Undeniable | Crossland Community Church

We spend far more time looking at him as he lived for thirty three years rather than who he's been for all eternity. We spend more time looking at Christ who was on a cross for six hours than the one who has returned to his throne for over two thousand years. We see a man with blood stained hair and John sees the holiness of God seated on his throne. We get way too comfortable with who Jesus was and what Jesus did and we refuse to humble ourselves before who he actually is. He's my friend. True, but he's also your God. [00:31:46] (40 seconds)  #JesusBeyondTheCross

You see, there's something about seeing the the glory of who he actually always has been, not just the space he took in human history for thirty three years. Christ is not on the cross. Don't worship the Jesus on the cross because he's not there. Worship the exalted Christ who is on a throne who's coming again to judge the living and the dead, who's got a sword in his mouth, whose eyes are blazing with the fire of judgment. Do you know that Jesus? And in the midst of our circumstances, it's gonna sound terrible, you don't need a weeping messiah. What you need is an almighty God. [00:32:50] (42 seconds)  #WorshipTheExalted

You need someone who sees everything, who knows everything, who can do everything, can come to you where you are because you're incapable at this point of going where he is. Don't you want a transcending god who's above it all but willing to enter it all? Don't you want a powerful almighty God who looks down to you and your situation and circumstances and says, I know who you are, I know where you are, I know what I made you to be, and I'm gonna come and unmistakably, I'm gonna show myself real in your life. That's what I want. I don't want a problem solving God. I want a God who can come down here with his almighty power and declare himself real. [00:33:31] (38 seconds)  #GodWhoShowsUp

The opposite in scripture, the opposite of sacred, common. Not putrid, not vulgar, not foul, common. To take that which is sacred and just make it common amongst all other things, that's called idolatry. This entire season of seventy years of utter destruction and discipline is all because of, you'll see in a couple weeks, idolatry. They made the holy God of Israel common with the gods of Baal, the gods of Ashtoreh. They had poles and temples and all kinds of other things to recognize, all kinds of other gods in the promised land. [00:38:13] (39 seconds)  #NoToIdolatry

And the greatest sin committed against God is to make him ordinary, to make him common. And the one thing Ezekiel needed to see before he stepped into their world is, there is no God like me. I am the one and only God and bottom line humanity understand this, you are not me. You are not even close to me. I made you like me, but you are not me. You will never be me. Even in your raptured glorified state of last week, you are not [00:38:52] (35 seconds)  #GodIsNotOrdinary

So if just a light can do that, you you telling me that God can't do something in this created world. You don't even have to do this. You know what I mean? It could just be a blue light. You're like, my god. What am I doing? Where is I going? I want speed, honey. Promise. I want speeding. And everything, everything right. I don't know what he's gonna do, but I know he's gonna do something. And whatever it is he does, he does to get your attention. And the reason he wants to get your attention is not just to necessarily overwhelm you with mystery, but to make sure you understand who's coming, who's talking. [00:26:00] (36 seconds)  #GodGetsYourAttention

I don't think any of us is getting raptured into heaven coming back with a message because the canon of scripture is done. But for every single solitary one of us, can tell you, but heaven will come to you. That God will show up powerfully, profoundly, you won't miss him. It will not be that you didn't realize he came. It's that you were unwilling to respond to his coming. Right? [00:36:52] (25 seconds)  #DontIgnoreHisComing

Now, I don't think he's gonna blow a wind across your front yard. He might, he can do whatever he wants. But at the end of the day, he does know how to get her attention. He's going to move in a way that is obvious. Okay? Not like, oh, is that him or is that not him? He's not gonna try and get, you know, put you in a position where you gotta try and figure it out while you're trying to figure everything else out. He moves profoundly and undeniably. Okay? [00:22:23] (25 seconds)  #GodMovesUndeniably

I'm telling you, if we don't humble ourselves under his mighty hand, we will have missed the point of this book and this summer study. The great thing the church needs to be to do right now is not to rise up. To fall on our faces. It's to humble ourselves before God, that he might lift us up in due time, is what Jesus said. That a humbled people are a powerful people. A humbled people can stand in the midst of crises and speak unapologetically about the judgment of God that's coming. People who have been humbled by his mighty, powerful, undeniable presence could not only speak of the future judgment that's to come, we can courageously speak of the hope that is guaranteed to those who believe. [00:46:58] (52 seconds)  #HumbleAndPowerful

He's sovereign at all times in control of all things, even your tragedy. It only got here because it went through him. Nothing nothing happens that isn't allowed or ordained. Nothing. Those are the only two options on this earth. Sometimes he ordains it. If not, he absolutely has allowed it. Whatever is coming to your life has already gone through his hands. And sometimes that makes people mad. Well, why did he he has a purpose. Humble yourself. Humble. He will exalt you in due time. [00:48:11] (37 seconds)  #GodIsSovereign

Like this glorious, powerful, almighty God, I'm not him. I'm never gonna be him. And you know what? I don't wanna be. Because then the only like, then I'm the greatest thing in the face of the circumstances I face. That's a terrible situation to find yourself in. That you have the most power to do the most about what you're facing. Best of luck with that one. Right? It's powerful. It's it's humbling. Okay? When they stood still, they lowered their wings. Okay? God's movement might be mysterious, but praise God Almighty, it is unmistakable. [00:29:52] (38 seconds)  #DislocatedByLife

you are just being swept up in the brokenness of life. You're being swept up by the tumultuous reality of a broken world. You're not necessarily directly being disciplined by God. You're just being dislocated because of the craziness of this life in this world. Now, some of you, you are where you are because God said enough's enough. I've been trying to get your attention, but that hasn't been working. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna dislocate you from everything that's normal in your life. I'm gonna so disorient your life that you then realize I'm not where I'm supposed to be. That's correct. And that's called discipline. [00:15:16] (40 seconds)  #NotOfThisWorld

It's like, well, how would I know? Listen, I'll give you an example. If you leave today and you get on Cemetery Road or the bypass and you're just doing your Sunday drive, and the next thing you know, you're just doing your deal, and the next thing you know, you see blue lights in your rearview mirror. Does that get your attention? Immediately, your heart rate is like, I didn't go through a light. What is he doing behind me? Well, he wants to get your attention and not because he wants to pull you over, because he wants you to get out of the way. [00:25:09] (25 seconds)  #WorshipTheMaker

There's moments in your life that matter. Pay attention to those moments. They may seem, if you will, a little hallucinogenic at first. You're like, am I dreaming this? Is this really God? Is it a bad burrito I had for dinner last night? Why is my stomach moving? It's God moving. Okay? And he does what might just be, believe it or not, now he's doing it because he's led by God. But it might not be a bad moment for you and I to pick up a pen. It might not be a bad idea to start writing because you'd be you'd be amazed how effective writing can be in the midst of tragedy. [00:13:24] (36 seconds)  #GodIsNotOneOfMany

We better see God as he is. And we've got a lot more distractions. We've got a lot more opportunities to make God ordinary, to make God common. That coming to church is the same thing as blank. No, it's not. Singing three songs on Sunday morning is the same as singing to your radio. No, it's not. Doesn't mean you don't sing the I listen to rock and roll on my way here to get my blood pumped up. I do it every Sunday. But when I get in here, know what I'm doing. I ain't singing to the eagles. I'm singing to the maker of the eagles. [00:40:40] (35 seconds)  #DivineTimingMatters

And when you forget who I am and I just become as common to you as the car you drive, when I become as common to you as anything else in this world, you're on a pathway, a very destructive pathway. And here's the problem, I won't just discipline you, I'm gonna sweep everything and everyone around you with it. And yes, in America, God the father, the one and only God, Jesus Christ, he's become very common. He's just one among many. No, he's not. Don't ever say that. [00:39:27] (30 seconds)  #JesusIsCreator

to translate that into our lives today is I think it's important that you know that things happen within time. These moments are intended by God. No matter where you're at, you're gonna have your moment. God knows who you are. God knows where you are. He knows what you need. And sometimes we gotta be able to reflect on the moment of the five years previous, like when that catalytic moment happened in your life and everything changed. But you also got to remember that moment. But but then there was a moment when I began to change, that my circumstances didn't, but all of a sudden, [00:12:21] (39 seconds)  #HolyAndUnapproachable

You're not God. And if there's something, it had to come from something because nothing comes from nothing. So what's the original something? Well, the Bible tells us it's someone. You just heard about him because he's the creator. John chapter one says, in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, the word was God. All things that have been made were made by him. Nothing that has been made was not made by Him and for Him. Everything that's ever been made was made by Jesus Christ. Long before He was on the on the cross, He was on the throne. Six hours on the cross, all eternity on a throne. And I'm telling you, what Ezekiel saw was to get his attention. [00:55:16] (43 seconds)  #PrepareForJudgment

And God is surrounded by a sea of glass because nobody really wants to walk on glass. You gotta humble yourself and know that might just break under your own weight. So even though God's in heaven, he's still separate. I don't mean to ruin your dreams, but you're never sitting in God's lap because he doesn't have one. God is unapproachable in his glory and he is light. He's not physical. He's still you'll be able to see him and experience him, but you will not approach him. He's still God. Even in heaven, he's God. [00:28:32] (34 seconds)  #RejectFalseGospels

We have turned Christ into a common person, a common man. He's not. Stop that. He's God Almighty. He's seated on his throne, and when he returns, it's gonna instituting that blood bath. He's coming to make war, not make a way. He's already made a way. He's coming to make war. And I beg you, I don't I don't wanna scare you out of hell and into heaven. But I'm telling you, you need to think about this. Humble yourself before God's mighty hand that he could lift you up in due time. Humble yourself. You're not God. You're not. [00:53:59] (48 seconds)  #FearGodRespectfully