WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:00.853 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 00:01.033 --> 00:01.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 00:01.374 --> 00:02.356 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all go ahead and be seated. 00:02.396 --> 00:04.119 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, can y'all just tell the band. 00:04.179 --> 00:05.722 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you and the sound booth. 00:05.762 --> 00:08.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you Awesome. 00:08.808 --> 00:09.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Awesome. 00:09.951 --> 00:11.975 [SPEAKER_00]: Awesome. 00:11.995 --> 00:13.177 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, my name is Scott. 00:13.277 --> 00:15.682 [SPEAKER_00]: I am a grateful believer in Jesus Christ. 00:15.722 --> 00:21.634 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm in recovery for anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and tonight I'm struggling with discouragement. 00:22.677 --> 00:24.940 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys, hey guys, so glad you're here. 00:24.980 --> 00:28.325 [SPEAKER_00]: Newcomer, we are so glad that you are here. 00:28.385 --> 00:29.907 [SPEAKER_00]: We are so glad you're here. 00:29.927 --> 00:33.152 [SPEAKER_00]: And listen, it is not a sign of weakness that you're here tonight. 00:33.192 --> 00:34.734 [SPEAKER_00]: That is a sign of wisdom. 00:35.575 --> 00:37.398 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, there are so many people that are weak. 00:37.418 --> 00:42.044 [SPEAKER_00]: We are all weak in some way or somehow, but a lot of people don't do anything about it. 00:42.064 --> 00:42.545 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what? 00:42.565 --> 00:45.329 [SPEAKER_00]: You showed wisdom tonight by coming here. 00:45.389 --> 00:47.672 [SPEAKER_00]: And listen, we're proud of you. 00:47.888 --> 00:54.210 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, you're wise to come here, and even the wise are to keep coming back, right, for those of you that have been coming back. 00:54.250 --> 00:56.498 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, it doesn't happen on the first night, does it? 00:57.052 --> 01:02.642 [SPEAKER_00]: but through the relationships, to learn the principles, learn the steps and the plumb, and your miracle will come. 01:03.023 --> 01:06.269 [SPEAKER_00]: So far, so if this is your first night, it may as to great time to come. 01:06.329 --> 01:08.193 [SPEAKER_00]: Anytime you're in the years, a great time to come. 01:08.593 --> 01:10.918 [SPEAKER_00]: But so far, we have covered principle one. 01:10.958 --> 01:15.146 [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you know principle one, you can say it with me, realize I'm not God. 01:15.166 --> 01:19.093 [SPEAKER_00]: I admit that I'm powerless to control, that's number two. 01:19.478 --> 01:19.818 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 01:20.599 --> 01:22.261 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I saw it up there, okay. 01:22.281 --> 01:23.303 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we're just gonna do normal one. 01:23.323 --> 01:24.464 [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna review normal one, right? 01:24.765 --> 01:26.006 [SPEAKER_00]: Realize I'm not God. 01:26.026 --> 01:34.817 [SPEAKER_00]: I admit that I'm powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life has become unmanageable, right? 01:35.257 --> 01:37.821 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, tonight is the hopelessness, all right? 01:37.841 --> 01:39.042 [SPEAKER_00]: I love the hopelessness. 01:39.342 --> 01:42.546 [SPEAKER_00]: This is my favorite lesson of all of them to teach. 01:42.586 --> 01:44.709 [SPEAKER_00]: So I get to introduce principle too. 01:44.849 --> 01:47.933 [SPEAKER_00]: So, once you read it with me up here, principle too. 01:47.913 --> 01:50.739 [SPEAKER_00]: earnestly believe that God exists. 01:50.879 --> 01:54.607 [SPEAKER_00]: Stop, right, earnestly believe. 01:54.627 --> 01:55.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Say that with me. 01:55.549 --> 01:58.515 [SPEAKER_00]: earnestly believe that God exists. 01:59.156 --> 02:01.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Now let's read the second part together and then I'm going to have you stop again. 02:01.922 --> 02:04.788 [SPEAKER_00]: That I matter to him. 02:05.349 --> 02:05.770 [SPEAKER_00]: Stop. 02:07.910 --> 02:10.213 [SPEAKER_00]: Let that sink in for a minute, all right? 02:10.694 --> 02:11.775 [SPEAKER_00]: And now we'll finish it out. 02:12.116 --> 02:16.222 [SPEAKER_00]: And that he has the power to help me recover, all right? 02:16.462 --> 02:21.429 [SPEAKER_00]: Believe that God exists, that I'm matter to him and that he has the power to help us recover. 02:21.709 --> 02:26.456 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll read Matthew 5.4, bless to those who mourn for they shall be comforted. 02:26.496 --> 02:30.282 [SPEAKER_00]: Not maybe not one day, those that are grieving, no. 02:30.302 --> 02:33.586 [SPEAKER_00]: Bless to them for one day, they will be comforted. 02:33.606 --> 02:36.330 [SPEAKER_00]: Step two, the corresponding step, I'll read it real quick. 02:36.310 --> 02:42.525 [SPEAKER_00]: We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity, right? 02:42.545 --> 02:46.033 [SPEAKER_00]: That sounds, I'm waiting on that one, right? 02:46.053 --> 02:46.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Sanity, right? 02:46.915 --> 02:51.045 [SPEAKER_00]: But we come to believe that a power greater than ourselves and that power is who. 02:51.700 --> 02:52.421 [SPEAKER_00]: God, right? 02:52.481 --> 02:54.024 [SPEAKER_00]: And his son, Jesus Christ, right? 02:54.044 --> 03:01.958 [SPEAKER_00]: That power is God, through Jesus Christ, for this God who works in you to will and to act in order to fill his good purpose. 03:02.779 --> 03:05.564 [SPEAKER_00]: And what do these two principles look like though? 03:05.945 --> 03:06.726 [SPEAKER_00]: What does that look like? 03:06.746 --> 03:08.289 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a principle and a step. 03:08.530 --> 03:09.571 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, what do they look like? 03:09.952 --> 03:12.977 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things I love most about celebrate recovery of the stories. 03:13.618 --> 03:16.223 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, last week, Caitlyn gave her story. 03:16.372 --> 03:18.294 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, it was phenomenal next week. 03:18.454 --> 03:21.959 [SPEAKER_00]: Eddie is going to give our sound guys going to give his story, right? 03:22.179 --> 03:28.106 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to, we get to see what these principles look like in action, how God applies to these principles in these steps, right? 03:28.546 --> 03:35.134 [SPEAKER_00]: And, and we tonight, we get to look at scripture and Luke chapter 15, and we see a story of what this looks like. 03:35.855 --> 03:42.042 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the story's not true, but it's all of our stories, though. 03:42.680 --> 03:52.069 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a story that Jesus told, and it's probably one of the most famous stories, really not just in Scripture, and in all the world, a matter of fact, Charles Dickens who wrote the Christmas Carol. 03:52.509 --> 04:11.067 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, it's the best, it's the greatest story that was ever written, and it's the one about the prodigal son, and you know what, you probably heard this when you were a child, or maybe, you know what, part of me helps, you've never heard it, and you're going to hear it for the first time tonight, and even though this is not a true story, 04:11.975 --> 04:13.237 [SPEAKER_00]: It's really true of all of us. 04:13.878 --> 04:15.780 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to read this story that Jesus told. 04:15.800 --> 04:18.984 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, there was a man who had two sons. 04:19.725 --> 04:23.531 [SPEAKER_00]: The young one said to his father, Father, giving my share of the estate. 04:23.591 --> 04:29.359 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you got to understand, and that Jewish culture, that if this was a true story, that young man could have been put down. 04:30.400 --> 04:34.546 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he could have been killed, because in the Jewish culture, you did not respect your dad. 04:35.487 --> 04:36.909 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the original here's a life. 04:37.209 --> 04:40.834 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they're like down with that guy. 04:42.839 --> 04:45.966 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the father divided the property between them. 04:47.309 --> 04:50.275 [SPEAKER_00]: And not long after that, the younger son got together all the hand. 04:50.796 --> 04:52.319 [SPEAKER_00]: He set off for a distant country. 04:52.700 --> 04:55.686 [SPEAKER_00]: And it says there, he squandered his wealth and wild living. 04:55.706 --> 04:57.671 [SPEAKER_00]: Now later, in the scripture, we won't get to this. 04:57.711 --> 04:59.675 [SPEAKER_00]: We know he was paying for sex. 04:59.695 --> 05:00.958 [SPEAKER_00]: And probably there was alcohol. 05:00.978 --> 05:03.463 [SPEAKER_00]: And there was all the things that go along with it, right? 05:03.612 --> 05:10.789 [SPEAKER_00]: In verse 14, it said, after he had spent everything, there was this severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 05:10.829 --> 05:17.524 [SPEAKER_00]: So he went out and hired himself out to a citizen of that country who set him to his field to feed pigs. 05:18.767 --> 05:22.195 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, understand this for a Jewish man, there's no lower position than this. 05:23.204 --> 05:48.486 [SPEAKER_00]: there's no worse position that he could have now he is unclean like he's not allowed into the temple he's not allowed to touch people he's he's not even allowed to have people touch him he's got to walk through terrible and unclean unclean like don't come near don't come near because if they touch him then they got to go through a whole a series of things so that they can go back into the temple so now he's in the worst job he could ever have 05:49.850 --> 05:55.417 [SPEAKER_00]: He longed to fill a stomach with the pods that the pig's reading, but no one gave him anything. 05:56.519 --> 05:58.321 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, number 17, have you been here? 05:58.361 --> 06:09.536 [SPEAKER_00]: When he came to his senses, when he came to his senses, this is what he said, how many of my father's hard servants have food to spare? 06:09.556 --> 06:11.318 [SPEAKER_00]: And here I am starving to death. 06:12.125 --> 06:17.532 [SPEAKER_00]: I will set out and go back to my father and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 06:17.592 --> 06:22.598 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm no longer worthy to be called your son, make me like one of your hard servants. 06:23.620 --> 06:25.202 [SPEAKER_00]: So he got up and went to his father. 06:25.242 --> 06:32.331 [SPEAKER_00]: But while he was still a long way off, listen to this beautiful part of the story. 06:33.733 --> 06:36.276 [SPEAKER_00]: His father saw him and was filled with compassion. 06:37.117 --> 06:38.441 [SPEAKER_00]: and he ran to his son. 06:38.461 --> 06:42.514 [SPEAKER_00]: He threw his arms around him and kissed him. 06:42.694 --> 06:45.844 [SPEAKER_00]: The one that basically said, dad, I wish you were dead. 06:48.507 --> 06:52.430 [SPEAKER_00]: And so here's what the son said to the father father of sin against heaven and against you. 06:52.931 --> 06:55.533 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. 06:55.593 --> 06:59.457 [SPEAKER_00]: But the father said to the servants, he said this, quick. 06:59.757 --> 07:00.978 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like he didn't hear him, right? 07:01.258 --> 07:06.683 [SPEAKER_00]: Quick, bring the best robe and put it on and put it ring on his finger and sanders on his feet. 07:06.743 --> 07:08.645 [SPEAKER_00]: Bring out the fat and calf and kill it. 07:08.665 --> 07:11.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's have a feast and celebrate for the son of mine was dead. 07:11.908 --> 07:13.029 [SPEAKER_00]: And now he's alive again. 07:13.049 --> 07:14.450 [SPEAKER_00]: He was lost and he has found. 07:14.670 --> 07:17.012 [SPEAKER_00]: And it says this to the begin to celebrate. 07:20.182 --> 07:21.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would he turn back? 07:24.047 --> 07:25.689 [SPEAKER_00]: We all know why he left, right? 07:25.769 --> 07:26.570 [SPEAKER_00]: We've all got that. 07:26.610 --> 07:27.992 [SPEAKER_00]: We all have left God, right? 07:28.252 --> 07:31.597 [SPEAKER_00]: But while with the sun turned back, we knew he came back to his senses. 07:31.637 --> 07:32.718 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'll tell you why he came back. 07:32.978 --> 07:34.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do he believe his father existed? 07:35.862 --> 07:37.324 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he said, you know, my father. 07:37.364 --> 07:38.185 [SPEAKER_00]: He's better. 07:38.445 --> 07:42.330 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if I'm thinking wrongly about my father and he was thinking wrongly about him. 07:42.370 --> 07:44.173 [SPEAKER_00]: He was thinking he would work for his dad, right? 07:44.493 --> 07:45.655 [SPEAKER_00]: But he believed he existed. 07:45.695 --> 07:49.800 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was better to be with him than away from him. 07:50.810 --> 07:55.383 [SPEAKER_00]: Another thing this, why would the father be looking for him? 07:58.772 --> 08:02.863 [SPEAKER_00]: The father that was insulted, the father that was basically hated. 08:04.187 --> 08:05.410 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what it says? 08:05.609 --> 08:07.631 [SPEAKER_00]: Says he saw him and he was still a long wealth. 08:07.651 --> 08:09.032 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what, he was looking for him. 08:09.373 --> 08:09.873 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what? 08:09.893 --> 08:11.094 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he mattered to him. 08:11.915 --> 08:14.057 [SPEAKER_00]: He never quit matterin' to God. 08:14.858 --> 08:16.940 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, he never quit matterin' to his father. 08:16.960 --> 08:19.022 [SPEAKER_00]: His father had been like that for every day. 08:19.042 --> 08:23.386 [SPEAKER_00]: If this story was real, I bet every day the father stood and looked for his son. 08:23.406 --> 08:24.427 [SPEAKER_00]: I bet every day. 08:24.467 --> 08:26.028 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what? 08:26.349 --> 08:28.511 [SPEAKER_00]: The son found, not only did he find compassion. 08:29.812 --> 08:31.954 [SPEAKER_00]: His father had the power to help him. 08:32.727 --> 08:35.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, he thought he's gonna come and work for his father and be a servant. 08:35.530 --> 08:38.033 [SPEAKER_00]: No, the father said, no, I'm gonna make you a son again. 08:38.053 --> 08:39.435 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what? 08:39.635 --> 08:43.860 [SPEAKER_00]: He had an power to help him and he restored him to write thinking. 08:43.900 --> 08:46.043 [SPEAKER_00]: He restored him to his sanity. 08:46.884 --> 08:48.225 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not a servant of mine? 08:48.245 --> 08:50.648 [SPEAKER_00]: And no, you're my son. 08:50.668 --> 08:53.431 [SPEAKER_00]: And the man was restored. 08:55.454 --> 08:58.397 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to know this tonight, man, God exists. 08:58.799 --> 09:01.342 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't even have to fully understanding, right? 09:01.702 --> 09:06.407 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, there's a Bible, and then depending on who you're Bible, it's got thousands of pages in it, right? 09:06.867 --> 09:16.337 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't even have to fully understand that, but here's what you need to know, man, that God exists, and that He's looking for you, and you're thinking, what's God? 09:16.578 --> 09:21.022 [SPEAKER_00]: I did this, and we're gonna talk about the butts in a little bit, we're gonna get our butts straight after a while, all right? 09:21.683 --> 09:24.486 [SPEAKER_00]: But listen, don't go there. 09:25.107 --> 09:27.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, the sun could say, Dad, I was paying women for sex. 09:27.970 --> 09:28.871 [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't matter. 09:29.172 --> 09:32.336 [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, he said, I don't even deserve to be your son. 09:32.396 --> 09:34.018 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like the father didn't even hearing. 09:35.680 --> 09:43.088 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, no, go kill the fatten calf, go give him my robe, go get it, sandals, bring the ring, put it on his finger. 09:43.349 --> 09:45.391 [SPEAKER_00]: My son was dead, and now he's alive. 09:47.854 --> 09:49.596 [SPEAKER_00]: And he wants to do that with you tonight. 09:50.723 --> 09:51.604 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to do that. 09:51.624 --> 09:59.877 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to declare to everyone that you're his child, and it does not matter the but eyes do not matter. 10:00.158 --> 10:06.808 [SPEAKER_00]: He's looking for you, and he has the same power to help you recover and to restore you. 10:07.261 --> 10:20.481 [SPEAKER_00]: now you've got hope tonight not hope because I got a cool story or funny joke or anything like that now you got the hope because Jesus Christ man was sent to this earth to die for our sins. 10:21.823 --> 10:26.130 [SPEAKER_00]: The ones that we rebel against the Father may be time and time again. 10:27.342 --> 10:29.265 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what, he still wants to restore you. 10:29.365 --> 10:35.575 [SPEAKER_00]: So listen, we have hope tonight, and our hope begins with age and that higher power and that higher power is Jesus Christ. 10:35.756 --> 10:37.558 [SPEAKER_00]: That higher power is God, the Father. 10:37.779 --> 10:41.204 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen to what it says in Romans 11, 33 and 36. 10:41.345 --> 10:42.967 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I said a Romans, did I? 10:44.189 --> 10:45.872 [SPEAKER_00]: I got a tie, you know my mind, y'all. 10:45.912 --> 10:47.074 [SPEAKER_00]: I got a tie, you know my mind. 10:47.855 --> 10:51.561 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God. 10:52.874 --> 11:00.225 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the depths of His riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God, how insertable His judgments and His past be on tracing out. 11:00.605 --> 11:12.823 [SPEAKER_00]: It said, who is known the mind of the Lord, who has been His counselor, who has ever given the God that God should repay Him for from Him and through Him and for Him. 11:13.546 --> 11:18.393 [SPEAKER_00]: are all things to Him be the glory forever and ever. 11:18.473 --> 11:18.693 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 11:18.733 --> 11:25.623 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have the scripture on the screen, but also Psalm 145, three says, this great is a Lord and greatly to be praised. 11:25.643 --> 11:26.424 [SPEAKER_00]: And I love how it ends. 11:26.845 --> 11:30.450 [SPEAKER_00]: And this greatness is unsearchable. 11:31.451 --> 11:33.454 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, what does that have to do with our higher power? 11:33.654 --> 11:34.395 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to know this. 11:34.656 --> 11:40.684 [SPEAKER_00]: When we place Jesus as our 11:41.508 --> 11:42.029 [SPEAKER_00]: Unlimited. 11:42.069 --> 11:43.531 [SPEAKER_00]: You're thinking, I can't change it. 11:43.571 --> 11:44.612 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no way I can change. 11:44.852 --> 11:48.617 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, God has unlimited power to change you. 11:49.518 --> 11:51.120 [SPEAKER_00]: You and I don't have the power. 11:51.701 --> 11:54.024 [SPEAKER_00]: We're beyond weak. 11:54.044 --> 11:55.085 [SPEAKER_00]: But man, he has the power. 11:55.105 --> 11:57.147 [SPEAKER_00]: We have unlimited greatness. 11:57.208 --> 11:59.330 [SPEAKER_00]: His greatness is insertable. 11:59.711 --> 12:04.196 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I think about that as an ocean, just full of treasure that has no in. 12:05.237 --> 12:08.882 [SPEAKER_00]: And man, that greatness is available to you and to 12:09.757 --> 12:10.859 [SPEAKER_00]: He has unlimited wisdom. 12:10.899 --> 12:15.746 [SPEAKER_00]: You and I listen, men there at times, I'm like, Lord, I do not see a way around this. 12:15.806 --> 12:17.208 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see a way through it. 12:17.228 --> 12:18.350 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see a way under it. 12:18.530 --> 12:19.591 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see a way over it. 12:19.812 --> 12:22.416 [SPEAKER_00]: And all of a sudden, that whole issue is solved. 12:23.938 --> 12:26.341 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he has the wisdom. 12:27.503 --> 12:29.125 [SPEAKER_00]: He has a path that I can't see. 12:29.846 --> 12:33.792 [SPEAKER_00]: And speaking of path, he has direction for our lives. 12:34.874 --> 12:37.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Meaning this, we don't have to figure it out. 12:38.714 --> 12:42.859 [SPEAKER_00]: Our no-moan job is this, just to learn how to follow Jesus. 12:44.482 --> 12:51.110 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, what I love about self-recovery, I love the stories, I love the people we could go on and on about how many things I love about it, right? 12:52.071 --> 12:57.038 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I love about it, what makes us different and listen, I think A.A. is done great work in N.A. 12:57.358 --> 12:59.101 [SPEAKER_00]: and all those things, I think they've done great work. 13:00.342 --> 13:04.688 [SPEAKER_00]: But we're gonna tell you right off the bat, the higher power is Jesus Christ. 13:05.596 --> 13:17.969 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, as who he is, still alive, as Jesus Christ, still working, still moving, Jesus Christ. 13:19.571 --> 13:22.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Now unlimited power, greatness, wisdom, his direction for our lives. 13:24.556 --> 13:28.901 [SPEAKER_00]: All this is seen, and we're going to walk with you and teach you about how to get into the Word. 13:29.442 --> 13:35.248 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to tell you something, when I was deep in depression and I was having suicidal thoughts, 13:36.359 --> 13:39.724 [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of tell you, I was the senior pastor, right? 13:39.825 --> 13:44.472 [SPEAKER_00]: And that really wasn't on the job description but come to senior pastor here to be depressed. 13:44.492 --> 13:45.794 [SPEAKER_00]: And that was a joke. 13:45.894 --> 13:48.679 [SPEAKER_00]: But people don't joke about depression and suicidal thoughts, I guess. 13:49.100 --> 13:52.725 [SPEAKER_00]: But it was a greatness of his word. 13:52.765 --> 13:58.615 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, his word every morning, he was a greatness of his word that kept me hanging on the times. 13:58.655 --> 14:00.578 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes it was about a thread. 14:01.891 --> 14:07.297 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, it was the promises that I saw in the Psalms, it's the promises I saw in the Ephesus, it was the promises in His Word. 14:08.858 --> 14:10.560 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the wisdom I get from His Word. 14:10.580 --> 14:13.343 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the direction we get from His Word, right? 14:13.983 --> 14:16.906 [SPEAKER_00]: It's how great we see He is in His Word. 14:16.926 --> 14:20.550 [SPEAKER_00]: It matter of fact, in Psalm 145, it talks about His great goodness, you know? 14:20.590 --> 14:21.851 [SPEAKER_00]: How good He is, right? 14:23.413 --> 14:24.594 [SPEAKER_00]: We see that in His Word. 14:25.275 --> 14:30.160 [SPEAKER_00]: And now it's the wisdom and power and greatness and direction that keeps me on the right track. 14:31.591 --> 14:38.121 [SPEAKER_00]: And so what that does is that that gave me, and this is what it will give you, if he's your power, you don't give you openness to change. 14:39.423 --> 14:43.049 [SPEAKER_00]: It'll make you open to change, because sometimes we think I'm never gonna change. 14:43.270 --> 14:44.472 [SPEAKER_00]: How many have ever thought that? 14:44.492 --> 14:46.635 [SPEAKER_00]: I am never gonna change. 14:47.657 --> 14:50.141 [SPEAKER_00]: How many thought the spouse that massage you don't do that? 14:50.261 --> 14:51.002 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't be stupid. 14:52.104 --> 14:53.386 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't be stupid, all right? 14:54.347 --> 14:55.369 [SPEAKER_00]: Openness to change. 14:55.770 --> 14:57.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what Paul says about that in Ephesians. 14:58.996 --> 15:20.633 [SPEAKER_00]: You were taught with regard to your former way of life to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by a successful desires to be made new in the attitude of your minds, to put on the new self to be created like God and true righteousness and holiness. 15:23.785 --> 15:24.806 [SPEAKER_00]: you can be. 15:25.567 --> 15:31.756 [SPEAKER_00]: God's plan for you is to be like God created and righteousness and holiness. 15:33.919 --> 15:34.820 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you what I had to do. 15:35.782 --> 15:36.923 [SPEAKER_00]: How to get rid of my old thinking. 15:38.446 --> 15:39.667 [SPEAKER_00]: All my thoughts were negative. 15:41.510 --> 15:42.932 [SPEAKER_00]: All my thoughts were negative. 15:43.072 --> 15:48.780 [SPEAKER_00]: And I've asked you this before, but many of you understand when your thoughts start spiraling, right? 15:49.402 --> 15:54.647 [SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden it starts going around and all of a sudden it gets a little lower and this goes a little faster and a little faster and a little faster. 15:55.208 --> 16:00.513 [SPEAKER_00]: At my psychiatrist from my psychotherapist, he said, I got to slow your thinking now. 16:01.715 --> 16:02.916 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to slow your thinking down. 16:02.976 --> 16:04.417 [SPEAKER_00]: You're thinking way too fast. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.542 [SPEAKER_00]: I had to learn how to slow my thinking down. 16:09.563 --> 16:12.285 [SPEAKER_00]: I had to learn to take every thought captive and go away. 16:12.325 --> 16:13.026 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a lie. 16:13.126 --> 16:15.949 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not true with what I'm reading and scripture. 16:17.971 --> 16:20.834 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not what the higher power Jesus Christ says. 16:23.197 --> 16:24.778 [SPEAKER_00]: Had to get rid of my old way of living. 16:26.240 --> 16:27.641 [SPEAKER_00]: That was keeping us secret. 16:31.706 --> 16:36.991 [SPEAKER_00]: And I made a joke about the job description about being a senior pastor was not being depressed and suicidal. 16:38.793 --> 16:40.175 [SPEAKER_00]: But I finally had to tell somebody. 16:44.459 --> 16:45.160 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what? 16:47.030 --> 16:49.653 [SPEAKER_00]: probably the most freeing thing I've done. 16:49.693 --> 16:56.142 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why we introduced ourselves the way we do it, so we're recovery. 16:57.183 --> 17:00.427 [SPEAKER_00]: And listen, if you're new, you get to introduce yourself when you're ready, okay? 17:00.447 --> 17:01.248 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not gonna make you. 17:03.191 --> 17:05.814 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's why I'm Scott, I'm a grateful believer in Jesus. 17:06.435 --> 17:09.699 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm in recovery for anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts, right? 17:11.361 --> 17:16.007 [SPEAKER_00]: But know what, when I do that, no more secrets. 17:16.645 --> 17:17.749 [SPEAKER_00]: Truth leads to freedom. 17:19.034 --> 17:21.463 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, honesty leads to freedom. 17:21.483 --> 17:24.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Now look, not everybody's safe, a man, right? 17:25.196 --> 17:26.200 [SPEAKER_00]: But here, 17:27.023 --> 17:30.326 [SPEAKER_00]: We get to share what we're thinking, how we're feeling. 17:30.807 --> 17:37.874 [SPEAKER_00]: I had to quit abusing my body, and the moment I started taking better care of my body, I found that my mind even got better. 17:38.795 --> 17:44.461 [SPEAKER_00]: I had to invite other people in, so it was one thing just to share, you know, with a few people, I had to invite other people in. 17:44.681 --> 17:51.348 [SPEAKER_00]: I went to open share group, Ron, you and Mark were leading that open share group, and man, I'll never forget going in that group. 17:53.050 --> 17:55.292 [SPEAKER_00]: How many of y'all remember your first time in open share group? 17:56.116 --> 17:58.619 [SPEAKER_00]: How many of y'all remember what the other people were saying that first night? 17:59.460 --> 18:03.966 [SPEAKER_00]: None of us, we were scared to death. 18:04.247 --> 18:05.448 [SPEAKER_00]: What am I going to say, what I'm going to say? 18:05.468 --> 18:08.452 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm looking at that guy going, I don't know what he's saying, man. 18:08.472 --> 18:10.655 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just thinking about what I got to say, right? 18:13.799 --> 18:17.644 [SPEAKER_00]: But what you find in no precarious is that this, you're not alone. 18:19.427 --> 18:20.268 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not alone. 18:20.328 --> 18:24.233 [SPEAKER_00]: And the enemy's going to tell you that you're the only one that struggles with this. 18:25.090 --> 18:31.380 [SPEAKER_00]: Now you're not alone, step study, man. 18:32.482 --> 18:35.607 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you start on wonder why you do the things you do. 18:35.767 --> 18:40.976 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you really get real, your step brothers, or if you're late, if you're step sisters. 18:41.917 --> 18:43.921 [SPEAKER_00]: I also was in therapy twice a week. 18:44.522 --> 18:51.553 [SPEAKER_00]: I was on meds and I and I emphasized I was able to come off my meds and not that everybody should or can. 18:52.563 --> 18:57.148 [SPEAKER_00]: But even though I was able to quit the meds, I was not able to quit being honest with overshared. 18:57.168 --> 18:59.711 [SPEAKER_00]: I was not able to quit being honest with a group of people. 18:59.831 --> 19:01.973 [SPEAKER_00]: I need my accountability team. 19:02.914 --> 19:04.316 [SPEAKER_00]: I need my small team. 19:04.336 --> 19:05.557 [SPEAKER_00]: He called me this afternoon. 19:05.577 --> 19:07.279 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he wanted to chat. 19:07.299 --> 19:14.527 [SPEAKER_00]: He got a whole bunch of, I need another step study. 19:14.567 --> 19:15.868 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm waiting on my wife to finish him. 19:15.948 --> 19:18.351 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm blaming. 19:19.698 --> 19:24.125 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm waiting to it fits my family, my wife's through with her masters, and then we'll start another step. 19:24.145 --> 19:30.376 [SPEAKER_00]: So, I will be, and boy, did I need the Zoom Open Share group this past Monday? 19:32.099 --> 19:32.700 [SPEAKER_00]: I needed it. 19:33.180 --> 19:39.431 [SPEAKER_00]: I had a horrible weekend, and man, I so needed just to share with them. 19:39.451 --> 19:41.775 [SPEAKER_00]: I need community cafe. 19:41.835 --> 19:44.980 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I take one, need community cafe? 19:45.736 --> 19:50.903 [SPEAKER_00]: Because maybe not everybody in there is on your accountability team and not everybody in there should be on your accountability team. 19:52.144 --> 19:54.547 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's where friendships are made. 19:55.168 --> 19:57.110 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where we laugh about stupid stuff. 19:58.552 --> 20:05.541 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where sometimes we have serious conversations and it's not in common to see two people praying for each other in there. 20:06.863 --> 20:08.665 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's where friendships are made and you know what? 20:08.765 --> 20:15.574 [SPEAKER_00]: It's nice to have a group of friends where you don't have to put on your mask. 20:16.465 --> 20:18.187 [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't have to worry about other people think. 20:20.970 --> 20:26.136 [SPEAKER_00]: So what I found and what you found when you're open to change, you know what, you're gonna find the power to change. 20:26.457 --> 20:28.439 [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna find Philippians 413. 20:28.579 --> 20:31.182 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I can do all things to Christ, it gives me strength, right? 20:31.242 --> 20:31.783 [SPEAKER_00]: Say that with me. 20:32.183 --> 20:35.107 [SPEAKER_00]: I can do all things to Christ who gives me strength. 20:35.547 --> 20:38.811 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, it's CR, we're gonna teach you how to use the following, right? 20:38.791 --> 20:41.435 [SPEAKER_00]: So, Albert Kirby, I love this. 20:41.455 --> 20:44.719 [SPEAKER_00]: This is after being in here a couple of years, I was like, what is the secret sauce? 20:44.760 --> 20:46.782 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it that's making this happen? 20:46.863 --> 20:48.044 [SPEAKER_00]: And so there's four parts to it. 20:48.345 --> 20:49.506 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all are the son of God. 20:49.566 --> 20:51.209 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't get your heads big, okay? 20:51.229 --> 20:58.379 [SPEAKER_00]: So just remember, y'all are the son of God, y'all are the spirit of God, y'all are the Word of God, and y'all are the people of God, ready? 20:58.459 --> 21:00.502 [SPEAKER_00]: So when I point to you, you gotta say what you are, ready? 21:02.064 --> 21:02.605 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. 21:06.280 --> 21:08.123 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I got confused every minute. 21:08.143 --> 21:08.644 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, good. 21:09.365 --> 21:11.288 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so let's talk about the Son of God for a minute. 21:12.329 --> 21:13.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Son of God saves you. 21:14.993 --> 21:17.817 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, in the Son of God, we found forgiveness for sins. 21:18.058 --> 21:20.161 [SPEAKER_00]: In the Son of God, we're made right with God. 21:20.401 --> 21:25.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, in the Son of God, we can approach God's throne with confidence and receive grace that we need, right? 21:25.789 --> 21:29.455 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, we'll teach you how to walk with the Son of God. 21:29.655 --> 21:32.419 [SPEAKER_00]: We also get the Spirit of God, right? 21:32.519 --> 21:34.903 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all are there? 21:35.660 --> 21:37.603 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, man, the Spirit of God, you know what? 21:37.623 --> 21:40.187 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be going to be the most sin and righteousness. 21:40.868 --> 21:41.910 [SPEAKER_00]: He's our comforter. 21:42.511 --> 21:43.552 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, He's going to lead us. 21:43.612 --> 21:44.714 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to God us. 21:45.215 --> 21:46.417 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to even equip us. 21:46.617 --> 21:49.261 [SPEAKER_00]: And He's the one that's going to give us the strength that we need. 21:49.301 --> 21:53.708 [SPEAKER_00]: So we got the Word of God. 21:53.768 --> 21:54.409 [SPEAKER_00]: Word of God. 21:55.451 --> 21:58.075 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, that's going to teach us what is right and what you're wrong in our lives. 21:58.115 --> 22:00.739 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to equip us for every good work. 22:02.812 --> 22:06.076 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, it's gonna speak promises and and truth to us. 22:08.600 --> 22:12.745 [SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna equip us for the life that you have never thought was possible. 22:13.326 --> 22:18.473 [SPEAKER_00]: So we got the... 22:18.493 --> 22:20.236 [SPEAKER_00]: I know you're small and number, right? 22:20.276 --> 22:28.367 [SPEAKER_00]: You got the... And the people of God. 22:28.387 --> 22:28.667 [SPEAKER_00]: People of God. 22:30.284 --> 22:41.484 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what, out of all four of these people love the Son of God, people love Spirit God that he's confusing is all get out because church is making confusing, right? 22:42.425 --> 22:52.663 [SPEAKER_00]: But truly, we love his work and the Word of God and sometimes it's hard to get under to understand it and hard to get into a rhythm of reading it, but man, you got teams around you. 22:54.365 --> 23:02.316 [SPEAKER_00]: But I think what makes a huge difference, but it's also the scariest is the people of God. 23:02.336 --> 23:11.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Got a little pinocostal over there, but it's the people of God, right? 23:13.592 --> 23:18.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Because it's the people of God that we accept one another, just as Christ uses accepted us. 23:22.512 --> 23:26.958 [SPEAKER_00]: And man, it's been the people of God who's really hurt us, right? 23:27.119 --> 23:30.223 [SPEAKER_00]: For a lot of us, the people of God have really hurt us, but it's the people of God. 23:31.245 --> 23:32.426 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, it's where we find accepted. 23:32.446 --> 23:34.590 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the people of God where we bear one of those burdens. 23:34.630 --> 23:35.371 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the people of God. 23:35.391 --> 23:38.155 [SPEAKER_00]: We confess our sins to one another and pray for one. 23:38.175 --> 23:39.717 [SPEAKER_00]: So that we may find healing, right? 23:39.757 --> 23:44.304 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the people of God. 23:44.324 --> 23:46.647 [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't jump in all at one time, right? 23:47.757 --> 24:01.574 [SPEAKER_00]: But when you've got the Son of God, and you've got the Word and the listen, when you got all that working and listen, we'll walk with you and how to trust that. 24:02.636 --> 24:04.698 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna taste up, you're gonna find the power of God. 24:05.239 --> 24:07.021 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, not every Christian is safe. 24:09.264 --> 24:10.165 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you hear what I just said? 24:11.807 --> 24:12.988 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll be honest with you. 24:13.549 --> 24:17.494 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a safe place, 24:18.723 --> 24:22.330 [SPEAKER_00]: And so you gotta be very careful what you share and who you share with. 24:22.751 --> 24:26.759 [SPEAKER_00]: So we have God-lons for our groups add here to the God-lons. 24:27.882 --> 24:29.986 [SPEAKER_00]: Group leaders add here to the God-lons. 24:30.026 --> 24:33.152 [SPEAKER_00]: They make sears safe, all right? 24:33.413 --> 24:34.415 [SPEAKER_00]: Add here to the God-lons. 24:35.317 --> 24:39.786 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, our God-lons are there to protect our groups. 24:40.002 --> 24:49.110 [SPEAKER_00]: and be very selective on your accountability team just because you're an open share group not everybody in there needs to be on your accountability team. 24:50.131 --> 24:51.192 [SPEAKER_00]: So be very selective. 24:51.212 --> 24:54.455 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't make that decision in one night or even one week. 24:54.475 --> 24:57.678 [SPEAKER_00]: And be very selective in who you're going to ask to be your sponsor. 24:58.759 --> 25:02.162 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't just take anybody like it rhymes with my sponsor. 25:02.242 --> 25:03.303 [SPEAKER_00]: I asked several people. 25:03.383 --> 25:05.324 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, Colleen, what do you think about Ron? 25:05.365 --> 25:06.345 [SPEAKER_00]: She said, I wouldn't trust him. 25:06.806 --> 25:08.187 [SPEAKER_00]: No, that's good. 25:08.437 --> 25:09.359 [SPEAKER_00]: She's good. 25:09.399 --> 25:10.101 [SPEAKER_00]: She's good. 25:10.141 --> 25:11.945 [SPEAKER_00]: So I thought I got her stamp of approval. 25:11.985 --> 25:13.028 [SPEAKER_00]: I called Ron, right? 25:15.313 --> 25:17.398 [SPEAKER_00]: But you need these people. 25:18.039 --> 25:19.222 [SPEAKER_00]: You need that sponsor. 25:19.282 --> 25:20.425 [SPEAKER_00]: You need that accountability. 25:20.485 --> 25:21.808 [SPEAKER_00]: You need that open share group. 25:21.828 --> 25:24.454 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the season's right, you need that step study. 25:24.974 --> 25:29.521 [SPEAKER_00]: And if all that's going on, guess what you get to do, you get to expect to change. 25:30.342 --> 25:33.547 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, you, I'll be honest with you, you cannot not change at that point. 25:34.048 --> 25:41.459 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, if your, if your higher power is Jesus Christ and you're open to change and you got the power to change, yeah, you better go on believe you're gonna change. 25:41.720 --> 25:49.612 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul said this, and all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership and the gospel from the first day until now. 25:50.153 --> 25:52.416 [SPEAKER_00]: Being confident of this, 25:53.543 --> 26:02.633 [SPEAKER_00]: that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion on the day of Christ Jesus. 26:02.653 --> 26:06.497 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to know right now, this is what Paul said, God's not done with you. 26:07.478 --> 26:08.840 [SPEAKER_00]: He is not done with you. 26:08.900 --> 26:16.108 [SPEAKER_00]: He is still working on you and he's using all four of these, the Son of God, the Word of God, Spirit of God, and the people of God. 26:16.865 --> 26:19.508 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not done and he will finish what he started in you. 26:19.829 --> 26:24.494 [SPEAKER_00]: So let me, I'm going to ask you this question and this about myself, where am I in this process right now? 26:25.716 --> 26:30.642 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, I'm not, I had in that suicidal thoughts and in 10 years are better. 26:31.023 --> 26:34.146 [SPEAKER_00]: I've not been clinically depressed in 10 years of better. 26:34.167 --> 26:35.648 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I get discouraged at times, yeah? 26:35.668 --> 26:37.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I get down at times, yeah? 26:37.170 --> 26:38.792 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I get angry at times, yeah? 26:39.954 --> 26:44.239 [SPEAKER_00]: But to be honest, yeah, I have been struggling with discouragement. 26:44.540 --> 26:48.287 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that this has been a rough couple of weeks for me in the weekend was horrific. 26:49.389 --> 26:54.199 [SPEAKER_00]: And I've left alone that discouragement can dip into depression. 26:54.800 --> 27:05.400 [SPEAKER_00]: If I don't do this, if I don't daily surrender and meet with Jesus, if I don't get into his word, if I don't talk to my sponsor and my accountability team, if I don't do Monday open share group. 27:05.988 --> 27:15.199 [SPEAKER_00]: And I got to pay attention to my pace, and I need the accountability of my sponsor to ask me questions about my pace, and I call them these six gauges, which we don't have time for. 27:15.239 --> 27:16.922 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where I am. 27:20.065 --> 27:20.866 [SPEAKER_00]: Where are you today? 27:22.909 --> 27:24.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you believe that God exists? 27:25.812 --> 27:28.215 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you believe that you mattered to him? 27:28.776 --> 27:32.721 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna tell you something, he is looking for you to turn to him. 27:33.342 --> 27:35.685 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you believe that God exists? 27:36.746 --> 27:53.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if this is when I'm talking about getting our butt straight, let me explain that because I sometimes think, but I've done this, but I can't do this, but I wouldn't do this, but man, work is really busy right now. 27:54.145 --> 28:02.995 [SPEAKER_00]: I would come back, but I'm too far gone. 28:04.342 --> 28:09.733 [SPEAKER_00]: We've got a quick thinking that right, replace but I with but God, right? 28:10.615 --> 28:16.667 [SPEAKER_00]: But God demonstrates his own love for us that while we were still sinners, Christ God for us. 28:17.769 --> 28:21.777 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm thinking about the prodigal saying, wow, he was still paying for sex. 28:22.094 --> 28:23.716 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, Christ died for him. 28:23.756 --> 28:34.849 [SPEAKER_00]: While we were still using, while we were on a vendor, while we were trying to people, please, while we were clicking on porn, while we were doing all these things, I'm telling you, Christ died for you. 28:34.889 --> 28:37.051 [SPEAKER_00]: He died for you. 28:37.952 --> 28:44.079 [SPEAKER_00]: But God demonstrates his own love for us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 28:45.441 --> 28:46.102 [SPEAKER_00]: Where are you? 28:46.162 --> 28:51.628 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you believe that exists? 28:52.132 --> 28:54.275 [SPEAKER_00]: And do you believe that he can change you? 28:54.796 --> 28:57.440 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, hope tonight, man, higher power, Jesus Christ. 28:57.640 --> 28:59.102 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, we can be open to change. 28:59.262 --> 29:02.187 [SPEAKER_00]: There's power to change, and we can expect change. 29:02.507 --> 29:04.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Know this, you're not too far gone. 29:04.530 --> 29:08.496 [SPEAKER_00]: Your depression is not so deep, and he can't pull you out of it. 29:08.977 --> 29:11.881 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, your dick is not so strong that he can't break it. 29:12.021 --> 29:13.123 [SPEAKER_00]: You are not forgotten. 29:13.323 --> 29:14.865 [SPEAKER_00]: You are not beyond hope. 29:17.048 --> 29:18.190 [SPEAKER_00]: Hope starts here. 29:19.368 --> 29:27.242 [SPEAKER_00]: and believe that God exists, that you matter to Him, and that He has the power to help you change. 29:28.164 --> 29:28.745 [SPEAKER_00]: Believe that. 29:30.148 --> 29:33.875 [SPEAKER_00]: And it all starts with a relationship with Jesus Christ. 29:35.738 --> 29:40.026 [SPEAKER_00]: And listen, I don't want you to leave tonight until you know Jesus. 29:41.018 --> 29:50.849 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know, come see me, talk to your open share leader, talk to Colleen and the back talk to anybody that's wearing a tag, we want you to know Jesus. 29:52.691 --> 29:53.211 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's pray. 29:54.272 --> 29:55.253 [SPEAKER_00]: Father, you're so good. 29:56.395 --> 30:09.709 [SPEAKER_00]: You've proven it, Father, you stand and you've been looking, Father, the one that we've insulted, the one that we've sinned against, the one that we hurt, the one that we grieved, 30:10.972 --> 30:11.874 [SPEAKER_00]: for us to return. 30:11.914 --> 30:15.360 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes God, time and time again. 30:18.665 --> 30:21.170 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord tonight, I pray would be a time for people to return. 30:21.230 --> 30:30.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they already know you as Lord and Savior, and they just wondered from you, maybe it's like that song, we sang, maybe they've not surrendered everything. 30:32.750 --> 30:36.456 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord tonight, I pray they would say, you know what Jesus, you're my higher power. 30:36.622 --> 30:41.330 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus, you're my Savior, you're my Lord, you're supreme in authority and in power. 30:42.612 --> 30:48.121 [SPEAKER_00]: And I trust you, forgive me, forgive me, Lord. 30:50.244 --> 30:55.052 [SPEAKER_00]: And Lord, I pray this for the rest of us, Lord for those of us that needed hope tonight. 30:56.163 --> 31:07.892 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray your spirit, God, your spirit with just feelless with hope tonight because we've been in your word and we've been together and we've been in your presence. 31:08.995 --> 31:14.850 [SPEAKER_00]: And I pray Father, everyone here will know that you can change anyone and you do it over and over. 31:15.191 --> 31:18.880 [SPEAKER_00]: And I pray the name of Jesus, amen.