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00:00 – Intro 10:03 – Romans chapter 7 verse 15 NLT 19:44 – 1. Humility is to know that in order to be more than, I must be less than. 20:40 – 2. Humility is to be at peace with my fragility and God’s forgiveness 21:45 – 3. Where I want to land today: humility is recognizing that I always need help 24:18 – Romans chapter 7 verses 15 through 17 & 21 through 25 NIV 27:40 – 1. Heal your head 28:02 – Romans chapter 8 verses 5 & 6 NLT 37:00 – 2. Encounter empowerment 37:07 – Romans chapter 8 verse 11 NLT 44:03 – 3. Lean into love 45:14 – Romans chapter 8 verses 38 & 39 NLT 47:47 – 4. Pray for purity
what’s going on my name is Will and I
have the honor and the privilege as
serving as one of the leaders here at
Transformation Church I just want to say
thank you so much for tuning in from
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an incredible word for you today so
let’s jump into this amazing message
whoa
thank you
[Applause]
okay
worship is already almost taken me out
today y’all
today
I have a message about freedom
and I don’t I didn’t know that they were
going to sing those songs in worship
today I had no idea that they were going
to talk about chains being broken and
how great our God is and today I’m so
fired up because I have a message on the
freedom of God that we can all get to
that we can all attain in our own lives
and so what I want to do is I want to
pray let’s start off as you’re standing
up on your feet God we are so grateful
dang you’re just so grateful
that you are a good and great God
that you are a god
that in our frailties and our weakness
that you welcome that so that you can be
strong
in this place right now
Let Freedom reign
let us fill it on our skin let us fill
it in our hearts
Let Freedom reign in this place
let us walk out of here feeling lighter
because there have been chains broken
off of us
let us walk out of here with a new
pattern in our minds that speak towards
and lean towards freedom in our lives
let us leave this place god with freedom
not just for ourselves but every person
we come in contact with every person in
our generational line in our families
and at our jobs Lord God freedom in our
friendships Lord Jesus we will not be
Christians
that have a form of godliness and deny
the power thereof we will not be
religious tombstones
we will not be religious statues but we
will be individuals that walk out and
live out and give out freedom in our
lives God
it has become normal for Christians to
be bound and stay bound
but not in this place
not today
today God we are ready for whatever it
is you want to give us so open up our
minds open up our hearts remind us that
the great king of king lives on the
inside of us
and we carry this Freedom everywhere we
go
it’s in the name of Jesus we pray and
everybody says
amen amen once you give God a shot of
Praise right there
[Applause]
I am ready please yes have a seat have a
seat in the sanctuary Hallelujah my name
is Bree and I have the honor and
privilege of serving here at
Transformation Church I’ve been here now
for uh 11 years on staff I first came to
the church in 2007 when I moved to Tulsa
to go to college and that’s back when it
was Greenwood Christian Center any GCC
folk in the house
that’s right that’s right okay so I’m so
grateful to to be here I am truly truly
humbled to be able to share a word from
the Lord with you today I take it as an
honor and a privilege it is not one of
those I work here so I should be able to
preach here it is not that at all I
truly believe that um this is
a humbling experience for me to be able
to share God’s word with his sons and
with his daughters and so I want to say
uh thank you to our pastors Pastor Mike
and Natalie they’re on sabbatical right
now and I pray that you have lifted them
up in prayer too that this has just been
a time of rest and ease for them we want
them to come back with fresh vision and
energy to do what God has called them to
do in their lives and shout out to all
the pastors all around the globe that
are taking sabbaticals this summer
listen
take care of you that’s good I’m married
to the love of my life his name is Aaron
Davis
[Applause]
I told him I was going to ask him to
stand up and wave today and he told me
do not do that so I love you husband
thank you so much for being my support I
was going to say my partner in crime but
I’m an Enneagram one I will not do any
crime I will tell on you I have no
problem with that everyone in my
friendship knows if you do something
wrong I will call the police
terrified of getting in trouble
anyways
um
my assignment today is very specific
it is to preach Freedom into this place
that there are places in each and every
single one of us that is still bound to
our fleshly sinful desires and that
there is a way of Escape that God has
called us to live life and life more
abundantly and as we grow and mature in
our relationship with God we recognize
that salvation was a moment that took
place and newness was introduced to us
and we were invited into newness yet
transformation is a lifelong journey
to become more like Christ does not
happen in an instant it is not the
moment that we press profess Christ as
our Lord and savior that all of our ways
that we disobey God turn into ways we
obey him right it takes time it takes
some intentionality it takes a lifetime
so today I want to preach a message that
is true to the vision here at TC today
is representing Sunday we represent God
to the lost and found for what
today we’re going to talk about
transformation in Christ and what that
looks like in our lives now what we know
is there we’ve had some some beautiful
ladies come this month and share some
beautiful words with us and there was
one thing that I kept the steam kept
sticking out to me as these women were
preaching is this theme of newness that
God wants to do something new in our
lives and if you if you’re in this place
if you want something new God to do
something new or you feel invited into
God doing something new come on make
some noise
there is this newness the scripture says
see I am doing a new thing a new season
a new calling new relationships a new
job whatever it may be for you newness
in our mind God is inviting us into
newness
and the only way we can walk out that
newness because it is so foreign from
our oldness is to be able to walk it out
in the grace of God
Grace is not just sustainability Grace
is empowerment
to walk out the newness that God has
called us into
and the Bible tells us in James
that in order to receive Grace God gives
Grace to one group of people
the humble
that God gives Grace
to the humble
So today we’re going to lean in and
we’re going to talk about this topic
this gift that God has given us called
humility
and how humility has this life-changing
effect on us
to be able to walk out into this
transformation in Christ this newness
that God has for us it comes from this
place of humility so I want to look at
one of the my favorite authors in the
Bible it is Apostle Paul the Apostle
Paul was a phenomenal man that took the
gospel all around the world and he was a
man that had a life-changing experience
on this road and right after he had this
experience with God he went from killing
Christians to going around and preaching
the gospel I mean almost overnight this
is what happened in Paul’s life and the
beautiful thing is this man not only
became an apostle going around and
spreading the gospel but some will call
him a super apostle that almost
one-third of the New Testament was
written by Paul a man that was at one
point killing Christians now going
around and writing in prisons and in
jails writing to these churches the good
news the Gospel of Jesus Christ Paul
writes and he says I had Visions in
Revelation questions so deep that I
can’t even tell you
if I were to tell you you wouldn’t even
understand
Paul Rising says there was one time in a
vision that I was ascended into the
third heaven now I don’t know about
y’all but I only know about One Heaven
okay personally I haven’t been to the
third okay I don’t I don’t know what
happens there but Paul went to the third
heaven this is a man with an intimate
relationship with God a man that went
and took the gospel to the Gentiles a
man that was so intricately involved and
detailed and and integrated with the
spirit of God in his life that he could
go around and teach the gospel in a way
that people’s lives were changed he
loved God and he knew God loved him
and even in all of the revelations and
visions and all of the knowledge and
wisdom that Paul had there was this one
thing that kept perplexing him
this one thing that he just did not he
couldn’t grasp it was like trying to
reach for air he couldn’t get it for
some reason
the scriptures in Romans 7 and 15. I’m
just going to read a portion of the
scripture and then we’ll dig into a
little bit more
Paul writes here and he says
all the things that I know
there’s one thing I don’t really
understand
myself
out of all the things that Paul knows
that he’s going around and telling
people about this living crisis Christ
who went to the cross and all the things
that he could go around and spread his
wisdom on the one thing that he did not
understand
was himself
I don’t know about you but I can relate
I can relate there’s a lot of things
that I can try to grasp my mind around
that I feel like God has given me wisdom
on but don’t go into this one thing
keeps it’s just keep being fleeting to
me and it is myself
let me tell you this story so uh we uh I
had this major event that I was working
on and uh I’m a very organized
individual it is uh specifically why I
have my job that I have here at
Transformation Church I love
organization I had my whole week planned
out I knew exactly what I needed to do
to prepare for hosting this event and my
husband kept asking me the whole time he
was like don’t you need some help don’t
you need somebody to help you I was like
no I got it I’m doing this I’m doing
that I got all these things organized I
know exactly what I need to pick up from
the store all the things and it wasn’t
an arrogant like response I genuinely
thought I had it I thought I was fine so
anyways went through this event and then
a couple days later I took a trip to the
other side of the country and I get on
this plane it’s a 5 a.m flight which I
know that mean you gotta wake up at like
two to get to the airport on time right
so no sleep get on the flight I’m on my
way it’s actually a Ministry engagement
that I’m on my way to and mid flight so
like an hour into the flight I started
not feeling really good and I was like
oh crap no not in the air I cannot do
this right now
I started feeling real nauseous and it
woke me up out of my sleep I was like oh
my God no so I’m trying to do my deep
breathing that I know I need to do
deeply breathe deeply breathe okay this
is going to help you calm your body down
because not only are you feeling sick
now you’re stressed out that’s gonna
make you feel more sick so what you need
to do is you need to just deeply breathe
pray ask God to rescue you right now I
cannot throw up on this plane everyone’s
gonna freak out and so I start doing all
that and then I go okay I gotta get up I
gotta go to the bathroom and try to
handle whatever I need to handle okay so
the stewardess is walking past me and I
am losing all my strength and so I’m
like barely able to lift my head and I
go excuse me it’s just like yeah I said
I need to use the bathroom she said okay
great follow me
now I want to start for a second and say
this is one of the most embarrassing
moments I’ve ever had in my entire life
and I know all y’all Saints like to come
up and talk to me after I preach do not
bring this story up because I’m
sensitive about this story okay
so the sword is is walking past me I
said I need to use the bathroom she says
okay I get up out of my seat
turn around to go down the aisle and I
completely black out
faint in the aisle on the plane at six
a.m now mind you I woke almost everybody
up on the plate okay probably everybody
I hear a complete guest in the whole
plane like that I hear somebody say we
need a nurse we need a nurse I said oh
my God I am alive I know what’s
happening right now I was freaking out
cause all I could think is how did I not
know that I was this weak how did I not
know before I got on this plane that my
body was this depleted how did I not
know that I hadn’t drank enough water
and I hadn’t eaten enough food it was
the latest like are you on any
medications I’m like no she’s like let
me check your blood pressure she’s like
your blood pressure is fine you know
what maybe you just didn’t eat or drink
enough I said oh my God I want it to be
something worse than this please tell me
that I had diabetes or something just so
I can like have a good reason why I
fainted
it’s just because I didn’t take care of
myself that week going on that trip
and I was so embarrassed I sat in the
back of the plane after I came to
and I was in the back of the plane and
the lady’s like we have to get you off
before the rest of everybody else I said
ma’am I am begging you please let
everyone go before me she said no man
policy says I walked out like I was at a
COGIC church I swear I was like this
excuse me excuse me the people were
passing me knows they gave me some money
one lady gave me ten dollars I said Lord
Jesus you think I fell out cause I’m
broke I didn’t know what was going on I
was just tipping out just like okay I
gotta get out of here
and this is the crazy thing
I legit thought I was fine
I didn’t have any idea that that was
going to happen on that plane or I would
have never got on that plane I had no
idea
and that’s what we’re going to talk
about today
the topic of the sermon is a thing that
my husband said to me that I believe is
true for all of us as it relates to us
trying to walk out newness and freedom
in our life the title of today’s sermon
is you need help
you need help now it’s so funny because
when I was trying to hear from God on
this sermon I was first I changed it and
I was like I don’t know you need help
sounds too aggressive to say it to
everybody but no
I’m sure that’s what’s the title
supposed to be you need help go ahead
and look at your neighbor and say you
need help
you need help you need help
some of y’all know your neighbor real
well you know they really need some help
stop playing you like girl you know you
need help okay you’ve been needing help
for 10 years now okay
there’s this topic called self-awareness
that we love to talk about and we love
to gloat about we talk about how we are
aware of ourselves and how we know
ourselves so well and there’s also this
thing that lives inside of us that we
don’t actually pay much attention to and
that is the opposite of self-awareness
it is called self-deception
that there are certain things in our
lives that we have deceived ourselves
about ourselves
you know it could be something as simple
as like you know girl I just need let me
take a 30 minute nap and when I get up
we’re gonna be good to go and then you
wake up and it’s 10 o’clock and your
whole house is shut down
oh my I didn’t even know my body needed
that much rest yes
it could be as simple as that time that
you snapped off on somebody and
afterwards you was like why did I why
was I so triggered by that I had no idea
it could be all the way to you know that
guy’s trip that you and your guy your
boys decided to go on and you knew going
on that trip you said I’m gonna do right
I’m being on my best behavior and then
some behavior that took place damaged
you and your entire family
there are parts of us that we are
deceived by
things that we think we know really
really well ourselves being that thing
that honestly humility is not just being
able to see the ways in which we are
self-aware but is to open ourselves up
to the point that we may be deceiving
ourselves in some kind of way I deceived
myself before as I was planning that
whole event and my husband’s like you
need some help I’m like no I don’t need
no help I got it I legit was with
deceiving myself without even knowing
self-deception is that thing that makes
us say things like I don’t see no color
well
I mean even colorblind people see color
stop playing
everybody see color
self-deception is that thing where we go
no offense but baby if you have to start
your sentence with no offense believe me
you’re about to offend whoever you’re
talking to
self-deception is when we go around and
we think and I want all the married
people to not look at your spouse when I
say this if you have ever thought or
felt or said out loud that you are an
easy person to be married to
I will call that self-deception
you’re a struggle you are The Struggle
Bus okay each and every single one of us
okay
self-deception is that thing that makes
us think we’re not as weak as we
actually are and there’s this common
encouragement that people say right now
to other people and I do believe it is
true it is you are stronger than you
think I do believe 100 you are stronger
than you think more resilient you can
take more things than you think you can
I know for myself I figured out I’m
stronger than I think there’s certain
things I thought I would never be able
to live through I’ve lived through it
now and it’s like oh okay I got that
strength on the inside of me
and today I want to give you another
encouragement and it I promise you if
you allow this to sink in it will take a
load off of you not only are you
stronger than you think
you are indeed weaker than you think too
and the more that we can Embrace that
the more that we can be aware of that
and the more that we can accept that
the more I allow the strength of God to
be what it needs to be on the inside of
me once I realize how weak I actually am
so what we’re doing today is we’re
talking about the topic of humility and
I have just a couple of of definitions
that I want to give you as it relates to
humility humility is knowing that to be
more than I have to be less than
knowing that to be more than I have to
be less dead it is this thing called
downward Mobility now we have all heard
of upward Mobility before it’s up and to
the right everyone wants their life to
go up into the right we want to be
promoted or promoted we want to make
more money we want bigger houses more
cars all the different things downward
Mobility is knowing that the strongest
and the highest I can go is actually on
my knees
it’s actually realizing that the word
humility means not far from the dirt
that I am not far from the dirt and yet
a great God lives on the inside of me
that’s what downward Mobility is so
humility is knowing that to be more than
I have to be less than
humility is also being at peace with my
fragility and God’s forgiveness
it’s not trying to sugarcoat my
fragility
it’s not trying to muscle through my
fragility
it’s not trying to White Knuckle it
through it instead it’s being at peace
with the fact that I am fragile and yet
in my fragility there is this
forgiveness and this goodness of God
that covers all of that fragility all of
that weakness is being at peace with
both you lean into one you’ll have a
warm theology where you only think
you’re not worthy of God’s love and not
worthy of God’s strength and you’ll lean
only into your fragility and your
weakness if you lean into the other
where you can say maybe I lean out of my
fragility and I lean into God’s
forgiveness I will not see that there
are some things even though God loves me
perfectly I am not perfect and there are
some things that God wants to work out
and change and transform on the inside
of me so it’s holding the tension of
both I am fragile and yet God is a
forgiver
where we’re going to land today is
humility is recognizing that I always
need help
I always need help now I don’t know
about you but I am
dysfunctionally independent okay
matter of fact my assistant almost on a
regular Sunday basis starts singing
i-n-d-e to me
every time she says do you need some
help and I’m like no I got it she’s like
okay i n d p oh Lord Jesus because I am
dysfunctionally independent and the
thing about the kingdom of God is that
everything is upside down
so in the world that we live in in the
society that we live in the goal is to
become more independent to get out of
your Mom and Daddy’s house to get your
own job to have your own car to do your
own thing to get yourself successfully
wherever you feel like you’re supposed
to go is to do it all on your own but in
the kingdom of God maturity looks much
different
maturity is not Independence maturity is
dependence
it is knowing that I am nothing without
God not just that I would be dead
without God I will cease to exist
without God that God is the reason why I
have air in my lungs that I cannot do
this on my own but I serve a good God
and because of him
I can do whatever he’s called me to do
it is a sense of dependence on God and
that’s very difficult in our society
in a world where we build our own Brands
and we put it out there and want
everyone to focus in on us we’re very
self-referenced individuals if you think
about this and you look at a picture any
picture at all that you’re in who’s the
first person you’re looking at
exactly don’t act like it’s your friends
it is not your friends
I ain’t gonna lie the other day
I saw a video at the church and I was
sitting over here I paused that video
just to see my little self in the
background from somebody that was on I
said my God what is wrong with me
we’re such self-reference people we
think so much about ourselves sometimes
that it’s hard for us to realize we’re
actually very dependent
you and I are needy
we need God
and the more we can accept that and
realize that the weight it takes off of
our shoulders is beautiful so Paul is
right in here
and he’s basically saying you don’t need
help because you’re horrible you need
help because you’re a human
God designed us to be dependent Romans 7
15-17 and then we’re going to skip down
to 21 through 25. it says
in verse 15 we read this earlier it says
I do not understand what I do but what I
want to do I do not do keep up with the
dues okay but what I hate I do and if I
do what I do not want to do I agree that
the law is good as it is it is no longer
I myself who do it but it is a sin
living in me
drop down to 21 it says so I find this
law at work although I want to do good
evil is right there with me for in my
inner being I Delight in God’s law but I
see another law or in another
translation it says another power at
work in me
raging war against the law of my mind
and making me a prisoner of the law of
sin at work within me what a Wretched
Man I am who will rescue me from this
body that is subject to death and here
is the answer verse 25. thanks be to God
who delivers me through Jesus Christ Our
Lord so then my son myself and my mind
am a slave to God’s law but in my sinful
nature a slave to the law of sin I love
Paul’s honesty
that although there is this part of me
that loves the law of the Lord and the
ways of God and once the will of God at
work in my life there is also this very
strong power that lives on the inside of
me that wants to do exactly and I mean
exactly the opposite of what God is
asking me to do
that in each and every single one of us
there are these two Powers at War on the
inside of us one saying do what God says
and one’s saying do what feels good
one saying obey God and the other saying
it’s not that big of a deal
one say lean into what God is saying to
do and the others saying close your ears
that there are these two people these
two powers on the inside of us that are
against one another and as believers
my goodness if we could just be honest
and stop acting like we don’t have that
second voice
and stop acting like every single day
you just wake up want to obey God come
on
I woke up this morning thinking should I
really do this should I preach I mean
honestly I don’t know
and stop acting like all we have is this
power on the inside of us that tells us
to do right and not do wrong
every single one of us every single day
have to make a decision of who is going
to win the war
who is going to win to win the war on
the inside of me because they are both
there and they both are present
but I get the option the choosing of who
I’m going to lean into and who I’m going
to allow to direct my life and my
decisions so today we’re talking in this
this the title of today is you need help
and what I want to do is give you four
points now I would love to say that
transformation in Christ and walking out
this newness and seeing change in our
lives is as easy as ABC it is not I’m
going to give you four of probably a
million things that you could do to walk
out this newness and to be able to win
the war that lives on the inside of you
and myself but I want to give you four
things and I’m going to give I’m going
to do an acronym going through the word
help so we’re going to start with h
and our first point is heal your head
heal your head now Romans 8 5 and 6 says
now this is the chapter right after Paul
talking about this war that lives on the
inside of me in chapter 8 he starts
giving us Solutions he starts giving us
Keys major keys to be able to win the
war that lives on the inside of us so
Romans 8 5-6 it says those who are
dominated by the sinful nature think
about sinful things but those who are
controlled by the Holy Spirit think
about things that please the spirit so
letting your sinful nature control your
mind leads to death but letting the
spirit control your mind leads to life
and peace now what we hear a lot of
times in church is behavior modification
it is if you want to do something
different from the Lord for the Lord
just do something different just if you
want to stop lying just stop lying if
you want to really be at peace and just
be at peace just go ahead and force your
way through with behavior modifications
what this scripture is telling us is
that it doesn’t start when it gets to
the external part of us when it gets to
our hands and our Behavior where this
starts is in our minds Romans 12 and 2
says be transformed by the renewing of
your mind the NLT version says by
changing the way you think so if we’re
going to walk out transformation in our
life where does it start it starts up
here
it starts up here it starts in our heads
now I’m gonna okay I’m a little bit of a
psychology nerd okay so I’m going to dig
in here a little bit I’m going a little
deep but I promise I won’t leave you
down there holding your breath for too
long okay we’re gonna come back up in a
second in your head there are two things
your mind and your brain
and a lot of times people get the tube
mixed up people think my brain and my
mind are the same thing not at all the
mind is a part of me that feels that
chooses that thinks and if I think and I
truly I think and I feel a certain way
I’m going to choose a certain Behavior
the brain on the other hand is a
physical organ that lives inside of your
head okay now we all know the brain
communicates to the rest of the body
this is okay so go with me here okay
because God is involved in all the
details right the way that he made our
brains the way that God made our brains
is to have things called pleasure hits
that there are certain things that
create pleasure in our brain and when we
do that thing what happens is we keep
going back to that thing because there
is pleasure that we have gotten from it
now I do believe that pleasure is a way
that God has caused us to live that’s
why he said to live life and life to the
fool that is supposed to be a
pleasurable life that we have what
happens is if I give my brain something
that is destructive against me but
pleasurable my brain does not know the
difference
so my brain keeps wanting whatever that
pleasurable thing is
now listen
this is why when it comes to addictions
when it comes to US changing bad habits
that we can’t just think just oh let’s
just talk about Christ let’s pray about
it we got to talk about some chemicals
too okay we got to talk about the fact
that God has created our brain in a way
that all it does is repeat itself so if
I watch a little bit of porn and my
brain gets pleasure off of that my
brain’s gonna want more of that so
naturally I will feel the effects the
pull like almost a magnetic pulling and
me to this thing that’s destructive to
my soul and destructed to my family but
feels pleasurable to my brain
now have you ever walked in somebody’s
house and you like smelt an animal a dog
or something and then like two days
later our little like a couple of hours
later you don’t smell it no more because
your brain is caused and designed to
adapt
so a little bit of porn it gets adapted
to
and once you get that fill up it’s no
longer giving you the high of pleasure
that you once had when you first did it
so in order to get that pleasurable high
that you got that that pleasure hit that
you got when you first saw it you got to
do a little bit more
and then you gotta do a little bit more
because your brain keeps adapting and
creating moving the Baseline of what’s
considered pleasurable or not so when I
say heal your head I’m talking about how
the Bible says have this mind of Christ
on the inside of you that in order for
us to really transform and change the
things because the Bible says sin is
pleasurable
it’s pleasurable
getting hits on social media seeing
likes even though I know I don’t want to
spend as much time on social media as I
do but I’m getting a pleasure hit every
time I go there
going shopping and spending money that I
shouldn’t spend money money I should
save but every time I get this new thing
because of my significance and my
identity is lagging somewhere this thing
has given me a pleasure hit
so I know that I should stay faithful to
one person in marriage but the truth is
I mean I need I’m not getting pleasure
somewhere else so I need to get this hit
somewhere and this is where I get it
from Gossip
a pleasure hit
checking your email
a pleasure here I promise you it’s a
pleasure hit
the things that we compulsively do are
that we do over and over and over again
but we’re unable to stop and we know
it’s damaging to ourselves is because in
our brains our brains are saying go for
it
more of it
but this is a beautiful thing
there is this thing called
neuroplasticity
it means that God has literally
physically created your brain and my
brain to change
that the things that have been habitual
in our lives you know the the things
that you have for a long time wanted to
stop doing but you don’t know how to
stop doing it on your own that God has
literally physically created you to
think different and to have a new
pattern on the inside of your mind so
how do we do this how do I change my
mind how do I heal my head number one I
have to have somebody I’m accountable to
because secrets we are always as sick as
our secrets
so if you want to change something you
got to say it out loud you gotta tell
somebody else about it and I know
somebody’s like oh that is so risky I
don’t know if I want to do that that
feels dangerous it is but to find a safe
place and be able to say it out loud has
the possibility to literally physically
change your brain which changes your
desires which changes where you go to to
find pleasure which changes your
relationship with yourself with God and
the people around you just saying it out
loud
just saying it out loud
so we have to have somebody we can say
listen this is what I’m struggling with
this is something I’m getting some I can
tell I’m getting some pleasure out of
this but I shouldn’t
this is something that I need to say out
loud and I never told anybody else this
is a trauma that I’ve experienced that I
think is affecting me now but I’ve never
said it out loud so I have no idea how
it’s affecting me
these are the things that we must
Believers you can pray all you want to
go ahead do it I want you to
but James tells us that we heal in the
context of community
that forgiveness comes from God when I
sin I ask God for forgiveness I don’t
need that for my community
but what I need is healing and James
tells us to go to one another confess
your sins to one another pray for one
another and you will be healed
so if there’s any part of you that you
want something to change on the inside
you want something to be different but
you don’t know how to do it the first
thing I’m gonna say is say it out loud
don’t give it a corner to hide in
don’t let the darkness keep it in the
shadow
put some light on it and share it with
someone that is safe in your community
and if you have to pay for safety I mean
if you have to pay for a therapist
because y’all hear us talk about this
all the time if you got to pay for
somebody to be a safe place for you put
them duckies to the side
and get you some therapy because you
won’t change unless you’re able to
reveal it
you can’t hear what you won’t reveal
so this is how we heal our minds
heal our heads is to give it
space to be said out loud Point number
two eat and help
is to encounter empowerment
Romans 8 and 11 again the chapter right
after uh Paul talked in chapter seven it
says the spirit of God who raised Jesus
from the dead lives in you and just as
God raised Christ Jesus from the dead he
will give life to your mortal bodies by
The Same Spirit living in you
there is this belief that we must have
in order to see transformation in our
life
that there is a power that lives in me
that is the same power that raised Jesus
from the dead
if I’m able to connect to that power if
I’m able to believe in that power and I
know this is difficult sometimes for us
to grasp because we know all the other
powers in US we know that lion power we
know that power of anxiety we know the
power of depression and we’ve become so
close and intimate with those things
that we forget that there is something
else living on the inside of you there
is a power that uh the god that created
the universe that lives on the inside of
you and myself now listen I am not a
fighter let me say that
I got one fight it was with cousin who
was about a foot shorter than me and I
did lose
I’m sure of that for a while for a
couple years I wasn’t sure but when I
look back on the story I I recognize
I could be more honest about it
you look at one of my old sermons how I
did lie so anyways see the hair and I do
physically I’m not a fighter
a baby in the spirit
I’m a bad mama jamming
and here’s the crazy thing so are you
in each and every single one of our
physical bodies there are muscles that
live on the inside of us but if you
don’t give attention to those muscles
they will never begin to grow and
they’ll never get stronger there is a
muscle of the holy spirit that lives on
the inside of you sitting in the inside
of you it is up to us to create these
encounters create an encounter like how
you did when your high school Crush you
knew was walking through the aisle
during six hour period and you set
yourself up and act like you
accidentally bumped into them but you
knew that I was about to walk down that
hallway you got to create an encounter
with the Holy Spirit
this is why we don’t skip our Devo time
in our quiet time with God because we
need some empowerment to get through the
day
that’s why we don’t you pick and choose
what Sundays we want to come to church
because we need some empowerment to get
through the rest of this week this is
why we don’t choose whether or not we’re
going to get in community because I need
my brothers and sisters to give me a
little bit of their power that thank God
when I don’t have it on my own create an
encounter with empowerment
how dare we as Christians walk around
like we don’t have the power of the
Living God on the inside of us
Paul writes in second Timothy 3 1-5 he
said you should know this Timothy in the
last days it’ll be very difficult times
for people who love only themselves in
their money
it will be boastful and proud scoffing
at God disobedient to their parents and
ungrateful they will consider nothing
sacred they will be unloving and
unforgiving they will slander others and
have no self-control my goodness
if this don’t sound like today
they will be cruel and hate what is good
they will betray their friends be
Reckless be puffed up with pride and
love pleasure rather than God
get this
they will act religious
but they will reject the power that
could make them Godly
stay away from people like that
shoot
we may have to stay away from ourselves
sometimes
they will act religious
but deny the power that could make me
behave in a Godly manner
if there is something in you like there
is something in me that I need
transformation in
but I need
empowerment in create and encounter
do not go so busy throughout your day
that you don’t encounter this power that
lives on the inside of you
do not be so busy with your schedule
that you can’t stop and be still and
acknowledge there is a power that lives
on the inside of me before I get on this
stage I have to take a moment and say
there is a power that lives on the
inside of me before I teach anybody else
because if I do it on my own I’ll fall
flat on my face but there is a power
that lives inside of you and inside of
me and the more that we attune to that
power
the more empowered we are
so encounter empowerment
to not create an encounter with the Holy
Spirit is like watching a child try to
lift something that you know is too
heavy for them
stand on the sidelines you need some
help buddy
nope I got it
you sure you don’t want my help nope I
got it
what we do to the holy spirit all the
time
he’s constantly knocking at our door
he’s constantly inviting us into
empowerment it’s up to us to be able to
receive that empowerment that he wants
to give I’ll never forget one time
I was in argue with my husband and if
you know anything about our story we’ve
been through hell and back and in this
argument I remember I was so so mad oh
my gosh so mad I wanted to scream I
probably did and I remember saying
having the clarity of mind for some
reason at that moment to say holy spirit
I need some patience and I was saying it
as I was stepping over a threshold going
into our house and when I when I said it
in my mind and was walking up I swear by
the time I landed my foot that I felt
this peace and patience on the inside of
me that I knew was not me
I didn’t have that to offer I remember
one time especially during that time a
friend praying for me and said Lord let
her love Beyond herself
we don’t have what it takes to live out
the fruit of the spirit in our lives
that’s why it’s fruit of the spirit
there is a supernatural now I’ve loved
talking about the natural I love talking
about your brain and psychology and all
the different things in order to see
change and transformation in your life
but all of that pales in comparison to
the fact that there is a power on the
inside of you waiting to be summoned
waiting to be invited into whatever
space you are in waiting to empower you
so what we do is we walk out healing our
head
encountering empowerment three L Lean
Into Love
we talk about the power of God we don’t
understand that power and love are the
same
that unless I think that if I think at
all that I am going to be loved more by
God if I change then I’ve got this whole
thing backwards
I’m loved by God regardless if I change
as a matter of fact God’s love is not to
change me it will but it’s just to be
with me is to be near me and the more I
recognize that that love is near me that
Love Changes me the love of God will
change you like nothing else you can
ever imagine to know that God’s smiles
and beams over you to know that God
sings songs over you to know that God is
madly in love and pursues you to know
that God only wants to be in your space
and you enhance with you changes
everything
conditional love asks you to change
first
Church may ask you to change first
but God’s unconditional loves love loves
us right where we are Romans 8
38-39 I am convinced this is Paul
writing right after he talked about
these this war inside of him I am
convinced that nothing can ever separate
us from God’s love
after he talked about the power that
lives inside of him that wages war
against him that asked him and invites
him into disobeying God he then says I
am convinced
that nothing can ever separate us from
God’s love neither death nor life Angel
nor demons fears for the day worries for
tomorrow not even the powers of hell can
separate us from God’s love no power in
the sky above or in the earth below
indeed nothing in all creation will ever
be able to separate us from the love of
God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our
lord
I don’t change we don’t change to be
loved
we changed because we are loved
love must be the foundation of any
transformation that takes place in our
life
if love is not the foundation it will be
short-lived
because more than likely of love is not
the foundation of why we change fear is
perfect love cast out fear
if there’s any part of me that’s
changing for God because I’m afraid of
God or afraid of the consequences or
afraid of what’s going to happen I have
not rooted myself in that love to know
that even if I choose not if I don’t
choose God even if I allow that lower
portion of who I am to be the one that
wins the war that I’m still loved
unconditionally
it’s hard for our humans Minds to grasp
sometimes because it’s not at all how we
treat one another
it’s not at all how we have been treated
but God is beaming over you
even with all the things that you know
you need to change still
even with all the things that you know
you still need to give to him
even all the ways that you have
disobeyed him and I have disobeyed him
he’s beaming over us
loving us
tenderly inviting us into change and
transformation
tenderly inviting us into a full life
that looks like his will for our lives
that’s what love does
we don’t change to be loved
we change because we are loved
and it’s the foundation of it all
number four
pray for purity
is pray for Purity now what I know is
that Purity is one of those things that
we talk about at team and youth camps
but for some reason it doesn’t follow us
into adulthood
for some reason it feels like it’s one
of those topics that like kids need to
be taught you need to stay Purity you
get married which also if we think about
doesn’t make any sense because you say
prayer after you get married too but
anyways
I don’t know why we say that
Purity is to have no motive but to love
God back
it is am what I doing is what I’m doing
loving God back
the way I treat myself the way I treat
my friends and family the way that I
walk out his word the way that I live in
peace or don’t is a way that I am living
my life is it loving God back
that’s all Purity is it’s the only
motivation is to love God back
think about purity the thing about
praying for Purity is it something that
we can all do no matter what
because one of the things that Jeremiah
tells us is that the heart is deceitful
sometimes we don’t even know our own
motives
you know that’s the the threat of what’s
happened here at Transformation Church
it’s growth that we have experienced all
of the influence that has been expanded
here
when you get into when we got into
Ministry it was as simple as just trying
to do God’s will that was it right it
wasn’t fun there was no money involved
we barely had any volunteers one nobody
actually watching it’s just we’re just
doing this because we love the Lord
and then as things change
you have to continue to realign yourself
to what’s my motivation
because sometimes the motivation is to
please the crowd
sometimes the motivation might be to
make sure everybody’s good with our
decisions
sometimes the motivation is to stay in a
place of power
but if we can all be honest
we all have to continually pray for
purity
because sometimes our motivation is so
underlying
so beneath the surface that we ourselves
have been deceived by it
we ourselves don’t even recognize the
reason I’m doing this you know it’s like
all the people who go around and say you
know I put everybody else first it’s
like why’d you tell
you put everybody else you’re not okay
I’m selfless it’s like well
are we selfless if we gotta talk about
it you know I’m just saying
just saying throwing it out there
is always us coming back to God saying
help my motivation to be to just love
you
let me get down to the basics man it’s
easy to get into all this fancy stuff
and all the things that the world tells
you that you need and all the things
that the world tells you that you know
you are this and you are that and you’re
trying to be this and that for everybody
else but down to the Bare Bones is just
and what I do is it loving God back
for all the love that he’s given me
so in this place today I’m going to do
something a little bit different
we’re going to take communion as a
family if you’re watching online and you
may not have just random communion cups
at your church at your house totally
fine that makes sense I don’t either get
you some bread some water maybe some
juice or something
we’re going to walk out a spiritual
discipline together and taking communion
the reason that we do this is because
it reminds us of what our savior did
it reminds us of the humility that Jesus
had
Psalms 121 tells us it says I look to
the heels from which cometh my help
today we’re talking about help we need
help
I Look To The Hills from which cometh my
help
today I want to encourage you to not
just look towards any Hill
look towards the hill called Golgotha
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it’s the hill that our savior died on
it’s the actual physical heal
Our Savior came down from Glory
and decided to put on human flesh to
come in as a baby
humble himself
with all glory living on the inside of
him he counted not robbery to be a part
of what God was doing down here to be
Emmanuel
God With Us
and that in his humility
our lives were changed
our lives were set free
and maybe it’s just a model to us
of how we experience freedom in our own
lives
to walk out this gift called humility
maybe if you’re in this place right now
or watching online
maybe we’re talking I’m talking about
this savior that died on a cross for you
and your sins and maybe you haven’t
received that gift of salvation
what I want you to do is I want you to
pray this prayer with me if today you
want to receive Jesus Christ as your
lord and savior and I’m going to ask
everyone in this room if we can just be
still for a moment and allow those that
are coming to Christ in this moment to
actually have their moment with God
if today
you want to receive this gift of
salvation
that this humble savior
has given you as a gift
I want you to pray this prayer with me
close your eyes and bow your head
and I’m going to ask everyone for the
sake of those that are coming to Christ
in this room
and watching online so let’s pray this
prayer together
say dear God
I admit I made mistakes
and I admit I need a savior
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I ask that you changed my heart
that you changed my motives
I believe you lived
you died
and rose again
just for me
change me
renew me
and Transform Me
I’m Yours
in Jesus name I pray
amen
amen if you made that decision today
in this sweet atmosphere that we are in
right now what I want you to do is I
want you to get some next steps of how
you can walk that out remember you
cannot do that on your own you have to
walk it out in community I want you to
text save to the number
828282 and we’re going to get you some
more information
those of you that are in this room and
that are watching online there’s
something that we have done here before
TC before we go into communion and it’s
where we take a moment to ask the Holy
Spirit what are you saying to me
a lot of words that girl said a lot of
things up there well what exactly are
you saying to me today
what’s the area in my life that you’re
asking me to ask for help what’s the
area in my life that you want me to pray
for Purity on the inside of me what’s
the area of my life that you want to
transform redeem and set free what’s the
area
what we’re going to do is the pride team
is going to come and sing us a song just
a couple minutes and I just want us to
practice Stillness in this room and
watching online
and we’re asking the Holy Spirit what do
you want to say to me easiest thing is
to hear word run out and go and forget
all what God was trying to say
so we’re going to take just a moment and
after the praise team sings a song and
we have a moment of Stillness we’re
going to come back and we’re going to
take communion together
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some by your view
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this is my
not for anything that I could
just
bring you praise
like a fragrance broken on the floor
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your
there’s no motive there’s no hidden
catch
like a fragrance broken on the floor
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find me like a child again
full of wonderful innocence
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before anything that in a way
any dream or anything
to make it easy
to bring me
not for anything that I could give
just to honor you and drink your praise
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like a fragrance broken on the floor
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how my heart to be pure
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until I faith
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before
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you’re in this place
that means you have some communion
Elements which you maybe are watching
online and you found something
this communion this spiritual Act is
just to remember what Christ did on the
cross for us
to be able to
walk in humility we have to look at the
model that’s been set before us
so before Christ went to the cross
he sat down with his disciples
and he said
I’m about to give my life for yours
and before they went he gave them bread
and he gave him some wine
and he said I want you to eat this bread
and drink this wine and when you do
remember that my body was broken
and my blood was shed for you
and so whenever you get into a jam
whenever you’re at a place where you’re
like God there’s something in me that I
need to change that I want to see change
that I want to see transformed
when we take communion we remind
ourselves
that the battle is already won
that our savior went to the cross
and when he went to the Cross he won the
war that lives on the inside of you and
me
reminds us of this power that lives
inside of us
This Love that was offered to us and the
Purity that he’s given to us
that when I pray for Purity I’m already
I’m just praying for what God already
wants to give to me and has given to me
I’m walking out his love
and I’m standing in his power
so what I want you to do is take your
bread you want to take a moment you can
eat that bread and when you do remember
the body of Christ that was broken for
you
and then
I want you to drink this juice that you
had and when you do that you remember
that Christ’s blood was shed
for you
just eat and drink together
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God
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there is this newness that we feel you
calling us into
there’s this transformation
that we feel you inviting us into
a newness of peace
of joy of self-control of patience of
kindness of goodness a newness of love
and to be honest
we can’t get there on our own
we have tried
we tried to change our ways and our
habits and change the way we think on
our own
we have tried to White Knuckle it we
have tried to power through
and oftentimes we have thrown in the
towel
today
we received this gift of humility to
admit I need help
I need your help
I need your power
I need your love I need your strength
I need the help of the people that
you’ve placed around me
I need
I need help
I don’t want to be independent
I want to be strong enough to be
dependent
wise enough
to ask for help
the day we receive your help
and with your help we receive your
freedom
your freedom in our minds your freedom
in our bodies your freedom in our souls
we receive the freedom of God
and are ready to walk out your
transformation in our lives
thank you for being a God that’s king of
kings and Lord of lords and yet you
Delight in the details of Our Lives
thank you
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are we going to go back into this song
and this time now that we have taken a
moment to remember what Christ has done
on the cross friends
I want you to imagine your savior
In The Garden of Gethsemane right before
he went to the cross
saying these words to God
that it’s not just a prayer of humility
for us
but our savior
against what he wanted to do in his own
will
went to the cross on our behalf
and if we’re going to be believers
let’s let that power rise on the inside
of us
that the stronger I am the more humble I
am
imagine your savior say these words
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like a fragrance broken on the floor
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before
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there’s no more if there’s
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like a fragrance broken on the floor
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yeah
and it’s all about
you
and it’s all about you
and it’s all about you
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and it’s all about you
and it’s all about you
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and it’s all about you
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we are going to close out service
as we close out today I’m going to ask
our staff and our team to come down
front our prayer team if you would and
if you’re in here and you need prayer
for anything
um you know a message like that there
are definitely things all throughout
your heart that God is speaking to that
he’s talking about and there are some of
you the most important part of the
service is going to be this time right
here
Bree said it so clearly but we ask God
for forgiveness but there’s something
happens when we talk to each other and
there are some of you in this room that
the things you’re going through you just
need somebody to pray for you with
and we have people down here that are
not perfect people there are people just
like you but the scripture is very clear
that when we pray God hears our prayers
and it changes things so I’m going to do
is the team’s going to continue to sing
this is going to be the official close
of service but if you feel so LED I want
to invite you to come down to the altar
to receive prayer for anything going on
in your life some of you is going to be
coming down to receive first some of you
just going to stay in an atmosphere
because you need this encouragement as
you go throughout your week
um but just want to thank you so much
for being here this week and I’m going
to pray over us and that our team’s
going to stay in and please if you need
prayer for anything come down from Holy
Spirit we love you
thank you for your Purity Lord we thank
you for this word Lord I Thank you that
Lord God you are doing something so
clear in our lives Lord I Thank you for
your spirit Lord God that produce the
humility and Jesus that went beyond his
will and into yours and right now Lord
God we are admitting that we need help
that we need you Lord their area of Our
Lives that we are walking in
self-deception and we’re asking holy
spirit that you produce a humility in us
that changes us Lord God I thank you
that even as people come down to receive
prayer that your spirit Spirit Will
begin to restore and will speak so
clearly to people it’s in the beautiful
name of Jesus we pray amen all over this
room if you need prayer please come out
and uh we love you so much
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