On Earth As In Heaven: Wk3

But but guys, What if? What if in saying the words but you don't understand pastor Chris, but my bank account, but my kids, but my boss. What if we started saying words like but god? But god. Let me read you some scriptures. Again, I didn't throw em up on the screen but I'm gonna read them to you. You can write them down if you'd like. Look em up later. It says this, but god, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love, made us alive together with Christ. That's in Ephesians chapter two verse four through five. But god commanded his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. That's in Romans five eight. For as for you, you meant for evil but god meant it for good. That's in Genesis chapter 50 verse 20. Matthew chapter 19 verse 26 says this, with men, that is impossible but with god, all things are possible. [00:48:45] (66 seconds)  #ButGodMoments

we talk about faith, right? Talk about having faith and it's important, right? You can't get saved without faith. The Bible talks about that but here's what we, I think the church kind of kind of needs to do better at is we need to speak more faith. We need to use our words to begin to project our faith out, okay? Now, at the end of verse 20, it says this, if you have faith as a mustard seed seed, you will, what does it say in the yellow? Say, you will say to the mountain, move from here to there and it will move and in the yellow, it says this, nothing will be impossible for you. [00:43:26] (40 seconds)  #SpeakYourFaith

But what if I was to say, man, you know, Chris, do you look good to the head? It's shining perfectly, right? What if I was to begin to say, you have the mind of Christ. Man, you're going through a situation but guess what? Through god, all things are possible. What if I begin to say those things? What happens? Now, Chris' faith begins to build. Now, Chris goes, what if I was to stand up here and say, man, Chris, I've been in that exact situation. This is what god did for me. What happens? Right? Begins to build that faith inside. Would any of that have happened if my mouth wouldn't have opened? Absolutely not. So you can't just think faith into action. You gotta speak it into action as well. [00:59:15] (37 seconds)  #ShareFaithStories

right? I mean, that's pretty bad. They're they're they're naked, they're beaten, they're stripped, they're down in the dungeon of the prison. They're singing worship and then would you not say that's a but god moment but god came in and opened the doors. Shackles fell off. They walked out of that prison set free. Man, every single time in scriptures, it talks about but god and it steps in. It's always a awesome, awesome event. I wanna encourage you to go back and look at that. Just Google search scriptures on but god and just sit back and be amazed. [00:51:51] (28 seconds)  #ButGodDelivers

and what happened when they got up there? Isaac Abraham was gonna do exactly what god told him to do so much so he had the knife in the air and the Bible says an angel stopped him and says, stop. Don't do that. You prove it proven yourself and then in that moment, what happened? God provided that sacrifice, right? There was a ram in the thicket. Ram just happened to get his thorns. His his horns caught in the thicket. He went over there, grabbed him, sacrificed him. It was a happy day for everyone. Abraham spoke his faith out. Esther chapter five, right? The the the the the story of Esther. Esther goes to king I'll just read this real quick. Esther risked death by approaching King Xerxes uninvited. Her faith compelled her to speak up for the Jewish people. Famously stating that she would face the consequences for her actions. If she had never spoken, who knows how many more Jewish people would have been killed? [01:02:33] (52 seconds)  #FaithProvides

But man, I would rather have six people that are new and six people get saved than a 100 people who are new and one person gets saved, right? It's not about the numbers who are here, guys. I want people to hear about a god who loves them so they take that step from darkness into life. But guys, it's gonna take one thing from you and you need to speak your faith. Don't be afraid to look at these people and god been praying for you. I've been praying that the holy spirit's been speaking to you because you know what? The holy spirit is speaking to them. Amen? He is. That is happening right now. The holy spirit is speaking to the people that you are praying for and I think it's awesome if you walk up to them and go, you know what? I've been praying for you. Man, I've been believing god that you're gonna be here and you're gonna join me And you know what? Even after service, I I believe that you're gonna encounter god in an amazing way. God's gonna be there and I know that god's waiting on you and he can't wait to see you. We need to speak that out. We need to speak that to an existence. We need to speak that so that they hear it, so that you hear it, and so that we can unlock god's power and begin to see life change in this place. [01:16:50] (73 seconds)  #InviteAndPray

I'm gonna put god in the in the front seat and say, god, help me to pursue them. Help me to say the right words. Help me to get them here for Easter at harvest. I think the reason we don't do that is because when we do that, we we set ourselves up to fail and nobody likes failure, right? Nobody likes to fail at what they're doing and it scares you sometimes. I'll be honest. Me and my wife set a financial goal this this past year. We said, alright. By the 2025, we wanna save x amount of dollars and I'll just be completely honest with you guys like it was a scary goal for me because we we were nowhere near that but I knew that if we could just tweak some things, I knew that if we could just do what we needed to do in some different areas that we could meet it and man, by god's grace and mercy, we came, we didn't meet it 100% but we came so, so, so close. Now, I could've easily and I told people that. I told pastor that. I told some several people that and the reason I told them that is because I wanted I wanted some accountability in that. In the fact that if I'm saying I'm trying to save this money for this year but yet I'm out spending, spending, spending, spending, spending. So, people could come beside me and go, hey, pastor Chris. How you doing on that? Hey, are you doing what you should be doing? Are you right? And so, I needed to speak that out. I think the reason we don't do that is because we're scared because we might fail. [01:07:59] (73 seconds)  #FaithAndAccountability

And and it's easy to to it's it's easy to forget that sometimes because god has brought me so far in my life. Do I struggle? Absolutely. Do I still struggle with an attitude sometimes? Absolute kids, be quiet. Absolutely. Do I struggle sometimes? 'm so much better than I was. And I think that when I begin to remember who I was, it lights a fire inside of me to go, you know what? I want these people to experience the same god that I experience, the same grace, the same mercy. You know what? I need I need Marty and I need Corbin. I need Libby to experience the same god that I experience, the same change that I experience, the same hope that I experience, the same light that I experience, the same knowledge, the same comfort, the same guidance that I experience through my Christian walk. It's easy to forget sometimes. So, some of you guys have been saved for twenty, thirty years. Think for a minute. Here in a minute, we're gonna stand and we're gonna pray. We're gonna sing and I want you to take a minute. I want you to think who you were. I want you to think how you thought, how you talked, how you walked, how you lived your life before Christ, and then I want you to begin to thank god for his grace and mercy about who you are today and how far you've come and then I want that to light a fire inside of you. [01:13:41] (81 seconds)  #GratefulForGrace