Life as God Intended

You wanna know why? Listen to me. I've been brought I was dead and now I'm made alive. God said, I live differently now. You say, why? Here's your answer. So so that no one can I'm not better than anybody. I'm better off because of Jesus. And what I don't wanna do is hand people ammunition to shoot down my gospel story. Because the holy spirit says, live clean innocent lives as children of God, ultimately shine like Bright lights. Here's what the holy spirit acknowledges because this thing's been up since the book of of Genesis. Live like bright lights. Don't go, oh, people are so mean. [00:32:05] (58 seconds)  #AliveInChrist

So maybe you're sitting here today and you say, preacher, don't even know if I know Jesus. Here's the deal, The Lazarus story is your story. All these stories in the bible are applicable to us. That if you don't know Christ as your savior, the bible says you are still dead. You're still outside, spiritually dead. You are incapable of fixing your situation outside of Jesus Christ. But there's good news. Jesus came here to fix it. The bible says that you need to be rescued because you're lost. You're you're a spiritual prisoner of war. You need to be found because you just you and I, you know, outside of Christ keep going astray. The bible says that God became a man. Jesus Christ was crucified, buried. Three days later, he rose again from the dead. But here's the deal. [00:33:38] (55 seconds)  #LazarusIsYourStory

Because when you truly understand who you were outside of Christ, then only then can you truly appreciate who you are in Christ. And when I say truly appreciate, I'm talking about extravagant worship. I'm talking about you get to that point where you really strive. I'm not gonna hold back anything from the one who held nothing back for me because if it weren't but for the grace of God, I am the guy who was dead, and I've been made alive in Christ. It's so powerful, man. [00:20:15] (29 seconds)  #WorshipFromGrace

We're in this wonderful new relationship with God because of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not because of religion, not because of baptism or the 10 commandments, because Jesus has brought us back to God. We are now friends with the father. We are now family with the father. He's like, remember, you're in a relationship. And like every other relationship, you gotta pay attention to it. You gotta invest in it. You also have to initiate. Our father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. We're new in Christ. We're different in Christ. We have new life in Christ. We are the living proof of a powerful God. [00:28:13] (45 seconds)  #NewInChristLife

Live like bright lights. Don't go, oh, people are so mean. Bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. Stop complaining. Stop arguing. Stop handing people ammunition to criticize us. You're a gospel. Shine as a bright light because people need what we have. More importantly, they need who we have, and his name is Jesus. Come on somebody. Amen. We are to be living proof. So maybe you're sitting here today and you say, preacher, don't even know if I know Jesus. Here's the deal, The Lazarus story is your story. All these stories in the bible are applicable to us. That if you don't know Christ as your savior, the bible says you are still dead. [00:32:53] (64 seconds)  #ShineLikeBrightLights

You're gonna see it's repeated again here in a minute. He's dead. He's in a grave. And here's what this means. That there was a time in Lazarus' life when he was dead and in the grave that he was unable and incapable of doing anything for himself. And this is a picture of us because the bible says there was a time in our lives when we were outside of Christ and we were dead in our trespasses and sin, incapable of incapable of doing anything of ourselves about our sin state. And then Jesus showed up. Amen. [00:18:28] (35 seconds)  #DeadBeforeChrist

My life lived is a living proof. It is a story of the power of a god who makes, who brings dead things back to life. My story is the gospel. That Jesus is who he said he is. He can do what he said he can do. And if it weren't but for the grace of god, I'd still be dead outside. But because of God and because of his grace, because of his mercy, I've been made alive. Amen? And it says, for it was because of him, because of his gospel, that many of the people had deserted the Pharisees. They walked away from the religious systems [00:25:38] (38 seconds)  #LivingProofTestimony

Why would we do everything without complaining? You wanna know why? Because as followers of Jesus Christ you know, misery people say misery love company loves company, but the truth is, you know, miserable miserable people, complaining people are lonely people. Now, like, when all of a sudden everybody is, like, complaining, complaining, griping every post, the sky is falling. Every post is, like, you know, it's like the worst day ever. Everybody goes through tough days. But when you know Jesus, he gives you a piece that passes all understanding. There is a calm in the chaos because Jesus is present. [00:29:45] (44 seconds)  #PeaceInTheStorm