We've been going through the book of Romans and I cannot overemphasize how important Romans 6 is. Romans 6 teaches us as followers of Jesus Christ how to overcome sin. Now listen, when it comes to instructing Christians on how to deal with sin, here's what we usually say. We usually say, you're going to sin.
You're going to mess up. And 1 John 1 9, are you familiar with this verse? If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. That's how we usually tell people to deal with sin if you're a follower of Jesus Christ. You're going to sin and when you sin, you just claim this verse, you confess your sin and he's going to forgive you.
I think there might be a better way to overcome and deal with sin. I was reading about a pastor who was driving the Pacific Coast Highway in California. Y'all know how I feel about California. I call it the land of fruits and nuts. I got to get all this out of my system because I can't say this on TV, okay?
So whatever. He was driving the Pacific Coast Highway in California and he said there were these sharp curves and at the bottom of these sharp curves, there are these big drop-offs. If you take the curve too fast, you're going to go off the road and you're going to get hurt or killed. Sharp curves with drop-offs.
And he said, you know, the thought hit me. California could do one of two things. California could say we're going to build a clinic at the bottom of every one of these sharp curves so that when people go off and get hurt, the clinic is right there. They'll get rescue and pouring in the clinic and get them healed up. They could do that or what they could do is around every sharp curve put a sign and flashing lights that says slow down.
Take it easy. If you slow down, you can navigate this curve and not get hurt. And then I love what he says. He says 1 John 1 9 is the clinic at the bottom of the hill. When you and I do sin, that verse heals us, gets us back on our feet, and sends us on the way.
That is the clinic at the bottom of the hill. Romans 6 is the caution sign though that says you don't have to go over the hill. If you'll slow down and if you'll handle this temptation God's way, you don't have to crash. Are you with me on that?
And so today, that's what we're going to be looking at. Romans 6 telling us you don't have to give in to sin. You don't have to give in to temptation. As a follower of Jesus Christ, you're a new person, a new creation with new desires.
If you'll slow down and handle this God's way, you don't have to go off the curve here. I want you to look at verses 1 through 10 of Romans chapter 6. Look, inside of us, every one of us, there is this rebel. There's this force that when God says, don't do this, we're like, okay, then I want to do that. When God says, do this, this force says, okay, good, I don't want to do that.
We call that force the flesh. And what Paul says in Romans chapter 6, verses 1 through 10 is amazing. He says, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Can we keep... Since God loves forgiving people, why don't we keep sinning so he can keep forgiving us? And then Paul says this, certainly not. How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
Or do you not know? Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore, we were buried with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also should walk in newness of life. For if we've been united together in the likeness of his death, surely we also shall be in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin, for he who has died has been freed from sin. Now, if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more, death no longer has dominion over him, for the death that he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Now, I want you to see this. In verse 3, Paul talks about baptism. Now, there are two kinds of baptisms. There's wet baptisms and dry baptisms. He's talking about a dry baptism. What Paul says... Now, watch this. The Greek word... Do you know baptism is not an English word?
It's a Greek word. It means to immerse in. Now, watch this. If I take a piece of white cloth and I immerse it into red dye, that cloth fundamentally changes its appearance.
Here's what he says. When you and I got saved, we were baptized into Christ Jesus. We were immersed into Christ Jesus. We all the time talk about, when I got saved, Jesus came to live in me. Yeah, that's true, but more importantly, you came to live in Jesus. You are baptized in Christ Jesus.
You have been fundamentally changed. Now, when we baptize people up here on Sunday morning, that is a beautiful picture of what has happened, that just like Jesus died on the cross and was buried and came back to life, they're dead, baptized in Jesus, and now they're new people. But what Paul is talking about here is not that. That's a symbol of that, but he's saying, when you got saved, you were immersed in Jesus Christ, and it fundamentally changed who you are. Paul is saying, this is going to be very hard to explain, but I want you to listen to me. Paul is saying something very mystical here. Paul says that when you and I get saved, we are united with Christ to such an extent that union between you and Jesus is so powerful, so mystical, I can't even totally understand it, but when you get saved, you are united to Jesus Christ so powerfully and mystically that when he died 2,000 years ago, you died as well. Now, explain it, Chad.
Can't do it. I don't understand it. All I know is when I get saved, I give my life to Jesus. I am baptized in Jesus. I am so thoroughly united with Jesus that when he died 2,000 years ago, I died 2,000 years ago.
That's what he's saying right here. In fact, in verses 1 through 14, Paul uses the word death or died 14 times. Chapter 6, verse 2, you died.
Verse 5, you're united with him in death. Verse 6, the old self was crucified. Why don't you tell people that they need to crucify themselves? You need to teach him to crucify yourself. You don't crucify yourself. You were crucified 2,000 years ago outside of Jerusalem in about 33 AD. I don't crucify myself. I was crucified with Jesus about 2,000 years ago.
Do you see this? You died. You're united with him in death. The old self was crucified. Verse 8, if we have died with Christ, listen to me. The Bible is saying when you got saved, part of you died 2,000 years ago. Now, how does that help me overcome sin?
Okay, very simply. Dead people don't sin. A man dead in a casket right here in the front of the church, he doesn't lust anymore.
He's dead. A lady lying out in a casket here in a church, when the people are filing by, she doesn't say, man, I like that lady's dress. I wish I had a dress like that.
She doesn't covet somebody's dress who's walking by her. Why? She's dead. Dead people don't sin. And when Paul says you are united with Jesus Christ to such an extent that when Jesus Christ died 2,000 years ago, you died as well. Listen to me.
What that's saying is dead people don't sin. Now, I'm going to unpack this in just a second. But here's how literally I take this. In just a couple of weeks, Darla and I are going to fly over to Jerusalem. We're going to stay there for a couple of days. We're going to go see that school that y'all built and take some pictures and bring it back so y'all can see. Y'all remember where y'all did the school there in the Middle East?
So we're going to do that in a couple of weeks. While we're there, I'm going to go to this spot. It's called the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
This is outside. That dome right there, 2,000 years ago, there's nothing there. There's just a big garden there. Where that dome is, that's the top of Calvary. And I'm going to go look at this next picture. I'm going to go inside and we're going to go walk to the top of Calvary. And do you see under that glass there? Do you see all that rock right there?
That is literally the top of Calvary. And in a couple of weeks, when Darla and I are going to go there, I'm going to go to that spot and I'm going to remind myself I died at that spot. When Jesus died 2,000 years ago, I'm so united with Jesus Christ, part of me died right there.
Now, watch this. We're talking about how to overcome sin. Here is the first step, if you're a follower of Jesus Christ, to overcoming sin, is to remind yourself, I don't have to sin. Before I got saved, when Satan said jump, I had to jump. When sin came a-knocking, I had to open the door.
Now that I'm born again, I don't have to sin because I'm dead to sin. Well, Chad is in my genes. My father was a child molester. My grandfather was a child molester. I'm destined to be a pervert.
No, you're not. When you got born again, you now have the ability to say no to sin because you're dead to sin. I'm under a generational curse.
I do believe in generational curses. I understand all this stuff, but you can't blame your sin on a generational curse because you're a dead person and dead people don't sin. You don't have to sin if you don't want to. The first step to overcoming sin is to remind yourself, sin does not have power over me. I don't have to sin if I don't want to because I'm dead to sin.
Y'all with me on this? I'm as serious as I can be right now. Well, you know, Pastor Chad, I'm a red-blooded American and my wife is pregnant and she's not meeting my needs and that secretary is hot. Of course, I got to give in to sin. No, you don't. You're dead to sin. Sin doesn't have mastery over you anymore.
You got to listen to me. That is the first step in overcoming sin. If you tell yourself I am a victim of my genes, my generational curses, my past, I can't overcome sin, you will never overcome sin.
But if you remind yourself, no, I died to sin 2,000 years ago and dead men don't sin, suddenly that power of sin is broken in your life. I love this story from J. Vernon McGee. J. Vernon McGee tells the story of a woman in the deep south who married her childhood sweetheart. They had a great life together.
They lived in a nice beautiful big house, antebellum house there in the south. Then one day, her husband died of a massive heart attack and she was so overwhelmed with grief, she couldn't let him go. So McGee says she had her husband embalmed, placed in a glass container, sitting up in a chair and put him right inside her doorway. And so every day she'd go out and work in the garden and she'd walk in and he'd be sitting there and she'd say, hello, John. When she'd leave to go to the grocery store, she would kiss the glass container.
Goodbye, John. Just day in, day out, she would just act like her husband was still alive, this dead body embalmed in that glass case. Month after month, she did this. And about a year later, the lady took a lengthy trip to Europe. And while there, she met just a wonderful American gentleman who was vacationing there as well. They met and it was a whirlwind romance.
They got married, they vacationed all over Europe together. She said nothing about John until they got back to the United States, got back to their home. And John is so... This man is so excited, I'm going to sweep my bride off her feet and carry her through the threshold. And so he's swept off her feet, walked through the threshold and sees a corpse there and he drops his bride. He says, who is this?
And she got up off the floor and she said, I forgot to tell you, this is John. This is that dead husband I was telling you about. And the new husband said, he's history.
He's dead. You don't belong to him anymore. You're not married to him, you're married to me. And the new husband immediately dug a hole in the backyard and buried her former old man in it, case and all.
And then Bernard Gee says this, many Christians put the old man in a case. They greet him, they cater to him, they respond to him, but we have a new lover. We have a new husband and he has walked us across the threshold. His name is Jesus Christ. Now let me go bury the old you in the backyard.
You don't belong to him anymore. So Paul says, I'm going to repeat this, when you got saved, it wasn't just sitting there repeating a prayer after Pastor Chad, Jesus name, amen. And that was just some words you said, no, no. He said, when you truly got saved, something happened. You were united with Jesus Christ to such an extent that when Jesus died on the cross 2000 years ago, the old you died on the cross 2000 years ago, you are dead to sin.
You don't have to sin. Here's the challenge. Now listen to me.
Here's the problem. The old me is dead, okay? And dead people don't sin, but I sin. So does that mean I'm not truly saved?
You understand the question? You've just said you had dead people sin. Dead people don't sin, but I sin. So does that mean I'm not being crucified with Christ? I'm truly not dead? You're saying I'm truly not saved?
Do you see the quandary here? That's not what Paul is teaching. This passage is not teaching perfectionism, that if you are truly saved and dead to sin, you'll never sin again. That's not what this passage is teaching. And I can point out to you why. Because I want you to look at verses 11 through 14.
Let's read this. In verses 11 through 14, Paul says this, Likewise you also reckon yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts, and do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but you are under grace.
Now I want you to see this. In verses 11 through 14, Paul gives us three commands, three imperatives. If you're sinless, because you're dead to sin, then why is he giving you commands on how to fight the battle against sin?
Do you see what I'm saying? If you're dead, and that's all you have to do is you're now saved, you're dead, you'll never sin again. Why is he giving us three commandments right here?
I mean there's three imperatives. Verse 11, reckon yourselves to be dead to sin. Verse 12, don't let sin reign in your mortal bodies. Third commandment, verse 13, don't continue presenting members of your body to sin. Why do we need three imperatives, three commands, if the battle is over? You're dead to sin, you don't have to worry about it anymore.
Do you see what I'm saying? So what the Apostle Paul is saying is, yeah, you're dead to sin, you don't have to look at that porn, you don't have to have that affair, you don't have to do this because sin doesn't have power, you're dead to sin. But Paul says, but there's still a battle going on, and you have to fight that battle every day of your life. Here's another reason I know Paul is not teaching perfectionism, that if you're truly saved and dead to sin, you'll be perfect, and if you've sinned, you're not truly saved. I'm going to tell you another reason why I know that's not what Paul is saying, because I want you to look over at Philippians 3.12.
We're going to have it up here in a second, but bring your Bibles to church and it's good, because sometimes I might be lying to you, I might be adding to scripture, I might be putting heresy in there, and you got to be able to read the Bible to yourself, okay? So look at Philippians 3.12. Here's how I know Paul is not saved. If you're truly saved, and you're truly dead to sin, and dead people don't sin, and if you're sinned, you're not truly saved.
Here's how I know he's not saying that. Here's what Paul says in Philippians chapter 3, verse 12. Not that I, the apostle Paul, have already attained or am already perfected.
Do you see this right here? He says, I am not a perfect human being. I still mess up, but I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
He's saying, I am dead to sin, but I ain't perfect. It's a battle I've got to fight every single day. And the people of God said, amen.
It's a battle we have to fight every day. I love what John Piper says. Listen to me. Here's what Pastor Piper says. My truest identity, if you want to know who is Chad Harvey, at my core, here's my identity. I am united with Jesus Christ. I am one with Jesus. I'm united with Jesus Christ. And I'm dead to sin.
That's my identity. And then the question, though, is this. How much of that can I have right now?
And how much of that is future-oriented? Okay? So let me give you, watch this, let me give you three already's and one not yet. I am united with Jesus. I am dead to sin.
Let me give you three already's that I can experience right now and one not yet. It's going to happen in the future. One already is this. We are already justified. Chapter five, verse one.
That means if you're born again already, God has looked at you and said, not guilty. I have forgiven you. You're my child. Already? The first already. I'm justified.
Here's the second already. The power of sin is broken in my life. That's not a future event.
That's happened already. Sin doesn't have power over me. Sin doesn't tell me what to do. I get to tell sin what to do, okay? Already, I've been justified. Already, the power of sin is broken in my life. Already, I'm able to make progress day by day.
Look at me. You ought to be able to look at yourself now in your walk with Jesus Christ and say, I'm a lot closer to Jesus than I was a year ago. I haven't overcome all my sin issues today, but buddy, I ain't like I was a year ago.
So already, I'm justified. Already, the power of sin is broken in my life. Already, I can make progress day by day, but here's one not yet. I am not yet perfect.
That's in the future. One day when Jesus Christ comes back and I get to go home to be with Jesus, I'm going to be delivered from the presence of sin. There'll be no more sin, but that's not going to happen this side of heaven.
That's not yet. I'm throwing a lot of stuff at you, but you really got to get this. You are dead to sin. So what is the key to overcoming sin, Chad? You're talking around the circles here. What's the key to overcoming sin?
Well, let me add another dimension as well. This entire passage is about us being united with Jesus Christ, our union with Jesus Christ. Look at verse 3.
We were baptized into Christ Jesus. Verse 4, we are with him, with Jesus Christ. Verse 5, we have been united together with him. Verse 6, we are with him. Verse 8, we are with Christ. Verse 8, we are with him. Verse 11, we are in Christ. I want you to listen to me. You can go back to sleep after I say this, okay? But if you don't hear anything else, I want you to hear this. You are asking me, what is the key to overcoming sin?
You're asking the wrong question. The key to overcoming sin is not a what, it is a who. It's Jesus Christ. The closer I get to Jesus, the more beautiful Jesus is to me, the less attractive that sin is. The key to overcoming sin is not a what, it's a who. In fact, in a couple weeks when I'm going to be going to Israel, Pastor Chris will be preaching Romans chapter 7.
In Romans chapter 7, have you ever read this before and identified with Paul? Paul says, I'm so mad at myself. The things I want to do, that I know I should do, that's what I do.
I do the opposite. The things that God tells me to do, I don't do that, I do that. He's so caught up.
He's like, I'm so aggravated myself. I know what it means to follow Jesus. I know how I should be living and I get so mad at myself because I don't always do what I'm supposed to do. Have you read this passage before? And he gets so frustrated, and then he says this in verse 7, oh wretched man that I am.
You ever been there before? God, I'm so messed up. I told myself I'll never blow up, lose my temper like that again. Any Irish redheaded temper people who like Pastor Chad deals with, I tell myself I'm never going to do that again.
Five minutes later, somebody pulls out in front of me and I'm losing again. Oh wretched man that I am. Look what he says in verse 24, who, not what, who will deliver me from the body of death, I thank God, through Christ Jesus my Lord. Overcoming sin is not a what, it is a who. Now I want you, if you're into highlighting the Bible, I want you to highlight verse 11, because I think right now, verse 11 is the key to overcoming sin. Look at verse 11. Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Watch this. When that temptation comes my way, I do two things. I say to myself, I don't have to look at this. I'm dead to sin. The old me had to, but this poem doesn't have power over me. I have power over it because I'm dead to sin. This covetousness doesn't have power over me, because I'm dead to sin. The old me used to like to gossip and talk and get with my little friends and we used to have little prayer groups, but our prayer groups are big gossip sessions.
Have you seen her? She's been with him and the old me used to do that. I don't have to do that anymore. I'm dead to sin.
That's the first step right there. I don't have to sin because I'm dead to sin. Sin comes, I remind myself. I'm dead to sin.
And number two, I'm alive to Jesus Christ. I just want more of Jesus. Jesus, you are more beautiful than this temptation. Jesus, I love you more than this sin. When Jesus Christ becomes more beautiful to you than the temptation, you'll overcome sin. I am dead to sin and I love Jesus Christ. I'm just alive to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Gang, that's about as deep as I can get here this morning. That as followers of Jesus Christ, we are dead to sin and alive to Jesus Christ. And so whatever it takes, listen to me, whatever it takes to get closer and more intimate with Jesus Christ, you got to do it. If that means you spend time every day with Jesus, then you got to spend time every day with Jesus. You can carve out time. Well Chad, I don't have time to be with Jesus.
No. You'll find time to do what's important to you. Eating is important to me.
So I find time to eat. So instead of saying, I don't have time to meet with Jesus every day, you say, no, meeting with Jesus is not a priority for me. Therefore, I don't find the time to meet with Jesus. You're going to have to find time to be with Jesus. It may be that to get closer to Jesus, you say, I'm trading in this gut rot devil music that I'm listening to that takes my mind away from the things of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I'm going to replace it with music and worship that draws me closer into the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Whatever it takes, I'm telling you, I'm going to repeat it again. The more time you spend with Jesus, the more beautiful Jesus becomes to you. When Jesus is more beautiful than the temptation, you'll overcome the temptation. I am dead to sin, verse 11. I don't have to do... Just telling yourself, psychologically, just telling yourself, I don't have to look at this. I'm dead to sin.
That's half the battle right there. Just telling yourself, I used to have to behave like that because sin was powerful. I don't have to do that anymore. Yeah, but Chad, you know, alcoholism is a gene and once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. I know the 12 step thing says once an alcoholic, all the... That book right there says you're a new creation of the Lord Jesus Christ. You don't have to say yes to alcohol anymore if you don't want to.
Is this microphone... Y'all listening to me? Saying to yourself, I am dead to sin. That's half the battle. The other half is and I'm alive to Jesus. I just love Jesus Christ.
In fact, I love this. There's a guy, he died a couple of years ago. His name is J.I.
Packer. He was a great Anglican theologian from England. And here's what he says. I love this quote. In fact, do y'all ever write quotes down like in your Bible or whatever? This is a quote I wrote down in one of my Bibles a long time ago.
I love this quote. He says this, this Jesus-centeredness is the basic form of Christian holiness. And it is to this that the Spirit leads us in all of his sanctifying work.
Look at this. The holiest Christians are not those most concerned about holiness as such, but those whose minds and hearts and goals and purposes and love and hope are most fully focused on our Lord Jesus Christ. Did you see what he just said? The holiest Christians are not obsessed with holiness. The holiest Christians are obsessed with Jesus Christ. You get closer to Jesus, holiness is going to come. Listen to me. You never get better by just trying to be better. You get better by getting more and more deeply in love with the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, you know, people all the time say, well, the key is rededication.
Okay, good. Rededicate yourself. I simply rededicate myself to continue doing all the things that haven't worked in the past. I'm going to rededicate myself to that again. Why don't you rededicate yourself to a person, Jesus Christ?
And so, wait a second. I don't understand this, but outside of Jerusalem, Israel in about 33 AD, when that man died on the cross, part of me died that day. I don't understand it. I can't explain it, but I died to sin. I don't have to live like this anymore. I'm dead to sin and I'm alive to Jesus Christ. And beloved, it doesn't happen overnight.
It takes time. The key to overcoming sin is to tell yourself, you keep telling yourself, I'm dead to sin. I'm dead to sin. But then I'm alive to Christ. I become deeply, passionately connected to Jesus.
Let's use, we'll close with this. Let's use the marriage analogy. Two things happen when you get married and you're married for a long time. Number one, often the tastes of your spouse, the things they like and don't like, start to become your taste.
There are things I eat, like scallops and shrimp, and except my wife couldn't stand it years ago, and now she eats it because we've been married long enough, my taste has started becoming her taste. And years ago, I hated, with a capital H, I can't believe I'm about to admit this. I can't believe I'm about to admit this. Okay. I'm going to do a clever, Hallmark movies. Now, time out. I don't like most of them.
I like some of them, okay? But I hung around her long enough. Some of the Hallmark movies she likes, I now like.
Her taste became my taste. That's the first thing that happens. Do you know the second thing that happens? Now, science backs this up. The longer you're married to somebody, it's going to bother you. You actually start to look like the person physically.
Did you know that? The New York Times did an article a few years ago entitled, quote, long married couples do look alike, study finds. And they said, science is now lending support to the old belief that married couples eventually began to look alike. Couples who originally born no particular resemblance to each other when they were first married have, over 25 years, 30 years, 40 years of marriage, come to resemble each other, although the resemblance may be subtle according to a new research report. Moreover, the more marital happiness a couple reported, the greater their increase in facial resemblance. They share all these experiences together, and over time, some of you ladies are sweating. Oh, dear God, please, no.
Over time, the wife and the husband start looking alike. I want you to listen to me. You walk with Jesus. You stay close to Jesus.
Two things are going to happen. His tastes become your tastes. His likes become your likes.
The things that disgust Him will start disgusting you. And secondly, you're going to start looking like Jesus. You're going to start treating others like Jesus does. Let me ask you something. Does Jesus fall into the same sin over and over and over again?
No. You walk with Him long enough, you're going to stop falling into the same sin over and over and over again. Overcoming sin is not a what, it is a who. You remind yourself, verse 11, I'm dead to sin.
I guess I can sin if I want to. But why would I want to? Why would I break the heart of this one who loves me, died for me?
Why would I break the heart of my best friend? I love this story. Dwight Moody, the great evangelist, lived in a day when good Christians didn't go to the theater.
That's just kind of interesting. You don't go to the theater. And there's this one man that was talking to Dwight Moody. And he said the movie, Moody, he said, one of the reasons I can't be a Christian is because y'all can't go to the theater. Moody said, what do you mean? He said, yeah, Christians can't go to the movie theater. Moody said, I can go to the theater anytime I want to. He said, you can?
He said, yeah. The problem is, I never want to. In other words, Jesus has come in and He has changed my wants. He's changed my desires. I'm not saying if you're a Christian, don't go to the movies.
I think you understand what I'm saying. You start walking with Jesus. You can start acting like Jesus and looking like Jesus and overcoming sin like Jesus.
In fact, it might be good if we just repeated this again. It's all about Jesus. And can you stand on me right now?
I can't think of a better way to close this out. Anybody else in love with Jesus Christ? You're overwhelmed by Him.
I honestly, when I think about what He did to me, I think about what He did for me and how He accepted and messed up a man like me, I'm overwhelmed with the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. So here's what I'd like us to do. And I'd like to do it without a cacophonous interruption and use this as your platform to shout out whatever. Can we just take a few minutes and raise holy hands and raise holy voices and just, we're not going to belabor this, but I also don't want to shorten this. Can we just worship Jesus? If you want to come down front here for a few moments, if you want to just stand in your seat, let's just worship Jesus right now.
I'm not going to give you words to say, and I'm not doing this for show because Jesus said, be very careful about letting your good deeds be done before people. But I don't know about you, but the King is in the room right now. And when the King walks in, you kind of kneel in the presence of the King. And so if you'll excuse me for a few moments, I'm just going to kneel in the presence of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Can we worship Jesus right now?
Let's just stand in your seat. Let's just bless the name of Jesus right now. Bless you Lord. Bless you Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
Jesus. What do I say? Just say his name. Just say his name, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, bless you, bless you, bless you, bless you, Jesus. Father God, we acknowledge that at the name of your son Jesus, demons run out of the room.
At the name of your son Jesus, dead people come back to life. At the name of Jesus, blind people see, deaf people hear, lame people walk, families come back together, depression is broken, cancer is healed, there's power in the name of Jesus. Father we lift up the beautiful, holy name of Jesus Christ.
Father God, this church is dedicated not to put out the name Chad Harvey or cross assembling or the assembly of God, we are committed Father to proclaiming the name that is above every name, the name of Jesus your son. And Father we acknowledge that the day is going to come that at the name of Jesus every knee is going to bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue, even the demonic tongue, Satan's tongue, every tongue is going to confess, yeah Jesus is God. Father we bless the name of Jesus, we exalt the name of Jesus, we praise the name of Jesus.
Let's sing it to him right now. And I just want to speak the name of Jesus, till every dark addiction starts to break. Declaring there is hope and there is freedom, I speak Jesus. Because your name is power, your name is healing, your name is life, yes it is, it is. Make every stronghold shine through the shadows, burn like a fire, oh, shout Jesus, shout Jesus from the mountains, Jesus in the streets, Jesus in the darkness over every enemy, Jesus for my family, I speak the holy name, Jesus, shout Jesus, shout Jesus from the mountains, Jesus in the streets, Jesus in the darkness over every enemy, Jesus for my family, I speak the holy name, Jesus. I know we live in an uncertain world, in an uncertain time with demons and satanic, I get all that stuff, but when you're filled with Jesus Christ's spirit, you're bold and confident, you don't care what's going to happen to you, because you know the day is going to come when Jesus Christ is going to come back and the kingdoms of this world are going to be the kingdoms of God and of this Christ and that man is going to reign for ever and ever and ever, you're just not scared when you're filled with the spirit of Jesus Christ. And so let's walk forth in this place, not timid, not afraid, not wrestling with anxiety, as God says to Joshua, so I say to you, chazak veyamash, altai roth ha'adah heemai ha'adah, adonai eleheha behol asher telach, which means church, be bold, be strong, y'all don't be afraid and you don't be terrified of anything, why? Because the Lord Jesus himself is going to be with you everywhere you go this week, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit we pray, amen and amen, God bless you beloved, let's go change this world for Jesus Christ.
