Faith Over Fear

I'm not asking you if you know the story of Christ. I'm asking you, do you know the Christ of the story? Are you in a relationship with Jesus? The bible says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And if you don't know that you know, I wanna give you the opportunity to say yes to Christ today. Would you bow your heads and close your eyes? You may be sitting here saying, man, I've been religious. I'm not mad at God. I just wouldn't say I'm in a relationship with him. And I would like to cross this line of faith today and begin this relationship. [00:37:44] (33 seconds)  #KnowJesusPersonally

When you come to Granite United, you're gonna hear about the love of God, the grace of God, the kindness of God, the goodness of God. But Romans says, the goodness of God should lead us to repentance. And so as we meet people where they are, living at the great commandment, we're not gonna kick people. We're not gonna throw punch people. We're not gonna shame people. We're gonna love people, and then we're gonna gently teach them the word of God, which is truth because God's word is God's will. [00:08:42] (33 seconds)  #GraceAndTruth

You have a responsibility to respond to the work of God by faith. Somebody say by faith. By faith. That you've gotta come to a place in your life where you ask Jesus Christ to forgive you and to come to your life forever, to trust him and him alone for salvation because the bible somebody say the bible. The bible. I literally talked to somebody this week, and we were in this conversation. And I said, well, where's that in the Bible? Well, I don't know. I said, it's not. [00:35:51] (30 seconds)  #RespondByFaith

Here's what the Bible says. The Bible says that we're lost and we need to be found. The Bible, God's holy word says that Jesus Christ came to seek and to save the lost. The Bible says that Jesus Christ, not only the Bible, what we learned last week outside the biblical history, we learned there's there's there's more history and documented truth. Jesus Christ was crucified, buried, and he rose again from the dead proving he is who he said he is. He can do what he said he can do. But just because Jesus did all that doesn't make you a child of God. [00:35:20] (31 seconds)  #SavedByFaith

You have to become a child of God. Well, I was baptized as a baby. Great. You got a free car wash. It's all that was. Didn't wash your sin away. Sorry. It didn't. Because at the six weeks old, you couldn't believe in Christ nor accept him. That was your parents' decision to do the best they could to to to kinda say, I don't know what else to do. I'm just I want my kid to know God. Thank God for parents like that. Amen? But that wasn't your salvation. You have to believe and accept Christ. Then you become a child of God. [00:37:05] (40 seconds)  #BeliefNotBaptism

If that's you quietly in your heart, all you have to do is ask him because life is short, eternity is long, and, man, the stakes are way too high to play games. If you're ready, just pray something like this in your heart. Prayer's just talking to Jesus. Just say, Jesus, today I say yes. Lord, today I'm asking you to be my savior. Today I'm asking you to forgive me of my sins. To the best of my ability, I'm crossing this line of faith and turning the direction of my life over to you. [00:38:18] (35 seconds)  #SayYesToJesus

We need about another hundred, hundred and fifty people at Salem here for what we're doing here because I don't know if we're gonna start another campus in Salem, New Hampshire eventually, or we gotta start another service. I don't know. And for some of you, it's like, oh, just start another service. Well, that's easy to say, but you don't have to preach it. You don't have to singing it. But, like, our worship team and tech team, like, they they got here a little bit after seven this morning, and they won't leave till 01:00 today. And they do it because they love Jesus and they love you. [00:21:55] (42 seconds)  #ServeWithLove

If you tried to get an Easter last week here at Granite United Church, it was cuckoo for cocoa puffs. We had traffic all the way down, like, the Texas Roadhouse and up to CVS on that side. There were no parking spots. We were there was no room. Matter of fact, in two of our services, we had 70 people sitting outside in the foyer watching church on a TV. Like some of you on the iCampus. What up, iCampus? And it's cool. But listen, here's the deal, man. When you're a great commission, great commandment church and you're just keeping it real, meeting people where they are, man, God is blessing our church for following his heart. [00:11:26] (41 seconds)  #MeetPeopleWhereTheyAre