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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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0:00 Well, amen. It's so good to see everybody on this Saturday evening and all those online and in the courtyard and around the campus. I'm so excited for the month of September of At The Movies. It's really a month of an0:12 opportunity to kinda get into a new routine again. We all were kind of August, July, June vacations, travel, stuff like that. September's a place where you say, alright, let's get back into our routine.0:24 And it lets September with At The Movies be a great opportunity to invite some friends. You'd be surprised that over the years, as we've done at the movies, we do a little bit different than other churches. Some0:36 of them will look at 1 movie a week. What we do is look at the concept of movies and get into the word of God still, as we wanna still talk and preach from the Bible during At The Movies. But, we still0:48 have our Courtyard experience, and the kids ministry and youth ministry are doing fun things. You'd be surprised over the years with At The Movies how many people I've met who once identified as atheist or0:59 agnostic, but a friend invited them to our church at At The Movies, and God used movies they were familiar with to speak to them exactly where they were at, and God met them where they were at.1:11 And today, they were walking with God and following Jesus because God took something as simple as a movie, a film that they saw in the movie theater, and God said, hey, this is a journey. This is a story I'm1:23 writing on your own life. And so, it's a great time during the next couple weeks to invite someone to come to church if they have kids. So, we got a lot of great stuff for kids in the courtyard so that people can1:35 discover hope and purpose and God's story for their life, which is what we're doing in this month. And so, as we're in at the movies, this month in particular, we're gonna be looking at the life of Moses and little1:46 aspects of Moses and how film connects with that. As you saw, today we were talking about what it means that God is writing our story. I want you to see in Psalms 1 39, if1:58 you'd like to stand for a moment for the honor of reading God's word. Today, we're gonna start by reading from Psalms 1 39 and then jump back in to the life of Moses for a little bit. I want you to see2:10 what this psalm says. It says, for you created me in my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. In other2:21 words, before dad heard a heartbeat, before mom ever felt a kick in her stomach, God was at work in the womb of a woman. And so, God knew exactly what he was doing.2:33 And this scripture says, God, where others may not know what's going on, you knew what was going on in my mother's stomach, which means God knows everything, every start of the journey of our life.2:45 The Bible also says that he even knows the very number of hairs on your head. There's a lot of people in this world that I love, but I'll tell you this. I don't know a single 1 of them the amount of hairs that they have2:57 on their head. I've never sat there and count. But God knows you and loves you so much that he sat and he count when he created you. He knew exactly how many hairs you once had. Maybe you don't have the hair3:09 anymore, but there was once upon a time that it was there. He said, for you created my inmost being and you knit me together in my mother's womb. Let's go to the next verse. I praise you because I am3:20 fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full and well. My frame was not hidden3:32 from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body all the days, watch3:44 this, ordained for me were written in your book. In other words, this is someone who's speaking out of a mature place in their life. This is not written by an infant. This is not3:55 written by a child. This is written by someone who has gone through some things, seen some things, experienced some things. And he says this, I'm not gonna lose hope that those things are lost. And God,4:07 you are only part of the fun things, the good things. He said, no. All things were ordained for me and written in your book before 1 of them came to be. God, you knew the picture of my life. Yes. He's not4:19 gonna give up hope. Do we have another verse? Is there a delay? How precious to me are your thoughts, God. How vast is the sum of them. This4:31 is an admittance. We could stay right here on this verse. This That was an admittance to say, God, you're precious to me, and the way that you think about me is greater than I've thought about myself. I don't understand4:42 it all. Because there are times in our story we try to make sense of everything that's happening, but God knows. Let's go to the last verse. It says this, were I to count them, they would4:53 outnumber the grains of sand. When I wake, I am still with you. You may be seated today. This verse, and many other5:05 verses, is the admittance that says, God, you know what's going on in my life. You know the story that's been written. You are with me. And what happens is when we recognize that, we5:17 begin to see that God is fully aware of the story and journey that he is taking us through in our life. And even through the life of Moses, if you study the book of Exodus, you'll see5:29 in the life of Moses. I mean, Moses, there was a decree that Pharaoh put to kill the firstborn baby of every Israelite, every Hebrew person, and his mother puts him down a river, and5:40 it's Pharaoh's sister that finds him and adopts him into this very family that was trying to kill him. And then, from there, when he discovers he is a Hebrew, he always knew he was a Hebrew, he5:52 then murders an Egyptian. He runs away. He goes and he marries someone of a different culture, a woman named Zipporah, and they get married. And then for 40 years, he becomes6:04 a shepherd. And he went from a palace to now, he's working with sheep every day for his father-in-law, and then he has an encounter with God. And, in that encounter with God, God sets Moses6:16 on a mission to let his people go. And, as you read the story more, you see the experience of what Moses went through. But also, even when Pharaoh let the people go, the journey didn't stop.6:30 They had to deal with a sea that couldn't cross that God pardoned. They had to deal with bad decisions that Israel made where they didn't trust God, and now they were 40 years in a wilderness.6:42 On top of that, Moses had a lot of anger issues, and he had to deal with that his entire life. His anger. And so, we see, if you're taking notes, I wanna just share the first thought with you. What we have to6:54 recognize and realize is the author writes before the story begins. God wrote before the story begins. You know, if you've ever7:06 worked on a play or worked on a book before or wrote anything even in school, How many of you guys know there are thoughts, there are rough drafts? You remember when we were in school and they made us do the little cloud7:17 map thing, and you had to think of the of the intro, the the plot, the middle, the ending. I always got terrible grades, you know, with that. And but you had the little map, and then you went through7:29 draft 1, draft 2, draft 3, draft 4. You know, was when I was in bible school, my area of focus was theology, which meant 5 times a semester, we had to write 57:41 30 page papers in each different class, which is really uncommon for college, but because the theology majors were like, supposed to do the intense study. And I remember specifically, because every 1 of7:53 those kids in my class, they were like 4.5 students. I even in college, I wasn't 1 of those. I remember vividly because when you're studying theology, unlike other classes, it's set that you8:05 wanna be a professor or you wanna write books 1 day. And so, what would happen is he would put our papers on the screen, and everyone in the class had to go page by page and8:17 criticize the the writing publicly. And I remember my professor said 1 day, Adam, if you could write as good as you talk, there would be no end for you. But, unfortunately, your writing8:28 sucks. That's what he said. And I said, well, then I'll I'll stick with speaking. That that's what I'll do. You know, when we realize though, there are in writing, there are rough drafts, plots, dramas,8:40 twists, setbacks, course corrections. And for us, what we have to realize in our own life, your current chapter of life you're in isn't your entire story. That's right. That's not your whole story. There are8:52 times in my life that I've wondered, God, what's going on in in this chapter of my life? And what God is doing is there's many things. There's many times in the chapters of my life, God is producing9:03 endurance in me. God is sometimes cleaning house within my heart and within my life. There are other times God's giving me an opportunity to grow. Grow in my forgiveness, grow in my hope,9:15 grow in my trust in him. At the time of the chapter, I don't always see the point. But the beauty is, I'm not writing the story. God is. God is writing the9:27 story of our life. I want you to see right here, I have a finished product of the declaration of independence. I don't know if you've ever seen it before. We're all familiar. Give me the the other 1, The9:39 finished product. Yeah. So, we all know this. We've seen this before. This is the Declaration of Independence where the United States Congress, they wrote together, and you had all the head honchos, Benjamin Franklin and9:50 everyone, they all signed it and pinned it, and they worked on it. And you ever seen the movie or show Hamilton and all that stuff? It's kinda surrounded around all of this, and we see this. And it's known to10:02 be, in terms of forming a government and a statement, it's known to be as 1 of the best in the world. Like, other nations look at the Declaration of Independence, and they say, okay, how how can we make a10:14 declaration for our country that looks like this? It's so thoughtful, and it's so thorough, and things like that. And all these people come and they sign it to say, hey, we worked on this. But I want you to see the10:24 iterations. I have a rough draft. There were dozens upon dozens where this is what it first looked like. This is what the declaration of independence first looked like. And there were10:36 so many of the early American fathers who they would take this, and you'll see lines are crossed out, words are circles, notes are made. A lot of times, we want the finished product. I wanna10:48 be the declaration of independence. I want the thing that people oh and ah at. I wanna be the thing that people go, I want my cousins and my family members to be like, oh, they got their stuff put together. Oh, look at11:00 them. They they look like they got God's favor or whatever else it is. But for our life, oftentimes, we are in this phase of our life. We're in the phase where God is still11:12 annotating things. He's crossing things out. He's circling things. Say, hey, I love this about you. Hey, let's focus on this. Or, hey, this part, this you know, last week, that one's a good week. Let's go ahead and11:23 cross that 1 off right there. Hey, this word in your vocabulary, not a fan of that. Let's go ahead and replace. He'll take a little red pen, and he'll say, hey, maybe the way you treat this person, or maybe11:35 the way that you're walking, or the way you're talking, I'm not I'm not a fan. Let's let's do some editing. We don't like that. We hate asking for feedback. Whenever I ask11:47 someone to look at something and I say, hey, can you check this out? Let me know your thoughts. Inside my heart, I'm saying, hope they come back and say it was perfect. Adam, no notes. But then all too often, I11:59 see it, and I see, no line, this doesn't make and I man, I wanna be perfect right off the go. But we're not God. Right. And we're not writing the story. God uses us and partners with12:11 us to guide us and lead us, and you have free will, but you also have God's guidance. Yeah. And he is speaking to both areas of your life. He is speaking in the fact that he knows the beginning from the end, while also12:22 asking you and inviting you to walk with him at the same time. I want you to see in Exodus, when we look at Moses, it should be in the In Exodus 31 verse 18, I want you to see what happens.12:34 I kinda talked about it in the video that you saw. It says, and he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the 2 tablets of the testimony. This is known as the 10 commandments.12:46 The tablets of stone written with the finger of God. The 10 laws of God written with the finger of God. And he gave to Moses when he had spent12:58 And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf So, what happens is, like you saw in the video, Moses is in the mountain talking with God. Moses has cut 2 stones.13:10 God writes with his finger these laws that he's gonna invite Israel to walk with and obey. Moses comes down from the mountain, and what does he see? He sees them with a calf dancing.13:22 We'll see that in a couple weeks that they boiled all of their gold that they had gotten out of Egypt. And, because Moses was taking too long, they said, hey, let's worship something that we can see in front of13:34 us. You know, God's not working on our timeline. I don't like this chapter. Let's put it into our own hands. And what Moses does, it says, Moses, anger burned hot. He got an anger13:46 issue. And, he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. He he You see, he's he's so mad13:58 that what God gave him, he chucked it. He he tossed it. That that's how upset that he was about what they did. I want you to see if you take notes what point number 214:10 is. What we see is Moses breaks the tablets, but God doesn't break his covenant. And Moses, he's angry and he tosses14:22 the tablets. And Moses shattered them when he sees Israel's sin. And out of his anger, he throws it. And God wrote with14:34 his finger for the heart, but Israel tried to make sense of the journey with their head. I want you to see, I got this little stick figure drawing right here. And, just to14:46 illustrate this a little bit deeper, I want you to see right here. So, in the story, you got Moses, he's on the mountaintop. He's with God. God gives him14:58 the 10 commandments. Alright? And, those are things like, thou shall not kill, thou shall not commit adultery, thou shall not have other gods before you, so on and so forth.15:10 And what happens is, as God is writing the 10 commandments, Bible says he's writing with his finger. Now, is that some type of the the the Bible often talks anthropomorphically, so not15:22 literal finger? It would have been that's what we could understand? It it would have been something that we just don't understand. Our words can't comprehend for it. So, lightning, whatever it was, a cloud, for us, it15:33 just makes sense to say finger, and that's why it says that. And so, what happens is is God is giving Moses his heart. Hey, if Israel wants to stay close to15:45 me, here's the things I need them to follow. And what happens is, this is in the book of Exodus, in Leviticus, which is the next book, you're gonna see that15:56 as Israel is trying to pursue or God wants them to pursue his heart, God is gonna tell and show Israel that there's the law and there's a thing called sacrifice.16:09 And when you fail at this, there will be a sacrifice that you can do that will cover this. And he gives them an opportunity through the book of Leviticus, which the bible says, and it's through16:20 lambs, if you would sacrifice lambs, it'll cover when you break this. When you break my heart, the sacrifice will cover that when you sin. Which we now know in the New Testament, Jesus is the lamb16:32 of God. He's the fulfillment of this law that we break. And, Leviticus takes it further for Israel to show them that it's impossible to live up to the heart of God without God's love and16:44 forgiveness. But, what is what's what's Israel doing over here? They are thinking with their head. I don't know how to draw a brain, so just bear with me. Right? This16:56 is some type of brain. I'm not an artist or anything like that. So, they're thinking I'll just write the word for those that don't, you know, I didn't practice it. Israel starts thinking17:08 with their head. What's taking God so long? What's taking Moses so long? What are they doing up there? You think Moses died? Well, if Moses is die dead, who's gonna lead us? And the Bible says that then they started17:19 saying, hey, well, I mean, it wasn't even this bad. It really wasn't all that bad in Egypt. In the moment of pause, they start rationalizing, recognizing that, well, that relationship wasn't so bad, or this moment wasn't17:30 so bad, or this sin wasn't so bad. I mean, it's a lot better than silence. We hate silence. And so, they are trying to think with their head while God is trying to communicate with his heart.17:41 Praise. And a lot of times, we are disconnected from God, not because God isn't speaking to us, but we are speaking with 2 different organs of our body. We17:53 are speaking to God with our head. God, help make this make sense. God, this isn't clear. God, I need clear directions. God, I'm not happy with this. God, I don't wanna do this. And what18:05 happens is through God's word, through growing with relationship, through prayer, God is trying to speak to us from the heart. But we close that off.18:17 Why do we close that off? Well, we close that off because what happens is this isn't very far. Can we18:28 agree? This isn't too big. This isn't too far. I mean, if I asked anyone to pass me anything, they would be like, oh, you're too far away. I can't. If you're standing right here, oh, you're just too far. This18:40 is often known as the 18 inch theory, which for the average person, it's about 18 inches between your head to your heart. It's 18 inches. And so many times in18:52 our life, we act like this is a big journey. Alright. Wow. This is an impossible journey. This is an impossible task. God, I'm rationalizing with my19:04 head, but you want me to hear you from my heart? God, your word is speaking to my heart, but I gotta make sense with my head. And we said, God, it's just too much. That's what Israel was doing. They said, God, it's too19:15 much. You're too far. We're we're too impatient. What's going on? And God is saying, I'm speaking an 18 inch difference in your life.19:26 This isn't a mile long distance. It's not another state. It's not another country. It's 18 inches that God wants to get through your head to your19:38 heart. And there's so many times that we're like, God, it's just so far. No, it's not. You gotta open up your heart because that's where God communicates. I want you to see it again. We see what19:50 God wants to do is19:53 what we19:53 have to recognize is, is in this 18 inch journey, you have the heart and you have the head. And it is a traffic20:05 stop that goes back and forth, back and forth. But if you ever been on the freeway before and you've noticed that there was a backup on 1 side of the road, and you start20:17 driving, and maybe you don't know. So, on 1 side of the freeway, you're just like, there are no cars on the other side of the freeway. This is odd. And then, the further you get down, it's because there's a a traffic20:28 stop for whatever reason. And so, the flow track and you and I, we make mental notes that say, on the way back home, I gotta remind myself, I am not driving that direction. I don't wanna deal20:40 with that. And what happens is is when God gave Moses the 10 commandments, God wanted to speak to the heart of the people that20:51 would then transform their head. But what Israel wanted was God to speak to their head, and maybe it'll get to their heart.21:03 That's why the Israelites are known as Israelites, which are ones who wrestle with God. That's cute at first to wrestle with God. It's not cute. It's cute in the dating phase that your, you know, your21:15 girlfriend, your boyfriend, they're like, oh, we, you know, like, we wrestle. We we bicker. We disagree. It's so fun. It's just so kitschy. And then, you're 20 years in, and you're like, Lord. This wrestle is not21:27 this whole bicker thing, it's not cute no more. It's not fun no more. It's very irritating at this point. And what God recognized with Israel is they're wrestlers, but he didn't want to stay consistently wrestling21:39 with them. He wanted to consistently stay to say, I'm gonna speak to their heart. Right. He wants to he wants to talk here, but Israel's like, no. That makes sense to us. God,21:51 before we follow you follow you another step, make it plain to us in our mind. Wow. And then when God didn't show up on their time, and their story, and their chapter, and their22:03 journey, they're like, hey. Anyone got any of that gold that's been laying around? Man, let's boil that down. Let's let's let's let's make something from that. Here's what's22:15 beautiful though. Because what happens is within this story, Moses goes back up, tells God, even though God saw it, but he tells God, he goes back up and he says, Lord, I22:28 broke the commandments. I was so mad. He had these 10 commandments right here, and he's like, I was so mad. Probably would have been a lot bigger than this. This is 1 that goes in your house on your table.22:39 I guess, to remind you how sinful you are. You know, it's such a funny such a funny thing to think of. The cross I get to have in our house, but just a perpetual plaque of you're the worst, you know, like, that's22:52 kinda crazy. But, Moses has this, and he comes, and he don't have it no more. So, he goes down the mountain with it. He comes back to God. He's like, God, it's I broke it. I was so mad I broke it.23:04 And, what God didn't say was, Moses, how could you? You're the worst. Why did I choose you? I should have chosen someone else. You and these anger issues, what are you doing? God said,23:16 Moses, cut yourself a couple pieces of rock, and I'll write again. I'll do it again. I'll write with my finger 1 more time. What God is already nuancing to Moses is23:28 to say, Moses, you can't do this journey by yourself. You can't lead these people by yourself. You are gonna have to rely on me, and when times that you fall and you fail, I'm there23:40 to ride again. Right. If there's anyone that had to have a high expectation of their life, you would think you'd be Moses. Yep. And it's not like Moses always had it good, and he always God23:52 always showered him with love and blessing. No. Moses had a hard uphill battle at times. But God, his grace was sufficient enough that he gave this to Moses again. He gave him another set. He says, Moses, go24:03 try again. I love the passage in the bible because there's a moment that most theologians think that is connected to this moment. It's found in John chapter 8 verse 3 to 7. Maybe you've heard it24:15 before. There's a story of a woman 's caught in the middle of an act of adultery. And in this moment, they throw her before Jesus. They caught her.24:27 And the Pharisees and the scribes, they wanna catch Jesus because he's a rabbi. He's 1 that's supposed to follow this law. Really good. And look, 1 of the 10 commandments is Look. I'm looking at right now. Thou shall not24:37 commit adultery. It's 1 of the law of God. It's punishable. And they take her and they throw her in front of Jesus. And the bible says this, describes that the pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in24:49 adultery placing her in the midst. They said to him, teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now, in the law, Moses, the law, right here, the law, Moses commanded us25:00 to stone such a woman. So, what do you say? In other words, you're gonna disagree with Moses? You're gonna disagree with the head honcho himself that came down from the mountain and gave us this thing? What25:12 are you gonna say about that? What are you gonna say about that? This they said to test him that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.25:25 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to him, let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. He said some other25:36 things, and it says in 58 to 59, Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was I am. So, they picked up the stones to throw at Jesus, but25:48 Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. You see, in this moment, it continues. If you continue to read, it says he bends down to the woman and he says, you know, you've been forgiven. Go and sin26:00 no more. And so, he didn't give her permission to make the decisions that she was making, but he showed her enough grace and compassion to say, there is another way if you're willing to choose it. There's another26:12 direction. There's another portion of your chapter that can be written that doesn't have to be this if you're willing to accept God's forgiveness. If you're willing to accept God's grace.26:24 I love I love the image of this that Jesus kneels down, and it says that he writes in the sand. And, how many of you guys remember? If if you were a person that was Jewish, and you see Jesus kneeling26:36 down and writing in the sand, There was 1 person who wrote the law with his finger in stone. And it was Yahweh. And so,26:48 Jesus is saying to them, he's saying this, y'all you're all talking about this moment, this moment where God wrote the law with his finger? Jesus says, I'm I'm about to rock your world. And it's27:00 rumored. It's it's rumored that whatever Jesus wrote that theologians think that maybe he could have etched it in the stone, which would have blown them away, or he wrote it in the sand. And theologians27:11 think that he possibly could have wrote, you know, the the sins that they have in their life, or whatever it is. But whatever it was, it was enough for them to get angry that he was saying,27:23 oh, that law? The law that Moses broke because of his anger, but God gave him a second batch? God didn't kill Moses when he threw the 10 commandments.27:35 God didn't kill Israel when they had the golden calf. God showed mercy. God showed forgiveness. So, what Jesus says is he's saying in that moment, I have all authority on heaven and on earth to27:47 forgive those who are brokenhearted, to forgive those who have sinned. He says this. So the Bible says he didn't he didn't rewrite the law. He fulfilled it.27:59 He fulfilled this. He encourages her. Hey, if you wanna walk in the fullness of your life, the story that God has written, he says, go and sin no more.28:07 Oh, yes.28:08 Oftentimes, we think that to someone's heart is to talk to their head. That's how we think save someone. Just go rationalize it. Just go debate28:20 it. Just go through every area of their life and show them where they failed. No. What often happens, what God wants to do is he wants to speak to the brokenhearted. Wants to say there is forgiveness28:31 for those broken spots. The spirit of God reveals all things to us. And the spirit of God shows us where our shortcomings are. And it's God who says, I can get to a place where I can forgive you and show compassion.28:43 Jesus says this, he who is without sin, throw the first stone. You know there was only 1 person there that had the authority to throw the stone who didn't have any sin? It was Jesus. And28:55 he didn't choose to cast a stone. He didn't choose to throw the stone. He chose to get on the woman's level. Right. You must know that a woman who was caught in the act of adultery might have must have had some29:07 broken parts of their life. And he goes to show her, hey, there is forgiveness. I want you to know this last part. Here's the last point is this. You and I, as God is doing something in your life and29:19 God is writing in your life, we have to recognize that you are the living letter of God. You're the living letter. You're the living word of God. As God's word transforms you and29:31 conforms you to himself, you and I are the living aspects of God's word. Second Corinthians 2 3 2 to 3 says this, you yourselves are our letter of recommendation.29:44 It's written on our hearts. So, to be known and read by all, and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by all or delivered by us. Written29:55 not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God. Not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the human heart. Amen. That's what Paul wrote concerning the church in30:07 Corinthian. He said, you are the letters that God is writing on the hearts of man. That's why for our church, 1 of our ministries is beyond the letter. It's a podcast. And that that the30:19 beyond the letter comes from this verse, that you and I go beyond the letter of God's word to live it out. It's not just about reading it. It's about living out the word of God in our life. It's about getting30:31 to a place in our life where we can say, God, here's the pin to my life. It's yours. You have control of this. I invite you into this. Before I make next30:43 steps, before I make big decisions, before I step forward in aspects of my life, God, I will sit with you. Before you feel like you have to cross things out in my life, before you feel like you have to circle things,30:54 God, I'm gonna sit with the author, being you, and I'm gonna ask you before I make golden calves, before I make desert decisions, before I go sit in valleys, I'm gonna say,31:06 God, as the author and the alpha and the omega, what do you wanna write in my life? At the end of my life, what do you want the story, the book of my life to say as I'm a living31:18 letter of God's word? What will it say about me at the end of my life? That's what matters. And so, people may never read the bible, but they're reading you.31:29 And you are the first bible that they will ever interact with. And you are the first scripture that they will ever see being lived out. Do we feel that when we get up in the morning?31:41 And it's part of our lives that we have to get to a place where we don't hold the pen, we hand it over. I'll close with this, and we'll all leave here together. I know in my childhood, I grew up with a movie by Jim31:52 Carrey called Liar Liar. And there's a point in the movie where he's trying to he can't lie. That's the point of the movie. He's not allowed to lie. And if I remember correctly, he's a he's a32:04 lawyer, which is kinda kinda hard to do his job without stretching the the truth. You know? And so, he's trying to lie. He's trying but he can only tell the truth. He can only tell the truth. And so, what he's trying to32:15 do is he he's just he's just fighting to try to lie, try to try to write out himself. So, what he does, he gets a pen and he's trying to say a fake color of the pen that it really is. I want you32:27 to see the clip so that you can make it and see it more so in your head as we close.32:38 Red. Red. Alright. Now focus. The color of this pen is The32:49 color of this pen is The color of the33:01 pen that I hold in my hand is blue.33:13 1 lie and I can't say it. Alright.33:46 Riot. Riot or I'll break it off. Oh, no. Come on.33:59 You know how many times we could laugh at that, but, you know, I feel like at at times with God. That God is trying to lead me in a direction. God is trying to write something with my life, and then I'm just fighting34:10 with him over it. Over control of the pen, over control of the highlighter. And, I'm saying, no. God, let me let me say let me okay. I like that, but let me write that. Let let me do this. Let let me just hey, let me34:21 just make this decision. And so, we fight and we fight and we fight with God. But, you wanna know what's best is if we just say, Lord, you've written it all. You you know the end from the beginning. You've34:33 ordained Psalms 1 through 9. You've ordained my life. Why am I fighting against you? Why am I fighting against how you've made me to love you, serve you, and devote my life to you? Why? Because once34:44 we recognize that this paper, this page is our heart, and God holds the pen, we can say, Lord, whatever you need to do with me, would you write it out? Would you lead my story?34:57 Would you take me through what I need to go through to get closer to you? I don't wanna get to areas in my life where I get so impatient and I start thinking with my head so much that I make big35:09 decisions like Israel that lead to a desert journey. 40 years in the desert just because they couldn't wait for Moses to come down to the mountain. That's what happened. That's often what happens35:21 is when we get impatient. We just start saying, God, give me that pen. I've been staring at a blank page for too long. Well, I need some answers. If you don't give me the answers, I'm gonna start writing my own answers.35:31 But, when we live in the fullness of where God wants to lead us, where God wants to guide us, where he wants to erase things, delete things, change things, then we can see that we're truly walking into the fullness of35:42 who God is. And, I wanna close tonight by making an invitation of faith. That maybe today, I'm not here to talk to your head, because your head and our mind oftentimes, it confuses us, it35:54 disillusions us. But, what's clear is our heart. And, there's people here that you know whether your heart is far from God or not. As we've spoken and shared today, you've36:06 allowed God to speak to your heart. But, the Bible says that we need to make a decision whether we will open our heart for God to reside. Revelations 3, Jesus says. He says, I stand at the door of your heart and I36:17 knock. Whoever opens the door and invites me into dine with them, I will enter and dine with them. As God speaks to your heart, that's all God was trying to do with Israel. Say, Israel, let me lead you. Let me guide36:29 you. But oftentimes, they said, no. No. No. That's enough. We need you to explain every step. God oftentimes won't explain every step. If you knew the end of a movie, you wouldn't sit through36:41 the movie.36:41 You'd say, oh, you ruined it. I don't it's the end.36:44 I already know what happens. God has taken us through a process in our life. But the greatest decision we could ever make and the greatest chapter of our life will be the decision that we decide to make Jesus Christ our36:56 Lord and Savior. It's the day that we say, God, I have written my life of my own for too long. And today, I surrender my heart so that you could begin to write the story clearly to me, so that I see37:08 it. And, that starts by surrendering to God. It starts by acknowledging that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins. That for our whole life, we've been separated from God. Not37:20 because of God's choice, it's our own choosing. But, through Jesus, God makes an invitation. Through the perfect sacrifice that he can redeem us and he can save us. So, if you're here today, and you're saying, I'm ready37:32 to make a decision. I wanna pursue God with my whole life and my whole heart. Now, I wanna invite you in this morning in this moment together, all of us. Would you join me in saying this right now? Would you say, dear37:41 Lord Jesus, this moment, believe in my heart that you died on the cross and you rose 3 days later. From this day forward, I turn37:53 for my sins, I choose to follow you for the rest of my days. In Jesus' name, amen. You know, I wanna encourage you today, as you may have said yes38:05 to Jesus. What we did today is the prayer is not the thing that saved you. God was already at work in your heart. All we did when we prayed right now is we affirmed and said, God, I know you're doing something right now,38:16 and I've chosen to follow you. And so, you said yes to Jesus, number 1, we celebrate with you. And as a church, we wanna welcome you to the family. So, would you do me a favor? If you said yes to Christ for the first38:26 time or maybe rededicated your life, on the count of 3, would you raise your hand? All we wanna do is welcome you into the family of God. We wanna welcome you and be part of this patriot, this family, the kingdom of GodShow more
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