Stop Building Your Own Jesus: Discover the Real Jesus

See, do you ever feel like a nobody? Do do you ever feel like do you even matter to other people? You matter to Jesus. Just like that young couple that was getting married that we don't even know their names. They mattered to Jesus, and you matter to Jesus. See, you matter so much that she leveraged his power to give his life for us. We we received something that we couldn't do on our own. We were in an unwinnable situation, an unwinnable battle with sin. We could not beat it on our own. But Jesus gave his life so we could have life. What I wanna ask you just in the end here is do you wanna rededicate your life to Jesus? [00:35:33] (62 seconds)  #YouMatterToJesus

end up in a train wreck, and we look over at this Jesus in the pastor's seat, and we say, come on, Jesus. Do something. Don't you see my life is a train wreck? And then we realize this Jesus can't do anything because he's not real. And that's why we often struggle with trusting Jesus. It's not the real Jesus that let us down. It's our b y o j, this Jesus that we built up. [00:04:03] (32 seconds)  #TrustTheRealJesus

He says, I'm going to turn water into wine, the really good stuff, not the cheap stuff. I will leverage my power for a bride and groom whose names don't even get in the bible. You don't know their names. Nobody knows their names. They are nobody's by people's standards. They are nobody's, but they are not nobody's to Jesus. This is the Jesus that we serve. He's not about getting attention for himself. He is about helping people. He said, I won't leverage my power to turn stones into bread so to satisfy myself. I won't do that, but I will leverage my power to save this young couple on the most important day of their life. [00:34:24] (56 seconds)  #JesusServesNotSelf

I want to show what Jesus did because because I think it tells us a lot about Jesus. Instead of going to Times Square, instead of showing Mount Rainier being chucked into the Grand Canyon on the big screen TV in Times Square, instead Jesus picks this town Cana, in the middle of nowhere. Most people don't even know it exists, let alone where it is. He picks this tiny town, and he says, I'm going to leverage my power to save a wedding and the dignity of my friends whose family got in over their head financially, and things were heading in the direction of total humiliation. Now you may be saying, well, what does that matter? Well, Jesus says, it matters because they matter. [00:33:14] (66 seconds)  #SmallTownBigLove