Is he asking you to join a ministry?
[00:28:21] Is he asking you to lead a ministry?
[00:28:23] Is he asking, what are you passing?
[00:28:24] What are you passing?
[00:28:25] I need somebody to just stop.
[00:28:28] Just don't even let Hagar.
[00:28:30] Hagar is not an option any longer.
[00:28:33] Hagar is not an option in this moment.
[00:28:35] I just want you to say yes to the Lord.
[00:28:38] Say yes to your Isaac.
[00:28:40] Say yes to what he wants to do into you.
[00:28:42] Say, God, I know I'm not
[00:28:43] I'm qualified, but the qualification is not.
[00:28:47] All I give you is my yes.
[00:28:49] I just give you whatever I have.
[00:28:50] Take me.
[00:28:51] Take me.
[00:28:52] Take my hurts.
[00:28:53] Take my pains.
[00:28:54] Take my disappointments.
[00:28:55] Take my faults.
[00:28:56] Take my failures.
[00:28:58] Take everything in my life, but I just say yes.
[00:29:00] I say yes.
[00:29:01] I say yes to the mission field.
[00:29:04] I say yes to the ministry.
[00:29:06] I say yes to stepping in and discipling my kids.
[00:29:09] The internet is not gonna raise my kids anymore.
[00:29:13] I'm gonna raise my kids I say yes I say yes I say yes what does God want to rename in your life how does God want to restore laughter in your life God restore laughter in Jesus name in Jesus name with heads still bowed and eyes still closed maybe you're listening to this word on a snow Sunday
[00:29:39] And maybe you would say, Pastor, I don't have a relationship with this Jesus.
[00:29:43] Pastor, the clock, I'm living at 840.
[00:29:47] It's not just Groundhog Day.
[00:29:48] It's stuck.
[00:29:50] I am stuck in my sin.
[00:29:55] And I don't want to live there anymore.
[00:29:58] I want 841.
[00:29:59] Listen, Jesus is the only person.
[00:30:02] You can't will yourself out of it.
[00:30:04] you can't do things better the only way to move past the 840 in your life is to say yes to Jesus and so with heads bowed and eyes closed if you're in the house or watching online I'm going to come to three just as a point of reference if you're in the house I want you to lift your hand high if you're online I want you to drop a comment drop something in the chat and we're going to pray together but you say this one pastor I don't have a relationship with Jesus I'm stuck in the past
[00:30:33] Two, Pastor, today I want to move on and move forward into the grace and forgiveness and love of God.
[00:30:39] Three, if that's you, just raise your hand or drop something in the chat today.
[00:30:44] Everybody in the house, God bless you, you can put your hands down.
[00:30:47] Everybody in the house today, we're going to pray this out loud together.
[00:30:51] Come on, let's join our faith.
[00:30:53] Just say this, say, Dear Jesus, I know that I'm a sinner.
[00:30:57] but I come to the cross and I ask you Jesus to forgive me of all of my sin I ask you Jesus to come into my life come into my heart and help me to live
[00:31:13] Wide awake to the love of God and fully alive to my purpose it's in Jesus name and all God's people said amen come on church let's celebrate today with those who have gone from death to life

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]:
Well, I hope today's service made a real difference in your lives.
[00:31:37] My name is Noemi and I just want to thank you for joining us today.
[00:31:40] It truly means so much that you chose to worship with us online.
[00:31:44] If you made a decision to follow Jesus, we are celebrating with you.
[00:31:48] That's the best decision you could ever make and we would love to walk alongside you as you take your next steps.
[00:31:53] A great way to get connected is by downloading the Multiply Congress app and clicking next steps.
[00:31:59] There you'll find resources, encouragement, and a team ready to support you as you begin this new journey.
[00:32:04] Thanks again for being part of today's service.
[00:32:06] We can't wait to see you soon.