Colossians, Part 7
Type: Wednesday Evening Service
Series: Colossians
Sermon: Part 7
🗣️ Speaker: Pastor Jeff Booth
False teachings and empty philosophies have always sought to pull people away from the truth of Christ, but those rooted in God's word can recognize and resist deception. In Jesus, believers are fully complete — sins forgiven, spiritual debt canceled, and the power of darkness defeated through the cross and resurrection. Walking in that freedom means trusting entirely in what Christ has already done, rather than anything we could ever earn or achieve on our own.
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Before we came out tonight, I don't know the last couple days The word that the Lord is, we're gonna get into Colossians here in just a minute, but this phrase, make room, has just kind of been burning in my heart and my mind the last two days.
And Terry and I were taking a bike ride last night and I had my phone out while I'm riding my bike almost wrecked, but I'm like talking into my phone the things that I feel like the Lord was saying to me about making room, making space, just giving him space in my life. life and and what he was what he was talking to me about and and uh then today I I felt like I had confirmation of it.
Uh I was reading and this thing just I came across and it was just about waiting and making room for the Lord.
And some of you, we've been doing that tonight.
Just giving the Lord some space to speak to us.
First Wednesdays are that.
If you don't come on first Wednesdays, you gotta look at your neighbor and say, you have to be there.
And Don't come alone, bring somebody with you.
I don't care if they're kicking, screaming, and whatever, but I'm telling you what, they will be glad that they came.
First Wednesdays are a powerful time in the presence of the Lord.
To make room for Lord, there's some things we have to kind of get out of the room.
You know what I'm saying?
There's some things, some mindsets, some different things as the Lord's been speaking to you.
Just do what he's asking you to do.
And watch him do some great things in your life.
Tonight, we're gonna talk a little bit about deceit and uh the tricks of the enemy.
Paul's talking to the church in Colossae about this.
Thank you, Cindy.
I appreciate you.
Thank you so much.
Show some love to Cindy.
Would you do that?
She's amazing.
I gotta ask, was it a good phone call?
It was a double call.
Okay.
She's expecting a pretty important phone call, so we were hoping that was it.
1984.
How many were around 1984?
Yeah.
Scott, were you around 1984?
1984, I was in a Christian rock band, and uh we thought we were something else, man.
We thought we were gonna make it big and we uh We had a small circle of influence, but we played those four places every month, every weekend, every month.
And I had some other opportunities, but we had an opportunity to go to LA, to Costa Mesa, California, and record an album in 1984.
And we made the trip out there at the time, I don't know if you ever heard of Contemporary Christian Magazine, but it was like it was like the you know Christian Musicians magazine.
It's like We wanted our band to be on the cover of CCM.
You know, that was one of our goals.
There was an executive from CCM that contacted us and made this deal for us to come out to Costa Mesa, California. and to record this project at Front Page Studios with a man named Skip Conti in engineering it.
And you may not know Skip Conti, but he if some of you may not even know who Daryl Mansfield is, but Daryl Mansfield, the archers, a lot of early, like eighties Christian artists he was he was engineering and producing for out in California at the studio.
So we thought this was a great deal.
And Skip Conti, what you would really know him for, is he was with Blues Image and Three Dog Night and he was one who wrote the song Ride Captain Ride.
So when we heard that we thought well we gotta have this guy produce for us.
I mean this'll this'll set us up for life, you know?
So we go out there And we uh we recorded and and it was a great experience.
Each of us, each of us, there were five of us, so we had to come up with about three thousand dollars apiece to make this project happen.
So we pulled our money together.
No contract, no signatures, cash, young, stupid, and just ready to go.
Trusting And I was the youngest one in the band.
I'm blaming the older guys for not seeing it for what it was.
So we get out to LA, we record, and the album went went pretty good.
It was recording was really nice.
But like I say, we took cash out there and and we never made it on the cover of CCM, but uh the the man from CCM He ended up with a lot of cash in his pocket and we never saw him again.
We did get signed to a record label for three months and then they went bankrupt.
And then our master was locked up for 35 years and we never had access to it.
And we were like totally, we were cheated, we had been deceived, we'd been sold a bill of goods, and we bought it.
And we paid the price for it.
Now you can recover from events like that, right?
You can come back from that, from some financial losses.
A lot of times you can come back from that.
But where you can't come back from sometimes is when you fall into deceit when it comes to your eternity.
We need to know that we're standing in the truth.
We were scammed, cheated, and deceived.
And over the years we would run across people who were scammed by the same guy.
And if I could find him today, I'd just love to hug him and just give him a Jesus hug.
And ask him where my money is.
But Paul is speaking to the church in Colossae about being deceived and being scammed, so to speak.
Being careful of those who have fancy, intelligent words, but they're deceitful.
They do not have your well-being in mind.
And he's straightforward. forward about these people in Colossians 2 verse 8 he says this beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ.
See, it's it's one thing if you get scammed out of a car deal or a record record deal, you can recover from that.
But if you fall into False philosophies and teachings that are contrary to God's word, you might dig your soul yourself into a hole that you can't get out of.
And Paul is strongly saying to believers, beware Take heed.
Be careful who you listen to, and know your word, the word of God, so that you can tell a scammer when you see them.
Hello?
See, Paul is emphasizing the need to remain in the freedom and liberty that Christ purchased for us.
And these deceitful teachings, these false teachings will bind us.
Hello?
They will bind us.
I watched a woman who calls herself a Christian pastor this week.
And uh I I don't call her a pastor, but that's the title she gives herself.
And she made this statement.
She said We need, I think it's time that we need a third covenant.
A third testament.
And I was like, my eye, my ears perked up, and I'm like, warning, warning, liar, liar, pants on fire.
And she said, because the the the writings in the Old Testament and the New Testament really bother me.
Well it ought to bother your flesh.
And she says as a matter of fact, it culturally it just doesn't Sit well in today's culture, some of the writings, especially in the New Testament, especially from this guy named Paul She went on to say, for example, that some of Paul's writings, we should probably just go ahead and rip those pages out.
Now, I'm about to jump through the screen and get a hold of her.
And uh news flashed, the gospel is offensive to your flesh.
The gospel will divide.
The gospel separates flesh.
From spirit.
Yes, my flesh does not like a lot what I see between Genesis and Revelation.
But if I if I will believe in the Word of God, if I put my faith in Christ, I will come to life.
Are you with me tonight?
My spirit needs to live.
I need to crucify my flesh.
I have been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives through me.
That is where we are supposed to be.
Hello, somebody.
We need people who claim to be Christians to actually die to fleshly and selfish desires.
See this woman, I'm sorry, she's a nutcase.
Like all of us were before we met Christ.
We had thoughts that were just not not even rational Stop calling yourself a Christian if you're not going to submit to the teachings of Christ.
And you're not going to submit yourself to the word I was shouting as she was speaking, Revelation 22.
Revelation 22.
It says, for I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book.
If anyone adds to these things.
God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.
I'm going to get away from her as far as I can.
And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part, her part, from the book of life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
The words of Paul to the Colossians are so appropriate for us today.
We hear crazy things like this communicated all the time by various people claiming to be men and women of God and they know better than God.
Hello?
This being taken captive by human philosophy and man's tradition really speaks of being led astray or taken off track of the truth by something that literally robs you and plunders your life of all that Christ has provided for you if you lean into the lie.
Look at your neighbor and say, don't believe the lie Don't lean into the lies of man's tradition and high-sounding intellectual philosophies of men.
Stick to the word.
Hebrews 2. 1 says, therefore.
We must give the more earnest heed.
Earnest heed.
There's intensity there.
We must be aware.
We must be alert.
Earnest heed to the things we have heard, to those teachings that we have received, lest we drift away.
Lest we drift away.
God's word is powerful, tested, and proven faithful and trustworthy.
Men will live and men will die.
Philosophies will come and philosophies will go.
But the word of God stands forever.
Somebody say amen.
See, you have to remember the Gnostics were teaching that a perfect spirit or a perfect God could in no way interact.
With lowly man and be tainted by man's imperfections.
And Paul is reminding the church, the believers in Colossi, that he explains how God sent Jesus in the flesh to dwell, to live, and to be with mankind.
He came to us to be with us and live like us.
Jesus would ultimately give his life For the world to experience salvation and freedom.
Nothing needs to be added.
Nothing can be taken away from what Christ has done For the world to be restored to relationship with the Father.
Christ has everything that we need.
Paul goes on to say in verses 9 and 10.
For in him, somebody say in him, in Christ dwells how much?
A little bit?
Partial?
Half?
Oh, she's getting mad at me.
All the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Bodily, and you are complete in him.
Look at your neighbor and say, You're complete in him.
You are I know you're looking at me, and you're like, I don't know that he's complete.
I'm complete in him.
You're complete in him.
He's done it all, who is the head of all principalities and powers.
This is a dramatic, airtight declaration on the full deity of Christ Since all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Jesus, he cannot be halfway God.
He can't be a little God.
He can't be a junior God.
He is fully God.
Paul is declaring that In the sun there dwells all the fullness of the absolute Godhead.
There were no mere rays of divine glory which Gilded him, lighting up his person for a season and with splendor not his own.
But he was and he is absolute and perfect God.
See, the false teaching among the Colossian Christians by the Gnostics, heresies made a radical separation between the spiritual and the material.
That is That's why Paul needed to make clear that all the fullness of the Godhead was in Jesus bodily, not in some strange mystical sense.
A false teaching related to this in the early church was called Doceta Docetaism, Docidas.
You go read it yourself.
And that claim that Jesus actually had no human body, that he just appeared or seemed to have a human body, but he didn't.
It was a false teaching.
This false teaching was spread because if Jesus didn't have a real body Then he really didn't suffer and die on a cross.
But he did.
Look at your neighbor and say he did it.
Another false teaching was called Cyrinthianism, and it says that Jesus, the man, was separate and distinct.
From the Spirit of Christ.
Paul just hammers and confronts these lies head on by explaining that Jesus was literally in the flesh and yet fully and completely God in human body form.
He's making it clear for the Colossians that Jesus was God as he was on the earth, fully in human bodily form, experiencing everything that you and I experience, tempted as we've been tempted, yet he did not sin.
So he was a perfect sacrificial lamb to cover all of our sins.
And you are complete in him.
Baby, I'm complete in him.
I know you're still working on me, but he's got me, okay?
This can only be true because Jesus is truly God for us to be complete in him.
If he were not God, We wouldn't and couldn't be complete in him.
If all the fullness of God dwells in Jesus, and as believers, we are united to him in a faith relationship, then we also are complete in him.
There was no need for the Colossians to go to the false promises and attractions presented by these teachers, these false teachers.
Paul encourages them, saying that this is a fact to be enjoyed.
That we are complete in him.
It's not a status to be achieved, which the false teachers were implying that you must achieve this.
Don't we all fall into that?
The works-based relationship.
We feel we have to achieve work or do something to be complete in Christ.
Yet if we have to perform or do something, it makes his sacrifice of no effect.
See if I'm asked.
If I am asked why I am saved, and it begins with, I believed, or I did this or I confessed or then I've missed a point.
Because it's all about what he has done.
It's that Christ died.
It's that Christ shed his blood for me.
It's that Christ was buried and he was raised three days later and he conquered death.
Hell in the grave.
I think somebody ought to be running around the room right now because he did that for you and he did that for me.
Hmm.
At the end of verse 10, Paul states that Christ is a head of all principality And power, or is the head of all rule and authority.
In many New Testament passages, principality and power describes ranks of angelic beings, either faithful or fallen angelic beings.
So Paul is declaring Jesus his authority over all spirit beings.
This false teaching among the Colossian Christians emphasize that these lesser spirit beings, but Paul makes it clear, Jesus is far above the angels.
Somebody say amen.
Verse 11, in him you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands.
By putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.
Buried with him in baptism, in which you also were raised with him through faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead.
See, most of the Colossian Christians were Gentiles who had never been physically circumcised.
Paul is assuring them that they were indeed circumcised in a spiritual sense, which is far more important.
Than the physical circumcision.
The Colossians had to deal with a whole variety of false teachings.
Apparently, they were being taught that they had to be circumcised in order to be right with God.
Paul makes it clear that they were by putting off the sins of the flesh.
Our spiritual circumcision meant The putting off of the old man.
The Greek word for putting off denotes both stripping off and casting away.
The imagery is that of discarding or being uh divested of a piece of filthy clothing.
Aren't you glad the old man has been stripped away?
We are new in Christ.
By the circumcision of Christ, buried with him in baptism, Paul is saying to these Gentile Christians that to find their true circumcision is in their baptism.
Christians don't need to be circumcised in their flesh, they need to be baptized.
You have to make plans to be with us next Wednesday for first.
Wednesday worship because it's going to be every one of them they're different.
They're different uh parts uh to the service.
But there's going to be uh several people who are going to be water baptized.
And we need you here, yeah, we need you here to do that, to celebrate, because all of heaven celebrate.
So let's join in. the celebration.
Be here next week.
This is our circumcision.
Even the Old Testament acknowledges that there are two types of circumcision, one of the body and one of the heart.
Deuteronomy 1016 says, circumcise the foreskin of your heart.
And be stiff-necked no longer.
Don't be rebellious any longer.
Deuteronomy 13, verse 6, and the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants.
To love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul, that you may live.
Jeremiah 4:4 says, Circumcise yourselves to the Lord and take away the foreskins of your hearts You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, so that no one can quench it because of the evil of your doings.
You know, sometimes We use scripture and it's like I just want to use the first half of that verse.
I don't like that back part, but you have to have that in there.
You have to have that.
Sincere baptism shows that the real circumcision of the heart has taken place.
Baptism illustrates our identification with the death and resurrection life of Jesus.
We're buried with Jesus And buried under the water.
We're also raised with Jesus and raised up out of the water Paul understood that the power of regeneration was not in baptism or received by the act of baptism, but regeneration is received through faith in the working of God.
Look at verse 13.
You being dead in your trespasses.
And the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven all your trespasses.
If you've been forgiven, just give a Lord a wave offering.
Thankful for that.
See, this is the place of every person before they are raised with Christ through faith in the working of God.
Before we have new life, we're dead.
The Bible has many descriptions of men and women apart from Christ.
And this is one of the strongest.
A sick person may need a doctor, but a dead person needs a savior.
I'm gonna say it again, a sick person may need a doctor, but a dead person needs a savior.
We're not only made alive, but we're made alive together with Christ.
It's true that he gave us life from the dead.
He gave us pardon of sin.
He gave us imputed righteousness.
These are all precious things that the Lord has given us, but we cannot be content with these because we have actually received Christ.
Himself, the Son of God, has been poured out into us and we have received him.
Before we have a new life in Jesus, we are dead. in our trespasses.
I when I was working on this, that little phrase kept going over and over my mind.
Dead in trespass.
We were in trespass, but now we're in Christ.
We were in darkness, but now we're in light.
Hello?
I was dead, but now I'm alive.
See, a trespass is a specific kind of sin.
It's overstepping a boundary.
We are dead because we overstepped God's boundaries in our sin and rebellion.
We've gone our own way and disregarded his commands and his word for us.
We can't make ourselves alive, but God can make us alive together with Christ.
We can never be alive.
Apart from Jesus.
See, this is I'm not gonna go there.
I heard a chaplain the other day.
I think I was telling Pastor this.
I heard a chaplain the other day.
Just talking, and they in the middle of what they're saying, they said, and another way that we can re receive salvation here on earth And I did that.
I went, uh-oh.
And what this individual was trying to say was, one of the ways we can receive and attain salvation here on the earth is by our good works.
And by what we have come out of, you know, helping others.
And I get the helping other part, but that's not how you get salvation.
I'm sitting there and I'm just wanting to scream and I'm wanting to get the hook out and say, time's up, time's up, off, you know, off, you know.
That's not the way that we receive salvation.
We are dead and no good deeds, no work, no effort on our part can ever make us alive.
Only Christ can bring us out of darkness. into life and take us out of the grave and into life.
There is only one name given whereby men can be saved and the name is Jesus.
He is the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father Except through Christ.
No other religion, I mean, there's this politically correct environment that we live in.
Jesus is the only way Every other way is a false way that will lead you to hell.
It will not lead you into life.
Jesus is the way.
Until we receive life from Christ, we are simply dead men walking without hope and purpose.
Thank you, Jesus, for life.
The new birth, made alive, cleansing, been forgiven of all, go together as features of the new covenant is prophesied. by the Old Testament in Ezekiel 36 and again in a new covenant with John chapter 3 verse 5.
Having forgiven us is the ancient Greek word is from an ancient Greek word.
It's a verb form.
And it gives us the word grace.
We are forgiven by grace.
Somebody say grace.
Verse 8 and 9 says, For it is by grace you have been saved through faith.
And this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.
If we boast in anything, let's boast in the cross.
If we boast in anything, let's boast in Christ and what he has done.
Is anybody hearing me tonight?
Let's boast in his goodness and the sacrifice that he has made for us.
There was a man terrorized by dreams in the nighttime, of scenes in his mind of things that he had committed in his lifetime as he transported slaves across the ocean.
On ships, but he came to the saving grace of Jesus.
He was finally broken, and he finally understood that he could only be saved by grace.
See, grace means God gives us what we do not deserve.
He gives us his forgiveness.
He gives us his presence.
He gives us his power.
He gives us eternal life.
None of us deserve it.
But he gives it to us.
John Newton received that undeserved, unearned favor and kindness of God that he could not Get on his own.
His understanding of God's grace gave us perhaps the most well-known hymn in the history of the world.
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind.
But now I see.
See, Paul goes on to say in verse 14, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us.
And he has taken it out of the way.
Somebody shout out of the way.
Out of the way and nailed it to the cross.
We've been singing that song, Wash, and I love that bridge.
Every time we get to it, because it says you took away my shame and you nailed it to the cross.
You got me running out the grave.
Hallelujah, here I come.
Hallelujah, here I come Because of the grace of God.
He took away our shame.
The handwriting of requirements has in mind, listen to this, a list of crimes of our moral debt. before God, before all of heaven.
A debt that no imperfect person could pay.
The term handwriting is a general word for a handwritten uh document and has been understood in various ways.
Some take it in a legal sense to say that it represents the the charges against a prisoner. or a confession of a wrong made by a prisoner.
Others take it in a financial sense like it's a debit or a ledger sheet that shows we are bankrupt before God.
Either way, it means that the document that once condemned us is now taken out of the way.
It's been nailed to the cross.
It's been taken out of the way by payment from a perfect man.
His name is Jesus Christ.
See, it might be might even be said that he took the document, ordinances and all, and he nailed it to his cross as an act of Of triumphant defiance in the face of those blackmailing powers that were holding it over men and women in order to command their allegiance.
According to one commentator The ancient Greek word translated wiped out is a compound of the word to anoint and the prefix that means completely.
And the idea is is that something was completely wiped over.
We bought a brand new table before we came here to Florida, almost said to Omaha.
I'm in Florida now.
I went from Omaha to Florida.
Brand new Amish table.
We can seat I think 14 people at this table when you put all the leaves in it.
It has like four leaves.
It gets really big.
So Christmas was fun this last year.
But I was the goober that didn't put something down before I put my glass there.
And there's these two rings of stain that have been there.
I just said, oh, that looks like it's been used.
That's okay.
Don't worry about that.
Well, she got that old English out and she got that elbow grease going.
Gone.
Gone.
That's what that's an example.
Even as I watch her do that, it's like That's what Christ did to our sin.
It doesn't even exist anymore.
It's gone.
It's wiped away.
He took care of it.
Now I just put a coaster down before I put a drink on the table, right?
She's gonna learn me good one day I have a friend who had quite the criminal record and he was a felon and he was in the drug industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the street pharmaceutical industry.
And uh he got radically saved.
I mean he's he's radical for Jesus.
I mean he you he was bold for the devil, he's like extremely bold for Jesus.
His love for Christ is amazing.
And uh Curtis got a call a few years ago that he needed to go back to Oklahoma and see a judge.
And he's sitting at a you know a table there before the judge and the judge speaks to him.
And the judge ends up pardoning him of all that he had done.
All that he had The judge pardoned him, and the pardon is literally an act of mercy that removes the legal consequence.
Of what he had done.
And that's why you know we have our sins have been cast as far as the east is from the west.
We've been part, they've been removed.
The enemy, the accuser of the brethren, wants to throw it in our face But it's gone.
Christ doesn't hold it up against us.
It's not there anymore.
He has taken it for us.
See, this is what Christ did for us when he died and rose from the grave.
His act of mercy removed the legal consequences of our conviction of sin when we believed upon him.
And he removed those sins as far as the East is from the West.
Jesus not only paid for the writing that was against us, he took it out of the way and nailed it to the cross.
Colossians 2. 15 says, having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of them. triumphing over them in it.
Band can come up and just uh be in the key of C and we'll figure out where we'll go from there Another aspect of Jesus' work on the cross is that he disarmed principalities and powers.
The greatest powers of the earth at that time, Rome. the greatest government power, and Judaism, the greatest religious power, conspired to put the Son of God on the cross.
These powers, angry at his challenge to their sovereignty, stripped him naked, held him up to public contempt, and celebrated a triumph over him, over Christ.
Paul shows us again the paradox of the cross, that the victorious Jesus took the spiritual powers animating these earthly powers. and he stripped them, held them up in contempt, and publicly triumphed over them.
We can only imagine how Satan and every dark, gleeful demon attacked Jesus as he hung on the cross on our behalf. as if he were a guilty sinner.
As he was suspended there bound hand and foot to the wood in apparent weakness They imagined they had him at their mercy and flung themselves on him with hostile intent.
But far from suffering their attack without resistance, Jesus grappled with them and mastered them, stripping them of the armor in which they trusted and held them aloft in his outstretched hands, displaying to the universe their helplessness and his own unvanquished strength.
He was victorious.
Paul wrote that if the rulers of this age And by this he was speaking to the spiritual powers of darkness and their earthly representatives.
Sometimes we need to understand that.
There are people who are, I don't go around looking for a demon behind every bush, but there are people who are being used.
By spirits of darkness.
The enemy uses them.
Paul wrote that had they known what would happen on the cross, they never ever would have crucified Jesus.
In essence, they were Defeating themselves and they didn't even know it.
Against the believer, what weapons do demonic spirits therefore now have?
We think that the enemy, Christ is in us.
We talked about that last time.
Week Christ is in us.
We don't have to fear demonic spirits.
We don't have to fear the enemy.
They are disarmed, except for their ability.
Listen, to deceive and to create fear, these are effective weapons that are not tangible weapons.
Demonic spirits spirits only have power towards us that we grant them when we believe their lies.
With me?
It's when we believe their taunts, we believe their lies, we believe their deceit that we give them room in our lives.
But we have authority over them because Jesus disarmed them on the cross.
He defeated them.
The weapons are in our hands, not their hands.
One day we'll see just how afraid and scared demons really were of us, and we didn't know it.
Because the power of Christ working in and through us.
Paul had in mind, talking about this triumphing over the powers and principalities, he had in mind the Roman victory parade where a conquering general led his defeated captives through the streets in triumph.
Perhaps Satan for a moment thought that he had won at the cross, but hell's imagined victory was turned into a defeat that disarmed every spiritual enemy who fights against those living under the light and the power of the cross.
Christ is our conquering general.
Stand with me.
The death of Christ was not only a pardon, it also manifested power and might.
It not only canceled our debt, it was a glorious, mighty.
Mighty triumph over death, hell in the grave.
Would you bow your heads with me for a moment?
We're gonna ask for the altar workers to come at this time to prepare to pray for people.
But heads bowed and eyes closed, I just want to ask this question before we open up the altars and begin to worship.
If Jesus is not the Lord of your life, and tonight you sense him drawing, drawing.
Drawing yourself to him.
And you wanna put your faith and trust in him.
I'm not gonna ask you to come forward or anything like that, but you're gonna put your faith and trust in him.
You're gonna repent of sin.
You're gonna confess Jesus as Lord.
You're gonna surrender to him.
And allow him to rule and reign your heart.
I just want to pray for you right where you are.
If that's you, just slip your hand up high.
We're gonna pray for you and we're gonna open the altars.
Anybody at all on this Wednesday night?
You wanna give your life to the Lord.
Father, I pray for those in this room tonight.
That God, we would walk in the authority that Christ has given us through the cross and through his resurrection.
Lord, help us to walk in power, not in fear.
Lord, I ask in the name of Jesus that you'd manifest your power in the lives of your of your sons and daughters as as those come for prayer and to receive healing to receive a breakthrough tonight we give you praise in the mighty name of Jesus together everyone said amen.
If you need prayer tonight we invite you to come at this time Our team is available to pray for you.
If you need to go, we just bless you in the name of the Lord and look forward to seeing you this Sunday in either our 8 o'clock or 10 o'clock service.
Encourage you, be a bringer, bring somebody with you.
God bless.
