Embracing God's Ongoing Work in Our Lives

And God, this morning, all of us in this room, every person watching at home on online campus, God, we thank you for the work that you started in our lives. God, we declare that work that you start, you finish, and you perfect, God. Father, we tell you, have your way in our lives today. Father, remove those areas of our lives that need removal. God, heal the areas of our lives that need healing. God, we thank you for you're not done yet. [00:34:56] (33 seconds)


And at Worship Without Walls, we always like to declare who we are, why we do what we do. And the way that God has called us as a church, we say we exist to get people to a place. Where they will acknowledge, trust, and lean on God daily. That is the vision of our church. Worship Without Walls exists to get people to a place where we acknowledge, trust, and lean on God daily. I need God every single day. [00:38:06] (27 seconds)


And so the little girl comes up. And again, I don't know. So I said, where are your mom and dad? And she pointed. And mom was there filming. And I was like, we're good. We're tough. And then we asked her. And she knew who Jesus was. She had made Jesus Lord of her life. And we prayed. And she got baptized. And that was awesome. Somebody that was just there. And so we celebrate that. [00:41:20] (20 seconds)


And it is something that is done once you understand, once you recognize. And so in our church, we don't believe in the baptisms of babies. We dedicate babies to the Lord. But we believe in scriptural baptism, which is once the person understands, they make the choice. They make the choice for Jesus and then the choice to be baptized. And so it was awesome yesterday. I was looking. I actually was texting with my pastor and some of the pastors that I interact with. [00:42:56] (29 seconds)


And the title of this series, and I can't tell you if it's going to be two weeks, three weeks. Four weeks. I'm not sure how long it's going to be. But the title of this series is this room for growth. Room for growth. Now, I want your permission for a minute. I am asking for your permission to preach to myself. Yeah, I want us to understand something. Unfortunately. We tend to put leaders on pedestals. [00:49:40] (28 seconds)


Every one of us has room to grow. Look what the Bible says in the book of Philippians. I want you to go to Philippians. This is Paul writing to the church in Philippi, right? This is Paul writing to them. And he says this in chapter number three, starting in verse number 12. Philippians chapter three, starting in verse 12. This is what Paul writes. Not that I have already obtained this. Or am already perfect. But I press on. I press on to make it my own. [00:51:12] (31 seconds)


And this is what's wrong with the body of Christ sometimes. And Jesus said it. You're walking around with a log sticking out of your eye and trying to point out the fault in everyone else. We tend to find what's wrong. And here's the reality. If you look for what's wrong, you'll find it. I'm going to be honest. 3W Church is not a perfect church. You know why? I'm not a perfect man, and I never will be. [00:58:42] (29 seconds)


And many of us come to God, and we begin to work out our faith, and we begin to get strong, and then we stop doing what got us there. We stop working out. We stop praying. We stop fasting. We stop reading the Bible. Why? Because we prayed for the blessing, and God gave it to us, and now we're too busy. Because we asked God to do something, and he did it, and now I don't have time. [01:04:31] (28 seconds)


And so we begin to live our lives based on what other people are saying, instead of saying, God, show me the mirror of your word, and what are the things in my life that I have room to grow? And because if we're honest, we all have room we wouldn't need Jesus. If we could do it on our own, God wouldn't have sacrifice. He's the only begotten Son. We need it. [01:05:31] (46 seconds)