THE GOD WHO WANTS ALL OF ME

The alarm, the inbox, the calendar, the noise. And somehow, we still feel empty. Sometimes God isn't absent. We're just distracted. He isn't silent.

We're just noisy. Moses stood at the edge of the promise and said, If your presence does not go with us, don't bring us up from here. Before the fire fell, they gathered. Before the sound came, they waited. Before anything moved, they made room.

God isn't asking for a better service. He's asking for room. Because in His presence is fullness of joy. Presence. Okay, we can cut that.

My word. It's good. Jeez. Well, if you have, if you've been living under a rock, we have been, first of all, thank you for coming out. We love to have you.

We have been on a kind of a journey going through the presence. God kind of laid this on my heart. And first and foremost, before we get started, if you are new to Salt Church, we want to welcome you. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to come and join us on Sunday. You could be anywhere else, but you chose here to be with Salt and part of our family.

And we want to thank you and let you know how much we appreciate you. And if you could, we have got a, on a seat beside you is a card. If you could fill that out. If you have any needs, you could go ahead and fill that out. And we'd love to pray for you.

You can hand that to Miss Tammy on the way out and she will have a gift for you just to show how much we appreciate you. Um, as it is an honor and a privilege to be, uh, the pastor of Salt Church. I, I do not take that lightly at all. And, um, I, I counted a joy and an honor. And again, as a privilege to serve you.

And that's the whole point of being a shepherd. Um, a shepherd is not, I, you know, we don't, we're not to be elevated. What we're due to do is we're to guide, we're to lead humbly. And because ultimately at the end of the day, I will be the one, uh, pastors will be the one that will stand before the Lord and go, what did you do at the time that I gave you? And how do you utilize it?

And how did you, you lead my sheep? So it's very important that we, we do and live and abide by the word of the Lord. And that's very important to me. Um, couple of announcements that we want to go over. We will be taking, uh, receiving the tithe offering at the end of the service on the way out.

Um, we'll pray that out. Um, we have two more weeks of our, uh, life group, um, this week and next week coming up. Um, we will, we're continuing our study through acts and we are meeting at Payline's Baja Grill. Love to have you. If you want to come out, um, there are times we just have community.

We just sit and talk, talk about problems, talk about issues. We share things, love on each other and just have a really good time. Um, also want to put it out there. Um, yes, we are quickly entering into the holiday season. Um, our Christmas Eve service will be here at six o'clock.

Um, come prepared. We're going to have some time of, of faith and fellowship and just singing some Christmas carols. And we would love to have you here. Um, the ladies of the church do a lot of, they like to bake. They like to show off, um, their, uh, their talents, I should say.

Um, what's that? We, we have a, we kind of have a competition, an in-house competition between we've got Tammy, Miss Tammy and Casey and Miss Miranda, um, who all vie for the, the position of, of top baker for, for, for Salt Church. So, um, but yes, they're all very humble about it by the way. So, you know, yes. And Adeline, we cannot forget about Adeline who is absolutely wonderful.

Yeah. Yeah. So eating is not a problem here, especially if you like coming to Salt, we love to eat. Absolutely love to eat. Um, but anyway, over the past, uh, several weeks, we've been going through, um, the series called the presence God laid it on my heart and, and what is the presence?

And we've kind of covered that in our scripture, the primary scripture that our anchor scripture that we've been taken from, and you saw it on the screen, um, is Psalm 16 and 11. It says, you will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasure of living with you forever. Our declaration is, is that Lord, you are worthy of more than a song. You are worthy of my life. And as we've been going through this, this whole, uh, this sermon, we've been talking about how we, we go through and there's been a progression.

It's how we welcome him. And then we move into hungering for him. And then we seek him and learn to worship him. And today, and between today and next week, we're going to be finishing this up, but today we're going to talk about something that I believe is imperative to the presence of God. And that's surrendering ourselves to him.

Now, when we talk about surrender, it's not, God just doesn't want part of us because it's just kind of like a marriage in a marriage. If you only give part of you, you're not going to have a very successful marriage. If you're only going to be a part of a parent, you're not going to raise a very successful child. So as we kind of go through this, again, the way we've been kind of connecting the dots is that, you know, when we went through this, we, we welcomed him in it. We welcomed his presence.

And we needed to go through this to his brothers to him. welcome him through we this Past Anal getting upset. Not communal with it. WE LEARNED TO DEVELOP A HUNGER FOR HIS PRESENCE. WE SOUGHT HIS PRESENCE THROUGH PRAYER.

TJ DID A WONDERFUL JOB ABOUT TALKING THROUGH HOW DO WE SEEK GOD THROUGH PRAYER. WE RESPOND TO HIS WORTHINESS. LAST WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT RESPONDING TO HIS WORTHINESS THROUGH WORSHIP. BUT OUR THOUGHT TODAY IS THAT AN ENCOUNTER WITH GOD SHOULD PRODUCE TRANSFORMATION. SEE, WORSHIP IS MORE THAN A SONG, WHICH THEREFORE MAKES THAT SURRENDER IS MORE THAN JUST A MOMENT OR AN EXPERIENCE.

THE PRESENCE OF GOD IS NOT SIMPLY SOMETHING TO EXPERIENCE, IT'S SOMEONE WHOM WE YIELD OUR LIVES TO. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE TAKING OUR PRIMARY SCRIPTURE TODAY FROM ROMANS 12 AND 1-2, AND WE'LL BE GOING THROUGH THIS AND THROUGH DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE, BUT I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE PROGRESSION OF THIS THROUGH PAUL THROUGH ROMANS. SEE, IN CHAPTERS 1-4, PAUL ESTABLISHES THAT ALL HUMANITY IS UNDER SIN. BUT YET, WE HAVE DECLARED RIGHTEOUS. WE ARE DECLARED RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.

IN CHAPTERS 5 AND 8, IT EXPLAINS LIFE IN THE SPIRIT AND FREEDOM FROM THE LAW. WE'RE NO LONGER TIED TO THAT OF THE LAW. IN CHAPTERS 9 AND 11, HE DISCUSSES GOD'S FAITHFULNESS TO ISRAEL, AND HOW WE AS GENTILES CAN NOW GRAFTED, WE ARE NOW GRAFTED INTO GOD'S FAMILY. BUT AS WE SLIDE INTO CHAPTER 12, THIS SERVES AS A GREAT TURNING POINT FOR PAUL, FOR HIS LETTER TO THE CHURCH IN ROME, SHIFTING THE LETTER FROM THAT OF A DEEP THEOLOGICAL TEACHING TO, HEY, THIS IS EVERYDAY LIFE. SO IN ROMANS 12, 1 AND 2, IT SAYS THIS, AND THIS IS GOING TO BE OUT OF THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION.

IT SAYS, I BESEACH YOU, THEREFORE, THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD THAT YOU PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY AND ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE. AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND. I LOVE THE WAY HOW THE NEW LIVING TRANSLATION PUTS THIS, AND IT GOES, AND THEY DON'T HAVE THIS IN THE BACK, BUT THAT'S FINE, IT SAYS, AND SO, DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND SO, THE CONTINUATION, DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I PLEAD WITH YOU TO GIVE YOUR BODIES TO GOD BECAUSE OF ALL HE HAS DONE. IF YOU NOTICE THE PROGRESSION OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS, IS THAT WE WORSHIP GOD AND WE DESIRE HIS PRESENCE, NOT FOR WHAT HE CAN DO FOR US, BECAUSE HE IS WORTHY. HE'S WORTHY.

BECAUSE OF ALL THAT HE HAS DONE FOR ME, YOU'RE WORTHY GOD. LET THEM BE A LIVING SACRIFICE, THE KIND THAT HE WILL FIND ACCEPTABLE, THAT IS TRULY THE WAY TO WORSHIP. IN VERSE 2 IT SAYS, DON'T COPY THE BEHAVIOR AND THE CUSTOMS OF THIS WORLD. SEE, MOST OF US LOSE IT AT THAT. BECAUSE WHAT WE WANT IS WE WANT TO SAY, HEY, I'M OKAY WITH HAVING A FOOT OVER HERE, BUT I'M ALSO GOING TO HAVE A FOOT OVER HERE.

AND GOD SAID, THAT'S NOT TRUE SURRENDER. THAT'S NOT TRUE SURRENDER. DON'T COPY, PAUL SAYS, DON'T COPY THE BEHAVIOR AND THE CUSTOMS OF THIS WORLD, BUT LET GOD TRANSFORM YOU INTO A NEW PERSON BY CHANGING THE WAY THAT YOU THINK. THEN LET, THEN YOU WILL LEARN TO KNOW GOD'S WILL FOR YOU, WHICH IS GOOD AND PLEASING AND PERFECT. THE WORD THEREFORE AT THE START OF THE CHAPTER 12 CONNECTS EVERYTHING THAT PAUL JUST TAUGHT ABOUT HOW BELIEVERS SHOULD LIVE BY SURRENDERING TO THE MERCIES AND GRACE OF GOD BECAUSE OF GOD'S GREAT MERCY, ACTION IS REQUIRED.

WE CAN'T JUST STAND BY AND GO, GOD, I RECEIVE, I RECEIVE, I RECEIVE. THERE'S AN ACTION. THERE'S A THEME THAT IS BURIED WITHIN THESE TWO VERSES. AND IT TALKS ABOUT A LIVING SACRIFICE. SEE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WE LEARNED THAT THERE WAS AN ANIMAL SACRIFICE.

THEY WOULD BRING THE ANIMALS TO THE ALTAR, THE PRIEST WOULD CLEANSE THEM AND SACRIFICE THEM FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. BUT INSTEAD OF ANIMAL SACRIFICE AT THE TEMPLE ALTAR, THEIR ENTIRE LIVES. PAUL'S TELLING US YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, YOUR BODY AND YOUR CHOICES WERE MEANT TO BE TREATED AS LIVING IN A DAILY SURRENDER TO GOD. EVERY DAY IS MEANT TO BE A SURRENDER OF GOD. EVERY CHOICE YOU MAKE, EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO.

THEN HE KIND OF GOES INTO WHAT WE WOULD CONSIDER COUNTERCULTURAL LIVING. PAUL IS WARNING BELIEVERS, DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD. MEANING THERE SHOULD BE NO REFLECTION OF THE WORLD'S WAYS OF LIVING EVIDENT WITHIN A BELIEVER'S LIFE. WHICH MEANS THE STRIVING FOR STATUS OR GREED OR SELFISHNESS OR UNFORGIVENESS. PAUL SAYS TO BE COMPLETELY SURRENDERED TO GOD WE HAVE TO LAY ALL THIS ASIDE.

AND THEN HE GOES INTO THE RENEWAL OF THE MIND. TRUE CHANGE IS NOT JUST A SURFACE LEVEL BEHAVIOR FIX. IT IS A COMPLETE INSIDE OUT TRANSFORMATION DRIVEN BY GOD'S SPIRIT RENEWING THE WAY THAT WE THINK. WE HAVE TO CHANGE EVERYTHING UP HERE. SEE, DISCERNING GOD'S WILL WHEN THE MIND IS RENEWED, A BELIEVER CAN TEST AND PROVE WHAT GOD ACTUALLY WANTS, WHICH IS GOOD, WHICH HE SAID IS GOOD, PLEASING AND PERFECT.

AT SOME POINT, THE PRESENCE WE ARE PURSUING MUST CONFRONT THE LIFE WE ARE LIVING. YOU CAN'T PURSUE GOD, YOU CANNOT PURSUE THE PRESENCE OF GOD WITHOUT CHANGING HERE. WE CAN'T DO IT HALF-HEARTEDLY. SO HOW DO WE GO ABOUT DOING THAT? SO I'M GOING TO LEAD YOU THROUGH A FEW POINTS THAT I...

GOD KIND OF DROPPED THIS IN MY SPIRIT AND IT EVEN CHECKED ME. ONE IS SURRENDER BEGINS WITH THE REVELATION OF GOD'S MERCY. IN ROMANS 12-1 WE SEE THIS, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD. SURRENDER BEGINS WITH... That's an understanding of what God has already done for us.

We've been talking through that through the whole series. Look what he's done. God, you could never do anything for me again. You've done it all. You've done it all.

By the mere shedding of the blood of your Son, Jesus Christ, you have done it all, God. In Ephesians 2 and 4 and 5, it says, But God, being rich in mercy because of the great love which he has loved us, even when we were dead in our trespass, made us alive together with Christ. He made us alive. The enemy would love nothing more to say that you're dead. Your mistakes are too big.

God can't forgive you. He can't love you. But in the love of Christ, God says, No, I do. I love you. I love you more than you will ever know.

I love it in Lamentations. It's in 3, 22 and 23. It simply says this, The steadfast of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new and everlasting in the morning.

Great is thy faithfulness. I remember growing up, and I used to sing, we were in a charismatic church. Great is thy faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness. I love that song.

God, you are faithful. Even when I'm not, you are faithful. See, we notice in Romans that Paul begins with mercy, but it's not a demand. God's mercy precedes our response. Grace, forgiveness, redemption, and faithfulness establishes the foundation for surrender.

It's already built in. It's baked in. It's there. A revelation of God's mercy changes surrender from obligation into God, into gratitude. God, I'm doing this not because I'm obligated.

I'm doing this because I'm so thankful for who you are. We need to learn the response to his mercy because his mercy has brought us through it. His grace has forgiven us. His faithfulness has sustained us, and his love has called us into the very relationship with him. We do not surrender to earn his mercy.

We surrender because we have received it. But we must understand that God's mercy is not an invitation to keep living the same way. It's an invitation to give him your life. Understand this. Surrender is placing your life into the one, into the hands of the one who knows how to lead it.

What you're doing is you're saying, God, I'm doing a really bad job at this. But God, I'm going to submit my life to you because you, you already have my life laid out. You know what I'm going to do. But God, I'm going to submit my life to you fully. So here's something I want you to consider.

What has God's mercy brought you through? What has he brought you through? I love, you know, Alex gets up here every time, and I, you know, I love his heart. What you see through Alex isn't something that's manufactured. It isn't drama.

It isn't anything. His heart is here. And when I begin to see Alex's tears, what he's doing is he's speaking out of the fact that he is so grateful for what God has done in his life. That he can't contain it. That he's overwhelmed with the joy of what God has brought him through.

And he knows that no matter what, God's going to continue to maintain him. The other thing is, is what has grace forgiven you? What is God's grace forgiven you? And what has his faithfulness sustained? There is something in your life, in our lives, that we can look at and go, God did this.

God sustained me through this. When I wanted to give up, he was there. The mercy of God calls for a response. Romans 12:1 identifies that response. Present your life to him.

And that leads us to our second point. God is asking for a living sacrifice. Romans 12:1 says, present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. I heard this saying one time, be very careful. Because living sacrifices have a tendency to crawl off the altar.

If they're not killed there. A sacrifice needs to stay on that altar. Surrender is not simply a moment at the altar. It is a life continually present to God. Reinhard Bonnke said this from Flowing in the Faith.

He said, people in obedience to the Lord do not worry, do not fret, do not need to know at all of the outcome before they are willing to commit themselves. You're saying, before I ever know the outcome, Lord, I'm submitting it all to you. Doesn't matter. I'm all in, Lord. I'm all in.

I'm going for it all. I'm leaving it all on the field. Because I'm trusting in you. I know my son's football coach used to tell the guys, he said, I want to see you spent. I want to see you spent when you come off that field.

And I could tell the days, the games that my son left it all. Because that boy could barely walk. I remember one day and I'm like, my wife and I are sitting in the stands and we're watching him as he's playing. And we're watching literally the beating that he was taking. And the game, it was neck and neck.

And they gave it all. They left it all. It was raining. It was a true football moment at that night. Man, it was muddy.

It was raining. It was like, every parent's like, you know, yes. My boy's on the front line. And they left it all on the field. And I'll never forget watching him take his pads off.

And his undershirt slipped up. And he was literally. BLACK AND BLUE FROM THE NECK DOWN. HE GAVE IT ALL AND IT PAID. IT PAID OFF.

SEE THE OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES THEY WERE PLACED ON THE ALTAR BUT PAUL CALLS BELIEVERS TO BECOME THE LIVING SACRIFICE. SURRENDER INVOLVES THE WHOLE PERSON NOT JUST THE PARTS YOU WANT TO GIVE. GOD I'LL GIVE YOU THIS BUT I'M GONNA HOLD ON TO THIS. GOD SAYS NO I WANT THE MIND I WANT ALL YOUR MIND. I WANT ALL YOUR HEART I WANT ALL THE WORDS THE ACTIONS THE GIFT IN THE FUTURE.

YOU KNOW HOW I COULD TELL THAT WHEN SOMEBODY IS GIVEN EVERYTHING AND SACRIFICED AND SURRENDERED TO GOD? BECAUSE THE WAY THEY TALK CHANGES. THE WAY THEY WALK IS DIFFERENT. THEIR THOUGHT LIFE IS DIFFERENT. YOU CANNOT SIT THERE AND GO OH WOE IS ME AND NOT BE COMPLETELY SURRENDERED TO GOD.

YOU CANNOT SIT THERE AND HAVE VERBAL CURSES COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH THAT SAYS YOU KNOW WELL I JUST SLIPPED. LOOK TRUST ME I GET IT. I SPENT 40 YEARS IN CONSTRUCTION. TRUST ME. I THINK BETWEEN THEM AND SAILORS.

OKAY. WE PROBABLY COULD TAG TEAM IT. BUT I COULD TELL YOU WHAT. THERE'S A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION GUYS AND THERE'S A LOT OF SAILORS THAT I'VE NEVER HEARD A FOUL WORD COME OUT OF THEIR MOUTH. YOU KNOW WHY?

BECAUSE THEY ALLOWED THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THEY SAID GOD NO MATTER MY CAREER DOES NOT DEFINE ME. WHAT I DO DO DOES NOT DEFINE ME. WHAT I GO THROUGH IN LIFE DOES NOT DEFINE ME. GOD YOU DO. YOU DO.

A LIVING SACRIFICE REQUIRES DAILY COMMITMENT. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S A ONCE AND DONE. SURRENDER MUST EXTEND BEYOND SUNDAY WORSHIP INTO EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT ENDS IN WHY. WHY? ONLY YOU CAN ANSWER THAT ONE.

SO HERE'S THE CHALLENGE. SURRENDER ON SUNDAY BUT STOP CLAIMING CONTROL ON MONDAY. SUBMIT PLANS AND PRAYERS RESIST WHEN GOD REDIRECTS. GOD SAYS WELL I WANT TO TAKE YOU THIS WAY. AND THEN WE GO, OH, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.

DECLARE. WE DECLARE, I'LL HAVE IT. I'LL HAVE IT YOUR WAY, LORD. BUT THEN WHAT HAPPENS? WE WIND UP PURSUING OUR OWN WAY.

WE DESIRE GOD'S BLESSING WITHOUT YIELDING TO HIS DIRECTION. WHY? BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES IT DOESN'T FEEL GOOD. IT DOESN'T FEEL GOOD. SOME OF US HAVE BEEN ASKING GOD TO BLESS WHAT WE'VE NEVER FULLY SURRENDERED.

THINK ABOUT THAT. GOD'S NOT ASKING FOR A PORTION OF YOUR LIFE. HE'S ASKING FOR ALL OF IT. IF JESUS IS LORD OF MY LIFE, HE MUST BE LORD OF THE VERY LIFE I LIVE. THERE'S PRACTICAL WAYS THAT WE CAN ALL SURRENDER.

WE CAN SURRENDER IN HOW WE SPEAK, HOW WE TREAT PEOPLE, HOW WE HANDLE MONEY. MY FATHER-IN-LAW USED TO TELL ME THIS. HE GOES, I CAN TELL YOU HOW A PERSON'S HEART TO THE LORD JUST BY THE MERE FACT OF HOW THEY HANDLE THEIR MONEY. BECAUSE NORMALLY, MY OLD PASTOR USED TO TELL ME THE LAST THING TO GET SAVED ON A PERSON IS THEIR WALLET. WE NEED TO SURRENDER HOW WE RESPOND TO OFFENSES.

AND I GET IN THIS DAY AND AGE, WE'RE COMING INTO A TIME WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF CHURCH HURT. AND WHAT MOST DON'T KNOW IS THAT, YES, THE CONGREGANTS DO. THERE IS SUCH THING AS CHURCH HURT. BUT LET ME EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO YOU. THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD PASTORS OUT THERE, AND I'VE BEEN, I'VE HAD JUST THE HONOR OF SERVING WITH AND UNDER SOME OF THE GREATEST PASTORS.

AND I HAVE WATCHED THESE PASTORS GET TREATED LIKE TRASH. AND PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY SACRIFICE. I REMEMBER I HAD ONE PERSON COME TO ME, AND THEY SAID, WELL, I STARTED THIS MINISTRY IN THIS CHURCH, AND IT'S MY MINISTRY, AND I'M TAKING IT WITH ME. HE'S NOT REALLY MY PASTOR, AND I'M LOOKING AT THAT GOING, YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CHURCH HURT, THIS IS A PROBLEM, AND THIS IS A WHOLE NOTHER SERMON THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET TO IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS, BECAUSE I WILL TELL YOU THIS, WHEN IT COMES TO CHURCH HURT, LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING, WHO YOU LOOKING AT?

ARE YOU LOOKING AT THE MAN BEHIND THE PULPIT, OR ARE YOU LOOKING AT THE MAN THAT THE PULPIT STANDS FOR? BECAUSE IF YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION TO ME, I'M GOING TO LET YOU DOWN. I'M JUST, I'M GOING TO LET YOU DOWN. I LOVE YOU. I DON'T MEAN TO.

WE MAKE MISTAKES, OKAY? HEY, NEWSFLASH, PASTORS MAKE MISTAKES. WE DO. BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, THIS IS THE ONE THING, AND I'M KIND OF GOING OFF ON A LITTLE TANGENT HERE, AND THIS IS BECAUSE LEADERSHIP, SHEPHERD LEADERSHIP, SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP FOR ME MEANS A LOT TO ME, BECAUSE MY WIFE AND I, COLLEEN AND I, HAVE BEEN IN THIS FOR, WHAT, ALMOST 40 YEARS NOW, GOING THROUGH BIBLE SCHOOL AND ALL THIS. NOTHING TICKS ME OFF MORE THAN PASTORS THAT ABUSE THE SHEEP FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT, BECAUSE THEY PLACE THEMSELVES HERE, AND THE SHEEP HERE, WHEN THE REALITY, IT'S BACKWARDS.

IT SHOULD BE HERE, BECAUSE AS A PASTOR, I SHOULD BE LIFTING THE SHEEP UP, BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE'S A LOT OF STALLS THAT NEED TO BE CLEANED, AND A LOT OF PASTORS WON'T GET THEIR HANDS DIRTY, BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY'RE TOO GOOD FOR IT. AND WHAT HAPPENS IS, IS THEY'RE BLIND TO WHAT THEIR SHEEP ARE GOING THROUGH, BECAUSE ULTIMATELY, YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND. GOD LOVES YOU. I'M JUST HERE TO DELIVER THE MESSAGE.

I'M NOT GOING TO CANDY COAT IT. I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE IT COMFORTABLE FOR YOU. I'M NOT GOING TO SIT HERE AND WATER IT DOWN FOR YOU. I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE IT COMFORTABLE FOR YOU. Thank you.

I'm sorry, because I know in dealing with, I dealt with horses most of my life, and sometimes in order to get the horse better, you had to hurt it. I might have had to stick it. I might have had to do something that made it uncomfortable. As a shepherd, I love you. And I see what God has for you.

And God says, I want all of you. I don't want a piece of you. I want all of you. So there may be times where I come to you, and I go, look, your lifestyle needs to change. I've had, I look, I've had gay people and whatnot and homesteads come into the church, and they'll be, I've had people go, well, how do you, how do you let them in here?

I'd rather have them here than you. And they look at me and go, oh, oh, oh, oh, look, do me a favor, take your, oh, oh, and go out the door. That's who God's trying to reach. That's who God's trying to reach. Because when we surrender everything to Christ, and we give everything to Him, God says, I have a reward for you that will blow your mind.

Surrender is not limited to our behavior. It reaches into the center of our identity, desires, and will. It says, God, I want it all. Therefore, if I want it all of you, I'm willing to give everything to you. Number three, surrender means giving all of God, giving God all of me.

In Luke 9.23, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. We lay everything down. We lay our desires down. We lay everything about.

We lay our hurt down. Yes, that person hurt you. I get that. I get that. Unfortunately, God says to forgive them.

Galatians 2.20 says, I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives within me. He lives within me. So if Christ lives within me, I can't, I can't hurt, I can't look at you and go, yeah, I want to call you every name in the book.

I want to look at you and go, you're an idiot. It hurt. It hurt. It hurt. But God says to love them.

Surrender means Christ becomes the center and authority of our lives. I was doing a little digging and I came across this Betty Scott Stam, an American missionary to China, known within the church history for her writings on spiritual surrender, ultimate martyrdom during the Chinese Civil War. This was right before World War II. She said this, Lord, I give all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my utter, all utterly to thee to be thine forever.

Understand this. This quote was penned by her at the age of 18. At the age of 28, just 10 years later, on December the 8th, 1934, her and her husband, John, were executed by beheading by the Communist Red Army for their beliefs. This is right before World War II. This act sparked a massive wave of young people to volunteer for global missions in the 1930s and into the 1940s.

She said, God, I give it all to you, and gave her life at it. Understand this. If America doesn't wake up, okay, if we don't wake up, if the church doesn't wake up, let me put it that way. America is going to do what America is going to do. The church needs to get it head out of the pew and figure out, God, we need you first.

Because if we don't, there's a storm coming. There's a storm coming. We have to be the church that God has called us to be, fully and openly surrendered to God. God's got a plan, and we are his army. And if you're worried more about keeping your life, God said you're going to lose it in the end anyway.

Self-denial is not self-hatred. Surrender doesn't mean losing your God-given identity or purpose. Some people think, well, you know, if I give up, if I give God everything, then it means I lose myself, I lose it. No. It means yielding our desires, ambitions, and preferences to Christ.

The old life no longer has a final authority. Simple. Christ leads, I follow. Simple. What are the areas that we have to surrender?

How about starting with your plans, your dreams, your expectations, your personal timeline, your future decisions, your willingness to follow God's direction? Surrender it all. Our relationships, how we love, how we forgive. Probably we need to concentrate on how we forgive because that's tough. How we serve.

How do we establish healthy boundaries? Every person needs to have healthy boundaries. There are some people that you have moved and moved them into your corner or your circle of friends that I'm here to let you know. It's okay to kick them out of that circle. Be very cautious who you let in.

Who's going to influence you? That little flutter you feel in your heart and your mind going, I don't know. You know what? That may just be the Holy Spirit telling you, you don't need them in your life. You can keep them at arm's distance.

That's fine. Be very careful. How about our ambitions, goals, and aspirations? Our desire for recognition. Everybody wants to be recognized.

We want to be an influence. We want to be an influence. We want to be an influence. We want to be an influence. Thank you.

The Word of God says, if you lift me up, I'll draw all men. That's been an ethos for this church. We desire to be salt, salt savers. We want everybody to look, smell, taste like Jesus Christ. That's just it.

We want to lift him up. It's not about how good we look. It's not about the worship or the sermons or anything. We want people drawn to him because he is it. What about motives behind your pursuit?

What is your motive? If your motive for growing is just to get wealthy, the problem is that's the problem. It's a bad motive. What's your motive? Our control.

We desire to know every detail. We need to approve of the destination. We resist when God's timing differs from ours. I'll be the first one to let you know, I've been dealing with this all my life. My timing is not God's timing.

Trust me. Because there are times I'm going, God, do you even have a watch? Are you seeing what I'm going through? God is not asking you to surrender because he wants to take control from you. He's asking you to surrender because you were never created to carry the weight of being your own God.

Let that stick where it may. So what are you holding on to? What are you willing to release? Where are you asking God to follow your plan rather than following his? Four, surrendering.

When we talked about this before in the scripture, it says surrender requires a renewed mind. In 12.2, it says, and do not be conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. You cannot be a new person unless you think like a new person. Rich and wealthy people think like rich and wealthy people.

They think about it. They look about it. How can I make this work? How can I, how can I get more wealth? How can I do this?

What investment works here? They're constantly strategizing. A sick person spends most of their time thinking about being sick instead of thinking about being healed. God said it's in his promises by his stripes. Not you, you will be healed.

Not you. It says you are healed. God's got his promises all written down. He spent 2,000 years writing this and telling them to you. The problem is, is that we let dust collect on us.

God says, I'm speaking to you every day. The world says, put yourself first. The kingdom says, serve others. The world's pattern says, get even. God's kingdom says, forgive.

God says, you measure your worth by the possessions, the house, the car. God's kingdom says, you find your identity in me. World says, you seek personal recognition. God says, you seek for his glory. World says, you need to control your outcome.

God says, trust my direction. If the world is shaping your thinking, don't be surprised when it starts directing your living. Five. We're going to move through this pretty quickly. Scripture, we read this last week, if you weren't here, and you can go back and read it.

Isaiah 6:1 and 8, and it's all about Isaiah's cleansing and call. It says in verse 6, it says, I was in the year that King Uzziah died. I saw the Lord. He was lifted. He was sitting on a lofty throne and his train filled the temple.

Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings, they covered their face and with the other two wings, they covered their feet. And with the two, they flew. They were calling out to each other and they were saying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heaven's army. The whole earth is filled with his glory.

And I want to skip down to verse 6. And it says, then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal that he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. He touched my lips with it and said, see, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed and your sin is forgiven. Then I heard the Lord asking, whom shall I send as a messenger to this people?

Who will go for us? And Isaiah said, here am I, send me. The genuine encounter with God's presence brings revelation, cleansing, surrender, and availability. Notice the progression here. Number one, in Isaiah 6:1 through 4, it says Isaiah sees the Lord and they're singing, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.

The revelation of God's holiness, the recognition of God's glory in the encounter begins with seeing God. Write this down. Before God gives us a mission, he reveals himself to us. He will reveal himself to you before he gives you a plan. Two, Isaiah sees himself in Isaiah 6 and says, well unto me for I am undone.

See, God's holiness is revealed to Isaiah's condition. Isaiah recognizes his need and the presence of God begins to bring in complete and full self-examination. You cannot have full recognition of God with God basically reading your mail. If you don't want God reading your mail, stay where you are. Because when God begins to read your mail, he's going to challenge you to change things and do things that are going to be very uncomfortable.

He's going to want it again in the closets that you thought you had locked up. When we see him clearly, what happens is we begin to see ourselves clearly. Because we're looking through his word and we're looking into him and he's showing us. Then we see in Isaiah 6 and 6-7, it says that he was... CLEANSED.

THE COLD FROM THE ALTAR TOUCHED ISAIAH'S LIPS. HIS INIQUITY WAS TAKEN AWAY. HIS SIN WAS PURGED. CLEANSING PREPARES ISAIAH FOR SERVICE. GOD REVEALS WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED, NOT TO DESTROY US, BUT TO CLEANSE US AND PREPARE US FOR THE WORK AHEAD.

SEE, I GOT TO TALK TO AN OLD MARINE ONE TIME, AND I TELL YOU WHAT, SOME OF THESE OLD GUYS, MAN, THEY'RE JUST, THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. THEY COME FROM THE MARINE COR, AND I SAID, HOW WAS IT? AND HE GOES, WELL, HE GOES, I THOUGHT I KNEW EVERYTHING WHEN I WENT INTO BOOT CAMP. AND HE SAID, WITHIN THE FIRST HOUR, I QUICKLY UNDERSTOOD, I KNEW NOTHING. BUT HE SAID, HE REALIZED THAT THE GAME PLAN WAS TO BREAK THEM DOWN INTO NOTHING SO THEY CAN BUILD THEM BACK UP INTO WHAT THEY NEEDED.

NOT TO CHANGE THEIR CHARACTER OR HOW THEY WERE, BUT TO PREPARE THEM TO SURVIVE AND FOR THE CHALLENGES AND THE MISSION SETS THEY HAD AHEAD. THEY DON'T WANT WEAK PEOPLE. GOD'S SAYING, LOOK, I NEED PEOPLE THAT AREN'T GOING TO HAVE A COMPROMISED MIND OR A COMPROMISED HEART. BECAUSE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS YOU'RE GOING TO GET INTO THE HEAT OF BATTLE, AND GOD'S GOING TO, I'LL PULL ONE OF TJ'S THINGS, TJ'S SAYINGS IS, GOD'S GOING TO SAY, I NEED YOU TO GET TACTICAL, AND HE'S GOING TO REALIZE THAT YOU CAN'T. BECAUSE IN THE HEAT OF THE BATTLE, HE LOOKS AT YOU AND YOU'RE SITTING OVER THERE, CRAWLED UP IN THE FETAL POSITION GOING, GOD, I CAN'T DO THIS.

SO GOD'S LOOKING FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE FULLY AND AWARE AND SAYING, GOD, I'M SURRENDERING EVERYTHING. AN ENCOUNTER WITH GOD ISN'T JUST AN INVENTATION TO FEEL HIS PRESENCE, AND AN INVENTATION TO BECOME AVAILABLE FOR HIS PURPOSE. ARE WE AVAILABLE FOR GOD? ARE WE WILLING TO OBEY WHEN THE ASSIGNMENT IS DIFFICULT? AM I SEEKING ANOTHER ENCOUNTER?

AM I GOING FROM EXPERIENCE OR ENCOUNTER TO ENCOUNTER TO ENCOUNTER? OR AM I RESPONDING TO THE ONE THAT I'VE ALREADY RECEIVED? THE PRESENCE WE WELCOME, THE HUNGER WE SEEK IN THE WORSHIP, WE MUST BECOME THE PRESENCE TO WHICH WE SURRENDER. AND THE LIFE SURRENDERED TO HIM BECOMES AVAILABLE TO CARRY HIM OUT THERE. SO WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE AND WANT EVERYBODY TO STAND.

WE'VE WELCOMEED HIS PRESENCE, WE'VE DEVELOPED HUNGER, WE'VE SOUGHT HIM THROUGH PRAYER, WE'VE WORSHIPPED HIM. BUT HERE'S THE CONTRAST AND I REALLY WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THIS. ARE YOU WANTING HIS PRESENCE OR ARE YOU WILLING TO YIELD TO HIS PURPOSE? DO YOU SPEND MORE TIME SINGING ABOUT SURRENDER OR ARE YOU LIVING SURRENDERED? HOW ABOUT EXPERIENCING HIS GLORY VERSUS BECOMING AVAILABLE FOR HIS ASSIGNMENT?

ARE YOU WILLING TO SAY TODAY, LORD, TAKE ALL OF ME, MY HEART, MY MIND, MY WILL, MY LIFE, YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL. WHAT HAVE YOU NOT YIELDED TO HIM? ONLY YOU CAN ANSWER THAT. I CAN'T. WHAT HAVE YOU NOT YIELD?

BUT I WANT TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF CLARITY HERE. SURRENDER IS NOT THE END OF THE JOURNEY. SURRENDER IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF BEING SENT. GOD'S PRESENCE IS NOT INTENDED TO BE CONFINED TO A CHURCH BUILDING. WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT BUILDINGS AND CHURCHES AROUND THIS AREA.

BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF THEM THAT ARE MORE INTERESTED IN KEEPING YOU HERE IN THE SEATS THAN TEACHING YOU TO GO OUT THERE. I WILL TELL YOU THIS ABOUT SALT. I LOVE SALT. I LOVE SALT ON FOOD THAT MAKES IT BLAND. I LOVE HAVING PEOPLE HERE.

I WANT MORE PEOPLE HERE. BUT I WANT MORE PEOPLE OUT THERE GETTING TO KNOW THE KINGDOM OF GOD. AND THEY DO THAT WHEN THEY LOOK AT YOU, AND THEY LOOK AT YOU, AND THEY LOOK AT YOU, AND THEY SEE THAT LIFE. NEWS FLASH. SOME OF THE GENERALS OF THE FAITH.

AND I KNOW THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO TICK OFF A LOT OF PEOPLE. SMITH WIGGLESWORTH. IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO HE IS, LOOK HIM UP. BILLY GRAHAM. BILLY SUNDAY.

OKAY. CATHERINE COLEMAN. AMY SIMPLE MCPHERSON. A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE. THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO GO TO A DELIVERANCE CLASS, A HEALING CLASS.

SOME OF THEM DIDN'T EVEN GO TO BIBLE SCHOOL. SOME OF THEM HAD NO TRAINING WHATSOEVER. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID? THEY STOOD IN THEIR QUIET PLACE, AND THEY SAID, GOD, I WANT ALL OF YOU. I WANT ALL OF YOU.

I'VE WATCHED THE MOST HARDENED CRIMINALS, PEOPLE THAT HAVE KNOWN TO KILL PEOPLE, STAB PEOPLE. I'VE WATCHED THEM, AND I'VE WATCHED GOD CHANGE THEIR LIFE, COMPLETELY 180, AND WATCHED THEM CRY LIKE BABIES, SIT AT THE ALTAR, AND GOD TAKES THEM, AND THEY BEGIN TO LEAD PEOPLE TO JESUS CHRIST. AND IF YOU THINK I'M BLOWING SMOKE, ONE DAY, I'LL INTRODUCE YOU TO MY BROTHER-IN-LAW. WHEN I FIRST MET MY BROTHER-IN-LAW, JIMMY, TRUST ME, THAT WAS ONE DUDE I DID NOT WANT TO CROSS. HE HAD MORE CONNECTIONS, AND HE COULD DO MORE THINGS THAT I WOULD EVER SPEAK ABOUT.

BUT I WATCHED WHAT GOD DID WITH HIM, AND I HAVE WATCHED HIM LEAD MORE PEOPLE TO CHRIST, AND LOVE ON MORE PEOPLE, BECAUSE HE COMPLETELY SURRENDERED HIS LIFE, AND HE SAID, GOD, ALL I WANT IS YOU. EVEN WHEN GOD TOOK THE VERY LOVE OF HIS LIFE, HE SAID, GOD, IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU. IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU. THE PRESENCE WE WELCOME, THE PRESENCE WE HUNGER FOR, THE PRESENCE WE SEEK, THE PRESENCE WE WORSHIP, AND THE PRESENCE WE SURRENDER TO. IS THE PRESENCE WE ARE CALLED TO CARRY?

WHAT AREA OF YOUR LIFE DO YOU NEED TO GIVE UP? IS IT PERSONAL CONTROL? DO YOU STRUGGLE WITH DECISIONS THAT YOU KNOW GOD'S TRYING TO TELL YOU TO DO, BUT YOU ARGUE WITH GOD? WHAT ABOUT YOUR PATTERN OF THINKING? DOES THAT NEED RENEWAL?

HOW ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS THAT NEEDING TO BE BROUGHT UNDER GOD'S LEADERSHIP? OR HOW ABOUT JUST A DESIRE TO BECOME FULLY AVAILABLE FOR GOD'S PURPOSE? I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU STAND WITH GOD, I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU STAND WITH YOUR RELATIONSHIP, BUT I WILL TELL YOU RIGHT HERE AT THE SOUND OF MY VOICE AND ALSO ONLINE, GOD'S SAYING, HE'S GIVING YOU A QUESTION, HE'S ASKING YOU A QUESTION, WILL YOU BE AVAILABLE FOR ME? I'M LOOKING FOR WARRIORS, I NEED HELP, LOOK, GOD'S SAYING, LOOK, THERE'S A WORLD OUT THERE THAT NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW, THERE'S A WORLD OUT THERE THAT NEEDS SALT CHURCH, THERE'S A WORLD OUT THERE THAT NEEDS SALT CHURCH PEOPLE OUT ON THE BOARDWALK GOING UP AND DOWN THE BEACH. YOU DON'T HAVE TO PREACH AND BE A BIBLE THUMPER, YOU COULD JUST BE THERE.

SMITH Wigglesworth COULD WALK ON A TRAIN, PEOPLE WOULD APPROACH HIM. BECAUSE GOD'S GLORY IN YOU WILL SHINE AND DO THE WORK AND PEOPLE WILL DRAW, WILL COME TO YOU. WE SAT AT BREAKFAST YESTERDAY, AND I'LL END WITH THIS. A PLACE I'D NEVER BEEN TO, THE PLACE WAS PACKED. AND AS WE'RE SITTING THERE AND WE'RE EATING, AND I FELT THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID, I WANT YOU TO PRAY FOR THE OWNER.

AND I GUESS SHE WAS UKRAINIAN, IT'S A PLACE, I DON'T KNOW, I MEAN, WHERE'S SAM OR ONE OF THE DUNNING'S KIDS? SHE SAID TO ME, SHE SAID, OH, YOU GOTTA GO TRY POCA HONNA'S, THEY'RE PRETTY GOOD. I'M LIKE, OKAY, YOU LED ME TO ONE, IT WAS OKAY, I'LL TRY A SECOND ONE, I BELIEVE YOU. WE WENT TO POCA HONNA'S YESTERDAY, AND WE SAT AND WE HAD BREAKFAST, AND GOD IN THE SPIRIT JUST KEPT, HE JUST KEPT PRICKING MY HEART. HE SAID, I WANT YOU TO PRAY FOR US.

SO BEFORE WE LEFT, GRABED THIS LITTLE OLD LADY, AND I SAID, HEY, LOOK, I DON'T, CAN I JUST PRAY FOR YOU? AND SHE SAID, HONEY, IN HER BROKEN ENGLISH, SHE SAID, HONEY, EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE PRAYED FOR. AND I SAID, DOES THAT MEAN A YES? AND SHE SAID, YES. AND I SAT THERE AND PRAYED FOR HER, NO FANFARE, NO FALLING OUT, NOTHING GOING ON, I JUST PRAYED FOR HER.

I DIDN'T EVEN TELL HER THAT, HEY, YOU KNOW, I'M THE PASTOR OF SALT CHURCH, AND THIS AND THAT, I DON'T CARE. WE JUST BE OBEDIENT. IF YOU'RE HERE TODAY, AND YOU'VE BEEN HURT BY CHURCH, BY CHURCH LEADERSHIP, I'M TRULY SORRY, I REALLY AM. I CAN TELL YOU THIS, THAT'S NOT US, THAT'S NOT WHO WE ARE. AND I GIVE YOU MY WORD, AS THE SHEPHERD OF THIS CHURCH, YOU HAVE EVERY PERMISSION TO COME TO ME, AND TELL ME, AND TALK TO ME.

AND WE'RE GOING TO WORK IT OUT, BECAUSE I CARE MORE ABOUT YOU THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW. I'M NOT IN, I'M NOT INTO INFLUENCE, I'M INTO CARE. I WANT TO CARE FOR THE SHEEP. I LOVE YOU GUYS WAY TOO MUCH, BECAUSE ULTIMATELY, ONE DAY, I WANT TO SEE YOU STANDING BEFORE GOD. I WANT TO BUMP INTO YOU ON THE GOLD STREETS OF HEAVEN, KNOWING THAT, HEY, THE FOUNDERS OF THIS CHURCH AND I, WE DID IT.

WE DID IT. WE DID WHAT GOD DID, WANTED US TO DO. WE ACCOMPLISHED WHAT GOD WANTED US TO DO. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS. SO WITH EVERY HEAD BOWED AND EVERY EYE CLOSED, AT THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, IF YOU DON'T KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR, I WANT TO INVITE YOU.

I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW, GOD LOVES YOU. HE SEES EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE. AND I WANT TO JUST TAKE THIS TIME, AND I WANT TO PRAY WITH YOU REAL QUICK. JUST IN YOUR HEART, JUST REPEAT THESE WORDS AFTER ME IN YOUR HEART. SAY, GOD, I'M HERE.

I SURRENDER EVERYTHING TO YOU. I GIVE IT ALL TO YOU. I WANT NOTHING LEFT, LORD GOD. TAKE MY MESS, LORD GOD. TAKE WHAT I HAVE AND USE IT FOR YOUR GLORY.

GOD, I SUBMIT MYSELF. I ASK YOU, COME INTO MY HEART. CLEANSE ME OF MY SIN. WASH ME RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS. I CONFESS YOU AS MY LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, TODAY.

IF YOU SAID THAT IN YOUR HEART AND YOU WHISPERED THOSE WORDS, I WANT YOU TO WRITE THAT ON THIS CARD THAT'S BESIDE YOU AND SAY, I'VE REDEDICATED MY HEART TO THE LORD, OR I'VE GIVEN MY HEART TO THE LORD. I WANT TO SEND YOU A PERSONAL NOTE AND THANK YOU. AND I WANT TO HUG YOU AND I WANT TO, ME AND THE STAFF HERE, WE WANT TO HELP YOU BECOME WHO GOD WANTS YOU TO BE. IF YOU'VE BEEN HURT OR YOU'VE GOT ONE FOOT IN AND ONE FOOT OUT, GOD'S SAYING, NOW'S THE TIME. NOW'S THE TIME.

I NEED WARRIORS. I NEED WARRIORS. ARE YOU WILLING TO STEP UP? I CAN'T DO IT HALFWAY. WE'VE GOTTA HAVE IT ALL.

SO WE'RE GOING TO PRAY. HEAVENLY FATHER, I JUST THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE TODAY AND WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO TODAY. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE TESTIMONIES THAT ARE GOING TO COME FORTH BECAUSE OF THE MESSAGE THAT YOU'VE PREACHED, LORD GOD, THAT YOU'VE PUT FORTH. I THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY, LORD GOD, THAT WE HAVE. FATHER, I PRAY FOR THESE PEOPLE, LORD GOD, FOR THESE, LORD GOD, THAT ARE YOUR PRECIOUS CHILDREN.

I PRAY, LORD GOD, YOU WOULD DRAW THEM CLOSER TO YOUR CHEST. YOU WOULD POUR INTO THEM, LORD GOD, THE WISDOM OF THE ALMIGHTY. FATHER, LET THEM KNOW THAT THE LIFE THAT THEY HAVE IS NOT WASTED. WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO. I CAN STILL USE YOU.

FATHER, TOUCH THEM. MINISTER TO THEM RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. MAKE THEM LIGHT, LORD GOD. MAKE THEM FEEL THE LIGHTNESS, LORD GOD. WATCH OVER THEM, LORD GOD.

LOVE ON THEM, LORD JESUS. FATHER, WHISPER IN THEIR EAR, SON. LOVE ON THEM. QUER MIX. I GOT YOU.

I GOT YOU. YOU'RE GONNA BE OKAY. YOU'RE GONNA BE OKAY. FATHER, TOUCH THEM. MINISTER TO THEM RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS.

THANK YOU. AMEN AND AMEN. AS YOU LEAVE TODAY, SHAWN IS GOING TO STAND BY THE DOOR. AND IF YOU HAVE YOUR OFFERING OR IF YOU HAVE THESE CARDS, YOU CAN DROP THEM IN THE BUCKET. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TODAY.

YOU GUYS ARE AN ABSOLUTE TREASURE AND A BLESSING. THANK YOU FOR ALL. GOD BLESS YOU. HAVE AN AWESOME DAY. IF YOU GET TO, GO BUG HUNTER DOWN AT THE OCEAN FRONT AT THE JEEP FEST.

HE'LL BE DOWN THERE. BUG HIM AND TORTURE HIM A LITTLE BIT. LOVE YOU GUYS. HAVE A GREAT DAY.