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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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God Uses the Unlikely 0:00 We're gonna dig into the word of God today. I'm so honored that 1 of my friends, Mark Clark, is here with us. Originally from Canada, so it's our first Canadian ever to preach in our pulpit. Okay? We got a0:11 Canadian, but he not Canadian anymore. He woke up 1 day and he was like, what am I doing here? And now he's in Northern California at a church called Bayside Church. 1 of the most incredible churches in all of the0:23 United States, and making a profound impact in Northern California. They have a campus in Orange County, and Mark has become a great friend over the years. To me, he's 1 of the greatest teachers of our day.0:35 He's 1 of the greatest writers. He's an author, and he's so thoughtful. All he does is read and write. I mean, he just loves to think. He's a scholar, and he's a lover of Jesus. And so we're so honored0:47 today that we're a church that leans in, so get ready, because you are going to experience the power and a move of God delivered through this man of God. So would you do me a favor and give him a patriot welcome by0:58 standing on your feet and making some noise for1:00 pastor Mark Clark. Thank you, thank you, sir. Thank you. Oh my goodness. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Oh, my goodness.1:12 Oh, my goodness. Thank you, Adam. I I love this church. I love the leadership. Adam, Diego, pastor Diego, pastor Ashley, pastor this crew is amazing. This church is amazing. And, when he's explaining me as a1:24 scholar, yeah. That's that's not true. And and the minute you heard that you're like, oh gosh. Like, can we get out of here? Because I know what that's gonna be like. Hello. Welcome to Patriot1:36 Church. Glad you're here. Ephesians chapter 1. I wanna share 2 verses with you and, and kind of weave in a bit of my story that I hope will actually1:47 encourage and help you in the midst of your life. I am Canadian. Is there is there any Canadians here? Okay. Great. Thank you for welcoming me. It's perfect. Oh my gosh.1:59 Alright. So grew up in Toronto, and then moved across to Vancouver. And you guys have no idea where any of these places are. I now I am now in America, and I talk to people about geography, and they're2:11 like, I is it America? America. That's good. And then you start talking about anywhere else in the world, and they they draw a blank. So, but but my story, I I2:23 hope can connect to yours, and and I it's part of the biblical story in a in an amazing way. The apostle Paul, writes this letter, called Ephesians, and, as I've watched pastor Adam preach,2:35 I I noticed how often he goes back to the well of the book of Ephesians because it's such a beautiful book. It's a book that kind of founds every big idea in regard to Christianity. And, and I got some things that I2:46 wanted to to share with you to encourage you out of Ephesians chapter 1. Verse 1 says this, Paul he's he's kind of introducing himself to the church, and he says, Paul now now stop right there. If you got a bible,2:58 underline the word Paul, because some of you walking in here might right now might be like, okay. Here's my problem, That that this is exactly the the kind of people God uses. The the3:10 apostle Paul, he's a great guy. He's a he's a he's learned. He he wrote 13 books of the New Testament. You know, those are the kinds of people that God uses. The choir boys, the good people, the righteous people,3:21 the people who memorize their bibles, the people who who have never watched rated r movies, and they don't say these swear words, and they don't and they're they're good people. And and and the problem with that is is is3:33 you know that's not you. And part of your problem is you come in here and you you see all these people on stage, and you they're they're righteous and they're holy and they're put together.3:45 And some of you see this is this is the problem. God uses good people and he can never use someone like me, and that's the narrative that goes in your brain that God could never use you, God could never bless you, God3:57 could never take you to change the world. And I am here to say to you that that's not true. That, listen, I am the I am the poster boy for God could never use4:08 me. Alright? I grew up, the first time I ever walked into a church, I was 19 years old, and the only reason I stayed was because there was pretty girls there. Can I get an amen from the youth section or whatever? So,4:22 I never walked into a church before because here's what here's what in my mind, here's what the church was gonna be. It was everyone was gonna be average 200 years old. It was gonna be orange shaggy carpet and smell4:33 like mothballs. And I was like, I don't want anything to do with the church. I grew up in an atheistic, agnostic, secular setting. No no bible, no prayer, no church, no nothing. My dad4:46 was such an atheist that when my mom proposed to him that they call my brother Matthew. Alright? She wanted to she she said, hey. I wanna name my first kid Matthew. And my dad said,4:57 absolutely not because that name is in the bible. Right? And then 4 years later, they had me and named me Mark. So clearly, this guy had never picked up a bible before in his life.5:11 My my middle name is Andrew and my brother's middle name is James. We got 4 disciples knocked off. And this guy's clueless.5:23 So I, so when I was about 8 or 9 years old, my parents got divorced. And the the the tragedy of that, the trauma of it for me, for those of you who5:35 are who are kids of divorce, it it actually when my when my parents sat me down and said, hey, listen, we're getting divorced and my dad left. The the trauma of that gave me a mental illness called Tourette5:46 syndrome. Now I don't know if you guys know what Tourette syndrome is, but it's the reason I'm, like, I'm up here and you'll see me, I twitch my face around, and my body twitches around. You're like, what's wrong with5:56 this guy? Tourette syndrome is what's wrong with me. When I was 8 years old, the trauma of that moment gave me Tourette's. Now, here's the the Tourette's for those of you who don't know about Tourette's, it's it's a way6:07 not to be cool in high school. Alright. So so what happens is is you you do all these random habits, and you you do ticks and and and things that you have to do because you're you're and and 1 of the6:19 things that if you watch someone interact on YouTube, they swear a lot. Right? And that's what was me. I'd be I was like 12 years old. I'd be sitting at a bus stop, and I just be swearing at people randomly. There's an f6:29 f. Like not the letter, like the word f. Right? I mean f u, f. Right? I mean, rant rant. I mean, right? Now here here here's the 1 job you're never gonna get in life6:41 when you randomly throw f bombs around at people. A preacher. Right? It's not gonna work. But how many of us in this6:52 room know that God uses you not because of you but in spite of you? Because it's not the last job ever for a kid like that is7:04 gonna be what I'm doing in front of you today. Right? Walking to Patriot Church, ask, get in a small group. What? That doesn't work. I can't be swearing at people. But God7:16 took me in all my weirdness, and all my brokenness, and he decided to use me to to preach and be on a stage for a living. Why? Because it makes you feel good7:28 about yourself, and that's a good thing. Because I remember God, when I was 19 or 20 years old, I was gonna go into the film industry. That's what I wanted to do with my life, and God brought a group of people around me,7:40 and they said, no. That's not what you're gonna do. You're gonna go and be a pastor. Pastor. You're gonna be a preacher. And I was like, no. I don't want to be a pastor. Because here's the thing. Would you agree with me?7:47 People are the worst. Right? Like you all, I'm not a good pastor, man. My church knows this. I'm7:59 not. Like pastor Adam, he he loves you. Alright. He he cares about you because he's a pastor. He love he's he's all I I talked to him every person I saw him with It's8:11 like he knows your name and he knows your story, and all this person's greatest person. I meet people in the lobby of my church. I'm like, hello. I'm like, hi, I'm David. I'm like, hi David. Delete. Alright. I'm just8:22 like, I don't I'm not gonna need this information in about 8 minutes. Alright. And so and so when people came around me and they're like, here's what you need to do. You need to go plant a church. You want you you need8:34 to be a pastor. I was like, the last thing I wanna do in my life is be a pastor because people complain all the time. They're like, oh, the worship was too loud. Start a singles8:46 ministry for me. It's like figure your own life out. Why? You can't find a person in this crowd. Good luck. It's like fish in a barrel. You don't need a ministry8:58 for that. So I was like, I was like, man, I don't I don't know. I don't know if I'm gonna be good at this job, and you and you could see why. And so9:11 but but a weird thing happened, not only so my dad my dad passed away when I was 15 years old, and it caused me to ask a lot of big questions about origin, meaning, morality, destiny, where am I going in life, and,9:24 and it caused me to come to know Jesus when I was, 18 years old. A guy came and shared Christ with me, and I got into the pastorate and I didn't know what I was doing, and then I moved to Vancouver because I wanted to go9:35 into the academic realm, because again people are the worst. So so footnotes though, I like footnotes because they don't talk back to you and make dumb decisions with their life and cheat on their wives. And so it's like9:45 footnotes is what I want. And then God said, not only do I want you to be a pastor, I want you to to plant a church. I want you to start a church with 16 people in your house. Now we're talking about Vancouver, Canada.9:57 Right? We're talking about progressive post Christian. Like, they say that Canada is probably a generation or 2 ahead of America in regard to secularization. Right? So I like to say when I'm speaking in front of10:08 Americans, I come to you from the future. Right? I come to you from where your country is going in regard to atheism, secularism, post Christian thought. And here I am, and God says, I want you to plant a10:20 church in Vancouver, Canada. I'm like, I don't wanna do that, man, because nobody likes Jesus here. Nobody care This is this is the West Coast, man. This is all like, they're they already think they're saved10:32 because they wear Lululemon pants, and and carry a water bottle, and eat kale. And they're like, oh, I'm I'm connected. And I gotta get up every week and tell these people, no,10:44 no, no. You're not actually saved. Because here's the thing, going inside of yourself, finding yourself, the new age gospel is not what saves you. You need to come to the end of yourself. And10:56 here's the thing, the 1 common denominator in all the problems of your life is you. And you show up here and you think you can find salvation in you,11:08 you are a disaster. You are a wreck. You are sinful, pitiable, poor, blind and naked, but Jesus isn't. Jesus Christ11:21 died on a cross, rose again for your salvation. Stop trusting in yourself. And everyone said, that will never work. Because in Canada, no 1 wants to hear that they're11:33 sinful. No 1 wants to hear that they need to give their life to Jesus. They think they're already alright. And so I just started doing that. Every single week, a kid in his running shoes and a hoodie yelling at everybody11:43 about how they're a disaster, but Jesus needs to be the hero of their life. And people started to meet Jesus, and this thing started to happen where over time God saved literally thousands of people11:55 all across Canada because I was willing to say, send me. I was willing to go, I know I'm not gonna be good at this, but maybe through me God, you could do a thing. And here's the crazy thing about what12:07 God does. How many of us know? Where was the apostle Paul when he wrote the book of Ephesians? Does anyone know? He was in prison.12:20 So I had never heard of Folsom prison before. I I mean, I'd heard it through the Johnny Cash song, when I was a Canadian, but when I moved to Sacramento, I realized I live 20 minutes from12:32 Folsom Prison. And in fact, we as a church have a campus in Folsom Prison where every single Sunday, I look at a camera, and I say hello and preach to our Folsom Prison campus, And it's12:43 300 guys in jumpsuits sitting in the service, loving Jesus, worshiping Jesus, going and I and so12:55 I remember our team came to us and they said, hey, man. We wanna do, we wanna do a a day in Folsom Prison. I was like, yeah, it's a really good idea. Let's let's, you know, shoot some video and project it in there.13:09 They're like, no, no, no, man. We're talking about you going. I'm like, what? Why would I what are you talk I I don't know, like, I wouldn't do well in prison. I'm I'm just saying.13:22 So I was like, oh, I don't know. They're like, no. We're going in, man. We're going in. We're gonna do a whole conference. You're gonna preach there. I'm like, oh, okay. So we show up that day. We're standing outside the13:32 prison, and it's literally like just like the movies, like big stone walls, huge gates. And they're like, okay. We're gonna go in. And then literally, no joke, all the alarms start to go off.13:44 I'm like, what is going on? And they're like, sorry. There was a shanking in the prison. I'm like, alright. Well, we gave it a shot. We'll see you later, you know. And13:56 everyone's like, no, no, no. That's just a 10 minute delay. 10 minute delay? What are you talking about? This is over. And they're like, no, man. So we walk in, big14:08 gates open. We walk in, and I see the guy on the gurney. Literally, he's on the gurney like shaking. I'm like, what the and we go in. And I thought I thought we'd14:20 have, like, our own little, like, tunnel or whatever. We just kinda pop up in the chapel, and there'd be some, like, some plexiglass or something. Yeah.14:31 It wasn't like that, man. I I I went I went in and there's a whole bunch of inmates, and I'm walking right with them and they're like it's just like the movies. They're all tattered up. They're14:44 like, what's up? And I'm like, what's up? Right? And I and I got I got14:56 into the chapel, and this guy, no joke, makes a beeline for me. Alright? And this tied it up guy just walks right up to me. And I'm like, oh no. And he runs up, and he15:08 gives me the biggest hug. And he goes, how are Aaron and the kids? And I'm like, you know my family?15:25 How how long you in for? Like a while. Right? Right? Because this guy listens to me preach every15:36 week. He knows my whole life. And all the prisoners started walking up to me and going, he's smaller in real life. Look at him. They're laughing at me.15:50 And I start and I'm like, Lord, what do I preach to these men? And God said, here's what I want you to do. I want you to preach the prodigal son story. And so I got up and started preaching Luke 15 to these guys, and I16:02 looked at them and I said, how many of you in this room had a father that abandoned you? How many of you in this room had a had a father who drank too much and and and hit on their beat their mom or their sister16:13 and abandoned? How many of you? And all 300 hands went up. And I said, listen to me. In Christianity, you get a father who16:25 will never leave you. In in in Christianity, you get a father who will never drink too much, Who will never beat on your mom. All he does is run16:37 out to you. The minute you repent, he runs out and embraces you, and puts his own robe on you. It's a beautiful thing, and they're crying, and I'm watching these men and I'm thinking16:49 to myself, see these are the kinds of people God uses. The people that he's not supposed to use. The people some of you walked in here and you're like, God could never use me and I'm here to tell you he can use17:01 any of you no matter your past, no matter how you view yourself, he views you different. Now listen, Paul says this, Paul,17:13 an apostle of who? Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus. Here's the apostle Paul, wants you to know right off the bat that your life is not about you, it's about Jesus. Amen. He's the only 1 that can save you. He's the only17:25 1 who can redeem you. He's the only 1 who can transform you. He's the only 1 who can carry you. Money will disappear. Your marriage will crumble. Your health, 1 day, every single person here is gonna get a diagnosis and17:37 die, but Jesus Christ is eternal. And no matter what this world does to you, he holds you. He is the ultimate treasure. Now, this is the problem. Some of you who grew up inThe Power of Grace and Jesus 17:48 church, you think that the bible this is what the apostle Paul is trying to do. Verse 1, I'm trying to tell you the bible is because there's only 2 ways you can read the Bible. Either the Bible is18:00 about you or it's about him. Yeah. Now some of you who grew up in the church, the problem is is you read the Bible as if it's about you. So you you18:12 do your devos in the morning, and you, you know, you got your cup of coffee, and you've already taken your selfie, hashtag. Hashtag Jesus, hashtag devo,18:24 hashtag. And the problem is is you go to work, and when you read your devo that morning, you you read a story about Jesus, and you're just hanging out with some18:36 prostitutes, and some sinners, and and you when you read that story, who were you in that story when you read it? You were Jesus.18:47 Every time, what would Jesus do? And you go, you know, I'm gonna minister to the prostitutes at work. I mean, the the not the real ones, but the emotional, you know. I got all these18:59 spiritual, you know. Listen. If you read the bible that way, it will crush you. Because here's the19:11 thing, you are not Jesus in that story. You are the prostitute. You are the person who every19:23 single day, you cheat on Jesus and yet he shows you his grace. That's how you read the bible. And if you read the bible like that, it19:35 sets you free because you could try your whole life. I gotta be like Jesus. I gotta slay the giants of my life. No. No. No. You're not Jesus. You're not David in that story.19:47 You're the Israelites who are hiding up in the bushes hoping that a representative Israelite would go down and slay the giant of Satan, sin, and19:58 death, and then impute it to you even though you did nothing. Because you're the only thing you bring to salvation is the sin that necessitated it.20:11 See Jesus needs to be the hero of your life. Jesus needs to be the 1 that you look to and go, okay. So here's the power. When you make your life about Jesus,20:23 he changes everything. I remember when we started our church in Canada, everyone said, well, Mark, here's the only thing that's gonna work in Canada. You gotta preach these, like, topical sermons, and20:35 you gotta be able to entertain people. People are gonna come in. You're gonna, you know, ride around on a unicycle and juggle and come to my church and hopefully, you entertain everybody. And I was like, that sounds20:45 awful. What's my other option? And they're like, well, you could preach the Bible, but that's gonna be lame. No 1 in Canada no 1 in Canada wants to hear you. Just preach the Bible. I'm like, okay. That 1. So I started20:57 when I started our church, we're in this little elementary school gym, and I would just get up, and I would start preaching through books of the Bible. Verse by verse. I would like literally, we spent 3 and a half years21:09 in the gospel of Matthew when we started our church. 3 and a half years. Right? Like like even in this sermon right now, I'm on Paul,21:26 an apostle of Christ Jesus. That's it. That's where we're at. Right? And so I would just tell them every week, you need to give your life to Jesus. We preach through bible verses and here's what happened.21:38 People started to meet Jesus. People started to get their addictions healed, their marriages healed, and it started to grow. And 16 people became 50, became 300, and I21:50 remember when we were 300 people meeting in this little elementary school gym, and this I said, we're gonna have to go to 2 services. And the and this woman walked up to us. She said, I can't go we can't go to 222:01 services. This is gonna be the nail in our coffin. I'm like, why? And she's like, because I come to church for community, and now I'm not gonna know where Joanne is, and we gotta go for lunch after, and now which and so22:11 I so I got up the next weekend, and I preached a sermon. I said, listen. I didn't start a church so you could get more friends. I started a church because every single22:22 day, people like my father die and go to hell. And so next week, we're going to 2 services. And if you don't wanna I don't really care what you're gonna do with your life. I probably won't remember your name anyway. So22:34 just we're just gonna do it. And that next weekend, we went to 2 services, and the church grew by 50 people in a week. Well, she left. So22:46 49 people in a week. And I'm like, what What just happened? And what22:58 started to happen is Jesus started to save people. And the church started to grow and grow and grow because when God shows up to do something listen, There's nothing23:09 you can do to stop it y'all. There was there was a weekend when when my staff looked at me and they said, Mark, I like, it was 1 of these weekends where I just didn't feel23:21 like going out and preaching. Right? Pastor Adam, pastor Diego, they've they've never had this, but I but I I remember I was, like, sitting backstage, and I'm like, I don't wanna go out and preach. I'm not even in the23:33 mood because I'm gonna go out there, and I'm gonna look out at this crowd. I'm gonna see the same guy who's been sitting in the same seat for 4 years. Never brought a friend, and he gives nothing.23:47 And I go out there and give my whole energy to this guy. He's gonna sit there and rate my little sermon out of 10 and move on with his life. And I'm just sick of this. I don't feel like it. And my staff's like, go, go,23:59 go. So I walked out and I preached like a what preachers are probably call like a Jonah sermon. You know Jonah? He didn't want the Ninevites to repent. Right? So he just preached the word. Like I just24:11 went out, I'm like, God hates you. Figure it out. I don't know. And no joke, on Monday morning, my admin sat24:22 me down. She said, I don't know what you said on the weekend, but more people came to know Jesus this weekend than we've ever had. In fact, we had to start training the ushers in24:34 how to lead people to Christ because people were walking up to them and going, hey, whatever he just said, I want Jesus. And they're like, buck it.24:47 Because that's all we train them to do, man. There's a hand out the buckets. And what started to happen was something that was24:59 not scheduled. Jesus started to show up and save people, and we couldn't even keep up with it. That's what happens when the spirit of God starts to blow. It's everything in your power, and that's why Paul's going,25:11 I want you to focus on Jesus Christ as the hero of your life, as the 1 you've given your life to, as the 1 you believed in, as as the 1 that you treasure. And some of you are bored with Jesus. You're like, I don't know25:21 about Jesus. You know, he's kinda like this victim guy who walked around in sandals. No. No. No. That's who he was 2000 years ago for 33 years. It's not who he is now. You know who he is now? The reigning25:32 ruling king of kings, lord of lords who's coming back. I remember this, this mentor of mine25:44 in Vancouver, but a 75 year old preacher. He sat a group of us preachers down. He looked at us. He said, let me ask you a question. If you showed up to church on Sunday and not 1 person came to the church, alright, just25:55 they just didn't show up, what would you do? And every guy's, I don't know, go home. And he's like, no. Here's what you do. You still preach the sermon. Because there are principalities and powers that need to be26:07 reminded who's in charge. That there has been a victory that Jesus Christ has defeated them and is reigning and ruling now, and coming back for his people. And some of you he26:19 have no vision for your life. Paul, right off the back says, let me give you 1. It's Jesus. And then he says this, by the will of God to God's holy people in Ephesus, the faithful26:31 in Christ Jesus. And then he says this word. Ready for this? What's his word? Grace. Grace. That is the word for all of us who don't feel like we're26:43 worthy. All of us who have a past where we've been where we have messed up and sinned and made mistakes or had a whole bunch of mistakes made against us. Paul leads this book by going, I need you guys to26:55 grasp grace. You what grace means? Undeserved favor. Undeserved favor. That means no matter what mess you make, no matter how much you fumbled your life, no matter the mistakes27:07 you make. Do you know the amount of mistakes that I've made in ministry, and somehow God still has me doing this. I don't understand how. Listen, have you guys ever heard of Saddleback Church before? So Saddleback27:19 Church, you know, Saddleback. That's the changed church in evangelical America, 1 of the greatest, biggest churches ever. I used to read all the books and I was a church parent, all the purpose driven and the baseball27:28 diamonds and all this crazy. And I'm like, okay. I get a phone call 6 months ago from the pastor there. He says, I want you to come and preach. I'm like, what? Preach at Saddleback Church? Oh my gosh. That's like the27:38 Super Bowl of preaching. I get to preach at Saddleback. So I prep this sermon. It's all perfect. Every illustration, every phrase. I'm gonna behave myself as Saddleback. I'm gonna make sure it's legit. So27:50 I get up and preach at Saddleback, and they sign this text and I was talking about, hey, the apostle Paul was a guy. He murdered people. And then I said, how many of you have28:02 murdered somebody before? Of course, first service goes, all is well. Right? Second service goes all is well. How many how many you murdered somebody before?28:14 You know, God can use, you're already ahead of Paul. Third service goes, I said, how many you murdered somebody before? And I look over to my left side, and I see a hand go up. And I look over.28:27 I'm like, okay. Thank you for your honesty. And it was the sign language lady.28:47 Shoot shoot. How many of you murdered somebody? How many of us know that god redeems stupid?29:01 I am not getting invited back there. So when I was a young when I was a young pastor, I, I told a woman that her husband was dead and I had the wrong29:13 guy. Yeah. Her husband was fine. I I I I had gone and visited him in the29:24 hospital, and then I went in on a Monday, and I walked in the room, same room, same hospital. And and the guy was there, and he wasn't looking good. And as I went to step around, the nurse said, excuse me. What are you29:34 doing here? And I said, oh, I'm here for a for a pastoral visit. And she said, oh, I'm sorry. He passed away this morning. Now if you're taking notes on how to be a good pastor, when someone says someone passed away,29:46 say, who? But I just said, okay. Sounds good. And I went back to the office. I told the secretary,29:58 and 2 hours later, his wife came by the church to drop something off and was was holding a subway sandwich and said, I'm on my way to go visit him. And the secretary came back said, I don't think she knows he's dead. I30:08 said, send her back. And she came back, and I said, I'm really sorry. I said, where are you going? She's going, I'm going to visit David. I said, oh, David died. David's dead. He died this morning. She's like, how's that30:17 possible? I was there singing with him this morning. I said, all these things happen pretty quick these days. It's downhill. You just never know. You never know. At30:29 which point, I'm not kidding, she passed out into my arms. And we mourned the death of David for an hour and a half until I walked out and realized that I'd had the wrong30:41 hospital. And so the secretary called, and David was fine. He's waiting for his lunch. And I'm like, shoot.30:53 So I had to I had to walk back into the room like, hey.31:07 Man, remember that thing we're talking about? Now let me be honest with you. Worst day of my life. And I'm gonna be honest31:19 with you. Satan used that in my life to destroy me. Because he said, you you aren't good enough to do this job. You're dressing up. You're not a real pastor. You don't even know what you're doing. You're pretending.31:29 You're dressing up like some man that you think, and you are not good enough. You should not plant this church. It was 6 months before planting the church, and I needed people to come around me and look at me and say,31:39 no, no, no. Do you know what the father said to Jesus when he was being baptized? You are my beloved son and whom I am well pleased, and he hadn't even done anything yet. You think that you're gonna plant this church and31:51 reach people for Jesus because you're perfect? No. It's because he is perfect. He's gonna use you and you're gonna fumble it and you're gonna make mistakes for the rest of your life.32:03 But that's what grace is. Have you ever thought about people in the Bible? I saw this thing online the other day about people in the Bible that we look up to, all these great saints. But have you everShow more In this video 0:00 God Uses the Unlikely17:45 The Power of Grace and Jesus32:04 A Good Father and Worship
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