Lighthouse Live Sunday Service - Oct27, 2024

**The Need for Forgiveness and Reconciliation**

The need to forgive and reconcile with others is essential in our Christian walk. We often struggle with forgiving those who have wronged us, especially when they are people we love and care about. However, holding onto grudges and unforgiveness can lead to spiritual stagnation and harm our relationship with God. It's crucial to recognize that forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting or condoning past hurts, but rather letting go of the negative emotions associated with them.

**The Importance of Spiritual Presence**

We're called to contend for the spirit and the glory of God in our lives and in our communities. The presence of God is what draws people to Him and can change their lives forever. When we seek the spiritual presence of God, we open ourselves up to His transformative power. Jesus Christ is the embodiment of this presence, and it's through Him that we experience God's love and forgiveness.

**The Power of Prayers and Testimonies**

Prayer is a powerful tool in our spiritual arsenal. When we pray for others, especially those who are struggling with their identity or sense of self, we open ourselves up to the possibility of transformation. The story of a person who was prayed for by a church community and experienced a profound encounter with Jesus is a testament to the power of prayer. Such encounters can be life-changing, revealing to us that our true identity comes from God, not from our own perspectives or understandings.

**The Focus on Jesus**

Our approach should always focus on Jesus Christ and His love for humanity. When we engage with others, we should point them to Jesus, not to our own opinions or advice. By doing so, we allow the Holy Spirit to guide our conversations and connect people with God's truth. We introduce people to Jesus, sharing our personal experiences of how He has transformed our lives.

**The Church's Role in Reconciliation**

As a church community, it's essential that we model forgiveness and reconciliation towards others. When someone identifies as being on the wrong side of their identity or sense of self, we should not judge them but rather show them God's love and acceptance. We will engage people with Jesus, sharing our own stories of how He has changed us. Our goal is to point people to Jesus, rather than focusing on sin or judgment.

**The Need for Spiritual Protection**

In this spiritual realm, there's a wind of confusion that threatens to hold us back. It's essential to acknowledge the presence of evil spirits and to seek God's protection. We should not be afraid to call out the enemy when he tries to attack us, but rather we should stand firm in our faith and trust in God's power.

**Breaking Free from Spiritual Attack**

The internet and social media platforms are vulnerable to spiritual attacks, which can spread lies and confusion. As a church community, it's crucial that we break free from these attacks by surrounding ourselves with the truth of God's Word. We should not be swayed by the opinions or narratives presented online but rather focus on our relationship with Jesus Christ.

**Prayer for Guidance and Wisdom**

As we navigate conversations with families, friends, and individuals who are struggling with their identity, it's essential that we seek guidance from God. We ask for wisdom to know how to love and connect with others in a way that honors God. We pray for the Holy Spirit to guide our conversations and lead us to share the truth of Jesus Christ with those around us.

**Conclusion**

The need for forgiveness, reconciliation, and spiritual presence is at the heart of our Christian walk. By focusing on Jesus Christ and His love for humanity, we can point people to Him and experience His transformative power in their lives. As a church community, it's essential that we model forgiveness and reconciliation towards others, sharing our personal stories of how God has changed us. Let us pray for guidance and wisdom as we navigate these conversations, surrounding ourselves with the truth of God's Word and seeking protection from spiritual attack.

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want to connect with you is that anyone here who is Desiring that this morning lift up your hands and do not be afraid like you're saying I want to hear you I want to see you move in my life I want to be close to you so that when people say that they felt the wind of Heaven I felt it too when someone says saw in the corners of the church angels with bright Golden Wings you will feel like man I felt like there was something here when I walked in so father we release in the atmosphere open up the heavens for your people to see right now Revelation revelation Revelation as we draw near to him he draws near to us let all the other names fade away see that's the thing there is everything else in front of the name of Jesus we put everything else in front of the name of Jesus and today he wants to just break it all down and saying we're breaking it all down I'm removing every pile and every Tower and everything that I put before Jesus I'm taking it away this is a very special moment if you would engage whatever it is that you put in front of Jesus let it come down I'm going to guide the worship to build this up we got to build this up because the Lord wants to do something in the atmosphere he wants to break addictions he wants to break everything everything that puts itself before the name of Jesus be broken in the name of Jesus everything that puts itself before the name of Jesus be broken be broken be broken right now in the name of Jesus if we every kind of addiction right now in the name of Jesus be broken let all the other names fade away whenever Idol we have PR until there is Jesus Take Your Jesus Take Your would you take your place oh God let all the he wants to minister to your heart he wants to minister to your heart other names Fade Away thank you Jesus Jesus St your Jesus Take Your Hallelujah listen who here is saying that there are things that I have prayed for and they haven't changed there are things that that I have struggled with and they haven't changed and you're saying that in this moment I'm trusting God I'm trusting God because you really got to want it the things that you have worked on and you're like I'm trusting God you know what breaks the power of sin do you know what breaks the power of Shame do you know what breaks the power of guilt and fear is putting it in the open cuz the devil and the enemy wants it to be in the secret if it's in the secret then I can hide if it's in the secret then I can have power over you so one more time I want you to lift your hands up and you saying there are things there are things that are prayed for there are things and they don't have to be bad stuff all of it sometimes you just want a breakthrough there is something that I've been praying for and I haven't seen the result and I want to lay it at the feet of Jesus this morning I want to lay it at the feet of Jesus we're not doing anything you're bringing it before the feet of Jesus it's like you're bringing an offering you're saying I I bring this to you Jesus do what you want to do with it I bring this problem I bring this situation I bring this addiction I bring this circumstance I bring it to you if that is you and you want to lay something at the TA at the feet of Jesus this morning I want you to stand everybody else be seated please if you want to if you want to lay something at the feet of Jesus this morning whatever it is and you want to lay it down you're saying Lord I I want to lay it down I have stuff that I want to lay down at the feet of Jesus this morning I have things that I want to lay down at the feet of Jesus this morning and I say Lord this burdens and this situations it is just too much and I want to lay it down at your feet I want to lay down this church before the feet of the father say Lord I lay this church down before your feet and even if you're seated stretch your hands toward the people standing you don't have to pray loud just stretch your hands in faith to them Lord we surrender our will our power we surrender it all and we say that we can't do it on our own so we lay everything at your feet this morning and we're going to trust you everybody say I trust trust you Jesus I trust you can you trust him for your finances can you trust him for your children can you trust him for your job can you trust him for your ministry hallelujah thank you Jesus Hallelujah let's give the Lord a hand give him praise give him praise be seated thank you so much oh we have a as you guys have I've seen you guys remember pastor abedar this is not the first time he's been here ministering everybody let's give him a hand Pastor beder on the keys uh over here we have Carrie and Nadia you guys know who they are let's give them a hand yes and we have joy over here Joy is the worship leader uh of Impact Church uh in Edmonton and we're just so blessed I want to thank Pastor Matthew and his lovely wife for just you know sending uh the worship team to come and bless us this morning and so thank you so much and we have Gavin is a Gavin okay so let's give a hand for Gavin and now I have have to remember your name which is a bad thing because I forgot it and this is not the first time I've I've connected with him and he's the pastor's son I better get it together Nigel Nigel Nigel thank you let's give Nigel a hand let's give Nigel a hand thank you thank you so much um if you see them sneaking out uh don't worry because they got to go to that own church service later on right so we just want want to bless you guys thank you so much for being here and uh what a wonderful wonderful uh time in the presence amen now please be seated you can take your seats uh if you are here for the very first time who's here for the very first time I want to welcome some visitors today first time visitors I'm looking around scanning the room first time visitors that means nobody invited someone to church this day today you know so who if you like I'm telling you guys we got to get into the culture of inviting people to church invite someone to come to church with you invite your neighbor to come to church I think I'm going to have to start some kind of a like if you bring someone if you invite someone to church during that week and they actually do come to church you got to let us know because I think I'm going to have to start giving some people some um some rewards for bringing people to church or something you know uh I know birdie for sure brings candy to kids church and it works right and they love it in there so speaking about children's ministry thank you Pastor birdie and Pastor uh Alan for helping with the kids so we're going to release the kids uh into kids church right now let's give them a hand thank you thank you thank you thank you our children's ministry uh Miss Christine is on uh Sunday School duty today and so we're just so thankful for our volunteers and our leaders here at the church and um as they're doing that I just I felt this morning in worship that the Lord wanted to bring yet again um a new wave of financial blessings amen so he wants to give us a new new wave of financial blessing and we see in Genesis you know when when you're looking and you're saying oh yeah everybody says this you know as long as the Earth remains right and is you know seed time and harvest remains we know that and we say it but do we mean it do we mean it and what is seed time what is Harvest Time and that's not even what I'm talking about but the Lord wants to give us a new wave of financial blessing who wants it I know I do I'm still waiting for the millions that the Lord is going to give us I'm telling you guys one day you're going to come and say Pastor Jennifer you were declaring that and declare and look at us now we have millions to impact the kingdom of Jesus Amen it could be as easy as the Holy Spirit speaking to a billionaire somewhere I'm telling you guys and it be like look at what that small church is doing in a small town of Stony plane AB ber let's give them $5 million only there you go we need 60 million that's what Jack is saying that's right we have 20,000 if we have 60 million amen but this is the idea even just thinking about how much money can the Lord give you see what we just did here we don't believe it most of us don't believe it the Lord's going to give me a million the Lord's going to give us five the Lord's going to give us 60 million the question is do you believe that God can give it to you and if you believe it enough then we should be saying it often it works with money it works with anything that you want we call for the presence of God and we're saying God we just want you we just want you and I'm longing for a day that we don't have to preach because God's going to come take over every service every service instead of services Who start having Revival and Jackie agrees did you hear what I just said that instead of service instead of having a man come and preach and speak for 45 minutes I just said that I'm looking for a day when the Holy Spirit will take over and God will begin to minister to you not a man and in instead of a service we will have Revival that's what we want because Revival changes Nations Revival transform people Revival in the atmosphere of Revival no addiction can stand in the presence where God is so full where our children our young children our next generation will be birth that's that's what we want we want to birth the Next Generation into an atmosphere that shifts things around them because everything else is coming for them and it is our job as a church to do that but the same is with finances let's read Proverbs 3 verse 8 verse 9 I'll go I I'll go to verse 9 honor the Lord your God honor the Lord with your possessions your possessions everything that you possess you should use it to honor God you should use it to honor God it's so good to see you guys and with the first fruits of all your increase so if I have an increase then I should honor God with the first fruit of it as well right verse 10 so your Burns will be filled with plenty so the Lord's telling us he wants to increase our giving and most people think you're giving uh to the to the people in the church you're giving to the people like my son things is like well where does the money go I told you guys all the time you know that story you know cuz he can't comprehend am I giving it to God it is your we are to give to him to advance his Kingdom and I always tell people you're giving to Kingdom advance for those who are new here that's what we we are Kingdom Advance church we used to be light outs but you do know that by the time things happen in the natural they've already happened in the spirit a long time ago you do know this right for everything to appear in the natural it's been birthed from the spiritual Realm verse 10 and now he and say so that there will be so that you will overflow so that there will be plenty why do we do this when we give it provide room for more when we give it provides room you know me and Cameron were so CH like I tell I I we say all the time it's like we want to give give being a generous Giver doesn't mean you're giving more than everybody else you just give out of what you you have every single time and you give accordingly and you follow that the principle of giving amen so I want to encourage you guys to give this morning because the Lord wants to increase your your finances but the Bible doesn't just say finances he says possession so when you give your possession will be increased possession can be influence it could be anything it could be your business it could be your friend Circle it could be the people who love and trust you it could be the people that God brings by the way do you know I just found out there's a new thing I've been doing I've been now praying for good spiritual people to influence my children and thanks to Pastor georgo that has been reinstated in my heart again I want that more than anything so then when my kids think like oh I don't want to listen to Mom and they see maranne Pastor maranne they'll be like oh and then Pastor maranne is not afraid to say Shak jiah what are you doing and speaks into their life your possession is everything but this morning I want to draw your attention to your children as your possession what will the Lord increase every time we have challenges me and Cameron in the natural I start to look in the spirit and I tell myself either something is off or I have really messed up the devil it's either one of those two things either it's on my end or it's not on my end but when you give when you give your possession the the the Lord said there is plenty that comes but it comes not on just on your Finance it comes with your children it comes with your friends it comes with your business it comes with your family you know it comes with everything else that you possess plenty amen as long as seed time and harvest as long as the Earth remains Genesis chapter 8 22 if this remains so I wanted to think about this what I'm trying to say this morning you see I've realized you know sometimes we can read scripture and we do all of these thing but then it doesn't affect people as much as you give today why are you giving and you got to pick lean onto something while the Earth remain seed time and harvest cold and heat winter and summer and day and night it shall not cease meaning as long as we are still here these principles will always be true whether you believe it or not it will always be true amen and so father this morning you know lift up your hands you know or however you want to do it put it on your chest if you're looking for increase I'm looking for financial increase this morning but not just for finances but for all that we possess that is the prayer that I want to pray for you this morning Lord I pray that there will be increase in our possessions that whatsoever we have whatsoever We Touch whatever your name is on everything that you're connected to that there will be increase and multiplication increase and multiplication in the name of Jesus thank you Lord for increase and multiplication you got to believe this this is not just a a giving sermon or title thing you got to believe it will you take it this morning so that it will start to be true and be activated in your life amen do you believe it amen amen so the ashers are going to come and they're going to go with the offering baskets Lord we thank you for those who don't have a seed to sew and maybe you don't have anything we bless them today and we pray Lord you give them a seed for next time amen hallelujah hallelujah who's excited who is excited I I am so excited and as we give you know the Bible says give joyfully don't be like I got to give you know into the house of the Lord grudgingly like give joyfully give joyfully as you're giving like look I'm giving to God I'm giving giving I'm giving I'm giving to God I'm giving I'm going to give your joyful about it CH hello okay perfect I have a I have a testimony about the Lord's faithfulness and goodness um so my Cliff was a heavy duty mechanic and he had tools like tools tools tools and I just I couldn't sell them and it was really was like Lord why can't I sell these everybody wanted to give me nothing for them nothing and I said um actually it was Linda says if you've got an amount that the Lord's given you ask for that amount and I had it list I had them listed for 12,000 but Linda and I had 10 in my heart know and um it was it was a long time and I maybe it was about six weeks ago you had said pour into it like put an offering in believing right so I did I did that um for the tools and then uh I'm just like oh they're just not selling whatever and so I had my friends praying for me to said and I said could you please ask God to sell them soon I I'm just it's just one of those last things that I just I have to get go and um that was on a Tuesday and uh on Thursday I had somebody phone me and he was from Spruce Grove he asked me if I still had these tools for sale now that's a Marketplace 6 months ago ad that's like buried way down there and uh the guy said uh yes I'm I said I'm in Stony come see me okay so 15 I'll be there in 15 minutes so he came out and he looked at the tools and said yes yes I I really I want them and I said oh good I said I'm so tired of people lowballing me and trying to say you know I'll give you six and all that I said if I could just get 12 just get 10,000 for him I'd just be happy and he says yeah I'll be back tomorrow with my truck he came back the next day with his truck and a money order for 12,000 not 10 12 and I never even we never negotiated he just came back and I says to him do you know that you're an answer to prayer that you and he's looked at me like I'm an answer to prayer I said yes and he said well that's that's wonderful so yeah God was God was good and that was a seed that I planted come on did you hear guys hear that it's a seed that was planted and so when we say when we say oh you know you you got to believe it you got to believe you know why I do that so that your faith can be activated so that you can move in those moment cuz until you do it we can pray for you we can say it but if you don't activate your faith what's going to happen sometimes not nothing and sometimes by the grace of God our faith can work for you but it's even better if your own faith is activated and that you are able to actually Touch the Hem of the Garment Evelyn why are you standing up okay okay I'm going to hold my microphone as I'm oh I'm try to say don't belong no okay I I won't um couple months ago Ken he was nearing s treatment and his mouth and his teeth and then uh the insurance that we have for seniors they were cover some amount but not all and then I was praying and clearly and sound the holy spirit said to me you're going to receive a check and then I went to the office for the doctor for the Denture and then I say uh you're going to have a check because she say this is the amount that you needing more I said okay no problem you're going to receive the check in one week or two and then she said okay so they didn't can a check I she called me and she say Evelyn can you come into the office I said yes then she's saying you have completely covered the $5,000 with insurance whoa on and come on and she say I own you some money because Ken was paid couple hundred and then they reimburse supposed to be you know reimburse the money they and then I didn't own one penny and what is that I TI him because the Lord put it in my heart and years and years ago I didn't TI him I was giving where whatever it is but since I start to come into the lighthouse this is for the glory to God the Lord put it in my heart to tie and I tie every month and I never missing one penny I never missing food in the house I never missing clothing to wear and I not never missing a mortgage to pay or something like that and this is for the glory to God amen amen amen let's give the Lord a hand I'm telling you guys oh God wants to bless us and so I am going to ask Pastor maranne to come up uh so he can introd she can introduce our speaker today good morning church I want to read you a scripture from 1 Timothy 5 verse1 17 the elders who direct the Affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor especially those who work is in preaching and teaching whose work is preaching and teaching so I'm not sure if JoJo considers himself an elder but this word Elder can mean old man Ambassador or representative but really it's a title of dignity and it means a person of ripe age and experience meaning he's ripe in experience and he's actually called to take part in the duties or management of public affairs so my husband and I have had the privilege of uh hosting JoJo this weekend um and we have really enjoyed his character he's warm he's very friendly and uh he's intelligent but not only that he has the joy of the Lord and we've really enjoyed that in him this weekend but JoJo is an activist in a good sense of the word and he has Decades of experience re representing the kingdom of God and he Faithfully preaches and teaches a sound biblical position and that's what we have gleaned from him this weekend and so it's with great pleasure and honor that I introduce to you Mr Jojo Ruba us us okay yes okay heavenly father I just thank you for Jojo and what you have deposited in his life I thank you for the call that you've placed upon his life to be that Ambassador for you to um represent you and your kingdom and to teach your people how to be more active in your kingdom For Your Glory to bring Heaven's will down to this Earth so that you may be glorified and we thank you in jesus' name amen thank you uh so much Pastor Mary thank you Pastor Jennifer and this church has been such an amazing blessing to speak at this weekend I'm so be glad to be able to say greetings from my church in Calgary and the opportunity to really just Minister and serve and I want to begin this morning with uh a commodation that I I always want to remind myself the most important person who at at a a lecture or a sermon like this is not the person on the stage it's the people in the audience who take the message and share it to the world so I hope you understand as I share this is not about me this is not about what I am this is not what I do this is something that I am here to serve you to sir so that you can serve this great City that's the this philosophy my dad has he's actually a church planter in Calgary he retired about three years ago from his old church got really bored and started another church which now I serve as the youth pastor for both churches at one time so it keeps me really busy and as a pastor's kid you know this is true right pastor's kids there's a couple here pastor's kids are either really really good or really really not so good right and sometimes it's hard to decide which one I want to be still when I grow up but I'm I'm really glad to be able to say I've been serving a Ministry for many years now and it's always a privilege to remind God's people of the great task that we have I remember actually going to University and because of my background I was invited to lead a Bible study group and it was a great group we were actually uh studying Genesis of all things and it was so great that they wanted to go to the other end of the Bible and study Revelations like oh you know this is really hard to to work on you know to study there's so much in there uh but but here was my challenge when I was leading that group I was starting to fall in love with one of the members of the group and that often happens of course my challenge though was that group was a men's bible study group and I didn't know what to do with those attactions and those feelings how is a pastor's kid a Christian guy who grew up in the church how am I supposed to understand and wrestle with these feelings and we live in a generation now where this is so common place we as the church really have to confront these questions that's why I'm really proud of Pastor Jenna from the leadership of this church pastor Mary to really give a chance to have these discussions in safe places like like this you see I got a chance because I talked to a Christian friend about this she was on staff at the Christian Ministry I served with at my campus she actually wrote down the phone number of a local Christian counselor and that Christian counselor blessed me so much but even now in our country as a consenting adult I'm not even allowed to get that support from a Christian counselor for my attractions and and I I I I see this as one of the key ways they're emphasizing and enforcing the idea that we cannot escape this our identity that we have to be defined by our sexual or gendered feelings now if you think about the word identity though identity represents all kinds of things doesn't it you could be you have all kinds of traits that Define you because if you look at the dictionary word for identity identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is it's what you are and it's what you do and all of us have a framework where we are identified by something think think about it right a hopefully most of us identify with our with our faith right that's what defines us that's what makes us that's what defines what we do but it's not the only trait right we can be defined for for example by physical traits that we have here's a picture from a redhead convention right that's their Community that's what defines them you could also be defined by the kinds of things that you do right so for example here's a gentleman uh he says she wanted a puppy I didn't so we compromised and got a puppy right some people are dog people some are not dog people some people are are very much in charge of their families or you could also be identif with the team or the sport that you play for example here's a gentleman when the leaves win the cup I'll marry my girlfriend uh I I heard she's a nun now actually it's really sad no they actually got married they loved each other was really good but all of these are identities aren't they and and and here's the challenge we have we have no generation as I said that has made their sexual attractions or gender confusion their identity in fact Newsweek reported that 40% of Generation Z that's 25 or so and younger now identifies as lgbtq 30% of churchgoing kids do as well that's the generation that we're in and when you think about these different traits we have to ask this important question isn't it obvious that some of these identities some of these traits are more important than others that we prioritize we choose choose which of these identities actually Define us right like if you move away from Toronto hopefully you stop cheering for the Maple Leafs right that's not that important but hopefully you don't change your faith you see what I mean some identities are more important than others and here's the key that helped me because when I began to talk to that Christian counselor one of the first things he said cuz he knew I was afraid of being labeled gay or being labeled all of these things one of the first things he said to me was don't you understand at the end of the day we may not choose our attractions but we choose our identity we may not choose our attractions but we can choose our identity and the power of the Gospel is that Jesus actually shows us a way to understand identity not from just our perspective but from from the perspective of the God who created us and who loves us and this is a message our culture especially the Young Generation desperately need to hear that our identity is not found in all of these other things but we can choose to make Christ Our identity in one of the my one of my favorite passages now in Luke chapter 7 and you're welcome to follow along Jesus meets with Simon the Pharisee at Simon's house and this is a a video uh description of the passage it's it's just word for word what the Bible teaches but the video itself is an interpretation I just like using these videos because it helps us understand what it's like to be in the context of Simon's house so take a list and you can follow along in your scriptures Luke 7:36 to 50 e e e for for the idea of Jesus meeting with this woman in Simon's house you actually begin to see through the lens of identity that Jesus deals with three ways we can choose an identity think about it first we can choose an identity based on how we feel about ourselves we can choose an identity based on how we feel about ourselves if you were in that room and you saw this woman what do you think she was feeling about herself very low exactly why cuz she had to come in Uninvited to do the the job of what a servant in fact it was the lowliest servant's job to wash feet has anyone been to Jerusalem before Israel okay a few of you then you would know we're actually hoping when when all the violence Taps down to go back into a tour of Jerusalem if you're interested and we're going to do a Christian apologetics tour it's it's a great opportunity and one of the things you do in that kind of place is you have to clean your feet cuz the dust and the D the dirt the sand is everywhere in that part of the world and remember in in this time there all kinds of cattle and sheep running around on the street so what would be they they stepping on and remember they wouldn't have nice shoes like ours they'd be open toed sandals so it was the job of the lowest servants to clean all of those dirty feet when people came into a house and no one did that for Jesus except her and not only that what did she use to wipe jesus' feet her hair and her tears now now think about it ladies many of you have long hair would you wipe someone's feet with your hair that's a pretty tall order right I I don't have much hair to offer so I can took something that I can't do right but I I would suggest that even back then that would have been a difficult thing for her to do but she was willing to do it why cuz she saw herself in such a lowly way she was someone who was not worthy even to be there but here's the question and I asked this the other night as well and something we need to come back to in this culture can we always trust our feelings even about ourselves right in fact a lot of counseling isn't it the case is to overcome the feelings you have because your feelings often lie to you in fact a few years ago the number one issue for young people was eating disorders like anorexia nervosa where people who would come in especially young girls would think of themselves very large very overweight when in fact they were Skin and Bones and what was the solution for that to to let them feel that way to let them believe that that's the case or or to correct what their body their thinking doesn't that sound like something that's going on today where people feel disconnected from their body unfortunately the solution is to change the body not the mind that's a problem because the issue here is how we feel how we think and the problem we have is when feelings determine our identity our identity has no sure Foundation because feelings change all the time just ask any 13-year-old right but it's true of adults too in fact here is a picture of some of the gender identities that people can now identify as and often people ask me well what does this symbol mean or what does that symbol mean and my response is I have no idea and frankly most of the people there who claim these things have no idea either because all of these symbols except for two represent how the person feels at the moment that's what their definition of their gender is and here's the challenge they have if you're going to allow yourselves to Define your gender Define your sex this kind of way then why do you just stop at gender let me introduce you to Rachel dozal she's from Washington State in Seattle area she actually looked like this in her late teens or early 20s until she started identifying as a black woman why did she identify as a black woman because one of the things she said was as a child she used to draw herself with black crayons now think about that is that how we define race is that how we should Define ourselves based on how we feel well of course that doesn't make any sense right that's not how race is defined God gave us all kinds of wonderful racial features and they're not defined by just how you feel at the moment right by by the way she ended up heading a group called the NAACP in the Washington state area an organization for African-Americans until they found out she actually wasn't an African-American and booted her but she still argues to to this day that she's a black woman because of how she feels inside there's a problem there isn't there cuz it's not about how you feel or how about this this is a Canadian example this is Paul Walsh that's the dad over there that's his kids his wife there's one of their friends who was a nun uh about 60 something years old he began to identify as a woman but not just any woman a seven-year-old girl and that's how he dresses when he goes to work moving removing snow in downtown Toronto he got adopted by a family with an 8-year-old girl who wanted to be the older sister that's why he identifies as seven based on how he feels so think about it is it possible that maybe his feelings are wrong I would think so and even the transgender Community guess what they're actually really embarrassed by him but he's using the same kind of arguments to justify his age identity as his gender identity and I think most of us should say there's a problem there because you cannot determine your age based on how you feel you cannot base determine your gender based on how you feel feelings do not change what your biology is and that's one of the key truths this generation has to hear not because we hate them not because we don't care but because the only way to help just like with an anorexic patient is to help have them accept their biological status right now the second way we can identify or choose an identity is by how others see us how by how others see us do you recall in the story how Simon the Pharisee felt when this woman came into his house what was his first thought do you remember yes yeah if Jesus was a prophet he'd know what do you remember that this woman is a sinner and and you can you can see the the vitriol he had towards her right because in in most Bible scholars when they look at this passage they look at the word Sinner and they assume that this must have been a sexual sin why because she was of the status of someone who was Untouchable remember he Simon said if Jesus knew he wouldn't even let her touch him if you're familiar with the cast system in India do you you're familiar with that where there was the lower casts here the people who' be responsible for cleaning and and janitorial work the higher casts were the wealthy powerful people in that system if one of the persons who's of the lower casts Shadow fell on someone of the higher cast that shadow would make the higher cast person unclean and they would have to bathe that's a situation that we're we have here she is Untouchable because the only way we can see her according to Simon is through her sexual sin she's labeled through her sexuality sound familiar and we live at a time when that's that that's what we're telling young people you have to be pigeonholed into these categories but here's something I found out when I get to research this after I saw my counselor that sexuality itself is a social construct or something creat ated by society and this is actually not even controversial this is not something for Christians only a woman named Hannah blank she's a non-Christian historian okay she wrote a book called straight the surprisingly Short history of heterosexuality now of course if the word heterosexuality has a short history guess what so does homosexuality and she writes that even before the 1860s the word heterosexual was actually used to reference people people who are promiscuous with the opposite sex it was not a sexual orientation but the word homosexual was coined in the 1860s to promote gay Behavior take a listen to what she says e e is not that people didn't practice homosexuality prior to the 1860s clearly it's mentioned in the bible but the idea that you can label someone gay or straight that they belong to these sexual categories that's a modern idea prior to this people were not put in those categories and that's why when the Bible talks about sexuality it doesn't mention homosexuality as a as an identity but it mentions it as a behavior that's sinful and that's why when we condemn homosexuality we're not attacking a person the Bible is saying this behavior is so harmful you shouldn't engage in it and God loves you so much that he doesn't want you to engage in sin and that's something I had to % I had to learn I accepted I knew it was right and I was able to stay celibate and following God because I learned to trust that the identity that I had couldn't be shouldn't be my sexual attractions it was something more see the idea that we had to label people as gay or straight had a massive impact I think on our culture and I can't Pro prove causation but there's definitely a correlation in terms of how people began to see each other because of these sexual categories so for example here's a picture from a basketball team in 1915 now gentlemen if your hockey team were to ask be asked to POS this way would you agree oh nobody okay no no one offended yet but less than 30 years later this is what a m men's basketball team would look like any difference does anyone see anything different what what do you think is different yeah they're not touching each other they're not not even looking at each other they're looking forward as if they're the only ones in the picture why is that because especially men did not want to be labeled gay that's right because now this term was going out there and influencing how we think about how we label people's identities just like Simon the Pharisee and it's no wonder the gay community felt so attacked because now they were ostracized as members of that community and feeling that they needed to create their own Community which is why they're so powerful today because they've created this identity that no one is allowed to criticize but here's the challenge and this has always been something that we have to come back to that's why we're Christians we believe that facts should determine feelings not the other way around and when I talk to people from these communities is one of the first questions I asked him do you think feelings should determine facts do you think how you should feel should shape who you are because when we look at what they say so things like there are more than two genders right this is one of the powerful truths that they're teaching based on what how they feel about their gender the challenge is of course it's actually it's facts that determine feelings and even the people who argue this cannot Escape facts because facts are just reality it's just how the real world works and I know this because if you go on the internet to buy that t-shirt that there says that there are more than two genders you actually realize it only comes in male and female sizes because whatever you do you cannot Escape facts that's the problem which leads me to this conclusion we need something more stable than feelings determine our identity we need something more stable than feelings to determine our identity and this is what Jesus brilliantly does with this woman who washes his feet he gives a new identity to her you notice what he does throughout the whole story he never sees her through her sexual identity and I I love this is because this is one of the reasons why I show this is even though Jesus was talking to Simon the Pharisee I think the most of the time he was looking at her and speaking with his eyes to her and talking about forgiveness to her because when he forgives her her sins he doesn't just forgive her sins does he he gives her a new identity as a daughter of God and so no wonder she can come out walk out confidently because she no longer sees herself as a sinner no longer cares if other people see see her through these sexual identities what she sees her your as a daughter of God and even though I still sometimes struggle with these feelings too I no longer see myself through that lens of identity because my identity is found in my savior not my sexuality in fact if you go back to the Apostle John in the Gospel of John what was his favorite title for himself the one whom Jesus loved isn't that a wonderful identity to claim right in a world that says we are defined by who we love go the Gospel of John reminds us instead that we're defined by who loves us that's the gospel message that's the gospel message that everyone whe whatever way they identify needs to hear that there's a better way to find out who you truly are you're a child of God Loved by him that's the message we need to give I shared this story a little bit let me add a little more um to it I meet regularly at Starbucks sometimes with a young man who's transgender and he's a man claiming to be a woman and I met him because I gave a talk on gender identity to like just like this one at a church and at the end of my presentation he ran up to me and said I disagree with everything you just said and I said great let's go out for coffee and chat he said okay and we've been meeting ever since he I found out he grew up in a Christian home his parents are very conservative they're very against what he's doing but he's very lonely and he really needs friends and because we I was able to meet with him and chat with him we're able to meet at Starbucks bring our Bibles and disagree strongly and still be friends and we need to be able to do that as Believers because we can disagree with people's beliefs and still love them in fact it's because we love them we ought to disagree with harmful beliefs and practices that they do and and I remember one time we had a great discussion and we had all these books on the table and I said hey as we wrap up here can I just pray for you and he said okay sure and and so we prayed I asked for God to bless him to take care of him give him lots of wisdom and as soon as I opened my eyes I saw this very large very angryl looking woman from the other side of the Starbucks stand up and stomp towards her table and my first thought is where's the exit because I don't know if she's going to hit me with the left or the right right and she comes up to our table she stands right beside him and she she said you know my partner is transgender and so is my child and she was was talking this way and I was trying to sink into my chair thinking maybe this empty Starbucks cup can be my only protection right and then she said this I saw you praying for this person and I want you to know you're the first Christian I've ever seen pray with a transgender person and I came here to thank you for being willing to do that and that broke my heart cuz we should be the people always praying with these folks because they're not our enemies they're people who have lost identities who need to know Christ can offer them the best identity what I didn't share last night was I actually talk to this guy and I share with him that I I I talk about her story in my per sermons and he said oh that's great that's wonderful hopefully you can encourage other Christians to have conversations like ours and that's why I keep sharing it because we have a great responsibility here ladies and gentlemen to bring good news that our identity is not based on how we feel about ourselves it's not about how others feel about us it's about how God feels about us and his love never changes if you want to know more about what we do we're actually putting on a rally on November 9th to speak out on these kinds of issues and to encourage our government to really take care of our kids so they're not exposed to the these kinds of ideas so please there's some contact cards in the back feel free to grab one and let me just close in prayer for you maybe if you could stand for with us and I'll pass this on as I I finish here heavenly father I'm so blessed to meet Pastor Jennifer Pastor Mary and this church God what a wonderful reminder that there are people all over this country who love you who serve you have great vision for their Church to grow the kingdom what a great name Kingdom advance that they they've really gathered around may you bless their faithfulness and may as they proclaim the gospel help more and more people in this very confused time to find their identity in you may they know Lord that they can they don't have to label themselves all kinds of things except the label John gave them the disciple the one whom Jesus loved and we're honored Lord to have that name we're honored to worship you and we're honored Lord to give you our best even today may you give us passion and compassion for the people around us who need to know that there is a God Of Heaven who loves them and we pray this in his name amen amen amen let's give Pastor JoJo a hand hallelujah hallelujah thank you thank you I just you may be seated for just a few more minutes here as we close um thank you again for the message and if you haven't been here the whole weekend Friday we were here the whole of yesterday we here you know just really having Pastor Geo come in and teach uh and connect and and and give some guidelines on um how do we handle this as a church and and I want to make this statement to you guys the the council last week when we did our pastor's uh appreciation and you know one of the words that they used for me was like you are Fierce and you know and I feel like it it describes me well cuz you know we like to be that way and when it's for Jesus when it's for the truth when it's what the Bible says we are Fierce amen and and the reality is I even started to ask myself you guys remember the testimony that I gave uh maybe last year we went on on you know our honeymoon uh I mean our anniversary vacation time and uh in the hot tub with me was a transgender person and I'm telling you guys I remember sharing this testimony but I just felt in my spirit to kind of reiterate again because even as a pastor in the beginning I didn't know what to do I was like oh oh um okay and instant I'm like holy spirit Spirit Holy Spirit Holy Spirit you guys remember that testimony I had a Shar and I said holy spirit help me and you know Cameron you know was on the other side CU I don't really like being in the pool it's cold I want to be in the hot tub CU it's hotter I'm like no you be in the pool I'll be over here and when you know you be in there for a little bit and he leaves the whole time I'm in the hot tub and then they coming in and they going and this transgender and I'm thinking to myself I'm looking at the features and everything and and the Lord just said you know what just just start talking to them I started talking you know I didn't tell them I'm a pastor but I just talk about life tell me a story and then I actually told him I'm like I said I said God is so good to me I can't even believe I'm sitting here in the United States you know like a tornado you know hurricane just came through and uh you know we're all here and it's amazing I just started talking about the goodness of God and I shared a little bit of my story and then I started to say God has done so many good things you know you know what I like because at the end of it to cut the story short you know she ended up giving the her life to Jesus I say she because that's originally what God created her to be give her life to Jesus and tells me and then after that say are you a pastor I said as a matter of fact I am and then do you know what they told me they're like you know I kept feeling like there was some Godly scriptural things in the statement that you were telling me I didn't quote scripture but I was using biblical truth and because biblical truth the Bible says the word of the Lord is like a double-edged sword that goes and begins to do a work dividing and cutting through things and I believe that the Lord wants to raise up a church that uses his word to not say the Bible says and this is what it you know it says just come through Love Like Jesus did with this woman so this is what I'm saying to the church it's not by doing this I'm not saying that we support transgender I'm not saying we support and we encourage them no cuz I know people like to twist things and say I can p Jennifer have this talk on a Sunday if we don't have this talk in church where are we going to have it I'm not saying this is not sin no that's not what I'm saying but I'm saying that as a church we are to be the light we are supposed to be the hands and Our Lives is supposed to be a written letter I guess what I'm trying to say is Will Kingdom Advance Church begin to be the letter that the transgender Community will read and it will lead them to Jesus by loving them and this is what I'm going to say as I end Sin is Sin Sin is Sin other sin are not greater than others the one who lies lying a little tiny lie like this is the same as the one who thinks I'm supposed to marry a man and I'm going to engage in this homosexual thing because Sin is Sin so before we judge because judgment says I'm better I'm saying we're not better than the transgenders we're just Sinners who have found her their way through the blood of Jesus and now we need to pray that the transgenders or people who believe that they are certain way that's another thing thank you Pastor georgo because if we label them then we put an untrue identity on them so I don't even want to say what it is confused or whatever I don't know what is your situation what makes you think you are this person what makes you so I'm now saying as a church even with the leadership we're taking this to the leadership and we want we want people to know that we have a statement that says this is a sin and we don't agree with it we don't support it but our job is here to be a light and to bring them to Jesus amen welcome to Christianity because the road is narrow and sometimes we forget the one who is having sex before marriage our young people that's a sin how is it different from somebody who is confused about that gender because it's still because if we knew that our body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit and is supposed to be holy we wouldn't sin cuz when we sin we're sinning against him which in turn is sinning against us because we and him are one we're Made In His Image the one who gossips the one who brings confusion the one who brings division the one who does all of those thing what I'm saying is as this church today I stand before you as a servant in this house and say we drop our Stones against the gender I don't even know against people who lost their way how about that you know why I can clearly say the V because that's not what we believe that's not true according to our belief system can you drop your stones and say I will not judge the Bible says all have fallen short of the glory of God all the pastor the prophet the Apostle the one with the small Church the one with the big church all have fallen short of the glory of God you and me have fallen short the message is Grace by the grace of God I am a Believer by the grace of God by the mercy of God through the blood of Jesus so Lord we pray that every individual Sons and Daughters of God who have lost their way that they will encounter the true love and the true nature of the father father and that that will return to it and Lord I pray that give us the opportunity once again to minister to them give us the opportunity as a church as Christians instead of judging that we will love instead of thinking we're higher that we will know that they just haven't found their way yet we got lucky we found our way earlier and Lord I just want to pray like can we have every next gen if you are you consider yourself if you're not 40 and up if you're 40 and under 40 and under all the way down I want you to stand I'm in that group too so I'm standing but soon in a few days in a couple weeks I'm going to cross over and then I can start talking like an elder in the church you know look around look around I want us to lift our hands stretch it TOS these guys and we need to pray that this generation this generation CU that's what it is Pastor georgo said today this is a new thing that is coming it's all about social media it's all about Facebook and YouTube YouTube and they're pushing and pushing we just want to pray today that this generation and the generation to come will not will not be pushed by the social but they will be grounded in the truth and the word of God so Lord I pray that that this generation the one standing up the people they represent and the ones coming after us that we will be grounded in the truth of God the truth that is in the word of God of who we have been created and I pray that this will be passed on we thank you for our children and our youth and our young adults our children who are in children Ministry I pray today Father God that there is a covering over this church that there is a covering over the families of this church but we release a supernatural covering especially over our children and we say father God that they will not lose their way because they are covered under our spiritual protection by the power of the Holy Spirit and the blood of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and makes them holy and makes them grounded in their true identity in that true identity so I break the spirit of spirit of identity confusion identity confusion I break that in the name of Jesus and we release the love of the father to the broken and to the hurting and Lord I pray that you will show us how to help heal the people show us how to help heal show us how to help heal father I thank you that you are protecting this next Generation really what it is that God is redeeming them back to himself the enemy wants to take the Next Generation for him but God wants to redeem us to himself so Lord I Thank you for the redeeming of male and female true identity male and female according to our faith and our belief that's our guarantee the scripture tells us amen amen man you may be seated we love everyone and by the way get ready if people walk through these Church doors and there are certain way you can't judge them so I'm telling you now if people come through because the glory this is my my thing the glory of the Lord at Kingdom Advance will draw the lost the glory and the presence of God in this place will draw the loss amen and so when the L comes and when they come when they're sitting maybe at the back maybe they're drunk and maybe they're on drugs maybe they're dressing a certain way because we don't understand and we receive them we are not going to judge them we are going to get out of the way and present them to Jesus amen came for the Sinners so get ready we want Revival we like the spiritual stuff but when it gets to the need gitty is like uh what do I do how about the churchgoing Christian who never forgives and spews bad stuff about their friend and their family or the whoever the person that they love and has made them entangled in this thing how about that so get ready church because we're sold out we want the glory and the presence of God and trust me it will draw the loss it will draw them and when they are drawn God is going to meet them and God is going to change them this is why this is why we will contend for the spirit and the glory and the presence no Seminar can change an identity of a person it can Enlighten us but the spirit of the Lord can change everything like Steve said a couple weeks ago prayed for this person just like that we had a testimony last week I mean yesterday someone gave a testimony and they said there's a person in BC person walks in not sure a little bit confused maybe of who they are walks into the church the pastor calls people for prayer you can totally tell that they're not you know like not a man or anything or not a woman wherever they are and nobody said anything goes up to the front gets prayed for the power of the Holy Spirit hits them at the front and this person hears Jesus voice saying I love you son comes back to church the next day dressed like a man restored into their identity cuz the whole time they thought they were a woman but they heard the voice of Jesus and he spoke to them and he encountered them this is what changes people Jesus Jesus changes people we introduce people to Jesus we talk to people about Jesus not about all of that stuff am I saying we're going to say oh just go ahead do whatever you want be this no no that's not what I'm saying because this is sin but I'm not here to talk about the sin we're not here to engage about the sin how about we talk about Jesus this is our approach let's talk about Jesus how about I tell you about my Jesus and what he's done for me we will engage people with Jesus we will Point them to Jesus Jesus will be the focus of our conversation when you encounter someone in this situation amen please stand and we're going to close father we thank you for today we give you glory honor and praise we thank you for what you're doing in this church we thank you for what you're doing in this community and Lord I just pray father God and for where where people who identify as this have been have felt judged by us have felt like Christians are rude they don't represent a good god father in those situations father God I pray that you forgive us as Christians and you help us that we will know how to love your sons and daughters that you will help us to know how to be there for them and encourage them and and point you to them king of glory so Lord I Thank you that there is this wind of uh confusion will not hold over this area amen can you agree with me this is more in the spiritual realm right now and this is where I really really need everybody to agree this wind of confusion cuz this is in the spirit and I say that Kingdom Advance church over this area over the spiritual realm of this area that this wind of confusion will not hold be so I put the blood of Jesus in the circumference of our spiritual rich in the name of Jesus say under this Authority Under This reach under this portal that this confusion will not hold but instead the blood of Jesus and the love of the father will be revealed so father I thank you for guarding the spiritual realm even the waves of the internet that surrounds this region and this area the internet the powers that run the social wavelengths of algorithms of what happened father God we break free from this spiritual uh spiritual attack over us father God we break free from it it is really a lie of the enemy and we bring the truth of God in it and the truth is Jesus loves everyone Jesus loves everyone not Christians Jesus loves everyone and God loves everyone that that He sent Jesus to die for them on the cross that's how much the father loves us so Lord we thank you for today we pray you continue to give us wisdom to navigate our conversations uh with families and friends and the people that you will uh put in front of us that we will know father God uh how to love them and how to reveal you to them in Jesus mighty name amen let's give the Lord a hand thank you so much thank you thank you for being here if you have any concern or if had any questions concerning this matter please come and talk to me come and talk to our leaders I know this is the first time we've had something like this you know but we're going to have more and we're going to be able to teach and uh connect with the congregation on a Sunday morning because we care about these things amen amen amen amen so y\n"