Philippians 3: Jesus Is Our Righteousness

We start with a deceptively simple question asked to AI: what makes someone a good person, and why do the answers feel both inspiring and unstable. Philippians 3 brings the clarity by showing that real righteousness is not something we produce but someone we receive: Jesus Christ. 
• AI’s summary of goodness and why it reflects the internet’s moral instincts 
• How world religions frame righteousness as something we achieve 
• Paul’s “confidence in the flesh” list and why it reads like a moral resume 
• Why modern moral standards can shift fast and leave us unanchored 
• Counting our best efforts as loss compared with knowing Christ 
• Faith as the fulcrum that moves us from self-made righteousness to God’s righteousness 
• How the power of the resurrection reshapes suffering, fear and death 
• The difference between enjoying blessings now and clinging to them 
• A C.S. Lewis illustration of leaving the “drawing” for the real world 
• The core challenge: waking up excited that we have Jesus 

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The AI Question About Goodness

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Uh, as I was reviewing where we were in Philippians chapter three, we we had we'd covered the first couple of verses of Philippians chapter three. I uh came away with a question, and it was a question I decided to ask of all people in AI bot. I thought, you know what? I'm gonna utilize this brand new tool and see what it can do. And so I asked AI a very simple question in very simple terms, outside of a Christian perspective, what makes someone a good person? What makes someone a good person? The reason why I asked AI is because their answer is gonna be based on basically whatever they can find on the internet. And so it's like uh just it's like a uh, I don't know, it's like you're putting your pulse on what's on Reddit. Okay, what what's on social media, what are people saying about being a good person? And it it tried to get fancy with me. It didn't really work out the way it thought. Uh it probably did thought. Well, whatever. Anyways, uh it brought up Aristotle and the idea that what makes a good person is their character. Okay, I've heard of that. I've I can I can I can see that. It it it brought up uh an answer that was connected to production. What are your actions producing? Um basically what whether you intend good or or bad almost doesn't matter. It's what's the end result, and that defines good or bad for your life. And then a more modern take which almost inversed that is what makes a good person is the attempt to be good, right? Even if you even if you don't do what you attempted to do, but you tried, that's part of being a good person. And the little AI bot uh, after summarizing those sort of things, landed on this, and it was a decent answer for what it is. A good person is someone for whom other people's interests register as real, not as instruments, not as an audience. That combined with enough self-honesty and competence to act on, act on it when it costs something is what makes a person good. Before you're impressed by that sentence, just understanding no, it probably just copied and pasted that from somebody on Twitter, okay? But I thought those answers were broad enough to give us a good idea about what does the world outside the church and outside religion think about being a good person?

How Religions Define Righteousness

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Okay, and then when you throw religion in there, it sort of completely changes it again. When you bring religion into it, the entire argument changes. And in Judaism, being a good person means following a certain set of laws and rituals in service to God. The end result of your actions produces good or produces righteousness, which is really a word we're going to focus on when we get to our scripture. Islam is very similar. Buddhism has its own framework for what makes good and bad people. Same with uh Hinduism. Name a religion, and it has an idea of what it means to be a good person and to have some sort of righteousness, for lack of a better phrase. Righteousness. But in every one of those systems, here's the thing: you are producing righteousness, you are producing the goodness, you are responsible for production of good. And ultimately, righteousness is this word that matters for our scripture today. It's a question of righteousness because being a good person in more technical religious terms means having a form of righteousness, which, if you want to break that word down in a way that's easy to remember, it's rightness. Righteousness. You are right in connection to something, some standard. For Christians, it's God is perfect rightness. Right? And so righteousness is him. He embodies it, and we have it through Jesus Christ, as we'll talk about, as Paul talks about here. As we jump back into Philippians chapter 3, we we've already talked about parts of the first verses, and now we're going to see Paul talk about being a good person, being righteous in a way that's relevant for Jewish people, but also would be relevant for modern Muslims and for atheists and agnostics. Ultimately, any group, any group of people who thinks about being good, who thinks about a righteousness, who thinks about trying to produce something that is good, trying to be a good person, every system outside of what Paul is about to describe falls completely short. Philippians chapter 3,

Reading Philippians 3:3-11

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verses uh 3 through 11. For we are the circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh. In other words, we we don't put confidence in what we can do on our own. Though I myself, Paul says, is saying of himself, have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more. Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, as to the law, a Pharisee, as to Zil, a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law, blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss, because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Jesus As The Only Rightness

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Paul's words here, his description of his own life, what his own life meant, and what it meant to receive true righteousness, draws us to a truth. Right, right? His words, they tell us a truth that we need to remember, that we we need to keep at the forefront of what it means to be a Christian. Jesus is our righteousness. He is our rightness, he is the thing that sets us apart. We can't do it on our own. And that truth supersedes any context that's ever ever existed. Any religion, any ideology, any philosophy, no matter the time, place, no matter the norms or laws of any given society, that truth supersedes and anchors anything that we might think of in a sense of morality, being good and bad. Modern Western man, or at least a large portion of him,

Modern Morality And Shifting Standards

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might think certain things make him a good person. He might not necessarily believe in the Bible, though he might not he might value parts of the Bible. More likely, he values all religions as equal and all of them telling the same story. That's what modern Western man wants to think of as good. And they'll take bits and pieces of that and they'll try to do good things based on parts of everything.

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Right?

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They'll give to charity. They'll stand up for the weak, or at least who they perceive to be weak. They'll champion love and acceptance. And that he believes is going to produce in him a goodness which will make him a good person, which is a form of righteousness. And yet you go back 100 years, 200 years or more, and the very things that modern man might champion would actually make him a social pariah and an amoral person that would be rejected and tossed out of society 100 years ago, 200 years ago.

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Right?

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There's a sort of a new morality that has been birthed over the last hundred years. You know what I'm saying? Do you understand? Are we on the same page? Right? We might believe that it's good or even righteous. Not we, I'm using we very generally here, but you might believe that it's very righteous to stand up for gender-affirming care. Right? We we see that, we hear that. But that argument, that good action would be so foreign in basically every other age that's ever existed, and even right now in other parts of the world, that concept would be so foreign that it would it should probably make people pause and consider am I just making this mess up? Is my framework for good and bad so just out there that I'm just picking random things and calling them good? Right? If if every other segment of society for the past forever would not recognize what I am propping up as good, if they if they wouldn't recognize it, should I can should I really think this through? And I don't say this to get political, though there's nothing wrong with that from the pulpit, but I'm simply pointing out the problem with creating a system of good and bad, a system of righteousness on your own, not based on anything except for your feelings, that that 15 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, people are gonna look at particular issues and understand and know that yeah, they just they got that wrong. Just like, right? It's not just it's not just listen. I know if you go back in history, there are things that we consider normal that are not normal now, and they're backed up by scripture. But that's a little different. We know slavery is wrong, but that's backed up by scripture, okay? So it goes both ways, right? But people make up their own stuff. They do.

Paul’s Resume And Why It Fails

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Paul draws out from a Jewish perspective that he had everything going for him. Some of it was just luck of being born in the right family at the right time. A lot of it was hard work. Following all of those laws was hard work. Being a persecutor of the church was hard work. In Acts, we we see that even as a relatively young man, when he is when he arrives on the scene in the middle of Acts, we sort of see that he's given uh special prominence at the martyrdom of Stephen. And shortly after that, we see that he's given special privileges to go outside the realm of Jerusalem into other communities to seek out other Christians and to destroy the Christian church. He was set personally, he was set, religiously, he was set, practically, he was set across the board. He was a man of righteousness, according to the standard of his day and of his people, based off the Old Testament, of course, but things change plenty of people in very similar terms, if not different language, essentially are Paul's themselves, or they have everything going for them. They're doing all the right things, they're saying all the right things, they even think all the right things. Different religions have different versions of this for their version of a righteous person of Paul. And even even people outside the church, even secular people do this as well. They virtue signal, they vote the right way, they they get to this cause and that cause, they they do this, they do that, and they get upset at the right time at the right thing. That's a form of righteousness for them. Okay? It's not enough. It's not enough. Fall short. Let me read this part again, but whatever gain I had, I count it as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth and knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. For his sake I have been uh suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ. The righteousness from God that depends on faith, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and may share his suffering, becoming like him in death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Rubbish, he

Rubbish Without God And The Void

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says. It's rubbish. All of his hard work was rubbish. His birth into the right family was rubbish. Him doing all the right things at the right time was rubbish in comparison to the fact that through faith he could have a connection to Jesus Christ, that through faith he could have a connection through Jesus Christ and suffer as Christ suffered, and attain a power that he couldn't attain on his own. Rubbish. Man-made morality and systems are rubbish. Throughout all of humankind, we have tried to organize existence and societies and cities and towns with these systems, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. We define good and bad. It's rubbish. It's rubbish without God. Money is rubbish without God. Our outrage about this problem or that problem is rubbish without God. It falls short of the truth. Without God, we are nothing. Compared to God, we are nothing. We need God, but yet we can't get God because we are unrighteous and He is perfect righteousness. So we've got a problem. Some philosophers, philosophers, what a word. What really is right and wrong? But based on, and these are I'm talking about secular thinkers, they try to figure out a way to figure out why in the world am I a good person? Why does it matter? And many, many, many of them, when they follow the logic, of course, without God, they follow the logic of being good or bad to it's to its very end, and they realize there's not really a compelling reason to be good or bad without God. And they produce these thoughts and these patterns of thinking that are very scary and nightmarish, anarchy, right? He was he was just a guy who just basically didn't believe in anything, essentially, by the end of his life. Because he he didn't believe in God, but then without God, there was no reason for anything else. You might think, as some of these thinkers have thought, that all this stuff we care about and work towards is nothing but ash. It's empty. It's a shallow pool, it's pretty to look at, but once you are a grown person, you can't swim in it, it doesn't mean anything to you anymore. When you really boil down who we are, what we do, what life is, what existence is, all of these trappings, the good things that we work for and towards, they're nothing. But if we arrive at that truth, ultimately, I think with the help of the truth, then we come to view that nothingness not as something to be feared, not as a nightmare, not as something negative, not as something life-ending and life-altering

Faith As The Turning Point

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in a negative way. But ultimately, if we arrive to the position where we realize we are nothing and have nothing, that's a gateway to freedom and joy. Because it it frees us up to recognize that the only source of life that we truly have, the only source of goodness that we really have, the only reason for goodness, for righteousness, for looking forward to anything is Christ Himself. When nothing else really matters, we're left looking for something that does matter, and Jesus is it. We find ourselves in a position to gain Christ, Paul says. Gain Christ. Not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ. The righteousness from God that depends on faith. Paul got it. He understood it. He he started here in earthly terms, but he got here and found exactly what he needed. It's the same for our own life. We understand true righteousness is only found in him and only in faith. So take the burden of basically self-made righteousness off your own shoulders. Stop dwelling on being a good person, uh, stop with the moral checklist, stop, stop with the rubbish essentially. Lose that stuff by itself. By itself, it means nothing. Count it as all loss, so that you may gain Christ and be found in Him and thus be found in His righteousness, not in any sort of man-made standard, but the standard which comes through faith in Christ. Here's the thing: you will only understand righteousness and being a good person when you realize that you can't do it on your own, and that the only way to get it is having faith that Jesus gave it to you. Faith. Faith is the fulcrum of what we do, it's the fulcrum of how we how we get from here to here spiritually. It's faith. It's believing that you don't have it, but Jesus has provided it. Even though maybe you don't deserve it, maybe you don't understand it, maybe you want to work for your righteousness, but you can't, doesn't matter. You got to believe that on your own, you can't do it. You have you don't have the framework to do it. So you've got to have faith that someone can do it for you and Jesus did.

Practical Results Of True Righteousness

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This has practical implications whenever you understand this. Number one, you'll probably just feel better. Whenever you understand that Jesus is it, whenever you've got that little bit of faith, faith of a mustard seed that that Jesus has provided you something you can't provide in your own, you're probably going to feel a little bit better. You should, at least. I do. Number two, you'll finally have an unchanging framework for good and bad in your life that's unchanging. Right? We need order. Society needs order. Our families need order. We need to know good from bad. The problem is, as we've already talked about, is the good and bad seems to change. Now there's some, there's there's a thread of similar things through every culture in society, but clearly we get it wrong sometimes because things change. But we've got an unchanging God that we serve. We've got an unchanging grace, we've got an unchanging word that we can now base instruction on, good and bad on. Listen, the only chance society has of hanging on is through a concrete structure of right and wrong. And then the only framework we have for that is through faith in his righteousness. Right? It's all connected back to him, back to Jesus. And whenever you lose all this rubbish, whenever you think you are is thrown away, tossed aside, and you stand firm in the faith in Christ and His righteousness, then you are able to know the power

Resurrection Power And Reframed Suffering

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of his resurrection. That's the third thing. That's the third practical result of understanding all the rubbishness that we have and throwing that aside and having faith in Jesus Christ. You have access to power. Access to power. That word power, practically for us, it means in this sense that the suffering that we will go through no longer impacts us the way it used to. Suffering doesn't cease. Suffering doesn't go away, it simply changes. We change. How we view it changes. What we look at look like as we get to the other side of suffering changes. I'm not saying that you need to go out of your way and look for suffering in order to make yourself a better Christian, as some uh uninformed and misguided Christians have done throughout the years. Suffering is going to find you on its own. Whether you serve God or little G gods or no God, you're gonna go through some suffering. But when you're connected to the power of his resurrection through faith in his righteousness, which thus is your righteousness, you then that suffering changes everything. It's a different kind of suffering now. It reframes how you experience pain. It reframes how you deal with the loss of a loved one, it reframes how you face your own mortality, it reframes how you go through financial setbacks, professional setbacks, it reframes how you handle drama in this friend group or this family drama. It changes every bit of suffering that you will go through. That is part of the power of the resurrection that we're talking about. It has practical ways of expressing itself in your life every single day. Maybe we we were what was the second song you sang? Love of God, what was the first song you sang? Yes, I will. One of those songs, one of those songs talks about the future hope. I can't remember which one. You said something about it. Love of God talks about the future hope. Do you understand? Do you understand that right now, even let's let's let's say that we were all 20% poorer than what we are, you would still be living better than the king of France 150 years ago. Do you understand that? Sure, they might have gold and clothing and chariots. You have indoor plumbing, you have hot water, you have consistent hot food, you have a car. You are living better than royalty. And so, in that framework, I think sometimes it becomes incredibly easy to forget about the power of the resurrection. Because what does resurrection mean? It means that there is something beyond the end.

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And

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We believe that something beyond the end, as Jesus tells the the the thief

Paradise Hope And Facing Death

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next to him on the cross, this day you will be with me in where? Paradise. Paradise. There's practical implications for the power of the resurrection in your life. The reason why we can suffer partially is because we know it's not the end of the story. The reason why I can look at death and not be terrified and petrified and make my entire life about avoiding it is because I know where I'm going. I know where I'm going to be. I'm not saying it's a sin to have fears about the end. That's natural. Don't, that's fine. I'm just going to tell you though, you'll have to. It's the power of the resurrection. And so the power of the resurrection, it reframes all of this stuff. You're sort of free of the boogeyman of death, and it gives you this freedom and this liberty to live your life to the fullest as an example to the goodness of God. You can live up to the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ as an example of what's possible. And you have this freedom and this liberty that other people just do not have. They might pretend they do, but I promise you they don't. I do. I'll stay right here, right now. I'm not saying I don't, I don't ever think about or sort of don't want to die. I don't, I got kids, I don't want to die. But I'll tell you, I'm not terrified, I'm not petrified. I'm not, I know where I'm going. And in this world full of blessings where we live like kings and emperors, we need to remember that there is something better than even the blessings we have right now. And so don't let the fear of, don't let the fear of letting go the good stuff we have now, right? Because we all got a lot of good stuff. Don't be afraid

The Prison Art Story From C.S. Lewis

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of letting that go to get something better. This is not my notes. I've told this before, but C.S. Lewis in one of his books talks about, I can't remember it's mere Christianity or grief observed. I believe it's a grief observed. Or it could be the problem of pain. I don't know. It's one of those. One of those. And he's talking about this woman who basically she's pregnant, something goes wrong, she can't pay back a debt or something, and she gets imprisoned. And she gives birth in prison. And that child she gives birth to, his entire existence or her entire existence is the mom and what the mom says. And the mom happens to be an artist. And she's able to convince one of the guards to give her some charcoal and some paper every once in a while. And so as the child grows, the way the mom teaches the child about the world is through these drawings. And they're beautiful drawings. She's a great artist. He can see out this little porthole window, he can see the sky sometimes, maybe a bird, every once in a while, a cloud, the blue sky, a storm, rain, maybe a flash of lightning, but everything else is just what can his mom draw in black and white. And listen, I like art, as you guys know. I like, I like artistic endeavors. But I go ahead and tell you the choice between a piece of art that shows me freedom and freedom itself is vastly different. And so the the time comes for the the woman, she's actually going to be able to get her freedom. And the child finds out that they're going to get out, and the child freaks out because all the child knows is these renditions of they're beautiful renditions of life. They're beautiful renditions of trees and birds and mountains and towns and people and houses and all of these things. They're beautiful, they're stunning. That's his entire reference for his point of reference for what life is. And he's terrified to let it go in order to get the real thing. You understand what I'm saying? He's a the child's afraid to leave prison because he's leaving behind the comforts of what he knows. We know so many comforts. Like I enjoy being married, so I know I know marriage. So there might, you know, especially based on the thing where there's no marriage in heaven, we don't 100% know exactly what that means, by the way. Right, there's different interpretations for that, so don't freak out about that. Right? But that, you know, I love my kids. I don't want to be away from my kids if I pass away. Now, this is in my sermon, by the way. This this must just be for somebody right now. Right. I I I like nature. I love hiking. I love walking in. I love looking at the mountains. We drove to Delana the other day. And the the minute I got a glimpse of a mountain, my I guess my my my uh, whatever the good hormone is that makes you feel good, just spiked. And I was like, yes! Mountain! I love it. And I could be afraid to leave all that. I could be afraid to leave the nature that I love. I could be afraid never to set foot on the ocean, uh, on a beach again, looking at the ocean. I could be afraid and not not to be in my family. I could be afraid not to be be with Tara, or I could trust that these are just the best artist renditions of what's ahead. Paradise. Paradise. And as much as I love the artist's renditions, I want the real thing. I don't want to settle for a painting when the real thing's on the other side of the door. So I'm gonna appreciate what I do have. I'm gonna enjoy it, I'm gonna thoroughly enjoy it, but I'm not gonna be afraid to let it go for what's next because he's a good God. And if he's a good God, what's next is even better. And we have to trust in him that that eternity thing is gonna be pretty sweet. So don't be afraid to let go of the blessings we have now. I think this is a very modern problem because back in the day, people didn't have the kind of stuff that we have, and heaven always sounded better. Right? If you're if you're talking about some of the early Christian revival movements that that we sort of come from in our little denomination and group, whether it be the assemblies of God, church of God, or other Pentecostal groups, it started out in the backwoods out in the mountains. They didn't have nothing. Of course they're excited about heaven, right? Because they understood what life really is, they weren't distracted by the material stuff. They had full hope and confidence that what God had for them was ultimately a thousand percent, a hundred, infinitely better than what they were experiencing now. And because God has blessed us and we're all blessed with so much stuff that I well, I have a cup of fresh water right here that I got out of a thing, probably fresh. I don't know when the last time the filter was changed. Right? I I can't get distracted by the blessings and forget the power of the resurrection, because the power of the resurrection, yes, it impacts you here, but part of the impact beyond the spiritualist, the mental impact, that the end is not the end.

Don’t Cling To Blessings Over Eternity

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There's a reframing. Somehow we've got to get back into my notes. I don't know how I'm gonna do it. Paul, as you read this, he's very you can almost sense it when you read it. He's excited about this. He's reminding them, look at me, look at look at all the stuff I had, look at who I was. I had everything, and I am excited that it's nothing. I'm excited that it's rubbish. I'm excited for suffering. I'm excited that I get to be connected to Jesus Christ. And ultimately, I think that's what the scripture is pointing the people, the church at Philippi at. Don't get so distracted by all the little things. Be excited by the fact that your faith gives you a connection to Jesus Christ and thus back to God. That you're not being a good person all on your own, that you've got a framework for it. Do you wake up excited that you have Jesus? Paul's excited. I can just tell. The way he writes this, I can just tell. He's excited. He's exhilarated that everything that he counted as good or other people counted as good in his life now doesn't matter anymore because he has Jesus. And he'd willingly, willingly throw it away for the chance at that power of the resurrection. And I just think we need a little reminder of that this morning. I know I did whenever I read it. I want to wake up excited that I've got Jesus. When I'm stressed, I'll just go tell you. Yesterday I was stressed beyond belief. I've got church stuff. I'm trying to finalize sermon prep. I'm thinking about setting up, I'm thinking about is anybody gonna show up? Because you never know. Everybody gets sick at one time. I show up, and it's me and John, and we have a great time, but it's not necessarily what I want to see all the time. No offense, you're great. You know, but you know, a couple of John's would be good, right? But right, I'm stressed. I'm sure I got you know, Tara's still not able to do everything she can do. So I'm doing the meals, I'm doing bedtime, and I'm I'm stressed, I'm stressed, I'm stressed. And what I gotta do is be thankful, I got Jesus. It's as simple as that. I'm stressed at work. Uh Tuesday, I'm basically restarting work, like full time again after my little break here. And I've got a stack of stuff I've got to do. I could be stressed, I could be, I could be angry about it, or I could be, I got Jesus, it doesn't matter. Are we excited about having Jesus? That's it. That's the whole that that that's the whole point of this sermon. The whole good and bad stuff was just a framework for us to get to the fact that if you want Jesus in your life, you can have him. And when you get Jesus in your life, you can be excited about it. And I guarantee you, if you're excited about Jesus in your life, the good and bad thing will take care of itself. We gotta have Jesus. Let's pray, and I'm just gonna pray a prayer of encouragement over all of you. That we get excited about having Jesus. John, how long have you been saved? 40 years you've been saved. I'm gonna I'm gonna pray that you're just as excited now, more excited now than you were that first day. Say for all of us. More excited now about the fact that we have Jesus than we were the first day we got saved. And tomorrow

Wake Up Excited About Jesus

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I want to be more excited. And the next day I want to be more excited. It's sort of like your love for your children. You think you have another child. How how much more can I love? Well, it turns out it just goes on and on. And I just want that for your lives for Jesus. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I love you. Thank you so much, Lord. But Lord, I pray for every single person involved in this church, and I pray that they would wake up tomorrow more excited about you than they ever have been before in their life. Holy Spirit, Spirit, help them get to that point. Lord, I pray, I pray that you would just open up our hearts and minds to, I mean, the goodness and the joy and the peace and the promise of eternal life, the power of the resurrection. We just wake up to it, hold on to it, have faith in your righteousness, Lord, and not be so stressed about our own stuff, Lord. Lord, be so fixated on loving you and being excited about you that it takes care of itself.

Prayer For Renewed Joy And Faith

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Let us wake up loving you more. Let us walk out of here loving you more, being excited about you more, Lord. Thank you so much. Thank you so, so much. Bless this uh church, bless the people in this church, bless them financially, bless them spiritually, bless them mentally, bless them physically, bless them socially, Lord, bless them in every area of their life with abundance. And I pray that you would give them so much, Lord, but they they wouldn't there'd be no option but to just try to give it right back to somebody else or to give you praise and worship because of it, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray, and we all said together Amen.