Yeah.
So, Abraham was given this promise by God that nobody else saw nobody else heard, or whom nobody else are heard. I will make you the father of many nations I will make your name famous, I will give land to your descendants I will bless the families
of nations of earth with your descendants, your descendants will be as, as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand of the seashore.
And he had that word.
And then he had.
And then he had all the evidence that said, you've never had children you never will have children.
Your wife.
She's never had children. She never will have children.
And,
and it says that he decided when hope was gone to hope on to hope in the one who promised, whom he esteemed was able to raise the dead to life, and to call those things that be not as though they already were.
He esteemed hit he was able to do what he promised.
So how do you get to that belief, how do you get to, like, you know, Mark 11. Let me see Mark 11 in the amplified.
So Mark 11.
You remember when. So it's in the passion week, and Jesus goes to reach for a fig.
And, and because he was hungry, and there's no figs because it's not the season.
You know that scripture be ready in season, and out of season. There's no season so the tree tells him, it's not the sea salt my season.
And there's no fix.
And so he says, then neither shall you produce fruit for anyone.
And so they go in a whole bunch of stuff happens, and then they're coming out, and they walk by this tree they're coming out of Jerusalem they walk by this tree, and Peter.
They notice this is Mark 1120.
They notice that the fig tree was withered completely away to its roots. And Peter remembered and said to a master look the fig tree which you doomed has withered away.
And Jesus replying said to him, have faith in God, constantly. The reason for the constantly is because in the Greek text. It's that continuous, you know, have faith now be believing now.
And truly I tell you whoever says to this mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but be leaves what he says will take place.
It will be done for him. Have you guys heard the verses.
It's impossible for them that believe, or all things are possible to those who believe.
So, and then how about when the disciples say, Oh, what are the works is tell us the works we must do to please God.
What is it and we'll do it.
And Jesus said, Yeah, only believe.
And to Jay Iris.
He said, Lord, you're able to come and and heal my daughter.
And then they came and said don't bother the master, because she's gone, she's dead.
And Jesus turns to him and says,
remember, only believe, only believe. So there's an option to doubt.
There's an option to be distracted, or you can only believe.
Nothing shall be impossible for them to believe. That's what Jesus is saying here in Mark 11.
And whenever.
For this reason I'm telling you, whatever you ask in prayer. Believe the Amplify says believe, trust and be confident that it is granted to you.
will receive it. Because remember in the first epistle of John, if we ask anything according
to God's will, we know he hears us. Elijah, if you ask your mom what she's already planned for you,
if you ask her, mom, can I clean my room? Mom, can I help you bring in the groceries? Mom,
could I do the dishes after dinner tonight? Is she going to hear you? She is going to hear you.
You are speaking her language, right? She's going to hear you. Are you going to have whatever you
asked? You are going to have whatever you asked. So that comes from someone. That comes from our
heavenly father. When we ask anything according to his will, we know. And are you going to be
blessed on the other side of doing those things? Yeah. It's kind of like church and exercise,
right? Do I feel like going? But afterwards, you're so glad you went. You're so glad you did
that hard thing for somebody else. So glad you were helpful. So here when we ask anything
according to what we know is already God's will, we know he's hearing us. It's not our idea.
When we're asking for someone to be healed, when we're asking, when we're pressing in to find out,
you know, that somebody be saved, when we're asking that our hearts would be made pure,
that we would hear him, that we would hear God's voice, that we would be hungry and thirsty
for his righteousness. None of those things are our idea. We don't have to beg for them,
right? We're speaking God's language. So we know he's hearing us. We know we're coming into
agreement with those things that God has already said. And Jesus says, when you pray like that
and you believe, then you will receive. And whenever you stand praying, this is verse 25,
really important in Mark 11. Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone,
forgive him. Let it drop. Leave it. Let it go. In order that your father who is in heaven
may also forgive you your own failings and shortcomings, let them drop. But if you do not
forgive, verse 26, neither will your father in heaven forgive you your failings and shortcomings.
So in this, in any discussion about believing, we have to have a discussion about what?
What would we just hear in Mark 11?
And if you have anything against anyone, forgive. So why is that? Because it's also
God's will. So if God has shed his blood for the forgiveness of all sins, then
we're, forgiveness isn't saying what? Forgiveness doesn't say, forgiveness doesn't pretend anything.
Forgiveness doesn't say something didn't happen or it's okay that it happened.
Forgiveness doesn't take on, it's all right, I'll bear the weight. I'll overlook it. No,
forgiveness says it's yours. Actually, you have, what does it say in Jeremiah? And I will remember
their sins no more. I will remove their sins in Isaiah from as far as the East is to the,
from the West. I will remember them no more. I will cast their sins into the sea of forgetfulness.
Wait a minute. Jeremiah 31, 34, I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. I will remember
no more. So that's, that's God's, that's God. So you can't believe what feels good,
what you want to believe. I want to believe for this provision. I want to believe for this
protection, but I don't, I don't want to believe that that person who betrayed me,
who hurt me, who stole from me, who beat me, I don't, I don't want to forgive. So what forgiveness
is, is making an attachment of yourself with something other than God. If an evil has been
perpetrated by you or someone else, forgiveness
separates you, severs you from the curse of that thing, from the follow through of that thing.
It just says the effect of that, that's not what determines who I am.
That's not where my mind is going to go. That's not why I come to the Lord.
That is yours. They're yours, God.
I just give that whole situation to you. I ask you to bless them like you've blessed me.
And I ask mercy like you've given me mercy.
So this is powerful to understand because it's so important.
You guys remember in Matthew six, when and in Luke when they're saying, you know,
well Jesus is on the Sermon on the Mount or in Luke when they're saying, teach us Lord how to pray.
And what does he say?
Yeah, nice and loud, honey.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Yeah, our Father acknowledging the Father.
Holy is your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done on earth.
Your will on earth, your will on earth in me, through me, for others, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Give us what we need today.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive others who trespass, who sin, who have debts against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever.
Amen. What does it say after the Lord's Prayer.
If you forgive those who have sinned against you, your Heavenly Father will forgive you.
If you don't forgive, your Heavenly Father will not forgive. Why? Because that blood was shed for the forgiveness of sins for all mankind.
And so, if we are receiving forgiveness for us, we have to receive that it's for everyone.
And if we don't receive that it's for everyone, then we don't receive that it's for us.
So we actually decide whether or not we walk in belief and faith.
Do I believe that the blood was shed?
I can't believe that fundamental thing that the nature of God is mercy and that His justice has paid the price.
His ultimate vengeance is forgiveness because it robs the true enemy of His prey.
He's not trying to destroy the children.
He's trying to rescue, to redeem the children out from under the enemy who has deceived and destroyed them.
So, in believing, we have to understand that God alone makes us not guilty.
That's what happened with Abraham.
Abraham believed that God was able to do what he promised, that Abraham could do nothing about it.
So he had to understand, one, that he was loved so that he would not fear.
And he had to believe that none of what God promised was based on anything he had done wrong.
And so, in God's eyes, because he believed God, God said, you're not guilty.
You're righteous.
So this issue of not being guilty is a gift given by God that allows us to hear him say, now go and sin no more.
So what would make that possible?
Like, I don't know about you guys, but when I would read him say, say that to people who were getting saved,
like the woman who was thrown at his feet, having been caught in the act, she's an adulteress.
She deserves death according to the law.
And then he says to her, go and sin no more.
Or the paraplegic, he totally healed, go and sin no more.
Or the guy he healed from blindness, go and sin no more.
So.
I used to think that that was, wow, that's,
that that was not kind, that was mean,
because how are they going to go do that?
Because I felt that way about me.
Okay, I'll never again, kind of like, okay,
don't let tomorrow come because, you know, I'm back at it.
So I have to believe there's been a transaction.
There's been a transaction.
So what Jesus did was by taking the guilt away
and giving them either the ability to,
you know, you remember how the disciples said,
Lord, that man that's been blind from birth, who sinned?
Was it him or was it his parents?
Does anybody remember what Jesus said?
No.
Yeah, he said, he said, nobody sinned.
I'm like, yeah, nobody sinned.
Jesus, come on, you and I know, sinned.
But that's not what he comes into agreement with.
And he says, this is to glorify my father.
He immediately, he will not agree with the accuser.
He will not agree with the liar.
He will let you agree, but he will not.
And he says, this is for God's glory.
And he claims that for the kingdom.
And so when he tells these people, your sins are forgiven,
go and sin no more,
he's literally made a transaction with them.
I've taken the whole of the curse.
You're not, you're free, you're not cursed.
You're not rejected.
You're not accepted.
I mean, you're not, you're not unaccepted.
Neither do I condemn you, he said.
So when it comes to believing,
there has to be this vital connection,
this searching of heart to,
do I esteem in any place in me that I bear guilt,
that I am guilty?
So not guilty and only believe,
those are really deep because the accuser's got two things.
One, he's going to tell you how guilty you are.
And two, he's going to tell you how sick you are,
how impossible this thing is.
So I think about like Psalm 51, this audacity,
this total audacity of David,
who, I mean, y'all,
what are the things he's guilty of in this time
when he doesn't go out when all the kings go out to war?
Yeah, so first he stays home where he's not supposed to be
and he's idle.
So he's looking over his balcony
and he's checking out the neighbors
that he shouldn't be checking out.
And he starts lusting after Bathsheba
and then commands someone to go get her
as if she is his possession.
And then he commits adultery with her
as if he has the right to do that.
And then what happens?
Yeah, but why?
She's pregnant.
He's like, oh, we can't have this.
My gosh, Uriah the Hittite,
he's out there fighting and I'm not fighting.
He's fighting for my kingdom.
And so somebody go get him,
go get him and bring him in
because he's so faithful, so loyal.
So he brings in Uriah and Uriah, he says,
go relax, refresh in yourself,
go lay with your wife and eat.
Pretending he's good, like he's totally manipulating.
And Uriah's like, how can I?
My army is out there fighting.
Everyone's out there on the front lines.
How could I go like indulge myself?
So he lays outside David's door fasting.
David's completely indulged himself.
And this man just like the convictions are heaped on here.
So then he sends.
a note out and, you know, and orders Joab to put your eye in the front of the line and
everybody else pull back. So he implicates other people in murdering. It's just, you
know, whenever we don't humble ourselves. What is it Shakespeare says? Oh, what a tangled
web we weave when first we practice to deceive. So, so now that he's dead, he takes in Bathsheba
and then the baby dies. Nathan comes, you know, and so and tells him, you know, here's
what you did. And he's convicted and he goes into the, he goes into the show to the, yeah,
with the sheep. You guys remember that story? Yeah. Oh. And then, so then he, he,
um, so David goes in and just listen to this. I mean, this is someone, so this is why God
calls him a heart, a man after his own heart, not because he was flawless, but because of
his faith. Like he was so completely filthy and covered in guilt. In fact, uh, unfortunately
his family suffered violence there on out and his own son compromised the whole kingdom.
His own, one other son raped his sister. Another son murdered him. It just went on and on.
There was weakness throughout. And, but like Abraham, who wasn't perfect, right? Who went
down to Egypt and lied and went, you know, here and there and lied to protect himself.
His faith was in God. And so in, in Psalm 51, um, here, a prayer of confession. When
the prophet Nathan exposed King David's adultery with Bathsheba, God give mercy from your fountain
of forgiveness. This is, this all precedes the cross. This is the audacity of someone
who will believe God in every way, even that he has good intentions for us personally.
I know. So give me mercy from your fountain of forgiveness. He knows that that's what
God possesses is forgiveness and mercy. I know your abundant love is enough to wash
away my guilt. It's enough. My guilt, my sin is not bigger than God's mercy. My rebellion,
my hard heartedness is not bigger than, than God's goodness. The devil is not more evil
than God is good. The evil is the absence of God's goodness. It's a choice to separate
from God's goodness. My sin was a choice to agree with the lack of God. So here, David,
before the cross, how many centuries, many centuries before the cross, believing in God's
goodness, that his goodness was greater than his own wickedness than, than all his guilt.
I know your abundant love is enough. This is the passion translation to wash away my
guilt because your compassion is so great. Take away the shameful guilt of sin. Forgive
the full extent of my rebellious ways. This is audacity. Erase the deep stain on my conscience.
If I cannot believe God to make me into his image, if I cannot trust him to take me out
from under the dominion of darkness, out from under the law that all.
stakes bring forth death. Sin brings death. Sin brings death. Sin brings death. Total judgment.
If I don't, if I can't believe him to bring me from death, to pass me from death through himself
into life through his cross and his capacity to put me in the kingdom of the son of his love,
where the law is the spirit of life, the original breath breathed into man was the breath of life,
the spirit of life, the Ruach spirit of life. So now my life is the spirit of life
in Christ Jesus. So it's not based on what I did, didn't do, anyone else did or didn't do.
So now David goes on, I am so ashamed. I feel such pain and anguish within me. I can't get away from
this thing of my sin against you. Everything I did, Lord, I did right in front of you and against you
only and you saw it all. Against you and you above all have I sinned. Everything you say to me
is infallibly true. Your judgment conquers me. So here's another key to believing and forgiving.
Was this the same God, the same God David's talking to now,
the same God that went to the cross that said to the adulteress, neither do I condemn you,
go and sin no more. Was this the same God that was in the garden of Eden?
Yes. So what's the difference between what David's doing here and what Adam did in that garden?
David took responsibility. He didn't blame someone else. He didn't blame his father.
He didn't blame his cruel brothers. He didn't blame being ignored by his parents,
being discredited. He didn't blame being on the run for years when King Saul tried to kill him.
He didn't blame. He said,
yeah, and he didn't, he didn't blame God. He didn't blame someone else. He didn't blame God.
He didn't align himself with the accuser. So he's taking full responsibility and yet
yielding himself to the mercy. He didn't blame Nathan. Right. Right. Which how many
prophets were killed because they confronted the King with their sin.
So he was convicted. It was the truth and he wasn't going to lie against the truth and he
wasn't going to make an excuse. And so he could come and call on the mercy and forgiveness of God
and he could believe in him because he didn't make it someone else's problem.
I know you delight to set your deep truth in my spirit. So come into the hiding places of my heart
and teach me wisdom. Purify even my conscience. Make this leper clean again. This is, this is
incredible. Like not only take away my guilt before you as if I never did it, take away,
purge my memory of it as if I never did it. Wash me in your love until I'm pure in heart.
Satisfy me in your sweetness and my song of joy will return. The places within me you have crushed
will rejoice with your healing touch. Hide my sins from your face. Erase my guilt, all of it,
by your saving grace and create in me a clean heart within me. He's believing for the impossible.
I mean, that's part of what our whole society mess is. If you've committed it,
that's who you are. If you feel it, that's who you are. There's no hope for you.
But Abraham hoped and believed in God. David hoped and believed in God for all new life.
Created me a clean heart. Fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires. I can't do it myself.
I want to be ready to please you. May you never reject me. May you never take from me your sacred
spirit.
Oh, in considering, um, in considering,
got some excited patrons here in considering, huh?
No, no.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Well, just pull it down one if you want.
This way, this way.
I like to have some air.
Okay.
So, um, in, in considering, in considering forgiveness in its
connection to being able to believe, to being able to approach the father, ask
the father for his will, for his kingdom, for his provision, for his protection,
to even come and praise him.
Remember even Jesus said, when you bring a gift to the altar, if you have
ought against anyone or someone has ought against you, go and reconcile.
So this issue of, of, of, um, clearing ourselves, being cleared from guilt
is a major component of, of believing.
So let me just, for our last scripture, let me just look at, uh, Isaiah 53.
Who has believed, who has trusted in, relied upon and clung to our message,
which, which has been revealed to us, who will believe in this report?
Who will believe in this report?
Because there's, who are the witnesses?
We're telling you the truth.
Who will believe, you know, when, when, when God changed Abraham's, Abram's
name to Abraham from father to father of many nations by sticking his own
name in the middle from changing Sarah's name to Sarah, he had to walk
around to all his servants, his nephew.
He had to walk around to all his people and say, now you're going to call me.
Father of many nations.
Everybody knew he didn't have one son or one daughter and he had to tell them,
okay, you're going to call me father of many nations now, because
that's, that's who God says I am.
I mean, can you imagine the smirks and Snickers like what's something,
what's something that you would want to see in your life, but it's not
manifested yet and you want, um, like, okay, Jeremiah, suppose you
introduced yourself as attorney, Jeremiah Moniz, because God said,
this is what I'm making you for the purpose of bringing my gospel into
the nations, or, you know, what if, what if, you know, what, when you
have to go tell people, okay, here's like Jacob, Jacob, Jacob's name
means deceiver, supplanter, usurper through trickery, and he's, and, and
God changed his name to Israel, to Prince, to one who, who, uh, wrestles
with God, and so he had to tell them, okay, now, now my name is Prince,
one who wrestles with God and his name was deceiver.
So like, you know, believing in what God says and does has to
come first between you and God.
You have to wrestle these things out with God.
So that's how this Isaiah 53 starts, who has believed, trusted in, relied
upon and clung to our message.
And to whom has the arm of the Lord, the arm to save the arm of strength to
save from Isaiah 59 been disclosed for the servant of God grew up before him
like a tender plant, like a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness, no Royal or Kingly pomp that we should look at him.
No beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a man of sorrows and pains and
acquainted with grief and sickness.
So, this is the amplified version to pull out the meanings of those words, that not
only does that word mean grief, it also means sicknesses.
It means illness of mind and body, and sorrows includes also pain, pain of mind and body.
And like one from whom men hid their faces, so much shame, so much humiliation.
He was despised, this is what, 800 years before Christ, and we did not appreciate his worth
or even have any esteem for him, like, surely though, he has borne our griefs.
He bore our sicknesses.
He bore our weaknesses and distresses.
He carried our sorrows and our pains of punishment.
That we ignorantly considered him stricken, smitten and afflicted by God as if with leprosy.
But he was wounded for our transgression.
He was bruised for our guilt, mine, yours.
So the price for forgiveness was upon him.
Even the chastisement needful for us to obtain peace like David was crying out for, and for
well-being like David was actually asking for, what all fell upon Jesus.
And with his stripes that wounded him, we are healed and made whole.
And all we like sheep, we've all gone astray.
We've all turned to our own way.
And the Lord has made to land upon him the guilt and iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted, he was submissive and opened up, opened not
his mouth.
He didn't point to us.
He didn't talk about how righteous he was, which he was.
He didn't defend himself.
He didn't accuse anyone else.
He didn't talk about how unfair it is.
He kept his mouth shut.
And like a lamb that's led to a slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
he opened not his mouth.
He let it all, he let all the violence, all the sin, all the sickness, all the shame,
all the grief, all the sorrows, all the blame, and all the pain fall upon him.
When he argued not, he didn't say one thing.
Like a lamb that is led to a slaughter, and a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
opened not his mouth.
He just let it happen.
Not my will, but yours be done, remember?
Not my will, but yours be done.
By oppression and judgment, he was taken away.
And for his generation, who among them considered that he was cut off out of the land and stricken
to his death for the transgressions of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
We deserve this.
And they assigned him a grave with the wicked.
He died on the cross.
And with a rich man in his death, he was buried in a brand new tomb when Joseph of Arimathea
took him.
Although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
He had no guile and no guilt.
Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him.
He put him to grief, made him sick, so that when you make his life an offering for your
sin, and he has risen from the dead, he shall see his spiritual offspring.
He shall prolong his days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his
hand.
He shall see the fruit of his travail and be satisfied by his knowledge of himself.
Shall my uncompromisingly righteous one, my servant, justify many and make many righteous
upright and in right standing with God, for he will bear their iniquities, and he will
carry their guilt with all of its consequences, said the Lord.
Therefore, I will divide him a portion with the grace of God.
eight kings and rulers.
He shall divide the spoil with the mighty
because he poured out his life unto death.
He let himself be regarded as a criminal
and be numbered with the transgressors.
Yet he bore and took away the sin of many
and made intercession for the transgressors."
So every criminal lineup, every criminal exchange,
every frustrating exchange,
every person who didn't clean their dish
and put it in the sink,
every person who killed another like David,
committed adultery, betrayed, raped, abused,
stole, lied, extorted, just on and on and on and on,
on and on and on, all corruption, wherever they are,
there's Jesus Christ in all roles.
With the victim, being humiliated with them,
being abused with them so that if they connect to him,
all of it can fall on him, all of the humiliation,
all of the sickness, all of the shame.
And then with the abuser, with the oppressor,
it's unthinkable, he's redeeming him.
He's there to take all the guilt, all the shame,
all the blame, all of the chastisement and torment away.
He takes it all.
His vengeance is not against the children of men.
His vengeance is against the devil.
His vengeance is against the true enemy,
to rob him of being able to take the children.
Jesus has paid the price for the children.
So when we go through, like Isaiah 53,
to see how many ways Jesus made it possible
for us to hear, not guilty, not guilty,
not guilty, not guilty.
1 John 1, one, nine.
But if we freely, if we, verse eight says,
if we boast that we have no sin,
we're only fooling ourselves
and we're strangers to the truth.
So we're not approaching God when we come with excuses.
Lord, if he hadn't done this,
and if they hadn't done that,
and why, and you can see it, Lord, and you can, no.
You can't come to God that way.
You have to turn from your own wicked ways.
That's 2 Chronicles 7, 14.
So, but look at verse nine.
But if we freely admit our sins,
when his light uncovers them,
so when we're aware of them, he will be faithful.
His faithfulness forgives us every time
because God is just to forgive.
If you bring him your sin, he gives you what he has,
and that's forgiveness.
He forgives all your sins because of Christ,
and he will continue to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
That's who God is.
So we can believe that he heals us.
We can believe that he prepares for us.
We can believe he provides for us.
We can believe he protects us.
We can believe he gives us the wisdom and insight we need.
We can believe he increases our life
to give us greater and greater levels of skill and capacity
as we faithfully engage in the things he places in our life,
that we overcome, that we can forget,
that we can move on, that we are forgiven
because of the price Jesus paid.
One last passage, 1 John 2.
You are my dear children, and I write these things to you
so that you won't sin.
But if anyone does sin, so be in the word,
because when you're washed with the water of the word,
you're transformed into his righteousness.
Your mind is renewed.
You believe that you're his, and you don't sin.
But if you do, we continually have a forgiving redeemer
who is face-to-face with the father, Jesus Christ,
the righteous one.
He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins,
and not only ours, but also for the whole.
World.
And so grab elements, and we will celebrate
why it is that he tells us only believe.
believe. Only believe. Only believe in me. Don't place your faith. Don't place your fear
in the sins. Don't place your fear in what's gone wrong. Don't place your fear in what
other people say. Just believe. Just believe. I not only am the one who says all these good
things, the creator of heaven and earth, the creator of all the palm trees and oceans and
creatures that keeps everything going, but I'm greater than the power of all the power
of the enemy. And, you know, I just think of John 6 this morning when, you know, Jesus
was telling all those people that were following him after he had fed the multitudes, many were
following him. They're like, hey, we can believe in this guy. He feeds us. We could save a
lot of money following this guy. And then he walks on water. And they're like, hey,
Jesus, we've been looking for you. And he says in John 6 26, let me make this very clear.
You came looking for me because I fed you by a miracle, not because you believe in me.
Why would you strive for food that is perishable and not be passionate to seek the food of
eternal life, which never spoils? I, the son of man, am ready to give you what matters most. For
God, the father, has destined me for these purposes. They replied, so what should we do if
we want to do God's work? Jesus answered, the work you can do for God starts with believing in the
one he sent. And then if you come down to 35, he's saying, you know, well, first in, in 32, Jesus
says, Moses didn't give you the bread of heaven. It's my father who gives you bread that comes down
from heaven. The bread God gives is the one who came out of heaven to give this life to feed the
whole world. Believe in the one whom Jesus sent. This is the work of God. I am the bread of life.
Come to me every day, and you will never be hungry. Believe in me and you will never thirst.
Yet I've told you that even though you've seen me and you still don't believe,
but everyone my father has given to me, they will come to me and all who come to me, I will embrace
and will never turn them away. I have come out of heaven, not for my own desires, but for the
satisfaction of my father who sent me. My father who sent me has determined that I will not lose
even one of those he has given to me. And I will raise them up in the last day,
because this is the will of my father. It is what he longs to give everyone who embraces his son
and believes in him to experience eternal life. And I will raise them up on the last day.
So then he tells them to stop grumbling and complaining. And he says, whoever eats my body,
drinks my blood, will live forever. Whoever feeds upon me, I will become his life.
And of course, there's this whole, they're like, how can he tell us to eat his flesh and drink his
blood? And they all walk away. And he says, eat this bread and you will live forever. Many of
Jesus's followers heard these things saying, that's disgusting. How can anyone accept it
without anyone telling him?
Jesus knew they were outraged and offended.
So, oops, one second.
Are you offended over my teaching?
What will you do when you see the Son of Man
ascending into the realm from where he came?
The Holy Spirit is the one who gives life.
That which is of natural is of no help.
The words I speak to you are spirit and life,
but there are still some of you who won't believe,
only believe.
In fact, Jesus already knew from the beginning
who the skeptics were and who his traitor would be.
And he went on to tell you, this is why I told you,
no one embraces me unless the Father
has given him to me.
And he said to the 12, do you also want to leave?
But Peter spoke up and said, but Lord, where would we go?
No one but you gives us the revelation of eternal life.
We are fully convinced that you are the anointed one,
the Son of the living God, and we believe in you.
So here he understood, he marveled,
Jesus marveled at genuine faith, marveled at believing.
Believing has to have all its weight
in the character of God.
I'm not really believing if I feel deserving
because I can lose my deserving.
And what do I deserve?
Do I want what I deserve?
Do I want other people to get what they deserve?
Well, then I'm asking for that for myself.
So Lord, we thank you so much
that you have offered us your body.
The body of the one we read about in Isaiah 53
offered to take on all sickness, all disease,
all sorrow, all pain, all sin, all shame,
all chastisement, all torment, all blame.
Every criminal, every victim, everyone,
everyone finds the scars of their own payment,
the price, the punishment that they deserve,
the curse, having fallen, been poured out
with the wrath of God upon the body,
the covenant body given for the forgiveness of sins,
given for us to be healed,
taken stripes for us to be healed.
And so we receive that in your brokenness
comes our wholeness.
And we exchange this with you
and we do this in remembrance of you.
And I forgot all our lovely Psalms, I totally forgot.
Lord, there's one I'll play in just a moment.
Lord, we believe in you.
We believe in the Father, the creator of heaven and earth,
of all that is seen and unseen.
We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, his Son,
Son of the living God, perfect image of the living God,
begotten, not made, one in being with the Father,
through him all things were made.
He is righteous, sinless,
laid down his life as the worthy lamb,
dead, buried, and risen again
for our sins and our righteousness' sake.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the giver of life,
proceeds from the Father and the Son,
and with the Father and the Son,
you are also, Holy Spirit, worshiped and glorified.
You have spoken through the prophet.
And now you live in the saints to bring healing to our mortal bodies, to transform us into
the image of the Son.
And all this because the blood was shed for the forgiveness of sins.
We are not guilty.
And now we may believe we are the children of God.
We praise you in Jesus name, amen.
So here, there's just one song that actually had three of them, but no, I, I, um, okay.
Okay.
Hang on.
Let's see.
Okay.
The song is called not guilty.
Ready?
Okay.
I'm ready.
Okay, the song is called not guilty. Ready.
I'm ready.
I stand accused.
There's a list of my loan of all my sins.
Of everything that I've done wrong.
So ashamed.
It's not me.
This is the day.
I must answer for my life.
My fate is in the judge's hands.
And so.
I'm ready.
I stand accused.
There's a list of my loan of all my sins.
Of everything that I've done wrong.
I'm ready.
I stand accused.
I'm ready.
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you for touching us with your love. Thank you. Thank you. Precious nearness, face your
hands. Thank you. We don't want to get up here with the same mindsets, Lord. We want
to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. Jesus, does anyone have a prayer on your heart? A
praise on your heart? Revolution. We do lift up so many people struggling physically, financially,
emotionally, mentally. My parents, Charlotte in room 508 here, we want to speak life, health
and eternal life over Charlotte and her being. Love you. Peace. Thank you. In Jesus' name,
amen. Oh, good. I could just rest in his presence. How are you doing, my friend? What is that?
I think that was a beautiful prayer. Yeah, I am. Sorry, we didn't have our worship time and
miss that connection with the Lord. I don't know how I just skipped right over it. Oh,
oh, yeah, right there, right there.
Yeah, for whatever reason, I could not hear the worship. I could see you singing and I could hear
it like maybe a couple seconds and then I couldn't hear it, but it's okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay,
I'll send you the song. I would have sung it then. I mean, I was just kind of...
Yeah, thank you. All right. Well, thank you so much, Heidi. I love that you always come.
Yeah. Thank you for inviting me. Yes. It's good to have the service for sure. Amen. Amen. Yeah.
Yeah. And to visualize Jesus in my life where I have focused on things,
but yeah, that's good. It's a good imagery. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was getting out of your
prayers. So that's a good thing. So imagining me with Jesus rather than imagining me dealing with
things that may or may not be important, but it reminds me of the verse that whether I'm in
heaven or hell, I am the Lord. So no matter what I go through, I pray he is with me. I
accept he is with me. Yeah. There are so many testimonies of heart healing encounters with him
where a memory of someone being humiliated and there was Jesus right with them, having the same,
going through the same thing right with them. And then also if they were being abused or
committing adultery or in sin, and there was Jesus both in them and on the other side,
but it was holy. The thing that was unholy became totally holy and redeemed
as he became the other side of that. There are so many testimonies that bear out what Isaiah saw
in Isaiah 53. It's so that...
There would be no place where we could have a reason
for the curse, no place we would need to identify
with sin or unholiness or lack or no place.
It's miraculous.
Right.
Yeah.
Maybe one day I can share some of the visions I have
that are hard to let go.
You know, that are hard for me to let go.
Yeah, so those are perfect for heart healing.
Yeah.
Those are perfect for...