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Body Soul, and Spirit. Thank you for sending your son to die for us. All to remember that at least. You sent your one and only son your one and only son to pay the price for All wrongdoing. I'll be working at Freedom cuz we know him and he knows you The father we remember that as we eat of this bread and drink of this one. We give thanks. Thank you Heavenly Father.

In Jesus name.

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Respecting to post is Easter season. I don't know whether you linger. I don't know how long is your memory if I asked you what you had for dinner? Last Tuesday, could you remember? I'm not going to text you, by the way I'm just saying that all memories are not very long. We forget things very quickly amarone a week off during stuff and it be very easy to forget Easter but you're not go off twice. The Crux of our fight is built around. Jesus went to the cross for you and for me, and for all mankind to pay the price for All wrongdoing, but he rose again. And that's the Crux of our pie so we should be Resurrection people. We should be Easter Sunday everyday. Because he's not just once a year that we celebrate, Jesus rose from the dead and he paid the price for Austin's. It's an everyday it's absolutely every day and if there isn't a day when we feel like we're celebrating, Jesus has risen from the dead then let Sprite. So let's probably father God. We as we come around your way today, I pray that Lord. You set me on fire again. Lord, as you as you stood the word in my heart, I'm so prepared for this little girl. But father, would you speak to our hearts and souls that we would leave this building changed? What if we come we stopped and father help us to leave it at the foot of the cross and not to meddle with it anymore but I'll leave it with you and trusting you with this from picking up the father Cubs, just sign this morning. Just leave it at the foot. The karlstadt, leave it with me in my time, I will sort it. I will sort it. But not, if you got to keep on meddling cuz you messing it up again. But father God, we come to you. As we are with all that we are to give. Thanks for who that you are in Jesus name, amen.

The thing for buy a house right now, starting to me, is we believe we're heading towards? Are we commissioned the first week? In June will be doing a mission love. I can we send Jones check, B charges will be working together for the hold of the first week in June to do mission to reach out to shy to have a men's night, a lady's, not a student night to do a joint service together and supplies a cow child, action langka administrator Parks, churches support. So, leaving out to love again, it would be good to lay some Foundation but we believe, I don't know what you believe. Some of you might in the room, say I'm not flat Earth person. I believe the World is Flat. I believe it's around. I've seen pictures of people have gone into space and taking a picture of the world and say it's a hundred years ago, no one the same pictures like that. So that was still paper. What was flat? Just sometimes we believe what we believe is. Our parents told us. Sometimes we believe what we leave because I'll take just told us. How do you say Rudy shocking circumstances? When you come to the end and you find out something you'll take check or your parents or your best friend or someone you Revere. You can actually see what's right in front of me, find something new. You're going to church doesn't make you a Christian going to church with your parents. Doesn't like you are a great singer, call Keith Green. So it's going to church to make you a Christian any. More than going to McDonald's makes you makes you a burger. It's a funny little story but it makes the point that we don't become Christians because we go to church, we want to go to church because we Christians cuz we want to meet with all the good men and women of God to be encouraged who needs encouraging today. It's some Hands-On rhuidean, you don't need encouraging. That's fantastic. But you know what? I need encouragement everyday. I'm not looking for human encouragement cuz you know, I will be disappointed. You will be disappointed because sometimes we won't get in Courage for something that we did. Let me think of the kind of jobs that you how you doing? Washing out, dusting, cleaning the toilets.

No one doesn't do it, but thank you for doing that. Thank you for the people to put the trash out this Sunday. Thank you for all the papers at the play. I See throughout cuz otherwise we couldn't do text. Thank you for the technology team who helps to make it happen every Sunday. But we do goes and reaches the world's. So why do I believe what I believe?

Did I want I really want to press you into some things today?

I want to press you into some stuff because what we believe matters, and if you really believe it to show If you really believe it and I want to show you believed in keeping yourself it, then you probably haven't got to tell me like a girl. And it's not that I don't believe in taking, I haven't put it into practice. And so we can have things in our head that we think that, we know, but we don't do anything with that Siri. It's just a theory. Know how many people believe in gravity?

Okay everybody tired. But what if it wasn't a hand that went up? I would just say, Okay, allow me to float across to you a pound coin. Right now, I can't do it right now if you're going to get a pound coin, if it's okay, if it is no crime and see this pound coin will come to you right now and I could throw it, and it wouldn't reach you because it privately. So, it doesn't matter whether we believe in gravity gravity is still that he doesn't matter whether we believe in God or not, it doesn't matter whether we believe. Now, I want to get some real by 6 because some people would say the Bible's a fairy story was a fairy story. What makes you say that while? Because says b****, that contradict one another with the police, if you ever went anywhere and asked all the witnesses to say what I've seen, they all say something different and actually if it's all the same and something's being concocted,

But actually I find the fact that the four gospels will give us a different perspective of the same story. Very, very helpful because I love Luke cuz he gives the things I love you, John, because he gives us some love. I love Matthew because he's into people, but the fact that all the stories are slightly different for me, gives me Comfort and she's a real story. And then when I got, what is only one book for like a text and see whether I'm a geologist, for example, I'm a geologist. Do you believe in the great flood? I don't know. What do you want to go there today? But I'm going to go there as a book by a guy called velikovsky who went and looked in the Torah. The Quran, the Bible and the geological record to see what evidence that was for the flight and it's in a world without you stop payments.

How much more evidence do you need? What what do we believe and why do we believe it tonight? If we don't show up or get into God's word, open God's word, open it up and read it. Why do we believe what we believe will? Sometimes we believe what we believe. Sometimes you believe what we believe? Because our parents told us,

Somebody might ask you this week. What do you believe? What makes you say that? But you know what, why you want to help you today? Because I want to stop with these ready by 6 price that I want to get stuck in your head. It's what I would call an air one. So I want you to choose part of his story and make it your own So don't read the Bible. And if we can read the Bible, we will find the people. We will find the people race with it that we will find people to time to Salvation. We will find Jesus. Did Knuckles will find Daniel went into the far, I'm not sure. What are you going to sign up for that one?

So you make his story your story. Not let me tell me what it what I think it is so important because when you tell you story, you do it with passion, you did it with energy. I want to Papua New Guinea for a number of years and Papua New Guinea's. A malarial country that you get. One of y'all took my auntie malaria tablets like a butt in the middle. I couldn't take my tablets down I was getting eaten by a mosquito sing to the like me. So I came back from Papua, New Guinea old Fit and Well, went to the tropical diseases Hospital. Given a clean bill of health. I'm in six months I throw started folding it like on to University again and I started folding l. And I recognized it cuz mid I already has a cycle. You got the Shivers you get the chills, you have a w, i t h, and then, then you get the temperature in the DC. But I went to see a doctor need to go back to your room and you'll get over it. But if it gets worse, come and see me. I got. So was I couldn't get back to the doctors James, who lived in the house that I lived in. He took me down to the doctors and they went. Oops, and I ended up in isolation will cuz I really want clear about what it was. I'm at I-25 is malaria treated with it, but I didn't give me enough time to malaria. So they malarial fog inside, my body was still there and multiplying again, and I was getting sick again. I knew what it was and I went to a Christian union meeting And the gentleman said at the front and he said, I believe for people are going to be hail today. And at the end of the meeting, very capable of Pride, for Johnny, who is the later to see, you come to the back cuz he knew I wasn't. Well, you could say it was well, my but my tummy was bulging. I was really not well, inside, would you like fried? Like, we know you're not well, my pray for me and I don't remember the rest of it. God dealt with me, he liked me out, he healed me Judy and now my wife wants me back to my room. I was as if I was drunk and I was like that for most of the weekends and I then went by the hospital to try and get some more handsome ilario's. And the doctor looked at my notes, and he called the nurse. And then, he said, where's mr. Phillips notes. These are not tonight because he had a bulging stomach and a lots of things. He's saying he said these can't be his notes. And then he texted me, and I texted my blood blood clot, Tommy swelling, spleen, going down, and I told him just a few days before I'd be prideful. We never had malaria come back. Now, why do I share that with you? I share it with you, my story, you can argue with me as much as why you can say that's fine, but it's my story and I will come back with more and more examples of my story from wants to know which doctor which hospital. See, my medical notes. So it's best. You can disagree with me as much as you want, but when I saw you got heels. And then somebody says warm up what makes you say that I've been telling you my story. So if you've got a piece of his story that becomes your story then when somebody says, how can you say that?

I remember taking a group of young people to a meeting and tricking them and they were listening to a Geico John and I won't. He was telling some fantastic stories and he was one of the young people believe what you saying but it just is so passionate. It's so true. Like I don't doubt it for her, it was an enigma Enigma story, so we move we choose pop his story. We asked, we might might our story to be a testimony. that's what testimony testimony is testicle and speaking to something that you know to be true And so that's what I hope. You will get stuck in your head. If you go down the slide my car, I think I put it there choose to be as part of his story to make it my story to be a testimony. I want to encourage you. I want to be in a worm in your head and I want to encourage everyone of you to go and find a new piece of your story. Maybe you've never let someone to cross that maybe you've never said anything and put yourself in the place, his his the trick and maybe somebody's never told you. This is not his the trick. It's okay. Not to know the answer to a question. It's all right. When somebody says what what makes you say that? I don't know, but I will go and find out if you going out somebody else and you going to Scouts, I don't give me an observation and you go back to the person to ask you and you tell them, you know what, oil on the journey, anybody go to PhD and being a Christian. Yeah, we are all on a journey with old learning. So I hope that you can choose part of his story to make it. Your story to be a testimony. Well, why is that important in Revelation? 20 verse 11, accessories. Play, we will overcome by the word of Our Testimony and the blood of the lamb and not loving our lives on today. The word of Our Testimony is powerful. Why is it powerful? Why is it so strong? Because it's our testimony. It's like, oh, and I read that from the message, lazy feed him through the blood of the lamb. And the bold words about witness they weren't in love with themselves. They were willing to die for Christ. I'm dying for Christ doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to be a Martha. It might just be that you'll your reputation comes under testing or it might be a dream comes under a test. I'll be willing to lay things down for him.

in Luke 19:10, it says that's for the son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost

Are Parables of Jesus. Totally talked about the Lost. Queen talked about that the Lofts and the prodigal son. They talked about the lost sheep. None of those. None of those stories, none of them. Not the shape. They didn't plan to be lost as anybody in the ring plan to be lost. But we don't do it the week with typically have a test that I should have somewhere where we going on because we go somewhere, where we can? We plan a direction where we going to? But you know what? When people get lost, I need help. Where are they going to get help from? We're going to get help from you. And me, I'm going to show them. We're going to share with him and go to show ghost story.

Mark Chapter 14, verse chapter 1 verses 14 or 15. John was put in prison, not the place you want to be. Jesus came to Cal preaching, the gospel of the kingdom and saying the time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is at hand repent and believe in the gospel, gospel is good news. Who likes? Good news. Good news. Why do we buy them? But apparently we like the bad news but you know what, I want to say this, I am not ashamed, there's a picture. Now, I might have your put it is from Romans 1 verse 26 of the Gospel. There are times when we need to stand up and be counted on your story about work, but I would love you to make this your story. There are times when I have sat place to buy working by myself in a traffic. Now the traffic is often has a blue culture. The language is blue, it's a bit Northeast, a bit risky. On top of, you can hear these words people on the phone and that's wearing and they're African that blinding. And I'm thinking, I don't want to be part of this. I'm at work, I'm sitting at a traffic office one day and the lady sitting opposite me. Jesus

And she wasn't accusing in a nice way. I'm so I don't feel comfortable. So when I got an opportunity, one of the things that I take was I took it to one side is going to make you a cup of coffee and we went, we had a cup of coffee together. I said I just want you to know that name is precious to me. So every time you use it, it hurts me. She didn't even realize. This is an example. You find your own way of doing stunts challenge. People up front in the music, please stop doing that, doesn't help just quietly took her to the side and said. I'd rather you didn't. It hurts me is a precious name to me. Now, this is what happens. She's been on the phone later on in the day and she's sorry.

And then we were sitting in meetings at various other times and then she got out and then she sends me to go sorry. Dave and then people started asking her why she was saying sorry to me.

Yeah, I wasn't saying anything. And then other people started to do it because she told them I didn't have to do it. She told them, she told them that this time was precious to me. I didn't need to tell her something. I was at one time, was sitting in a meeting, and three or four people away, and then I become my mom, my mom's name is Jean and she didn't like swearing and so it was always the test was a joke, okay. With Auntie Jean, Suddenly everybody in the room was apologizing to me, unless somebody tells you he's story your story cuz I can tell that story again and again and again and it's nothing to do with me, it's all to do with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit was at work. We cleansed up the atmosphere, that office was no longer a blue office and not because of anything, or maybe I said a couple of words but really, it was the Holy Spirit at work. So where ever, you find yourself in prison somewhere else? Repent, for the gospel is at hand. I am not ashamed of the Gospel.

The Shield that will be times when we get tested and what they're telling us, we need to choose to say something or keep quiet.

At the privilege of being by the deathbed of My Singing teacher. And I remember him telling me telling me he had a friend after she doesn't matter what denomination the first found out that she was going to be and it was really serious video.

And I don't get to play with him. I got to go into the I see you and go to play with him and one of his best friends, who was a Baptist? Pastor said, I must come and see you. I need to come and see you and talk to you urgent. That I see you.

And went inside to throw his wife.

I went said back to his wife said, I've known him for two years.

If it, if it, if it's not nice to tell me now, that it can't be that important. You should have told me. Years ago. Do you know what? I got surprised. We've been put on his deathbed and I paid, but it wasn't out of anything. That I said, I must tell you. Now, it was only because I told him my story again and again and again.

And you might say I can't do this on my own. If we looking at chapter one it says this but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You we shall be witness. You shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the Earth. If we can't do it ourselves.

I'm what's the result of the holy spirit being at work? We read on further and axe in the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believe and turn to the Lord. So what is a story? What is it? True if it's one scripture and you know the scripture you know the scripture I'm going to read it in a bit more of an unusual version from the Amplified one. True God. So greatly loved and really price the world that he even gave up his only begotten unique son. So that whoever believes in him, trust in him clings to him. Relies on him shall not perish. Come to destruction be lost but have eternal everlasting life.

Find a pop piece story. Make it your story, and then share. It is a testimony. on the scripture that I want you to build the old upon these, this John 3:16 and 17 foot God. So loved the world. That he gave his only begotten. Son, that whosoever believes in Him. Should not perish but have everlasting life. And why did go through this with God's did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. It's all about Jesus. It's all about Jesus. Jesus. It's about the Holy Spirit, helping us to do that. And so, This is the memory verse for this week, John 3:16 and 17 to versus, so I can let me pray with all ice place is closed Horizon for those at home. I'm just going to ask you. What do you like to join me in the process? This week of choosing a bit of his story and making it mine I don't know what is the store you would choose that's completely up to you. But I would love you to go through this process and say I'm going to pray about this part of his story and I'm going to ask Google to help me to make it my story. So that become a testimony. If that's you would you stand on standing cuz I want to go through that process this week I want to choose and pray about the tick it up off his story and stay low, but you helped it to make it my story. So, if you'd like to stay with me, I'm going to pray.

And if I typically, we just load drawn A Line in the Sand them just as I was lying in love with stepping into a new week. We're stopping at your new week with a bank holiday. Yes, I do ask God to help to make pop a story. A story to a glimpse of something in your story. Low-budget, each one of us to a different chapter different, various different story, different book. Lord would find something that large you speak to us that you do you highlight that you bring to your attention and father God as we step into that father we pray that that story would become a story. Guys, I'm praying 8-ball prayer cuz if it takes you to raising people from the dead, you can have an interesting week. Father God, we pray that you take us to a story but it might become our story but we will have a testimony in Jesus name. Help us to do it while you're Holy Spirit.

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