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September 6, 2026 34:51 Cross Church Surprise

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· A few different ways you can look at this.

· God has given you a mission field.

· Very obvious.

· You have the people in your home,

· you have them sitting at your table.

· They need to hear you pray.

· They need to see you open the word of God.

· They need to watch you repent when you're wrong.

· They need you to speak to them about the gospel.

· Don't just rely on someone at the church

· or someone to do it or a YouTube show.

· They need to hear it from you.

· Well, good morning.

· For those of you that I haven't met yet,

· my name is Josh Meyer.

· I am one of the elders here

· for the Cross Church Collective

· and I am blessed enough

· to get to share the word with you today.

· Something that is true to my heart,

· this topic that we're gonna go through.

· And as I was preparing for today,

· I was thinking of,

· let's figure out how Josh can convey this.

· How can I convey this to you guys?

· In going through this and preparing,

· I kept coming across as I was wrestling

· with this leadership,

· this concept that we've been going through

· and rooting already.

· And as I was preparing, looking at this,

· I kept thinking of someone that really I looked up to

· when I was a lot shorter.

· Speaking of which,

· I don't know where the rest of this podium went.

· I don't know.

· So we'll have to figure that out.

· So we'll have to get one of the elders

· and maybe get something taller.

· No, I think when I was preparing for this,

· I was looking through and examining

· kind of where I'm from,

· where my background is.

· And as Kyle mentioned, I'm in sports ministry.

· So you are gonna hear some sports,

· but I promise no Arizona sports,

· because let's be real,

· that's not anywhere we wanna go today.

· In the 90s, I grew up most of my life in the 90s.

· And those are kind of the memories that I have.

· How many of you have that same background?

· The 90s, 90s were the best.

· There's one kind of really recognizable commercial

· that we had that we got to watch

· and really see and live.

· And back then, commercials were on TV

· for some of you guys that didn't, you know,

· streaming back then.

· There were commercials, you had to sit through them

· and watch them and the whole thing.

· And the commercial focused on one of the larger

· cultural icons of the time or even today.

· And it's not Devin Booker, I promise.

· Michael Jordan.

· Michael Jordan was at the height of his career.

· Yep, let's give it for Michael.

· Michael Jordan was at the height of his career.

· I was a big Jordan fan, still am.

· He won all the NBA championships.

· He had his own sneakers.

· Everyone thought he could fly and defy gravity.

· I think it was really neat when we look at him.

· The things that he did on the court,

· even when we look back at it today

· and all the great athletes,

· still kind of just defies logic when we watch him.

· And when he was doing all these things,

· there was a brand that came alongside,

· a brand that's still very popular today.

· Gatorade.

· Gatorade came alongside and put together

· this amazing advertising campaign that still rings true

· and it still has a lot of meat to it today.

· And some of you probably already know

· where I'm going with it.

· The campaign was geared around Be Like Mike.

· I really think the commercial really showed

· a lot that we as humans and humanity

· kind of carry as we look at leaders.

· And if you remember the commercial,

· showed Michael Jordan playing basketball

· with a bunch of kids and drinking Gatorade

· and having a lot of fun.

· And underneath all of that, there was a song.

· Sometimes I dream that he is me.

· I dream I groove like Mike.

· If I could be like Mike.

· And so the campaign really worked

· because not only kids latched onto that,

· but adults latched onto that.

· We all wore his shoes.

· Some of us even probably stuck our tongues out

· when we played different sports or basketball.

· I know I did.

· I know there was probably some people in the room

· that lowered the basketball hoop

· so they could try to dunk like him.

· I know, I was there.

· I had the shoes or I tried to have the shoes.

· My mom sitting in the room right now probably was like,

· yep, I tried to buy the shoes.

· The biggest thing that we could take away

· from drinking all the Gatorade

· is how we tried to emulate or imitate those people.

· But none of that was gonna make me

· more like Michael Jordan.

· I could do all these things.

· I was never gonna be Michael Jordan.

· We're both six foot six.

· That's where it stops.

· There's nothing else that we can really draw compare.

· That's it.

· But what I've learned in my world of sports,

· I've been in sports since I was little.

· Playing hockey at three years old.

· I've been in a career of sports, been in sports.

· And what I've learned is a lot of values

· regarding leadership.

· And through that, I've tried to aspire

· to be a better leader, whether it's being in the workplace

· or home or coaching, all these different things.

· I've listened to motivational speakers.

· I've read all the neat books.

· I've sought wisdom from leaders.

· I've sat in a room with one of the co-founders

· of Apple and absorbed all of that.

· I've had some great opportunities.

· I've led book studies for hundreds of people

· through our ministry.

· Learning about influential pastors.

· Learning about different coaches

· and people in the sports industry.

· Those motivational speakers, those self-help books.

· I've learned all of it.

· I've been around.

· I've seen it all.

· And many of those things have helped me.

· A lot of those things that I've taken

· and applied to life.

· But what they truly have taught me,

· through this search, searching everywhere,

· there is this model of leadership that we can discover

· that's been right under our nose this whole time.

· Right here.

· All the books that I have in my closet, in my office.

· Sadly, it's been a recent discovery for me.

· Something where I can turn to

· and find a lot of leadership qualities that we can emulate.

· And I think what's really neat about this

· is it's not something just for us as adults

· or for some grown-up kids.

· It's for everybody.

· It can apply everyone and everywhere.

· And so we're really gonna dive in today

· and really pull some good leadership qualities

· and some leadership tactics

· as we finish this series in Rooting and Ready.

· And I think as we go through this,

· there's a man in the New Testament.

· A man that probably most of us in the room

· probably don't recognize.

· He didn't write a book of the Bible.

· He wasn't one of the apostles.

· We don't have any scripture of him

· standing in front of thousands and preaching the word.

· His name was Epaphras.

· And we're gonna see him as we go through

· in Colossians today.

· And as a church, I want us to really examine

· the times that we may overlook things

· as we're reading through scriptures,

· we're learning through scripture,

· and find people like Epaphras,

· find stories like Epaphras

· that we can kind of come alongside,

· learn from, and put into our life on a daily basis.

· And to be like Epaphras means becoming the disciple Jesus

· that Jesus calls us to be.

· Disciples who are rooted in ready.

· We've heard that over and over the last few weeks,

· this rooted in ready.

· We're gonna really drive this home.

· We've went in the rooted with worship.

· We were rooted in our community

· and what that meant for this room,

· those people outside these walls

· and bringing those people in.

· Rooted in discipleship.

· We talked about our discipleship program.

· Really excited to be doing that.

· We're gonna lead our men's ministry

· through that this year.

· Last week, Andrew talked about ready for mission

· and what that looks like in your life

· and you guys were able to pray for that.

· And this week, as we read through

· the book of Colossians again,

· we're gonna find Epaphras was ready for leadership.

· And this puts the focus on a foundational truth

· that I think is really important for us to examine today.

· This foundational truth is something

· that you can walk away from.

· If you're gonna walk away with anything today,

· walk away with this.

· The measure of a leader is not about the crowd

· that they gather, rather it's about the leaders they send.

· Think about that.

· The great leaders that we know

· aren't because they are so big and so powerful,

· it's about the leaders they've created.

· So as we go into this and we examine this,

· let's open up.

· If you've got a Bible in front of you,

· if you've got it on your phone,

· let's open it up and let's go through

· Colossians chapter one.

· I'm gonna read through the first section here,

· verses three through eight.

· So if you've got one, open it up, we'll read together.

· We always thank God the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ,

· when we pray for you,

· for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus

· and the love you have for all the saints

· because of the hope reserved for you in heaven.

· You have already heard about this hope

· in the word of the truth,

· the gospel that has come to you.

· It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world,

· just as it is among you since the day you heard it

· and came to truly appreciate God's grace.

· You learned this from Epaphras,

· our dearly loved fellow servant.

· He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf

· and he has told us about your love in the spirit.

· There is so much to unpack.

· If you actually look at the Greek translation of that,

· that's the biggest run-on sentence ever.

· I would have been kicked out of English class

· a long time ago if that would have happened.

· We learned a few things here.

· The church in Colosseum had faith in Jesus.

· That's obvious.

· We've learned that for weeks in Colossians.

· We learned here that they loved each other.

· They truly loved each other.

· They possessed a hope of heaven.

· They understood what that concept meant.

· And the gospel we see here is just moving through them.

· It's spreading.

· But how did the gospel get to Colosseum?

· We learned that in verse seven.

· You learned this from Epaphras.

· Again, a man barely mentioned in the Bible

· becomes all of a sudden this immense leader

· in the church.

· And I think if you're going to understand this letter

· and we're gonna understand what it truly means for us

· as we sit here today,

· how we can be ready for leadership.

· I think this is a good thing to go through.

· A good letter to go through.

· Paul points to him in the early church

· and we're gonna examine what it's like

· or how to be like Epaphras.

· Just like be like Mike.

· We're gonna throw that out the window today.

· We're gonna go be like Epaphras.

· So let's ask ourselves, who is this guy Epaphras?

· I really wanna get into it and show.

· And again, we know a few things.

· We know he wasn't mentioned about being a gifted speaker.

· We know nothing about his education.

· We don't know what he does for work.

· But we know he was a leader.

· But why was he a leader?

· Let's examine that.

· And I think one of the things

· that I think we really get into

· when we do examine this

· is there's a few characteristics

· I'm gonna really point on and drive us to.

· And one of the reasons we can look to Epaphras

· as an example of a rooted leader, a ready leader,

· is because he was raised from within.

· He was raised from within.

· The gospel had reached him and he was raised within.

· He raised from within.

· It changed him.

· The gospel moved through him

· and then moved through him to others.

· It's such an important part of the gospel

· this message we get to read through today

· is it moved through him.

· Paul spent an extended time in Ephesus or Ephesus.

· Acts 19 really kind of goes into that

· and shares the full story of how the word

· and the story of Jesus was told

· and how many people came to know Christ through that.

· And Ephesus was, or Ephesus was one of those guys.

· He likely encountered Paul's ministry there.

· He heard the truth of Jesus.

· He became rooted in Christ.

· Then he carried the gospel

· a hundred miles east to Lycus Valley.

· Now that's a hundred miles.

· There's no Ubers, remember?

· Just put the things in context.

· He was walking that.

· He hoofed it.

· Where the lands of Colosseum, Laodicea, Herapolis,

· that's where he brought that.

· That's where his leadership went.

· That's where the gospel moved through him.

· He brought the gospel home.

· Once you remember that, brought the gospel home.

· Paul provided a lot of teaching.

· They were partners.

· As Paul's writing this letter,

· he's kind of talking about his partner in crime here.

· He's coming alongside with encouragement,

· that partnership, and Epaphras really carried that truth

· into his own community.

· Paul calls Epaphras in this section

· our dearly loved fellow servant

· and then continues to call him

· a faithful minister in Christ.

· Later on, he calls Epaphras

· his fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus.

· Again, as they serve together,

· they recognize the need for it to continue to move.

· The need for someone within to carry the word.

· And being raised in a community from within

· also meant he's gonna carry out our next big topic,

· our next big section,

· as far as being ready for leadership.

· Epaphras labored for others.

· That sounds intense, laboring.

· What does that mean?

· What does that mean for us?

· What does it mean to labor?

· He found himself laboring for others.

· And if we look at chapter four,

· if you guys wanna flip over there with me,

· we're gonna be in chapter four, verse 12.

· I'm gonna read through 12 and 13.

· Epaphras, who is one of you,

· a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings.

· He's always wrestling for you in his prayers

· so that you can stay in mature and fully assured

· in everything God wills.

· For I testify about him that he works hard for you,

· for those in Laodicea and for those in Herapolis.

· Again, two verses unpacks a lot of information for us.

· A servant of Christ Jesus.

· Whew, love to have that.

· Someone, Kyle, remember that for second service.

· Wrestling in prayer.

· How many of you have wrestled in prayer before?

· Yeah, it's different.

· Takes a little bit.

· Working hard for you.

· These are the things that are described in this letter.

· Those are the descriptions that tell us

· what laboring for your people looks like.

· He knew whom he was praying for.

· And he knew who he was working hard for.

· And what scripture here is really pointing us to.

· If we're gonna be like Epaphras,

· then we need to be more just to appreciate

· his faithfulness.

· We can't just look at this and read the scripture

· and say, oh, wow, that guy's awesome.

· We gotta do more than that, church.

· We gotta really let that sink in

· of what it means to labor for people.

· Laboring for people, for me,

· has been something truly transformative over the past,

· let's say, a year to 18 months.

· And over the past year, in 2026,

· as I mentioned or was mentioned earlier,

· I work for a really neat ministry, a sports ministry.

· One of the things we do every year

· is we have a word of the year,

· something that we pray on, very intentional.

· We labor over this, if you will.

· And this year, God had it on my heart

· of trying to figure out how to be different,

· how to have a different year in my spiritual walk.

· And I came across this word, it's on my bracelet.

· It's called metron.

· Metron in Greek means a couple different things

· if you look through translations.

· It can revert a measure or a boundary

· or God-assigned sphere of influence.

· That's what hit home for me.

· I was wrestling with,

· who is my God-assigned sphere of influence?

· Who are my people?

· Who are the people that I'm gonna wrestle with?

· Who are the people that I'm going to labor for?

· And Paul uses that same idea,

· this idea of metron in 2 Corinthians

· when he speaks of the area of ministry

· God has assigned to him.

· And I really think, when I look back and say,

· who has he given me an opportunity to encourage?

· Who has he called me to help follow Jesus?

· And the more and more I think about my metron,

· and man, I was wrestling with it.

· I was like, oh, I gotta get out in the community more

· and I gotta do this and more and real more I realized

· God had already surrounded me with people

· that I could have influence on.

· This church is an answer to that prayer.

· I'd say 18 months ago, I was one of you.

· I was sitting there taking in the word.

· I would leave for the weekend and go

· and do sports ministry stuff

· and my family would come here and we'd get plugged in.

· I was one of you.

· Begin praying through this.

· I really could see that my people

· were already right in front of me.

· My mother, she's in the room.

· She's grilling burgers out there.

· My mother-in-law's up here playing

· whatever that thing is over there.

· Keyboard.

· The important part is we have all these things

· that we really can rely on.

· We have all these ideas,

· but sometimes God puts it right in front of you

· and for me, that's what happened to me.

· All three of my kids have been baptized in this church.

· My people were here.

· This community has helped shape the spiritual life

· for me and my family right in front of me

· and within my Metron,

· God has really given us other things

· like our Bible group.

· Our Bible group is amazing.

· We love each other.

· We share the word.

· Amen, Bible group.

· We challenge each other.

· There's text messages.

· It's probably the greatest group text

· you've ever seen with the prayer requests

· and the pictures and the amens and all of that thing.

· I think I look at this church.

· I've got pastors and leaders

· that I've been able to reflect on and learn from.

· Our men's ministry,

· there's just some God-honoring men

· that I can just rely on for great advice.

· Last year, I was able to go through the Rooted series

· with a group of men

· and we were just talking about it earlier,

· has really led to me to be here today

· through that last fall.

· And again, your Metron isn't just this group of people

· that you enjoy being around.

· I think that's one thing that we get confused with.

· The people that you want to reach,

· those aren't people always that,

· oh, they make me happy.

· Those are people who are gonna challenge you.

· Those are people that God has called you

· to accept spiritual responsibility for.

· It's not a territory control situation.

· It's not like those are my people.

· It's people for us to encourage.

· People for us to challenge.

· I have some great people in this church

· that have challenged me to do more.

· Have challenged my family to do more.

· People we get to walk alongside.

· How many of you, just a quick show of hands,

· how many of you walked by yourself

· through a difficult time?

· I have.

· Don't let that happen.

· You've got people.

· Walk alongside other brothers and sisters in Christ.

· Because the question really is not about,

· is not only who are my people,

· the deeper question is how I am laboring for my people.

· Am I wrestling for them with prayer?

· Am I working for their spiritual good?

· Am I available?

· When they need encouragement,

· or you're just gonna ignore that call or that text message.

· Oh, I didn't get it.

· Eh, it doesn't work like that.

· Text messages always come through.

· Am I preparing them to help someone else follow Jesus?

· Am I preparing someone else?

· And I think laboring for others looks like that.

· The gospel reached Epaphras.

· It took root in him.

· But it was never supposed to end with him.

· He labored with it, but it wasn't supposed to end there.

· And I really think that brings us

· to the final way we need to be like Epaphras.

· It's a really fun way to see it.

· This is the true meaning of leadership

· when we look at it.

· Near the end of this letter

· that we're reading through in Colossians,

· so turn to chapter four again,

· we're gonna be in verse 17,

· finishes as one simple verse

· that really points out something so obvious

· that I'm sure many of you probably read through this

· and are like, oh, I never thought of it that way.

· Verse 17, and tell Archipas,

· pay attention to the ministry

· you have received in the Lord

· so that you can accomplish it.

· What does that tell us?

· Who's this fellow Archipas out of the way

· besides giving Josh a bunch of names

· that he's trying his best to pronounce?

· Notice Paul is bringing this new guy up.

· And I believe the appearance of a new name here

· really means something true to us.

· It's another person that the gospel's reached.

· It's gone through Epaphras to Archipas,

· and now it's with him.

· That is the definition of multiplication.

· That's the definition of true Christ-centered leadership.

· I would say that would check the box

· as far as being ready for leadership.

· A multiplying leader doesn't lead a ministry

· that ends when they leave.

· That is the definition of this church.

· We don't wanna just be a church.

· We wanna be churches all over the place

· to bring the word of the Lord,

· save people, give people community

· just like what we have in this room.

· And a multiplying leader does not only ask,

· what can I accomplish?

· They also ask, who am I preparing

· to run this ministry after me?

· Who are you preparing to run your own little ministry,

· whether it be in your home?

· I think of me and my family.

· Who am I preparing or how am I preparing them

· to be better than what I had done?

· How am I leading my son to lead his family

· like we lead ours now?

· Giving them every video game

· and taking them all over the place

· and putting them in every club sport

· isn't gonna answer that question.

· Having a rooted home in Christ that he can emulate

· is what's gonna lead that.

· So I think that really drives home

· to this foundational message that we have for today

· that truly matters.

· Again, the measure of a leader

· is not the crowd that they gather,

· but the leaders they send.

· And I think that is the important part.

· He received it from the Lord

· and his responsibility was not to compare the ministry

· with someone else,

· his responsibility was to recognize

· what God had entrusted to him,

· hand it off to archipelago and let him run with it.

· The same is true to us.

· Being sent is not just a destination, it's a posture.

· It's a posture, it's a way of thinking.

· It's a posture that says, God, my life belongs to you.

· How many of you are saying that right now?

· God, my life really belongs to you.

· Not once in a while,

· or not when it's convenient, always.

· My home belongs to you.

· My wife and I have really taken that on.

· Our home belongs to you.

· How can we use our home?

· My work belongs to you.

· My giftings belong to you.

· My time belongs to you.

· Probably the most precious thing we have

· is our time.

· Send me wherever you want me.

· For parents, I think there's a few different ways

· you can look at this.

· God has given you a mission field, very obvious.

· You have people in your home,

· you have them sitting at your table.

· They need a ride to church,

· but they need more than that.

· They need to hear you pray.

· They need to see you open the word of God.

· They need to watch you repent when you're wrong.

· Something that's super hard to do with kids.

· I've got a six to nine year old.

· Boy, that looks weird.

· But it is awesome to recognize.

· They need you to speak to them about the gospel.

· Don't just rely on someone at the church

· or someone to do it or a YouTube show.

· They need to hear it from you.

· It is on you to help them know Jesus.

· So don't become so focused

· in giving your children the world

· that you forget about the truth.

· You neglect their greatest need.

· Make yourself available.

· Pay attention to the ministry you have

· right in front of you like I am trying.

· It's sitting right in front of you.

· For some of you, it might be something different.

· Maybe it's in the workplace.

· I think the workplace is,

· you might have a coworker that's lost.

· You might have someone.

· It might be someone that has never been to church before,

· never heard the gospel before.

· Maybe they don't trust the right people.

· They're gonna come and ask you about it.

· Be open.

· Live with integrity.

· Allow them to see Jesus in you.

· It means being willing to let Jesus flow through you

· in those situations.

· And sometimes God's gonna send you across the room.

· It doesn't always have to be behind the pulpit

· or in a ministry.

· Sometimes he might just send you across the dinner table.

· I think of some of you,

· your next step might be serving in the church.

· And I met some new people that have been serving

· and that's amazing to see that.

· Maybe God calling you to become a part of a ministry.

· Maybe it's time to stop just attending

· and saying I'll show up on Sundays.

· And maybe it's time to pass it along

· and start serving others so you can receive.

· Maybe God wants to use you in one of the ministries

· here.

· Maybe you're already serving.

· And this is the challenge that is unique.

· Maybe you're already serving.

· God's calling on you to bring someone else alongside you.

· We need more people like that in the church,

· the American church.

· Teach others to do what you're doing.

· Give them the opportunity, encourage them

· and help them prepare to serve without you.

· That's how ministry multiplies church.

· That's how we can multiply.

· Not just the people in this room

· but the people serving this church.

· And for me, making myself available to God

· has also meant being willing to help plant the church.

· My wife and I put our hat in the ring

· and we are leading that out

· and there is a lot of unknown in that.

· Don't know where, don't know when.

· There's a lot of things we need to prepare.

· But it began with availability.

· It began with an open heart.

· And the biggest thing is having that posture

· that I talked about.

· Here I am, God.

· Here I am.

· I am ready when you want me to use you

· or you want to use me for your kingdom.

· Helping plant a church is not more important

· than anything else that I mentioned earlier.

· Seeing a coworker in a visible area of your work

· and providing them good counsel

· is not any less important.

· These assignments may all look different

· and the locations may look different

· and the responsibilities might look different

· but the number of people might be different.

· But the requirement for all of us is the same.

· We need to be available.

· We need to make ourselves available.

· We need to pay attention.

· Take your eyes up off those devices

· and look around and pay attention.

· And we need to remain faithful

· and accomplish the ministry

· that you already have in front of you.

· A fancy word like metron

· doesn't have to be something hard.

· Just look around.

· So here's the challenge I have for us today, church.

· Where is God sending you?

· Where is he sending you?

· You've heard us talk for weeks now

· about being rooted and ready.

· Where is he sending you?

· The question's not about what your assignment looks like

· and how it looks to someone else.

· The question is, are you gonna be faithful

· to that assignment?

· Are you gonna listen to what God is speaking to you

· as you sat in these chairs,

· as you've read scripture,

· and as you've prayed through this?

· Are you gonna listen

· or are you gonna just push that off to another day?

· The kingdom does not grow

· because a few gifted people come along

· and decide to spread the ministry.

· This is a perfect example today of the word.

· Paphros, if he had more and more,

· we could probably read about him through the gospel.

· It was simple.

· He was rooted within.

· He labored for others.

· And he let that ministry carry through him.

· He was reached, he was rooted, and he labored.

· And I think, again, when we look at that,

· do we wanna simply be being content and being reached?

· Or will you be raised up to reach others?

· And don't wait for an impressive assignment.

· Make yourself available, be willing to be sent.

· So before we close,

· I believe there might be a few people here

· that are probably sitting there listening to me

· and heard about this leadership

· and maybe you've heard about faithfulness

· and you've heard about the way we prayed

· and served and carried the gospel.

· Maybe inside you're saying, I want that kind of faith.

· I wanna do some of the things that he's doing.

· Maybe you look over at someone else sitting next to you

· and say, well, they look like they got it together.

· I wanna be more like them.

· I want that kind of leadership.

· I want that kind of purpose in my life.

· And maybe today's not,

· your first step might not be looking at this

· and saying, I wanna be more like Paphros.

· Maybe that's not your first step.

· Maybe your first step today is to meet the Jesus

· that Paul and Epaphras know of, that we know of.

· This is the same Jesus who transformed Paul.

· The same Jesus that Epaphras built his ministry off of.

· The Jesus that took ordinary people

· like people in this room, like me,

· forgave their sins, gave them new life

· and sent them out.

· Sent them out with eternal purpose.

· Eternal purpose.

· Not just a trip to the grocery store, eternal purpose.

· So maybe you've spent all your life

· allowing other things lead you.

· Maybe pain has led you, your career is leading you.

· Maybe you've told yourself, hey, I'm a good person.

· I'm not doing anything bad,

· or at least not that often.

· Maybe I'll try to do the right thing.

· I think I'm doing enough.

· But being a person cannot save us.

· Cannot save us from sin.

· It can't rescue that relationship we have with God.

· And the things of this world

· will continue to disappoint you.

· Will continue.

· So today can be your day to stop searching

· for things in life.

· Things in life that will not give you what you need.

· Today can be that day where you stop

· allowing everything else to lead you.

· Today can be that day where you surrender

· and surrender your life to Jesus Christ.

· So today, the Bible tells us

· that all of us that have sinned

· and fallen short of the glory of God,

· our sin separates us from him,

· but God did not leave us there.

· It's not a cliffhanger, guys.

· Jesus Christ, the sinless son of God,

· died on the cross for our sins.

· He was buried, He rose again,

· and He offers forgiveness for our life.

· A new life.

· We cannot earn that.

· You receive it by grace through Him.

· He is the Lord who will forgive you and restore you,

· fill you with the Spirit, and lead you.

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