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April 6, 2025 · 56 min
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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 But joining us this weekend is all of our campuses. So could you welcome Pomona and Alameda in the house today, as well as all those watching online? This is 1 of those0:11 all campus weekends because it's a special weekend in the fact that we're concluding our series called secret wounds and silent cries. And and I pray you've been blessed by this series, and God has been0:23 speaking to you. And I've heard some incredible things from individuals, from all of our pastors that have been speaking across all of our campuses on this series and topic. And I get to conclude it, which I will in a0:35 few moments. But also, this is a weekend that if you've been journeying with us as a church over the past kind of 60 days, we shared as a church that we were gonna be going beyond together as a church.0:46 And we believe that God was calling us to a 3 year mission from the Lord to have a 20000000 dollar mission of doing things across all of our campuses. And so we0:58 spoke for 6 weeks about the topic, and we gave opportunity for everyone that calls Patria their home church to make a financial commitment over the next 3 years on top of their regular1:10 giving. And on top of that, a few weeks ago, we had a miracle offering. And we shared on April fifth and sixth, we would share with all of our campuses how much was committed and how much has1:22 been given thus far in the far in the miracle offering. So I'm excited because I don't know about you guys, but I've been curious. I mean, I kinda know already, but I had been curious about what had1:34 been going on and how everyone had partaken in this incredible opportunity to see God go beyond in Patria. And so the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna share with you how much we have in total commitments.
1:46 Second thing I'm gonna share with you is how many households have partnered with this program together. And then lastly, I'm gonna share with you how much money has come from our miracle offering. And so, the
1:58 first thing I'm excited to share with you is I'm gonna have it behind me. So far committed together over the next 3 years as a church, we have had this is fancy. I didn't even know they
2:10 were gonna do this. So they're really fancy. 13061477
2:22 dollars. Absolutely incredible. Thank you so much for all of those who participated and committed over the next 60 days. You know it's a
2:34 20000000 dollar vision, but that's over the next 3 years. And so people come and people make more commitments, and so this is an absolute incredible beginning to what God is doing in our
2:45 church. And so we believe that over the next 60 days, that another 2000000 dollars will come in commitments. We already see it. I wanna share with you how many households that equals. And so, that includes
2:57 mom, dad, children, all those things in 1 household. So, so far in our church, we have had 1570 households committed
3:09 to go beyond. It's absolutely incredible. Thank you so much to all of those who've committed, whether you've done it by yourself or your whole
3:21 family has talked about this to sacrifice together. And then lastly, in our miracle offering thus far, total given already just in the past few weeks, we've had
3:32 600200 or 24994 dollars given to the miracle offering that is already
3:43 greenlit projects that we'll share with you in the next couple weeks. I'll share with you 1 in just a moment. And so I just cannot tell you how absolutely privileged we are as a church and a leadership
3:55 team that so many individuals, so many families have committed to see God go beyond in our church. And so I thank you for continuing to store and continually to
4:07 invest in your church, but also into the next generation. Because what we're doing is for the next generation. So if you haven't been able to partner with us yet or maybe you've been praying about it or you said, maybe
4:18 I'll wait until April fifth and sixth. Well, here's the thing. Across all of our campuses, when you leave today, in our foyers, you'll see 2 things. You'll see an envelope that you can still give towards the miracle
4:29 offering. We're believing God over the next 45 days that a total million dollars will come. So we're at 624000 dollars. And so we're we're almost there. As a church of about 14000 people,
4:41 that's something that we can do together. And then on top of that, if you say, you know what? I wanna make a commitment over the next 3 years or maybe over the next 2 years, maybe the next 1 year. I haven't done that
4:52 yet. Well, then when you leave services in our foyers across our campuses, you'll find some markers and you'll find a commitment card. At those tables where you leave, you can actually fill them out and leave them in the
5:03 receptacles right there, and we'll continue to see God do some incredible things. I already tell you about a testimony of what God did. Believe it or not, it's incredible that the scriptures are actually real. When
5:15 Jesus says you have not because you ask not, it's quite incredible that you literally do not have because you do not ask according to God's will. We just experienced that. Our newest campus,
5:26 Alameda, there's 0 parking in the city of Alameda. There's none. And when we first became our merger together, they were already a church that existed for 3 years in their current campus. They've been there for a little
5:37 over a year. There is an elementary school right next to it. First thing I did when we began to come together as encore and patriot, I asked pastor Fuego, pastor Fuego, if we got this
5:49 entire blacktop where kids play basketball, where people can park, we would be able to reach so many people in this city because it would make us the church with the largest parking lot in the city
6:00 overnight. And he said, I've been trying for a year to get access to that blacktop. And we said, well, let's commit to the favor of God and let's pray that God will
6:12 open a door that we can have that blacktop. 1 week after our miracle Sunday a month ago, we got word from the city that said from here on out, every Sunday, we're gonna open up the gates and we're gonna allow your church
6:24 to park here and your at your campus. And so I got picture and video of our new parking space at Alameda. That's 65 cars
6:36 overnight. There was once no spots for 65 cars. Overnight, 65 cars are able to be parked there at our Alameda campus. 1
6:48 week after our miracle offering, 1 week after our miracle offering, God opened up a door. Well, here's why. Because, man, I I sure love free. I love Costco. I love free
7:00 samples. But unfortunately, the city of Alameda was not doing it for free. They charged us to part there. But we were ready because we had a miracle offering. We're ready because people made commitments.
7:12 And so it wasn't something that we had to look at a particular budget and say, hey, is it in our Alameda campus budget? We said, well, we just had a miracle offering. We can see God do this, and God has already answered
7:22 1 prayer of our project. I just wanna encourage you, continue to see God in your own life, continue to ask God in your own life, and continue to see that God can and
7:34 will answer prayers. Man, God is good, we're so thankful. We're so thankful for you partnering to go beyond because already you've made parking available to 1 of our campuses, and we
7:46 are so blessed. We're so blessed to all of our campuses partnering and believing in those in other cities and other regions. And in Rancho, we'll share with you in the future, just in the coming weeks, some of the other
7:56 absolutely incredible things that are happening here in Rancho as well. Well, I'm ready to dig into the word of God as we conclude this series. I'm gonna have a moment of worship at the end of service. And so I
8:08 just wanna encourage you to just prepare your heart across our campuses because we are gonna make an invitation to seek God's presence today. Because over the past couple weeks, as we talked
8:20 about secret wounds and silent cries, the first week we've talked about was church hurt. The second week we talked about parental hurt. The hurts that we experience, whether it be our
8:32 mother or our father. First week, we talked about I don't know if you stay in church long enough. People that are hurt, they hurt other people. Hurt people hurt people. And church hurt is a real
8:44 thing, and church hurt is something that we all experience. And so, therefore, we're gonna conclude our series by talking about 1 last thing. It's the hurt of shame. It's the self
8:55 inflicted hurt. It it it's the hurt that I cause on myself. Whether it be through my own sin, whether it be through my own trauma, whether it be through my own addictions, whether it be through my
9:07 own pain. And if you like taking notes, the sermon title that I'm gonna share with you today is gonna be called from shame to a song. Because what God will do is if you allow
9:19 him to carry your shame, he'll give you a song. So this in the service across all of our campus, I'm gonna encourage you that whether you're carrying some type of shame, whether you're carrying some type of pain,
9:31 carrying some type of hurt, I wanna encourage you at the end, we're gonna believe God that he's gonna give you a song of worship today. That God is gonna bring a breakthrough in your life and in your heart. He's gonna
9:41 heal you in areas that you didn't even know that you needed healing for. Because we serve a God that can do it. CJ Jung says it like this. He says, shame is
9:53 a soul eating emotion. It's what shame will do. Shame doesn't just affect your present life and your daily habits. Shame will actually eat the very
10:05 person that you are. And we're gonna see that today through the life of king David and how king David, known as a man after God's own heart, he himself experienced some of the greatest
10:17 sin and the greatest shame that any human being could ever face. Alright. But there is hope in God. And David experienced that very hope in God. If you're
10:29 taking notes, I'm jumping right into it today because I got a quite a bit of bible that we're gonna walk through when it comes to the life of David. But I believe that if you see what David's fall into sin did to what it
10:40 happened when he gave God his shame, you will see that God did a miracle in David's life, and he can do a miracle in your life. Amen. So here's the first thing that shame will actually do. Here's the first point. What
10:51 happens is is it's a slope. Shame shame says hide, and grace says come. But the second thing is, with the first point, there is a slope of silent sin.
11:04 You ever been to the mountains before and maybe there was some snow and you thought that you had a footing and then you slipped your foot and you just started sliding down further than you anticipated? That's what sin
11:14 tends to do. That's what shame tends to do, is it's a slippery slope. Yep. And we think 1 sin won't affect other areas of our life. But when we engage in 1 sin, it falls into another
11:26 sin, which falls into another sin, which falls into more trauma. And then we take more trauma, it falls into more trauma. Next thing you know, we look at ourselves and we say, how did I become this person? Right. We
11:38 see that happens with king David himself. He's the second king of Israel. He comes after Saul, and this is a king that God called to himself. And so I think do we have a screen?
11:49 Oh, let's go. Second Samuel chapter 11 verse 2 to 9, you'll see a moment. If you grew up in church long enough, you've heard the story of Bathsheba. But I want you to see what happens when David finds
12:01 a beautiful woman bathing from his palace. He's supposed to at this point be at war, but he's become so successful in life. He's become such an incredible king that instead of being in
12:13 battle, he's just hanging at the palace drinking wine, eating grapes, moats. He's bored. And how many of you guys know boredom can be the devil's playground? Yep. You got nothing going on, Satan will fill you
12:25 with something to go on. That's what happens with David. When kings are normally at war at this time because his country's at war, He's in the palace because he's been there, and he's done that. Next thing you know, he
12:37 sees a beautiful woman. Here's what it says. 1 evening, David got up from his bed and walked around the roof of his palace. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very
12:48 beautiful. And David sent someone to find out about her. Oh, that girl, she looks good. I have to know her name. And the man
13:00 said, she's Bathsheba. She's the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite, which is 1 of his generals in his army. And then David sent messengers to get her.
13:12 She came to him, and he slept with her. Now, she was purifying herself from the monthly uncleanliness, then she went back home. I want you to pause the the screen
13:24 right there. Go back to that real quick. You see, here's what's incredible. A lot of times, what will happen is when you hear this story, there will somewhat be a depiction that
13:36 Bathsheba was somewhere she shouldn't have been. Almost like, well, you know, if she would have been more modest, she wouldn't have allowed David to fall into temptation. And so, it takes 2
13:48 to tango. That's not what's happening in this story. You see, this story, the Bible makes it clear that she was purifying herself. In other words, she had just finished her
13:59 monthly cycle. And in the Jewish custom, every woman, even still to this day, every woman after their monthly cycle, they have to go to something that's called a mikvah, which we would call it a
14:11 baptism tank. And every single month, she has to dip herself next to the church. The mikvahs, small communities, they were connected to the temple.
14:24 The mikvahs were connected to the church. And so what she's doing is she's bathing herself just so that she can worship God again. And
14:36 David takes advantage of a very a moment that she's just isolated doing her duty as a woman of God. She's she
14:48 has to dip herself in a water bath of a natural warning spring to purify and to represent that she's being cleansed. And what happens is, instead of David recognizing that she's next
15:00 to the church doing her religious duty and turning his eyes, he starts gazing. It's like someone getting ready to be baptized on a Sunday, and someone pops
15:12 in and they're like, hello. That's a that's a very special moment. It's a moment of cleansing from God. And David takes advantage of that
15:23 and invites her to his palace. She has no say. And it says, he slept with her, and then she went back home. Then look at this. What happens is
15:35 is, you know, because they're battle. Battles were lasting long. So whatever happens, 45 days, 50 days, 60 days, she starts throwing up. She starts she's got morning sickness. She's like, uh-oh.
15:48 Something happened. And it says the woman conceived, and she sent word to David saying, I'm pregnant. And David, in that moment, he said, oh, I
16:00 made a big mistake. I need to fix this. No. This is where the slippery slope of sin happens. What he says is he says, well, here's what I'm gonna do. The next verse is, he says
16:12 this, David sent word to Joab, send me Uriah the Hittite, and Joab sent him to David. What happens is he said, let's allow her husband to have leave of absence
16:24 so that he could come home. I'll I'll just say I need to talk to him about some things. I'll let him sleep at his house. He'll sleep with his wife. She'll be pregnant, and it'll be like, hey, Uriah. You got your wife
16:35 pregnant when you were on leave. That's not what happened. Uriah, being a good man of character, he says, if my men are out in the battlefield, then I won't go visit my wife. So
16:47 he sleeps on David's palace floor with David's servants. Never goes home. Never even tells his wife she's in town. And it says, when Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were, and how
16:59 the war was going. He wanted an update on the war. The next slide. Then David said, Uriah, go down to your house and wash your feet. So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
17:12 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all the master servants and did not go down to his house. It's another and so what happens is what will happen is
17:24 shame thrives in secrecy and silence. Because what happens is David is working behind the scenes to make his sin work for him. And then we know what ultimately
17:35 happens because Uriah refuses and he doesn't wanna own up to his own mistakes. What he tells his his other messengers, he says, send word to the Calvary and tell them that I want Uriah
17:47 to lead from the front lines. Put him on the front lines of the war so that he could die. And I don't have to face Uriah. And then when he's
17:59 dead, I'll just marry the widow, Bathsheba. And I'll be a good man. That's what he does. And so he has this slippery slope because he don't wanna own up
18:10 to his sin. But what happens is there's a prophet of God named Nathan. Because what David's trying to do at this time, he's trying to control his own narrative. And what happens is if you try to
18:22 control your own narrative of your own shame and your own sin, what will happen is it will begin to unravel and unravel and unravel. And the embarrassment and the shame will become greater
18:34 and greater. And that's what happens to David. What starts as a moment of compromise leads to a lifetime of consequences when we've refused to bring light
18:46 to our own brokenness. Because here's the second point. The next chapter, what we see is we see this burden of brokenness that David experiences. I'm gonna read
18:58 this quickly. But what happens is, David does all that he does to try to cover up his shame, try to cover up all of his addiction, try to cover up all of his trauma, try to cover up all of his pain, and it just
19:10 it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. Because eventually what happens, that child that he marries her, that first child, ends up being a miscarriage.
19:23 It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. That often is what happens in our own life with our own shame and our own sin is it gets worse and worse and worse.
19:35 But what happens in Samuel chapter 12 verse 1 to 7? There's a burden of brokenness that David experienced, and it says this, the prophet Nathan, the Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said to him, there
19:46 were 2 men in a certain town, 1 rich and the other poor. The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, but the poor man had nothing except 1 little ewe lamb he had brought. He
19:58 raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup, and even slept with him in his arms. It was like a daughter to him, the little lamb. Now a traveler came to the rich man, but
20:09 the rich man refrained from taking 1 of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the little baby lamb that belonged to the poor man, his only lamb, and prepared it
20:20 for the 1 who had come to him. And David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, as surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die. He must pay for that lamb 4
20:32 times over because he did such a thing and had no pity. Then Nathan said to David, you are that man. Yes. Yes. Ouch. Hold
20:44 on. This is what the Lord God of Israel says. I anointed you king over Israel. I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave your master's house to you and your master's wives
20:56 into your arms. I gave you all of Israel and all of Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. Why did you despise the word of the Lord
21:07 by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword. You took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now, therefore, the slore the sword will
21:19 never depart your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.
21:31 You see, what happens in this moment is David reveals his own brokenness, his own hypocrisy. He says that person who stole something, that person who sinned, that
21:43 person who fell short, they need to be held accountable. Nathan says, and you are that person that needs to be held accountable. Because what happens is many of us, like David, we
21:54 wear crowns in public, but we carry wounds in private. And so publicly, David is trying to wear this crown as king, and he
22:06 trying to I mean, he got the right outfit on. He's got the right colors on. He's got the right words. He got anything he says, everyone does it. On the outside looking in, it's like David's the man. He has it all
22:17 together. This is the guy who can throw a slingshot, play a harp, write songs, and beat somebody's butt. He's got it all. He's got it all.
22:30 But on the inside, he's got these wounds. He's got this pride. He has this addiction. He has this way about himself that he's trying to get whatever he wants and whenever
22:41 he wants. And what happens is, God doesn't want to expose David to humiliate him. He wants to heal him. And what happens in when my sin and your sin
22:53 and our shame is exposed, God is not trying to taunt you. God is not trying to say, look at this fool. Look at this clown. Look at this sinner. God is trying to say, I can heal that
23:06 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you would expose it. If you would allow God to touch it.
23:18 Saint John Christosom says this, he who is ashamed of his wounds will never let Christ touch them. If you're ashamed of your pain, if you're ashamed of your
23:30 wounds, then you will never give God the ability to heal you. When God exposes you and I, he wants to heal us. He wants to deliver us.
23:42 When he calls out our own hypocrisy, when he calls out our own sin, it's not to bring shame to you, it's to bring surrender to you and I. God desperately wants us to
23:54 surrender to him. God desperately desires for you and I to see that we have fallen short, but God is stronger. And if you allow God to work in you and through you, you can experience the very
24:06 goodness and grace and strength of God. But your own strength and God's strength cannot coexist. And what happened was David was relying on the
24:17 crown instead of relying on the king. Instead of relying on God and surrendering to God. So here's what happens when Nathan exposes him and
24:29 Nathan calls him out. Here's the difference between Solomon and others. This is why David still to this day as known as a man after God's own heart. Because what happens is David
24:40 immediately breaks down in tears. He recognizes how he's fallen short. He recognizes his own brokenness.
24:52 And what happens is, I'm gonna spend a little time on this before we close and worship together. What happens is his shame begins and starts a song. And you may or may not know
25:04 it, but in 1 of the psalms, psalms 51 was pinned immediately when David came to the realization of his sin with Bathsheba and his sin with Uriah. David
25:16 goes into his closet. He pulls out his harp. He pulls out a pen. He pulls out a paper. And he begins to sing a song of prayer to God of repentant a repentance
25:28 of his own brokenness. He sings God a song, but the song itself, the lyrics, you've ever heard a song before where the song was decent, but the lyrics were
25:39 powerful? Yes. It's like that's a good song, but then someone tells you, but listen to the lyrics. Did you know that they lost this and this and this after this song? Or did you know that the love of their life
25:51 left them and then they wrote and and then you go you listen to it again, like, wow. This is powerful. See, David's song, it wasn't that the chords were brilliant or the keys were
26:03 brilliant. It's the lyrics that were brilliant. I'm not gonna share all of Psalms 51, but I'm gonna share some incredible key points because Psalms 51 is not just a
26:14 confession, it's a restoration. David is restoring his relationship with God. There was a moment when I was in college
26:26 and I was in bible school. And as I was in bible school, I became kind of a leader. I was a leader over, you know, I was kinda you know, in colleges, they have them as RA's. So I was a resident
26:37 administrator for, you know, dorms and stuff like that. And I'm in bible school, and and I I ended up getting too close to a girl. Okay? Little Jezebel. Alright? So she no.
26:49 I'm just playing. But I did. I got I got too close to a girl, and we did some dumb things together. And and what happened was she was telling her roommate 1 day. And her her
27:01 roommate went and told the dean. So next thing you know, I find myself in the in the dean's office, and they are, you know, telling me, hey, we heard you've been, you know, acting up, Adam, and doing some things. And I
27:12 said, yeah, you know, that's me. And so and so they, you know, tell us what you've been doing. I said, I've you know, we've been doing this and I've been doing that. And her and I have been doing this and we've been
27:21 doing that. And and they said, alright. Here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna we're gonna bring all those that you're over as an RA, and you gotta tell all of them everything you've done. And then you're gonna have to
27:32 write a letter to your pastor, tell him everything that you've done. At the time, pastor Diego wasn't my pastor because I was out in LA and I was going to another church, so had to do that. And then they go, and then we
27:41 know your dad's a pastor, so then you need to go sit down and you need to go meet with your dad. You gotta tell him what you did. So I'm like, oh, okay. So I you know, I'm crying. I'm embarrassed. And,
27:53 basically, what happens is when I share it, the dean told me afterwards, I find it hard that you are even a believer because of what you did. I don't even think that you're saved. And I was like,
28:05 wow. Like that they hit me. Like, I'm not saved. I you know, I'm just stupid. But, you know, I I mean, I confessed Jesus. I love Jesus. I'm trying my best and
28:16 I'm confessing. I'm doing everything. You put me in front of 200 kids. I'm doing every doing everything that you want me to do. I had to write a letter to this girl's dad and all these things like that. And I'm like, I'm
28:25 doing everything here. I'm I'm just I look ridiculous out here. Doing everything I can. And I heard from 2 other pastors, yeah, we don't think you're Chris you're a Christian. I mean, just imagine that. You're trying to
28:35 do everything to follow Jesus, and you're 21 years old. And you're told by everyone that you respect, we don't think you're getting to heaven. Like, oh my gosh. And so then that next weekend, I go
28:47 to my dad's house. I begin to tell my dad, hey, this is this is what I did, and this is what they've asked me to do. And I and I began to weep in front of my dad and tell him everything I did, tell told him all of bunch
28:59 of other stupid stuff I was doing out in Hollywood and Highland as well. I just I just laid it all out on the table. And as I'm sitting there and I'm crying, my dad said, you
29:11 know what, Adam? Last I checked, king David did some stupid stuff in the Bible. And if he can be a man after god's own heart after everything he did, then what makes you think
29:22 you can't be a man after god's own heart after what you did? And he said, let's let's talk to Jesus, and we began to pray together.
29:34 In 1 area of my life with believers, I was shamed. I was told God hates you. God's so displeased with you. And then to my dad, who's a man of
29:46 God as well, he says, you know God can take that shame and give you a song. Right? You know God can God can still use you. You know you know God loves you. He he doesn't despise you. He
29:57 wants to heal you. Let's see that. And what happens is he used that moment of David to heal my heart. But here's what you gotta see. Look at Psalms 51 because this is the song. This is
30:09 the song that he sings. Now because it's in Hebrew, and I'm not gonna sing it for you in Hebrew because my Hebrew's terrible, and I'm just not that great at it. But you gotta imagine this is done in Hebrew, and so
30:20 there's, you know, words that rhyme and go together and sing together. But we'll do it in English and just read it. It says this, have mercy on me, o God, according to your steadfast love, according to your abundant
30:31 mercy. Blot out my transgressions. Amen. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me of my sin. For I know my transgression. He said,
30:43 I know what I did. I know my sin. And my sin is ever before me. When I wake up, my my pain is there. When I go to sleep, my pain is there. And he says, against you, and you only have
30:55 I sinned. He recognizes what he did to Uriah. He recognizes what he did to Bathsheba, but he says, God, at the end of the day, I did this against you. And he says, I have
31:06 sinned before you and behold, you delight in truth in the inward being and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Purge me with hyssop,
31:19 and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Create in me a clean heart, o God, and renew a right spirit within me.
31:32 Cast me not away from your presence and take not your holy spirit from me. Amen. I want you to go back to purge me with hyssop. He says, take not your holy spirit for me. Create in me
31:44 a clean heart. But here's to me the most powerful statement in everything we just read. And you may be thinking to yourself, why?
31:56 I I don't even know what hyssop is. Is that like syrup? Is that like what you put on pancakes? Like, what is that? You see, what that is, what a hyssop is, is it's a tree branch.
32:08 And during Passover, if we know the Passover story and communion, what we do today and what we did in our services and what we'll do on Good Friday in a couple weeks, All of that points back to the moment in
32:19 Egypt when the angel of death passed over the doorpost of every Israel life and protected their families when the angel of death went through to vindicate
32:31 Israel against Egypt. Every single year, even I think this weekend or next week is Passover in the Jewish custom. And so what happens is is every year, they remember the moment where on the doorpost,
32:43 they put blood on the doorpost. And the spirit of God, when it saw it and recognized the blood, it was a lamb's blood. When it saw the blood, it passed
32:55 over it. Which means everything that was in this room was safe. Everything beyond these doors were safe.
33:06 How did they put the blood of the lamb on the doorpost? Well, they did that with a hyssop branch. It's a tree,
33:19 and it just was branches. And what the Israelites did was they took these branches, they wrapped them just like this, and then they got the lamb's blood. They took the lamb's blood,
33:31 and they dipped it, and they took it across the doorpost, and they brushed it. And the blood of the lamb, when the angel of death saw it,
33:44 it said everything that's beyond this door is clean. It's covered. You you don't need to look behind this door. So what
33:56 David is saying is he's saying, God, I got all this baggage. I got all this sin. I got all this shame.
34:08 What I'm gonna do, God, is I'm gonna put it over here. And God, what I'm asking you is beyond this door.
34:19 I'm gonna ask that your hyssop branch, your blood will cover everything beyond this door. That you
34:32 that I have sinned, and I have shame, and I have brokenness. But Lord, I pray that when you see it, it's your blood that covers my life. That it'll make me white as
34:44 snow. That it'll create in me a clean heart. So he's saying, God, I know there's stuff behind this door. I I I know what's beyond this.
34:56 But I know that if your branch can cover my life, it'll all be forgiven. So he says, Lord,
35:08 would your hyssop branch cleanse me? To me, that's the most powerful statement of all of Psalms 51 because it says, with the blood of the lamb, couple
35:20 weeks away from Easter, we celebrate the blood of the lamb that was slain for our sins on that cross. And if you allow the blood of Jesus to pass over your life,
35:31 Whatever you got beyond this door, God can cover that. And he won't cover whatever's outside of this blood. Whatever's outside of this blood that
35:43 he can see, he will consume it. He will consume our life. But if we allow the blood of the lamb to deliver our shame and deliver our brokenness, David recognizes his sin. He recognizes his
35:55 brokenness. But in his song, he says, God, would you cover me? And there are times in our own life and I a few moments, I'm gonna give us an opportunity of
36:07 singing our own song to the Lord. Because you may be here today, and you may be saying, I need to put some stuff in that room. Honey, I
36:19 need that branch. I need that blood. I need the work of Jesus to cover some things I got going on. I got some addiction. I got a slope of sin that's just been getting worse and worse and
36:31 worse. I got some things that have been getting harder and harder and harder. I have trauma that's been getting more and more terrible, and and I just believe God could do a miracle in this place today. I believe
36:42 across all of our campuses, when we worship together, God can actually break some chains free today. That the blood of Jesus is still at work and is still a miracle today. We partook in communion this weekend.
36:54 That that is the presence of Jesus that is at work in our life. Yes. It's a miracle of God. Yes. Here's what I'm gonna do in a few moments when we go to worship and we give God our
37:06 shame and we give God our brokenness And we allow the blood of Jesus to cover our life and to heal us and to restore us and bring us into right relationship with God. Just a few weeks
37:18 ago, there was a neighborhood group that happened at 1 of our campuses. And I was told it by our team. And what happened was is there was a young man who showed up to the neighborhood group. And within the neighborhood
37:30 group, he started talking about a particular addiction of smoking weed. Not in a way that he needed it medically or for anything else it was. He said, this is an addiction. I cannot operate in
37:41 life without this. It has control of me. It has control of my finances, has control of everything. Every time I get paid, I just re up as much as I possibly can get. And he's
37:53 broken with these men. And he tells him, I'm I don't know what to do. So they prayed for him, and they encouraged him. And after the neighborhood group, he asked them, a couple of
38:05 the leaders, would you come to my car with me? And they said, okay. So they go to the the car with him, and he goes in the back seat, and he pulls out pulls out a weed pipe, pulls out a whole new stack of
38:17 marijuana, pulls out re up gummies, everything. And he gives it to these men and he says, will you throw this away for me? I feel if I go home with this, I'm just gonna
38:29 start the cycle all over again. And he says, right now, in this moment, I'm done. I wanna be set free. So he gives it to them. He says, please throw it all away for me. And God
38:41 began to work through that young man in that moment. Because what happens is when you're ready to just give it all away, when you're ready to just throw it all away, And
38:53 every 1 of us, whether it's our secret sin that we have, that thing that you hold on to, that thing that you can't get through in life without, then I wanna invite you because youShow more
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