I Was Wrong // FEAR-LESS (Part 3) // Charles Metcalf

What is up, friend? Hey, listen, in just a moment you're about to hear a sermon I preached called I was wrong. And there's a lot of my life I spent trying to be right. But I want to encourage you to know that fear will try to make you certain about stuff that ultimately you're wrong about. Fear will tell you a story that things are going to go a certain way, that there's no hope, that there's no opportunity. But I want you to know there are some things that I believe you and I have been wrong about. And thank God we were wrong about them. So I want to take a moment right now and pray that as you hear this message that God would illuminate to your spirit where fear has tried to tell you a story that is not true and you could replace it with the truth of his word. Would you take a moment right now, wherever you are, would you pray with me? Lord God, I thank you so much for my friend who is listening to this right now. I pray that they will be comforted in their spirit to know that, Lord, you are guiding our story, that fear does not have the last say, and that you are ultimately in charge and guiding our life. We love you. We thank you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Without further ado, I pray this message is a blessing to you. Let's jump into it. I hope you're doing good this morning. My name is Charles, and I'm glad you're here today. A fun piece of information, which is this past week I found out I was old. That's why I got readers. I got readers this past week. And here's why I got them. Because a friend went to do an impression of me. I'll leave this friend unnamed, but he's our youth pastor. And he went like this. He said, watch this, watch this. So the Bible says, so first of all, you wait till your eyes go. You're six foot twelve. You're going to be needing big glasses. All right. Here we go. This is what the Bible says. Genesis chapter number 50. Where are we going to start here? We're going to start in verse number 14. Genesis 50 verse 14. After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to his father's burial. But now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became fearful. Now Joseph is going to show his anger and pay us back for all the wrong we did. So they sent a message to Joseph. Before your father died, he instructed us to say we're sorry.

Please forgive your brothers for the great wrong they did to you. For their sin and treating you so cruelly. So we, the servants of God, your father, beg you to forgive our sin. When Joseph received the message, he broke down and he wept. Then his brothers came and threw themselves down before Joseph. Look, we are your slaves, they said. Joseph replied, do not be afraid of me. Am I God that I can punish you? You intended to harm me. You intended to harm me, but God intended. I got to say this because I'm not going to preach it in the sermon, but those are the same word there. It's the same Greek word in the original language. And why I'm saying that is because we sing things like, oh, the devil did it, but then God turned it. God is not so weak that he has to turn anything the devil's doing. He's greater than the devil. So in his sovereignty and his understanding of the plan of our life, he accounted for that to go wrong. And he already knew it was going to make you better. God does not have to make do with stuff the devil is doing and try to get it together and, oh, let me see if I can work this out. He already knows. Readers, back on. You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. For he brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people. So don't be afraid. I will continue to take care of you. So he reassured them by speaking kindly to them. The title of my sermon today, three words, three important words, three powerful words, three words I think we need to embrace, three words that I think will help you get through your week, your month, and your year. I was wrong. There was a second where I thought I wasn't going to make it. it but thank God I was wrong. I spent a lot of my life afraid of what people thought about me and I thought that my failures were gonna define me but thanks

be to God I was wrong. I thought that last season of loneliness was gonna be the last season I would ever know but thank God I was wrong. I thought anxiety was gonna always be my portion but I was wrong. I thought his mercy only ran to good people but I was wrong. I thought the grave was gonna hold him but thank God I was wrong. I thought that my family's lineage was gonna keep on going and but thank God I was wrong. They said we wouldn't have a baby and I believed it for a second but thank God I was wrong. They said that this season would be my whole lifestyle but thank God I was wrong. I started to slip in the water when Jesus told me to get out and I thought I was gonna drown but he reached down. Thank God I was wrong. I spent a lot of my life trying to be right but I'm grateful that there were some things I got wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong and I'm glad I was wrong. I was certain about some things and how they were gonna go but I was wrong. I thought I knew how my life was gonna go but I was wrong. Dear God, would you change us? Would you encounter us? Would you help us to see our lives and our future and our children the way you see them? We need your presence. We need your glory. We need your goodness. We need your mercy and I thank you over these next couple moments that we spend together that you would lead us and that you would guide us. It's in the beautiful name of Jesus we pray and everybody said amen, amen, amen. Zach, you just rock with me, man, because we're gonna get straight to business. We've been talking about fear and I want to introduce something to you today that I think is vitally important for not only the way you think but the way you live. And here's the central theme of today's sermon. The most dangerous thing about fear is not that it makes you emotional, it's that it makes you certain. There's nothing like the certainty of fear, the certainty of knowing what's gonna happen. And fear has a way of doing that to all of us. Fear will have us certain about stuff there's no way we can know. Fear will have you obsessed with stuff that you can't control. And fear will cost you the very thing fear is promising you it's protecting. And today, I just want to take a couple of moments to submit to you that maybe fear has been lying to you. Because there's nothing like being certain.

There's nothing like just knowing. I mean, for a second, I know we got the piano with us, so just stay with me. But do you remember when you were young, how certain you were, how much you knew? Oh, I know exactly how my life is going to go, I know exactly how...I mean, I can bet you there is nobody more certain than like a 16 or 17-year-old with no job, no opportunities, no future, and they'd just be knowing stuff. The most certain section in our church is right over here. They just know. I already know. But there's nothing like maturity that turns your certainty into mystery. I don't know if you've had this experience, but the older I've gotten, it feels like I got more questions. I felt like, oh, the older you get, the more sure you become. And in some ways, it's true. But in some other ways, I've been wrong enough times about stuff I knew I was going to be right about to know maybe I don't know as much as I think I know. Genesis chapter number 37, we meet a certain 17-year-old. His name's Joseph. And Joseph isn't anybody. He's a favored... Son His great-grandfather started this whole thing Abraham Abraham Isaac Jacob Jacob's name gets changed to Israel. He has 12 boys one of them Joseph And Joseph is 17 years old when he meet him and the Bible gives us detail in Genesis 37 that his daddy loves him more than all his other kids Now you're not technically supposed to be saying that out loud But his daddy don't care he he do he doesn't care at all he loves him so much He gives him like a special jacket that he don't give to nobody else It gives him this jacket Bible tells us that around 17 years old that he has a dream And in his dream He's a he's stars and his brothers are other stars And all of a sudden his brothers start to bow to him And then he has another dream and in this dream

He's they're all bundles of wheat and his is in the center and all his brothers bow to him And with a dream like that and a coat like he had I'm sure he was certain Oh, I know how this is gonna go Step number one. I gotta go tell my brothers I Will tell us though Joseph rolls up on his brothers And he says hey, yo, I got a dream That black people and white people not The white man is in a check and it has bounced come on somebody I don't know that about Martin Luther King, Jr First I have a dream speech. He comes up to his brothers and he tells him the dream. He says hey, listen I don't know, you know, I know you kind of mad at me because you know, I got the coat It ain't nothing but it but a G thing. But anyways, I had this dream and in the dream You know, I didn't I didn't give myself the dream But you were bowing to me And I can only imagine this ain't even biblical. This is just brothers. I got a brother. I know how brothers get down Bro, if you don't shut up right now be quiet Hey nobody bound to you Ain't nobody bad. I'm serious. I'm serious, but hey, listen, I had a dream. I Had another one too. Well, ain't nobody want to hear your second drink. We don't hear the first string You better be quiet Now, but just listen just listen. That's probably it's different. It's different. It's different, but don't play with me This is the same if you got to say something stupid don't say it. No, but just listen. I swear. I swear. I swear Alright, go ahead So we're all in the field, right and then I'm in the middle and Y'all start the boy if he don't be quiet with this dream, I promise you

And the Bible tells us and he tells them the dream and they start resenting him And you may be familiar with this story. You may not but if you grew up in church, we all kind of know Joseph story He's a young man. He has a dream and we kind of skipped through his story He goes from the pit to the palace to the pit to in charge and we do all these things but I want to zone in for a moment on The fear of a 17 year old man that the Bible tells us gets jumped by his 11 brothers and Thrown into a pit This is what happened the Bible tells us that he's walking up and They see him coming. Look, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna read it for you Just so y'all don't think like man, he just making all this up. Nah, man. Come on. Get out of here Genesis 37 I believe it is right here. Genesis 37 18 when Joseph's brother saw him coming They recognized him from a distance as they approached they made plans to kill him. Here comes that dreamer Come on, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns We'll tell our father wild animal has eaten him But Reuben heard their scheme. Let's not kill him and Reuben makes a plan He says listen, we'll just throw him in there and Reuben's plan is to come back and get him when the other brothers leave But if you think about the scene, I mean this is a 17 year old that this is my brothers This is my people. This is my family What's up guys, hey, come here real quick, let's talk to you All right, what's up go hey come over here What's what's going on guys what's what's up with the vibes are a little weird Nah, man, we ain't we're done with the Dreaming stuff. Come here. Hey, yo, stop. What do y'all, guys. And the Bible tells us 11 brothers grab their little brother and throw him into a pit.

This is where certainty starts to fade for our character, Joseph. Because I just knew, I knew God gave me this dream. I knew he was talking to me. I knew he had a plan. I knew I wasn't like everybody else. I knew that he put something in me. I just knew that it wasn't gonna be my story like everybody else's story. I just knew that it meant something different when God spoke to me. I just knew that he called me out before I was in my mother's womb and he had a plan to prosper me. I just knew it. And all of a sudden, what you think you know, you don't know no more. He was wrong. He was wrong about his brothers. Because I thought your family was the place you go to get your dreams reassured, supported, and encouraged. And encouraged. But sadly, Joseph's not the only one to find out that you can be wrong about people. The Bible tells us he's in the pit. And this is what happens when you're in a pit, when you're in a dark season,

when you thought your life was gonna go one way and it starts going another way, is your certainty has to, it starts fading a little bit, but not too much because the Bible tells us that they change up the plan and they come to get it. And now this is where the story turns, because if I'm Joseph, I'm in the pit and I hear my brothers. Hey, yo, Joe, Joe, you down there? Yeah, I'm down here, what's up? Hey man, we're gonna get you out. I knew y'all was playing. Hey, don't even worry about it, they get him out. No doubt he starts to feel hope again. All right, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. And then it says there's travelers going by and they sell him to these strangers. Wrong again, Joseph. Then the Bible tells us his story progresses a little bit. He finds himself in Egypt and he finds himself working for a man named Potiphar. And Potiphar is a big deal. He's in charge and no doubt this has gotta be the dream. This is definitely it. This is definitely it. My brother's gone, I'm out of slavery, I've worked my way up, I've got a decent job. This has gotta be the dream that he showed me when I was 17, this is it for sure.

Wrong again. That ain't the dream, Joe. Because the Bible tells us that Potiphar's wife had an eye for Joseph. Now we always make light of this, I've definitely done it. A cougar came in and saw Joseph. Ain't nothing like an Egyptian cougar. It's like, what? What does that mean? But the accusations are not a joke. Accusations can change your life. And he did nothing wrong. And there goes that certainty. Gone again. In prison. And what you don't know about this unless you study into the scripture is from 17 years old when he has the dream, working his way up on Potiphar's and then thrown in jail, he's 30 years old. Years. I guess they forgot about me. I guess they forgot about me. I guess. And what's interesting with fear is when your life starts going like this, fear starts telling you stories of certainty. You didn't hear God. You ain't special. You think God spoke to you?

No. You'll always be overlooked. You'll always be like your dad. People will always know you by the mistakes you made. It doesn't matter how hard you try. It doesn't matter how hard you work. This is your story now. Joseph is in the pit. He's in prison. And again, I mean, his whole life is this rollercoaster of certainty, fear, certainty, fear, certainty, fear. And it's this. This limbo and there's these two people in the prison, a baker and a cupbearer. And they come to him and they're having dreams. And here's what you need to know just to encourage somebody, no matter what season you're in, no matter how dark it may feel, God still put that gift on the inside of you. And no matter where anybody puts you, it doesn't matter if they hire you, it doesn't matter if they promote you, they can't touch the gift on the inside of you because they didn't put it there. Sometimes we like to wait, like I'm gonna wait to do my gift until I really, everybody can see it. But Joseph is in a prison with two people that can do nothing from him.

And he's sitting there thinking, well, while I'm down here, I might as well make a difference. While I'm down here, I might as well do what God made me to do. While I'm down here, I might as well make the devil mad. While I'm down here, I might as well do something that's not about me. And they have these two dreams. And there's a lot of Bible we're covering today. Genesis 37 to Genesis 50. Go read it for yourself this week just to make sure I ain't making up no parts of this story. He sits there, two dreams. And he's like, hey man, so good news and bad news. You gonna die. You're gonna get out in a couple of days and you're gonna die. You though, you're gonna get out and you're gonna get promoted. They're like, really? Of course the one guy that's down there, he's like, psh, he lying, he don't know nothing. And they're like, you ever get a prophetic word? You're like, psh, they lying, they don't know nothing. It happens. Gets out. One man dies. The other man gets promoted back to his position

of the cupbearer of the king. The only problem is Joseph asked, yo, when you get out, don't forget about me like my brothers did. Don't forget about me like everybody else. Just promise me one thing. When you get out of here, remember me. He doesn't remember him. Until, there's a scripture that says, your gift will make room for you. And Pharaoh had a lot of magicians around him, but he didn't have no prophets. There's a difference. He starts being tormented by these dreams. And at just the right time, the cupbearer remembers Joseph. Yo, king, there was this guy in prison. I don't know if he's still there, but his God be telling him what's going on. Goes and gets him, brings him before the king. He says, hey, listen, there's gonna be seven years of famine. You need to store up. And then there's gonna be seven years of plenty. You need to store up during that time. And there's gonna be seven years of famine. And if you store up, and here's the beautiful thing about our God.

This is what I wanna say real quick. Everybody that God is talking to ain't called to be a preacher. This is business strategy. This is economical insight. This is everybody, you have a moment at the altar, and it's like, I need to be on the host team. No, you don't. Go back to your job and let God speak to you about how to change that industry. If we all up in here, who's helping the people out there? So do what God made you to do. Start that business, run that company, create the app. I don't know what it is, but God will empower you and give you divine wisdom and insight to make a difference. He gives him this wisdom. And again, here we go. This has gotta be the dream. This has gotta be the dream. Why? Because it's kind of the dream. Because some people are bowing to me. And here's the thing. I've learned in my own life that fear will have you negotiate with your dream. This is close enough. This is, I've been single so long, they're close. They're not exactly what I saw. They're not exactly what God showed me.

They're not exactly, don't treat me exactly the way, but I can't be alone. So this, this is probably, this is probably it. Not the dream. From Genesis 37 to Genesis 50, we find out the moment when his dreams come true. Genesis chapter number 45. Joseph reveals his identity as the heading. Joseph could stand it no longer. There were many people in the room and he said to his attendants out all of you So he was alone with his brothers and then he broke down and wept The bible says he wept so loudly all the egyptians could hear him And it quickly carried to pharaoh's palace I am joseph This is the dream It wasn't when you were 17 It wasn't when you became number two in charge It wasn't when god spoke to you and gave you the prophetic word of how to run the country of egypt No, no, no, that's not the dream It's when you're curled up crying fighting back frustration At the people who threw you in a pit and they're now at your feet needing something you got and it's god saying can I? Trust you right here through all the fear through all the anger through all the frustration Through all the resentment through all the bitterness through all the hurt through all the disappointment. You want a dream from god This is a dream from god The people who threw you in a pit come back talking about can I have something? Joseph says i'm i'm joseph And I can't help but imagine Them sitting there looking at their little brother And all that's going through their mind is I was wrong

I was wrong. I didn't know I didn't know that you were if I would have known I never would have done that You Fear will have you certain about a lot of things But today I want to give you three things that fear will have you certain of that. You need to learn how to be wrong about The first thing fear will have you certain about is people Fear will have you thinking I know who they are Fear will have you looking at people who are different than you saying I already know what they're about right Fear of what you think about other people will have you making up stories about people that are not true And your pride does not care to confirm why because fear tries to protect itself And the only way to protect me is to make you an enemy This is why We get so segregated and I wish I couldn't say it wasn't in the church But sadly it still is because we'll look at different people and we'll think ah that I don't know about them I don't know about them and the truth is you're afraid You're afraid you're afraid and instead of just saying you're afraid you make up stories about people you distance yourself from people You talk about people and you just say we don't do stuff like that And i'm not just talking about because of the color of somebody's skin i'm talking about other churches We make up stories. Well that church, you know, they just do this and that church They worship a little much and that church is just a little too intense for me And that church is just a little too loose for me and that person. I don't know if they really love god I don't I don't even know if their heart is right. I don't what you know about their heart You're afraid and you're wrong about them And don't get me started on some of my friends that a lot of us have been wrong about And i'm talking about friends that I know in my real life not people in the church people outside of the church I had a friend. I started trying to bring to church. I can't tell you How sideways people looked at him because he had tattoos Oh, who is this guy?

Oh, man, he may have a run. What what what what what what what what what? Oh, I will jump off this stage. What please? Please please say something else I don't know. They just look a little Don't they know they shouldn't be wearing that? No, they don't dummy. That's why they're in here Yeah Don't they know we don't do that here We don't do what here you don't do nothing here except for sit in that chair. So be quiet why you just Sorry, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry Let me calm down let me calm down I've been wrong about people I've been wrong The fear will have you wrong about people thinking, you know people thinking you know why they do what they do When you think you know why somebody did what they did It's not a reflection of them. It's a reflection of you Because You thinking what you would do if you were them and you ain't them Well, I know if that was me. The only reason I would have done that is what yeah, that's you And say nothing about them But fear will have you wrong about people. It'll also have you wrong about your path in life It'll have you thinking oh, I know how God's gonna do this I Know exactly I'm gonna go here. Then I'm gonna go here then I'm gonna go here And God's like what if we go this way the devil is a liar I'm supposed to go from glory to glory Ask Paul getting flogged riding jails from prison what glory to glory means It doesn't mean rich to rich and check the check. It means obedience to obedience faithfulness to faithfulness kindness to kindness love to love gentleness to gentleness

self-control to self-control No, man, oh man the way I know if it's God and Here's a dangerous. Here's some dangerous language. I've used before before. I'm just you know, I just feel peace about it Okay Yes But what do you mean by peace Do you mean you just feel comfortable? Oh, that's not peace you mean you feel safe. Oh You mean you feel in control I Got it, so if you're in control, that's how you know, it's God My best friends in the world he has a saying is follow the nausea You think Peter fell in control when God said hey step out of the boat You sure Peter's better me. I would had a couple which one of us Judas I wouldn't risk it brother. Don't get it. Don't get out Don't get out Whoa If Following Jesus don't make you feel awkward every once in a while Let me let me kindly Call out and encourage something that just happened a couple weeks ago a couple weeks ago. It's Father's Day We called all the men down to the front And not everybody But I was standing up here. You didn't see yourself So I will say this Ninety-nine point two percent of the men were like this There's a good worship song I Want to challenge you man of God lift your hands I Don't need to be doing all that Don't be talking about me doing all that breath

We saw you during the finals Talk about you had your whole joint painted and you was This should feel a little uncomfortable Following Jesus to feel a little awkward If you follow in Jesus, it's like man, this is great my life is better Everything's working out. I'm getting checks in the mail God get prophetic words about becoming a billionaire and you know, I don't even have to really do anything I can still just do whatever and apologize and man. God is great That's not that's not what this book is like Cuz Job lost everything Samson Was empowered by God But that disobedience did cost him something It's not all Jesus about to send out the disciples. He says the son of man has no place to lay his head So just before you as once gives your way, he's turning a bunch of people to follow him He said hey real quick if you want to follow me all you gotta do just pick up your cross follow me That'll be good. They're not thinking about a Jesus piece around their neck. All they know is Roman crucifixion the cross The cross isn't associated with Jesus when he says this. You want to follow me? Pick up your cross, come on. I've been wrong about my path. I thought I knew, God, you do it this way and you're gonna do it this way and then you're gonna do it that way. And when it doesn't go the way I thought it, I think, man, I don't know if this God stuff. But I've been wrong about people. I've been wrong about my path

and there have been many times I had the wrong perspective. Because fear starts assigning meaning to stuff. So fear will have you saying, oh, the reason they're not there is because you weren't enough. And if you were enough, your dad would've stayed. If you were good enough, you would've got promoted, but you're not good enough. Fear will have you making up stories before it's even happened. Fear will have you, and I'm gonna say this, I'm not even being silly, I feel this is a real thing because I know some people that have done this and they struggle with this. Fear will have you standing on the edge of commitment, making up stories about why you won't commit. Got somebody you love, won't marry them because you've already made up a story. I already know I'm gonna cheat on them because every man in my family has cheated. So at least it's not as bad if we don't get married. At least it's not, so I have you ready to start a business, ready to do something, but already 10 steps ahead. If it'll probably work for a little bit and then it'll go sideways and then I'll be back here and I have to come back and all this stuff. No, no, no, friend. Fear will have you certain about stuff that you don't know at all.

Obsessed with stuff you can't control and cost you the very thing it's promising you it's protecting. Joseph, the end of his story, his brothers are there. And they're like, listen, we did you wrong, man. We're so sorry. We're so sorry. And his response, his proof of the spirit of God on the inside of him. Oh, you weren't wrong. God was right. You meant for this to hurt me. You meant for this to break me. But God was making me. See, what you don't realize is I had to deal with me when y'all threw me in that first time. I had to figure out who I was without that coat. I had to figure out who I was if everybody didn't agree with me. And that pig gave me something that your praise could have never given me. So I thought it was wrong, but thank goodness I was wrong about my process because when you sold me, I had to find a love that didn't come from the people that were closest to me. And when they lied on me and said I didn't do something that I know I didn't do, but they charged me anyway, I had to figure out that God is the judge and that God is the one who controls my life.

So I was wrong about that situation. And then when I was in prison, I had to find out that I can still use my gift if nobody sees it. Because for a long time, I thought my gift was only important if people clapped for it and my gift was only important if they cheered for me. But I found out in that prison that I can work this gift no matter where I am. I was wrong about that situation. And I almost got it wrong when they put me over everybody because I thought status meant I was all the way in purpose. But I was wrong. I realized God didn't put me here. But for one reason, Scripture says so many lives could be saved. All I wanna say today is whatever story fear has made you certain about, I don't know what it is. Some of you feel certain, like I don't know if that kid's ever gonna come home. You've been praying so long. You're certain that it's just too much. Some of you are certain that you'll always be single. You're certain. That the business isn't gonna work you're certain and all I'm saying is you don't know that yet You don't know You don't know what God might do You don't know what he's planning You don't know how he's working and be careful of the story your religion makes you certain of

Cuz you don't know something that people were certain about People were certain that nothing good can come out of Nazareth People were certain that Mary's boy was just a boy People were certain that you couldn't do anything with people who had leprosy so you had to throw him out. They were certain About this 33 year old man that he was causing a rebellion and he deserved to die But there's one picture The scripture tells us that Jesus up on the cross and he's in between two thieves And they deserve to be up there But this is the holy merciful gracious kind omnipotent omniscient creator of the universe Who has done nothing wrong? Pure as snow Never a ill thought in his spirit Only intention is to love to give To help you figure out how to be you and the people he made pinned him to a tree because they were certain This ain't who we've been waiting for Because the King we've been waiting for is gonna overthrow Rome The King we've been waiting for is gonna come back with raging war and they didn't know he was raging war But it wasn't on the external. It was on the internal. He was raging war on depression He was raging war on our lack of righteousness and they weren't certain they knew who he was And the scripture tells us there's two different tracks of this story in Scripture There's two different people. There's one story that I love of the thieves They're on the cross and one of them is standing there And he's on the cross and he looks over And I think she starts to look around I think I think we're wrong I Don't know

And it's beautiful cuz Jesus doesn't say nothing but just when you get around Jesus You can just feel this is why your life is so important not what you say how you live How you live and work now what you say now what you post now what you project I'm talking about how you live because if the Spirit of God is up on the inside of you People will be sitting there and they're seeing talk about I think I got this wrong I don't know. I don't know cuz they going through what I'm going through, but they're not going through it How I'm going through it. I think I think I got this wrong. I don't know. They their marriage looks different than ours I think I think I got this wrong and there's a thief on the cross and he says hey I think I think I got it wrong. You think you could remember me? And there's another One that I love it's a Roman soldier Who probably helped nail his hands to that tree and the scripture says we'll see if I can find it Just give me a moment It says in Matthew So He's sitting there Says this at noon Darkness fell across the whole land. Y'all already know I can't see Y'all see how close I was y'all so yeah, look at that Some Bystanders misunderstood and thought he was calling for Elijah and one of them ran and filled a spun with sour wine holding it up to him But the rest said wait, let's see if Elijah comes then Jesus shouted out again And he released his spirit And at that moment The curtain in the sanctuary of the temple was torn Into Not from the bottom to the top because if it was from the bottom to the top a man could have torn it But the scripture says that from the top

to the bottom and the earth shook and rocks split apart and tombs opened up and the bodies of many godly women and men who had died were raised from the dead and They walked out of cemeteries after Jesus's resurrection and they walked into Jerusalem and appeared to many people. Then the Roman officer and the other soldiers at the crucifixion were terrified and they said this man truly was the son of God. I just want to say it's okay to be wrong. We spend a lot of our life trying to be right and clinging to everything that makes us feel like we're more right. That's why you got to be careful of what you're listening to on social media. Be careful about the stories they tell you about why people are doing certain stuff. Find out for yourself. Don't believe somebody else's story. Go get your own story. You know those type of people. Do you know any of those type of people? Because I probably know some of those type of people that you think are those type of people and I promise you them type of people ain't them type of people. They your type of people because we all, we type of people. I'm going to pray that wherever fear has told you a story, specifically about your future. Some of you there are decisions, opportunities, a life ahead of you that fear is currently telling you it's certain that can't happen and it's just not true. I want to pray today that wherever you would be have been wrong, you experience this. The Bible says that he who knew no sin became sin so that we can become the righteousness of Christ. Because God can give you the right people. He can put you on the right path. And he can give you the right perspective. Would you pray with me? Lord God we thank you for who you are. That you're a right now God. So right now I pray for anybody who feels like fear has told them a story of what will happen and what won't happen. I thank you that you would redeem that story right now in the name of Jesus. That peace, peace that we can't understand would enter into our hearts. And I pray right now for a supernatural boldness. A boldness to live with courage. A boldness to step out and trust you. A boldness to live a life Lord God that we could only dream of. Forgive us where we've been wrong. Wrong about people.

Wrong about plans, wrong about perspectives. God would you forgive us? Give us your eyes to see. Every head bowed, every eye closed. Maybe you're in here. And maybe you're starting to feel and find out that maybe you've been wrong about Jesus. Maybe you've been wrong about God. Maybe you thought God was mad at you. Maybe you thought God was waiting for you to be perfect. Maybe you thought God that was sitting there with his finger pointed you mad and waiting for you to prove it. And then he'll love you. No friend you're wrong about him. He loves you no matter what you've done. He loves you no matter where you've been. He loves you no matter what people have said. And he's standing with his arms open wide waiting for his child to come home. And if you're in here or watching online you feel like man I've been wrong about Jesus. Today you can become right about Jesus. And it starts with admitting I can't do this by myself. I need help. And in just a moment I'm about to pray. I'm about to pray. And if you want to accept Jesus into your life. Before we pray I'm going to ask you on the count of three to lift your hand. And as you're saying I want to get this right. You ain't got to worry about anybody else. You ain't got to worry about what other people would think. This is your moment. To accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. One, he loves you. Two, today is the day of salvation. Three, right now in this room lift your hand if you want to accept Jesus. So proud of you. I got you sister. So proud of you.

So proud of you. I got you. I got you up there. I see you man. So proud of you. Everybody out loud together. Everybody repeat this prayer with me. Everybody say dear God. I admit I've gotten it wrong. I need you. I pray you would change my heart Forgive me of my sin Make me brand new It's in Jesus name. I pray Amen, and amen. Can we celebrate people who just accepted Jesus? Standing all over this room. We're about to get out of here Hey, listen, if you just text if you just raise your hand or prayed that prayer Let us know text the word save to the number on the screen I'm gonna ask our worship team to lead us in some worship and maybe you want to stay in worship with us Maybe on your way out introduce yourself to somebody get somebody's phone number go to lunch with them. Listen, we love you so much I would encourage you to join us next week I'm gonna pray for your week if you need prayer for anything our prayer team at the back would love to meet you But God, I thank you for this week I pray that we would have a blessed week full of your grace full of your mercy and full of your favor Thank you, Lord. Jesus that you are with us. You will lead us and you will guide us It's in the beautiful name of Jesus. We pray and everybody said Amen. Amen. Amen Depending on me Mercy is a new everyday I will trust Your promises Your promises always come true

Not depending on me Not depending on me But relying on you Mercy is a new Mercy is a new everyday So I will So I will Trust you Your promises Your promises always come true Not depending on me Not depending on me But relying on you Mercy is a new Mercy is a new everyday For the rest of my life So I will Trust you Your promises Your promises always come true Not depending on me Not depending on me But relying on you Mercy is a new Mercy is a new everyday So I will Trust you I will Trust you Because

Your record is good Your record is good That's why I Will Trust you Your record is good Your record is good I will Trust you Your record is good Your record is good I will Trust you If you know He's the one that will sustain you Come on let your voices say You sustain You sustain You sustain In the need of the Lord You remain Through the rain Till you rain You sustain You sustain You keep on keeping me You sustain You sustain You sustain Right in the middle of me