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A Window of Opportunity | Joshua 2:15-24 | Pastor Aaron Levy
January 31, 2025 · 42 min
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A Window of Opportunity 0:00 But, hey, if you if you are newer to, Joshua, chapter 1, Pastor Heron kicked it off. Wasn't that amazing the way that he kicked it off? So Pastor Heron and Pastor Diego0:12 did, Joshua chapter 1. And Joshua chapter 1 dealt with God calling Joshua to be the leader to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land.0:24 And now we're in Joshua chapter 2. Last week, Pastor Sammy brought the word. Didn't he do a fire job? Hey, I got beef with Sammy though, because like, we were0:36 talking like, hey, we're gonna collab, because I'm doing chapter 2. He was like, oh, it's gonna be fun, I could preach a little bit and then I'll pass it off to you. He left no meat on the bone. He's doing illustrations,0:47 he's doing scrolls, poetry, all this, and I'm like sitting there like, What am I supposed to do next week? But Joshua chapter 2 is incredible, because in Joshua chapter0:59 1, there's a temptation where we can start feeling like, well, of course God will use Joshua, because he's right next to Moses. He's the goody 2 shoes. He's the assistant.1:11 Maybe there's nepotism, and it doesn't work out for me, but it works out for Joshua. But Joshua chapter 2 is awesome because God shows us no matter how far you are1:23 from God, God can still use you. So, yeah, Joshua was next to the man of God, Rahab was just next to a lot of men. But1:35 we're gonna see how God will use people that are far from him to bring him glory. But I wanna deal with something before we stand for the scripture. We'll be in1:46 Joshua 2 15, but before we stand, we gotta deal with something right now. By a show of hands, who already knows the Rahab story? Already know the Rahab story. Okay. Okay. Now there's a lot of people that1:58 know the story of Rahab and they're like, wait a minute pastor. She is in the Hall of Faith, which is in Hebrews chapter 11, and what do we do with the fact that she lied?2:11 Is it okay that she lied? Like, how do we reconcile this prostitute that lied being in the hall of faith? Does that rub you2:23 the wrong way sometimes? And there's sometimes there's scholars that look at this, wait a minute. Something wrong with this woman. I don't think she should be in the Hall of Faith because2:34 Rahab hasn't gone through rehab yet. And sometimes that make us feel more comfortable that it's like us versus them. And then I don't I'm2:46 not like Rahab that that that's for them but like God can use me. But has as I wrestle with this, do we think and let's think, let's let's think about this.2:58 Raise your hand, it was okay that she lied. That was fine. Okay. Raise your hand like, nah. She shouldn't have lied. That she was tripping. Raise your hand if you're scared to answer. I don't know.3:10 I don't know. I don't know. Just tell me. Just tell me. Well, here's the thing. I wrestle with this, and I think in Christianity, sometimes we put the particular3:22 situation in front of us before we look at the principles of God. And if we look at the Bible, there's patterns that lead to principles that guide us on how we frame particular3:34 situations. So here's the particular situation. Rahab has great faith and she lied. So the principle is God will still3:46 give honor to our faith even though we're imperfect. So for an example, raise your hand if you always tell the truth. Okay,3:58 so we all agree we're a community a community of liars. Right? Because some people, oh, that was a white lie. No, there's Mexican lies, black lies, Asian lies.4:10 Let's not make let's not sugarcoat it. She lied, she didn't tell the truth. But thanks be to God that there's a grace that's greater4:22 than our worst days and our worst moments. So let's not zoom into what she did, let's zoom into our life and see, hey, there's some areas of my life that I'm not proud of, but4:33 thanks be to God that I can have faith and still be used for his glory. Now here's the thing, here's the thing. She didn't have to lie.4:47 She lied to protect herself and to protect the spies. But as I read my Bible, there's a perfect will of God. So here's what I believe, even if she told the4:59 truth, God's will would have still happened. And sometimes we get afraid that I have to help God with his will for it to happen. So not giving her a5:10 pass, but it's just perspective for us that I can tell the truth even if it hurts me and God's will will still be done, because He promised them that they'll get there, inherit the5:22 land, and we don't need to help God with his promise. So with that said, let's go ahead and stand to our feet. Just wanted to give us some perspective before we got into the scriptures. We're gonna be in5:34 Joshua chapter 2 verse 15 through 21, and it goes like this. Then she let them down by a rope through the window. Please say5:45 window. Window. For her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall. And she said to them, 'Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there5:57 3 days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way.' The men said to her, we will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear. Behold, when we6:09 come into this land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the Amen. Through which you let us down. And you shall gather into your house your father and your mother and your brothers and all6:21 your father's household. Then if anyone goes out of the doors of the house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is6:33 with you in the house, His blood shall be on our head. But if you tell this business of ours, don't snitch, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear. And she6:45 said, according to your words, so be it. Then she sent them away, and they departed, and she tied the scarlet cord in the Wingard. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for your6:57 word. Your word is the truth. Your word has the power to change our lives. Now God, help us online and help us in person to lean in. Lord, there's nothing good in7:09 me, but this is your word, so use me, get me out of the way, And may your power, may your anointing convict, and encourage, and strengthen, and transform lives. In7:21 Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Hey, you may be seated. The title of this message tonight is a window of opportunity. A window of opportunity.7:33 What I try to do, sometimes the Bible just preaches itself. It says window 3 times, so I'll say, let's just make window the 3 points. And the first point is she had an opportunity she had a window of7:45 opportunity for faith. The second point is she had a window of opportunity for her family. And the third point is she had a window of opportunity for fruit. Let's talk about7:57 faith for a moment, but notice how it says she let them down by a rope through the window. Let's talk about windows for a moment. Let me use this window as an example.8:09 Windows give us the opportunity to be on the outside inside, but see what's on the outside. And there's sometimes that there's windows of opportunity out8:21 there that God will allow me to see. Have you ever had a window of opportunity? Maybe from a relationship or you meet somebody randomly or you get this text message, a8:33 window of opportunity. I'm inside but I see on the outside that God is opening up a window of opportunity. You tracking with me so far?8:45 1 of the challenges with the window of opportunity, when I look through this window, there is window panes. And there's certain panes8:57 that happen in our life that block the window of opportunity. And what we start to do is compartmentalize our life based upon the9:09 pains that we've experienced. So as I look through this window pane, this is how I look at relationships. I'll never trust a man again.9:22 I look through this window pane through my career. It'll never work out for me. Look through this window pane as it relates to my health. Are you tracking with me? And sometimes what happens9:34 is God may be going a window of opportunity for us, but the pain that we see is blocking the opportunity that God wants for us. And9:46 the thing about empathy is that it gives us an opportunity to see what somebody else is going through. So let's look at Rahab's window. Now, she's looking9:58 through her window pane. She's used to doing this because the Bible said in Joshua 2, what is it, 2 15, it says that her window10:10 was connected to the wall, so she's on the outskirts of the city and she will look out the window and she would see these men. Now, we know she's a prostitute, she's in a whorehouse,10:23 her house is connected to the window, so you know what song was on repeat. From the window to the okay, my bad, my bad. Little10:34 preacher joke. But as she looked out you gotta I love Jesus and hip hop. As you look as she looked out the10:46 window, she was looking at opportunity because she was used to seeing men, and she saw those men as an opportunity for her, showing that10:58 I'll trade my dignity for some dollars. We see that even today. You go to Amsterdam, there's a red light district where there is women in the11:10 windows saying, hey, I have opportunity for you. I wanna lure you in so I can make profit for myself. But this11:22 woman Rahab hears about the Israelites and hears about the Israelites God, how God is kind, how God forgives,11:34 how God does miracles, and how God protects his family. And she recognizes, wait a minute, those same people that God protected are coming to my city, and now she11:46 sees these people out the window, and she sees a window of opportunity for her, but now she's confronted. Because faith without works is dead, and this is what happens with repentance.11:57 Because repentance means I change my mind about God, and I change my mind about myself. She would look through the window, see a man, and try to lure that man in.12:10 Not this time. She would see men out the window thinking about what she heard. Faith comes by hearing, hearing the word of God. And instead of trying to lure men in for her12:21 profit, she lets men out for their profit. She literally let prophets out her window. Double entendre. Because what ends up happening12:33 is she says, hey, you see this rope right here? I want you to use this rope. She would use rope, she will use her looks to trap men and say, hey, come inside with me. Now she's saying, I12:45 wanna use this rope and provide an opportunity to let you free. Faith coming into action. See, James chapter 2 talks about this. I wanna12:57 read this because it's challenging for us. It's cool when we read about it for Rahab. It's challenging to think, do we do this for ourselves? Because if we look at James chapter 2, it says, what good13:09 is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and 1 of you says to them, go13:21 in peace, be warmed and filled without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So faith by itself does not have works, it's dead. Here's13:32 what Rahab did not do. She didn't look out her window and say, God will you bless me? God, will you protect me? God, will you help me? And there's nothing wrong with13:44 praying, but God says, okay, what action are you taking? See, a lot of times I prayed in my life, God, will you bless me? God, bless me, bless me, bless me. And God wants to know, hey, Aaron, who are you13:56 blessing? Who are you blessing? Who are you blessing? The other day, because my daughter Trinity loves to shop, And I said,14:08 Trinity, we're not buying any, not nothing today. She said, okay, dad. You know what's fun? Let's window shop. Because she's hoping that she can move me to buy her14:20 something. Have you ever been window shopping? So think about window shopping, you're walking by and you see something and you're like, oh, I think that'll look good on me.14:32 A lot of times me and my wife be walking by and there'll be some mannequins like posing like, And I'll be like, babe, out of the 3, which 1 you think I'll do? You think I'll do this 1? Okay, okay. Because a14:44 lot of times, we look through the window and we picture what we can look like. We do that in church often. When we look at another marriage and we see them holding hands.14:56 Man, me and my spouse don't hold hands when they come to church. We look at somebody's kids. Dang, my kid cussed me out on the way here. Alright, kid. We look we're looking through15:08 the other side and from our lens, we say like, wait, how do I and we window shop because it cost to have a healthy marriage.15:20 It costs to have a peace of mind. It costs to have freedom. So a lot of times we see, hey, I wanna be blessed like that person. Hey, you wanna go to the Grove track? I'm busy, bro. I'm busy busy.15:32 It costs time. Hey. I wanna be healed from my past. Have you been to 4 Thursdays are busy. It cost humility to be15:44 open enough to say, I need healing, and sometimes I may be stuck. And sometimes what happens when we're not willing to pay the cost to look like what's on the outside, we just start putting15:56 our blinders on. I don't wanna see these fake Christians. We start talking negatively about the people that trigger us because our life don't look like them.16:08 So we start to isolate ourselves. Because I used to look at these pretty people, but I tried to join a neighborhood group, and people were mean to me, and people were16:20 but all we're doing is being an echo chamber because we're not willing to pay the cost of what it looks like to look like what we saw on the window shop. And what God is encouraging16:32 us today is, hey, don't be a window shopper. God is giving you a window of opportunity to see that you can be blessed, you can be healed, you can be restored, but will you come16:44 out of hiding? Will you open up about your marriage? Will you open up about your finances? Will you open up about your habits? Or do we stay isolated and shut people16:56 out? And what Rahab didn't do was say, hey, I wanna change my life, so I'm just gonna close my blinds. No. She kept them opened and blessed someone else, and her faith did not only lead to17:08 the herself, but point number 2, there was a window of opportunity for her family. So let's continue reading and see how she had a window of opportunity for her family.17:20 Joshua 2 18. Behold, when you come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window to which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father17:32 and your mother and your brothers and all your father's household. You know what's so beautiful about the Bible? The same window that she used to bless the17:44 spies ended up being the same window of opportunity God gave her to bless her family. 1 season of her life, window17:56 of opportunity for her to bless others. Here's a rope of opportunity. I want you to be protected, and will you be kind to me? Next season of her life, she gets a18:08 cord, but this one's red. This 1 doesn't look like the other 1. This one's different. And what the spies do is to say, hey. Remember how you were18:19 kind to me? Thank you. We're gonna be kind to you. Jericho is gonna be destroyed, but your family doesn't have to be destroyed. But18:31 things are gonna go it's gonna go down. It's crazy. So you gotta put a red cord on the outside of your window, and when destructions happen, if you got a red cord in front of you,18:43 you're gonna be saved. Now if we look at the Bible like every page is about Jesus, we get very excited. Because this right here is a picture of the18:55 gospel. Because what happens is when we're on the inside and we're looking at the pain that has happened in our life, God wants to show us he died on the cross for that pain.19:08 There was other pain that he endured when he shed his blood on the cross, and this is a sign of salvation. This is a sign of I know that you've endured some pain, so I'm not trying to19:19 belittle your pain, but I'm trying to give you redemption through your pain. See, the gospel was not about just ignoring and belittling things that we've gone through. Jesus sees it. Jesus19:31 knows you. Jesus will be there for you, but he gives you hope. But the same window that she used to open for others became became the pathway19:43 that she got helped. Think about a situation in your life that has caused you pain. Could that be the very window of opportunity where God wants to put his19:55 filter of grace on the covering of it? Because if we look at the context, the children of Israel would just have experienced the Passover, where destruction was coming20:07 into the city, and whatever blood was on the doorpost, they were saved. Now the spies were doing the same thing in a different season, paying it forward for her. Being that God blessed me, I'm gonna bless Rahab.20:19 And that's what community looks like. That is not just for us to be blessed by God. God wants to bless our entire family when he changes our20:31 perspective on how we see pain in our life. Let me give you an example. I remember my grandmother. I would ask my grandmother, how does stuff make sense?20:43 And she said, just keep living. Just keep living. Just keep having birthdays. And I was like, what? And now I'm at that age where I'm starting to see that Nana makes20:55 sense. Because it was about 20 years ago where I let 1 of my friends borrow a thousand dollars. Long story short, I21:07 didn't get that thousand dollars back. Now I don't know if you've ever let a homie borrow some money. Here's what I would say if they're a friend, don't let them borrow money. If you have it, just give it to21:19 them because relationships are more important than money. And what happened in that season of my life is about 20 years ago, it wasn't about the money, it was about the disrespect.21:31 I'm feeling disrespected and had a hard time forgiving. Because have you ever let somebody borrow money? They haven't paid you back, but they're flexing on21:43 Instagram with new shoes they got? Long story short, God was dealing21:55 with me because forgiveness is about my freedom Yes. Not their freedom. Amen. And this was eating me up on the inside about the disrespect. And I felt like God told me to sit this person22:07 down, look at them in their eyeballs, and say, hey, what you've done is wrong. You didn't give me my money back. I forgive you. You don't have to pay me the money back. I felt that was necessary for me, because my22:24 relationship. It's about my peace of mind. Release that person. Now that doesn't mean that you stay best friends. Alright, here's another thousand. No, don't be stupid. But freedom. Eyeballs, I forgive22:36 you. Done. Don't see that person for years. About 6 years ago, 14 years later, I didn't know I would be a pastor.22:48 I did not know that I would be a campus pastor. I did not know that we would be looking for a building. Now during this time, rejection, rejection, rejection, going everywhere in Pomona looking for a place, Then I found22:59 out on September 13 2019, Salvation Army may be for sale. I drive there instantly. Wasn't dressed like this. I had my shirt tucked in. All business.23:12 Greetings. I'm hearing. Heard you guys might be selling it. Blah blah blah. Talked to the pastor, gave a tour. My soul is burning on the inside. I'm picturing baptisms. This could happen. Oh my god.23:27 Curtis, you remember I asked you to pray on New Year's. So so here's what happened. I talked to the pastors, and I said, hey, let's talk about next steps. They walked me over to an office and said,23:39 hey, let me connect you with the administrator that will help you with next step. Open the door, guess who the person is? So I see the person, and being23:50 that I was free, I was able to say, what's good? Hey, how you doing? Now the person was like, Gave him a24:02 hug. Hey, get contact information. We had each other's contact information. I get a text message, thank24:14 you for treating me like a friend even though I didn't treat you like a friend. I'm selling you a thousand dollars right now, and I will do whatever I can to help you get this building.24:33 There ain't no way I would have thought that my little thousand dollars and that little story would be connected to Patriot Pomona, the campus that we had.24:45 Faith to forgive, not to just bless me, but to bless the family. We were there this past Friday. We saw over 500 young adults praising, and worshiping, and giving their24:57 life to God. And when I'm standing in that building, I'm just thinking, God, you are so merciful. You're so perfect. Your timing is wonderful, but thank you that your grace is sufficient.25:09 Amen. I thank God that he connects those stories, because it reminds us the benefits of freedom. I say that to say, who do you need to forgive?25:22 And what could that be connected to? Now, I didn't say forgive somebody, you get a building. I didn't say that at all. But forgiveness doesn't mean we're friends,25:33 forgiveness means I'm free. And when we see people through the lens of Christ, 1 of the things that we see is you caused me pain, but Jesus died for me.25:47 Blessings not just for me, but blessings for my family. To conclude, I wanna talk about the window of25:59 opportunity for fruit. Verse 21 through 24. And she said, according to your words, so be it. Then26:10 she sent them away and they departed and she tied the scarlet cord in the window. They departed and went into the hills and remained there 3 days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers reached all along the way26:22 and found nothing. Then the 2 men returned. They came down from the hills and passed over and came to Joshua, the son of Nun, and they told him all that happened to them. They said to26:34 Joshua, the spies, truly, the Lord has given all the land into our hands, and also the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us.26:47 They come back to Joshua, and they bring a great praise report. The context of this is crazy. Because remember I was talking about stories decades ago, this same situation happened26:58 here. Decades ago, if you look at Numbers chapter 13 and 14, Joshua was a part of the spies for Moses spying out the land, and then the 12 spies, 10 out of the 12 bring a27:10 bad report. Numbers says that the whole children of Israel start crying, didn't believe in God, and it cost them 40 years. Joshua said, you know, I ain't dealing with that27:22 again. We ain't sinning 12 spies. We're sinning 2. Sometimes all you need is just 2 friends. My Trinity, my my youngest daughter, she said, I have 1227:34 best friends. I have 3 super best friends. And I'm like, keep living. But there's these 2 spies, and this is27:45 why I love the context of the Bible. It says all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us. Where did they get that from? They got that from Rahab. If we look at the27:57 context in Joshua chapter 2 verse 9 through 11, let's look what Rahab told the spies. And she said to them, I know that the Lord has given the land and that the fear of you has28:09 fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. For we have heard how the Lord had dried up the water the water of the Red Sea before you came out of Egypt, and what you28:21 did to the 2 kings of the Amorites who are beyond the Jordan, the Sihon, and Og, and whom do you devoted to destruction. And as soon as we heard it, faith comes by hearing, hearing the word of God.28:33 Our hearts melted second time, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God, in the heavens and on the earth beneath.28:46 This is beautiful, church, because there will be some people in your life that will only look at the Rahab that's a prostitute and a liar and ignore the fact28:59 that she had the faith to risk her life, declare that God is God, and say that our hearts melted when we heard about your God. So her29:10 words were deposited into the spies and it multiplied. So now the spies can go back to Joshua and say, hey, we got it. We could do this. God's29:22 faithful. God's promises are true. Let me tell you what the people are saying, not knowing that the people is the outcast. The people is the 129:34 that people would look down upon. And I wonder how many times in my life or in your life that people will zoom into 1 season of your life, 1 moment of your life,29:47 and not emphasize the fact that, wait a minute, she planted that seed from what she shared that multiplied all the way to Joshua 6, and we'll get there soon.29:59 But the principle for us is, what do your words taste like? Have you ever said something, and as soon as it comes out, you're like, wait, it's gone.30:12 And you know that hurt that person, and you know that you didn't mean to say that. That's a product of us talking to people before we pray to God.30:24 And when we do that, and when we talk to God, God will get at us about that. Because God's like, you want me to talk to you like that? You want me to throw your stuff in your30:36 face like that? See, our goal is to treat people how God treats us. We don't treat people how they treat us. That's what30:48 Christians do. Now when we look at this story, we see that the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. I want to read it. Matthew chapter 12, and then we'll close with that. Matthew31:00 chapter 12, 33 through 37. Either make the tree and its fruit good, or make the tree and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers. Now Jesus,31:11 this is Christian cussing, Jesus is telling these people, hey you are, but he didn't sin. That's why he said brood of vipers. That's why if you get mad at your spouse, say you're a brood of viper. Jesus, no, I'm just31:23 kidding. Completely kidding. How can you speak good when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speak. The good person out of the good treasures bring forth good, and the evil person31:34 out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I will tell you, on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every careless word they speak. For by your words, you will be justified, and by your words, you will31:46 be condemned. Words are the fruit of your faith. What do you believe about God? And does the belief that you have in31:58 God, does it influence you enough to change your heart on the inside to speak peace and to speak kindness, and to speak blessings on others. We get32:10 tested when we get hurt. We get tested when we get offended. We get tested when we let people borrow money, and then they flex. But God says, hey, let32:22 my word penetrate your bitterness. Let my word penetrate your hurt, and that'll give you the filter and the empowerment to speak blessings to others.32:34 So to conclude tonight, 1 of the things that kept me away from God, it wasn't my sin, it was my perspective.32:46 Because as I looked at my life, and I would see things that are going through my life, the gospel of32:58 Aaron Levy was I need to look through the lens of my performance, all the good works that I do. So I have pain in my33:10 life, some that I've caused on myself, and I have consequences. Some that people have done to me. But I tell myself, if I33:22 work hard enough, if I have enough good deeds, I can push past the pain with discipline. I can push past the pain with serving, with reading my33:34 Bible, with being a good Christian. The problem with this is that in God's eyes, our work is just filthy rags.33:46 That doesn't mean we stop trying to bless people, but it does mean let's stop trying to bless people to earn favor from God. There'll be other seasons in my life where33:58 I would give up on this, and then I will go into is isolation. And people wouldn't know what I would be going through, and I would34:10 have the nerve to look up to God and say, God, will you open a window of heaven for me while my window is closed?34:22 It's my not my sin, my perspective. Why would God open a window from heaven if my window is closed? So when I try to get protected from people, not only am34:34 I boxing out people, I'm boxing out God and I don't even know it. What about you? What about some of the commitments that you've made to yourself that I won't be me again? I'm not gonna go through that again. Could it be34:46 that God is trying to open up a way for your freedom, but we're blocking that ourself? While saying, God, why don't you do something? And God said, I'm trying to. Will you open your heart to me?35:05 There's only 2 perspectives, your work or the work of Christ. Which 1 do you choose tonight? So the thing about35:16 salvation, all we're doing is saying, hey, I know I'm not perfect, but here's what's harder. Hey, I know that no matter what I do,35:29 I can't inherit heaven. That might be the harder pill for you to swallow. Doesn't matter. You can live here. You can serve here. You can give all your money. That that is not the ticket to heaven.35:43 God's work on the cross, his blood that was shed for us, his work accomplished any work that we can ever do. So salvation is, I'm dropping35:55 anything. I don't want credit for anything of it. We sang about God's glory. God's glory is accepting what He's done and exalting His name, and ignoring what we've done. Let's36:06 pray. God, we're just gonna let that sit in our soul for a second.36:20 Some of us are experiencing some real pains, And we learn tonight that you have seen our36:32 pain and you've given us a means of restoration. May we look past our pain to see the pain that you've endured for us on the36:43 cross. Thank you, fathers, for sending your son Jesus perfect to live the life that we couldn't live and die the death that we deserve. Now God, give us the36:55 courage and the humility to admit that we can't do this on our own. I thank you Holy Spirit in this moment, you are influencing37:07 hearts to surrender to you. I thank you in this moment, Holy Spirit, you are influencing hearts to come back to you. You could do it for Rahab.37:19 You could do it for us. In Jesus name. Let's open our eyes for a moment. I want to give you a personal invitation, not to be a part of our church or to be37:31 blessed. I want to give you a personal invitation to start walking with Jesus, a personal invitation to have a relationship with37:42 Christ. What does that mean? Is what we just spelled out, that I'm gonna stop trying to be good. I'm gonna stop trying to work so37:54 hard to be improve to improve. I'm gonna surrender to God and just take the first step in walking forward with forgiveness. There's some of you tonight,38:06 you've done that years ago. You know what it's like to be free. You're on your way to heaven, but there are some pains that have happened in your life. And through those pains,38:18 it's clouded your perspective, and some of you may be in isolation. Patria means family. We wanna be a safe place to help facilitate you coming back home38:30 to your father. He misses you, he loves you, there's no shame, there's no condemnation, He just wants you to move forward with him. What I'm gonna do right now is38:42 I'm gonna ask you to be bold. You know who I'm talking to. You wanna give your life to Christ tonight, or you wanna seal this moment. I am moving forward in my38:54 faith journey tonight. If that is you, and you wanna respond to this gospel, on the count of 3, I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand as low as high as you can. Not for me, not for Patriot, but for Jesus.39:06 1. 2. 1, 2, 3. Go ahead and raise your hand high. Come on, Patriot. Look at all the hands that are raised. We see those hands. We see those hands. We see those hands. We see that39:18 hand. Thank you so much. We see that hand in the back. Come on, let's celebrate all the hands that are giving their life to Christ. Hallelujah. Thank you for your work, God. Everybody39:30 that raised their hand, I want you to pray this prayer and repeat it after me. And as a community, let's say it with them to encourage them. Say, dear Lord Jesus, I believe39:42 that you died on the cross for all of my sin. From this moment forward, you're my savior and my Lord. Teach me to trust you.39:54 I'll follow you forward. In Jesus' name. Let's celebrate those that gave you their life. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Well, hey, if you just gave your life to Christ for the40:05 first time, we hope that Patriot will be family towards you. Here's a next step for you. If you go to pull out your phone and go to w w w dot grow. 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