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we are going to jump into the words day
are you ready all right I heard somebody
say this and I’m totally stealing their
line but I wore a suit today because I
came to do business with Jesus you know
I’m saying but I am really really
excited for the word today and I really
believe it’s gonna encourage you and we
are in a series called 20 forever
somebody say 20 forever and we’re
talking about worship now it’s so
important that we do this because even
myself I grew up in church around Church
and worship was something that I knew
what it was I knew it was at the the top
of service
I knew depending on what church we were
at at the moment it could be 15 minutes
or 3 hours depending on where you grow
up anybody have 3 hour worship where
they’re just like sing it again you’re
like I’m hungry
but it’s we’re talking about worship and
it’s so important that we we clarify
this and really get an understanding and
wisdom about worship is it’s not enough
just to have knowledge about something
there are a lot of people who have a lot
of knowledge about something but until
that knowledge is initiated and moves
into action it really doesn’t help us
that much so we want to get into a
wisdom to worship wisdom is applied
knowledge I have I have understanding I
have knowledge about this now I’m going
to apply it and so we’ve been talking
about worshiping and what it means to
worship it over the last couple weeks
week one we talked about what worship is
and knowing that worship starts with
love that it starts with really and and
here’s what you need a little secret the
Bible and the in following Jesus it’s
actually not about you loving God
spoiler alert for God so loved the world
so the Bible is a love letter to
humanity it’s not about you being in
love with God and you show its first
about him being so madly in love with
people who didn’t even ask him or care
about him he was so in love he said hey
I’m gonna send my son just in case you
may ever think about following me
the Bible’s about God being in love with
us and out of response of that love
of that we talk about worship worship is
love expressed that last week we
realized that that God loved us so much
that it is now we express our love back
to God and you don’t passively express
love some people talk about you know
that’s just not me I’m just not that I
don’t have that much to say and I’m just
a quiet person let somebody say
something about your kid and see how
expressive you get some people express
somebody says so about your kid you
ready to punch them right between the
eyes so the right thing will get you to
express something so we talked about
love Express in this week I’m really
excited cuz I want to move a little bit
further in our definition that we have
and I want to start with this first I
looked up the in the dictionary the
definition of the word worship and this
is what it says it says to ascribe Worth
to someone or something now it this is
fairly true but there’s something I want
to clarify that you need to know today
God is God whether you decide to worship
Him or not so it talks about ascribing
Worth and sometimes with the way we live
our lives it ascribes worth of things
when you go somewhere and you pay $14
for a movie ticket you’re ascribing that
your time and $14 is worth what you’re
spending there but what you need to know
whether you clap your hands or not he is
still King of Kings like whether you
decide to sing and shout whether you
participate it has not changed God’s
value like you not or deciding to
participate does not change God’s value
when it does is allows us to express how
grateful we are and we respond to his
grace so I just want to set that
foundation for some of you thought yeah
when I come in God gets encouraged and
he gets Booster points from my worship
he would be okay without you just so you
know like he doesn’t need anything for
us but he wants our worship the Bible
says he inhabits the praises of our of
his people so we need to understand that
hey first of all God doesn’t need it but
he wants it because it’s the only gift
that we can give to God listen I want to
go and have you write this down we’ve
been using this as our anchor definition
for worship this is what it says says
worship is our love X
pressed to God as a response
somebody say response to his grace
towards us today I want to talk about
that word response that word response
and we’re gonna be in two scriptures
today mainly and so if you have your
Bibles turn to Hebrews 12 is where it’s
gonna be if you don’t have it don’t
worry we’ll have it on the screens for
you but I want to talk about that word
and really believe and share with you
why we should respond in worship Hebrews
12:15 this is what the Bible says it
says look after each other so that none
of you fails to receive the grace of God
watch out that no poisonous root of
bitterness grows up to trouble you
corrupting many verse 16 make sure that
none of you know one is immoral or
godless like Esau who traded his
birthright as the firstborn for a single
meal make sure that that you look after
each other so no one fails to receive
the grace of God and make sure no one is
immoral like Esau I’m gonna jump to
Genesis 25 this is the story that the
writer of Hebrews is referring to it’s a
story of Esau and Jacob and so if you
want to turn there I’m gonna read it
real quick just so we can get context as
a story of Esau it says one day when
Jacob was cooking stew Esau arrived from
the wilderness exhausted and hungry Esau
said to Jacob I’m starved give me some
of that red stew all right Jacob replied
but trade your rights as the firstborn
son
look I’m dying of starvation what good
is my birthright
to me now but Jacob said first you must
swear your birthright his mind so Esau
sworn oaths thereby selling his rights
of the firstborn son to his brother
Jacob then Jacob gave Esau some bread
and lentil soup Esau ate the meal then
he got up and left
he showed contempt for his rights as the
first born the title of my message today
if you’re taking notes and I would
encourage you to do that it works as a
fast pass when you get to heaven you
just show him your notes and they get
you in the short
I get you right in the title is the
worst trade ever the worst trade ever
hey we’re gonna pray real quick and ask
that God would join us Lord we thank you
and we need you show us who you are and
allow us to get an understanding of how
much you care about us Jesus then we
pray amen
I grew up making Christmas lists
did anybody grow up making Christmas
list now it’s weird to me that not
everybody made Christmas lists because
the Bible says you have not because you
ask not so I grew up and it was a very
big deal like your Christmas list like I
started making my Christmas list in like
September like I was just ready and the
way it would work is my mom would say
hey make a list of your top three things
it ended up being like 40 things because
I just you know I just had a hard time
deciding but she would say hey the top
three things like you’re the biggest
things you want put them on the list and
the top three you’ll get one of those
three things and my parents were so so
great and gracious and they would always
get me one of the top three things and
it was usually combination of shoes
clothes or a video game when I was
little so that was all and then as I got
older it just went to shoes and clothes
and then my parents parents taste got a
little bad so it just went to money so I
could buy my own shoes of clothes but uh
but I remember one year I made this list
and I opened up the first gift and it
was a pair of Jordans and I got it and I
freaked out like I was screaming running
around the house I think I took my shirt
off and like ran outside with like I
don’t know it’s very weird but I was so
excited and so I come back inside
and I says hey will you head up to the
game room with your brother Chandler and
I was like yeah sure
so we go upstairs we look and the second
thing on my list was up there it was
when the we came out and bowling and so
the we come and we’re like screaming
freaking out my little brother’s like
five or six we’re like yeah I like
shoved aim like that’s just what older
brothers do you like
so we’re freaking out we’re so excited
I’m like this is the best Christmas ever
like I got two of my top three things
this is amazing and I come back
downstairs and
there’s another gift and I’m like is
Jesus coming back cuz I don’t know it
seems like we’re all about to die
because you’re just getting everything
out right now but I go down and it was
the third thing on a list and I lost my
mind
now what I realized as I was thinking
about that story is all of my responses
were relative to whatever I got so when
I understood the value of what I got or
the perceived value in my heart
it caused a certain response in me that
was relative to the reward so I
responded because I got a pair J’s and
I’m like ah man it’s gonna be so fresh
so I would freak out respond because I
got I responded because I knew what it
was worth now I want to use that that
story as a platform to talk about our
response to God’s grace and I want to
think about if we say okay that the
definition is worship is our love
express to God as a response of his to
of his grace towards us if if that’s our
definition and your response to
something it is always relative to the
reward like you see people on TV they
win a million dollars they freak out why
cuz they know what that will do to their
life they know how that will change
their life they know what that means if
we start to think about God’s grace I
mean just just pause the grace of God is
the greatest gift ever given like if we
just start to talk about what it means
how it’s changed our life it is the
greatest gift ever
and as I started to think about okay our
response to God’s grace if worship is a
response to His grace it’s a response to
His grace if it’s a response to His
grace our response should be crazy many
of us lose our minds over inanimate
objects that add nothing to your life
except for you can take a picture of it
and feel like maybe you’re a little bit
better than somebody else but for some
reason we can show up to a worship sir
and sit with our hands in our pocket and
not respond to the greatest gift ever
given we can we can live our lives we
talked about that that worship is a lot
more than just a service you need to
know that worship it can be a song it
can be in church but worship is how you
live your life so why is it that we we
don’t always respond why is it that we
can we can see things that are that are
just random gifts and we freak out at
Christmas and we cheer and yell and this
has nothing to do with anything against
gifts I’m just saying in comparison to
what God gave you why is it so much
easier to respond to your Christmas list
than the grace of God I want to look at
this story today and the writer of
Hebrews kind of paints a picture and I
want to read it and and kind of give
some thoughts that I have on why we
don’t necessarily respond to the grace
of God it says this we read it it’s the
first verse that we read its verse 15 it
says look after each other
so that none of you fails to receive the
grace of God it goes on to say after
that says watch out that our poisonous
root of bitterness grows up to trouble
you and then after that it says you
could put it back up on the screen after
that it says make sure no one is immoral
or godless like Esau now you’re reading
the scripture and it seems kind of
random to me because it starts office
says make sure that everybody gets the
grace of God getting the grace of God is
simply receiving you don’t have to do
anything you don’t have to get your life
together you don’t have to change you
don’t have to make sure you’re perfect
you just simply it’s a free gift so you
just simply receive it it’s talking
about the grace of God and then it
throws in Esau and says hey as we’re
talking about grace don’t be like Esau
and I would start a sounds like that
seems what what do you mean and so we
read in Genesis 25 to get more context
of the story Esau and Jacob were
brothers and Esau shopped at Bass Pro
and was an outdoorsman and hunted and
Jacob I would I probably would’ve been
friends with Jacob I can’t cook but
he says Jacob like being inside I don’t
really mess with outside that much I
don’t I just don’t get it like we didn’t
have houses we were living in caves and
then that we like slowly built houses
and stuff and then we want to act like
sometimes let’s go act like we ain’t got
houses no more and sit outside like
there doesn’t seem fun to me like we’ve
progressed past that but progression not
perfection but that’s just dumb but
anyways so these two brothers are
sitting there and the story comes up and
it says Esau was starving cuz he had
been hunting all day and he comes up to
Jacob and he says give me some of that
soup now this must have been some really
good soup because Jacob responds with oh
yeah you want the soup how bad you want
the soup it smells good doesn’t it it’s
really good soup I spent a long time
working on this soup
he says if you want the soup give me
your rights as the firstborn child now
you need to know that this was a
ridiculous proposal of Jacob the
birthright was a very big deal you would
get the wealth of the father you would
get the authority of the father and you
would get the blessing of the father and
if you look at this proposal it seems
like why would you even consider this
this is a terrible trade but in the
moment Esau responds he says listen I’m
starving what good is a birthright to me
now as I started looking at this
Scripture I thought why why would you
trade a birthright for a blessing or why
would you trade a bowl of soup for a
blessing why would you trade the the
authority the wealth I mean the amount
of wealthy word received would change
his life forever it would set him up for
the rest of his life and I started
thinking why would you trade that bowl
for your birthright you want to know why
I think he saw made this trade one of
the worst trades ever I think it’s
because his president screamed louder
than his promise I don’t think he saw
didn’t know what a birthright was I
don’t think he made this trade out of
ignorance
I don’t think he he made this trade out
of though I don’t know what a birthright
is anyway so you can have it I think he
was fully aware of what a birthright was
I think he was just really hungry in the
moment his present of I’m hungry seemed
louder then one day you will have this
and in that moment when he started
focusing on the current situation when
he started getting to get caught up with
what was happening right there
he made one of the worst trades ever now
some of you think of Charles what in the
world does this have to do with worship
I think sometimes we don’t respond to
God’s grace because we treat the grace
of God like Esau treated his birthright
think about it
a scripture says look after each other
so you don’t fail to receive the grace
of God and don’t be like Esau what did
he saw do he traded something that was
so valuable for his current situation I
think sometimes we can show up to church
and we look at the grace of God and it’s
not that we don’t know what it is it’s
not that we don’t know the value of the
grace of God it’s just in the moment
we’re really hungry we’re we’re really
stressed out we’re really overwhelmed
with the pressures of life we’re really
it’s not that we don’t understand that
it’s a big deal it’s not that we don’t
understand what he did for us it’s just
in the moment your present seems to get
louder than the promise so you can show
up to a service you can start to live
your life you can have an opportunity to
obey God and as you look at it you think
yeah I know about the grace of God but I
need to pay my bills right now and it
almost becomes a sign of the human
condition you ever heard somebody even
around Christmas time and say whoa you
got that and they say what oh this whole
thing I’ve I’ve had this for awhile okay
let me illustrate it this way me and my
wife have been married for two and a
half years we got a little baby on the
way which is crazy and so awesome but in
that something that happens in marriage
if you’re not careful and it happens
across a lot of marriages is you need to
know marriage is
what I mean you you get married to
someone and they’re always there so you
wake up there there you go to sleep
they’re there you make decisions they’re
there and it’s so constant and if you’re
not careful
what’s constant becomes common so it’s
so constant and you’re always there that
it’s slowly if you’re not careful can
become common to you and maybe at one
point when you would compliment and
freak out about certain things the
longer you’re together you just start to
expect it because it’s been so constant
that it’s become common and now you’ve
stopped complimenting so it started off
as constant and you were enthralled and
you were in love and it was amazing but
over time it just became common you’re
like yeah they always do that like I
know they do that and then it became so
common that you stop complimenting you
stopped responding could it be that
God’s grace is so constant in your life
that maybe it became common to you that
the greatest gift ever given was so
constant which is its greatest power
it’s always gonna be there but if you’re
not careful it is so constant that you
allow it to become common and someone
gets on a stage and starts talking about
the grace of God and say yeah I know
about that you you hear it come up and
you say grace and you’re like yeah I
know about grace that yeah grace I get
it let’s get some real revelation though
let’s get but but could it be that His
grace was so constant it became common
and you stopped responding or you took
the grace of God for granted I just I I
want to come to you today to encourage
you to do not let the grace of God
become common to you do not become so in
routine of God’s grace and mercy that
you allow it to become common that when
someone starts to talk about it you’re
like yeah yeah I know about grace but
let’s talk about revelations or let’s
talk about no no the grace of God you
could spend the rest of your life
talking about the grace of God and still
not have it all figured out
I can’t if our response is a response to
His grace His grace can never become
common and this is not some big thing
and I literally I spent hours this is
I’ll tell you this little secret this is
like one of the craziest most difficult
and simplest message I’ve ever ever
written in my life me and my friend were
sitting there we were working on working
and we were like it’s three hours in had
nothing and all that said I was sitting
there thinking and I was like I need
some sort of revelation or worship or
something that will just really show him
and God said instead of a revelation
what if it could just be a reminder like
a lot of us are educated far beyond our
ability to execute so we we that was
good we walk around saying I need
something new I want to learn something
new I’m just gonna remind you of God’s
grace because if it had not been for His
grace and His grace is something to
respond to you we could take the rest of
the years the rest of our lives and
every message we have up on this stage
be about grace and that would be okay
because His grace is the greatest gift
ever given and today literally I’m just
gonna remind you of His grace because
maybe if I remind you you won’t have
trouble responding maybe if you get a
reminder of what he’s done for you of
how good he’s been then it will be
easier to respond because you haven’t
forgot about it and you didn’t let it
become common and you said you know what
I’m gonna respond to his grace side of
my message the worst trait ever I want
to I want to give you a couple reminders
of God’s grace and you know when it
comes to response I don’t I don’t think
people on purpose
sit in a service or live their lives or
have an opportunity I don’t think they
purposefully say I’m not gonna respond I
don’t I don’t believe that I think what
they’re just it’s just the pressures of
life it’s just that in the moment your
your present situation it starts to feel
bigger than what God has already done
and in you go and you and you feel
stressed out and you feel worried
but I’m here to tell you don’t make the
trade don’t trade your worship don’t
trade your response don’t trade it for
worry don’t trade it for it for your
current feelings or how it looks right
now don’t make the trade and here’s the
reminders I want to give you of God’s
grace the first one is this it’s saving
grace because we need saving my points
are get again this in case you have
catch caught on its a grace message
today because if we could truly grasp
His grace if we could truly understand
it it would not be an issue at all we
wouldn’t have to talk about why do we
need to respond to it because we know
the value of it my first point it’s
saving grace because we need saving
Ephesians 2:8 says this it says God
saved you by His grace when you believed
this point is very simple but you need
to realize and remind yourself you need
saving listen if you don’t understand
that you start to think you’re fine by
yourself if you don’t remind yourself
that it’s not that you are a bad person
and now you’re a good person because you
have grace the Bible says the wages of
sin is death so if you don’t understand
that it’s God saved us by His grace it’s
saving grace because you need saving
what do you do you start to think I can
do it by myself I can save myself and
now you’ve put yourself in the place of
God so it’s easy for you not to respond
to something that you think you can do
by yourself you need to understand it’s
saving grace because God saved you now
this is so and it’s so elementary but if
you don’t remind yourself of that that I
need saving you can show up to church
every weekend you can have moments where
you can worship outside of church and
the way you lived your life and you just
sit there and think you know what it’s
not a big deal to respond to his grace
because you know I’m a good person and I
show up and I give and I
do nice things and I open the door for
old ladies or I do what well I give to
charity you can do a lot of good things
but it’s only the grace of God that has
saved you you I I need us to get this
and I know it’s it’s simple but we need
saving and by God’s grace he did that my
second point write this down you can’t
afford the cost of your sin again
there’s no big revelation today it’s a
reminder that you can’t afford the cost
of your sin imagine with me if me and my
wife we have the baby and right after we
have the baby we go out to eat and we’re
sitting there have a newborn baby we’ll
say we’ll order all this food they bring
the check and I’ll say he’ll take the
bill that would seem insane and
ridiculous to expect someone who has no
business no ability no money they have
nothing they can give to pay for the
bill that they have ran up I need you to
understand that in this situation we are
the newborn baby and God knew that we
had no business paying for our sin he
knew we had no business paying for the
hurt and he said don’t worry I got it we
need to remind ourselves that we cannot
afford the cost of sin donating to
charity is an amazing thing but does not
pay for the sin that your life has
caused it sits there are may and you can
be a good person and that is amazing but
you need to understand that in and of
yourself you cannot afford what your sin
cost and when you start to back up and
you realize that you understand that
that god saves me because I didn’t even
have any business paying for this like I
couldn’t even begin to pay for this then
you start to think okay maybe I should
respond like maybe in light of what he’s
done in maybe and in light of who he is
my response is the only thing that I
could muster up that would make any
sense because I couldn’t pay this by
myself anyways
it’s God’s grace it’s his love it’s his
mercy and we got to understand that hey
it’s it’s saving grace and we can’t
afford the cost of our sin in my third
point grace is a free gift just
reminders today in case your present is
getting really loud
just a reminder today in case you
started to think that maybe you had
earned grace
just a reminder today if you thought
because of who you were connected to and
who your family is and how much money
you put in the offering you need to know
today that grace is a free gift
Ephesians 2:8 we just read it God saved
you by His grace when you believed and
you can’t take credit for it it is a
gift from God salvation is not a reward
for the good things we have done your
the grace of God is a free gift and this
morning I just want to remind you of His
grace what would have happened if
someone would have been there to remind
Esau of his birthright if in the moment
he walks in he’s like man I’m really
hungry and man give me some of that soup
it was like well give me your birthright
and as he’s about to make decision you
stop and say wait wait wait this is the
worst trade ever I know I know you’re
hungry
I know you really want the soup but
don’t trade your blessing for a bowl of
soup and it seems ridiculous but day
after day we have moments where we’re
trading our blessing for a bowl of soup
we’re trading a response to God’s grace
for our current situation and I know it
feels big but I promise you his grace is
bigger if you’ll just hold all it I’m
just here to remind you don’t make the
trade don’t allow what’s happening right
now to get you in a place where His
grace has become common and you just
stop thinking about it you say yeah I
got the grace but I need something
bigger than that I need something more
no what did the Bible say when
said I asked God three times to
take it away and God said my grace is
sufficient for you you need to know His
grace is sufficient what do you mean his
grace is enough that’s really I mean his
grace is enough period and God could not
do anything else he could never bless us
again he could he could not do anything
ever again and his grace would be enough
today I just I want to remind you of His
grace and as I start to think about this
message and I think about the grace of
God I start to think about my own life
and if worship is a response to His
grace I need to understand what His
grace saved me from I need to understand
that without His grace I’m my talent
isn’t enough like without his grace
having on a cool outfit or feeling like
I’m somebody it doesn’t do anything
without his grace I wouldn’t be where I
am and not you save that cliche no I’m
saying like physically I wouldn’t be
right here without his grace and it’s
just I have to take a moment and maybe
this message is just for me but I’ll
take a moment to remind myself that
without His grace I’m not enough without
His grace
without his grace I wouldn’t have the
family that I have without his grace I
wouldn’t have the wife that I have that
is Grace I wouldn’t have a little son on
the way it’s important that we take a
moment and we remember and we remind
ourselves that we needed saving that
your good deeds who you’re connected to
it’s not enough and that if you
understand that you needed saving that I
needed saving and that is Grace is a
free gift you reach a point in your life
where what you do who you are it doesn’t
matter because you find yourself in a
place where you realize my only response
to His grace is to worship Him my only
[Applause]
my only response when I look at what
he’s brought me from when I look at
where I should have been my only
response is not to worry about what
someone would think about me it’s not to
worry about your story it’s to stop and
take a moment and say god I thank you
for your grace I thank you for your
mercy I thank you that you rescued me
out of my addiction I thank you Lord
Jesus that you’re seeing me through look
I I thank you for your love
[Applause]
the great thing is is the more you know
you who you are without him it the more
you can worship Him the more you realize
that you’re not enough it says his
strength is made perfect in your
weakness the more you understand that
your good deeds can’t make up for your
sin the more reason you have to worship
Him I wonder if the knowledge of who we
are without God has kept us from
understanding who we are with him your
your knowledge of something is the
sealing of how you can worship it so if
you don’t understand what you are
without him it makes sense that it’s
hard for you to respond but maybe just
maybe could we take a moment and think
about who it would be without God and in
light of that we could worship Him
don’t don’t make the trade it says at
the end of that scripture decision from
that moment on Esau showed contempt for
his birthright he just he wrote it off
later on that changed what you need to
know is the Bible it says the God of
Abraham Isaac and Jacob that wasn’t the
plan firstborn son the God of Abraham
Isaac and Esau but in a moment because
of how loud the current situation was he
just wrote it off I want to encourage
you every time you walk in a church
service every time you just wake up in
the morning forget walking in a service
when you wake up in the morning take a
moment and it doesn’t have to be some
big thing and this is not a message
about we should walk around feeling sad
about who we are no it’s just
understanding who we are without him and
in light of that why we should worship
Him why we should respond listen I just
want to I want to read this last
scripture it’s in 2nd Peter says this
2nd Peter 1 verse 3 says by His divine
power God has given us everything we
need for living a godly life we’ve
received all of this by coming to know
one him the one who called us himself by
means of his marvelous glory and
excellence and because of his glory and
excellence he has given us great and
precious promises these are the promises
that enable you to share and His divine
nature and escape the world’s corruption
verse 5 in view of all of this make an
effort to respond it goes on to say in
verse a says the more you grow like this
the more productive and useful you will
be with your knowledge of Jesus but
those who fail to develop
short sighted or blind forgetting that
they have been cleansed from their old
sins says if you get to a point in your
life where you you just stop responding
you’re short-sighted Esau was
short-sighted in a moment he didn’t
realize what would happen but I want to
stop and over any revelation I want to
remind you even though it seems loud
right now even though that soup looks
really good don’t make the trade don’t
trade your worship for worry don’t trade
your worship for a wrong moment don’t
trade your worship for something that
seems so big I promise you God’s with
you and His grace is sufficient for what
you’re going through he has a plan for
your life and he is working it all out
the Bible says he’s worked all things
together for the good of those who love
him and are called according to his
purpose
in view of God’s grace and view that we
needed saving and view of who we are
without him our only response that’s my
last point you can write that down
number 4 worship is my only response
because of his grace because of his
mercy because of how because of how good
he’s been I can stop and there could be
music playing or there could be no music
playing I can be happy or I can be sad I
can have a lot of money or no money I
can feel like it’s all working out or I
don’t have a plan but in view of His
grace my only response is worship and I
believe we’re gonna be a church that
we’re not going to trade now for later
we’re not going to trade convenience for
something that could really change the
rest of our lives
cousin I want to pray for you today you
everybody bow your heads and close your
eyes I want to pray for two groups of
people the first group
there’s maybe some people in this room
who if you’re honest with yourself
you’ve thought about making the trade
it’s not that you don’t understand God’s
grace it’s not that you don’t love God
it’s not that it’s just in the moment
right now you feel like there’s a lot of
pressure you feel like you don’t have a
plan you feel like the the healing was
supposed to come you feel like it was
supposed to work out you thought by now
the marriage would be whole and right
now that the present situation seems
bigger than the promise right now
responding to His grace seems really
hard because it doesn’t seem like you
understand or doesn’t seem like he’s
there but right now I wanna pray that
you would be reminded that you would be
reminded that as grace is with you that
it’s enough and it’s always been there
so if you’re in here and you say you
know what trust if I’m honest I just I
need that reminder I need to remember
who I am without him because without him
I’m not enough but today I’m today I’m
deciding that I’m always gonna respond
I’m always gonna respond and I don’t
need my type of song or my music but
today if that’s you I just want to pray
for you would you lift your hand right
now
and the hands all over the room thank
God I thank you for those people or who
are saying well we’re not enough without
your grace and though we’re gonna make a
decision to stay reminded that because
of your grace because of who you are
because of what you’ve done Lord Jesus
our only response is to worship you you
can put your hands down
every head still bowed every eye still
closed there are some of you in here and
we talk about responding and worship but
before that there’s a there’s something
you need to know
and it’s pretty easy to to talk about
because it’s its grace and it’s crazy to
think that God would look at a world
that was broken that was hurting that
had evil hearts that would didn’t even
care about him and he said it doesn’t
matter I still love you
someone needs to be reminded thank you
Holy Spirit now you need to know he
still loves you what you did did not
disqualify you for his love what
happened to you did not disqualify you
from his love what people have said
about you nothing can disqualify you
from his love and there are some people
in here right now that you need to
respond to his grace and he just
surrender your life to Him you’ve tried
doing it by yourself you’ve tried living
life on your own but you’re coming to an
understanding that I need something
bigger I need a Savior listener those of
you that that’s why you’re here today is
to make the decision to follow Jesus and
say I’m done living life on my own I’m
done doing it by myself
I need His grace I need His mercy I need
him to come save me from my current
situation listen you don’t have to be
perfect you don’t have to get your life
together you don’t have to change if God
can get your hearts he’ll help you
change your habits but in a moment you
can make a decision that would change
your life forever so I’m gonna ask you
on the count of three that you would
lift your hand don’t worry about who’s
around you don’t worry about what
they’ll think this is between you and
God one two three lift your hand right
now if you want to respond to that grace
I see you right here in the back I got
you
over there I’m so proud of you over here
in the back I see you brother so amazing
so proud of you
listen transformation Church we are
family and no one prays alone following
every one to repeat this prayer after me
say dear Heavenly Father thank you for
loving me dear Jesus thank you for
laying down your life to save mine I
admit I’ve made mistakes save me change
me transform me in Jesus name I pray
transformation Church can we make some
noise for those who just made that
decision to follow Jesus
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