Cribz Week 3

Listen, I know you wanna check out this message, but before you do, I wanna invite you to come check us out in person. Here at Freelike Chapel, we're all about family and would love to connect with you face to face. So if you're ever in the central Florida area, come check us out. Here at FLC, we wanna help you discover and live the Freelike in Christ. To learn more about who we are, what we do, and how you can be a part, check us out at FreelikeChapel.org. Until then, check out this message. - Did anybody grow up watching MTV Cribs? Grow up watching MTV Cribs, cool. I grew up, maybe they didn't grow up. Anybody watched it. And some of y'all might've been grown. I'm a young kid. I grew up watching MTV Cribs, right? And there was two things I always wanted to see. Two things. Number one, what was this? I wanted to see what car or cars did they have. I wanted to see how they had it all tricked out in life. Yeah, I ain't even seen that in a Hot Wheels version, like that, cool stuff. The second thing I always wanted to see, I wanted to see the inside of the refrigerator. What food you got?

Like, anybody else knows you like me? You like seeing this out of people's fridge? Like, you high-key judge? Like, what brand ketchup you got? What kind of food you got? What kind of, you do, tell me you don't do it. What kind of show? What are your fruit, what's the containers that you put your fruit in? What do you like to drink? I high-key judge. I like to see, I'm nosy. I like to see what's going on. And you knew that it was like TV because only TV would go in and they would restock your refrigerator as if it was publics. Like, they had a whole public team come in, they'd make sure all the labels are facing the same exact way. They'd make sure they restocked like everything was up to the front. You couldn't even see five, six layers deep, but they made sure it was there. I love watching MTV Cribs. It showed me that there's multiple different ways of living. That how I was living, it wasn't that there was bad, but there was other people who were living at a whole different level. Maybe because of income or whatever it was that they had going on,

but there was another style, another way of living. That's really what we're talking about inside of this series of Cribs. Talking about how there's another way of living, God's way of living, God's house. How does God set up his house? What is the culture of his house? How do things operate inside of his house? 'Cause we realize that when we do things God's way, we get God's results. It's not to say that you and I can't achieve some good results on our own, but we can't achieve great results like God does unless we do things alongside of him. So that's what we're getting into inside of this. And we really kicked off this series talking about the diversity that is here at Free Life Chapel. If you look to your left or to your right, chances are there's at least one person who ain't your skin color, who don't have your background, who it didn't grow up the way that you did. We did a poll off the white October and found out 36% of people who attend Free Life are Hispanic, 33% African-American, 26% white, 6% other, a conglomerate of a bunch of other nationalities. We love the diversity here at this church because we see that the kingdom of heaven is all about diversity. It's not our idea that's a God idea

that we just are happy to be trying to do our best to bring heaven here to earth. But diversity is so important and really it's made a big impact in your life and in my life probably bigger than what we almost sometimes recognize it for. In 1969, I was not alive then, but y'all who were rock on 1969 on July, the 20th was Apollo 11. Apollo 11, man's steps on the moon, right? There's, oh my God, kind of a vent that happened, never had happened before. And while that alone, getting up to the moon, walking on the moon is an amazing feat. There was actually in my eyes, something that was just as hard, if not harder, that they had to go through. Over 400,000 people were involved in making Apollo 11 happen. And you have a hard time on things giving what your kinfolk getting together. 400,000 opinions. 400,000 ideas. 400,000 different suggestions of what to eat for lunch that day. Now there's a lot of people and they weren't all the same people. You had engineers and mathematicians and pilots, technicians, seamstress, facility managers. You had all these different type of folk

that came together in order to make this happen. And here's one of the things that makes it even more impressive. It was right in the middle of the civil rights era, where you are not allowed to have that kind of diversity. There's a difference. They would stiff our, but NASA understood this. The mission is too important for us to stiff arm. It's actually so important that we need multi-ethnic collaboration. I need people who don't see things the way that I see them. I need people who think different than me. I need people who've experienced something different than me. I need people who can explain things different than I can. Doesn't mean better. It doesn't mean worse. Just different diversity became the way that they achieved something that had never been done before. But this isn't just a NASA thing, as we mentioned earlier. This is a kingdom of heaven thing. The difference became their strength, not their obstacle. And the same thing is true in the kingdom of God. Heaven's model is this, one mission. At Free Life Chapel, we would say it this way, to help others discover and live the free life in Christ. If you want to go for a scripture, it would say go out into all the world, make disciples of everyone, everywhere, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Our goal, our job is to get people connected to Jesus. Let people know about the life change that He's done in you,

the love that He's given towards you, the grace and the mercy and the forgiveness. Don't gatekeep, but shout it from the mountains and express it in the way that you live life. One mission, but many, many different parts. Different people, but one unifying spirit in the inside of me and in the inside of you, with one goal, continuing to bring heaven to earth. Heaven's kingdom. What I want to talk to you about today is the idea of from the crib to the city, from the crib to the city, from God's crib to the city. In week one of this series of FLC cribs, we talked about, we built the crib. We talked about the idea of unity, that it takes a diverse group to bring together. Week two, we talked about how do we keep the walls that Jesus tore down to make sure that we have inclusion? That it's not just me and mine, it's we and us that get the chance to be involved in this. And today, let's talk about how we're able to fill this house. 'Cause you know there's a difference between a house and a home, right? Like you could build a house, but without the right culture, it won't feel like home. That's what Luther Vandross said. ♪ A chair is still a chair ♪ It's about all I got. It's about all I got. It ain't Luther.

But he said, thank you. That made me, I appreciate that. Luther taught us, there's a difference between a house and a home. There's a difference between being somewhere and feeling appreciated somewhere. There's a difference between engaging in a relationship and somebody desiring to be in a relationship. There's a huge difference. Well, there's a difference between being around God and being in God. There's a difference between being in a building and being in the church of Jesus Christ. There is a difference because of the culture that is in the room. Heaven's culture makes the church feel like God's house. A place that I run to whenever I have something to celebrate. A place that I run to whenever I don't know what to do. A place that I run to when I need peace of protection. And a place that I run to when I wanna give thanks for the amazing things that is going on in my life. This idea and this place of home is what God's culture is all about. Or God's culture is all about making the church feel like his home. But his house, his culture, has a few different things that I wanna talk about. The first thing is this, we need to understand Heaven's culture sounds different, different. Different than a culture that maybe I would set up.

Different maybe than a culture that you've maybe set up or one that you've experienced, it sounds different. Why? Because it's heavenly, because it's divine. Because anybody who engages this culture, it doesn't just benefit the one, it benefits the all. Everybody who was a part. Let's talk about how Heaven's culture sounds. Acts chapter two, verse two, the Bible starts off like this. On the day of Pentecost, a holiday. All the believers were meeting together in one place. And suddenly, there was a sound from Heaven, like the roaring of a mighty windstorm. And it filled the house where they were sitting, then what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on them. And everyone present was, in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability. At that time, there were devout Jews from where? Every nation living in Jerusalem. When they heard the loud noise, everyone came running it and they were bewildered to hear their own languages being spoken by the believers. They were completely amazed. How can this be? They exclaimed. These people are from Galilee. And yet we hear them speaking our own native languages. Here we are, Parthians, Medes, Elamites, people

from Mesopotamia, Judea, Capidocia, Pontus, the province of Asia, Frigia, Pamphilia, Egypt, the areas of Libya around tyranny, visitors from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, watch this. And we all hear these people speaking in our own languages about the wonderful things God has done. In a moment where there seems to be so much chaos and disunity because of all these different languages that were being spoken, there had never been as much synergy. That even though people were speaking different languages, it was all coming from the same spirit for a particular reason so that every man and every woman from every tribe, from every nation, from every tongue would hear about the wonderful things God has done. See, Heaven's culture helps people understand one another. This story, Jesus had passed, said, hey, I got some things I want to do with you, but I have to go to my father. I'm going to be sending somebody who's going to be better suited for you, a helper for you. All the apostles were waiting in this upper room, didn't really know what they were waiting for, but they were praying and believing that he's the same God, the same Jesus that rose himself from the dead, the same Jesus that had done those miracles, he's going to be the one that's going to make this thing happen. I don't know how, but we believe him. So they were all together in this room,

all confused and all expected at the same exact time. And the Bible says that the Holy Spirit filled everybody in the room and they began speaking in actual languages, that they had never once studied or learned. How many of you wish you knew another language? I wish I did. I'm Puerto Rican, I can't speak it. I know enough to give me in trouble and out of trouble. I know enough to order some food, but outside of that, that's about like all that it is. No, like these people were speaking languages that they had never studied before. How would that happen? And they were able to be understood like, it's not like you're do lingo speaking of another language. Like they were able to be understood the natives of those languages. They were so excited and embraced that they didn't have to go through a translator to hear about God. They were able to hear it for themselves, understand it for themselves, interpret it for themselves from their own native tongue. It was disarming, helped to drop the walls and the barriers of culture or of language for them to be able to receive the good news about who God is. The church is really the same way. The church isn't about sounding the same, but it is about being led by the same spirit.

Holy spirit. So we're you and I, we might do things a little bit differently. We might think a little bit differently. Our hobbies might be a little bit different. Our desires of food might be a little bit different, but we're still being led by Holy spirit to whatever interaction that we go. So although we're different, we're unified. Although we do different things, we're going towards the same exact mission 'cause Holy spirit is a unifier inside of life. So if I was to say it this way, Sundays are the gathering that you and I get the chance to do, but then Monday through Saturday become the echo where we continue to speak what God has spoken to us inside of this room. That's exactly what happened here when they were in the upper room. They got an interpretation from Holy spirit to be able to speak from another language, but they did not stay in the room. The message did not stay there. They took it out to the streets and they started telling other people about what Holy spirit had given them from their own way. You can speak to people from the voice that God has given you, the influence that God has given you, that they might not listen to somebody else. So don't wait on a pastor to be able to say it. Don't wait on another church member or a life group leader.

that he's done through you to your area. So Sunday becomes the gathering where I'm able to get this impression from Holy Spirit. But then Monday becomes my opportunity to start echoing. What is it that God told me? Now let me tell it to you. What did God put in my heart? Let me put it inside of your heart. He didn't make them all sound the same, but he did allow them to understand each other. Heaven's culture has a particular sound. A sound of diversity. A sound that although it's different, it works together because it's all being pulled from the same exact mission, the same exact vision. But it doesn't just sound different. Heaven's culture also looks different. You ever met somebody that they talk a real big game? And then you say, "Put your money where your mouth is." Yeah, they think that they're fast. You get that old timer who talks about what his 40 speed used to be. And then you're saying, "Line up." He's like, "Oh, where am I back?" That's just me. I hit 30 and my back just started hurting that. I don't know what to do. The Bible says that this principle from heaven, here's what it's saying. I don't just talk a big talk.

I show up also. That there's a tangible way for you to be able to see something for you to be able to do to make an impact. Not for it just to sound good, but for it to live good, for you to be able to engage inside of this activity. And here's where we're gonna go. The Last Supper, John chapter 13. Jesus, it's his last dance, his last team meeting with all of his boys, all those who have been following after him, for him to give them one more fellow. This is what we're doing. This is what we got going on. I need you to make sure that you continue doing this. So it's his last pep talk that he could give his boys. And here's what Jesus says in John chapter 13, verse 35. Read this with me, "Your love for one another." You're what? - Love for one another. - You're what? - Love for one another. - Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. Not how much scripture you can quote. Not what your church attendance is. Not how many serve teams you're on. Not if you've completed connect four. Not how many risks and runs you could do during a worship song. Not how deep your voice gets whenever you pray. - Your love for one another. - And watch this, that ain't nothing wrong with none of that.

Bring you to Jesus, bring you to God. He wants all of that, the different expressions. Again, it's not uniformity, it's unity by spirit. So it's not that we have to be the same, but it is that we do things out of the same spirit. Love. Your love for one another is what's gonna let people know that you're walling with me, that you're on Team Jesus, that you put on the jersey. You're not a bystander on the sideline. You said, "Put me in the game, coach, I'm here." Now this word of love, it's a particular word. In our English language, we have one word of love, but I say I love my wife, I say I love Chick-fil-A, and I say I love the woods. I mean something different every time I say that. This word here that is talking about with love is called agape. And it's agape kind of love. It is a sacrificial kind of love, a connectional love that values others over yourself, a covenantal love, that whenever I get into it, I'm not just doing it to see what I get out of it, but I'm doing it for you, which means it's gonna cost me something. It might cost me my time. It might cost me some effort. It might cost me my preference, but that doesn't matter because this love is what I was commissioned by Jesus to be able to give to others.

In the early Christian church, they were actually known very, very well for the way that they loved one another. There's an old Christian writer and theologian named Tertullian, and he recorded writing about how do pagans, those who don't worship God, those who, they might have multiple gods, they might have one God, they might worship the dirt, but those folk, how do they view Christians from the early Christian church perspective? And here's what they would say, see how they love one another. Not see how they're judging one another, see how they're fighting one another, see how they're slapping Bible for Bible with each other, not see how they're divisive with each other, but see how they love one another, how they embrace one another, how they care for one another. Anybody like boys, some men? I love boys, some men. it's almost time for it to thaw out. Can't do Christmas until you get through Thanksgiving. Mariah Carey is still frozen, don't unthaw her yet. (audience laughs) One of my favorite songs by boys and men is called "Let It Snow." One of my favorites, you've never heard it, you're welcome. I ain't never heard of Christmas songs so romantic. I love this song and it don't snow in Florida,

but I love this song. When I listen to the song, one of my favorite parts about it is the harmonies that are on the inside of it. You got these group of guys that come together that they're all singing something a little bit different. One goes up and one goes down and one goes left and one goes right, but they're doing it inside of the same key, singing the same lyrics, speaking the same thing. They're just expressing it differently, which helps us to get a full-scale appreciation of here's a complete picture of what this whole things look like whenever you have this idea of harmony. Unity is not unison, it is harmony inside of diversity. That's why Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12, although we have one body, we have many different parts, our eyes, our ears, our mouth, nose, our arms, our legs, and what would it be for the ear to tell the eye I no longer need you? Have a completely different function. They're not supposed to do the same thing. They're not supposed to operate the same way. They're divinely different and yet they come together inside of harmony. That's exactly how you and I are supposed to be living our life. We're different, but we live together in harmony with each other, that through our differences, we're able to see a complete picture of who God is,

that I don't fully know God's love and mercy until I hear your story. And I hear a different side of his love and mercy than what I've experienced. His restoration is different. Whenever I, the more stories I hear, the greater the perspective is that I have of who God is and how powerful his name actually is. This diversity helps me understand the complexity of our God. That he's not simple, he's not just thrown together, it's not a one-size-fits-all God, but that we're made in his image, that we are his divine design. There's diversity. There's a love and appreciation that we can have, but our action inside of heaven's culture is to be a sacrificial type of love. So what can that look like? What does it look like to be a sacrificial type of love? It might look like listening before judging. That although I don't understand your perspective or see where you're coming from, maybe I ask a follow-up question and say, how did you get there? What has happened inside of your life that has brought you to this mindset or to that thought process rather than just judging somebody for one statement that they make?

How about I humble myself to listen to how they got there themselves? If God will listen to my prayers, then why can't I listen to people's experience? I can humble myself. I can listen before judging. I can serve before asking. Y'all know that one person that every time they call you, you know they're asking for something? So you ignore their call too? Same. What he's saying is, I can be the one that gets the chance to serve people without needing to ask. That's what love does. Love doesn't just do what's beneficial for me. It does what is good for you. It does what is good for me. How can I serve you? How can I love you? Even if you can't do anything for me, even better. What can I do to serve? What can I do to support? What can I do to uphold and to champion you as you're going on in life? And whether or not you do it back to me, that's completely irrelevant because I'm serving you because I'm serving God. I'm able to serve God by way of serving people. So as you're serving people while you're at work,

and I'm not above getting a cup of coffee. Why? 'Cause I'm serving Jesus. And Jesus loves everybody. And so if all I gotta do is get you a cup of coffee, this might be the easiest serving. I'd never did before in my life. Let me go get it. What can I do to serve my spouse? Parents, what can I do to serve my kids? But there's not a hierarchy when it comes to serving, but rather the more influence I gain in the kingdom of heaven, the more opportunity I have to serve more people. What can I do to serve others before asking for things that love might also look like covering instead of canceling? You ever get this something wrong? And then people found out about it. Hopefully, you had some people that responded great. But the reality is, heaven's culture is a little bit different than the culture that sometimes we experience. Sometimes the culture that we experience is people cancel you. People throw you out, I've been thrown out. I've been dropped out of the group text, deleted from the Snapchat thread, uninvited to the different events and the games and the hangout from people because of something that I did. And I wish I had some people in my life, and thankfully I actually did. Had some people that gave me a covering.

What does it mean by covering? A safe place to heal from where you are. Who has been a safe place for you to heal from what you've gone through? A safe place for you to question your faith. Mind you, God has no problem with you wrestling with your faith. Here's what I'd encourage you to do. Wrestling with them, but don't box them. Here's why I say that, when you box, goal is distance. When you wrestle, it's up close and personal. God don't mind you being up close and personal, wrestling with your faith. God, I hear you're an on time God. I'm having a question about this. Go to him with your questions 'cause he has all the answers. But this place of covering, who can I question with? Who can I be broken with? Who can I be an actual human with? Knowing that nobody in here is perfect. But who allows me to have a safe place? To be able to say, I know you're broken. I know there's some things that are going on. I'm gonna hold you accountable to make sure that you continue to grow. But I'm also gonna be praying for you and protecting you. I'm not gonna be gossiping about you. I'm not gonna be posting it on social media. I'm not gonna use you as an example to everybody, to let people know how great it is of a friend that I am.

I want to be covering to people, not canceling to people. This is ways that you and I have the opportunity to express love towards people. Because heaven's culture displays itself in a tangible way through this idea of love. And this is why the Bible says that you can judge a tree based off of its fruit. You ought to be able to judge if I'm loving people properly. How close are you to Jesus? I'm struggling, I walk with a limb. I'm not great when it comes to it. But I'm with me and my limb. I'm walking as close as I can to Jesus. And you should be able to see love. You should be able to see these things in action. Why? Because Jesus said people are gonna know you follow me based off of how well you love one another. Not just those who believe like you, not just those who look like you, not just those who have done things for you, but even those who have done things to you. How well are you and I able to love? So that heaven's culture sounds different. It looks different, looks like love. It sounds like diversity, which then brings a change here on earth. That heaven's culture, it changes things 'cause you can't ask Jesus to get into the mix and things to remain the same.

Whatever he gets around, he changes. He's that X factor. He's that thing that you can't factor in, but once he gets there, everything automatically gets elevated. Anybody else grateful that you don't have to wait until you die to experience some heaven? No, but I can have the peace that comes from heaven, a joy that comes from heaven, a strength that comes from heaven, right here on earth. This is Jesus' plan. Jesus was asked one time, "Hey, how should we be praying?" 'Cause like I'm talking to God, I wanna make sure that I'm doing it the best way that I can. How is it that we should be praying? Jesus said this, our Father who art in heaven, how low be thy name? And here's the next verse, Matthew 6, verse 10. Your kingdom come talking about God. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Here's what this phrasing reminds us. Jesus is not just our savior. He's also our Lord. He's not just my fire insurance that keeps me from going to hell. But he's also my Lord, which means this. Inside of a kingdom, the king gets to set the culture of how things are ran.

The kingdom of the Thomas household was called my daddy's house. And my daddy said things this way. If you living under my house, you eating my food, using all my hard water and using my AC, or you gonna do things my way. We got a saying here, what Jesus was saying, is God has a way to do things. He has an order, he has a system, he has a way for you and I to live life, a way for us to talk to people, a vote culture gets set by vocabulary, by actions, by customs. God has a vocabulary, some actions and some customs, for you and I to be engaged. Do things his way if you want to be able to experience heaven here on earth. There's some ways to do things that's a little bit different. Jesus was not telling them to pray a prayer of escapism. Where if I can just get out of this humanity and out of this world, then I'm gonna be good. 'Cause if it was so bad, then would he be a good God to birth us into it? He created this. There's some beautiful things that happen here. But nothing compared to living life with him. It's the difference of experiencing it in black and white, experiencing it in color.

My submission to Jesus brings life into color the way that he always intended it for it to be. And so it wasn't escapism. It was invasion that Jesus was teaching them to pray. I don't want to escape God. I want you to invade where I am. So my house, you have full access. My truck, full access. My work cubicle, you have full access. That office, you have full access. Whatever relationship I'm in, I want you here. Your kingdom come, your will be done in my life as it is in heaven. It's what Jesus was teaching here. Acts, go back to that Acts chapter two. When we looked at, listen out, all of those different countries that was there, it was the known world was there. But they were there for this thing called Pentecost. It's a holiday and they would do a pilgrimage from wherever they were from back to Jerusalem. So you had people who believed in God from all these different areas, all these different tribes and nations and tongues. And they were all there and it was a full display of God birthing a global church and not a tribal church. That he wasn't saying I wanted to be only this way and only in this language. But he said, I am inclusive of everybody. That my goodness is for everybody.

My word is for everybody. My love is for everybody. My mercy and my forgiveness is for everybody. And you're not having to be limited to an interpretation from somebody else. But I want you to hear it with your own ears. Fill it with your own spirit. Be able to speak it with your own mouth on who God is. That's why Acts chapter eight says, those who had been scattered preached the word of God wherever they went, they took what they heard and they took it back to their nations. And it was a first wave of missions. They began speaking the goodness of Jesus to all of those in those countries. God filled the house in Acts chapter two so that he could flood the world in Acts chapter eight. And here's the reality. If we're going to be honest, the church is not supposed to be a monument. The church is supposed to be a movement. It's not supposed to be something that I just look at that I come to attend. No, no, no, you and I are the church. We're supposed to be the church is supposed to be something that goes wherever you go. So church just showed up to work. Church just showed up to Walmart. Church just showed up to that family dinner. Church is showing up to Thanksgiving.

Church is showing up in your car because wherever you are, God inhabits the praises of his people. And how can I bring heaven's culture down here to earth? I don't just limit him to a place. I become the hands and the feet of Jesus everywhere I go. The reality is free life chapel. We're not here just for Lakeland. We're here to be through Lakeland. Because what we're doing is to be impactful for Lakeland. Yes, helping others to discover and live the free life in Christ. But you better believe that there's a missional component to that, that it shouldn't just stay here. But as you get impacted, you should be telling folk. And as I get impacted, I should be telling folk that through Lakeland, Florida, we're bringing heaven to earth, one person at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time to impact the nation, to help others to discover and live the free life in Christ. Everybody stand up to your feet. God feels the house so that he can flood the city. But please be mindful. He has zero intention of skipping your house. The creator of the heaven and the world, heaven and earth, allows you and I to partner alongside of him if we choose. In order to make the impact that only can come from heaven. And when you and I partner, it doesn't just benefit those around us, but it benefits you

and those the closest to you. That as my home gets impacted, then we're able to impact the city. that I'm able to be an impact at the gym or at work as I continue to do things God's way. He's able to have his results here through life. Heaven's culture, it should change things. Should change home, home, with Heaven's culture, looks like peace and forgiveness. It looks like a place that I want to run to that when things have just gotten so crazy and I don't know what to do and I'm out of my mind. If I can just get home. It looks like a place of forgiveness, not a place that I'm having to walk on eggshells, every single time we get together, but a place of forgiveness where there's humility by both sides that are there, that we're in this thing together. It's not you versus me, it's a we. Our workplaces should be different if we're doing things Heaven's way. It should be a place of integrity and grace. We're on the same, whether the lights are on or whether the lights are off. And then I'm also extending grace to others 'cause I know I need grace myself. I'm not that good, I need it. And so I give what it is that I need. Our schools, schools can be completely different

when we have Heaven on Earth become places of encouragement and purpose. I don't know if you've ever had a schoolteacher speak life over you, a coach that called something out of you that you hadn't seen. We need Heaven's culture everywhere we go. How does it get there? By you and I taking one more step towards Jesus every single day saying it will go there because I'm going there. He impacts my home so that you and I can impact the city 'cause God is using you to bring His crib to all of those around you. Sabah just ask you questions. How are you doing at embracing Heaven's culture? How are you doing with sounding like Heaven? Having diversity. How are you doing loving like Heaven, acting these things out differently? Not just to those who look like me, think like me that get approved by me, but those who are different from me. How was my world changing because of my relationship with Jesus? Not 'cause of how good I am, but how gracious He is to use a broken man like me in order to make an impact inside of this world. The upper room from Acts 2, Acts 2, it was a hiding place. It was a launching pad for them to be able to go out

and do the exact thing that they were created to do. Today, this isn't a hiding place. This is a launching room for you and I to hit the ground running to help others discover and live the free life in Christ. Let's pray, Father God, we love you so much. Thank you for your grace and for your mercy, allowing us, choosing us to be able to partner with you in what you're doing here in this world to be the carriers of Heaven's culture. God, would you help us when it comes to our words, that we would speak words that would heal broken hearts, that we would speak words that would heal those who might have had some different experiences with you. Father God, that our love would be one that unites people together, that we would be known as people who love because we have been loved by you. That is out of what you have done to us, that we are willingly able and joyful to have the opportunity to do it for somebody else in God, but pray that our life reflects your heart, though everywhere that we go, that we become versions of you, a mirror, holding you that when people look at us, would they be able to see your kindness? Would they be able to see your love? Would they be able to see your grace? Would they be able to see your excitement and your joy for life? God, would you help us to be the proper ambassadors of you?

And we thank you. We ask for a grace and mercy as we do it, knowing that we can't do this on your own, but every single step that we take towards you is a step closer to having Heaven here on earth. Jesus, we love you. We praise you and we thank you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen, and amen, amen. We hope you enjoyed this message. To hear more impactful messages just like this one, check us out at FreelifeChapel.org. We hope you have an amazing week. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)