The older I get. I uh I'm just Things get a lot more simple the older you get. Have you noticed that? I think we complicate Christianity way too much. The older I get, I'm giving Christians basically the same advice.
Look, just stay close to Jesus. Pastor, I don't know what to do about this decision. I don't, just stay close to Jesus. Pastor, I'm worried about Iran nuking America. What do I do?
I don't know. Just stay close to Jesus. We get nuked. We get to go home to be with Jesus. I mean, just stay close to Jesus.
I think we're complicating this way, way, way, way, way, way too much. Just stay close to Jesus. When I was in college, I had a friend that was totally blind or visually impaired or whatever the politically correct thing is. He could not see. And when I would would walk across campus, He and I kind of stand by each other.
He'd get maybe just slightly behind me, and he'd gently put his hand on me. He couldn't see a thing. And as we're walking across campus, if we needed to go to the left, I would go to the left, and he would just simply follow me. If we need to go to the right, I'd go to the right. He'd follow me.
And it was, I mean, it wasn't like real close. We didn't want to look like two gay guys walking across campus. He just kind of lightly touched my back. And I think about that. And I think, you know, that's what Jesus is to me.
I just stay close to Jesus, and I just seem to end up where I need to end up. It's all about Jesus. This passage out of 1 Peter. is really Peter's way of saying that. It's Peter's way of saying.
Everything we do. Everything we are is about Jesus. I want you to look, if you would, at 1 Peter 2, verse 4. We've been going through the book of 1 Peter. We're now at 1 Peter 2:4.
And Peter says this, coming to him. As to a living stone, Rejected indeed by men. But chosen by God and precious. You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer the spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Therefore, it is also contained in Scripture: Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on him.
will by no means be put to shame. Therefore, To you who believe. He is precious. But to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, which they also, to which they also were appointed.
Now, let me give you the commentary. Here's what Peter's saying. Peter's saying in a couple years the temple in Jerusalem will be destroyed. This is 64 AD, it's destroyed in 70 AD. He said, but God is building a new temple.
Y'all the new temple. You're living stones. Jesus is the foundation. God is doing a new thing. You're the stones.
Jesus is the foundation. God is building a new temple. And in verse 6, he's very clear. Jesus is the chief cornerstone.
Now, if y'all go to Israel with me, we did this a couple months ago. We're going to do it again here in October. I'm going to take you to something called the Temple Tunnels. We take you underground and we show you the foundation stones of the temple. And here's one of the rocks I'm going to show you.
This little girl went with our group this past year. It's called the Great Stone or the Western Stone. That stone is 45 feet long. Ten feet high. Why is that a million pounds?
Some scholars say it might be the largest stone ever quarried. And that might be what Peter's talking about when he talks about Jesus being the cornerstone. He's the foundation on which everything rests. And the cornerstone had to be just perfect. If the angle is out just a little bit, when the wall is built, it'll collapse outward.
If the angle is inward a little bit, it will collapse inward. Everything goes back to the cornerstone. Here's what Peter's saying. Everything I am. Everything I do.
Everything about this church, it is built on Jesus Christ. It's all about Jesus. Stop making this complicated. This ain't that complicated, it's all about Jesus Christ. Everything rests on Jesus.
And it's interesting over and over and over again. I didn't really think about it until I did some studying this week. Do you know how many times in the Bible Jesus is compared to a stone or a rock? It's all over the place. And in fact, Peter goes a step further and he says in verse 7, he says, Jesus is the stone that the builders rejected.
That's a quote from Psalm 118, 22. The stone that the builder said. We can't build anything on this. Ain't pretty. Ah, it's kind of weak.
The stone that the builders rejected, Psalm 118, has become the chief cornerstone. Three times in the Gospel, Jesus quotes that verse to describe himself: I am the stone that the builders rejected. And Peter says that stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. Peter's saying, in our day, the system rejected Jesus. The Jewish system Rejected Jesus.
Well, I knew it. It's all them Jews. Y'all know all the world's problem goes back to the Jews, right? I say that as a pastor. Everybody keeps calling me a Zionist pastor.
You know what? I think I am a Zionist pastor. I believe Jesus Christ is coming back to planet Earth. He's going to rule from Jerusalem. God's not done with the Jews yet.
He has temporarily put them aside, but he's going to use them again one day. Yeah, I guess I'm a Zionist pastor. The stone that the Jewish system rejected is now the chief cornerstone.
Now, before y'all get mad at the Jews, I'm going to tell you: this system that we live in today rejects Jesus. It's not just the Jews in the first century, it's us today. What is the most persecuted religion in the world? Christianity. Everybody hates Jesus.
They love the Gandhi Jesus, tells everybody to be nice to each other. They don't like the Jesus that says, I'm the way, the truth, the life. You ain't come to the Father except through me. They don't like that Jesus. They don't like the Jesus of 2 Thessalonians 1 that says, I'm going to come back and judge the world in fire.
They don't like that Jesus. I can show you. How the system rejects Jesus. It happened again. I was coming back.
from Dallas, Texas last Sunday night. Sitting next to my wife. I'm watching a movie. She's watching one of her and movies. It was like Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility, something.
She's watching her stuff. I'm watching a good old action movie, and in the middle of the movie. Here it goes again. Jesus blanking Christ. Click, I'm done.
I'm not watching that. We were watching a TV show the other night, or a movie something on network, network TV. And her Jesus' name taken in vain. Heard it again. Heard a third time.
I said, I'm not doing this. We turned the thing off. Chad, why are you so sensitive about people taking Jesus' name in vain? The answer is in verse 7. Therefore, to you who believe, he is.
Precious. That man is precious to me. I don't like hearing his name used as profanity. Incidentally, I want to tell Hollywood: try that with Muhammad or Allah, see where that gets you. You get your head chopped off, your studios blown up.
Just ask the offices of Charlie Hebdo. They're smart enough not to do that with Allah or Muhammad, but they do it with Jesus.
Well Jesus is the rock. Cheers shoot. He'll change your life. And I want to know again, all over the Bible, Jesus is called the rock, the rock, the rock, the rock. I just want to give you three examples of how the Bible calls Jesus the rock.
And how these three examples would change your life. I could give you a dozen more. I'm just going to give you three. Let me give you one example. Jesus Christ is the rock that gives us provision.
Everything you need is found in Jesus Christ. Chad, where do you see that? Look at our first rock passage. That's 1 Corinthians 10:1. Moreover, brethren.
1 Corinthians 10.1. I do not want you to be unaware. That all of our fathers We're under the cloud. They all pass through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
All of them ate the same spiritual food. All drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. What's she talking about? Twice in the Old Testament, Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.
No, we're not talking about a couple thousand Jews. We're talking about millions of Israelites. following Moses in the desert for 40 years. Exodus 17, Numbers 20. They're thirsty.
And God says to Moses. Moses, take that stick. Exodus 17. smack the side of that rock. and water is going to come out.
You know what Moses did? He smacked the side of that rock. and water came out.
Now, it's very interesting. This is not scripture, this is Jewish tradition, but there's an ancient Jewish tradition. That that rock Followed the Israelites all over the desert for forty years. And Paul is probably pointing back to that rabbinic tradition when he says, Do you see there? That rock was Jesus, and that rock followed the people of God.
The rock is struck in the side, and water comes pouring out. And that rock was Jesus, John 19. Jesus has died. He is hanging on the cross. And a Roman soldier strikes him in the side.
And John says, and water. came pouring out. And John says, if you don't believe it, John 19:35, I was there, I saw it, I witnessed it. I know it sounds crazy. That man was struck in the side, and water came out.
And there's probably a biological extra. Explanation for that: when you die, particularly with incredible trauma, the pleural cavity around your lungs sometimes fills up with fluid, or the pericardium around your heart fills up with fluid. And when that Roman soldier thrust that spear into Jesus' side, water came out. The point is, the rock that provided water in the Old Testament was typified by Jesus Christ, the rock whose water, water came out of his side.
Now, some of y'all get mad at God. Because God seems unfair. After leading God's people for 40 years, Same thing happens again in Numbers 20. God says to Moses, We're going to get water from the rock this time, Moses. Don't strike the rock.
Speak to the rock. But Moses is so mad at his congregation, he says, nah, he takes the stick and he smites it instead. He hits the side instead. Water does come out, but God says, Okay, Moses, you didn't listen to my command. You're not going to the promised land.
Have you always thought that just doesn't seem fair, does it? You know. He struck it the first time, water comes out. God says the second time, don't strike it, speak to it, water comes out. That doesn't seem a big enough infraction to keep Moses out of the promised land.
But here's what I think God is doing. Moses, that rock is a prophetic picture of my son, Jesus Christ. He will only be struck once and water will come out. After that, when people speak to the rock, they have provision. The rock is not struck twice.
The rock is struck once. And the second time, we speak to the rock and we have blessings. Moses, you're messing with the prophetic picture of my son Jesus Christ.
Now, here's my point. My point is this. Paul is saying That same rock that pipetifies Jesus Christ that provided millions and millions of gallons of water for the Israelites. That same rock is camped outside of your house. That same rock is sitting beside you right now.
That same Jesus that provided for millions of Israelites in the desert. Let me ask you something. If Jesus Christ provided millions of gallons of water for Israelites in the desert, you think he can help pay your bills? Are y'all listening you think he can do that? You think if Jesus did that kind of provision, he can provide for you today?
Cad. I lost my job. How do I know that I'm not going to sink? How do I know I'm going to make it, Chad? I know you're going to make it because my God will supply all of your needs according to your riches in Christ Jesus.
That rock provided for them, that rock will provide for you. Hey, 1 Peter, 2 Peter 1:3. His divine power has given us, y'all know what the next word is? Everything. For a life that's practical needs.
And godliness, that's spiritual needs. He'll provide for you practically. He'll provide for you spiritually. That same rock, Jesus Christ, will provide for you today. The rod gives us provision.
Number two. Jesus, the rock. Will give your life, now here's a great word, he will give your life stability. Matthew chapter 7, again, I'm going into another rock passage. Matthew chapter 7, verse 24.
Jesus says, Therefore, whoever hears these words of mine, Chat, I've got. 75 sermons of yours on my iPad or iPod or whatever the stuff is you listening to. I've got all these sermons. I love to listen to sermons. That's great.
But it's Whoever hears my words, Jesus says, and does them. I will liken him to a watch you know what? Hey, look, I'm in one of those little moods today, okay? I don't know what's happening. Maybe I'm hitting menopause.
Whatever, you got it. All right. No, men can't do that. You know what I'm saying? All right, so what?
I had a a guy that wanted to debate Calvinism with me. Oh, he knew his Calvinism. We were going back and forth like Calvin, Calvinism, Calvin, Calvinism, Calvin, Calvinism. And then he sues a brother in the church. I was like, you do know that's not scriptural, right?
Well, I don't care. Let's debate Calvinism. Don't debate theology with me if you're not going to do what the Word of God tells you to do, okay?
So Jesus Christ says, whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall. Because it was built on the rock. Jesus is saying, yeah, I'm that rock that Peter's talking about.
Okay. And if you'll listen to my words. And you do them? It's going to give you stability. Here's what I find interesting.
The wind Building your house on the rock does not preclude you from experiencing wind and waves and storms. You will hit tough times. You will hit storms. You may have a child that rebels. You may have cancer.
Chad, I don't receive that in the name of Jesus.
Okay, y'all cannot receive it all you want. I'm just telling you, you follow Jesus Christ, you're going to hit some tough times. Question is, is your house built on the teachings of Jesus Christ? Let me give you some examples of the teachings of Jesus. Here's one teaching of Jesus.
In Matthew 5:9, Jesus says, Look, My people are to be peacemakers. You are to be peace. Addicts. You love peace. You don't like drama.
You don't like stirring things up. My people. Are peacemakers. In fact, the Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 4:11, hey, make it your aim to just live a peaceful, quiet life. I've pastored for 30-something years.
I see this phenomenon all the time. Family that causes drama and turmoil and chaos at that church gets kicked out of church after church, and they come to my church and start the same chaos. I'm asking you, please leave. I don't like you. Church, you're supposed to like everybody.
No, I love everybody. There are some people I don't like. I don't like people who spread chaos in the body of Christ. Because that man right there said, my people should be marked by peace. It's amazing how pastors with an Elijah calling seem to attract women with Jezebel spirits.
And they all have one thing in common: they have wimpy, weak husbands that don't practice spiritual leadership in the home, and I have to clean up the mess here. Is this microphone? I don't know if this microphone is I, P. Several years ago. We had a lady.
I found out later. She got kicked out of the large church in Clayton. She comes over to our church and says, Huh. That guy's a pedophile. I said, I've known that guy for 15 years.
He's a pedophile. Yeah. Ma'am, did he do something to you? Oh, no, no, no, no. I just have this gift.
I can look at people and I know when they're a pedophile. And it's like Please leave. I'm just begging you. Please, no, Moss. I don't want to take this.
Because look, we are people of peace. We want peace. We love peace. The Bible tells us to live in peace. We have some people, I call them crisis Christians.
They are miserable if there's not some kind of crisis. At some point You don't get along with your job. You don't get along with your family. You don't get along at church. Maybe it's not the other 8 billion people on the planet Earth that have the problem.
Maybe you have a peace problem, and maybe you need to submit to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Let me give you another bedrock teaching of Jesus. In Matthew 5, 37, Jesus says, hey, my disciples. Let your yes be yes. Let your no be no.
Which means Hey, just be people of your word. If you say you're going to do something, do it. Let me tell you how that works. We've got an elder named Matias Melendez. Matias started a landscaping business years ago and it just took off.
And I was talking to Matthias. I said, Matthias. I see a lot of people starting landscaping businesses that fail. Why did yours take off? He said, Chad, basically, paraphrasing, I built my life on that word of Jesus.
Let your yes be yes, let your no be no. He said, I had, I was struggling. Really was struggling. He said, I had a job that I went to. A guy calls me.
I show up when I say I'm going to show up. I do the job. I charge him what I said I'm going to charge. And when I got through, he said, Have you ever heard of something called Angie's List? He's like, I never heard of it.
He said, well, you're going to hear it is going to blow up your business. And all the men posted On Angie's list is what Jesus says right there. The man's yes was yes. He showed up when he said he's going to show up. He did what he said he's going to do.
and his business took off. Y'all think there might be some practical wisdom tied up in the teachings of Jesus Christ? I could go on and on. Jesus has teachings on how to handle your finances. Do you know Jesus taught more about finances and money than any other single subject?
You handle your money Jesus' way, you're going to be building your finances on the rock of Jesus Christ. Jesus is going to bless you. You lead your family on the rock. Look, when somebody asks Jesus about marriage and family, he points back to Genesis. And he says, Do your family the way Genesis tells you to do your family.
Husbands lead, wives follow his leadership. Y'all love each other, have a strong, stable family, and God's going to bless it. I don't have time to tell you this, but I have right here. In my notes, you see it right here. I've got study after study after study from secular organizations like the American Sociological Review, a Harvard study, that basically says this: the most stable, happy families in America are traditional families.
That attend church together. Isn't that interesting that even secular studies are saying one of the biggest indicators of marital stability, family stability, is coming to church together. Hey, maybe Jesus knows what he's talking about. And so Well chad, that is so 1950s. You mean the 1950s that had a 5% divorce rate, a low teen suicide rate, and a low teen pregnancy rate?
Yeah, those 1950s. That's what I'm talking about. You're right.
So watch this Jesus The rock. Gives you provision. I'm gonna say it again. I want you to get this through your brain. The same Jesus that provided millions of gallons of water.
for millions of Israelites. In the desert, that same Jesus will provide 90% of your needs according to your riches in Christ Jesus. Is that what the word of God says? The vast majority of your needs, according to your riches in Christ Jesus.
So, what does it say? All of your needs according to your riches in Christ Jesus. Number two, Jesus is the rock. You build your life on the rock, your family on the rock. You do your finances on the rock.
You build, He gives you stability. And then number three. The rock, Jesus Christ, watch this. provides calmness. Calmness.
Now According to the actuary tables. I think I got about 20 years left to live. I'm praying to Jesus. Lord, sometime between now In those 20 years, could you please teach me this lesson? Because this is the hardest lesson for me to learn.
I'm trying to learn it. How many? Hi, octain. High blood pressure, slobber, spit, yell, shout, people like me. Type A personalities do we have in this church right now?
Okay. This is for us, okay? This is so important. I can't tell you how important this is. Verse 6, Peter says, Therefore, it is also contained in Scripture.
Behold. I lay in Zion, a chief cornerstone. Elect. Precious. And he who believes on him will not, by no means, will be put to shame.
Peter is quoting one of my favorite Old Testament verses. He's actually quoting Isaiah 28:16. Peter says, you believe in him? You will not be put to shame.
Now, Peter is using a different translation. He's using a translation called the Septuagint. This says, he who believes in Jesus will not be put to shame. Let me read to you that verse in the Hebrew Old Testament, Isaiah 28, 16. This is the same verse that Peter is quoting.
He says, He that believeth shall not make haste. Peter says you believe in Jesus, you won't be put to shame. Isaiah quotes that same verse and says, Do you believe in Jesus? You won't make haste. That word haste in Hebrew, it's kind of an example of onomonopoeia.
It's called shush. It describes this activity. Y'all know people, you go from one crisis to another crisis.
Something happens, and you start running around like a chicken with your head chopped off. You start panicking, and don't just stand there, do something. You start doing something. You call the lawyer, you call the prayer team, you get all upset, you get worked up in a frenzy. Isaiah says, You believe in Jesus?
You won't do that.
Now watch this. Peter says he who believes in Jesus will not be ashamed. Isaiah says, He who believes in Jesus will not make haste. You won't run around in a frenzy. How do you connect those two?
You connect those two by saying this: It is shameful for the people of God to be running around in a consistent, perpetual state of worry, stress, and panic. That is shameful. We gotta live differently. from that. In a world that is blown up.
Everybody's panicked. We ought to be the ones who said, No, my life is built on Jesus Christ, and those who build their life on Jesus won't run around in a panic like that. In fact, we hit this in a couple of weeks. Peter says this. Always be ready.
To have an answer. When somebody comes up to you and says, I don't understand you. Everybody else is all upset and worried and frustrated. You're just peaceful. You're just so calm.
Peter says Always be ready when people ask you, why are you so hopeful? Here's our problem. We're ready to answer questions nobody's asking us. Nobody's asking us why you're so peaceful and calm because we're as stressed out as everybody else. and what Peter says and what Isaiah says is you build your life on Jesus.
You will not run around in a panic. But The craziness of the world has begun to infiltrate Christian families. I love y'all, but some of y'all running your families ragged. You go from creative arts class to swimming class to cheerleading class to this to that, because I gotta make my kid's college application look good, and he's involved in all this stuff. Y'all wearing your families out.
And when you go on vacation, and I use that in quotation marks. You sit on the beach making reservations for tonight's supper, making reservations for what we're going to do tomorrow. Y'all talking about what we're going to do tomorrow, you can't enjoy the present moment because your brain is always two steps ahead, wondering what we're going to do tomorrow. It's not healthy. In fact, I heard a story years ago of an explorer, a group of explorers from Europe.
They wanted to explore the interior of Africa.
So they hired some local some locals. local African natives. Yep. carry their stuff into the heart of Africa. And these were Europeans.
We got a time schedule to keep. We got a clock that we got to look at. We got to keep. Come on, come on. We got a schedule.
And day after day after day, they pushed these guys as they're trying to go farther and farther into the interior of Africa. And then one day the European explorers got up. And all these natives are sitting there. They just got their arms crossed. And they said, come on, guys, it's time to get it going.
They didn't say anything. Fellas, clock is ticking. Why do we get going? Didn't say anything. Finally, they asked what was wrong.
And one of the natives replied, There's nothing wrong. We're just waiting for our souls to catch up with our bodies. And Jesus is saying. You build your life on me. Your soul won't get ahead of your body, and your body won't get ahead of your soul.
He who believeth in me will not run around in a frantic passion. panic all the time. There'll be this calmness. And this isn't the only place he says this. Matthew 11.
Come to me, all you who are Weary, frantic, worn out, and I will give you... Rest. Remember, I got sucked into this stuff when we were building this building 10 years ago. I was in a panic. Things weren't happening as fast as I thought.
I kept hearing all these people say, oh, you're not going to be able to move into that building. It's going to be a disaster. It's going to be, you're going to put the church bankrupt. I was running around in a frenzy. And I remember praying to Jesus one night.
And I said, Jesus. I'm worn out. Jesus, I'm running myself ragged. I feel like I'm destroying my life, my health, my ministry, my family. Have you ever just prayed to Jesus and you want some sympathy from Jesus?
So I said, Lord, I am so worn out. What do I do? And in my spirit, the Lord said, Chad? I said my yoke is easy and my burden is light. If you're worn out, that's on you.
That's not my fault. And you know he was right? It wasn't Jesus' fault. His yoke is easy. His burden is light.
In fact, you know, Harry Truman said this: Do you not know four-fifths of all of our problems would take care of themselves if we just sit down and be still? And I'm starting to find out. When I work, I work. When I sit and pray, Jesus works. Those who believe in him will not make haste.
So, Jesus is the rock, the same Jesus that provided water, 1 Corinthians 10, in the desert, he will provide all your needs. Jesus Christ says, Build your life, build your church, build your family on the rock of my teachings. Jesus says, Build your life on me, and you don't need to run around getting so sweaty and angry and upset. Just calm down. I'm going to take care of you.
That's the Jesus we serve.
Now let me just close with this. Um Because as we've seen Jesus He's all over the Old Testament. If you want to know the theme from Genesis. All the way to Revelation, one theme. Jesus.
Jesus says in Luke 24, the scriptures, Old Testament, they testify of me. Hey, sometimes people say, chance, you're a narrow-minded pastor. I've got to be honest with you, I'm one of the most open-minded pastors you'll ever meet. My mind stretches all the way from Genesis to Revelation, but after that, my mind starts to shut down. Because I just need Jesus and I just want to see Jesus and it's all about Jesus.
There are some key themes in the Old Testament and New Testament. Let me give you two themes that we see in the Bible. The Bible talks often about this concept of three days. We see the concept of three days in the Old Testament. and of the New Testament.
There's also another concept we see in the Bible. It's the concept of trees. Bible starts by talking about a tree in Genesis. It closes out in Revelation by talking about a tree. And then there's a tree in the center of the story, that tree, that cross upon which Jesus died.
Three days Trees, we see it all over the Bible. In Exodus 15, God's people have just been brought through the Red Sea. Millions of Jews have been brought safely through the sea. The sea has closed back in on their enemies. And in Exodus 15, it says this.
On the Third. Day. They say, God, we are so thirsty. There's no water. And they walk up on this big old, nasty, swampy lake, it is filthy.
You can't drink it. And they're like, thanks a lot. We're thirsty, we're dying of thirst. And all there is in front of us is a nasty, filthy swamp. And on the third day, He says, God says to Moses, Moses.
Take that tree. and throw it in the water. And Moses took the tree and threw it in the water. And the water became clean and fresh and sweet and pure, and they drank to their heart's content. And that is a prophetic picture of the one who rose on the third day.
Whose tree, whose cross has the ability to take bitter things in your life and turn them into good? It is a prophetic picture of Jesus Christ. And that's in Exodus 15, God does something. He says, Let me give you a new name you can call me from now on if you want to. He says my name is Jehovah Rafa.
The God who heals. Isn't that powerful? A prophetic picture of Jesus Christ, and God says, incidentally. I'm the God who heals. implication Jesus heals.
The church, the older I get. The more crotchety and less tired, less tolerant I'm getting at things. I'm going to tell you one thing I just, I'm losing my tolerance for. I love my brothers and sisters in Christ, but I'm getting tired of Christians telling me Jesus doesn't do miracles today, he doesn't heal today, that's the Old Testament, that's the book of Acts, He doesn't do it today. I'm just kind of tired of that.
Because I don't know what your Bible says, but my Bible says this. Behold, I am God. I changeth not. I am the same yesterday. Today And forever.
The same God that pumped out millions of gallons of water from a rock then can do it today. The same God that healed then can do it today. The same God that brought the dead back to life then can do it today. I believe Jesus Christ hasn't changed, we've changed. Stand with me right now.
Um Y'all believe what I just said? Jesus is in this room. He's in this room right now. I firmly believe in a few moments.
Some healing is going to take place in this room. All week long. I've been thinking about this. There's some addictions in this room right now. I believe some addictions to porn, to alcohol, maybe, you know, there could be an addiction to anxiety.
Some people love the thrill of anxiety.
Some addictions are going to be broken in this place today. I don't know. Why keep these things just keep coming to my spirit? I believe somebody's going to be healed of Perenz today. I believe there's going to be some obsessive-compulsive disorders.
That will be broken in this room today. Why? Because Jehovah Rapha, in the person of his Son, Jesus Christ, in the person of the Holy Spirit, is in this room right now. He hadn't changed. We've changed.
So I want you to do this. If you need healing, Or maybe you've got a kid that has wandered so far from home, you said, Chad, they're too far, they're unreachable. Unreachable. The shepherd I serve can take that big shepherd's crook and reach out about 2,000 miles and put that crook around that kid's neck and bring him all the way back home. Ain't nobody unreachable in the kingdom of God.
I need you to follow my instructions really carefully because if not, I'm going to get elders and people fussing at me. We can't pray while this music's going on, so I need everybody to listen to me. First service didn't listen to me, second service didn't listen to me. Maybe y'all listen to me, okay? Here's what I want us to do.
In just a moment, I'm going to let our prayer team come down front. If you believe Jesus can touch you and heal you and bring a miracle and you need a miracle. Would they come up front? I want you to come down front while we're singing as well. But don't start praying.
Okay. Because there's a speaker right there, there's a speaker right there, speaker right there. Just come down front. And after we have sung for just a moment, then I'm going to tell the music to stop. And then I'm going to ask the prayer team to pray over you.
And that's when we're going to start praying, okay? Does it make sense? I don't know if I made myself, whatever. We'll just try it, and if not, we'll figure it out next time. He's in this room right now.
He's here. He's already done some miracles this morning. He ain't done yet. He's wanting to do some more miracles right now. If you need a supernatural touch from Jesus, I want you to imagine that for a few moments, Their hands are going to become the hands of Jesus.
I believe this. If you need a prophetic word for the Lord, I believe for a few moments their lips might be the lips of the Lord Jesus as He speaks something in you right now. Mm-hmm. If you need a supernatural touch from God, Come right now. Start singing.
Team, come on down here if you would. God, my God, I need you. Duh. How I need you. No Oh rock, oh rock of ages, I'm standing on your faithful Yes.
On your faithfulness. Yes. Yeah. Oh God, my God, I need you. Oh God, my God, I'm I need you down.
Oh, I need you. Even now. According to Major. Yeah. I'm standing on your faithfulness.
On your faithful death. You bring your children. You hear your children now. You are the same God. You are the same God.
You answered prayers back then. And you will answer now. You are the same God. You are the same God. You were a healer and bitch.
You are a healer now. You are the same God. You are the same. See, I wanted Ron and the team to sing that very last part. He is the same God.
I'm as serious as a man can possibly get right now. He is the same God. I'm tired of reading the book of Acts and saying, man, I wish he'd do that today. We're waiting on him. He's waiting on us.
And so Right now, here's what I want us to start doing. I'm going to pray and dismiss you. If you need to go home, I'm going to dismiss everybody and y'all go home. Y'all who are down front, as soon as I say amen, this is where the fun starts. Let these brothers and sisters start praying over you.
On the authority of the Word of God, we are going to see some breakthroughs and some miracles in this place. Are y'all ready for that? I'm serious. Are you ready to see that happen? All right, so let me pray a prayer of blessing and of dismissal.
When I say in Jesus' name, amen. If y'all need to leave, go ahead and leave. But as soon as I say amen, y'all start praying right now. Y'all ready? Hey.
Look. Calm down, relax. Everything's alright. Everything's under control. Everything is going according to plan.
God planned this before he even created the planet Earth. He knew what's going to happen. Everything on planet Earth is going according to plans. And just calm down, relax, be bold, be strong, or as God says, Chazak Veyamatz. Out that a rope they are here.
Re-emer. Adonai. Eleja. Behold, Esha Talak, which is Hebrew for, hey, be bold. And be strong.
Y'all don't be afraid. You don't be terrified of anything. Why? Because the Lord your God is going to be with you. The rock of ages will be with you.
Jesus Christ Himself will be with you everywhere you go. In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, we pray. Amen and amen. Let's start praying and let's see God do some great things down front here. Yeah.
