Am I A Pharisee Or Am I Like Jesus? | Pastor Tyler Johnson | 03.08.26

And I'm here to tell you, if you're a believer in Jesus, you're gonna meet your creator one day, and you're gonna be asked how you steward your life. And you're gonna say, sorry, I was too busy. Sorry, I had no time to show the gospel. I I I had to make money. I had to enjoy a hobby. We had a lot of things to do that day. It just wasn't high on my list. And I'm here to tell you, I can't live with myself if I don't wring my life out for my king and my king alone. And I wouldn't be a great pastor if I set the same bar for your life. [01:15:07] (30 seconds)  #StewardYourLife

They're calling it the great silence. Roughly 56% of American Christians now say their spiritual life is entirely private. I don't know about you, but my Bible tells me that a lamp hidden under a bowl is no lamp at all. That's right. That a private faith is not a good faith. We're riding on our cars, Easter at the pavilion. Yeah. So we rode it in our car, Rachel and I. And I'll be honest, the first day I felt funny. People are gonna know I'm a Christian, and I'm a pastor. [00:47:19] (31 seconds)  #FaithOutLoud

And I remember the red light just blinking on my phone. Like, wow. I'm popular first day in the office. Okay. Let me check my phone. And I get on my phone, and as I look at my phone, I have voice mail after voice mail. Tyler, need to talk to you. I heard a bunch of young adults were drunk at the wedding. Tyler, call me. I heard I I need to talk pastor to pastor, person I'm having I had meetings over this. Finally, I just had it. And one of the pastor I was meeting with, I was like, I've been here for a year and a half, [01:07:08] (26 seconds)  #DefendPassion

and I've never seen passion and fire like this for reaching the lost or worshiping God or chasing after the kingdom. This is the most passion I've seen in the church that maybe a young adult drink alcohol at a wedding. We have lost our way. And I'm here to ask you, what fires you up? Did the exuberant, passionate worship bother you today? I'm here to tell you, it's in the Bible. And that fires you up more than somebody getting saved. You might be a Pharisee. But there's hope for you. Jesus can sanctify your soul. [01:07:34] (32 seconds)  #WorshipWithFire

And they would slam it on the ground. And it would shatter before Bill. And they would say, may this become of your life. May you be shattered and destroyed into pieces. You're a sinner. You're gross. You brought shame on us. Get out of here. And the next person would throw a pot and say the same things. And the next person would throw a pot and say the same things. And so do you kinda see now why the father runs? He knows that if he doesn't get to the son first, causes all will get to him next. And I'm here to tell you, our culture has causes all. Call being judgmental. Call cancel culture. Call whatever you want. But the culture wants to destroy people before they get to the savior. [01:29:17] (43 seconds)  #ReachBeforeYouJudge

You're not bringing your bank account to heaven. You're not bringing your cars to heaven, your your your accolades, or your houses. The only thing you bring to heaven with you are the people that you led to Jesus. So as you better get to work quickly, because once the day comes, it's over. I wanna encourage you. Here's how he'd finish this text. And when he has found it, the sheep, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. And when he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors saying, rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep. [01:18:50] (31 seconds)  #SoulsOverStuff

The last stat is what greed me. It's not our church. I know you're inviting people, but I know we can do better. But the church in general, the the stat shows from this last study is that 2% of church members invite unchurched people to church in one year. 98% tap out and say, it's not my responsibility. Somebody else can do that job. And I have a question for you. What if what if the church said yes once again to the responsibility of sharing the gospel with this broken world? [00:48:34] (28 seconds)  #InviteOneMore

But he tries to placate at their at their at their humanity. Like, you would look for your dog, wouldn't you? So you so you you do have seeking in you. You just don't know what to seek. Wow. You if you lost your wedding ring or your phone, you look for your phone, so you know how to seek. You know that takes effort. So you would seek. And then he goes on to double down. What if it was somebody you loved, like a son? Wouldn't you look for him? So the first story is a story of urgency, and it says this. So Jesus told him this story. [01:09:37] (26 seconds)  #SeekTheLost