The Danger of the ‘Sinner’s Prayer’: Why Decisionism Fails

• End Times & Prophecy 00:00:22 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor introduces the series topic, noting that while people are fascinated by the end times, they often forget the personal application ('the you and the me').
• Eternity in the Heart 00:04:18 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor cites Ecclesiastes 3:11 to explain that God has set eternity in human hearts, creating a natural focus on forever.
• The Rapture 00:10:13 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes the rapture as an 'invisible snatching away' of believers, accompanied by a loud command, the voice of the archangel, and the trumpet of God.
• Divine Drama (Incarnation, Redemption, Coronation) 00:15:17 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor outlines the 'stage of history' in three acts: the incarnation of Christ, redemption through his death and resurrection, and his coronation as King of Kings.
• The Rapture and Tribulation Timeline 00:17:28 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor outlines the sequence of events including the rapture, the tribulation, the Antichrist, and the second coming, using a timeline analogy.
• Signs of the Times 00:21:41 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor lists increasing violence, drug usage (fentanyl), occult practices, and sexual promiscuity as signs that the 'levy is breaking'.
• The Second Coming and Millennium 00:25:02 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes the visible second coming of Jesus, the binding of the devil, and the 1,000-year reign.
• Application: Focus on the Church 00:27:59 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues that understanding eschatology should cause a 'seismic shift' to focus on the local church and pray for others.
• Application: Hope and Navigation 00:28:44 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor explains that belief in the future provides hope and helps believers navigate the world with an 'eternal eye'.
• Prayer and Salvation 00:30:34 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses a story about his granddaughter to illustrate how to pray for guidance and offers a prayer of salvation for those who do not know Jesus.

• Sermon Illustration 00:00:33 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor compares his role in the sermon series to Tom Brady's quarterback, stating he is just 'a guy going out for a pass' to help explain the complex topic of prophecy.
• Sermon Illustration 00:01:50 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the metaphor of Hurricane Katrina and the breaking levees in New Orleans to illustrate that the end times are inevitable and signs are visible, despite governmental denial.
• Sermon Illustration 00:03:26 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about his study method of painting watercolors between study sessions, using it to transition into reading Ecclesiastes 3:11.
• Sermon Illustration 00:09:41 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a restaurant menu written in Japanese with English translations to explain his intent to break down complex theological concepts into understandable terms for the congregation.
• Sermon Illustration 00:11:09 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of Tarzan's yell echoing in the jungle to describe the loud command of Jesus at the rapture, which will cause all believers to turn and follow Him.
• Sermon Illustration 00:14:30 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a massive church stage in Houston to illustrate the 'stage of history' set by Jesus Christ, which includes the acts of incarnation, redemption, and coronation.
• Sermon Illustration 00:16:29 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of levees breaking in New Orleans to describe the increasing signs of the end times, noting that while officials saw the signs, they were not ready, and asks if the congregation is ready.
• Sermon Illustration 00:21:20 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor references Dr. Fauci's comments on spontaneous combustion caused by aliens and lack of vaccination to illustrate the 'invisible' nature of the rapture.
• Sermon Illustration 00:22:09 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor cites specific recent events, including a murder in Coppell and an Uber driver murder, to illustrate increasing violence.
• Sermon Illustration 00:24:31 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor mentions Napoleon's observation that the Valley of Megiddo is the most natural battlefield to describe the eeriness of Armageddon.
• Sermon Illustration 00:30:51 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about his four-year-old granddaughter Sterling at Chick-fil-A who asked for help to pray, illustrating that even children know they need God's help to pray.

• Pastoral Charge 00:04:55 ▶️ 📄
  > Write down thoughts and notes to help disentangle them.
• Pastoral Charge 00:07:31 ▶️ 📄
  > Verbally repeat the word 'revelation' to correct pronunciation and emphasize the meaning.
• Pastoral Charge 00:10:13 ▶️ 📄
  > Open Bibles to 1 Thessalonians 4:16.
• Pastoral Charge 00:32:36 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor invites the congregation to bow their heads in prayer.
• Pastoral Charge 00:33:35 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor provides a specific prayer for salvation for those who have not yet accepted Christ.
• Pastoral Charge 00:34:04 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor urges believers to pray for divine guidance in applying these truths to their daily environments.

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:00:00] Welcome to Fellowship Church. I want to say hi to everyone here at our central campus in Grapevine. Give yourselves a clap. Also to all of our different locations if you're watching online. Thank you so much for being here.
[00:00:15] Today, as you know, we're embarking on a really industrial strength series.
[00:00:22] We're talking about the end times.
[00:00:26] We're talking about prophecy.
[00:00:28] And I'm teaming up with Jimmy Evans, who's an expert on this subject.
[00:00:33] It's sort of like Tom Brady is the quarterback and I'm just a guy going out for a pass.
[00:00:38] And so today we are going to get into the final things, the last things we're going to look at forever.
[00:00:51] And everyone, I think, is fascinated by that. I mean, I am.
[00:00:55] On one hand, you have the people who freak out about the end times. You really do.
[00:01:00] Those who are just into the what and the why and the how, yet sometimes they forget about the you and the me.
[00:01:11] You can be so heavenly minded, the old adage says, that you're no earthly good.
[00:01:17] I'm not saying people aren't earthly good, but we can get so immersed in the trees that we miss the forest.
[00:01:24] On the other hand, some of us, you might be like, well, what?
[00:01:29] Jesus is coming back.
[00:01:30] that's surreal, my man. I mean, I just have a hard time buying that in this materialistic world. I mean, Jesus coming back forever, I can't get my brain around that. And you know what, we're not really supposed to because we're finding that God is infinite. Yet the Bible
[00:01:50] says from cover to cover that we will live forever in one of two places, either on the right side of the levee or the wrong side of the levee. You remember back 2005, Hurricane Katrina,
[00:02:05] it smashed into New Orleans and in 50 places in the different levees, the levees broke and our brilliant governmental officials, the feds, and also those who were in local leadership in Louisiana, they were like, oh, that's not going to happen. I mean, it's a 99 point
[00:02:26] point maybe five percent that we're going to have a hurricane with that kind of force it's not going to happen and money was wasted you know the whole political game and fingers are pointing here and
[00:02:42] there and yonder katrina hit and the devastation was absolutely enormous the levy broke well i'm here to tell you the levy is going to break. All we have to do is look around and we can, we can
[00:03:01] see the signs. No one knows the exact date of when the end of the world will take place. No one knows the exact time when Jesus will come back. The Bible says he will come back like a thief at night.
[00:03:18] God does tell us though, in Ecclesiastes chapter three, verse 11, you'll, you'll see it on your message map. Don't you like this? I did this watercolor. It's behind it, and that's sort of a levy breaking because many times when I study, I'll study for a couple of hours, then I'll paint
[00:03:37] a little watercolor and then study again. It's kind of my weird way of studying because I got some of my best artwork done when I was in school. I really did. Some of my algebra classes,
[00:03:49] unbelievable. I wish I had those notebooks. The Bible says though in Ecclesiastes chapter three verse 11. Let's read that together. Okay. One, two, three. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men. Now, if you're a downtown Dallas, Fort Worth, if you were at Frisco, if you're online,
[00:04:12] if you're at one of our other many campuses, you're at one of our prison campuses.
[00:04:18] Have you ever thought about that? I mean, that is so profound. God has set eternity in our hearts.
[00:04:26] And because of this, here are your blanks.
[00:04:29] Are you ready for this?
[00:04:30] There's something about a blank that screams for us to fill it in, right?
[00:04:34] Because of this, we have a focus on forever.
[00:04:39] We have a focus on forever.
[00:04:43] I like to write down things because as you've heard me say a squillion times, thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through someone's lip to your fingertips.
[00:04:51] The dullest pencil is sharper than the sharpest mind.
[00:04:55] So write it down.
[00:04:57] I mean, whatever you have, write it down.
[00:04:59] We have a focus on forever.
[00:05:01] And we see this in so many areas of life, so many streams of life.
[00:05:05] Movies.
[00:05:06] Most of us like movies that have a happily ever after ending.
[00:05:11] Children's books, a happily ever after ending.
[00:05:15] Even when we're watching different athletic contests, we like for our team to have a happily ever after ending.
[00:05:23] We're made, we're hardwired in the image of God.
[00:05:26] God has set eternity in our hearts.
[00:05:28] We're made to live happily ever after.
[00:05:32] As you look at the end times, as you think about it, two words, two words that I want you to concentrate on that I want you to understand, and these are positive words, okay?
[00:05:47] So get ready to clap, whether you are at one of our campuses or right here.
[00:05:51] Are you ready?
[00:05:52] Here are the words, we win.
[00:05:57] That's it.
[00:05:58] We win.
[00:06:01] So we're fighting not for a victory.
[00:06:03] We're fighting from victory.
[00:06:05] Let me say it again.
[00:06:06] We win.
[00:06:07] However, the levy is going to break.
[00:06:13] And we need to unpack that and see what God was driving at and why.
[00:06:20] He desires us to understand and to see the signs about when the levy is going to break.
[00:06:29] I rarely use my panoramic feature on my iPhone.
[00:06:35] I mean, does anyone here use the panoramic feature a lot?
[00:06:38] Some do now and then, but most of us are like, I mean, it's cool to have it, but we don't really use it.
[00:06:45] Well, today I'm talking about a subject that we don't really talk about a lot in church.
[00:06:52] I mean, some churches do, but most churches don't discuss this a lot because it's mysterious, it is supernatural, it is convicting, it's hard to understand.
[00:07:06] We're going to look, I'm going to do a quick panoramic picture of the end times because it's critical that we understand prophecy.
[00:07:16] Why should we understand prophecy?
[00:07:18] Well, that's a good question.
[00:07:20] One of the reasons is, and I love this, the Bible says we're gonna be blessed when we study prophecy.
[00:07:27] The Bible says in the book of Revelation, it's not revelations.
[00:07:31] Say it with me, one, two, three, revelation.
[00:07:33] One, two, three, revelation.
[00:07:35] It's the reveal about the end times.
[00:07:39] When I study the end times, the final frontier, the happily ever after ending, I am going to be blessed.
[00:07:51] Now, we don't study this just to be blessed, but I'm telling you, it's just a benefit of studying this. Moreover, a third of the Bible, that's another blank, one third of the Bible rightly interpreted is about the final things. Let me say that again. One third of the Bible.
[00:08:14] Now this is massive. Rightly dissected is about the second coming of Jesus Christ.
[00:08:22] So we've got to talk about this. We have to know this. Don't though, and here's a warning label on this industrial strength series, don't get so immersed and enmeshed in the data that doesn't matter that you miss the who and the you don't do that because it's easy for me. You know, I've gone
[00:08:49] as I've told you, I've had all this education and I've studied the original languages and I know some brilliant theologians and I read all these books. It's easy for me very quickly to talk talk over your head. I dare say every one of you could easily talk over my head in your area of
[00:09:10] expertise. So I believe the genius of this, of what the Lord Jesus wants us to do, and here's why I'm so excited again that Jimmy is going to be with us in this series, it's breaking it down
[00:09:23] so we can understand it. It's like you go to a restaurant or whatever, and I love food, Lisa and I, I guess, are foodies. And I enjoy, for example, Asian food. I don't mind if the menu
[00:09:41] is written in Japanese, if it's also in English beneath the Japanese, okay? So what I'm going to talk about sometimes is like, whoa, okay, what? I didn't understand that. And well, I want to break
[00:09:59] it down to make it understandable. So now that I've kind of set the ground rules, we can jump in. If you have your Bibles, you can turn to this text or you can read it in first Thessalonians
[00:10:13] chapter four, verse, verse 16. I'll begin reading for the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, out of nowhere, one day, the church will be raptured.
[00:10:43] Now, what does it mean to be raptured? You've probably heard that. It's the invisible snatching away of those of us who are in Christ. But it begins with a loud command.
[00:10:54] I grew up watching Tarzan.
[00:11:09] Tarzan would do the Tarzan yell as it would echo off of all the foliage in the jungles.
[00:11:18] All of the wild kingdom would turn.
[00:11:23] You know?
[00:11:29] And follow Tarzan.
[00:11:32] I mean, when things would get crazy.
[00:11:38] Jesus will shout and all of us those of us who are in christ will be caught up with him in the clouds the dead in christ the bible says well let me let me read you what the bible says it says
[00:11:59] allow command with each voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of god and the dead in christ will rise first because they need a six foot head start after that we who are still
[00:12:16] alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will be with the Lord forever therefore encourage I'm here to encourage you not discourage
[00:12:36] you encourage one another with these words I've often thought about this can't just just think about this for a second. Can you imagine what's going to happen when we're snatched up? Conversations will end in mid-sentence. Big old triple seven will be taxiing. DFW, the pilot will turn to one
[00:13:05] of his co-pilots. Seat will be empty. A mother will go to embrace her child. All she'll see are warm blankets, the rapture of the church, the rapture of those who are true believers in Christ. I guarantee it. You'll have all the pundits, all of the people and all of the
[00:13:35] different news outlets trying to explain away where everybody went. I can just see it now.
[00:13:42] old Dr. Fauci, Dr. Doom. It's because of a variant and those who were not vaccinated spontaneously combust. And you think I'm kidding you. That was really funny.
[00:14:07] So as we look though at the rapture of the church, the snatching up, we need to think about it in a way like a play, like a stage. Friday night, Lisa and I traveled to Houston to do a conference.
[00:14:30] And we did a conference at a church there that had, I think, the largest worship center I've ever seen in my life. Minimal seating capacity of maybe 7,000 to 8,000. Giant place. No, it wasn't
[00:14:46] packed. I mean, there were several thousand people there, but when you would talk, it would echo. Anyway, we were talking about marriage, marriage. So it was, it was fun. The stage though at this church, 4,000 square feet. Now that's a big stage. The stage of history has been set
[00:15:12] by the Lord Jesus Christ.
[00:15:17] Number one, the first act is the incarnation of Christ.
[00:15:20] We need to understand this, the incarnation.
[00:15:22] Jesus became flesh.
[00:15:24] The word became flesh, the Bible says, and dwelt among us.
[00:15:28] That's the incarnation of Christ, the miracle, the God of the universe stepping down the staircase of heaven with a baby in his arms.
[00:15:36] The second act, redemption.
[00:15:40] God formulating this brilliant plan to send his son to live perfectly, to live this holy life, to die on a cross for the sins of the world, and to rise again. Act three is the coronation. The coronation. Jesus is crowned
[00:16:02] King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And I'll talk about that in just a second. So that's how it's It's kind of broken down in God's divine drama.
[00:16:17] So a panoramic view.
[00:16:21] So a happily ever after ending.
[00:16:26] A time of encouragement, a time of blessing.
[00:16:29] A time where we can see the signs of the levees breaking.
[00:16:34] Go back to the government officials in New Orleans.
[00:16:41] they saw the signs they knew the deal yet they weren't ready we see the signs we know the deal and are you ready I mean seriously I know that many here are but maybe you're not ready it's like
[00:17:02] ever ready batteries you know are you ever ready are you ever ready for the forever are you ready Are you ready? Let's talk about the rapture of the church. Here's the church. There's the steeple.
[00:17:28] Open the doors and see all the people. So I just, that's an open door here, I guess.
[00:17:39] Little windows. There's the church. Of course, on this timeline, you have the life of Jesus, the visible life of Jesus. You have his death on the cross, burial and resurrection.
[00:18:03] Now you have the rapture of the church on this timeline, the rapture of the church.
[00:18:19] From there, you have three and a half years of peace.
[00:18:39] Then you have three and a half years of chaos.
[00:18:54] I'm a terrible speller.
[00:18:58] This is known, this green right here, as the tribulation.
[00:19:16] Now just call me out if I misspell something, okay?
[00:19:20] Okay. Tribulation. I got it. You deserve to clap for me just that I got this many words correct because I have learning disabilities and all sorts of issues. So that's incredible.
[00:19:40] Someone take a picture of that. I'm going to post that right there. Okay. So three and a half years.
[00:19:45] Then you have, of course, the Antichrist. Some say, well, maybe he's been one of the presidents.
[00:19:59] No, our presidents have not been smart enough to, seriously, to be the Antichrist.
[00:20:07] That's a good try.
[00:20:12] Of course, you have 666, that whole thing.
[00:20:19] Then this guy, this charismatic figure will come in, and I don't want to get too detailed, and set up his rule in the temple.
[00:20:37] Jerusalem. So are we tracking? We're out. Boom. With the command, this is invisible.
[00:20:48] N-V-I-S. Thank you guys for helping me out. So this is invisible, the rapture. That's where we have cats like Dr. Fauci talking about spontaneous combustion caused by aliens and the fact that we were not vaccinated and whatever. Okay. So that's the invisible situation. So here we go. We're kind
[00:21:20] of up here. All right. Then right here, it goes absolutely crazy. And we have, well, different things taking place during this time, especially this three and a half year window right here.
[00:21:41] We have various crimes, various sins that are just like exploding, literally.
[00:21:50] Violence.
[00:21:52] Don't you see violence increasing?
[00:21:55] You realize, I read this yesterday, our murder rate is as high as it's ever been in our history.
[00:22:03] The violence.
[00:22:06] Just think about what's going on.
[00:22:09] Just think about what happened in Coppell.
[00:22:11] several days ago.
[00:22:14] I read last night, right before I went to bed, a young woman, a mother of four, was murdered in cold blood, an Uber driver.
[00:22:21] Just on and on and on and on and on.
[00:22:25] So violence, an increasingly amount of violence.
[00:22:30] Also drug usage.
[00:22:33] I read that fentanyl kills more people than car accidents.
[00:22:38] It's killed more people than COVID and all sorts of things.
[00:22:42] It's the number one cause of death, for example, in kids from 17 to 45 years of age.
[00:22:51] Then you have the occult, false religions and witchcraft and all sorts of things.
[00:23:01] And as you read a lot behind some of the A-listers and some of even the political figures, and you realize what they're involved with.
[00:23:11] I mean, some even in straight up Satan worship and, and, and, and drinking blood and all sorts of things. How about, how about sexual promiscuity off the charge? 23,000 people a second log on to pornographic websites. Let me say that again. 23,000 people a second log on to these websites.
[00:23:42] So then you have theft.
[00:23:45] I mean, theft is in effect.
[00:23:49] So you see, I mean, it's easy to see these signs.
[00:23:53] I mean, we're not getting any better.
[00:23:56] I hope you know that.
[00:23:59] I mean, the levy is getting ready to break.
[00:24:03] It's getting ready to break.
[00:24:05] So here's the good news though.
[00:24:11] You got Jesus and all of us.
[00:24:16] and then you have the mother of all wars, Armageddon. I'll put a big A right there.
[00:24:31] Napoleon said, the Valley of Megiddo is the most natural battlefield in the world.
[00:24:40] And I've been right there with many of you as we've toured Israel, and there's almost an eeriness. Well, there is an eeriness about it. When you see it, you're kind of like, wow, this is where it's going to go down. Then, okay, you have all of us, right? And then
[00:25:02] you have the second coming of Jesus Christ, which is visible. V-I-S-I-B-L-E.
[00:25:20] Guaranteed in heaven, I'll be able to spell. I mean, just like, it'd be amazing.
[00:25:27] Also during this time, you'll see, I've written down in my notes, 144, you have 144,000 evangelists on steroids and God has to pick a group of people who are tenacious, who were smart, who were aggressive. These are 144,000 Jewish evangelists. So then from there,
[00:25:57] we had the second coming of Jesus Christ. We all come back. And then from there, you have things that are out of place, suddenly that are put in place.
[00:26:08] Are you one of those people, you're like, man, I gotta have everything in place.
[00:26:12] I gotta have everything in place.
[00:26:14] Well, the bride and the groom are in place.
[00:26:18] Jesus is the groom.
[00:26:20] The church is the bride.
[00:26:23] The devil himself put in prison.
[00:26:30] Jesus on the throne.
[00:26:34] So right here, you have 1,000 years.
[00:26:36] I ran out of space. Then the final judgment, young people, I'm writing in cursive. You've never seen that, but it's a beautiful way to write. Final judgment. And then we have, and I'll just do E right here, eternity, new heaven, and new earth. That is the panoramic
[00:27:08] view of the end times. Take a shot of that, fill in the blanks, because that will be a template, a grid that we're going to use over the next several weeks as we get into this.
[00:27:28] So what, Ed? I mean, wow, that's interesting. I didn't know you knew all that. Jesus lived and and he died and rose again, and now he's come back for the church.
[00:27:44] It's invisible, and whoa, the tribulation, and the second coming.
[00:27:51] Whoa, okay, cool, but what does it mean, what does it really mean to me?
[00:27:59] Signs, S, we should shift our focus, our complete focus to Jesus and the church.
[00:28:09] The only thing Jesus ever built was local church.
[00:28:12] This should cause a seismic shift in our lives.
[00:28:15] The geological plates should shift as we focus on these things.
[00:28:22] I, it should inspire me and you to pray for others, to pray for your brothers and sisters in Christ, Also to pray for people that you know who are on the wrong side of the levy
[00:28:37] because the levy is going to break.
[00:28:44] G, it gives us hope for the future.
[00:28:49] We're made in God's image.
[00:28:50] We have a concept of the future.
[00:28:52] This morning I got up with Lisa as we go through our drill every morning and feed all of our dogs.
[00:28:58] We have a Great Dane, two Golden Doodles and one Maltese and a cat named Meow Meow.
[00:29:08] As I was looking at these beautiful animals, I knew they were not really thinking about the future.
[00:29:15] They weren't really thinking about, oh man, I know you guys are going out of town for a couple of days next week and then you're coming back and I know that Ed, your dad, is coming in town tonight.
[00:29:25] No, no, no, they're animals.
[00:29:29] We though are made in the image of God and we have a concept, right, of the future.
[00:29:36] Awesome. So hope for the future. So yeah, is the levy going to break? Yes. Do I have hope for the future? Yes. Because we win and we're going to live forever. Also too, it helps me to navigate
[00:29:51] the world. All of a sudden, if I go on some website or, or listen to a podcast or, or, or watching television or reading a book, I have this grid, this, this, these, these things that
[00:30:06] are happening and these signs that I can see as big as Dallas. And also S, it helps me to see the temporal versus the eternal. I have one eye on the things of the world, but one eye on eternity.
[00:30:26] And when you have that eternal eye, it's a complete game changer.
[00:30:32] Well, how do I pray for this, man?
[00:30:34] How do I get into this?
[00:30:36] How do I do this?
[00:30:41] Yesterday, I met Lisa at the mall with our grandkids, some of them, and we ate at Chick-fil-A.
[00:30:51] I love Chick-fil-A.
[00:30:52] So we're sitting there in the food court.
[00:30:56] I brought all the Chick-fil-A bags to the table, put them down.
[00:31:00] We spread out the Chick-fil-A items that we were getting ready to feast upon.
[00:31:08] And before we ate, I said, let's say a prayer.
[00:31:16] And our four-year-old Sterling said, I want to pray.
[00:31:20] I said, great, great.
[00:31:22] I'm thinking, wow, unbelievable four-year-old already wants to pray.
[00:31:29] So she bowed her head and closed her eyes.
[00:31:33] And then she looked up and she goes, help me pray.
[00:31:37] I said, what?
[00:31:40] she said help me pray so I led her in a prayer for the blessing of the food I know this is a lot of data I know this is a lot of information I know in our minds it's surreal it's hard to even
[00:32:01] grasp and many of us I know we're like it's hard for us to even believe because we're here on planet earth, but it's time that we look to our father and say, God, help me to pray because I
[00:32:21] don't know always what to say, Lord. So it's my prayer during this series that we'll look to him, submit our lives to him and say, God, lead me, teach me to pray. Would you bow your heads?
[00:32:40] father thank you for this series that i mean bottom line is difficult to grasp and difficult to understand it almost seems like lord that we're like is this really gonna happen we trust you god
[00:33:01] and we know it is and we know that we win and if there's someone here and you've never ever ever asked the lord jesus to come into your life i would pray right now that you would you might
[00:33:14] be going, well, I don't know how to pray. Do what Sterling did to me and just go, teach me, God, how to pray. Teach me, God, because God interprets our prayers. Even when we don't know what to say,
[00:33:28] even when our words don't even make sense, he interprets those. So just pray this prayer.
[00:33:35] If you want the Lord Jesus to come into your life, just say, God, I'm a sinner. I admit my sins to you. I turn from these sins and I turn to you. I believe you sent Jesus Christ to die on the
[00:33:47] cross for my sins and rise again. And right now I ask you Lord to come into my life. You might be going, well, I don't have enough faith. Faith is a gift. Ask God for it. Others of us who have
[00:34:04] prayed that prayer before, we need to ask God to help us interpret this and to help us make sense of this in our world, at school, the office, at the gym.
[00:34:21] So Holy Spirit, lead us and guide us.
[00:34:25] We ask these things in Christ's name, amen.
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