He Found Me | Pastor Micah Berteau | Parables Series

And you know what week four, you know where we're gonna go? You could take some notes, you could dive in. We are in the lost sheep. The lost sheep is what we gonna call this week. And it's gonna be powerful. Now, you might have heard this parable before, but as always, we wanna talk about some of the nuances of the teachings of Jesus. I think there is no better series that you can't do because we're talking about Jesus' teachings and almost the understanding of, through these parables of stories and illustrations, you're gonna see the secrets of the kingdom of God. I don't know about you. I wanna know deeper into how God works and to what pleases His heart. That when I obey what kind of things am I saying yes to? Where is my life not right? Where do I need to course correct? Let's go to Luke 15, one through seven. I love Luke 15. It actually has three parables. Jesus tells three parables with a similar message to all of them. The lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son. The lost son is a prodigal son. You ever heard the prodigal son? I preached on it a few months ago. So that's the three he goes in a row. But we're gonna focus on this first one.

Luke 15, one through seven, the lost sheep. Says this in verse one. Now the tax collectors were sinners and sinners. We're all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered this man welcomed sinners and he eats with them. The Jesus told them this parable. Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the 99 in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and his neighbors together and he says, rejoice with me. I have found my lost sheep. I tell you that in the same way, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over a 99 righteous persons who do not need to repent. Come on, amen. That's how heaven parties, that's how heaven parties. Here's my sermon title for you today. He found me. He found me. Is that anybody's testimony today? Oh, come on, give me a good amen. He found you. You didn't want to be found, but he found you.

You didn't want to be called, but he called you. You didn't maybe didn't even want to be known, but he knows you and he loves you and he's gonna turn your life right side up today. God, we praise you one more time. Thank you for the word of God. As we opened your word, we receive it today. God, your word doesn't fall on hard hearts and deaf ears. Anyone that has ears, let them hear the word of the Lord, be challenged and to be changed by it. God, we thank you for finding what was once lost. We pray this in Jesus' name one more time, amen. Amen, amen, amen, amen. You ever been lost, maybe when you were younger, maybe last week, you know, you'd get lost as an adult too, I guess these days. But we're driving, I guess, shout out to all the people that are rebellious drivers and they don't want to use maps. Any wives, you got husbands that says, I know where I'm going, but doesn't want to type it in and ever put it in. No, no, we are ran by the spirit of God. We know where to go, what you talking about? Don't doubt us. When I was seven years old though, I got lost. I got lost at six flags. What a place to get lost, right? Seven years old, I'm just itty bitty, tiny little boy. We're moving from Baton Rouge all the way my dad took a church in California at that time.

So we're moving, so we're moving out of Baton Rouge, going through, I think Houston at the time, we stopped at six flags and I'm excited. I have two older sisters and so this is the word. So that's what's crazy. You want to know what's crazy about having four boys? People are like, oh, you got four boys. I have two older sisters. So like it's just constantly wrestling in our house. We have a whole lot of fun. So we're going to have six flags. I'm there, me and my sisters are walking in. And you think for a second, what can a seven year old do at six flags? I can't do much at six flags. But I remember following my parents around, we're having fun, whatever. And I remember I wanted some ice cream and so I asked my parents, can I get some ice cream? I asked my mom first 'cause typically she had a soft heart for the baby of the family. You know, you moms, man, you will give anything to the baby of the family and your boy is the baby for the glory of God. Come on, we're my youngest children at, yep, yep. Blessed and highly favored. And so they did, you know, my mom said no, she said some very typical parents, you relate with this, you haven't even had lunch yet. It's gonna ruin your appetite.

No, you need to eat first and then maybe later we'll get to my spring. So I did what any really righteous, holy seven year old did is I went to my dad. Come on, how many know when one parent says no? (laughs) So I went to my dad. I was like, "Dad, I'm your favorite son. I'm your only son, but I'm your favorite son." No, can I get some ice cream? We can get it together. You know, you sell it on the, like, we can make memories, Dad. We can take a picture of today, and it'll last for a... He said, "No, we got to wait 'til I said the same thing." So I'm seven years old, right? Emotional IQs at zero. I have no emotional IQ at all. So I'm upset, to say the least. I'm angry, so I kind of fall to the back of the line. My two sisters in front of me, my parents are in front of me. And I'm just kind of floating in, and I'm kind of upset about this. Now, walking around, you eventually see, we eventually see an ice cream stand. And I look over, and I'm like, "Man, I got a decision to make. I'm gonna be an obedient little Christian kid, raised in church, pastor's kid. And I can keep going with my parents.

Or, I can get myself some of the glory of God, cookies and cream ice cream. Don't tell me about no rocky road trash out in here in these streets. Don't... And if you like mint anything, you're not my friend. Can I get mint chocolate chip? Oh, you want to eat gum. Okay, cool, appreciate that. That's awesome. Cookies and cream is my jam, which is is what it is. And I remember I jumped out of line with my parents. I got into the line to get ice cream. Not a fast forward the story. I realized once I got to the front, you know, you want to know how I realized I was lost? When I got to the front and I realized I couldn't pay for it, I was like, "Where are my two bank accounts at?" You know, where they go. They pay for everything for me. And I was like, "Oh no, I'm lost. I went to a security guard." He said, "Can I help you?" I said, "I'm lost." That's all I told him. He brings me to an air conditioning room, which in Houston have an on earth. Whoo, no humidity in there.

There's sports on the TV, there's a couch. I may never want to go home. I might like to hear. And so there's this whole story. And then it took about an hour or two, and eventually I saw my parents and they went and found them in the park and they came and we did big hugs. And it was a beautiful moment. Now I say all of that and to set it up about this story about being lost. There's some truth and some reality in here. The first thing that we have to realize is, even just through processing, through the story, it's not hard to get lost. That to me, when I look back, man, it should be more difficult to wander off. It's actually not that hard. You know what all it took me was? An earthly desire for something that I didn't need. Oof. That's all it takes to wander off. 'Cause I think to me and you don't really realize that we're gonna read a parable about being lost, but we think it's for other people. Yeah, there's a bunch of lost people out there. Go get 'em. Yeah, we gonna send preaching clips their way. And I'm gonna, no, no, we ourselves gotta realize. All it takes is that I can be saved

and still have a craving that I've not addressed yet and everything in your life that is unaddressed is actually leading your life. Because most of the time, I was an obedient kid, but all it took was one craving of something I didn't need for me to get out of the place I was supposed to be in. So for many of you today, maybe you don't even realize you may be a good person. You may be a righteous person, but you don't realize you have some unchecked desires. And they're free, it's a free for all. They talk to you every day. They tempt you every day. So you gotta understand being lost isn't immediate. It could be just gradual, slow-paced desires that you have not given to God. That's why the Bible says take captive your thoughts, give 'em to God. 'Cause every thought you don't take captive takes captive of you. This is a place that is so important for us to understand. The second thing is, it's comfortable being lost. I'm not saying it's the best life, but for a season, this is what the Bible says, sin is pleasurable for a season. So there's this little moment in time. Have you ever met somebody that started their testimony, development journey? You know what I mean by that? They're just going out there and living their life.

Oh, it's just the most fun. It's just, just for a season though. Because when they brought me to that room with air conditioning, that was comfortable. I'm not saying it was best for my life because I did not have authority. I didn't have my parents. I didn't have the, I wasn't taken care of. I didn't have resource. for you to not be no longer of sober mind and alert mind. And if you're not you're going to let something else steer your life. Comfort is where Christians go to die. It's where your spirituality dies. We were called to be comfortable. We were called to be Christ-like. And if I'm comfortable, I'm not growing. If I'm comfortable, I'm sitting back and I'm just letting life be life. May I just become comfortable at times growing, stretching, being uncomfortable. But may I tell you that this story finished sure with my parents' finances. But what I realized is this, there is no better feeling than being found. I don't care how comfortable the room is. I don't care how fun this sin is. I don't care what you think is right. There is nothing like the presence of God. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Is there any witnesses to that today? This is there's nothing in this world. There's nothing in this culture. There's nothing in this life that can compare to what God can give you. And so we go into Luke 15. Luke 15 is three parables. Some say three parables. Three parables, three parables. Lost sheep, Mr. sheep decide to wander off. The second one is the lost coin, where a woman loses money. It's not that's not too rare anymore these days. The woman lost the money and they know, hey, there's just lost it on Amazon, lost it on just lost it. I don't know where it went. I just kind of left the bank account. No, you swiped your way there. You know what I'm saying? Lost the money. So she lost a coin. She had ten coins, lost one. And the third one is the prodigal son, two brothers, one. It's kind of fun to look at the even just the statistic of one out of 100 sheep, one out of 100 left, one out of ten coins lost, one out of two brothers left. And so let's talk about this first thing because I think these are three parables that Jesus is trying to tell us that we have to be very careful. If not, we will find ourselves in one of these sections

of how we get lost. The first one is the sheep. And you've got the sheep in the pen. You've got 100 sheep up in the pen. But one just wanders off, just looks through the gate, just, oh, what's that? You ever have that? I wonder what I'm missing out on. I wonder what's over there. I wonder if I need a new spouse. No, you need a new commitment because it's not always you need a new, some of y'all just to renew some things in your life. And so they started, Mr. Sheepy started looking around and said, you know what? Let me go try. And it just took what? Little, little steps. This is called the wonder off. You wonder it off. It's like a ship in the ocean with no engine. You're just subject to where the wind brings you. You are drifting. And you don't even know what's going on. You're giving into the next desire. You're giving into the next critical thought. And you're just running down that direction. And all of a sudden you find yourself by the time you look up and you wake up, you realize, wait, I'm on the edge. How did I get here? You don't wake up there. You drift there. It will help me. You don't just wake up there. You gradually get there. This is why I'm trying to preach to you today. There are some small decisions in your life that are having big implications. Have you ever heard this now, Jay? It's not the mountain that makes you quit. It's the pebble in your shoe. So many people think it's because the mountain is so high, but all you need is the small pebble in your shoe to mess you up enough to stop moving in the direction you're called to move in. So if you don't want to move the small things, small things become big things, big things run your life. And Mr. Sheepy finds himself on the edge. Then you get to the lost coin. Let's get to the woman who lost the money. All of a sudden she's looking around. Wait, I had 10. But where she lost it, she lost it in the house. How do we reason with this? Because you can still be in the house and still be lost. You can actually be in the house. You can be known but not found. God knows you, but you won't let him find you because you want to stay hidden. Do you know, just because you're in church, doesn't mean you're in church? Hey, just because you're in church, don't mean you're in Christ. We gotta make that translation at some point in our life. I love that you're here and I love that you're watching, but have we made the transition to understand

that I'm not just in church, I'm in God. Not just a church goer, I'm a child of God. Like I have to start acting, walking, living in the purpose like this is what God paid on that cross for me. And if not, once again, I will stay hidden, but I'm in the right location. You're saved by location, not transformation. You'll go to church, but you won't change your life. And God's trying to grip you today and grab you by the shoulders and say, "Look, this is where the statement comes from." You ever heard, again, it's one of the scariest statements in the Bible, "Depart from me." You ever heard that? I never, anybody know it? New, new, I didn't know you. I couldn't know you, you were hidden. Oh, well, God, I went to church, I didn't know you. Did you wouldn't, you wouldn't let me know you? Well, God, you know me, you made me. You wouldn't expose yourself. You wanted to stay in the right place, but in the wrong heart. And with a carnal mind, God says, "I love that you're in the right place, but let's get it all out of the open now." And he will save you the moment you admit that this is where I'm at and God, I need help. And then it gets to the last one. The prodigal son, this one's pretty simple.

We're not gonna take too long on this one. This is the rebellious people in the group, man. These are the ones that said, "Give me what's mine. I'm gonna go live my life." And there's a lot of people that are in the room, maybe even watching online, that this is your disposition is the rebellious one. Which means this, it doesn't matter what I say, doesn't matter how good I preach, doesn't matter if the layer of smoke falls upon you. All that matters is that you are in and now I wanna get out and I'm not gonna hear a word you're saying. The worship's not gonna move me, the preaching's not gonna move me. The altar's not gonna move me and you think that's cool. That's the most dangerous place you can be. Is in the house of God and distant from God. And this is what it was. He was in his father's house, but didn't wanna stay in his father's grace. He wanted to do his own thing. I hear the message, but I wanna live my own life. He takes the inheritance and he runs. But guess what? There's always gonna be a teacher. It's called life. There's gonna be something that happens in life that reminds you, man,

I need something bigger than me to help me right now. Does anybody have that testimony, man? I'm thankful that somebody's stronger than me, somebody that more wiser than me, that the God of the universe reminded me about himself in that moment. And if not, here's what happens. He turns, he's a pig pen. He turns, he starts coming back home and here's what it is. When he's far off, what does the father do? Ron, he runs because the father said, I don't care what you've done, I just care that you're coming back. So no, they shouldn't have this shame sitting on you today, but there should be a revelation. I don't wanna stay this way. I don't wanna live this way. It's not your best life. So whether it's the sheep and you're slowly, gradually step by step, wonder it off. Or whether you're the coin that says, look, I like to dress the park. You ever buy athletic clothes? That laugh alone tells me all I needed to know. Ooh, you wanna wear the athletic gear, but you're not gonna just do it. (audience laughing) You know, going to church and never changing

is like going to the gym and just watching people. It's weird. (audience laughing) I'm glad you're here, but are you just people watching? Yeah, this is not really for me, it's just a... No, I go there so my body can change. I go there so I can get healthier. I go there so I can go from one thing, but I need to progress. I wanna go to another thing. I wanna go to a better place. And I don't wanna just wear the athletic gear and have no proof of athleticism behind it. Man, may I use what God's given me. May I use... I'm not here just to wear Christian clothes I'm not here to just put it in my bio. I'm not just here to buy hobby lobby. I'll admit scriptures Man, I'm here to live out the living breathing word of the Lord May I not grow tired may I not be weary and walk away may I not give up on God May I not walk away too soon, but may I lean into what God is doing in this time I said God you have my heart God you have my life God my life is Submitted to you Man, I don't want to be in the house. I'll be a lost coin and then you get to the prodigal son And you're just rebellious, but I believe God's going to get you today I think he's gonna get you today So let me give you four things why now let's look at the character of God. Here's what Jesus does He says that these three stories They you You lost and here's what's beautiful about it. Maybe some of you Like well, you know, I'm walking with God beautiful now do this who in your life is one of these stories

Because your life was never meant to be lived within a box of silence Your faith is out loud, you know, my dad used to say Christianity is a contact sport get off the bench get involved You're watching everybody else play football today, but you don't want to partake in Christian Like I don't want to stand a visit. No, I got to get involved That means I'm gonna tell some people I'm gonna tell some family members I got to tell some neighbors, and if I got a lost sheep a lost coin or a prodigal son in my world You better believe I'm gonna do everything that I can to reach out to them Because they may never read the Bible, but they're gonna read my life They may never open anything spiritual, but they're gonna look at me and say is God real? And they're gonna look at your life and they're gonna make a judgment call on God based on how you're conducting May we shine the light of Christ To those who are living in dark places Because you have so much power in your testimony And then also one look at these four things Through the lost sheep we we get a four-sided picture of God the first picture that we Start to understand about the character of God is this and what God sees I don't know about you. I'm grateful that God sees. I'm also sometimes ungrateful that God sees Sometimes I want him to see Man because I got on thank you for seeing me for still knowing my name still believe in me because I had a really bad way And I was wilding He knows what came out of your mouth and loves you the same God sees That's what's crazy about this. There are some things we love for him to see But there are other things we don't want him to see I mean, we might not even want him see us driving out of this parking lot. You know I'm saying Just he sees how you drive easy some things. I don't want him to see but here's that he's a good shepherd There's 99 that are still there the one wondered off. Here's what's crazy He would have never known shepherds in those days would have never known One wondered off unless they would do this every night. They would count

their sheep One out of 100 doesn't seem like good odds anyway And it's hard to notice when one out of 100 leaves. It's hard You can't ballpark that bunch of sheepies with white fluffy hair walking around You can't really is that one? Is that two? Are they just all together? What are they doing? You're not really sure so what the shepherd would count And make sure all 100 are there when he counted 99 he realized there's one That I got to go get I don't know about you. I'm grateful he counts And when he counts he still sees you when he counts he still knows you when he counts He understands the purpose that he placed on you when he counts and should remind you that you were knit together Not by anything else or anyone else but by the hand of god That he called you here and he counts He counts you in and he counts on you And he says man, I got you a lot. That's the god that he's not a distant god He's a close god. He notices He sees you And he wants to draw you into a relationship with him and when he sees the one he's like man. I said, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. There's one Hold on We're sharing the sheep gum But we're chain like trying I was trying to think of it You know what I'm saying? Just wandering off over here. He just thought other things were more important. He just wondered, wondered, wondered. Just catch that for a second. It's not hard to wander off. Just wondered off, man, okay. And then all of a sudden, here's what I love. God knows, okay. And he realizes it.

So number two, God pursues. I'm grateful he doesn't just see us wander off. I'm grateful God makes a move about it. He's gonna pursue you. He's gonna run you down. You ever, how does that look for right now? You ever be like, man, God chases you down. What does that look like to this? You know what it looks like? You know, for me, have you ever just been driving and then you just got hit out on nowhere? A certain song came on, a certain thing happened, a certain word on a sign happened. And all of a sudden, it reminded you of God. It reminded you of his presence. It reminded you of the promise that God gave you. What that is, is God telling you, always pursuing you. I'm always running after you. Watch it happen more often this week because we're no longer gonna be asleep at the wheel. We're actually gonna understand that he's always speaking, always working, always with us, always putting things together, tying things from our past into our future and working all things together from our good. This is what God's doing and he pursues, it says he leaves the 99 for one. That's what we call God math. That's not girl math.

Girl math, it's on sale. If I don't buy it, we'll lose money. Or when my wife tells me I bought it on sale, I saved you money. (audience laughing) So because you bought it, you saved me money? Yes, on sale. But if you never bought it, put your hand down. (audience laughing) If you never bought it, I'd be a lot happier right now. But I'm glad you saved us 8%. (audience laughing) So great. Girl math, God math, 99 in one. You would think God would say, the one, just let him get what's coming to him. Let him go. We got 99, we got majority rules around here. That's not how God works. He says he leaves the 99. Here's what I love. There's a picture here. What about the 99? I love that conversation. It's actually a really cool conversation. You know what the conversation is? The 99 should be in such strong community that the wolves and the dangers that lurk will not attack the community because the community is actually for each other.

Look, I get it that sheepies stink and you'd be like, man, just sheepies stink. If sheepies stink, I mean you stink too. Join the stink. Well, I don't know. There's an opinion faction of sheep over there. Well, you have an opinion about that faction. That means you're opinion too. Welcome to the jungle. This is community. It's gonna stink, it's gonna be messy, but we're stronger together. And when one gets attacked, it's not one getting attacked. We've got to attack us all. That's why wolves don't attack sheep that run in packs. They only want you to pick you off because the devil's playground is isolation. I gotta get you withdrawn. I gotta get you to leave the community. I gotta get you outside the confines of community 'cause if I do, I got you. But as long as you're locked in, come hell or high water. If it's difficult, I don't care how it is. I got people that can pray with me. I got people that will be for me. I got people that will send me a scripture. I got people that will stand with me.

And as long as I got that, plus Jesus, ain't nothing gonna take me down. That's the community. And then you got the one, you got God. Oh God, God says, hey, y'all good, get along. Hey church, get along. 'Cause I think sometimes we just think the church is all about just the church. We've become consumer-minded. I don't wanna be a consumer, I wanna be a contributor. I'm grateful. God, no, don't get 'em. And use me in any way you can to help bring ghosts at her distant close. Help me, use me, empower me. God, I'm sorry I made this a lot. that I thought certain sheepies should have been here and I'm sorry that the lights were too bright and the sound was too loud and the strain was too this and this was too, I'm sorry I had too many opinions that weren't even heaven related. Just get me back into the strength of community and God let's go get the one. What kind of heart? If we had that kind of heart, do you know what I'm just saying? This is the heartbeat of God. Jesus is teaching what through this parable is your perspective even correct on how we're living. There's lost people everywhere. What are we doing about it? Man, I don't know. I just, I feel lost myself. Use what God's given you to reach out to them. Here's what God pursues. God runs because number three, when he finds Mr. She, God carries. Jesus said, "I came to seek and save the lost." Two things. The first thing he already did was seek, right? He's going to seek you out and he's going to remind you at all turns and there's some people in this room and maybe some people watching online, you've been running and you've been running too long. Well, today's the day you're going to stop running. You're not going to run

from God anymore. He's calling you home. But what you've got to realize is that when you get called home, he doesn't leave you where you're at. This is big because a lot of people think salvation means I get saved in the place that I'm at and I'm just going to work through some things. He saves you. Listen to move you. He's going to change how you live. He's going to change every part of your being. He's not going to find you on the edge of a cliff and say, "I got you." You're saved by the blood of Jesus. No, he's also going to walk over. He's going to put you on his shoulders because you've been broken. Life's hurt you. People left you. Things happen that you had no explanation for. Has that ever happened? That you had no earthly understanding of why you had to walk through what you walk through. He puts you on his shoulders and he carries you. He's a God who carries. Why does he carry? Because he's a God who cares. That's why. So no matter what you've been through, nothing is too big. Nothing is too small. Nothing too significant. Nothing too insignificant for God not to get involved. Let's say, "Give it to me. I'll carry it. I'll carry the anxiety. I'll carry the depression. I'll carry the heaviness you feel. I'll carry the weight of it. You don't have to do this alone. Can I get through to this culture that wants to do everything by themselves? You don't have to do this alone. Let God carry you. But by asking God to carry you through the season is also telling God, I'm okay with you removing me from where I was and placing me to where I need to be. It's going to cause change. You're going to be challenged. I don't like challenges. I don't like change. I like the same. I'm sorry. Did you not go like God? He's going to change your life. He's going to change your direction. He's going to change your perspective. He's going to change your heart. He's going to change how you see things. He's going to make you more like him. I'm thankful for God that carries. And when they get back to the sheep and I'm done right here, this you want everyone to know, how does heaven party? This is it right here. When one comes home, God celebrates. He says, yeah, not shame. Not a shame party. Not not a hell dare you. Because a lot of people think God is like their own dad, a finger pointer. Hey, I do it through my kids sometimes. I got to stop the finger point. You think God's doing that to you? Hey, you know better. Hey, you were raised better. Hey, you went to church. You went to Sunday school. Hey, don't you know? And you think that when you come back to God, he's going to be a finger pointer. He's not. He's an arm opener. He said, come on, right where you are. I'm going to celebrate when you get home. When the prodigal son came back, you better believe his brother was pretty

upset. But the father said, grab a ring, grab a robe, get the calf, it's time. but for the fact that you've come home. (audience applauding) So come home. Today's your day. I'm gonna say, to come home. Let's give heaven a reason to party in these next few minutes. Amen, amen, can you stand your feet? And as you're doing that, here's what I want you to know. You're gonna walk out of here. Say, what's the testimony of my life? What do I tell people? What do I share with the lost sheep or the lost lost the lost love? Just say, he found me. I don't know why, but he found me. I don't know how, but he found me. When life was at his worst, he found me. When I needed grace, he found me. When I needed salvation, he found me. I didn't find myself God found making you bow your heads. Just feel the anointing of God in this place. Don't really need to say too much or go too long on this part. 'Cause I just preach a whole sermon. If you've wandered off, if you feel like you're one of those that has maybe been underneath the roof of Christianity,

but never really given your life over to Christ. If you're like the prodigal son, maybe you're a little bit rebellious today, dogmatic in your stance and wanting to be distant from God. Here's the call to you today. Don't live another day dry. Don't live another day spiritually dead. May your testimony be that he found you and maybe today be the day that your life has a reckoning with the spirit of God. That when I get to three, I don't even need to ask it or say too many more things, but I want you to lift your hands knowing that you're gonna pray a prayer of salvation that's gonna save you right where you are. But you're for real this time. This isn't a repeat. You're for real. You wanna come home. It's time to come home. You wanna give heaven a reason to celebrate with hands already going up when I get to three. Y'all want you to shoot your hands up if that's you. If you're ready to turn your life over to Jesus Christ, from loss to foul, from dead to life right here. Here we go, ready? One, two, three, lift your hands if that's you. Oof. Jesus.

Come on, lift your hands. I'm giving another 15 seconds for the rebellious one. For the hard, hard one. God's gonna get you today. God's gonna get you today. Come on, Jesus. Come on, Jesus. Do it, God. If you're in our online campus, also just say that's me. Put that in the comments, that's me, that's me, that's me, that's me, that's me, that's me, that's me. I'm coming home. I'm coming home. I feel the spirit of God. I'm coming home. Thank you for knowing my name. Can we pray this? Say, Jesus, you found me. I didn't deserve it. I didn't earn it. But your grace called me out. And I'm coming home. Thank you for saving me, redeeming me, pursuing me, carrying me, and now celebrating. For today, my life is yours forever more. In Jesus' name. Come on, amen. Can we join with nothing?

Can we celebrate with heaven? Oh, come on, heaven, celebrate it. (congregation applauding) Yeah. Thank you, God. With the amount of people that just had their life changed, let me tell you, you're gonna have a minute, you're gonna have time to come down here and get prayer. I wanna know who you are. You need to take next steps. You need to get baptized. We're gonna do it one in a few weeks. Jump in to what God is doing. And may you walk out of here and just tell everybody, you know, I don't know a lot about life, but I do know one thing. He found me. He found me. He found me. Come on, amen. Can you put the declaration on the screen before you're right out of here? Let's read this together. I believe what God has spoken over in my life. His word will not return, boy. This year will reveal his faithfulness. This year will produce fruit. This year will be filled with miracles. And his timing and bias power.

Hey, come on, Aimee, we love you have the best day ever and the best is yet to come.