Churches in Fort Lauderdale

“Do you believe that? I don't mean just theologically. I mean emotionally. Do you truly believe God loves you the way he loves Jesus? Because if you don't believe it, you know what happens? Your spirituality becomes performance. You start living with this orphan spirit where you're trying to achieve something that God has already settled in Christ Jesus.”

“Can I speak a word to somebody right here? Do you know when I really learned to pray? I learned to pray when I had no strength in myself to fix my life. My suffering taught me to pray. And if every time suffering comes up, we say, god, get me out of the suffering. God, just escape me out of here, eject me out of the eject seat of this suffering. We never learned the process of who we're becoming in the persecution, in the trial, in the heat. How many, just with a show of hands, can say the same thing that your prayer life increased as god allowed seasons of struggle and suffering to hit your life? It teaches you.”

“"We see the whole idea being really brought forth and manifested in critical theory through the Frankfurt School, and eventually through the institutions and even studies and things like this. Now, what does all of that have to do with this idea of social justice? Well, it's when you get into the literature, here's what you discover. That the hegemony today, if you look, for example, at America, generally we think about the oppressor-oppressed paradigm, this very Marxist paradigm, this paradigm that says you divide all the world and all reality into oppressors and the oppressed."”

“Put them right in between the fleas. It's a new translation. Alright? But do something to them. Sanctify by your truth. Let truth find such opportunity in their lives that it will build an immune system within them that when they enter into the world, they will not be affected by the world, but they will affect their world.”

“Christianity, folks, is not an evacuation plan. It's a sending program. Sent, not escaping. Sent. We are not just rescued from the world, we are sent to this world. And so as Jesus is praying, listen to what he prays in his prayer in John 17 and we go to verse 15 to 18. Listen to how he prays.”

“They are not of this world even as I am not of it. No. I have to just stop here and say, you know, I grew up in the church. This was one of my favorite scriptures. I am not of this world. How many of you are glad that you're not of this world? Right? That's a good thing. You're not of this world. But here's the thing you need to hear. You that are not of this world, you are sent to the world.”

“Prayer is the lifeline, not just a lifeline. It is the spiritual staircase to the presence of god that was made available by Jesus who could cut into the holy of holies. And god the father gives us his holy spirit to give us a language we'll see that will draw us to the place of the father. We have rights to go to the father with the joy of the indwelling spirit of God, and we come as children with a God who's incredibly generous and unchanging. We'll see here that prayer enables us to tug on the glory of God. We can bring the glory of God and his kingdom down into the present circumstances of our life and see the world move around the dictates of God himself.”

“Sometimes we forget we had intended a time to connect with the lord, and the enemy is after our prayer life. Your faith, and maybe you wanna write this down, will be never greater than your prayer life. Holy spirit, I pray you would land the word. Your faith will never be greater than your prayer life. If your prayer life is low, your faith will be low. And if your faith is low, then the relative level of what you can expect will also be low. So there's a dependency. In order for my faith to grow, I've gotta go to the source of who grows my faith. I've gotta go to the one that can give me the supply to give me passions and desires and hungers and thirsts after righteousness.”

“And god says, I do not hold you in reproach when you ask of me, and I generously give. Now think about generosity here. God doesn't just give what he wants to give. He gives in generosity, which means he gives with grace included. Does this catch somebody? Some of us go to the lord and say, god, I just wanna I just wanna ask this and god says, can I be generous? Can I be generous? I'll give you that, but I'll double it. Amen? That's when grace works for you. Amen? Grace will do exceedingly, abundantly more than we could ever ask, think, dream, or imagine. That's grace.”

“"What does love look like? He has his discourse with his disciples and you're going to learn so much this week as you unpack it. And over the next few weeks, we'll look a little more at these ideas, but we begin to understand what John was showing and what he was trying to prove is that when you believe and you follow, you will be assured in your heart that he is the Messiah, the one true, he is the one true and only son of God that gives eternal life. And that leads us to a place of truly loving him, trusting him, surrendering our life to him. And when we do, it gives us triumph, victory, the abundant life in every area of our life. And he's going to show in our chapter today, chapter 11, that it gives us even triumph over death itself. Life over death, especially spiritual death. But even in natural, physical death, he has the power to bring life. Can I hear amen? So today, as we look in John chapter 11, we're going to look at it. It's 44 verses. I'm not going to read it all to you, but it's a long chapter because the story carries and we follow. But there's several principles we want to take out of it. It's real, it's raw, it's moving, and we're going to look at it from the movie, The Chosen. We're going to watch two clips. We're going to see the first part, then the final part of the resurrection. Online family, we may lose you. The social sites seem to not like us showing The Chosen, and they've been blocking us. But open your Bible to John chapter 11. Everyone, but especially online family, you can be skimming through that as we watch this video. If you get blocked, I hope that you'll be able to rejoin us. Everybody, let's look to the screen, and let's watch The Chosen."”