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[music] Let us [music] >> [music] >> You call [music] [singing] you come [music] and Father in heaven, hallowed [music] be your name. Your kingom come quickly. Your will be done the same.

Our Father [music] in heaven, hallowed be your [music] name. Your kingom [music] come quickly. You will be done [music] the same.

>> [music] >> and our Father [music] in heaven. [singing] Be [music] your name. Your kingom [music] come quickly.

Your [music] will [singing] be done the same. Our Father in heaven, [music] hallowed be [music] your name and your kingom [music] come quickly. Your will [singing] be [music] done the same on earth [music and singing] as it is in [music] heaven.

>> [singing] >> Let heaven come to earth as [music] it is in heaven. [music] Let heaven come to [music] earth [singing] as it is [music] in heaven. Let heaven go [music] to earth as [singing] [music] in heaven.

Let heaven [music] come. Let [music] heaven come. Let heaven come.

Let [music] heaven come. Let heaven come. Let heaven [music] come.

Let [music] come. Let it [music] come. Let it come.

Let it go. [music] Let it [music and singing] come. Let it go.

[music] Let it >> [music] >> Let heaven come. [music] Let [singing] her go. [music and singing] Let me go.

[music] Let [singing] her go. Let [music and singing] her go. Let [music] her go.

[music] Yeah. [singing] Heat. [music] Heat.

[music] >> [music] >> We're open. We're open. We're [music] open.

Let the King of glory [singing] answer in. We're open. We're [music] open.

We're open. Let the King of glory [singing] answer in. We're open.

We're open. We're open. Let the [music] King of glory enter in.

[music and singing] We're open. We're open. [music] We're open.

Let the King of [singing] glory answer in. We're open. We're open.

We're open. [music] Let the King of glory answer in. We're open.

[music] We're open. We're open. Let the king of glory.

[music] Let her go. [music] Let her [music] go. Let heaven [music] go.

[singing] Let [music] heaven go. [music] >> [music and singing] >> and [music] yours is the king. Yours is the power.

[music] Yours is the glory forever. [music] Heat. [music and singing] >> [music] >> is the king of [singing] yours is the power.

[music] Your glory forever and [music] yours is the kingom. Yours is the power. Heat.

[music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat.

And our God [music] reigns. [singing] Our God [music] reigns. [singing] Forever.

Your kingom reigns. [singing] [music] And our God reigns. [singing] Our God reigns [singing] [music] forever.

Your king [singing] reigns [music] and our [singing] God reigns. [music] Our God [singing] reigns [music] forever. Your kingom reigns [singing and music] and [singing] our God reigns.

[music] Our [singing] God reigns [music] forever. [singing] Your kingom reigns. [music] And God you reign.

[singing] [music] And God you reign [singing] forever. [music] Your kingom reigns. [singing] God you [music] reign.

[singing] God you [music] reign [singing] forever. Your kingom reign. [music] You reign and all God reigns [music] and our [singing] God reigns forever.

[music] your kingom reign [music] [singing] and all the reign [music] forever. [music] Your kingom praise [music] and all God reign [music] all [singing] the reign [music] forever. Your king [singing] [music] away.

You away. >> [music] >> And yours is the kingom. Yours is [music] the power.

Yours is the glory forever. Amen. And [music and singing] yours is the kingom.

Yours [music] is the power. [singing] Your is the glory forever. [music] Yours is the king.

Yours is the [music] power. Yours is the glory forever. Amen.

And yours is the kingom. Yours [music] is the power. Yours is the glory [music] forever.

Amen. [music] You [music] and our God reign. [music] Our [singing] God reigns forever.

[singing] Your king [music] And our God, [music] our God [singing and music] reigns forever. Your [singing] kingom [music] >> [music] >> And [music] there's no [singing] heart and see there's no space [music] between you You and [singing] I. You and I.

And you are closer [singing] than [music] very oxygen. I'm breathing in. I brea [music] you in.

And there's [singing] no heart unseen. There's no space [music] between you and I. >> [singing] >> You and I.

[music] And you are closer [singing] than the very [music] I'm breathing [singing] in. I breathe you in. [music] And there's [singing] no heart unseen.

There's no space between you [music] and I. You and I. >> [singing] [music] >> And you are closer than the very oy [music] breathing in.

[singing] Oh, I [music] breathe you in. And there's no heart on sea. There's no [singing] space between [music] you and I.

[singing] You and I. [music] You are closer than the very oxygen. I'll bring you in [music] or bring you in.

[singing] You are God [music] with us. You are here with us. You are [music] you [music] >> [music] >> There's no there's no space between [music] you and I.

Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [singing] [music] My [music] way [music] Jesus.

[music] Jesus. You are [music] you are You [music] know, [music] you [music] are [music] God reigns. And our [music and singing] God reigns forever.

Your [music] kingom [singing] reigns [music] and our God praise. [music] Our God [music] for your [singing] king [music] and our [singing] God reign. Our [music] God reigns [singing] forever your kingom.

[music] And our God [music and singing] forever. >> Our God [music] reigns forever. Your kingom reigns.

>> Oh, you [music and singing] reign faithful and our God reigns. [music and singing] And our [singing] God reigns [music] forever. [singing] Your kingom [music] praise and our God [singing] reign.

[music] And our [singing] God [music] reigns. Forever [singing] your [music] kingom praise [music] and God [singing] you reign. >> God you reign.

>> God [music and singing] you reign forever. [music] Your kingom We praise [music] forever to the king. We praise [music] forever to the king.

Praise [singing] forever to the kingom. Praise [singing] forever to the kingom. [music] Praise forever [singing] to the [music] kingom.

Praise [singing] forever to the kingom. [music] Praise [singing] forever to [music] the King of Kings. Praise forever to the King of [music] Kings.

Praise forever to [music and singing] the King of Kings. Praise forever to [singing] the King of [music] Kings. Praise [singing] forever to the King of Kings.

Praise [music and singing] forever to the King of Kings. Praise [music] forever to [singing] the King of Kings. Praise [music] forever to [singing] the King of Kings.

Praise [music] forever to the King of Kings. Praise [music] forever to the King of [singing] Kings. Praise forever [music] to the [singing] King of Kings.

Praise forever to [music] the King of Kings. Praise forever to [music] the king of kings. [music] >> To the king [singing] of [music] To the [singing] King of Kings [music] to the King of Kings.

[music] >> [music] >> The King of Kings, [music] we praise you. [music] Beyond the lamb of God who takes on the pain of the world, the Christ, God's only [music] Son, the atonement [music] for sin, crucified, raised again. Behold the lamb of God.

[music] Behold the lamb of God who takes [music] on the pain of the world. is the Christ, God's [music] only son, the atonement [music] for sin, crucified, raised again. Behold the lamb of God.

Come behold [music and singing] him. Come behold [music] him. Come behold [music] him Jesus.

[music] Come [singing] behold him. Come [music and singing] behold him. Come [music and singing] behold him.

Jesus, [music] behold [music] the lamb of God. Through the veil of [music] his flesh, we draw near. Our [music] savior, our priest, and our lord.

Who came down as [music] the father's own offering. Now receive [music] the reward of your suffering. Behold [music and singing] the lamb of God.

[music] Come behold him. Come [music and singing] behold him. Come [music] behold him.

Jesus [music] come. [music] Come behold him. [music] Come behold [music] him Jesus.

[music] Come behold him. Come home. [music] Come [music] Jesus.

[music] Behold the lamb. [music] Tomorrow [music] in glorious power [music] the lamb of Oh, [music] come [music] here. [music] Heat.

[music] >> [music] >> It's Jesus. >> This is who you are. [music] >> This is who you are.

>> [music] >> This is who you are. >> This is [music] we [music] This is who he is. [music] The lamb on the throne.

This is what he does. He dies for his own. This is Jesus.

And this is Jesus. This is who he [singing] is. The king crowned with thorns.

This is how he reigns. Our [music] meek and lonely Lord. [singing] This is Jesus.

[music] And this is Jesus. And this is who he is. [music] The lamb on the throne.

This is what he does. He [music] dies for his own. This is Jesus.

[music] This is Jesus. [music] And this is [music] who he is. The king crown with.

This is how [singing] he reigns. Our weak and lonely Lord. [music] This is Jesus.

This is Jesus. [music] This is who he is. To live [music] on the throne.

This is what he does. He dies for [music] his own. This is Jesus.

This is [music] Jesus and this is who he [music] is. Our king crown with thorns and this is how he reigns our me. [music] This is Jesus.

This [music] is Jesus. And this is who it is to live [music] on the throne. This is what he does.

He dies for his own. [music] This is Jesus. [music] Oh, this is Jesus.

[music] This is the king of the dark. This [music] is how he is. This is Jesus.

[music] This is Jesus. This is [music] This is the [music] This is why he does. He does for his [music] This is our [music] Jesus.

[music] Heat. [music] Jesus is [music] And this is who he is. The lamb on the ground.

This is where he [music] dies for his own. This is Jesus. This [music] is Jesus.

[music] This is the king. [music] This is how he [music] is. [music] on the ground.

This is why he [music] dies. He dies for his [music] king. [music] Heat.

[music] Jesus [music] Jesus. [music] >> [music] >> This is Jesus. [music] This is Jesus.

This is Jesus. [music] This is [singing] Jesus. This is Jesus.

[music] >> [singing] >> This is Jesus. This is Jesus. This is [music] Jesus.

Oh, this [singing] is Jesus. [music] >> [music] >> Come behold the lamb that was slain. Come behold the name above all.

[music] Come behold the lamb that was slain. Come behold the name above all me. [music] Come behold the lamb that was slain.

Come behold the name above all [music] me. >> Come behold the lamb that was made. [music] Come behold the name [music] above [singing] all name.

Behold the lamb. Behold the lamb of God. Behold the lamb of God.

This is [music] Jesus. This is Jesus. Behold [music] the lamb of God.

Behold the [music] lamb of God. The son was sacri. This is [music] Jesus.

Behold the [singing] lamb of God, the perfect sacriice. [music] He is the son of [singing] God that gave eternal life. Behold the lamb of God.

His blood was shed for mine. [music and singing] His body crucified. [music and singing] And now I have new life.

[singing] Behold the [music] lamb of God. the perfect sacriice. [music and singing] He is the son of God [music and singing] that gave eternal [singing] life.

Behold the lamb [music] of God. His blood was shed [singing] for mine. His body [music] was crucified [music] and gave us new life.

[music] Behold the [singing] lamb of God. Behold the lamb of [music] God. Behold the [singing] lamb of God.

Behold [music] [singing] the lamb of God. Behold the [music and singing] lamb of God. Behold the lamb [music] of God.

Behold [singing] the lamb of [music] God, the perfect sacriice. [music] He is the [singing] son of God that gave [music] eternal life. Behold [music] the lamb [singing] of God.

His blood [music] was shed for [singing] mine. His body [music] crucified. Now I have your life.

Because I have you, Lord. [music] I have you, Lord. [music and singing] I have you, Lord.

[music] I have you, Lord. [music] Beyond the land. Beyond the land.

Beyond the land. Remember how life Jesus remember I remember [music and singing] how you gave it all me. How could it be, Lord?

You gave everything just for me. for me to have you. How could it be that you gave everything gave everything [music] just for me?

You gave everything just for me. just for me. The cross wasn't [music] too much for you.

The bruises on your back [singing] wasn't [music] too much to last. that you would do it again just for me. Just for me, Lord, how could [singing] it be?

Could it be? [music] Could it be? The beauty [singing] of your majesty is more than I have ever seen.

You're beautiful. So beautiful. The splendor of your royalty is more than words could ever say.

[music] You're wonderful. So wonderful. The beauty of your majesty [music] is more than I have ever seen.

You're beautiful. So beautiful. The splender [music and singing] of your royalty is more than words could ever say.

You're wonderful. [singing] So wonderful. [music] With just one look [singing] in your eyes, [music] I'm forever undone.

Thank you, Jesus. [music] Thank you, Jesus. >> [music] >> Thank you, Lord.

There's nothing [singing] in this world for [music] me that measures to the worth of being close [music] to you. Close to you. And I [singing and music] long for all eternity just to linger at your feet.

I'm in all of you. I'm in [singing] all of you. There's nothing in [music] this world for me that measures to the worth of being close [music] to you.

Close to you. I long [music and singing] for all eternity just to linger at your feet in all of you. [singing and music] coming of you.

And just one look in [singing] your eyes and I'm for ever done [singing] [music] and just one look [singing] in your eyes. [music] not for ever done. [music] And just one look in your eyes [singing] [music] and I'm forever [singing] undone.

And I want [music] to be where you are forever [singing] in the [music] arms of the one I love. [singing] I [music] want to be where you are forever. [music] [singing] In the arms of the one that [music] I want to be where you [music and singing] are forever live in the arms [singing] of the one that [music] I love.

[music] I love you. I love you, Lord. I [music] love you, Lord.

[music] >> [music] >> Just a gaze upon your face. >> Just a look in your eyes. [music] >> Just to have you on my days.

>> You and I. [singing] >> Just to gaze upon your face. [music] >> Just look in your eyes.

>> Just to have you all my days. [music] You and I. And >> just a gaze upon your face.

[music] >> Just a look in your eyes. >> Just to have you all my days. [music] >> You and [singing] I.

>> Oh, just a gaze upon [singing] your face. >> Just a look [music] in your eyes. Just to have you all my day.

>> You and [singing] I. You and I. >> Just [music] to gaze upon [singing] your face.

>> Just look in your eyes. [music] >> Just to [singing] have you all my days. >> You and I.

You and I. [music] >> Just to gaze upon your [singing] face. and just your eyes [music] >> just to have you all my day.

>> You and I. You and I. [music] >> Just to gaze upon your face.

[music] >> Just to have you all [singing] my days. You and I [music] just to gaze upon your face [music] in your eyes just to [music] have you all my [singing] days [music] just to your face [music] just to have [singing] you I do you and I just gaze upon [music] your face [music] just to have you all my days. >> [music] >> I want to be where you are forever [music] in the arms of the [music] one that I love.

[singing] Want to be where you are [music] forever in the arms. [music] Just to have [music] you all my days for you and I just to gaze upon [music] your face. is to [music] have you all my days.

[music] Just to gaze [singing] upon your face. >> Just a look [music] in your eyes. >> Just to have you all [singing] my days.

>> You and I. >> You and I. You and I [music] together.

Jesus. [singing] Nothing makes [music] more sense than [singing] this. I was made for you.

You were made for me, [music] Lord. Oh my love. Oh my love.

Oh [music and singing] my love. You can have it all. Oh my love.

Oh my [music and singing] love. Oh my love. Oh, you can have it all.

Oh my love. Oh my love. [music and singing] Oh my love.

You can have it all. Oh my love. [singing] [music] Oh my love.

Oh my love. You can have it all. [singing] Oh my love.

Oh [music] my love. Oh [singing] my love, you can have it all. Oh my love, oh my [music and singing] love, oh my love, you can have it all.

Oh my love, oh [music and singing] my love, oh my love, you can have it all. [music] Oh my heart, all my soul, all my own. [music] You can have it all.

All [singing] my heart, all my soul, all my [music] own. You can have it all. All my [singing] heart, all my soul, all my own.

[music] You can have it all. Oh my heart. Oh my soul.

Oh my. You can have it all. [music] Oh my heart.

Oh my. >> [music] >> You can have it all. All my heart, all my soul, all my own.

You can have it all. [music] Just to gaze upon your face. Look in your eyes.

Just to have you [music] all my days. You and I just to [music] your face. Just to have you all [music] my days, just to gaze [music] upon your face, just [music] to have you all my days.

[music] Oh my love. Oh my love. Oh my love, you can have it all.

[music] Oh my love. Oh my love. Oh [music] my love.

You can have it all. Oh my love. Oh my love.

Oh my love. You can have it all. [music] Oh my love.

Oh my love. Oh my love. You [music] can have it all.

have it all. You [music] can have it all. You can have it all.

[music] Oh my [singing] love. Oh my love. Oh my love.

Oh my love. Oh [music and singing] my love. Oh my love.

You can have it all. Oh my love. Oh my love.

Oh my love. [music and singing] >> You can have it all. Oh my love.

[music] You can have it all. [music] >> [music] >> birthday. [music] Jesus, you are the one [music] for me.

All I've [singing] ever [music] wanted in your affection. And I [music and singing] spend my life telling you I love you. [singing] I need you [music] more I brea.

Jesus, you are the one [music and singing] for me. All I've ever [music] wanted, I find [singing] in your [music] spending [singing] I love [music] you, telling you I need you more [singing] I brea [music] Jesus, [singing] you are the for me. All I've ever wanted I find in [music and singing] your spending [music] [singing] I love you I [music] [singing] brea and Jesus you are the >> [singing] >> for me.

All I've ever [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] brea [music] Jesus, you are the one [singing] for [music] me. All I ever want, I find in your [music and singing] affection. And I'll [music and singing] spend my life telling you I love you.

[music] Telling [singing] you I need you more than the air I [music] brea. Jesus, you are [music] the one [singing] for me. All [music] I've ever wanted finding [singing] your affection.

[music] And I'll [singing] spend my life telling you I love you, telling [music and singing] you I need you more than the air on. [music] Jesus, [singing] you are the one [music] for me. All [singing] I've ever want [music] in your flesh.

And I [music and singing] spend my life telling you I need [music] telling [singing] you I need you more than the air I brea. Jesus, [music] you are the one [singing] for me and all I ever want [music] find [singing] in your affection. [music] And I'll spend [singing] my life telling you I love you.

Telling you I [singing and music] need you more than the air I breathe. [music] Jesus [music] Christ. [music] Heat.

[music] >> [music] >> Jesus, [music] You are the one [singing] for me. All I've ever [music] wanted I find in [singing] your [singing] [music] spend my life telling you I love you. Telling [music] you [singing] I need you more than the air I brea I need you more than anything [music] I I need you more.

[music] More [singing] than words could say. I need you more than [music] before. I need you more.

I need you, Lord. I need you more more [music] than yesterday. I need you more than [singing] words could say.

I [music] need you more. [singing] [music] I need you more. I need you, [music and singing] Lord.

I need you more. [music] More [singing] than yesterday. I need you [music] more.

More than words could say. [singing] I need you [music] more than before. I need [music] you more.

[singing] I need you, Lord. More than [singing] the air I breathe. More than the song [music] I sing.

More than the [singing] next heartbeat. more than anything. [music] And Lord, [singing] as time goes by, I'll [music] be by your side.

Cuz I'll never [music] want to [singing] go back to my old life. [music] More than the air [singing] I breathe. More [music] than the song I sing.

More than the next heartbeat. More [singing] than [music] Lord as time goes by. I'll [music] be by your side.

[singing] Cuz I [music] never want to go back to my [singing] old life. I need [music] you more. More than [music and singing] yesterday.

I need you more. What the [singing] words [music] could say. I need you more than ever [singing] [music] before.

I need you more. I [music] need you, [singing] Lord. I need you more.

[music] I need you more. All the words I [music and singing] need before. [music] I need you more.

[singing] [music and singing] [music] Lord, we we thank you for your for your friendship, God. That in the revelation of the cross, yes, we find our salvation and we find redemption and reconciliation. We're forever we're forever so thankful.

But we also thank you, Lord, that you're the greatest father, the greatest dad. You're you're our best friend. You're [music] you're a kind and gentle shepherd.

the righteous judge and the one who's mighty to save and Lord I the more we see you the I think [music] it's at that point we realize Our need for you is so much greater than we imagine or think. [music] It makes a great song to [music] to say we need you more than the air that we breathe. But the reality is, Lord, that [music] having breath in our lungs without you has no purpose and no meaning.

And we thank you for the gift and the privilege of knowing you, of of being with you, of loving you. Thank you that you you called us to this race of faith and you extended your grace to teach us and to lead us and guide us and and shape us to form us according to your purpose and your desire. And what a gift it is to be the bride of Christ.

>> You know, Lord, being in need is usually not something worth celebrating. But what a gift it is that we have a desperate need for you. >> The one thing that's needed, the one need that is worth celebrating.

Thank you for the way that you come. That that you never have to. You You don't owe us your presence.

You don't owe us your spirit. You owe us absolutely nothing. [music] >> And yet, you're always faithful to your promise that when we draw near to you, you always draw near to us.

for tonight. God, we ask help us to see you more in the scriptures, in your word. Open our eyes to see you and to know you, to fall deeper in love with you, Lord.

And we ask, please confront us in in areas that need to be confronted, God, and and strengthen us, encourage us in the areas that we're weak and hurting. [music] But we're all very well aware, Lord, that if we don't see you tonight, if if the worship and the teaching and the prayers don't point back to the cross, to your to your holy face, we we leave here with nothing worth keeping. >> So we love you, Lord.

Thank you for the privilege of knowing you. Thank you for the gift of loving you and being loved by you. Thank you that you never gave up on any of this.

Lord, you saw us all in the miry clay in [music] the pit of hell and you didn't just stretch out your arm, God. You you [music] jumped right in and you helped us out. [music] Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. >> We look to you tonight and we just want to [music] know you.

>> Reveal yourself to us. Soften our hearts to to be sensitive to you, to know you. We want to know our bridegroom.

Find a resting place here with us, Lord. A place of dwelling with your people. So we give you all of the glory, all of the honor, all of our affection, all of our attention.

It's all yours, Lord. We love you and we pray all this in your most holy name. Amen.

>> Amen. >> Amen. Amen.

Amen. >> Amen. Welcome.

We're so glad you're here tonight. Please find your seats. Um uh if you're here for the first time, could you just raise your hand?

Just want to Wow. Welcome. We're so glad you're here.

[applause] Um we love Jesus. And um and we're just excited when others come to love him with us. and uh there's nowhere else we'd rather be.

So, we're we're glad you're here with us. We really are. [clears throat] Um I want to I just want to I want to receive tonight's offering and then I want us to go into Exodus 12 here pretty quickly.

Um, [snorts and clears throat] and I want to uh I want to talk a little bit about for just during this offering piece. I I want to talk a little bit about generosity and and why we do what we do. I'm not going to take long.

Maybe like 3 to 5 minutes. But generosity has like the has like three three flows. I should three streams that the scriptures teaches about.

One of them being our tithe, which belongs to God. It's it's it's an instruction of God. It's a command.

And this is something that that you and I don't really get to choose to participate in or not. It's like, you know, it's like uh choosing to participate in demonstrating mercy and grace towards people or love and kindness. It's it's not it's not an option.

It's who we are as believers. It's who we are as Christians. But the less the less command [clears throat] there is in our generosity, the deeper the depths of of revelation of Jesus get.

This is what I mean is that for example, our tithes are instructed by God, but our offerings in many ways are optional. Offering is what I get to give when when I see something God is doing and and another person somewhere around the world on missions and maybe it's somebody who's impacted my life. Um somebody who's impacted your life that you want to support and give to because of the ministry that God has on their lives.

And now all of a sudden offerings become a place where we get to we get to honor the Lord Jesus in other people and what he's doing whether locally, regionally or globally. And then the third the third kind of stream of generosity um or rather I should say the third stream of giving is I would I would say generosity. So my tithe belongs to God.

That's it's in the scriptures. You know, we hear this all the time. It's one of the only things that he instructs us to test him in.

Our offerings are a free will giving of of blessing being a part of what God is doing in other people in other regions of the world through missions or or ministries or churches or wherever it may be. But generosity is the t is the part of the heart of God I tap into where I don't give because there's instruction or command. I give because I look like him.

>> And so like in my life and I'll just I'll kind of give you an example. In my life I you know like I I do the best that I know how and can to practice what I preach. So, I'm like tithing.

The moment uh the moment my my paycheck hits my bank account, immediately there's a withdrawal to to the church. And that's like that's just how it it works in my life. Offerings in my life.

[snorts] I support like the the people, the ministries that have deeply impacted my life, who stand with us, who love us. I support personally I support um uh missions around the world and people who take care of widows and orphans and and things of that nature that I I know is in the heart of God and that I can't give myself over to but I know it's in the heart of Jesus. And then my generosity is demonstrated when like for example I'm I'm driving and I see a homeless person and I pull out a dollar or $5 or whatever and I give it to him just say God bless you.

or I'm out eating with friends and and there's somebody who may be in need or in struggling situation and I pay for their meal and all of a sudden my life is demonstrating a generosity that isn't necessarily required by scripture but it is absolutely found in the heart of Jesus. And so I kind of I say this I I bring it up is because well because we're receiving the offering tonight but also because it's we cannot look like Jesus if we are not a generous people. Generosity it's intertwined into the nature and the heart of God.

Which means that if our entire purpose of existence in my life and your life is to look like Jesus, it is impossible to look like him and not be givers of ourselves. >> And it's not just givers of money like finances. It's givers of our time and and the way that we volunteer and contribute in our gifts and our talents and skills, the way that we give to the people around us.

And so when we come together for for a common goal of of building a home where Jesus will rest, uh it should be far from us to live in disobedience from from what God is saying. Therefore, if this is not your home church, I would I would encourage you is that your tithe belongs at your local church, wherever you attend. Um, but if you want to give beyond that in with the offering uh to support what God is doing here, of course, you're you're more than welcome.

And so um but if this is home then then let's continue to build a home [snorts] for the presence of Jesus so that others from whether it's our city, our region in our nation, some around the world who [music] come can visit and be a part of what God's doing here because we have said yes to his assignment. Amen. >> Amen.

>> Amen. Awesome. Well, we have every regular way of giving up on the um on the screens.

If you need an envelope, please raise your hand. our ushers are are happy to get you an envelope. So, just keep your hand up until you get one.

And then we're going to play a short video. I want to give you a few minutes to do that. Uh and then we'll we'll pray together, honor Jesus, and we'll jump right into uh the scriptures in Exodus 12.

So, we'll be right back. >> [music] >> Give thanks with the grateful. [music] Give [singing] thanks to the holy.

[music] because he's given Jesus Christ [music] his son. Give thanks [music] with a grateful heart. Give thanks [music] to the holy one.

Give [music] thanks because [singing] he's given Jesus Christ [music] his [singing] son. Give [music] thanks with the grateful. Give thanks [music] to the [singing] holy one.

Give [music] thanks because it's given Jesus Christ [music] his son. Give thanks [music] with the grateful. Give [singing] thanks to the [music] holy.

Give because Jesus [music] [singing] Christ is [music] give thanks with [music] the grateful. Give thanks to the holy one. [music and singing] because he's [music] Jesus Christ is [music and singing] [music] let [music] Because [music] of what the Lord has done [music] for us and [music] let the [singing] I am strong.

[music] act of mercy. I am rich [music] because of what the Lord [music and singing] has done for us [music] and pray. Jesus, we love you and we thank you for tonight, for all that you're going to do.

Lord, we thank you for uh for everything that was swn, for every dollar that was swn tonight. And we thank you that each one will uh go to destroy the kingdom of hell >> and um and build and establish the kingdom of heaven that with your breath on it uh one day our city and this region will be known as one after your heart. And I thank you Lord for every person here.

I thank you that if we have need that you are our supplier and you are our provider. You are a good father. There's not a need in this room that you do not see.

And so we yield ourselves over to you. We trust you. We give of ourselves.

And we thank you Lord that you are faithful and true. And so we give you all of the glory, all of the honor. Teach us today.

Reveal yourself to us tonight. We love you and in your most holy name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Awesome. All right, if you have your Bibles, let's turn to Exodus 12.

Um, for those maybe who are here for the first time or or you haven't been in in some time. Um, we've been going through Exodus 12 and really just uh finding Jesus in the scriptures. uh I shared this at the very beginning uh when we started to read through Exodus 12 is that if you find the Old Testament boring, it's just because you have failed to see Jesus in it.

Um we're often times we often times think it's some form of um just a bunch of rules and regulations and laws or feasts and celebrations, but every single detail is pointing back to the victory and the power of the cross. And so the more we the more we know Jesus, the more we see him, the more we see him, the more we become like him. And so um it's important to understand that the entire Bible is about Jesus.

It's on to Jesus. It's to teach us about who he is, his nature, his character, um his wonder, his power, his glory. uh his testimony.

So last week we uh we really just read one verse. We were just on uh verse 14 in Exodus 12. It says, "This day shall be before you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations, a statute forever.

You shall keep it as a feast." And so I shared last last week, I just want to do a little recap. Last week I shared is that this meal was not to be remembered always because God wanted them to remember the Passover. The Passover meal was pointing to a revelation of Jesus, the coming Messiah.

And that's why he says you will this will be a memorial day, something you will remember forever. It was speaking of it was speaking of the lamb of God who was to be crucified which is when Jesus broke bread and he he poured the wine. He said, "Do this or receive this in remembrance of me." It was it was directly in line with the instruction of the Passover.

Do this as a memorial forever. In other words, remember this forever. Jesus says, "Every time you do this, do this in remembrance of me." I said this last time when he says, "Do this in remembrance of me." What he's not saying is that we have some like uh opportunity to forget Jesus on the cross for most of the month until we come to the 5 minutes between worship and announcements Sunday called communion Sunday.

Like that is not at all what Jesus meant when he says do this in remembrance of me. rather it's quite the opposite as he's saying the purpose or rather I should say that uh the depth of life in Jesus is found in remembering the testimony of what he's accomplished. We talked about this last week again is that anytime Israel forgot the testimonies of God would be the moment they would they would gear they would turn towards the gods of the land in which they were living.

And anytime they remember the testimony of God, their hearts would immediately be turned to repentance and they would they would follow the Lord their God. And so in our lives, we do that all the time. The testimony of Jesus is just like this good Easter story that we read once a year on Easter Sunday.

But it's not. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. In other words, whatever it is in my life that does not reflect the nature and the character of Jesus, it needs to be reminded the constitution by which I live by, which is the testimony of the living Christ, the one who died, was buried, resurrected, ascended, glorified, and forever seated at the right hand of the father.

>> Amen. And so anyways, it's a it's like a I could talk about it for probably like five hours, but um so that's what that's what verse 14 is pointing to is that Jesus, the testimony of Jesus is to be remembered forever. Anytime we come to the Lord's table, to not remember the testimony of Jesus at the table of communion is to reject the benefits all that was accomplished on the cross.

You do not have healing outside of Jesus. >> You do not have salvation outside of Jesus. You do not have the restoration of your heart outside of Jesus.

You do not have mental wholeness outside of Jesus. You do not have you do not have the benefits of the cross outside of Jesus. And so if you come to communion and you do not look to Jesus, all you have is worthless, useless wafers and grape juice.

In Jesus, you have a life transformative meal that transforms you and I into his image and his likeness. >> Amen. >> Okay.

Amen. Sweet. When we get to communion Sunday, it's going to be like we're going to have to throw a parade or something out there.

Um, okay. Verse 15. It says, "Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses. For if anyone eats what is leavenvened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel." Kind of strict. You eat bread with something in it.

You do not experience the deliverance that was intended for you. In other words, se the seven days is speaking of completion. It's saying from the day that I give my life to Jesus to the day that I see him face to face, there's absolutely nothing of value that I can contribute to his finished work.

Unleavened bread is speaking of uh it's speaking of the purity and the uh the singleness of what is required in Jesus. you know our our especially our day and age people uh what happens a lot which is deeply unfortunate is that even in churches what happens is uh is we lack revelation of Jesus sometimes and then when we lack the revelation we don't experience the fullness of what Jesus has promised and [snorts] what the scriptures talk about and then when we don't see it happen the thought becomes well how do I especially as pastors sometimes times what happens the thought becomes well how do I how do I validate my experience to become a consequence of the scriptures and all of a sudden instead of taking the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross for what he says it is we sometimes start adding our flavors and our ideas and our experiences to redefine to redefine the cross. You know, you're probably most familiar with ideas like, you know, like, well, God is love and therefore if we love people and God loves people, you know, probably everyone's going to heaven.

And there's all these all these wild incredible ways to get to God the Father, to get to heaven one day and totally excuse the fact that Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." >> Amen. [snorts] >> And when we don't know Jesus and know the scriptures, we talked about it. It talks about it in James.

I I forget when I had brought it up last week, maybe a couple weeks ago, is in James, he talks about if we become if we're only hearers of the word and not doers, what happen is what happens is we we we read the scriptures and we have an idea or principle concept. But when we leave and don't become what the scriptures teach, what happens is we allow ourselves to be defined by anything and everything other than the truth of the gospel. That's why he says it's like a mirror.

It's like a person who looks at themselves in a mirror. They see who they are. They walk away and they forget who they are.

And now anyone who tells them like, "Hey, your hair is your hair is yellow or your eyes are red or whatever, you you'll believe anything now because you don't remember what you look like in the mirror." And so all of a sudden, not knowing Jesus, not knowing the Jesus of the Bible, not a convenient version of our imagination that that submits to our weaknesses. >> That's why when Jesus says, you know, when he says turn the other cheek, there's no ifs, ands, or buts there. It is you turn the other cheek.

We we choose to look like Jesus and we turn the other cheek or we don't and we look like something or someone else. Something else is now defining who we look like. And so when the scripture says here in in verse 15, he says seven days you shall eat unleven bread.

speaking that the moment you give your life over to Jesus from one from the first day to the seventh, the completion, the your walk with God in its fullness is given over to living and and and more importantly or I should say just as importantly is giving yourself to finding the uncompromised Jesus of the Bible. When I say uncompromised meaning I don't add what is beneficial and convenient for me. The moment I start I start adding leaven to that bread is the moment I start believing in a Jesus that does not exist because now he is a Jesus of my imagination.

>> Really good. Amen. You know, when we say when we use language and we sang the song today, behold Jesus.

And sometimes the thought becomes like, well, I'm going to close my eyes and I'm going to imagine this figure on this golden throne and I can't see his face, but he's got this long hair. He's probably wearing this white robe, maybe has a crown on his head. And we I we we deem beholding Jesus as the as a as painting this picture in our imagination and just like thinking it.

[laughter] And and I'm not saying that that is uh that's wrong. What I would say is that is that is the that is the shallow end of what beholding Jesus means. >> Amen.

>> I mean think about this with me. In the book of Revelation, Jesus reveals himself to John. Eyes like fire, hair white as wool, his voice like many waters.

And in Daniel and in other books of the scriptures, it talks about how how the skin of Jesus it glistens like like uh um uh jewels. And you got to think about this like Jesus who is God revealing himself to man could reveal himself in absolutely any any way that he wants. That makes you wonder why is it that it's Jesus whose eyes are like fire?

Why isn't it Jesus who whose eyes are blue as as the vast ocean or green as the luscious forests or gold and silver or whatever? Why is his hair white as wool? Why isn't it like glowing like glitter or whatever?

You know, you you hear what I'm saying, right? Like this is God. He could reveal himself in any way.

And he stands before John his friend and he reveals himself as eyes of fire, hair like wool. Why is it voice of many waters? Why isn't it voice of many roaring lions?

Why isn't it voice like like the birds singing? Why isn't it It's not that those other things are less than. And it's just that in the revealing of himself, what John was beholding was a testimony of what Jesus was wanting him to see.

And so when we behold Jesus, we're not beholding this imagine this imaginative figure, you know, you can use your imagination. That's not like the point I'm trying to make. I just mean in the beholding of Jesus, we do not just see this man with long hair on a golden throne that we assume is heaven.

The beholding of Jesus is intended to to be as simple as turn the other cheek. >> The beholding of Jesus is as simple as as he had mercy on a prostitute who was supposed to be stoned. Beholding Jesus is the one who he hangs on the tree, nails in his hands and his feet.

He is He's the God of all existence, of everything seen and unseen. And he's looking down at people who he healed their sick, raised their dead, fed them when they were hungry, gave them living water, he revealed God the Father to them. And they're looking back at him.

He's on the cross. And they're laughing and they're saying, "Why don't you bring yourself down from there? You could save others.

Why can't you save yourself?" and them not realizing that they were beholding the God man who was holding every molecule of their existence while they were mocking him. Jesus isn't this figure on a golden throne. He he reigns on the throne.

Absolutely. And it's rightly to see him that way. But if you only see a golden throne without a face and long hair, you've missed you've missed Jesus of Nazareth.

You've beheld a Jesus of your imagination. The Jesus of our imagination should be formed by the Jesus of the Bible, >> not the other way around. >> It says God is love.

What it doesn't say is love is God. So he says seven days you sh you shall eat unleaven bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses.

In other words, when I give my life to Jesus, I have I have removed every other purpose of my life >> and every other thing that I accomplish in my life is on to serving the one who is the Christ. What it doesn't mean is that now like you can't do anything in your life. You drop your career and you drop your, you know, your family and all this stuff and you just drop everything.

That's not what it's saying. It's saying that now my career is onto the glory of Jesus. My finances are onto the glory of Jesus.

My education is onto the glory of Jesus. My time is onto the glory of Jesus. And everything that I do, all the things that we consider success are not determined successful unless they are onto the Lord Jesus Christ.

>> So I remove all of the leaven meaning I remove every other purpose, every other thing that would try to define the course of my life and Jesus becomes all in all. >> You hear what I'm saying? Does that make sense?

So he's saying so God is teaching them here in in Exodus 12. saying, "When you receive of this meal, when you receive the Passover lamb, when you receive the living bread, the unleavened bread, you have nothing worth adding to it. Don't you dare add something to the lamb.

Don't you dare add something to the bread, to the living bread that redefineses what it was intended to accomplish." >> You hear what I'm saying? It's like we we often times think like oh adding to Jesus is is is these big factors like you know other religions and all this stuff but it it could be minor stuff. It could be minor stuff like when the scriptures teach to to pray for those who persecute you.

The temptation is like the last thing they deserve is my prayer. And all of a sudden, it's like I get to choose. Am I adding my what I think is right and wise and the best thing into into this unleavened bread into who Jesus is?

And do I live according to my truth or according to what the scriptures call to be truth? Because if I choose to live according to what the scriptures call truth, that prayer for those who persecute me is not a suggestion. So he says on on the first day you shall remove the leaven out of your houses.

You when we give our lives to Jesus it's that's it. It's we remove every and any other purpose. For if anyone eats what is leaven from the first day until the seventh day that person shall be cut off from Israel.

In other words, if I start to redefine Jesus, if I start to redefine Jesus, I reject the I don't know I don't know if window is the right word, but you'll hear my you you'll hear my heart in this. If I begin to if I begin to redefine Jesus, I close the window for my deliverance. >> When I say deliverance, I mean like out of the miry clay, out of the out of the stuff that so easily ens snares us.

And maybe I deal with with let's say insecurities or or rejection or I whatever. Let's say I deal with that sort of stuff and I fail to to pray for those who persecute me. I'm saying I don't want healing from my heart where I have where I struggle with rejection.

I He's saying that person shall be cut off from Israel. Meaning that person has in themselves they've added to the bread and they've partaken of something that is unable to deliver them. My version of Jesus that is not according to the Bible but according to my convenience cannot deliver me.

I will die in my bondage. >> Do you hear what it's saying? >> So if I'm in prayer and I'm like God I'm in my financial state.

It's just I'm barely making ends of me or I can't make ends of me and it's just been really hard and I need your help and would you please bless me? Would you give me a better job? Would you help me in some way?

And then God's like, "All right, well, here's what giving looks like. Tithes, offerings, generosity." And we're like, "Yeah, that's not the version that I was looking for. I was looking for the version that says checks in the mail, random money appears in my bank account, and someone slips me $1,000.

Like, that's the that's the version of Jesus I was looking for. And he's like, "Well, you're looking for something that doesn't exist." And this is just an example, but the principle applies kind of across the board is I don't get to, you don't get to redefine who Jesus is when he gives us instruction. But when we do, what we do is we shut the window.

We close the door to our own deliverance in an area of bondage. Deliverance is not just found in this shaking on the ground. someone is casting a demon or something out of you and all of a sudden you're you're in heaven, you know, in whatever.

Either way, deliverance looks like I keep there's something in my life that I just can't can't seem to get stronger and or better at or or it just addiction maybe has a hold on me or my family is broken or my someone in my family has walked away from the Lord. Okay. The scriptures have instruction for what it looks like to seek Jesus on their behalf.

>> Amen. >> And I either submit to the unleavened the truth of Jesus that is handed over to me or I add to something thinking it's going to taste better. >> But in that in that meal, in that meal, there's no deliverance.

There's just pleasure. Your own pleasure. >> We've all been there.

man. [clears throat] >> [snorts] >> That's why Jesus says uh he says be careful of the levan of of the Pharisees and Herod. He's saying be careful of the things that would try to taint your purity with religion.

the Pharisees meaning that it's it becomes a form of it talks about it in second Timothy I believe it is it says it says you have a form of godliness but you deny the power thereof and so he's saying you have it's still bread like it still looks like bread and you you will the leaven of the Pharisees that religious thing will say like well well you know it's wisd we'll we'll label um sin or things that are anti-biblical as virtuous. We give it virtuous names and then we're like, "Yeah, that's wisdom." And all of a sudden, all of a sudden, we let the the 11 of the Pharisees or or a religious system enter in. A religious meaning like like I I do the things without h needing to have the heart and I do enough things.

If I do enough things, I will make it to this place called heaven. And Jesus says, he warns them of the leavenven of Herod, which is a it's it's a system. It's a it's a secular way, a political system, a way of doing things.

happens in church all the time where it's like it's like okay where do I fit in so that I can climb the ladder of church so that maybe one day I could be recognized and I could be put on the stage for my gift or my talent and maybe somebody will see me and maybe if I scoot in a little bit closer to the worship leader and I sing loud they might hear me and say hey you sing really well why don't you and all of a sudden my heart burns for everything but Jesus >> say that so Jesus is like be careful Careful of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. Be careful of systems that try to corrupt. You call this thing holy.

It's still bread, but you insert so much trash into it that it loses its purpose. >> You know, it's like our food system nowadays. It's supposed to nurture you and it's just like killing you.

I took out the red 40, so we're getting a step closer, but [laughter] You hear what the scriptures are saying? [snorts] Jesus is not to be added to, you know, like In the secular world, they're like, "Okay, here are the religions. You have Christianity, you have Buddhism, you have um Islam, you have uh Hinduism, and so on and so forth." And the perspective tends to be that Christianity is is one of one of the religions.

It's not. Christianity is the only God. Jesus is the only one found worthy.

He is the only way, the only truth, and the only life. And everything else is intended to copy something that is real. It's a it's a form.

It's a type. It's a it's intended to look alike, but it is not the real thing. [applause] >> Christianity or more more directly, Jesus is not standing in a line with all these other religions.

You know, like if you go on Google, what I promise you, if you go to Google and you will type in the the Raul Demov watch, nothing will show up because it doesn't exist. Not yet. I haven't made any.

[laughter] But if you go and you Google Rolex, you'll have tons of options. And in fact, you'll have more options that are fake than real. And the fake ones, all the fake ones are speaking of is that there is a real one that is of matchless worth.

>> Like you don't It's actually quite bizarre. I I was I was actually just curious so I looked it up. But when it comes to luxury goods, like the designer brands and all that stuff is the market for fake products is three times the size of the one for for actual product.

So the the industry's worth of the real product is about $300 billion. The industry of fake products that are replicas of the real thing is worth about a trillion dollars. Which means there's a trillion dollars working through this industry for someone who wants the real thing but settles for something less because of whatever circumstances and situations.

You know, I bring this up only to say is Jesus is not a in line with these other brands. Jesus, these other brands are all they're saying, they're speaking very loudly is that there is a real one and his name is Jesus. >> [clears throat] >> Every other religion is intended to to glorify the one who started it, the one who made it up.

Christianity is the only one where Jesus who is God became man on my bea behalf and your behalf and took on all of our trash, all of our wickedness, all of our sin, all of our darkness, died, nailed it to a tree, threw it into the pit of hell, so that not only can he take us out of sin, but also redeem us and restore us back to the father. That story you will not find anywhere else because that is the real thing. every other is a copy >> that is always self-centered, >> right?

>> That's why we sometimes need the fake products. It's like, well, if I get this, someone might think I'm cool or I'm rich or I'm this and I'm that. And all of a sudden, it's like it's feeding an unhealthy thing.

Someone has a million dollars. They're like, oh, that's nice. I'm going to get that.

And they don't care who or what anyone else thinks. You know it. You know it's real and you give yourself over to it.

Sorry I might be over over like explaining this example. I just mean like Jesus is not. We sometimes put him into in the line of these other religions.

He is not. >> Okay. All right.

Uh verse 15, I'll just reread it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses.

For if anyone eats what is leavenven from the first day until the seventh day that personal should be cut off from Israel. again. Meaning that if you choose to to add something to Jesus, make your own version of Jesus, that Jesus has no power to heal, to save you, no power to redeem, restore you.

Jesus of the Bible is the only God. >> Amen. >> Amen.

All right. Verse 16. On the first day you shall hold on the first day you shall hold a holy assembly and on the seventh day a holy assembly and no work shall be done on those days but whatever excuse me but everyone needs to eat that alone may be prepared by you.

Okay. The way that I I interpret the scripture, the way that I understand it is the two holy days are speaking of the first coming of Jesus and the sec second coming of Jesus. In other words, the first coming of Jesus was a holy it was a holy gathering of um redeeming and restoring humanity back into the image and likeness of God the Father.

His second coming will be the redeeming and restoring of his people, the bride, back to the bridegroom. So both are holy days. In other words, every what what the scripture is about to teach is that from his first coming to his second coming from beginning to end this is to be a truth that is established.

On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly and on the seventh day a holy assembly. His first coming a holy assembly, his second coming will be a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days, but what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.

In other words, when Jesus now that Jesus has come, he is our salvation. which means that there is no work that I can do nor am I required to do to experience the salvation of this meal. There's not enough Bible that I can read to earn my salvation.

There's not enough worship songs I could sing to earn my salvation. There's not enough time I can spend spend in prayer. There's not enough any good works I can do to earn my salvation in God.

And so the scripture is saying what part of this meal is that listen when this day comes when uh when the holy assembly comes that first day shall be a holy assembly for me from that point on there's absolutely no work that should be done there's nothing I can do for my own salvation but the only work that is allowed the only work that is required is that I partake of this meal I do whatever it takes to prepare and to partake of the lamb. >> In other words, the instruction of the scripture is telling me that now that Jesus has come, I have nothing to add to him. I uh I have nothing to add to him and there is nothing I could do to earn my salvation.

Salvation is a gift of Jesus Christ. That's why it says it it says uh believe in your heart, confess with your mouth, and you shall be saved. Romans 10.

There is absolutely nothing I need to do to earn my salvation, to earn my reconciliation with Jesus. There is nothing you need to do outside of believing in your heart, confessing in your mouth. Jesus introduced faith by uh righteousness by faith.

In other words, I have right standing. That's what righteousness means. I have right standing with God because of my faith.

And the church, especially in the charismatic church, unfortunately, what's happened through through over this over several decades is that there was a there was a version of Christianity that was like, I need to do all the stuff to make sure I'm saved if I die. I need to do all the works. And then someone came in and they're like, "Hey, actually salvation is not by works, it's by faith." And that thing began to gain traction and the pendulum began to swing.

And instead of stopping at the truth, it began to swing all the other the other way. I'm not jo I'm not joking when I say this. These are actual comments I've heard before.

It's like, I'm not going to read my Bible because I don't want to work into salvation with Jesus. I am going to take a season off from church so that because I've been feeling like when I go I'm working to try to earn something and therefore I'm going to I'm going to take a pause to and all of a sudden the the this idea that we don't have to work for our salvation becomes a reason to become unfruitful and live unproductive lives which the Bible clearly speaks against >> in in the book and I think it's first or second Peter Works are supposed to be abundant in the life of a believer. But it's not on to salvation.

It's in light of salvation. >> It's not on to onto convincing Jesus to take me to heaven. It's in light of the fact that I'm with Jesus and I one day I will be in heaven.

Amen. You know, it's like uh it's like if you wanted to, you know, for the wives in the room or the girls, it's like you wanted to buy some new bag, some new purse, some I don't know, whatever. and you're like, "Man, it's expensive.

I got to ask my husband. You know what? I'm going to butter him up a little bit.

I'm going to make him dinner. I'm going to whatever say nice things to him. I'm going to let him play video games.

I'm going to not throw a deal about it and whatever." And it's like and it's like now that he's all like buttered up like hey this bag it's kind of expensive but and all of a sudden you feel like you need to earn like there's a sense of like earning something from someone else to get what you want. You know, and to be frank, it's manipulation. But you figure that one out between the two of you.

[laughter] But when you know that your husband is has he's a man of wealth and he deeply loves you and you come and you're like, "Hey, this is just something I something I really like." And he's like, "Oh, babe, just put it on the credit card. We got this." And all of a sudden, it's like you didn't have to do all of those things to convince him to get something he wanted. You didn't have to manipulate him into you got that from him because of his love for you.

And then when you cook him dinner and you tell him nice things and you let him play a video game or whatever, you're not doing it because you need something. You're just doing it because you love him, too. If you saw a relationship and and they're always like manipulating each other to convince one another of something, you'd be like, "Dude, you guys need to go see a counselor." Like, get help.

But then you look at people who love each other and they're like, they're going out of their way to, you know, to buy his wife flowers and and the wife's cooking at home like when he gets home from work and and whatever. And and all of a sudden, these they're serving one another because they love one another. It's it's not a result of anything else.

Yes, you can cook him a meal to try to convince him to manipulate him into something. Or you can cook him a meal because you simply love him and he simply loves you. >> The meal is still there.

The flowers are still there. The chocolate is still there. The celebration, all of it is still there.

But one of them is with the heart to manipulate into something. The other one is with the intention to demonstrate love. And so both are supposed to have works, but it's the nature from which the works come forth.

I do not live and read my Bible every day or pray or worship or come to church because if I don't, maybe I won't go to heaven. I do all those things in light of my relationship with God. And so I read the scriptures because I'm like, I want to know him more.

And then I see him more. And then I get on my knees and I worship because I just want to love him because of what I know about him. And then I come to church because I'm like, man, I know that I don't see everything about him.

I wonder what what the people in the room see about him that I don't see. And all of a sudden, my relationship with him is so fruitful. It's so productive.

But it's in light it's in light of my salvation in him. It's in light of who Jesus is to me. It's in light of the revelation of the cross.

>> Do you hear what I'm saying? like and so and so in verse 16 he says on the first day you shall hold a holy assembly and on the seventh day a holy assembly and no work shall be done on those days but what everyone needs to eat that alone may he may be prepared by you in other words let me let me kind of almost restructure rephrase this verse it says from the coming the first coming of Jesus onto to his second coming until the day he returns again. Don't don't give yourself to try to earn a deliverance in a meal of salvation.

Rather, love him wholeheartedly because it is in him. He is the meal. Just love him and in that meal you experience what we all call deliverance, salvation, freedom, wholeness in Jesus.

Does that make sense? Do you hear what I'm saying? >> Okay, I'm almost done.

[clears throat] If my only work is to prepare this meal, to prepare the meal, in other words, to come to the table of the meal of deliverance. If that's my only work and instruction in life, it means that when I look to Jesus, first and foremost, what we learn in the scriptures is that we are to remember him. Not because we have the freedom to forget him, rather because I want to remember the scars on his back.

And I I want to remember the holes in his hands and his feet. I want to remember the crown of thorns that was put upon his head. I want to remember the agony and the pain and the suffering.

Like Jesus was praying in the garden and he began to sweat blood. And for the first time since Genesis, the very first time since Genesis, there was a drop of blood that hit the ground. It says it hit the ground.

There was a drop of blood that hit the ground that spoke a better word than the blood of Abel. From the day a Cain killed Abel, Abel's blood from the earth, the earth resounded a cry of justice. And for thousands of years up until Jesus, there was a drop of blood that in his agony, in his pain, as he's carrying the weight, the wickedness, the darkness of the world, blood.

He begins to sweat blood. And for the first time since Genesis, blood hits that changes that changes the voice of the earth that says, "Have mercy." Amen. >> I want to remember the Jesus of the gospel.

I don't want my my own version of Jesus. He's he's useless. >> I want the version of Jesus that is in the Bible, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who takes me in my weakness and my, you know, forgive me, stupidity, my foolishness, my foolishness, my ignorance, my shame, my sin, my darkness.

He takes me and sees me in that place and he redefineses who I am. I do not get to out of my lack of experience in certain areas get to redefine who Jesus is. Like you might disagree with me on this, which is fine.

It's it, you know, it's a uh it could be your theological stance. I just I see it differently. But my my perspective on healing, for example, is is is I believe Jesus paid a price for everyone to be healed.

>> And there is no exceptions because sickness is sickness and disease is of the fall of man. It's of the curse. >> And either Jesus took on the curse of man or he didn't.

There's no like he took on half of it. he took on 70% of it and the other 30% he left. I I just I don't believe that.

And so if I believe if I believe that Jesus has paid a price for all sickness and all disease and I don't see everyone healed yet, then that means there's part of him that I'm not seeing clearly yet. I cannot operate from from whether you want to call it gifting, whether you want whatever I have to operate from revelation. If I just got saved and I read the Bible and I'm like, "Wow, Jesus is my savior and he redeems me and he takes me to a place called heaven one day and no one ever taught me that Jesus heals," I would if I experience sickness or disease or someone comes my way who's sick, I would never even think, "Let's pray because I don't I it was not revealed to me as Jesus the healer yet." But then I read the Bible and I'm like, "Oh, Jesus is the healer.

Therefore, he heals." Now I have an answer when there's sickness and disease. So, you see how revelation changes how you would respond and react, right? You hear what I'm saying?

Okay. For me, I'm like, if Jesus is the healer and he paid a price for everyone to be healed, he says, he said, "Go out, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, cleanse the lepers." No questions. Like, there's no like exceptions in that in the command.

And so now my my way of life becomes that when people come to are who are sick and I pray for them and I don't see the healing, I'm like, "Hey, I know God has healing for you. Jesus took on the curse of man. Healing is yours.

I just I I I need I need to grow in my faith. I'm just not seeing him rightly." And I'm and it's not a condemning thing. I'm not like, "Oh, woe me.

I'm such a loser. or why didn't I do this? I'm saying like, oh, there's part of his heart that I'm not seeing yet for this miracle to to take place.

Which means that now I'm like I go back to the I go back to the scriptures and I continue to seek him and I desire him and I long for him and I'm like, I want to know this Jesus. I want to know the Jesus of the Bible. But what happens a lot, it happens a lot is somebody will pray for the sick, they didn't recover, and now if they're a pastor, they're a leader, they're some known man of God, and they're like, "Well, why didn't they get healed?" Instead of being like, "Man, I need to know Jesus more.

I need to grow in my faith. I need to grow in revelation." It's like, "Well, really, God doesn't want everybody to be healed." And now theology begins to be built upon not the truth of the scriptures. I cannot find one.

you know, you let me know. I cannot find one example in the scriptures in the life of Jesus where there someone a sick person comes to him and he's like, "Man, I would love to, but it's just not your time. When it is your time, I'll do it or you're not meant to be healed." He didn't show up to Lazar Lazarus grave and was like, "This would have been sweet, but he's not supposed to be sorry." Jesus comes with the authority of life >> and healing and restoration.

Again, this is you might believe differently. I don't think it's a point. It's a matter of salvation.

And so, I'm like, this is just my stance on it. So, for me, I'm like, I do not want to build theology. I do not want to build a Jesus around my experience.

I want my experience to submit to the truth of who Jesus is. Far be it from all of us to redefine the scriptures based on our experience. >> If your experience does not align with the scriptures, it's just because we don't see Jesus clearly yet.

>> And so if my experience doesn't line up with this truth, the only thing that it's telling me, it's not telling me I'm some loser. It's not telling me God's far away from me. It's not telling me anything other than I need to know the man Jesus Christ more.

>> Amen. [clears throat] The Jesus of my imagination has no power to save me and he has no power to save you. And the Jesus of your imagination has no power to heal, redeem, restore anything.

But the Jesus of the Bible who we behold, the one with fire in his eyes and and hair like wool and voice like many waters, that Jesus, the one who hung on the cross, the one with holes in his hands and his feet, the one who they mocked and laughed at, and yet he still held them in existence. That Jesus has the power to to redeem, restore, change all of us. And the more we see him, the more we look like him.

And the more we receive of this meal and come to this table, the more the truth of the cross, the more the truth of the word, his holy word, the sword of the spirit, it begins to cut deep. And you know what happens is then when someone hurts you and you're required to pray for them, all of a sudden in your prayer, you're like, "Trust me," it feels like a dagger. You're like, "God, the the people who hurt me or that person who said this, like, would you bless them?" and and everything in inside of you is like it feels like you hate what you're saying, >> but your heart knows the Jesus of the Bible.

Not the not the Jesus that's convenient for your heartache. And so my my encouragement, bless you, [laughter] uh my encouragement or like what it what you know what the scriptures are teaching us is is man why settle why why settle for a convenient Jesus that lets you die and rot in your stuff when there is Jesus of Nazareth of the living word of the living Bible that has invited all of us into into life transformation. I'm like, you know, and it when I when you say it out loud, it sounds really silly.

You're like, duh. Like, of course we should. But in life all the time, you're like, you know, you it's this passing thought.

It's like it's sub almost subconscious sometimes where it's like, well, I'll do that next time or I'll forgive next time or or I'll forgive later. I'll let go later. I just I just want to bask in my [snorts] >> We don't have that luxury.

You mean we know this in our city is like is there's people who need Jesus and they don't need our version our useless powerless uh conform to my brokenness and needs Jesus. They need the Jesus of the Bible. >> They need the Jesus who changes, saves, redeems, restores, makes whole.

They need We all need the Jesus of the Bible. And >> so I think my encouragement or like what I what I would implore all of us as a church is like is we cannot hesitate to challenge the idols that we call Jesus in life. A golden statue that is in the form of Jesus does not make it Jesus.

>> It is as much of an idol as a golden calf is. This is why. Let me see if I could find it.

I think it's first Corinthians. Oops. Watch.

He says 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 6 it says your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little levan leavenvens the whole lump. In other words, you let a little twistedness a little it you start giving into into your own flavor into your own whatever you want it to be.

And he says, "Cleanse out the old leaven." In other words, leave the old way of life before you knew Jesus. Leave the old stuff. Leave the old leaven that you may be a new lump as you really are unleavened for Christ who is our Passover lamb has already been sacrificed.

Therefore, let us celebrate the festival not with old leaven, not with an old perspective, old way of life, but the leaven, excuse me, not with the old leaven, the leavenven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. >> You hear what he's saying now in this portion of scripture? He's like, do not introduce Jesus, this the the the Passover lamb has already been sacrificed.

do not try to move into his direction like uh the the feast of unleavened bread was required to be celebrated after the day of the Passover. So once the Passover lamb was received the following day for the next 7 days Israel was required to eat unleaven bread. It was speaking of their deliverance.

Once they ate the lamb they stepped into their deliverance and they were to receive of nothing other than unleaven bread. And so Paul is saying, "Now that now that you have been saved, therefore celebrate the festival. Not with old leaven, not with an old way of life, not this version of Jesus that's convenient for you, the leavenven of malice and evil, but celebrate with the unleavened bread of sincerity of and truth.

Meaning celebrate the the truth of who Jesus is, the Jesus of the Bible. That one is sincere and true and able to change your life. Amen.

>> So may we know the living Jesus, the one of the Bible, not of our convenience. >> And may the Holy Spirit convict us if we ever do even think in that direction. Team, why don't you come up?

Um, we're almost we're almost uh we're almost done. And I just we've been doing this every week as as as we've been going through Exodus is just I want us to uh in our remembrance to end the evening in in celebrating and loving Jesus in worship um as we remember the body, the blood and the cross. Remember the living Jesus, the one who has the power, the to save our souls, the Jesus of the Bible.

So why don't we all stand up? We're we're not going to take much longer. Just just want us just want to love Jesus for a few more minutes in worship and and I want us to really like let's worship and behold the Jesus of the Bible.

So Lord, we we ask open our eyes to see you, God, to see you rightly and clearly to see you according to your word, the truth of who you are. We do not want to take away from you nor add to you because of our comfort and convenience. [music] Rather, we desire, we ask God that you would give us a conviction where our lives yield and submit themselves onto the truth of who you are, the truth of your word.

So tonight, we come, Lord, just to celebrate, to thank you for what you've done, what you've accomplished, to love you. Um move us, Lord. We want to be moved by you and and and we want to be a people who so deeply love you that we move your heart.

>> We love you, Jesus. We give you all of the glory. Yes.

from Cal's mountain flowing down to you and [music] I Queen. Oh, what [singing] a mystery. The red blood [music] makes me white.

And isn't it [singing] wild? Doesn't [music] it make you wonder how can be [music and singing] so simple? And isn't it wild?

Doesn't it [music] make you wonder how something so [singing] profound can [music] be so simple? The blood, the [music and singing] blood, the blood. Oh, the wonderful blood.

[singing] Your love, your love, your love. Oh, the marvelous love. [music and singing] Let the redeemed sing a song.

Praises belong to the son. The [music] blood, [singing] the blood, the blood. Oh, the wonderful blood.

My precious [music] Jesus. Oh, [singing] I'm so thankful for the day [singing and music] you saved my life. >> [music] >> As I [singing] remember, my heart grows tender.

Tears begin [music] to fill my [singing] eyes. My [music] precious Jesus. Oh, I'm so thankful [music] for the day [singing] you saved my [music] life.

>> [singing] >> As I remember, my heart grows tender to see to [music] fill my [singing] eyes. And isn't it wild? Doesn't it make [music] you wonder how something so profound can be so simple?

[music and singing] And isn't it wild? And doesn't it make you wonder [music] how something so divine can be so simple? [music] [singing] The blood.

The blood. The blood. Oh, the wonderful blood.

Your love. [music and singing] You love your love. All the wonderless love.

Let the redeemed [music] sing a song. Praises belong to the song [music and singing] of the blood. The blood.

The blood. Oh, the wonderful blood. [singing] Oh, we thank you for your blood, [singing] Lord.

Thank you, Jesus. [music] Oh, we thank you for your blood and your body broken. [music] And the work you did is finished.

[singing] All of our sins [music] forgiven. And now we get to live in the [music] wonder of the working blood. The cross was your decision.

But [music and singing] death was not the ending. You rose and now we're rising. The wonder of the working [music] blood.

The work you did is finished. All [music] of our sins forgiven. And now begin to live it.

The wonder [music] of the working life. The cross was your decision, [music] but death was not [singing] the end. You rose and now we're [music] ris.

The wonder of the working life. The wonder of the working [music] life. The wonder of the working life.

Heat. [music] The wonder of the walking. Wonder of the working [music] precious [music] makes me want [music] [singing] [music] nothing The blood of Jesus.

[music] Heat. [music] Nothing [music] but the blood of Jesus. [singing] Nothing but the blood [music] of Jesus.

Nothing but the blood [music] of Jesus. Nothing but [music] the blood of Jesus. >> [music] >> Oh, [music] you said you [music] say now I [singing] will never leave your love.

You saved [music] me. You saved me. Now I'll never leave your love.

[singing] >> You [music] saved me. You [singing] saved me. Now I will never leave your love.

Thank [music] you, Lord. [singing] You saved me. You saved me.

Now I will [music] never leave your love. [singing] You [music] save me. You save [singing] me.

Now I will never leave your love. >> [music] >> You save [music] me. You save me.

No, I will never leave [music] your life. Thank you. [music] You save me.

You save me. [music] I'll never leave you. >> [music] >> I cannot remember what [singing] I was doing before I met [music] you.

I can't wait. My love [music] is save me. I can remember what I was [music] doing before you got to my love.

[music] I cannot remember what I was doing before you capt. >> [music] >> My [music] before I met you. [music] [singing] I cannot remember [music] what I was doing before.

[music] >> [music] >> Oh, you save me. You save me. Now I never [music] You save me.

[music] You save me. Now I will never leave your love. >> [music] >> I cannot remember [music] what I was doing before I met you.

I'll be captivated and I'm in love. [music] I cannot remember what I was doing before I met you. [music] I got to my love.

[music] I can remember what I was doing before you capture. [music] I think I [music] love you. I can remember what I was doing before I met you.

[music] I can't see. [music] I cannot remember what I was doing before I met you. I've been [music] my [music] Till I've been captivated.

[music] My love has saved me and I'm in love. I [music and singing] cannot remember what I was doing before I met you. I've been [singing] captivated.

My love has saved [music] me and you saved me. You saved [music] me. Now I will never leave your love.

[singing] And [music] you saved [singing] me. You saved me. Now I will never leave your [singing] love.

You [music] saved me. You [singing] will never leave [music] your love. Jesus, we thank you for that you saved us, Lord.

That you found us. You You called us higher. [music] You paid a price for us.

You died. You were buried, resurrected, ascended, glorified, and forever seated at the right hand of the Father. And we ask Holy Spirit please for all of us help us to see Jesus rightly to see and know the Jesus of the Bible not what we find comfortable and convenient.

We want to be confronted Lord in our comfortability if it contradicts your nature, your purpose, your call, your holiness, purity, righteousness and truth. And so teach us Lord in this church to be a people who are about the living Christ, the one of the Bible, the Jesus of the Bible, Jesus of Nazareth. [music] And strip us of any other understanding, any other perspective, any other belief.

[music] We want to know you and to know you rightly. We want to know the whole Christ. [music] I pray Lord tonight as we go home that you would uh you would go with us Lord.

We go holding your hand [music] >> and that as we even as we're asleep that you would minister to our hearts. So thank you for your faithfulness for always being with us. We love [music] you and in your name we pray.

Amen. >> Amen. Amen.

[music and applause] Awesome. Well, we love you guys so much. We thank you for being here with us and loving Jesus.

We will uh we'll either see you on Tuesday if you're a young adult and you want to come to Bible study. We're going to receive communion on Tuesday. [music] Uh we'll be here Thursday for devotionals or next Sunday for Sunday service.

We love you. God bless you. Have a good night.