00:00Maybe you've been running away, and maybe today you're like, God does love me.
00:06God wants to use me. I want to be an impact in this world.
00:11Either way, say this prayer with me and believe that you have it.
00:15Everybody's going to say it out loud so you won't be embarrassed.
00:18Remember, you cannot earn God's love. You already have it.
00:21You can't earn salvation. I just have to believe.
00:24The Bible says, whosoever believes shall be saved.
00:27So we're going to say a prayer. If you believe it, you have it.
00:32The big gate is wide open for you today.
00:34Everybody say this out loud, please.
00:36Dear Father, I ask you right now, forgive me of all of my sins.
00:42I ask you to Jesus, come into my life.
00:46Be my Lord and my Savior.
00:50I believe that Jesus died on the cross for all my sins
00:56and was raised from the dead.
00:58In Jesus' name, amen.
01:01Keep your heads bowed, your eyes closed for one second.
01:02Nobody looking around.
01:04I would never call you out.
01:05I'd never embarrass you.
01:06But I'd like to know.
01:08And so what I'm asking you to do is, like I said, I won't call you out and embarrass you.
01:12But if that was you today, you maybe said that prayer for the first time,
01:16or maybe it was a rededication.
01:18You're like, I'm in.
01:19I'm done running.
01:21I'm done with a life that's struggling.
01:23I'm ready to do things God's way.
01:24If that's you, I want you just to raise your hand real quickly.
01:26I see hands going up.
01:28Hands.
01:28I see more hands.
01:29Put your hands up in the air.
01:30See a hand.
01:30See a hand.
01:31See a hand.
01:33See a hand.
01:33See a hand.
01:34See a hand.
01:35See a hand.
01:35See a hand.
01:36See a hand.
01:37See another hand.
01:38I see a lot of hands.
01:39Put your hands down for me, please.
01:41Everybody look up here.
01:43Good news, you're going to heaven.
01:46This next part, you don't have to do this.
01:48I'd love to pray with you.
01:50There's a power, I believe, down here at the altar.
01:52It's something you'll remember.
01:54It'll be burned into your memory for a lifetime.
01:56It'll be something that you'll remember when you're 100 years old.
01:59That moment you came down to the altar and got prayer.
02:02Once again, you don't have to, but we would love to cheer you on as a congregation.
02:06Give you a bit.
02:07As you're going into the second half of life, right?
02:09The first half wasn't good, but the second half is going to be great.
02:12We want to cheer you on, and I want to pray with you.
02:15And I usually just need one to come forward, then the rest, the other 30, 40 will come
02:19after that.
02:20So that is you, and you'd love to get prayer.
02:22Come forward right now.
02:23Give them a big hand clap.
02:24Come on.
02:24I just need one.
02:25Where's my one?
02:25I need one to come forward.
02:27If I get one, the rest will come.
02:29Here's my one.
02:30Come on.
02:30I saw a bunch of hands out there.
02:32I need one.
02:33Give them a...
02:34Come on.
02:34Somebody give them a...
02:35There's my one.
02:36I got a one right here.
02:38Oh, my God.
02:39You're the one.
02:39You made my day.
02:41We got another one.
02:42Give them a big hand clap.
02:44Come on.
02:45Oh, my God.
02:46Praise God.
02:47Come on, Lord.
02:48Come on, living word.
02:49You should be on your feet standing in all of heaven.
02:51Stay up here with me.
02:52I'm going to pray with you.
02:53Stay up here with me.
02:54I'm going to pray with you.
02:55Stay up here.
02:56Come on.
02:57I know there's a bunch more, a bunch more that are out there.
03:00Come on forward.
03:01Come on forward.
03:02Come on.
03:03Where's my other ones?
03:07As a one.
03:09There it is.
03:11Come on, folks.
03:12Come on here.
03:12Come on.
03:14Praise God.
03:15Amen.
03:18Yes.
03:19Oh, the devil don't like this.
03:21You get the young one to come up.
03:23Come on.
03:24Oh, thank you.
03:25Come on forward.
03:26Handsome.
03:27Look at you.
03:28God's going to use you.
03:30God's going to use you, man.
03:31Come on forward.
03:32Come on, ladies.
03:33Look at these beautiful ladies.
03:35Get up there.
03:35Come on.
03:36All right.
03:37We got some more.
03:38Young men.
03:38Come on.
03:39Can we do one more push?
03:41Are there some other?
03:42I know there's more hands out there.
03:44Can we do one more push?
03:45One more push.
03:46Come on.
03:47One more push.
03:48One more push.
03:53Come on.
03:54One more push.
03:55Do I have one more that wants to come on down?
03:57One more.
03:59Is there one more?
04:00One more.
04:02We're waiting for you.
04:03I know there's one more.
04:04There it is.
04:05There's our one more.
04:07Yeah, you're the one more.
04:09You are the one more.
04:11Oh, praise God.
04:13Praise God.
04:14This is incredible.
04:18After we pray here, your next step is water baptism next Sunday.
04:23We'll do it right during service.
04:24Come on out.
04:26Be a part of that.
04:26What a great opportunity to invite some family that maybe wouldn't normally come to church.
04:30They'll come to your water baptism and see what God can do.
04:34One of the biggest things my parents did in 1972 when they got saved, they began to get
04:38everybody in their family all saved because they know that God's love is the difference
04:42maker in this world.
04:43And then I challenge you.
04:46There's everybody in here.
04:47Do six week church challenge and see if it doesn't change your life.
04:52Say for six weeks, our family is going to go to church.
04:54See if everything doesn't get a little better, a little brighter.
04:58Know this, that every statistic known to man shows that people that go to church every single
05:05week seem to thrive in the most important areas of life.
05:08Every study, you can Google that, you can chat GBT that, every study shows.
05:13So I encourage you.
05:14Just do six, oh, you know what, honey, we're going to do six weeks.
05:16We'll do six weeks and see if it doesn't make a difference in our home and our family.
05:20Can we pray for them, church?
05:22Dearly Father, Lord, in the name of Jesus, we thank you and praise you for them.
05:25We thank you that your hand be upon their lives.
05:28That as you bless the Anderson since 1972, you'll bless them.
05:32That you are for them.
05:33And they'll know this, that they can confidently run their race knowing that no matter decisions
05:38and bad choices that they ever may make, that your love does not change for them.
05:42It's an unconditional love.
05:44It is a love that'll chase them all the days of their life.
05:48I pray that every time they walk through the doors of your church, that, Lord, they feel
05:53accepted.
05:53They feel loved.
05:55They feel like, man, this whole place is for me.
05:58This is the one place on earth that'll pick me up when I'm down.
06:01The one place on earth that is always there and available.
06:04No other place is like God's house.
06:05We thank you and praise you for our special blessings this week.
06:09In Jesus' mighty name, everybody said, amen.
06:13Behind you, we got a Bible.
06:14Get your Bible.
06:15Don't forget about water baptism next Sunday.
06:19Amen, amen.
06:21All right.
06:22What else we got?
06:23Newcomers, after service, I want to meet you and give you a free tote with a free book
06:27that me and my brother wrote called Thrive or a free Bible.
06:30Either one you want.
06:31Takes two minutes to stop off and say bye.
06:33And if you learned anything at all, give the Lord a hand clap.
06:37Amen.
06:39Do you guys want to stand with me as we close in prayer?
06:42Just a quick reminder.
06:43We have a petting zoo just outside right here on the playground side, the west side, as well
06:47as an Easter egg hunt and some fun family games.
06:51Our prayer partners will be available right after service over at our prayer wall in the
06:55foyer.
06:56But God, thank you so much for this incredible Sunday.
06:58Thank you for the word that builds us up, that inspires us and equips us going into a
07:03week.
07:03And thank you for giving us every opportunity to wake up and say, this is a day that the
07:08Lord has made.
07:08I will rejoice and I will be glad in it.
07:11In Jesus name.
07:12Amen.
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