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0:00 Alright. Alright. Patriot Rancho, how are we feeling? Feeling good? It's good to be in church. If we haven't met, my name is Aaron. I'm 1 of the pastors here on staff. An honor to be entrusted0:12 to be a part of the Joshua series. And if you're brand new, we have these journals in the book. Matter of fact, I I was praying for a specific group of people.0:24 Now, by round of applause, who came to some of our weekend experiences for Easter? Okay. Now do me a favor. If issue if it was your0:36 first time coming to Patriot on Easter weekend and you came this Wednesday, could you raise your hand? Your first wow. Wow. Look at look at0:48 God, church. That is amazing. Thank you for being here. I have a gift for 5 of you. So if you want, I have some Joshua0:59 journals for you. The first 5 people that come up here. The first time you came was Easter, but you came on Wednesday night. Let's give her a round of applause. Here's your Joshua journal.1:12 Okay. Okay. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Okay. I'm gonna give you 1 after service. I know you personally. I'll give you 1 after service. Here you go. Here you go. Here1:24 you go. Absolutely. Here, take your pen. Take your pen. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for being a part of our church. Somebody remind me, I have 1 more to give away. Why do I do1:36 that? Because reading the Bible changed my life. It'll change your life. We'll give you 1 right after service. So we're gonna have 7. So we got 2 more to give. So reading the Bible can1:47 change your life. And what I wanna encourage us all to do is lean in tonight because tonight can be transformational. Now, if you're newer to the series, we've1:59 been in every single week, we've been going through Joshua. We're already in Joshua 6. Can you believe that? Now, if I could reduce this sermon to 1 phrase,2:11 I would say the Lord will give you a word to walk out for warfare. The Lord will give you a word to walk out for2:22 warfare. And what I wanna do is just show you, we're gonna be in 14 verses tonight. But on the front end, I'm just gonna show you how we're gonna put it in chunks. Because part of the reason why we're in this series is2:34 because not only are we learning from the sermons, we're actually learning how to have our own devotionals as well. And I like putting this the the Bible in the little chunks, and verses 1 through 5 will be word,2:46 verses 6 through 9 will be walk, verses 10 through 14 will be warfare. And that's how we're gonna do it tonight. And what I want to encourage you is lean in. I believe2:57 tonight can be transformational. Let's all stand to our feet. We're gonna read Joshua 6 1 through 5, and then we're gonna jump right in.3:10 I'll be reading from ESV. Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out and none3:22 came in. And the Lord said to Joshua, see. Everybody say see. See. I have given Jericho into your hand with its king and his mighty3:34 men of valor. Now I want us to do something together. Every time we see the word shall, I'm not gonna say it, we'll say it as a community. Okay? Verse 3, you Shall. March3:46 around the city and the men of war going around the city once. Thus Shall. You gotta stay on the rhythm. Stay on the rhythm. Thus Shall. You do for 6 days. 73:57 priests Yeah. Bear 7 trumpets of ram's horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you Yeah. March around the city 7 times and the priests Yeah. Blow the trumpets. And when you4:09 and when they make a long blast with the ram ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people Yeah. Shout with a great shout and the wall of the city will fall down flat and the4:21 people go up, everyone straight before him. Heavenly Father, thank you for your word. Thank you that you spoke to Joshua and you're speaking to us4:33 as a community, but you're also speaking to us individually. God, get me out of the way. I thank you that tonight, it'll feel like I'm having 1 on ones with people. Holy Spirit, connect your4:45 word to people's situations right now, but use your word to elevate us above our situation. Give us your power, your clarity in Jesus name we pray, amen. You may be seated.4:57 The reason why I wanted to do that is because I pay attention to when words are repeated in the Bible. Now notice here, it says, he said to Joshua, and5:09 the first thing he said to Joshua was see. And that gives a pattern on how the Lord communicates with us. The way that the Lord communicates with us is he first gives us5:20 a vision for victory. So he said to Joshua, see, I want you to see, I want you to picture yourself as a winner. I want you to picture yourself that is already defeated. You already won. So5:32 the way that God communicates is, I want you to see that you already have it. But the sea is connected to the shawls. Now how many seas were there?5:45 1. How many shallows? 7. 7 means completion in the world of God. So here's what God does. I'm gonna5:56 inspire you by showing you something. I want you to see something and that's gonna give you inspiration. But I have these 7 shouts that are instructions.6:09 So in order for us to digest the word of God, we gotta have inspiration and instruction. We can't just live a life of inspiration, but it's6:20 great that God started with that vision, but he gives detailed instruction on how he's going to win. I have a chart on the screen6:32 just to drive this more clearly. If you look here, if you look at the inspiration, 1 phrase. But it's 7 instructions in order6:44 on how Joshua is gonna see that victory come to pass. You guys got that picture in your mind? 1 sea, 7 shouts.6:57 And there's so many times in my life where I just wanna live in inspiration. I just want God to show me something new. But God is like, I want7:09 you to shout something now. And what if the next new thing that God has for you was connected to the last thing God told you to do? Yes, you're gonna see it7:21 if you shall it. So there's so many times in my life, God, I wanna see a good marriage. Well, I need to focus on I shall go on date7:32 nights. I shall forgive. I shall stop bringing up the past. I shall speak life over my spouse. I wanna see my kids7:44 healed. I shall be healed. I shall go to counseling. I shall model exampleship.7:56 I wanna see no debt. I shall budget. I shall tithe. I shall be generous. So it's 1 thing to see8:08 it, it's another thing to shall it. And what God is trying to show us here is that I wanna show us something, but I wanna be in partnership with you, so when8:20 it happens that God gets the glory. I think today, if you look on social media, we just wanna see something. What's the inspo? And a lot of8:32 times when I look on social media in church, sometimes it's like a lot about deliverance. This person got delivered last Sunday, he gets delivered this Sunday, got delivered next Sunday, and it's like, wait, wait, wait,8:43 wait. Could it be that we just wanna see something? Now, I believe in deliverance, but deliverance prepares us for discipleship. And once we're8:55 discipled, those habits that we have in place could prevent us from needing to be delivered again. Wanna see something, but I don't wanna shout something. I'll give you an9:07 example. I love playing Legos with my daughters. And when we get Legos, there should be a picture on the screen that just9:18 shows what it will be. If you open this up, this is what you will see. Now, is this9:30 inside of the Lego box? So somebody said, no. But well, it is. But you gotta follow some instructions. And9:42 there's been so many times in my life where I pray for wanting to see something in Jesus name, amen. And my expectation is I pull it out and say, God, you're good.9:56 Because I prayed for it, God said I shall see it and I don't have to do any work for it to come to pass. And now everybody looking at me, vroom vroom, look at me go10:08 because I see it and I have it. Now, is this how life works? But sometimes in our prayer life, we wish it would. Because he said it in his10:20 words, so why doesn't it look like this? Now, here's what it really looks like. When you first pull it out, the first thing is like, wait, these bags of items10:32 and I've got these instructions. Now now I'm bored. Now I'm overwhelmed. Because I just wanna see10:43 this. But God gets his glory when I'm patient enough to look at his instructions long enough to look at pieces of my life. And as10:55 those pieces come together, it'll build something beautiful, God's timing, God's terms. That's why it's in sequential order. If you look at these pieces, notice that they're in11:07 order, but sometimes in life, I'd be trying to skip steps. Sometimes in life you know what? I'm a be I'm a be real with you. I don't like looking at instructions. Tell me if you do11:19 this. Well, okay. I want I want this and then I just go to YouTube, And I try to see somebody else putting it together. I did that with a Rubik's cube. But what ends up happening, sometimes we do that in the11:31 spiritual too. I don't need to look in the Bible. I just need to look at somebody else's faith and pattern my calling based based upon their calling.11:43 The problem with that is comparison. So we see somebody with their Ferrari. It's like, wanna have a Ferrari right now. But we don't know the work and the role that it took for that person11:55 to get what they have. And we need to be content where our own calling that God has for us as we look at the instructions that God has for us. Breaking it down further,12:07 Joshua would know this all the way from Joshua chapter 1, because he had a leader Moses. And if we look at verses 6 through 8, look what it says here, be strong and courageous for you12:19 are the 1 who will lead these people to possess the land. That's inspiration. You're gonna be a great leader and you're gonna have land that I swear that the ancestors will give them. Be strong and12:31 very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Don't deviate from them turning either to the right or to the left, then you will be12:42 successful in everything you do. Study this book of instruction continually. We'll come back to that word. Meditate on it day and night, so you will be sure to obey everything written in12:54 it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. And the way that God communicates is in patterns. Hey, I want you to see something. You're gonna be a great leader.13:06 You're gonna have land, but you gotta follow the instructions of the Lord and your leader. And see now I lost some of us. Because some of us13:18 okay, you know, I'll follow the Lord. I ain't following my leader. If we look at the scripture, follow the instructions Moses. Moses, the convicted felon?13:31 If you don't know Moses story, you can look at Exodus 2 through 4 how it starts. He had a rough patch, he end up being a great leader and God will test our humility if we're following instructions of the Lord13:43 and our leader. You don't know if you're submitted to your leader until there's disagreement. And what Joshua needs to learn right now is, I'm13:55 gonna have you give commands to an army, but the fruit of that is how you followed Moses. And some people, I can't get my team to listen to me. How do you honor your14:06 leader? Because the way that you honor your leader will be the way that you will be entrusted with honor. But some of you may be thinking, well, I'm not Joshua.14:19 I'm not a leader yet. I just started coming to church. So so what do we do if we don't hear a word from the Lord yet? Well, that's why I love Joshua being in sequential14:30 order. For the last few weeks, we were in Joshua 5. You could go to our YouTube, you'll see a sermon from pastor Sammy and pastor Diego. But the way that I saw this when I read Joshua 5, it was14:42 about self care. And Joshua 6 is about warfare. And God will always have us take care of ourself to prepare us for warfare. Because if we14:54 don't know self care before warfare, we'll go back to the previous habits that we had. So if we don't, how do I get to a place in my life where I could be like Joshua and15:06 get a word from the Lord and get inspiration? Well, I have a recap of Joshua 5 on the screens. The first thing we gotta do is we gotta kill our flesh. Notice this in15:18 Joshua 5 chapter 2, what ends up happening is they crossed the Jordan and now Jericho was nervous. And then the Lord says, hey, make some knives. And then the warriors part that cool,15:30 we're gonna make some knives to take out our enemies. No, make knives to kill your flesh, circumcision. Word? I thought I'm gonna take out my15:41 enemy. You can't take out your enemy until you know how to die to your own flesh. And I wonder what things in our life that we have to die to prior to hearing the word of the Lord. The second thing, change your15:53 diet. I'm with you. I promise I'm with you. Man, they used to manna them frosted flakes.16:05 And now when they move forward, now they gotta eat from the produce of the land, the fruit of the land. I wonder what appetites that we have, that we pay attention to that prevent16:16 us from hearing the word of the Lord. And what God is saying, self care is important. Let's kill our flesh, let's change our diet and let's serve the Lord. Verse 13 through 15,16:28 after he changed his diet, after he was circumcised, the Lord appears and he gets down and worships and he says, Lord, your servant is here, creating an environment for the16:40 Lord to speak. So if we want a word from the Lord, those might be areas that we could check up in our own life. Because the Lord will give us a word16:52 so we can walk. Point number 2 is walk. Let's look at verse 6 through 9. So Joshua, the son of Nun called the priest and said to them, take up the Ark17:03 of the Covenant and let 7 priests bear 7 trumpet of the ram's horns before the Ark of the Lord. And he said to the people, go forward, march around the city and let the armed men pass17:15 on before the Ark of the Lord. And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the 7 priests bearing the 7 trumpets of ram's horns before the Lord went forward, blowing the trumpets with the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord17:27 following them. The armed men were walking before the priests who were blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard was walking after the dark while the trumpets blew continually.17:40 Let's talk about this for a moment. The word is for us to walk. Now, does walk mean? Walk means follow Jesus. Follow Jesus means being17:51 obedient. But here's the reality. Obedience to God many times is foolishness to man. Could the Christian life is about unlearning? So18:03 it's like, God, I trust you that you've forgiven me for my sins, but I still got the same homies, the same group text, the same music playlist, the same so how do I navigate? How do I18:15 walk this thing out? And then when we try to walk this thing out, then the homies that we have around us, why are you doing all that? It don't take all that. Why are you changing your schedule? When we start being18:25 obedient to God, you'll look like a fool to certain people. There's 2 things I wanna bring to our attention. In verse 7, it says, go18:37 forward, march around the city. Wait, which 1 is it, God? You want me to go forward or do you want me to go in circles? Both.18:50 Because sometimes in the natural, you may feel like you're going in circles. But in the spiritual, you're still moving forward. See, there's times19:02 in my life where I need to pray, I need to fast, I need to change my attitude, I need to change certain things, and I still don't see nothing change in the natural.19:14 So it's like I tried that. I tried praying. I tried fasting and I didn't move forward. You know what that was? I wasn't consulting the Lord on his timing.19:27 I was staying on my timing. And there's certain times in our life, wherein the kingdom of God, we're actually moving forward. But because we can't see results yet, we19:38 feel like we're moving in circles. In circles, in circles. But will we be disciplined enough? And will we be patient enough to do what God has told us to do19:50 even when we don't see the results yet? Second thing, the armed men were walking. Can we find20:02 something more for them to do? I mean, they're armed. They're warriors. They trained for this moment. And what do you do20:14 when you're gifted to do something, but God's not asking for your gifting, He's asking for your surrender. What do you do when you're ready for war, but God's just calling you to walk?20:26 Let let's make this let's make this very practical. Are you guys all in the Lord's army? Yes. Okay. So let's role play online. I want you to lock in with me. I'm gonna act20:38 like I'm Joshua. Okay? I'm a commander. I'm tough. So when I give you guys a command, you guys say, yes sir. You guys ready?20:54 Online you're gonna type, yes sir. Alright. I'm a lock in. Men and women of God. You guys ready21:06 for war? Yes, sir. You've done your drills? Yes, sir. You have your weapons? Yes, sir. Bandanas? Yes, sir.21:18 Alright. We've been working hard. I've heard from God. I want everybody, get your guns, your knives,21:31 bandanas, grenades. Put them on. But before we go to Jericho, let's stop at the mall. And when everybody gets21:43 some walking shoes, you can get Adidas, Hokas, New Balance, just no Skechers. Over multi generational. If you got Skechers,21:55 you're grandfathered in. But you're gonna take all your army gear and we're just gonna walk in22:07 circles. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Let's walk. Now, what are you thinking in this moment? What22:20 in the world is he talking about? We did these jumping jacks and push ups. I got grenades in my pocket. What if what what I'm not a walker. I'm a warrior.22:33 Why isn't God using me how I'm supposed to be used? And sometimes God is calling us to walk something out and it makes no sense to us.22:45 But could it be that that's practice and discipline for our next assignment? What if it ain't even about all your military training? What if it was about the22:57 discipline necessary to hear God for warfare? But if you picture all the stuff that we practice in private, and23:08 we get these moments to showcase who we are, And all God calls us to do is walk. Will you walk with joy? Yes, sir.23:20 Thank you. You know, Ephesians chapter 6 talks about this because this doesn't just apply to Joshua, this applies to us. If we look at23:32 Ephesians chapter 6, verse 10 through 13, it says, finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not23:43 wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the23:53 whole armor of God that you may be able to with stand in the evil day and having done all stand firm. We are to put on the armor of God not so we can flex how strong24:05 we are, so we can already stand victorious in who he is. There's a quote here by Tony Evans. It says, victory in spiritual warfare is24:17 not about trying harder. It's about standing firm in what Christ has already done. And when we could stand firm in what Christ has already done, we can walk in24:28 love. We can walk in freedom. We can walk in forgiveness. We can walk in humility, trusting the 1 who fights our battle. It doesn't matter how skilled we are, it matters24:40 how surrendered we are. So God give us a word so we can walk it out24:53 for warfare. Here's the moment. We're gonna finish chapter 6 next week. And we're gonna set up the beginning of warfare now. Verse 10, Joshua25:05 commanded the people, you shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth until the day that I tell you to shout. It's kinda like when I'm talking to Trinity, my daughter.25:18 Then you shall shout. So he caused the ark of the Lord to circle the city going around at once. And they came into the camp and spent night in the camp. Then25:30 Joshua rose early in the morning and the priest took up the Ark of the Lord. And the 7 priests bearing the 7 trumpets of ram's horns before the Ark of the Lord walked on and they blew the trumpets25:41 continually. And the armed men were walking before them and the rear guard was walking after the ark of the Lord while the trumpets blew continually. And the second day, they marched around the25:53 city once and returned into the camp. So they did for 6 days. Remember, we define what walking is. Walking is following Jesus, walking is being26:05 obedient. So then what's a practical definition of spiritual warfare? Spiritual warfare is continued obedience under attack.26:17 You don't start being obedient when you're in warfare. We're following Jesus and as we're following Jesus, we get under attack. So while we're under attack, we continue26:29 to follow Jesus and not go back to old habits. That's warfare. But there's 3 words that I wanna emphasize that we see here that we can learn about warfare. Mouth,26:41 camp, and continually. And I wrote this down in my journal and I'll share it with you because I have to do this. We need a camp that tells us to shut up our mouth and continue.26:55 Whenever we're in warfare, 1 of the easiest things to do is complain. That's the warfare, shutting our mouth.27:08 Because sometimes we're praying, we're fasting, but we're still complaining. We're still gossiping. We're singing worship to the Lord but cursing out our neighbor.27:21 It's the pressure. It's the things that are going on on the inside of us. And God, I'm trying to follow you but I'm so angry right now. And sometimes, we just gotta be27:33 silent and let God fight our battles. So notice how Joshua says, hey, I've heard from the God. We're gonna walk and as we walk, don't27:44 complain. Don't murmur. Because it's so tempting when we're following Jesus and it doesn't make sense. Have you ever been in a meeting with somebody and27:56 your leader says something and you get knocked, you're trying to get eye contact with somebody, like, do you hear what he's saying? You start sending the text, but you're like, you're still in the meeting, but you're28:05 sending the text. This is stupid. Why are we doing that? And see, Joshua knew that. God knows that. He doesn't want us to be compliant and complaining.28:18 He wants us to follow him with a joyful heart. So 1 of the hardest things to do is I'm following Jesus and I'm because28:30 I'm not ready to speak yet. Because if I speak, I'm gonna mess this up. And if I speak, I'm gonna influence others to complain. Hey, did you see that wasn't there? Or we do it like Christians.28:42 Man, we gotta pray. Let me tell you what happened. Pray by yourself. But when you're the when you're in the camp,28:54 let's not complain. And we need people in the camp that looks at this, You still complaining about your spouse on the same day? Did you forgive your spouse or not? Hey, let's talk about what moving forward looks like.29:06 Hey, control your mouth. And we gotta have people that love us but aren't impressed by us. We gotta have people in our life that we're scared to sin in front of. So that way when we're trying to29:18 walk these things out and we get attacked, we don't complain. Or we don't use our mouth to embellish or say all these things that don't make sense. People that know me now in my29:29 circle, they say, Aaron, you don't talk much. Well, I have so many years of just like talking too much. The more I read the book of Proverbs, the more it just taught me,29:41 shut up, Be a listener. Proverbs 17, look at that, if you want. I'll give you an example from my life. This was over 2029:53 years ago, and I just talked too much. I was making man pay, but I had a boy mind set. I was probably about 22, 23 years old, I think, and30:05 making a lot of money. I'm working in Pomona in a call center, and I already knew, man, they're about to make me the regional vice president, so I might as well get settled here. And they were building these new30:16 homes in Pomona. And in these new homes in Pomona, the way that they would inspire you when you will come in and try to see about the house, they would give you the30:28 blueprints. So I would I would keep these blueprints in my condo, and then I say, you know what, since I'm trying to make more money to get this house, I what I did was I30:40 plastered these blueprints in my office. And I tried to have it as inspiration on this is what you're working hard for. Now, here's the30:51 problem. I would have these blueprints, and then people would come in my office, oh, what are those? Oh, you know what I'm saying? I'm about to buy this brand31:03 new house. You feel me? Let's put the blueprints up. Let's put the blueprints up. I'd be like, you know what? That's going be mine. I'm at the master bedroom and we're going to have a pool party, it's going be popping,31:12 you're to want to pull up and I'm about to drop this rap album, probably platinum by that time, so you probably want to be out there. I'm just talking. And people I Well well,31:23 you need a roommate? Oh, you want you wanna live with me? Okay. Well, we gotta talk about. And I'm arguing with people on who's gonna get the master bedroom. Who go I might even talking to banks.31:35 But I'm talking to people about what I'm about to do. Now, I go to work with these blueprints because I'm about to be this homeowner. I'm about to get a brand new house. People are gonna31:47 come through and see how rich I am. Don't we do that sometimes on social media? This is what I'm about to do. I'm about to do this business and this business is gonna change31:59 the world. And what we're doing some and there's nothing wrong with that. But Luke 14 says, count the cost. Because you don't wanna be considered somebody that talks32:11 about all the plans and doesn't finish them. And that was me walking around with blueprints when God was looking for my footprints.32:23 Will you walk this thing out that I can trust you with a home? But I love the way it felt when people would be impressed by what I was about to do instead of just being in private32:35 and having obedience. And humility training is having your blueprints in private, but your footprints in public. We32:47 don't have to show everybody what we about to do. But when we pray, we can talk to God about the desires of our hearts. In Psalm32:59 37 verse 4 says, delight yourself in the Lord, he'll give you the desires of your heart. But it's in that order because once we delight ourselves in the Lord, he changes the palette of33:10 our heart. So what we desire is him, and once we have him, we have everything. You know, before I33:22 conclude, I wanna put these things on the screen. I wrote these in my journal and I think they'll be beneficial to us as a community. When we read verse 10 through 14, here's how I would summarize33:34 some tips to do in spiritual warfare. Control your mouth. Now, it's in your because it was to Aaron Levy. So I wrote it like I wrote it to me to me. Aaron, control your mouth. Guard against33:46 complaining and premature declarations. Commit to community. Stay with the camp not isolated. Continue in obedience. Don't quit just because you don't see the walls33:57 falling yet. Whenever we face something in our life, God will give us a word. But we gotta walk that thing out. And as we're walking it out, there34:09 will be warfare. But we'll surround ourselves with our patriot community. That's why we have neighborhood groups. So that way when you're in warfare, you're not in warfare34:21 alone. So as I conclude, I wanna give everybody an invitation. You may know church, but that's not my34:33 question. My question is do you know Jesus? I'm a church professional. I can't count how many church services I've ever been to.34:46 But I lived decades of my life ignoring the word of God. And I'm a living testimony that no matter how far you are from Christ,35:00 God's love will reach you where you're at and just say, hey. Here's a word. Let's start work let's just start walking here. It was on my heart to pray for35:11 those that came for the first time on Easter and came back that Wednesday because that's my story 15 years ago. We'll come here at the very back with my35:23 family Easter of 2010, and pastor Diego will be on stage and he said, hey, come to church for the next year straight and see what God will do in your life. And I said, I'm coming that next35:35 Wednesday. And I never forget that sermon series he did. It was called Christian Atheist. And I knew all the Christian terms, but my lifestyle didn't look like or believe35:47 in Jesus. So I was praying for you, specifically for those that you came on Easter and you came back on Wednesday. God loves you35:59 as is. You don't have to change anything about yourself to be loved, but his love is so influential, you'll want to change so you can honor him and be more like him.36:12 There's some of you that have been coming to Patriot for a while. You love the vibes, you love the worship, you love the word, it's cool. But have you surrendered your life to Jesus yet? Here's what36:24 I can tell you. Church services won't save you. The blood of Jesus will. There is a God who loves you so much that he sent his son Jesus to die on the36:35 cross and take the penalty that we all deserve. And once we believe that in our heart, we experience freedom that we don't have to improve from36:47 all we've done in the past, we can confess that, give that to our Lord, and walk with him. Everyone in this room has that opportunity to start36:59 that or continue that. When we looked at Joshua, it kept saying the word continue continually continually. There's some of you that started walking37:10 with Jesus, but then you stop walking. The pain of life, the confusion, the situations, the relationships cause us to37:22 stray instead of following Jesus. We might have started following some other pursuits. But tonight, you're reminded that if if God can talk to Joshua, he could talk to me. There's some37:34 things that you learned tonight that you say, you know what? I'm grabbing that for me. It's an invitation for you tonight to give your life back to Jesus. Rededicate your life. Continue on the faith37:46 journey. You're already on the way to heaven, but your life will start looking different as you walk in following Jesus. I'm gonna ask everybody to close their eyes for a moment.37:59 Online, I would love for you to just lock in with me, please. I'm gonna ask everybody to say this prayer together as a community to encourage those that are praying this prayer for the first time.38:12 You're gonna start your faith journey with Jesus, and it has nothing to do with what you've done is everything that Jesus has done for you. But you're gonna continue and surrender to him.38:24 There's a second group of you. You're gonna say this prayer out loud as a declaration. I'm moving forward. I will take Jesus seriously. I will get in his word. I'm a walk with38:35 him even when there's warfare. And I want us all to repeat this prayer together to encourage those that are praying this prayer. Say this with me, please. Say, dear Lord Jesus,38:47 believe that you died on the cross for all of my sin. I receive your forgiveness for this moment forward. You are my38:59 savior and my Lord. Teach me to trust you. Me a desire for your word. Surround me with39:11 people that point me to you. In Jesus name we pray. Let's all open our eyes. Patriot is a safe place and there are people39:22 right now in this community that are praying for this moment. I'm gonna ask that if you prayed that prayer for the first time to give your life to Jesus, or you prayed that prayer to rededicate your life to Jesus, on39:34 the count of 3, I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand bold. That moment was for me. And we just wanna celebrate you because we're family. And online, if that's you as well,Show more
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