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[music] And I [singing] was lost, but now I'm found. Was [music] blind, [singing] but now I see. [music] Oh, now I see.

>> [music] >> It was grace [music] that [singing] taught my heart to fear and grace [music] my [singing] fears. [music] How precious [singing] the grace of [music] the hour [singing] [music] be [music] all precious precious [music] love to >> [music] >> The Lord had [singing] promised [music] good to me his word, [singing] [music] my savior. [music] He [singing] will mer and [music] shall be as [music] long [singing] as life.

[music] Yes. [music] When this [singing] flesh heart shall fail, [music] mortal [singing] life [music] shall cease. I shall possess within [music] the will [singing] of [music] life of joy and [singing] peace.

[music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> The earth shall [singing] soon like [music] snow. The sun forbids [singing] to [music] shine.

The [music and singing] God who call me [music] here will be forever [music] mine. [singing] [music] Earth shall soon dissolve [singing] my [music] soul. The sun hold to shine.

[music] The [singing] God who call me [music] below will [music] be forever [music] mine. Oh, he will be [music] forever mine. >> [music and singing] >> Oh, he will be he will be forever.

[music] Oh amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved her [singing] like me. >> [music] >> was [singing] lost, but now I found [music] was blind, but now [singing and music] I see. [music] Amazing [singing] grace, how sweet the son that saved [music] [singing] a rest like me.

I once [singing and music] was lost but now [music and singing] I am found. was blind but now I [music] see. [singing] [music] Was blind but now I see.

[singing and music] [music] I was blind, [singing] but now [music] I see. I was blind, but [music and singing] now I see. Oh, we thank you.

Thank you. Was blind [music] but now [singing] I see. [music] Was [singing] blind but now I see.

[music] >> Open my eyes. >> Was blind but now [music] I [singing] see. Oh, [music] now I see you.

>> [music] >> who called me here be no will [music] be [singing] forever [music] mine. But [singing] God who called me [music] here be no will be [singing] forever mine. My [music and singing] God who called me here [music] below will [singing] be [music] forever mine.

the God. Oh, you've called [music and singing] me here belong and I forever [music] yours. I forever [music] yours.

[music] Oh, I forever [music] yours. [music] Oh, I forever yours. Forever.

Forever. >> Oh, we need you, Lord. We were so in [singing] need of you and you came for us.

>> You came for us. [music and singing] Oh, amazing [music] grace that saved our lives. [music] Oh, what a savior.

[singing] Oh, what a [music] savior. Oh, what a savior that came [music] for us. Thank [singing] you, Lord.

[music] We thank you, Lord. [music] We thank you, Lord. You [music] came for us.

We thank you Lord. [music] >> We thank you. [music] >> We thank you Lord how you came.

[singing] >> We thank you Lord [music] how you came for us. >> Yes. We thank you Lord.

[music] >> How you came for us. >> We thank you [music] Lord. I thank you.

[music] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. And everyone needs for a love that's never failing.

Have mercy for me. Everyone needs forgiveness. The kindness of a savior.

The hope of nations. You're our hope. You're our joy.

You're our peace. You're everything. You're everything.

You're everything. [music] >> Thank you. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, [music] Lord. >> [music] >> And [music] everyone needs compassion, a love that's never failing. [music] Let mercy fall on me.

And everyone needs forgiveness. [music] The kindness of a savior. The hope of the nation.

[music] The savior. He can move the mountains. [music] My guy is mighty to see.

might [music] >> forever. Forever. [music] >> He rose and conquered the grave.

Jesus [music] conquered sickness against Savior. Savior. [music] He can move the mountain.

My God is my [music] >> He is my forever [music] forever. Salvation. [music] >> Jesus conquered [music] the grave.

He overcame. [music] He overcame it all for us. Thank [music] you.

[music] Thank you, Lord. [music] So take me as you find me. All my fears and [music] failures.

I feel my life again. I give my life to [music] follow everything I believe in. Now [music] I surrender.

So take me as you find me. [music] All my fears and failures come fill my [music] life again. I give my life to follow [music] everything I believe in.

Now I su [music] [singing] [music] the mountains. My [music] God is mighty and safe. He is mighty and safe [music] forever.

Offer of salvation. He rose [music] and conquered the grave. Jesus conquered the grave.

[music] The savior. He can move the mountains. My [music] God is mighty.

He is mighty [music] forever. Offer of salvation. [music] He rose and conquered the grave.

Jesus conquered the grave. [music] >> Oh, you overcame it all. [music] You conered it all, Lord.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Your Savior, our redeemer.

Thank you, [music] Lord. [singing] >> [music] >> always [singing] [music] shining light and let the whole world see. [music] We're singing for the glory of the risen king.

Jesus [music] shine your light and let the whole world see. [music] We're singing for the glory of the risen king. Jesus [music] shine a light and let the whole world see.

[music] We're singing for the glory of the risen [music] king. Jesus, shine a light and let the whole world see. [music] We're singing for the glory of the [music] risen king.

So [music] that the whole world keeps singing this. We're [music] singing. Oh, he is [music] the shining lighting for the glory [music] of the reason.

Shining light, [music] shining light. Let the whole world see. is [music] for the glory of the risen king.

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Jesus [music] shining light [music] for the glory of the risen king. Savior. [music] He can move the mountains.

My God [music] is mighty to say. He is mighty to say [music] forever. Offer of salvation.

He rose and conquered [music] the grave. Jesus conquered the great savior. [music] The savior.

He can move the mountains. My God [music] is mighty. He is mighty [music] forever.

Walker of salvation. [music] Heroes and conquer the grave. Jesus conquer the grave.

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[music] Author of salvation. He rose. [music and singing] >> Jesus.

>> Savior [singing] and Savior. He can [music] move the mountains. My God is mighty.

[music and singing] >> He is mighty to save [singing] forever. Forever. >> Author [music] of salvation.

>> He rose and conquered the grave. Jesus [music] conquered the grave. He rose and conquered the [singing] grave.

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My God is mighty to sing. >> He is [music] >> forever. Author of salvation, >> heroes, [music and singing] >> Jesus, conqueror, savior, savior.

He can move the mountains. My God is mighty [music] to sing. is my >> forever.

Author of salvation, [music and singing] heroes and conquer the great. Jesus [music] conquered the grave. He is mighty to save.

Jesus conquered the [singing] grave. >> [music] >> And he is mighty to [music] save. Jesus [music] conquered the [singing] grave.

He is mighty [music] to save. He is mighty [music] to save. Oh, [singing] what a savior.

My Jesus. My [music] Jesus. What a savior.

My Jesus. [music] My Jesus. Oh, what a savior.

My Jesus. [music] What a savior. Oh, what a savior.

What a savior. >> Oh, what a savior. >> What a savior.

>> Oh my love. Oh my love. [singing] Oh my love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can have it [music] all. Oh my heart. Oh my soul.

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

Oh my love. Can have it all. [music] Oh my love.

Oh my love. Oh my love. Can have it [music] all.

Oh my love. Oh my love. Oh my love.

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

Oh my [music] love. Can have it all. Oh my heart, oh my soul, my own.

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

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

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

[singing] >> You can have it all. You can have it all. You can have it all.

Oh, Savior, he can move the mountain. My God is mighty to save. He is mighty to save forever.

Author of salvation. He rose and conquered the grave. Jesus conquered the grave.

coner it all. You can have it all. You can have it all.

[music] Have it all. [singing and music] It all >> it can have it all. [music] >> Oh, you can have it all.

[music] Jesus found in your hands fullness of joy. Every [singing] fear suddenly wiped away [music] here [singing] in your presence. [music] All of my gains now fade [music] away.

>> [singing] >> Every crown no longer on display. Here in your presence, [music] found in your hands, found in your hands. Fullness of joy.

Every fear suddenly [singing] wipes away [music] here in your presence. [music] All of my gains now fade [music and singing] away. Every crown no longer on display.

[music] Here in your presence, [music] heaven [singing] is trembling in all of your wonders. The [music] kings [singing] and their kingdoms are standing amidst [music] here in your presence. We are unto here [music] in your presence.

Heaven [singing] and earth become one. [music] Here in your presence all things [music and singing] are new. Here in [music] your presence, everything bows before you.

Oh, [music] how we love you. [music] How [singing] we love your presence. Found in your hands, [music] fullness of joy.

Every [singing] fear suddenly [music] wiped away. [music] Here in your presence, all of my [singing] gates [music] now fade away. Every crowd no longer on [music and singing] display here in your presence.

[music] Heaven is trembling [music] in all [singing] of your wonders. [music] The kings and their kingdoms [singing] are standing amazed. Oh, heaven is trembling [music and singing] in all of your wonders.

The kings and the kingdoms are standing [music] here in your presence. We are [music and singing] here in your presence. [music] Heaven and earth become [singing] one.

Here [music] in your presence, all things [music] are new. Here in your presence, everything bows before [music] you. Here in your presence [music] all your time.

Here [music] in your presence, heaven and earth become one. Here in your presence, [music] all things are new. [music] Here in your presence, everything [music] bows before you.

[music] You're wonderful, beautiful, glorious, matchless [singing] in every way. Wonderful, [music] beautiful, glorious. Wonderful.

Beautiful. Glorious. [singing] [music] You're matchless in every way.

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You're matchless in wonderful. Beautiful. Glorious.

Matchless [singing] in every way. Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, [singing] matches. [music] Oh, you're beautiful.

[music] You're beautiful. [music] You're beautiful. [singing] >> [music] >> Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, [music] matchless in every way.

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And no wonder they call [music] you holy. No wonder they call you [music] worthy. No wonder they call you [music] beautiful.

You're beautiful. [music] And no wonder they call you. [music] No wonder they call you worthy.

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You [music] are beautiful. You are beautiful. >> [music] >> You are beautiful.

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>> [music] >> And no wonder they call you holy. [music] No wonder they call you worthy. No wonder they call you beautiful.

You [music] beautiful. And no [music] wonder they call you holy. And no wonder they call you [music] worthy.

No wonder they call you beautiful. [music and singing] You're beautiful. And no [music] wonder they call you holy.

No wonder they call you worthy. No wonder they call [music] you beautiful. You're beautiful.

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You're beautiful. You [music] are beautiful. >> You are beautiful.

>> You are [singing] beautiful. >> You are beautiful. [music] >> You are beautiful.

>> You are [singing] beautiful. Beautiful. You [music] are [singing] beautiful.

>> You are wonderful. >> You are beautiful. [singing] You are [music] wonderful.

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[music] >> You are wonderful. [singing] >> Oh, you are beautiful. [music] >> You are wonderful.

>> You are [singing] beautiful. >> You are wonderful. >> You are [music] beautiful.

>> You are wonderful. >> You [singing] are beautiful. >> [music] >> You're matchless.

[music] Matchless in every [singing] way. Matchless. Matchless.

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So matchless. [music] Beautiful, [singing] wonderful, beautiful, glorious, [music and singing] matchless in every way. Wonderful.

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Wonderful, beautiful, [music] glorious, mashless in every way. Wonderful, beautiful, [music] glorious, mashless in every way. >> [music] >> Matchless.

Matchless in every [music] way. Matchless. You're matchless.

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[music] Matchless. [music] Matchless. Matchless in every way.

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[music] Matchless. [singing] Matchless in every way. Matchless.

Matchless. >> [music] >> our dearest Jesus. Lord, we look to you tonight and and we remember that there is absolutely nobody like you.

There is none beside you, Lord. You have no rivals, no equals, and none can compare. And so today Lord as as we sing this as we sing matchless it is it is our remembrance our our declaration our joy our celebration that we belong to the king of the universe that the king of kings and the lord of lords that Jesus Jesus the Christ is our bridegroom [music] that Jesus our Lord is our friend and and he is our shepherd.

That you are our shepherd and you are [clears throat] we said it last week. God, you're you're not just a good dad. You're the best dad.

And you show up time and time again. You never have to come. And yet time and time again, you reveal yourself.

And nothing adds up when when we think how is it that the one who who holds universes in the palm of his hand breathe into dust and desire to be with us. God, we we don't understand, but we are eternally [music] eternally grateful. Thank you for calling us, Lord, and [music] and for choosing us, for saying yes to us.

Thank you for calling us by name. Thank you that you know every every hair on our head that you count them, Lord, and you you're aware of our doings and where we're at and what's happening and where things are going wrong and where things are going well and and you are in the midst of all of it. [music] >> You really are matchless, Lord.

>> And the way that you love us and [music] and the way that you come And I pray Lord that as as heaven sees this room tonight may it may it see a a hard cry. eye of a people longing for the [music] one thing. Holy Spirit, would you reveal the Christ to us?

Would you reveal the Christ to us? The anointed one, the one who is king of glory. Oh, cut us deep, Lord, with the truth that the revelation of the cross.

We thank you that we are children of God, that you have called us your own. And what a gift it is that that you are our best friend. What a gift.

What a gift. So we ask Lord that tonight you would you would have your way and you would lead us. You would strengthen us.

You would build us up. You would sew the seed of your spirit in our hearts and our souls and our minds and that we would reap a harvest of your Holy Spirit, a harvest of the fruit of the kingdom. and that within this church, Lord, at the finding, you would you would never be a stranger here, Lord, you you are not a visitor.

You're not even you're not a guest, Lord, with us. You I pray, Lord, that here in our house, you are at home with your kids. And Lord, that as as you rest your head, you just have a a just a full quiver all around you celebrating and rejoicing the goodness of our dad.

And so for certain, Lord, I know that there there are needs and and things we're going through and challenges we're facing, but none of them none of them redefine who you are. Amen. Hallelujah.

>> And so tonight, we we submit ourselves over to you, God. We love you with all of our hearts. We ask that today, tonight, every other name, every other agenda, every other thing would grow strangely dim in the light of our beautiful King Jesus.

The light of your beautiful name. So rest upon us, Lord. Keep us, protect us, watch over us, and fill us with yourself, Jesus.

We give you all of the glory, all of the honor, all of the praise. All of it is yours. We have no no desire to touch it, Lord, to to receive it.

We we are we give it all back to you. Thank you that you are faithful. >> In your name we pray.

Glorious Jesus. >> Amen. >> Amen.

Amen. Can we thank the Lord? Can we thank Jesus?

[applause] Thank you, Lord. Awesome. [applause] Why don't you find your seats?

We're so glad you're here. [clears throat] Thank you, Jesus. Awesome.

Well, I want to um we have I have a couple things I want to get to uh tonight before before we jump into the scriptures here. Um uh the first one being is I I just want to receive tonight's offering. Um, I want us to come to uh to the Lord and and just give of ourselves to Jesus and in this manner.

worship worship the Lord in this manner and I share this I I share this a lot and you know uh talking about giving can sometimes be uh tedious or make may sound redundant um [clears throat] because it's almost like trying to figure out how do you hit uh you know, how do you hit, you know, I I play golf a little bit and I'm not very good, but um I play enough to play enough to say that I play and and sometimes it could feel like, you Like if you've ever played golf, you're trying to trying to figure out your golf swing. Um, and like trying to figure out all the muscle memory and that probably wasn't very good. [laughter] You're trying to figure out the muscle memory and stuff and and it's like you figure one out and then you realize you tweaked another and and then you're kind of going back and forth and trying to rebuild it.

And in some ways, in some ways, generosity according to the kingdom feels that way a little bit. Sometimes when you do get it just right, when you hit that like when you I mean, you know, when you got it right, it's far, it's straight, and it's hopefully in the hole. And um but to hit it straight and in the hole, uh you realize that you go through probably about a 100,000 swings before you get there.

and and wrestling with with finances and giving is sometimes especially in this economy. Like I'm like I you know I totally get it. Like I've never gassed up my car for as much as I have.

Um, and so I'm like, "All right, Lord, we are uh what a beautiful opportunity to practice what we preach." >> [laughter] >> And um and so I say this I I say this, you know, lightly and jokingly, but the reality, the truth of the matter is that there are souls in our city and there are souls in our state, in our region, in our nation, around the world who [sighs] um they're dependent, their souls are dependent upon believers who who may be the only gospel that they ever see. There's some people that will you will come across that you may be the only gospel that that they ever hear that they ever experience the only like if we radiate Jesus if we radiate the good news of the of our Christ of our Lord and Jesus Christ that might be the only message they ever hear of who he is and in our giving. I mean, you know, especially for those of you who call this home is like what God's been doing here is amazing.

Like it's I am obviously I have a bias and so I I think this is one of the one of the best if not the best places on the planet. Um and and I don't say that lightly. I'm serious.

I I I would there's nowhere else I'd rather be and nothing else I'd rather be doing. Um because God's trusted us with a city that uh that seems dark but is has so much potential for life. And when Jesus enters tombs, what we know is that out of those tombs comes eternal life.

And when God entrusts a city that for so many years was called a grave site for churches and and Christianity and I think Tacoma is known as the first or the second most unchurched city or re something like that in in America um just a few years ago. And God entrusts in some ways a grave, a tomb to a people who carry the one who carries eternal life in there. And he's asking, "Are you willing to get in there?

Are you willing to enter that tomb and see what comes forth out of something so dead?" >> Amen. So good. >> Do you hear what I'm saying?

Yeah. >> Like when I when we were starting to find you when I first not we me cuz meaning that there I was by myself. We didn't have a team nothing and I was my life consisted of uh doubt lack of faith and unbelief because because it felt like a it felt impossible especially when other pastors and leaders in and in in the city were like man you don't know what you're doing.

Um the city is so dark. get ready to get ready to, you know, get in the trenches and this and that and and I'm like, and they're 27 years old and thinking like, what is God thinking, you know, like, [clears throat] but it's because Jesus isn't afraid of darkness. So, we know that >> he's just looking for people who are willing to bring bring that eternal life, that that light of the gospel into dark, empty, closed up tombs so that as he breathes upon it out of a city can come forth, a people who are all about Jesus.

>> And so when we gather in settings like this, our our assignment becomes to know Jesus. If we don't know Jesus, we have absolutely nothing to offer our city and region. But when we do know Jesus and light begins to shine from darkness, that's what being a city on a hill means.

Is that those who are there far away, but they see a glimmer of hope, they see a glimmer of light, they're like, "We got to get there." Amen. >> And so when we when we give, when we come together and give, it's it's a bummer that it becomes tedious is because what we're all signing up for is that we are we are contributing to build a home onto the presence of Jesus. We are giving of ourselves, of our resources to build something that he will inhabit, where he will rest and dwell in.

And when nations see the presence of Jesus upon a people, upon a city, in a room, the scriptures teach that he is the desire of the nations, which means that it doesn't say he is the desire of believers. It says he is the desires, the desire of nations, all nations, believers and unbelievers alike. And so as we continue, as we build a home for his presence, as we as this room becomes saturated with the oil of heaven, his joy and his peace and his presence, his kindness and mercy that people are drawn to experience, not the finding, not a worship team, not preaching, not even a people.

They come to experience God resting with and upon a people. So, especially if this is if this is your home is like we we give because I'm convinced that one day people I mean they already do but but one day it'll be there will be people flying in from all over the world. Hopefully 405 is fixed by then and they'll be driving up to Belleview and they'll they'll be meeting with Jesus in the room because they heard there's a people here who do not give up on him.

So we do not give for salaries. We give for building onto Jesus. >> That's who he is and that's who we are as a body.

Amen. >> Awesome. Well, we have it there should be there.

We have our graphic up on the screen. It's you there's every regular way of giving. If you need an envelope, please just raise your hand.

Our ushers are certainly more than happy to get you one of those. Just raise your hand. Um, keep it raised until they get one over to you.

And we want to give you a couple minutes to do this. Come to Bible study too sometime [music] if you want to. [singing] [music] >> Can we get the G?

There we go. Okay. All right.

We will be right back. We're going to play a short video. We're going to pray together.

Love Jesus. And um and then we're going to we're going to we have one more activity and then we go into Exodus 12. So we will be right back.

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I'm so [singing] deep and I'm so deep in love. You're irresistible [music and singing] and I can't I can't look away. You're all we want.

You are all I want. the obsession [music and singing] of my eyes and I can't I can't [music] look away. I'm so deep cuz I'm so deep in life.

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You're beautiful, beautiful. Jesus yours. [music] No one like you.

Yes, [music] you are. There's one beside the Lord and [music] walking on choose [music] now and forever. [singing] There's no one else but [music] Jesus.

thing I so deep in love [music] your irresistible and I can't I [music] can't look away the desire of nations you are all I want the [music] obsession of my heart and I can't I can't look away something that [music] I'm so deep in love. We resist the world [music] and I won't I can't move the way we [music] want cuz you are all [singing] I want you [music] and I can't I can't [music] You are beautiful. Yes, you are beautiful.

[music] And I'll keep on. Oh, it's only you for [singing] me. It's only Jesus.

[music] >> Okay, let's pray. Let's pray together. >> [clears throat] >> Jesus, we love you so much and we thank you for your faithfulness, God, your kindness, your grace that that you are so much more than enough.

And Lord, I thank you for every dollar that was sown today. [clears throat] We ask that in it and through it, would you make Seattle a city, Lord, after your own heart? That our city and region would be would be marked with the revelation of the Christ where nations come in to to meet with God in in this city.

And I thank you, Lord, for every person that has given. I thank you that you see every need in the room and that you never leave us in lack. which means that if we are experiencing it, we we yield that thing over to you and we ask, would you infiltrate it?

Would you make way in it? For you are a good father. You are our provider.

You are always generous, always faithful, always true. And that even when things get difficult and challenging economies and and global chaos and all the stuff that happens around us, you remain faithful. You still remain the prince of peace.

You still remain Adonai. You still remain the Lord of lords. You still remain beginning and the end.

You still remain Jesus. >> Amen. >> And so Lord, we ask breathe upon the offering and that that it would carry your grace for transformation.

[snorts] And so we love you Lord. Thank you for your faithfulness, your kindness, and in your most holy name we pray. Amen.

>> Amen. Amen. Awesome.

Okay, [clears throat] we have we have one other thing. I have one other thing I want to do uh tonight. I want to invite you guys to pray uh with me here in a bit.

So, the Bible teaches that um this this will be rich coming from me, but the Bible says the Bible says a man shall leave his father and mother and the two will become one flesh. And um and covenant uh rather I should say and marriage is one of the deepest forms if not the deepest form of covenant that expresses the heart of Jesus towards his bride. And so what I what I want us what I want us as as a church family is that I want us to to deeply celebrate uh when when two individuals, a man and a woman choose to to make that to make that decision, that covenant between one another.

And I want I want one of our core values to be one of the things that when people look from the outside in, when they look at us, they know that we deeply value marriage and we deeply value family. which means that we do not we do not draw separation there. We do not we do not uh lack uh uh we do not lack rejoicing and blessing those who are coming into covenant in that way.

And so what I want to do is we have we have four four couples at church. It's It's kind of God's really [applause] um God's really doing something something special. I was, you know, I've been telling all of our single friends is there's something in the air at the Finding Run.

[laughter] It's uh the the dynamic of our church is is adjusting pretty quickly and so we're we're thrilled about it. Um we're going from a youth group to a to a young married um couples [applause] young families gathering. So it's it's amazing.

So what I want to do I want to do um I want to invite the four couples. I'll I'll invite them uh one by one here in a little bit. And then we just have some small gifts for them that we want to again it is our way to to demonstrate our celebration and our value for family and for marriage.

And then what we're going to do is we're all going to pray for them together and and then we'll jump right into the scriptures. Sounds good. >> Sweet.

Okay. So, we have four couples. The first one, can we welcome Mark and Aaliyah?

Why don't you guys come up? [cheering and applause] >> [applause] >> Oh man. Um, [laughter] okay.

Um, the second couple I want to invite Dasha and Rena. Rena and Dasha. [cheering and applause] Um, the third couple I want to invite is my sister Lada and her fianceé Sam.

[applause] Um, come on up, guys. And then the last couple I want to invite is Albina. Why don't you guys come up?

>> [cheering and applause] >> A [applause] so um get engaged and tell me [laughter] [gasps] um all of these guys I've I personally know and Uh, [sighs] and there's such a, you know, this probably this might sound a little bit funny to say, but there's a there's a measure of of like a proud father moment for for all of these people, even though we're all we're all almost the same age. I'm just a little bit older. [laughter] um but proud not because they're getting married, as amazing as that is, but because um all of them have chosen to walk in in the purity and innocence of Jesus as as they've grown to um as they've grown closer to one another.

It's it's it's really because they've grown closer to Jesus. And um and in so many ways they've been examples in our community for what it looks like um to love and to serve Jesus wholeheartedly and then to love another person and then do so in a pure manner. And so, um, what I want us to do is I want us to pray and first of all, honor, uh, honor their commitments to one another and and pray that that the marriages that come from our church are they're so they're so deeply rooted in Jesus, so deeply rooted in in the victory of the cross and his presence that that all the statistics that say otherwise would be proven wrong here because Jesus This is at the center and at the core.

Amen. [applause] And so, you know, I've been I've been involved in in all of their lives uh through their relationships and and um well, between one another, not Yeah. And um and I am I am thrilled and I'm proud and uh excited that that I get to celebrate um you know celebrate what God's doing at our church like this is happening at our church.

And so [applause] okay so I want to I want to invite you let's all stand up. Um and I would uh maybe invite some of the team if you guys want to come pray. Christina, Joe, Remma, come.

Uh, Carolina, Bailey, why don't you guys come, too? Um, so we're going to we're going to stretch our hands out towards them and and we're just going to pray. So, Jesus, we thank you for uh for these couples, Lord.

We thank you for the covenant that they're all coming into. And we ask Lord that for each one of them may they be strongly found secure in the center of your love. And as they begin their their lives together, as they begin their marriages, um as they go into these seasons of life together, that for all of them at the center, at the core would be Jesus Christ and him crucified.

And I pray Lord any plots, any plans of the enemy, any arrows that try to come their way would be would be strongly kept away by their faith, by the shield of faith that guards them, that keeps them and protects them. I ask Lord that you would build a unity between them, that they would be bound not just in in in a in a natural love for one another, but they would be connected deeply rooted in a love one for one in a love for one another that is found only in Jesus. And Lord, that you would knit their hearts together first and foremost with you and then deeply with one another, Lord, so that their marriages would be strong, safe, protected, guarded in you.

>> And we ask, Lord, that you would you would bless them. You would guide them. You would lead them.

That in their lives, Jesus would be the center. You would be at the forefront. That whatever it is you say, wherever it is you take them, whatever it is you guide them to do, that they would be quick to listen, God.

Quick to listen to what you have to say. they'd be quick to obey, quick to follow you. And Lord, that when stuff comes their way, when the issues of life and hardship come, that they would be grounded on the truth that is Jesus Christ.

And I pray, Lord, that you would ingrain upon them sear in their hearts, in their marriages, the truth of the gospel, the cross, that the testimony of Jesus would reign supreme in who they are in their marriages. and that one day as they have children and their children have children that their testimony their testimony would be that at this covenant >> was brought forth the fruit of the kingdom, the fruit of the Holy Spirit. And so Lord, as a church, we bless these these young families, these marriages that are happening.

God, we ask would you rest upon them as they get married, Lord, that they would find you in one another, Lord. And as you deeply root them in your love, in your heart, keep them, protect them, Lord. May they not miss a single drop of grace over their lives that you have paid a price for.

And I ask, Lord, that the assignments, the calls, the purposes that you have for their lives, that they would never be distracted by lesser things, but be they would be found in you completely and wholly in you. And so, Lord, we celebrate with them. We thank you for the covenant of marriage, God.

We thank you that we get to be called the bride of Christ and that in this way that we get to reflect a part of your nature and character in this covenant of marriage. And so Lord, I bless each one of them. I thank you for your faithfulness, your kindness, your grace over their lives.

Lord, we celebrate them. And we thank you God that this is the beginning of a journey that is filled with so much joy, so much hope, so much provision, so much life and light and excitement. And I pray Lord that they would enjoy every single moment of it.

And so we bless them Lord. We thank you. And in your name we pray.

Amen. Can we celebrate them one more time? [cheering] All right.

Um and so we just Yeah, team you're welcome to to go down. Uh we just we want to we want to be one of the first ones as a church. We want to be one of the first ones to to celebrate them and honor them.

And so we got them um we got them small gifts and um they're toasters. [laughter] We want them that every time they toast a piece of bread or anything else you put in toasters um that you remember you remember uh all the people that are celebrating with you guys. And so we love you so much.

And um [applause] all of us are with you guys. Let's let's bless them one more time as they go to their seats. You guys are good.

[cheering] You guys are good. Yeah. Love you guys.

>> Thank you. [applause] Sweet. We are We're rocking and rolling.

It's like they're getting engaged. Kids church is coming up real soon. Um so I'm just I'm saying tell all your single friends there's there's something in the air here.

[laughter] Um all right. We have been uh for those of you is there anyone who's here for the very first time? You've never been before?

Come on. Handful of you. Great.

We're so glad you're here. Um [applause] we're so glad you're here. We uh we just we love Jesus and we love church and um and so this is a great place to experience both.

[clears throat] So, we've been going through Exodus 12 uh which is really where where we learn about the Passover meal where God first uh begins the instruction for the Passover meal that has lasted that lasted up until Jesus. And in fact, it's still a celebration. We celebrate.

It's just in in a different form now. And as we've been going through Exodus 12, we've been finding Jesus in in all of it. and all and this portion this I don't know if I don't know if I like the word series but this kind of like what we've been studying over the course of the last uh couple months and where we're headed with this is that we are coming into somewhere around end of May beginning of June we will we will have a communion night here at church and the whole night will be communion and what we're going to watch happen at the revelation of Jesus I I firmly believe that every single time we gather at the Lord's table for communion as we come to a greater revelation of who he is that more and more of the stuff that challenges us in life that stuff will it'll be thrown into the pit of hell um as the light and the life of Jesus radiates through through our being.

It's it's who he is. It's who we are. >> And so um I want to continue through through Exodus 12 today.

We're going to be in verse 29 if you want to turn your Bibles there. I'm not going to take too long here. Uh, but what I do want to do is um I do want to highlight something really important today.

I I really I'm going to make just kind of one small point today before um and then we'll worship for a little bit and and we'll call it a night. >> [clears throat] >> So let's read Exodus uh 12 verse 29. It says, "At midnight, the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captives who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock.

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, and he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there's a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, "Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel, and go and serve the Lord as you have said.

Take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also." Okay. [clears throat] [sighs] To the [sighs] to the Israelites, to the Hebrews in Exodus 12, Jesus came as Jesus or excuse me, Jesus was represented as the Passover lamb. But in their in their perspective of Jesus, excuse me, their perspective of Egypt, Jesus.

So Jesus was kind of he was represented. There's types and shadows of Jesus on both ends in this portion of scripture. The first one being he is the Passover lamb that when they when they uh when they killed the Passover lamb and they they took the hissip, they dipped faith, they took the blood and they put it upon the doorpost beams, two beams upon a cross.

The blood was applied upon two beams. The Passover lamb was speaking of the mercy and the compassion and the grace, the atonement over the sin of a household of those that were covered by the blood. But the second type of shadow of Jesus in Exodus 12 is that Jesus was the firstborn among many.

He was the firstborn among many brethren. And just like just like within Egypt that the firstborn had to pay for the uh had to pay for the penalty for the sin of the household of the Egyptians. So Jesus was the firstborn am from our household and he was the one who was to pay for the sin of our household.

There's a reason that there's a reason that it was the firstborn that had to pay a price. In some ways, it might feel like it was injust. How is it that the firstborn of a household had to pay for the sin of an entire household?

I'm firstborn. I certainly want wouldn't want to be responsible for my sisters as much as I love them. But in it, in it is a type and shadow of Jesus who suffered the greatest injustice ever.

See in Egypt it was there was a manner of justice there because every person had sinned and sin the only answer to sin the only proper response to sin is death. And so sometimes you know when we don't understand when we don't understand the principles and the structure of heaven or or rather I should say the structure of of heavenly justice we you know people ask all sorts of questions. Why is it that that people were punished and they died in the Old Testament and this and that.

All of it was because sin the what sin deserved was death. It's like having a debt and the only way to pay for it is is with your life. That that's exactly what it is.

And so before Jesus came, there was no there was no other way. The only the only way to pay the debt of your sin was death. And so when people would turn away from God, they it's not that God would punish them to kill them.

It's that they receive God is a just judge. So what they were saying is we don't want you. We want the outcome of our lives.

We want the outcome of our sin. And when someone requested the outcome of their sin, they earned it. And that earning was always death.

Those who sought mercy, what they would find is that when they would come to the blood of a lamb, they would find mercy there. >> Amen. And so when God gave instruction for the Passover, what we learn in Exodus 12 is that there wasn't only Hebrews who participated in the Passover.

In fact, there was other people, whether they were Egyptians or others, who when they heard of what was to come, when they heard of what was going on, this is speaking of the the the open door to the Gentiles that was to come. But if they parttook participated in the Passover lamb, if they received of the Passover lamb in a in accordance to the instruction of the scriptures, there was mercy for the Egyptian. There was mercy for the sojourer.

There was mercy for the slave that was serving among them. There was mercy for anyone who would participate in this meal. >> Does this make are you guys hear what I'm saying?

So, so when the firstborn had to pay the penalty of the of the sin of their household, in many ways there was a measure of mercy that was demonstrated to that household. Justice was properly served, but mercy was demonstrated because in in this portion of scripture, what was being prophesied is there's one who is coming who is the firstborn. And though all of all of the Egyptians and all of us deserved the the wrath and the death for our sin, for our brokenness, for our darkness, here comes the firstborn of our household, the firstborn of God, the firstborn among many brethren.

And he who is absolutely innocent, absolutely pure, he who is the God man, Jesus Christ, this one will come and take the sin, the penalty, the wrath, the darkness of our household. >> Amen. >> That's why the scripture there's there's several scriptures that talk about Jesus being our brother or Jesus calling us brothers.

Because it went from it went from a distant relationship separated by the chasm of sin and death to Jesus hanging on the tree restoring life to you and I. Like I was saying earlier, when Jesus enters a dark, cold, empty grave and he rests there, that thing begins to radiate life. And out of it's the most bizarre thing that out of a grave, the one of the deepest uh examples, expressions of death, out of a grave only Jesus can bring forth eternal life.

Out of only Jesus can make a grave mean eternal life. Like what a paradox. Only Jesus can take a cross, which is to supposed to be you're supposed to die on.

Only Jesus could take a cross and make it a symbol of restoration and redemption, a reconciliation back to the father, >> which is what I was saying earlier. Only Jesus can when he fills when we are filled with him and we enter a dark city that the rest of America American churches don't want to participate in or or or go to or plant a church there. all this stuff.

When Jesus comes into a dark city with the people who are in love with him, out of that city comes forth life and light of the gospel. See, when Jesus when the scriptures I'm going to I'll say it this way. when the scriptures reveal Jesus in the there's probably hundreds of names that that the scripture gives Jesus.

There's so many of them. He's prince of peace, alpha, omega, beginning and the end, king of kings, lord of lords, son of man, son of god, savior, shepherd, pastor. I mean seriously can go on and on.

But the Bible doesn't give Jesus labels so that so that there we can write good songs about this guy named Jesus. And if if you don't have a word to rhyme with Jesus, you can use one of his other names. And it works.

Every every name that Jesus has given in the scriptures is is intended to point back to his character, his nature, and attributes. Which means that when he's called when he's called our brother, it is referencing a truth that you can only find in scripture. Do you hear what I'm saying?

So, for example, when the scripture says his name is Emmanuel, God with us, and we think, perfect, great Christmas song coming out. And I I mean, I love the Christmas songs. Oh, Holy Night.

Like, I can't wait for Christmas just for that. Like, I love it. But the scripture teaches us Emmanuel, not to not for a good Christmas song.

Emmanuel is intended to point us back to a reality that you will only find in Jesus. >> Amen. >> And so when it says God with us, it it speaks of his nearness.

Emmanuel, God with us, which means that there is not a moment or season in life that Jesus separated himself from you. Like if I asked you, remember the darkest moment in your life, don't say it out loud, just remember it. that thing that you wish you never did, the most broken area of your life, that that thing that seems to maybe sometimes haunt you or whatever.

In that moment, not only was Jesus like he was he was watching you, but he was as you were committing the thing against him, he was right there with you. And as you found pleasure in something else, Jesus wept at your side, crying out mercy by his blood. And that all the moments that you felt like you were alone and nobody was there and all of a sudden you turn to Jesus and you realize that when it says Emmanuel, God with us, it means that he never leaves us and he never forsakes us and he never forgets us and he never he's never separated himself from us >> and he never will.

on the night on the night that I gave my life to Jesus, I was I was at a conference and they uh they had an altar call and I I mean I was just I was balling my eyes out and I run to the front. I get on my knees and I'm crying and I'm just like I was I was I was so new to the faith. I didn't really even know what to pray.

I was just like I was just saying the best that I knew how in prayer and and and I was there for I don't know maybe 40 minutes or so or some something along those lines and and then you know people started to leave and and and I'm still there and then and then I get up and I I go to the back of the room and I just sit on a chair there and I'm just I'm just weeping just crying. I and if you ask me why are you crying I have no idea. I'm I just don't know.

I all I know is that I once was lost and I think I'm found like and so I'm crying. I'm sitting and crying and this was so God. This this dad and this little boy or maybe it was his brother's an adult and a young little boy maybe around seven or eight years old.

And and and I kind of see them in the corner of my eye. They're kind of talking. It looks like they're looking at me but I'm not entirely sure.

I'm just kind of And then I see the little kid approaching me and he goes, "Uh, excuse me. Can I pray for you?" And and I was like, "Oh my gosh, like this is game over." And uh and I'm like, "Yeah." And and he just kind of puts his hand on my shoulder and he starts praying. I I honestly I don't remember what he prayed except when he started going into uh into this portion.

and he goes he goes I'm just reminded of it it was profound actually how well articulated he was um he was like I just I I remember the story of the footprints in the sand and I'm like I've never heard that story before and so for me he's he goes like you know you're walking on the beach with Jesus and you look back at some of the hard moments of your life and and he and in those moments you only see one set of footprints And I have no idea where he's going with this. I'm just like like I'm in for the for the big reveal. And and he goes he goes and he goes and you ask Jesus, "Why is it that when I was walking through the hardest parts of my life, there's only one set of footprints there." And Jesus says to you, "Well, because son, uh during th during the hardest moments of your life, I carried you.

I was I mean [laughter] it was bad. It was like bad. It was ugly crying.

But you know like [laughter] and [laughter] I remember I went home and I I wept to the thought of that story for probably days. I mean God just God really touched just changed my life. Um, but I I say that is because when the scriptures say Emmanuel, God with us, it's not talking about a Christmas carol, and it's not talking about that.

Yeah, he's there. He's there like casually. It [clears throat] it's like it's like that story was it so profoundly spoke to to my heart and my spirit.

I was like, man, it's I I didn't know this, but he is right there with me. And Emmanuel, God with us, begins to point back to an attribute of Jesus that if I understand, if I clearly understand what Emanuel means, I never fear because I know that if I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I know the one who is with me. I know that I'm not alone.

And so walking through the valley of the shadow of death is only encouraging because I know that he is with me. >> So good. >> And so if I don't know Jesus, the Emmanuel, God with us, I can walk through valleys of shadows of death my whole life, but if I don't know he's with me, I'm in fear all the time.

Because he says, I will fear no evil because you are with me. Because I know, I understand, I have a revelation that you are with me. Amen.

>> You hear how the name speaks of a greater truth. >> Or like when it says that when the scriptures teach that he's a good shepherd. Again, it's it's it's so fun to write songs about it and it's it's great to call him that.

And but then the the word is pointing to a greater truth. The scriptures are living, which means that when it says he's a good shepherd, it's talking about the way that he cares for me and the way that he loves me. The way that that he will stand between me and a lion or a bear, that he will follow me.

If I start wandering off, he still cares for me. He leaves the 99. He goes after the one like I don't know if you've seen that little video clip.

It's like uh it's like a sheep and it falls into a like a uh uh like a ditch and the shepherd pulls him out and the sheep get is on the ground and then it jumps twice and jumps right back into the hole. I'm like that's me in another life. like [laughter] meaning like but again and again he the patience of our good shepherd that we fall into the same hole 10 times and he's right there to pull us right right out again and again and again and you realize that Jesus being a good shepherd means that that I have nothing to fear that he takes care of me and he keeps me and he protects me and he watches over me stands he goes before me he stands in front of me when I'm being attacked he is the good shepherd And the only reason it's it's encouraging that the encouraging that he's with me in the in the valley as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death is that not only do I know that he's with me, but I know who it is that's with me.

How many of you know that if you're walking through the valley of the shadow of death and you have an abusive dad with you there, you're like, I would rather be here alone. Abuse only makes it worse. You're like, I'm already afraid of the valley and I have to be afraid about being smacked upside the head, you know, like.

And so it's only encouraging to walk with Jesus through the valley of the shadow of death is because I know that he's with me. And not only is he with me, but I know he's a good shepherd. He's the best dad.

He's my best friend, which means that he only has the best in mind for me, which means that I have nothing to be concerned about. I have nothing to be afraid of. Now I know that when I'm in the valley of the shadow of death and I'm walking through it, I don't have any fear.

>> Amen. Because every name, every one of his names is speaking of an attribute of his character and his nature and his truth. We it's you can't call him good shepherd and then be afraid in the valley of the shadow of death because then you just don't know who it is that with is with you or you don't believe that he's actually there.

>> Do you hear what I'm saying? It calls Jesus, the scriptures I should say, call Jesus the son of man. >> Meaning that if Jesus was came to earth to try to impress you and I with his godliness, there's much wilder ways he could do that.

He can appear in the room. His eyes like fire and all of us just melt just at him looking at us. He comes in thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of angels at the snap of his finger.

And then when he speaks, he creates entire worlds. The scripture calls him son of man because Jesus did not come to impress you and I with his divinity. He came to restore you and I back to the father.

And so what he did is he said, "Listen, this is what it looks like to be filled with my spirit, with the Holy Spirit." And so Jesus became an example, a de a demonstration of who you and I are called to be today. >> Amen. So good.

And so with every name, with every attribute of his character, it's pointing back to who Jesus is in nature. His name is not the names that the scriptures give him is supposed to be definitive. Meaning it defines it defines who he is.

So when the scripture says savior, it means that I don't have need for another. Amen. >> When the scripture calls him king of kings, that means there is nothing that has lordship over my life that cannot and will not submit itself to the truth of Jesus Christ if I give it in that direction.

Which means that there's no darkness, there's no demon, there's no devil, there's no sin, no darkness, no trauma, no violation in your life that triumphs over the authority of the King of Kings. Amen. >> Which means that you and I are not slaves to our stuff.

If we give ourselves over to the King of Kings, then whatever master it is we feel like we're a slave to, Jesus triumphs over that one. >> And when you turn to him and you say, "Jesus, I I want your your lordship, your kingship in my life." That other master in life has to bow its knee. It does not have a choice.

He is king of any other king. He's the high priest, meaning that he makes intercession in heaven for you and I, which means that you and I never ever leave his mind. The priests, the the high priests one job in the scriptures, the Levitical priesthood was was that they give themselves over their entire lives are given over to the ministry between uh there it's given over to minister to be the middleman in some ways between God and man.

And now Jesus says which means that the priesthood their entire job was to consider God and to consider the people nothing else. And now Jesus steps in and he says, "I am now your high priest." Which means that you and I never leave his mind. He's always thinking about us.

And he sees you in your broken, dark moments. And he's always thinking about you. And then he sees you in celebration and victory and excitement.

He's right there to celebrate with you. You never ever leave his mind. >> Amen.

Hallelujah. And all of a sudden, as you realize that each one of these names is pointing to who he is, do do you see how there we come to a revelation of who the Christ is? Do you hear what I'm saying?

>> We sing songs that say King of Kings all the time and it's true. But the truth is not in a proclamation. The truth and is is in the revelation of who what it means to be the King of Kings.

>> Amen. Amen. So good.

So when the scriptures call him the bridegroom, it's speaking of the one who wants to be closest to me. The one who the one who who has laid everything down just to be with me. the bridegroom who who gave his his his life for his bride just to be with you.

The bridegroom who who's always thinking of me. The one who's who always has the best in mind for me. The one who gives his life to serve me.

man and the one who who's coming back again cuz he will not leave his bride. >> Amen. >> And all of a sudden in every one of his names, I have a confidence, a revelation of the Christ.

That that isn't just a name. It's not just a a phrase. It is a it is the exposure of a heart.

It is the it becomes a definition. the the names of the Bible for Jesus. It's it's like it's like a dictionary that that defines the Christ and we read past the words and forget what do the words mean or never understand what it means.

And so when the scripture says that, so when it says that at midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn of the land of Egypt and in Romans 8 it talks about how Jesus is. Jesus is the firstborn among many brethren. It's saying that that in his brotherhood in in being our brother first of all first of all that he has taken he has taken the penalty for our household but then it also speaks that beyond taking the penalty for our household is that you and I have become co-airs with Christ heirs to God our father.

And so all of a sudden, the Christ is not just this mystical creature named Jesus up in the sky somewhere. The Christ becomes my best friend and my God and my King and my Lord and my Savior and my shepherd, my best friend, my master, the alpha, omega, beginning and the end, bread of life, living water. And the beauty of it is every name is instruction for you and I.

Every name is to define who he is. >> So do you do you I kind of wanted to unravel that a little bit in verse 29 where it says at midnight the Lord struck down the firstborn in the land of Egypt from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock. Meaning even the firstborn of the livestock had to pay a price because Jesus was coming to redeem all of creation.

He wasn't just coming to redeem humanity. He was coming to redeem creation. Which is why the there will be scriptures that talk about that that all creation groans for the sons of God to be made manifest.

In other words, those who have been entrusted with redemption, all creation awaits. That's why every detail of the Christ, that's why in Romans 1 uh 120ish somewhere around there, it says that you can see his invisible attributes and all that was created. And so the world, all the created world speaks about speaks of Jesus and only man was created to be in the image and likeness of God.

So good. >> And so Jesus is like the scriptures are teaching us that not only is Jesus coming to pay the penalty of our sin, but he's coming to redeem all of creation. >> And so when we come to the table of communion, what you have what we realize what we realize is that we do not partake of simple grape juice and a wafer.

We are partaking of a redemption of lives, but not just our lives. We are coming to participate in redemption of a household, a people that Jesus thought were worth dying for. >> And Pharaoh rose up in the night, verse 30.

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, and he and all his servants and all the Egyptians and all the Egyptians, excuse me, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. I'm going to read in Colossians 2 2:13. And you were dead in your trespasses and and the uncircumcision of your flesh.

God made alive together with him. Excuse me. And you who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

And by cancelelling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross, he disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing triumph triumphing over them in him. >> Sorry.

Yeah. In other words, Pharaoh rose up and in the blood of the lamb, in the sacrifice of the lamb, he was shown to be at shame, his authority stripped and he came to the end of himself where he had to let go of what he held captive. In other words, when you turn to Jesus, when your affection is turned to Jesus, when you give of yourself to him and you participate in communion and you uh you receive of the Christ, sin doesn't get to choose if it has a hold on your life or not.

>> Amen. >> Once Jesus steps into the picture, once his testimony marks your life, sin and darkness and bondage has no choice but to release you. >> You are not We are not the church.

We are not victims to the stuff that seems to hold us. What we're victims to is our own ignorance. The ignorance is that the testimony of Jesus stands above it all.

And we look for self-help stuff to set us free from things >> that only the testimony can deliver us from. And so he says, "And Pharaoh rose up in the night. He all servants," in other words, sin and darkness and brokenness realized what was going on.

And there was a great cry in Egypt, and there was not a house where someone was not dead. Then he summoned verse 31. Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said up go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel, go serve the Lord as you have said.

In other words, when Israel received the of the lamb, when they received of the lamb, immediately what began to happen is that sin or that bondage began to lose its grip on them. Which tells me is if we do not see the same results in communion when we come to the Lord's table, we are doing something wrong. That means we we lack a revelation of Jesus.

We lack a perspective. We lack an understanding that sometimes it's easier to live in ignorance. It's easier to live in in being blind because then you don't have to face the areas of lack.

It's easier for me to say that Jesus doesn't heal today because then any sick person I don't have to take I don't have to pray for. It's like, well, take it up with the guy upstairs. Instead of knowing that the scriptures that say by his stripes we are healed and there's not a single experience there's not a single example in the scriptures where Jesus came to somebody and said it is not your time for healing or that you need to endure this so that my father up in heaven can teach you a lesson.

It's a good lesson though. Trust me, not one time. So now I have to be confronted with the reality is that when I pray, not everyone is healed.

And that's a problem. Not for God. It's not a problem as in like I'm I'm in pity and I I don't know.

I It means that I realize that I there is an answer. I have a problem. Jesus is the answer.

And there's a disconnect somewhere here. my I will devote my life to make this connection happen because it's who he is in nature. That's what I said when I said I'm a Christian.

That's what you said when you said you're a Christian. I am giving my life not to be called a Christian. I've given my life to devote to look like Jesus who is the Christ.

That's what makes me a Christian. You hear what I'm saying? It's it's easier to live in ignorance and say, "No, he doesn't do that anymore.

That's why in first Peter he says, "Do not live in the ignorance of your former self because the ignorance of your former self will keep you in a place of your former self even though you might be born again." Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, "Go up from go up out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel. Go serve the Lord as you have said." You want to come? We're We're almost done here.

Just maybe five minutes. Go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel, and go serve the Lord as you have said. Take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone and bless me also.

Th this this is the this is such a beautiful depiction of Jesus. Pharaoh who is in Egypt who are representations of bondage and sin and an old way of life. When the revelation of Jesus has has come through the Passover lamb through the firstborn, what happens when there's a revelation of Jesus is that sin and darkness and every demon in hell and all that stuff, they would rather you you just go to Jesus than them bothering you any longer.

And this is what I mean. This is what I mean is, [sighs] you know, if you have a, you know, it's it's happening here. It's going to be happening.

If you have a baby and you lock it, you know, you you put it you put the baby to sleep and you lay it in the crib and then you walk into the room and you're loud and obnoxious trying to find something and the baby wakes up and it's crying. You're okay. The next time you lay the baby to sleep and you walk into the room, you're probably going to whisper.

You're going to walk gently. If the baby still wakes up the next time and it's crying and you're like, "This is this is hard." The next time you're like, when the baby's sleeping, you're like, you know what? I don't think I want to go in there.

Just let it do let the baby have its rest. In this is a funny example, but in some ways the more the devil walks into the room that I'm sleeping in with Jesus that when he walks in and when he tries to be loud and obnoxious, may may my cry be that of glory and honor to the king. And then he realizes that we're no ordinary Christians.

We don't we don't claim a faith but deny it once we're pressed. We become a Christian. We've become a Christian that that when when life comes to tackle us, everything that we give in return is glory to Jesus.

>> And then the de the devils, the demons are like, you know what? Maybe let's try a little bit. Let's try something different.

and maybe a little quieter, a little more intricate, a little more deep, and a little whatever. And they come in and that crying baby comes up again and it's just shouting, "Jesus, glory to Jesus." And he's like, "You [snorts] know what? I I don't think I want to go into that room.

Every time I touch that Christian, he forgives others. He blesses others. He preaches the gospel to others.

He prays for the sick. Every time I touch this Christian, every time I try to attack his finances, for some reason, he becomes even more generous and then shares the gospel with people. And anytime I send sick people his way, he always seems to be encouraged.

What's wrong with this guy? >> And all of a sudden, just like Pharaoh, he goes, "You know what? Up.

Go. Go. Go for my go.

I don't I do not want you here. >> Get away from me. Take all your people.

Take all your stuff. I do not want to be here with you. >> In other words, the more we look like Jesus, the more that we find that all the powers in hell cannot stand against his beautiful and most wonderful name.

>> And so when we begin to declare and sing Jesus, all of a sudden we declare declare his testimony in his name. And that's why that's why demons begin to tremble. They begin to freak out.

Not because there's a couple hundred, few hundred Christians who say Jesus, but because there's a people who are declaring a testimony that triumphs over those things over tri that triumphs over principalities and powers and the demonic and the devil himself. >> Does it do you hear what I'm saying? Does this make sense?

And so I'm like I I I really hope that this, you know, sometimes it could be easy to listen to a me to a message and then you just kind of forget about it. And it it's okay. Okay, it's okay to do that in the sense that you don't need to remember the message, but we absolutely need to remember Jesus, who he is, what his name means, what his names are pointing to, and what he has accomplished on the cross.

And so that in just a few weeks when we come to the Lord's table of communion, I I'm telling you, I am like and giddy on the inside with where what's going to happen on that Sunday >> where we're where we are going to proclaim the victories of the cross and pray for the sick and and worship and love him and celebrate and lay down our burdens, our aches, retell the testimony of Jesus, all that he's accomplished. And watch how hell trembles in the room as heaven magnifies and glorifies our king, sin, darkness, brokenness, all of that stuff, it has to lose its grip in at the table of Jesus. It's why the Lord is as profound as he is when he says when the scriptures say that he sets a table before me in the presence of my enemies and every demon, every principality, every nasty, wicked, dark thing is observing as I come to the cup of covenant and the bread of life.

And everything around me is is dark and creepy and scary and and I fear no evil because my eyes are locked on the one who's sitting right across from me. >> And I wouldn't want to be sitting in a table that's not in within my enemies because I know who's with me. And so on that Sunday and again in a few Sundays when we come to the table of communion, I I pray that it would there would be such a rattle in the spiritual realm that the demons are like, "We got to get there to see if it actually works." And then as we exalt and love Jesus, we sit at his table and the power of his body, his testimony, his blood, his cross, his name triumphs over that.

It just it it resounds in our city. >> Amen. >> Okay.

So, what I want to do is team, if you want to come back up, we we've done this. We we've done this every Sunday as we've been going through Exodus 12 is I as we remember the testimony of Jesus in the scriptures like this. What I want us to do after just after every service is to go back into worship and love Jesus again with this revelation that this is the Christ.

He is the Christ, our Passover lamb. And as we sing, we celebrate the testimony of our Lord. Amen.

>> Did you Does this Did that make sense? Do you guys clear? Okay.

Hopefully it was helpful. Um if not, come back next week. We'll try again.

>> [applause] >> Okay, why don't we all stand up? We're just going to worship for for maybe 5 minutes longer and um and we're going to love Jesus together. We're going to sing of [music] his testimony.

Above all [singing] kingoms, above all thrones, above all [singing] wonderers this [music] world has ever known. Above all wealth and treasures [singing] of the earth, there's [singing] no way to measure you. Above all powers, [singing] above all kings, above all [singing and music] nature and all created things, above all wisdom and all the ways of men, you before [singing] the world began.

Above [music] all [singing] kingoms, above all thrones, above all wonderers [singing and music] this world has ever known. above her world and treasures [music] of the earth. There's no way to measure [singing] your worth.

Above all powers, [music and singing] above all kings, [music] above all [singing] nature and [music] all creative things. above her wisdom [music and singing] and all the ways of men. [music] You before the [singing] world began.

Above all kingoms, above all [singing] thrones, above all wonderers this [music] world has ever known. of our [music] wealth and treasures of the earth. There's [music] a way to measure what your you [music] are crucified.

Leave [music] behind the soul you live to die. Ejected and alone [music] like a rose trembled on the ground. [music] You took the fall and thought of [music] me.

You were and you were crucified. [music] Leave behind a soul. can live to die.

[music] Rejected it alone. Like a rose [music] trampled on the ground, you took [music] the fall and thought of me [music] above all. Above all [music] powers, above all [music] kings, above all nature [singing] and all [music] created things, above all [music] wisdom and all the ways of men.

You were [singing] here before the world [music] began. Above all kingoms, [singing] above all [music] thrones, above all wonders, this world would ever known. above all around [music] the treasures of the earth.

There's [music] a way to measure what you're worth. Above all kingoms, above all thrones, [music] above all wonders this world has ever known. above [music] all around and treasures of the earth.

[music] There's no way to measure what your love [music] cuz you were crucified. [music] Lay behind the song to die. [music] protected and alone like a rose [music] trampled on the ground.

You took the fall [music] and part of me. You were crucified. [music] Lay behind a song.

You live [music] to die. rejected and Lord like a rose [music] trampled on the ground. You took the fall [music] and thought of me.

You took the fall and thought [music] of me. You took the fall and thought of [music] me. You took the fall and [music] thought of me.

You took the fall. You took the [singing] fall and thought of [music] me. You took the fall and thought of me.

>> [music] >> It's the fall. It's me. [music] It's the [music] me.

It's the [music] me. You are crucified. >> [music] >> You leave behind the stone.

You live to die. [music] Protected like a rose trampled on [music] the ground. You fall [music] and me and you fall and [music] me it's [music] me.

You turn the ball and I [music] need a day. You above you [music] and I [music] the cross is [music] the blood still below. The [music] work is finished and hell still knows that the >> [music] >> empty [music] yourself.

You're still on the ground [music] still. The blood still the work is finished. The hell [music] still the grave is still empty.

[music] The soul is still [music] high lifted up. You're still on [music] the ground. The cross still works.

[music] The work is finished. still knows [music] that the gra [singing] [music] on the throne. The cross still stands.

The blood still flows. The work [music] is [singing] finished. And hell still knows that the grave [music] is still empty.

[singing] The stone is still ro and you're still [music and singing] high lifted up. You're still seated on the dawn. The cross still [music] stands.

The blood still flows. The work [music] is finished. And hell still knows that the [music] grave is still empty.

The storm is still [music] high lifted up. You're still still on [music] the cross. The world still blows.

[music] The work is finished. Still knows that [music] the rain is still empty. You're still high.

[music] You'll still see all the cross still. [music] The blood still the work is finished and h still [music] the grave is still empty. [singing] The soul is still wrong.

[music] You're still high lifted up. on the [music] ground still. The blood still the work [music] still knows that the [music] gra [music] still [music] the cross the blood still [music] flows.

The work is finished and hell still knows [music] that the grave is still empty. The storm is still roll. [music] You're still high and lifted up.

You're still [music] seated on the throne. The cross still the blood still flows. [singing] The work is finished as he knows that the grave is still l.

The stone is still around [music] and you're still high lifted [singing] up. You're still seated on the throne. [music] The cross still stands.

The blood [music] still flows. The word is [singing] finished. The hell still knows that the grave is still left empty.

The stone is [singing] still wrong. And you're still lifted [singing] up. You're still seated on the throne.

>> [music] >> bow down and the seas will sound [music] and I sing for joy at the words [singing] of your hands forever. [music] I love you forever. I'll stand to [music] shout to the Lord all the earth.

Let us sing. [music] Power, power, power and majesty praise. >> Mountains [music] bow down.

At the sound [music] of your I sing and I sing for joy forever. [music] Nothing compares. Shout [music] to the Lord.

Shout to the Lord. All the earth. Let us sing.

[music] Power and majesty. Praise to the king. [music] Mountains bow down and the seas [music] will roar at the sound of [music] your name.

My single joy [music] at the words of your hands. Forever I love you. Forever [music] I stand.

Nothing compares to this proise [music] I have to the Lord all [music] the earth let us sing power and majesty praise to [music] the king mountains bow down and the sear [music] and the sound of your name. [music] I sing for joy [music] at the words of your hands. Forever I'll [music] love you forever.

I'll stand [music] and nothing compares to this proise I have shown and shout to the Lord [music] all the earth. Let us sing. Power and majesty [music] praise tonight.

The mountains bow down and the seas will roar [music] at the sound of your [music] name. I sing for joy at the words [music] of your hands. Forever I'll love [music] you forever.

I said and nothing compares to this proise [music] I have. And nothing compares to this proise [singing] I have. Nothing [music] compares to this promise I have.

Nothing [music] compares to this promise I have. Nothing. >> [music] >> Nothing nothing compares to this proise I have.

Nothing [music] compares to this proise I have in you. you and you and you Lord and you Jesus. We remember your testimony and we thank you that you're our dear brother [music] and that in you, Lord, and in your sacrifice, our household has been [sighs] has been atoned for.

And we thank you that you're [music] a good shepherd, the best dad, our closest friend, our bridegroom, our King, our Lord, our Savior. Thank you, Lord. And today we rejoice, we celebrate in the victories of the cross and the power of your name.

And thank you for you that you are always good for your faithfulness, God. Your faithfulness. [music] Thank you.

Thank you for loving us, Lord. All of us, never leaving [music] us, never forsaking us. Truly Emmanuel, God with us.

That even when we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we fear no evil, for you are with us. We give you all of the glory, all of the honor, and in your name we pray. Amen.

Can we lift up one more shout of praise to Jesus? [music] >> [music] >> Amen. Amen.

Amen. Well, we love you guys so much. Thank you for being with us tonight and loving Jesus.

We We pray you drive home safely. We'll either see you on Tuesday. On Tuesday, you come to Bible study, we're going to receive communion together at Bible study, but we either see you on Tuesday, Thursday, or next Sunday.

And if you get engaged, let me know. We love you guys and um we will see you next time. Our prayer team is going to be up here at the front.

If you need prayer for anything and you would love someone to partner with you, our prayer team will be at the front and we're ready and happy to pray. Have a good night and God bless.