This week, we had the honor of hearing from our very own Pastor Brie Davis! It was a special Sunday because it was the first week of our new series, Help, I’m Hurting. Pastor Brie taught us about the power of pain and how we are truly healed. All of us are facing pain, but the encouraging truth is that pain is a meeting place with God! Check out this message and share it with someone in your life who needs to hear it!
well good morning transformation
church listen
i am so excited to be here
okay thank you i am so excited to be
here
um and sharing a word from god with you
today and i
truly have a word from god today
i’m really excited about this sermon
series you guys
heard it’s called help i’m hurting um
we have went through a lot as a world
over the past year and a half
and we really do believe that going
through this sermon series over this
next month we’re going to have some of
our home
team come and share the word this month
that while we’re doing this that there
really is going to be hope and healing
that people’s lives are going to be
changed and chains are going to be
broken off of the lives of god’s people
and that is
truly what it is that we desire and what
we are standing in expectation for
well if you don’t know my name is bree
and i serve as the chief of staff here
at tc
this is my my family’s in the room right
now and
um i am i have the privilege and honor
of working here at this church and have
been since 2012.
and and with this basically my job is to
help run the organization but really i
have a whole lot of fun and get to do it
with a whole bunch of people that i
really really love
and so it is such a joy and an honor to
be a part of this team
i am married to the love of my life mr
aaron davis
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y’all might have saw him up here jumping
around just a minute ago do we have a
picture of aaron and i
that we can show the saints
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okay with you um i recently have been
calling him baby doll and he doesn’t
like that but
it’s my thing now um we’ve been married
for the past six years
um and we have the honor and the
privilege of not only
sharing our life together but sharing it
with this church and this organization
as you know our lead pastors pastors
mike and natalie are out right now
for the they’re on a sabbatical time so
they’re in a time of resting
and rejuvenation and just as a church i
want to encourage you to
continue to pray for our lead pastors
the task that god has given them the job
that he has placed in their hand is not
one that is light or
easy and so as a as a body of christ
let’s
continue to surround our leadership with
prayer and encouragement
i have the privilege today to share and
i’m going to be sharing a word
um that might rock your socks okay
rocket science is a term that i’ve made
up on my own this may rock your socks
today
today we’re going to be talking about
pain
yeah i know pain is one of those topics
that we really don’t like to discuss
right
like as a culture but especially as a
church
culture oftentimes we stray away from
this
this topic of pain but today we’re going
to dig into it and we are going to
dig to the bottom of it okay so if you
got to get your tissues out if you
whatever you need to do today
go ahead and prepare your soul because
we’re going to be talking about pain
and the first thing i want to say to
everybody just to kind of
burst the bubble i have no like surprise
ending at the end of this or anything
like that
just to kind of burst a bubble clear
goals for today
today what i want to be able to share
with you today
is that everybody is hurting and that’s
okay
everybody’s hurting and that’s okay
let’s pray
lord we thank you so much for who you
are in our lives
god we thank you that you are healer
that you are a redeemer
that god you are a restorer of lives of
broken hearts god
and broken dreams and god
we’re not going to pretend like we don’t
have any pain or any hurt
we’re bringing all of that to you today
and we believe that
in us bringing it and surrendering it to
you
that you have the power the wisdom and
the authority
to heal that’s what we see you as today
god
our healer many different names you have
but today we’re leaning in
to the fact that you are our
healer we thank you for your healing
power
speak through me into me today god open
up
ears open up hearts let him that have an
ear to hear
let him hear today it’s in the name of
jesus we pray amen
amen amen okay so today we’re talking
about
uh pain and let me kind of give you a
story just to start off here
not too long ago i went to the dentist
and i got some work done on my teeth
and if you know me at all you know
i have a slight addiction okay the
addiction is with sugar we have a very
loving relationship
i tend to eat sugar often and candy is
my thing
and gummy candy that gets stuck in
between my teeth is my favorite i don’t
know why
so needless to say i’m always at the
dentist
like all the time every time i have to
call pastor mike and say hey
i need a day out because i got to go get
this root canal he always
says you gotta stop eating that sugar
every single time
but anyways i was at the dentist not too
long ago and uh the dentist came in and
she numbed
uh my gums with some some gel and then
she numbed it with some some shots
some numbing medicine and she said to me
she said while i’m laying in the chair
vulnerable and at her disposal
she says to me if ever during this whole
operation you feel any pain raise your
hand and let me know and i’ll give you
some more
numbing medicine well number one i don’t
want to know that there is a possibility
that i can feel this pain okay so when
she said that i immediately got nervous
and all i could think is i need some
more numbing medicine i don’t care what
you how much you put in here i need more
well what i did when i laid there i
promise you this one prayer
came to my mind and all i can say is
god please don’t let me feel this pain
and is that not how we live our lives
often
that we know there’s an operation that’s
going to
be painful but at the end is going to
produce some type of healing and yet and
still we go
god please don’t let me feel this pain
and so what we do in our lives is we
numb
we do everything we can to pad ourselves
with
numbing medicine sex drugs alcohol
religion self-righteousness and control
we do everything we can to numb
ourselves from the pain that we
know is present but we don’t want
to feel it and today
we are making a bold decision to no
longer
numb the pain but actually experience
the pain in a way
that god can be present with us in the
midst of
that pain now here’s the thing i want to
say and i don’t
there’s no condemnation here we all hate
pain why because it’s painful
nobody wants to be in pain but even more
than that
if you look back in genesis at the
garden of eden we were never
supposed to experience pain
god’s original intent his original
design
was for us to live in this utopia-like
experience
where we never had any pain any sorrow
any weeping
but the fall of man happened and when
that happened what it did is it brought
pain
and sorrow and suffering into the earth
and we are not the only people that
don’t want to experience pain
jesus himself in the garden of
gethsemane went and said
god if there’s anything else that you
can do
i mean please if you got a plan b please
let’s work the plan b we’re not the only
people
that don’t like pain jesus himself
didn’t want it
revelation 21 tells us that when we get
to this new heaven
that god is going to wipe every tear
from our eyes
that there will be no pain no sorrow no
weeping no
sickness and that’s what we have to look
forward to but in the meantime
we’re in the in between and what do we
do
in the in between when pain
is present what are we supposed to do
today we’re going to talk about that now
what i know
is i have a couple different people that
are listening to me right now
okay i i have some characters that i’m
going to just
lay out for you we have two types of
people that are probably listening to me
and maybe you’re in between these two or
you are one or the other
okay we have i know joe and we have no
pain jane okay so here’s some pictures
of our people right here i know joe
y’all remember
uh pursuit of happiness one of the most
frustrating
movies ever honestly let’s be real he
listen he was in a lot of pain he liked
it but anyways
i know joe and then we have no pain jane
over here wonder woman
these two individuals are listening to
me right now and when i say
the title of the sermon is help i’m
hurting in their minds they have two
different thoughts
i know joe is thinking yes i am hurting
and i need god to help me
no pain jane is thinking oh this may be
good for such and such this sermon
she she got a lot of pain going on this
would be real good for her
i know joe is aware of his pain okay
no pain jane she’s not aware of it
matter of fact she feels like she’s
living in a very blissful life no pain
that she has to
that she’s dealing with at all no hurt
matter of fact she wants the sermon to
be for somebody else
because this is not for no pain jane
but both individuals have pain
both individuals are hurting and how do
we identify
whether or not we are hurting maybe you
are i know joe
simple question where are you hurting
just as simple as that
you know exactly you know x marks the
spot you know the pain points
you can point it out for no pain jane
i have a different question for you to
identify your pain
in what ways are you not like
christ
this is a question right there because
the bible says
be holy as i am holy right first peter
he’s not just talking about externally
our behavior
and the way that we act he is talking
about something deeper than that
see the root word of holy is whole
in other words in order for me to behave
in a holy way
there has to be wholeness on the inside
of me
so the more that i allow god to heal me
change me and make me whole
the more my behaviors and my actions are
going to look
holier so in other words we all have
pain why
because ain’t none of us perfect
everybody in this room everybody
watching online
there’s something in you that doesn’t
look
like christ maybe it’s your lack of
patience
maybe it’s the lack of love that you
have jesus said to love your enemies oh
no
that’s not your thing maybe it’s the
control the need for control you’re
white knuckling yourself all through
life because to give to give space to
god to control
somewhere in all of us there is pain and
brokenness
and all we have to do is ask ourselves
in what way am i not like christ
and x marks the spot
just because we don’t look like jesus
that means that there is some pain
stricken
brokenness on the inside of all of us so
when i
say everyone is hurting i mean everyone
is hurting
i mean that there’s something in all of
us that jesus wants to transform to
change
to heal and redeem but we have to be
aware
that we’re in that number too that we
need healing too
because pain is a meeting place
with god now listen
if we don’t address pain and if we
aren’t aware of pain
how many meeting places with god are we
missing out on
how many times is god wanting to whisper
some sweet truths in our
ear just commune with us be with us
change us and transform us
but we have gotten so used to numbing
the pain
we won’t even allow him into that space
we think we’ve got it all together we’re
no pain jane we got it buttoned up
and armored we’re suited and ready to go
and god is saying but i want to meet you
here
you know that father wound that you keep
acting like it’s not there and you’re
one of the few that’s all fine and dandy
even though your dad neglected you as a
child that wound
i want to heal that you know that
people-pleasing thing where you just
think you love everybody really really
well but
actually you’re doing that because you
need acceptance and approval from people
that
i want to heal that god is saying
today god is probing us
he’s saying i’m coming to you and there
are some things that are out of
alignment and i want to heal them
but first you’ve got to open up and let
me in
when we talk about a meeting place jesus
in the bible had meeting places all
the time jesus would meet people at
wells he would meet people in cities at
their homes
jesus met people all the time and often
times when jesus met someone
there was healing that took place there
was some type of change some type of
transformation that took place so for
somebody today
maybe you’re i know joe you’re all the
way already aware of the pain
jesus is coming to you and he’s saying
what do you want me to do
if you look at the story of blind
bartimaeus in the bible
he was blind he couldn’t see he was
shaking down trying to get jesus
attention
and jesus finally sees him brings him
over and he says to blind bartimaeus
what do you want me to do now clearly
we know what blind bartimaeus wanted
from jesus
he was blind but jesus wanted him to
identify
what pains you my son my daughter
and what do you want me to do about it
for somebody else jesus may come a
little more
stealth-like and this meeting place
looks more like
the rich young ruler where he came to
jesus he said how do i inherit the
kingdom of god
and jesus says to him he says you have
to follow all the commandments he says
well great i’ve done all of that
he said well there’s one more thing you
haven’t done
i need you to give all your possessions
away to the poor
and the rich young ruler was like okay
i’m sorry
i can’t do that jesus and left
for somebody today jesus is probing you
and he’s saying here’s where i want to
heal
and if you feel yourself clench up
that’s exactly where he wants to go
that place in you where you don’t want
anybody to talk to you about it
it’s sensitive it’s wounded and so you
don’t want anybody really discussing it
that place in you you think about but
you don’t say out loud in your mouth
like that place that’s where jesus wants
to come in
and heal the rich young ruler had an
opportunity
to be healed by god
to be healed and transformed by jesus
but as soon as jesus probed an area
where he didn’t want to be touched
he left the scene for somebody today
there is a conviction or a convincing of
the holy spirit right now
you feel him you know what it is that he
wants to do
he wants to confront something in you
but it’s going to take healing for that
confrontation
to come about we have to be open to
whatever god wants to do in us
so whether you are i know joe or no pain
jame
we all have a clear understanding that
there’s something in all of us
that still needs to be healed there’s
something in all of us
that is still hurting and so i want to
go to a scripture
here a story in the bible we’re going to
go to luke
23. now this is a story
um about jesus’s crucifixion okay so
after jesus was crucified this is what
we’re going to pick up
in scripture jesus has been crucified on
the cross now in verse 50
it says now there was a good and
righteous man named joseph
he was a member of the jewish high
council
and he had not agreed with the decision
and the actions of the other religious
leaders
he was from the town of arimathea in
judea and he was waiting for the kingdom
of god to come
he went to pilate and asked for jesus
body
joseph goes to pilate as for jesus body
he took the body down from the cross and
wrapped it in a long
sheet of linen cloth and he took it down
from the cross
wrapped it in a long sheet of linen
cloth and laid it in a new tomb that had
been carved out a rock
this was done late on friday afternoon
the day of preparation
as the sabbath was about to begin as his
body was taken away
the women from galilee followed and saw
the tomb
where the body was placed then he went
home
and prepared spices and ointments to
anoint his body
by the time they were finished the
sabbath had begun
so they rested as required by the law
so this story is telling us that this is
right after jesus died on the cross
joseph a good man he goes gets jesus
from pilate wraps him up in cloth puts
him in a tomb
and then mary and mary mary mary they
followed him
they saw where they he laid jesus they
went to go get some ointments and some
spices so they could properly prepare
jesus’s body for burial at this time
uh in history you would go and get
spices and ointments and you would
anoint
the dead corpse in hopes that it would
cover the smell of a rotting or a
decaying body
okay so they went to go get these items
but before they could come back
the sun set and sabbath began now here’s
what i need us to think about
what happened on friday we tell this
story all the time
easter every single year about the
resurrection of cries oftentimes we stay
on
sunday but friday and saturday did
happen
okay for to get to sunday friday and
saturday had to happen
but what happened on friday
i need us to think about this
people that have been healed from jesus
whose lives have been
changed because of jesus stood on the
grounds
watching him being crucified
that’s painful i need you to think about
the woman at the well
who after years of being mistreated and
going from man to man and probably abuse
to abuse from betrayal to issues and
all kinds i mean she met jesus at the
well and he loved on her so
much that she became an evangelist
she saw no evil in this man
standing there watching jesus die
i need us to think about the man at the
pool of bethesda who had been lame for
so
many years and jesus
walked past everyone else that was
sitting at that pool
to go straight to this man to have a
one-on-one
encounter with him and he said do you
want to be healed and that man
that day picked up his mat and walked
standing at the grounds watching
jesus be crucified
i need us to think about the woman with
the issue of blood 12
years bleeding going from
doctor to doctor to doctor
and no one could heal her and all she
had to do
was touch the bottom of jesus’s
robe and she was healed
12 years of suffering gone like that
watching jesus die
every disciple watching
jesus died having years of walking with
jesus and talked with jesus and seeing
jesus
only only only do good
and yet he’s on the cross dying
mary an angel came to her
had a virgin birth it wasn’t just her
savior on that cross
it was her son
she knew was blameless and full of
integrity she saw him from the day he
was born to the day that he died and saw
that he was only
good for god’s people knew he was the
son of
god that by a miracle
she was impregnated and had him she knew
it
and yet she had to watch him
die the pain of friday
is something we don’t get to skip over
the pain of friday is something we don’t
get to avoid
on this earth what’s your friday
what’s your friday is it is it the
marriage that you had put all your hopes
and dreams in
only to divorce is it the business that
you
you have built from the ground up only
to have someone betray you and it all
come toppling down is it the fact that
your body
which you telling such a good job of
taking care of has failed you and taking
a baby full turn
what is your friday
we don’t get to skip past friday what is
yours
i know my friday
i know eight months in to being married
and sitting on my living room floor my
laptop having to google
the hardest thing i’ve ever googled how
do i get divorced
i know that pain
that i thought you said yes to this god
jesus on the cross think about this you
sent him
why would you send him for him to die i
don’t understand
the pain and the confusion of friday
i get it you get it we all get it
friday happened and as these women were
preparing to come back
and properly bury their savior
through tears through sweat through pain
probably even feeling physically sick
from what happened
jesus was on that cross and he was
beaten so badly that you couldn’t even
recognize him anymore they just wanted
to bury their savior properly
that’s it and yet the son
said before they could ever come back
and that was the start of sabbath
here’s the thing i want to say to
somebody today
darkness isn’t always the devil
in isaiah 45 the scripture tells us
god says i have hidden treasures
in darkness
those places in us that we don’t even
like to remember those memories that
that we try to act like one of the
things those things that we have
created so many nothing medicine around
that we act like wasn’t a thing but it
actually
still torments us god says in those dark
places
i have hidden treasures
friday happens the sun sets
and saturday is silent
if you knew and you loved jesus you sat
confused on saturday because
we had we know the end of the story we
know that sunday was going to come but
they had no
idea and here’s the thing about saturday
especially in this culture
what was just saturday to us was sabbath
to god
think about this this this this mess me
up think about this
god knew that they were going to go
through the hardest pain
that they had ever experienced that
their savior was going to go on a cross
and he allowed the sun to set now this
is the creator of the
universe he could stop the sun if he
wants to he’s done it before
he could stop the sun but he allowed the
sun to go down and sabbath to start
what is sabbath sabbath was a day
of rest it was a required
jewish uh law that god had put in effect
all the way back in genesis he worked
six days and then on the seventh day he
rested it was sabbath
it was in the ten commandments that this
is a holy day
that you’re not to work on this day but
you are to rest in other words
god asked them to rest in their pain
in other words when they wanted to go
and cover up the smell of a decaying
body god said stop
in other words when they probably would
have used the next day to busy
themselves to act like yesterday didn’t
happen god said stop
god said i want you to stop right here
and i want you to rest
now this doesn’t make sense to us
because of our culture we have been
taught that
busy is at the edge of a hunter that the
busier you are the more significant you
are the more important you are the more
successful you
are but god put this rhythm in place
sabbath
as a day of rest on purpose
there is something that god was saying
now why
would god make them rest
in their pain when he knows
all we want to do is get past pain
he knows that he knows that naturally
what we want to do is hurry up and get
past the pain that we’ve experienced in
our life and god
yet god says i want you to pause right
here
have you stopped in your pain
are you still engine running trying to
hurry up and go
speed ahead get to sunday and not
realize that
saturday was in the order of what god
had ordained
a loving gracious good god
put saturday smack dab in the middle
of pain and resurrection
for somebody today you’ve experienced
your friday you know what your friday is
today i want to encourage you before you
try to race towards sunday
stop it saturday because pain
is a meeting place there’s something in
us
that deepens in the midst of pain
god had the power to raise jesus 15
minutes
after he was buried wow he could have
done it
but he said no i want to stop right here
here’s what i want to say to somebody
rest
in your pain now i know
that is counter-cultural i know that
feels like oh that sounds like i’m just
wallowing in my pain no no
in isaiah 30 and 15 it says this is what
the sovereign lord the holy one of
israel says
only in returning in me and resting in
me
will you be saved here’s what i want to
say to somebody today
when we experience pain and we don’t
take the time to actually deeply think
what god is doing and saying to us in
the middle of that pain
we are asking ourselves to be
manipulated
it’s a quick fix right so we think that
we’re healed but
actually what we’ve done is we’ve
altered our life for that bruise to not
be hit anymore
so in other words it’s like i get let’s
say i just i cut my leg one day
so instead of actually allowing my leg
to heal properly i just roll my pant
legs up
and tell everybody that’s the new
fashion like this is just what i do now
no no
the reason you have it rolled up is
because your leg is hurt
so for somebody you’re not really healed
you just ain’t talked to that person in
a long time
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for somebody else you’re not really
healed like you think you are
until your dad calls you on the phone
that’s when you know whether or not
you’re actually
really healed from the situation or not
you’re not really healed you just don’t
work there no more
that don’t mean you healed you just
altered your life to have bowling
bumpers
all around you so that you never have to
go in the gutter but the truth is you’re
not actually good at bowling
you just put up parameters so that your
ball always goes in early
you’re not actually good at it you’re
not actually healed
you’ve just altered your life to make
you
feel like you’re healed
we have to stop in the pain
and acknowledge it stop
acting like you’re not hurt
we don’t get a badge of honor or be or
we’re not holier than other people
because we’re not
hurt jesus the son of
god expressed pain
he told god this is painful i don’t want
to do this
and yet for some reason especially in
the church
we think the less pain the better i am
the
less pain the closer i am to god the
less pain the holier i am
the less pain the more mature i am
that’s not true paul said i
boast in my weaknesses
i boast in my weaknesses i’m not trying
to show you how strong and great and
successful and important i am i’m trying
to let you know i’m just a human being
to say yes to god
i’m trying to show you this is my score
this is my wound
why why do we run past pain
somebody today god is saying stop
you have put on a show long enough
and you fooled everybody but me
i can’t heal what you won’t reveal
and somebody’s thinking breathe but if i
actually spend time acknowledging the
pain that i
am and it’s going to make me feel like
i’m i’m out of control
well that’s great because you never had
it in the first place
somebody else is thinking but if if i
actually acknowledge my pain
then what if i lose my faith incredible
because of faith that can’t go through
suffering isn’t a faith you want it at
all
somebody is thinking well but breathe
what if i drown in these sorrows i’ma
tell you what they tell every
drowning victim to do wreck rest
and look up relax
relax because
when you’re in a drowning situation the
more you move
the quicker you go down somebody today
you need to unclutter your schedule
somebody today you have filled up every
single day
with some type of numbing medicine you
got a party here and the kids thing here
and you got this here
god is saying stop stop stop
you’re running with a broken leg stop
i’ll never forget not too long ago i i
went to run
at a park and what i would typically do
when i did this run i would i would run
a mile then i’d walk them out then i’d
run another mount
and i get there i run the mile and i’m
starting my walk and i feel this really
tightness in my chest
and i was like i felt the holy spirit
say do not run again
until that is gone that pain is gone
well i’m like okay cool i got a mouth i
can do this i’ll just walk for a mound
then i’ll run again
so i start walking and i’m getting
closer to the end of that mouth and i
realized
this pain is not going away like i’m not
going to be able to finish my
typical routine of my exercise that i do
and and i’ve still felt the holy spirit
say
like do not and i have all these racing
thoughts in my head i’ll be 100 with
y’all
all i’m thinking is i mean all these
people running past me there’s no way
that
if i was running i’d be besting all them
up right now i’m thinking of all these
different things but i knew
that i needed to recover
i knew i needed to rest before i ran
again
somebody is running without recovering
maybe even doing the work of the
ministry without recovering
maybe parenting your kids without
recovering
trying to be the best employee at your
job without recovering
trying to help everybody else but you
yourself
haven’t recovered resting is to
recover is to say god here is where i’m
broken and i need you
right here and it creates a meeting
place
jesus said come to me
everybody that has heavy burdens and i
will give you
rest true maturity in god
is to be able to rest in the midst
of your pain to not try to work it out
fix it
pull your bootstraps up and keep on
moving
god ain’t asking us to do that we put
that on ourselves
god has never asked us to do that so
sabbath this idea sabbath
and what jesus what god required the
people
of god to do after jesus crucifixion was
first
he asked them to rest in the midst of
their pain
the second thing sabbath is for is for
returning
not only did he ask them to rest in the
midst of their pain he asked them
return to me
i think um what i love about sabbath and
i practice sabbath on a weekly basis but
this idea and this principle of sabbath
is something that that i’m trying to
explain today
what i love about it is it’s a day
that’s
focused on god
you don’t get to use your titles or your
significance out in the real world or
whatever like on this day
all we are is a son and a daughter of
god and he is who he is on sabbath this
idea of sabbath what god was saying is i
want you to rest and i want you to
return
to me oftentimes if you watch a child
when they go to play with some friends
they’ll go out they’ll play with their
friends and then they come back to their
parent every now and then
and this is this is a part of psychology
101 it just helps you
the child to know that they are still in
a safe environment even though they’re
going go
out to play with everybody else they
come back they just return to their
parents
if you’re a parent you’ve seen this just
to make sure that they’re still safe and
taken care of
this is what god is asking us to do in
the midst
of pain return to me
god when pain happens we run everywhere
we run to all kinds of people we run
to all kinds of false healing we run to
all kinds of ways of being in all kinds
of addictions and god is saying
i just want you to return
to me you return to your own identity as
being a son
and a daughter of god but you also
return to god
because here’s what we know if healing
if we were able to heal ourselves we
would have done it already
healing and transformation is totally
outside
of our jurisdiction it’s not our lane
that is only what god can do
so when we run to other things and other
people and even ourselves
to get healed we’re wasting our time the
only thing
the only person that can actually heal
us is god so what he’s saying is
return to me not because he’s some
egomaniac deity
he’s saying i’m the only thing that
could heal you
i’m the only thing that’s going to set
you free i’m the only thing
that has the ability to do anything
about what you’re going through
so return to me we’re reminding
ourselves when we return to god
that he is our healer that he is our
redeemer
that our god is our deliverer
and somebody today as you are becoming
or are
already aware of your pain and your hurt
god is asking you stop and come here
like a child that went out to play with
his friends
come back to remind yourself
that you’re taken care of that i’m
already here that i already have a plan
to heal you come back to me
if god thought that if he put us into
an enchanted sleep and allowed us to
sleep past
all the pain of the world or or to go
past
forget all the pain that has happened if
he thought that was good for us
he would have done it but he allows us
to experience
pain because he knows that there’s
something in it
for us for somebody today you have been
really really brave very brave
you’ve had your armor suited up you
you’ve
you’ve shown everybody how resilient you
are that’s one of those words that we
hold on to i’m resilient
today god is saying i want you to take
one more step of bravery
and i want you to come to me and
surrender the pain
surrendering of the pain returning to
god
it’s deciding that you can’t do anything
about it
that takes confidence
that takes bravery that takes tenacity
to know
that as much as i want to do something
about this i know
i actually can’t so all i’m going to do
is give it over to you all i’m going to
do is
give it over to you this is one of the
reasons why when people go through
like aaa or or some type of recovery
program
that it can be so successful is because
you get to a point
of dependence sabbath
is a day of dependence
what god did in the midst of the hurting
and the brokenness of
jesus dying on the cross he asked his
people
don’t try to outwork this don’t try to
fix this
depend on me
now what they probably wanted to do was
either go
and anoint jesus’s body maybe they
wanted to go everybody surround the tomb
and walk around it like jericho and
we’re going to pray them out of here and
we’re going to raise jesus back from the
dead
god says stop rest right there
and give it to me somebody today god you
have done
everything that you can do to fix the
situation god is saying stop
and bring it to me i want to do
something about it
you know why god didn’t allow
the women to make it all the way back to
the tomb he allowed the sun to set
and sabbath started so they had to rest
do you know why
because what they were coming to do was
prepare
the tomb prepared jesus’s body in case
of decay and writing
that they were coming to make sure that
they covered up the smell
of a rotten body but god knew from the
jump
when jesus went to the cross that he
wasn’t going right there
he knew from the time that jesus went to
the garden of gethsemane and was praying
for him he knew from the junk that he
was going to resurrect jesus
from the dead and what i want to say to
somebody is
you can rest here why because you are
not going to right here
that we know our god is a resurrector
that he is a healer so you can go ahead
and take
the weight off of yourself baby you
don’t have to fix it no more
go ahead and stop right here and
surrender this to god
and allow him the space to heal because
our god
knows he knew there was no spices and no
ointment that was necessary jesus wasn’t
going to be there long
and for somebody today our god is saying
to you
you can rest right here because i
promise you
i’m not going to leave you here
for those of us that maybe have
struggled
with the idea of pain i just want to
nudge you
in one direction today rest
and return but breathe it feels so hard
it’s so difficult rest and return
but brie i think if i do this and this
and this i could probably fix this
rest and return but it feels like i’m
doing
nothing it feels like i’m not i’m not
worth anything if i’m not doing anything
about it rest
and return
that’s all god is asking healing
and resurrection is on its way
but before we get there we have to stop
a saturday
this day wasn’t just a normal day of the
week
it was a holy day could it be that
some of the most holiest moments that we
share with god
is in the midst of our pain
resurrection was going to come we were
going to shout and sing because jesus
was coming back from the dead but
but before we get there god wants to
meet you
on saturday he wants to meet you right
here
right here where you can’t control the
tears they just
come right here where it makes you sick
to your stomach even thinking about what
happened to you
he wants to meet you right there right
there that thing
that you haven’t told anybody not even
your wife
or your husband he wants to meet you
right
there
you know how good our god is
he’s so good that even in the bad times
he is all that we need
he’s so good that he doesn’t say i just
want to be a part of the happy moments
of your life like
some of our friends may be no no god
says
i want to be right here with you
for somebody today rest
and return hear me
you have done enough you have done
enough
you have tried you have you have
worked your fingers to the bone you have
white-knuckled yourself through life
god is saying stop you don’t have to
perform for me
you don’t got to fix yourself and
everybody else that’s connected to you
stop
right there and rest in me
and return to me
and resting and returning we shall be
saved
the saturday sabbath after jesus is dead
was significant prior to jesus dying on
the cross
there was a yearly event called the day
of atonement
and on the tenth day of the seventh
month of every year on this day
no one could work and the priests would
sacrifice animals to reconcile
the people to god it was an act of
resting
and returning they rested in god by
acknowledging their pain and their sin
and they returned to god in repentance
and in worship the nickname for this day
of atonement was
the sabbath of sabbaths then jesus died
and my god it changed everything
jesus’s death signified the final
atonement
meaning because of his death jesus
reconciled us to god
forever the priests were no longer
needed to speak to god
on our behalf jesus was the bridge to
god the blood of animals were no longer
needed jesus blood
was a final sacrifice essentially
the saturday following jesus death was
the ultimate
sabbath of sabbaths because of jesus’s
death
all we had to do was return to god what
he always wanted
ourselves today
return your pain return your hurt
return your sorrow
because it’s in our returning that we
will find
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restoration
are you hurting and broken within
overwhelmed by the weight of
sin jesus is calling
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jesus
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is
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forgiveness was
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the father’s arms are open
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the precious blood of
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jesus
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the pressure
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today in the midst of our pain
we’re resting and returning god
every person under the sound of my voice
every person god that has heard your
word today lord
god we’re tired we’re tired of trying to
make it work on our own
we’re tired of ignoring the pain god
today we acknowledge
our pain we acknowledge where we’re
hurting god
and we return to you we surrender it
over to you lord jesus
because we know that only you
can heal it you’re the only one
you’re the only one that can heal our
pain god
so help we are hurting
and we know that in the midst of that
that’s right where you want to meet us
maybe today you have listened to this
sermon
and you know that you want an intimate
relationship with jesus maybe
today you want to receive the gift of
salvation one that has
completely changed all of our lives
today if that’s you i want you to say
this prayer with me
i want you to the bible tells us that
all we have to do is confess with our
mouths and believe in our hearts and so
we’re going to confess this
through a prayer so pray this prayer
with me
lord today i freely receive
the gift of salvation
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i believe that jesus
died on the cross and resurrected
on the third day forgive me
cleanse me transform me
it’s in the name of jesus amen
amen amen hey if you
receive that gift of salvation today
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what we know is that god wants to meet
you right where
you are and we are rejoicing with you
but today before we go
i know this is a tough message
this is one that that you’re not going
to shout a man from the rooftops the
whole time i get it
but what i do know is right where you
are god wants to meet you
here’s my encouragement to you don’t
rush past this moment
don’t hurry up and move on to the rest
of what your day is stop
right there it’s in resting and
returning
that we shall be saved we love you guys
so much
go out and live a transformed life
you