REWIND
The podcast "REWIND" features a collection of past sermons from Organic Church. Each episode takes listeners on a journey through the teachings and messages delivered during previous worship services. The content is a retrospective look at the spiritual guidance and insights shared by Pastor Michael and visiting guests!
Listeners can expect to revisit powerful sermons, meaningful scriptures, and impactful messages that have been shared in the past. The podcast aims to provide a convenient and accessible way for the church community and new audiences to engage with the timeless wisdom and spiritual teachings presented during earlier sermons.
Whether it's a reflection on a particular theme, a series of teachings, or a selection of sermons covering various topics, "REWIND" offers an opportunity for individuals to deepen their understanding of the faith and find inspiration in the timeless messages.
The podcast may also include commentary or reflections on the historical context of each sermon and how it continues to resonate with the present-day congregation.
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The God Who Saves (April 13, 2025)
Do we worship Jesus for who He truly is, or merely for what we want Him to do for us? This Palm Sunday message cuts straight to the heart of Christian worship, challenging us to examine our motivations when we cry "Hosanna."
The sermon reveals a fascinating historical insight: in the Old Testament, "Hosanna" originally meant "save now" - a desperate plea for salvation. By the time Jesus entered Jerusalem, the crowd shouting this word was divided into two distinct groups. Some recognized Him as the God who saves from sin, while others merely wanted Him to overthrow Roman rule and save them from worldly oppression.
This same division persists in modern Christianity. Many believers treat God like a cosmic vending machine, seeking healing, financial blessing, or solutions to life's inconveniences. When these requests aren't granted, they blame God rather than looking inward. True salvation, however, demands uncomfortable inner change - something we often resist because "salvation from sin hurts."
Through powerful personal testimony, the pastor shares how he and his wife sacrificially gave back part of his salary to support church finances, even though it meant potentially sacrificing a planned vacation. Though they didn't receive the anticipated financial blessing personally, they witnessed God providing abundantly for the church instead - a powerful reminder that obedience often benefits others in ways we can't predict.
As Holy Week begins, we're invited to celebrate not just Easter Sunday, but Christ's entire journey - entering Jerusalem knowing He would die, fulfilling prophecy through humble means, and ultimately conquering sin and death. Will we worship Him for who He truly is? The God who saves us from our sin, transforms our hearts, and calls us to live differently?
Your perspective on "Hosanna" might just reveal everything about your relationship with God. Join us in exploring what it means to truly worship the God who saves.
I want to share something with you that happened this morning. I don't know that it will give you any insight to what happened this morning, but here's what I said. I sent a text to six guys and it said Good morning, praying this morning for each of you. I'm wanting you to know that I am standing today in faith, knowing that God is going to do something good for you, praying that, as the Spirit moves this morning, that we too, as his servants, will move with him. Today is a day for the men in Christ to stand firm on who he is. Can't wait to worship with you this morning.
Speaker 1:Men, I'm going to tell you something that I've said for weeks, but I don't think you're hearing me. When we can be strong, we can take the church to the next level. The church cannot be carried on the backs of the women who pray for us. We have to be willing to stand and pray for them too. We have to know that we are called of God to lead, to guide and to direct. Amen, and men, when we are willing to step outside of our comfort zone and be a little bit vulnerable, god's going to do something great, amen. Listen, I was Anita two weeks ago, said we're out of tissues and I said, no, we're not. I said there's plenty of tissues in this building. This morning I was Anita two weeks ago said we're out of tissues and I said, no, we're not. I said there's plenty of tissues in this building. This morning I couldn't find a tissue to save my life and I needed a couple. God is doing something in this place, amen, not just this building, but in this move.
Speaker 1:Listen, when Pastor Holly said we need to make it real. We need to make it real. This isn't about oh, the world needs a move. I need a move today. I need God to do something in my life so that I can continue to speak into the lives of those around me. Amen, come on. When we're living for the world and not for God, we cannot truly give back to a world that is hurting. Amen. Okay, whoo Lord, have mercy. I had to pivot world that is hurting. Amen, okay, whoo Lord, have mercy. I had to pivot my sermon this morning.
Speaker 1:Listen, pastor Holly and I took about 10 minutes in the prayer room after everybody left, just so I could hash out some of these thoughts and some of the things that were going through my mind, and I knew when I left the room that I was on solid footing and we were gonna do this. And then, as we were singing and we were praying, I was like no, we're not. So this, literally, I'm going to use these notes just as guideposts. Okay, so you're going to have to bear with me for a minute this morning. I want to start in Matthew, chapter 21. We're going to start in verse 1, and we're just going to read for a minute and I only have you guys for a half hour now, but that's okay, I could have stayed in that all day, it wouldn't have bothered me a bit. Matthew 21, verse 1,.
Speaker 1:It says as Jesus and the disciples approached Jerusalem, they came to a town called Bethapage, on the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two of them on ahead. Go into the village over there, he said, and you will see a donkey tied there with its colt beside it. Untie them and bring them here. If anyone asks what you are doing, just say the Lord needs them and he will immediately send them. This was done to fulfill prophecy.
Speaker 1:Can I tell you that in the week we are about to celebrate and we call it a celebration, amen. How many of us genuinely celebrate the week. How many of us, instead, just look forward to Easter Sunday? Amen, amen. Some of you are looking at me like what do you mean? Celebrate the week? Do we understand that today marks the beginning of a holy week? Amen, today marks the beginning of a holy week.
Speaker 1:Jesus is entering Jerusalem and the word tells us that he is entering Jerusalem on a donkey. On a donkey, a stinky, smelly donkey. What a humble way to ride into your own death. Amen, jesus could have rode in on anything he wanted. Jesus could have rode in on anything he wanted. My daughter thinks she could have a unicorn. If Jesus wanted to ride in on a unicorn, he could have done it. Amen.
Speaker 1:But he chose a donkey to fulfill prophecy. Can I help you to understand that? The prophecy is what allows us to stand where we stand today? Right, that the prophecy is what allows us to stand where we stand today, right? Jesus' fulfilling prophecy was our salvation. Now, he didn't go back and read and decide he was going to do these things because he was the word. The word lived in him. He knew what he had to do in order to save our sorry butts. Some of us can't even comprehend that Jesus was a real person and that he walked the earth and did real things and touched real people. We look at it as a story that we've read right, because we've never seen him, we've never touched him. But I'm going to tell you, if you were in this place this morning and you didn't feel him, something's not happening in your life. You've got to find a desire to be in the presence of God, because I'm going to tell you, I could have stayed in that moment all day long, all day, whether there were people praying, you guys could all left, music could have kept playing and I could have just been in his presence. Because I know that something is happening in my life because of what it is that he did on the cross. For me, now, the problem is is he didn't just come and go on the cross. He entered into Jerusalem and we sang it this morning. What were they shouting? Hosanna? They were waving their palm branches, they were laying their coats on the ground and he was riding this donkey. Somebody turn on the air conditioning, praise Jesus, listen. They were excited that Jesus was coming because they knew who he was.
Speaker 1:As Pastor Holly and I talked this morning, you realize that Hosanna was first used in the Old Testament only one time, right. Did you guys know that? We're going to go there? Tech team pivot with me. We're going to Psalm 118. We're going to Psalm 118. We're going to 25.
Speaker 1:Now we're doing this in King James Version for all of you, old school folks, you legacy members. Save now. I beseech thee, O Lord. O Lord, I beseech thee. Send now prosperity. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. Go back to 25 for me. Save now. I beseech thee, o Lord. O Lord, I beseech thee. Send now prosperity. The save now. The save now is translated to Hosanna. Hosanna means the God who saves, the one who saves. Save us now. They are begging for salvation, they are begging to be saved. And then we go to the New Testament and there's this shift, because now we're saying Hosanna as praise be to God. Save us, o Lord. Because they know who he is. Now I would believe that there's probably a small group of people standing in that crowd, waving their palms, throwing down their coats, and they're yelling Hosanna, hosanna, because they believe he is the God who saves. Right, they know what he is capable of doing. They've seen bodies raised from the dead. They've seen sick people healed by the hem of his garment. Amen. And I guarantee you, in that crowd is another group of people who are shouting Hosanna and waving their palms because they want saved from Caesar, because their perception of who Jesus is is wrapped up in the miracles that they have seen performed. Amen.
Speaker 1:The church today is wrapped up in a God who can perform and not a God who saves. Because, I'll tell you, the church is afraid of a God who saves. And why are we afraid of a God who saves? Because if we commit to a God who will save us, change happens in our life. To a God who will save us, change happens in our life Organically. See what I did there. Change happens in our life when we give it to a God who saves.
Speaker 1:Now, if I go to a God who I treat like a genie, or I go to a God who I believe can perform all of the things and I say Lord, I'm broke, give me money. When God doesn't give me money, I don't have to look inward. I just blame God. Right, because that's easy to do. Lord, I'm sick, heal my body. When he doesn't heal your body, what do you? Do you blame God? Because it's easy to blame God, it is hard to look inward. So I want to go to God as the one who will perform tasks and give me what I need, not the God who will bring me out of the pits of hell. Because when God, when Jesus was crucified, when he went into hell, he came back with the keys Right. Jesus came back with I have no home in hell. I can't even get in because I ain't got no keys, because Jesus got them right. I can't get through the gates of hell because Jesus has them. And I'm going to tell you that I don't look for a God who will perform miracles for me. I am not here for a God who serves me. I am here to serve a God who will for me. I am not here for a God who serves me. I am here to serve a God who will save me. Hosanna, hosanna.
Speaker 1:See, the problem is, is the world wants saved from Caesar? They want saved from the inconveniences of life. They don't want saved from the inconveniences of life, they don't want saved from sin, because salvation from sin, being removed from sin, does what it hurts. It hurts real bad, don't it? Dave? Listen, I want to go to the bar and drink Dave's. Like I'll tell you what Dave's been on one for two days. He's been in trouble for the past two days.
Speaker 1:Listen, I know when I do something that is not in the will of God. Amen. How many of us know when we do something that is not in the will of God? Right, okay, now my question is is why do we willingly do things that are not in the will of God? Because we don't want saved from sin, we want saved from the inconveniences of the world, amen, listen, I don't want to be sick anymore. Listen, I don't want to be this, I don't want to be that. But you also don't want to serve a God who will remove the sin in your life. I also don't want to serve a God who will remove the sin in your life. I don't want sin to be my identity. You guys ever known anybody You're like oh yeah, that's that drunk guy. Right, any of us ever been that guy Kidding, don't raise your hands. Please don't raise your hand. Dave's hand was already up.
Speaker 1:Doug's, like We've known people like we cannot identify ourselves with the sin that we have had in our past, because when Jesus saved us, when he called you his own, when he changed your name, when he wrote it in the book of life. You are no longer the same person who lived in that sin, unless you choose to live in that sin, unless you choose to live in that sin, unless you choose to. Now, how embarrassing for us that God has written your name into the book of life and yet you choose to willingly live outside of what he would have you do, outside of what he would have you do. So often we like to think that heaven is real and we like to talk about what it's going to be like, and everybody wants to know what heaven's going to be like. I've never been there. It's on my bucket list but never been. Yeah, yeah, someday I'll get to. It's kind of like Hawaii. You know what I mean Someday, someday.
Speaker 1:The problem is we like to believe that heaven is real and we like to believe, because we've prayed a prayer or we've said a thing or we've come to the altar or we've done something, that we are guaranteed entrance into heaven. See this, once saved, always saved mentality, we can go into some scripture and we can tear that apart. Here's what I'm going to tell you. If you willingly choose to live outside of the will of God. When you arrive in heaven and you say but Lord, I prophesied in your name, but, lord, I prayed for people in your name, and he says depart from me, for I never knew you, man, that's going to take the wind out of your sails, isn't it? That ain't going to feel good, because guess what he's going to do when he says that to you, he's going to hand you your key to hell and you're going to get that key. You're going to unlock the gate and you're going to spend eternity in a place that none of us want to be.
Speaker 1:I always love when I hear people say I used to be this person, by the way, I love to tell on myself that hell is going to be nothing but a party. We're going to drink beer, listen to Jimmy Buffett, and we're just going to hang out and chill with my friends, because we're all going to hell together, right? Listen? I ain't going to hell because I promise there ain't going to be no Jimmy Buffett music. For some of us, that's a good thing, some of us that's a bad thing. I don't know. I'm not a Jimmy Buffett fan, but here we are.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you that, if that is your concept of what hell is going to be like, you aren't in your word. You've missed what God has told you. It is going to be darkness. It's going to be hot hotter than Alva's coffee and she drinks her coffee hot it is going to be. There's going to be the gnashing of teeth. That grinding of teeth, that sound, that can you just like? My wife grinds her teeth when she sleeps at night and I'm like I have to go somewhere else and sleep because I can't take it. That noise will be everlasting. I'm not saying that because it's annoying, but it's that constant torment that everybody around you is feeling. You won't be able to see their face, but you're gonna know they're in pain. You're gonna know they're in misery. Have you ever met anybody that is in constant misery? A miserable person? You have to be around them because you work with them or whatever, and you find that man, this person is never going to be. Listen, that's what hell is going to be like. That is what hell is going to be like. Do any of us want to go? No, we all sit here and we say it, but we live outside of the will of God, knowingly and willingly Listen.
Speaker 1:I love to have conversations with people. This is a new one for me. You're talking to somebody and something gets brought up and you know the story, right. And they don't have the whole thing and you want to start telling the story, right, right? Anybody's ever been there? Like, I've got deets that you don't have. I want to spill the tea, but I know if I do, what am I doing? I'm gossiping, and I know that that is the hardest one to get past. And let me tell you why it's hard to get past. Because it's fun, right. Because, even if I don't have all the details, I like to fill in the gaps with suspicion. You know what I mean. Like, connie ain't here with Dale today. I think they're separated. So now listen, if Connie listens to this, she's going to beat me up later. But listen, but the first time that somebody says that and somebody overhears it and they go to the next person, did you hear? Connie and Dale are separated, right. And then, pretty soon, connie and Dale didn't even know they were separated. Pretty soon he gets back to them. They're like well, we're separated, but we're living in the same house.
Speaker 1:What's going on over here? Right, we still. What's happening Because that's an easy one and we look at that as less painful as some of the other sins. You're an alcoholic? I can see that on the outside. You're addicted to drugs I can see that on the outside. Those things are not sinful by themselves. I want to be clear. The sin is putting them before God, right. So I'm not saying that somebody who's addicted to drugs is inevitably going to hell. They have an opportunity to change their lives, right. But those of us who gossip, we will gossip at the gates of heaven.
Speaker 1:We be standing in line talking about the people behind it. Can you believe they're up here? You want to make a bet they ain't getting in, is it true? Is it true Because we think that it is less damaging. Now can I tell you something? Here's where the problem is. We think that it is less damaging. The problem is when one person hears a small portion of that, they take that and they run with it.
Speaker 1:You ever played that telephone game? We should have done that this morning. That would have been fun. Just started on one side of the sanctuary and saw what it ended up by the time we got to it. And here's what it would have ended up. Nothing like how it started right. So here's what happens we all sit in a group and we all conversate and we have a great time and we all leave. And there are two people left and one of them looks at the other and goes. Can you believe they said that to you? Can you believe that Jenny would have said to Vicky Hickey oh, I don't like the color of your sweater today. Can you believe that she would do that? And then the next thing, you know, we've created this animosity inside of the body, amen. And now every time Vicky Hickey walks in, I'm looking at her sweater and going that is an ugly sweater. And now, every time Vicki Hickey walks in, I'm looking at her sweater and going that is an ugly sweater. And my opinion of Vicki Hickey's ability to dress herself has just gone through the floor.
Speaker 1:I have allowed somebody else's opinion of a person that I love dearly change my opinion of them. I have not allowed the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to move in my life. I have not allowed my own opinion to be valid. I've allowed the opinion of somebody else to take over. You know the other one that we get in the church a lot. We get this a lot in the church not just this church, but in church a lot. There are cliques, there are groups, there are pockets.
Speaker 1:Listen, I'm going to tell you something. That group of men that I sent that to this morning if you didn't get that text in your I didn't get the text. Let me tell you something. That group of men got that text because they come alongside me. When I say I need help, they show up. When I need prayer, they show up. I'm not being mean, I'm saying if you want to be part of that, call me, let's be part of that together, because I want that group to grow so big that it's not just men in our church. Right, I want so many men to go. These guys got it going on. I want to be part of that. That's what I want. That's my desire. That's not my desire just for this building, but for the kingdom of God, for the kingdom of God. Listen, that story will turn into something that it's not. Pretty soon we'll be telling people. Well, can you believe that Pastor Michael didn't send that text to whoever? I'm not trying to leave you out, I'm really not. I want to remind you that Jesus had 12 disciples. Those were the people that Jesus trusted and counted on.
Speaker 1:It's not about cliques, it's not about groups. A lot of times it's about not choosing to be involved. If you want to be connected, be connected. I can tell you right now, dave is never going to tell you he doesn't want to talk to you. If you call Dave and say, hey, can we get dinner? I have something I want to talk about. Even if it's just for the food, dave's going to be excited.
Speaker 1:We want to minister to the men in our lives. We want to be able to love on the people in our life. The problem is is our flesh wants to blame those people for not including us. You have every opportunity to be included in everything that you do. See, when Jesus entered into Jerusalem and you have two groups of people shouting Hosanna opposite sides of the spectrum, one saying we know he is the God who will save us from our sin and the other group saying he is the God who will save us from Caesar, we realize that we have two different groups of people standing in front of us, amen.
Speaker 1:The question is, how do we bridge the gap? See, when Jesus went to the cross to die for our sin, all of those people who thought that Jesus was coming to save them from Caesar were a little bit disappointed, because that wasn't how it was supposed to go in their eyes. I don't know if they expected him to flip some more tables or, to you know, set something on fire or start a mutiny or a riot, or what they expected Jesus to do, but they thought he was going to save them from oppression. Instead, he gave them salvation. And when they realized it, after Jesus hung on the cross, the earth got dark, it shook and the veil was torn from top to bottom. Guess what they realized? Even the Roman soldiers who crucified him realized he was the God who saves, amen.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to tell you, the church today does not know a God who saves. We know a God who will give us what we ask for. See, the problem is the prosperity gospel tells us that if we ask, we will receive. And that's just how it works. Listen, if you ask and it is in his will you will receive it. Lord, I want this belly to go away, sick of shaking when I stomp right. I can say that all day, but God has given me the tools to do it. It was called a treadmill, but I decided to sell it.
Speaker 1:I know that there is something changing in the move of God, that God is doing something greater than he's ever done before, but we can't understand it because we're looking for the tangible. We're looking for the thing that we can touch, not the thing that we can feel. See, when we start talking about how pliable our hearts are and whether or not we're able to receive the word of God for what it is. See, a lot of times when we read the word, we read the words. See the difference. I'm reading the words. How many of us have ever read the Bible? And you walk away. You're like I don't even know what I just read. Even as a pastor, that happens to me, right? You get up at six o'clock in the morning I'm going to do my devotion today. I crack my Bible when I read it. I, six o'clock in the morning, I'm going to do my devotion today. I crack my Bible when I read it. I get in the car. I'm like I don't even know what I read. This one begat that one. That one begat this one.
Speaker 1:Lo and behold, someone said some stuff. What just happened in my life? I wasted 15 minutes of my life. I have no idea what happened. Right, because I was reading the words and not the word. I wasn't focused on the spiritual. I needed to check in the box. Right, because I wasn't looking for a God who saves, I was looking for a God who provides.
Speaker 1:Now the beauty is the word tells us that even if you look at the lilies, if you look at the sparrow, if he will provide for them, he will also provide for us. And why are we worried if he will provide for the things that don't really change the world, if the lilies are so beautiful, they're close, why do we worry about what we wear? Now, I want you to wear something, but I don't care what color your shoes are. I don't care if you're wearing a sports jacket or sweatpants like Tina Newman today. It doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is whether or not your spirit is in line with God. If your heart is, I don't care if you think Vicky Hickey's sweater's ugly. Anyway, jenny, I think her sweater's beautiful.
Speaker 1:She never said that, vicky. I just wanted to be clear, I know, but it's that rumor thing that starts. You know what I mean. Like, I just wanted to be super clear. It was just joking. It's just joking. She never said that we know that we serve a God who saves. Every person I hope in this building knows that we serve a God who saves. So when I pray God's perfect will in your life, know that I am not praying that you get what you want, but that God moves so mightily in your life that whatever you want, if it's not what he desires for you, that your heart will be okay with that. Whoo Lord, sometimes I have to do that for myself.
Speaker 1:Listen, I'll tell you this. Yeah, I'll share it. How's that go? My wife's not in here, so I can tell you. Also real quick. My sister-in-law, my brother-in-law, one of my nephews they're here in the back Haven't been here for a while because we scare them. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. But I joked with them this morning and I said now, listen, we're going to do nothing but ministry time this morning because you know we're going to have you guys up there on the floor and they're all like holding onto the seat of their chair. And then this morning happened you joke about those things and then God does something with it. Right, he's got a sense of humor. I'm thankful for that. But they're in here, so I have to be careful how I tell this story, because they will tell on me. Oh, also, my kids are in here, they'll tell on me. Emmett's like yeah, buddy, say it, Dare you.
Speaker 1:So a couple of months ago, alyssa and I had been very prayerful about the church finances and where the church was headed and what we wanted to see the church be able to do Okay. So we were very mindful of the church finances and because we look at them regularly, like we know where we're at and we can kind of project what's going to happen and so we decided to give back one of my paychecks every month For three months. We committed to that to see if it made a change in the church's finances strong enough that we needed to reevaluate how I was compensated. So we made that decision and I told council. Now I need you to understand something that's our vacation money. Like we wanted to go on vacation and we saved to do that. I don't know about you guys, but I don't have $10,000 laying around to go on a cruise, right? Anybody else got that? If you have 10 grand, can I borrow it, because I'd really like to go on my cruise.
Speaker 1:But here's what happened. We started praying, believing that God was going to provide those finances through work, through my job, because I get a quarterly bonus and we believed that God was going to give us the full amount to pay for the cruise and we were going to go. It was a big number Now, it's happened before, but it was a big number Now, it's happened before, but it was a big number. And so I said to Alyssa I said I'm going to believe with you. I said, but I'm going to say God, do what you do, right, because I don't want to get my hopes up. So I started, we just prayed together and we just believed that that's what God was going to do. My bonus came and it wasn't even half of what we needed.
Speaker 1:Disappointing, disappointing, right. And we were a little bit disappointed that that was the case. And then Sunday came and we walk into the building and we do our thing and at the end of service I always ask how was the tithe? As my counters are finishing up and they said really good, $7,800. That was more money than we had in the checking account. People, do you understand that? Because we were obedient to what God had told us to do, that we didn't receive the blessing the church did. You guys were blessed because we were obedient to what God had called us to do. Now we could have sat on that, we could have kept our mouths shut and we could have gone on a cruise.
Speaker 1:Pastor, appreciation comes around in October. I know that when we choose to live inside of the will of God and we choose to believe in a God who saves and a God who is good in all things, we can never be disappointed in who he is and what he does. Amen, because even if it's not for you and it's for somebody else, if God takes what you did and he blows it up big for somebody else, you should feel good about that. You should be excited that God is still on the move. Right, because I'll tell you. You should be excited that God is still on the move. Right, because I'll tell you, unless you know something that I don't know, god has not abdicated the throne. He has not given up what he is doing. He is still operating in full force, but sometimes we don't know what it looks like, and so then we blame him for not giving us our selfish desires. Amen.
Speaker 1:None of that was in my notes. Here's my final line Are we worshiping Jesus for who he is or for what we want him to do for us. Amen. What are we doing today? Are we giving him praise, hosanna, hosanna because he is the God who will save us from sin, or are we saying Hosanna because he is the God who will save us from whatever minor inconvenience we have in life?
Speaker 1:The Bible tells us that the love of money is the root of all evil, and sometimes I struggle with that because I love money, but I don't love money more than I love Jesus. I don't love money more than I love my family. If it was, lose everything today and still have my family, I'll take it all day, every day. We'll live in a cardboard box under a bridge as long as I can take my Monopoly game with me. We're good. Yes, with the expansions. God is good all the time and all the time. God is good. We know that, but we have to believe it. We have to live it. We have to walk in it. Amen. Let's pray together. Live it. We have to walk in it. Amen, let's pray together.
Speaker 1:Father, I thank you and I praise you for the path that we are on today. Lord, I pray that you guide this church, this council, father, all of your people that are entrusted into us, lord, I pray that you just continue to open their eyes and make their hearts pliable to what it is that you're doing in this place, father. Lord, excite people for the move that's happening here today. Lord, not the move that's just in this building, but the move that is in our lives. Give us excitement when something happens to those around us that we may not understand, and we may even look at it and say I wish I could get that.
Speaker 1:Lord, we know that your blessings are abundant and that anything that you do for somebody else, you can do for us, and whatever you do for us, you can do for somebody else and, lord, that means you can bring them into your fold.
Speaker 1:For us. You can do for somebody else and, lord, that means you can bring them into your fold. Father, that salvation can happen today for anyone. Lord, we cast off no person in this building. There is no person that could walk through these doors that we cannot love, because your word tells us that you are love and we want to be more like you. Lord, I pray for these people as we move from this place. Lord, I pray that you give them revelation, knowledge about this holy week that they're able to celebrate and be excited about all that you did, all of the things that happened to you in this week, and allow it to lead us back here to celebrate your resurrection next Sunday. I thank you and I praise you. Give you praise, honor and glory this day in the mighty name of Jesus, and the church says Amen.