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[music] Yes, Jesus. We thank you tonight. [music] We say thank you, Lord, for who you are.

We [music] say thank you that even right now, you're in the midst of us. We [music] set our gaze and affection on you tonight, Lord. Come on.

Can you just begin [music] to say, "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you.

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

[music] >> [music] >> We say thank [music] you Jesus. [music] You are [music] all my [singing] words fall short. I've got nothing new.

How could I express all my gratitude? I could sing [music] these songs as I [singing] often [music] do, but every [singing] song must end. And you never do.

Just want to say thank you. [music] >> Just want to say thank you Jesus. [music] >> [music] >> All my [singing] words fall [music] short.

I've got nothing new. How could [singing] I express all my [music] gratitude? I could sing these songs as I [music and singing] often do.

[music] Every [singing] song must end, but you never [music] do. So I'll throw up my hands and praise [music] you again and again. Cuz [music] all that I have is a hallelu.

[music] I know it's not much. I'm nothing else for [music] a king except for a heart singing [music] hallelujah. [singing] Hallelu.

[music] I'll lift up my hands [music] and praise you again and again. Cuz [music] all that I have is a hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah.

I know it's not much. [music] I'm nothing else for a king except for [music] a heart singing hallelujah. Hallelujah.

>> [music] >> Yeah. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> I've got one response.

[music] I've got just one move with my arms stretched [music and singing] wide. I will worship you. [music] I've got one response.

I've [music] got just one with my arms stretch wide. [music] I worship you. I'm [music] the one who I got just [music] with my arms.

[music] I will worship you. I might [music] praise you again and again cuz all that [music] I have is [music] I know I'm nothing else for a king [music] except for a heart saving A [music] come on >> [music] >> my soul. Oh, don't you get shy of me.

Lift up [music] your song cuz you got a lion inside [music] of those lungs. Get up and praise the Lord. Come on my soul.

Oh, don't [music] you get shy of me. We lift up your song cuz you got a lion inside of those lungs. [music] Get up and praise the Lord.

[music] Come on my soul. Oh, don't you get shift up your [music] song cuz you got a lion inside of [music and singing] those loves. Get up and praise the Lord.

[music] Come on my [music] soul. Oh, don't you get sh of [music] your soul. You got a lion inside [music] of those.

Give them praise. [music] Heat. Heat.

Heat. [music] >> [music] >> So I praise you again. [music] Heat.

Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

Heat. [music] Heat. Heat.

[music] >> [music] >> I know [music] I'm still [music] Don't you get shy of me, oh my soul. Sing of the goodness of the Lord. Sing of the goodness of the Lord.

Oh, come on my soul. Oh, don't [music] you get child [singing] me. Lift up your soul.

You got a lion [singing] inside of those lungs. Give up and praise the Lord. >> Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. >> Oh, [music] come on my soul. Oh, [singing] don't you get shy on me.

Lift up your [music] soul cuz you got a lion inside of those lungs. Get [music] up and praise the Lord. Come on my [music] soul.

Oh, don't you get shy on me. Lift up your [music] song cuz you [singing] got a lion inside of those lungs. Get up and praise [music] the Lord.

[music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat [music] up [music] here.

[music] Heat [music] up here. [music] >> [music] >> Heat [music] up [music] here. [music] >> [music] >> Heat up here.

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

[music] Heat. [music] Heat >> [music] >> up [music] here. >> [music] >> Heat up here.

[music] >> [music] >> Heat up [music] here. [music] >> [music] >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [singing] Hallelu hallelujah.

[music] Every heart will sing [singing] hallelu. Every voice will sing hallelujah. [singing] Hallelujah.

Every voice will sing hallelujah. [music and singing] Hallelu [music] [singing] do [music] hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[singing] Our gratitude. Hallelujah. [music] >> Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[music] Hallelujah. Hallelu. [music] So I'll throw up [singing] my hands.

[music] Praise you again and again. Cuz [music] all that I have is a hallelujah. [singing] Hallelujah.

[singing] [music] I know it's not much of nothing else [music and singing] for a king except for a [singing] heart singlelu. [music] >> [singing] >> All through you. >> [music] >> There is a blood that Lost a life >> and paid my way.

Death its price. And when [singing] it flows down [music] from the cross, my sins were [singing] gone. My [music] sins forgot.

There is a grave [music] that tried [singing] to hide this precious blood that gave me life. But in [music] three days he breathed [singing] again [music] and rose to stand in my [music] defense. And so I've come to tell you he's alive.

[music] To tell you that he tries every tear that [music] falls. So I've come to [music] tell you that he's saves to shout and to proclaim [music and singing] that he's coming back for you. This [music and singing] life, this price, this blood, [music] this [singing] one.

Oh. [music] >> [music] >> And there is [singing] a blood. It [music] sites the blind, heals [music] the sick, but lonely finds.

It [music] has the power to free the bounds. As chains [music] they fall. upon the ground.

[music] So pour it out [singing] to cleanse [music] my soul and let this liquid glory fall. Oh, because it [music and singing] lives to make me whole. I owe my life.

I [music and singing] owe my own. So I [music] come to tell you he's alive to tell you that he tries [music and singing] every tear that falls. >> [music] >> So I come to tell you that he saves [music] to shout at you that he's coming [music] back for you.

So I come So I come [music] to tell you [singing] he's alive [music] to tell you that he tries every tear [music] to [singing] fall. So I come [music] to tell you [singing] that he to shout and to proclaim [music] that he's coming back for you. >> [music] >> This life, this [music] price, this blood, this [music] one, this life, this [music and singing] price, this bus, this One was [music] your life, your price, your [music] blood.

You're [singing] the one you. [music] [singing] [music] >> [music and singing] >> on your life. [music] You're Christ.

You're [music] the You're the one you're [music] >> [music] >> Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. [music] Heat.

Heat. [music] Jesus [singing] [music] Jesus. [music] It washes away.

[music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Jesus [music] it washes my [music] soul and oh the blood [singing] >> thank you [singing and music] thank you Lord And God, [music] you're [singing] so good.

>> God, you're so good. God, you're so good. You're so good [music] to me.

Oh God, you're so good. God, you're so good. God, [music] you're so good.

You're so good to me. [music] Sing, God, [singing] oh God, you're [music] so good. God, [music and singing] you're so When I think about the cross, oh God, you're [music and singing] so good, you're so good [music and singing] to me.

Oh, when I think of the blood, oh [music] God, you're so the world. You said your only son God. [music] What kind of love is this?

Oh God, [music] [singing] you're so good. [music] You're so good to [music] me. Yes.

God, you're [music] so good. Heat. Heat.

[music] Heat up [music] here. >> [music] >> Yes, you are. Yes, you are.

Because it's never been about performance, perfection, striving for [singing] acceptance. [music] Let me tell you, it's only by the blood. [music] It's never been about deserving or earning.

It's a gift that's freely gi. Let me tell [music] you, it's only by the blood. It's never been It's never been about [music] performance, perfection, striving for [music and singing] acceptance.

Let me tell you, it's only by the love. [music] It's never been [singing] about you serving or earning. It's a gift that's freely [music] giving.

Let me tell you, it's only [singing] Oh, it's never been It's never been about [music] performance, perfection, striving for acceptance. Let me tell [music and singing] you, it's only about the blood. It's never [music and singing] been about deserving or earning.

It's a gift that's freely given. Let me tell you, it's only [music and singing] by the blood of anyone. Does anybody want to be holy [singing] and rightous, purified [music] as spotless?

Let me tell you. [singing] Oh, it's only [music] by the blood. Does anybody want to be [music] worthy for giving justify [music] living?

Let me tell you, it's onlybody. Does anybody [music] want to be holy and rightous? [music] Let me tell you that it's only [music] does anybody want to be worthy for justify?

[music] Let me tell you, does anybody [music] want to be holy and rightous? [music] Let me tell you, it's all my [music] Does anybody want to be worthy? [music] Yeah.

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

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

Heat. [music] You're [music] so good to me. [music] Yes, God, you're so good.

[music] And God, you're [singing] so good. [music] God, you're so good. [music] You're [singing] so good to me.

Thank you, Jesus. You're so good. Oh, you're so good.

>> You're so good. Oh, you so love [music] the world that you sent your only son >> that whosoever [music] believeth in him won't perish but have everlasting life. [music] >> God, you're so good.

[music] God, you're so good. [music] >> God, you're so good. So good.

So [music] good. >> So good. So good.

>> Yes. [music] Why? Yes.

[singing] You are so good. So good. So [music and singing] good.

So good. [music] So good. So good.

[music] So [singing] good. So yes, you are. Yes, you are.

So [singing] good. >> [music] >> So good. So good.

>> Nobody like you. [music] >> So [singing] good. So good.

[music] >> Nobody like you. >> So good. So [music] good.

So good. So good. Nobody [music and singing] like you.

>> No one beside. [music] >> So good. So good.

[music] >> [music] >> Thank you for the gospel. Thank you that it's not just a fairy tale. Thank you.

It's not [music] just a fable. It's not something we have to believe to convince ourselves that our lives are going to get better. I'm so grateful that the gospel is actually real.

>> It's good [music] news. >> I'm grateful that I'm not worshiping an idea, but a person that I get to be in relationship with the God of [music] the universe. I'm so grateful for you.

We honor you in [music] this room, Jesus. >> We honor you in this room, Jesus. You are the destination.

You are the [music] pathway >> and you're everything around. >> Jesus, you [music] are everything. >> You're everything.

>> Jesus, you are everything. Jesus, you are everything. Jesus, you are everything.

[music] There's nothing behind you. There's nothing beyond you. We're not looking for more.

We have everything. [music] We have everything. Oh Jesus, we love you.

We love you. [music] We love you. Come on.

>> We [music and singing] love you, Jesus. [music] Oh, we love you. We love you.

[singing] We love you, Jesus. [music] And to the [music] one who wore a crown of thorns. [music] To the one who took [music] the lash and scourge for the hands [singing] and feet that [music] were pierced by nails for the sacrifice that has torn the [music] veil.

and we [singing] crown you. We fall face down [music] and we worship. We all [singing] cry out, "You are [music] worthy, God.

You are worthy, God." Yes, we crown you. We fall [music] face [singing] down and we worship. We all cry out, "You are worthy [music] God." You are worthy [music and singing] God.

>> [music] >> To the one who [singing] gave his [music] very life away, took upon himself all [music] our guilt and shame, hanging on a cross. >> [music] >> of the world. He loved with his precious [music] blood purchased [singing] men.

Oh [music] God, yes we crown you fall face [music and singing] down and we worship. We all cry out, [music] "You are worthy God. Worthy [music] God." Yes.

We crown you. We fall [music] face down and we worship. We all [music] cry out.

You are worthy God. [music] You are worthy, God. You are worthy.

[music] Oh, son of man, son of David, son of God. You're the [singing] only one worthy to wear this crown. We crown you tonight, Lord.

>> We agree. We agree. You're the only one worthy.

You're the only one worthy tonight [music] and forever. So to the one who endured [music] all the shame of the cross, to the [singing] lamb who was slain as atonement for us, to [music] the son who overcame all the power of death. We praise [music] for the stripes, for the wounds, for the beating you [singing] bore.

For the tears and the blood [music] that was willingly born, for the merciful, wonderful mesty [music] love. [music] To the one who endured all the shame of the cross. To the lamb who was slain [music] as its home for us.

To the son or the king. All the power of death we praise. For [music] the stripes, for the wounds, for the beating you bore.

For the tears, to the blood [music] that was willingly bore. For the merciful, wonderful majesty [singing] of your [music] love. To the one to the one who endured all the shame [music] of the cross.

To the lamb [singing] who was slain as atonement for us. [music] To the son who overcame all the power of death we praise. [music] And for the stripes, for the wounds, for the bleeding [music] you, bore.

For the tears of the blood that was willingly poured, for the merciful, wonderful mestyle. [music] To the one, to the one who endured all the shame [music and singing] of the cross, to the lamb that was slain as to for us. to the son overcame [music] all the power of death.

We pray [music] for the strength, for the for the [music] you [music] of [music] the cross. Heat. Heat.

[music] Yeah. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> We cry you with all face down [music] and we worship.

We all cry out. You are worthy God. [music] You are worthy God.

As we cry, [music] we fall face down and we worship. We all [music] cry out. You are worthy.

You are [music] Yeah. Heat. [music] Yeah.

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

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

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

[music] Heat [music] up here. [music] Heat up >> [music] >> here. Heat.

Heat. [music] Heat. Heat.

[music] >> [music] >> For unto us a child is born, and to us [music] a son is given, and A government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called wonderful counselor, [music] mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace, of the increase of his government and of his peace there shall be no end on the throne of David and over his kingdom to establish it and to uphold it with justice [music] and with righteousness from this time forth and forever more. And the zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish [music] this. Who has believed what he has heard from us?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? [music] For he grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of the dry ground. He had no form or majesty that we should look at him [music] and no beauty that we should desire him.

He was despised and rejected by men. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And as one from whom men hide their faces, [music] he was despised and we esteemed him not.

Surely he has borne [music] our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. But he [music] was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed. For our iniquities upon him [music] was a chastisement that brought us peace. And with his wounds we are healed.

>> Amen. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter and like a sheep that before it cheers is silent, he did not open his mouth.

To the one who endured all the shame of the cross. To the lamb that was slain [music] as atonement for us. To the son who overcame [singing] all the power of death we pray and for the [music] stripes for the tears for the merciful [music] wonderful majesty your love.

Oh, to the one [music] who endured all the shame of the cross. [music] >> To the son who overcame all the power of death [music] we pray. And for [music] the stripes, for the wounds, for the beating, for the tears [music and singing] and the blood.

Oh, for the merciful, wonderful mesty. Sing the crowning and we [singing] crown. We fall face down and [singing] we worship.

We all cry out, [music] you worthy, [singing] God. You're worthy, God. Yes, we [music and singing] cry and fall face down.

We worship. [music] We all cry [singing] out. You are worthy, God.

[music] You're worthy, Lord. Yes, [singing] we [music] >> know you are. [music] Are you worthy?

[music] >> You are worthy. You are [singing] worthy. Oh, you [music] are worthy God.

[music] You are worthy God. You are worthy God. [music] You are worthy [singing] God.

[music] You are worthy. You are worthy. [singing] You are worthy.

[music] Oh, you are worthy. You are worthy. You are worthy.

[singing] You are worthy. You are worthy. God you are.

>> [music] >> Yes. Sing. I need thee.

I need thee. I need [music] my [singing] defense, [music] my rightous. Oh God, [singing] how [music] I I need [music] every [music] hour.

I need thee. My one [music] defense, [singing] my rightousness. [music] Oh God, [singing] how I need >> again.

Again >> I [singing] need Oh. [music] >> Thank you, Lord. Every [music] [singing] hour I need my defense, [singing and music] my rightous, oh God, how I [singing] need.

>> Thank you, Lord. Let's sing it again. Sing it again.

I need >> every voice. [music] >> Oh, [singing] I need >> every [music] hour. I [singing] need my one [singing] defense, [music] my rightous.

Oh [singing] God, how I need >> one last time. Every voice, no bystanders tonight. Every voice I need [music and singing] thee.

Oh, I need thee. Every [singing] hour I need [music] thee. [singing] My one defense [music] my rightousness.

[singing] Oh God, how I need thee in [music] my [singing] one defense, my rightousness. [music and singing] Oh God, how I need thee. You're my one.

[music] Defense, my rightousness, [singing] [music] oh God, how I need thee. Oh, you are my one [singing] defense, [music] my rightousness. Oh God, how [singing] I need [music] Lord [music] tonight, just like we sang, just like we proclaimed in testimony that You bore all our sin and all our grief and all our sorrow.

[music] All our pain and all of our sin and our brokenness and darkness. You paid a price for redemption and salvation. With every [music] with every drop of blood, with every tear that was shed, with the crown of thorns on your head and the nails in your hands and your feet, with every beating, with every bruising, with every false accusation and every curse, Lord, you finished it.

you you you've you've paid [music] it all. And I ask for us in this room tonight, Lord, help us to see our need of you. Our need for everything that you've accomplished, our need of a savior, our need of the redeemer, our need of the healer, our need of our Lord Jesus Christ.

>> We don't ever want to be numb to our need for you. We don't ever want to settle for complacency because we've grown numb. Help us, Jesus, that these wouldn't be songs.

These wouldn't just be songs we sing. This would be the nature, the posture, the way of our hearts, the way of our lives, the declaration, proclamation, and remembrance of the one who is crowned king of glory. And so we ask, come Lord Jesus, come today.

Fill us with yourself. Glorify your name in the room tonight and stir us up in hunger and longing and desperation. Stir us up, Lord.

We need you [music] so much more. so much more than the air that we breathe. Any songs we could sing at the next step [music] we could take.

Lord, we need you more. Here are our little lives, Lord. >> Do with them as you please.

Here's our little church, God. and do with it as you please [music] here in Seattle in the Northwest. Find a home with us, God.

We love you and in your most beautiful and precious name we pray. Amen. Amen.

And thank you Lord. You may find your seats. Can we please thank our precious worship team?

[applause] Um, we are we're so glad you're here with us tonight. Um, God has been so faithful and and kind to us in in in countless ways. And um so it's always a joy to to celebrate to love Jesus together and to um to pursue his heart with so many others.

And so we're we're glad you're with us here tonight. Um is there anybody [clears throat] who's here for the very first time? Like you've never been to a Sunday night before?

Ready? Awesome. Welcome.

Welcome. We're so glad you're here. Um, all right.

I have like a I'm I I have I have a deep conviction for tonight. I I feel like the Lord is um not just highlighting something, but I think he wants to address something tonight. And something that I've learned uh over the last several years of teaching and preaching is it's kind of a paradox a little bit is feels like the the more I feel prepared prepared coming up on [music] a stage the more I feel like I I it's like I lose a leniency or dependency on Jesus.

And so [snorts] you almost like try to find this I don't know if balance is the right word. Maybe it's a truth intention where I have a I have an an idea of where God wants to go. I just I have we're going to find out together how we get there.

Um and I I'm finding that that's the that's the best place to be when um when being led by the Holy Spirit uh really into a revelation of Jesus. All right, let's go to First Peter uh chapter 1. We'll be in verse 10 through 12 today.

We'll just get through two verses. Um but I do want to uh I do want to remind you uh just like of the last couple weeks uh or excuse me, last few weeks that we've been we've been in First Peter chapter 1. at the very beginning I again I've said this every week but I think it's just really important to remember is that the finished work of the cross everything that Jesus has accomp accomplished must it absolutely has to no exceptions be perceived and viewed through the love of God the father to understand or try to excuse me to try to to attempt to understand the finished work of the cross without understanding without knowing the love of the father you will never experienced the fullness of what Jesus has accomplished because Jesus coming, the work, the finished work of the cross is an expression of the love of the father.

You know, I I I just I love this example so much and I just I I want this to like resound in our head and so you'll probably hear from me uh several more times over the next over the next few months. But in the scriptures when it says in Psalm 23 that though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Knowing God is with you only drowns out fear.

It pushes fear away only when I know the one who is with me. But if the one who is with me is is constantly angry or frustrated or waiting to kind of punish me for my sin or whatever it is now, not only am I walking through the valley of the shadow of death, but I'm also like a like afraid to get go to hell because the one who sees everything is right next to me. And so not not knowing, not understanding, not comprehending the love of the father for you and I, the rest of the gospel becomes distorted because it is an expression of love.

>> Come on. >> So then last week we kind of talked about how, you know, he said, "Rejoice in this that that though now for a little time you experience temptation is what he says." And we kind of talked through it last week is like when he says temptation, what he means is like as you're maturing, as you're growing in life, and more importantly, as you're growing in Jesus, what you'll find is that things that didn't tempt you maybe a year ago because you would just give into them, they weren't temptations. They were just sin you would live in.

All of a sudden, they become temptations that now you're convicted by the Holy Spirit. and that thing that you did a year ago that wouldn't bother you. Now all of a sudden your heart is drawn there, but your your spirit man knows that there's no way I'm headed in that direction.

And so Peter's like, "Listen, rejoice in this that now now that you know the love of the father, the truth of the gospel. There's things that you're enduring or suffering, temptations you're experiencing, but these temptations are only there because they're demonstrating that you're maturing and growing in your faith." Amen. >> You know, like you will there's parts of the world you will not see if you don't learn how to walk.

>> There's parts of the world that you can walk, but you will not see like if you don't know how to ride a bike. Like as far as distance goes, you know, like a bike can take you somewhere like just on foot will take a long time or maybe never. But then a bike can't take you to places a car can.

And each one of those things, walking, most of us probably don't remember learning to walk, but it's not easy when you watch babies. And then you kind of like you learn to walk as a Christian. You're like, man, I got this thing.

Like, I'm going to go see the world. And you like explore your living room. [snorts] This is incredible.

And then you grow and and and all of a sudden you get you mature. You mature enough and now your dad's like, "Listen, bro, you got to learn how to ride a bike." And you fall a few times, hit your head, whatever. You fall off a bike, but the fact that you have to relearn or you have to learn something, learn another form of transportation, it shows that you've grown and matured into something.

And then you learn to ride a bike and you're like, "Dude, my living room is kind of boring. You know, I if if you were like me as a kid, it was like it was like jump on a bike with a few of the friends, find looking go through the whole house, couch cushions and pillows and find spare change to get on a bike and drive like a like ride a mile to the next gas station to buy, you know, Snickers bar and you learn to ride a bike and all of a sudden your life is full of more experiences, much more than what your living room can offer. And then you get to the age where you have to learn to drive a car.

And again, it's like it's probably not easy. You you have to learn how it's it's kind of dangerous. It feels unsafe and scary maybe at times.

And but again, though you may be walking through the challenge of learning a new form of transportation, this new form of transportation on the other side of it is you will actually now hate going to the gas station because it's so expensive. Snickers, bars, and all, but you realize a car can take you to a neighboring city or the Grand Canyon or you can drive it to the beach or whatever. And all of a sudden, this new you're maturing.

The fact that you're driving a car just you have to learn to drive a car just demonstrates that you're maturing as a human being. you I hope you hear kind of what I'm alluding to here is in our faith it's like yes we grow and sometimes we we learn how to walk in our faith and we're like this is amazing I'm solid and then God's like listen buddy let's learn to ride a bike and you're like man I fell off the bike and every part of maturing becomes a point of recognized failure instead of a a gratitude for where Jesus is leading us and taking us Yes, like you are you are going to probably fall off a bike while you're learning to ride it, but the nature the nature of becoming stronger, experiencing new things is that you have to learn through it. And so in your faith and your walk with God, which is kind of again, this is a recap from last week is talked about this last week is is there are things you can sometimes feel like you're stuck in because you're so focused on the fact that you failed and then you remember, well, when I was learning to walk, I fell over every single like I fell over so many times and I'm learning to ride a bike and I'm falling over again.

I'm scared now to even consider driving a car because if I keep falling, what will happen behind a vehicle? And and then instead of being focused on the eyes of the father who's like, "Hey, I'll teach you. I'll hold your bike.

I'll teach you. I'll I'll teach you the brakes and the gas and how to steer and I'll teach you all this stuff. Just lean on me." The response becomes like it it's dictated by fear and the a failure that we experience, which is where last week we were like, "Okay, let's leave that thing behind." You know, the example that I gave is like there's two trees.

One of them is dead. And often times when we fall into sin or brokenness or we fail, it's like the prayer becomes a watering an affection adoration to a dead tree that cannot produce fruit. When prayer is intended to be, it's an affection and attention to the tree who is Jesus and the only one who is able to bring forth fruit.

Okay, so you kind of this is the recap of where we're going today. uh a recap of the last several weeks and it will this is the context this is the perspective we want to go into reading chapter uh 10-2. So watch this.

He says, [clears throat] "Concerning this salvation." So he shared the good news of Jesus, the victory of the cross. He says, "Concerning all that Jesus has accomplished, remember the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours, searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories, it was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preach the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven things into which angels angels long to look. I'll actually include verse 13.

Therefore, anytime the Bible says therefore, you do not want to start reading there because he's saying in light of what I just said, I'm making my next point. So he's saying in light of what I just said, prepare your minds for action and being sober minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Okay?

[sighs and gasps] He says uh let me say this. Peter is trying to communicate to us. He's trying to in uh remind he's trying to stir up the reader, those who are reading this portion to remember that what Jesus has accomplished on the cross as an expression of the love of the father is not a casual piece of information [snorts] concerning the salvation.

The prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours. When he says when he talks about grace, he is talking about the reconciliation. Man restored back to God, filled with the spirit of Christ, made righteous, holy, blameless, and pure, sin forgiven, healed, restored into the image and likeness of Jesus.

So he says, "The prophets prophesied about this grace that was to be yours, searched and they inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the following glories." In other words, there have been people for generations, for thousands of years before Jesus, hundreds and hundreds, thousands of years after Jesus. There was people who laid their lives down for you and I, for us here today to experience the truth and the power of Christianity the way that God intended it at the very beginning. The fact that you're sitting in the seat that you're sitting in today is not because you have somehow earned it in some form of life.

The fact that you and I get to be in a room in America, in Washington State, in the beautiful city of Seattle. The fact that we get to be here freely, loving Jesus, turning our affection and attention to him, singing songs to him, gathering without having to hide it, praying prayers that we want to pray, making declarations we want to declare. All of that stuff came at a price that none of us had to pay.

We get stirred up when the Lord asks us for our tithes and offerings. Man, you you are in for a surprise when he starts asking for your life. >> You're going to be like, "Listen, how about I give you 90%." Let me keep my life.

[snorts] For thousands of years before the coming of the Messiah, before the coming of Jesus, there were people who laid their lives down as doormats for the coming promise. They knew what was declared by God. They knew the promise that was given and they also knew that they were not going to experience it and they laid their lives down.

They went they paid a dear price not financially they prayed a price with their life lived for something that they knew that you and I we would be the ones who would step into it and they would never see it on this side of eternity. So, how is it that humanity, how is it rather the body of Christ, how is it that we have developed this approach to the to church? How is it that we've developed this approach to the revelation of Jesus, to the victory of the cross, to the truth of the gospel as something that that has to be convenient for my way of life?

So, so I can incorporate it into into into me. >> [snorts] >> They saw glimpses of what was to come through this grace and they were willing to lay their lives down for it. While you and I have the revelation of the Christ right here, right here.

And there is an unwillingness to even give him a a tithe. unwillingness to forgive somebody who who said something mean to us. An unwillingness to love a person who may look different from us.

[snorts] Turn to Hebrews 11. Just a couple books to the left. Hebrews 11:32 the scripture says, "And what more shall I say?

For time would fail me to tell you of Gideon, of Barack, of Samson, of Jeffa, of David, of Samuel, the prophets, those [snorts] who through faith they conquered kingdoms and forced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of the fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received back their dead by resurrection. And some were tortured, refusing to accept release so that they might rise again to a better life.

Others suffered mocking, flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn in two.

They were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated, of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and in caves of the earth. All of these though commended through their faith did not receive what was promised since God had provided something better for us.

For us that apart from us they should not be made perfect. That word perfect doesn't mean sinless. That word perfect means complete.

When Jesus has come he made he brought forth completion. These people were sawn and gladly so doing because they knew there was a promise that was coming that they would never experience. But they saw you and I today and they were willing to die for it.

It's important to notice in the scripture it's in this portion of scripture it's broken off into two two sections. The first one it says, "By faith they conquered kingdoms and forced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the store sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight, woman received their dead by resurrection." He's explaining an expression of faith. And then there's a second portion of it.

He shifts and he says, "And then there were some who were tortured refusing to accept release so that they might rise again to a better life. Suffered mocking, flogging, chains, imprisonment, stoned, sawn in two, killed with the sword, went about in skins of sheeps and goats, des goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated, of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about in deserts and mountains and in dens and caves of the earth." Scripture is teaching us that faith is not an outcome. All of us want the expression of faith that conquers kingdoms, quenches fire, raises the dead, made strong out of weakness, becoming mighty in war, putting the devil, the armies of hell to flight.

All of us want that portion. And all of us in some weird way consider this to be victory. And yet when we read scriptures that say some were tortured, refused, which by the way is also an expression of faith.

>> Some were tortured refusing to accept release so they might rise again to a better life. They suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, sawn in two, killed with the sword, destitute, sheeps and goats skins, deserts and mountains, dens and caves of the earth.

Typically, when we face that sort of stuff, it there becomes a need for spiritual warfare like >> when the scriptures teach that faith is not an outcome. Faith is an expression of the one who determines who determines my direction. The one who determines where I end up.

Whether it's in life or death, I I always win. I always have victory because if I'm alive, it's for Christ. If I'm dead, I'm with Christ.

Period. [applause] The thing is that the people we the victories of the people that we rejoice and celebrate in the scriptures they also experienced the they experienced both sides of faith. Joseph was imprisoned, mocked, laughed at, tortured for things, for something he didn't do.

And on the other side of it, that was as that was an expression of faith in God. So was when he sat at a Pharaoh's right hand. David, King David, whom Jesus is named after, the son of David, he was mighty in war, suffered mocking and mistreatment.

Saul was pursuing him to kill him. >> [snorts] >> Daniel stopped the mouths of l in the lion's den of the Daniel in the lion's den stopped the mouths of the lions but leading up to that moment he was he was mistreated he was accused falsely accused he was hated he was despised and in the scriptures and in our faith they are they are heroes. There are those who have they have demonstrated a faith because the faith was not the outcome.

The faith was an expression. It was it was a single-mindedness, one focus that God is my God regardless of where I am or what happens. It's so common within within church nowadays, within our Christianity that faith isn't an expression.

Uh it's not it's not a constant expression. It tends to be an expectation of result. And so if I pray for the sick and they didn't get healed, that moment will determine if I pray for the next sick person.

If I gave a tithe last week and it didn't come back to me tenfold by the by this week, it'll determine whether I give or don't give this week. If I preach the gospel to that person and they repented and excuse me and they didn't repent or didn't get saved, it'll determine whether I preach the gospel to the next person. And faith no longer becomes an expression of who God is.

It becomes an a result of experience, a result of outcome. And that in itself is sin because the Bible says anything you do without faith is sin. Hebrews 11:6, [snorts] "And without faith, it is impossible to please God." Do you hear what I'm saying?

>> When faith is my expression of who I know that he is, I can pray for a hundred sick people and none of them get healed. And on the 101st one, I do it right again. And on the 102nd I might see a small headache go and I rejoice and I celebrate in the victory that he is who he says that he is.

>> And that 101 that came before that have nothing to do with they can they cannot nor will they determine what I do on my 103rd attempt. >> Jesus only does that. >> And I can give a tenth for the rest of my life and never receive.

Not tenfold. I I don't even have to receive onefold. I don't even have to re I don't have to receive anything back.

I don't give to receive back. I give to obey Jesus and look like him. [applause] >> [snorts] >> These people that the scripture talk about who were sawn, who who were locked away in prison and despised and they were hated and mistreated and mocked and their sacrifice, the price that they paid [snorts] is why you and I sit here today.

>> [snorts] >> There are people who had their heads cut off because they they wanted to make the scriptures available to to anybody who wanted to read them. And now we have it at our fingertips. And we read it when if I'm depressed, maybe I'll I'll jump into the place of hope.

And people paid a price that you and I today learn how to pray and love Jesus. And prayer becomes a break glass in case of emergency experience with Jesus. And for generations and generations, people held near and dear the elements of communion, the body and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

so that we retell and remember his testimony. And in some just absolute I like I don't know if this is bad to say at church like in some absolute stupid way communion has become a five minute segment between worship and announcements. I'm like the only elements that have the power to set us free and liberate us the ones that speak of the glories of the Christ of of the truth and the power of the cross.

And we give it 5 minutes to get to this better thing called a message which often times tends to be like this self-help like feel good in 25 minutes before you leave here. And none of it points to Jesus. There are people throughout history, some of which I want to go through today.

There are people throughout history, [snorts] who will be remembered in heaven for their love for Jesus. And they're still remembered today because of what Jesus had done through them, because of their their wholehearted devotion to him. [snorts] In Acts chapter 7, Steven is stoned to death, declaring that Jesus is the son of God and the pri promised Messiah.

Today as Gentiles, you and I live in the revelation of a savior because Stephen when he proclaimed the the Messiah would not waver even when he was looking death in the face. Peter hung upside down because he felt unworthy to die like Jesus as he proclaimed the gospel. There was a man named Ignadius of Antioch and he declared his the hill that he was willing to die on was G was that Jesus the Christ was both God and man.

100% God, 100% man. and [snorts] they killed him because they disagreed with him and they threw him into a lion's den. And you would look at his testimony, his story, and think, why wouldn't it look like Daniel's?

Because it looked like Jesus's. Jesus who did lay down his life for a gospel for the gospel that you and I know and read and live in today. There was a man named Polycarb.

The hill that he would die on was that there's a faithfulness to God that reigns above a faithfulness to Caesar. In other words, a devotion to Jesus over a devotion to a political system. And for his faith, for his stance, he was hung on a pole and burned.

And when [snorts] the fire would not kill him, they hang him on a pole, light the man on fire, and he won't die. And so they figured, you know what? Grab a sword and just cut him.

>> [snorts] >> And today you and I live in a reality where you can believe whatever you want. And no, not the president, no representative, congressman, nobody in our land can tell you not to believe that. And somebody gave their lives, hung on a pole, burning, pierced, cut open with a sword, dying for a truth, a reality that you and I experience today.

something that we did not have to pay for. We freely live. But when there's an ignorance to cost, you take something for granted.

There was a woman named Perpetua. She would not renounce Jesus and they threatened to kill her son. So they killed her son when she wouldn't renounce the Lord.

She was then imprisoned and then thrown into an arena to be killed with wild animals as a show for those who would mock and laugh at her. And before she died, she said, she said, "I cannot be called anything other than what I am. I'm just a Christian.

Like I'm not some superhero. I didn't I'm not some martyr. I'm not some I'm just I am just the simplicity of a Christian.

Someone who's willing to give their life for Jesus. a man named John Hos. It says, I've been reading I've been reading uh a book on him, but he fought for the scriptures to stand, for the scriptures to be the authority over the tradition of the church.

And he fought for a revelation, for a truth where Christ is the head of the church, not a priest. You would think. And now you would say Christ is the head of the church, not a priest.

And all of us would be like, "Duh." But 500 years ago when the Catholic priest, the pope was overseeing the church, to say that I will obey the scriptures versus the pope was like, "That's it. We're going to kill you." [snorts] And he fought for the scriptures to stand above church tradition. And because they couldn't stand that, they hung him on a pole and they burned him at the stake.

[snorts] A woman named an Ascu refused to deny her faith in the scriptures and communion. She was imprisoned and then tortured on the on a rack, which is where they would tie your your ankles on one side and your wrists on the other. They would slowly wind it and they would pull your body apart, torture you.

Not this. She was tortured. Not even because they weren't asking her to uh to deny Jesus.

They were trying to convince her, torture her into saying that she doesn't believe in the power of communion. And today we come to the table someone who was torn from torn apart limb to limb for believing the p in the power of the body and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Today in American church, the body and the blood, the people were dying for, tortured for, we give it five minutes once a month.

And so they tortured her. They pulled her apart on the rack and then they put her on a steak and burned her alive because she would not refuse her understanding, her belief in the power of communion. William Tinddale believed every believer should have a Bible of their own.

And he translated, he was translating the Bible to English while it was still illegal. They took him captive. They strangled him and they burned him alive.

Excuse me. They burned him. Not alive, but they burned him.

And his last prayer was this. Lord, open the king of England's eyes. And within a few years, the the English Bible became legal in the nation, the one that you and I read today, or it stemmed from it.

>> [snorts] >> Dietrich Bonhoffer. He would declare to Hitler that Christ is Lord over the state and he would oppose him and he was hung. He he died by hanging weeks before World War II ended.

John Elliot went as a missionary to preach the gospel in Ecuador and he was killed by the people in the village that he was preaching to. His family went there years later to evangelize again to the same village and they found that the village had given its life to Jesus. [snorts] They're alive.

They gave their lives to Jesus. And before Jim died, he said, "He is no fool, who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose." In other words, I am not a fool to lay my life down, to lose something I can't hold on to to begin with. I'm not a fool to lay my life down to receive to earn something I will never lose which is eternity in Jesus.

Brother Yun who's still alive today who's a pastor is a pastor and preached in China and they held him in prison. They would they dug a hole. They dug a hole in the ground that was maybe 3 ft deep and it was maybe a foot and a half, 2 ft wide.

And they would throw them in there and keep them there for weeks. And it was it wasn't like, "Oh, if you need to use the restroom, let us know." No, it was like, "We're going to torture you, break your legs, we're going to throw you into this hole." He still has on his ankles. He has he has uh his flesh like conformed to the chains that were on his on his ankles.

He was tortured, bones broken, forced to starve and thirst. I [snorts] I hope you hear what where where the scriptures are are leading us with this. What what kind the point that I want to make today and more importantly the point that the scriptures are making.

He says, "Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. And it was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but they were serving you in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preach the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Listen, even angels long to look into this.

And Christianity in in some strange way instead of becoming a a life that is laid down for the revelation in the pursuit of Jesus Christ, Christianity has become a form of life where maybe it'll maybe it'll get easier. It does get easier, but not in the ways that you might think. It gets easier because all of a sudden when somebody hurt me, I no longer have to spend days, weeks, months, or maybe years thinking about why they did it.

That does make your life easier. It still hurts, but it does make it easier. You know, you've probably all of you have probably like read [snorts] that thing.

It's like you got to pick your hard. It might be hard to read the scriptures every day. I promise you this, it's much harder not knowing Jesus.

>> And it may be hard sometimes where you had a long day and you come home and you're like, "Man, I I want to devote myself to prayer and I'm feeling tired and sleepy." It might be hard in those moments to devote yourself to prayer. It is much harder not knowing his voice. It's hard sometimes, you know, kind of organizing your life to make it to church and to spend time with people.

It's much harder to do life alone in isolation. [snorts] And so when I say that you sitting in this seat today, me being up here today came at a great cost. I mean the these are just these are just like a handful.

I read a lot, but these are a handful of the people who paid great prices so that you and I can read our Bible today at our fingertips, sit in a chair loving Jesus, go home and proclaim the gospel to our neighbor, our friend, and all of these things we take for granted because none of us had to pay a price for it to get here. And the thing that absolutely destroys, it crushes revival is when those people take charge who did not have to pay a price to step into it. And I would say far be it from us, far be it from you and me.

far beia from our church that that one day we stand before Jesus and we look at these people who who enter [laughter] he heaven honors and they point all the glory back to Jesus and we have to look at them and explain to Stephen or Apostle Paul or Peter any of these people like why why I didn't like I didn't read my Bible today because I had a 4-hour shift and like this customer was mean to me and so When I got home, I was just like overwhelmed. I was over stimulated. Man, you will never see a face of greater confusion than on theirs.

They're going to be like, "What is that? What does even overstimulated mean?" Like, you didn't read your Bible because somebody who doesn't know you said something mean to you. As you're looking at their glorified bodies and they have the marks that testify of the Christ, >> you'll feel really foolish even thinking to try to explain yourself because if Christianity is not death to self, it cannot be life to Jesus.

It cannot. The two cannot coexist. And so Peter's saying, "Listen, the love of the father has come for you.

It's been expressed through the victory of the cross and you're growing and maturing. But please, please do not forget that for generations, for thousands of years, there was people who paid a price for you to experience what you're experiencing. Do not come to it with a complacency.

Do not look at Jesus as casual. Do not receive of his spirit as something to take for granted. Cuz [snorts] now that you have it, angels, they long to look in this in they long to look into this and they can't.

And all they do is they look at humanity. They look at Christians who will not even scratch the surface because I had a bad day. If you had a bad day, then someone other than Jesus is determining how good it is.

And that's a problem. >> [snorts] >> And so you and I today, we do not get to redefine the truths of the gospel. [snorts] When Jesus says turn the other cheek, that's the least we can do.

And for hundreds of years, people gave their very lives for it. When Jesus says, "Forgive those who hurt you. Bless those who persecute you." Man, that's a no-brainer.

There's some of you sitting in the room and your heart is burning because you know there's someone you are to forgive and there's you're at war within yourself where you're like, I don't want to let it go. You can't hold on to that thing and Jesus. You can hold on to that thing and an idea of Jesus, but you cannot hold on to both.

I'm not saying you're going to go to hell if you die. I just what I am saying is that you're not going to look like Jesus today, which is what he intended to begin with. For thousands of years, people paid great prices for the truths we live in today, for the biblical principles, the the fundamentals of the tr of the gospel that we live in today.

And here comes around in the year 2026, Mr. Wise Guy. And now there's a revelation that we can just build church around attendance.

We can worship around streams and listens. We can preach a message to the itching ears want to hear. We produce content for engagement.

We evangelize for media content. We start a church for a position. Hold on to grudges because the person should have known better.

coming into an come into an environment like this and not worship because there's someone waving a flag in the back. Not believe in healing because you experienced a lack of it. Only reading scripture when life gets hard.

Praying when situations feel only when situations feel impossible. Taking communion as a traditional sign. Attending church to appease your conscience.

How dare we when the very gospel when the very gospel points back to the living Christ. So one day I pray I pray that one day when we stand before the Lord and we see the martyrs they're loving him and worshiping him and he says well done my good and faithful servant. Why don't you come take a seat?

Come take a seat next to those who shed their blood to receive of thee blood. So he's saying then Peter says in verse 13, therefore I I said this at the beginning, he's saying in light [music] in light of everything I just told you, in light of everything we just went through, I want to encourage you, prepare your minds for action. Prepare your minds, meaning stop thinking in a victimhood way where you're a victim to your life.

Prepare your minds for action. Which means that if I must lay my life down for the truth of the gospel, for the one true king, so be it. >> As of right now, no one's trying to kill me or torture me for my faith, which means that what I say yes and yes to is the instruction of Jesus.

And I love those the people around me. I forgive those who hurt me. I bless those who persecute me.

I turn the other cheek. I live generous. I give the Lord his offering, his tithe and his offering.

I live generously with the people around me. I pray for those who are struggling and aching and aching. I I walk next to those who are mourning and I mourn with them and then I celebrate and rejoice in the victory of those who experience victory.

This is like Christianity 101. And one day the one day the day will come where we will be persecuted for our faith. But we'll be so far gone in Jesus.

They'll be like they'll be trying to torture us. And just like in Hebrews 11, we're going to be like, "Hey, don't stop. You know what?

Can you give me a mark over here and over here because I kind of want to look like Jesus?" He had a mark here. And they're like, "These people are crazy." >> Yes. >> Crazy in love.

>> But far be it from us. From us like especially us as a church. far be it from us to live a Christianity that that doesn't honor Jesus and that doesn't honor and respect the the price that was paid for for the realities, the truths that we live in today.

And so my prayer is Lord, would you give us an awareness Why don't you close your eyes, Lord? Give us an awareness like I prayed at the at the beginning. God, give us an understanding, a revelation of our deep need for you.

And help us, God, as as hard as it is, help us to to comprehend the cost, the price that was paid for us even just to be in the room here tonight. That we would never consider the gospel lightly. We would never take for granted your spirit.

we would never [gasps] uh approach Lord communion and the scriptures and prayer and worship with complacency. Help us help us to see you rightly and give us the fear of the Lord. Give us the fear of the Lord.

I need we need a fear of the Lord. Give us the fear of the Lord. Give us the fear of the Lord.

Lord, we lay all this other stuff down. Expose us to the price that was paid on the cross. Expose us to the price those who have gone before us have paid for us to have a Bible in our hands today.

Open our eyes to understand. Expose us to to the price that was paid, Lord. that we know you in in intimacy, in communion, in friendship.

Expose us, Lord. And I ask, please confront, God, areas of our hearts. Please confront areas of our hearts that have become excuses as to why not not to live in greater realities and greater truths.

Confront us in those areas and prune them, Lord. Prune them. Crush us, Lord, because we know that in the crushing you bring something beautiful.

Teach us, Lord. Help us to have the value to have the same value as those who have gone before us. Greater value than those who have gone before us and laid their very lives.

Teach us, God. Teach us. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. team, why don't you come up here? Worship team.

[snorts] And what I want to do is um I want us to sing um uh I have decided to follow Jesus and not because we're not saved in the room. And it's not like and not that we're not going to heaven. It's that I'm not just following him to heaven one day.

I'm following him today. If it's into the lion's den, into hanging on a cross, into a burning fire, I'm following him. I'm following him today.

And in some ways I I I want it to be a form of repentance. In other ways I I I want it to be a declaration. So, we'll only take a few more minutes, but in I I just want this to to be a kind of prayer like Lord, we we have decided to follow you wherever it is you go.

And one day, Lord, as as crazy as this might sound, it it will be a privilege for us. It'll be a privilege if one day our heads are cut off for the gospel or we're crucified or we're burned at the stake. But because we never turned away, we never turned away from the one who who deserves who's worthy of all of our lives.

And if it's if that's not where life leads us and we die peacefully and we move on from this tempt peacefully in our homes, it'll be a great joy just as much as there was nothing in us that held back from following Jesus. And so I I just I I want to give you liberty here. meaning like you can you can stay in your seats, get on your knees, you can come up to the front or find a corner somewhere in the room, just whatever it looks like.

But I I just what I do want to ask is that your declaration is intentional that you that we do not lose heart contact with Jesus tonight because we've become distracted. And so Lord, come visit us in our prayers, Lord, in our declaration tonight. Give us conviction, confront us, rebuke us if necessary, teach us, and strengthen us.

But we want to look more like you. Amen. Sing.

I have decided decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to follow Jesus.

No turning back. No turning back. I have decided I have decided to follow Jesus.

I have decided [music and singing] to follow Jesus. I have decided to [music] follow [singing] Jesus. No turning back.

No turning [music] back. I have decided [singing] to follow Jesus. I have [singing] decided [music] to follow Jesus.

I have decided [music and singing] to follow Jesus. No turning back. No turning, >> none go with me.

>> Though none go with [singing] me, >> still I will follow. Though none [music and singing] go with me, still I will follow. Though none [music and singing] go with me, still I will follow.

No turning back. No turning back. Though none [singing and music] go with me, still I will follow.

Though [music and singing] none go with me, still I will follow. Though none go with me, still I [music and singing] will follow. No turning back.

No turning back. And my cross [music] I'll car till I see Jesus. [singing] My cross I'll [music] car till I see [singing] Jesus.

My cross I'll car till [music and singing] I see Jesus. No turning back. >> No turning back.

>> Oh my cross I'll carry. My cross I'll carry [music and singing] till I see Jesus. My cross [music] I'll carry till I [singing] see Jesus.

My cross [music] I'll car till I see [singing] Jesus. No [music] turning back. No turn.

>> The world behind me. The [singing and music] world behind me, the cross before me. The world [singing and music] behind me, the cross before me, the world behind [music and singing] me.

The cross before me. No turning back. No turn.

Oh, >> I have decided. I have [music] decided [singing] to follow Jesus. I [music and singing] have decided to follow Jesus.

[music] I have decided [singing] to follow [music] Jesus. No turning [singing] back. No [music] turning back.

>> I have decided. I have decided [music and singing] to follow Jesus. I have decided [music] to follow [singing] Jesus.

I have decided [music] to follow Jesus. No turning [singing] back. No [music] turn.

Nothing go with me. Though not go with [music] me, still I will fall. Though not go with me, still I [music] will follow.

No, go with me. [music] Still I will follow. No turning around.

[music] No. Sing. My cross I'll carry.

My cross I'll carry till I [singing] see Jesus. [music] My cross I'll carry till I see Jesus. My cross I'll [singing] carry till I see Jesus.

No turning [music and singing] back. No turn the world behind. The world behind me.

[music and singing] The cross before. The world behind [music] me. The cross before me.

And the world [singing and music] behind me. The cross before me. No [music] turning back.

No turning. >> Take the horror. You can take the whole world, but [music] give me Jesus.

You can take the whole world. [music] Would give me Jesus. You can take the whole world, [music] but give me Jesus.

No turning [music] back. No turning. You can take this world.

[music] I [singing] give me Jesus. You can [music] take this world. Just give me Jesus.

[music] You can take this home. Just give me Jesus. [music] No turning.

[music] Cuz [singing] I have decided to follow [music] Jesus. I have decided [singing] >> to follow Jesus. [music] >> I have decided [singing] to [music] follow Jesided.

[singing] [music] to follow Jesus. I have decided [singing] to follow [music] Jesus. I have decided to follow [singing] Jesus.

[music] Take this world and give me [singing] >> give me. >> You can have this world. >> I just [music] want Jesus.

I just want Jesus. Only [singing] Jesus. You can have this world.

I just [music] want Jesus. [singing] I just want Jesus. Only Jesus.

[music and singing] You can have this world. I just want Jesus. [music and singing] I just want Jesus.

Only [music and singing] Jesus. You can have this world. I [music] just want [singing] Jesus.

I just want Jesus. Only [music and singing] Jesus. You can have this world.

I just [music and singing] want Jesus. I just want Jesus. Only Jesus.

You can have this [music] world. I just want Jesus. I just want Jesus.

[music] Only Jesus. [music] I just want Jesus. I just [music and singing] want Jesus.

Oh, Jesus. Heat. [music] Heat.

[music] This [music] world is nothing for me. >> [music] >> You can have this world. I just want Jesus.

I just [music] want Jesus. Only [singing] Jesus. You can have this world.

I just [music] want Jesus. I just want Jesus. [singing] [music] Only Jesus.

This world [music] has nothing [singing] for me. I've tasted and I've seen. There is [music and singing] no other treasure but Jesus.

[music] No other [music and singing] treasure but Jesus. Oh, this world has nothing for me. [music and singing] I've tasted and I've seen the treasure [music and singing] that is Jesus.

What else could I have chosen? [music] Has nothing [singing] for me? I've tasted and I've seen the treasure [music] that is Jesus.

What else could I have chosen? This world has nothing for me. [music] I tasted and I see the treasure that [music] is Jesus.

I search and I have found that this world has nothing for me. Heat. Heat.

[music] Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. Heat.

[music] The treasure [music] that is Jesus [music] for me. world has nothing [music] for me. I see I see the [music] is [music] Yeah.

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

[music] Heat. Heat. Heat.

[music] I just [music] want [music] >> I [music] just want Jesus. >> I just want Jesus. [music] >> Jesus.

You can have [singing] this world. I just [music] want Jesus. >> I just [singing] want Jesus.

Only Jesus. You can have this world. [singing] I just [music] want Jesus.

I just want Jesus. [music] I just want you [music] cuz I [singing] have decided. I will follow Jesus [music] anywhere he leads.

That's where we will go. I have decided [music and singing] I will follow Jesus. Anywhere he leads us, that's where we [music] will go.

[singing] I have decided I will follow Jesus. [music] Anywhere he leads [singing] us, that's where we will go. [music] I have decided I will [music and singing] follow Jesus.

Anywhere he leads us, that's where we will go. I [music] have [singing] decided I will follow Jesus. Anywhere he leads.

[music] That's where we will go. I have decided [singing] I will follow Jesus [music] anywhere he leads us. That's where we are.

[singing] I [music] have decided I will follow Jesus anywhere he leads us. That's where we will go. I have decided [music] I will follow Jesus anywhere he leads us.

[music] I swear I have I have [music] I follow Jesus anywhere he lead us. That's where we will go. [music] I have decided I will follow [music] Jesus anywhere he lead us.

That's where we will go. >> [music] >> Oh, and so I'm riding with Jesus wherever he goes. Surrender this life on [music] my own.

I'm riding with Jesus wherever he goes. Surrender this on my own. I'm running [music] with Jesus.

He goes on my [music] own. I'm with Jesus. Heat.

Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

Heat. Heat. [music] Jesus [music] goes.

Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

Heat. [music] >> [music] >> That's why [music] because it's time to ride. It's time to ride.

>> [music] >> We put on our backpacks because it's time to ride wherever he's [music] going. Heat. Heat.

Heat. [music] Heat. Heat.

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

Heat. [music] The [music] sun [music] with Jesus wherever he goes [music] on my own with Jesus [music] Jesus [music] Jesus >> [music] >> So, wherever he goes, wherever he goes, I'm riding with Jesus. [music] Wherever he goes, wherever he goes, wherever he goes, I'm following Jesus.

[music] Wherever he goes, wherever he goes, wherever he goes, [music] I'm following Jesus. Wherever he goes, wherever he goes, wherever [music] he goes, I'm following Jesus. Wherever he goes, wherever he goes, [music] wherever he goes, I'm following Jesus.

Wherever he goes, [music] wherever he goes, I'm following Jesus. Wherever he goes, [music] wherever he goes, wherever he goes, I'm following Jesus. Wherever he goes.

Wherever [music] he goes. Wherever he goes. Oh yeah.

I'm following Jesus. Wherever he goes. Wherever [music] he goes.

Wherever he goes. I'm following Jesus. Wherever he goes.

Wherever [music] he goes. Wherever he goes. I'm following Jesus.

Wherever he goes. Wherever he [music] goes. Wherever he is.

I'm following Jesus. Wherever he goes. Wherever [music] he goes, he goes with Jesus.

[music] Forever [music] we go. Wherever he goes, [music] Heat. Heat.

Heat. [music] and we put on [music] our back because it's time to ride. It's time [music] to ride.

It's time to ride. >> It's time to ride. >> It's time to ride.

>> It's time to ride. Oh, >> we're following Jesus. >> It's time to ride wherever he's leading.

Yes, we will follow. >> Wherever he's leading, [music] >> cuz I have decide I will follow Jesus. [music] Where we will go.

I have decided [music] I will follow Jesus. [music] Oh, I have decided I [singing and music] have a follow Jesus. That's [music] I have decided [singing] I will follow Jesus.

>> [music] >> Jesus. Uh this is the declaration of our lives and our house, our hearts. Um is that we we will we will follow you wherever it is you go.

And God, we are we're so thankful that we're your children, but at the same time, God, we ask that in the necessary moments, we wouldn't be chill, we wouldn't be uh treated as kids, Lord, but you would mature us and you would discipline us. You would correct us. You would help us to see the weight of the gospel that we've been given.

And may we live with the wisdom to steward what generations before us have fought so so boldly for. And my prayer, Lord, is that in this house, at our church, you would find for yourself a people who are who will give their lives, lay lives down to profess the name of Jesus and to hand the gospel, the good news, the cost of revival to the next generation. And that by some [sighs] miraculous touch of grace, our little short lives here in this day and this generation would influence generations to come to know you and to love you just like we've been influenced by the generations before us.

Rest upon us, God. [snorts] We love you deeply. We thank you for your faithfulness and your kindness towards us.

Thank you for all that you've done today, for being [music] with us, Lord. We love you and in your most holy name we pray. >> Amen.

>> Amen. >> Let's lift up one more shout of gratitude to Jesus. [music] >> [music] >> Amen.

Amen. Prayer team, why don't you come up to the front here? Um, if you need prayer, if you need us to stand any with anything or for anything for you in uh in prayer, our team is going to be up here.

You're welcome to come up. Otherwise, we love you guys. We thank you for being with us tonight.

Um, please drive home safely. We'll either see you on on Thursday or on Sunday. No Bible study on Tuesday.

We love you guys. Bless you and have a good night.