Hey, this is Pastor John Ryan Cantu from PNEUMA Church in Houston, Texas.

Thank you for listening to the message today.

I hope that it blesses you and all those. that you share it with.

God bless you.

Amen.

And also give it up for our disciple makers and Pastor Demaris and uh everybody who's facilitating these groups, amen.

Um praise God, praise God.

Uh disciple making.

That's that's what it's about.

Amen.

Um this morning I don't want to delay the word any any further.

Um I have a a very good friend and a brother who has been a blessing to me over the past uh several months and uh we live in the in the same neighborhood And uh we met we met last year at uh at our men's at one of our men's conferences and um turns out we we live in the same neighborhood and so every now and then we we grab breakfast. um by the toasted yoke right there at toasted yoke by our house and and he uh he he says it's a blessing to him but it's probably way more of a blessing to me brother um all of the all of the wisdom that he shares and he just pours into me um And so the last time we met, or two times ago, I said, man, we got to get you on a Sunday morning.

And so I want to welcome my brother Otto Kelly.

If y'all could stand with me as we receive him Amen.

This man of God, former NFL player, but now tackling demons.

Amen.

Oh, praise God.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um before I um I begin the word, I was gonna ask Pastor to stay up um because you know I'm I'm a individual that recognized the importance of divine order.

And uh, you know, Pastor is the he's the father of this house.

You know what I'm saying?

I mean, and so um I'm all about a father's blessing.

So I mean Jesus wanted it.

I mean, you know, he came up out of the water God, the Father told him three things.

You're my son.

I love you and I'm pleased with you.

He blessed him.

And with armed with that identity, he went out to the desert and beat the snot out of the enemy.

So, you know, I'm really down for divine order.

Also, and um, you know, Jacob, the same thing, you know, spoke over his sons and prophesied over son so there's divine order you know god the the father god the son submits to the father and the holy spirit submits to the son he tells you it's just divine order so um i'm asking uh pastor to pray over me I'm asking for a blessing.

I'm asking for a father's blessing.

And so whatever the Father tells you to say, I'm just, I just want prayer.

Would you extend hands?

Heavenly Father, we thank you, my God, for this moment, Father God, that has been divinely appointed by you, Lord.

My God, for this purpose, my God, for this people, Lord.

And my God, this is the man, Father God, that you have called to deliver this word, my God, that nobody else could give, my God, to this group.

I pray that you instill upon his head, Father God, a fresh anointing, Father God, uh, to speak whatever it is that you want him to speak, my God.

That he wouldn't speak from his lips, Father God, but from yours, Father God.

I pray that he would simply be a vessel today, Father God.

Lord, I pray, Father God, that you would uh bring every word that is spoken, my God, into our hearts, our ears, our minds, Father God, to Accept whatever it is that you have for us this morning, Father God.

And I pray that you cover him, Lord.

I pray that you give him a sensitivity to your spirit, my God, whatever you want to do, whatever you want to say.

If he's got to go off script, off note, Father God I pray in Jesus' name, Lord, that you would guide him and order his steps and his words this morning, Father God, for your people, my God.

We trust you, Father, and we love you and we thank you.

Amen.

Oh please go ahead and be seated.

Please please please um um I'm going to do my best like Pastor said to stay on script Because uh most of my brothers like in uh just the beginning.

Uh they know how I am.

They uh that that's that's my people over there, man.

You know I got Mark and Larry and Alvaro, the brothers, man, they um they um uh with uh came with me and worked with me with um Sons to Men.

I got David Pacheco back that they what what up man only you and pastor Ryan got the only other perfect head in this piece y'all got it y'all got some craniums it's all right All right, you know, takes one to know one.

Not too many people can pull it off, you know what I'm saying?

So But I do believe and I want to thank those brothers, man.

First came here, moved from Nevada, Vegas, Reno area.

When I first got here, these brothers, man, we just was instant.

It was just instant brotherhood, you know.

So please understand, you gotta understand I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm at the house.

I'm at home.

No, you gotta feel me on that now.

You'll eat probably a couple more minutes.

You're gonna say, get that brother out of here.

No.

I'm just kidding.

I'm just playing But I think God uh wants to wants to talk to you this morning.

Um let me just share just a brief testimony.

I don't want to really get into a whole bunch of stuff, but when I was um in middle school My uh my biological father, he uh uh developed cancer and died.

And he just, you know, shrunk up real fast.

And that's my, you know, my superhero.

And when I watched that, it just had an indelible mark on my life.

My brothers came home and said, hey, Pops is Pops is gone, dude.

Freaked me out.

I go in the in the room, I scream, I'm yelling.

Um, because I've seen I watched God do some uh dramatic things through my mother as she prayed and you know You praying mamas, don't stop.

Don't you do whatever you do, don't stop.

I am a miracle up in this peace right now telling you.

Praying moms, board.

Yeah, anyway.

So my dad he he passed and my I'm I'm in the room screaming and going crazy and uh and like I said before God had done some powerful miracles uh you know through my mother and I watched it uh but then he didn't heal my dad.

And that frustrated me.

That made me mad.

I said, okay, you know, I'm trying to give you a quote as much as I can quote to you without, you know, getting kicked out.

But I basically just got off.

I went off on God.

I did.

I just went off on him and said, you know, you could you're supposed to be all powerful, almighty, all this, man.

You could have healed my dad, but you didn't.

And uh because you because you didn't heal my dad, I don't have a dad.

And then something shifted.

I don't know how to explain it, but something shifted in me I said, okay, all right, it's like that.

All right, all right, cool.

It's like that.

Then you're my dad.

You took mine away.

I didn't ask to be here.

I didn't ask for my dad to die I mean, I'm I'm I'm you're my dad.

Now, brothers and sisters, I had no clue what I was at I was saying.

You know, and ever since then, truly that has been the case So when I speak, I'm not really, I'm telling you, it is it is a true father-son delivery.

He's the only father I've known Okay, so so um I get I get real passionate about um my father.

I do, I really do.

And I get real passionate when he blesses me with the ability to feel what he feels about his children I get I get I get kind of you know so if I lose it up here just just bear with a brother I got a reputation to keep don't snitch don't snitch But I believe this morning, I'm going to try to stick to these notes because there's certain things that God is really wanting me to tell you.

And title this message, Father Vision.

Father vision, father vision, father vision.

I mean it's like television, it's like, you know, night vision, it's like wanda vision, it's vision But I believe this morning, and just stay with me, let the Holy Spirit do what he wants to do.

But I believe God, well I'm gonna do this.

I'm asking Father. to draw us and embrace us into his heart and into his mind so that we can see ourselves the way he sees us I'm gonna say it again.

I'm gonna ask Father to draw us by his glorious arms into his heart.

And into his mind, so that we can look at ourselves the way the Father sees us.

It's important.

It's really important.

It's extremely important.

God doesn't want you, at least in this time, not to look at him from the outside in.

He wants you to look at yourself from the inside out.

Stay with me.

It's important.

Especially in the times in which we live, you gotta know who you are.

You gotta know that you're his son.

You gotta know you're his daughter.

You're not you're not you're not a some worker and you're not gonna get a pink slip.

Okay, so so uh so I'm believing that God wants to this morning to draw us into his goodness so that we can view ourselves the way he sees us.

Important.

And equally, I'm going to ask God, okay, I'm going to ask Father, and I'm going to pray this just in a few minutes.

I'm going to ask Father to bless us with spiritual stamina to withstand the goodness that He wants to show us this morning.

Spiritual stability to be able to withstand the goodness that he wants to show you He wants to show you about you.

About you.

Nah, and the Himma heart.

We're all I'm all about praise.

I'm all trust me.

I'm all about worship.

I'm all about submitting myself afresh on a daily basis to the living God.

But I'm just telling you this morning, the Father wants you to see you through his eyes.

Because when you see the Father, when you see yourself through the Father's eyes, you can't help but to see others through his eyes.

Can't help it So so uh but do my best and so so you gotta recognize when I say that you can see yourself to the Father's eyes, you gotta recognize that you really can You really can't give me that scripture real quick.

I'm gonna read that that that uh 1 Corinthians 2.

10.

Can we get that real quick?

I'll read it if you don't have it.

Oh yes, cool.

Now, you know, this is Paul and Paul just is Paul.

These are things God has revealed to us by his spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

Okay?

For who knows a person, thoughts, except their own spirit within them?

In the same way, everybody say in the same way In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Now do you have the Spirit of God in you?

Help me.

Do you have the Spirit of God in you?

Which means you know the thoughts and the mind of God.

Okay?

What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, so that we may understand, in other words, comprehend what God has freely given us.

All right, let's go.

This is what we speak.

Not words taught by human wisdom, but words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities and with spirit-taught words Okay, check it out.

Keep going.

The person without the Spirit cannot accept the things that come from the Spirit, but considers them foolish and cannot understand them because they are discerned only by the Spirit Let's go.

The person with the Spirit makes judgment of all things, but such person is not subject to merely human judgments.

I went to this last little spot.

Who has known the mind of the Lord?

So as to instruct him.

But everybody read this together.

One, two, three.

We have the mind of Christ.

We have the mind of Christ.

It's not a question of like trying to get it.

You already have it.

So there it's important for us to submit ourselves afresh this moment, this time, to the Spirit of God so that we can see how Father sees and think how Father thinks.

Imperative.

Imperative.

Imperative.

Because you and I have the ability to think things about ourselves and are not accurate and then we're going to wind up try to have God endorse it.

He won't endorse it.

He can't endorse it.

I'm gonna show you the show you that in scripture.

He cannot endorse anything negative about you You've been cleansed and purified by the holy Lamb of God, so that means you are spotless and blameless and free from accusation, according to Scripture.

Okay, but I want you to hear this.

Ah, Lord, help me with this.

I'm trying to be cool on this.

You know, you gotta understand that nobody in this room asks to be born.

Nobody.

Now uh as you can tell I get passionate.

I get real passionate, so just just bear with the brother.

But Pastor knew this, so uh he can clean it up after I leave.

Nobody in this room asked to be here.

You did not ask for your mama, your daddy, you didn't ask for your race, you didn't ask ask for the times in which you have been born.

Somebody more powerful than you wanted you here.

Somebody, somebody more powerful, more majestic, more glorious, all-knowing, all beautiful, altogether lovely wanted you here Now we go we we gonna we're gonna jump on it spiritually but we gotta look at it biologically.

I can't help it my boys know so don't don't don't you give it up they they they know what's up but but I have to I I did my own research now it was a mathematician And I don't know, they they must have loved the Lord.

A mathematician and uh anthropologist, and they wanted to look at the odds in which everybody in this room were born.

Okay, the odds.

Okay, so I'm gonna read this.

Okay, because I couldn't memorize it.

Not yet, but I'm gonna memorize this bad boy.

So in order in order for you to be here, you had to have two parents Four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, thirty-two great-great-great-grandparents You had to have 64 great great great grandparents, and then you'd have to have 128 great great great great great-grandparents.

Now each one of those of your ancestors.

Stay with me.

Each one, I'm gonna have to read it because sometimes that just breaks me down.

Each one of your ancestors had to survive.

Every single one of them Had to survive disease, famine, conflict, wars, slavery, genocide, abortion, miscarriages, and natural disasters They had to reach reproductive age, find a partner, and reproduce And this is where we get real.

They had to have the correct combination of sperm cells and egg, a correct chemical, biological, genetic sequence to continue the chain leading directly to you.

To you.

So this mess of the enemy trying to tell you that you're not valuable Directly to you.

So so so okay, the mathematician just went berserk on it.

He said, okay, so you are one in 400 quadrillion Okay, let's break that down.

One quadrillion quadrillion is one billion million I'm gonna say it again.

You are one in 400 quadrillion.

One quadrillion is one billion millions.

So in 400 quadrillion is 400 billion millions.

Okay, yeah, trip me out too.

That's I I I responded the same way.

I know what to say.

So you are a living, breathing phenomena No, you think I'm playing.

You are living, breathing female.

Do you realize that there had to be 400 million sperm cells in each one of your ancestors?

And there had to be one at the very least 400 million at the very most 1. 6 billion.

So every single one of your ancestors had to have that number.

And then that one.

That made it through the egg.

And they had to have the right genetic sequence in order to You.

So please understand that you're just not some piece of protoplasm.

That you're not some kind of just something that just showed up.

With thought and intention your father wanted you.

I know I'm telling you, I know this world.

I know how it is.

It's gonna try to devalue you.

Y'all think I'm playing.

I'm telling you, man.

Okay.

Let's just let's go scripturally.

Okay.

Let's go to Ephesians chapter one Three through this listen the this this okay God okay dad I'm telling this is for you no listen this is for you no this is for you the hit this is for you Specifically, uniquely.

You.

Ephesians chapter 1, 3 through 7.

And I'll have time to really get into the get into the um The context, but it was just some broken people, jacked up people.

I mean, just people, just jacked up.

And Paul knew what he had to do, but the Holy Spirit really wanted to emphasize to these people that are broken who had no clue of what parents was or had no clue of the luck they just uh pastor will break it down to you I just want time Ephesians chapter 1, 3 through 7.

He says, praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

I'm gonna go back.

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

He chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

Then the motivation in love he predestined you to be adopted as his son or daughter.

In love, the motivation behind creating you was not just to have kids.

He was motivated by love because he wanted you.

In love, he predestined you to be adopted as his son and daughter in through Jesus Christ according to his pleasure and will.

So listen to me, you may not be perfect, but you're perfect for God.

You may have your issues, your stuff, your mess.

I get it.

I get I understand that.

But when the smoke clears, you're perfect for him, or he would not have created you.

Can do anything he wants to do.

Say what he wants to say.

God is God.

May he just toss the freaking stars in the universe and and and and and number them each but just just choose to toss Stars in the sky and gonna turn around and say, I uniquely handcrafted.

He can number the stars and know and name them each by name, but specifically know you.

You Yeah, you and like I asked you before, I pray to the Father, Father, please bless your sons and daughters with spiritual stamina to withstand the goodness that you want to show them about them.

Uniquely handcrafted by God Himself.

Okay, we're gonna keep going.

Let me keep going, Pastor.

I'm uh I'm getting happy.

Go to Genesis chapter 1.

I want you to see something.

Genesis chapter 1, we're going to start at verse 20.

Okay, can we go hit that real quick?

I won't stay there too long, but I want to show y'all something Okay, and y'all know the creation thing, and so I'm gonna start at verse 20.

And God said, Let the water teem with living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky Let's go.

So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing which the water which the water teams that and that moves about it according to in their kind and every winged uh bird according to its kind and God saw that it was good.

Let's just go to verse 26.

We can just go to verse 26 Beautiful.

Okay, so so you get it.

I'm sure you've read Genesis before.

Y'all read a little bit, right?

So Genesis God created an atmosphere, then he created what he w what he wanted to live and be in that atmosphere.

Right?

So if he created the ocean, then he created the fish.

Right?

If he wanted, he created the land, and then he created the creatures.

Okay, he he created out there.

But can we see what God and environment he created you from?

Let's go to twenty six.

So God, then God said, Let us Make man in our likeness, and our mankind our likeness, that they may rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, over the livestock, over all animals, over all the creatures, and that moved along the ground.

Okay, let's roll.

So God created mankind, woman in his own image.

He created them.

Male and female, he created them and God blessed them.

But you get it, you get it, you get it.

Everything else, listen to me.

Everything else, God created out there.

But when he created you, he created you from himself.

The atmosphere of his own holiness he created you.

The atmosphere of his own glory he created you.

They said hey hey man let's uh let us make our kids in our own image in our own life.

Listen to me.

You are triune just like your daddy.

Spirit, soul, body, father, son, holy spirit.

Even when you visit, even when you have a new body, you're still gonna be triune.

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

I'm just goofy like this, so the brothers know.

So back me up if I'm getting too out there.

Right, so so so if if if God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit reached out and took a selfie What do you think the image would look like?

I'll wait.

If God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit said, Hey, let's take a selfie.

Poom Oh what does that look like?

Are you not made in the Are you not made in the So you are the very image if the Father, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, took a self and you'd be the image.

See what I'm saying?

We don't know who we are.

We don't recognize that God Himself said from within His own ispis, His own glory, I'm making you.

You gotta understand something, y'all.

You gotta understand something.

You are so remarkably valuable to the living God that He created everything, but you're the only thing in all of time and eternity that He paid for Do you know who you are?

Do you now do you really catching who the freak you really truly are?

Created you from his own self and then gonna pay for you with his own self.

Well no, I'm telling you, man, see that the degree that this sounds foreign to you is the degree that sometimes you and I have been deceived.

He has not stopped thinking about you since he created you.

You have to complain.

Okay, I'm telling you Psalm 139.

If you mind going there.

Psalm 139.

Now most of the brothers know David.

King y'all sister know David.

King David.

David was a trip.

David, no, no, David was a trip.

David, man, David was a trip.

I mean David was the type of brother.

I mean, really, David.

Can I go there, Pastor?

Can I go?

Okay, I'll be good.

I'll be good.

David was the type of brother Okay, okay, okay.

Let me put it to you this way.

David was the first original gangster rapper.

David will slice up some folks, chop heads off, and go to the studio and start writing songs about it.

Read songs.

Original.

That's the original OG of gangster rap.

That's that David.

And I believe that in Psalm 139, David, David was going through some issues.

He was going through some issues and and and and and I believe God and you can do your own research, but I believe David was having some issues regarding his self-image, all this stuff, and and he's almost like he says, Father, I I I I I know I did that census.

I know what that sheep and I know all that stuff.

But Lord, I need to see how you see me.

I need to view myself from your perspective because right now, I know you you let me hook up with those those uh beat those uh lions and bears, but right now God I ain't feeling it I need I need for you to show me who I am.

And that's what, you know, like I said, do your research.

That's what that's what Psalm 139 is, man.

David was tripping.

He said, Oh Lord, you search for me and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise.

You perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down.

You are familiar with all my ways.

Before word is on my tongue, Father, you know it completely.

You hemm me in behind it before you laid your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your spirit Well where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens you're there, if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast If I say, surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me, even the darkness will not be dark to you, the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

But Father I'm reminded that you created my inmost being.

You knit me together in my mama's womb.

God, I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made Oh Father, your works are wonderful.

I know that full well.

My my frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body.

Oh God, all the days or thing for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious to me, how precious toward me How precious to me are your thoughts, oh God.

If I had to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

Okay, you gotta hear what David is saying.

Despite all my mess, you search me, you know me.

You know when I sit and when I you perceive my thoughts, you You discern my going out in my line and you are familiar with all my ways, God.

Father, before I'm even to come up with a thought that's going to project a word, you knew it before I had the thought in my head.

You're my father.

You know me.

They ain't gonna break down in verse 14 and say, God Man, I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

You have a you have a a theologian for a pastor.

You do, man.

The brother know the word.

Let's just be real.

Okay?

I love hanging out with brothers who love the word and know the word.

Right?

And I've asked pastors around the globe.

I've asked them, please do this, do me a favor, search this out for me.

Tell me if I'm wrong.

Please tell me if I'm wrong.

But Psalm 139, I think verse 14 of the 1151, it says this.

It says, I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

You you gotta hear he said I'm praising you because I I'm praising you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Listen, I have studied scripture and I've not found another place where God has given you his son and daughter permission to praise him because he made you.

David said, I praise you, Father, because I am fearful.

I praise you because I am fearfully.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

David wasn't praising God because okay, the wonderful heavens and the stars, Lord God, it's great.

The great microscopic universe, all of a sudden, no, I'm praising you because you made me.

We got to get to that understanding that God is saying, You are so precious, so powerful, my masterpiece, my glory, my goodness.

I want you to praise me because I made you.

You gotta understand that's who you really are now.

That's why you have an enemy of your soul trying to break his neck for you not to know your true identity.

Y'all realize y'all realize you smell like your daddy?

Read it for yourself.

2 Corinthians 2.

14.

We are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ, spreading everywhere the knowledge and fragrance of Him.

You smell like your pops.

No, really, seriously.

You smell like your daddy everywhere you go.

And then he then he'll turn around and say, he always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ So everywhere you go is victorious, whether you see it or not.

If we can just allow the Spirit of God to illuminate this stuff to us and don't argue about it.

I'm telling you, man.

Boy, I'll tell you what.

We can argue with God regarding our value.

No, we can't.

We really can't Because we somehow think that what he has to say about his goodness regarding us is for everybody but us.

Okay?

Silence say a whole bunch, y'all.

I'm just saying, when we're quiet, silence say a whole bunch.

See, see, see, God, listen to me, God is drawing you into the truth.

If we can just catch this truth.

See, listen, listen.

Uh people can b debate all they want.

I'll leave that to doctors like Pastor Ryan.

You know the the you know you know the uh Armenianism or predestination or Calvinism, I don't care.

All I know is no one can tell me that I'm not my father's son.

Nobody Nobody.

Listen, there's not an inkling of fear that I have going before the throne of God on judgment day.

None.

Not one.

Not one.

Not one.

See, if you if you are fellowshipping with the living God, if you fellowship with your dad, you know what's gonna happen on that judgment day?

Only thing that's gonna happen is you and him get to continue the conversation.

That's it.

And he's gonna give you some stuff.

I mean being with him is but he's gonna give you some stuff.

But the whole idea is that you gotta recognize he ain't mad at you.

Oh, past is it too much?

Talk to me.

Because you're feeling it, see?

See, see, see, see.

I love it when dad talks.

Because I get to shut up.

I get to be quiet.

As the father ruminates his goodness in your heart.

See?

See, he yeah.

Yeah, you.

Yeah, you.

You.

Uh-huh.

All his thoughts told you are precious.

Will you try to count them?

The Bible says they will not number the grains of same man.

That's that's a trip.

So in other words, there's nothing that bad good nothing bad that God ever thinks about you Nothing.

Well, okay, let's just put it to you this way.

It's impossible.

You are purified, cleansed, washed, acceptable, pleasing before the living God.

Now listen, gotta understand that God, man, God, you you good father.

You gotta understand that God As we mentioned in the very beginning, God, Father, He wanted you here.

Here.

See you the gift that God has put in you is too good for him to keep to himself.

So you see there's a unique way in which he created you in such a way to where he knew before eons of times and he knew that there was going to be somebody on this planet that would not be able to hear his voice through anybody else but you, which is why he created you.

You ain't feeling me.

You uniquely handcrafted for the purpose of being a unique radiance of God's glory in these crazy insane times.

Quick and frustrated at your job because a dude ticks you off or whatever.

No, he's giving you the he put that person on the radar so that you can pray.

I know they get on your nerves.

Get on your nerves for a reason.

God God put them on your radar so that you can go before Him.

And if I Lord, you know if something I may want to body slam them, do some God pray.

I'm praying for them, Lord.

Help them.

See, see, see, please understand that God did this for a reason so that you have influence with him.

Stay with me.

Stay with me.

Don't drift off and wonder what you're having for lunch.

Just stay with me.

Only got a few more minutes.

Uniquely made you because he knew before time began that there's going to be somebody that that would hear his glorious voice through a vessel just like you.

And we find a way to sell ourselves short, don't we?

We find a way.

Find a way Please understand I got I gotta say this.

I'm gonna be too much longer, really.

I I really I think God has really said what he wants to say.

You gotta understand that when Jesus was on that cross When he's on that cross, he became the nucleus of all that's unholy.

Not just the symptoms.

See, we you know, not just the symptoms, but the reason behind everything that we struggle with.

Not just not just the symptoms, not just okay, not not I'm not I'm not talking about hate.

I'm talking the nucleus behind hate.

I'm not just talking about lust.

I'm talking the reason and the and the original reason behind lust.

He became pride, he became the nucleus, he became the virus in the virus, within the virus that caused sin on the cross.

And somehow we think that, you know, uh he's too holy to hear what we got to say.

Or we feel that somehow we put ourselves in this we blow it, we put ourselves in a mental prison and close the gate until we feel like somehow we we've earned enough time to now I can go talk to him.

Our Father wants us to recognize Jesus.

Listen, he wants us to recognize that more than you think you know about that sin, he became the nucleus of it, and so he knows it eternally and not just temporally like we do.

Which is why he said, come to me.

Quit tripping and just come to me.

I am your father.

I cannot unlove you.

Somebody out there need to hear that.

Because many of us become, we get on performance mode and don't recognize that our relationship with God has to do with position and not performance.

Okay.

I think I'm playing.

Go to 2 Corinthians.

If you don't mind, real quickly.

2 Corinthians 2.

Yeah, I think I'm playing, man.

Uh no, I I yeah.

I I I think I'm supposed to close with scripture.

Um I'll wait, because it's important.

It's really important.

Ephesians chapter 2.

When we go there?

Are we good?

I want you guys to see it.

Ephesians chapter 2, verse 4.

Anybody there yet?

Somebody read it out loud real quick.

Come on man give it give me that bass voice give me that bass stand up baby come on give it I need a bass hit it all right but God is so rich in mercy that he loved us so much keep going that even though we were dead Because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead.

It is only by God's grace that we have been saved. and seated us with him in the heavenly realm because we are united in Christ Jesus.

So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredibly incredible wealth of his will. and kindness towards us as shown in all that all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus.

Perfect.

Keep going.

God saves you By his grace will you believe.

And you can't take penitentiary.

It is a gift from God.

Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.

But we are God's masterpiece. create us a new in Christ Jesus.

Oh wait wait wait wait go stop that right there and go go create us a new and what?

Keep going.

Say that again.

Created us a new in Christ Jesus.

Where?

Christ Jesus.

Where?

Christ Jesus.

In who?

In?

In?

So you've been not only created within the God Himself, but you've been created in Jesus Christ to do good things that God prepared in advance for you to do.

Thank you, brother.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You gotta you gotta we gotta go to that next level, y'all.

And see, I uh uh uh Pastor, can you come up?

Because we we we're gonna pray.

But but I I think in closing I'm supposed to say this.

In Acts chapter 17, Paul was making some goofy Making these uh theolog uh philosophers in uh Greece look stupid.

They had this uh they had uh these idols and stuff, and Paul said, Hey man, uh I see this uh these idols and You got this one idol talking about the unknown God.

Here, let me break this down to you.

Let me break it down to him.

He said, out of this one man, God made the inhabitants of the earth.

And God decided the times and place in which they would live.

See, I know that you and I think that we kind of showed up in Houston.

But God has uniquely handcrafted you for the times in which you live and the place in which you live.

He wanted you here.

You didn't ask to be born.

You didn't ask where you live.

You didn't ask your mom for your mom and you didn't ask for none of it.

Which means that your life has nothing to do with you I know, I know the world tried to tell you, does it ain't nothing with you?

It's everything to do with him.

He wanted you.

And he wanted you to be an instrument of his glory in these crazy, evil, insane times.

Let me tell you something, man.

Jesus said in the in times like this, it's gonna get so crazy.

It's gonna get so crazy.

It's never gonna be like this again, but it's gonna get so crazy There's there's something powerful about thinking about the fact that you're here.

I mean really think about it.

This is the worst times.

I mean according to according to you know but he has you here Which means that, you know, the ones reproduted ones in the in the Bible that we consider to be powerful, the Moses and the Deborah's and the, you know, the Sarah's and the Abrahams and You know, all the reputed ones that we say are powerful in faith, uh, if they could do a better job of what God's called you to do in these crazy times, they'd be here instead of you.

See, yeah.

Uniquely handcrafted by the living God for the sole purpose of being an instrument of his glory.

You are his son.

See, I I think, and I'm gonna give this to Pastor.

I I think no I believe that That people are really wanting to see.

God is going to so uniquely bless you with his smell and with his glory.

That people who are looking for him are actually going to be able to find him.

No, I'm not talking about all these all these counterfeits.

I'm not talking about all I'm talking about the real deal.

God has made you to be the real God has made you so profoundly glorious that He wants others around you to not have an not not to even have a question whether or not they're in the presence of God.

That's why he wants you to know you're his son.

That's why he wants you to know you're his daughter.

All Jesus did was say, Listen, I'll submit to the Father.

Just go where He tells me to go, do what He tells me to do, say what He wants me to say, and as a result of that, we got to see the heart of the Father through the Son.

Why do you think you're here?

To do the same thing.

To be an instrument of God's goodness so that He can shine His glory through you.

And people go, I'm telling you, man, it's gonna get so ugly, it already has, but God wants you to know who you are so that you can walk in your sonship. and your daughterhood so that you could be that vessel where people can see the real God and not these crazy freaking counterfeits.

The real That's why you're here.

That's why you're here.

It'd be an extension of God's goodness.

You're his son and daughter.

You're a son and daughter.

In Jesus' name.

Would you stand with me?

Adam stand.

Prayer team keep come up.

Man brother audio auto as you were speaking, bro, uh Man God was just breaking my heart.

Because there's people in the room Who know God, but they don't know who they are in God.

And this is why you don't know how to be.

This is why you doubt yourself.

This is why you walk in insecurity.

This is why you lack the confidence in what to say.

This is why you still smell a little bit more like the world.

You dress like the world.

You speak like the world.

You act like the world.

Because even though you know God and you come to church to praise God, you don't know who you are in God.

And I think this word was so timely because if we could just know who we are Who we are.

I get it.

It's all about Jesus.

Everything we preach behind the pulpit is about Jesus.

It's gotta be about Jesus.

But we also have to know that Jesus made it about his sons and his daughters.

That he came down to this earth that was full of his sons and daughters to die for his sons and his daughters.

And so when we take away our own value that Jesus has poured his blood into, we degrade the body of Christ.

I've been there, Otto.

I've been there.

I've been there.

I've been there where I will I loved the Lord.

I glorified God, but I wasn't.

I didn't really know who I was in God.

And I believe that God wants to call somebody this morning.

Wants to draw you into his presence so that You don't know who not not just who he is, but you know who you are.

God is saying it's okay to be you.

I created you to be you.

Stop looking around.

Sticking a lot stop looking around at the people that you're not.

Stop looking at how they do it better, they speak better, they're a little bit more gifted in this area.

I created you to be you.

Be confident in who you are because my breath is in you.

And if you need that this morning, if you need that encounter, I want you to come forward.

And I want our prayer team to pray with you.

I'm praying against identity crisis amongst the body of Christ.

That sons and daughters would know who they are, and we would walk in the confidence as sons and daughters of the King.

Come on.

Come on.

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