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Um, most of you probably know today's our our water baptism service, hence the the tub of water. Um, so we are we're we're excited for tonight and and all that God's going to do with I think we have 12 10 12 souls, precious souls. um that we're going to rejoice and celebrate with for what God is God is doing in their lives here tonight.

And so I don't have any announcements, so we're just going to we're just going to jump right into some scripture here and um and then yield our hearts over to Jesus in worship. And so why don't we all stand up? I want to read from Psalm uh 27.

So the scriptures say, "The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life.

Of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. And though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.

And though war rise against me, yet I will be confident. For one thing I have asked of the Lord, and that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

So Lord, today we gather uh with excitement and expectation, ready to celebrate with those who have made this this holy decision in the waters of baptism. But we come today not just to celebrate not just to celebrate waters of baptism. We come celebrating the testimony that makes waters of baptism powerful.

And so today we look to you Lord and we remember that whatever in life can come against us. whatever we may face, challenges that come our way, you always remain faithful and true. You always, always, always remain good.

And so the cry of our hearts, Lord, as a church, the cry of our hearts is that we want to rest in your presence. We want to be found in you, to look upon your beauty, Lord, to inquire in your temple, to be one with you, to hunger and thirst for righteousness. And I ask, Lord, that today you would meet us here.

for all those who have come, those who are still coming, that today there'd be an appointed encounter, ano an appointed touch of heaven in the room tonight. And so we yield ourselves over to you. We love you deeply.

We thank you for your faithfulness, for your kindness, and your mercies towards us. and we thank you for all that you're going to do. We love you, Jesus.

And in your name we pray. Amen. Oh, Come Lord come.

Come Lord come. How we long for you. We wait on you.

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Oh, how lovely. Oh, how you Oh, Lord, I give you my heart. I give you my soul.

I live for you alone. Every breath that I take, every moment away. Lord, have your way in me.

Lord, I give you my heart. I give you my soul. I live for you alone.

Every breath that I take, every moment I Lord. Oh, how are you? Oh, and this is my desire.

to you and always my heart I worship you for you and all I have within I give you praise and all that I adore is all and this is my desire. I to my heart I worship you and all I have within I give you praise and all that I adore is Lord. I give you my heart.

I give you my I live for you. Every breath that I take every moment I Lord have your way. Lord, I give you my heart.

I give you my soul. I live for you. I have Heat.

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You're always a grave. You're always a heart in me. Praise God.

All these pieces broken in scattered in mercy gather mened and whole empty but not forsaken. I've been set free. I've been set free.

And all these pieces broken in scattered and mercy gather mened and home. Emptyhanded but not forsen. I've been set free.

I've been set free. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a rich like me. I once was lost but now I am found.

Was blind but now I see. Oh I can see you now. Oh I can see the love in your eyes.

Letting yourself down. Raising up the broken to life. Oh, what amazing grace.

What amazing grace. You take our failure. You take our weakness.

You say your treasure in jars of clay. So take this heart, Lord. I'll be your vessel, the world to see, your life in me.

You take our failures. You take our weakness. You set your treasure in jars of clay.

So take this heart, Lord. I'll be your vessel, the world to see. Your life in me.

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a like me. I once was lost but now I am found. Was love but now I see.

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that save like me. I was lost, but now I am found with now I see. Amazing grace was lost but found I can see Heat.

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raising you up the broken to. Oh, I can see you now. Oh, I can see the love in your eyes.

Laying yourself down. Raising up the broken to life. Oh, I can see the love.

I can see the love in your eyes for us. Oh, how he loves us. How he loves us.

Oh, how he loves us. How he loves us. Oh, how he loves us.

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Oh. This is real. Amazing grace.

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Was now I see. Oh, I can see your love. Oh, I can see the love in your arms.

Lay yourself down. raising up the broken to. Oh, I can see you now.

Oh, I can see the love in your eyes. Laying yourself down. raising up the broken to life.

And I can sing of your love forever. I can sing of your love forever. I can sing of your love forever.

I could sing of your love forever. I could sing of your love forever. I could sing of your love forever.

I could sing of your love forever. I could sing of your love forever. Oh, oh, what a great love you've given us, Lord.

What a great love you've given us. Oh, what a great love, an everlasting love. and everlasting love, everlasting love.

Oh, I could sing of your love forever. I could sing of your love forever. I could sing of your love forever.

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I could sing of your love forever. I could sing of your love forever. Oh, ever and ever.

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I could sing forever until the very end. Until the very end of the world until sing until I see you. Heat.

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I could sing of your love until the very end. Oh, until the very end. to the very heart.

Thank you for your You're so worthy of our praise tonight. >> No one more worthy. Oh, there's no one worthy.

At the conception of the earth, the genesis of everything. When life brought day not give rest at your creation formed. The praise of all the earth was born.

You said it was good and called it blessed. Every new is a form of art pointing back to who you are. distinguished, set apart.

You made everything and everything you made recognize your worthiness. And you made everything and everything. You may recognize us.

You worthiness. The earth sings worthy. Oh, all the earth sings worthy.

Exchange on purpose. They groan and give in worship. All the earth belongs to you, Lord.

In the clouds they come together giving praise and thunder. We're made to give you glory. Everything cries glory.

Everything cries glory. And the seasons change on purpose. They groan in giving worship.

All the earth belongs to you. In the clouds we come together praise with light and thunder to give you glory. Everything cries glory.

Everything glory you. Everything you can see. You made everything.

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All the earth is worthy. All the earth is worthy. All the earth is worthy.

Praise you tonight. Praise you tonight. Oh, who else is worthy?

Oh, who else is worthy? Who else is worthy, Lord? No one but Jesus.

And who else is worthy? All the praise tonight. Nobody else.

Nobody else is worthy. Nobody else. Yeah.

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Only you Jesus. Who else is worthy? Who else is worthy?

There is no one holy you Jesus. Who else is worthy? Who else is worthy?

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Oh, there is no one only you Jesus. Who else is worthy? Who else is worthy?

There is no one you Jesus. There is no one only Jesus. There is no one holy Jesus.

There is no one you Jesus. There is no one only you Jesus that everything that has breath praise. Praise the Lord.

Let everything that has breath praise praise Lord. Let everything that everything that everything that has breath. Praise the Lord.

Everything, every people and tribe, every nation and tribe, every son and daughter, all the redeemed of the Lord has breath praise. Lord, let everything that everything that everything that is anyone worthy. Is anyone whole?

Is anyone able to break the seal and open the scroll? The lion of Judah who conquered the grave. He is David's root and the lamb who died to ransom slain.

Is anyone worth? Is anyone home or is anyone able to break the seal and open the scroll? The lion of Judah who conquered the grave.

He is David's root and the lamb will die to wrestle the slave. Is anyone Is anyone worthy? Is anyone home?

Is anyone able to break the seal and open the scroll? The light of Judah who conquered the grave. He is David's root and the lamb who died to ransom the slave of every people and tribe.

Every nation tongue. He has made us a kingdom of praise to God to reign with the soul of every people, every people, every nation of tribe. He has made us a kingdom of priest to God to ring with the son every people, every people and tribe, every nation.

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Come on and raise up your voices tonight and say he's worthy. He's so worthy of this. Nobody else in the earth.

There's nobody else in the earth can praise tonight. Heat up here. Yeah.

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Yes. Rightous in my heart. We praise you.

We lift you up. We magnify, we glorify you, we exalt you, we extol you, we adore you. Hallelujah.

Holy, wonderful, marvelous, glorious, omnipotent, righteous and mighty. And we praise you. We lift you up.

We magnify. We glorify, we exalt you, we extol you, we adore you. Hallelujah.

Glory, wonderful, marvelous, glorious, righteous might. We praise you. We lift you up.

We magnify you, Lord. We exalt you. We adore you.

We adore you. Hallelujah. Heat.

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He is worthy. >> Lord, we thank you for the power and the victory of the cross. And today, Lord, we uh we're excited and anticipating.

We're excited, anticipating, Lord, the beauty of of covenant in these waters. And we thank you Lord that because of your testimony, because of the cross and what you have accomplished and fulfilled in those waters, we find the power for transformation. We don't come today, Lord, to take a take a dip in a pool at church.

We come to celebrate with those who are laying the old way of life behind and more importantly who are yielding themselves over to Jesus a resurrection in your life. And so collectively Lord as a church we thank you. We thank you for your broken body.

We thank you for your spilled out blood. We thank you for the cross and the testimony. We thank you that every single morning your mercies are brand new.

Your love never fails. You are constant and consistent. Your provision is generous.

Your faithfulness it endures through the ages. You never leave us nor forsake us. You've always loved us, Lord.

Even when we didn't want you, even when we turned away, when we rejected you, for all of us here in the room, you never stopped loving us. And we recognize that for all of eternity, we'll sing of your worthiness and your majesty and your glory and your grace. And what a privilege it is to be called children of God.

I pray Lord that you would reignite the first love fire within our souls. Especially Lord, if there's areas of life where we've become jaded or disillusioned, areas where we've grown to doubt and live in disbelief that in the room tonight you would awaken our souls. awaken our hearts to the revelation of the Christ, to the good news of the gospel, what we have in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Holy Spirit, my prayer, my request is that you would open our eyes to see Jesus. Help us, Lord. We don't want to be distracted by self.

We don't want to be distracted by things in life and the worries and concerns of our week. Tonight we come to behold the lamb of God and with heaven to celebrate precious souls yielding and surrendering to the glory of our king. So I pray for every person in this room.

I plead your blood Lord that you would keep us. You would protect us. you would remind us of your love for us and that as a church we would live in first love.

We would live with first love, with hunger, with desperation, with a longing for Jesus at any cost. Thank you for your faithfulness. Tonight we join with heaven, with earth to sing you're worthy, to declare you're worthy to cry and surrender.

You're worthy. You're worthy. You're the one we're after, Lord.

The one we're after. We give you all of the glory, all of the honor, precious Lord. And in your name we pray.

Amen. Amen. Amen.

Amen. Um, you may find your seats. Can we thank our precious worship team?

Awesome. Um, if you need a seat, it looks like there's there's some scattered throughout the room. Um, ushers, if you can help help facilitate that, please.

Um, is there anyone I would imagine there will be several of you, but is there anyone who's here for the very first time, like you've never been to a Sunday night before? Awesome. Welcome, welcome.

We're so glad you're here. Um, we we love Jesus and really our mission in life is to learn to love him more and uh in whatever shape, form, or capacity that looks like. And so, um, we're always happy when when others come to join us and participate in what God is God is doing in this room.

So, we're so glad you're here. Um we have uh we have about 12 I think we have 12 people who are being baptized uh tonight and we are thrilled and excited for uh for them and it really is a privilege to be able to walk somebody through this portion of their journey and their walk with Jesus. And so uh the rest of tonight it will be pretty simple.

I'm not I want to teach for a little bit, but I know I said last week I'll teach for 20 minutes and it was a little more. This week it'll actually be 20 minutes. 15 to 20.

Um so, uh and then we'll bring up we'll bring up those who are being baptized. We'll all pray for them collectively as a church. And then we're just going to watch a bunch of old dead people remain in that water as as uh the image and likeness of Jesus comes up from that water in each and every person.

So we're excited, right? >> All right. All right.

All right. So before we continue tonight, uh I just I want to receive tonight's offering and um and then and then we'll pray. we'll pray and um move forward.

So, uh those of you who call the finding home, you'll you'll be very familiar with this portion of scripture. uh and those of you who uh who are maybe visiting for the first time I guess I just I want to share with you is that uh our our church and our assignment as a church um and as a ministry unto the Lord Jesus is really to build a home for his presence. And I know we we kind of throw that sort of language around loosely and so it can mean all sorts of things, but there's biblical principle for it in the Bible.

And I I I have, you know, I can really talk for a long time on this, but I'll just I'll cut it real short. In the scriptures, what you'll find is that when God gave instruction for the tabernacle of Moses and the temple that you know, David received the instruction for the temple that Solomon eventually built. I did study on this so I can say this confidently is there was not one time in any of God's instruction where he asked Moses or David for their opinion.

In fact, God said, "Here's what I desire. If you wish to build me a home, and if you build it according to my blueprint, I will come and rest there with you. And if you don't build it according to my blueprint, then um then I won't live there." The reason being I, you know, God isn't just specific or particular because he's got OCD by any means.

It's because every detail of the tabernacle and of the temple were pointing to the coming Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. And so if there was a detail in the temple and the tabernacle that wasn't according to God's blueprint and his design, that structure in itself would be prophesying of something or someone a Messiah that is not coming. And so God was saying, you either build something according to my blueprint, my design, and I will bless it and I will live there and it will prophesy of the coming Messiah, or you build whatever it is you want.

But that that will not carry the breath and the blessing of heaven. Do you hear what I'm saying? Or more so what the scriptures are teaching.

Since the time of Moses, that has not changed. God desires to live and to dwell with his people. And the reason you and I here today, we don't gather for the institution of church.

We gather for the body of Christ. One whom the Lord Jesus Christ will one day marry and one where the spirit of God will live in and among us. And so when we gather, you know what we kind of we say around here sometimes is like when you know when Jesus walks into the room, Jesus gets what Jesus wants.

like it's we kind of we throw all the other stuff aside because if we are not here if we have not gathered around the presence of Jesus and his dwelling place with us we have gathered around something other than and anything that is not Jesus is less than and far be it from me you me it' be a real pity and shame for myself and our team to gather everyone here around something or someone other than Jesus. But what I can say with confidence is that when we do gather in this room around the presence of Jesus and our common love for him and him alone, what happens is he meets his people in a room and and you watch old stuff die in those waters as as children of God step into the promises and the victory of the cross. And so in Exodus chapter 25, the scriptures say, "The Lord said to Moses, speak to the people of Israel.

As they take for me a contribution from every man whose heart moves him, you shall receive the contribution for me. And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them. Gold, silver, and bronze, blue and purple, and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.

goats hair, tanned ram skins, goat skins, acacia wood, oil for the lamp, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod for the breastpiece. And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell in their midst. Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so shall you make it.

God desires to live with his people. It's in his nature. It's the reason you and I have breath in our lungs.

He saw you and I before the foundations of the world. And his one thought was that I want to be with with you, whatever your name is in the room. The invitation the Lord extends to us is I want to live with you, but do you want to live with me?

Will you build me something, a place, a dwelling place where God and man rest in unity? And so when we gather in this room in settings like this, it's exactly what our assignment is. We have the privilege, it's a gift to be able to contribute to build something that uh to build rather to build a place, a dwelling place for God and man where we can come into this room and the veil between heaven and earth, heaven and this room grows ever thin as we continue to minister to the heart of Jesus in this room.

And so as we give uh tonight we are giving with one assignment with one heart and that is that Jesus may dwell here with us and among us and that one day you know I share this with our church one day I I really do I believe this with all of my heart is one day the nations will fly to Seattle to to partake of of what we have fought so hard for in room. But before it's glamorous and attractive, there are those there are those who get down in the dirt and the trenches and start building the foundations before you could see anything any of the walls go up when it comes to the temple, a home for the presence of God. So anyways, that's what we're giving over to today tonight.

Um, so we have every I think we have a there should be a graphic. We usually have a graphic. Well, it'll come up on the screen in a little bit.

We have every regular way of giving. If um if you need an envelope, our ushers are more than happy to get you an envelope um if you like to do it old school. Otherwise, shortly there will be a text or QR code on the screen.

And um I want to give you a few moments to do that. We'll play a short video and we will be right back. >> All types and positions.

Your name stands. Sing your name. Your name is the highest.

Your name is the greatest. Your name stands above the call, above all rules, into millions. All power and position your name stands above and the angels cry.

Oh, all creation cries. Holy you are lifted high, holy forever. And here your people sing holy to the king of kings.

Holy you holy, holy forever. And the angels and the angels cry. Glory all creation and you are lifted high forever.

Jesus people say to the king of glory you are glory. Glory forever. Sing your name.

Your name is the highest. Your name. Your name stands above the Lord.

Oh, your name. Sing your name. Your name.

Your name. All right. Well, uh let's pray.

Jesus, we love you and we thank you for tonight. Again, thank you for your presence and your kindness and mercies towards us. Your faithfulness that uh endures generations.

And I thank you, Lord, that there's not a single person nor soul in this room that is unseen. And I thank you, Lord, for all those that gave. I pray would you breathe upon this offering that in and through it you would bring forth the kingdom of heaven to our city and our region uh and destroy the kingdom of hell.

And I pray Lord for the needs in this room whether they're financial or any other. And I ask that Lord that you would intervene. We know that you are a good father.

You're faithful in all of your ways and there's no need for us to worry nor be concerned because you always provide. You always take care. And so we yield ourselves over to you, Lord.

We love you. We thank you for your kindness and your grace. And in your name we pray.

Amen. Sorry, I'm like I'm working through a bit of a cough thing, so please be patient with me. All right.

I told you I will take like 20 minutes. It's 7:30. Get me to 7:50.

Okay. I want to I want to remind everyone again the purpose and the intention of water baptism. I talked about it a lot last week.

So, if you were here, I'm just going to do a quick recap. You know, we sometimes think water baptism is about like a public confession of faith or repentance from sin um or some other some other thing. And what I'm not saying is that it's not about it doesn't include those things.

But what I am saying is that it is not the primary purpose of water baptism. If water baptism was the its primary purpose was the repentance from sin, then why would the Lord Jesus Christ who was perfect, spotless, blameless without sin ever be waterbaptized? If it was about the public confession of faith, what we learn with Philip and the unic is that when Philip baptized him and the man came up out of the water, even Philip disappeared and there was nobody there to witness what happened except for heaven.

If water baptism was uh was mere symbolism, then uh there would be no reason for heaven to rejoice. Heaven doesn't rejoice over symbolism. Heaven rejoices over salvation and transformation into the image and likeness of Jesus.

And so what I want to remind all of us here is that what's happening in these waters is not merely symbolic. Symbolism dies along the symbolic act dies with the with a symbolic intention. Meaning the moment it's inconvenient for me to follow Jesus is the moment I kind of give that part of it up.

But when water baptism becomes a life laid down, a a covenant, a making of covenant, a commitment onto the Lord Jesus, uh, from that point on, what we all say yes to when we go under under those waters and come out is that I'm giving myself to live onto a promise, a covenant that nothing in life can separate me from it. We have several examples in the scriptures of water baptism. Certainly we have the New Testament with of course John the Baptist and and Jesus was baptized and Philip and the unic.

We have um oh man um Peter baptized uh I forget the the name of the man in his household but >> what is it? >> Cornelius. >> Cornelius.

That's right. See, we have great people who know the Bible here. I knew it started with the C.

I was like I was leaning towards Caesar, but I knew it was wrong. Um uh but we also have examples of water baptism in the Old Testament. And I think the old the Old Testament examples of water baptism are a little bit they I think they give us even more context for what water baptism is supposed to be in the New Testament.

Most of us probably all of us know the story of Noah's arc where uh God flooded the earth and saved Noah and his family. And the scriptures teach that Noah was saved because he was the only man found righteous among among a sinful planet. And so what really happened, God didn't just flood the planet.

What he did is he baptized the planet. And all unrighteousness died in the waters as the righteousness that remained lived. And the story gets more beautiful, you know, as as Noah goes into the ark, he sends a dove from the side of the ark, speaking of the side of Jesus, where the when he was pierced and water and blood came rushing forth just like out of Adam's side in the garden, out of Adam's deep slumber, Eve was was created.

So now Jesus on the cross, who had died in his deep slumber, his side was pierced. water and blood came rushing forth speaking of the of the birth of of his bride and the dove that's released from the side of the ark speaking that that then went out and found life speaking of the life that came forth from the sight of Jesus. So anyways the I'm a I kind of took us uh that's not what we're talking about today.

Um and so uh but God floods the earth. baptizes the planet. Everything that's unrighteous dies in the water and the right Noah and his righteous family remain uh remain alive.

But the sweet thing after that is is when Noah when the waters recede and Noah walks out of the ark, God begins to build covenant with him. And he says, "The testimony, the remembrance, the story, the sign of my covenant, of my promise to you will be this rainbow in the sky. And anytime the clouds come together and you see this, you will remember the covenant that I've made with you.

You will remember the testimonies of God. I talked about this last week. I went into greater detail, but with Israel, we learned the first Israel that left Egypt and went through the waters of baptism, the Red Sea, where the waters were parted.

That was speaking of water baptism. The waters covered, it killed Egypt in the waters. And on the other side, Israel stepped out and they they failed.

They were they Egypt died in the waters but Israel failed because on the other side of the waters they failed to remember the testimonies of God. And the moment they began to forget the testimonies of God, Israel would immediately what they would do is they would start to they would start to bow down and give their lives over to the to the gods of their land. And so there is no such a thing as being like neutral.

You worship something. It's either yourself, the world around you, the things that you value, or you worship Jesus. There's no such a thing as like I'm neutral.

And you will you will reap the reward of whatever it is that you worship, whatever it is you bow down to, whatever it is you yield yourself over to. And so the Israel that crossed over the waters of baptism and the Red Sea, they crossed over. They forgot the testimonies of God and they began to worship a gold.

It's bizarre. They collected all their gold that they got from Egypt and they formed a calf, a golden calf and began to worship it. Not because it's ever done anything for them, but because that's what the people in the land that they were in were doing.

And so they followed suit, which happens all the time today. But the second Israel, once that generation passed away in their unbelief, the second Israel that crossed the river Jordan, which is also speaking of water baptism, the second Israel crossed the Jordan and God says, I want you to take 12 stones from the riverbed and I want you to set them up as a memorial. And this way when your children ask why are these stones there, you would tell them the testimonies and the stories of God why those stones are there.

And the Israel, they crossed over the the baptism waters remembering the testimonies of God. They stepped into their promise and received the victory of what God had promised to Abraham. We see the same thing happen with Jesus.

When Jesus was waterbaptized, again, I talked about this last week, is Jesus was not was not baptized, the Jesus didn't receive the baptism of repentance because he had sin. The word repentance isn't actually it doesn't actually mean it has nothing to do with sin. It just means to turn in a different direction.

But in the context of sin, it's saying yes, I'm turning a different direction away from sin. And so when Jesus received the baptism of repentance, he was not repenting from sin. He was not changing direction from sin.

What he was doing is he was changing direction of covenant where for thousands of years man had covenant with God that they could never fulfill. Man could never fulfill it. Jesus comes for three and for 30 years he fulfills the covenant between God and man.

And then when he goes into the waters he changes the direction of covenant. Now, he leaves the old covenant in the waters, and he's the first one who comes up into the new covenant that you and I get to live in today. It's for that reason, that moment was so significant.

It's why the scriptures say the heavens were torn open. It wasn't just like there was clouds and they kind of like parted ways. The scriptures teach that the heavens were torn open, like the veil was torn from top to bottom when Jesus when Jesus died on the cross.

And so the heavens were torn open. The Holy Spirit descends upon him in the form of a dove. And you would think like, wow, the most profound, perhaps the most profound moment of his life today to that day.

God speaks and says, "This is my son with whom I'm well pleased. Listen to him." And the very next moment, the scripture says, "And then the Holy Spirit led him out into the wilderness." And what you will find in the scriptures if you know the word is that the moment Jesus steps into the wilderness, Satan begins to he attempts to tempt Jesus into sin. And what you find is that Jesus does not try to prove himself.

He doesn't call on angel armies to defend him. He doesn't um you know he doesn't zap the devil with his finger. all the things that he could have done as God.

Jesus doesn't do any of those things. The one thing that he does that scripture teaches us again and again and again is Jesus recalls the testimony of who the father is. And so Jesus in the wilderness having been baptized facing Satan does not attack him with sword, spear, and shield.

He stands strong against him with the testimony of God, of who the father is. And so, something I shared with with those who are being baptized today, but this applies for all of us, is the success of your maybe this isn't the right language, but I I think you'll hear what I'm saying. Maybe I'm using the wrong words, but the success of your Christian life will be determined on what you choose to remember or forget.

Remembrance will, it absolutely will, whether you wanted to or not. Remembrance will direct your destiny. It will determine where it is that you go.

It's why you can live and rest upon the way somebody offended you or they hurt you or they called you a name or they you can go down the list of all the ways that that people have hurt all of us. There's literally probably tens of thousands of stories in here and you can remember you can you can live in a place of remembrance where the only thing you remember is all the ways you've been hurt and offended and frustrated and hated and all that stuff. And what will happen is you will continue to grow to be a bitter, hurting, broken, unbelieving person who is looking for a way to get yours.

And life is never satisfying because what I think we in some measure, in some capacity, we all learn and we all know it's why you can be the wealthiest person in the world and still be very sad. is that when life becomes about you, when you become your own God, you realize that there's never satisfaction there. But a person who is consumed with the testimony of Jesus, those who live in a remembrance of who Jesus is, who God the Father is the Christ and the power of the gospel, what happens is those who have hurt me and offended me and like hated me and all that stuff, all of a sudden they finally encountered a person who's unwilling to let their eternity go to hell.

Cuz in in in the remembrance of the testimony of Jesus, what we find is that every single person in this room was created in the image and likeness of Jesus. And when Jesus hung on that cross, nails in his hands and his feet, he's gasping for air, suffocating. And he thought you were worth dying for.

Which means that for me today, especially as a as a pastor, as a leader, is I have lost the right to see anyone for something for anyone for anything less than what Jesus saw when he thought you were worth dying on a cross for. But you and I can only look like Jesus. We can only succeed in our faith is if we remember the testimonies of God.

The one who brought us out of darkness into his marvelous light. The one who never left us. That when we didn't believe in him, he still believed in us.

when when we rejected him, he still accepted us. And then when we came back and and weeping and mourning and repenting, he wasn't just there ready to receive us. He he went out of his way to embrace us.

No. The testimony of Jesus. So the testimony of Jesus will do a a work in the soul that begins to prune and to pull away and and to cut away the things that are lesser than.

Like watch this. And if you want to turn your Bibles to Psalm 119, watch in verse in verse 9 119 Psalm 119:9 it says, "How can a young man keep his way pure by guarding it according to your word or according to your testimony?" In other words, the purity of my heart is found in knowing the truth and the revelation of the scriptures. He continues on to say in verse 22, "Take away from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies." In other words, the more I look to Jesus and remember and am conscience of the Lord Jesus Christ, the more I'm removed from scorn and contempt.

In verse 24, he says, "Your testimonies are my delight and they are my counselors." In other words, the more I remember, I meditate, I live on Jesus, on the truth of who Jesus is, the more his testimony begins to counsel me in the ways of righteousness. The more I think about Jesus and his forgiveness and his mercy, what happens is then when somebody hurts hurts me or offends me or attacks me, my my remembrance of his testimony and what he has done for me immediately points my life to reflect mercy and compassion towards a person who has hurt me. And so his testimony begins to counsel me, direct me into the revelation of who Jesus is.

And like I said last week is the whole purpose of the Christian life is not to one day get to heaven. The entire purpose of the Christian life is that heaven gets in you today. Is that you and I are transformed into the image and likeness of Jesus.

And scripture after scripture teaches us that if we do not remember the testimonies of God, if we do not know Jesus, we cannot we cannot live in the fullness of what he's accomplished. It's why um if you're if you've ever been here for a communion service, like we don't play games with communion. We retell the testimony of Jesus.

And then what we watch happen is as God begins to move in the lives and the hearts, the bodies of people. And there's no secret behind it. It's not a magic word or a spell.

It is the testimony of the one who who is life itself. And so tonight I want to encourage you certainly the people who are being baptized and I want all of us to celebrate that this is what they're stepping into is they are giving the rest of their lives to remember proclaim declare the testimonies of Jesus and live a life laid down and surrendered to him and him alone. That's what we're celebrating today.

And so I want to ask you 7:50 I'm just about done. I want to ask you is you know you may be here to celebrate a family member or a friend. Uh but I want to ask you is let's celebrate today every person in that water.

Uh because they're all making the same commitment to the one man, Jesus Christ, that we all love and adore. >> Amen. >> Amen.

Okay. Well, um, so what I want to do is I want to we're going to invite the those being baptized up to the front here. Um, why don't you guys come up now, church?

We're going to pray for them together. Okay? It's not me praying for them and the rest of us listening.

It is all of us praying together. You guys can just kind of line up here. Look at the beautiful beautiful faces out in the crowd.

Let's Let's move Let's move towards the towards the right here. Yeah. Let's make our way here.

Um you guys, Paul, you want to help me a little bit, please? Um, so we we met I met with with all of these uh souls uh before service today. We just kind of talked through covenant and uh the purpose and the heart and the intention of Jesus for tonight.

And all of them recognize that uh though we may have been found in miry clay, Jesus and his oh man words fail to express in in in his in his gentleness and his tenderness towards us in his kindness and love and and consistency and the way that He shows up every time. We've all come into agreement and remembrance that we would not be here if it was not for the Lord Jesus Christ. And so tonight, I want to ask you as we pray, uh, would you pray as if you're praying for your sons and daughters, as you're as if you're praying for your children, your family members, your your friends, and um, and celebrate what God's doing here.

So, why don't we all stand up? Um team, if you can come help me pray, just lay your hands on for those of you in the crowd. If if you just want to stretch your hands towards them here, we'll pray.

So Lord, we love you and I thank you that as a church, what a gift it is that we get to celebrate this part of their walk with you. And I pray for each one of them, Lord, that today would be the beginning. It would be the first day of the rest of their lives, a life devoted, committed, surrendered to loving you and pursuing you.

And and I ask God that you would give them a grace and the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of you. That their lives would be built upon the testimony of the Christ. and that the revelation of the gospel, the power of your broken body, your spilled out blood, your testimony, thank you, Jesus, >> it would consume them, Lord, in their thoughts and their meditation.

And Holy Spirit, we ask that you would surround them and consume them. that you would mark their hearts. Their hearts would be seared with the beauty, the wonder and the glory of your love towards them.

I pray for each one of them that as they go into the waters here today that the old ways of life, the hardships, challenges, difficulties, things that are lesser than would die in those waters. Thank you. >> As they step into the promises, into the fulfillment >> of what you have paid a price for.

>> And so we pray, Lord, would you transform them by the renewing of their minds? Keep their hearts soft and tender. Keep them sensitive towards your voice, your drawing, your call.

and whatever it is, Lord, that you have for each one of them as individuals, the purposes, the calls, the plans, the assignments over their lives, that you would breathe a grace upon them here tonight. That they would step into all that you have for them. And that within this group, within these souls, hell would tremble as heaven rejoices.

over their obedience, over their submission to the Lord Jesus. >> Rest upon them, Holy Spirit, >> keep them, protect them, strengthen them. May they carry the breath of heaven.

I ask that you would give them a hunger for the scriptures that in that water they would find a hunger for your word. if there is any brokenness, any addiction that it would be left in the water here tonight and that any scheme, any ploy of the enemy to to bring them down to keep them from your assignment, Lord, that it would be left bound in those waters. And I pray for each one of them, Lord, that they would that there would be a peace that rests over them.

I pray even tonight as they're asleep, as they go home and they go to sleep, that in their dreams, God, in their slumber, you would minister to their hearts and you would strengthen them. You would speak to them, >> you would establish them >> upon the foundation that is Jesus. And so, Holy Spirit, cover over them, breathe upon them, and Lord, with all of heaven, we are we are excited to rejoice >> in the victory of the cross and the covenant that you have granted to us.

And so, we bless them, Lord, as a church. We bless them. We celebrate them and we thank you for for pulling them drawing them closer to you.

We love you Jesus and in your name we pray. Amen. >> All right, guys.

Why don't you go ahead and line up? I I or follow Gina's instruction over there. Why don't you lead take it from here?

You may all sit down and we're just going to sing for a little bit. As they get ready, we'll love Jesus together. >> I was heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of a day with you. >> All right.

Who do we have first? >> Come on in. All right.

Tell us your name. >> My name is Edgar. >> Oh, wait.

Can we Keith, can we get this? >> Is it on? >> My name is Edgar.

>> There we go. Um, and Edgar, why are you being baptized? >> Um, seeing what the Lord has done in the past 6 months of my life.

I want to keep growing in him. I want to become more like him day by day and through experiencing experience. Um well then I want to ask you is um do you renounce sin, your old way of life and the devil?

>> I do. >> And do you vow to uh fully yield your life over to Jesus and pursue him and serve him for the rest of your life? >> I do.

>> Amazing. Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. >> I was made for I was for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. All right, who we have next? Come on down.

It's like the price is right here. Mhm. >> All right.

Tell us your name. >> My name is Andre. >> Uh, and Andre, why are you being baptized today?

>> I'm committing my life to the Lord and uh showing everybody that I love him. >> Amen. Amen.

And do you renounce your old way of life, sin, and the devil? >> Yes. >> And do you vow to fully yield yourself over to the Lord Jesus Christ and serve him for the rest of your life?

>> Yes. >> Awesome. Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

>> I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

Come on down. >> Awesome. Well, tell us your name.

>> Daniel. >> Daniel. And why are you being baptized today?

>> Just to like proclaim like, hey, I'm trying to be more like Jesus. And, you know, trying to be more like Jesus. Uh, he got baptized.

I got to get baptized, too. >> Amen. >> Yeah.

>> Amen. Well, do you renounce your old way of life, the devil and sin? >> I do.

>> And do you vow to uh fully yield your life over Jesus to pursue him for the rest of your life? >> I do. >> Amazing.

Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

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>> Awesome. Come on down. You can like maybe get on your Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that's perfect. All right.

Tell us your name. >> Misella. >> Misella.

And why are you being baptized today? >> Six years ago, the Lord chose me and has been pursuing me since. And I have been running away.

And today I choose him because he chose me first. And so as I lay in these waters, I want to let go of any bondage and any type of beliefs that I have. And when I rise, I will continue to choose him today, tomorrow, and for the rest of my life.

>> Amen. So sweet, so precious. Well, do you vow, excuse me, do you renounce uh sin, the devil, and the old way of life?

Yes. >> And do you vow to fully yield your life over to Jesus and seek him and pursue him for the rest of your life? >> Yes.

>> Amazing. >> Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. For heaven, I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

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I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

I love you. >> Come on in. >> All right.

What's your name? >> Kamaya. >> Kamaya.

Yeah, >> nice to meet you, Kamaya. Uh, why are you being baptized tonight? >> There was a time in my life where I had hit rock bottom.

And um during that difficult season, I was drawn back to Jesus where I got to experience this um his grace, his love and forgiveness in a deeper way. So, I choose to give my life to Jesus Christ >> and um trust him as my Lord and Savior and live according to his word publicly and private. >> Amen.

Amen. And do you renounce the old way of life, sin, and the devil? >> Yes.

>> And do you vow to uh yield your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ for the rest of your life to love him, pursue him, and know him? >> Yes. >> Amazing.

Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you, Jesus.

I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

I love >> you. >> What's your name? >> My name is Nico.

>> Nico. Amazing. Um, why are you being baptized today?

>> I'm just so thankful for what the Lord has done for me. And today I commit to leaving my old life that led me to nothing and death and to live my life for Christ. He died for me.

So how could I not give my life to him? >> Amen. Amen.

>> Do you renounce your old way of life, sin, and the devil? >> I do. >> And do you vow to yield your life fully to Jesus, to know him, love him, and pursue him for the rest of your life?

>> I do. >> All right. Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

>> I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

I love you. I love you. >> Come on in.

>> What's your name? Olivia. >> Olivia, why are you being baptized tonight?

>> Um, because I recently met Jesus and he saved my life. >> And do you renounce your old way of life, sin, and the devil? >> Yes.

>> And do you vow to follow Jesus, yield your life to him, know him, and pursue him for the rest of your life? >> Yes. >> Amazing.

Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. spend the day with you. All right, come on in.

All right. What's your name? >> Uh, my name is Jason.

>> Jason. And why are you being baptized here tonight? >> Uh, it's going to be slightly long, so fail.

>> Um, yeah. So, the past two years have been very difficult for me. um in the darkest moments where there's so much anxiety and uh and pressure and you know bounded by addiction and also um so much heartbrokeness um uh I seek the Lord or maybe the Lord seek me as well but um there's not once he didn't deliver me from whatever difficulties I was in um and He's I've experienced his goodness, his faithfulness, his loving kindness in all these difficult times.

Um that's why I'm dedicated my life to him. And last, I want to share a quick story on um the first day I came to the finding was actually the day I broke up with my ex-girlfriend. Um I came one hour earlier.

Um, one of my friends here drove me here. And I was sitting on a second row uh looking at a Jesus image here and praying and I said, "Lord, I I'm so heartbroken. I'm so lost and I want to find you." Um, and I heard the Lord saying, "Um, I have a great plan for you and it starts now." >> And I thought I was having, you know, illusion or hallucination.

But then uh 3 seconds later a lady walked up to me and said um God has a great plan for you and I feel it in my spirit. Um and that's Alina. Um and um yeah and later I know that actually the finding the name was if you seek the Lord with all your heart you will always find him.

Yeah. >> Um, but during the worship during that day, God reminded me that >> it's not just that I find him, it's him coming to seek me. Just like the good shepherd, he finds the lordship sheep.

And um, he always always comes and find me. And today I want to declare that I >> want to commit my life to him. That's a good faithful God that I want to dedicate my life to him.

Sorry, it's a long answer to to why, but >> yeah. Um, and do you renounce Yeah. Yeah.

>> Um, do you renounce sin, the old way of life, and the devil? >> Yes, I renounce all of that. My past life, absolutely.

>> And, uh, do you vow to yield your life completely and holy to Jesus, to love him, know him, and pursue him for the rest of your life? >> Yes. I'm coming here to do serving and becoming more like the Lord Jesus Christ.

>> Amen. Amen. Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

>> I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. Jesus, I love you.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love Jesus. I love you.

>> Come on in. >> All right. Uh, what's what's your name?

>> My name is Sammy. >> Sammy. And why are you being baptized?

>> For a long time in my life, I was broken. I was dealing with depression, anxiety, just really lost, walking in sin, covered in shame, and I just I hit a point where I just I couldn't take it anymore. And you know, Jesus came to me and he picked me up piece by piece and put me back together and made me whole and he saved me.

And I owe him my life. And that's why I made the decision to walk with him. And I'm here today, getting baptized, to honor my love for him and, you know, to honor the promise that I'll be giving my life to him and walking with him for the rest of my life.

Amen. >> Can we celebrate that? That's beautiful.

>> And do you renounce sin, the old way of life, and the devil? >> Yes. And do you vow to yield your life over to Jesus to know him, love him, and pursue him for the rest of your life?

>> Yes. >> Amazing. >> Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

>> I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven.

I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. Jesus, I love you.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love Jesus, I love you.

Come on down. All right. What's your name?

>> Um, my name is R.J. Okay. Why are you being baptized tonight?

>> I am being baptized as a commitment to, you know, giving my life to Jesus and continuing to love him for eternity. You know, as he has never failed me, I don't want to fail him. And so, I just, you know, he pulled me out of a a really dark place a couple years ago.

And you know, I met him and it was just it felt surreal and you know, I just feel like it's only right that I give my life to him for the rest of eternity. >> Amen. >> Can we celebrate that?

>> R.J., right? >> RJ. Yeah.

>> R.J. Well, R.J., do you renounce the old way of life, sin, and the devil? >> I do.

>> And do you vow to yield your life fully and completely to the Lord Jesus, to love him, know him, and pursue him for the rest of your life? >> I do indeed. Amazing.

Well, according to the confession of your faith, we baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus. I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.

Jesus, I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

I love you, Jesus. I love you Jesus. I love you Jesus.

I love you Jesus. I love you Jesus. I love you.

I love you. Jesus, you are the >> we why don't we all stand? >> I find your spend my life telling you I love you.

telling you I need you more than the air I breathe. But Jesus, you are the one for me. All I've ever wanted, I find in your affection.

And I'll spend my life telling you I love you. Telling you I need you more than the air I breathe. >> Team, why don't you come up?

We'll uh we'll worship just for a little bit longer as as they get changed and stuff and then we'll they'll walk back in and we'll just we'll celebrate them one more time and then and then I'll let you guys go. Um, but what we want to do is we want to step in with what heaven what heaven is doing. And tonight, heaven is rejoicing over souls who have made covenant, yielded themselves over fully and completely to Jesus.

And so please, I know that uh you know, we it it can be easy to be distracted sometimes, but let's get in line with what heaven is doing and uh love Jesus first and foremost and celebrate those who yielded themselves over to him. Amen. >> Amen.

>> Amen. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cool of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk the call of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk in the cold of the day with you. I was made for heaven. I was made for Jesus.

I was made to walk the cool of the day with you. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you, Jesus. And Jesus, you are the one for me.

You're all I've ever wanted. I find in your affection. And I'll spend my life telling you I love you.

Telling you I need you more than the air I breathe. Jesus, you are the one for me. All I've ever wanted I find in your affection.

And I spend my life telling you I love you. Telling you I need you more than the air I breathe. Oh Jesus, you are the worst for me.

All I've ever wanted. I find your affection. And I spent my life telling you I love you.

telling you I need you more than I Jesus. You are the one for me. All I ever want.

I find your affection. And I spend my life telling you I love you. Telling you I need you more than the air I brea.

Jesus, you are the one for me. All I've ever wanted, I find in your affection. And I spend my life telling you I love you, telling you I need you more than the air I breathe.

Jesus, you are the one for me. All I've ever wanted, I find in your affection. And I'll spend my life telling you I love you.

telling you I need you more than the air I Heat up here. There is one who is worthy of all honor and all glory. The highest the praise.

Come now let's give him the praise. There is one who is righteous full of mercy full of justice. King of the Kings.

Let's celebrate and sing glory. Hallelujah. Heat.

Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat.

that redeem. Yeah. Heat.

Yeah. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. Give him praise.

Every nation rise and sing. For the Lord has a great place. Giving praise.

The lamb that was slain. His blood overcame. Let heaven and earth are gi the price.

Come on. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. We give him praise.

We give him praise. We give him praise. We give him praise.

We give him praise. We give him praise. We give him praise.

We give him praise. We give him praise. We give him praise.

We give him praise. We give glory. Hallelujah.

Yeah. Heat. Yeah.

Heat. Heat. Heat.

Can we lift up a shout of praise tonight? Yeah. Yeah.

And I'm clean. Sin was stained on me. Shame was running deep.

Your love was spilled on Calvary. Oh, hallelujah. I'm free.

God, how can it be? I'm ransomed and redeemed. I'm standing on your victory.

Oh, hallelujah. I've been washed in the water. Washed in the blood.

I've been good as new. Oh, hallelujah. I've been washed in the water.

Washed in the blood. All because of you. Oh, hallelujah.

I'll be washed in the water. Washed in the blood as good as you. Oh, hallelujah.

I'll be washed in the water. Washed in the blood because of you. Oh, hallelujah.

It's not what I have done. It's what you've done for me. You paid it off upon that tree.

Oh, hallelujah. I'm clean. Your love has overcome.

Your mercy is so free. I'm dancing in your victory. Oh hallelujah.

I'll be washed in the water. Washed in the blood. I'm as good as you.

Oh hallelujah. Washed in the water. Washed in the blood because of you.

In the water. Washed in the blood. Oh hallelujah.

Washed in the blood because of you. Oh hallelujah. We celebrate the victory of the cross tonight.

Cuz you took away my shame to the cross. Got me running out the grave. Hallelujah.

Here I come. Cuz you took away my shame and you nailed it to the cross. You got me running out the grave.

Hallelujah. Here I go. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Here I come. Hallelujah.

Here I come. Hallelujah. Here I come.

Hallelujah. Here I go. Hallelujah.

Here I come. Out of an empty grave, I am free. And now there's empty grave.

I am free. There's just an empty grave. I am free.

Halleluah. Hallelu. There's just an empty grave.

I am free. There's just an empty grave. I am free.

There's just an empty grave. I am free. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. There's just an empty grave. I am free.

There's just an empty grave. I am free. There's just an empty grave.

I am free. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Heat. Heat. Hallelujah.

Here I come cuz you cross. You got me running up. Hallelujah.

Here I come. You took away my cross. You got me running out the way.

Hallelujah, here I come. Hallelujah, here I come. Hallelujah, here I come.

water. Washed in the blood. I'm as good as he Oh, hallelujah.

I've been washed in the water. Washed in the blood. I'm as good as him.

Oh, hallelujah. I've been washed in the water. Washed in the blood.

I'm good as you. Oh, hallelujah. I'll be washed in the water.

Washed in the blood. Oh, hallelujah. I'll be washed in water.

Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. Heat.

Can we can we just lift up one more shout of celebration and gratitude? Jesus, we love you and we thank you for the victory of the cross. And tonight we proclaim your testimony over every heart, over every soul, every body here.

And we thank you that the finished work of the cross is so much more than enough. And so I plead your blood and I declare we proclaim the victory when you said it is finished. >> And so we celebrate Lord those who gave their lives over through the waters of baptism today and we rejoice with heaven their children who have yielded, surrendered, wholly committed >> to knowing and loving you.

>> We thank you Lord for what you're uh doing within us. I pray for every person here that as we head home, even as we're asleep, Lord, that you'd minister to our hearts and that tomorrow when we wake up, we would look more like you and the day after looking more like you and again and again and again >> into your image and likeness. We love you, Jesus.

And in your name we pray. Amen. Amen.