From Rags to Righteousness | History Makers Church

You will not play with me anymore, you will not affect my wife, you will not affect my kids and I break all generational anger in the name of Jesus. What Jesus did was he took away the seeds of hell and he gave me the seeds of heaven. So I started planting some new seeds. Seeds of faith, seeds of obedience, seeds of forgiveness, seeds of love. I gave him my rags and he returned, he gave me riches. My family is rich, rich of his righteousness. They lack nothing. Lies of the enemies are broken and Christ is our identity. God is good and all the time. Come on, let's go. Proverbs 10 22, right? We're going to jump right in. But right before it, my name is Hector Lopez. Like Jewel said, my wife, Jessica, we are from the very beginning of History Makers Church. And we're so grateful for our pastors and the team here. Thank you for this opportunity that we can share and we can speak to you guys all. So today I want to talk about something really personal to my life. And I want to start with Proverbs 10 22. And it says the blessing of the Lord makes a person rich and he has no sorrow with it. And the title today of my message is breaking up with anger. Because anger were the rags that were holding me down away from the righteous things that God has for my life. So today I want to talk about something really personal to me. And when I found out I was first, I was like, OK, thank you, Lord. But this is personal to me because it was a battle within me that I hid over years. Since growing up as a young boy, even in ministry, being a pastor at a church and to even in my relationship with my wife and my kids, many milestones I've achieved and even witnessing God's grace and mercy over my life. I still struggled with what I believe is a silent killer.

And I left it unchecked and I left it undealt with. And forgive me, I'm a little emotional because this is really dear to me. But I want to talk about anger because anger was a part of my life for a really long time. It ain't no more. Ephesians chapter 4, 26 and 27 says, and don't don't sin by letting anger control you. Don't let the sun go down while you are still angry for anger gives a foothold to the devil. And quickly here, what it's saying here, if you get angry, get rid of it quickly if you get angry, get rid of it quickly or it can turn to sin and destruction. But how many know that if we hold on to these things, they can last almost a lifetime. For me, this was gradual and this was unchecked. I held on to grudges silently. It formed a worldview of distrust and it hardened me in certain areas. Even growing up and raised in church, I was waging a war within me. So remember, even if you're in church, you can struggle. But it's not until you transform by the power of the Holy Spirit. And it spilled into my family life and my marriage and my relationships. Anger can lead to not just depression and frustration, but also bitterness and destruction if gone unchecked and leaving an open door for the enemy to play games with my life. Three ways that the devil used anger in my life. He used anger to try to stop God's plans for my life. He used anger to boost my ego. Everything offended me. The smallest thing someone told me, I got offended. He used anger to obscure my perception in life and how I should view people. Always on the defense, always a wall around me, always keeping people far away. And I was a pastor for eight years. See, my story growing up, stuttering. I stuttered for so much. I felt inadequate. I was made fun of.

I was bullied. I was thrown in trash cans. I was led to anger, self-disgust, disappointment. Fast forward, getting married and having a family. I remember the fights and the verbal assaults that I initiated, that I had. The back and forth and the constantly pointing out my wife's flaws and my kids' flaws. The smallest thing set me off. The most insignificant thought turned into a constant complaint. I clearly was lost in my anger and my own disappointment. It led to a difficult season in our marriage where we didn't take care of each other. I was cold. I was I was angry, I was judgmental. It was so bad that our marriage vows of fidelity and promise were being tested to the brink of separation and even divorce. That was one of the hardest seasons of our lives. So I have a question for you this morning. What hurt or hurts have affected you? And does it still affect you today? Are you on the brink of breaking or are you so hardened that you won't allow God to heal you? See, I had to realize the aftermath of my anger was the disappointment I dealt with secretly. Pastor Terrence has taught us in 2025 that a disappointment is actually just a wrong appointment. Right? Disappointment is actually just a wrong appointment. See, I had to learn to make new appointments. I had to learn to make God appointments, right?

No more appointments with resentment, anger, or bitterness. I had to learn to face my anger, face my frustrations and disappointment. But here's the key, I faced it with the Holy Spirit. I was never alone. I had people in my life that encouraged me. I had individuals in my life that really challenged me. One person in particular is our Pastor Terrence. He stood by my side. He helped me through some crazy and terrible moments in my life. Another person who helped me is my best friend, Tony. I don't know where he's at. He's around here somewhere. He's doing security right there, right there in the corner, right there, Tony. That's my best friend right there. And he helped me through so much, him and his wife, Gigi. God is good, man. God is good. Matthew 6, 33 says, "'Seek the kingdom of God above all else "'and live righteously, "'and he will give you everything you need.'" This church was a blessing in my life. Group season was a blessing in my life. My wife and I joined groups, and that changed our lives. That changed how our story was being shared. It helped heal us. Why?

Because we heard about your story. We heard what you had to say, and we learned from those things, and it does something incredible. If you've never joined a group, I encourage you guys, next week, join a group, because it has changed, and it has completely turned my perspective in life around. Why? Because I get to rebuild my relationships, and I get to build new relationships. And how many know that healing comes when there is relationship? Amen. Amen. Amen. I wanna share this very intimate letter that I wrote to anger, and this is what I'm gonna end with. I wrote this letter two years ago, and my family, my kids are not here this morning right now, but they will be for the 1130, so I may cry, Pastor Terrence. I may cry right now, I wanna read to you this letter, and it says, Dear Anger, I don't write this letter to recognize your power, but I do write it to explain how I'm taking it back. For many years since I was little,

you have been a close friend of mine. You were there when I had no one else to talk to. You were there when kids would bully me and would make fun of me every day. You were there in moments of my inadequacy as a young man, or at least when I felt like I wasn't enough. Even getting older and finding my wife and having my kids, you always found a way to spend time with me. I have to admit, in those very temporary moments, it felt amazing to relieve my stress and my frustrations on the world. It felt amazing to make sure that the world knew that they couldn't take advantage of me, but I didn't know that it came with a cost. You were there with me when I would yell at my wife. You were there with me when I would yell at my kids. You were there with me in those moments as a husband always accusing my wife, always making her feel less than and never really having the confidence that I was being a good husband to her because you were there with me. Those days I would talk to my son for every little thing he did and rarely find time to praise him and encourage him, but always pointing out his flaws and seeing my little girl watching me as I pick her on her older brother.

Because all I can remember growing up is people picking on me and pointing out my stuttering and my flaws. See, I realized these things since two years ago. My son had a heart-to-heart with me and spoke how he felt growing up, and for that, I'm proud of him. I went to church for many years. I worked for church for many years, and though I had moments of clarity of what I had to do, I could never be completely. because I would always have you with me to lean on. Seven years ago, my marriage almost ended, but a man named Jesus stepped in because I finally let you go, Anger. You see, this man restored our marriage. This man restored our relationships. He restored our hearts. He taught me what it is to be a real man, a man who will love his wife no matter what, a man who will give himself for his family and will build them up instead of tear them down. You see, I've learned to identify you. I've learned that you were created by God and you can be used in righteous moments, but I've also learned that the devil likes to use you to prey on men and women when you're left unchecked and not dealt with. I've learned to speak truth and love. I've learned to walk away and not let you fester all day.

You are never around when I go to sleep anymore because we read scripture, we have devotional, we pray to the Lord, we worship the Lord, and as sure as there is dew on the morning grass and each and every morning, so is God's mercy. I wanna let you know today, anger, even though my father and my grandfather and my great-grandfather may have let you play around with them all their lives, you will not play with me anymore. You will not affect my wife. You will not affect my kids, and I break all generational anger in the name of Jesus. As Joshua 24, 15 says, for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord. Thank you. I wanna thank my pastor cause we had a long talk yesterday cause this was so hard for me to do. And I just wanna have one more minute to thank you. I had a choice to make. Do I break up with my wife? Do I damage my relationship with my kids? Or do I break up with anger? And I chose to break up with anger. And if you're here today, and that's you, would you have the courage to stand because I want to release a wartime declaration

and put the devil on notice. Is there anybody wanting to stand with me that is dealing with anger or disappointment, frustration? Dealing with bitterness? Maybe you're not happy with what you're seeing, what's happening in the world. Maybe you're not happy with what's happening in this country. Maybe you're not happy with yourself or your relationships within your household. If you're standing here, power of the Holy Spirit is here. And God says, if you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, he will exalt you. So Lord, I pray everyone who's standing, I break the hold of anger. I break the lies of the enemy off their lives and we break off all bitterness and disappointments. And we make a new appointment today in this moment in the name of Jesus with you, Lord. And we trade our heaviness for our strength in the name of Jesus with you, Lord. And we trade our heaviness and we replace it with joy. And we speak healing over our bodies, soul and spirit and declare today that you are free in the mighty name of Jesus. If you believe that, a shout of amen. God bless you. Hallelujah. Amen.

Come on. Wow. Good morning. You woke us up. Praise the Lord. It's warm in this place. Praise God. My name is Lisi and I have the privilege of serving in our baptism and ministry team alongside with my husband, PJ. And I have such an honor to be in this platform sharing my testimony, my story with you all and my brothers. And thank you, Pastor Terrence and Emma. Thank you for this opportunity. It's an honor. And let me tell you, I'm a crier too, Hector. So just... Praise God. You know, the title of my message today is Silent Vows. Let's open our Bibles or our phones to Matthew 6.33. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. You know, rags to righteousness. It's true to my story. I grew up in a home where domestic violence was the norm. Abuse was a generational curse and at a very early age in my life I adopted the spirit of fear and rejection. I made it part of me and I silently bowed to them. How many enjoyed the Freedom Series last year? Wow, powerful right? Well let me tell you if you didn't, if you weren't in the room just catch it on our YouTube page and it's gonna set you free for real. In that series the Lord

revealed some lies I believed and some hurts I received. He exposed the lens I was seeing through of rejection so I can see with his lens. As many of you know my story that I've shared in a group, the Holy Spirit really highlighted a specific scenario of my life as a young girl. I was in middle school and I had this boy I liked and you know I would see him after school in our bus and yeah we were going out quote-unquote we're boyfriend and girlfriend but really but one afternoon after school I get in my bus and I see my boyfriend hugging another girl and I was like okay I ignored him right I was like I said a couple of words that I shouldn't have but I ignored him but you know the the kids in the bus really instigated that situation and when it was time for me to get off the bus I totally did not even look back didn't even acknowledge him but as I was walking down and out of that bus walking towards home just tears started running down my face just tears and I silently vowed that moment I would never put myself in that situation again. You know I really didn't acknowledge or didn't even realize I did that and after that every relationship I was a dumper not the dumpee. I broke it off before they even tried to I was a no it's me not you you know but at 13 I accepted Jesus into my life I you know I was so hungry I was just so thirsty of him and just wanting to learn and you know I really cultivated a relationship with him but at 15 the church that I was in was going through a lot and I walked away from the church I walked away from Jesus at that age I removed myself I broke it off I said we were breaking up in my head we're breaking up that's it I was not gonna be rejected again as much as I loved and knew Jesus I said no I'm not gonna be humiliated again and I'm not gonna be rejected again. I don't know how many of you have had that similar situation and instead of having a hard honest conversation you prefer to just remove yourself isolate yourself put that protective wall right and just not even confronting it. Can I tell you that's a lie of the enemy the enemy wants you isolated alone away from community I have learned here in this church History Makers Church having hard conversations honest conversations bring healing bring clarity it shuts the devil down his lies it shuts him down

the Lord designed us to do community he designed us to be in community to bring healing restoration rest of encouragement a family you know no church is a perfect church because it's filled of imperfect people we're getting ready for a group season and my husband and I are leading one we're leading a group guys I encourage you to try again get yourself in a group trust God I'm not saying trust the people trust God he will lead you you'll find healing in there. What I have failed to see all these years that it didn't just click until I was preparing this message is that vow I did at 12 years old bled in the in every area of my life it became an unseen pattern all these years in my mind I'm protecting myself that's a lie I believed but it was a spirit of rejection and fear in control and not the spirit of God. You know, Pastor Emma said something last week that really resonated with this and it's this, whatever fills you leads you. I was full of fear, rejection. Yes, I was in the church. Yes, I love God but it was that that was leading me. I was comparing my earthly relationships with Jesus and I handled my relationship with Him just like I handled my relationships with others. I came into relationship with Him with conditions I didn't know I had. I handled us in some ways as if it was my earthly dad or that boyfriend or even a church leader. I was still bleeding not knowing how deep it was not knowing I had rejection and abandonment present even in my relationship with Jesus. I wonder how many of us vowed internally silently a lie of the enemy but today today I'm gonna break we're gonna break that vow of rags and be free in His righteousness. He is not like any other relationship. He does not reject us. He does not abandon us. He has never forsaken us. He leaves the 99 for the one. I'm the one. You're the one. You have been the one and it's this promise he's found in Matthew 18 13. He has always received us with open arms just like the father in the prodigal parable found in Luke 15 24. You know tomorrow I celebrate my anniversary with God where I recommitted my life to Him a new covenant with Jesus not renewed because He makes all things new and that is found in 2nd Corinthians 5 17 on February 2nd 2003. I accepted Jesus into my heart again and never looked back. 23 years of not walking away staying the course even when it was a challenge it was painful yeah not going my way

because of my decision and my yes to Him my yes to my marriage and trusting God He will finish the good work He started forward 20 years guys 20 years to the day February 2nd 2023 my son Justin married his wife Jasmine a kingdom purpose marriage they had no idea this was the day that I did this but Jesus did He knew sorry I can't I can't read there are no coincidences in Him yes thank you Jesus um there's no coincidence in Him my yes in 2003 with Him and my marriage reaped a harvest of righteousness He knew a new covenant a legacy of redemption and His righteousness not only my son but my daughters and their spouses and my grandson and my generations to come my husband and I we get to witness the harvest of our yes and our family gets to enjoy it your harvest is not for you alone He reminded me my yes my I do to Him reaped a harvest for my family I am a rich woman full of His blessing my family is rich rich of His righteousness they lack nothing lies of the enemies are broken and Christ is our identity come on God is good and He is faithful the seed we sow today is a harvest that we will reap tomorrow now my question to you church what seeds are you sowing seeds of repentance of healing of bitterness or unforgiveness anger here are two truths the blessing of the Lord brings true riches and he adds no sorrow to it for it comes as a blessing from God Proverbs 10 22 being confident of this that he will begin a good work in you he will carry it to completion until the day of Christ Jesus Philippians 1 6 in this moment I want us all to stand up and repeat the following with me we're gonna break off the lies you believed the hurts you received and come in his righteousness and his fullness are we ready Church let's read it together I renounce all vows I made with the lies I believed I repent of all my ways and receive his truth he has called me to be the head and not the tail I am above and not beneath I am a son I am a daughter of the most high God he has received me with open arms amen but you are a chosen people a royal priesthood a holy nation God's possession that you declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into the wonderful light in Jesus name amen amen and amen hey good morning church good morning church hey I want to thank I'm pastor T pastor E for the opportunity it's really an honor to stand before you today and

thank you for the honor it's an honor to be carrying the word of the Holy Spirit the title of my message today is called the great upgrade let me just pray Holy Spirit I ask that you just speak through me now in Jesus name Amen standing before you right now and speaking to you is a person who's been the recipient of an upgrade where I am spiritually financially emotionally relationship is as a result of being a recipient of an upgrade you see the reason I say that is if you knew me growing up if you knew me as a kid if you knew me as a teenager you would understand what I mean by that you see growing up I am I had I grew up around a lot of poverty right in my family money was a problem and it was a source of a lot of arguments and disagreements among between my parents and and that's what I saw growing up and so in my mind and that was the life that you're supposed to live you're supposed to live a life of poverty and scarcity that's what it looks like in school I was an average student at best past last week pastor Emma said C's get degrees and I'm like I didn't even know if I could get a C in my in my class of 450 I graduated like 250 it's out of that and I thought that was good in college I flunked out in in in college and I taught my way back and I flunked out later on again and I taught my way back in again you see in my mind that I was destined to a life of mediocrity I thought that the best I could do if I could ever make my age in thousands of dollars I would be ahead of the game and that was my goal my goal was that if I could retire at 65 earning $65,000 a year I would be ahead of the game I had I had anger problems growing up Hector talked about it but growing up I I am I used to kick in walls at punching doors at home I was mad at everything and mad at the world I remember times when I used to just when I got my license I used to get in my car and crank up the volume and go driving on the Palmetto bobbing in and out of traffic as fast as my little red Toyota could go it wasn't very fast but it was going it made a lot of noise it had a souped up engine that the noise was souped up the car wasn't I remember one time I even said you know what I'm not even gonna stop at any stop signs today and I started to think about this there's a road that it's parallel to

163rd Street in North Miami Beach and I was just going up fast every stop sign just breaking it without stopping it's a really really angry person I had hatred in my heart I I was a victim of racism and that harbored a hatred inside of me when I tell you that standing in front of you today is a person who's a recipient of an upgrade. There's something that's true for me, and I believe it's true for everybody here, that we all like to get an upgrade. You see, I travel a lot for work, and when I travel, when I fly, I like to get an upgrade. When I rent a car, I like to get an upgrade. When I get a hotel room, Pastor T can identify with that, I want an upgrade. Everyone here wants an upgrade. If you were a girlfriend, you want an upgrade to fiance. Right, if you're a fiance, you want an upgrade to wife. If you're a wife, you want an upgrade to mother. Everybody wants an upgrade. But here's something I've discovered about upgrades, most of them aren't free. They come at a price. You gotta work harder, you gotta buy that credit card and will pay $700 a year to get the points to get you that upgrade. But here's what God said is that in him, he flips that script right over. He says in Proverbs 10, 22, he says this, the blessings or the favor of the Lord makes you rich and he adds no sorrow to it. That means that God's upgrade doesn't come

with any strings attached. And it says that it makes you rich, and I know what you're probably thinking right now is like, well, I'm not rich, so therefore, I may not have the blessings of the Lord, I may not have the favor of the Lord. And I know that because that's certainly how I felt growing up. And the reason I think that, I think that has to do with our definition of rich, right? I think our definition of rich is that when we think of it, we think of money. We think that it comes, that's the way that it comes, but Paul, the Apostle Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians that the, it says this in 2 Corinthians 8, 9, it says, you know the generous grace, which is an unmerited favor for Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, for your sakes or for our sakes, he became poor so that by his poverty, we could be made rich. And so what was Jesus rich with? He was rich with money, like y'all don't own the money that you have, it all belongs to him because you came in naked and penniless and you're gonna go out naked and penniless, how much money you put in a coffin with you? But Jesus was rich in splendor, he was rich in glory. And, but what he was really rich with, he had an intimacy with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit and all of them together,

Jesus, God the Son, all of them embodied the entire favor of God is in them. So they were rich with the favor of God. You know what I can imagine God looking down at all the humanity and seeing all of the crazy, stupid things that we do, he certainly was seeing all the crazy, stupid things that I did. And I can imagine him looking at us with our anger, with our hate, with our depression and all that and he's thinking, he's thinking, man, those people need an upgrade. They need an upgrade, but like all their righteousness, all their hard work, all they're doing, all they're doing, it says in Isaiah 64 that they are like filthy rags, that's what all the righteous, I gotta give them an upgrade and they can't earn this, I gotta give them a free upgrade. And the only way they can get rid of their spiritual poverty is for a free upgrade and in return, they'll get forgiveness. They'll get freedom and they'll get it with no strings attached, no sorrow attached. And this is not an upgrade, this is a divine upgrade, it's not a, it's a great upgrade. He takes the rags of our lives and he exchanges it into riches of righteousness. You see, that's my story. Prior to 19 years old, I knew Jesus,

but I didn't know Jesus. You understand, I knew Jesus, but I didn't know Jesus. I didn't know him intimately, I didn't know him personally and he was offering me a free upgrade, but I kept thinking, man, I'm spiritually bankrupt, I don't deserve this, I'm emotionally a mess. Until one day, somebody tapped me on the shoulder, it was a youth leader, somebody kinda like a Gabe here, tapped me on the shoulder, he said, he said, Gary, I want you to come lead youth with me. I'm like, not me, he's like, yes, you. He's like, I've seen more in you and you know what's more important than that? God sees more in you, he sees somebody who is above average, who is special in his eyes. And before this, I was sowing seeds, I was sowing seeds of anger, bitterness, and brokenness, and hatred. But when I accepted my Jesus, he opened my eyes to see the lies that the enemy was putting inside my head that says these are the incidences that were happening to me, was gonna be the sum total of my life and that's like none of that, God said, no, no, no. That's just a little part, but there's so much more goodness around for you. What Jesus did was he took away the seeds of hell and he gave me the seeds of heaven. So I started planting some new seeds, seeds of faith, seeds of obedience, seeds of forgiveness, seeds of love. I gave him my rags and he returned, he gave me riches and I got a spiritual upgrade that took me from guilty to justified, from orphan to son.

And, and I went from being poor in spirit to being rich in spirit. But Jesus didn't just stop there. He moved into my emotional life too. You know, the anger that, that used to control me, Jesus replaced it with a forgiveness that to be honest, I can't really explain. The hatred he replaced with love and grace, but I would say love through grace and Pastor T gave me this acronym the other day and said this, the G stands for gender. That whether you're male or female, to just love just the same, whether you are, the R stands for race. That enemy wants to believe that the other person is the enemy if they don't look like you. Or ethnicity, like, because you come from a certain place that you're less than it's a lie from the enemy. He wants you to love through age, whether they're older, they're younger. He wants you to love through culture and dare I say it, politics, like, because you are a Democrat, you know, I can't, I can't love you because you're not right. That if you're a Republican, you're right. So therefore, if you're a Democrat, you should be left behind. But God says, no, no, no. That's not the way I see it in my kingdom. Like all are one in Jesus Christ. There's neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, but all are one in Jesus Christ. You see, I had to learn that to learn true socioeconomic status. You see, that's what love and light Jesus looks like. It allowed me to see through differences, through hurt, through disappointments, that kind of Jesus love is richness. It's only with that kind of love that when you accept the Jesus love, you can choose joy. You can choose joy when people come and people oppress you, when people are being unfair to you, when people, um, um, do things that hurt you, when people, um, um, do things that hurt you.

He's like, you know what? I'm going to choose joy. And that thing changed, Jesus's love changed my attitude. And you know, when my attitude changed, something happened. My, my aptitude changed, my abilities changed when I accepted Jesus. And all of a sudden doors started opening, miracles started opening for me. Relationally, my, I had a bad relationship with my, with my parents. They used to call me freedom fighter and that changed. And financially things started to change. I started to realize that, Hey, maybe there is more. And, and, um, and my career in administrative leadership, like, you know, I couldn't speak, I couldn't, I couldn't do any public speaking at all because I was just so shy. But the more I sowed seed, I started to reap divine upgrades. As a result, standing before you today is a person who's been the recipient of an upgrade and I'm living in the harvest, still sowing, but reaping what I sowed yesterday, I'm, I'm, I'm reaping today, but still sowing for what I'm going to reap tomorrow. Jesus took my mess and he turned it into his ministry. You know, my journey from rags to righteousness began with one decision and it's to accept what Jesus offers. You see, he already paid the price. He already gave us, he says, I have for you righteousness. You know, he says, anybody who accepts him, they become the full embodiment of the righteousness of Christ. And he's like, won't you accept this exchange? Won't you accept this upgrade? And the question is, will you receive it? And I want to invite you today to invite, to accept that free upgrade. You see what this message is, is nothing more than a tap on the shoulder. Like somebody tapped me on the shoulder.

This message is your tap on the shoulder. The question is, what are you going to respond with today? Come on, come on. Would you give it up for each of our speakers today? Come on. You can do better than that. You can do better than that. Chains are breaking today in Jesus name. What an amazing word that we receive now. I don't want you to leave yet. You guys can have your seat because I want to speak to three groups of people who I know are in this room right now. First, I want to speak to the Hectors in the room because like him, you now can see how your anger is stopping God's plan for your life. It's allowing these disappointments to lead to the wrong appointments. And it's obscuring the view of how you see yourself and how you see others around you. But those rags met God's righteousness when Hector allowed himself to be vulnerable and submit himself to others who can lead him through this mess. Hector and Jess are breaking chains right now in their marriage group. I know my husband and I have been recipients of what you guys have done. The second group of people are the Liseys in the room where you've made some silent vows and those vows have grown into patterns that you live out today. And you've embraced these lies that you've believed and you're looking at the hurts that you've received and it's turning into sin that you cannot leave. Maybe you too came into relationship with God with conditions and you don't even know. And you don't see how the pain of what you've been through is walking right alongside you. But like Lisey said today, those silent vows are being broken in the name of Jesus. They are no more in your life. They have no power over your life because Jesus, what he can do today as Gary so, so well, he said so well, you can receive this free upgrade.

This brings me to the Gary's in the room. Gary, you said Jesus took away your seeds of hell and upgraded them with seeds of heaven. Man, what could that be like? Friends, you can receive these seeds of heaven as well. And the only way that you can get a free upgrade, like Gary said, is if Jesus gives it to you. Jesus takes the rags of our lives and he exchanges them for the riches of his righteousness. And we're going to give you this opportunity right now to respond to this word that you've heard today. And it's an opportunity for you to turn in those rags and receive his righteousness. I'm going to invite our speakers to stand up here with me and with every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around in this moment. If you need to accept Jesus, the Bible says if you believe in your heart and you confess with your mouth, you will be saved. Now, if you want me to include you in this prayer, I want you to lift up your hand loud and proud. Lift. I see hands going up. One, two, three, four, five, six. Come on. Awesome. Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Come on. Heaven is celebrating this decision right now along with us. Thirteen. Now, I may not have seen your hand, but I know that God sees your heart and I want you to pray this prayer along with me. Every voice in this room. Dear God, dear God, thank you for sending Jesus. Thank you for sending Jesus to find me, to find and forgive me and forgive me. Today, today, I follow you, follow you, fill me with your Holy Spirit, fill me with your and make me new in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. There's a celebration in heaven right now for this decision that you've made.

But there's one more thing that I want you to do. Can I ask you to do one more thing? Those of you who made that decision on the seat back in front of you, you'll find these cards. Take this card, fill it out. Let us know that you've made that decision. We want to be able to walk you through some next steps, give you a Bible and our team outside at the Salvation Tent, they're going to be there to seal this decision in prayer with you because it is the beginning of a life that is changed forever. Amen. Amen. Hey, heaven is celebrating and we are celebrating with you and we want to walk this journey together. So if you prayed that prayer or you just want to know more about Jesus, follow the prompts that are on the screen right now. We are so proud of you and honestly, God's vision for you is to see you live that better story, epic and eternal. We say it like this, to see you holy, healthy, happy and bring in heaven to earth. And if you're watching and you want to help others find Jesus like that, you can partner with us and together we can make that epic difference. Hey, giving details are coming up on the screen and we just say, God's blessed you, you can be a blessing to other people as well. And hey, if you're here in the South Florida area, we'd love to see you in person. Check out the description below for times and the location where you can come to a service. We would love to see you soon. This is History Makers Church where friends truly become family. See you soon. Yeah.