SUNDAY (LIVE) - March 22, 2026 | Inward, Outward, Upward with Dan Vidlak

Is it me? Stay in his love. Get under the shower. Worship by God's spirit, and have hope. He's coming again. When we have that reflexively inside of us, we can then move outward and look to others, live the authentic Christian life, love, serve, mercy, and compassion towards the doubting. Right? Be God's sympathizer, be God's firefighters, Get in the way. It's dirty sometimes, but do it. And then finally, how we wanna look upward. Amen? To where our help comes from because he is able. Amen? [01:15:35] (48 seconds)  #StayInHisLove

Keep yourself in the love of God. And maybe if we go to Jude chapter one, I'll explain how you cannot escape the love of God. In your position in Jesus Christ and in the father, you are loved, and you're always loved, and someone else is keeping you there. It's simply just staying under the shower of God's love. We move outside of it, and we're like, where's God's love? Well, you just you just gotta get back under the shower because it's always there. [00:51:54] (33 seconds)  #UnderGodsLove

Hope is a game changer. It brings us out of life's prisons, out of the rebuilding years, and places us high and lifted up into our most certain glorious, merciful future with our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen? That's what it does. According to Titus chapter two verse 13, it's a happy hope. You wanna be happy? Start hoping. [00:56:14] (29 seconds)  #HopeIsAGameChanger

Blessed, literally. You wanna be happy? There's a happy hope waiting for the Lord Jesus Christ. And maybe, again, if you get nothing else out of today, do you know that Jesus is coming back? And it could be today, perhaps today. Amen? You wanna be happy, you wanna be rebuilding, you might wanna think about hoping. Favorable, confident, expectation of the unseen future. It brings you out of this and into that. Amen? [00:56:43] (32 seconds)  #HopeForHisReturn

The person who has this hope on their head of Jesus's return, his merciful return for his church purifies himself. There's a lot of junk going in our minds. It's at your fingertips. Your eyes take in a lot of junk in this society, in this world system on purpose. And if you wanna be purified from that, start hoping for Jesus' return. Amen? Happy hope. Purifying hope. [00:57:25] (32 seconds)  #PurifyingHope

He says, we are to actually save or rescue others by snatching them out of the fire. What? He evidently, God wants us to be his firefighter. Yes. God sympathizer. Now God's firefighter. He said, now listen. You gotta know this isn't talking about evangelism. These are remember, you beloved, you Christian, these are saved people. [01:08:04] (30 seconds)  #BeGodsFirefighter

what Jude's saying is, listen, Save your friends from the woodshed. Snatch them. Tell them, hey. There's a better way. Be careful with that. I see this trend. There's a better way to go. Be careful. You might have a blind side on this one. Amen? Rescuing the endangered is what we're supposed to do. Amen? [01:09:08] (25 seconds)  #RescueTheEndangered

So what he's saying is those people that are getting very close to getting themselves in a little bit of trouble, you're supposed to snatch them out before they get burned. Let's put it this way. According to Hebrews chapter 12 verse six, God chastens those whom he loves. A real son of God, you go the wrong way long enough, he's gonna take you behind the woodshed and give you a little something. [01:08:34] (30 seconds)  #SnatchBeforeTheFire

Could it be true that it truly is better to give than to receive? And if it is true, why are there so many narcissistic selfish people in the world, including me? That might be something you think about. It truly is better to give than to receive, and a wise people realize that, and they give themselves away. [01:01:29] (26 seconds)  #BetterToGive

Our job is actually gently to be God's sympathizer, To just quietly come up next to them and give them mercy and compassion. Right? Like our Lord Jesus Christ did in Matthew when he was described as one who will not break off a bent reed and will not snuff out a smoldering flax. It's that. Right? It's when you see someone smoldering, don't snuff it out. [01:06:21] (35 seconds)  #GentleMercy

Be God's sympathizer. Don't break off that reed that's been bent over. Gently prop it back up and help them out a little bit, and show the doubting, the wavering a better way. You know what the better way is? Doubt or faith. That's the better way. Faith. Hebrews chapter 11 verse one. It's the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you cannot see. That's faith. [01:06:56] (30 seconds)  #SupportTheWavering

That's the idea. You want to start rebuilding. You want to get back to square one. Jude says simply, number one, worship by the means or the power of God's spirit. Start focusing upward. Get your eyes off yourself. Realize that worshiping will keep you from worrying. It will keep you from the moly grubs. It's a wise saying. Amen? [00:50:59] (32 seconds)  #WorshipUpward

It needs to be genuinely or truly spiritual. Your regenerated spirit, that relationship with God connecting and simply telling him back what he testifies to be. Oh, God, you are holy. Oh, God, you know all things. You surely haven't forgotten me. Oh, God, you're all powerful. Surely you can be the strength of my life. Oh, God, you could just go on and on. The focus the focus though, if you wanna be rebuilt, the focus is on him. [00:50:15] (33 seconds)  #FocusOnHim

You see the thing is is when we need a rebuilding, when we need a do over, a start over, when we need to start climbing out of the pit that we've brought ourselves down in, sometimes hope is a game changer because hope brings you out of your present trouble into your future awesomeness in the Lord Jesus Christ, your absolute awesome future. Hope is this. It's the favorable and confident expectation of the unseen future. That's hope. [00:54:20] (37 seconds)  #HopeTransforms

He can be the strength to make that. Of course, he can handle your little situation. But shame on me, and maybe shame on you for time and time again, me just saying, I can't do it. I could never. Things will never change. Yeah. You can't, but someone can. Because it always says that when we humble ourselves and become weak, what does he do? He becomes strong. [01:13:38] (29 seconds)  #HisStrengthInWeakness

They're in prison in Rome writing to the believers there at Philippi, you know, you'd think he has some things figured out by that point in his life, and he said this. He said, not that I have already obtained perfect maturity. I I haven't arrived yet spiritually. My life is doing this too, And so I want you guys to all be encouraged to press on and press up. [00:38:39] (27 seconds)  #PressOnAndUp

start if you wanna be rebuilt, taking responsibility, not in a narcissistic independent way, but a self responsible way to take spiritual things seriously and start worshiping, start hoping. Right? Start keeping yourself in your position. That's what he says. You do that. Jude says, you're gonna be in a good position to start living the Christian life in earnest, and that starts with outwardness. [00:58:03] (31 seconds)  #SelfResponsibleFaith

And there's a great fulfillment in that. There's a great happiness in that. I'm convinced the most fulfilled and happy you'll ever be is giving yourself to other people. Giving your wife the best husband you could ever be, giving your kids the best dad they could ever be, giving your grandkids the best pop ups you could ever be. Amen? It is better to give than to receive, but we just gobble. We gobble. [01:01:55] (37 seconds)  #FulfillmentInGiving

That's what Christianity is. We should be looking to give, to serve, and ultimately to love. That's how they'll know we're Christians, not by all the knowledge you have in your head, or your shiny haircuts and shirts that you wear. Amen? I didn't tuck in my shirt on purpose just so you wouldn't use that against me. [00:59:18] (26 seconds)  #ServeDontShow

Sometimes I think people who are in a bad way, in a ride in a thin line, they really want a wreck. And what they really like and what they really need, if you've ever talked into an addict, you ever talk to anybody that rides that line, what they really want is people to actually step in the way and try to help. Ultimately, they're gonna have to make up their mind. They're gonna have to look to Jesus, but it's our job to get in the way every once in a while and be God's firefighter. [01:11:25] (30 seconds)  #StepInAndRescue