Beyond ‘Thriving’: A Theological Review of ‘Finding Purpose in Your Singleness’

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Christ is my firm foundation The rock on which I stand When everything around me
[00:00:36] In Jesus Cause He's never let me down

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He's gotta make no sense So I won't be going

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Why would He fail?
[00:02:03] He won't We trust in Him He won't And He never will He won't fail He never will He won't fail He won't fail

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We will faith and never face Rain came, wind blew, my house was built on you I'm safe with you
[00:04:28] It is so sweet to trust in Jesus Just to take Him at His word Just to rest upon His promise
[00:04:52] Just to know, thus said the Lord Jesus, Jesus Oh how I trust Him How I prove Him all and all Oh Jesus, Jesus
[00:05:22] My precious Jesus He won't fail He won't fail He won't Jesus at the center of
[00:05:53] Jesus at the center of it all From beginning to the end It will always be, it's always been you Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
[00:06:33] And everything revolves around You Jesus in You Come on Jesus be the center Jesus be the center of my life Jesus be the center of my life
[00:08:07] Jesus is you So from my heart to the heavens Jesus be the center It's all about you Yes it's all about you
[00:08:34] Come on, that's our prayer this morning.
[00:08:42] We say...
[00:09:15] So Jesus be the center of your church Jesus be the center of your church And every knee will bow And every tongue shall confess your name
[00:09:49] Jesus, His name is Jesus
[00:11:08] Come on, we just want You.

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I just want You.
[00:11:20] And nothing else.
[00:11:20] And nothing else, Lord.
[00:11:21] And nothing else, Lord.

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With You, Lord, I just want You And nothing else And nothing else And nothing else Come on, make it personal this morning, say God, I just need You And nothing else
[00:12:09] I just want Jesus I just want Jesus I just want Jesus
[00:12:37] I just want Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Lord I just need Jesus, Jesus, Jesus I just need Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
[00:13:06] Jesus, I just need you.
[00:13:16] Jesus, I just need you.
[00:13:40] We need more of His love!
[00:14:03] We need more of His righteousness!
[00:14:04] Jesus!
[00:14:04] We need You, Jesus!
[00:14:04] We need You, Jesus!

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And nothing else matters

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And nothing in this world will do Cause I've tasted and I've seen Jesus, You're the center And everything revolves around You Cause nothing else matters
[00:14:39] And nothing in this world will ever satisfy us I've tasted and I've seen that Jesus is the best thing I've tasted and I've seen that His love is better than life I've tasted and I've seen that His love for me has healed my soul
[00:15:07] Once we experience this living water, what we realize is that we've had everything that we've ever needed if we have Jesus.
[00:15:18] We have His love, His righteousness.
[00:15:22] We have His grace, which we don't deserve, but we have it anyway.
[00:15:27] We have His Spirit that He decides to put in us so that we can walk in victory.
[00:15:34] We have a friend
[00:15:36] We have a Father.
[00:15:40] So when we say nothing in this world compares to the love of Christ, there is no one like King Jesus.
[00:15:52] There is no one like King Jesus.
[00:15:55] None can compare to this King of Glory.
[00:15:58] None can compare to this beautiful, wonderful Savior.
[00:16:03] None can compare to this matchless and holy Father.
[00:16:08] We have everything we ever needed in you, Jesus.
[00:16:13] We thank you for your love.
[00:16:15] We thank you for your grace.

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Thank you Jesus for who you are Thank you God we praise you here Who thought I'd find you at the lowest place

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And who thought you'd feel me in the crowd?
[00:17:03] And who knew you'd make good of my mistakes?
[00:17:09] Oh, you're nothing like I thought you were You're better, what a God, what a God Hallelujah, what a God

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We praise what a God, what a God It's who You are, what a God, what a God Thank you Jesus
[00:17:57] What does God say?

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Almighty, all-powerful, faithful forever Almighty, all-powerful We thank You, Jesus, for who You are
[00:19:04] Come on church, can we sing at the highest place?
[00:19:31] At the highest place I'll reach is at Your feet

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He is your glory, then I'll sing it all this world
[00:21:21] If my heart is the only thing you send to me Then I'll burn it all And if I feel your heart you'll never see your hand I'll survive it all No treasure of this life could ever satisfy

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and more.
[00:22:40] Holy Father, You are holy, holy, holy, holy, Holy Father, You are holy

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Holy Father you are holy, holy, holy, holy Father that is who you are

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You are holy.
[00:23:38] You are matchless.
[00:23:40] You are righteous.
[00:23:42] You are faithful.
[00:23:44] You're consistent.
[00:23:47] Your holiness is unmatched and your grace is so pure.
[00:23:54] Your love for us compares to no other love this world could ever offer.
[00:24:00] So we sing you are holy, you are holy, what a mighty God you are.
[00:24:08] We worship you, we give you honor, and we praise your name.
[00:24:19] You are worthy, worthy, worthy Father You are worthy, worthy, worthy, worthy
[00:24:54] You're worthy to receive all blessing and honor and glory that belongs unto Your name, King Jesus.
[00:25:01] We give You all the glory, all of the honor, and all of the praise.
[00:25:06] In Jesus' matchless and holy and perfect name, Amen.

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Amen.
[00:25:16] Transformation Church, you can have a seat.
[00:25:19] If I haven't met you, my name is Rachel Sawhook.
[00:25:21] I'm the Groups Director here, and I look forward to meeting you in the lobby after service at the Next Steps area.
[00:25:28] If this is your first time, I wanna give you an extra special welcome.
[00:25:31] We are so glad that you've chosen to worship with us today, and we would love to invite you to fill out a connection card.
[00:25:38] You can find it in the seat back in front of you, and take that connection card at the end of service and meet us out in the lobby.
[00:25:44] There we have a team that's excited to answer any questions that you might have or pray with you and give you a copy of Pastor Derwin's book called The Good Life.
[00:25:52] So make sure and take that next step.
[00:25:54] Well, speaking of next steps, it's a new year.
[00:25:57] And so there's new ways that you can connect with the life and body of Transformation Church.
[00:26:02] And I'm going to tell you a couple of those real quick.
[00:26:04] Number one is groups.
[00:26:06] Start a group.
[00:26:06] Join a group.
[00:26:07] Get in community.
[00:26:08] We are not called to do life alone.
[00:26:10] And so we are going to be launching our first semester of groups next week.
[00:26:14] All the signups will open, so make sure and be checking the website for more information.
[00:26:19] And number two, Growth Track.
[00:26:20] It's how you can learn about membership and being a part of serving here at Transformation Church.
[00:26:26] You're going to find how God has gifted and wired you specifically to use your gifts as a part of this body.
[00:26:31] So that's two next steps that you can take.
[00:26:34] Also, men, we've got an exciting thing for you.
[00:26:37] Breakfast is happening this Saturday right here at Indian Land, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. And teens ages 6th grade and up are able to attend as well.
[00:26:48] The sign-up closes today, so please don't miss out.
[00:26:51] That'll be a lot of leftover bacon if you're not there.
[00:26:54] So invite a friend and join us.
[00:26:56] It's going to be a great time to connect with one another and hear from Pastor Derwin as well.
[00:27:01] Well, now we get to worship through financial generosity.
[00:27:05] We have an amazing God who has gone first in giving us His first and best.
[00:27:09] And as an overflow, we get to give back and be a part of what God is doing.
[00:27:13] And so I've challenged you with a couple of things today.
[00:27:15] I'm gonna give you one more challenge.
[00:27:17] If you have never taken that step of faith
[00:27:20] and trusting God with your finances, man, we want that for you.
[00:27:24] And so let 2026 be your year to give through Transformation Church and make a difference in the community and world around us.
[00:27:32] And maybe you've been generous this whole time and you can look back and see God's faithful hand over your life.
[00:27:39] Well, we wanna hear those stories.
[00:27:41] We wanna celebrate that with you.
[00:27:43] and so you can open up your TC app click on the give icon and let us know your story so that we can worship and celebrate with you and all that God is doing and is going to do there's a few ways you can give you can give online you can give through our app or there's generosity boxes located in the hallways on your way out well we are excited to continue our series called thriving so check this out

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All right, hello.
[00:28:55] Let's give a big welcome to all our people at Transformation Church, Lake Wylie and Transformation Church in the land and those of our guests online as well.
[00:29:04] Welcome, welcome, welcome.
[00:29:06] Let's give a big welcome to the over 1,400 correctional facility partnerships that are tuning in, the mighty men and incredible women.
[00:29:13] Welcome, welcome, welcome.
[00:29:15] And to the TC family, it is so, so good to see you.
[00:29:17] We're kicking off 2026 with a series called Thriving, God's Vision for a Flourishing Life.
[00:29:25] So number one in 2026, understand this, God doesn't want something from you.
[00:29:29] He wants something for you.
[00:29:32] We have a Father that is good.
[00:29:33] He wants something for you.
[00:29:35] He wants you to have a thriving life.
[00:29:37] And last week, Vicki and I kicked off the series called How to Move from Surviving in Your Marriage to Thriving in Your Marriage.
[00:29:46] Didn't Vicki do a great job?
[00:29:48] Let's give it up for her.
[00:29:48] She did a phenomenal job.
[00:29:50] Now, here's what I need you to do.
[00:29:51] Don't listen to it or watch it just one time.
[00:29:56] That's like going to the gym.
[00:29:57] You know, like, so like when I go to the YMCA,
[00:30:00] January and February is packed.
[00:30:03] March, not so much.
[00:30:05] So don't just listen to it one time.
[00:30:07] Men, I expect you, if you're married, lead the way.
[00:30:09] Hey, man, let's listen to this.
[00:30:11] Let's weekly dive into it.
[00:30:12] Let's discuss it.
[00:30:13] Let's talk about it.
[00:30:14] What's more important, your job where they'll fire you?
[00:30:17] Oh, y'all ain't ready yet.
[00:30:19] I mean, you put more effort into your job than into your marriage.
[00:30:23] You didn't tell your job for Richard Perforer, sickness and in health.
[00:30:27] Next week, we're gonna look at thriving after a divorce.
[00:30:32] So we're gonna learn that we can thrive, that we can pick up the pieces.
[00:30:36] And today, we're gonna learn about how to thrive in singleness.
[00:30:42] Now, this is for...
[00:30:43] If you're a widow, a widower, if you are a person who's single, maybe you want to get married, maybe you don't want to get married, but here's the deal.
[00:30:51] This is going to affect all of us because you'll have kids, you'll have friends, and let me let you in on a secret, particularly if you're new here.
[00:30:59] You ready?
[00:31:00] This is pretty deep.
[00:31:01] Every sermon I preach is about Jesus.
[00:31:03] I just use themes to get to Jesus.
[00:31:07] No, for real.
[00:31:08] I don't know if you noticed that.
[00:31:09] Like, that's all I talk about.
[00:31:12] And why shouldn't I?
[00:31:13] Because it's kind of like his church, his place, he's got the message.
[00:31:18] And so I'm gonna use some window dressing, but we're gonna run as fast as we can to Jesus to color it so that the sun can shine through.
[00:31:28] Because what you're gonna find in marriage, divorce, singleness,
[00:31:32] Every facet of life, it is for Him, it is by Him, it is through Him.
[00:31:39] So we're going to learn how to thrive in singleness.
[00:31:42] And you're going, well, why are we doing this message?
[00:31:44] Because 46% of Americans are single.
[00:31:49] 40% of followers of Jesus are single.
[00:31:53] And so we want singles to know you are a vital part of what God wants to do in and through the world.
[00:32:01] So check this out.
[00:32:02] What I want to do is I want to share five
[00:32:05] Potential things that singles face.
[00:32:08] This may or may not apply to you, but it will apply to somebody that you're mentoring, that you're coaching, that you're in relationships with.
[00:32:15] So what are the five challenges that our single brothers and sisters face?
[00:32:19] Number one, loneliness.
[00:32:21] Loneliness.
[00:32:23] And let me say this about loneliness, and this is super important.
[00:32:26] If you're single and you do wanna get married, don't think getting married is gonna cure your loneliness.
[00:32:34] You can lay next to somebody for 15 years and be very lonely.
[00:32:39] You can be close to somebody physically but be a million miles apart emotionally and spiritually.
[00:32:46] If you are not single and satisfied, you will not be married and satisfied because satisfaction don't come from a boy or a girl.
[00:32:54] It comes from the living God with pierces in His hands, His side, and His feet, the resurrected Savior.
[00:33:04] Yep, and with the struggle of loneliness, sometimes it becomes a verdict.
[00:33:10] We think, I'm not worth it.
[00:33:13] I'm not good enough.
[00:33:14] I'm never going to be seen by someone.
[00:33:16] I'm never going to be someone's priority.
[00:33:19] And so we can hear those voices, the weight of carrying life.
[00:33:26] I don't know if you know, but the world is pretty much in shambles, beginning with our own country.
[00:33:30] I'm not sure if you know that.
[00:33:32] If you're just cruising around and trucking along life, you may not know, but the world is desperately broken.
[00:33:37] There's a lot of stress.
[00:33:38] There's a lot of anxiety.
[00:33:40] Insurance costs $8 gazillion.
[00:33:43] And it gets hard carrying that burden.
[00:33:46] So that is a legit reality.
[00:33:49] The second is falling behind peers.
[00:33:52] It's kind of like a program is you graduate college and you date and then you get married and you have kids and then you go to weddings.
[00:34:00] I know, right?
[00:34:01] Some of them feel like that.
[00:34:03] But you go to weddings and it's like, dang, this is a reminder, I'm in another wedding.
[00:34:11] Not having a wedding, but I'm in another one, right?
[00:34:15] And then,
[00:34:16] You get pressure from your family.
[00:34:18] Your parents be looking at you like, do you hear that?
[00:34:23] Hear what?
[00:34:24] Nothing.
[00:34:25] What do you mean nothing?
[00:34:26] I don't hear no grandkids.
[00:34:29] You know, you start feeling pressure.
[00:34:31] And then your friends, you know, they be on Instagram with their little married stuff and their babies.
[00:34:36] And, you know, I mean, you guys be curating some Instagram stuff, boy.
[00:34:40] I want y'all to Instagram like when the baby have diarrhea and you're arguing with each other.
[00:34:45] And this, what I'm about to say next is for free.
[00:34:48] Don't be doing no AI photo and then be like, oh, thank you, I've been working out.
[00:34:53] No, that's called artificial intelligence to your photo.
[00:34:56] By the way, you should be really concerned if you are thanking people for saying you look good and it ain't you.
[00:35:08] I'm not a genius, but I'm just saying.
[00:35:12] You're gonna show up at a date and they're gonna be like, where's my date?
[00:35:14] Like, oh, that's me, and they're gonna be like.
[00:35:22] It creates comparison fatigue, right?
[00:35:26] You're looking at what everybody else is doing.
[00:35:30] On a serious note, there's the fear of always being alone.
[00:35:36] Number four, unmet sexual desires.
[00:35:41] I was on a thread on threads, and this is probably a microcosm, but I'm gonna ask y'all.
[00:35:48] One of the Christian singles was like, do other Christians wait until marriage to have sex?
[00:35:54] And I'm like, well, yeah, of course.
[00:35:56] Then I start reading the threads, and I'm like, have y'all ever read the Bible?
[00:36:02] It was wild to me.
[00:36:04] I'm going, wait a minute.
[00:36:06] You do know that physical intimacy between a husband and wife is a gift to be enjoyed in the context of marriage.
[00:36:14] Enjoyment, procreation, a reflection of Jesus in the church.
[00:36:18] The husband reflects sacrificial love.
[00:36:21] The wife respects respect or following the husband for this beautiful thing.
[00:36:25] And I was expecting to see that from a Christian thread.
[00:36:27] I'm like, this is not Christian.
[00:36:30] So am I missing something there?
[00:36:32] Like we do know physical intimacy is a gift for a husband and a wife in a marital relationship.
[00:36:38] And by the way, let me pause here.
[00:36:39] Parents, parents, don't be weird about sex with your kids, please.
[00:36:44] You're gonna be weird if you don't let God heal you of your dysfunction.
[00:36:50] And so you're gonna take those broken fragments and throw it at your kids and then they're gonna take it into their relationship like,
[00:36:58] You're supposed to talk about it in a context, now age appropriate.
[00:37:02] but talk to them about the good gift.
[00:37:04] And you know what's cool?
[00:37:05] Now my daughter's 29, my son is 25.
[00:37:08] We were talking to our daughter the other day and she was like, you thought you were slick.
[00:37:13] I knew what was going on on Friday nights when you got the speakers and went upstairs and closed the door when you thought we were slick.
[00:37:19] I'm like, and I didn't care if you knew what was going on because that's what happy, healthy, loving, married people do.
[00:37:31] And she goes, she goes, and you know what dad?
[00:37:35] Two things, all my friends think you're the coolest and you and mom are the only ones still married.
[00:37:41] Now, praise God, but why is it so weird?
[00:37:46] Like the kids shouldn't know that the husband and wife
[00:37:49] Use the gift that God has given them and understand this men this ain't this talk but since we're here men if you want it hot in the bedroom it starts outside of the bedroom with sacrifice and loving and kindness and goodness and grace and emotional and spiritual connectivity it's not your abs dude
[00:38:08] And ladies, he's not going to desire you if you don't respect him.
[00:38:10] If you talk to him like he's 12 and act like he's 12, he's not going to want you.
[00:38:15] Men are created for respect.
[00:38:16] Women are created for love.
[00:38:18] We learn our respect and love languages.
[00:38:20] That's what mature gospel people do.
[00:38:22] But that's another talk for another time.
[00:38:24] However, back to here.
[00:38:26] Don't be getting busy if you ain't married.
[00:38:28] If it ain't a ring on it, no, no, no, no.
[00:38:31] For the glory of God.
[00:38:33] Number five.
[00:38:35] Some of you are like, yeah, whatever, pastor.
[00:38:38] Feeling invisible to the church.
[00:38:40] There's sometimes where singles kind of feel like a third world.
[00:38:43] No, no, a third will.
[00:38:44] No, you are a vital member of what God is doing in the world.
[00:38:50] Now, something that's really important though, if you have these longings, if you have these desires, it's important to bring them to God.
[00:39:01] How many of you know, and teenagers, this is really important, you can simultaneously be happy
[00:39:07] and going through problems at the same time.
[00:39:09] You can have a hopeful future and be struggling in a moment at the same time.
[00:39:14] They're not opposite, they're paradoxical and there's something beautiful about saying, God, I'm gonna trust you and I'm gonna bring to you the tensions, the hurt that I feel.
[00:39:26] Where do we get this from?
[00:39:27] Matthew 5, 4, Jesus, the greatest preacher that's ever preached, preached the greatest sermon ever preached, Sermon on the Mount, he started with what we call the Beatitudes and his second Beatitude is this,
[00:39:37] Blessed, which is the Greek word Makros, and it literally means happy.
[00:39:41] Happy are those who mourn.
[00:39:42] That means sad.
[00:39:43] Happy are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
[00:39:46] Let me give you the Derwin Gray, San Antonio, Texas, translation.
[00:39:51] Happy are the ones who take their sadness to God, for that's when he will comfort them.
[00:39:57] So often, and it's not just a man thing, I think it's an everybody thing, is we take our disappointments, we take our frustrations, we take our sadness, and we stuff them and repress them.
[00:40:11] You know what that's called?
[00:40:12] Depression.
[00:40:14] For some of us, depression is found in our disappointments that we don't bring to God as though God doesn't know.
[00:40:21] But God is not gonna heal what you don't name and what you don't bring to Him.
[00:40:25] He's not gonna force you into the doctor's office.
[00:40:29] So we can bring it to Him and allow Him to comfort us, to shape us, to strengthen us.
[00:40:36] So let's work through.
[00:40:39] Four gospel principles of how to flourish in your singleness.
[00:40:44] And what you'll see is it'll help you flourish in your life as well.
[00:40:48] Number one, teenagers and young adults, is lean into your union life in Christ.
[00:40:52] Lean into your union life in Christ.
[00:40:56] On the count of three, say, lean back.
[00:40:58] One, two, three, lean back.
[00:41:00] Okay, let's rap like Fat Joe.
[00:41:02] Everybody, lean, no, I'm just messing with you.
[00:41:06] What I mean by lean in
[00:41:10] It's trust God.
[00:41:13] Exercise faith in Him.
[00:41:15] Faith is not a leap into the blindness.
[00:41:18] Faith is a leap into the arms of the only one who's reliable.
[00:41:23] Faith is not this dumb ignorant thing.
[00:41:25] You don't get a prize for ignorance.
[00:41:27] God is not like, hey, leave your, no, no, no.
[00:41:29] God's going, you can trust me.
[00:41:30] I'm worthy, I'm reliable, I am good.
[00:41:33] Now you may not understand always, but you can trust me.
[00:41:36] I got you.
[00:41:38] So we wanna lean into our union life in Christ.
[00:41:41] This moves us to the second question of the first point is this, what is union life with Christ?
[00:41:46] If you've been here at Transformation Church for more than five minutes, here's what we teach.
[00:41:50] We are thankful
[00:41:52] Jesus died for our sins.
[00:41:54] Oh my goodness, I'm thankful that when I try to remind him of my past, he goes, I don't know what you're talking about.
[00:41:59] It's been soaked in the blood.
[00:42:00] You are forgiven.
[00:42:01] There's no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
[00:42:04] But not only does he forgive me, but now he gives me the power
[00:42:09] to live.
[00:42:10] That's union life in Christ.
[00:42:12] All of us were created for union life in Christ, to be united to Jesus.
[00:42:19] We are born separate from the Father, and so the Son, Jesus, comes to reconcile us to the Father.
[00:42:27] Why do we need to be reconciled?
[00:42:29] Let me ask you this.
[00:42:30] What would you do?
[00:42:31] What would you do if you just cleaned up your house?
[00:42:35] If somebody walks in with dirty shoes and got on your couch, it's like, forget your couch.
[00:42:44] What would you do?
[00:42:45] Would you be mad?
[00:42:48] We would be very mad.
[00:42:51] Well, God sends Jesus to pressure wash and purify us with his blood.
[00:43:01] Why?
[00:43:02] so that we can be in relationship with him.
[00:43:06] What's his motivation?
[00:43:07] Love.
[00:43:08] God goes, I want you to flourish.
[00:43:09] I don't know any parent that doesn't want their children to flourish.
[00:43:12] And God is going, I want you to flourish, but it comes through my son, and look what he does.
[00:43:17] He completes us in Christ.
[00:43:20] Look at this.
[00:43:24] Colossians 2, 9 and 10.
[00:43:25] For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body.
[00:43:31] So this is the incarnation.
[00:43:33] God the Son, Jesus, comes to pressure wash the sin off of us, to purify us so that we can be in relationship with Jesus, with his Father.
[00:43:44] And here's what's beautiful about the purification of God.
[00:43:46] It is a one-time cleansing that lasts a lifetime.
[00:43:51] It's a one-time cleansing that lasts a lifetime.
[00:43:55] And then it says, so you're also complete through your union with Christ.
[00:44:01] Let's pause here.
[00:44:02] Union with Christ, teenagers, means this, that when you say yes to Jesus, you are eternally, inextricably,
[00:44:11] United to Jesus.
[00:44:13] Wherever He is, you are.
[00:44:14] What the Father thinks about Him, the Father thinks about you.
[00:44:19] In other words, God took your Venmo account and my Venmo account that had nothing in it and put everything that Christ has done in it so His resources are now our resources.
[00:44:30] And when the Father sees us, He sees Him.
[00:44:36] And you're going, okay, that's cool.
[00:44:38] But how does my life change?
[00:44:39] By believing that.
[00:44:42] Your life and my life is the sum total of what we believe.
[00:44:44] If you want to know what your life is about, ask yourself what you're believing.
[00:44:49] When you know that you are united with Christ, it changes your desires.
[00:44:55] It changes your heart.
[00:44:57] It empowers you.
[00:44:59] The scene of the crime is your mind.
[00:45:02] I don't know if there's any stranger fans here but towards the end I don't want to give too much away but one of the characters Vecna the evil person was in his head and he said the way I was able to get him out of his head is this is what he would do he would remind me of every evil and fearful thing that I've ever done but what I started to do was think about
[00:45:24] All the happy moments.
[00:45:25] Think about all the good things.
[00:45:27] And I was able to take control of my mind.
[00:45:31] Friends, that's Colossians 3.
[00:45:33] Set your mind on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father.
[00:45:39] I'm gonna tell it to you again.
[00:45:40] This is what I do literally all day, every day in meetings.
[00:45:44] in play on a treadmill as I'm constantly thinking about what Christ has done.
[00:45:50] My doctrine doesn't make me spiritually mature.
[00:45:52] That just makes me smart.
[00:45:54] How do you know?
[00:45:55] How many do you know that you can be smart and disobedient?
[00:45:58] How many of you know you can be smart and hooked on pornography?
[00:46:01] How many of you know you can be gifted and can preach and do music and have problems?
[00:46:06] The goal is not to be smart.
[00:46:08] The goal is to be surrendered to the unending love of God so much so
[00:46:13] that you see yourself when you look at him because he lives in you.
[00:46:17] That will change everything.
[00:46:19] That will change you.
[00:46:21] That will break addiction.
[00:46:22] That will break generational curses.
[00:46:24] You need to stop believing lies and listen to the truth.
[00:46:35] Jesus, who is the head over every rule and authority.
[00:46:39] So when you don't believe that, you're calling Jesus a liar and I recommend you stop.
[00:46:43] Every time you beat yourself up, you're going, hey, Jesus, nah, that resurrection, that don't apply to me.
[00:46:49] I'm too out, I'm too messed up.
[00:46:53] Really?
[00:46:56] We think pride is just look how great I am.
[00:46:58] Pride is also look how messed up I am.
[00:47:00] Self-loathing might actually be worse than puffing yourself up.
[00:47:06] Well, look at little old me.
[00:47:09] So you think God just spent his blood on little old you because you wasn't worth it?
[00:47:14] And y'all worried about some boy or some girl making you feel good and God done bought you.
[00:47:21] I'm just gonna let that sit there.
[00:47:22] I ain't gonna say nothing for a minute.
[00:47:25] I want that to echo in your heart that when you are hit upside the head by life on Monday and your identity and worth is assaulted, you go, you know what?
[00:47:35] What can they do to me when Christ bought me?
[00:47:38] What can they say about me when Christ bought me?
[00:47:41] What can I not do when Christ bought me?
[00:47:44] Listen, I don't know what you heard before you got here.
[00:47:47] I don't know what they done to you.
[00:47:49] I don't know what your story is.
[00:47:50] But I know the one who has an ink pen filled with blood and he writes a new story and it says I'm more than a conqueror in Christ.
[00:47:58] I am who he says I am.
[00:48:00] By the way, by the way, you need to know, I know I don't know everybody personally, but you need to know, this is the way I'm off stage.
[00:48:06] This is not a preaching voice.
[00:48:09] Like this isn't like, he's in preacher mode now.
[00:48:13] This is, all the time.
[00:48:15] Like this isn't a gig, I'm gonna prepare for the people.
[00:48:19] Like we're having a conversations, this is a conversation I'll be having with myself.
[00:48:24] What kind of conversations do you have with yourself?
[00:48:26] Do you talk to somebody?
[00:48:28] Do you talk to yourself like somebody that is united to Jesus?
[00:48:32] If not, you probably should.
[00:48:34] And if you find a good therapist, that's all they're gonna say, is where you put in your thoughts.
[00:48:39] It's called cognitive behavioral therapy.
[00:48:41] You see where the lie is and you replace it with truth.
[00:48:52] Psalm 63, three and four.
[00:48:54] Teenagers, grab ahold of this.
[00:48:56] Everybody, your unfailing love is better than life itself.
[00:49:00] How I will praise you, I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up hands to join you in prayer.
[00:49:07] Prayer is filling your mind with things about who God is, which leads to speaking about how great God is.
[00:49:15] I hope and pray that the same energy that you sing these songs with is how you live every day, because that's the goal.
[00:49:23] This ain't a 30-minute performance that you get like, ooh, I got Holy Ghost goosebumps.
[00:49:28] No, this for Monday, this for Tuesday, this for Wednesday, this for every day.
[00:49:34] You feel what I'm saying?
[00:49:35] You're picking up what I'm putting down.
[00:49:38] Because I promise you when life hits, Alana's not gonna be there to sing on your ear, but the Holy Spirit is.
[00:49:44] Now you might hear my voice yelling at you, but I love you.
[00:49:48] Here we go.
[00:49:52] Maybe.
[00:49:54] So, one of the things that we want to do to help us to grow in understanding our union life in Christ, single, married, is our growth track.
[00:50:03] Our growth track, we're going to open this thing up in a few weeks, and it's designed, it is a system and process to help you mature.
[00:50:11] Why?
[00:50:11] God doesn't want something from you.
[00:50:13] He wants something for you to flourish.
[00:50:15] We want you to get involved in connect groups.
[00:50:17] In a moment, we're going to talk about why we need other people.
[00:50:20] TCYA, Transformation Church Young Adults, meeting monthly.
[00:50:25] Listen, you don't have to be single to come.
[00:50:27] You can be married, whatever.
[00:50:28] We just want to gather our young adults and be able to pour into you.
[00:50:32] We're doing a better job of connecting you in community.
[00:50:35] We need each other.
[00:50:37] We need people around us who's going to speak life into us.
[00:50:41] When I say speak life into us, I don't mean this junk food positivity.
[00:50:49] You can do it.
[00:50:50] No, you can't.
[00:50:53] Man, you're awesome.
[00:50:54] No, you're not.
[00:50:56] We need people to look at our situation and go, let me remind you that Jesus is a God of resurrection and he'll raise your marriage.
[00:51:07] Let me remind you that we have a God who's all-knowing and he holds your future in his hand.
[00:51:13] We need people to speak gospel life over us.
[00:51:19] Not just nonsense, but like gospel life.
[00:51:23] And so these are things that we wanna try to be able to do.
[00:51:27] Let's move in to number two.
[00:51:29] So how do you flourish in your singleness?
[00:51:32] Number two, teenagers, young adults, and everybody, widows, widowers, lean into your singleness as a gift, not a deficiency.
[00:51:42] Lean into it as a gift, not a deficiency.
[00:51:47] And what do I mean?
[00:51:48] Let's talk to our man, the Apostle Paul.
[00:51:49] This is in 1 Corinthians 7, and he's talking about singleness.
[00:51:54] By the way, I know somebody who lived an incredible life and they were single.
[00:51:57] Their name is Jesus.
[00:52:00] and the guy who wrote this, his name is Paul, single as well.
[00:52:04] You're not deficient as a single.
[00:52:08] Paul says, and he reminds us, I want you to be free from the concerns of life.
[00:52:13] An unmarried man can spend, or woman, can spend his time doing the Lord's work and thinking about how to please Him.
[00:52:23] Question, if you are single and maybe you do wanna be in a relationship, what are you doing with your time?
[00:52:29] Are you scrolling?
[00:52:31] How's that helping other than lifting up your anxiety?
[00:52:36] Comparing.
[00:52:37] Like, life don't start when you get married.
[00:52:40] Like, it'll really get going when I get married.
[00:52:43] No, no, now is the time.
[00:52:46] Young adults, now is the time.
[00:52:50] You don't have to wait till you burn through a marriage
[00:52:53] and get to be 48, 49 and go now.
[00:52:55] No, now, N-O-W, now is the time.
[00:53:01] So now is the time to focus on your discipleship, focus.
[00:53:06] on your growth.
[00:53:07] The word disciple is used 269 times in the New Testament.
[00:53:13] It's the Greek word and it means a student.
[00:53:15] It actually came from the word gymnasium where you would work out.
[00:53:18] So Jesus, a rabbi, had students.
[00:53:21] They were his telemedim, his disciples, and he was teaching them in the way of God.
[00:53:26] He was helping them grow.
[00:53:28] You know what, maybe this illustration will work.
[00:53:31] Let me introduce you to this kid.
[00:53:34] So that's me.
[00:53:36] 1986, as you can tell, I've been catching fish a long time.
[00:53:41] This is my homeboy John.
[00:53:43] Moved down from New Jersey.
[00:53:45] He had a nice white guy afro.
[00:53:48] John was my man.
[00:53:50] Now, this is not what a future NFL player looks like at 15.
[00:53:57] I was 145 pounds.
[00:54:00] By juxtaposition, my son was like 190 pounds and six foot one and was bigger, stronger, and faster.
[00:54:09] This is not what a future NFL player looks like.
[00:54:13] Couple of commentary things so I get to my main point.
[00:54:15] Notice the short shorts.
[00:54:21] And the cowboy hat.
[00:54:24] I am from Texas, San Antonio.
[00:54:26] All my uncles, all my cousins, we wore cowboy hats.
[00:54:31] We wore cowboy boots.
[00:54:33] I know some of y'all watch Yellowstone and you wanna be all cowboy now.
[00:54:37] Welcome to the club.
[00:54:38] We've been doing it for a long time and black people have been doing it for a long time.
[00:54:42] So come on over, you can join the cowboys.
[00:54:45] All right, but what happened to this kid, man?
[00:54:48] How do you go from that?
[00:54:50] Like, here's what happened.
[00:54:53] Went to a high school called Judson.
[00:54:55] and had coaches there.
[00:54:57] They trained me.
[00:54:59] They developed me.
[00:55:01] And I went from 145 senior year, I was like 185.
[00:55:06] But what happened though?
[00:55:07] It was a process.
[00:55:10] The first thing we would do before we ever lifted weights, they would put us in a classroom.
[00:55:15] Listen to this.
[00:55:16] This is in high school.
[00:55:17] and we would read leadership books by people like John Maxwell.
[00:55:22] I was getting leadership training on John Maxwell in high school.
[00:55:25] Had no clue who he was or one day I would meet him.
[00:55:28] So we're learning leadership and then we went through this thing called boot camp and in boot camp the older guys coached the younger guys.
[00:55:37] So it wasn't the coaches telling the other players what the standard was, it was the veteran players telling the younger guys what the standard was.
[00:55:46] And man, that first year was hard.
[00:55:48] I had no idea what it cost to really be good.
[00:55:52] I quit in my mind 18 times on the same day, in the same hour.
[00:55:59] But on another note, when you only have plan A and you don't have plan B, it make you keep going.
[00:56:06] Some of y'all got too many plan Bs.
[00:56:09] You might just need a plan A and stick to it.
[00:56:11] Wow.
[00:56:13] Anyway, going to be an all-state player.
[00:56:17] I sent that to my coach earlier this week.
[00:56:19] I said, coach, you remember this guy?
[00:56:20] He goes, I sure do.
[00:56:22] He goes, man, I'm proud of you.
[00:56:23] And I said, coach, thank you and I love you.
[00:56:26] And he said, I love you too.
[00:56:27] So this is what we wanna do.
[00:56:29] We wanna grow.
[00:56:30] Some of y'all 145 pounds, but you got 210 pounds of muscle in you ready to come out spiritually.
[00:56:37] We wanna help you to get there.
[00:56:40] Yas!
[00:56:43] So, talking about gifts, growth track, particularly step two.
[00:56:49] You're gonna discover what your spiritual gifts are.
[00:56:53] Now, what I'm about to say, y'all, is borderline blasphemous, almost a sin.
[00:56:59] When I went to my high school, Judson, I didn't wanna play defense.
[00:57:03] I wanted to play offense.
[00:57:04] I wanted to play wide receiver.
[00:57:07] That's bad because Jesus said in Acts chapter 20 verse 35, it's better to give than receive.
[00:57:13] It's better to give hits than receive hits.
[00:57:15] But I had not seen the way.
[00:57:17] My eyes was blind.
[00:57:21] But you know what my coach did?
[00:57:23] He said, Derwin, well Dewey, Dewey, listen, I see some things in you that you may not see yet.
[00:57:32] Hey, I've coached guys at this position.
[00:57:35] I can really help you.
[00:57:37] This is what Growth Track Class 2 is going to do.
[00:57:39] It's going to help you discover what your unique gifting is to minister and be a missionary in the world and to serve and help build up Transformation Church.
[00:57:49] And I am excited for you to discover what that is.
[00:57:56] Whether if you're single or married.
[00:57:58] How do you flourish in your singleness?
[00:58:00] Number three, lean into undivided devotion, not divided longings.
[00:58:07] Lean into undivided devotion, not divided longings.
[00:58:11] Let's listen to Paul here.
[00:58:14] 1 Corinthians 7, 33 and 34.
[00:58:16] But a married man has to think about his earthly responsibilities and how to please his wife.
[00:58:20] So being married is a good thing.
[00:58:23] What Paul is saying is when you're not married, you got more time because there's not other people you need to take care of.
[00:58:29] His interests are divided.
[00:58:31] In the same way, a woman who is no longer married, so widower, or has never been married can be devoted to the Lord and holy in body and spirit.
[00:58:42] So what's happening here?
[00:58:45] So the first thing is this, number one.
[00:58:48] When I used to travel and speak in the early days of ministry that my wife and I had called One Hearted Time Ministry, she would organize it, I would go speak.
[00:58:58] And from time to time, her and the kids would come.
[00:59:00] And this is when the kids were little.
[00:59:03] Now, when they wouldn't come, I primarily did middle school and high school.
[00:59:07] Like, I didn't talk to adults first.
[00:59:08] They wanted me to mess up the kids if I was wrong versus the adults.
[00:59:11] So I would speak to middle school and high school.
[00:59:14] And man, back in the day, I could play basketball with Scottie Pippen and them kids in they face!
[00:59:20] I played football.
[00:59:21] It was good, man.
[00:59:22] But then when Vicki and the kids would come, immediately I recognized how selfish and controlling I was.
[00:59:30] I was like, man, I still got to be dad?
[00:59:34] And the Lord's like, you got to be.
[00:59:37] No, no, son, you get to be dad.
[00:59:40] You get to be husband and your first ministry is not to other people's kids, but to your wife and kids.
[00:59:46] You brought them on this trip.
[00:59:48] They are your first priority.
[00:59:51] And that first year was like, oh, and God was going, you're growing.
[00:59:54] By the way, if you don't feel discomfort, you're not growing.
[00:59:58] Have you ever seen somebody lift weights and not be uncomfortable?
[01:00:01] Well, why do you think you're gonna grow spiritually in comfort?
[01:00:06] Come on, talk to a brother.
[01:00:08] It's like, Lord, today I want it to be very easy.
[01:00:10] And God's like, really?
[01:00:14] Really?
[01:00:17] This ain't the new heavens and new earth yet.
[01:00:19] Now, I'm gonna comfort you by being with you, but you're gonna go through some stuff, and I'm gonna go through it with you.
[01:00:24] And you're gonna be stronger, you're gonna be wiser, you're gonna be kinder, you're gonna be more loving, you're gonna be the person I created you to be.
[01:00:31] So you need to know, if you're new here, and you're looking for a genie in a bottle, this ain't it.
[01:00:35] If you're looking for some good old prosperity gospel, this ain't it.
[01:00:38] But if you're looking to King Jesus to walk with you, to hold you, to lift you up, to strengthen you, to be the person he's created you to be, I think you found your spot.
[01:00:50] So man, that was gracious.
[01:00:54] It was hard.
[01:00:56] So if you experienced some tension, it's okay.
[01:01:02] Let me ask you this.
[01:01:05] You know what a weight room is, right?
[01:01:08] So maybe you do wanna get married, right?
[01:01:10] And just hadn't been there, you wanna get remarried.
[01:01:13] It's just not happening yet.
[01:01:16] And you're in the weight room.
[01:01:18] What are you doing to get stronger in the weight room?
[01:01:23] See, you thought I was talking about weight room.
[01:01:25] I'm talking about weight room.
[01:01:28] Question, you ready?
[01:01:29] That is my hurt, just a wee bit, but know I love you.
[01:01:33] In this waiting season, how are you becoming a better version of the person God wants you to be so that when you get married, you're not wounding, you're blessing?
[01:01:47] Now you're talking about, Lord, bring me this, bring me that.
[01:01:50] He's like, I will, but I need to get you ready.
[01:01:54] I mean, you're still a little disrespectful, honey girl.
[01:01:59] Lord, bring me that woman.
[01:02:02] Ooh, and I want her to be this and this.
[01:02:04] Fool, I'm gonna bring you who you need to bring the man out of you.
[01:02:08] Aw, y'all ain't picking up what I, it's third service, I don't care.
[01:02:15] You're like, I got this and I got this.
[01:02:17] And the Lord's like, I'm bringing you somebody to love you into maturity.
[01:02:22] I'm bringing you somebody, but you need to get ready.
[01:02:25] Are you getting ready or are you just waiting and complaining?
[01:02:31] So use the weight room wisely.
[01:02:36] Lastly.
[01:02:39] But a married woman has to think about her earthly responsibilities and how to please her husband the same, right?
[01:02:45] So let's get to point number four.
[01:02:48] How do you flourish in your singleness?
[01:02:51] Lean into and invest in spiritual family, not romantic idolization.
[01:02:58] This last part, romantic idolization, is kind of like Hollywood movies where everything just kind of works out like a Hallmark movie.
[01:03:07] Yes, love is beautiful and marriage, but it is struggle.
[01:03:11] It is a beautiful struggle.
[01:03:13] So, make sure in this wait season, make sure in this season to begin flourishing, you are connected in spiritual
[01:03:22] Community.
[01:03:23] And preferably, if you're a Gen Z, if you're a Millennial, Gen Alpha coming up, get older people in your life.
[01:03:32] I was always taught, find older people and learn from them because people who are where you are are only going to teach you what you know.
[01:03:41] What would you do?
[01:03:43] What would you do if you had a seventh grader and you were visiting school and you seen your seventh grader in English class and they were learning from another seventh grader?
[01:03:52] Your kid would be dumb.
[01:03:56] They wouldn't know what a verb is, a conjugate, cognate.
[01:04:01] You know what I'm saying?
[01:04:03] There's a reason there's older people to teach.
[01:04:06] Listen to me.
[01:04:07] Millennials, Gen Z, you need somebody with gray hair from time to time to look at you and say, baby, it's going to be all right.
[01:04:15] Oh, man, I remember I was 17.
[01:04:18] I wasn't getting recruited in football the way I thought I should have been.
[01:04:22] I was in the garage crying and my grandmother came.
[01:04:25] Now, you know, when grandma, when big mama walk in there, she looked at me, she said, baby, it's going to be all right.
[01:04:31] In 2005, she passed away.
[01:04:33] In 2026, if she was still here, she'd say, baby, I told you it's going to be all right.
[01:04:40] You need some people like that in your life to tell you it's going to be all right.
[01:04:44] If they're the same age as you, you're going to be like, how do you know?
[01:04:48] You're like eight.
[01:04:49] How do you know?
[01:04:53] How?
[01:04:55] Well, I read it on ChatGBT.
[01:04:58] I did a blog about it.
[01:05:01] I mean, not a blog, I don't even do know.
[01:05:03] I did an Instagram reel about it.
[01:05:05] Now, I've never lived it, but I told it because I heard somebody else who lived it tell it.
[01:05:09] Don't be a poser.
[01:05:11] Like live some stuff first.
[01:05:13] It's more authentic and it's more beautiful and more real.
[01:05:17] And so we wanna try to create groups where we can pour into each other.
[01:05:22] And for us people that are older, whenever I say old people, I never think of myself, but I'm gonna be 55 in like a couple months.
[01:05:30] I get like the ARP stuff now.
[01:05:33] I mean, I don't feel 55.
[01:05:43] We need to learn from you too.
[01:05:45] We need your vision.
[01:05:46] We need your courage.
[01:05:47] We need your passion.
[01:05:51] We need your wild stallionness to show us what it means to run again, to believe again, to trust again.
[01:06:01] We need everybody.
[01:06:04] I'm saying this for your benefit not to place restrictions on you.
[01:06:09] I want you to do whatever will help you serve the Lord best and with as few distractions as possible.
[01:06:17] In a few weeks when we talk about thriving and mental health, I'm going to get more into distractions and how they affect our mental health.
[01:06:27] I want to conclude with this.
[01:06:31] So that picture with me and my homeboy John, I hadn't seen that in, I can't remember.
[01:06:40] And it just reminded me of where a person can go when you have people that help you.
[01:06:52] So my coach, Coach Sullivan, when I first got to Judson, I was like, this man does not like me.
[01:07:02] Because every day he was on me.
[01:07:03] He was on me.
[01:07:05] Do more.
[01:07:06] You can be more.
[01:07:07] I didn't know how to work like the other players.
[01:07:09] And so, I mean, he made me run afterwards.
[01:07:12] I mean, he was constantly on me, right?
[01:07:18] I look back now and I go, wow.
[01:07:22] The reason he poured into me is because he actually loved me.
[01:07:26] He saw me.
[01:07:28] So, when we come together, when we go through the growth track, when we get into groups, when we serve together, we're going to be able to see things in each other that we don't see.
[01:07:44] Senior year, 185 pounds, All-State, we win a state championship, and I get invited to the Texas High School All-Star Game.
[01:07:53] The best of the best.
[01:07:55] Now, I'm kind of old, but if I name the players, a bunch of us played in the NFL.
[01:07:59] So the defensive back coach, the first day of practice, we're getting ready to start drills, and he says, great!
[01:08:04] So I ran up, and I thought he wanted me to run scout team.
[01:08:09] But he's like, no, no, you start in strong safety.
[01:08:12] I was the first guy he called.
[01:08:16] And then in that group was the number one player in the country.
[01:08:20] And he called me before him.
[01:08:23] I went to the NFL and another guy didn't.
[01:08:25] But I'm petty like that.
[01:08:26] I'm petty like that.
[01:08:27] Pray for me.
[01:08:33] Then go to college, become All-American, get drafted, ultimately come to the Lord and all this stuff, right?
[01:08:42] But I think back, how did that happen?
[01:08:46] There was a coach who believed.
[01:08:51] There were teammates who showed me the way.
[01:08:54] One of them's name was Paul Inman.
[01:08:56] Went on to the military, became a policeman.
[01:08:59] Man, that dude was like, I'm gonna show you how to be a Jetson Rocket.
[01:09:04] No one's self-made, y'all.
[01:09:06] We all need each other.
[01:09:10] And I long and look forward to each of you through the Holy Spirit's power calling out what God has put in.
[01:09:22] And you're gonna be surprised.
[01:09:24] I look back at that picture going, there is no way.
[01:09:30] You guys know what peewee league football is, right?
[01:09:33] Everybody makes the team, you know that, right?
[01:09:36] I didn't.
[01:09:40] True story.
[01:09:41] I got cut from peewee league football.
[01:09:45] I was so bad.
[01:09:50] You know what?
[01:09:51] Maybe you've gotten cut.
[01:09:54] Well, I know a team where God wants you on it.
[01:10:05] Would you cup your hands to receive this blessing?
[01:10:11] God of thriving, we'll lay our hearts at your altar.
[01:10:19] And we ask that you pour your grace all over us.
[01:10:24] That we would live from our union life in you.
[01:10:29] Singleness is not a deficiency.
[01:10:31] We choose to use our time wisely.
[01:10:39] Thank you, Lord.
[01:10:41] May we connect and grow and be everything you've created us to be.
[01:10:47] Hey, right now in this moment, I believe that there's some of you, and you're saying, hey, Pastor Derwin, I think some lights are beginning to turn on.
[01:11:00] And maybe you're saying, you know what?
[01:11:01] I have never personally asked Jesus to forgive my sins.
[01:11:07] I have never personally said, Jesus, I turn from my sin and I turn to you.
[01:11:13] I have never asked him to be my life.
[01:11:19] Today, you can ask him.
[01:11:22] Today, you can become his.
[01:11:25] How so?
[01:11:26] The Bible says if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus died on a cross for your sins and rose again, you will be saved, you will be rescued, forgiven, and brought into God's eternal family with a new life.
[01:11:42] If that's you right here in the silence of your heart, I want you to say this to Him.
[01:11:47] King Jesus, I confess with my mouth and I believe in my heart
[01:11:53] that upon that bloody cross love put you there in my place.
[01:11:57] I believe that your blood purifies me and forgives me and cleanses me.
[01:12:02] I believe you died and three days later you rose up to now live in me to make me a part of your family.
[01:12:08] I choose to follow you.
[01:12:10] Amen, amen, and amen.
[01:12:11] Let's give God a round of applause.
[01:12:15] yes all right fam if you prayed with me there's a connection card in a seat in front of you please please please grab that connection card fill it out let us know you pray to receive christ we're going to get in contact with you fill out you want to get into the connection groups you want to get into the growth track as well
[01:12:35] here's our soul tattoo the big idea this is it by faith thrive in your singleness listen to the message over share it with your friends let it get up in you soak in it marinate on that action step join us in our 40 days of prayer you can down look at it on our tc app and you can have a physical copy as well husbands lead the way
[01:13:00] Everybody, we're giving you resources to be able to grow.
[01:13:04] God has great things in store for you and in store for us.
[01:13:09] Hey, love you guys.
[01:13:10] Can you welcome our campus hosts?

[01:13:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]:
All right, thank you, Pastor Derwin.
[01:13:17] Let's stand to our feet.
[01:13:19] We're going to close our sermon with our benediction, which is a reminder of who we are in Christ.
[01:13:25] So together, we're going to point upward because we love God completely, inward because we love ourselves correctly, and outward to go love our neighbors compassionately.
[01:13:33] I'm going to point at you, you're going to point back at me, and we're going to say, Transformers, roll out, because this is just the...
[01:13:39] And now it's time to go play the... All right, here we go, family.
[01:13:43] One, two, three.
[01:13:46] Upward, inward, outward.
[01:13:47] Transformers, roll out.