Our Spiritual Blessings

well good morning listen whether you're in the room or you're watching us online we're glad you're here a lot of times you'll hear us say this expression welcome to South Sub Church we're one church with two expressions of worship we have our contemporary service at 9:00 that you're in and then we have our traditional service at 11 o'clock but I feel like we need to change that up today welcome to the Alaskan church called South Sub Church okay if you're trying to figure out all the de the decorations we do have vacation Bible school it is starting tomorrow and they have an Alaskan theme and so I don't know about you but it's always been on my bucket list to go to Alaska so all of you that have it on your bucket list to spend three four $5,000 to go to Alaska we brought it to you so if you'll drop your $1,000 donation into the offering plate um that will be a lot cheaper for you listen you'll see decorations in our lobby if you venture downstairs it is completely decorated and many many people put a lot of time and energy into doing this you're going "Well why do you decorate it?" Because when the kids come in and tomorrow morning we have over 120 kids that will be filling this auditorium that is awesome that is like 20% more than we had last year and it just begins to create their imaginations the very way God made them that makes their hearts more open not just experiencing Alaska but to learning about Jesus and so all these decorations a lot of people worked on them but I think we'd be a miss i want to recognize one person Danny Resitar she's right over there would you raise your hand would y'all just affirm her she is the creation the creator she is the designer and has done it for many years so thank you um just for using your gifts and we all have different gifts right and you may be saying "Well I don't really have a gifting for children but you have a gifting." And so if you're bored tomorrow morning about 9:00 a.m come up here and we'll put you in a spot to use your gifts i promise you that listen what if what if you started a new job and this new job that you started you walked in and you've started new jobs before so you know there's always that orientation initiation they do and and you walk into HR and and they give you a packet of information about all the benefits the company has and they give you a name badge and you're used to that from your previous job you've got the name badge to identify that you're now a team member and you walk into your supervisor and the supervisor um shakes their hand shakes your hand and says "Welcome to the team." you're kind of going "Okay it's kind of a fresh start you like this and but you're so busy with all the things you have to learn you don't take time to read about all the benefits within that envelope they gave you." In fact to be honest most of us when you get that package of benefits you may glance at it sometimes but but many people never really read all that's included so you work you start working day after day after day you start working this job and at six months into it um you get called into your supervisor's office and they just want to say "I want to do a six-month review how are things going are you liking everything so you have that normal conversation and the supervisor looks at you and says "So what do you think about all the benefits this company offers?" And you're thinking "Well I get a paycheck every month that's a benefit um you know you haven't had to use the insurance so you haven't really dove into that too too much." And you just kind of smile and say "Sure." And the supervisor can tell by your expression going "You never read the package did you that first day you came in that envelope with all that information you never looked at it did you and you're going "Well no I'm just kind of got my head down working the job i mean this is what I'm called to do right this is what you hired me to do." And the supervisor looks at you and goes "No no no no listen working for this company being part of this team you have so many benefits that no other team or organization offers you've got to understand did you realize this this name badge you can walk into the cafeteria of the office and you get free lunch every day and do you realize this that you can take it to the local establishment down the street and you have free happy hour every night and did you know this that you can show this badge and next time you and your family go on vacation you have free flights to wherever you want to go and if you book it to Disney World this badge will get you to the front of the line every single ride you go to Disney World and the supervisor goes on and on and on about all these benefits you get for being on this particular team for this particular organization how disappointed would you be if you never had that six-month review to understand all that can you imagine if you would have worked for that particular organization that particular company worked on that team your whole life and 30 years later they're throwing your retirement party and you're walking out of the door you've got your box packed of all your photos and things you decorated your office and you never took advantage of all the benefits that this particular company offered because you're on this team wouldn't that be a little sad it would definitely be disappointing now here's why I share that story i wonder how many people are followers of Jesus they are Christians they are authentic Christians but they've really never understood the benefits that you and I have as followers of Jesus that Christ gives us that more than being on team Jesus they find themselves on what I refer to as team religion now don't get me wrong they're still Christians everybody's still going to heaven but sometimes in team religion we so focus on all those have to do things the things well if I'm in religious here's what makes me religious this what makes me a Christian i got to say the right things i got to do the right things i got to hang around the right people i got to show up at the right places at the right time and we have this to-do list of all these responsibilities kind of like the person at the work they got their head down moving forward and they thought that's all there is to being on the team but they spend their whole Christian life on team religion and they miss the benefits on being on team Jesus now I say that not this church maybe this church but churches Christians around the country around the world and you get to your final destination retirement in heaven but while you're on the job on this life you miss all the benefits that God had for you and so here's what we're going to do we're starting summer's kicking off here we're beginning a brand new series and throughout the summer we'll be studying the book of Ephesians and the book of Ephesians is this amazing book and it's really a letter that the Apostle Paul wrote to the church of Ephesus that's why we call it the book of Ephesians but he wrote this letter to this church in Ephesus some people that he had met probably 10 years earlier in fact he was the one that came to Ephesus 10 years earlier introduced them to Jesus put some people there to keep growing them in the church but he's writing this letter 10 years later and here's why he's writing it he's going I don't want you to spend the rest of your life following Jesus and missing the benefits missing the wealth that Jesus has for you that God didn't save you just so you can be a part of the team and wait until retirement but God saved you god brought you on his team so that we can on in on earth experience the wealth of benefits that he has in store for us and so I'm excited these next six weeks that's what we'll be diving into the wealth that we find in our relationship with Jesus and here's what I hope and I pray that some of us will be an opportunity going "Whoa I was missing it." Not that you drop your head in shame going "Man I'm a really bad Christian." That's not the intention paul never wrote it to shame anybody he wrote it to encourage them to spur them on and I hope you and I will discover new wealth that he has for us in our relationship with Jesus that we won't continue in team Jesus or team religion that we will make sure that we're on team Jesus it's about the relationship with Jesus not the religion of the church and so if you have your Bibles or you have the hand out there we'll have the scriptures there we'll be looking just at a few verses as we as we start the book of Ephesians today and we'll start there in verse one now some of you may have already picked it up we are offering for $5 you can pick it up but we have got the book of Ephesians right here in this little booklet right now and I know the reason some people like "Oh the Bible's so big and I get overwhelmed and I never read it." Here's what I found in this little book we take one of the books of the Bible and puts it just in a small book it's easy to hold around hold it doesn't feel so overwhelming and as you take notes or sometimes throughout this study I'll say "Hey circle this you can feel free to write and take notes in this." So if you haven't picked up your booklet yet you can find them right outside the door as you leave to here today but you'll have your own copy but here's what it says in verse one it says "Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God to the saints who are in Ephesus." So he's saying "I am Paul i'm writing this letter and here's who I'm writing it to to the saints who are in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ Jesus grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." When you first read that you may think "Well Paul's kind of poking you know puffing his chest up going," I'm an Apostle Paul that's my official title you people need to kind of bow down shake your head or or nod at me and just recognize who I am when he identified himself as the Apostle Paul it was not in a bragging way it was in a way of humility you see if Paul had written this letter 15 years earlier before he moved from team religion or before he moved from team religion to team Jesus he would have puffed his chest up and said "I'm really religious i'm not just a person of religion." He even would say this "I'm a persecutor of Christians." Paul was one of the most religious peoples that our world has ever known before he met Jesus he he gives the background of his education of his heritage of who he is of all the things he did in the name of God but in the name of God he was pursuing religion and was completely missing Jesus and the Bible lets us know in the book of Acts that he had this encounter with Jesus like this crazy encounter with the Holy Jesus just comes and just begins talking to him and changed his life completely and Paul discovered grace paul discovered God's forgiveness go paul discovered Jesus saying "Paul I don't care who you are what you've done come to me." And it was through that relationship and through that grace that he now considers himself and calls himself and identifies himself as an apostle one who's bearing the name of Jesus and so as Paul writes this he doesn't write it proud he doesn't write it going "Well I've read the manual i know what you people are missing you need to be more like me." He's going "By the grace of Jesus come on i want you to get what I got." And then he goes on to say in verse three "Blessed be the God and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ if you're taking notes if you've got your little handout if you got your little Bible like this circle the word blessed." Blessed is going to be a key word as we understand what Paul is trying to say he said "Blessed is the God blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ." And then he says this "Who has" and circle again who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing you can circle it again so in one sentence three times bless bless bless who has given us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places it was because of Paul's personal relationship when he moved from team religion to team Jesus because of his personal encounter with Jesus because he understood and received that grace he's going I got more blessings than I know what to do with like spiritual blessings things that profoundly influenced my life things that have changed my life and it was because not of what he did but because of what Jesus did it's nothing he earned it's what Jesus gave him it was through his relationship with Jesus that he was experiencing everything and so much more that he wasn't experiencing in religion so he's writing to Ethiopia or the Ephesians and he's going I got to help you get this i I've got to make sure that you get all these blessings so you may be taking notes right now you're going okay this is one thing for this letter to be written to the Ephesians but what about us today the very blessings that Paul is writing about God wants you and I to have in our lives as well he wants us to experience depths of him in ways that we can't imagine so the question comes up okay if he's got these amazing spiritual blessings what are they let's keep reading and I'm going to read four through 14 a longer part of scripture I normally read let me read it and then we'll go back and break it down because this is what Paul says as he talks about these blessings he says "Even as he chose us in him," this is in verse four "Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love he meaning God he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will and to the praise of his glorious grace with which he has blessed us in the beloved in him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will according to his purposes which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in him things in heaven and things on earth and in him we have obtained inheritance having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will so that we who were in the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory in him you also when you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation and you believed in him you were sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the praise of his glory can you do me a favor take your hand just like this put on top of your head and on the count of three just go one two three you know what we're representing you are right over my head what in the world is Paul saying that look like a one big long run-on sentence welcome to the writings of Paul okay so let me see if I can break it down for you there are three blessings three things three benefits three part of our wealth that that he describes here that you and I have because not team religion but because of team Jesus team relationship and here's the first one the blessing the benefit God chose you okay god chose you let me read it to you again it says in Ephesians verse4 "Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him." You were chosen by God let that sink in for a second it has a hard time sinking in with me you know why because I have PTSD from fourth grade recess fourth grade recess we'd always get let out and we'd always have a big game of kickball you know the big red bouncy ball that was so hard to catch like "It's coming it's coming." and it hits your arms and just bounces 10 feet in the air i was absolutely horrible at that game like if I even got close to it it was never going to land in my arms and we would go out to recess every day and they would choose captains of the team and they would choose their players guess who was the last person that was chosen me like the girl with a broken leg got chosen before me in fourth grade kickball recess time i was absolutely terrible so I have this PTSD of this idea of being chosen my mind my emotions everything about me goes back to what it felt like then now I say that humorously i've gone through years and years of counseling so I'm past that but many of us in this room it's not about kickball you never felt like you were chosen by your own parents as the one they wanted to love you were never chosen for that advancement in your career you were never chosen for that promotion you were never chosen back in school for a certain team or sport or extracurricular activity you weren't chosen for family for some reason and there is such sting and hurt in us that when we think of this idea of chosen even though the scripture said God chose us in your mind you're going "Who would ever want me?" And here's what I want you to know today god wants you god didn't choose you because of what you had to offer god didn't choose you because of what you've done in fact the scripture says there he chose you before the beginning of time before you even breathe a breath God knew who you were and he chose you he chose you in your sinfulness he chose you in your brokenness he chose you right now where you are he chose you in fact I wrote this down i want you to repeat these expressions after me after I say it i am handpicked by God

okay this is supposed to be excitement okay that felt like a death march right there okay I am handpicked by God i am handpicked i am preferred by God i am preferred by I am favored by God i am favored by God and I am singled out by God somebody just stand on your chair and just do a hallelujah dance right there okay i mean do you understand that God did that for you not the corporatess of it okay we're talking about team but now he's talking about individual players and God shows you but this verse right here gives people a little hangup because here's what happens you read in this verse he chose you he predestined you and all of a sudden people begin to theologically argue oh he chose you so you didn't have a choice he predestined you so you were picked but here's where it goes to he predestined you so he didn't predestin you he chose you but he didn't choose you and for many people when they read this particular verse in the Bible it becomes this hangup of actually joining team Jesus because they sit back going "What kind of God would choose some and not choose others?" Let me give you my threeinut summary of how I interpret this passage where there's been theologians they've taken hundreds of years and they're still discussing it but here's what we need to understand this particular verse when Paul is writing it is not talking about who's excluded he is focusing on who is included okay our mind go well how did he get why didn't he pick that person did they not pick that person and we want to make our debate about who's not in when it's really like who is in and as I read the fullness of scripture here's what your pastor believes that God's desire is for who to be in all to be in let me read a couple of verses to you i can't get away from 1 Timothy chapter 2:3 and 4 that says this god our savior who desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus i look at Titus chapter 2:1 for the God of for the of God has been revealed bringing salvation to all people and then John 3:16 for God so loved who him and him and her not him for God so loved the world so I believe when Paul's talking about he predestined he chose since the beginning of time God's love is for the people that he created in his own image so much that his joy his desire is for all to know who they are know to for all to know who he is that his desire is for all to know but they're going "Hey Keith like then that's you're just going to throw away predestination you're going to throw away election you're going to throw away being chosen." Like do you just read these verses and throw those away here's what Keith does i hold all in this hand i hold He elected and chose in this hand and I hold them really tight together and you're going to keep that doesn't make sense how can God elect or choose some but forno all but yet want all to come you know what that's called colossians discuss it it's the mystery of God i don't get all that i wish I was theologically astute enough to sit here and go "Let me take five minutes and I'll explain this to you clearly." Like I said theologians have debated this over hundreds of years and they can't come to the same conclusion i'm okay to hold a mystery of God because if there was no mystery of God then I would call myself God that we view God as this timeline like we are linear timeline god's existence is beyond our linear timeline so somehow can he see the whole world before it ever happens not force us to do something and gives us an option because he wants all but still know the chosen can all that go together absolutely it can the best way that I can understand this is think about it this way let's say this was heaven and this is a door into heaven the big sign above the door would read this whosoever may come in other words you get to the door to heaven you're looking at it whosoever may come it's not selecting whosoever may come you walk through the door and when you walk through the door and you turn around and look at the back side of the door there's another sign that says this chosen before the beginning of time whosoever come on as you walk in and you make that choice to respond to Jesus in his invitation you walk in going "Woo i was chosen." I know this for Keith i was dead in my sins because the Bible says that we were spiritually dead i didn't wake up one day as a fourth grade boy going "Hey Jesus I need to find you i need to find you." Jesus came to Keith and as a fourth grader he woke my spirit up and he said "Come come come whosoever come." All 120 kids in this room this week will hear the invitation of Jesus to follow jesus won't be standing at the door tomorrow morning going "Okay send that kid on the side because I ain't choosing him." And let's put those over there because they're not in my plan i think all 120 kids walk in he's going "Come come come." And they will have the opportunity as they hear the message of Jesus to respond whosoever and they'll be chosen so you are chosen each of us have the opportunity to respond more come

but that's not the only benefit he gives he gives more benefits there in Ephesians here's a second benefit if you're taking notes you can write this down god redeems you he didn't just choose you he redeemed you can you imagine if you go home today and you go to check in a bank account online and it looks like it seems like and it's absolutely for sure somebody hacked into your online banking account you can imagine the stress some of you have experienced that before right i mean you go in there and you find out that this individual this hacker stole your identity leaves you with no money destroys all your credit and causes you amazing personal anxiety okay that'd be horrible and as you're stressing you're sitting in front of the computer all of a sudden you get a phone call and the phone call is from a cyber cyber community or cyber expert and he's about security and he goes "I see what just happened online and I'll take care of it for you." He said "Stop stressing stop trying to do anything just sit back and watch me work." And this cyber security expert steps in and he does his little magic and restores your identity he clears the damage he res resets everything and he secures it like it was and he secures it in a way that will never happen again you know what he would have done he would have redeemed your situation are you with me we're not talking about your bank account we're talking about our spiritual lives and what Paul is saying to everybody is when Jesus when you step into team Jesus you respond to Jesus and you move and respond to him that he redeems your life he gives you a new identity he resets things the way they're supposed to be he clears your name of anything that somebody might say is wrong he redeems the situation and here's the great news when he redeems it he redeems it forever see if that happened to you with your bank account the cyber security expert probably said "I've got it taken care of and for a mere $19.99 every month for the rest of your life I'll keep doing this you just need to keep paying me there's a one-time favor but from now on if you don't want this to happen you got to keep paying me." Jesus never says that he goes "When I choose you when I select you when I bring you on my team when you respond to being on my team I redeem you forever." Paul's actually using this word redeem it was a Greek word that would have been used more in the slave trade back in those days there was hundreds and hundreds literally over 50% of the community of Rome was slaves and that'd be a horrible existence but a slave could be and he uses this word redeemed by somebody else someone else could pay the price and purchase that slave and set them free when it comes to our spiritual lives the price was paid to set us free from spiritual death to spiritual life and that price that was paid was Jesus on the cross god looked down and said "I chose you but it's going to cost me and I will pay the cost here's my son Jesus i'll allow him to die on the cross so I can redeem you." The only way that we're redeemed is through the death the burial and the resurrection of Jesus on the cross so we're redeemed here's the third and last one the third one says this that God sealed you god sealed you it says there in verse 13 when you believed you were marked with a seal does that mean God came and put a little clip on your ear so he knows who's his does he put a little tag like you do when you mark animals out in the wild and and and the game warden is trying to monitor them he seals us with his holy spirit now when the person reading this church this letter 2,000 years ago that church in Ephesus when he said "You were sealed." Here's the image that would go through their mind anytime there was an official letter sent somewhere it was sealed and the way it was sealed is they would take hot wax from a candle and they would drip it in a blob where the flap or the two sides of the paper hit each other and that that that wax would be melted there and then the official person a king or whoever the official person was had a signate ring that only had their emblem on that ring and when they would take their ring and they would press it in the hot wax and so as that hot wax cooled it would show forth the emblem of the official person that wax would take both sides of the paper and seal them shut and here's what they knew that that letter was sealed because it was so important it was important because it showed ownership it belonged to the person who put the seal on there who put the signate ring on the on the wax was ownership it belonged to that person and it's saying "This is mine." It had authenticity to it because it was that specific emblem on that specific ring whoever read it and looked at it said "Oh I know who this came from." So it showed authenticity i couldn't send a fake letter with a seal because I wouldn't have the right ring to do that seal the third thing it showed is this security the contents within the letter were held tightly and sealed shut if I received a letter with a seal on it but that seal was broken and the wax already been broken I would know that someone else got to it and so it showed those three things so as the Ephesians were reading this letter and it says "And they were sealed in their salvation." Their salvation was sealed here's what they knew they had ownership if God sealed me when Jesus chose me and I res responded and my salvation me being not on team religion but on team relationship team Jesus it is sealed i am authentic this is the real deal this is Jesus who did it in me it showed ownership i'm not going to be taken away by somebody else and it showed the permanency of that and here's what happens in our lives when a person walks through the door turns around and says "Chosen." So they've made the response to follow Jesus the Bible says this and Paul's clarifying it you are sealed with the Holy Spirit and I know sometimes Holy Spirit woo like Holy Ghost what is that it's kind of a weird part of God and we're not really sure what it is here's what it is in simplest forms the Holy Spirit is God's presence in our lives see God didn't save you going "Good luck we'll see you at retirement one day will see you when you get up in heaven welcome to the team god sealed you and said this i am on you're on my team and I will be with you wherever you go in the daytime I'm with you i'm with you in the night time i'm with you in the good times and I'm with you in the bad times i am with you in the com times that you're confident and I'm with you in the times that you're not confident i will be with you that is him giving himself to us you see team religion says "Oh if I want God to be happy with me I need to do this and I don't need to say this i need to go there." And we spend all the time trying to make God happy enough so he's with us and he's going "No no team." Jesus says this "I'm with you i'm with you." From the moment you said "Jesus I follow you i'm with you." And he seals us with his Holy Spirit in fact as Jesus was trying to describe the Holy Spirit before he left he's going "I'm going to God's going to send you my father's going to send you something kind of better than me." Because when Jesus was on earth he could only be here and not there he could only be over there and not with this person but the Holy Spirit is with each of us so what's the benefit you get for team Jesus you're chosen you're redeemed and you are sealed so I want to end with this so what I mean honestly some people will sit and hear this message going "Okay ching ching i learned some things about God today so so what does this mean for my life?" Let me just wrap up by just giving you a few so whats if you're here today and you have responded to Jesus you have walked through that door going "God I don't deserve it jesus is all you you died on the cross for my sins and I am moving to team Jesus." If you've done that with your life here's your so watch you are chosen so rest in his love you are chosen so rest in his love way beyond the kickball illustration many of us don't feel loved by God because we not we've not been loved and chosen by people in this earth but God chose you nobody forced his hand he chose you because he loves you so rest in his love stop striving to earn what has already been freely given you belong not because you worked your way in but because he brought you in and you're not a guest at God's table you're family if you look back at that passage we read you're adopted you're part of the family and so so the so what rest in his love because he chose you here's the second thing you are redeemed so what so walk in his freedom like he paid for it he purchased it he brought you so don't live like your old self when he brought you into a whole new life can you imagine if you get hacked on the computer and the cyber security person comes in and fixes it all for you and puts all your money back in but you never go out to eat the rest of your life because you don't think you have the money you you sell your house and you live like a popper because you don't have the money you're not living like everything is returned to you when he redeems you he fills you to the fullness of who he is so don't slip back into the old patterns of guilt shame or fear leave behind the mindset that says you're still enslaved and you've been bought with a price walk like you know who your redeemer is this past weekend I flew to Dallas for a couple of days to see my grandkids my little eight-month granddaughter she like army can crawl around the house okay she's not got on the knees yet but she can move but when it comes to walking she's not there but you can put her in one of those little strollers with the the four wheels and stands her up and she can move those legs and she can walk like a crazy person just like zooming through that house she needs a little help as she's learning to walk this summer as we're working through Ephesians and we're studying together can I give you some help to walk spiritually walk first you've got this use this just read it okay just take some time every day and just read through Ephesians but here's the second thing you found it in your handout today and in fact if you don't have it on your handout there's or if you'd ever lose this there's a QR code that you can access it but this summer as we work through Ephesians whatever verses that we study on Sunday we're creating five days of devotionals for the following five days that you can go back and let it keep going in deeper and deeper and deeper honestly when we read that passage earlier today over your head right but taking it piece by piece by piece we are learning that way to walk in the spiritual power the spiritual comfort the spiritual confidence that God gives us and so I hope this summer I mean you can look at this it will take you five minutes a day just just one a day but we'll be producing these all summer and the goal and the hope is that we all move from training wheels and walking and we're walking and running on our own two spiritual feet and then here's the last thing so what so you're sealed so stand in his promise god has marked you as his own what he started in you he will finish so no power in heaven on earth can undo his promise there are people I've talked to before going Keith like I I accepted Jesus but is he really there if you responded in your life and you walk through the door and you meant it he is there because you've been sealed don't live in security live in the confidence not of who you are but who he is and so that's why it's so important for you and I to understand and grab hold of the benefits the wealth that we have in team Jesus a relationship with Jesus now let me wrap up with this and the band's going to come up and we'll have a last song what if you never walk through the door what if you're here today and you're going "Listen I come to church and and and and I've been hearing this but as you talk about our response of trusting Jesus knowing that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and rose again three days later I have never He might have chose me but I've never responded back to him." What's my so what it's really simple you know what your so what is if you've never responded to Jesus walk through the door remember the front side says "You are chosen." I'm sorry the front side says "Whosoever will." That's you and you're sitting here going "But I don't know if God chose me." If you're sitting in here and hearing the gospel he chose you he's He's made you like peaked your interest peaked your heart he is calling you you just got to walk through the door whosoever will he desires to be saved

you just got to say "Jesus

I need you i'm a sinner i don't deserve you but I want you will you live in my life i'll walk the door and I'll lean on trust in you." That's your so what and I invite you where you are right today you can pray that prayer as they sing just Jesus I'm coming in that's your so what so Jesus we come to you now

and thank you regardless of where we are spiritually right now regardless regardless of what's going on in our lives you chose us you desire all of us to know you in relationship

jesus I pray if there's anyone in this room right now it's been a head knowledge but not a heart knowledge it's been a religion but not a relationship

jesus thank you for the door i pray they would walk through we pray these things in your name Jesus amen