Cypress Creek Baptist Church

#FaithBeyondSight

“Faith is believing what you haven't seen. Abraham believed God that he was gonna have, his offspring were gonna be so many. He didn't have kids. Abraham believed he was gonna be given a country when he'd never seen it. That's faith. Faith is trusting God when nothing else makes sense. That's faith. We have to believe God even when we can't prove it.”

#PutChristFirst

“We don't like to lose. We don't like to lose. But losing is exactly what Christ expects from those who would be his disciple. And I challenge you today, before we leave here, make a decision to be a better disciple for Christ. Amen? Be a better disciple for Christ. We must allow Christ first place in our life like c s Lewis said. We must put others above ourselves. We must give up our lives and die to self. That's exactly what Christ wants us to do.”

#FaithInJesus

“Knowing about Jesus is not enough. Knowing about Jesus is not enough. It's not enough to understand who Jesus was. He was a historical figure. It's not enough to know that he came from God, like Nicodemus says here. It's not enough to know that he performed miracles. You have to place your faith in Jesus. That's what changes things. Nicodemus is saying, I know you do this. I know you've done that. I know this. But he doesn't know Jesus. He knows about Jesus. And knowing about Jesus is not enough.”

#Evangelism

“Let him put you where you need to be and just go. Because here's the thing, guys. If if you're in here and you know Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, you are called, you are commanded to tell others about Jesus. It's not a choice that we're given as believers. We are commanded to tell others about what Jesus did and what he did for us and how... And share that good news with them. The question is, where are you gonna do it? You should be doing it everywhere you go. Just at the zoo yesterday, we invited a family to church today.”

#WholeheartedDevotion

“Jesus, I'll give you my emotion and my love, but I won't give you my anger and give it up for you. I won't live that righteous sacrifice there, God. We compartmentalize our lives, and we think we'll give part of it to God, but we're not giving the whole thing. He wants our lives to be wholly dedicated to him, a whole burnt offering. That sacrifice they talked about of righteousness, he wants it to be entire. He doesn't want part of your life. He wants the whole thing.”

#TakeSinSeriously

“Here's the point. We can't make Jesus sacrifice for for our sins a casual thing. We can't just say, well, confess it later. It's gotta break our heart. That's what David's saying. Our sins aren't just casual. It it should just destroy us. It should make us think, I just did that to Jesus. I just put him on the cross for that. God wants you to have the right attitude towards your sin. You cannot sin casually because Jesus gave his life to pay for your sins, and that wasn't a casual thing. That was God coming down from heaven to save you. How can we put our sins casually on that? You should be broken by your sins, understanding it cost Jesus his life.”

#ConfessionRestoresJoy

“You get what I'm saying? Like, we get the wrong order, and David's trying to give us the right order. First, you confess, then you seek the restored relationship, then you get the joy. Maybe you're struggling with sin today. Maybe sin has just taken your joy away from you. You want it again. That's the pattern. That's what Dave a man of your god's own heart realized. And that's why he wrote Psalm 51 for us so we catch this pattern.”

#OnlyGodForgives

“The point of this is that only God can do either one of these things. Miracles can only be done by God. So which one's easier? Well, to know something. Obviously, it's easier to tell if someone is healed. And Jesus tells everyone in verse 10 that the reason he is doing this is so that people know that he has the power to forgive sins. You know why Jesus has the power to forgive your sins? Because he paid for them on the cross.”

#ConfessAndBeRestored

“We need to confess it to the Lord. We need to ask God to forgive us of our sins. We need to agree with God that what we did was wrong. That's what that's what real repentance is, saying, Lord, you're right. What I did was wrong. So, Lord, forgive me and bring gladness again. And when we do it correctly, God will heal us and restore us. Yes, there's still gonna be consequences, but we can have broken bones that have joy again.”

#SinlessSacrifice

“His death on the cross was for your sins and my sins, to pay our penalty that he didn't know. And that's what's so important. The difference between us and Jesus allows him to be our sacrifice. You get it? That's why he can be our sacrifice because he's different than us. Jesus never sinned. He wasn't born into sin. So Jesus' death was not for his sin. He chose to die for our sin. Adam and Eve chose to sin, and that sin nature has been passed down to all people through all time. But Jesus came miraculously so that he could live without sin and pay for sinners that can't pay for their own sin.”

#ForgivenAndRestored

“Listen. God wants to forgive you, and he wants to restore you a 100% back to factory new. No sin in your life when you ask him. But we continue to bear that sin either because we don't ask him or we don't believe he can do that. So so here's my question for you guys. Do you believe god can forgive you and forget and restore you? And why don't we live that out? Why don't we live as if god forgives and forgets? You know why? Because we can't forget. We can't. So, therefore, god can't because we can't. Isn't that the logic there? That's not good logic, by the way. Not good logic. But that's what we do. We think, well, I can't forget it so I can't forgive myself. If we just go to Jesus in prayer, we don't have to bear that burden. We can be forgiven.”

#confessDontExcuse

“David's realization. Think about his reaction. But here's the good news. We finally get to see why David is a man after god's own heart. We're about to see it. Right? Instead of a reaction of anger, David does something few people do. When they're when David was confirmed with the sin, he said, I've sinned against the Lord. He admitted what he did. Most people try and cover it up. They try and justify. They try and make excuses. They try and say, it's really not that wrong. David just calls his actions sin. He said, yep. I did it. If you wanna recover from sin, this should be your reaction. Not justification, not excuses, not trying to rationalize what we did. If we want to recover from sin, we have to first thing say, yep, what I did was sin. Real repentance starts with a green with God that what you did is sin. That's where real repentance starts, by saying, God, you're right. What I did was sin.”

#SpiritSelfControl

“``Unfortunately, we don't have very good self control at birth because we're born into sin. Right? We're born desiring to indulge in sin. So self control has to be taught, and the only person that can really teach you self control is the Holy Spirit in your life. And that's the fruit of allowing the Holy Spirit to work in your life is self control. Self control might be the best way we can show God how much we love him. Why? Because self control says, Jesus, my body desires to overindulge in sin, but I love and desire a good relationship with you more. That's what self control says to god. It says, god, my body desires but I love you so much that I'm gonna use self control to not sin. I love you more than I do that sin. That's what the holy spirit wants to produce in our life.”

“``We are cast on our backs hopeless and helpless, but we're not destroyed because we have a savior that's gonna come and rescue us. And if we trust him, we could have eternal life. How can we be cast down yet not destroyed? Because the good shepherd has come looking for us and when he finds us, he's gonna celebrate and he's gonna carry us home on his shoulders because he has rescued us.”