WEBVTT 00:00:00.119 --> 00:00:02.560 Y'all are ready for the word amen, right, all right. 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:08.939 So instead of doing a confession, let's just stretch your hands out towards me, if you don't mind, and we'll open in prayer. 00:00:08.939 --> 00:00:14.307 Father, we just thank you for this opportunity to receive more revelation. 00:00:14.307 --> 00:00:18.768 Lord, we're grateful for the service that Raphael Cruz preached this morning. 00:00:18.768 --> 00:00:20.786 Lord, and all the revelation we learned this morning. 00:00:20.786 --> 00:00:24.289 And, father, we just continue in that vein, lord. 00:00:24.289 --> 00:00:29.946 And we just thank you that I'm anointed, that you've given me utterance and we just slowly believe in supernatural hearing. 00:00:29.946 --> 00:00:35.207 And, father, we just thank you that you've anointed me to preach liberty to the captives. 00:00:35.207 --> 00:00:48.606 And so, father, we just thank you that no one leaves bound, but they're stirring their faith up and there's nothing that can bind them that their faith can't overcome. 00:00:48.606 --> 00:00:50.305 They've already overcome. 00:00:50.305 --> 00:00:52.923 And so, father, we thank you for these things In Jesus' name. 00:00:52.923 --> 00:00:53.845 Amen. 00:00:53.845 --> 00:00:56.761 So church is fun, amen. 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:03.344 So I'm just going to read right out of Romans, chapter 1, in verse 16. 00:01:03.344 --> 00:01:14.049 And, lee, if you're doing the scriptures, I'm using the New King James version and then I'll switch to the Amplified here in a bit but very familiar scripture. 00:01:14.049 --> 00:01:18.108 I was tempted when I was reading it earlier this week. 00:01:18.108 --> 00:01:30.507 I was studying and I got to this verse and these verses, and I just almost skipped right over them because we've read them and seen them. 00:01:30.507 --> 00:01:34.626 But this stuck out to me and boom, this was my message. 00:01:34.626 --> 00:01:36.266 So here we go, verse 16. 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:49.186 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to or unto or into salvation for everyone who believes. 00:01:49.186 --> 00:01:53.010 Just think of what you unto salvation. 00:01:53.010 --> 00:01:56.364 That means you are brought out of darkness into His marvelous light. 00:01:56.364 --> 00:02:01.609 Just imagine for a second what you were brought out of. 00:02:01.609 --> 00:02:04.864 Everybody has a story, everybody has a testimony. 00:02:04.864 --> 00:02:20.350 Amen, what you were brought out of and now into power of salvation for everyone who believes, not just one person, not just 20, but anyone and everyone, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek, verse 17. 00:02:20.350 --> 00:02:28.706 And for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. 00:02:28.706 --> 00:02:33.308 As it was written, the just shall live by faith. 00:02:33.308 --> 00:02:37.663 And so I just wanted to preach a message entitled Unashamed. 00:02:37.663 --> 00:02:39.725 I am unashamed. 00:02:39.725 --> 00:02:43.491 I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. 00:02:43.491 --> 00:02:48.326 I'm not ashamed of the power of God, I'm not ashamed of the Holy Spirit. 00:02:48.326 --> 00:02:50.447 I'm not ashamed of speaking in tongues. 00:02:50.447 --> 00:03:05.985 I'm not ashamed of all of the manifestations of the Holy Ghost that happen here on a weekly basis and sometimes a daily basis, and you shouldn't be either. 00:03:05.985 --> 00:03:13.610 You should be bold about your faith and you grow in faith, from faith to faith and glory to glory. 00:03:13.610 --> 00:03:19.212 So you grow in faith and the just shall live by faith. 00:03:19.212 --> 00:03:35.266 So faith is a requirement, and, as we learned this morning, and as I said during the offering this morning, and as Brother Raphael repeated several times, we must live by faith, and so faith is required. 00:03:35.266 --> 00:03:39.569 And we're not ashamed of that faith. 00:03:39.569 --> 00:03:48.884 And so you might think that I would preach a message out of, maybe out of boldness, but no, that's not what the Holy Spirit where he brought me. 00:03:48.884 --> 00:03:56.627 But we are not ashamed, and so I just thought we'd have a little bit of fun talking about movies for just a second. 00:03:57.020 --> 00:04:04.388 If this was the 1950s, I might get kicked out of church for talking about entertainment, but I won't play a movie clip and preach out of that. 00:04:04.388 --> 00:04:05.783 I tried that one time. 00:04:05.783 --> 00:04:06.647 It didn't go over well. 00:04:06.647 --> 00:04:10.149 I played like a little clip of Elf in anyways. 00:04:10.149 --> 00:04:16.004 But if I asked you what your favorite movies are, you'd be able to tell me. 00:04:16.004 --> 00:04:20.165 Everybody in here would be able to tell me, and for whatever reason. 00:04:20.165 --> 00:04:21.689 I mean, we know the reason. 00:04:21.689 --> 00:04:24.910 But I will say that movies have just gone downhill. 00:04:24.910 --> 00:04:34.730 Like, especially the COVID stuff has made it worse because we don't go to the movies anymore, but family friendly movies have just gotten smaller and smaller and smaller. 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:47.584 So I walked into I think it was the last time we were in Tulsa I walked into a store and so it had like cups, I mean like mugs, the coffee mugs and t-shirts all about. 00:04:47.584 --> 00:04:56.249 Well, fell out of my brain the new Paramount that every single person is watching. 00:04:56.249 --> 00:04:58.283 Yeah, yellowstone, thank you. 00:04:58.283 --> 00:05:01.627 And so I was like what is Yellowstone? 00:05:01.627 --> 00:05:02.571 What is this all about? 00:05:02.571 --> 00:05:03.644 But I can't just start now. 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:09.567 I got to go back to season one, episode one, and I start watching it and I'm like man, this language is tough. 00:05:09.567 --> 00:05:17.826 I thought this was like for TV, but the script was terrible and the character development. 00:05:17.826 --> 00:05:18.728 I'm like who is this? 00:05:18.728 --> 00:05:28.961 And then, anyways, I didn't make it very far and so that's not a show for me that I would like to watch, and so I. 00:05:28.961 --> 00:05:35.086 As far as Westerns, there's probably never going to be another lonesome dove. 00:05:35.180 --> 00:05:43.807 I know that wasn't a movie, but it was a mini series in the 80s and I was a little kid when that came out, but that was pretty clean. 00:05:43.807 --> 00:05:44.680 It's hard to. 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:48.228 It was back when Augustus McCray, right. 00:05:48.228 --> 00:05:51.266 So lots of quotes from there. 00:05:51.266 --> 00:05:57.245 But the Godfather edited for TV versions probably at the top of my list, and so you have a list. 00:05:57.245 --> 00:06:00.649 But there's all kind of spiritual meanings in the Godfather. 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:03.148 People scratch their head and like what are you talking about? 00:06:03.148 --> 00:06:09.906 But because I had to have an example to preach this message, I picked castaway. 00:06:09.906 --> 00:06:12.507 How many people have seen castaway with Tom Hanks? 00:06:12.507 --> 00:06:13.942 Probably most. 00:06:13.942 --> 00:06:15.266 Almost everybody in the room. 00:06:15.266 --> 00:06:18.507 Spoiler alert I'm going to say too many things. 00:06:18.507 --> 00:06:20.526 It will be ruined for you. 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:42.521 But In this movie a FedEx employee crashes in the ocean and ends up on a deserted island for a long time and leaves the island on a raft, builds a raft, gets rescued in the end and everybody has moved on. 00:06:42.521 --> 00:06:44.341 Everybody in his life has moved on. 00:06:44.341 --> 00:06:46.300 So, spoiler alert, there's the whole movie. 00:06:46.300 --> 00:06:50.504 But it broke lots of records when it was produced. 00:06:50.504 --> 00:06:55.425 It took over five years to produce and it broke budgets. 00:06:55.425 --> 00:06:56.427 It broke everything. 00:06:56.595 --> 00:07:00.966 But mainly Tom Hanks had to lose an incredible amount of weight. 00:07:00.966 --> 00:07:03.762 He was like down to whatever 70, 80 pounds. 00:07:03.762 --> 00:07:19.036 You could see his ribs and it really does take your breath away in the movie when they cut to him finally on that island, all skinny like that, and so it was really an amazing movie, great Everything is. 00:07:19.036 --> 00:07:22.946 You know the character development and so on and so forth. 00:07:22.946 --> 00:07:29.146 But when they first edited the movie, they sent it to screening and nobody liked it. 00:07:29.146 --> 00:07:30.357 It was hated. 00:07:33.821 --> 00:07:38.920 And there's like points in the movie with no dialogue, even like he talks to the volleyball. 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:42.007 You know, it's like 17 minutes of no dialogue. 00:07:42.007 --> 00:07:47.144 You have no idea what he's thinking, you just see him doing things and just it was nobody like that. 00:07:47.144 --> 00:07:54.942 And so they had to go back and cut in scenes at the end that explained what he was thinking, because we need to be connected to the character, right. 00:07:54.942 --> 00:07:59.524 And so all of a sudden he gains a whole bunch of weight back and you're like what happened? 00:07:59.524 --> 00:08:03.324 But that's what happened because they had to go back and reshoot the movie. 00:08:03.324 --> 00:08:22.329 And so you know the scene where he's talking to his best friend and he's talking about, like you know, I'm talking to you now and I have ice in my glass and just all the things that just were surprising to him coming back to civilization, right, and all the little things. 00:08:22.329 --> 00:08:26.124 And so it makes you, you know, appreciate what we have. 00:08:26.124 --> 00:08:29.060 You know the technology that we have on a daily basis. 00:08:29.060 --> 00:08:34.884 You know he was stuck on an island for however long, and so five years, or whatever it was in the storyline. 00:08:35.075 --> 00:08:42.989 So, no, I'm not a movie critic, but every movie needs three elements in order to be a blockbuster hit. 00:08:42.989 --> 00:08:48.057 And so we're going to talk about those elements and we're going to compare those elements to your life. 00:08:48.057 --> 00:08:49.398 And you're like what? 00:08:49.398 --> 00:08:53.384 But trust me, let's just get started with number one. 00:08:53.595 --> 00:09:00.320 It has to have, in order for a movie to be a hit, it must have an amazing, well-written script, right? 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:12.918 Or if it's being adapted from a book, that's called a screenplay, or they're actually called screen artists that write screenplays, and so that's a whole different process. 00:09:12.918 --> 00:09:16.466 To pull a script out of a book, right? 00:09:16.466 --> 00:09:20.385 Because the character development must happen much quicker. 00:09:20.385 --> 00:09:21.559 It has to be visual. 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:24.202 You have to care about the character in the movie. 00:09:24.202 --> 00:09:40.256 If it's a bad guy, you know it's hard to root for the bad guy, but you know like you're wanting something bad to happen to the bad guy and you want something good to happen to the good guy, and you get emotionally invested right In, you know, in the script, and it happens quick. 00:09:40.297 --> 00:09:51.025 And so In your life, this is the script, and your life is way more important than a movie, and we're not just acting here. 00:09:51.025 --> 00:09:55.884 And you say well, you know, the Bible tells us to act on our faith. 00:09:55.884 --> 00:09:57.208 But no, that's not pretending. 00:09:57.208 --> 00:09:59.268 Faith is not pretending. 00:09:59.268 --> 00:10:01.287 Faith is evidence, right? 00:10:01.287 --> 00:10:02.664 We learned that this morning. 00:10:02.664 --> 00:10:05.903 If you didn't already know that, we learned that this morning. 00:10:05.903 --> 00:10:12.349 Faith is evidence, and so we've been predestined. 00:10:12.349 --> 00:10:15.067 Everything's been planned out ahead of time. 00:10:15.067 --> 00:10:21.984 But yet we have free will, we have a choice, but God knows every choice we're ever going to make from here on out. 00:10:21.984 --> 00:10:29.025 He knows how many hairs are on your head and he loves you and he accepts you. 00:10:29.025 --> 00:10:50.081 But he has a very specific plan for your life that, if you step into it, you're going to develop your character into a loving, kind and having all of the fruits of the spirit abounding in your life, and you're going to be able to change this world for Him, amen. 00:10:50.081 --> 00:10:58.528 And so we must stick to the script, we must stick to God's Word and we must make it personal right. 00:10:58.528 --> 00:11:04.809 And so when you read the Bible, you must find yourself in the Bible, right? 00:11:04.809 --> 00:11:05.321 Jesus. 00:11:05.321 --> 00:11:11.933 When he was 12 years old, his parents couldn't find him, and where was he? 00:11:11.933 --> 00:11:14.048 He was preaching in the synagogue. 00:11:14.048 --> 00:11:23.011 He had found himself in the Word of God and where it was written, and then he sat down after he was done speaking about himself in the Word. 00:11:23.011 --> 00:11:31.900 He sat down in the chair reserved for the Messiah right, and so, just similar to that, we need to find who we are in the Word and I. 00:11:31.921 --> 00:11:37.548 Just an example my dad likes to use a lot of times is when he was called to the ministry. 00:11:37.548 --> 00:11:40.347 It came from Revelation, right out of the Word. 00:11:40.347 --> 00:11:42.947 I think he was reading in John 1.6. 00:11:42.947 --> 00:11:47.530 And there was a man called by God and his name was John. 00:11:47.530 --> 00:11:56.664 When he read that right off the page John Griner, and he's like what, and he read it again there once was a man called by God, his name was John Griner. 00:11:56.664 --> 00:12:05.365 And so then in that moment God began to call him to the ministry and show him that he was called to the ministry. 00:12:05.365 --> 00:12:21.546 He flashed back scenes of my dad being like five or six years old in Catholic Church where a missionary came to speak at the Catholic Church and he felt the call of God. 00:12:21.546 --> 00:12:35.067 At that little age in Catholic Church he thought he wanted to be a priest, right, and that all changed the moment that he met my mom right, and so he tells that story really well and so real quick before we get. 00:12:35.328 --> 00:12:44.607 You know, like I, just Selena was talking about her getting saved and a little bit of things that happened in her childhood, and just the very quick version of my. 00:12:44.607 --> 00:12:48.870 It was the summer of 1981. 00:12:48.870 --> 00:12:53.625 I was five years old and it was in that short period of time where my dad tried to stay. 00:12:53.625 --> 00:13:00.347 He got saved and then he tried to stay in the Catholic Church and so he kind of basically got kicked out. 00:13:00.347 --> 00:13:02.888 But we left, went to Lakewood full time. 00:13:03.500 --> 00:13:19.868 We were visiting Lakewood every now and then, but I remember it was in Catholic Mass in Christ, the Good Shepherd Catholic Church on Cline Church Road in Spring, texas, and I was sitting in his lap and I was looking at the crucifix of Jesus. 00:13:19.868 --> 00:13:51.628 So they had this very European style, you know, not very detailed, but yet Jesus was hanging on the cross and blood was coming out of his hands and his feet and I began to stare and just began to ask my dad who is that up there and why are they up there, so on and so forth, and my dad just began to share the gospel with me, and as soon as he did, I just got convicted of my sins and I began to cry right there in Catholic Church and later on in the avocado green chairs in our living room. 00:13:51.628 --> 00:13:54.043 I got saved. 00:13:54.043 --> 00:14:02.870 And so later on, you know, a few months later it was October the 31st 1981 at Lakewood Church, I was baptized by Dean Garner. 00:14:02.870 --> 00:14:11.804 And I'm not Dean Garner, I'm sorry, bill Deermann, sorry, dean Garner was his son. 00:14:11.804 --> 00:14:14.187 Sorry, I messed that story up, my own story. 00:14:14.187 --> 00:14:24.993 But I do remember that very specifically, the nice doves wallpaper on the back wall of the baptismal. 00:14:24.993 --> 00:14:27.725 But I remember that and it was real to me. 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.408 And God changed my life at such a young age. 00:14:30.408 --> 00:14:33.107 And so have I lived a perfect life? 00:14:33.107 --> 00:14:40.690 No, but let's just talk about sticking to the script and all the things that God has promised us in His Word. 00:14:40.690 --> 00:14:49.990 And so in Ephesians 1.11, it says in Him we also were made God's heritage or His portion. 00:14:49.990 --> 00:14:53.168 This is in the Amplified Classic Ephesians 1.11. 00:14:53.168 --> 00:15:03.904 And we obtained an inheritance, for we had been foreordained or chosen and appointed beforehand In accordance with His purpose. 00:15:04.426 --> 00:15:05.951 Who works out everything? 00:15:05.951 --> 00:15:07.143 Everybody say everything. 00:15:07.143 --> 00:15:26.006 Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His own will, so that we who first hoped in Christ, who first put our confidence in Him, have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of His glory. 00:15:26.006 --> 00:15:29.349 So God has called you and he's predestined you. 00:15:29.349 --> 00:15:38.130 He has a plan specifically for your life that only God can arrange it in what? 00:15:38.130 --> 00:15:40.346 The counsel and design of His own will. 00:15:40.346 --> 00:15:41.544 Only God can do that. 00:15:41.544 --> 00:15:53.288 Only God can take all of your choices and all the adding up of every decision that you've ever made and get you into His will. 00:15:53.288 --> 00:15:56.268 Only he has the power to do that, amen. 00:15:56.268 --> 00:16:06.804 And so, in word, to live for the praise of His glory, that's our whole purpose in life to bring Him pleasure, to bring Him good pleasure. 00:16:06.804 --> 00:16:11.230 And so God works everything out for His will. 00:16:11.230 --> 00:16:13.145 That's what redemption is. 00:16:13.145 --> 00:16:14.566 We've been redeemed, amen. 00:16:14.566 --> 00:16:16.804 We've been redeemed, you are redeemed. 00:16:17.881 --> 00:16:22.832 And so I think about that in Psalm 24 and verse 3. 00:16:22.832 --> 00:16:41.048 It says who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord and who shall stand in His holy place, he who has two things clean hands and a pure heart, and also who has not lifted Himself up to falsehood or what is false, nor sworn deceitfully. 00:16:41.048 --> 00:16:45.350 In other words, you're not living a lie, amen. 00:16:45.350 --> 00:16:54.611 And so it speaks of climbing, and we just read that in our foundational scripture about going from faith to faith and glory to glory. 00:16:54.611 --> 00:16:58.865 So faith is growing and growing, is changing, and changing is growing right. 00:16:58.865 --> 00:17:00.307 And so you're not living a lie. 00:17:00.307 --> 00:17:02.280 Amen Again. 00:17:02.280 --> 00:17:12.147 You know, when we're watching a movie, we're watching a character grow and you're, you're being emotionally attached to that character and you're caring what happens to that character. 00:17:12.568 --> 00:17:14.741 God is Developing. 00:17:14.741 --> 00:17:17.719 You know, when we stick to his script, he's developing us. 00:17:17.719 --> 00:17:31.092 He's putting his characteristics and we're able to climb faith from faith to faith and glory to glory, higher and higher, in, stronger and stronger, into what he's called us to do. 00:17:31.092 --> 00:17:32.575 Amen and so. 00:17:32.575 --> 00:17:39.640 But there's a promise attached to that verse and it's who shall stand in his holy place. 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:43.814 That's the whole purpose is so we can stand in his holy place, amen. 00:17:43.814 --> 00:17:45.680 There's a promise attached to it. 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:47.915 We're able to climb the mountain of the Lord. 00:17:47.915 --> 00:17:54.351 We're, in other words, we're able to spend time in his presence, and we do that with clean hands and a pure heart. 00:17:54.351 --> 00:17:59.907 So purity and Holiness is involved and that's done by the blood of Jesus. 00:17:59.907 --> 00:18:15.083 We're gonna talk more about that later, but we, we enter that the throne room boldly and we enter in, we learn this morning to grace by faith, right, and. 00:18:15.083 --> 00:18:18.571 But we do that in the entrance of the blood of Jesus, amen. 00:18:18.571 --> 00:18:20.903 And so there you go. 00:18:21.324 --> 00:18:25.787 A movie must have a Perfect script, a good script. 00:18:25.787 --> 00:18:38.459 So number two, you know, in order for a movie to be a blockbuster hit, it has to have great acting and great Cinematography, right, and it must be recorded like it used to be, on film. 00:18:38.459 --> 00:18:39.384 Now it's all digital. 00:18:39.384 --> 00:18:47.992 So if they forget to hit record or they move, you know, if something happens to a hard drive and they lose it, that doesn't happen because they're, like, recorded to a hundred of them at once. 00:18:47.992 --> 00:18:58.152 But it they must shoot it, they must Capture it, right, and so if it's not captured, they don't have it. 00:18:58.813 --> 00:19:11.005 So, you know, in order to not live, to be able to truly say that you are unashamed, you must be authentic. 00:19:11.005 --> 00:19:15.192 You know the world is looking for authenticity in our faith. 00:19:15.192 --> 00:19:16.923 Right, that you know. 00:19:16.923 --> 00:19:18.268 We cannot be fake. 00:19:18.268 --> 00:19:20.121 We cannot, you know. 00:19:20.121 --> 00:19:39.244 And when you're, when you, when you're ashamed of Jesus, when you're ashamed of the word of God, when you, when you go to work every day and you're just trying to hide from everything that's going on in the news and you're trying to just, you know, grab the back cubicle or whatever and not say anything to anybody about your faith and Not ever be bold. 00:19:39.244 --> 00:19:50.193 You hear conversations every day where you could in Interject truth into what's going on around you, but you choose to be shy and you well, that would might cause a controversy. 00:19:50.193 --> 00:19:51.946 I'll just hold it on the inside. 00:19:51.946 --> 00:20:07.526 You're missing an opportunity to do good, right, you're missing an opportunity to share your faith and to be bold, and so To be unashamed means we must live with, with authenticity and to be real. 00:20:08.146 --> 00:20:13.163 So an actor has to immerse themselves in that role, right, whatever role. 00:20:13.163 --> 00:20:17.020 This is kind of random, but I Was. 00:20:17.020 --> 00:20:33.920 I was watching a documentary not too long ago with Val Kilmer and he was explaining the process of what an actor has to do to become, to act, you know, and so I think his whole marriage fell apart while he was shooting the doors movie, which is terrible movie. 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:38.259 I never saw it, but who was the lead singer of the doors? 00:20:38.259 --> 00:20:44.371 I'm a Jim Jim Morrison, there we go, but he was like psychotic, and you know. 00:20:44.371 --> 00:20:50.509 So here, van, you know, I just say Val Kilmer playing him. 00:20:50.509 --> 00:20:56.473 He became him, and literally 24 hours a day for over a year, he learned all of his songs. 00:20:56.473 --> 00:20:58.846 He learned how to sing, but not just sing. 00:20:58.846 --> 00:21:06.303 He learned how to sing like him and so, and he became psychotic and His wife left him. 00:21:06.303 --> 00:21:09.431 But after that boom, he popped out of the role, right. 00:21:09.811 --> 00:21:16.794 And so we don't have to pretend we, but we do become someone else when we get saved. 00:21:16.794 --> 00:21:25.480 We are a new creature, and so that you're a new kind of being, a new, a being that has never existed before. 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:45.907 And when you allow the Holy Spirit to get ahold of you and begin to change you and begin to impart into you godly characteristics, you do change and so you do become a Perfect person acting on the word of God. 00:21:45.907 --> 00:21:47.009 But you're not pretending. 00:21:47.009 --> 00:21:51.914 This is real, this is reality in every area of your life. 00:21:51.914 --> 00:22:05.561 And so you know, and we're not authentic, this is the Holy Spirit, because it's not in my notes, but just you know how people Compartmentalize. 00:22:05.561 --> 00:22:12.586 You know they'll hold this one area of their life back and try to hide it from the Lord. 00:22:12.586 --> 00:22:14.067 You know God sees everything. 00:22:14.067 --> 00:22:16.953 It's impossible to hide anything from the Lord. 00:22:16.953 --> 00:22:17.843 He sees everything. 00:22:17.843 --> 00:22:25.170 He sees every flaw, and yet he loves you just the way you are, but he's given you power to change. 00:22:25.861 --> 00:22:30.816 You know the whole come as you are thing, the the phrase that every church uses. 00:22:30.816 --> 00:22:35.242 You know, come as you are, but you shouldn't have to stay Like you are. 00:22:35.242 --> 00:22:51.944 You know, you, there's power of the Holy Spirit available to change you and to change your mindset, and to change how you think about money, how you have every area of your life, and so that it's impossible then to Compartmentalize and hold something back. 00:22:51.944 --> 00:23:07.612 Jesus has to be Lord of all if he's gonna be Lord at all, and so that when you allow him to take over every part of your being man, he uses you on a level that this world is not familiar with. 00:23:07.612 --> 00:23:10.946 Right, that's when his anointing rushes into you. 00:23:10.946 --> 00:23:20.390 That went, that's when his love and his power rushes into you and you're able to See victory and experience victory in every area of your life. 00:23:20.390 --> 00:23:29.383 And so, getting back to authenticity, we must make Every opportunity. 00:23:29.383 --> 00:23:31.047 So, you know, following the script. 00:23:31.147 --> 00:23:36.403 But but I was talking about being, you know, recording it. 00:23:36.403 --> 00:23:59.461 Basically you're on and so, like sometimes, you know, in a movie, you might have five takes, ten takes, I think we were recording I I got to do a rip, one radio ad here, I don't know, a year ago, and so Claire was in there, she wrote it for me and she, you know, was coaching me on how to how to record this radio ad and it took me like I don't know 15 takes or something. 00:23:59.461 --> 00:24:00.122 It was terrible. 00:24:00.122 --> 00:24:06.795 And then I had to edit myself and uh, I I'm great at editing other people, but it's different when you edit yourself. 00:24:06.795 --> 00:24:18.395 Anyways, but we think we have take five, take 10, take 15, but sometimes what you're doing is so important you don't have another chance and you've got to get it right. 00:24:19.105 --> 00:24:24.116 You've ever been watching a movie and you know they've given you the whole. 00:24:24.116 --> 00:24:29.391 I don't know, maybe it's a chick flick this would probably fit in more with it like a chick flick type of a movie. 00:24:29.391 --> 00:24:32.467 Don't point your finger, I'm sorry. 00:24:32.467 --> 00:24:34.733 Sci-fi movies, just I don't relate. 00:24:34.733 --> 00:24:36.007 I'm more like an action. 00:24:36.007 --> 00:24:40.013 You know Jason Bourne, the Bourne identity type. 00:24:40.013 --> 00:24:42.258 You know CIA action movies. 00:24:42.258 --> 00:24:53.669 But anyways, you ever watch a movie and they've given you part of the plot but the main character doesn't know it yet and you're like yelling at the screen just say it already, just tell him you know and so, and it's so frustrating. 00:24:53.729 --> 00:24:58.739 But sometimes in life you really only get that one chance to. 00:24:58.739 --> 00:25:14.146 Maybe it's showing your love to your kids and you think, okay, well, we can have that conversation tomorrow, but we're not promised tomorrow, and so it's very important that we live our authenticity out today and we get it right today. 00:25:14.146 --> 00:25:39.990 And so if you're one of those people I say this kind of a lot when I'm preaching but if you're one of those people that has a hard time putting into words what's going on on the inside, you just need to pray more and begin to express what's going on on the inside to the Lord, and then you're able to express it to your spouse or to your kids, or even to your boss and your coworkers. 00:25:39.990 --> 00:25:46.336 You become more able to share his word and more bold and just. 00:25:46.336 --> 00:25:54.116 It's about allowing the love of God to become to be shed abroad in your heart and to become alive in your heart, amen. 00:25:54.116 --> 00:26:02.398 So I just wanted to read out of Ephesians 5, making every opportunity in verse 15, ephesians 5, 15. 00:26:02.398 --> 00:26:06.973 Again, it's very familiar, but I'm going to read out of the Amplified because it's louder. 00:26:08.545 --> 00:26:12.536 Look carefully, then, how you walk, Live purposefully. 00:26:12.536 --> 00:26:16.133 So where to look down, where to look? 00:26:16.133 --> 00:26:18.397 Where we're going, how are we walking? 00:26:18.397 --> 00:26:22.842 Not just where are we walking, but how are we walking, how are we saying what we're saying? 00:26:22.842 --> 00:26:25.270 How are we connecting with people? 00:26:25.270 --> 00:26:26.213 How are we loving? 00:26:26.213 --> 00:26:29.747 How are we walking this script out that God's given us? 00:26:31.305 --> 00:26:40.511 Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and the witless, but as wise, sensible, intelligent people. 00:26:40.511 --> 00:26:42.089 Where do we get that wisdom from? 00:26:42.089 --> 00:26:49.069 We get it from reading God's word and we get it from spending time with the Holy Spirit, who makes us a genius. 00:26:49.069 --> 00:27:06.672 He's living on the inside, so we might as well lean our whole entire human personality back into him, because that's what the Amplified Bible tells us to do In verse 16, making the very most, the very most of the time, buying up each opportunity, because the days are evil. 00:27:07.226 --> 00:27:15.854 Therefore, do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is. 00:27:15.854 --> 00:27:18.993 And how do we find out what the will of the Lord is? 00:27:18.993 --> 00:27:21.913 He reveals it to us, spirit to spirit. 00:27:21.913 --> 00:27:26.315 We find the will of God by spending time in the Word amen. 00:27:26.315 --> 00:27:31.155 I know we say that over and, over and over again and I've probably already said it four or five times. 00:27:31.155 --> 00:27:33.349 Selena mentioned it a few times. 00:27:35.545 --> 00:27:38.894 But we have to understand and firmly grasp. 00:27:38.894 --> 00:27:49.407 That means Mark 11, 22 that Brother Raphael used this morning, have the God kind of faith, have the faith of God. 00:27:49.407 --> 00:27:53.497 But it also means to grab a hold of God's faithfulness. 00:27:53.497 --> 00:27:57.694 So we need to firmly grasp what the will of the Lord is and not let go. 00:27:57.694 --> 00:28:08.960 But faith is our grasp on God and grace is His grasp on us, and His grasp on us is always stronger. 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:14.133 Mark Hankins likes to say that His grace is always stronger than our faith. 00:28:14.133 --> 00:28:19.876 You know how you I remember when Ethan was little you grab his hand going into the grocery store. 00:28:19.876 --> 00:28:27.575 You don't want him to run off and run into traffic or whatever, but my grasp on him was always stronger than his grasp on me. 00:28:27.575 --> 00:28:29.808 You got to hang on to your kids. 00:28:29.808 --> 00:28:38.336 So his grasp on us, through his grace, is always stronger. 00:28:39.307 --> 00:28:41.974 And so don't be vague, don't be thoughtless, don't be foolish. 00:28:41.974 --> 00:28:52.895 Live as the unwise, but live like the wise, because you are wise, because you have the Holy Spirit and His power in dwelling, living on the inside of you. 00:28:52.895 --> 00:29:00.873 And so, in that same vein Galatians 6-10, another very familiar scripture we use it at offering all his time in the Amplified. 00:29:00.873 --> 00:29:19.472 So, then, as occasion and opportunity open up for us, let us do good to all people, not only being useful or profitable to them, but also doing what is their spiritual good, doing what is for their spiritual good and advantage. 00:29:19.472 --> 00:29:22.730 Be mindful to be a blessing. 00:29:22.730 --> 00:29:27.929 So we should take every opportunity that we have Again, we don't always have. 00:29:27.929 --> 00:29:30.115 Take two, take three, take four. 00:29:30.115 --> 00:29:32.451 Take every opportunity that we have. 00:29:32.451 --> 00:29:39.108 Get it right the first time and be mindful to be a blessing, especially to those of the household of faith. 00:29:39.108 --> 00:29:42.012 So look around to the people tonight. 00:29:42.012 --> 00:29:43.832 We should be a blessing to one another. 00:29:43.832 --> 00:29:48.515 We should be a blessing to each other because we're all one family, amen. 00:29:48.515 --> 00:29:57.114 And so take that opportunity and so strive to get it right the first time. 00:29:57.114 --> 00:30:02.226 And let's see Number three. 00:30:04.069 --> 00:30:06.455 A movie has to have great editing. 00:30:06.455 --> 00:30:19.175 Have you ever been watching a movie and again, with the whole getting emotionally attached to like a side character or something, maybe it's the parents, maybe it's the whomever, the best friend and they don't tie it up. 00:30:19.175 --> 00:30:28.532 At the end they, like they've have seen after seen of what's going on in the best friend's life or something, and they end the movie and it's like what happened? 00:30:28.532 --> 00:30:36.969 Well, usually an editor made a mistake and that's sitting on the floor of the production back when they had film, you know. 00:30:36.969 --> 00:30:46.195 And so it just got edited out and boom, it no longer makes sense and that turns your five star movie to a two star movie, because nothing makes sense. 00:30:46.195 --> 00:31:03.905 And so, especially when the really complicated movies, when they're all messing with the timeline and it's like five years ago and then they'll jump ahead into the future and then in the past and Godfather 2 did a really good job of that, by the way, edited for TV version, of course, in the case. 00:31:03.905 --> 00:31:05.587 So great editing. 00:31:05.808 --> 00:31:12.578 And so who is the editor of your life? 00:31:12.578 --> 00:31:26.960 It's Jesus, it's the blood of Jesus, and so we allow the blood of Jesus, to allow the blood of Jesus to cleanse us and removes all shame. 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.482 So maybe you know we're talking about being unashamed. 00:31:30.482 --> 00:31:33.032 You know, shame is a really powerful. 00:31:33.032 --> 00:31:57.722 It's not just an emotion, it's a spiritual thing, because it can affect not just your thinking but everything that you touch in life and it affects how you present yourself, how you, it affects your boldness in every area, it causes you to pull back in every single area of your life and it really is the devil stealing from you. 00:31:57.722 --> 00:32:08.488 And if you'll recognize that and realize that Jesus, what he did on the cross, delivered you from all shame, from all shame. 00:32:08.488 --> 00:32:23.048 And so it's the key to living free of shame is to honor and to recognize the power of the blood of Jesus. 00:32:23.990 --> 00:32:42.282 And so Hebrews 9, in verse 12, says that he went once for all, talking about Jesus, into the holy of holies of heaven, not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves, but his own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption. 00:32:42.282 --> 00:32:46.051 Everybody say the word complete, complete, he completed it. 00:32:46.051 --> 00:32:51.384 We've already been redeemed, an everlasting release for us. 00:32:51.384 --> 00:32:54.334 The amplified Bible says it's done, it's a done deal. 00:32:54.334 --> 00:32:56.420 He did it once and for all. 00:32:56.420 --> 00:32:58.766 And one more once and for all. 00:32:58.766 --> 00:33:01.873 Scripture going down to verse 26 in the same chapter. 00:33:01.873 --> 00:33:18.016 But as it now is, he has once for all all the consummation and close of the ages appeared to put away and abolish sin by his sacrifice of himself. 00:33:18.016 --> 00:33:20.362 So he did it once and for all. 00:33:20.362 --> 00:33:24.188 And so you know, every story starts with once upon a time. 00:33:24.188 --> 00:33:26.114 Right, once upon a time. 00:33:26.114 --> 00:33:29.624 So he did it once and for all, once upon a time. 00:33:29.664 --> 00:33:35.542 And so the devil likes to use once upon a time and he likes to remind you of your past. 00:33:35.542 --> 00:33:41.702 He likes to be really specific and you begin to remind him hey, it's under the blood. 00:33:41.702 --> 00:33:42.305 I refuse to think about that. 00:33:42.305 --> 00:33:48.094 And he's like, yeah, but that mistake happened in front of a lot of people and they all remember. 00:33:48.094 --> 00:33:51.380 And no, it's under the blood, you know. 00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:56.772 And so as soon as you remind him of his future, he'll stop reminding you of your past. 00:33:56.772 --> 00:34:02.047 I know that that sounds like a cliche in Christian living, but it really is true. 00:34:02.047 --> 00:34:07.717 You can always give it back to the devil, right. 00:34:08.557 --> 00:34:22.250 And so if you don't know how to pray and get that never ending recorder off of your shoulder reminding you of your past, you do it by honoring the blood of Jesus. 00:34:22.250 --> 00:34:29.911 You do that by putting your faith in the blood of Jesus and what that sacrifice did and what that sacrifice means. 00:34:29.911 --> 00:34:42.128 And you really, you truly, aren't what your mistakes have made you or what your childhood made you or things that have happened to you growing up, or bad decisions that you made. 00:34:42.128 --> 00:34:46.117 You are the righteousness of God in Christ. 00:34:46.117 --> 00:34:47.581 That's who you are. 00:34:47.581 --> 00:34:53.657 So don't dig it out, don't dig those mistakes out from under the blood. 00:34:53.657 --> 00:34:56.483 They're not just covered, they're washed away forever. 00:34:56.483 --> 00:35:09.282 And I just encourage you, if the blood of Jesus is strong enough Mark Hankin says this all the time but if the blood of Jesus is strong enough to wipe it away from God's memory. 00:35:09.304 --> 00:35:14.422 Don't you think the blood of Jesus is strong enough to wipe it away from your memory? 00:35:14.422 --> 00:35:20.278 And so he's the master at taking away consequences too. 00:35:20.278 --> 00:35:24.750 You know, the wages of sin is death. 00:35:24.750 --> 00:35:35.409 But I'm telling you that death gets squashed when we get that sin under the blood of Jesus, when we all we have to do is receive that forgiveness. 00:35:35.409 --> 00:35:38.215 He's already done it, he's already forgiven us. 00:35:38.215 --> 00:35:39.485 We just have to receive it. 00:35:39.485 --> 00:35:50.880 But the moment that we do, boom, that spiritual principle, that spiritual law is undone. 00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:56.811 But man to the unrepentant, it keeps going. 00:35:56.811 --> 00:35:58.175 That's judgment. 00:35:58.175 --> 00:36:08.255 Judgment fills a cup and you pass the point of no return and boom, your life ends in destruction. 00:36:08.255 --> 00:36:27.420 But we could focus on that, or we could focus on what the blood of Jesus has done by having a repentant heart and turning 180 degrees away from that sin, from that temptation, and fighting temptation. 00:36:28.583 --> 00:36:32.771 In regards to sin, jesus always used the word. 00:36:32.771 --> 00:36:41.335 So again you're going back to the script and you're using the word of God against the devil and against that temptation, and you win every time. 00:36:41.335 --> 00:36:43.398 Amen, you win every time. 00:36:43.398 --> 00:36:47.771 And so stop digging your past out from under the blood. 00:36:47.771 --> 00:36:53.472 Allow the blood of Jesus in the revelation of what his blood provides us. 00:36:53.472 --> 00:37:06.387 Walk in that, walk in that honor, honor the blood you know, wake up every morning speaking words of life and, father, I thank you, jesus, I thank you for your blood. 00:37:06.387 --> 00:37:10.340 I honor your blood today in every decision that I make. 00:37:10.340 --> 00:37:13.168 Lord, I refuse to think about the past. 00:37:13.168 --> 00:37:18.038 Father, I thank you for everything that you've given me, victory in every area. 00:37:18.038 --> 00:37:22.798 You've lined up things for me today, experiences for me today. 00:37:22.798 --> 00:37:24.605 That brings me good pleasure. 00:37:24.605 --> 00:37:28.664 That brings you good pleasure because I'm going to honor you and everything that I do. 00:37:28.664 --> 00:37:38.652 There you go, so just simple things in life, of just waking up and honoring the blood through your prayer life and through the knowledge of what he's done anyways. 00:37:39.114 --> 00:37:44.447 And so, again, to review, you know, we have to stick with God's word. 00:37:44.447 --> 00:37:50.302 We have to be an authentic actor of what we're acting out. 00:37:50.302 --> 00:37:52.027 We're acting out our faith, amen. 00:37:52.027 --> 00:37:53.251 We're not pretending. 00:37:53.251 --> 00:37:55.820 We have evidence and that evidence is faith. 00:37:55.820 --> 00:38:03.135 And we must be immersed in what God's called us to do and what God's called us to be. 00:38:03.135 --> 00:38:09.492 And then we have to rely on the master editor, the blood of Jesus, amen. 00:38:09.492 --> 00:38:16.273 That fixes our story, and then we can boldly proclaim what God's done for us. 00:38:16.273 --> 00:38:21.126 I'm telling you, you have testimony after testimony every day of what God's done. 00:38:21.126 --> 00:38:28.806 You know, I think of Kim Kim's here and she has an amazing testimony and God's still working. 00:38:28.806 --> 00:38:33.061 But we're excited for what God's done in Kim's life, amen. 00:38:33.061 --> 00:38:48.313 Now you look around the room and just how many of us have been completely and totally changed by the immersion of emerging, immersing ourselves in what God's called us to do. 00:38:48.313 --> 00:38:51.659 Amen, hallelujah. 00:38:52.922 --> 00:38:54.949 Well, let's lift our hands and receive the word of God. 00:38:54.949 --> 00:39:02.250 Father, we just thank you for your word tonight, lord, that we are unashamed of the power of the gospel. 00:39:02.250 --> 00:39:07.885 And, lord, we are anointed everywhere we go to speak your truth. 00:39:07.885 --> 00:39:11.853 Lord, it's not our opinion, it's your truth. 00:39:11.853 --> 00:39:17.567 And, lord, when people come to us, they think that their truth is better. 00:39:17.567 --> 00:39:28.833 Lord, we just thank you that you've given us wisdom and creative speech on how to present the gospel to them in a way that touches their heart. 00:39:28.833 --> 00:39:43.010 That, lord, the stony heart is, becomes malleable in the presence of our words penetrating their heart, because it's your words that are coming out of our mouths. 00:39:43.010 --> 00:39:47.585 Lord, we yield ourselves as vessels of honor and not dishonor. 00:39:47.585 --> 00:39:53.436 Lord, we thank you for what the blood of Jesus has provided in your word and Lord. 00:39:53.436 --> 00:39:58.755 We walk in your victory every day In Jesus' name amen.