Adopted Child of God: The Fulfillment of a Limitless Life

Thank you thank you thank you thank you is such an honor and privilege to be here and I'm not saying that just because that's what this will say as the guest preacher, but I truly truly mean that passage Eddie and I have known each other for a number of years we subdue the summer camp to get a call crossroads with a mutual friend in Clayton King and we will talk about theology and philosophy and all the stuff in over the years. We stayed in contact and back in 2005.

He invited me to the summit church but it was in this building. It was in a heist and at that point my life was something about church planting.

One thing about pastoring. None of that stuff. But after my experience with you guys so I partially blame you for this.

I heard God whisper you can do this is like a little sea got put in my heart and so you're responsible for transmission church on February 7, 2010 we launched in our opening weekend. We had 701 people. It was bananas, and ever since then we have been growing like crazy. So you guys sprinkle some Holy Ghost pixie dust on us and we appreciate that tremendously and also as a pastor of a gospel centered multiethnic church, you have no idea how happy I am and how excited I am to see the summit church going towards a Revelation 59 perspective, every nation, tribe and tongue and it is absolutely beautiful. So it's honor and a privilege to share this moment with you guys know what let's pray. Known for bravely screwed brother. Pop in the name of Jesus name that is above all names the name in which we find life and forgiveness and grace that is boundless mercy that is limitless power that is all sufficient to the power of the Holy Spirit meet us at all of the summit locations meet us and embrace us with grace absolutely wreck us and rebuild us into the glorious image of Christ Jesus made a hopeless fine hope mend a broken find healing you do that, Lord Jesus, would you be spectacular and glorious weather we walk with you for 40 years, whether we are spiritual explorers. Would you just meet us and look at us with your eyes of grace and mercy and may we be undone by the mats magnitude of who you do that spirit of God. God's people said a man all of us are impacted by labels on the close we buy some of us by certain close because of the label and the label says to people. This is who I am because of the close I bought a case in point, smart phones, some of you guys by iPhones because if you have an iPhone that label makes you cool. But in Samsung start doing these commercials like spring things here. Then they stole all of iPhones glistening switch.

I got a Samsung because we get a sense of enemies really cool when you got a bigger screen to even the neighborhood we pick off you move into this neighborhood. This label determines who you are. All of us are a collection of lateness, but this morning I want to talk about a label that we don't see on the outside but that's To stitch to our souls on the inside that impacts how we view God. How we view ourselves and how we relate to people, many of us Christian and non-Christian are wearing a life destroying label called orphan called orphan not immediately when we think of orphan we think of somebody traveling a great distance in adopting a child and bringing them back into their family which is a beautiful picture of what Jesus did for us. He traveled a great distance from have been transcended time and space came to a foreign country called earth and adopted us, but that's not what I am talking about specifically I'm talking about you when I'm being spiritual orphans. Let me give an example couple years ago I wrote a blog and I put this in my book and I got a response to my blog and it came this way, it said enough! I think a lot about this topic long enough. I cannot nor will I hold in anymore. So after reading this first paragraph I gathered from the facts that they did like my blog then went on to say, when people like you, that's me call God pop up our daddy that can be extremely hurtful for people who have experienced abuse at the hands of the father.

So in the future when you use the word pop up our daddy forgot just know it can cause hurt so I wrote back and by the way they sign their name anonymous which is very fitting because when you don't have a father that loves you unconditionally. You have to look for that love and as you're looking for that love your collecting all of these labels and you don't know who all so therefore your anonymous I responded back.

I said that dear anonymous, I have some father wounds to so I feel what you're saying. I really do. Then I wrote in the Gospels Matthew Mark Luke and John as well as in the apostle Paul's letters Jesus and Paul both use the Aramaic word out about to describe God the father and the word Abba that Aramaic word is equivalent to the English word papa daddy it, it gives a picture of a loving father reaching down to pick up their child. It gives a picture of a child reaching up to their father and the father extends his hand to pick up that shop Limited, 43, and my daughter. My baby is good and ready to graduate high school.

She will be going to Clemson. She made a chilling taped is the return for Clemson I'm freaking out. I thought I was ready.

I read the book to read the Bible. I pray I preached on how was ready. Last summer I fly Cumberland all my babies going on at dinner. There's me, my wife, my son and Presley next year. I've been like Jell-O. You know why because I remember when she was little she first or learn how to walk in the top she will run towards me and she would go poppy and I'm not even the Pinot now my wife is white so our kids do look Puerto Rican or Dominica. So but anyway she she she called me poppy and you know what I would knew I would pick her up and grab her and holding a lot because that's my baby, my wife was six months pregnant. I wanted a boy like most knucklehead dudes do what God gave me a dream and I see her face seen her beautiful brown eyes and when she came into this world.

There was that there was those beautiful brown eyes and she popping she got her popular lot does not imagine for broken jacked up dude like me can love like that. Imagine what infinitely glorious and beautiful poppy in heaven loves us like a mad appreciate that home alike that RX up there some characteristics to go along with being an orphan. One of the greatest deceptions of the enemy. I do this, a transmission church. I want to teach you how to do okay. The scene of the crime is your minds on the count of three on the say the scene of the crime and you say is your mind, you ready seem to quite 123 this is a crime is your enemy doesn't want you child of God to know that your doctor if those of you who are yet to follow Jesus. You are a true orphan. But there's a true father who wants to father you wants to be your self in the pages of my own life and for the lives of people that I've counseled over the last decade there some characteristics that go along with being a spiritual orphan and maybe you can relate orphans fill anonymous. My dad left when I was six and have male figures in my life to bless me every day.

I tell my son Jeremiah who he is in Christ, I searched for an identity. My whole life felt anonymous who who hammer many of us right now are looking for an identity and people, possessions and places people unreliable possessions will not satisfy in places wherever you go you, take you, which you orphans feel abandoned by one.

My dad can come to the games. I can you imagine playing the NFL for six years. Can you imagine having a son that's one of the best in the world and what he does and you don't even go to middle school, high school, college game. I go to every one of my sons practices. I make my schedule the way it is so that I can be at his practices just so he knows I love them and I care. By the time I was 13. I recognize the people that were close to me will hurt me so I decided 13. No one's got hurt during grade the girl in grade because I will put iron fence around my heart and I'm not gonna let you close enough to hurt me so sad way to live. I thought I was protecting myself but I was actually hurting myself more more because I don't want to get abandoned you. Even now, God is blessed, transmission church, like the summer church to grow like crazy and they're still weekend where I drive up gone yet during a leave you two just like everybody else have to fight to those voices. Orphans fill afraid when you don't when you're lost their sphere. When you feel like you're up to be abandoned.

There is fear the Marine to a quote from a pastor not to make this name up. His name is Jack Frost.

He wrote this in one of his book, since it being a spiritual orphan calls us to live life as if we don't have a safe and secure place in the father's heart we feel we have no place of affirmation, protection, comfort, belonging, or affection. Self oriented, lonely and inwardly isolated. We have no one from home to drop God inherent therefore we have to strive to achieve compete and earn everything we get in life, which leads to anxiety, fear and frustration maybe can relate what I guess. And really, really good news is time for us to get a new label adopt which is.with Miller, 3123 Dr. this time for us to get a new label so I didn't grow up as a Christian I grew up in San Antonio, Texas on the Westside about a mile and 1/2 from the Lincoln court housing project we were told not poor because we can afford the old MER and so but when you pull in their body… Paul you don't know that your bow. You think it's normal to have roaches that cover the walls. You think that's where my live because every house to go to looks that way from the first mill in my family over the age of 17 to graduate high school or go to college do not have a child outside of wedlock to not have an addiction issue and also not spend time in incarceration and so that's the environment I grew up and it was an absolute war zone. I am a trophy of God's grace seen and experienced no child should ever but at age 13, something happened. I found the God to worship call football even though we did attend the church. The human heart is going to worship something of God is anything or anybody to give you identity, significance and purpose for some US your little boyfriend right now about the way ladies if the Geiger this is for free if the guy you're dating. If the Geiger dating is not who you want your son to become kick him to the curb. I know that what very nice, but it's very true you. You don't you don't want that is better to be lonely than to be miserable. Okay so so so thank you for the smattering of applause. Yes, yes, I prefer so at age 13. Football became my God, because my middle school coach was like darling.

If you keep playing good you can get a scholarship ship is that users like no there's colleges that will pay for your education for free and you get to play football like were so it gave me an identity football player getting significant, be good again.

The mission I'm getting out of this hell that I'm in and I'm going to college so I worked hard no one we know one out lifted me. I worship my God senior year in high school I start for school call coverage of the Heights high school. One of the best in the country when the state championship are nowhere and first team all state and I get some scholarship offers. One was to Texas Christian University and the other one was to Brigham Young University and guess where the brother went to Brigham Young University. Black people have gone to school there. My first semester like I have been I came from a total multiethnic context and there it was multi white. Let me say something that was a great place for me to go to college because with my appetites. I would got in trouble somewhere else and Brigham Young. You have to try hard to get in trouble. You have to scheme to get in trouble. It is a alcohol free County. It is hard.

I was successful in getting in trouble, but it wasn't easy. Freshman year 1990 I see this girl in the weight room is a javelin throwing attracting January 15, 1990 was our first date. We've been married 22 years now and she's a javelin. So I don't mess with me because you know she'll be like if I make her mad, not try to run out of the house to get a fork like texting and weights I get about a month. The other thing a plan girl. I convinced Canadian college ulcers soap soap popular goes great. I leave the conference interceptions. My football career is nonvoting's all-time Brigham Young football team. Eventually I get drafted and I made it I got the girl I get drafted by my third year in NFL, team captain people want me to sign autographs.

It's amazing we almost make it to the Super Bowl.

I got Alexis with chrome rims, chopping up the block.

If you know what that means.

Google it you every things it I'm even always allowed to dream about and I got to do something that I thought would fix my family I start sending a bunch of money home to Texas that this is what you need this money will fix everything. It did not. It made it worse. It made it absolutely worse.

It was a living hell.

I would have cousins that I don't even know where my cousin is trying to hit me up your son start a T-shirt business friendly 5G like you never had a job I give you 5G's you crazy what you smoke is not good. We do not agree to ask me that it was miserable. But you know what was the worst though is I knew I couldn't love my wife the way she deserved to be love was like I reached into a drawer to find energy and resources and the material to do it in a drawer was empty. Having a daughter.

I can imagine her marrying a guy like I used to be who don't have the capacity to love her and I begin to eat away at me that another man said, I'm entrusting my responsibilities for you to care for my daughter. It is now yours the money and fame couldn't help me forgive my dad I would find myself in NFL times looking in the stands going. Maybe he came maybe in high school and college, I would literally use my bitterness and rage against him to lift weights harder and run faster but you know what bitterness is. Bitterness is drinking poison and hoping that the person you're better it dies, and the person is dying is me. As you can tell a lot about a person about how they treat other people because they treat other people's reflection of how they feel about them selves so my bitterness drained me of life and that poison spilt out on other people fame and money could not help me get rid of my fear that I wasn't afraid of football per se as a football player. I love contact. I long for contact. Now when I watch football games on like how in the world that I remember my 20s to die jacked people up, particularly the big lineman. Okay, I'm going to far in my limit so it can remove the fear and you know what the fear was that a little 5 foot seven guy from front office with pleated pants would come and give me a pink slip and say you can't play anymore. We don't want. She you know why that was so traumatic because my God was football and you were taking my God away, you were taking my identity what IP you're taking my significant his anybody can recognize me to take away my mission. See that's what idolatry does us the biblical word for worshiping false gods.

That's what idolatry does is it sets you up.

It promises you think that it will never fulfill send you places in which you cannot come back from and I was utterly afraid of me take you back to 1993, so I'm drafted by the Indianapolis Colts. I noticed immediately a particular teammate in the locker room is brothers different. 62 240 linebacker. That's not different that's normal for the benefit it would take a shower after practice that's fairly normal for the NFL dry off and wrap a white towel around his waist is what I got with dry off white tile around his waist.

He would grab his Bible will make this up, he would walk to the locker room like this dissuade what many would say and you go to my other teammates in their locker said do you know Jesus, I will look just like you said, do you know Jesus.

It was weird it was weird, so is he is going. Do you know Jesus on like the you know you have naked with the Bible so I asked the veterans on the team is legume and some of the half naked black men walk around talk about.

Do you know Jesus. This open attention to him because that's the naked's real name was Steve Grant but his nickname was the naked preacher because he would preach half naked in the locker room with his Bible.

Now here's something you don't know something I do but I want to share this with you about Steve Grant. The naked preacher in 1992 when he was drafted out of the University of West Virginia.

He made a covenant with Jesus and this is what this is what the covenant was discovered it was Jesus. I'm gonna win as many of my teammates as possible to you. He understood that the NFL was his mission field, and I am so thankful because God in his providence. God is all I great place me in the locker room with a naked preacher who understood that he was a missionary walking around talking about do you know Jesus and that question changed my life, what would happen if you woke up every morning instead of complaining about your job, complaining about your E contest complaining about this. She woke up and went lower today. I'm on mission today. I am sent.

Show me the broken hearted. Show me the wounded show me those who need your grace. If you double dog dare you to pray the prayer because if you do get ready get ready get ready.

1 ounce of them a locker paint bother nobody and I hear and I turned around and 6 foot to 240 pounds of dark chocolate near nakedness is coming towards my heart to be numb like all know I turned my back to avoid him. I feel this is like Ricky degree. Do you know Jesus.

Do you know Jesus. Now I don't have a Christian background, so I did what most people who don't know what Jesus do. I said these words. I'm a good person, how did I know I was a good person unless I looked at other people and said I'm better than you I'm better than you I'm better than you that's called judging hypocritically in Matthew seven Jesus says don't judge hypocritically affair cyclic. So by me saying I'm a good person was actually demonstrating that I was a bad person because I was pushing other people down to lift myself up, check this out. If you're a follower of Jesus, the most humble people on planet Earth should be his people because we understand at the foot of the cross. All of us are sinners. All of us are need of grace and check this out.

The only time the only time the only time we should ever look down upon another human being is when we are extending a hand of grace to live them up so that question led to a five year conversation.

I watched them for five years and he chased me around the locker room have naked watched way love this wife to watch the way play the game. I watch the way you serve the city and on August 2, 1997, 50 and NFL with the Colts were in training camp. The cold have training camp in Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana, and after lunch time there was just some stuff just happened and I did know how to put words to it. Those are some stuff happening and I went back to my dorm room and I grabbed the phone now if you're under 20 is a freak you out. The phone was connected to the wall and had a long cord that so I pick up the phone and I call my wife sweetheart I want to be more committed to you. I was ready to grow up in lumber but then I said these words and I want to be committed to Jesus. I can only do the best that I can do to try to explain what happened in that room but Jesus met me in that dorm room all by myself. No sinners prayer letter that I was met by the living God. And you know what hit me.

God loved me if you've grown up in the church and you've heard that maybe that sounds older you all my goodness when I hear that big God loves me across all my sin, past, present, future.

I know about was nailed to price me that God loved me a lot me because I could run a fast courtyard that he loved me one because I can bench press 400 pounds, 38 1/2 inch vertical leap because I can help them with the celestial football game.

It wasn't as though God look at my scone report and went let's recruit him.

He is really awesome know God looked in my scouting report and it said one work center and a set another work in need of grace. I realize Jesus love me God the father laid his son on the cross for our sins, as though God the father was opening up his arms and run home son run to me, run to me at that moment I was infected with this virus called grace and the symptoms of gotten better. Ever since you see, God gives us his adopting love God gives us his adopting love. Ephesians chapter 1 verse five. New living translation.

God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ that mean God decided in advance about this in the timeless eternity where there is no yesterday Arnold tomorrow just the eternal now the father son and Holy Spirit and other adoration and beauty and joy loved you limited to like this before your daddy saw your mama at the club was like Dan God loved you before Christopher Columbus sailed all across the sea and discovered the people already lived in America. God loves you before you brought your followers home in your report card. The living God of the universe loves you. Willie Nelson is a liar. You know why because he sang a song from a you're always on my mind that's a lot. There's only one person can say you've always been on my mind but I wake up every morning and think about that not only does he adopt us and bring us into his family says that's what he wanted to do and it gave him great pleasure. If you not get a follower of Jesus, just marinate followers of Christ want to engage this. I think for many of you you go. I know God loves me… Does he like me does God really like me and one of the reasons why we think that is because we think that God loves us in the first place based on what we do our don't do we need to stop that faulty theology because God's love for you is based on what Christ and Christ alone has done. If you can do something to make God love you are like you more than he does now you eclipse what Jesus has done and don't get it twisted. No one can eclipse eclipse for beautiful Jesus has done God action for you is rooted in his affection for Jesus. And when you and I get that you know it or not it makes us worshipers makes a it makes us lose our everlasting mind blown away with the quickness of his grace. That's what happens and he says he takes great pleasure. So when my kids were little, son Jeremiah's name is big boys in seventh grade do like five 1/2 size 14 shoe do just been victims, but my daughter is a cheerleader like five forbidden whatever little I would sing to them at night.

Now God is not gifted me to sing, but my kids cannot escape either side been a rocking chair holder Lou Presley like Jesus loves me this no in this avalanche of tears just fallen his Porsche because my heart was delighting in her and my delight in her was not based on your one day honey you're going to go to Clemson in the national honor Society. That's why I love you know I love you intrinsically for who you are not from which to who you took great pleasure in loving her. In the Old Testament is a passage Zephaniah 317 is directed towards the nation of Israel. Jesus completes the task of the nation of Israel.

So it's directed toward him because were in him. It's directed toward us. If not 317 says that God seems and dances over you freaking out and I is you like pastels at the club last night know God sings and dances over you because he sings and dances over son Jesus and because you are in his son Jesus.

He sings and dances over you and what's going to change her behavior is not looking at how jacked up you are looking at how great he is, cannot preach this four-minute all Jesus would suggest we all him spiritual narcissism doesn't run all Jesus's glorious love of the spirit, will take care of all that behold him, God of the lighting and sing and dance and over. God gives us daughter ship and son ship Romans 815. So you have not received the spirit that makes you fearful slaves, depositor, what you afraid of this weekend. What are you afraid of maybe you're afraid you're not pretty enough. Maybe you're afraid you're not smart enough. Maybe you're afraid that you can overcome that particular sin habit for those of you with wisdom here is this gray-haired us wisdom young people give them much respect, maybe afraid of dying may be afraid that wayward son or daughter may never come home to Christ will have to be afraid. So this instead you receive God's spirit when he adopted you as his own children.

Now we call him the father when I was a little boy.

I couldn't play the game. My daddy can beat up your dad because he won around I can do that now, though, our daddy can beat up anybody other daddy because our dad is the King of the universe are daddy has never gotten tired our daddy is eternal.

Our daddy's glorious our daddy does not lack power or strength are beauty, our daddy is all sufficient.

So you and I don't have to be afraid. You know what I'm afraid of. Check this out. People will say no time your pastor Durbin. The church is really growing and we don't want you to get prideful Mike. I played in the NFL people and son are aggressive on 17 abilities of 17. I said what you need to pray for me is not tried.

Pray for me that I'm the one to lead us to where I believe God is leading us.

Because I struggle with inadequacy. That's my fear.

I'm a compulsive stutterer by the way you group is a compulsive stutterer and so when I preach what I teach. I go daddy I'm scared like I got this you like yo if I can raise my son from the dead moon walk on water.

I can make you talk you just trust me, you and I don't have to be afraid. You know a lot because our daddy is big Poppa strong. He wants us to behold his son everything that you and I have can be taken away from us. One day my children could get goofy and go, we don't like that when coming home for Christmas when coming all around like you, I love my wife, my best friend the greatest human being that I know I door that woman. When will she walk in a room. My heart skips a beat, a lover she's awesome, but she could get goofy to be like peace amount. I got arthritis all over my body bold in this broken wrist concussions out Atlantic, where my my body's going to fill you know one day my Afros will be a big hole right here in this Ronald McDonald from keeping it to him and I will so I'm not sure you have a crater on your head. It's our keep in my fro pedis is 89 babies is 89 but on a serious note, everything that you and I have can be taken away. Except for this you are beloved daughter of the king you are beloved son of the king and one that is our primary identity and a gospel identity of grace. You know, it allows us to do go into the world with open hand. Some of us holding onto things and we are squeezing the life out of it but we have our hands open because our dad is generous in identity can never be stripped away. We become gracious.

People just like him. I know who this is for, but a lot of your anger towards people in your life is actually rooted in the anger toward yourself because you feel inadequate is time for you to live from your primary identity as an adopted son as an adopted daughter of the king.

God gives us friendship, God gives us friendship maybe Romans 58 God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ. The dog is Rita.

Since we have been on all.since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ. Now are you kidding me right now that in God's side. You follower of Christ our righteous hey ladies would be great if you woke up and looked in the mirror instead of going I'm so fat with Pam righteous seriously. Hey fellas, instead of looking at all of your inadequacies wanted to go. You know what in Christ unrighteous friend.

That's what got me over stuttering. What got me over stuttering was God, if I'm righteous and I get up in preach and teach a nonstarter is all good because you still see me as righteous. So what I do now is not focus on how I talk the way I talk focus on the right is right in the way I talk take care of itself because is empowered by the Holy Spirit, but the more I think about trying not to start the more I started the more you think about trying not to sin but the more you behold Christ and see yourself as righteous, you begin to live a righteous life. A lot of people can handle grace because it's offensive to their ego, which stands for edging God out. You made right by the blood of Christ.

I was on the radio show. Recently I got called Satan because I told the person I was interacting with that the blood of Jesus makes us righteous and goes out of a false gospel. I like okay by good luck with that, he will certainly save us from God's condemnation since offensive of God was restored by the death of the sun, but we were still sinners will certainly be saved to the life of the son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because of our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God for you theologian types.

That's called reconciliation. So in this verse we see the love of God we see the justification of God. We see the reconciliation of God. Now watch this. How does that impact how we live 2002.

I'm in my office and I'm typing letters brand-new Christian I'm like Jesus is graded lovingly so forgiving and I hear a voice and I don't know if it's God's voice and my voice.

I just tell you my experience, the voice said this find your father and I stood up and said no and then a bunch of curse words flew out of my mouth which I will not repeat today.

I was angry and me when I needed to know how to treat a woman. Where was the house molested as a seven-year-old. My practice is a grown man made a successful meeting will let God do you remember in eighth grade when he shot a basketball game hi and he put his hands on the wall tracks all up and down his arm, God, do you remember that. So I'm actually throwing a temper tantrum talking to myself, like God, the Poppa just pick me up put me on his lap and said son no understand is like God hit me with with with this, not audibly but filling well there. When you do know that you didn't deserve my forgiveness even right you do know that your sin was like the heroin tracks on your father's arms right the same way I loved you would grace is now the power I give you to love your daddy go find your daddy is like day found out he was locked up in prison in Texas and I wrote the hardest letter of my life said that once you know I forgive you and I love you and you have some amazing grandchildren. I think you need to know we want you to be a part of their life sent the letter off couple weeks went by a couple weeks went by and then I got a letter I'm flipping to the jump millwright and boom there is this letter immediately. I am just weeping. I run up to my office. The loss of my wife and kids in the crime and openness letter a but I do know what was in an essay like for you to forgive me what you think you know I didn't abandon you know what it was gonna say, but this is what I resolved in my mind that Jesus was enough.

I resolved that if I get rejected by Jesus.

Jesus is acceptance and reconciliation. Love is enough to open the letter up and I can hardly see them wiping the tears away and the letter said son that made me feel good baby feel good. There's a, thank you for forgiving me.

I do want to be a part of your life and my grandchildren's life in any wrote these words and I love man I just weapon.

I went and you know we have a better relationship now is a perfect know, but it's certainly not toxic and better the way it was talk to the teenagers and the twentysomethings right now because we we live in a culture of epic divorce is just a lot of brokenness your parents did not wake up one day and say no screw up my kids lives today and I'm just get hooked on heroin. I'm just going to have an affair that phenomena do just make them miserable. You see your parents have labels to the Jesus need to restate if one thing, the grace does is it gives you patient with other people because you remember God's patience with the one my daddy knows about two years old. I got this freakish memory when I was two years old at the Lincoln court housing projects, I spent the night with my dad and late at night. I hear this terrible noise and it was his father who came home drunk. I still remember the cuss words. He said he was threatened to shoot every body you blankety-blank kill all the this is not how and I remember my dad gently grabbed him like this and taking them to his room and put them in his bed one the first.

My dad is and as I was writing my book, I interviewed us and I remember that moment it was like how you remember that I that I don't know that when you just punch you just knock him out and he said these words. That was my father and I loved God the father does for us because I see your labels. I see you hurt, send my son to do when you what you can never do it yourself.

There is also thought to this is kind of the big idea is what you write. Got a letter thanking him for adopting you into his family did you do that, I've given your sermon outline. I believe you got it. You can even use this as an outline to help you with the letter you might want to post on Facebook if you do just tag me.

I would love to read it.

Might want to write a blog about it, but it is very very cathartic from Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Ward all over this country. I preach this message and it's been encouraging to see people interact with this and deeply feeling that's what the gospel does the gospel hurls us forward into messiness. God loves in turn messes in the mass pray with me spring pop God. I thank you so much for these beautiful people call the summit church. I pray that Jesus has been exalted and glorified that we adore him more and more because he first adored and loved us that we would live from the label adopted not the label or pray right now there's those among you said I passed a girl in my heart is racing out of my chest.

Jesus, the way you describe as father, I want to call his Poppa my pop of the Bible is very clear and says if you believe in him believing what Jesus died on the cross for your sins that he took your place that is precious blood makes write this precious blood forgive you believe that on the third day he rose from the dead. Now give you his very life that you become a full dwelling place of the living God of the universe in your part of his family called his shirt if you're ready to believe this message of hope this message of good news in the silence of your heart say this to Jesus right where you are say this to him today. Lord Jesus, I received your father is my pop.

I believe that on the cross. He took my place you would disgrace to give me eternal grace, forgiveness and mercy and love are not mine because I'm in you when you rose from the dead. I now got new life been adopted in your family.

By faith I receive this in Jesus name God's people said Amen ;-)