Adjusting to the Yoke – Bill Johnson Full Sermon | Bethel Church

God’s main ambition for us is to be like Jesus. Bill Johnson challenges us to recognize how the relationships that challenge us are making us more like Jesus. We need people that don’t think like us to smooth us out and become greater.

yeah good morning good morning good

morning good to see you

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i did that push pay thing all by myself

during the first service during the

offering reading i actually finished it

during the offering reading

never mind that a five-year-old could

have done it and half the time i did get

it done

and i i’m quite happy about that we’ve

got a new book released

our increased books are testimony books

and each uh each page there’s

a great story pictures very very well

done

this one is done for kids and the four

kids buy kids

it’s just awesome and um somebody with

like

who has like five what

you have nine come here you win

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wow i’m speechless

let’s all go home now i don’t know what

else to do that’s

that’s amazing nine

there are some in this family i don’t

know if they’re here today

i forget how many they have but man it’s

a lot

and it’s it’s wonderful because they

line up as an army

give me hugs all right i got something

to read to you

a man was riding his bicycle through the

zoo when he saw a little girl leaning

into a lion’s cage

suddenly the lion grabbed her by the

cuff of her jacket tried to pull hers

inside to devour her right in front of

the little girl’s screaming parents

the man got off his bike ran to a man

got off his bike ran to the edge of the

cage

and hit the lion square in the nose with

a powerful punch

whimpering from pain the lion jumped

back letting go of the little girl

the man brought her safely to the

parents who were very thankful

a reporter saw the whole thing he

addressed the man saying sir that’s the

bravest thing i’ve ever

seen he said it was nothing the lion was

behind bars i knew god would protect me

like he did daniel in the lion’s den

long ago i saw this little kid in danger

and i just acted

the journalist said i noticed a bible in

your pocket

he said yes i’m a christian on my way to

a bible study the man replied

well i’ll make sure this won’t go

unnoticed i’m a journalist

you will see tomorrow’s paper front page

your story the journalist left following

morning the cyclist

bought the paper to see if indeed it had

mentioned his actions

sure enough front page he saw the

following

right-wing christian fundamentalist

assaults african

immigrant and steals his lunch

oh can you believe i read that on a

sunday morning

tv is on and everything oh

i just feel better for having read it

though i do i just feel so much

grab your bibles open to the gospel of

matthew

chapter 11 matthew chapter 11.

i know we have a lot of vegetarians here

and and i

i do honestly truly bless you admire you

especially that you have endured

in this church for so long with all the

abuse that i dish out

but i’ve got one more

my son sent me one yesterday said

something like

i eat twice as much meat as the average

person so that

the vegan who thinks is making the world

a better place i’m canceling out their

contribution

by the choice so

i just i just i’m informing you of the

news i’m not

creating it so

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yeah i can hardly wait to see the emails

this week yes sir

matthew chapter 11. i’ve got some stuff

that’s been stirring up in my heart for

quite a while actually and just really

finally felt the liberty

this morning to uh to talk with you

about it we’re going to look at

uh at a very tender place in jesus’s

life and ministry jesus administered

people differently there was no

cookie cutter approach to people for one

person sell everything

give to the poor follow me to another

person they just leave their nets to

another person

he responded completely different and uh

was just

uh um the the woman caught in adultery

gone said no more

so it’s different it’s not that the

requirements are different for every

person

it’s jesus had the ability to go right

to the core of who a person was and

speak to

the supreme heart issue so he’s always

targeting the center of who we are and

what’s valuable and

important to us so this is a passage

that

is known for one of those extreme tender

moments

and uh and has been a real standard for

us i want you to read with me

uh matthew chapter 11 we’re going to

start verse 25.

at that time jesus answered and said i

thank you father

lord of heaven and earth that you have

hidden these things from the wise

and prudent and have revealed them to

babes

this um let me talk to you just a minute

about this verse it’s not our subject

today

but i i would like for you to get a

bonus on on this passage

uh because of its importance let’s look

at it again

jesus said i thank you father lord of

heaven and earth

that you have hidden these things from

the wise and prudent

and have revealed them to babes

oftentimes people ask

how can i increase in and just my

revelation knowledge of scripture

and there’s so many things you can do

john chapter 7 teaches

that one of the things is to obey what

you already know that actually attracts

revelation but this

is very very profound because it’s

completely unexpected

being a good steward of what you know

makes common sense that would attract

more

but this is the key to revelation as

being childlike

he saved his best insights in revelation

for babes it’s important to see because

babe has nothing to do

with age it has to do with simplicity of

her simplicity of devotion

this is an upside down kingdom if you

want to be exalted you have to go low if

you want to

receive you have to give if you want to

live you’ve got to die it’s an upside

down kingdom

and in this one where we would think the

most complicated parts of the kingdom

would be revealed

to quote unquote the wise and the mature

jesus is saying no

the best is safe for the children the

best is saved for those

who have childlike heart as they

approach the lord all right let’s move

on in the story verse

26 even so father for seemed good

in your sight all things have been

delivered to me by my father and no one

knows the son

except the father nor does anyone know

the father

except the son and the one to whom the

son

wills to reveal him just good to make a

mental note

jesus is the continuous ongoing

revelation of the father

if you see him you see the father here’s

our three verses that

i want us to look at today verse 28 come

to me

all you who labor and are heavy laden i

will give you rest

take my yoke upon you learn from me for

i am

gentle and lowly in heart for you will

find rest for your souls

my yoke is easy my burden is light

the picture here is vital for us to

catch

or this will make no sense if you can

picture

a young oxen yoked to a larger

bigger auction oxen you’ll you’ll get

the pictures these big heavy

wood yolks that that harness the power

of these two animals

to plow a field accomplish whatever

they’re supposed to accomplish

jesus says your yoke to me

i’m going to carry the weight of this

and because you’re smaller

you don’t need to carry the weight you

just need to walk alongside me

and my yoke for you is going to be light

it’s it’s going to be easy

it’s it’s not going to be a burdensome

for you

that’s the life i have for you it’s an

amazing statement

the problem is is many of us find we’re

in a lot of pain

with the yoke that we’re in now if i’m

yoked to jesus

and he is carrying the weight of this

yoke

and it’s heavy for me why is it heavy

if i’m feeling pain from the

the weight of this yoke how could i

possibly feel pain

if he is carrying the weight the brunt

of it

it’s only because i’m going in a

different direction

listen carefully there are many times

the lord yokes us

with other people and it causes pain to

us

but it’s only because we’re not going in

the direction that is needed

by being yoked with them i’ve seen

good people in their marriages fall

apart simply because

they could not cooperate with the other

one

and the yoke became burdensome heavy and

painful

and the answer was to get rid of the

person who causes the pain

it may be in a personal relationship

area it may be in ministry it might be

where you work

but jesus is interested at something

much more

than our accomplishments and

achievements now i for one believe

that he is interested in us doing

something accomplishing something

we see the story uh the the servants

with the miners

sums of money the servants with talents

they were to invest to bring increase

god is

interested in increase in all that he’s

given us

all that we he’s given us all that we

are is to be invested for his honor for

his glory

to bring in a harvest for him that’s

important to him

but there’s one thing he has in his

heart that is of greater value

and that is me becoming like his son

jesus

all right let’s let’s make this

practical

from what i hear i am responsible around

here

that’s what i’ve heard i don’t think

it’s a rumor i think it’s actually true

i am responsible and because

i’m responsible um

i have a lot of power i don’t mean power

of the holy spirit i mean

power to make choices i can say

no you’re not going to do that yes

you’re going to do that

and if somebody causes me pain i

actually have the ability to organize

them right out my

right outside of my life which is

sounding really inviting right now at

the moment it’s just sounding like

wisdom perhaps here’s what i want to get

to

as you increase in favor and power

it becomes easier and easier to remove

the people from your life that god has

yoked you with

to make you more like jesus

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the more powerful you become the more

options you have in arranging who will

be in your life and who won’t

i intentionally this is going to sound a

little weird to you forgive me

i intentionally keep people of pain in

my life

because i know i’ve not arrived

you know how they put rocks in a rock

tumbler and they knock all the sharp

edges off and they all become smooth

listen none of us have it all together

and we actually need people

that in relationship expose where we

have sharp edges

god’s main ambition for you and me is to

be like jesus

and the problem with maturity let me let

me rephrase it

the problem with blessing is you can

insulate yourself from your own need for

change

and so i can create around me if i want

to

an environment where no conflict no pain

nothing will ever come to me i can

create that environment because i have

the power to do that

the problem is is god has sovereignly

yoked me with people that cause me pain

and that

christ chris thinks i’m talking about

him

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i’m just not even going there oh sir

he puts us together with the people we

need

he sovereignly yokes us sometimes it’s

in ministry responsibility some

sometimes it’s in work you may volunteer

to help

at the hospital or or a little league

coach and you have got a couple coaches

that you work with that just

irritate you to pieces it doesn’t matter

what context we apply this the point

is is the more powerful you become the

more tempting it is

to remove from yourself anyone who

exposes where you have weakness

and we don’t call it that we don’t we

don’t say they’re causing me

pain which is exposing my weakness we

say

they have a huge weakness that is

causing me problems

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anybody else with me on that one they

have issues and i’m telling you they

have serious

issues and i don’t know how much longer

i can endure their

issues so here’s what happens people

come and they say bill

i just i don’t know what i’m going to do

i i just i can’t handle this any longer

i can’t handle this any longer and of

course i’m always trying to

to bring comfort encouragement change

situations that i can change but here’s

the bottom line just between you and me

absolutely raw gut level honest some of

those situations are arranged by god

because you’re not quite who you think

you are and having that person in your

life

will bring you to a place of absolute

honesty and dependency

here’s what happens i have a a

a situation come up a conflict of uh a

betrayal whatever it might be

and i’m just i’m so troubled by it and

this has happened to me

too many times to count i’m talking

about i can’t sleep at night

i just oh this person is so important to

me this happened that happened

and i can’t sleep i get up at night and

i just i just go and pray and i i

i go and just walk and pray cry out to

god i used to go down to the

church in weaverville i just go in there

and pray and just cry out to god

and after a while some relief would come

and i would and i would have this

insight for example

i would say well you know this person is

a real gift to me or this person has

such great strengths

uh sometimes i’ll say oh god thank you i

never have to question their love for

their family

or god i never have to question their

devotion to

to be faithful and to be true and i look

for the things that are right in their

life

and i begin to give thanks until there’s

a real faith that floods my heart

suddenly that problem doesn’t cause me

pain anymore anymore

why because i moved to fit the yoke i’m

in

i moved to fit the yoke i’m in i’m i’m

in a yoke

and it’s a god assigned yoke

you you you find your place in that it

may seem like punishment it’s not it’s

it’s the very gift of god

to bring us into the likeness of christ

and so he puts us in this context

where we learn to walk in this

environment we learn to walk in this

friendship in this marriage in this

workplace whatever it might be we learn

to walk

in this environment by continual

thanksgiving

and learning to rejoice

said in thessalonians i mentioned it a

few weeks ago rejoice always

pray without ceasing in everything give

thanks

my inability to give thanks in a given

situation only reveals i’ve not yet won

the battle over my thoughts

we’re supposed to rule and reign with

christ that doesn’t mean dominate the

planet

that means effectively served bringing

out the best in every environment

so if if i can’t rule over my thoughts

what kind of influence am i going to

have ruling and reigning with christ

the battle is first right here secondly

it’s right here

rejoice always my inability to find joy

to choose joy in any given situation

only reveals

my inability to find victory

over my emotions these two challenges

are absolutely the key to yoke

adjustment

yep yoke adjustment happens through

thankfulness

sometimes i sometimes in the middle of

the day it just hits me

oh just like us somebody just gut

punched me

and i just go i’ll walk on the property

i’ll be at my house i’ll walk around the

house

the point is is i just get along with

god and i read until he speaks to me i

take

take the word of god and i just read and

then event i can take you to places

geographical locations

where i met with god and i was there in

tears i was there

in pain wondering why this was happening

why that was happening

why this betrayal took place why this

thing didn’t happen the way i thought it

should

and crying out to the lord and i read on

the pages of scripture

his promise to me and suddenly his word

gives me a yoke adjustment and suddenly

this

yoke that i thought was put on me by

other people

becomes the most liberating thing to

carry because i’m now walking in tandem

with the one who called me to walk with

him and in doing so

learning to be more christ-like in my

behavior and my response

some some of us in this room

would never pray if there was never a

problem

and even if you have the discipline of

praying

when there’s no problems many find it

hard to pray out of passion

when there’s no problem pain gives birth

to passion of prayer

hope is supposed to

pain gives birth to passionate prayer as

i heard someone say recently

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hope is supposed to hope is supposed to

be that which

possesses the heart if you will of a

person to pray with great passion why

prayers that move you move him present

don’t you move you don’t move him

it doesn’t mean they have to be long or

loud it just means you have to be honest

authentic

and involve all of us and passionate

prayer

is one of the things that brings the

hand of god more forcefully

into broken situations than anything

else i can think of it’s the passionate

cry

to the lord and when you’re in pain

because

oh this job that i have is just listen

let me just insert here if you’re

married and you’re

in an abusive situation this isn’t for

you

just get out of it just get out

it’s this this is a principle of

working with other believers where the

lord is adjusting

our life by the values behaviors of

people around us

and quite frankly every time if i choose

if i choose to honor the relationship

with this partner

even though i don’t get to accomplish

all that was in my heart to accomplish

because this relationship came first

something

is brought before the lord in my value

for unity

that exalts him above everything else

his celebration for my priority

of unity that glorifies him over

personal achievement

over personal liberty over me having my

own way

speaks volumes to him in a way

that is uh almost unparalleled

i’ve tried to work with this philosophy

for

quite a while now that if you want to

catch the attention of a king

do so by treating his daughter well

for me that’s my wife

and many others but it’s the way that i

care for her

is the way i catch the attention of a

king now let’s take that down a level

the scripture says we’re to submit

ourselves to one another in the fear of

christ

i actually if if i don’t fear god in you

then i do not see you for who you are

let’s have a drink to that one

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you too can have one of these bottles

they won’t let me bring brand names up

here anymore because

it’s broadcast so now we have our own

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it’s not a new water company

just so you know just the bottom

anytime we have a spiritual dysfunction

and we give it a virtuous name

we give it permission to stay and

increase

and there are oftentimes in

relationships where there will be

suspicions

jealousies resentments whatever it might

be

and of course hardly any believer i know

would call it for what it is

it’s a discernment it’s just my

prophetic uh gifting

it’s my personality which is a great way

to hide dysfunction just call it a

personality

then then you just you you you just

create the capital city for dysfunction

just call it my personality

i believe that jesus is interested in

our personality but he knows who we

really are

when he says shout for joy baron one he

doesn’t

say shout for joy all of you that are

extroverts

and and all of you that are rather quiet

and reserved

you know just think happy thoughts i’m

good i’m good

he know who he knows who he’s made us to

be

so when he gives us a directive of any

kind

it’s always so that we can step fully

into our design

it’s never to violate our identity it’s

always to step fully

into our design

so while he will not violate my

personality in the sense of my true

identity who he’s made me to be

he will often times put me in situations

to expose to me if i’m willing to learn

expose to me what’s in my thinking

what’s in my behavior

that he has nothing to do with and he

wants it gone

he wants it changed and so he puts me

together with people

that rub the wrong way it’s called god’s

gift

dick mills used to tell us turn to the

person next to you and tell them

god loves you too much to leave you the

way you are

that was always an edifying encouraging

word to us

so the lord puts us in situations and

sometimes

you know we wake up in the middle of

night as i’ve already stated and i get

up and i pray for an hour two hours i

just can’t get back to sleep

i get along with the lord finally i hear

that word that verse whatever it might

be

peace comes to my soul i go to bed

and i think man this person is causing

me so much problems

not realizing

maybe that was the goal

maybe that’s what he was looking for for

a son

to take very inconvenient time

when it was very sacrificial and to cry

out of true passion

and get a kingdom solution a kingdom

answer

and the end result is that yoke that was

causing so much pain

actually i don’t i don’t feel it now why

i don’t know i i i stayed up for a

couple hours and prayed

and he spoke and i don’t understand but

i know it’s going to be okay then three

days later

it happens again why because you’re not

perfect yet

all of us are in this place of together

choosing and preferring one another

sometimes i have to sacrifice my

personal

dreams and agendas now i hope you take

this in the right spirit

when i say i’m a powerful person i’m

trying to

be lighthearted in my position i can

make sure that every one of my dreams

get fulfilled

but that’s not what i’m here for i’m not

in that position

i’m not in this position for that i’m

actually here to hear the dreams of the

people around me

i’m here to catch that’s why that’s why

i don’t give

strong job descriptions is because i

want to see a dream develop i want to

see

someone in motion that starts to burn

for something

so i’m i’m i’m interested we have things

that have to be done but

i hope you understand i’m looking to see

people

explode in who god made them to be and

to become

something become something that god

always intended for them to be

and so we create this environment where

that’s a possibility

but this environment also creates a lot

of rubbing the wrong way

because that’s the nature of the game

and it’s the nature of my need

i actually need

people that don’t think like me i need

people that don’t handle stuff the way i

handle it

i need i i love i love travel my

favorite place in the whole planet is

right here

ready thank you jesus anybody else

thankful for the firefighters this week

thank you lord i’m very thankful

i’m very glad to be here this is my

favorite place but one of the privileges

of travel

is i i get to see churches all over the

world that are so different from us

and yet they are so anointed and blessed

by god

it’s so important to realize man ah

i need this group of people i need this

leader in my life he thinks different

than i do

but i need it i need his voice i need

his example i step into his

congregation whenever i go somewhere i’m

never there to

for my agenda i’m always there just to

support the person who’s in charge that

invited me

to support their dream their vision and

i love just sitting there watching

watching what they’ve done what they’ve

accomplished it’s

beautiful because it’s so easy to get

dialed into our little world and think

we’re it and we’re not

it we’re a spot on the map but at least

we’re a spot

where we get to contribute you know

randy clark says it best he says every

stream thinks they’re the river

that’s that’s sadly true

but at least we’re a stream at least

we’re we’re a stream and i’m glad that

we get to contribute to what god’s doing

i’m so thankful for that here’s

something that i want you to consider

i i i fly a lot and my airline

uh likes me

and and i’m thankful it’s certain

privileges you get

if uh when i land at certain airports uh

there’ll be somebody right outside the

plane when i get off the office sign up

says mr johnson and and i walk with them

under the tarmac

i don’t go into the airport with the

rest of the sheep

that’s bad that’s bad that was a joke

though i go down onto the tarmac into

the mercedes

and they drive me to my next gate

hallelujah

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occasionally i’ve gotten off a plane and

it’s it’s like a real tight connection

there’ll be somebody there saying mr

johnson we’ve got to get you through

this crowd quickly

you’re holding the plane and we’ll we’ll

just run

you know what happens when you’re

treated like that

when you have a tight connection and

they’re the not there

what’s happening

don’t they know who i am

[Laughter]

don’t they understand i’ve got 10

minutes to get to the other side of the

airport

what kind of organization is this

it’s true blessing

here it is take your biggest problem put

it right in front of you

the biggest aggravation in your life put

it right in front of you

now listen to me don’t ever forget this

there are

millions of people that would gladly

take your biggest problem

if they can also have your greatest

privilege

there’s income and there’s income tax

in a good nation your income will always

be greater than your income tax

i’m not going to talk today about the

rest

but seriously he puts us in situations

where there’s extreme benefit but it’s

also painful there’s a tax to pay

if i only see the tax i pay i will be

disgruntled

complain i want to distance myself from

the people that caused this pain

not realizing i’m in development i’m in

process

this is income tax

there are millions of people that would

take your biggest problem

if they could only have your greatest

privilege there are millions that would

love to sit right where you’re sitting

and that is true so what do we do

we come face to face with the fact that

we

are blessed beyond reason we

are favored by the lord and because i’m

favored i have to use that favor for the

welfare of others or it’s misused favor

if at any point the favor is used for

self-promotion

to insulate me from pain to insulate me

from

problems or challenges then i’ve misused

the favor

the favor is to be used for the

promotion of the gospel number one

the strength and empowerment of the

people around me this

is a mandate from the lord there is no

option here

if i choose to insulate me from

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from the people that god yoked me with

then what happens

i have delayed my own development my own

maturing process i’ve put off far

into the future my christ-like

transformation

what seems to me like a shortcut is

actually the long route

it seems like the shortcut off i just if

this situation would be different

i know i’d have so much greater faith i

would i’d be so much more devoted i’d be

so much more single focused i’d be you

fill in the blanks i’d be so much better

at what i do

if this person or this situation were

changed and it’s just simply

not true because what god has put in

your heart is a vision to become

something significant

that is wrapped up entirely in a journey

that you walk

with jesus where you me become like him

and that can only be done being yoked

together with people

it’s sovereign the sovereign guy

sometimes get

accused lightly sometimes

not lightly but sometimes lightly

accused

for not believing strongly in the

sovereignty of god i feel like i do

but i’m i’m accused of that because i

emphasize so much our responsibility

and i get it i get it the sovereignty of

god is a huge thing

and i i remember when our kids were

small

you know they’d be in little league or a

school teacher that was

you know kind of challenging or whatever

and our approach was

we’re not going to fight to change their

environment

we’re going to fight to equip them to

thrive in that environment

instead of insisting they have a

different little league coach

we just you know try to give them the

tools the best we know how

this is this is how you do this is how

you deal with

i’m not we’re not bending our yellers

you know we just don’t holler and yell

at

each other anyone you know unless or

somebody’s on the other side of the yard

we need their attention but

you know we’re just we don’t have that

kind of a makeup at all

and yet our kids would be in literally

you know

with this coach that yells and screams

and we just have

to work with our kids give them the

tools

to thrive in that environment does this

make any sense to you and so that’s what

we do is we

we are not trying to change the

environment so everybody is safe

we’re trying to change the everybody so

they can influence their environment

and that really is the heart of god for

us in this situation so

that’s pretty much all i have to say

today we’ll bring it up again when i can

do it again

more thoroughly you know what i should

go

there are millions of people that would

gladly take my biggest problem

if they could also have my biggest

privilege

entitlement is a scary thing and that’s

what blessing does is it insulates us

from

the awareness that we carry of our need

for one another

and so i just pray that over everybody

in this room i just pray that

there’s an unusual grace and a real

clarity of sight

clarity of thought so that there’s a

true true celebration

for the gifts of god one of the things

that i’ve i’ve been doing is

is there’ll be a a challenging situation

and i i just take time to pray and to

thank and to ponder

on the gifts and the strengths in their

life and uh

and what i’ll do is i’ll just i’ll start

giving thanks for specific things

where normally it might be tempting for

me to try to figure out how to change

them

yeah a lot of times i’m the one that

needs to change and so

what i’ll do is i’ll just think about

what is it that i can give thanks for

what can i celebrate in that individual

when i say this obviously all of us have

people in our lives that are just out

and out

to get us and and i understand i i

i’m not i’m not pretending all is well

in that environment

but most of us have conflict and

problems

with really good people

it’s a mystery to us i know how can they

be that good

and cause me that much pain and really

it’s the getting up in the middle of the

night praying until there’s a

breakthrough

and you’ll find that the yoke has been

readjusted and actually all that changed

was you

so father now that today would there be

a great grace for this

a real great grace for this to celebrate

to honor

to value the privilege that we have of

being family the privilege that we have

of growing together

and we really do bottom line is we want

to honor you above everything

um where you’re exalted by

us becoming more like you and us truly

caring for one another

where it counts most i ask this in jesus

name

um also if you can hold your places

that’ll help me out here

i’ve got a couple minutes left so um

there’s always

uh a chance there’s people here that

don’t have a personal relationship with

jesus

a friend of mine started just walking up

to people randomly and asking them the

question are you a personal friend of

jesus

christ and it’s just amazing

how conversation starts at that point in

how many people have come to the lord

simply because that question so i ask

you that question are you a personal

friend of jesus christ

that friendship that intimacy that

closeness with god

actually brings you into a position of

being forgiven

brought into a family simply made new

new from the inside out

it’s available for everybody here and if

you are one that would say bill i don’t

want to leave the building i don’t want

to leave the property

until i know that i’m at peace with god

that i know that my

friendship with jesus has started if

that’s anybody here

i want you just to put a hand up real

quickly and say bill that’s me

i don’t want to leave until that thing

is settled put your hand up real fast i

want to make sure

that i give ample time for it and

there’s duffel tv as well

yeah right over here is wonderful yep

beautiful come on

the best thing ever yeah and we so much

love our bethel tv family

my goodness i travel around the world

and and you guys greet me all the time

and

with thankfulness for this we honor you

we bless you and i pray that there’ll be

the same breakthrough

in household after house in fact what

chris prayed earlier for

prodigals to return home that it would

come as a result of this invitation

anybody else would just say i want i

want to surrender my life to jesus today

just real quickly put a hand up okay

it may just be that one i want you all

to stand here’s what i want to ask

the the one person if there’s if i miss

somebody else

uh we’ve got a team over here that we

know and trust i want i ask you to come

on up i want the ministry team to come

up at the same time

line up along the uh the front if you

brought a guest that wants to come up

for prayer

walk with them that’s always helpful

helpful to do that all right

hold your places and and time will wrap

it up