Led by the Spirit, Surrendered to Christ

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you are here [Music] anymore [Music] [Applause] light in the Darkness [Music] playing the music away [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] good night [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] yes it is together even when I don't see it come on even when you're gonna win I don't see it you're working even when I don't feel it you never stop you never stop working you never stop you never stop see if you're working today [Music] [Music] [Applause] promise [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh my God [Applause] [Music] Who You Are [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] miracle worker that is who you are you always [Music] whose name is above his name is above depression his name is above loneliness [Music] [Music] Jesus and that is [Music] who you are foreign [Applause] praise God dear Church greet you with our youth-led service today it is an honor and a pleasure to be in the Lord's house today amen um we as a youth have been preparing and uh hoping that we truly please God in our church today yeah so if you could stand to your feet and as our worship uh group takes the stand the stage but before we go into worship I want us to just prepare our hearts for for this uh for this worship for the praise you know the word of God says that God inhabits the Praises of his people he resides he lives in the Praises of his people and so if our hearts are truly censored on God and our focus is to honor and praise him then he will be here amongst us and he he will take in the worship and the praise that we are we are giving on to him so let this not just be a song that is sung like you know and just nice music but let it be a true honor and praise to the Lord God that we are here for today let us with all that we have inside of us give honor and praise unto God and as we before we start our service I would like to just pray to bless our service father God we thank you Lord for giving us this opportunity Lord to be here in this place in your house today Lord and we as we step into worship as we step into this service father God we ask that your holy spirit that your power that your anointing be present here with us today Lord and that everything that we do every every song that is sung every word that is spoken Lord let it truly carry your anointing let it truly carry your power your spirit God let us not be just be what we're doing here let it not be in vain Lord God but let it be for unto your glory unto your praise Lord let us worship you in spirit and in truth today Lord God let this service be dedicated we dedicate the service to you Lord and we Proclaim that everything that be done Lord let it be for your name and for your glory Lord in Jesus name we pray amen Scott brothers and sisters I wanted to give a greeting from the youth worship and the youth and share a few thoughts before we start worship so when I was thinking about these songs that we're going to be singing a thought came to me I've remembered this one um brother brother Bill who asked me a question and he asked me like what is one thing that we have on Earth that was created in heaven and that heaven does and that we do here and it's worship because everything in heaven was created to worship God and everything on Earth was created to worship God and it even says the Angels they bow before before God and they worship Him day and night we should just show on Hillary in this first song we're singing baliki ball a great our big God and when we declare like the greatness of God it's kind of humbling ourselves as well and and recognizing that God is overall and he's our Lord and even in in Revelations um Chapter 4 verses 11. um it says that they cast down their crowns Before the Throne and they say our Lord and God you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power because you have created all things and by your will they exist and were created you can see the verse up there and I just wanted us to all have that that posture in our heart before worship your coach truly like humble ourselves and have that heart where we are declaring how great our God is foreign [Music] YouTube [Music] foreign foreign [Music] he is [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] well they keep [Music] thought he was born [Music] Lord Jesus thank you so much for bringing us here today Jesus God we are so grateful that you let us come here God into glorifying to praise your name Jesus God we can see that you sent your only son to Die For Us and how unworthy we are you have such Grace Upon Us Lord even though we do not deserve it you still decided to send your only son to die for us Jesus God so that we may be with you we may be glorifying your name God in your name we pray please Jesus bless us in this service God so we may just glorify your name we can magnify your name Jesus God so that we may open up our hearts to receive your word Jesus Lord God and to just truly glorify your name God for your grace is so abundant Lord and what Scandal of Grace you have for us [Music] Grace what have you done for me on my cross accused in absence of all my sin washed away in your blood too much to make sense of it all I know that your love breaks my far ES [Music] [Music] give all I have just to know you Jesus [Music] [Music] the cross has taught me to live and mercy my heart now to see today and it's trouble shall come that's your strength s [Music] thank you give all I have just to know Jesus there's no on the side [Music] of you forever The Hope in my heart and it's all Because of You Jesus it's all because of you Jesus [Music] it's all because of you Jesus [Music] oh to be like you give all I have just to know you Jesus there's no one besides you Forever The Hope in my heart Praise You Jesus we love you Lord we just worship you here in this moment God we thank you Lord for dying on that cross Lord that we have this grace that you poured out on us Lord that no matter what we do Lord this Grace Just covers us and we just Praise You In This Moment we thank you God [Music] [Music] [Music] we've come to join the song song long before our lives to raise our voice [Music] [Music] your mercy without it Riverside [Music] [Applause] [Music] a thousand Generations [Music] foreign [Music] because [Music] a thousand Generations you are worthy [Music] now [Music] beautiful [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] in highest praises [Music] highest praises [Music] a thousand Generations you are worthy [Music] upon the Praises of a thousand Generations you are worthy Lord of all to you this late and Risen King we lift our voice [Music] father God we come before you humbled by your grace Lord Jesus we pray that you bless this service and every everyone that is here today Father God we think that we thank you that you have given us the opportunity to be here and to worship and your mighty name father God we thank you for your protection for your grace and for your love for Jesus we pray that you bless the service and open up every heart that is in this place and we pray that you bless every person that is watching us on live right now Lord God we pray that you come here into into this place father God fill our hearts with your presence with your Holy Spirit Light us up with your fire father God we thank you for everything Lord Jesus says I mean foreign it's wonderful that we have our own youth band right now I had the honor of uh practicing with them a few times he just and I didn't make the cut but it was nice to see how much effort they put into every song they sang of course and uh I just wanted to talk a little today about one thing that I like to do very often in my free time one of my favorite sports to play is Golf and for my birthday two weeks ago me my brothers and a few of my friends went to go play a round of golf is to keep ashore I played very badly anytime I try and hit a ball this way it'd start going that way and everything I tried to do there on the golf course didn't work there are things you can change of how you like stand towards the ball and how you can hold the club but nothing worked for me [Music] and as I was I was sitting there I'd hit a bad shot and I just go sit in that golf court just think to myself I just kept getting angry at myself that I thought I'm better than this I thought I was good at golfing yes but the angrier I got the words I played Allah but a lot of things that people who play golf teach they teach that golf is a mental sport it's not a physical sport you don't have to be strong to play golf you just have to be strong in the mind people who play golf have gotten so lazy that they invented little cars to not even have to walk to their ball s but they tell you that you can't let your thoughts control you while you're playing they say if you hit a bad shot just forget it and focus on hitting a good shot the next time you hit one [Music] and when a professional is playing on a golf course the crowd has to get really quiet so that professional golfer can just focus on only hitting the ball because if they're loud the golfer loses focus and he can't hit correctly but there's one thing that a professional golfer has and I don't and I think that's the reason why I'm bad at golf is a professional golfer has this thing called a caddy or a guide this caddy or guide he walks next to them the whole course and he tells them where to hit their next shot when the golfer is playing all the golf golfer has to do is listen to the caddy because the caddy has a little book s he writes down little notes there and he says hey let's hit the shot this way let's hit the shot that way and this this caddy he just tells the the golfer and he gives him a path to take it and I think it's the same way in our lives we have the Holy Spirit and he tells us what the path to take is and all we have to do is follow this past path and that let the allow the holy spirit to guide us into our purpose I wanted to read a few verses from John it's going to be John chapter 14 verses 15 to 17 and then uh verse 26. In this passage it was a scripture where Jesus is promising the Holy Spirit if things up and it says if you love me and keep my commands and I will ask the father and he will give you another Advocate to help you and be with you forever the spirit of Truth okay uh the world cannot accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he lives within you and will be in you isn't this just an amazing verse it's just amazing that we have a personal guide to Usher Us in the right direction now I want to read uh 26 from that same chapter and it says but the advocate the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you even better that the Holy Spirit doesn't only guide us but he will teach us along the way wherever we have misstepped that you've given us he may be able to open your eyes to see a different verse in the Bible that you may may not have seen in the right light all the Holy Spirit needs from you is obedience he needs you to be obedient and constantly be with him and I want to talk about one misconception I had about the Holy Spirit when I was younger I thought that the Holy Spirit couldn't use me or I couldn't be filled in the Holy Spirit if I was living in sin yeah maybe not living in sin but if I was sinning when I would sin I would think that God only used the righteous people to to follow his commands I thought that only the righteous people were able to be used to do God or fulfill God's plan this was the wrong mentality and uh I want to tell you about one guy who died on the cross so that you and I could be righteousness Jesus died so that whenever I would sin his grace would be able to cover me and I would be righteous as well foreign even when I would fall short his grace could cover me a second misconception I had about the Holy Spirit was that the Holy Spirit couldn't use me because I'm unqualified I thought that I was just like a kid the Holy Spirit couldn't use me when I get older and a little wiser maybe then I could be used but there's this great saying and it goes like this foreign God doesn't call the qualified he qualifies the called neglect qualification and almost every single story in the Bible is about God qualifying the called [Music] in the story of Esther God uses a young woman to save the Israelite people the story Israel in another story Apostle Paul before he was a apostle Paul he persecuted Christians before he was used for God's glory Christian almost every single story in the Bible is about these people who may have wronged in their lives but God was able to use them to put them in such powerful positions and a while back I had this I had this I was wondering wouldn't it be easier for God to just use someone that's qualified wouldn't it be easier for him to use someone with the right characteristics for that job voice Moses was a shy guy and he used him to lead all the Israelite people foreign but it was revealed to me later that God uses unqualified people because it gives more glory to God My Brother David told me about this kid he met in Ukraine um he went to Ukraine on his past mission trip he might share today but he went to lead this evangelism fire boot camp foreign and he told me about this kid maybe he showed me a picture in a few videos he was maybe 12 or 13 years old this young kid he said was backed by his church and was a full-time missionary in Ukraine [Music] while David taught in that evangelism boot camp that 13 year old taught alongside him and when you hear stories like that all you want to do is praise God with the truth and all we have to do in our lives is to allow the Holy Spirit to work through us we just have to allow ourselves to be a vessel to be used by the Holy Spirit foreign has recently been leading all of our youth services on purpose and uh and identity is and I think it's great for our youth but not only for our youth but for our church to truly find their purpose and identity the faster you find your purpose and what God has called you for is the greater things you can do for his kingdom is and when you find that purpose all you have to do is wait on God to lead you in your purpose and when he says move you move and when he says way you wait foreign it opens up opportunities and these opportunities present themselves for you to take the YouTubers and I want to talk a little bit more about when you don't take these opportunities because I found that there are two types of sin there's a one type is called the sin of commission or the sin of doing something which is basically whenever you do something inherently wrong it's like murdering someone which is very wrong and I don't recommend you guys murder someone foreign and then there's another sin that's the sin of omission which is not doing something and uh this this is basically whenever you don't do something that you know you're supposed to do with the rubbish and I wanted to read another verse it's going to be from the book of James chapter 4 verse 17. and it reads it reads if anyone then knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it it is sin for them and uh there's another book where Paul writes and we read we read about this in a Bible study group and it's Paul writing and he says I do the things I don't want or I do the things I know is wrong and I don't do the things I know is right yeah the same way is that if you're not walking your purpose and you feel like you're missing something I don't think that's right for your life God called you for a purpose for a reason foreign because his purpose is what's best for you and again I'll say that all we have to do is listen it's normal going back to what I said about the golfer story that professional golfer can choose if he wants to listen to the caddy or not if he wants to if he wants to listen to the advice or not if he wants to take that the council or if he wants to go on his own path and most times if he ignores him it may give him a outcome that he may not have expected because when that caddy plans a shot he plans for the shot after that and the shot after that the caddy has a greater perspective than just a golfer in the same way as we we can't use our worldly mindset to think of an eternal perspectively and it's up to every one of us to make that choice whether or not we allow and we allow the Holy Spirit to take control it's up to every single one of us to take that step we see is all God wants from you and me is to listen foreign I wanted to lead us all to prayer here and just pray that the Holy Spirit was able to lead us in all aspects of our life whether it be at your job or your work or your home life that the Holy Spirit would be able to just move through us to others because when the holy spirit moves through us it it reveals to other people like man that person is different foreign [Music] Lord God would come before you today and we just glorify Your Name Lord because you deserve all the glory god and we thank you for giving us this life and God we just ask that you will be able to fill us with your Holy Spirit Lord and that you would just be able to talk to us and speak to us that whenever whatever we need to do for your purpose that we'll be able to do it Lord and I know that whenever you have a plan for us doors will open Lauren as that you would just move us in the right direction heavenly father and just move our church with you Lord and that we will be able to be just walking in your plan for our lives Jesus we just praise you and we ask that the Holy Spirit would just be able to fill this church Lord I got it too slow we thank you Lord and we thank you for the upcoming speakers and for the Youth Lord that our youth would also just be on a fire for you Lord in Jesus's mighty name I pray Lord I'm an inside oh amen thank you sir should I say praise be to our Lord Hallelujah I would like to make a few announcements I'd like to remind we'll have a youth service this evening on Mondays at 7 30 we have a prayer yes maybe if you don't have an opportunity normally to join us for prayer but now during the fast and prayer we would like strongly recommend and encourage you to attendance if you haven't joined us with this Daniel Fast we would like to encourage you to join us on Wednesday we have a 7 30 well maybe Palm Coast a budget uh streets in this coming Saturday at 1 pm in the city of Palm Coast Florida we only have a United prayer of all the churches of Florida we start this New Year with prayer we started our service room and then at 11 o'clock we'll have a service and we also have expecting some guests over it is Nick from Seattle he will be visiting us and preaching I need through this is they do some Mission work in Kenya and Africa and he will be with us next week is yes and also we'll have a brothers from Avenue from Kentucky and brother Pavel chubaruk will be here next week as well I would like to remind all the ushers that we would like to have a meeting in a pastor's office right after the service and if anyone is interested to join to do this type of work as part of the ministry in church you are welcome also there is this family a mother and a child that would like to come to the United States from Poland is to sign their sponsorship papers but they are looking for a place to live for the period of two months emission sponsored no you should not advise it's a sponsor mobile so they have a sponsor someone to to to live for two months yeah so if anyone has a spare room please let me personally know so we can share this with the family and they can maybe join us yes thank and also like to remind that we have a baptism class today at four o'clock tonight Pastor Paul will be teaching that class Pastor Paul uh class and anyone who is Young these classes to dedicate yourself to the Lord you still have an opportunity to do so yeah thank you pasiba is together with youth will be worshiping and during this in this song We Will yeah I would like to read from in this first collection will go for the needs of our church he is gift you send you are a fragrant offering an acceptable sacrifice pleasing to God you saying that money don't smell no yes but there Are Spiritual fragrance is because and God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus amen amen [Music] our God is [Music] in US [Music] the Lord [Music] so you better be believe [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] mercy and Grace [Music] [Music] [Music] before [Music] God is an awesome God red circle praise God dear church is so we will be dismissing our kids but for now you may stay seated because we have some children that would like to serve yeah you see I said coming up forward dear Church our our work is not for no reason um teachers of course key could use we're not sure is serving and serves and serving um you know I understand that it's not just so and not easily to do this there is much work that's put into our children so they could serve God and us you understand they're singing they even have their own translators and I would also like to encourage them to continue moving in this direction you know as brother said the first hit usually doesn't land and you spiritually more and more [Music] thank you the eyes foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] come on [Music] [Music] [Music] tonight is [Music] foreign [Music] tonight [Music] thank you music [Music] children you may come forward and we as a church we'll be praying for our children and today they are beginning a new semester there are some teachers were replaced for the last month semester meaning that all the teachers are replaced uh yes and I have a great yeah I got to know them their character who they are made in agreement and even the topic that I did not finish and today there will be new teachers and I know my heart is rejoicing because I know the teachers will be good the oldest group will be taught by Brother Nick yeah there will be other teachers teaching the younger groups but most importantly dear brothers this is our duty that our children that grow up within a couple years they would be here they would serve it would serve the people of god um but at home they will retain the most information on how to serve God and so I call us as parents to serve our children you have to pray for them every day at all times foreign foreign foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] thank you praise God brothers and sisters so recently uh the Bayou TS right here in Tarpon this is and so uh we've been going out there for evangelizing so some of our youth members have uh some testimonies to share um uh so David you want to share David because that's foreign you know when we drove into the Bayou we were going to gather with our team I noticed one man a cross on the other side um and and he just caught my attention when I when I parked my car okay and we got and we had like a meeting with our team for five maybe ten minutes and the whole time I don't know I I don't even remember what we said in the meeting I couldn't pay attention this man would just keep kept grabbing my attention because so when we split up into into groups my our group asked like do you guys feel anything where do you want to go I told my group I'm like I don't know I just know we have to go talk to that guy on the other side yes so as our group we walk all the way to the other side to this man yeah and we walk to this man and we start speaking with him about Jesus and you know he he was a little bit unsure so we start sharing about Jesus and I share an example of the wind yes you know Jesus is like wind Jesus because sometimes we don't physically see the wind with our eyes but we can feel the wind I mean counter the winds and so I shared that with this man and I asked him I'm like can we pray for you to encounter Jesus like wind yes and he said okay you guys can pray for me yeah so I put my hand on his shoulder yeah me and my team we just prayed for Jesus to encounter this is and then we asked him what did he feels and you know we were expecting like some Christian answer you know maybe a little bit of love maybe some peace official but this man said my neck that's because and we're thinking what's wrong with this guy what's wrong with your neck he said nothing's wrong it just got healed we were asking him he was saying he had pain in his neck for two months he he said we he never he never mind and through this he was able to know that that is and afterwards we asked him to share a little bit about what happened and we actually have a video for you of this man sharing what happened to him so I would just like to quickly show you this video that's just one minute long yeah of this man his name is and he's sharing what Jesus did on that day it was just two weeks ago so if we could put up this video and show them Keon just sharing his testimony okay the video is not working but it's okay and today he made such an important decision he decided he wants to open the door of his heart to Jesus and accept Jesus into his life and then we prayed for him and Keon what did you say you said you had pain before our prayer yes is that true and where did you have this pain in the back of your neck yeah and what exactly did this pain feel like bone hitting muscle it felt like his bone was hitting his muscle and it was terrible pain and how long did you have this pain he had this pain for two months and what did you say happened after we prayed you help me who helped you he said Jesus helped him and what what do you mean by he helped you is the pain still there there's no more pain he says no the pain is no longer there that's so amazing amen and it just brings me so much joy God bless you Kia amen amen I mean it's so wonderful to see this happen right here in our own backyard what's this and I believe there will be many many more instances amen praise God I mean and now I want to give the mic to taras he also has a testimony uh praise God to your church I want to first of all thank Tony because he was the organizer initiator initiator of these uh evangelicals and for giving me the opportunity to share a testimony it was on a different day than the day David explained um and but we also got together and in my group we had it was Tony um Dan Dan Eliana Eliana and me and so um we went into um a certain direction that we agreed on going to the middle name or fourth person or people that we ran into Mrs we started a couple there may or um you know the conversation started with just simple simple talk we moved from Philadelphia and so um you know there was three of us and four of us and we're in youth so the conversation transitioned into you know what are you guys doing here we said that we're from a local church and so we asked him we said do you guys you know know Jesus believe in Jesus and the husband he said he's never in his life even I mean he's heard of you know the word Jesus and Christians but he's never ever encountered any church or people that are yeah so she was a completely unbelieverness and same with her she said she had her family has a Catholic background they really didn't know so uh the you know they they you could tell that they were this was new to them this information you know about being born again Christ did on the cross foreign [Music] time for them to make and so we said you know you can accept Jesus and what he did for you right now if we if we pray for you here right now he will come and save your soul yes and the husband he's said you know I'm not I'm I I'm not ready yet but the the the his wife the woman she's just like stepped forward and so of course all of us in agreement uh her husband like went to go with the dog to the side a little bit but we we were praying with her yeah you know in order for for her to be safe so when we the prayer concluded you could tell you know physically she like she was like shaken up a little bit today and so we asked her like you know are you like how do you feel like she's like you know I I feel as if like a like a weight Has Lifted like some like yeah I just feel like I'm just be like like just a love something something completely amazing is happening and that she's she's experiencing him in in reality and she began to like tear up starting to cry she was almost embarrassed she was like I'm trying not to cry yeah and you said it's okay that's that's that's okay and her husband even from the side he came up and you know he he kind of like put his arm on her and so you know uh she even asked him like after all of this happened she even asked him she's like you know why don't you let them pray for you yeah but but he still he still was you know firmative you know she's never read a Bible we told her you know to get a Bible yes we even encouraged her that God could through her bring this good news like David said and we see things like this happen it's a true realize wow no it's just not something that we do because that's what we were taught the lives more and more that we do this opportunity to continue moving to him evangelism there will be a shift in our city that we live in yeah I mean thank you for your great tests [Music] videos I'm so I'm such a good team yeah I hope next next uh youthful service [Music] I mean foreign yeah show me the other fusing hi thank you for listening and then we'll take us into the next Hallelujah everybody Hallelujah I believe those are some powerful testimonies and I I'm a witness because I I can really feel the presence of God whenever the youth meets up together I really do think that the Lord is leading us for them and he has a plan for us plan now I wanted to wanted a story yeah it's very short so there were two farmers one was very hard working and the other one was now whenever it was time to get their Harvest who do you think had Forest I mean obviously the hard-working one because now for me how I understand that is you guys in the older generation of the church is I believe that you guys are the farmers and we're the the harvest of the crops so I would like for you guys to kind of sow into us foreign um it says bring the whole tide into the storehouse that there may be food in my house test me in this says the Lord Almighty and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be enough room to store it I will prevent pests from devouring your crops and the vines in your Fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe says the Lord Almighty now you can see I mean there's many places in the Bible where the Lord says I give and you will receive or you know he will bless you so I would ask you guys as a church yeah so to us financially but also in prayer and I like to pray father God we come before you today I I really feel your presence in this youth-led service I know that you have a plan you have a vision you know so I ask you God to lead the youth lead the church so that with the church sowing it to us that we may be able to make the right turns the right way create the right path so that we may be able to grow we may be able to lead others to you to your wonderful love and we know that as long as you're behind it everything will be good you will provide you allow everything to happen in your name amen [Music] thank you [Music] don't take me [Music] foreign [Music] to be true [Music] this morning [Music] syllable praise God Brothers man it's so wonderful to be here today and today I have a special word for you all yeah today I want to talk about loss [Music] losing things yeah but I'm not talking about losing bad things like losing your keys your wallet yeah you're losing your job or maybe even some people lose their minds no I'm not talking about like losing something for your benefit I'll put it that way yeah and no this is not talking about losing your bills um no I'm talking about losing our lives and you might be thinking how can that be a benefit for me to lose my life but I want to share a story it's about a famous actor and it was a time of War and countries where I worried each other it was getting very terrible drugs but this actor he was living his life he was doing very good for himself he was very wealthy he made a lot of money he had a lot of Fame he thought he had everything he he could want he even had very good friends he had a very good boss a very good man so it was wartime and he decided to go to Hawaii to relax he decided he was going to go sit on the beach and just relax while this war is going on until it finishes so he goes to Hawaii and his manager knows he's not going to be doing any work he's just going to be relaxing yes but then one day he thought it's just like every other day he wakes up in the morning on his house that's right on the beach he sees the ocean the way um he picks up the phone and he's wondering what's going on he's thinking my manager knows I'm on vacation so he was just gonna pick up the phone and say hey I don't want any work I don't want to act for any movies right now telephones but the manager gives him news that's a lot lot more seriously and the manager says Hey I just received news that there's a bomb headed for the island that you're on yeah but the manager says no no no they said there's less than 10 minutes until this bomb lands you don't have any time and this man inside he's all he's panicking like crazy he doesn't know what to do all he all his life he's been working Chinese he's been building up his Fame so that people would know him um he's been worrying about all of these things but in that moment they were all useless and then he had a moment of realization and the managers listening on the phone and it goes quiet um he's listening and and this actor is just silent for two whole minutes manager says hey are you still there what are you doing are you going to be okay and the man says he's like yeah I just came to the beach and I'm just sitting here and watching the waves the manager says are you okay you were just worrying a few minutes and the man says yeah I have peace over me yeah it says I realize there's nothing I can do to save myself [Music] so I'm gonna just enjoy these last few moments so he hangs up the phone with the manager and he just sits there for the last few minutes of his life enjoying the ocean is but then he gets another call from his manager a few minutes later and the manager says Hey I just received other news that bomb was shot down you're gonna be okay you're gonna be okay don't worry the man lived for the rest of his life after that and he told everybody that he and Israel experienced such peace as when he did on that beach and from that moment forward in his life nothing mattered to him that money that it didn't matter to him as much his Fame what other people thought of him it didn't matter though his job his work he didn't take it so seriously and that this story at the Historia it just shows you uh that when people get to this point where they realize there's nothing they can do to save their life they come to this point of peace and us as Christians we all come to this point where we realize there's nothing we can do to save ourselves in Matthew chapter 16 verse 24. Jesus says to his disciples if anyone desires to come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me desires to save his life will lose it but whoever loses his life for my sake will find him for what prophet is it to a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul or what will a man give in exchange for his soul is I'm guessing in that moment of Despair yes in that moment of worry and trials that you're going through just like this actor in that moment when you realize there's nothing you can do to save your own life you are willing to give everything sure and I mean everything just to save your life you're willing to give all the money you have just for a few more years of life you're willing to give away all your Fame your self-image what others think of you um but I want to tell you brothers and sisters there's nothing we can do there's nothing we can give to save ourselves to save our souls there's only one who can say and in order for us to save our lives we have to lose them we have to make this sacrifice you know when God was creating humankind in the beginning of time God God didn't have to sacrifice anything he just spoke a word and it was created when God created this whole world when he created all the animals he just spoke the words that's not so much of a sacrifices any of you to say hello to me that's not so much and that's just like us if we want to be saved our Salvation there's no sacrifice for us to be made because it is by grace through faith that we are saying so God didn't make a sacrifice when he created the world but I want to tell you that Jesus Paid he made the ultimate sacrifice for all our Salvation God didn't have to sacrifice to create us but Jesus had to sacrifice just like us whenever we want to receive salvation it is no sacrifice but after we are saved if we want to continue foreign Jesus says to deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow him that is what he did for you that's what he did for me and he wants us to do it for him if we want to continue to follow Jesus it's going to cost us all of our Lives everything that we have and every day we need to do it more and more and more because I want to share another story because some of us think we think we have already lost our lives we think we have already made the decision to follow Jesus we have lost our lives we gave him everything when I was saved five years ago I gave Jesus everything I lost all of my life I gave him all of my friends I handed my work over to him I gave to him I lost all of my life and I am following him but I want to tell you there's always a deeper levels we can always go deeper there's always something worse still holding on to series we're humans there's always something that we see it is maybe it's easy for us to hand over our job to him but we're holding on to our pride maybe it's easy for us to hand over our pride to him but we hold on to our families maybe we give our work our pride our families but we're not willing to let go of the Comforts of America and we don't want to leave even though he's telling us on that's just like that sin of omission where we don't go even though he tells us to um brothers and sisters there's always something we're hoping but when we realize what Jesus gave up for us that's when we're willing to let go of everything there's two men in the 1700s their names were John and David and one day one Sunday they were sitting in church and they were listening to their pastor preaching and the pastor was preaching about one slave over okay and this slave owner owned in a whole island in the West Indies and he had many many slaves about 3 000 slaves on this island slave owner was an atheist and the pastor was preaching how all these slaves all these people on this island would never hear the gospels they would never hear about Jesus and John and David were sitting in this service and they just realized that that was not fair yeah that that could not happen so after service they decided together