SPEAKER_02: So I want to as we get into this message, I want to uh just address something really quick, and it's this because I I would love for everybody to be um ready to receive.
SPEAKER_02: I went Friday uh with my son to the skate park, and um and he's the last time we stopped going was when I blew out my hamstrings skating, and so I'd been nervous to go.
SPEAKER_02: Uh and but he's getting back into it.
SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, let's let's do it.
SPEAKER_02: And we had the whole park to ourselves.
SPEAKER_02: It was favor of God, and uh, and I was super grateful because probably about 45 minutes into it, I was like, you know what?
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna ride up that ramp and off the other side, and it's gonna be great.
SPEAKER_02: And uh within moments, all I can recount is like my head bouncing off the pavement.
SPEAKER_02: I was wearing a helmet, praise God, and I was flat on my back and bam, it you know, hit the pavement, and um and I didn't miraculously get hurt.
SPEAKER_02: I was a little bit sore today and and yesterday, but in that moment, I was like, oh, not too bad, you know, and I was a big scratch on the back of my helmet, and uh, I'm getting up, and my son's standing over me, he's like, You're okay.
SPEAKER_02: I believe in you.
SPEAKER_02: He's nine, right?
SPEAKER_02: You're okay, dad.
SPEAKER_02: I believe in you.
SPEAKER_02: And uh, and then we proceeded to ride up that ramp and off the other side, and uh, it was great.
SPEAKER_02: But there was a moment that that hit me in that, and I was like, man, you know, he learned that from somewhere.
SPEAKER_02: He doesn't just come up with that, but he's heard a lot.
SPEAKER_02: Hey, you it's okay.
SPEAKER_02: The people that aren't getting bruises are the people that aren't trying, right?
SPEAKER_02: The people that the people that aren't falling are the people that aren't trying to move forward.
SPEAKER_02: And uh, and there can be a lot of shame when you come into church sometimes and you feel like you had a rough week and maybe didn't handle life right, or maybe you've had a rough season and you didn't handle things right or conversations right.
SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of things that can go on that you can look at and say, I probably took the fall right there.
SPEAKER_02: And uh I love that Proverbs says that uh seven times the righteous fall, but each time they get back up.
SPEAKER_02: And so you're here right now.
SPEAKER_02: So don't let condemnation or shame or any feeling of less than whisper in your ear that you don't belong or that you can't receive because I'm proud of you, that you are here.
SPEAKER_02: I believe in you.
SPEAKER_02: You can do this.
SPEAKER_02: Let's get up and let's keep going forward, yeah?
SPEAKER_02: So if you've had a week that you're less than proud of, or a season you're less than proud of, or anything like that, know that it's covered by the blood of the Lamb, that Jesus paid a price for it.
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to live under the shame of it, and let's come in together to receive whatever God wants to speak into our lives, yeah?
SPEAKER_02: And if you wouldn't mind, after you get done with this service, pray that I would feel better.
SPEAKER_02: And and that the falls would be less often at the skate park.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah?
SPEAKER_02: Because we're going back.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: This is gonna be good.
SPEAKER_02: If you see me trying to Ollie some steps, you stop me and say, Joey, that is not of the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
SPEAKER_02: We're in Acts chapter 2.
SPEAKER_02: Acts chapter 2.
SPEAKER_02: We know Acts 1, Jesus ascends to heaven.
SPEAKER_02: He says, Don't leave Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit comes.
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm I'm sending the helper, right?
SPEAKER_02: So last week we talked about the beginning of Acts chapter 2.
SPEAKER_02: The day of Pentecost is the day that we're on.
SPEAKER_02: There's a sound like a windstorm.
SPEAKER_02: It looks like as all the believers are gathered together, it looks like flames of fire landing on their heads.
SPEAKER_02: They begin speaking in unknown languages, like the presence of God, the empowerment of God for his church to be his witnesses.
SPEAKER_02: The church is birth, right?
SPEAKER_02: We talked about last week.
SPEAKER_02: The breath of God, the ruach of God is breathed upon that room and upon those people.
SPEAKER_02: And the church is birthed and it's alive.
SPEAKER_02: And so everybody's showing up because they heard the wind, and now they hear the apostles and all these believers speaking in languages that they don't know.
SPEAKER_02: And they said that we hear these people speaking the wonderful things that God has done, but they're not from our area.
SPEAKER_02: They don't know our language, but we hear them speaking it.
SPEAKER_02: And they're shouting out and declaring the wonderful things God's done.
SPEAKER_02: And before we get into our text, we see that there's two different people we talked about last week.
SPEAKER_02: There's the curious and there's the critical.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 12 said, the people uh stood there amazed, perplexed.
SPEAKER_02: What can this mean?
SPEAKER_02: Some people are curious, and then there's another group, but others in the crowd ridiculed saying, they're just drunk, that's all.
SPEAKER_02: When's the last time you got drunk and learned a new language?
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: A critical spirit doesn't always have to make sense, it just has to mock.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah?
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't make any sense.
SPEAKER_02: This whole room got drunk and they magically learned new languages.
SPEAKER_02: That doesn't make any sense, but a critical spirit is meant to tear you down.
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't have to make sense.
SPEAKER_02: The purpose of it is to make you afraid, make you fearful, make you feel stupid, make you feel less than.
SPEAKER_02: A critical spirit is always they're designed to attack your identity.
SPEAKER_02: Because if you have to start to try to defend your identity or in this case, make excuses for why this is not weird, man, like you get off course.
SPEAKER_02: But check this out.
SPEAKER_02: They're like, man, these guys are just drunk, that's all.
SPEAKER_02: Here's where we're starting today.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 14.
SPEAKER_02: Then Peter stepped forward with the 11 other apostles and shouted to the crowd.
SPEAKER_02: So I'm gonna try to get past this section today, but I don't know that I'll be able to because we got a lengthy ways to go.
SPEAKER_02: Just about 50 days ago, this same Peter and the other 11 apostles, they are hiding and afraid for their life because their rabbi has been captured, brutally beaten, crucified.
SPEAKER_02: And what happens in that culture is if you're a rabbi, something happens to your rabbi, it's gonna happen to you.
SPEAKER_02: So fear has gripped them because they're like, our death sentence is coming.
SPEAKER_02: Peter has already denied knowing Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Remember, if you can rewind back to Luke, Peter has already denied knowing Jesus, right?
SPEAKER_02: When Jesus is captured and he's taken and he's getting put on trial, and everybody's like, hey, you're with Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: You know that guy.
SPEAKER_02: You're with the rest.
SPEAKER_02: He's like, No, I don't know him.
SPEAKER_02: And Jesus says, You're going to deny me three times before the rooster crows, and that's what happens.
SPEAKER_02: And now this same Peter is the one stepping up, and everybody's saying, These guys are just drunk.
SPEAKER_02: And Peter and the other, I love that it says, with the 11 other apostles, there's power and unity.
SPEAKER_02: I want you to know something.
SPEAKER_02: The church family is never a lone ranger game.
SPEAKER_02: The church family is never a lone ranger plan.
SPEAKER_02: The enemy loves to isolate you with your issues, with your problems.
SPEAKER_02: Can I tell you something?
SPEAKER_02: You can show up to church and still remain isolated.
SPEAKER_02: There's that I've talked to I talk to people.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, how are you doing?
SPEAKER_02: They're like, I'm doing good.
SPEAKER_02: 15 minutes later, you found out that everything wrong happened in life.
SPEAKER_02: Their dog has worms, right?
SPEAKER_02: Their AC just conked out, like all these things.
SPEAKER_02: And that's light work.
SPEAKER_02: They don't want to get into stuff like, here's what's going on in marriage, here's what's going on with my kids, here's what's going on with my workplace, here's what's going on with my extended family.
SPEAKER_02: You can be together in a group and you can still be isolated.
SPEAKER_02: You with me on that?
SPEAKER_02: So I uh I'm looking at this moment and I see that there's a unity among the apostles, and there needs to be a unity among the church.
SPEAKER_02: And that unity needs to be a vulnerability.
SPEAKER_02: A vulnerability for a couple things.
SPEAKER_02: If things are going wrong in your life, or if there's things that you need help with, opening up and being vulnerable enough to say, hey, there's some areas I need some help with, right?
SPEAKER_02: There also needs to be a vulnerability that if you've been offended, to come to those who have offended and say, hey, listen, this has gone on, and we need to talk.
SPEAKER_02: I just need to share with you my heart.
SPEAKER_02: Maybe this wasn't your intent, because the enemy loves to work through offense and have church people stay silent, and yet the bitterness builds until there's a wall and there can't be communication because there's so much time passed, right?
SPEAKER_02: And so what I want to say as a church family is there's gonna be times where you're not gonna be super soaked about something that I do.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because I'm a person.
SPEAKER_02: Shocker, right?
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna have times where you're like, hey, Joey, man, this went on, and and and and I wish it would have happened differently, and we can talk about it.
SPEAKER_02: And God can redeem relationships and renew relationships, and I can ask for forgiveness.
SPEAKER_02: But we as a family have to be willing to do that.
SPEAKER_02: Are you with me on that?
SPEAKER_02: Because if there's gonna be unity, you gotta fight for it.
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't just happen accidentally.
SPEAKER_02: If you're gonna have unity in a church, it's gotta be cultivated.
SPEAKER_02: It's not just like we don't just say unity because it's a fun word.
SPEAKER_02: It's like we're united, and then we're completely fractured under the surface.
SPEAKER_02: Because people, whether they serve Jesus or not, you can walk into a room and you can know if there's tension or not.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: And you can also know if you're in a place where there is a spirit of unity.
SPEAKER_02: Because we talked about last week, in a spirit of unity, there's a commanded blessing.
SPEAKER_02: And I pray that we'd walk in the blessing of God because it's commanded over us, because we cultivate unity within our lives.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah?
SPEAKER_02: So when there is persecution, you guys are just drunk crazies.
SPEAKER_02: Now we stand up together and now we're people that are going after Jesus and what Jesus says about our life and what Jesus wants us to do with our life, and we're going wherever the Holy Spirit leads us in our life.
SPEAKER_02: That's what we're about.
SPEAKER_02: We're about seeing people restored, people loved.
SPEAKER_02: We're about seeing anxiety leave people's life.
SPEAKER_02: We're about seeing people that have suicidal thoughts know that there's hope for them and that they don't have to end it today.
SPEAKER_02: We're about that kind of life.
SPEAKER_02: We're about laying hands on the sick and seeing them recover.
SPEAKER_02: That's what we're about.
SPEAKER_02: And so the the critical has just spoken.
SPEAKER_02: They're just drunk, that's all, trying to dismiss what God's doing.
SPEAKER_02: Then Peter stepped forward with the 11 other disciples and shouted to the crowd.
SPEAKER_02: Man, I love that Luke is so detailed in the word that he uses, is shouted to the crowd.
SPEAKER_02: They didn't get in a circle and like, well, if they just knew what we've been experiencing, then we wouldn't, they wouldn't be talking so foolishly.
SPEAKER_02: Nice shouts to the crowd.
SPEAKER_02: I uh in John 21.
SPEAKER_02: In John 21, there's a moment where the guys are out fishing.
SPEAKER_02: And Jesus is on shore.
SPEAKER_02: You guys remember this?
SPEAKER_02: We talked about it a little bit on Easter Sunday, if you can recall that far back.
SPEAKER_02: And uh there's a moment where Jesus has an encounter with Peter, and it's Peter, do you love me?
SPEAKER_02: And he's like, feed my lambs.
SPEAKER_02: Peter's like, yeah, I love you.
SPEAKER_02: He's like, feed my lambs.
SPEAKER_02: Peter, do you love me?
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I love you.
SPEAKER_02: Peter, feed my sheep.
SPEAKER_02: Peter, do you love me?
SPEAKER_02: Exasperated.
SPEAKER_02: Peter says, I love you.
SPEAKER_02: What is happening in John 21 is that Peter is getting healed, he's getting restored, and he's being commissioned.
SPEAKER_02: What happens sometimes in our life is that we hear about there's a power of God that can come upon us.
SPEAKER_02: Acts chapter 2.
SPEAKER_02: We know that it's a promise of God, and we like the idea that we can be empowered to be his witnesses.
SPEAKER_02: But if you don't have John 21 before you have Acts chapter 2, you're gonna be a hurting person that doesn't have a testimony to give when the power of God comes upon you.
SPEAKER_02: And here's the thing: we don't like having to go to the dark places to let God heal us because we have to remember the shame of the enemy, but it can only be there for a minute because when the presence of God shows up, the shame has to leave.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: Condemnation is this.
SPEAKER_02: Let me tell you what condemnation is because there's conviction.
SPEAKER_02: Conviction will say, man, it's the Holy Spirit saying, This is not God's best for you.
SPEAKER_02: You're going down a path that's not right.
SPEAKER_02: You're handling things wrong in that relationship.
SPEAKER_02: There's this the conviction puts you in a direction towards freedom.
SPEAKER_02: Condemnation is what the enemy whispers in your ear and he lies to you, and he lies, you will never be good enough that God will ever want to have a relationship with you.
SPEAKER_02: So that the seed is planted, and the thought is this you ever get a phone call from a person, or maybe it's just as unknown.
SPEAKER_02: This happens to me all the time.
SPEAKER_02: Unknown.
SPEAKER_02: And do you want to know what I do?
SPEAKER_02: I do I don't answer.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: Now, culturally, if you get into a moment where you're frustrated with somebody and they call you and you don't want to talk to them, you can not answer.
SPEAKER_02: You can either like there's two buttons, right?
SPEAKER_02: I I don't pay that much attention, I just hit, you know, I don't know what I hit.
SPEAKER_02: Anybody ever get confused when you're on the phone and somebody calls and is like, how do I switch between a call and not hang up on everybody?
SPEAKER_02: I panic with that all the time.
SPEAKER_02: But if you have a problem with somebody and they call you and you don't answer because you don't want to talk to them, there's a cultural term called ghosting.
SPEAKER_02: Familiar with that term?
SPEAKER_02: I'm just gonna ghost you.
SPEAKER_02: Um condemnation is the thought that God's gonna ghost you when you talk to him because he's so mad at you he doesn't want to hear from you.
SPEAKER_02: So you're gonna call, but he's gonna not answer.
SPEAKER_02: Condemnation is like, no, you've done too much stupid stuff for God to want to have any conversation with you.
SPEAKER_02: And then he just lies to you.
SPEAKER_02: And then you're like, well, he doesn't want to talk to me, so I'm not gonna talk to him, so then you just isolate.
SPEAKER_02: I love that Jesus approaches Peter because Peter probably didn't have the courage to approach Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: He knows that Jesus died, he knows that Jesus is resurrected, but it's Jesus that approaches the pain in Peter's life.
SPEAKER_02: Peter, do you love me?
SPEAKER_02: Now check this out.
SPEAKER_02: Does he remind Peter of the mistake?
SPEAKER_02: Nope.
SPEAKER_02: He reminds Peter that he loves Jesus, right?
SPEAKER_02: He reminds Peter, Peter, I know you love me.
SPEAKER_02: Say it out loud.
SPEAKER_02: Peter, I know, listen, not only do you love me, but I still have plans for you.
SPEAKER_02: We get so consumed with what God thinks about our mistakes that we forget that he's got a future for us because he's already taken care of the mistakes.
SPEAKER_02: And so he wants to have a conversation with you.
SPEAKER_02: He wants to have John 21 moment with you, where if you'll come to him and say, listen, I'm afraid that you're gonna ghost me.
SPEAKER_02: I'm afraid that I've done too much wrong.
SPEAKER_02: I'm afraid that you can't use me, that you don't even want to hear from me.
SPEAKER_02: But I want to bring this fear before you, God, and just lay it out.
SPEAKER_02: I want to face all the ugly in my life, and I want to ask you, how do you want to deal with it?
SPEAKER_02: And when you have that encounter with the Lord, the Lord's gonna heal those moments.
SPEAKER_02: Listen to me.
SPEAKER_02: He's not seeing you as a person who has an addiction, he's not seeing you as a person who has failure, he's not seeing you as a person who's less than he's seeing you through the blood of the cross as one who's been made righteous, and he wants to have relationship with you.
SPEAKER_02: And so you he there is not a condemnation, for there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, is what the scripture says.
SPEAKER_02: There's never a moment where he doesn't want to hear from you, there's never a moment where he doesn't want to encounter with you.
SPEAKER_02: But if you don't allow John 21 to happen in your life, Acts 2 becomes a difficult moment to work through.
SPEAKER_02: But Peter has had John 21 in his life.
SPEAKER_02: He's been healed, he's been restored, and he's commissioned.
SPEAKER_02: And now he is empowered by the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: So he stands up and he begins to speak.
SPEAKER_02: I want to say something right now.
SPEAKER_02: Uh would you risk today revealing the ugly parts of your life to the Lord?
SPEAKER_02: Would you risk today the things that you don't want to talk about with him?
SPEAKER_02: Would you risk sharing just saying in a private moment, Lord?
SPEAKER_02: I'm acknowledging this struggle that I'm having in your presence.
SPEAKER_02: I just want to acknowledge you.
SPEAKER_02: I want to acknowledge this issue.
SPEAKER_02: I want to acknowledge, I can't stop looking at that screen.
SPEAKER_02: I can't stop picking up that Bible.
SPEAKER_02: I can't stop puffing on that vape.
SPEAKER_02: I can't stop whatever it is that you've got going.
SPEAKER_02: I can't stop, I can't stop gossiping, I can't stop lying, I can't stop getting angry, I can't stop losing my temper.
SPEAKER_02: God, I just want to invite you into all these areas of my life.
SPEAKER_02: Because he wants to come to those areas and he wants to bring healing.
SPEAKER_02: So Peter has walked through this, and it doesn't mean that Peter's perfect anymore because you keep reading, man.
SPEAKER_02: Peter makes some mistakes.
SPEAKER_02: I appreciate me some Peter.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: Because you're not gonna be perfect.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna be perfect, but praise God, Jesus was for us.
SPEAKER_02: And we, when we fall, we get back up and we run into his throne of grace and mercy, sit on his lap, and let us we let ourselves be healed, restored, and commissioned.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so Peter is talking.
SPEAKER_02: Everybody's like, these guys are drunk.
SPEAKER_02: Peter steps up.
SPEAKER_02: Listen carefully, all of you, fellow Jews and residents of Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_02: I love that he addresses the crowd.
SPEAKER_02: Make no mistake about it.
SPEAKER_02: And make no mistake about this.
SPEAKER_02: These people are not drunk, as some of you are assuming.
SPEAKER_02: Nine o'clock in the morning is much too early for that.
SPEAKER_02: So check this out.
SPEAKER_02: So it's Pentecost.
SPEAKER_02: Uh there's a festival going on, and let alone it's 9 a.m.
SPEAKER_02: and they wouldn't be drunk like that, but there's a festival going on, they would not be drunk like that.
SPEAKER_02: There's a moment where they're honoring God.
SPEAKER_02: So as some of you are assuming, nine o'clock in the morning is too early for that, much too early to be drunk.
SPEAKER_02: No what you see was predicted long ago by the prophet Joel.
SPEAKER_02: Peter brings scripture to the situation.
SPEAKER_02: This is what it says.
SPEAKER_02: In the last days, God says, I will pour out my spirit upon all people.
SPEAKER_02: Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
SPEAKER_02: In those days I will pour out my spirit even on my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy, and I will cause wonders in the heavens above, and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke, the sun will become dark, the moon will turn blood red before the great and glorious day of the Lord arrives.
SPEAKER_02: But everyone, check this out, but everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
SPEAKER_02: Let's stop right there.
SPEAKER_02: Everyone that calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
SPEAKER_02: Let's rewind to verse 17.
SPEAKER_02: In the last days I will pour out my spirit upon all people.
SPEAKER_02: He is going back.
SPEAKER_02: So Joel is pro as a prophet 800 years before Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: And Israel has turned their hearts from God.
SPEAKER_02: And Joel, the book of Joel, is about come back to me.
SPEAKER_02: Don't just tear your garments because you're sad, tear your hearts because they're broken, because you've walked away from me.
SPEAKER_02: You've gone away from me.
SPEAKER_02: And it's a it's a restoration thing.
SPEAKER_02: And so Joel is prophesying that there is a day coming when the Spirit of God will pour out on his people.
SPEAKER_02: And that day is Pentecost.
SPEAKER_02: Peter's saying, what you hear about in Joel is what is happening right now.
SPEAKER_02: What God prophesied 800 years ago, this is happening right now in this moment.
SPEAKER_02: This is the pouring out, this is the kicking off.
SPEAKER_02: Check this out.
SPEAKER_02: We got to look at this.
SPEAKER_02: In the last days, I'll pour out my spirit on all people.
SPEAKER_02: Check this.
SPEAKER_02: Your sons and highlight that, underline that.
SPEAKER_02: Your sons and daughters will prophesy.
SPEAKER_02: Listen, don't tell me women cannot go into ministry because Joel prophesied 800 years before Jesus was on the scene that the Holy Spirit would pour out and sons and daughters will prophesy.
SPEAKER_02: Sons and daughters will prophesy.
SPEAKER_02: Women in this room, God wants to speak to you and through you to minister to people.
SPEAKER_02: If you've ever been sidelined because of your gender, you need to know that's not the plan of God.
SPEAKER_02: Your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
SPEAKER_02: Check this out.
SPEAKER_02: Your young men will see vision and your old men will dream dreams.
SPEAKER_02: Listen, you do not age out of being able to serve God.
SPEAKER_02: I don't care how young you are, you don't, it's not an age where finally now you can serve him, and there's not an age where you retire.
SPEAKER_02: You with me on that?
SPEAKER_02: If you're breathing, you have purpose.
SPEAKER_02: Don't talk yourself out of it.
SPEAKER_02: Don't say, well, I'm too young to be able to speak into my my listen, kids going back to school, you go with a mission in mind that you're going to bring the life and the love of Jesus into your classroom, into your hallways, into your cafeteria.
SPEAKER_02: And listen, I I would get nervous about school, and there's things in my life that I can get nervous about until I realize I'm on mission.
SPEAKER_02: When you live on defense, you get nervous.
SPEAKER_02: When you live on offense, you get hungry.
SPEAKER_02: Feed me the ball.
SPEAKER_02: I want to take it to the hoop, right?
SPEAKER_02: Like get I want the ball in my hands.
SPEAKER_02: Let's let's let's get after this.
SPEAKER_02: I'm looking for people that are hurt.
SPEAKER_02: I'm looking for people that are hopeless.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna tell you something.
SPEAKER_02: School is a target-rich environment.
SPEAKER_02: Your workplace is a target-rich environment.
SPEAKER_02: What does that mean, Joey?
SPEAKER_02: It means that you don't have to look hard, search hard for somebody who needs the hope of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to be.
SPEAKER_02: Listen, if the church does not stop being lazy and looking for opportunity to reach those that are lost, we are missing out on the commissioning of God.
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to look hard, but you have to be bold.
SPEAKER_02: And when you know how much you're loved and you know that your identity is in him, you're not gonna get nervous about somebody thinking you're stupid because the God of creation created you.
SPEAKER_02: You were such a good idea in his mind that he made you.
SPEAKER_02: Why am I nervous about what somebody else is going to think about me when I share the gospel with them?
SPEAKER_02: In fact, let me just say it to you like this if you have a cure for a disease that can heal somebody and you don't share it with them, I would say that sounds more like evil than holiness.
SPEAKER_01: If you can like can you wrap your mind around that?
SPEAKER_02: If you walk into a room and everybody's dying and you've got the cure, but you're like, I feel weird if they're not gonna receive this.
SPEAKER_02: What are they gonna say if I don't?
SPEAKER_02: And so you just keep it to yourself.
SPEAKER_02: That sounds nothing like Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: The fear of man will leave you into will lead you into evil places.
SPEAKER_02: But the conviction of God will lead you into battles where He has already won the victory.
SPEAKER_02: You just gotta step into the fight.
SPEAKER_02: So the day's a day where I'm asking you, will you step into the fight?
SPEAKER_02: Will you know that you're loved, that God's not done with you, that you're breathing, you have purpose, step into the fight.
SPEAKER_02: And oh, by the way, you're empowered to be in the fight.
SPEAKER_02: Your failures do not preclude you, do not dismiss you, do not eliminate you from being in the fight.
SPEAKER_02: Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions.
SPEAKER_02: Your old men will dream dreams.
SPEAKER_02: In those days, I'm in the middle point right now because I feel like I get a few visions and a few dreams, right?
SPEAKER_02: It's kind of like a midlife issue going on right now.
SPEAKER_02: It's good though.
SPEAKER_02: It's good, it's fun, it's fun.
SPEAKER_02: In those days, I'll pour my spirit even on my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.
SPEAKER_02: If prophecy is not happening in the church, something's wrong.
SPEAKER_02: If prophecy is not happening in the body of Christ, there's something wrong.
SPEAKER_02: Joey, well, what is prophecy?
SPEAKER_02: Uh scripture says his sheep hear his voice, and so when we're prophesying, we're doing our best to sense what God is speaking to us, and then we're sharing that with other people.
SPEAKER_02: So you don't have to listen to me.
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to be out there trying to prophesy about the next election.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: Can I just tell you something?
SPEAKER_02: You're making it really hard for me if you're that person.
SPEAKER_02: You don't got to prophesy about the next election, but get into somebody's life and let them know that the creator of the universe loves them enough he sent somebody in their path to risk looking foolish to say, hey, I sense God is wanting me to share this with you.
SPEAKER_02: May I just share this with you.
SPEAKER_01: If that's not happening, we're missing.
SPEAKER_02: We're missing.
SPEAKER_02: We're missing something.
SPEAKER_02: And I will cause wonders in the heavens above, signs of earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke, and the sun will become dark red, the moon will turn blood red before the great and glorious day of the Lord arrives.
SPEAKER_02: We understand that we are not going to be in this situation forever.
SPEAKER_02: There's a moment when the trumpet blasts and Jesus returns.
SPEAKER_02: Stay on mission.
SPEAKER_02: There's a listen, the shot clock, if there's a shot clock, it's winding down, right?
SPEAKER_02: And even Peter's writing here, and they're believing, they're thinking, man, we don't know when he's coming back, but we need to operate, activate, be in the fight right now.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah?
SPEAKER_02: But everyone who calls in the name of the Lord will be saved.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 22 people of Israel, listen, God publicly endorsed Jesus the Jesus the Nazarene by doing powerful miracles, wonders, and signs through him, as you well know.
SPEAKER_02: But God knew what would happen.
SPEAKER_02: And that his pre-arranged plan was carried out when Jesus was betrayed.
SPEAKER_02: With the help of lawless Gentiles, whoo! With the help of lawless Gentiles, you nailed him to a cross and you killed him.
SPEAKER_02: Check this out.
SPEAKER_02: Everybody's coming and they're hearing this sermon right now.
SPEAKER_02: And and and and Peter is coming for every toe in the room, right?
SPEAKER_02: He's coming for, he's he's everybody's catching, they're not strays, they're intentional.
SPEAKER_02: And this is what he says.
SPEAKER_02: Listen, with the help of lawless Gentiles, who was who was in control of Israel?
SPEAKER_02: Rome, right?
SPEAKER_02: Who was it that crucified Jesus?
SPEAKER_02: It was Romans.
SPEAKER_02: Who was it that said that he should be crucified?
SPEAKER_02: It was the Jews.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: So the Romans acquiesced to the Jews and said, okay, we're gonna do what you want so that you stop causing trouble.
SPEAKER_02: Now we're still we're we're only seven weeks after all this has happened.
SPEAKER_02: So we know what?
SPEAKER_02: We know there are Roman guards, there's Roman soldiers in Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_02: We know that there's people that have come from all over the place in for this festival.
SPEAKER_02: So the city is crowded.
SPEAKER_02: Do you think Rome's like, oh, the city is crowded?
SPEAKER_02: There's probably not going to be any trouble.
SPEAKER_02: Let's just back out.
SPEAKER_02: No, don't be a dummy, right?
SPEAKER_02: Like Rome is there, they're on the scene.
SPEAKER_02: Can you imagine thousands of people spontaneously start showing up to this one location?
SPEAKER_02: I would imagine there are Roman soldiers like, what is going on here?
SPEAKER_02: Is there a revolt happening?
SPEAKER_02: Is there about to be a problem?
SPEAKER_02: Is there gonna be an issue?
SPEAKER_02: They got their hand on their sword.
SPEAKER_02: And Peter, seven weeks ago, was afraid for his life, denying Jesus, he was so afraid.
SPEAKER_02: He was so fearful that the same fate was awaiting him.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I don't know that guy.
SPEAKER_02: Now he's saying, Oh, by the way, there was lawless Gentiles, right?
SPEAKER_02: And you nailed him to a cross and killed him.
SPEAKER_02: Jews, you're guilty.
SPEAKER_02: Romans, you're guilty.
SPEAKER_02: Good news.
SPEAKER_02: The price he paid was for everybody.
SPEAKER_02: So he wasn't down there saying, Listen, you jerks, you killed the Messiah.
SPEAKER_02: He's saying, No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_02: God used you, even though you were doing evil things, to make sure that the sacrifice was paid for all the sins, all the failures you would ever do.
SPEAKER_02: So now anybody that calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
SPEAKER_02: But God released him from the horrors of death and raised him back to life, for death could not keep him in its grip.
SPEAKER_02: King David said this about him I see the Lord is always with me, I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
SPEAKER_02: No wonder my heart is glad and my tongue shouts his praises.
SPEAKER_02: My body rests in hope, for you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.
SPEAKER_02: You have shown me the way of life, and you will fill me with joy of your presence.
SPEAKER_02: Dear brothers and sisters, verse 29, think about this.
SPEAKER_02: You can be sure that the patriarch David wasn't referring to himself, for he died and was buried, and his tomb is in his tomb is still here among us.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 30, but he was a prophet, and he knew God had promised an oath that one of David's own descendants would sit on his throne.
SPEAKER_02: David was looking into the future and speaking of the Messiah's resurrection.
SPEAKER_02: He was saying that God would not leave him among the dead or allow his body to rot in the grave.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 32, check this out.
SPEAKER_02: God raised Jesus from the dead, and we are all what witnesses of this.
SPEAKER_02: Now he is exalted to the place of highest honor in heaven at God's right hand.
SPEAKER_02: And the Father, as he promised, gave him Jesus, the Holy Spirit, to pour out on us, just as you what see and hear today.
SPEAKER_02: For David himself never ascended into heaven, yet he said, The Lord said to my Lord, we've talked about that before.
SPEAKER_02: It's like saying, The Father said to my Lord, God the Father said to my Lord, sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet.
SPEAKER_02: So let that check this out.
SPEAKER_02: So let everyone in Israel know for certain that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, to be both Lord and Messiah.
SPEAKER_02: Peter's words, check this, pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, brothers, what should we do?
SPEAKER_01: He did not say.
SPEAKER_02: What must we do?
SPEAKER_02: Peter said, each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God.
SPEAKER_02: You must repent of your sins and turn to God.
SPEAKER_02: Repenting is a complete turn.
SPEAKER_02: It's a change the mind.
SPEAKER_02: It's a shift of directions.
SPEAKER_02: I'm going into the presence of God.
SPEAKER_02: I was going after my own life, my own ways, my own thinking, and now I'm going to Him.
SPEAKER_02: I'm repenting.
SPEAKER_02: I'm changing the way that I think, I operate, activate.
SPEAKER_02: Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins.
SPEAKER_02: Listen, baptism is not something that we do so we can say, oh, cool, we had another baptism today.
SPEAKER_02: We do it because it's a command of God for his followers of Jesus to be baptized.
SPEAKER_02: You with me on that?
SPEAKER_02: So, like, listen, I just want to encourage you in the room.
SPEAKER_02: If you've never had an opportunity to be baptized, but you call Jesus Savior, part of the commission of God and call of God on your life is to have a moment where you are baptized in the presence of other believers so that you can celebrate submitting.
SPEAKER_02: I'm going under the water, my old self is dead, I'm raised anew in Christ, and I'm living for Him totally.
SPEAKER_02: Then you will receive what happens?
SPEAKER_02: Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins.
SPEAKER_02: Then you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: This promise is to you, to your children.
SPEAKER_02: Check this out, and to those far away.
SPEAKER_02: How do we know the Holy Spirit is for today?
SPEAKER_02: And to those far away.
SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, Joey, that sounds like those words you're just talking about geographical distance.
SPEAKER_02: The word he uses there can get translated and is used is an intentionally ambiguous in this moment because it means these three things.
SPEAKER_02: Those far away is expressed in the geographic sense, in distance, the social and covenantal distance.
SPEAKER_02: So not just Jews, but non-Jews.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: So that means you and me, if you're not Jewish, praise God, we are a part of what the Holy Spirit wants to do.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah?
SPEAKER_02: And distance in time.
SPEAKER_02: So it can mean geographical distance, social covenantal distance, and also distance in time.
SPEAKER_02: So I'm gonna read this verse again to you so you have this in mind.
SPEAKER_02: Then you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: This promise is to your children, to you, to your children, and to those far away.
SPEAKER_02: Praise God.
SPEAKER_02: All who have been called by the Lord our God.
SPEAKER_02: Then Peter continued preaching.
SPEAKER_02: Take this out for a long time.
SPEAKER_02: He wasn't done there.
SPEAKER_02: Man, he he's dropped bomb after bomb after bomb.
SPEAKER_02: You could have stopped right there.
SPEAKER_02: Everybody's like, I'm coming to you, Lord, right?
SPEAKER_02: Like it's just a moment.
SPEAKER_02: And then he preaches for a long time.
SPEAKER_02: And everybody in the room that's heard me is like, we know what that's like.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes, Pastor, you just be going with that in mind, Ashley.
SPEAKER_02: Would you come to the keyboard for me?
SPEAKER_02: Peter continued preaching for a long time.
SPEAKER_02: Isn't it great how detailed Luke is?
SPEAKER_02: And then he gives you that line.
SPEAKER_02: Peter was out there, he was going for it.
SPEAKER_02: Strongly urging all his listeners, save yourselves from this crooked generation.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 41, check this out.
SPEAKER_02: Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day about 3,000 in all.
SPEAKER_02: How does one guy's voice carry to thousands of people without any kind of microphone, amplification?
SPEAKER_02: You ever think about that?
SPEAKER_02: Just curious.
SPEAKER_02: Like, did those streets just carry a good echo?
SPEAKER_02: Like, how what was that?
SPEAKER_02: Like, did he happen to be in the one spot?
SPEAKER_02: I don't know the logistics, but man, I know that the presence of God was so strong in that place, and under the power of the Holy Spirit, as he preached, it hit every ear that it needed to hit.
SPEAKER_02: And people responded, and they didn't just respond like this.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, well, uh, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask Jesus to be a part of my life.
SPEAKER_02: They gave their life entirely.
SPEAKER_02: Check this out.
SPEAKER_02: Wrap your mind around this.
SPEAKER_02: The one who they're choosing to believe on that day is the Messiah, had just been crucified seven weeks earlier.
SPEAKER_02: That's not outside of anybody's mind.
SPEAKER_02: Like, we're not taking the easy path.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes we talk about following Jesus, like, you want an easy way of life?
SPEAKER_02: Just follow Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_02: You're gonna be persecuted.
SPEAKER_02: There's gonna be people that don't like you, there's gonna be people that aren't about you simply because you follow Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: That doesn't ever really get an amen.
SPEAKER_02: Like, woo-hoo! But can I tell you something?
SPEAKER_02: When you receive pushback from your community for loving Jesus, listen, not being a belligerent, ignorant.
SPEAKER_02: But when there's a moment, listen, there's gonna be people when you say, hey, the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
SPEAKER_02: There's gonna be people like, I don't like, I don't want to hear that.
SPEAKER_02: I'd rather have it my I'd rather I'd rather I'd rather be able to say coexist.
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't mean I can't love people.
SPEAKER_02: I man, I can love the Muslim, I can love the Buddhist, I can love the Hindu, I can love, but listen, I can love them and recognize that their pathway is not the pathway, that there's only one way.
SPEAKER_02: Listen, if any path could have got you there, why would Jesus had let himself get murdered if any other way would have been okay?
SPEAKER_02: Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day.
SPEAKER_02: They were so convicted of the truth of who God is.
SPEAKER_02: How were they so convicted?
SPEAKER_02: It wasn't just the words of Peter, but it was the work of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah?
SPEAKER_02: And so people are convicted, and they're baptized that day, and they come and say, I'm living my life for Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: I am now a Jesus follower, I am a Jesus disciple.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna go where he wants me to go, I'm gonna do what he wants me to do.
SPEAKER_02: My life is no longer my own.
SPEAKER_02: And man, I want to tell you that doesn't preach easy in the church today because we like our life a lot.
SPEAKER_02: Man, I like it a lot.
SPEAKER_02: Joey, you're telling me I can't do this, I can't do that.
SPEAKER_02: I'm telling you what you get to do.
SPEAKER_02: You get to know the Savior of the world who loves you so much that he died for everything you got wrong.
SPEAKER_02: But Joey, I don't get to do this, and what a the savior of the world, the creator loves you in a fashion that says, Man, submit your life to me.
SPEAKER_02: You will only walk in authority in your life to the degree that you've given all authority to Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: You want to walk in authority in your family, in your workplace?
SPEAKER_02: Give all authority to Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: You're like, Joy, I'm the boss, I have the authority.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not talking that authority.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not talking higher and fire.
SPEAKER_02: I'm talking about loosing the chains of bondage off the life of people.
SPEAKER_02: I'm talking about healing the brokenhearted.
SPEAKER_02: I'm talking about seeing the blind receive their sight.
SPEAKER_02: Obedience looks radical when rebellion is normative.
SPEAKER_02: When rebellion is the norm, obedience looks radical.
SPEAKER_02: And so what I would say is that as you get closer to God, your life will look more radical to others because it is not the norm.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
SPEAKER_02: So, Holy Spirit, I just need help in this moment.
SPEAKER_02: I love that Peter would go on to say, in 1 Peter, this won't be on your screen, but you can write this down.
SPEAKER_02: 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 6.
SPEAKER_02: So be truly glad.
SPEAKER_02: There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while.
SPEAKER_02: For these trials will show that your faith is genuine.
SPEAKER_02: It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold.
SPEAKER_02: Though your faith is far more precious than mere gold.
SPEAKER_02: Peter's like, as you go after Jesus, there's a crucible that you're in.
SPEAKER_02: There's going to be a fire that hits you.
SPEAKER_02: And your faith will only get more purified.
SPEAKER_02: It will only get stronger.
SPEAKER_02: It will only get deeper.
SPEAKER_02: It will only get richer.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not preaching to you today a message to get you out of a tight jam.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not preaching to you a message today that's going to make all of life easier.
SPEAKER_02: I'm preaching you a message today that will, if you will submit to God and choose to believe with your heart that Jesus died for you.
SPEAKER_02: You might not have all the dots connected, but there's something even certain in your heart if you will submit to him and say, listen, I am a sinner.
SPEAKER_02: Sinner means I missed the mark.
SPEAKER_02: I shot the arrow.
SPEAKER_02: I missed the mark.
SPEAKER_02: I got it wrong.
SPEAKER_02: And the Bible says the wages of sin missing the mark is death.
SPEAKER_02: Because God can't receive anything that's not holy into his presence.
SPEAKER_02: So you have to be made holy.
SPEAKER_02: And the only way that happens is through Jesus Christ His Son.
SPEAKER_02: And He wants to have so much relationship.
SPEAKER_02: He wants relationship with you so much.
SPEAKER_02: The Father wants relationship with you so much, He sent Jesus to pay the price that you couldn't pay so you could have relationship restored with him.
SPEAKER_02: And when you recognize that you are that restored, listen, sometimes you can get mad about how hated you are.
SPEAKER_02: But what I would say, you might be unjustly hated, unfairly hated, but you are just as much unfairly loved.
SPEAKER_02: I don't know why God loves me, but He does.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes my spiritual life looks like a lot like my skateboarding life.
SPEAKER_02: Just pushing along, and things seem great, and then bam.
SPEAKER_02: I want to say to you right now, I'll just ask you to close your eyes for a moment.
SPEAKER_02: If you feel like God's been ghosting you, or you feel like God would ghost you because of what's gone on, that's condemnation, and that's not from Him.
SPEAKER_02: And I would just ask you right now, I would just ask you to be bold in this place, not stressed out about it.
SPEAKER_02: But if that's you, I just want you to raise your hand and say, man, that is me.
SPEAKER_02: I feel like I hear you saying that that's not true, but I really feel like that God doesn't want to pick up if I call.
SPEAKER_02: I'm too nervous.
SPEAKER_02: I'm too nervous to dial the number.
SPEAKER_02: I'm too nervous.
SPEAKER_02: Maybe you're even nervous coming today, but if that's you, I just want you to raise your hand and say, man, Joey, I'm dealing with this in a real way.
SPEAKER_02: I'm nervous to get in his presence because I'm not sure that he even wants me there.
SPEAKER_02: Would you be honest and genuine enough?
SPEAKER_02: Say, man, I feel that.
SPEAKER_02: I feel that condemnation.
SPEAKER_02: I've been dealing with that condemnation.
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, God, that you see us.
SPEAKER_02: John twenty one.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus is not bringing up all your failures, but he's just Asking, do you love me?
SPEAKER_02: So I'm just gonna ask you, you don't have to say it out loud.
SPEAKER_02: You can if you would like.
SPEAKER_02: Do you love Jesus?
SPEAKER_02: I ask you again.
SPEAKER_02: Remind you, you are called.
SPEAKER_02: There is purpose and it has not left.
SPEAKER_02: Do you love Jesus?
SPEAKER_02: You are called.
SPEAKER_02: You have purpose.
SPEAKER_02: And your past and the failures, they're all paid for.
SPEAKER_02: Let me ask you again, do you love Jesus?
SPEAKER_02: Step into your calling.
SPEAKER_02: If you're in this place and you don't have any relationship with the Lord, I just want to give you an opportunity to start that relationship right now.
SPEAKER_02: To know that you are fiercely loved by God.
SPEAKER_02: And He wants relationship with you.
SPEAKER_02: But you must repent.
SPEAKER_02: But as you do, you're turning into a direction where there's arms wide open waiting for you.
SPEAKER_02: If you want to ask Jesus to be the Lord, Messiah, the Savior of your life, I want to pray for you.
SPEAKER_02: I just ask you to raise your hand right now.
SPEAKER_02: Just be bold in it.
SPEAKER_02: Don't be nervous about it.
SPEAKER_02: Don't be fearful about it.
SPEAKER_02: There's only one way to come.
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
SPEAKER_02: If you need to say, man, Joey, I used to roll like that, but I do not.
SPEAKER_02: I used to walk with the Lord, but I haven't in a long time.
SPEAKER_02: But I would love to return.
SPEAKER_02: I'd love to step back in a relationship.
SPEAKER_02: I want to pray for you.
SPEAKER_02: And if that's you, I just feel like stepping up and making a bold moment and saying, Yeah, that's me.
SPEAKER_02: Raise your hand because I want to pray over that.
SPEAKER_02: I want to pray for you.
SPEAKER_02: That you would know that there's a moment where you say, Yeah, I'm shifting direction today.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Is there anybody else?
SPEAKER_02: You say, Yeah, I just want to return.
SPEAKER_02: I want to walk right back into the relationship.
SPEAKER_02: Can we pray together in this family?
SPEAKER_02: Let's pray this out loud together.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus, I thank you that you paid the price for me.
SPEAKER_02: And I choose to repent and turn from my way of doing life.
SPEAKER_02: I ask you to be my Savior, my King, my Lord.
SPEAKER_02: I give you all my life.
SPEAKER_02: The pretty and the ugly.
SPEAKER_02: I give you all of me.
SPEAKER_02: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Man, uh, I love you guys.
SPEAKER_02: I speak blessing over you.
SPEAKER_02: I want to ask you and I want to invite you.
SPEAKER_02: If you need prayer, please don't leave without it.
SPEAKER_02: Um I still feel a sense in my heart, like that some of you are dealing with like a heaviness.
SPEAKER_02: I just feel like just a sense of heaviness on some of you right now.
SPEAKER_02: And you don't have to leave with that.
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to go out with that.
SPEAKER_02: Like nighttime, this is what I feel in my heart.
SPEAKER_02: I'm just going to share this with you.
SPEAKER_02: I feel like sometimes, for some of you, at night, you dread it.
SPEAKER_02: Because it's just you and your thoughts, and it makes for an evening that's forever and won't end.
SPEAKER_02: Don't leave with that.
SPEAKER_02: There's freedom from that.
SPEAKER_02: Some of you, I just felt like coming and praying about today.
SPEAKER_02: Um, you're really wondering, will the tide ever turn?
SPEAKER_02: Or is life just gonna, is it just gonna stay hopeless?
SPEAKER_02: Don't leave with that.
SPEAKER_02: So what I'm doing right now is I'm engaging with you, and then I'm asking you to engage as well.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
SPEAKER_02: Uh be bold in it.
SPEAKER_02: Be brave in it.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah?
SPEAKER_02: Uh as we as we get ready to leave, I want to I want to invite you to come back next week.
SPEAKER_02: I can't tell you exactly the best way that I have words for this, but I feel like the Holy Spirit is doing a deep work in our church and in the lives of the people in this church.
SPEAKER_02: And if you're visiting with us and you're not here on the regular, you're welcome to come.
SPEAKER_02: I want you to come.
SPEAKER_02: But I believe that the Lord's taking us to deep things and bringing life from where there's been pain and hurt and rejection.
SPEAKER_02: I believe that anxiety is going to be getting healed.
SPEAKER_02: I know that we are on the precipice of seeing, we've seen healings happen.
SPEAKER_02: Major healings happen.
SPEAKER_02: Hearts, physical hearts healed.
SPEAKER_02: Uh we've seen major healings happen.
SPEAKER_02: But I believe that that's just going to become the regular.
SPEAKER_02: But we're going to push into it.
SPEAKER_02: We're going to do it together.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah?
SPEAKER_02: Would you stand up with me?
SPEAKER_02: I love, I love how you guys love Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: I want to encourage you one more time.
SPEAKER_02: If questions are popping up as we go through this, I want to hear about them.
SPEAKER_02: But I also want to hear about something else.
SPEAKER_02: I want to hear about testimonies.
SPEAKER_02: Would you do me a huge favor?
SPEAKER_02: Can we put on our connection on the screen?
SPEAKER_02: Uh, there's a number that you can dial and text it, and um you can give us prayer requests, you can give us testimonies because we want to be able to, over this time, just be sharing.
SPEAKER_02: Because we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony, yeah?
SPEAKER_02: And I want to be sharing testimonies, and I want you to be able to share your testimony.
SPEAKER_02: And so that's a way for that you can connect, you can know what's coming down the pipe, what's going to be going on.
SPEAKER_02: I'm looking forward to just a quick glimpse in October.
SPEAKER_02: Going to have uh several Wednesday nights where we get into hearing the voice of God.
SPEAKER_02: That's gonna be incredible.
SPEAKER_02: So if you're in our Texas, you're gonna find out about things like that.
SPEAKER_02: Um, we will not this Wednesday, but the next Wednesday, we'll be having a gathering together where we're gonna come and have a potluck on a Wednesday night and just eat together and just celebrate together and just have live life together, yeah?
SPEAKER_02: And so if you're on that, you're gonna find out and be reminded about that.
SPEAKER_02: So I encourage you to engage in that.
SPEAKER_02: But as you leave, I pray, Lord, may your face shine upon these, your sons and daughters.
SPEAKER_02: Bless them in their coming and they're going and they're lying down, they're rising up.
SPEAKER_02: Breathe their front and their rear guard.
SPEAKER_02: Give them the mind of Christ and the wisdom of God.
SPEAKER_02: And Lord, I pray right now, Holy Spirit, that you would feel afresh these your sons and daughters.
SPEAKER_02: Fall fresh on them right now in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Feel them fresh right now in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you would come and that you would you're ministering to deep places.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you for people that are hungry.
SPEAKER_02: Lord, I thank you that you're meeting with people in this place right now in their area of deepest need.
SPEAKER_02: Holy Spirit, have your way.
SPEAKER_02: Have your way.
SPEAKER_02: We bless you, we honor you.
SPEAKER_02: And Lord, I just thank you.
SPEAKER_02: Give these your sons and daughters the mind of Christ, wisdom of God, be their front and their rear garden.
SPEAKER_02: I pray everything their hands touch, let it prosper.
SPEAKER_02: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_02: You say amen with me.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Be blessed.
SPEAKER_02: Let's give the Lord a praise.
SPEAKER_02: Have an