Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Speaker A: Welcome to the Chroma Charge podcast.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: This isn't our topic tonight, but I can't get this phrase out of my head. During the worship, I felt the Lord say, one for all and all for one.
And he just kept saying it, one for all and all for one. And I was like, why do I keep hearing this phrase over and over again? And he was just revealing to me that he. I mean, maybe it's obvious to some of you now, but I asked the Lord about it and he was like, one for all. I died for all, and all will then be risen for me for my glory. And I just, just. I don't know if someone here needs to know that this evening, but it was just that truth. Especially as Steve got us praying for the ones, the five on our phones, the ones that are going to come and know him. That. That is the promise that one died for all, and all of us get to live for one, for the glory of one, as we give our lives to him. And so, just a beautiful truth that. Anyway, he was speaking to me about not what we're going to talk about tonight. Well, we always talk about Jesus, don't we? But we're going to be looking at the story of Noah this evening, which is actually a bit random, but I felt like the Lord just put it on my heart a few weeks ago. And so I'm just being obedient, wanting to dig into that story. So we're actually going to jump straight in. So if you have a Bible, you can turn to Genesis.
We're going to be reading from chapter six and you can stand as we read the word of the Lord this evening.
We stand for the word of the Lord here. His word is higher than my word. We honor the Scriptures this evening.
Okay, so we're going to go from verse 5. In chapter 6.
The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. Welcome to the evening service. It's a great.
There's a promise that comes. That's great, but this is a low point in the Bible. The Lord was grieved that he had made man on earth and his heart was filled with pain. So the Lord said, I will wipe mankind whom I have created from the face of the earth. Men and animals and creatures that move along the ground and birds of the air, for I am grieved that I have made them.
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. This is the account of Noah. Noah was A righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. And he walked with God.
Did you hear that? He walked with God. Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the Earth had become, for all people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, I'm going to put an end to all the people, for the Earth is filled with violence because of them. I'm surely going to destroy both them and the Earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in it and coat it with pitch, inside and out. This is how you are to build it. The ark is to be blah, blah, blah. And he goes on and he gives all of these instructions about what the ark should look like, who should come into it, what animals, all of that. Just jump to chapter seven. We're going to read just a few verses here.
The Lord then said to Noah, go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate. And also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the Earth. Seven days from now, I'll send rain on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe from the face of the Earth every living creature I have made. And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
This is the word of the Lord. Amen. You can grab a seat. And honestly, I mean, the whole story is just incredible. There's so much to take from it. So you can go home and read the rest.
No, it was 600 years, at 600 years old when all of this was happening.
But the point is this, right? So you hopefully will know the story. I feel like if you're a Christian or you're not a Christian, you've kind of heard of Noah in the ark, right? And you know about the flood and the boat, and that there were people saved, and two by two, the animals went in two by two, and they were saved.
But there is so much about this story that we can learn.
One about the nature of God, about the kind of person he's looking for in Noah, but also just about this redemptive plan that the Lord has for his people all the way through, and. And so that the judgment, the. The flood, and then the way that they go into the ark and they're saved and there's this holy people that are rescued because of the redemptive plan of the Lord is something that happens over and over again through the Bible. You know, we sit with, with Abraham and we sit with Moses and ultimately we see it with the, the Savior, Jesus Christ, who comes to ultimately rescue us. And so as we learn about this story this evening, just know that it's a picture that happens over and over again to remind us of what the Lord is going to do, of the promises, the promise that's going to be fulfilled. But like I said, like I read verse 5 probably starts with the lowest point in, in human history ever. The Lord is grieved that he made mankind.
Can you imagine that? You know, he loves us and he pursues us, but the people had become so evil, so corrupt in all their ways that he was, he didn't regret because the Lord doesn't regret anything that he was grieved that he made us. And so he has a few options. His heart is filled with pain. And I think he has a few options here. You know, option one, he could wipe everyone out and never start again. You know, that's the end. We tried it with humans and we're not going there again.
But the Lord had existed before us, without us, and he didn't want to go back to that. He so loved us that he wanted that relationship with us. Have you thought about that? Why? Father, Son, Holy Spirit, they're in this perfect unity before we existed, before humanity existed. And why did he create us? Because there was this overflow of love. It's his nature to create. It's his nature to love. It's his nature to have relationship.
It's his nature to live in communion with people. And so he made us in his image. How beautiful that he would even choose to make us.
And then in this, it's like he could have the option just to go, well, I'm done. I'm never doing that again. But he doesn't because he loves us and he longs to have relationship with us. He could have wiped everyone out and then just started again. He could have made a new Adam and a new Eve. I don't know, an Andrew and a.
I don't know, an Eve name, Evelyn. Something.
He could have, though. He could have started again with just two new man and woman.
But he didn't. Because the promise, do you remember the promise was that Adam would crush that. That. That the seed of Adam would crush the head of the serpent. That was the promise that God gave, that the seed of Adam would crush the Head of the serpent one day. And so it couldn't just be that he started again.
He longed to see, to see the generations to go through. And that one day would be Jesus that came from the seed of Adam, who would ultimately rescue us.
That was always the promise.
And so we get kind of this third option where it's like he's looking, he's looking. His eyes are searching the earth for someone who is righteous. And he finds Noah, he finds one man, he finds one man who is blameless and set apart. Verse 9. He is blameless among the people of his time. And he walked with God.
What made him blameless? A relationship with God. He walked with God. He heard God's voice. He knew God's heart. He obeyed his word. He walked with him. He knew him. He was blameless, he was righteous, and he found favor. And I want to start by saying this. What can we learn from the story of Noah?
Firstly, it matters how we live.
It actually matters what we do.
You know, I hear, you know, sometimes it will be what it will be. You know, God willing, God is willing. He wants to walk with you. And now it matters how we respond. It matters if we choose to live for him or we don't. That is free will.
No, God had an option. It was possible to bring forth a holy people from the line of Adam. Why? Because there was a man who did what the Lord said.
There was a faithful man. There was a righteous option. And you know, I want this to be my story.
And we pray that it's everyone's story, right? That each of us would go, Lord, as you look upon the earth in the midst of the brokenness and a lot of the evil that surround us, Lord, would you find me to be righteous?
Would you find me to be faithful?
And hear me, we don't get everything right, but are we in right standing with the Lord. That's what righteous is.
Do we come under the blood of Christ? Are we walking in relationship with him? Lord, would you find me to be righteous?
I want to be really honest with you. I can think of moments in my life where I would think actually if God searched the world and searched that situation, I don't know if he would have found me. Set apart I am. When I first came to university in, in this city, like Steve said, I was a student here and I knew the Lord, I would say that I've always known the Lord existed, He loved me, all of that. But I definitely did my own thing for a little bit. And I was just reflecting on this as I was preparing the talk. And I definitely remember moments, probably in my first three or four months here as a student where I definitely was just going along with the flow, the current of the world.
It was like I just got swept up in everything that everyone else was doing. And I remember having a choice. You know, I would choose the opinion of man over the opinion of God. I would know right from wrong. And yet in that moment, I would go, it's way easier to be liked, to be wanted. I don't want to be rejected. I want to go along with the waves of what everyone else is doing. You know, come on, Rach. We're all over here doing shots.
And I knew that I'd had too much already.
But I'm not going to be the person to say no. I didn't want to be set apart. I didn't want to look different from everybody else. I remember particularly just this conversation about there was a girl on my dance course who ended up getting pregnant. And I remember just the gossip and the conversations about her. How stupid could you be to do that? And you shouldn't be allowed on the course anymore. And I remember not standing up for her and that conviction coming upon me. I remember knowing that what was being said was wrong, and I just didn't say anything.
And, you know, I don't look back at those moments and, you know, be filled with shame anymore, because Jesus has paid for my sin and he's removed my shame. But I do look back and go, God, I don't ever want to be that again. I want you to look upon the earth and find me as a righteous person, as one who would stand up, one who would speak up for injustices, one who would challenge. You know, thankfully, in his mercy, he met me and he filled me and he changed me, and I was able to be bold. In Ephesians, chapter four, Paul urges this. He's writing to the believers in the church, and he says that. He urges us that we may no longer be children tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes, rather speaking the truth in love. We are to grow up in every way.
It's quite firm, isn't it? But I want to be someone who's grown up, who's mature in the faith. Doesn't mean we're perfect every time, but it does mean that we're ones who walk with the Lord, who are called and anointed and sent, and we look different from the world we're here to be light bearers.
I remember I started to say no to some things and people were shocked because this isn't what you're like, Rach. Come on, have some fun. Those are the sorts of things that are said to you if you start to say no.
But we know what true joy is, right? We know what true joy is when we depend on the Lord. I started to speak out about some things. Probably too much if I'm looking back. I would challenge and I would argue that's not right about that. You know, we have to learn to do it in love. But I definitely found my voice. I'd encountered Christ. Like that song.
You know that song? That's the blood. It's getting harder to recognize.
I don't even remember what I was like now before I encountered Christ. I don't walk like I used to. I don't talk like I used to. I've been washed from the inside.
That's what it's like when we come to Christ and he renews us.
And so as the eyes of the Lord search the earth and see the evil we're surrounded by, would. Would he find a righteous one in you and in me. And like Noah, my prayer is that in an anger filled room full of malicious talk and gossip, that he would find me to be set apart.
You know, in a. Maybe in an apathetic class of university students and lecturers when they're just talking about how there could be no God or whatever, that actually we would find our voice and be one who is righteous and set apart in a world of online confusion and hate speech. You know, we see brothers tearing down brothers and sisters tearing down sisters. Will we be the voice? The light bearer, the peacemaker, a prayer warrior? The one who has a voice and steps up and stands up.
Now, I would like to suggest to you that he's looking for men and women who are righteous and who walk with him like Noah did. Yeah. Who are willing to die to their own agenda and live according to his word.
So firstly, it matters how we live. Okay, so Noah was a righteous man. He was blameless in the sight of the Lord.
Secondly, this is incredible.
He builds in such faith. He starts building this ark, this boat. It's incredible. The Lord gives really clear instructions. The Lord is very specific about how this ark should be created. And so he says, you know, 465 it by whatever don't quote me, I can't remember the numbers, but he gives really clear numbers on how, how this, this ark should look and who's allowed in it. And when they should get in it, seven days before. And they need to be clean animals. And, you know, your sons can come and their wives can come, but no one else. Just eight of you. Like, there's really clear instructions. And I want to say to you that Noah was building this ark when there was no rain.
There was no rain.
You know, can you imagine walking past this guy who's like 600 years old, building an ark in the desert when it's hot, but there's no puddles, there's not like even a stream. And experts say that he was building this ark. It took him between 75 and 100 years.
Years maybe. You're waiting for a prophetic promise to be fulfilled in your life. Don't worry, you won't have to wait that long. I don't believe, but he was building this ark for 100 years with no rain. That is faith.
You know, the Bible says faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we don't see.
And so as we receive the promise of the Lord, the instruction of the Lord, we might not see any fruit of that at first glance, but actually, it's interesting what Juliet was speaking about this morning. Go back and listen to that talk. We're to see heaven's perspective. Perspective. And then build from that perspective and see it. Then come on earth.
In faith, we. We build an ark with no rain.
What does it look like for us to build and prepare for the promises of God when there's. There's nothing to show for it straight away?
It's. It's faith because we're taking a step, a step of faith. We're stepping out in the unseen, believing for what he said over what we see.
Will we be a people who believe and stand on what he said as opposed to what we see in the natural?
That is what it looks like to build in faith.
According to Hebrews 11, it's impossible to please God without faith.
The one thing that we can do to please God is have faith, is being sure of what we hope for, certain of what we don't see. Noah was so certain of this word that he bought the materials. He measured it all out. He spent days and months and years putting it together. Remember, he bought all the livestock he invested. It cost him. It cost him his time. It cost him his energy. It cost him probably his reputation. It cost him his money, resources, because he believed the plans of God.
You know, a few years ago now, the Lord spoke to Steve and Juliet and us as a church about going after sacrifice, salvation in a really specific way, you know, and we had. We had done different kinds of events where we'd done salvation calls, you know, maybe shared the gospel and then asked people to all close their eyes and put their hand up or whatever. But. But the Lord was really clear about a specific way that we were to ask people if they want to give their life to Jesus. We were like, we do it now. If you've been part of this church, you know how we do it. We'd get everyone to stand, you know, share the gospel, ask them if they want to come forward and publicly declare their faith and their need for Jesus. And that was different. That was risky. And honestly, like, we would go. I mean, this was mostly on Steve, to be honest.
You took the weight of it, but Steve would do this probably for about six months with no one coming forward.
If you were just basing that on what you saw, you'd probably stop after a few weeks. Right? But we don't build our life on what we see. We build our lives on what he sees. Says.
And so we kept going and going and going. And some weeks it was a little bit painful. And I definitely thought about recommitting my life numerous times just so that somebody would go down the front. But that would be very embarrassing if I was on staff and recommitted my life to Jesus. But actually we kept going. We pushed through, and then one would come, and then another would come, and this trickle of people started to come.
You know, we've seen thousands of people now, this was maybe three or four years ago. We've seen thousands of people walk forward and give their life to Jesus. Is it 278 last year? I'm looking at you. 278 people last year walked forward and gave their life to Jesus. Yeah, clap and cheer.
That's for. That's the Lord calling people to himself.
What does it look like for us to push in, to build on what he said? Whether we see it or we don't, we keep going because we know the word of the Lord.
And so really, practically, I just want to. I want to go through what it looks like to build in faith. I've just got some notes. Firstly, we want to find out what we're unimpressed with.
You know, there's tons of stories in the Bible of seeing, like a barren land and planting a seed and trusting what the Lord is going to do, that actually we would be unimpressed with what we see. We would be unimpressed with the barren land. We'd be unimpressed that our whole family doesn't know Jesus. We'd be unimpressed that our aunt that had cancer, it's still not healed. We'd be unimpressed with those things. Actually, we'd be frustrated at those things because our citizenship is in heaven, and that's not what heaven looks like.
So as we walk with the Lord, we see what heaven looks like, and as we're on earth, we go, this doesn't feel like it should feel like.
I'm not impressed with what things look like. It's okay to get a bit frustrated because that's where we start to pray and we start to intercede. So what is the thing on your heart that you walk through your campus or you walk through your family events, or you walk through your office and you go, this is just not what the Lord wants. I want to see this, I want to see that. And we dream with the Lord.
What are you unimpressed with? And then what is heaven's perspective? And you can write those things down. Can I just rant for a minute about something I'm really unimpressed with?
You don't really have a choice. I've got the microphone.
I've grown up doing dance and drama and things like that. And actually not drama at all. I'm so bad at that. But I grew up doing dance and then I did it for university. And anyway, I see a bit of the dance world and I am so frustrated and little bit peeved off. Can I say that in church that there is this sexualization of young people going on in the creative world.
And it just grieves me every time, because dance is this beautiful gift from the Lord where we're to praise him with everything we have. We're to honor him and to glorify him. And to our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit. And as we worship him, it's this beautiful gift that David did before the Lord. And we get to dance before the Lord and bring him all of the glory. And it's like the enemy has perverted that in our young people. And if you watch any. I mean, I don't anymore, but if you watch any of those sorts of shows that have dance in them more and more in music videos and adverts and dance schools in this nation, we are seeing young people grow up and learn to wear next to nothing and to dance and provocatively. And I'm angry about it. So I go to the Lord. That's what we do, right? We're frustrated. And we don't just go to Facebook and rant about it. We go to the Lord in prayer and we start to speak to him. This isn't okay. This isn't what you had planned for our young people, for our children. Lord, would you save a generation? Lord, would you show me what it looks like? And he starts to release dreams. And I've had these dreams of young people who are holy and pleasing to the Lord.
And I know that we start Kramer Arts here. So it's dance and drama for young people. And we talk about the Gospel of Jesus and we present what it looks like to fall in love with the Lord and to share the story of the Lord's love for others. And I have these dreams about, well, what if these young people were then to go into schools and they were to teach the gospel and they were to tell other young people about Jesus and we could make dances up with them and then we could go to assemblies and we could see, see every primary school and secondary school in this. In this city, hear about the gospel through dance. And then we could rent stadiums and we could do these, like, school concerts with thousands of schools across the country and they could all come and we could have a dance party and we could get the flags and Daniel could be at the front because he does know what he's doing. And.
And we could start dancing and worshiping and we could share the gospel when they would be fully clothed and people would be holy and pleasing and he would get one all of the glory and we would get to be part of the story.
Those are the things that we go to the Lord and that's just an example of one thing. We go, I'm not okay with how things look in this moment. I'm going to take it to the Lord nowhere else except here, because it's an example. But I went to the Lord first.
Then we see heaven's perspective. Lord, what do you want to do? And we start to dream and we dream dreams that are bigger, that are impossible if God doesn't show up.
We cannot have a dream that just depends on me and my skill and my ability, because, trust me, you don't want that. We dream dreams that are only possible if the Lord shows up and he blows through. Why? Because then he gets all of the glory.
And there's this. There's this.
There's this faith that rises up for what else God can do.
And so I don't know what that is. I don't know what the Lord has put on your Heart. But it's find out. It's time to find out what you're unimpressed with.
It's time to go to the Lord and pray with him and intercede with him. Because we start by praying, we start maybe by complaining, but like David, it always turns to how great he is and how big a plan he has. And so our perspective starts to change. You can't stir this up on your own. This is a spirit led experience and encounter. It's like his Holy Spirit meets our prayers and rides in and shows us something so much bigger than we could ask, think, or imagine. He gives us his perspective. Why? Because our minds have been renewed through Christ. And so we start to see how he sees and we start to think how he thinks. Because his ways are higher than our ways. And we partner with him and then he gets the glory.
Is that okay?
So find out what you're unimpressed with. See heaven's perspective. Ask for it. Ask for faith. Faith is a gift.
It's okay if you have a mustard seed of faith, go to the Lord and say, God, could you really do this? I really want to see this. I believe you at your word. Would you give me faith? Ask for faith. It's okay. And then do something. Faith without action is dead. We want to see a culture of faith and expectation where we prepare for the thing that we don't yet see.
Is it too bossy to say do something? When we do something with it, what's the action?
You know, I always remember really early on in this church, just, this is just such a funny, sweet story of there was a man who honestly helped build this church called Bob Lodge, absolute legend. He did so much in this church when we first started, an older guy, and I just remember there was maybe like 50 people. And we would say, or Steve would often say, bob, have we got enough cups?
Yeah, yeah, we've got 50 cups. No, I want, I want 300 cups. Now. We've got enough. We've got 50 cups. No, I want 300 cups. Because we want cups for the people that we're expecting the Lord to send. Not just for the cups for the people that are here. Make sense? And so we went on this journey of going, we need to prepare more for the ones in belief, for the ones that are coming.
It's why we always, you know, at every event we have a culture here. It's like we'll always welcome new people, even though there might not be any new people in the room. Why? Because we're expecting new people to to come. We're stepping out in faith, expecting them to be there. It's why in the new life packs, you know, every week we're like, we need 40 new life packs. We need 40 new life packs at the desk. Why? Because we're believing that and we're prepared for 40 people to give their life to Jesus every week. Now you might go, well, that's not very faith filled. We want 100. Fine, come in, make 100 packs, do something.
Whatever it is that the Lord is speaking to you about.
I actually believe that for some of you, you're meant to buy two Bibles, the one that you already have and one for someone who you're going to speak to about Jesus.
I'm telling you that there is an open door for the gospel right now. So many people are asking questions, what does the Bible say about this? What do Christians believe about this? You've got people going into Waterstones for goodness sake looking for self help books. People are desperate for the word of God and I want to challenge you. Maybe if you're believing for salvation for a family member or for a lecturer or whoever it might be, a friend, buy a second Bible, maybe write their name in it to Joe, whatever, and expect that one day soon you're going to give it to them. What does it look like for us to build an ark with no rain?
So one, Noah was found righteous. It matters how we live. Two, Noah spent 100 years making a boat with no rain. We're to build in faith and to what end? So I think most of you know the story, but just in case you don't, the rain does come.
So a year making the Ark for 40 days then and for 40 nights the Earth, it rains and then the earth is covered in water and water. Throughout the Bible we see this theme where it's symbolic of chaos. Don't you remember the beginning of time at the creation? It was that the water covered the surface and it was the spirit of the Lord that hovered over the deep. And it was like chaotic until he brought order.
And then we see it again in this story where here at the flood, there's the judgment of the Lord on a land and on a people whose hearts are evil.
And so when Noah completes the ark, those who enter it are saved.
Those who come into the ark are saved. And the word here just. I found this so interesting. The word ark is exactly the same word that's used to for the little basket that Moses has put into. Do you remember that story? Some of you might not know that story. But there's a time where the people of God are in Egypt and there's a Pharaoh who's been pretty evil, to be honest. And he's killing all the baby boys because he's scared that the people of God are becoming too numerous and too powerful. And so he makes this decree to kill all of the babies. The baby boys, I think it is. And so Moses, Moses, mother makes an ark. Makes an ark the same. You've got the chaos of the evil. The Nile that goes through that represents this chaotic land that they're living in. And then Moses is put into an ark. Later we read that Moses then leads people, leads 2 million Israelites out through the Red Sea, through the chaos, into freedom.
There's this beautiful symbolism where it's the ark that saves us. And ultimately, ultimately, those who enter the ark are saved. Just like those who enter water at baptism and receive Christ as their Lord and die to their old life and come up again are saved. It's the same.
And so this, this whole story is about the salvation through Jesus. It's a picture to come that actually whoever receive him, whoever receives the Lord, whoever confesses him as their Savior, whoever enters the gate, enters the way, is saved through him that we are pulled out of the chaos of this world and that we have a new home in heaven.
That's the beautiful kind of story of the Bible. And the truth is, there will be another judgment.
We've just said it in the Apostles Creed. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. There is another judgment, and we want to make sure we're on the ark.
We want to make sure that we have been saved by Jesus Christ, that we have been baptized into his death, and that we have been raised up to new life with Him.
That's the truth of the Gospel.
Whoever receives Christ, whoever gets in the ark, will be saved.
Thirdly, I'm going to end on this. We're to build an altar. If you have your Bibles, just flick ahead to chapter eight, verse 18.
It says this. So Noah, this is after the flood. It's a beautiful story. Go and read it. They send a dove out and it comes back with a leaf. And the dove symbolizes Holy Spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit lands on the earth before anyone else and cleanses it. It's beautiful. But Anyway, in verse 18, it says this. So Noah came out together with his sons and his wife, and his sons, wives, all the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds, everything that moves on the Earth came out of the ark one kind after another. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and taking some of all the clean animals and the clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done. And then we have the promise of the rainbow, which is literally like a bow, his weapon. It's like he hangs it up in the sky. That's why it's called a rainbow. He hangs his bow up in the sky as a reminder that never again will I flood the Earth.
But how beautiful is this that the first thing that Noah does is. I don't know about you, if I'd been on a boat all of that time and I'd finally landed on the Earth, I'd be looking for some food to eat. I'd be looking about where I'm going to sleep, like, finally, I don't feel seasick. What does Noah and his family do?
They build an altar.
They worship. They worship the Lord. They remember the mercy of the Lord, that He has saved them, that he has brought them into a new promised land, that he hasn't forgotten that the seed of Adam will one day crush the serpent.
They remember the mercy of God, the grace of God, the blessings of God, that he would give them another chance. And they worship.
And my prayer is that I would never forget that I was once an enemy of God and now I've been brought near because of the blood of Jesus.
My prayer is that I would never forget that.
That I wouldn't get off the boat and be like, gosh, I can't believe there's so much evil. And there was so much evil in the world. I can't believe God and his judgment. I can't. No. But I would praise God for His mercy over my life, that he would save me, and that he would bring me into the promised land.
And I pray that that would be our story. You know, that as we see the promises of God fulfilled, as somebody gets healed and as Sunday, that we would never stop going mad and celebrating that when someone gives their life to Jesus, that we would never stop just praising God, that one person who was headed to hell is now headed to heaven, that we would never get just bored or apathetic about it, but we would be so excited that the promises of the Lord are being fulfilled. Because I believe as we celebrate it, our faith grows and our faith. And our expectation grows for what more he's going to do if we're not. If we're not that bothered about whether he speaks or not, he's probably not going to speak again.
But if we steward what he says and if we steward what he does, and as we celebrate it and we worship and we come with grateful hearts, he'll do it again and again in our lives.
Is that okay?
You with me?
So it matters how we live.
It matters how we live, Lord, would you find a righteous person in me? Would you? Would you find me to walk with you and be set apart? Lord, would you help us build in faith?
My prayer is that we would see things from heaven's perspective. We would be frustrated at things, but we would go to the Lord and we would get his blueprint for our lives and for the things that he wants to do and that we would build an altar. We would never be a people who don't worship the Lord.
Undignified and totally abandoned in the beauty of the story of the Lord, of his salvation promise that is going to be fulfilled, has been fulfilled, is fulfilled, and will be fulfilled.
Amen. Amen. I'm done. Why don't you guys stand?
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