You are invited to examine where your heart truly rests and intentionally place your affections on God alone. By seeking His face daily, you will experience His presence more clearly and walk in the freedom of an unlimited life. Come to the altar today to declare Him worthy and surrender every area of your heart to His love.
*Ezekiel-39:29* says, and I will not hide my face anymore from them when I **pour out my spirit** upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God. We just read a verse about seeking his face with all our heart. This says, the face of the Lord is revealed in the outpouring of his spirit. As we seek his presence, we seek to know him. He reveals his face to us and it's a beautiful thing.
You guys can be seated. I want to talk to you, I just want to dive right in. I want to talk to you about *affections* today. I had a great Thanksgiving. It was it was great.
I'm thankful for my God, I'm thankful for for my family. But, I missed my family this Thanksgiving. My family, a week ago, last Friday, they went home where Courtney and I grew up, to Louisiana, our other home. And, so, my wife and 4 kids went to spend time with their grandparents and my grandparents, their great grandparents, and really haven't gotten My wife hasn't got to go home to Louisiana for Thanksgiving for the last 5 years. And, so, was important for them to do that, because we had the prophetic workshop this past week, weekend, Saturday.
How many did you
guys enjoy that? How many of
you guys came? It was amazing. And, we had service on Sunday. It wasn't right for me to miss. It was important for me to be here.
And, I'm going to miss a Sunday in December going to Japan. So, it was just really important for me to be here this past week. So, I didn't get to go to Louisiana with my wife and kids. And, you know, I wasn't bored. I had plenty to do.
Had a lot to do for the church and and other things, but but, I really missed them. It's it's because, I'm quite affectionate towards them. I have a lot of affection for them. I just do. I love my wife.
I love spending time with her. I love listening to her talk at the end of the day. You know, I love the things that she does around the house and and I love getting to watch her minister to others individually on the phone and and other things. She's she's just full of Jesus and I love being with her. The word affectionate.
It means fondness, to like something. I'll just read it to you. A gentle feeling of fondness or liking. Affectionate, really feeling or showing fondness or tenderness towards. I'm really affectionate towards my wife.
I have deep affection for her. And so, when she was gone for this past week, I missed our time together. My son, Trip, I enjoy our new found hobby of going run together. I enjoy it. We talk the whole time, you know, back and forth.
And I enjoy, you know, him coming and trying to wrestle me and and I enjoy getting to talk with him about his day at school. I just, I love spending time with him. So, because I have affection for him when he was gone, I missed him. My Selah, her freckles, her smile, her laughter, her silliness. She sings me songs a lot and I love it.
She's got sunflower eyes with blue skies, means like, she's got a little When she looks in the sunlight, she has a little sunflower. It looks like golden and then her pupils are blue and it's just I love everything about my Selah. I have a lot of affection towards her and show it. And so, she's gone, I miss her. My Eden Rose, she's my delicate flower.
She's my snuggle bunny. She's the 1 of all the bunch that just randomly, she'll look at me and smile and say, Daddy, I love you. Makes my heart feel all warm and fuzzy inside. This morning, 4AM No, 3, 03:15AM, she comes in, Daddy, can I have a snuggle? Yes, baby, you can have a snuggle.
Come here. I feel affection for my daughter, Edith. When she's gone, I missed her. My little River Royce. She's 15, 16, roly poly holy, little butterball.
When she sees me, she says, Dada. I love her. Every time I see her, I sing her a song. They all have songs. They all have things that I speak over them every time that I put them to bed.
And river is just river, river, river, strong and still, rolling down the hill through all the obstacles. Anyway, it calms her, but it's who she is. I have a lot of affection towards her. When she's gone, I miss her. I spend time with the Lord in the mornings.
God's developed a habit. I get up most mornings and I'll go out to my office and I'll turn on worship music and I'll open up my computer and I'll write a reflection of what God did the day before. Just stories of of what I saw him doing. How I stared at him and saw his kingdom, his presence moving in my life. Thanking him for what he did, testimonies to rehash myself then and then down the road if I need it.
And then I'll write prayers, God, what do you want me to pray for? And I'll write out prayers. Sometimes, I'll sense his presence thick in the room. Open up the Word, God, would you show me something today? Go to where he leads me or I'll go to where I've been reading.
Man, often the words will jump off the page, something that matters, or a revelation of his character and his nature, who he is. I'm very fond of him. He speaks to me. Not in vague things that I'm not sure if he said, no, know his voice and he speaks clearly to me and I speak to him. I like him.
I show affection for him. Bible talks about we're his bride. I'm the bride of Christ, but also the son of my father. I love him. I love spending time with him.
I love hearing his voice. I love feeling his presence. I love him when he leads me, when he shows me, when he gives me clear direction and then I follow it and it comes through. It's on the on the other side. It's like, wow, life's so much better that way.
And guess what? He likes me. He's quite fond of me too. He loves me. He's affectionate towards me.
So if I ever miss my morning, later in the afternoon, I begin to miss him. Not because he's not with me, he's always with me. We we talk and walk together. His presence is inside of me. I can hear his voice day in and day out, moment by moment because I'm a Christian.
But, it's not the same when it's in the midst of the noise and not like a date where where you set aside intentional time to get in his presence and hear his voice and "walk with him". So, if I go throughout the day just in the, hey God, what's up? Thank you for talking to me and speaking and obeying in the moment, but without that intentional time, I begin to miss him because I have affection for my father. And if I don't take that intentional time to spend with him, I miss him and he misses me. The Bible says, God's a jealous God.
We think of jealousy as envy today. We get those envy and jealousy conflated. Meaning, we mix those 2 verses, those 2 definitions together. It's not. Envy is is I want what you have.
God doesn't God's not envious. He's he's a jealous God. In the old sense of the word, jealousy is is I'm concerned I'm gonna lose the 1 I love. God wants all of our affection on him. So, we read *Ezekiel-3*nine 29, And I will not hide my face anymore from them when I pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God, which by faith we're children of Abraham.
We are the house of Israel by faith. God doesn't hide his face from from us anymore. His face is revealed in the outpouring of his presence, the outpouring of his spirit, the Holy Spirit. And, I think, wait a second, but nobody can see the face of God and live. You're right.
Moses said that, nobody can see the face of the Lord and live. How does that work? We'll get into it. Let's continue with our series in First Corinthians. This is all gonna come together.
You guys alright? You guys good? You sure? Alright. *1 Corinthians-2*.
Father God, I just thank you for your goodness. I thank you for your love. Lord, I thank you that you're the 1 who speaks. Lord God, I pray you open up our hearts to hear you. Lord God, that you give everybody in this room a glimpse of your goodness.
That they may choose you and follow you all the days of their life. Oh God, that they may be, if they're not, born again so that they can stare at you and behold your goodness. I thank you for what you're doing. I thank you for what you're gonna do. *Lord*, I pray that when we walk out of here today and we're not the same and we're never the same again.
But Lord God, we have a rubric for which to continue to fall in love with you more and more every single day. That after today, that we have that understanding of your process for us that we'll never ever, ever, ever, ever again live a limited life. In Jesus' name, amen. You know, I sent out some text messages this past week. I said, this is quite possibly the most important message that I've ever preached at this church.
I believe it is. *1 Corinthians-2* and just a little bit of a review, I guess, in verse 6. It says, yet among the mature, we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age who are doomed to pass away, but we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. So, just just a reminder, last or 2 weeks ago, we talked about milk and we talked about meat.
We understand what the milk of the gospel is. The milk of the gospel is talked about in verses 3, 4, and 5. It's talking about Christ. Paul resolved to know nothing when he
went to Corinth, but Christ, Jesus Christ, and him crucified. That's that's the milk of the word is Jesus Christ and him crucified. And in that understanding of Christ crucified is when we give our lives to Jesus, when we confess him as Lord, we're crucified with him. It's no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us. The milk of the gospel is understanding Jesus, understanding that he's crucified, and we have been crucified too.
No longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me and through me. But then, it also says, and the demonstration of power. The demonstration of power, the power that goes along with the gospel is the milk, and we're supposed to, long after, as newborn babies, as it said in second Peter, long after the milk of the gospel for the rest of our life, wanting to understand more clearly who Christ is, and what it means that Jesus died to make me clean. Not only to make me clean, but to restore my created value. And then, when I confessed him as Lord, see, here's what happened.
I got a glimpse of his goodness. I got a glimpse of who he was. I tasted his goodness, and then, because of that, it drew me into repentance. And I said, you know what? I'm not gonna live for me anymore.
I'm gonna live for you as Lord. I believe you died, and you rose again. Now, you are the Lord of my life. And in that moment, I was born again. And when I was born again, it gave me the capacity to not just glimpse his goodness, but to see his face.
I'll remind you, 2 weeks ago, I told you, John-3:3. It says, Jesus said, nobody can see the kingdom of heaven unless you've been born again. The word there see is not just a glimpse.
The word foresee there is to stare at, to behold. The word foresee is to discern the physical and mental reality of. So when you're born again, you have the capacity to stare at and behold the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven for the rest of your life to understand and discern the kingdom of heaven.
And what is the kingdom of heaven? We talked about it. In Romans-10,
it says, the kingdom of heaven is not meat and drink. It's not this physical thing, but it's righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. Peace in the Holy Spirit. Joy, where does it come from? From the Holy Spirit.
Righteousness, he credits his righteousness to us and convicts us of his righteousness by the Holy Spirit. So it's all in the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God is in the Holy Spirit. When we're born again, we have the capacity to see, to stare at, and to behold the presence and the power outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the revealing of his face. And as we see him and behold him, we realize it's no longer I who live, but he who lives in me, and we can reflect his power and his goodness every moment of our life from that day forward.
You guys follow me? Isn't that awesome? And then our life, this is all review,
our life becomes the glimpse of God's goodness to the world around us. Where people see the way that we live and how we speak and they "taste and see" the glory and the goodness of God and it makes them want to say, yes Jesus, you are my Lord. And the process repeats. Our life becomes the demonstration of power so that the people around us see the glory and the goodness of God and receive him. That's Christianity, guys.
And when we just talked about the the message of wisdom, we speak about them among the mature. It's what I'm getting into. I told you in Colossians, it says, the mystery, the secret, it's been revealed. It's Christ in us, the hope of glory. It's our identity.
It's who he is. But not just who he is, it's who he is in us. And as we understand that, there's no end to the depth of that word. Because the more we understand who he is, the more we understand who we are, and the better we reflect his character and nature everywhere we go. And this whole book, as I said 2 weeks ago, is a picture of the identity of who Christ is, and because we're supposed to be imitators of Christ, it's a picture of who we are in him and how we're supposed to live reflecting his character, nature, and goodness.
Amen?
Come on, church. It's fun. So, when we're when you're born again, if you haven't been born again, you may have had an experience with God. You may have got a glimpse of his goodness, but you don't have the capacity yet to stare at it day in and day out to see it, to hear him, to walk with him. And, man, he's inviting you to be born again, to confess him as your Lord where you're no longer his your Lord,
but he is the Lord of your life, leading you day in and day out. And that's an initial 1 time thing that repeats every single day, a confession as Lord, as you'll see in a minute.
And when that happens, he puts his spirit in us. And I got good news. *John-3:34* says, the Father gives the Spirit, God gives the Spirit **without limit**. Everybody say, without limit. He gives the spirit without limit.
I want you to keep that in the back of your mind because we're come back to that. It's important. God gives the spirit without limit. How many of you guys want to experience the spirit without limit? How many you
want because to experience the spirit is to experience the face of God. Right? The face of God is revealed in the outpouring of his spirit. So, to to experience and to know the Holy Spirit is to see and reflect God's face. And, he gives the spirit without limit, church.
Come on. *1 Corinthians-2*. We're just going to read 9 through 16. We're reading about what none of the rulers of the age understood. It says, But as it is written, what no eye has seen, what nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.
A lot of people stop there. We've I'm not gonna go into this these verses a lot like I have in the past. So, I would encourage you if you wanna learn how to hear God's voice, go back and look in our podcast. In the very beginning, I taught did a message on our series on hearing God, and then about a year ago, did a series on the Holy Spirit, and then talked about these verses, you know, 2 or 3 months ago multiple times. So go go find in the podcast.
It's important. But,
these are the
things, what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, nor heart of man imagined. These are the things God has revealed to us through his spirit. He puts his spirit into us to speak
to us what we could not even imagine or hear by the Holy Spirit because we're born again, we have the capacity to stare at and discern the things from him. And church,
I want you to know, you're responsible for your ability to sense the Holy Spirit.
He's given you the capacity to see and to
know him, but Hebrews-5, I'll just read it. I didn't put it up there, Nate, this verse for you, but verse 14 says, but solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to discern good from evil. How do you train your senses to discern good, God's kingdom, his goodness, who he is from evil, constant use. The Holy Spirit is always going to meet you where you are and invite you to go further, and it's your responsibility to say, yes, Lord. And by saying, yes, Lord, you're training your senses to hear him a little bit more clearly next time.
Amen? You guys still with me? Alright. We're getting there. It says, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
This is the Holy Spirit. For who knows a person's thoughts except the the person which is in him, except the spirit of the person which is in him. So also, no 1 comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. God is the Holy Spirit is in us and shows us the very mind of our heavenly Father. It's a beautiful thing.
Now, we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And, we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom, but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person, that's the person not born again, who
can see the glimpse of the goodness of God, but can't discern and see the the Holy Spirit. It says, the natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no 1. For who has understood the "mind of the Lord" so as to instruct him? But, we have the mind of Christ.
Meaning, by the Holy Spirit, we have the very mind of Christ in us, so we can understand him and walk with him. Never again say, oh, God's just out there. I can't under it's just too much for me to No. No. God is inviting you into deeper relationship to seek, to understand, to know him, because you're his kid.
And, if this is stirring stuff in you and you're seeing the goodness of God, but you've never been born again, take it as the Holy Spirit's invitation for you to know him.
Amen? *Born* again can hear God. But see, and this happens when you're born again in John-20. Follow me. Still setting this thing up.
*John-20*. *Jesus* had died 3 days later, rose again, went to the Father to do what he had to do, made a way for us to be clean from the inside out so he can put his spirit in us. And, in John-20, came back down, met in the room with the disciples, appeared to them. They were afraid at the time of the Jews. He appeared to them and he said, Peace be with you.
As the father sent me, I'm sending you. And then he breathed on them. He breathed the Holy Spirit into them. In that moment, they were born again. In that moment, it's the drink that Jesus said, You take a drink and you'll never thirst again, but be rivers of water welling up to eternal life.
*John-17, Jesus* defined eternal life as knowing God, being able to hear Him and walk with Him. That's what He was talking about. Now remember, God gives us spirit without limit. Follow me here. So that's 1 aspect.
But then, not only did he breathe the Holy Spirit in them, but then he said, wait. He said, I want you
to wait till I pour out the gift because you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. So he's got they've got the Holy Spirit in them. Do you think when Jesus breathed in them, said receive the Holy Spirit? You think they didn't receive the Holy Spirit? Jesus said it.
They received it. And then he said, wait. You receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon
you, and you will be my *witnesses* in Judea, in Jerusalem, Judea, and to the ends of the earth. Holy Spirit in them for eternal life,
but the same anointing power that was on the Old Testament prophets singularly, now poured out on all flesh to be able to represent his power. Holy Spirit in me so I can know him, the Holy Spirit on me so you can know him through me. Holy Spirit in me so I can personally see his face and be transformed. Holy Spirit on me so I can become his face to you So you see me and see the see the father and and say, Lord Jesus, I need you.
You understand? You follow me? Mark
chapter 16.
*Jesus* tells the disciples. He says, hey, look. First, he rebuked them for not believing the testimony of others. Don't be that guy. When somebody's telling you the testimony of Jesus, don't be the critical Nancy just because you didn't experience it.
*Believe their testimony. Let it increase faith in you. Okay? Don't be rebuked by Jesus* for that. Alright?
But then after that, he says, and these signs will follow those that believe. And he lists signs like "casting out demons", speaking in tongues, healing healing the sick. And he says picking up snakes and drinking deadly poisons. Don't worry. We're not gonna pick up snakes.
But, he said these signs will follow those that believe, reflecting the power on them. Those that believe. Man, I want to be a believer where signs show that I truly believe. Because without the sign, do we really believe? I want my life to display the signs of belief.
Amen? Well, maybe you're like me, like I have been because sometimes, I feel limited in my ability to hear him. Anybody ever felt limited in their ability to hear God? Am I the only 1? No?
Sometimes, feel limited in my ability to witness, to share his goodness, to see the power and love of God, which all of his power is to demonstrate his love. It's not just so I can feel powerful. It's to demonstrate the love of God to a world that needs his goodness. Demonstrate his goodness to them so they they receive him. So sometimes, I feel limited in my ability to hear him.
Sometimes, I feel limited in my ability to display his power. But why? Because in John-3:34, it says, God gives the Spirit without limit. So if the heavenly Father gives the Spirit without limit, but yet I feel limited in my ability to hear the Spirit, in my ability to display that the Spirit is with me, where does that limit come from? You ever wonder that?
Why do I feel limited? Well, I mean, going through *John-4:7-8. I mean, Romans-4:7* and 8, Blessed is the man whose sin is never counted against them. So, I'm I'm clean. My sin is not counted against me.
I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, 2 Corinthians-5:21. Like
*Jesus* knew no sin, died as my sin, and put me in right standing with him. So I have the capacity to receive his spirit, and to walk with him, and to see him in my daily life. I mean, that's just amazing. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.
But yet, sometimes I still feel limited in my ability to hear him, and my ability to reflect his goodness to the world around me. Why is this?
*2 Corinthians-6:11-12*. It says, we have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our heart is wide open. I mean, we haven't held anything back. It's the same here.
I'm not holding anything back, guys. It says, You are not restricted by us. Another version says, Limited. But you are limited or restricted in your own *affections* or by your own affections. May I see it?
God doesn't limit it. He gives the Spirit without limit. He doesn't limit our ability to hear him. He doesn't limit our ability to reflect him. It says you're limited by your own affections.
What's your affections? What's an affection? It's remember, we talked about it. What I'm affectionate for is what I like, what I'm what I'm fond of. Limited by our own affections.
Paul goes on to demonstrate what he means. He says, Do not be unequally yoked with unbelief. Right after, In return, I speak as to children, "widen your hearts" also. He's saying, open your hearts for this because I'm about to get personal. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness?
Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What he's talking about is relationships. Hey, in your relationships, are is it holy?
Is your affection for people certain your your your affection in that relate is it drawing you into relationship with God or drawing you away? Your affections, the things and the people that you like and are fond of, is that relationship holy or is it a distraction? Because Paul goes into this saying that your affections have the capacity to limit your ability to hear the voice of God and to display the power of God through you, not because God is limiting it, but because your affection is limiting it. Your focus is distracted on something unholy. And God is jealous.
He doesn't want your affection on anything but himself. And when you confessed him as Lord, you are giving him the right for the rest of your life to say, oh, there's an affection that's not for me. Bringing it to the surface and putting his finger on it and saying, will you confess me as Lord over this too? Will you give me this too? Are you more do you like this more than you like me because I want to be the only love of your life.
I wanna be your first and only love, the thing that you're most, and the 1 that you're most affectionate for. And I know, I know that your affection for this, you think that it's nice, and you think that it's good in the moment, but really, it's killing you, and it's preventing your ability to hear me, and your ability to walk with me, and to display me. So it's preventing your ability to walk out the very purpose I created you for. So it's preventing your ability to experience true joy and true peace, and to distribute that true joy and true peace to the world around you. Won't you repent and lay it down and follow me as your only affection because I love you?
God gives a spirit without limit. I don't want any affection to limit him in my life. You know why we hold on? Try to maintain control. Of that thing, that relationship, that habit.
A lot of times, it's because we doubt his goodness. Doubt whether or not giving it to him. Letting go and really following him with all of our heart is good for me. Without faith, it's impossible to please God because you gotta believe he exists and that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. You gotta believe he's good, that it's beneficial to follow him, more beneficial to let go and love him than to hold on.
Because you're holding on, what do you lose? What do you lose when you let it go? What do you really lose? Everything that you weren't supposed to be living out anyway? You lose the very thing that's preventing you from living the fullness of life that God created you for?
What do you gain? The fullness of life that God created you for? Walking in relationship with the 1 that has called you and died for you and rose again so that you could know him and walk with him in every aspect of your life and experience his perfect joy and perfect peace knowing that he's right next to you and no matter what you're going with? What do you lose if you you hold on to it? You limit that manifestation of his goodness and character and nature in your life?
You limit your ability to hear him because of your focus is shifted on something else? What do you gain? Sin that leads to death? God's jealous because he loves you, not because he's egotistical, but because he created you to know him and to walk with him. And so, only way that you're going to live a fulfilled life and do what God's called you to do and experience the joy and the
love and the peace is to let it all go. And he knows that, so that's why he's constantly saying that affection, let it go and put your affections on me because I love you and I want you and I need you because I created you to know me and I want a loving relationship with you. Why don't you let it go? I am a jealous God. Serve me and love me.
Trust me. It's better.
Will the band come up? Paul goes on, he says, I will make their my dwelling among them and walk with them and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Therefore, like so he starts with identity. Like, I'm I'm I'm your God, my people. Therefore, go out from their midst and be separate from among them and "touch no unclean thing".
The rubric is holiness. We receive his *righteousness* in order to pursue him. He pursued us, gave his life for us so that we could receive him. But then, in a loving relationship, 1 doesn't just pursue the other, but
the other receives the love and then begins to pursue them. And then, this this back and forth of God pursued and us pursued. Seeking him, seeking his face, that's what it's talking about. I'm going after the 1 that I love. I'm going after the 1 that I'm affectionate for because I've tasted and seen that He's good, and I don't want anything else but to know Him and to walk with Him because I know He loves me.
And it says, then I will welcome you, and I will be your father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters to me, says the Lord. And then, he drives it home. Next verse, 7 1. Since we have these promises,
like since we're his kids, since that's a promise to us, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. Proverbs defines the fear of God as the hatred of evil. You know why I hate evil? Because I love him.
This is a holy moment. Because church, I believe God's calling all of us to respond. To put our affections on him. Every affection. So that we could live an unlimited life.
Unlimited
knowledge, knowing his voice day in and day out. Hearing him, being led by him, walking with him, the way that Adam and Eve walked in the garden, walking in the cool in the cool of day, he restored our created value so we could walk with him like that. But He went a step further. He He let us take a bite of the tree of life, having Jesus on the inside of us so we could walk with Him in power.
Every day for the rest of your life, the Holy *Spirit* is going to lead you into a a more unlimited life. A life that's less limited in your ability to hear his voice. A life that's less limited in your ability to display his love and power. So, every day, if there's any affection that's not of him, he's gonna bring it to the surface and say, Am I the Lord or is that? He's conforming you into his image because he loves you.
And, when you hold on, it hurts because you're not created to hold on. You're not created to live that way. You're created to live in perfect peace and joy. And when you just live a life of letting go and saying, Yes, Lord, you experience the fullness of life he created you for. So church, a physical, a spiritual response, spiritual decision a lot of times takes physical response.
I'm gonna ask you, if you wanna put if you have affections that the Holy Spirit's lasered in on saying, hey, you're not limited on living an unlimited life in this area, this area, this area, this area. Big, small, it doesn't matter. It's all big to him. He's jealous. I want you to come and get on your knees at the altar.
If that's you, come on. Come on. It's a sign of humility before him. Come on church. Maybe you don't know him and you want to know him.
You want to know the God that loves you and cares for you. You wanna be born again. Come get on your knees at the altar. An altar is a sign of sacrifice. I'm sacrifice you sacrificed your life for me, so I'm laying my my life down back for you.
You are my Lord. Thank you, Father. Take this step. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We're gonna sing worthy of it all.
And as we do, I want you to do business with God. I want you to declare him worthy of it all from your heart. I want you to **"seek his face"** from your knees. I want you to confess that very thing that you've put as an affection before him, that you were liked and fond of over a liking a fondness of him. So confess it to him, give it to him, and then worship him with all your heart.
Because as you do, you're gonna hear him more clearly. You're gonna sense his presence more than you ever have. You're gonna know his voice more than you ever have and he's gonna touch you. He's gonna feel you. Let's sing.