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00:02Come on guys, let's all stand one last time. Are you glad to be in the house of the Lord
00:09at Lakewood this morning? We are honored to have you here. I love coming to a place
00:14of faith and victory and that happens because of all of you. So thanks for being here. The
00:19scripture says when you're planted in the house of the Lord, you will flourish. I know
00:24I'm looking at flourishing people. A lot of things you could be doing today, but you're
00:28in the house of the Lord. So we welcome in. I know we have a lot of special guests today
00:32because of the world cup that's in town, but I want to, I want to, we welcome all of you.
00:36I want to welcome also the, we have the democratic Republic of Congo's ambassador to the United
00:42States, Ms. Yvette Lugundu, right here on the front row. Just a beautiful people there.
00:53And actually I'm going to meet the president of the Congo this Tuesday at Lakewood. Her
00:56sister's right here beside her. Her name's Joelle too. So we got two, two Joelles and
01:04they're here for the game. This, this Thursday, she was telling me the Congo would be the DRC. It's
01:08the first time they played in 53 years because all the fighting over there, but wow, we're believing
01:14they're going to do well. But not only that, they were telling about how the president, his,
01:19her sister's a man of faith. They have prayer meetings on Friday and just a real people of faith
01:24and, and just a love God over there all across Africa, but especially in the DRC. So we welcome
01:30you today and all of your, all of the group with you as well. And if you're visiting, you may
01:36not
01:36have come from the DRC, but you came from Dallas. We welcome you too, but just so glad to have
01:42everybody here. I'd love to meet you after service. I'm always in the lobby back there. If you've got a
01:46moment, just love to shake your hand, but don't forget guys, uh, hope in life. Our youth and young
01:51adult conference is coming up right here in a couple of weeks. And we'll have thousands of
01:56young people right here in the service, a free event. Love to have you come out. If you're young
02:01like I am, we'd love to have you be here, but, uh, honored to have you today. When you see
02:06yourself
02:06on the big screen, can you give our TV audience a great big Lakewood welcome?
02:09Um, God bless you. It's great to be with you today. And I hope you'll stay connected with us
02:18during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come
02:23visit us in person. We'd love to have you be a part of one of our services. I'd like to
02:28start with
02:29something funny. And I heard about these two men named Archie and Jack. They had debated their whole
02:35life as to whether Jesus was white or whether he was black. Archie was certain he was white.
02:41Jack was just as certain he was black as fate would have it. They died on the same day and
02:47rushed to the
02:47pearly gates and St. Peter, please tell us we've been arguing our whole life. Is Jesus white or is he
02:54black? About that time, Jesus stepped up and said, Buenos dias. All right, guys, say it like you mean it.
03:03This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can
03:09do what it says I can do
03:11today. I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive.
03:18I will never be the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever living seed
03:26of the word of God. I'll never be the same. Never, never, never. I'll never be the same
03:32in Jesus name. God bless you.
03:38If you'd like to open your Bible to John chapter five, you're welcome to John chapter five. And
03:43we'll put the scriptures up on the screen as well. And
03:47pastor Nick, that's beautiful with communion today. And we have a new room right over here on that lobby
03:52level. It's a communion room where it's open during any service or after any service. If you want to
03:58take communion each week, you're available right up over there. We'll have somebody there to help you
04:03out. But I know a lot of people want to take communion more often, and you're more than welcome
04:07to do it every week or anytime we have a service right up over on that side. But again, honored
04:12to have
04:12you with us today. I want to talk to you today about the courage to get well. We all have
04:19areas where
04:20we're not being our best. Something is limiting us. Lack of confidence, unforgiveness, and addiction.
04:27We don't like it. We know it's holding us back. But often we learn to live with it. Human nature
04:34leans toward what's comfortable. It's not change we resist. It's what's required of change. It's easier
04:42to stay the same. If we accept it and let it become a part of us, we won't have to
04:47stretch and put forth
04:49more effort. It becomes normal to us. We can get comfortable with self-pity, comfortable with
04:56bitterness, comfortable with a bad attitude. We have an excuse. I can't forgive Joel. They hurt me
05:03too badly. I know I'm hot-tempered, but that's how I was raised. I'll never be successful with the
05:09mistakes I've made. I'm carrying this guilt and shame. As long as you normalize it, that lesser version
05:16of you will stay. You'll adapt to your conditions and learn to function in the dysfunction. That's
05:23not who God made you to be. There is a better version of you, a healthy you, a free you,
05:30a blessed,
05:31confident, successful you. Here's the key. The new you won't show up as long as you're allowing the old
05:39you to stay. If you're accepting the mediocrity, the self-pity, the dysfunction, that's going to keep
05:46you from your destiny. Getting well takes courage. Being free will cost you something. If it was easy,
05:54everyone would do it. It's going to cost you excuses. No more finding reasons to justify it.
06:01It will cost you some comfort. You have to be disciplined and be willing to do the hard thing
06:06so you can see change. It may cost you some friends and getting out of limiting environments.
06:12If you're dealing with an addiction, you can't hang around other people who are addicted. If you do that
06:19long enough, the addiction becomes normal. That's just who we are. Everybody's this way. No, that's
06:25because you're in the wrong environment. If you're always around people who are jealous, bitter, can't pay
06:33their bills, that's going to become normal to you. Where you lower your expectations and convince
06:39yourself, that's who you are. Well, you're better than that. You are made in the image of Almighty God.
06:46He created you to rule and to reign. There's a new you on the inside, ready to rise up, break
06:54free and
06:54reach new levels. Now do your part and have the courage to leave what's comfortable. The courage to
07:02get away from people who are enabling dysfunction and limiting your growth. The courage to have a new
07:09mindset, not live with insecurity, not enough, can't do it. Get rid of the old so the new you can
07:16show
07:17up. John chapter 5, there was a man that had been crippled for 38 years and every morning his family
07:25would carry him to the pool of Bethesda. It was known to have healing waters. Once a year when the
07:31angel
07:31stirred the water, the first person in would be healed. The scripture says a great multitude of sick
07:38people came each day. The blind, the lame, the paralyzed. Everywhere this man looked, he saw people
07:46just like him with great problems, struggling. Some were groaning, some couldn't talk, some were very old
07:55and about to pass. I could hear the conversations, people talking about all that was wrong, hoping they
08:02can just make it through another day. It was an atmosphere of defeat and disappointment. For 38
08:08years, that's all this man has known. What a limited, dysfunctional way to live. But to this man, it was
08:15normal. That was his world. It's what he did every day. Your environment has a way of normalizing your
08:23condition. If you're around people that complain all the time, complaining is going to feel normal.
08:29If everyone around you is negative, negative is going to feel normal. If everyone's unfaithful in
08:35relationships, being unfaithful is going to feel normal to you. The challenge is when something
08:42becomes normal, we stop seeing it as a limitation, something we need to overcome, and we take it on as
08:50a part of who we are. Your environment is conditioning you. How you were raised, the people you work
08:58around, your community, they may be good people, but perhaps they have issues. They're sitting by the
09:05pool, so to speak, disappointed, talking about what didn't work out. Don't let their example become who
09:12you are. They may be stuck. They gave up on their dream. They won't forgive, but you're the exception.
09:19You're the one God raised up to break out of the limited environment. Recognize that's not normal.
09:26No. That's not who you were created to be. This man had been going to the pool for 38 years.
09:33He had his routine down. Every morning his family would get him dressed, bring him breakfast. Then
09:41they would carry him to the pool and sit in the same place. He would talk to the same people
09:48he'd known
09:49for decades that were crippled and blind, in great need. Every evening his family would come pick him
09:55up, take him home, help him to bed. He never saw people who were pursuing dreams, building their
10:02businesses, passionate about their family, thanking God for another day. He saw just the opposite.
10:09His normal was dysfunction and defeat. One afternoon, Jesus came walking by. He saw the man and went over
10:18to him. He said, sir, do you want to get well? That seemed like such an odd question. Of course
10:25he
10:25wanted to get well. That's why everyone came to the pool each day. But Jesus was asking something much
10:31deeper. He knew the man had been there for 38 years. He was saying, in effect, are you willing to
10:38leave what you've become accustomed to? Are you willing to give up that old routine that you've done
10:44for 38 years and take on new responsibility? Are you willing to get rid of the excuses? Because if he
10:52got healed, it wasn't just about his legs. His whole life would change. Nobody would have to carry him to
10:59the pool. He could walk where he went. Nobody would bring him food each day and cater to him. He
11:04would
11:05have to work. Jesus was saying, I want to change things for you. I want to make it much better,
11:11but
11:12it's going to cost you something. It's going to take courage to get well. You can't go back to the
11:18pool,
11:19what you've been used to. You can't hang around those same friends each day. They're dysfunctional.
11:25That's not you anymore. Getting well means you have to make changes. But some people choose to stay at
11:32the pool because it's comfortable. The insecurity, the not good enough, the guilt. They know it's
11:39limiting them, but it's familiar. It's what they're used to. Change requires effort. It's not just God
11:47snapping his fingers, healing and freeing. There are things that we have to be willing to do.
11:53Some people stay at the pool of compromise, bad habits. I know these friends are not good for me,
11:59Joel, but I don't want to have to find new friends. I like them. Do you want to get well?
12:05Getting well will disrupt old patterns. Getting well means you can't rely on excuses.
12:11I'm this way because of what they did to me, because of what I didn't get. Excuses will keep you
12:17at the
12:17pool. Quit blaming people, blaming your boss, blaming your government.
12:22Nothing that's happened to you has stopped your purpose. It may not have been fair, but God saw it.
12:29He knows how to make it up to you, how to give you beauty for those ashes. But you can't
12:34stay at the
12:35pool nursing your wounds, thinking about who did you wrong, reliving the hurt. You can't change any of
12:42that. That's in the past. The question is, do you want to get well? Do you want to see God
12:49pay you back?
12:50Then you can't stay at the pool of self-pity, letting the chip on your shoulder, the bitterness,
12:56the unforgiveness become normal to you. You may have a good reason, a good excuse. Look what happened
13:03when you get well, the excuses go away. No more people to blame. No more reason to shrink back and
13:11live intimidating. No more reason to be sour and critical. There's new responsibility to getting
13:18well, being free and whole. Jesus asked the man a very simple question. Do you want to get well? Yes
13:26or no? Seemed like an easy answer. This is a no-brainer. Yes, I want to get well. I don't
13:33want to go back to
13:34that pool another day. But after 38 years, strongholds can form in our mind. We resist change
13:43because things have become so normal and so routine. Instead of answering with faith and confidence,
13:50yes, I want to get well, the man said, sir, I don't have anybody to help me. Every time the
13:56angel comes,
13:57somebody gets in before me. Excuses will keep you from getting well. Telling God what you don't have,
14:05what you can't do, that's going to keep you at the pool. God isn't asking you to heal yourself.
14:11He's asking, are you willing to deal with the changes when he takes you to a higher level?
14:17Will you not go back to that pool and stay in dysfunction? Will you quit making excuses to not
14:24pursue your destiny? This man was known as the crippled man by the pool. We don't have his name
14:33in the scripture. His whole identity was on what he had been through. If Jesus healed him, he'd have to
14:41be willing to change his identity. He'd no longer be the crippled man, no longer have people feeling
14:47sorry for him, catering to him, having that attention because of what he'd been through.
14:53Some people become known by the hurts, the loss, the bad things that have happened to them.
14:59It becomes their identity. It's a victim mindset. Man, I went through a bad breakup, Joel.
15:06My company let me go. It wasn't fair. I lost a loved one. If you're going to get well,
15:12you have to get rid of that old identity. That's what happened to you. It's not who you are. You
15:19are still a child of the most high God, valuable, a masterpiece, wearing a crown of favor.
15:28Don't let what you've been through distort who God says you are. The enemy would love for you to
15:34live as a victim. Always had that on the forefront of your mind where you're bitter. You have a chip
15:40on
15:41your shoulder, not expecting anything good. No, God is asking you today, do you want to get well?
15:47It's going to cost you something. No more finding reasons to stay at the pool and why you can't be
15:54successful. It'll cost you the wrong identity. You have to give up the defeated you, the hurt you,
16:01the not good enough you. It'll cost you being comfortable, staying in your routine where it's safe.
16:08The same friends, the same environment that's limiting you. You can't stay at the pool and reach
16:14your destiny. The pool was a place of healing. It's not your permanent home. One reason Jesus asked
16:22the crippled man, do you want to get well? He wanted to know if I heal you, are you going
16:27to stay at this
16:27pool? Are you going to keep the same mindset? Are you going to go out and fulfill your purpose and
16:33step into the greatness that I put in you? See, the Israelites had been in slavery for 400 years,
16:41mistreated and taken advantage of. They were at the pool, so to speak. All they had known was struggle
16:48and hardship. Well, God sent Moses to deliver them. And after 10 generations, they were finally free.
16:55A dream come true. They left Egypt, headed through the desert toward the promised land.
17:00They got next door to it, the land flowing with milk and honey. But the spies came back,
17:06told Moses the people were too big. They could never defeat them. Well, God had already promised
17:12them the victory. But when they heard the negative report and how big the people were,
17:17they were so afraid. They said, Moses, let's go back to Egypt. Let's go back to being slaves,
17:24being oppressed, being told what to do. That's how powerful wrong mindsets are. Who would want to go
17:32back to being a slave? They could have said, let's just go live somewhere else where there's no
17:37opposition. But slavery had become normal to them. Being talked down to, forced to work long hours,
17:45that was their routine. As long as they were slaves, they weren't responsible for what they said and where
17:52they lived. It was up to someone else. God delivered them, but they weren't willing to pay the cost.
17:59They wanted to keep their old identity, their same excuses, same neighbors, same environment. They got
18:05stuck. Don't be like them. It takes courage to get well. You have to be willing to be uncomfortable
18:13for a season to stretch and face opposition without being weak and turning back. It may mean you have
18:22to change relationships that are limiting your growth and keeping you from flourishing. Perhaps
18:28it's wrong mindsets, self-pity. Look what I've been through. A chip on your shoulder. Life is too short
18:35to live that way. Do you want to get well? Don't answer like the crippled man. Come up with an
18:41excuse
18:42and say, Joel, you don't know what's happened to me. The right answer is yes. I want to get well
18:46and I'm willing to change. I'm willing to get out of my routine. I'm willing to take on a new
18:52identity.
18:54I read about a man that had been in prison for 31 years. He served his time and was finally
19:00released.
19:01Some volunteers took him to a shelter to stay and gave him clothing and food. They had a program to
19:07help
19:08find a job and get back into society. But a week later, the man was sleeping on the sidewalk in
19:15front of the prison. The guards came out and said, what are you doing here? Man, you're free. Go enjoy
19:20your life. He wouldn't leave. A couple of weeks later, he went to a grocery store and stole some
19:25items. He waited outside for the police to come. When they arrested him, he told the officer,
19:31I want to go back to prison. I don't know how to be free. We can get so accustomed to
19:39something,
19:39even if it's not good for us, that we don't want to change. It's easy for us as an outsider
19:45to see it,
19:45man, don't go back to prison. But sometimes you can't see it yourself. You have to get honest and
19:52ask God to help you to see any areas where you're self-sabotaging, where you're letting the old you stay
20:01simply because it's familiar. You can change. God will help you break out of those strongholds.
20:08He'll help you break free from negative patterns. That may be the way it's been, but this is a new
20:13day. Freedom is coming. Healing is coming. Victory is coming. But it's easy to want to stay at the pool
20:23because it lowers expectations. As long as the man was at the pool, nobody expected him to walk or
20:31to go work or to travel or to help someone else. He's limited. He's at a disadvantage and people
20:38would come by. I'm sorry, you're going through this. Can I get you some water? Do you need some food?
20:44food? They'd cater to him. But if he gets healed, the questions would change to what dreams are you
20:51pursuing? What are you going to do with the gifts God has given you? Who are you going to be
20:56a blessing
20:56to today? There's a responsibility with being made well. No more excuses to be complacent. Feel sorry for
21:05yourself. Nurse the wounds. I know things happen in life that can kind of knock the wind out of us.
21:12A sickness, a loss, a bad break. It's easy to lower our expectations, push down the promises.
21:20Man, it's too late for me, Joel. I'm not worthy. I've been through too much. No, don't spend your life
21:26at the pool. You may go there for 38 days to find some healing or even 38 weeks, but don't
21:34you dare
21:34stay there for 38 years. God is a God of justice. He knows what's happened to you.
21:41He saw the disappointment, the loss, the mistakes. The pool was a part of your story, but it's not the
21:49end of your story. Jesus didn't get upset with the crippled man. He didn't berate him. Man, why are you
21:55making all these excuses? He simply looked at the man and said, rise up, take up your mat and walk.
22:02Well, this man had never walked. He could have thought, what are you talking about? Can't you see that I'm
22:08crippled? Just a few minutes earlier, he was making excuses, but something shifted in his mind.
22:15A stronghold was broken. He thought this pool is not my destiny. I'm made for more than this.
22:21He started to get up. The scripture says immediately the man was healed. He rolled up his mat and began
22:29walking. What's interesting. What's interesting is Jesus told him to rise up and walk before he was
22:35healed. Why is that? Healing requires obedience. Freedom requires action. Do you want to get well?
22:44The real question is, are you willing to do what God is asking you to do? Will you rise up
22:51and take up
22:52your mat? That may mean forgiving that person that did you wrong, distancing yourself from people that
22:59are pulling you down or taking on a new identity, changing the way you're seeing yourself, not a
23:05victim, not a failure, not an addict, but a free, blessed, healthy, victorious person. Getting well
23:14starts with you. You do your part and God will do his part. This is what my father did. He
23:22was raised
23:22very poor in a limited environment. His parents lost everything during the great depression,
23:29dropped out of high school to help on the farm, poverty, lack, defeat. That's all he had known.
23:36That was normal to him. But at 17 years old, he was walking home from a nightclub at two o
23:42'clock in the
23:42morning. He knew nothing about God. He wasn't raised in church, didn't have any kind of faith
23:48background, but he looked up at the stars and for some reason he began to think about God and what
23:55he would do with his life. The scripture says God chose us before we could choose him. This was God
24:02saying in effect, John, do you want to get well? Do you want to fulfill your purpose? Do you want
24:08to go
24:08places that you've never dreamed? My father didn't know what was happening, but that next morning,
24:15he called a friend and said he wanted to go to church with him. That day, he gave his life
24:20to
24:20Christ, the first one in his family. He felt this calling to become a minister, but he didn't have
24:26any training or experience. And he told his parents that he was going to leave home and go out and
24:33become
24:33a minister. They said, John, you don't know how to minister. All you know how to do is work on
24:39the
24:39farm with us. You're going to get out there and fail. They meant well, but they were saying, you
24:45better stay at the pool. We're crippled. We're poor. We're at a disadvantage. Daddy had a good excuse to
24:53stay there. Poor was normal to him. A limited mindset, low expectations. Don't think you can do
25:00anything significant. That's all he has seen. He was comfortable, but he wasn't satisfied.
25:06He knew there was more in him to get well. He would have to break out of old patterns. He'd
25:13have
25:13to change friends, change his environment, take risks, stretch, takes courage to get well. It's going
25:22to cost you to reach your destiny, playing it safe, living by the pool with low expectations,
25:29making excuses. That's the easy thing to do. But God didn't call you, equip you, empower you,
25:37anoint you, favor you so you could take the easy way out. You weren't created to live at the pool.
25:44Rise up, take up your mat and walk. Rise up out of dysfunction.
25:51Rise up out of poverty and lack. Rise up out of addictions and compromise. Rise up out of
25:58self-pity and bitterness. If you'll make that first move, you'll feel God's strength in your legs,
26:05healing your body, freeing you from addictions, launching you into your purpose. The healing
26:10is in the obedience. Be willing to change. When my father was 75 years old, he asked if Victoria and
26:19I would drive him back to Paris, Texas. That's where he was born. And he just wanted to reminisce and
26:25see some of the old sites. And we got there and found the old well from the farm where he
26:31was raised
26:31on. We went into town and saw some people that knew one of his classmates. They told us how to
26:39get to
26:39his house. And we drove there. It was this little shack with broken out windows, roof caving in. The yard
26:47was totally unkept. Didn't look livable. We knocked on the door and this man answered and
26:54he came out of the house and no shirt on, hadn't shaved, hadn't combed his hair, looked very unkept.
27:01My father told him who he was and they couldn't believe they were seeing each other after 60 years.
27:07He invited us into his house and never forget there were buckets on the board on the floor,
27:13catching water dripping from the roof. Very dilapidated. My father asked what he'd done with
27:19his life and he told how he had a job down at the boat docks for a while pumping gas,
27:24but he was laid
27:25off 40 years ago and hadn't been able to find work and how life had been very, very hard. That
27:33day made
27:33such an impression on me. Here two men were raised in the same environment, same school, same poverty,
27:41same hardship, but my father went on to do great things. Pastor churches, raise his family, impact
27:48the world. This man never got out of the poverty and dysfunction he was raised in. The difference was
27:56he stayed by the pool. He let the dysfunction become normal. He took on that identity. We're poor,
28:04not up to par. Have a good reason to be this way. It takes courage to get well. It's going
28:11to be
28:11going to cost you something. I wouldn't be here today if my father wasn't willing to pay the price.
28:17Some people are stuck, not because God won't free them, but because they're comfortable in dysfunction.
28:24That was the difference between that man and my father. My father was at the pool, but he knew that
28:30pool wasn't his home. He had this fire, this passion to stretch, to believe, knowing that God was
28:37breathing on his life. Are there areas where you're living with less than God's best and it's become
28:44normal? You've accepted it, lowered expectations. Now you're at the pool, comfortable with an addiction,
28:52comfortable with unforgiveness, comfortable with lack and not enough. God doesn't want you to stay
28:58at the pool. He knew exactly where you would be. Jesus went to the pool and found this man. It's
29:05not
29:05an accident that you're hearing this today. God is saying to you, do you want to get well? Not do
29:11you
29:11want some relief? Do you want some help functioning the problem? God didn't help come to help you live
29:18better by the pool. He came to get you out of that pool. Jesus said to the man, rise up,
29:25take up your mat
29:26and walk. You would think you'd tell him just rise up and walk. No, he said, pick up your mat
29:32because
29:32you're not going to be coming back here. This is a new day, a breakthrough day, a destiny day.
29:39No more excuses, no more letting comfort keep us from our calling. If you'll pick up your mat and move
29:47forward, I believe and declare supernatural strength is coming, healing, freedom, breakthroughs,
29:54the fullness of your destiny in Jesus name. And if you receive it, can you say amen?
30:04Let's pray together. If you have five minutes, if you can stick with me, we'll just seal it in prayer.
30:09Lord, thank you for what we've heard today. Lord, I thank you that it falls on great ground.
30:14Faithful people here at Lakewood, so many watching and listening and Lord, show us any areas where
30:21letting the old stay where we've gotten comfortable with less than what you have for us.
30:27Holy Spirit, reveal that to us and Lord God, help us to change. Help us to do what we can't
30:33do on our
30:34own. Lord, don't let us stay by the pool our whole life. Holy Spirit, stir us and show us and
30:40I thank
30:41you, Lord, we'll do what we can. And Lord God, I thank you in advance that you'll help us do
30:46what we
30:46cannot. You will bring the healing, the freedom, the abundance, the wisdom, the opportunity.
30:53Father, I speak victory over your people today. Those watching and listening and as they go out
30:59this week to work their kids out for summer, Lord, watch after them, protect them. Let it be a
31:06flourishing week. We commit them into your hands in Jesus name. With our heads bowed in prayer, just a
31:12quick question. If your heart stopped beating in the next few minutes, are you at peace with God?
31:20Do you know where you'd spend eternity if you died a little while from now? If not, I would love
31:26to pray
31:27with you. I'm not here to condemn anybody. I'm here to help you find a new beginning. I know this
31:35comes
31:35from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. And in just a moment, if you're not at peace with the
31:42Lord, or maybe you are a Christian, but you've gone cold toward God, you know, you need to rededicate
31:48your life. You need a fresh new start. If that's you in just a moment, I'm going to ask you
31:54to take
31:54a step of faith and stand right where you are. And we'll pray together. I can't think of a better
32:01time
32:02to get on the road to victory than right now. God is not mad at you. Your sins have already
32:09been
32:09forgiven. All you have to do is accept the free gift of Christ's salvation. Will you do it today?
32:16The enemy in your thoughts, he'll whisper, do it next week. Do it another time. Listen, the Bible
32:21says, today is the day of salvation. Don't put it off. It's so easy. Well, it's embarrassing to stand
32:29in front of everyone. Have people at the house. I can't lift my hand. Listen to what Jesus said.
32:34Listen, if you won't be ashamed of me before people, then I won't be ashamed of you before my
32:41father in heaven. I'm going to give you a great opportunity to show God that you're not ashamed
32:47of him. If you're not at peace with the Lord, or you just need to rededicate your life, you need
32:53that
32:53fresh new start, that new beginning. If that's you, would you be bold? Take that step of faith and stand
33:00right where you are, and we'll pray together. Would you do that? Come on, Lakewood. Let's give
33:04them a hand as they stand all over the building. Come on, don't put it off.
33:16Anybody else up top watching, listening? I feel like there'll be a few more. Anybody else?
33:22Still time for you.
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