I'm Gonna Live Til I Die // God Chose Me (Part 7) // Charles Metcalf

Have you ever been afraid to try? Have you ever even been afraid to die? In Week 7 of the God Chose You series, Pastor Charles Metcalf poses the question of what if the fear of death isn’t really as powerful as your fear of truly living? One of the bravest things we can do is not die for Jesus, but live for Him daily and shift the community around us. We pray this message causes you to seek the courage and boldness you need to live like you have nothing to lose.

Scripture References:
Philippians 1:20-24 NLT
Hebrews 2:14-15 NLT
Acts 5:29-36 NLT

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to
the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
God will transform your life. Do today's message.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Open up your bibles. We got two key scriptures to read.
Two scriptures to read.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
The first one is in the Book of Philippians Philippians
chapter number one. If you got your bible, go there.
I'm gonna drink some of this water while you all
find your scripture.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
God bless you that see me all. I ain't been
quiet all week. That was so awkward for you. Oh
you're really just gonna drink that water? I'm thirsty, okay,
Philippians chapter number one. If you gotta say, I got it.
If you don't, too bad, okay.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Philippians Chapter one says this, For I fully expect and
hope that I will never be ashamed, but that I
will continue to be bold for Christ as I.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have been in the past.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
And I trust that my life will bring honor to
Christ whether I live or die. For to me, living
means living for Christ, and dying is even better. But
if I live, I can do more fruitful work for Christ,
So I really don't know which is better. I'm torn

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between two desires. I long to go and be with Christ,
which would be far better for me, But for your sakes,
it's better.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
That I continue to live. I'm gonna jump down.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
We're gonna go to Hebrews chapter two, and they'll throw
it on the screen for y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Just read real quick.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Because God's children are human beings made of flesh and blood.
The Son became flesh and blood for only as a
human being could he die.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Only by dying.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Could he break a power of the devil who held the.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Power of death.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Listen to this, Only in this way could he set
free all who have lived their lives as slaves to
the fear of dying. Title of my sermon, if you're
taking notes, is gonna be a good I've been waiting
to preach this one since week one, and I had
to end the title because the first title was a

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little too intense.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm gonna live till I die.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh yeah, baby, it's about to get active up in here.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm gonna live till I die.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Lord, We thank you that because of.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
You we can live till we die.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
And the name of cheesually praying everybody set amen, Amen.
I love about you, but uh, I don't know if
you have any things that you are particularly afraid of,
things that worry you. But I took some time this
week to look up the top five greatest fears historically
in human history. Top five greatest fears, and I'm gonna

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list some of them and maybe if you relate to
some of them.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
You can just give me a woop whoop, yep, that's
me terrified. Uh, then we'll go through these.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Coming in at number five all time they polled, I
guess the world. I don't know when they sent it
out because I didn't fill it out, but uh, top
number five is uh spiders.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Who's afraid of spiders? Come on?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Makes them know you're fraid of spiders. She put two
hands up. Absolutely, come on. Some of you all like,
I'm not fraid of spiders. I was a kid in
fifth grade. They had a tarantula. You know what I'm
saying for show and tell. Spiders number five, coming in
at number four, snakes.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Who's the frad snake?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Somebody said, whoop, yeah, I don't mess when no snakes.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
The devil is a liar? Come on, now, why are
you playing with what the devil was? It don't make
no sense. We don't actually know if he was a snake.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
But anyways, uh, we got spiders, we got snakes. Number
of what would be three would be heights. Who's afraid
of heights? Like, you don't mess being up high? Ain't
got no business being up there. I used to not
be afraid of heights, but I think the older I get,
the closer to the ground I want to be. It's
just like, I don't know why I used to climb
trees and be stacked, Like, oh my gosh, I'm not

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gonna let any of my kids climb trees.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's such a dumb decision. Anyways.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Number three, number two historically the whole world.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Greatest fear dying. There's number two.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
It's not number one.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Throw some of y'all like, yeah, I don't want to die.
Come on.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Number one, greatest fear of all time, which might I add,
just take note of how brave.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
I am up here public speaking.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
It's the number one. I'm just saying, pastors are really brave.
We conquer that thing every single week. Top five greatest fears.
I want to talk to you today about your relationship
to what happens at the end of your life.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Being afraid to die.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Now this is it makes sense. It's a very common thing,
and it's funny to me.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I was looking at it.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Like, really, public speaking, is people more afraid of public
speaking than dying? And I read an article and said, well, really,
what they're afraid of is being publicly embarrassed in front
of people. So they would rather just go ahead and
be gone from the planet than still be here.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
And you thinking.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
About how bad I am at what I do. It's
the public shame, the public embarrassment. And today I want
to submit to you that, if you would like, you
can have a different relationship to how you were to
relate to death and dying. And I want to give
you my thesis today. This is gonna sum up the
whole sermon and one singular point.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Write this down.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Because of what Jesus did on the cross, the greatest
fear for a believer is not dying, but rather never
finding the courage to truly live. I'm about to walk
you through this because of what Jesus did on the Cross,

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the greatest fear you have is not dying. The greatest
fear for a believer is will you ever find the
courage to truly live? Because in case nobody told you,
there is a difference between being alive and living. And
many of us have settled for just being alive, settled
for just making it, settled for just I'm trying to

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make it through.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
But Jesus did not get.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Whipped thirty nine times and die on a cross just
so you could be alive until you die. He died
on the cross so you would not have to be
afraid and you could actually live. You could actually chase
the dreams that God put on the inside of you.
You can actually live with the boldness we read in scripture.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
It is not enough to just be alive.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
You have to make the decision to have the courage
to actually live.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Many believers they.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Want to use this idea you know that, oh man,
if you really love something, you die for something. That's
how you know you really love something. And it's true.
I mean, parents, you'll get this. I never knew the
feeling of I would die for something until you start
having babies. It's the most crazy feeling. They just you
look at them and you're like, all right, yep, I

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will go to jail. I will do.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Illegal things for this little person.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Like it's just how it works. I mean, there are
so many different times literally.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Luna. So our second child, Luna Rows.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
She just turned five, and Luna was going up to
her next class. As a matter of fact, she should
be in there today, her new class. She had hustled
somehow the last two weeks and hadn't been in her
real class. And I found this out. She didn't mean
to give away the information. Luna be telling herself and
be like, no, I didn't say that, but I was talking.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
To Luna and she was like.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I was like, baby, you got to go to the
five's class and she I was like.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Haven't you been going? She's like, oh, I ain't been going.
And I was like, well, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (08:00):
And she's like, well, Dad, there's mean kids in the
fives class. And I was like, there's not no mean
kids up an that five's class. You are a mean
kid sometimes too, You're gonna be all right, no, and
she was like, there really is. And she was like
what if they hurt me or do something. I said, ain't.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Nobody hurt you? And she's like dah.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
She got really worked up, and I was just in
a tough mood. Honestly, I said, listen, if there's any
mean kids, I will go find a mama and daddy
and I will talk to them.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
People for you. She said, you don't even know them.
I was like, I can find them, though, Baby, don't
worry about it.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
But there's this feeling as a parent that you feel
like I love you so much I would die for you.
And that is a level of conviction and passion.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
As a matter of fact, there's.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
A quote I want to read to you by Martin
Luther King Junior. He said this in a speech in
Detroit in June twenty third, nineteen sixty three. If he
tries to kill you develop the inner conviction that there
are some things so dear, something so eternally true, something
so precious, they are worth dying for. And if a

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man has not discovered something that he will die for,
in a sense, he is not fit to live. He
had a conviction that I believe this so much, It
matters to me so much that I would give my
life for it. And the premise he is submitting is
that you have never truly lived until you've found something
you believe you would die for, until you found a

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cause that you feel like is significant enough that you
would give up your own desires, give up your own ideas.
This is why marriage is one of the most beautiful
pictures on the earth. Is because we are called to
die for each other. I know, and sometimes we got
the stats and it doesn't always work out. But the
truth is the reason it don't work out is because
two people want to stay exactly how they are. But

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the scripture says, you got to die.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
To your own desires.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
You gotta die to what you want, You gotta die
to how you load the dishwasher. Hello, somebody, a dishwasher almost.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Took us ours first year. It's like, you just put
it in.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
My wife her thing is she washed all the dishes
before she put them in there.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I'm like, what we got the dishwasher for? If I
can't load a spoon ful of peanut butter and a dishwasher.
This dishwasher broke and a dishwasher it's a dish rubber.
I don't know what it's.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Doing, but that was crazy anyways, But we're gonna move along.
But you gotta ask yourself, have you found.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Something you believe in enough and you die for it? Now?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's having a conversation with one of my friends, Carl,
and he actually part of his story is he spent
some time in a rehab facility and he was telling
me one of the most significant nights he had.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
In his group. They were going around with a counselor.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
They were talking and there was a bunch of guys
in this circle talking about things they have gone through,
and one man specifically was like, man, I love my kids.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Guys was like, yeah, yeah, I know. I love them
so much. I believe you. No, I love them so much.
I die for them, my friend said.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
She looked back to him, said, sir, I don't question
whether or not you die for your kids.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
My question is will you live for your kids.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Because in some extent, it's easy to say you die
for them.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Because then you don't have to keep putting in the work.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
For some of us, it's easy to say I die
for it because it's just this one moment, this dramatic
decision that everybody looks at as so brave.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
But I want to submit.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
To you this morning that one of the bravest things
you could do is not dying for Jesus, but living
for Jesus. Because we all quick to say we die
for Jesus. Man, if they put me in a situation
they put a goup in my hand, say you love Jesus,
I do it, okay, but you don't.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Read your Bible now.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
So while we out here bragging about dying for Jesus,
why don't we take a second to live for Jesus.
The reason we read about these scriptures and the life
of the New Testament Church is so impressive. It's not
just because they die for Jesus. They died for Jesus.
After they had lived for Jesus. They believed he was real,

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They saw miracles happen, They preached and were thrown in prison,
came back out and kept preaching. The reason there are
people that you love and you look up to. It's
not that they're just willing to die, They're willing to live.
And my question is, have you found something with enough
conviction on the inside of your heart? Is the message
of Jesus, is the dreams he's giving you?

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Is the family you have?

Speaker 4 (12:27):
Not?

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Is it enough worth dying for? Is it enough worth
living for? Are you actually gonna get over the insecurity?
Are you actually gonna do what he asked you?

Speaker 2 (12:35):
To do. I'm not worried about if you die for it.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
I'm asking where you live, will you actually do it?
Will you actually get healthy in the areas you know.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
You need to get healthy.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Because it's easy to say, yah, I die for him, But.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
The truth is, it's gonna take more work to live
for him.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's gonna take more work to get healthy.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's gonna take more work to do the work.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
And I'm preaching this with such conviction is because this
message of the Bible is marked by miracles, signs, and
wonders that many of us are frustrated that we feel
like we can't see in our life. And the truth is,
you do not get that result unless you live how

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they lived.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
So there's a disconnect here.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
You cannot live in a comfortable I don't want to
be embarrassed to raise my hands in worship and then
expect to pray for the dead and they come back
to life. I'm trying to save us some time. The
reason crazy stuff and shadows were healing people is because
they were willing not just to die, but they were

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willing to live. They were willing to be embarrassed for
the sake of Christ. They were willing to speak out
and be a little strange. They were not worried so
much about how they would look and what people would
think and what was going on that they would not live.
And the truth is many of us are just alive.
But my question is are you living? Are you living

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with conviction? Are you living with passion? Are you waking
up every single day knowing that God chows you for
this day? And the angels of Heaven's armies are standing
at attention, ready to take war on whatever territory God
has placed in front of you. I don't know about you,
but as for me and the Metcalf House, we wake
up every day ready to do damage to the pits

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of Hell because the devil has.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Taken enough of my family. He's taken enough of my friends,
and I'm.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Sick and tired of acting life. The god of the
universe don't live up on the inside of me.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
I didn't sign up to do.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
This to play Patty Cake and us have our little
club and all our friends die and go to Hell.
I came to rob hell with all my friends and
see people's lives change. And if you're looking for a
place just to do charge and sing some songs and
just make it to heaven.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
That's not what he died for. And that's not what
this book is about. The greatest thing you get out
of church in Jesus is not a get out of
hell free card.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Oh great, I'm saved.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Okay, now it just gotta make it and just hope
he can do something and just see maybe it's something.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Forget. I don't want that. That's what this is. You
can keep that, because here's the truth.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
There's way too much sacrifice and work and discipline and
all these things you gotta work.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Out of you.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
If we're just gonna settle for this low living, why
would we do that?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
It don't make no sense. This is why a lot
of people don't make sense of the church. They're like,
so you.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
Gonna do all that, but nothing really happened in your life,
and it doesn't seem like you have any more peace,
and it doesn't seem like you really like your spouse,
and it doesn't seem like you give money, and it
seems like you judge people who just look differently than you.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm okay, y'all can keep that.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
You want to know why they preach on the first
day of your ooh s built my whole water.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Look at it. That's why they can't be having water
up here.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Man, you want to know why, on the first day
the message of Jesus is preached, three thousand people get saved.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
It was not because people are like.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I kind of believe this Jesus thing,
or it's kind of cool. No, it's because they believed
it with such conviction.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
They were willing to live for it.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
My question is, are you willing to live for the
life in front of you? Are willing to give up
some things, are willing to become somebody different.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now here's the deal.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
We're going to talk about the willingness to live. We
gotta address the fear of dying.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
This is a real thing.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
And I'll tell you a funny backstory on this. So
when last year in August of twenty twenty four, we
were doing seven days of prayer and fasting and there
was a night where I was leading prayer.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Man, if you've never been.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
To prayer at translation church, you are missing out. It
is one of the most beautiful things we do.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
It's so powerful.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
You gotta join us or that prayer. And I'm going
and I'm praying, and somehow I get to the statement
I'm not afraid to die.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
I start yelling at it. I'm like, I'm not afraid
to die, and I sure ain't afraid to live. And
I'm just screaming as I do.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
And the next day, at around seven am, I get
hit by a car on my bike, and so I
was like, hey, yo, God, you know what I'm saying,
I'm not afraid to die.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
But I'm not saying I want to die. You know
what I'm saying. I just just saying in theory.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Because you've been so good.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
I know what's gonna happen. I'm gonna see you.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
But I do have some life to live, so I
appreciate it if you don't take me out.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
But that story I did.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
I got hit by a car on my bike and
super traumatic and my friend, actually Mo, who's sitting right over.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Here, found me laying on the side of the road.
He was on the phone pastor Michael, and he's like,
I think I see PC.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
He's like what He's like, Yeah, I think he just
got hit by a car.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I was only laid out on the side of the road.
MO picks me up. It's my witness. I pass out. Literally,
it was a super tramatic thing. My road rash all up,
my leg had a.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Terrible concussion, and Mo calls my wife and she picks
up the phone. He calls from my phone and she
thinks it's me, so she just says hello. In the
second she hears his voice, he's terrified. He says, hey,
I got PC. He's okay, He's been in an accident.
And fast forward a little bit. I go to the

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doctor's office. Miraculously, no broken bones. I did have a
very very bad uh.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
It was great. No a back concussion. And in the
middle of that also, I also, at this time had
six weeks left until.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
My book was due, and for those weeks I was
laid up in the bed trying to remember my middle name.
So it was a terrible situation. But pretty much it's
from that moment. It brought a choice to me, which
was because of an instance that happened, are you gonna
let that moment define how you interact and move forward.

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There's a moment in all of our lives where something
traumatic will happen to you, something intense will happen to you,
and what it's coming after is not actually trying to
kill you.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
You see, that car hitting me wasn't trying to kill me.
It was just to get me to stop living. It
was to get me to stop doing something because for me,
I found cycling because it helped my mental health. I
get on that bike, pedal till I stopped thinking.

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And it's the most beautiful thing.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
You have not lived until you've been awake at six
am and rode into a sunrise.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
It's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
It's kind of cold, and then you sit down a
coffee shop and drinking espresso.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
It is a vibe. I'm just telling you, it's the
best thing in the world.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
But it was this weird dynamic because there was one
part of me and when I went to get back
on my bike, it felt like okay, finally, because I
feel like I'm going crazy sitting up in this house.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
But then there was another part of me. Still to this.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Day, yesterday, I rode my bike anytime I hear a
car shoulders lock up, and I brace myself just in
case life comes after not your willingness to die or
your willingness to live.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Now, in my statement, I said this sentence, and I've got.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
To clarify this for you, it says, because of what
Jesus did on the cross, the greatest fear a human has,
and specifically a believer has, is.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Not the fear of dying. The scripture I want to
read to you again in Hebrews and explain.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
This to you because I think it'll be so helpful
your life. It says this we read it earlier because
God's children are human beings made of flesh and blood.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
The Son also became flesh and blood.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Listen to this, for only as a human being.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Could he die.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
And only by dying could he break the power of death,
the power of the devil who had the power of death.
Only in this way could he set all who have
lived their lives free from a slave with the fear
of dying. We don't really connect with this idea.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
For some people, it's like a super morbid thought to
ever think that you might die one day.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
And the truth is.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
There are certain people in personality. As a matter of fact,
one time it took a personality test and it's like,
you've probably thought that you were going to die at
an early age for most of your life.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
And I was like, I have thought that.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
I thought it was.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Gonna be some dramatic story of something that happened in
my life. But for some reason, I never thought of
the fear of that. But the truth is, once you
give your life to Jesus, what he came to do
ultimately is take away the greatest thing that would keep
you from living, and that would be what happens when
I die. The biggest power that Jesus comes to give

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the believer is not just the power of every single
day life. It is ultimately the trump card to the
devil that in this life I win, and in the
next life I win. The Early Church under stood this
as a matter of fact. Early on in the Early Church,
when they would have martyrs and people in their church

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who would die, they would throw a party for them,
and they would throw a party, not just a funeral,
but they would throw a party to tell the Roman government, Hey, dummies,
y'all thought that y'all were hurting us by killing our friend,
But you don't realize he's been waiting for the day
he could see.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
His Savior face to face.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
So thank you very much for helping us get to
where we're all trying to go. Now some of us
we can't even think about that because of the connections
we have and the life we want to live, and
do not get it twisted. I love my life, and
I choose to wake up and live every single day,
and I do not have to be afraid of.

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What happens when I die.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
When I die, I'm gonna look Jesus in Revelations nineteen,
the man with the white hair and the feet of bronze.

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And the eyes of fire.

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I'm gonna be looking him eye to eye, and I
will have peace for every more and every tear will
be white from our eye, and I will be walking
on streets of gold, and I don't see my family members.

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I know what happens to me when I die. I
don't have to be afraid.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
And it's important that you understand this because if not,
there is an underlying current of fear that shapes everything
that you do, everything that you won't do, and everything
that you are because you're acting as if you're unsure
of what He did.

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The truth is, you don't have to be afraid. Now.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I know this gospel message doesn't hit the same in
certain contexts because in the early Church, when they were
preaching this trust and faith, and he would have read
this scripture and it would have been read aloud in
the church.

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It would have meant a lot.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
More because some of their friends were.

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Being dragged into the Colosseum.

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So it hits differently when he says, hey, you know
how they're persecuting us and they're taking Christians into the
coliseum and they're killing them in front of people.

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Just so you know, even if that happens.

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To you, you will be seeing Christ face to face.
So you can stand with your head held high and
you can live with the boldness in your spirit to
know that you serve a God who, as the Bible says,
put death to death, so.

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You don't have to be afraid of that thing.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
So after you established that because of what Jesus did
on the cross, and you surrendering your life to him,
you don't have to be afraid of dying.

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My question is what keeps us from living?

Speaker 3 (24:30):
What keeps us from doing what God called us to do?
Reach stories in this book of Shadows healing people, and
there's a story of which helps me. You know, as
a preacher, I don't even getting offended because one of
the greatest preachers of all time is preaching and a
god falls asleep and falls out the window.

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He lively.

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They're sitting in the house in a upper room and
he's sitting in the window and he dozes all fallse
three stories Bam, smacks on the ground.

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He's dead. I would have been another preacher like dang,
it was that bad. He just.

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They walk down the stairs pray for boom, he comes
right back to life.

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This is the miracles that happen.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
But I really believe it all is anchored back to
these people's understanding and the boldness and the belief they
had of who their God was.

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And the greatest issue.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
That I've seen in my own life that I've had
conversations with people about is the frustration between what we.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Read in this book and what we see in our lives.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
So I read in this book that these things can happen,
but I don't see it in my life.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
I read in this.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Book that people get saved and massive droves. I read
in this book that he can heal. I read in
this book that he can provide, but I don't see
it in my life. And if you were to talk
to anybody who spent time in the gym.

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If you looked at them, you.

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Can't envy what they have unless you're willing to do
what they did. And if you're not willing to do
what they did, do not expect to have what they have.
And in the same way, I would lovingly say sometimes
it would be unwise of us to expect what they
have and not be willing.

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To do what they did. What do they do?

Speaker 3 (26:19):
They lived with a conviction enough that spoke with boldness
about their faith, regardless of the setting or circumstance. What
does that look like nowadays? Some of us it's very
hard to us to say the name Jesus at work
because you don't want to be the weird Jesus person.

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Some of us it's hard to.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Lift our hands in worship with all the weird Jesus
people because we still feel like I don't.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Want to be too weird though, you know what I'm saying.
What is it?

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Why is it that we won't live? Why is it
that we won't do what God's asked us to do?
Why is it that we have dreams and ideas and visions?
Miles Moureau was quoted to say, the richest place in
the world is the grave yard because it's full of
ideas and full of potential never reached. And my real
question is is how come something dramatic in our life

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has to happen for us to then decide to live.
I know this sermon is kind of back and forth
with somebody are like yeah, and the you're like, man,
why are you talking about death?

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It's kind of weird. But the truth is, let me
be honest with you. I'm gonna lovel with you.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know, when you go to a funeral and you
leave and for some reason you have more clarity on
what matters, more clarity on the value of life, it's
because there's some layer of that that is healthy for

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you to understand.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
The scripture says tomorrow is not promised.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
And I know, and are just ignore and it's not
a big deal and we're all gonna live for ever
and it's all gonna be fine.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
That sometimes is a scary thought, But the.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Truth is Jesus gives us the comfort of that. He says, Hey,
you don't have to worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow has
enough worries about itself. What he's saying is, don't worry
about what's gonna happen to you. You don't know what's
gonna happen to you, and when it does happen to you,
you're gonna be with me and you're gonna be okay.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
The question is what will you do today? Are you
gonna live today? How many more sermons.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
We're gonna have to hear before we do the idea
we know we've been supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
How many more prophetic words were.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Gonna need for someone to confirm what you got confirmed
when you.

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Had had it confirmed.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm not talking from a lack of experience. I'm talking
from I'm a professional of I got notes in Google
docs of prophetic words and red strings strung up in
places where I'm like, okay, when that happens on this date,
And then I get this Pastor Brennan, you got anything
for a minute, just checking?

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay? Cool? Come on?

Speaker 3 (28:56):
You ever reached out to a couple of profits, you
not just being like.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
How y'all doing?

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Hoping they got a word and they're like, good to
see you, And it's like, oh right, I've done that
because why Because I'm worried.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I don't know if I.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Have what it takes to live, I have what it
takes to be alive, But the truth is to go
from alive to actually living, there is a deep sense
of courage and a deep sense of boldness, and a
deep sense of understanding that even if I fail, it's okay.
And that is the question is do you have the
courage to live? Do you have the boldness it'll take

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to step up and try the idea and it might fail?
Do you have the boldness to step up and try
to become who you feel like you could never be,
but you really want to be, so you're gonna start
taking some steps. Will you ever find the courage to live?
To not settle for just breathing in this life, for
not settle for just making money, spending money, losing money,

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getting more money. That is not the essence of your life.
Your job is not the essence of your life. Getting
a car is not the essence of your life. Whatever
that they thing is you want, when you get it,
it will not fix it until you decide to live.
Decide to live, And that's the truth. It is a decision,

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and life is not always going to be primed for
you to wake up and live with purpose and wake
up live and feel like you're the person that you
want to be.

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But the truth is you still have a choice. Some
of you. You're in such a dark place.

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You've experienced such pain, and the pain didn't kill you,
but it.

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Kept you from living.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Pain didn't kill your marriage, but it kept it from living.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Pain didn't kill the relationship with your children. But it's
definitely not living.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
And my question is, and may I add that maybe
the devil would much rather you live mediocre than die
as a martyr, because the truth is, you die as
a martyr, it's going to start a revolution around the world.
So he would much rather keep you alive and keep
you just living a regular day, regular kind of okay,

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halfway in, halfway out life, rather than you die in.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
This dramatic fashion for Christ. He would rather keep you
from living for Christ.

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Because he knows if you live for Christ, then your
children live for Christ. And if they live for Christ,
then their school lives for Christ. And if their school
lives for Christ, then the city starts to get turned
upside down. He is not afraid of a believer who's
willing just to die for Christ. He's afraid of a
believer who says, I'll wake up every day and I'll
live on purpose, and I'll wake up every day and.

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I'm gonna share the word of God.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
I'll wake up every day and I'm gonna raise kids
to serve him no matter what he's afraid of, someone
who would choose every single day to live.

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That. I ain't worried about you dying.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
He's trying to keep you from living, keep you from
finding out who you really are.

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I'll never forget I spilled that water again.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Jesus, just crash out up here.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
WHOA Okay, maybe don't do that next week. Best of Charles.
We gotta just.

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There's something powerful that happens when you decide to live today.
I want to give you three ideas, three points on
what it would look like if we decided to live
as if we had nothing to lose, to live as
if you had nothing to lose.

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I don't know if you've ever.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Played sports or watch people play sports, but there's always
this moment. And sports happens a lot in the NCAA
tournament where there'll be a number one ranked team and
everybody will assume, oh, this.

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Is gonna be a blowout, like this other team ain't
got no chance.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
All of a sudden, you look up and first baptist
OASO is playing duke.

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You're like, how they up? I'm forty two? What is happening?

Speaker 3 (32:54):
It's because one team showed up with nothing to lose.
One team showed up, get this, thinking I.

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Shouldn't even be here in the first place.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
One team showed up it's a surprise to me that
I even made it. One team showed up knowing who
they really are. One team showed up knowing where everybody
that they from, how their life has went. One team
showed up knowing this is my moment. One team showed
up knowing there might be some people watching that I
don't know who are watching. One team showed up thinking

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somehow I made it here, so I'm not gonna make
it here and then not give it everything that I got.

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Let me tell you what is true of the believer.
The truth is we shouldn't be here.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
The truth is God has made away when nobody else
made away. The truth is, since I'm here, I might
as well live like I got nothing to lose. I
shouldn't be here. You shouldn't be here. Let's be honest
about that. I know we all like to have a
lot of belief in our talent and our ability and
who and what we've done. But the truth is God

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has moved mountains to get us here, and now we're
living safe, not to lose, not to make a mistake.

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I'll never forget. My dad told me this when I
was playing football.

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He said, son, you're gonna get a lot more hurt
if you run trying.

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Not to get hit. It's gonna hurt you.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Worse because you're gonna start doing things that aren't natural,
and that's how you'll get hurt.

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But you just need to run knowing you're gonna get hit.
Let me tell your friend, you're gonna get hit in life.

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I wish I could tell you that Jesus takes away
all the hits and your life is fine.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
But it's just not true.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
So if you gonna get hit, why don't we at
least try to do something? Why we getting hit? That's
my take, it's my honesty. If I'm gonna go through
hell and I'm gonna get attacked, and I'm gonna have
things go wrong, and I'm gonna have things happen to
me that I don't understand, why would I go through
all that and not at least get something out of it.
Feel like that mean with Denzel Washington, like I'm I'm

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leaving here with something.

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You hear what I'm saying. Live like you.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Got nothing to lose. The first point very profound and
say that sarcastically. First thing is you gotta do if
you're gonna live like you got nothing to lose.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Number One, write it down.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
You gotta tried, and some of us this is the
only step because you've been stuck at start for a
long time because you don't want to try. You don't
want to try to start the business. You don't want
to try to have kids, you don't want to try

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to day somebody. You don't want to try to start
the church, or maybe.

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You have tried.

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And it's taken away your confidence, taking away your courage,
taking away your boldness, and now it feels like to
try anything else is just too much. I can't I
can't try. The truth is you'll never know until you try.
You don't know if the business is gonna fail or
if it's gonna be the next Fortune five hundred company.

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Because you haven't tried yet.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
You don't know if that person is gonna be the
love of your life or.

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Just someone else you dated.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
But the truth is you'll never know if you don't try.
Some of you you haven't joined the tribe. You haven't
found your friends. You haven't You had a group of
friends and you lost that group of friends. And the
truth is you're very, very scared to step out again.

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Why because what happens if I try and it doesn't work.
What happens if I try and people aren't there?

Speaker 3 (36:40):
What happens if I step out and it doesn't happen?

Speaker 2 (36:42):
What happens? What happens? What happens? What if? What if?

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Just as many what ifs you have on the negative side,
you never there's just as many on the positive side, we.

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Never go down this road. What if I start the
business it doesn't work. What if you start the business
and it works way beyond what you thought?

Speaker 3 (37:04):
Why, there's just as much evidence, if not more, on
the side of God giving you an idea and it
working than Him giving you one and it not working.
But for some reason, we live our life in the
fear of what happens.

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If I try?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Because here's what honest truth is This next point, what
happens if I try?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Point number two is what happens if I try and
I fall. What happens if I try and I fall?

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Now, Originally when I wrote these down, the point two
was failed.

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But A trains it from.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Fail to fall because it's you either lose or you learn.
You decide, you either fail or you grew. You get
to decide, and we only make things, so buy and
there we only make it.

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I'm gonna try and.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
It's gonna be the best thing ever, or I'm gonna
try and it's gonna absolutely crumble and fail. And that's
your only two options. I tell you, there's a lot
of growth in between those two options. There's a lot
of steps. There's a lot of progress. There's a lot
of understanding yourself that a lot of figuring things out
in between those. And you get to decide, did you

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lose or did you learn? Did you fall on your
face or was it the greatest thing that ever happened
to you because you.

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Found out what you were made of?

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Was it a failure or did you actually just find out, Wow,
I was doing that for the wrong reasons. You get
to make that decision. It's not the opinion of people.
It's not how much money you made, it's not who
noticed it and who liked your video after you worked
on it, and who put it out. That is not
the determining factor. You decide that. You decide if it
was a failure. You decide what it was. You have

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to try, And the truth is, after you try, if're
gonna live like you had nothing to lose, you're gonna fall.

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Part of it, You're gonna fall. We were having a
conversation in the car.

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And Arlo was talking about that he wants to do
a bike race. He was like, I'm gonna do that
bike race. And I love my son. I'm intentionally trying
to raise confident and content kids, and Arlow has embraced
this to a point where he is extremely confident and
he's getting so confident he's getting weird and I love it,

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you know what I'm saying. Like he just wake up
on a Tuesday and he's got a full Spider Man
costume on and then rain boots and he's like, what up, Dad?

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Like where you're going? He's like me and Mamma going
to the grocery store. And I'm like, all right, man,
I'll see you. Yeah. He just rolls. That's how he
gets down it. And I was talking to him about this.
He's like, Dad, I'm gonna do that bike race. But
one of these things. He has like an unreasonable.

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Level of confidence when it comes to sports and doing stuff,
and he ain't done nothing yet, like has no proven
facts of anything. But he's like, yeah, I could probably
beat them. And I'm like, well, you could beat them
if you practice. That's my fatement to him now, like
you can definitely do it if you practice at it.
But he was talking about a bike race, He's like, yeah,
I could definitely beat those guys.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Meanwhile he's talking about grown men in the Tour of France.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
He's like, yeah, I could definitely beat them. Luna goes,
but all of you getting the bike crash, you could
fall and immediately I said Luna. I said, Luna, you
can fall doing anything in life. She's like, what do
you mean, Dad, I said, Rosie, anything you're ever gonna do,
there's a chance you could get hurt, there's a chance it.

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Could not go well. So the truth is you just
got to decide if you like something, you just gotta
try it.

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And the truth is many of us, that's the conversation in.

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Our head, crazy outrageous dream.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Five year old talking about I'm gonna go to the
Tour de France. Then another voice in your head says,
but what happens if you fall? And that's where the
conversation stops. What if I start this and it's amazing.
Oh my gosh, I feel like I heard God. I
feel like he speaks to me.

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Oh my gosh, I think he's providing while there's this miracle.
Somebody confirmed it with me. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna
do it. Yeah, but what if it doesn't work? Oh yeah,
you're right. Who am I kidding? I'm not nobody.

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And you talk yourself out of what God's given you.
But here's the beauty of living like you have nothing
to lose. And I'm gonna close with this. You try,
you fall, and there's this miraculous thing that happens.

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You try again.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
But I wrote this very long, non rhyming sentence at
the end of to watch this. You try again, but
this time use the courage you got from falling to
get back up.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Here's what I mean by that statement.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
When you try again, there is a courage that is
birthed in you that you didn't have when you tried
the first time. And many of us let this little
sliver of hope go overlooked. What happens is you try,
you fall, you find the bravery to get back up again,
to try again. And what you don't realize is you're

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not the same person that tried the first time. You're
a completely different person because you know what it is
to go through a hard time. You know what it
is to work on the vision, you know what it
is to lay it out in front of people. You
know what it is to try and it not to
work and you to get back up again.

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What am I saying?

Speaker 3 (42:14):
You are a different person because you went through it.
There's something birthed on the inside of you. But the
enemy does not want you to know that, so he
makes you think you are the same person that tried
over here and it did not work, that you are
over here. But let me tell you something, you are
not the same person. God has done something on the
inside of you. He's created some beauty on the inside
of you.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
There's something different here. You've got something else. You just
don't know it yet.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
You're not the same person that tried and failed the
first time. There's a beauty, there's a courage, there's a
boldness that is birthed when you get back up again.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
And I want to encourage some people today who have.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Been living your life worried to try again. You've been
worried to go back for it again. I'm telling you
you're somebody different. You haven't tried yet, but you're not
the same person. God did something on the inside of you.
You may not be able to recognize that, you may
not realize it, but there's a beauty you can find
if you'll live like you have nothing to lose. I've

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been thinking a lot about the Bible and these scriptures,
and I'm gonna read to you a scripture out of
Acts five, and we're gonna go home today. But in
Acts chapter five there is a beautiful section of scripture.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
And this is kind of where the subtitle for my
book came. And the subtitle of the book God.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
Chose Me is Untouchable Confidence for the unstoppable Christian and
it comes out of this section of story and team
and band.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
I know I've said I'm gonna close. I'm really about
to close, So if.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Y'all want to come up here, Acts chapter five, Verse
twenty nine, Peter said we must obey God rather than
human authority.

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The God of our ancestors raised.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
Jesus from the dead after you killed him by hanging
him on the cross. Then God put him in the
place of honor at the right hand. We are witnesses
of these things. So is the Holy Spirit, who is
given by God to those who obey him. When they
heard this, the High Council was furious. They decided to

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kill him. But one member, a pharisee named Gamaliel, who
was an expert in the religious law and respected by
all the people, stood up and ordered that the men
be sent outside of the council.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Then they said to his colleagues, men of Israel, take
care of what you are planning to do to these men.
Some time ago there.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Was a fellow Thaddeus, who pretended to be somebody. About
four hundred joined him. They went in various ways. After
he died, the whole movement came to nothing. After him,
there was a guy named Judas of Galilee. He got
a couple people to follow him, but he was killed
two and all his followers were scattered. So my advice
is leave these men alone.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Let them go. If they are planning and.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Doing these things on their own will, it will soon
be overthrown. But if it is from God, you will
not be able to stop these men, and you may
even find yourself fighting against God himself. You need to

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know that you come from a lineage of an unstoppable movement.
A little baby was born two years old. They tried
to kill him, couldn't stop the movement. The boy gets
lost when he's twelve years old. Found him. They couldn't
stop the movement. Thirty years old. Pharisees tried to trap

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him in thousands of questions, and they couldn't stop the movement.
They killed him when he was thirty three years old.
Thought he was dead, couldn't stop the movement, killed all
his friends, started crucifying him upside down. Couldn't stop the movement.
Started feeding Christians.

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To the lions, but they couldn't stop the movement. Sent
the church underground, but they couldn't stop the movement. Tried
to pass laws so the church couldn't do what the
church did, but they could never stop the movement. What
you don't realize is the idea He's given you cannot

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be stopped.

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The question is will it ever be started? Devil can't
stop it, but he can't keep you from starting because
that's the only thing he's got. He knows once you
start that God has been standing outside of time because

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he was creating time, and he looked at time and
he placed you in time, so at.

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The right time, you be on time for his appointed time.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
He knows that there's a plan he has to prosper you,
to bring you a hope and a future. He knows
that once you get with that person and you find
your peace and you find your courage, that you will
end up where you're supposed to. He knows that what
he's hoping on is that you will never.

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Find the courage.

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To start, never find the courage to try, never find
the courage to.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Figure out who you really are. I'll never forget.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
I grew up listening to preaching tapes with my dad.
There's an old sermon TDJS preach one time, and he said,
I didn't know I was me. He said, for a
long time, I didn't know I was me. If I
knew I was me, I would have lived my life different.
If I knew what I knew now, I wouldn't have

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spend so much time being insecure. You know what, people,
I had this conversation with a friend I was talking
to him and he said they did an interview with
people who were at the end of their life, and
they were asking them, what are your greatest regrets?

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And none of them said their regrets was the stuff
they tried.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
And failed, none of them. All of them said, and
it's all the stuff I never tried. Because I'm sitting
here and I don't know what could have happened. I
hope for everybody in this room and under the sound
of my voice is that whatever it is you feel
like God's given you, you just have the courage to

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try because you have no idea what God.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Wants to do.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
You have no idea who you could become. I was
talking to somebody and they were like, man, tell us,
how did you get into ministry? And you got here
in your transformation church, and you wrote a book, and
tell us about the moment when God called you and
spoke to you that.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
You were going to be a ministry and do this.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
And I was like, oh, yeah, I never I never
really had that moment.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
You'd like, what do you mean.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
I was like, I was just serving in the youth ministry,
leading a group of six grade boys, and then the
group doubled like three times, and somebody asked me, Hey,
do you want to serve in a bigger servant road
And I.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Was like yeah, sure, And then they asked me do
you want to interview him to be an associate youth
pastor and I was like okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
It was all these little steps of just trying, you know,
how I wrote a book.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
I tried. I didn't know it was good.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
I remember send it to the first person who had
read the whole thing, like it was the first person,
and I was.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Like, this supposed to be a call to get my
first feedback call.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
And I was like, oh gosh, this is gonna be
so bad. And then open up the zoom and the
lady is crying and I'm like, dang, it must have
been really bad.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
She's like, we're gonna need everything back. You know, I
didn't know.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
I didn't know if I was an author until I
started writing.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
I found out about halfway through the book.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
And what I want to say to you is, you
will have no idea who you could be until you start.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
God, we thank you for who you are. God, to
thank you for your love, for your grace, or your peace,
for your mercy. Now right now, God, I pray.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
I want to pray right now, specific prayer for everyone
who has been afraid to try, afraid to try, whatever
it is, a small thing, a big thing. People have
been afraid to trust themselves, to trust their ideas. Right now, God,
would you just your peace, your comfort.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Right now? Would you comfort them.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Right now, Holy Spirit, I'm praying that you would specifically
impart the boldness and the courage from the early Apostles.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Boldness and courage.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Holy Spirit, right now, in the name of Jesus, would
you impart boldness and courage to take you at your word,
Boldness and courage to speak loudly the truth of the Gospel.
Boldness and courage to be who God created you? Would
be boldness and courage in the name of Jesus. God,
I pray that you would this week inspire and encourage

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people to start the thing they've been waiting to start.
This week, to create habits, to become the person they
want to become this week, something to.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Be different in their life. Bow every eye close.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
I want to take a moment and extended invitation to
anybody who would like to surrender their life to Jesus.
The message of the Gospel is there was a man
named Jesus, and he lived a perfect life, the life
that we're all aspiring to. He lived it, he did it,

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and then he willingly gave up that life for you
and for me. He did that so we would have
a picture, as Hebrew said, of someone who overcame the
greatest fear. The Jesus robbed death of his power when
he rose from the grave. And by rising from that
tomb and walking out of that tomb, he proved to.

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Be and you that there is more to life than
what in front of us.

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And he extends to you an invitation into a life
of peace, a life of joy, a life of purpose,
a life of contentment, a life of boldness.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
But all it takes is a moment of surrender.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
The Bible says, is if you believe in your heart
and confess with your mouth that you shall be saved.
If you're in this room and you want to accept
Jesus Christ as your lord and.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Save you're what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna count to three.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
If you're in the room or watching online, I'm gonna
ask you to raise your hand. Even if you're watching online,
you're like, hey, I'm sitting by myself.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
When you raise your hand on the outside, it is
you showing you and everybody around you that something is happening.
And I want to claim it and I want to
step into this new relationship with Jesus.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
He loves you.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
He has a plan for you. But your life can
change today. It doesn't fix all your problems, it doesn't
make life easy. But what it does do is it
provides you hope from a source that you will not
find anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
If you would like to give your life to Jesus,
I'm gonna count to three. I want you to raise
your hand boldly in this room. Some of you. This
is why you are here. You can feel it. You think,
is that me? Is it me? Is it me? Yes?
It is you.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
Do not let anything hold you back from this moment
of surrender, this moment of transformation. On the count of three,
if you want to give your life to Jesus, I
want you to raise your hand one. He loves you too.
Today is the day of salvation. Three right now, all
over this room, raise your hand. So proud of you.
I see you, sister, so proud of you. I got
you man, I see you girl, so proud of you

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up here in the balcony.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
I got you way in the back. I see my
sister right here. Come on both hands. I see you
a couple back here in the corner.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
So incredible. I got you, amazing, amazing. I see y'all,
I see y'all. Hey, listen out loud together as a family.
Everybody which you pray this prayer with me, say, dear God,
I admit I've made mistakes. I pray you would save me,
that you would change me, that you would make me
new in Jesus name. I pray.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Hey, can we celebrate everyone who just gave their life
to Jesus' best decision you could ever make.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Hey, listen standing all over this room. We're about to
get out of here.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Hey, our worship team is going to continue to worship.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
If you need prayer for anything at all.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
We're gonna have some of our team come up here
to the front and also in the back as you leave.
But if you gave your life to Jesus today, I
want you to tell somebody. Tell somebody around you, tell
them you made that choice.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
As a matter of fact, you text the.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Word saved to the number eight two eight two eight two.
Our team would love to encourage you and help you,
but I want to pray for you, Lord. I pray
that this week would be full of boldness, courage, and
bravery to be and become who.

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You have called and created us to be. And to
the name of Jesus, we pray, and everybody said, Amen,
go out and live a transformed life.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
We love your friends, thank you for joining us today.
If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus into
your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.
We want to celebrate with you, and we have some
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