Easter at Compass City Church

See, the cornerstone belief system of this faith of Christianity is that Jesus rose on the dead Jesus rose from the dead and paid for our sin and paid for your sin. And how he did it was with his very last words, his very last breath. He said, it is finished. And with that, the forgiveness of the world. And now we can say, because he said it is finished, we can say our sin is finished. [00:37:10] (37 seconds)  #JesusPaidItAll

That statement encompasses every every mistake. So what that means is the sins of the past, our ancestors that you don't even know, every evil thing or bad thing that they've done, the sin of the world then, the sin of the world tonight and today, and the sin of the world tomorrow and with your grandkids and great grandkids, All of that sin encompasses that statement of it is finished. [00:35:26] (29 seconds)  #AllSinCovered

Jesus said that for the right reason, that at that moment, if everything was finished, the brokenness of the world was finished, the sins of humanity were gonna be forgiven. At that moment, human failure came to divine completion. That forever, God's plan for us was because we couldn't do it ourselves, we needed help. That statement encompasses every every mistake. [00:34:59] (30 seconds)  #DivineCompletion

And I can't help but think, are there some people in this room tonight that are following Jesus at a distance? And the reason why you might have hesitated is because it's gonna cost you in some capacity to say that you're gonna follow Jesus. Maybe it's gonna cost you a reputation. Maybe you're you're hesitating because you have a presupposition about church and about religion, but it's something that you still don't know. Or maybe it's because deep down inside, you feel like you have a past that won't be accepted. [00:28:27] (33 seconds)  #CostOfDiscipleship

You know, with everybody being indecisive, Jesus said, it is finished. And the words of Jesus, you need to understand, are profound. If you haven't read the bible, I would encourage you to read the New Testament, start there, and you're gonna understand that every single word that Jesus says was intentional and profound, and it was at the right moment for the right reason. [00:34:35] (24 seconds)  #WordsOfJesusMatter

In the same way, if left to ourselves, we will make a mess of ourselves spiritually speaking. We will try and solve it in every way except the right way. The right way is Jesus. Jesus fixed our brokenness today, but he did it two thousand years ago. You see, we do have a problem. If you didn't know, we as a humanity have a problem. Your sin and my sin is killing me. [00:36:05] (33 seconds)  #WeCantSaveOurselves

But one of the things though, if we're honest, sometimes we as human beings procrastinate when it comes to really important things, like spiritual beliefs and believing and deciding who you're gonna follow. And so what I wanna do tonight is I wanna tell you the story, the story of Jesus in the resurrection. There's all these people that were around it. Jesus had 12 disciples, but I wanna tell you the story of two of his disciples. And these two disciples, in a moment, had great indecision, and that indecision almost cost them everything. [00:23:07] (37 seconds)  #DontProcrastinateFaith

And if left to ourselves, we only make a mess of things. If you don't believe me, leave two toddlers in a room for an hour. Right? They make a mess of it. In the same way, if left to ourselves, we will make a mess of ourselves spiritually speaking. We will try and solve it in every way except the right way. [00:35:55] (25 seconds)  #WeCantFixItAlone

So here's what we do. Pastor Kyler, you can go and get started. Our response with baptism, the the bible says when that somebody makes a decision for Christ, there's a party and cheering that goes on in heaven. It is that profound. And so when they come into the water, it's their old life gone and their new comes up. So when they come up, we cheer like the Seahawks just won the Super Bowl again. Okay? Let's celebrate. [00:50:09] (23 seconds)  #NewLifeInChrist

I remember the place when I was there, when somebody drew the question for me, and I felt like there was two pathways to choose. And I wanna ask you, would tonight be the night for you to be decisive? For you to say it's finished and not be a night of indecision like so many of the disciples did? I wanna give you actually an opportunity to do that. It's very simple. [00:44:34] (26 seconds)  #BeDecisiveNow

And eight eight days, he went on living his life. And it's not until Jesus came face to face with him that he proclaimed. He said, my lord and my god. And I I think so much of the time, how many of us are people that we just can't believe something until we see it? There's been so many moments in my life where I couldn't believe it until I saw it. One of those moments for me was my wife and I. We had our two year old son. [00:31:48] (26 seconds)  #FromDoubtToBelief

We have some over overthinkers in the room. Any overthinkers? Some people have their master's degree and their doctorates in overthinking. There's two types of overthinking that happens for us as people. The first overthinking is the overthinking by too many options. There's too much stuff going on. There's too many things that I just can't commit. It's paralysis by analysis. [00:30:39] (25 seconds)  #StopOverthinking

It's a prayer that starts in your heart and is carried out through a change in your life. So what I wanna ask you to do, would you bow your heads with me? Close your eyes. We're gonna pray. You're gonna pray this in your heart. And after this prayer, I'm gonna ask you to actually raise your hand. And this is your moment to be decisive and to say it is finished, to have eternity at stake. The most important decision that you can make, I wanna invite you to do it freely. [00:45:00] (28 seconds)  #PrayAndDecide

So there's this moment of indecision that Peter had, and Peter hesitated and left it unfinished in his own life. Have you ever hesitated in something you should have committed to? I know there's so many times in the world, there's stories of people who hesitated buying stocks in the old days. Oh, I should have bought the the Microsoft stock. I should have bought the Amazon stock. [00:25:00] (26 seconds)  #DontHesitate