WEBVTT 00:00:01.259 --> 00:00:04.219 Sharing good news of great joy to all people. 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.220 Elation Church. Today's our last week in our 00:00:10.220 --> 00:00:12.740 series that we've entitled, Hello, My Name is 00:00:12.740 --> 00:00:16.820 God. This is week number 13. And you might say, 00:00:16.899 --> 00:00:20.660 wow, are there 13 names of God? Well, in the 00:00:20.660 --> 00:00:24.260 study, I think there's like 15 or 16 names. Just 00:00:24.260 --> 00:00:26.059 some of them are very close together, and we 00:00:26.059 --> 00:00:28.440 looked at them on the same week. Like today, 00:00:28.579 --> 00:00:31.670 we're looking at three names. Out of the Bible, 00:00:31.769 --> 00:00:35.990 for God. But they kind of condense into the same 00:00:35.990 --> 00:00:38.770 name. And each week we've been talking about 00:00:38.770 --> 00:00:41.109 this. What's in a name? What are names all about 00:00:41.109 --> 00:00:44.969 anyway? Well, first of all, names can be about 00:00:44.969 --> 00:00:50.130 identity. Everybody say identity. Names signify 00:00:50.130 --> 00:00:53.929 identity. Now, when I was born, my parents didn't 00:00:53.929 --> 00:00:57.109 name me before we left the hospital. And when 00:00:57.109 --> 00:01:00.520 I wanted to play... football in the sixth grade. 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:06.299 Actually, it was a seventh grade. Yeah. When 00:01:06.299 --> 00:01:07.959 I wanted to play football in the seventh grade, 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:10.840 I had to get a South Carolina birth certificate. 00:01:11.420 --> 00:01:13.540 When that South Carolina birth certificate came 00:01:13.540 --> 00:01:16.420 in, it had no name Forrest on it because my parents 00:01:16.420 --> 00:01:19.280 didn't name me before we left the hospital. And 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.439 you might say, no, I'm serious. My birth certificate, 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.879 technically for the first 13 years of my existence, 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.790 my name. My official name in the state of South 00:01:28.790 --> 00:01:32.069 Carolina was No Name Forrest. I mean, you can't 00:01:32.069 --> 00:01:34.370 even make this stuff up. I couldn't play the 00:01:34.370 --> 00:01:36.170 first two or three games because we had to get 00:01:36.170 --> 00:01:38.950 my name changed to the name that I've gone by 00:01:38.950 --> 00:01:44.390 my whole year, my whole life. Jeffrey Dean Forrest 00:01:44.390 --> 00:01:48.870 is my full name. I just go by Dean most of the 00:01:48.870 --> 00:01:52.930 time. I have another identity name, and that 00:01:52.930 --> 00:01:56.579 is Christian. It's not just something I do or 00:01:56.579 --> 00:01:59.780 something that I practice. It's who I am. It's 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:03.459 my identity because I am in Christ and I'm a 00:02:03.459 --> 00:02:07.579 Christ follower. Names also signify relationship. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.680 Everybody say relationship. We all have relationship 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:15.719 names, don't we? Now my mom, her relationship 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:18.080 name to me was baby because I was the youngest 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:21.460 of four. So it didn't matter how old I was. Even 00:02:21.460 --> 00:02:23.620 when I was 50 years old, when my mom would introduce 00:02:23.620 --> 00:02:26.639 me, she would introduce me as her baby first. 00:02:27.539 --> 00:02:33.280 Do we have any other youngest siblings? I was 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.699 the youngest of four. My mom always said, this 00:02:35.699 --> 00:02:38.979 is my baby. And then sometimes she would say 00:02:38.979 --> 00:02:41.699 my name. Sometimes she wouldn't. But I was always 00:02:41.699 --> 00:02:43.560 a baby. Dad never called me baby. He called me 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:48.560 son. When I got married to Gayna. I became a 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:52.280 husband. That's a relationship name. She doesn't 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.199 call me husband. That's not the way we talk to 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.759 each other. Most times she calls me honey. Unless 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:01.800 I've been bad. Unless I've said something to 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.099 upset her, then she might not call me honey. 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:07.719 I won't tell you what she calls me then. Really, 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.939 she just calls me nothing. When Jeffrey was born, 00:03:10.979 --> 00:03:13.879 I became a father. But Jeffrey doesn't say, oh, 00:03:13.939 --> 00:03:17.569 father, can I have $20? No, he doesn't. He doesn't 00:03:17.569 --> 00:03:21.610 say that. He started out calling me Daddy, and 00:03:21.610 --> 00:03:24.090 I forgot what age it was. He just dropped the 00:03:24.090 --> 00:03:27.250 D -Y and just started calling me Dad. Those are 00:03:27.250 --> 00:03:29.509 all relationship names. I'm also an uncle, a 00:03:29.509 --> 00:03:32.590 cousin, all those things. Those are relationship 00:03:32.590 --> 00:03:36.449 names. Everybody say relationship. So names also 00:03:36.449 --> 00:03:42.629 signify activity. I've gone by some titles during 00:03:42.629 --> 00:03:46.020 my life, and I still go by some titles. that 00:03:46.020 --> 00:03:50.620 signify what I do, right? I've been a student. 00:03:50.699 --> 00:03:53.520 I'm still a student. I don't know if I'll ever 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:58.780 finish out my PhD. I'm just slow writing papers 00:03:58.780 --> 00:04:02.780 and reading books. I'm a student. I was a cook 00:04:02.780 --> 00:04:06.780 in high school, cooked for Quincy's, cooked steaks 00:04:06.780 --> 00:04:10.379 on the grill. I've been a salesman for a lumberyard, 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:15.740 a Nissan dealership. and I sold recording studio 00:04:15.740 --> 00:04:18.560 packages. I've been a sound man. I've actually 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:22.000 got paid to run sound at events before. I was 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.360 a custodian for a while at Disney when I got 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.220 here. I was also a trainer and a coordinator 00:04:27.220 --> 00:04:33.139 there. Gannon and I, because we already had two 00:04:33.139 --> 00:04:36.439 jobs, we needed a third job when we were newly 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:41.019 married, and we cleaned offices. Three nights 00:04:41.019 --> 00:04:43.480 a week, we would go clean offices after we got 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:47.160 off of our other jobs. I actually bought a screen 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:50.600 printing setup, and I was a screen printer. I 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.160 was an A &R director, artist and repertoire at 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:55.399 a record company, Southern Gospel Record Company. 00:04:56.379 --> 00:04:58.839 I've been the vice president. I actually became 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:00.980 the vice president of Heart Look Records one 00:05:00.980 --> 00:05:03.899 day. The boss walked in and gave me a business 00:05:03.899 --> 00:05:08.180 card. It said, Dean Forrest, vice president. 00:05:08.699 --> 00:05:12.360 I wish I still had those cards. They're probably 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:14.899 somewhere. I probably got a few of them. Here's 00:05:14.899 --> 00:05:17.360 the deal. I got a title, but I didn't get a race. 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:20.439 So there was no difference in the normal pay 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:23.220 or the vice president pay. I found that out. 00:05:23.579 --> 00:05:26.500 I've been the music director of state and national 00:05:26.500 --> 00:05:30.120 organizations. I've been an event planner. I've 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.839 actually rented space in 10 different states. 00:05:36.459 --> 00:05:39.819 I've been a crusade director. Area -wide crusade, 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:42.579 I directed three of those. I've been the president 00:05:42.579 --> 00:05:47.279 of non -profit corporations and the president 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:52.500 of organizations. I've been the worship leader 00:05:52.500 --> 00:05:56.060 at some events. One day I was a worship leader 00:05:56.060 --> 00:05:58.019 at the Ryman Auditorium. Does anybody know what 00:05:58.019 --> 00:06:00.420 the Ryman Auditorium is? It's where the Grand 00:06:00.420 --> 00:06:04.600 Ole Opry started. It was in the Ryman Auditorium. 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:08.029 One day I was a worship leader there. I've been 00:06:08.029 --> 00:06:09.870 a conference director. We had a youth conference 00:06:09.870 --> 00:06:12.930 for over 20 years. I was on the road for over 00:06:12.930 --> 00:06:16.350 20 years as an evangelist. I was a chaplain at 00:06:16.350 --> 00:06:19.269 Lakewood Camper Resort. I'm also a volunteer 00:06:19.269 --> 00:06:21.709 chaplain at Giovanni's right there on the corner. 00:06:23.629 --> 00:06:26.050 I'm a preacher. Some people call me preacher. 00:06:26.170 --> 00:06:29.310 Some people call me pastor. Some people call 00:06:29.310 --> 00:06:34.370 me dean. Somebody wipe your head and say, that's 00:06:34.370 --> 00:06:39.610 a lot. But for those of you who are new to this 00:06:39.610 --> 00:06:42.069 series, you just found out a lot about me, didn't 00:06:42.069 --> 00:06:46.389 you? That you didn't know. You might have thought 00:06:46.389 --> 00:06:49.449 I was a preacher my whole life. I've done a lot. 00:06:50.569 --> 00:06:55.290 Alright? So, over 29 names I've just shared with 00:06:55.290 --> 00:06:57.949 you, but I'm one person. Some people, when you 00:06:57.949 --> 00:07:01.709 talk about God having a lot of names, you might 00:07:01.709 --> 00:07:05.439 be confused that there's a lot of gods. But God 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:09.279 is one essence in three persons. Okay? Are you 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.800 with me? Nod your head or something if you're 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:16.399 with me. God is one. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. 00:07:16.579 --> 00:07:22.300 One essence. So, what's in a name? Identity, 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:28.079 relationship, and activity. And that's in God's 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.420 names too. And that's what this study's been 00:07:31.420 --> 00:07:35.170 about. Because in God's names, we find out who 00:07:35.170 --> 00:07:40.170 he is. His eternal name that he wants to be known 00:07:40.170 --> 00:07:44.329 by for every generation for all time is Yahweh. 00:07:44.430 --> 00:07:47.149 Everybody say Yahweh. That's his eternal name. 00:07:48.149 --> 00:07:52.629 But then there's some relationship names. They 00:07:52.629 --> 00:07:55.430 signify what kind of relationship he wants to 00:07:55.430 --> 00:07:59.050 be in with me and with you. And then there's 00:07:59.050 --> 00:08:04.060 some activity names. What he wants to do in our 00:08:04.060 --> 00:08:08.439 lives. And you might say, well, if he wants to 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:12.480 do it, let him do it. But we have to receive 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:17.980 who he is by faith. I'll say that again. We have 00:08:17.980 --> 00:08:22.180 to receive. It's not just that he is that. We 00:08:22.180 --> 00:08:26.639 have to receive him as being that in our lives 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:32.429 by faith. Easiest example. The Bible says it's 00:08:32.429 --> 00:08:34.870 not God's will that any should perish, right? 00:08:35.509 --> 00:08:38.129 That's what the Bible says. It's not God's will 00:08:38.129 --> 00:08:40.730 that any should perish, but that all should come 00:08:40.730 --> 00:08:46.250 to repentance and believe in Him. So it's God's 00:08:46.250 --> 00:08:50.149 will to save everybody, for Him to be Savior 00:08:50.149 --> 00:08:55.090 for everybody. How many of you know that everybody 00:08:55.090 --> 00:08:58.970 is not going to be saved by grace through faith? 00:09:00.169 --> 00:09:05.629 Are you with me? You have to receive it. You 00:09:05.629 --> 00:09:09.129 have to receive him as Savior in order for him 00:09:09.129 --> 00:09:13.230 to be your Savior. He is Savior, but just because 00:09:13.230 --> 00:09:15.350 he is Savior doesn't mean he's your Savior. Are 00:09:15.350 --> 00:09:18.110 you with me? Come on, somebody. Y 'all lighten 00:09:18.110 --> 00:09:19.970 up a little bit. I'm not talking about money 00:09:19.970 --> 00:09:24.110 anymore. I'm talking about salvation. Right? 00:09:25.750 --> 00:09:32.240 So. If we want to see God do the things that 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:35.299 he says he wants to do by telling us who he is, 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:41.139 then we've got to receive it by faith. Here's 00:09:41.139 --> 00:09:45.759 our platform verse for this study. Psalm 910. 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.360 Those who know your name, everybody say God's 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.860 name. Those who know your name will put their 00:09:51.860 --> 00:09:55.820 trust in you. For you, Lord, have not forsaken 00:09:55.820 --> 00:10:00.879 those who seek you. Another translation of that 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.200 Hebrew word that's translated trust in English 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.600 is confidence. Everybody say confidence. So when 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:09.600 we know who God is based on His names given to 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:12.379 us in Scripture, then we can put our trust and 00:10:12.379 --> 00:10:17.259 our confidence in Him. And we can know. Everybody 00:10:17.259 --> 00:10:21.120 say, I can know. I can know who God is, what 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.200 He wants to do in my life, what kind of relationship 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:29.139 He wants to be in with me. I can know that. Because 00:10:29.139 --> 00:10:32.620 He's not going to forsake me. He's not going 00:10:32.620 --> 00:10:37.820 to turn His back on me when I seek Him based 00:10:37.820 --> 00:10:44.059 on who He says He is. Today we're looking at 00:10:44.059 --> 00:10:48.879 three names. First one is Hebrew. The next two 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.580 are going to be in Greek out of the New Testament. 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.419 Hello, my name is Adonai. Everybody say Adonai. 00:10:57.070 --> 00:10:59.950 Have you heard that word Adonai before? Who has? 00:11:00.029 --> 00:11:04.889 Who's heard that word? Adonai. Now, Adonai, I 00:11:04.889 --> 00:11:06.450 don't know if this is the next slide or not. 00:11:07.990 --> 00:11:12.870 Adonai is in the Old Testament over 450 times. 00:11:13.809 --> 00:11:15.490 Look to the person beside you and say, that's 00:11:15.490 --> 00:11:21.210 a lot. It's in there over 450 times. I'm going 00:11:21.210 --> 00:11:26.580 to give you a way to distinguish. when the word 00:11:26.580 --> 00:11:30.600 is Adonai and when the word is Yahweh. Is that 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:36.100 okay? So when you read your Bible, if all four 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:41.039 letters of Lord are all capitalized, I don't 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:42.340 know if you've noticed that in your Bible or 00:11:42.340 --> 00:11:45.120 not, but if you read the word Lord and it's all 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:50.580 capital, that means that the Hebrew was Yahweh. 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:57.070 Okay? If it is not, all capitalize the word Lord, 00:11:57.289 --> 00:12:03.009 it means that the Hebrew word was Adonai. All 00:12:03.009 --> 00:12:07.669 right? So it's used over 450 times. So what does 00:12:07.669 --> 00:12:09.850 that mean? What does Adonai mean? Well, it comes 00:12:09.850 --> 00:12:15.610 from Adon, and it means to rule. It means sovereign. 00:12:17.190 --> 00:12:21.929 Lord, master, ruler is the way it's translated 00:12:21.929 --> 00:12:28.350 into English. So we can put it this way. My Lord 00:12:28.350 --> 00:12:32.809 and respected authority. Everybody say that with 00:12:32.809 --> 00:12:37.629 me. My Lord and respected authority. That means 00:12:37.629 --> 00:12:41.350 he's my Lord and I respect his rule. I respect 00:12:41.350 --> 00:12:46.070 his authority over my life. You know why I can 00:12:46.070 --> 00:12:49.149 say I respect it? Because I've yielded the authority 00:12:49.149 --> 00:12:53.899 of my life over to him. Then you can call him 00:12:53.899 --> 00:12:59.379 Adonai from your heart. Now, some people take 00:12:59.379 --> 00:13:04.100 that word sovereign and they try to make it mean 00:13:04.100 --> 00:13:07.659 other things. The Christian doctrine of God's 00:13:07.659 --> 00:13:11.019 sovereignty is not saying, listen, it's not saying, 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:14.580 everybody say not saying, it's not saying that 00:13:14.580 --> 00:13:18.320 he is in meticulous control over everything that 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:23.220 happens on earth. It's not saying that. Some 00:13:23.220 --> 00:13:25.759 people think that's what sovereignty means. God's 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:29.580 in control of everything. He's in meticulous 00:13:29.580 --> 00:13:33.580 control of everything. I'm just going to go ahead 00:13:33.580 --> 00:13:36.100 and throw it out there. If He is, He's messed 00:13:36.100 --> 00:13:45.500 up. If He's in control of all the evil, if He's 00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:48.580 in control of all the choices of sin that people 00:13:48.580 --> 00:13:56.279 make, It can't be. It can't be. Because if it 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:02.059 is, then he's not good. He's like an evil puppet 00:14:02.059 --> 00:14:07.899 master. So he's not in control of every meticulous 00:14:07.899 --> 00:14:11.700 thing that happens. Now, he is supreme authority. 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:16.539 Hello? Everybody say, he's supreme authority. 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:22.600 He's supreme authority. I've got a little thing 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.899 to help you understand what I'm talking about. 00:14:25.019 --> 00:14:28.879 King Charles III. He's known as the sovereign 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:34.539 king of the UK and the 14 commonwealths. Everybody 00:14:34.539 --> 00:14:39.179 say sovereign. Just because he is the authority 00:14:39.179 --> 00:14:43.379 over the UK and the 14 commonwealths does not 00:14:43.379 --> 00:14:46.399 mean that he's responsible for 100 women burning 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:49.759 their scones this morning. Do you agree with 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:54.460 me? You can't hold him responsible. Now, he's 00:14:54.460 --> 00:14:58.100 as high as it gets authority -wise in the UK 00:14:58.100 --> 00:15:02.340 and the Commonwealth. He is the authority figure, 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:06.639 right? But those women didn't set the timer's 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.360 right or something. You can't blame that on the 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:15.559 king. I'm glad some of you smiled. Could you 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:20.710 blame it on him? No. Some people take that doctrine 00:15:20.710 --> 00:15:22.850 of sovereignty to the point that God is in control 00:15:22.850 --> 00:15:25.889 and responsible for everything that happens in 00:15:25.889 --> 00:15:29.269 this earth and in their lives. Several years 00:15:29.269 --> 00:15:31.149 ago, I had a pastor friend that posted this. 00:15:31.549 --> 00:15:36.610 He said, I hate to even read it, but here's what 00:15:36.610 --> 00:15:40.269 he posted. I believe the devil is more a servant 00:15:40.269 --> 00:15:44.029 of God today after his fall than he was before 00:15:44.029 --> 00:15:49.090 his fall. The devil is simply a tool. In God's 00:15:49.090 --> 00:15:54.250 hands. God is trying to teach you something through 00:15:54.250 --> 00:16:00.009 everything that happens to you. Now a preacher 00:16:00.009 --> 00:16:05.309 posted this. If preachers are posting this, God 00:16:05.309 --> 00:16:13.110 help us. Right? What's happening? I don't know. 00:16:13.549 --> 00:16:16.230 I don't know what was happening. But I had to 00:16:16.230 --> 00:16:20.490 change microphones. Did that one have a devil 00:16:20.490 --> 00:16:23.629 in it or something? I don't know. Turn red. Oh, 00:16:23.710 --> 00:16:26.049 you saw the battery about to burn out. Thank 00:16:26.049 --> 00:16:31.769 you. All right, back to this. A preacher posted 00:16:31.769 --> 00:16:36.909 this. Now, a lot of times people say things about 00:16:36.909 --> 00:16:41.269 God and they don't think through. Look at the 00:16:41.269 --> 00:16:42.750 person beside you and say, you've got to think 00:16:42.750 --> 00:16:46.029 it through. Whatever you say about God, you better 00:16:46.029 --> 00:16:50.440 think it through. Because what this pastor put 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:55.080 on social media about God, he might as well be 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:59.399 saying this. God runs a mafia organization, and 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:01.820 the mafia organization is of demons, and they 00:17:01.820 --> 00:17:05.680 do his dirty work so that he can keep his hands 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:11.500 clean. Hello? If you think it through, that's 00:17:11.500 --> 00:17:18.029 what he said. That's what he said. In that case, 00:17:18.049 --> 00:17:21.789 if what he posted is true, all spiritual warfare, 00:17:22.130 --> 00:17:25.589 all standing in the armor of God, all resisting 00:17:25.589 --> 00:17:28.529 the devil would ultimately be fighting against 00:17:28.529 --> 00:17:33.029 God. If God's bringing it, we shouldn't be against 00:17:33.029 --> 00:17:38.130 it. Hello? I think half of you are with me. I 00:17:38.130 --> 00:17:40.809 don't know about the rest of you. Years ago, 00:17:40.950 --> 00:17:43.509 some friends told me, they were talking about 00:17:43.509 --> 00:17:46.490 their son. They told me that God's plan. Everybody 00:17:46.490 --> 00:17:49.150 say God's plan. Now, I know bad things happen, 00:17:49.289 --> 00:17:51.150 all right? Bad things happen in relationships, 00:17:51.250 --> 00:17:54.470 and bad things happen with addictions. But they 00:17:54.470 --> 00:17:57.809 were telling me that this is God's plan. They 00:17:57.809 --> 00:18:01.230 told me God's plan for their son, who had been 00:18:01.230 --> 00:18:06.450 my pastor for three years. God's plan was for 00:18:06.450 --> 00:18:09.390 him to get divorced and to become an alcoholic 00:18:09.390 --> 00:18:13.329 so that God could eventually use him in a greater 00:18:13.329 --> 00:18:17.160 way. And they told me that that was God's plan. 00:18:19.059 --> 00:18:22.880 What are you saying? Think it through. Everybody 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:29.980 say, think it through. In that case, if what 00:18:29.980 --> 00:18:32.740 they say was true, then God is the one who leads 00:18:32.740 --> 00:18:39.119 us to sin. So repentance and holy living, that 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:43.339 would be going against God's bigger plan. Isn't 00:18:43.339 --> 00:18:49.420 that crazy? To think that? Many people say God 00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:53.660 made them sick to teach them something. Has anybody 00:18:53.660 --> 00:18:57.039 ever heard that? God made me sick. God gave me 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:58.599 cancer because he needed to teach me something. 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:09.240 The Bible said, listen, Jesus said, if a little 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:15.220 kid asks his daddy for some bread, Would he give 00:19:15.220 --> 00:19:23.319 him a snake? Is there a parent in this room that 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:28.259 you would want your child to get cancer so that 00:19:28.259 --> 00:19:32.359 you could teach them something? So what are we 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:37.380 blaming on God? Come on somebody, help me. People 00:19:37.380 --> 00:19:39.440 say that God made them sick to teach them something. 00:19:39.539 --> 00:19:44.359 Now listen, God's in the business. of taking 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:48.279 whatever we're dealing with in this fallen world. 00:19:48.380 --> 00:19:52.720 God's in the business. If we will look to Him 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:58.079 and trust Him, we can see something good. Even 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:00.000 in the middle of the most terrible situations 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.279 that we find ourselves in, we can see something 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:11.359 good. Are you with me? But God didn't bring the 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:16.700 tragedy. He didn't bring it. He's the one who 00:20:16.700 --> 00:20:22.599 can bring some good out of it. Because in that 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.619 case, if God gave you a disease or if God gave 00:20:26.619 --> 00:20:29.400 you cancer, going to the doctor, taking medicine, 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:33.200 praying for healing, we'd be working against 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:38.640 God. Look to the person beside you and remind 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:40.940 them, you've got to think it through. You've 00:20:40.940 --> 00:20:47.000 got to think it through. so many people get it 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:51.759 wrong so many people hear a preacher say something 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.200 like that and then they go repeat it and nobody 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:59.660 has thought it through listen god is not the 00:20:59.660 --> 00:21:02.940 author of evil god is not the author of disease 00:21:02.940 --> 00:21:06.579 god is not the author of destruction god is not 00:21:06.579 --> 00:21:11.789 the author of death All this, they're products 00:21:11.789 --> 00:21:16.410 of rebellion and sin. That might not be a product 00:21:16.410 --> 00:21:19.910 of your personal rebellion or sin. It could be 00:21:19.910 --> 00:21:22.049 the product of somebody that you're connected 00:21:22.049 --> 00:21:25.410 with, their rebellion of sin. But we're all connected 00:21:25.410 --> 00:21:29.589 to Adam and Eve. If you go back far enough, we're 00:21:29.589 --> 00:21:33.869 all connected. And that's when all of these things, 00:21:34.049 --> 00:21:36.190 evil, disease, destruction, death, that's when 00:21:36.190 --> 00:21:42.750 they all manifested in the world. It didn't come 00:21:42.750 --> 00:21:45.650 from God. Some people say God's in control and 00:21:45.650 --> 00:21:48.329 it's all God and God does this, God does that. 00:21:48.390 --> 00:21:51.589 He's the one who puts all this evil on me and 00:21:51.589 --> 00:21:54.009 all these things that I just talked about. I 00:21:54.009 --> 00:21:57.089 call that a no -fault religion. And the reason 00:21:57.089 --> 00:22:01.029 why so many people are okay with that is because 00:22:01.029 --> 00:22:06.269 they don't want to take any responsibility. Hello? 00:22:08.069 --> 00:22:10.910 People don't want to take responsibility. Like 00:22:10.910 --> 00:22:12.670 Jeffrey said last week when we were looking at 00:22:12.670 --> 00:22:15.490 Yahweh Rapha, the Lord is our healer. People 00:22:15.490 --> 00:22:17.390 don't want to look at the responsibility that 00:22:17.390 --> 00:22:21.369 they ate at McDonald's two times a day for ten 00:22:21.369 --> 00:22:25.349 years and then they got some kind of disease. 00:22:27.589 --> 00:22:30.509 We had a lady in Myrtle Beach. I preached her 00:22:30.509 --> 00:22:33.789 funeral and she says, you know why I have stomach 00:22:33.789 --> 00:22:37.950 cancer? Because I eat hot dogs with nitrates 00:22:37.950 --> 00:22:43.750 twice a day every day. She owned up to it. Because 00:22:43.750 --> 00:22:45.849 she just loved hot dogs. And she ate hot dogs 00:22:45.849 --> 00:22:49.269 until the day she died. Now you can get them 00:22:49.269 --> 00:22:54.849 nitrate -free. But she went 60 years of eating 00:22:54.849 --> 00:22:59.289 hot dogs every day. And it says on the package, 00:22:59.390 --> 00:23:01.509 I mean, you know, you look up nitrates, you can 00:23:01.509 --> 00:23:04.789 see that it's not going to be good for you. She 00:23:04.789 --> 00:23:08.089 knew. She didn't say God gave me cancer. She 00:23:08.089 --> 00:23:10.450 said I gave myself cancer because I ate nitrates 00:23:10.450 --> 00:23:15.049 every day. Hello? But some people want to blame 00:23:15.049 --> 00:23:20.730 God for their predicament. And sometimes their 00:23:20.730 --> 00:23:26.809 words and their actions are responsible for where 00:23:26.809 --> 00:23:32.769 they are. Psalm 105. The Lord. Everybody say 00:23:32.769 --> 00:23:38.359 Adonai. For the Lord. He's good. Look to the 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:39.759 person beside you and smile real big and say, 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:44.319 God's good. Adonai is good. His unfailing love 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:48.440 continues forever. His faithfulness continues 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:55.019 to each generation. That's who Adonai is. Adonai. 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:59.099 He rules and reigns as my respected authority. 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:05.059 And when we call Him Lord, We're saying that 00:24:05.059 --> 00:24:08.180 that's who He is. We're not just saying a word. 00:24:10.099 --> 00:24:13.759 Hello? We're not just saying the word Lord, because 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:18.119 you can say the word Lord and Him not be your 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:21.680 Lord. We'll look at that in just a minute. You 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:25.640 can say that He's Lord, but to say that He is 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:29.440 Adonai means that you have given Him authority 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:37.230 over your life. Somebody smile. Hello, my name 00:24:37.230 --> 00:24:41.089 is... I'm going to cheat and look at the phonetic 00:24:41.089 --> 00:24:47.869 here. Despates. Despates. Hello, my name is Despates. 00:24:49.789 --> 00:24:53.650 That means he's absolute ruler. And it comes 00:24:53.650 --> 00:24:57.230 from the root word, deo, which means to bind. 00:24:58.890 --> 00:25:06.579 To bind. So... when we call Jesus Lord, we're 00:25:06.579 --> 00:25:09.819 saying that He is the absolute ruler of our lives. 00:25:10.059 --> 00:25:13.559 Here's what it's saying. I have bound myself 00:25:13.559 --> 00:25:18.640 to Him. He's bound Himself to me. We're bound 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:24.900 together. So He is my Lord and He is my owner. 00:25:30.180 --> 00:25:36.589 If Jesus is Lord, If He really is Lord, you've 00:25:36.589 --> 00:25:40.369 got to agree that He owns you. And here's why 00:25:40.369 --> 00:25:42.289 He's owned you. Because He bought you with a 00:25:42.289 --> 00:25:49.609 price. What was that price? His blood. He bought 00:25:49.609 --> 00:25:54.910 us. He bought us. He is my Lord and He is my 00:25:54.910 --> 00:25:59.309 owner. 2 Peter 2 .1 But there were also false 00:25:59.309 --> 00:26:02.319 prophets. Everybody say false prophets. False 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:05.380 prophets in Israel, just as there were false 00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:07.779 teachers, there will be false teachers among 00:26:07.779 --> 00:26:11.339 you. They will cleverly teach destructive heresies, 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:16.680 listen, and even deny the master. Everybody said 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:22.940 despates, Lord. They will even deny the Lord 00:26:22.940 --> 00:26:31.119 who bought them. So it's heresy, it's false doctrine. 00:26:34.380 --> 00:26:38.240 unless we recognize that Jesus paid a price for 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.940 us and He bought us. See, we're all born being 00:26:41.940 --> 00:26:46.059 a slave to sin. Hello? We're all born being a 00:26:46.059 --> 00:26:52.279 slave to sin. But when we receive Christ as our 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:54.519 Lord and acknowledge Him as Lord, the Holy Spirit 00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:58.380 takes us from being a slave to sin into being 00:26:58.380 --> 00:27:02.140 in Christ. We were in sin. He moves us to being... 00:27:02.349 --> 00:27:12.190 In Christ. He bought us. And it's a heresy. If 00:27:12.190 --> 00:27:15.349 you do not look to Jesus as being your owner, 00:27:15.470 --> 00:27:20.289 many believe that God exists. And they think 00:27:20.289 --> 00:27:22.089 if they believe that God exists, that they're 00:27:22.089 --> 00:27:27.190 good. Many believe that He exists, but... There's 00:27:27.190 --> 00:27:29.069 a lot of people who believe that God exists and 00:27:29.069 --> 00:27:30.930 they've never surrendered the ownership rights 00:27:30.930 --> 00:27:38.650 of their lives to Him. They've never done that. 00:27:40.730 --> 00:27:44.750 God exists. Okay, I believe that, so now I've 00:27:44.750 --> 00:27:47.410 got a fire insurance policy, so now I can just 00:27:47.410 --> 00:27:51.630 go about my life however I want to. Somebody 00:27:51.630 --> 00:27:58.990 say false doctrine. It's not true. James 2, 19. 00:27:59.470 --> 00:28:01.710 You say you have faith, for you believe that 00:28:01.710 --> 00:28:05.289 there's one God. Good for you. Even the demons 00:28:05.289 --> 00:28:10.490 believe this. Fallen one -third of the angels, 00:28:10.529 --> 00:28:14.650 the demons, they believe that there's a God and 00:28:14.650 --> 00:28:16.430 that there's one God. I mean, they've seen it, 00:28:16.509 --> 00:28:20.109 right? They believe that, but how many of you 00:28:20.109 --> 00:28:23.910 know that's not faith unto salvation? It's different. 00:28:25.139 --> 00:28:27.220 Denying or not recognizing that we belong to 00:28:27.220 --> 00:28:29.180 God, that we were purchased by the blood of Jesus, 00:28:29.259 --> 00:28:32.859 is an indicator of false doctrine and counterfeit 00:28:32.859 --> 00:28:36.519 faith. I don't normally preach this hard. I feel 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:41.599 like I'm preaching hard today. Sometimes we need 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:49.140 dogmatic preaching. This is the way it is. And 00:28:49.140 --> 00:28:52.339 we need to hear it. We need to receive it. 1 00:28:52.339 --> 00:28:54.759 Corinthians 6, 19. Don't you realize that your 00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:57.539 body, everybody say my body, if you're in Christ, 00:28:57.660 --> 00:28:59.420 this is talking about you, don't you realize 00:28:59.420 --> 00:29:02.940 that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit 00:29:02.940 --> 00:29:07.980 who lives in you and was given to you by God? 00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:12.480 Listen to what it says. You do not belong to 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:23.000 yourself. How do we live our lives? Come on, 00:29:23.019 --> 00:29:27.019 somebody. How do we live our lives most of the 00:29:27.019 --> 00:29:31.079 time? Most of the time we live our lives like 00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:35.380 we belong to ourselves. And God is just somebody 00:29:35.380 --> 00:29:37.700 who we occasionally come visit on Sunday morning. 00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:42.579 And our life is just about me, me, me, me, me, 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:46.720 me, me. Listen, you do not belong to yourself 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:52.460 for God bought you with a high price. You've 00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:58.819 been bought. One more. Everybody say one more. 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.619 Hello. My name is... I don't know if I'm going 00:30:02.619 --> 00:30:04.079 to say it right. Let me look at phonetics again. 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:15.359 Coup. Coup. Got some phlegm in my esophagus. 00:30:16.900 --> 00:30:24.970 Coup. Courios. Courios. Kurios. Hello, my name 00:30:24.970 --> 00:30:29.809 is Kurios. Here's what that means. Supreme in 00:30:29.809 --> 00:30:38.250 authority. My Lord and Master. That's who God 00:30:38.250 --> 00:30:41.569 is. Romans 10, 9. You might have heard this verse 00:30:41.569 --> 00:30:45.809 before. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus 00:30:45.809 --> 00:30:52.920 is Kurios, Lord. And believe in your heart that 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.920 God raised him from the dead. You will be saved. 00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:02.500 He will become your Savior. Listen. When you 00:31:02.500 --> 00:31:07.319 confess with your mouth that Jesus is your Lord 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.940 and Master. Do you think he's just using those 00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:15.160 words? Or do you think there has to be some understanding 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.940 and implication to what this says? Is it just 00:31:18.940 --> 00:31:21.240 saying the word Lord? Oh, I said the word Lord 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:23.759 one day, and I believe that he was raised from 00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:26.140 the dead, so I'm saved because I've said the 00:31:26.140 --> 00:31:37.460 word Lord. Here's what Jesus said. On judgment 00:31:37.460 --> 00:31:43.359 day, many, everybody say many, many will say 00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:54.289 to me, Kurios, Kurios. We prophesied in your 00:31:54.289 --> 00:31:57.750 name, cast out demons in your name, performed 00:31:57.750 --> 00:32:03.450 many miracles in your name. So Jesus, I've done 00:32:03.450 --> 00:32:10.730 a lot of religious stuff in your name. Done a 00:32:10.730 --> 00:32:13.869 lot of religious stuff. So you've got to let 00:32:13.869 --> 00:32:19.250 me in because I'm a very religious person. You 00:32:19.250 --> 00:32:28.549 know? What did Jesus say? But I will reply, I 00:32:28.549 --> 00:32:36.150 never knew you. These are some tough words. But 00:32:36.150 --> 00:32:38.930 I'd be wrong if I didn't tell it to you. Right? 00:32:41.109 --> 00:32:46.569 I'd be cheating you. Because now nobody in this 00:32:46.569 --> 00:32:49.670 room can look at me and say, Dean, why didn't 00:32:49.670 --> 00:32:54.900 you tell me the truth? I thought as long as I 00:32:54.900 --> 00:32:56.759 was a good religious person that I was going 00:32:56.759 --> 00:32:59.480 to get to heaven. And as long as I just said 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:02.900 the word Lord, I was going to heaven. But Jesus 00:33:02.900 --> 00:33:04.859 said, no, there's going to be a lot of people 00:33:04.859 --> 00:33:08.220 who say, Lord, Lord. And they've even done some 00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:12.619 really religious stuff. Even beyond just going 00:33:12.619 --> 00:33:16.119 to church, even every Sunday, right? They're 00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.859 prophesying. They're saying, I'm speaking for 00:33:19.859 --> 00:33:25.180 God. This is what God's saying, you know. So 00:33:25.180 --> 00:33:28.819 they had enough religion and maybe even enough 00:33:28.819 --> 00:33:31.759 word of God to say, well, this is what God says 00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:36.259 about what you're doing. But here's the problem. 00:33:37.619 --> 00:33:46.859 They missed out on Lord. They missed out. Because 00:33:46.859 --> 00:33:51.369 Lord is a relationship name. Remember, I said 00:33:51.369 --> 00:33:53.930 some names are identity, some names are relationship, 00:33:54.230 --> 00:34:00.789 some names are activity. Lord is full on a relationship 00:34:00.789 --> 00:34:06.529 name. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord, 00:34:06.829 --> 00:34:16.750 Kurios, will be saved. Everyone who says, Jesus, 00:34:16.909 --> 00:34:22.340 I call on you to be, My Lord and my Master, Jesus, 00:34:22.500 --> 00:34:27.039 I surrender my life to you. You're my supreme 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:34.320 authority. You own me. You bought me. So I'm 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.579 going to live for you and follow you. My life's 00:34:37.579 --> 00:34:39.599 just not going to be about me all the time. I'm 00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:46.940 going to live for you. Right? Isn't that what 00:34:46.940 --> 00:34:51.260 we do if he's our owner and our master? If he's 00:34:51.260 --> 00:34:55.639 our authority, if we respect him as our authority, 00:34:55.739 --> 00:34:58.500 don't we live for him instead of just living 00:34:58.500 --> 00:35:04.519 for ourselves? Everyone who calls on the name 00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:08.179 of the Lord will be saved. So Adonai, despotis, 00:35:08.219 --> 00:35:16.480 kurios, they're more than just identifiers. Because 00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:18.880 many will say, Lord, Lord, as an identification. 00:35:22.219 --> 00:35:26.980 But Jesus said, you know, you're using the word 00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:30.480 Lord, but I've never been your Lord in relationship. 00:35:31.739 --> 00:35:34.360 Isn't that what he said? Because he said, sorry, 00:35:34.579 --> 00:35:44.190 never knew you. We know God's name. We can put 00:35:44.190 --> 00:35:46.409 our faith, we can put our trust, we can put our 00:35:46.409 --> 00:35:56.510 confidence in him. For you, Lord, Adonai, have 00:35:56.510 --> 00:36:01.489 not forsaken those who seek you. When you call 00:36:01.489 --> 00:36:03.110 on the name of the Lord, let me tell you something. 00:36:03.269 --> 00:36:06.590 When you say to Jesus, I surrender my life to 00:36:06.590 --> 00:36:10.250 you, you know what? You can be confident that 00:36:10.250 --> 00:36:13.010 he's going to receive you. That He's going to 00:36:13.010 --> 00:36:16.369 forgive you. That His blood on the cross purchased 00:36:16.369 --> 00:36:20.190 you. And even in that understanding, guess what? 00:36:20.269 --> 00:36:25.010 You become a child of God. You become a joint 00:36:25.010 --> 00:36:29.250 heir with Christ. You get adopted into the family 00:36:29.250 --> 00:36:35.409 of God. But we still understand who He is and 00:36:35.409 --> 00:36:38.710 what He has done for us. And we stay in that 00:36:38.710 --> 00:36:45.820 relationship with Him. His name is Adonai. Despotes. 00:36:46.219 --> 00:36:51.119 Kurios. Some people call Christianity itself 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.920 the great confession. Everybody say the great 00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:59.179 confession. Here's the great confession. Jesus 00:36:59.179 --> 00:37:04.420 is Lord. Would you say that with me? Jesus is 00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:09.079 Lord. Can we put it like this? Jesus is my Lord. 00:37:13.769 --> 00:37:18.070 Here's what I want you to get today. He is Lord 00:37:18.070 --> 00:37:22.570 and wants to be Lord over everything. Listen. 00:37:23.650 --> 00:37:27.949 There's coming a day when He is going to be recognized 00:37:27.949 --> 00:37:33.550 as Lord of all. The Bible says there's a day 00:37:33.550 --> 00:37:37.449 when every knee will bow. Have any of you ever 00:37:37.449 --> 00:37:40.429 met somebody who was a sure enough atheist who... 00:37:40.670 --> 00:37:42.829 Didn't just know if God existed or not, but they 00:37:42.829 --> 00:37:45.710 were working against God. They were against God. 00:37:49.010 --> 00:37:54.570 Their knees are going to bow one day. When they 00:37:54.570 --> 00:37:59.929 stand before Jesus on judgment day, their knees 00:37:59.929 --> 00:38:03.630 are going to bow. And they're going to confess 00:38:03.630 --> 00:38:09.969 this great confession that Jesus is Lord. Because 00:38:09.969 --> 00:38:11.449 they're going to see it, but it's going to be 00:38:11.449 --> 00:38:16.610 too late. See, we exist on this earth. If you 00:38:16.610 --> 00:38:19.610 ever want to know why you're here, you're here 00:38:19.610 --> 00:38:23.849 to have the opportunity to come into a relationship 00:38:23.849 --> 00:38:27.269 with God. That's why you're still alive today. 00:38:29.590 --> 00:38:36.530 That's why we exist. Will you make the choice? 00:38:40.110 --> 00:38:46.150 To love God and to accept Jesus as your Savior 00:38:46.150 --> 00:38:55.949 and Lord. That's why we exist. If we only saw 00:38:55.949 --> 00:38:59.269 our lives that way every day, I believe it would 00:38:59.269 --> 00:39:00.969 make a difference in the way we lived our lives. 00:39:02.530 --> 00:39:07.429 And I want to tell you today, God will be Lord 00:39:07.429 --> 00:39:15.849 over whatever... You surrender to him. I'll say 00:39:15.849 --> 00:39:19.889 that again. God will be Lord. Jesus will be Lord 00:39:19.889 --> 00:39:27.130 over whatever you surrender to him. Most important 00:39:27.130 --> 00:39:29.090 thing is that you surrender yourself to him. 00:39:30.309 --> 00:39:32.489 But did you know that you could surrender your 00:39:32.489 --> 00:39:35.389 family to him? Did you know that you could surrender 00:39:35.389 --> 00:39:37.309 your home to him? Do you know that you could? 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:41.320 Surrender your business to Him? Did you know 00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:46.960 that you could confess with me that Jesus is 00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:51.559 Lord over four corners? We can stand by faith 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:55.380 in that, that Jesus is Lord over all 172 communities? 00:39:58.260 --> 00:40:02.880 See, when you surrender it to Him, when you surrender 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:04.800 your job to Him, when you surrender your business 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:06.960 to Him, when you surrender your family to Him, 00:40:07.230 --> 00:40:12.949 then you can see Him at work. But if you don't 00:40:12.949 --> 00:40:18.150 surrender to Him as Lord, then it's yours. You're 00:40:18.150 --> 00:40:22.869 the Lord over it. How many of you know it's a 00:40:22.869 --> 00:40:24.929 whole lot better to let Jesus be Lord over it 00:40:24.929 --> 00:40:27.090 than you to be Lord over it? Come on, somebody. 00:40:38.829 --> 00:40:42.849 Real quick. If you're here today and you cannot 00:40:42.849 --> 00:40:47.389 look back on your life and see a time. Now listen, 00:40:47.449 --> 00:40:49.369 I'm not saying a time when you repeated some 00:40:49.369 --> 00:40:51.869 words after somebody because you got emotional 00:40:51.869 --> 00:40:55.130 during something going on. Can you look back 00:40:55.130 --> 00:41:00.510 to a time in your life where you found yourself 00:41:00.510 --> 00:41:02.989 and realized because the Holy Spirit was convicting 00:41:02.989 --> 00:41:05.409 you, have you realized that you were a sinner 00:41:05.409 --> 00:41:07.349 and that your sin separates you from the Holy 00:41:07.349 --> 00:41:11.469 God? Has that ever happened in your life? Have 00:41:11.469 --> 00:41:14.269 you ever come to the point where you realize 00:41:14.269 --> 00:41:19.309 that God is holy and you're not? And when you 00:41:19.309 --> 00:41:21.510 came to that point, did you ask God to forgive 00:41:21.510 --> 00:41:26.510 you? He's faithful and just, right? If we confess 00:41:26.510 --> 00:41:28.389 our sins, He's faithful and just. He'll forgive 00:41:28.389 --> 00:41:32.670 us of all unrighteousness. So can you look back 00:41:32.670 --> 00:41:37.460 to a time when that happened? And then the Bible 00:41:37.460 --> 00:41:39.260 says if you call on the name of the Lord, you'll 00:41:39.260 --> 00:41:42.360 be saved. You'll be rescued from your sin when 00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:44.239 you call on the name of the Lord. So can you 00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:48.400 look back at a time? You didn't have to use these 00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:50.340 exact words, but has there been a time where 00:41:50.340 --> 00:41:52.940 you said, Jesus, up until today, my life's just 00:41:52.940 --> 00:41:56.820 been all about me. But from now on, I want you 00:41:56.820 --> 00:42:01.079 to be my Lord. I surrender my life to you. I 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:05.760 want to live for you. Can you look back at a 00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:07.739 time in your life and see that that took place? 00:42:09.539 --> 00:42:15.039 If you can't, I have some great news. Because 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:20.780 today, the Bible says, is the day of salvation. 00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:24.460 Right here, right now, while the Holy Spirit's 00:42:24.460 --> 00:42:28.280 tugging at your heart, today's the day of salvation. 00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:33.940 If that's what you want to do, I want to ask 00:42:33.940 --> 00:42:36.920 you to pray with me. But listen, there's nothing 00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:39.079 magic about the words that I'm going to say. 00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:41.420 You could write these words down, and you could 00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:43.840 just read them off of a page a hundred times 00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:47.800 today, and it wouldn't mean anything unless you 00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:50.039 take these words and make them yours. All I'm 00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.539 doing is putting in the words what I believe 00:42:52.539 --> 00:42:57.179 the Bible says to confess Jesus as Lord and to 00:42:57.179 --> 00:43:00.639 confess your sin to God. I'm just putting it 00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:04.280 in words. But it's not about repeating my words, 00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:06.559 because listen, we can teach birds to repeat 00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:11.699 words after people. But if this is what you want 00:43:11.699 --> 00:43:15.159 to say to God from your heart, and you say it 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:18.739 to Him, the great news is this, He'll hear you. 00:43:19.980 --> 00:43:23.099 He'll forgive you. He'll welcome you into His 00:43:23.099 --> 00:43:29.219 family. He will be your Savior and your Lord. 00:43:30.900 --> 00:43:32.800 Because that's who He is, and that's the relationship 00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:37.340 that He wants to be in with you. So if that's 00:43:37.340 --> 00:43:38.860 what you want, I ask you to pray with me. Let's 00:43:38.860 --> 00:43:43.800 pray. Jesus, I believe You are the Son of God. 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:50.420 I believe You died on the cross for me, for my 00:43:50.420 --> 00:43:56.500 sin, in my place. I believe You rose again from 00:43:56.500 --> 00:44:03.400 the grave, just like the Bible says. I realize 00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:06.679 today that I'm a sinner. You're holy and I'm 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:12.099 not, so I ask you to forgive me of my sin. Wash 00:44:12.099 --> 00:44:21.280 me clean. Clothe me in your righteousness. Jesus, 00:44:21.340 --> 00:44:24.440 today, I realize that up until today, my life's 00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:31.110 just been all about me. But from now on, I want 00:44:31.110 --> 00:44:37.809 my life to be about you. I surrender myself to 00:44:37.809 --> 00:44:44.650 you as my Lord, my honor, my master. I confess 00:44:44.650 --> 00:44:54.869 you as my Lord. If you're here today, don't look. 00:44:54.929 --> 00:44:56.510 Everybody keep your eyes closed and your heads 00:44:56.510 --> 00:45:00.099 down. If you're here today and you say, Dean, 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:03.079 you know what? I couldn't look back in my life 00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:06.280 and see a time when I confessed my sin and surrendered 00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:11.119 my life to the Lord Jesus, but I just did. If 00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:15.440 that's you, nobody's looking around. Only me 00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:17.659 and God are looking around right now, but would 00:45:17.659 --> 00:45:20.239 you lift up your hand? If you'd say, I just pray 00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:22.019 with you. That's what I wanted to say to God. 00:45:22.619 --> 00:45:26.880 I ask Him to be my Lord, my Savior. I ask Him 00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:35.940 to forgive me. Everybody look up this way. Either 00:45:35.940 --> 00:45:41.920 you have done that or you're not ready. I want 00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:44.739 you to stand with me. Let's stand together. And 00:45:44.739 --> 00:45:51.019 let's say this confession together based on who 00:45:51.019 --> 00:45:55.719 He is as our Lord. You ready? Let's read it together. 00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:57.639 Don't repeat. Just read it together like we're 00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:00.960 in third grade reading together. All right? Here 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.019 we go. One, two, three. Lord, I surrender my 00:46:04.019 --> 00:46:08.159 life to you. You are my respected authority, 00:46:08.460 --> 00:46:13.960 my owner, and my master. You are Lord over my 00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:19.059 life. You are Lord over my family. You are Lord 00:46:19.059 --> 00:46:28.320 over all, everything. Listen. Saying that Jesus 00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:31.119 is your Lord shouldn't be a one -time thing that 00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:34.880 you never say again. We need to confess this 00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:37.599 every day, that Jesus is our Lord. I believe 00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:39.780 it will change the way we live. We need to confess 00:46:39.780 --> 00:46:42.840 that Jesus is Lord over our home. Jesus is Lord 00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:45.119 over our business. Jesus is Lord over our job. 00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:48.900 Jesus is Lord over Four Corners. Hello? Somebody 00:46:48.900 --> 00:46:53.320 smile. We need to be confessing that Jesus is 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:57.489 Lord. Every day, that great confession. That's 00:46:57.489 --> 00:47:01.110 who he is. That's who he wants to be in relationship 00:47:01.110 --> 00:47:04.869 with you. This online worship experience was 00:47:04.869 --> 00:47:07.269 brought to you by the friends and partners of 00:47:07.269 --> 00:47:08.070 Eulation Church.