Finding Our Design and Purpose – Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

Do you know what your purpose is? In this full sermon, Bill Johnson shares from Jesus’ words on our role as salt and light in culture, and what it practically looks like to be salt and light. As we stay connected to God’s heart and His purposes and plans, the Kingdom of Heaven works through us like leaven to impact our families and communities. Our purpose and design is found in co-laboring with God to see His goodness touch every aspect of society.

you’re the light of the world

you’re the salt of the earth

we’re here to bless the community add

flavor

and give a context for people to belong

and find meaning

yeah thanks please be seated

so good to see you i’ve been looking

forward to

attending church again

i’m one of the heathens that just comes

occasionally

sorry for those of you who only come

occasionally

open the bible bill open the bible hurry

and it is i’ve been looking forward to

being

with you i i’m not able to be here every

week in this particular season but uh

thankful every chance that i get

and i’ve been looking forward to it uh

benny’s had uh a rather challenging week

uh but we we did have a couple days that

were uh unusually wonderful

and uh so we’re

we’re uh very thankful very thankful

appreciate your prayers keep praying

um it’s uh

uh

the report of the lord is a good one

and uh so we’re gonna we’re gonna go

with that so anyway thank you thanks so

much and all of our online family we we

just get so much feedback from you we’re

just so grateful so thankful so

all right

it wouldn’t be a proper sunday if i

didn’t

read something to you

if your lawyer is wearing a suit that

doesn’t fit and talking on a flip phone

you’re going to jail

some girls don’t like to walk in the

rain because it puts their face back to

factory settings

i’ve i’ve done this now three three

services in a row and i get mounds and

groans each time

i

i don’t get it apparently that’s

offensive

i i i thought the humor was above the

offense but apparently it’s not

i have quite a few of you giving me a uh

this glaring stare

so just forgive me it was out of

complete ignorance i’m a slow learner

three services i’m still doing it

i think i’ll probably do it at the

fourth service too just you know

just because here is an actual label i

took the picture

a label

on the back of a bacon package

i don’t believe everything i read on the

internet but i do believe everything i

read on a bacon package

just that’s just me

cooking instructions

pan fry slowly on low medium heat until

bacon renders and is cooked to your

desired christmas

if you really don’t know how to cook

bacon please contact your elected

officials and complain about our

education system

american should know how to cook bacon

seriously

[Applause]

day 12 without chocolate i just lost the

hearing in my left eye

i got gas today for 1.39

unfortunately was that taco bell

[Applause]

i’ve got to end a little better than

that

huh i’m on my second guardian angel my

first one quit and is now in therapy

all right last one

i checked kelly blue book today for my

car’s value and they asked if the tank

was full or empty

all right all right all right

matthew chapter five open your bibles

to matthew chapter five

and uh

put a piece of paper uh perhaps in

isaiah 58 that’ll be a another passage

we’ll probably read

matthew chapter five this week i was

i don’t remember where i was but i

uh i love it when my heart leaps over

something

sometimes

i’ll hear a scripture being read and my

heart just leaps i can tell that one’s

that one is really for me i need to

connect with that take some time with a

thought maybe in a message i write it

down but this week i was i just randomly

had this phrase go through my mind

salt light and leaven and my heart

lapped at that and i thought you know

what that’s what i want to do i want to

talk about that today

and and i do understand it’s review this

is

uh like most of everything i do in these

days

um is review but i i i feel like the

lord wants to highlight some things to

us that that’ll help us

with uh identity and purpose

uh one of the things that happens in a

household

is parents who

are

that understand their assignment in

raising children

they they help to raise an awareness

of their identity of the child’s

identity

of their purpose

their destiny

and then lastly

the fact they are connected to unlimited

resource there’s unlimited resource

that is an automatic connection to

anyone who who marries into their

purpose because it’s the purpose was

designed by god and he doesn’t refuse to

fund what he assigns and so there’s this

sense of unlimited resource that needs

to be a conscious part of all of our

growth and development

so salt light 11 let me start with the

last one uh simply because it’s it’s the

most awkward salt uh and light are two

uh

can i say metaphors that jesus uses to

describe who we are and our impact on

the world around us the third one the

levin he actually didn’t say it was us

he said in matthew 13

in the parable of the seed and the sower

he said the kingdom of heaven is like

leaven

the kingdom of heaven is like leaven

which is really fascinating because

there are three leavens that i could

find identified in scripture there’s

herod pharisees and the kingdom herod is

the political system

humanism

man is at the center of everything

the pharisees is the religious system

god is at the center of everything but

he’s impersonal and powerless

and then there’s the kingdom

the kingdom is the realm of god’s domain

or his dominion

when somebody gets healed somebody comes

to christ

somebody gets delivered

the lord brings to a man and a woman

together in marriage in a in a holy

relationship all these things have

kingdom all over them

anytime you find somebody who’s who’s a

downtrodden there’s this verse isaiah 60

that we’ll probably look at later

says arise shine for your light has come

the glory of the lord is written

risen upon you for behold darkness will

cover the earth deep darkness that word

deep darkness is mental depression

so when you see deep darkness settle on

the minds of people and freedom comes

that’s the presence of the kingdom the

kingdom came so when when we say the

kingdom of heaven is like leaven

what we’re saying is every time the

kingdom of god becomes demonstrated

it’s like leaven that gets into the gets

worked into the lump of dough gets

worked into the dough of culture in

society

and i

i don’t know i i remember growing up a

huge sports fan

san francisco giants i i i was we moved

to south sacramento when i was six years

old so i’ve been going to giant games

ever since then so if you’re for another

team god bless you god bless you we need

missionaries in the darkness of the

earth too so

that just came to me that’s beautiful

that’s good all right

now i’ve always been a sports fan but i

remember growing up

i remember

early years philippe liu

and i forget now the the manager two

believers the only known believers on

the team

today it’s common to have half the team

in fact i have one friend who says 70

percent of the end of the nfl have

made a confession of christ

so what used to be so rare is now being

more known more common the same with

miracles

uh wouldn’t would just hardly ever hear

of extraordinary america except in

africa or brazil somewhere some

missionary but not in day-to-day living

and yet today it’s becoming normal to

hear what’s happening it’s 11.

that 11 is being worked into the dough

and it’s shifting and influencing the

values the perception perspective

the uh

ambitions of an entire culture

once leaven is worked into dough you

can’t get it out

it’s it’s an irreversible

irreversible thing

we lived in weaverville

now for 17 years i i was so thankful to

i just considered it the greatest

privilege in the world to live in that

uh in that community and to raise my

family their pastor uh most amazing

church most

amazing group of believers authentic to

the core

and

i we benny would make bread

and

when she would make the bread we lived

in a house right behind the church and

it had a wood stove we only had wood

heat all 17 years we never even had a

space heater for the bathroom or

something you know we only had wood heat

and so when you were out of town for a

couple days in the winter you came home

you could see your breath inside in the

door into effect sometimes i think it

was colder in the house than outside i

can’t prove it but

anyway we would uh

benny would make bread and when we first

moved there she put the the

pan of the bread dough in the kitchen

but that was like 20 feet away away and

around a wall and it didn’t get near as

warm in there so we then learned we take

it and put it right by the wood stove

and the heat of the wood stove would

activate the leaven

all right there’s three leavens

there’s the political system the

religious system and the kingdom and the

fire of difficulty will always cause to

rise whatever leaven you’ve got planted

in your heart it’s in those moments you

see

what has influenced you in your

perception of reality your value system

etc

it’s it he doesn’t expose it to shame us

he exposes it so we can leave it so we

can confess and turn oh god i’m i am

thinking way too much about what people

think of me forgive me i turn my

attention towards you you are the one

that matters to me how you view me how

you think you examine my heart you know

the difference and so we make confession

confessions basically means to agree

with god i agree with god so we confess

for sake so 11 but the other two are

here in matthew chapter five and i wanna

talk to you about them for the next half

hour or so okay verse 13 are you there

matthew five did i tell you yeah all

right some of you got bored and closed

your bibles that’s right

i’m just the phone turned off that’s

what it was

is it looking for your face

that was excellent my phone is looking

for my face

there’s a phrase we never would have

thought of even three four years ago

really all right

uh matthew 5 verse 13 you are the salt

of the earth

but if the salt loses its flavor

how shall it be seasoned

it is then good for nothing but to be

thrown out and trampled underfoot by men

you are the light of the world

a city that is set on a hill cannot be

hidden

nor do they light a lamp and put it

under a basket but on a lamp stand

and it gives light to all who are in the

house

let your light so shine before men that

they may see your good works and glorify

your father in heaven now go back to

verse 13. this is be where we start

you are the salt of the earth

if the salt loses its flavor

how shall it be seasoned it is then good

for nothing but to be thrown out and

trampled underfoot by men

in in my

early years of uh or just a disciple

just following jesus

when i would come across these verses i

would i would remember that in bible

days

salt was used to preserve meat and so

when i would read you’re the salt of the

earth

i felt the lord was saying then

we are that which helps to preserve

culture or values

those kinds of things in society

that’s what i would refer to as a

secondary truth an implied truth it’s

not the truth jesus brought up

in other words he addresses one thing

but the implication is the second level

that would be the second level

uh preservation of values uh way of of

thinking

jesus said if a salt has lost flavor

salt is for flavor on most of our

kitchen tables we have salt and pepper

pepper changes the flavor of a meal salt

enhances the flavor of a meal

the important thing to think about when

we talk about being salt

is our assignment to add flavor

listen carefully to add flavor to what

already exists in our community

not all invention not all creativity not

all beauty

not all

medical inventions not not all those

things come from believers

by design

many of those things come from

unbelievers why because it rains on the

just and the unjust

and if it all came through us we’d

become proud arrogant and want to be in

charge

it wouldn’t be healthy for us

so a huge part of being effective as

salt

in a culture

is that we actually

see god’s value

on the unbeliever before they have

placed their faith

in him

he gives them ideas he works through

them

i believe we owe every believer three

levels of honor at least three that i’m

aware of and every human being two

levels of honor

number one every person is created in

the image of god

every person represents an aspect of

god’s

nature

person

that no one else represents

created in the image of god number two

every person has been gifted

by god to function in life

now one may have five talents

sums of money one may have three one may

have one there are varying levels of

graces that god assigned to individuals

but every person has been given

something and it’s it’s prophetic people

it’s people that have a tenderness

towards

celebrating and valuing other people if

they can see the gifting and the grace

that is in that individual and to be

able to affirm it to acknowledge it to

celebrate what god has actually put in

in you know to be able to say man i love

how you put colors together i love how

you how you perceive uh this yard how

you made it look so beautiful i love how

you you seem to connect people every

time i at a dinner at your house you

always put the right people next to the

right people in your in your dinner

party it’s just these little things but

it’s just taking it’s being intentional

to find the treasure that is in somebody

else

salt enhances the flavor that’s already

there

you go to certain cities in our country

you go to austin texas is a great

example they have a unique uh musical

music culture there

you know who decided that

you know there’s some cities where it

seems like every furniture manufacturer

in the country is in that area in that

re who decided this area is for

furniture you know i mean i don’t know

who decides that somehow somebody gets a

breakthrough and they attract other

people and they start reveling in the

can i say anointing or grace that got

assigned to a particular area it’s

wisdom for for us to perceive and to see

that which god has designated over a

city over a region and then sow into it

to honor to to um

to value it to celebrate to acknowledge

it

you’re the salt of the earth

salt that’s lost its flavor that word

flavor there is actually uh the the

losing of flavor is actually the word

foolish

salt without flavor

the original language is foolish

so what is salt with flavor

it it’s it’s an easy one you just look

to the other side of the corner this is

this is we got one that says foolish the

other side is the opposite

now you’re not going to take the risk

okay all right all right i i realize you

don’t trust me that’s that’s the bottom

line all right

so salt without flavor is foolish salt

with flavor is wisdom it’s actually the

it’s not foolish

that’s the safest answer right there

that’s that’s why that’s wisdom yeah

not not foolish yeah

so

think with me about this

wisdom is the mind of christ

wisdom is the mind of christ wisdom

the jesus in first corinthians chapter

one

jesus is the person of wisdom

he is wisdom personified

he is as we’ve called he is perfect

theology he illustrates perfectly the

mind of the father

and so when you and i maintain saltiness

it’s because we’ve maintained a

connection to god’s purposes and plans

in the earth

it’s not just uh

i can give you good counsel on where to

invest your money or something that

don’t come to me but just an example

just an illustration

it’s not just it’s not just that it’s

it’s the fact that there there is a

sharp edge on my life

that prophetically perceives shifts in

seasons and knows how to position for

them

when that kind of saltiness

existent in our life that we live with

that kind of intentionality

then the people around you start to

savor

the flavor that you actually bring

to a community

most of us like

to be the salt of the earth and we think

of it this way it’s like the salt shaker

we unscrew the top and we import the

entire contents in the corner of the

dinner plate

because we like to be together

you don’t enhance the flavor of the meal

together

this is together we’re in the shaker

we’re about to take the lid off in

another 20 minutes and you’re gonna get

sprinkled there are

there are some of you in certain

neighborhoods that you you don’t even

realize it

but the way you do life your value

system it’s not just preaching on a

soapbox it’s the way you do life so

prophesy identity and purpose into your

community it is salt it is your defining

you are defining the reasoning of god

the reason of god the purpose of god

behind all of our existence

it’s that edginess

that helps to keep you in that place of

radical radical influence

i personally

i i’ve been praying for people to really

uh for us to increase in wisdom i’m

going to quit praying for that i think

i’m was going to pray god make people

miserable without it

so that you pray on your own

honestly just the realization oh i need

greater wisdom for this that kind of

dependency that approaching him with

poor in spirit

not approaching him without god at all

approaching him poor in spirit god i

need you to give me that touch of divine

wisdom because i want to represent you

well so we go to the next verse and it

says you are the light of the world

a city set on a hill cannot be hidden

nor do they light a lamp and put it

under a basket but on a lampstand

and it gives light to all who are in the

house

i

this uh

this may appear rather simplistic

and i i i get it

but it’s it’s sends me it it causes me

to swirl in a positive way in may of

1979 a thursday afternoon i was walking

in the back of the church in weaverville

because i i found if you walk while you

pray you don’t fall asleep

and if you do you wake up suddenly

so i would walk and pray and i it was

just my lifestyle so i i had my bible

and i happened to be reading in isaiah

in that

season and i was reading i happened to

be on chapter 60 and i began to read

arise shine for your light has come the

glory of the lord has risen upon you

when i read those words something leapt

in my heart

i don’t want to exaggerate it but i

don’t want to underplay it either

something came alive in me that that

could that told me

i was in a divine moment

and i spent i don’t know how much time i

spent quite a bit of time

just reviewing the first 18 verses of

that chapter as the lord shifted my

perspective

on how he

saw the day that we live in

and i can i can say with absolute

honesty every day of my life

has been different since that thursday

afternoon in may of 1979 because of what

he opened up what he what he showed me

he didn’t just show me things

he changed my perception my way of

seeing

in that chapter

so what does he say he says you’re the

light of the world

by the way jesus

early in life was identified as the

light of the world and then he went tag

you’re it

so now you’re the light of the world

obviously the light isn’t you

it’s not me it’s christ in it so you

know make that clear

so here’s this verse

a city set on a hill when

is a city on a hill

visible

with light

it’s at night

another easy question that you don’t

trust me

to give me an answer but it’s all right

all right

not foolish is this is the answer we’re

going with all right

so when do you see a city that’s all lit

up

it’s at night

you most likely see it when you’re

in need of shelter

food

uh connection

belonging

you s you see a city

and this is one of the times in

scripture

where there’s no going to preach the

gospel

in this case

the city is stationary people come

to the city in the same way we would

come to a stream to drink water we would

come to a fruit tree to pick fruit in

the same way we see a city set on a hill

that cannot be hidden

and it is an attractant for those whose

most in

most basic drive in life is to belong

one of the most fundamental values

that’s woven into the heart of every

single person

is the need to belong

listen even the sexual drive

two shall become one

it’s really

it’s really the drive to belong

so here we have this

this picture a city set on a hill

i always thought that when jesus said we

were the light of the world that that

light is to expose stuff

once again that would be an implied or

secondary truth it’s not the context

that jesus used

what was the context he used

is that we are number one a community

number two because

we are a community that belongs to one

another there is something of the nature

of christ illustrated in our

relationship that has caused a light to

shine that would attract people that are

looking to belong looking to for

nourishment maybe some you know george

and ben is a great example

he escaped

communist

russia

one of the

countries there

back in the day and he came over here to

california couldn’t speak hardly any

english but he ran into jesus people

that liked to feed him and so they would

just bring him home for dinner and he

would eat and and now one of the main

evangelistic tools he has is he feeds

thousands of people all the time it’s

because like it’s what turned his life

around was being fed and so some people

will go to that city honestly just for a

meal if i can use that metaphorically

they’re there for a meal but something

happens in the meal that happened to

georgian where his life was completely

transformed and changed but the point is

is it’s a community

of people

that belong together

there has to be something

there has to be something

in the relationship

that would actually attract

people

it’s not the gathering

that this isn’t the city on a hill it’s

not

it’s not that it’s

it’s how you do life with other

believers maybe there’s three or four of

you in your office down at work and the

way you meet for lunch and you pray

together there’s something in that

connection that illustrates the life of

christ it’s become practical this is

important but it’s not practical it’s

not it’s not practical as is it is

displayed out in the public place in

workplace in the neighborhoods etc

belonging

hebrews 13 says

the sacrifice of the lips fruit of the

lips gives praise to his name number one

number two good works number three

fellowship

and then it has this phrase that says

for with such sacrifices plural such

sacrifices god is well pleased all right

we know praises to be a sacrifice we

know a good works how we uh serve and

care and give for one another to be

sacrificed but did you know fellowship

was supposed to be a sacrifice

too often fellowship is the is the act

of convenience it’s what we give as

leftovers

and yet sacrifice is a step beyond

convenience

and when fellowship becomes the

sacrifice the step beyond convenience

the light shines

the light shines that actually attracts

people into a place of safety and

belonging

one of the most fascinating things

that i have

seen or heard in recent years

i heard a friend of mine made this

statement probably five years ago now he

said the disciples belonged before they

believed

what a bizarre statement

so i i really it was one of those things

that just really

pricked my heart in a good way i thought

that’s amazing so i started thinking

yeah in fact they traveled with jesus

for a while he would perform some

miracle and they would look at each

other and go

who is he

i mean these are the guys you know

matthew’s sitting at his desk collecting

taxes and jesus comes by and says follow

me and he goes

yeah of course

and he just he leaves his job you know

peter and

john that james the guys are fishing and

they just leave their parents they leave

their dad’s boat their nets everything

jesus says follow me i’ll make you

fishers of men

sounds reasonable yeah all right i’m

just going to quit my job and i’m just

going to follow these people there was

something there was something on the

person of jesus that they couldn’t

identify but they immediately were

willing to lay down everything to follow

this

and even in the weeks and the months

that followed while they were completely

overwhelmed by his

the miracles and the life on every word

that he spoke they still weren’t sure

who he was

and then there came a time

where jesus asked the question

who do people say i am

some say you’re john the baptist some

say you’re one of the prophets who do

you say

peter says you’re the christ the son of

the living god

there came a moment where they knew who

he was

and and and they were so grateful that

they had stuck with it you know in in

those times but the point was they

belonged do you understand that

that there are people

in our community

that have zero interest in jesus

they they want the peace that’s in your

house

they don’t have interest all they can

think of is religious systems and

belonging to some organization they want

nothing to do with that but they are

very interested in how your children are

respectful to you and they’ll do

anything to get that

and there’s these kind of moments where

we bring people into our lives we let

them taste and see that the lord is good

and they they then find

the very thing they’re looking for as a

person

who helps to make sense of it all you’re

the light of the world

so this passage out of isaiah

60 it says arise shine

for your light has come

the glory of the lord has risen upon you

bold darkness will cover the earth deep

darkness that’s mental depression deep

darkness the people

but his light

will appear upon you his glory will

arise over you

listen to this phrase

kings will come to your light

and nations to the brightness of your

rising

kings will come to your light

nations to the brightness of your rising

what is this verse you’re a city set on

a hill

what’s the point

you are in a conspicuous place

so that those who recognize their need

of shelter of resource of belonging

whatever it might be they know where to

go because they can see a light

a city set on a hill

we’re already seeing some of that happen

now

and i believe it’s going to increase

dramatically in the next 10 15 years

kings will come to your life

we we already have

as nicodemus had a private quiet meeting

late at night with jesus

i mean eric spoke on that once so so

moved me

that jesus had had a place

to meet with a guy privately

a religious leader

he was he was willing to meet with him

privately without anybody watching

who then later made this bold public

confession of his faith in christ

but the point

is there are people all sprinkled around

our community

that look to you

and here’s this passage says kings will

come to your light nations

to the brightness of your rising

i don’t think it’s complicated i don’t

think you know i believe so much in the

deliverance and the healing and the

power gifts i i do and i they certainly

impact people’s lives i i would

be the first to say amen to them

but the ache in people’s heart

usually isn’t for a miracle

it’s usually to be valued

the ache the ache in the heart is rarely

even when they’ve experienced tragedy

rarely are they looking for an answer

why did this happen even when people ask

me that what i have found is they’re

rarely asking for an answer

they’re usually asking for peace

let me quote chris

i’m right in this

listen to this verse out of isaiah 58.

this this chapter just wrecks me

rex is a positive term by the way just

excuse me this chapter deeply moves me

it’s a great consecration in faith all

right there we go

verse six is this not the fast i have

chosen to loose

the bonds of wickedness

to undo the heavy burdens

to let the oppressed go free that you

break every yoke

i saw a great meme the other day it says

if you’re fasting and still gossiping

you might as well eat

and isaiah right here is saying this

here’s the reason for the fast it’s to

free people if you’re fasting people

aren’t getting free

might as well eat all right let’s move

on

is it not to share your bread with the

hungry that you bring to your house the

poor who are cast out you see the naked

that you cover him not hide yourself

from your own flesh

then your light we’re back to the

subject in the light of the world your

light shall break forth like the morning

your healing

here’s the release of miracles your

healing shall spring forth speedily this

is the second time in about 20 chapters

of isaiah

where the supernatural is released

through the value of community

amen

amen

it’s isaiah 35

miracles are the result of the word of

affirmation and encouragement from one

believer to another the result is god

it’s it’s an invitation for the

supernatural here it is again then your

life

will break forth like the morning your

healing will freely spring forth your

righteousness will go before you the

glory of the lord shall be your regard

then you will call the lord will answer

you will cry he will say here i

am healthy community

lies of the world the city

of the redeemed together healthy

community

invites the supernatural

because then it’s not just for one

individual

it’s for how we do life together

instead

it’s that secret sauce that touch of god

on the sacrifice that we make for one

another

then suddenly we just

hear once again about this miracle and

that miracle these these things breaking

out

because it’s his amen

to our embracing what’s important to him

remember when it was all

boiled down

to one element

he said love one another

and in this way prove that you’re my my

disciples

there’s something about the sacrificial

affectionate care for another human

being

that attracts the god of the impossible

into the environment

to take us in measure and in ways we’ve

never yet witnessed

i’m thankful for what we’ve seen i was

reviewing some some of the stories uh

this last week as with some of our

students and they were asking

questions i remember just oh man i

forgot about that i was amazing and this

was amazing i’m thankful for all of

those

but there’s something redemptive about

the presence and power of god that is to

yet heal the city and you and i get to

be a part of it so here it is

you’re the light of the world

you’re the salt of the earth

we’re here to bless the community add

flavor

and give it context for people to belong

and find meaning watch us then

uh

so father asks that you give us the gift

of hunger

the gift of hunger for wisdom

that ache in our heart

for the more that illustrates the mind

of christ

to this amazing city let us be a part of

every neighborhood would be

marked by divine wisdom

mind of christ

every business

every office every factory

would be marked by divine wisdom

and i ask

i remember

in weaverville i remember a guy coming

to christ

so he just came to the lord a couple of

the leaders there in the church

found out he had this financial crisis

hanging over him

and he was going to start his life in

christ with this

heavy financial crisis

so these three guys i think it was

owned a piece of property they met

together

they sold it

to help

this

guy

start his walk with christ without the

pressure of that financials that’s

that’s city on a hill

not not for broadcast purpose i i only

knew because i was involved in the in

the journey

it’s

it’s those things

that then attract presence and power and

dimensions we’ve not yet known

so father we’re hungry

we’re just hungry we’re hungry for you

we’re hungry for the city to become all

that you designed it to be yes we thank

you for the city god thank you for

planting us here i pray for every person

in this room

that our level of community and

belonging would multiply in jesus name

let me ask one more question is there

anyone here who’s never made a personal

confession of faith in christ

you have

you have not made that commitment

as a disciple of jesus

to be first forgiven of sin to come into

his family and to be a disciple who

follows and honors jesus with the

entirety of your life if there’s anybody

in the room that is in that position you

say bill i don’t want to leave the

building till i know i am at peace with

god then i just want you to put your

hand up but you end up right where you

are

real quick because i want to see who you

are

i’m going to assume you’re all in

we uh we just i was just a twin view uh

for the our second service

and

nobody ever gets saved over there

i mean they’re just they’re just they’re

just all

never that just didn’t sound right did

it

but somebody did today that was the good

news

that didn’t quite go as i had planned

yesterday

we just give uh pastor bill hamm such a

good word