UNBROKEN - Pastor Kyle Self

[00:00:00] Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message. [00:00:06] God is good. [00:00:08] Man. [00:00:09] If you've never been through anything, you can take that testimony with you, that God's with you through everything. Oh, Father, we thank you just for another opportunity to minister to your people, to minister your word, and to bring revelation knowledge into their lives. We thank you, God, that you have protected us, you have guided us, you have strengthened us, you have blessed us to be a blessing to others. So, Lord, today, may you continue to be a light in people's lives. In Jesus name. Amen. Now, there's a lot going on in this space. Today we have a competition next door to see who is the fittest and the strongest. I'm glad that I've already won that competition and I don't have to compete anymore. Praise the Lord. But as we have a lot of movement today, I hope that you can focus on this message. Because this message series, I didn't know if I was going to start it this morning or not because last week we talked about no opinions needed. If you haven't gotten or was not here for that message, we're gonna have that on podcast this week, and you can go to our podcast and listen to it. We're gonna figure out how we're gonna do that. Me and Simon praise the Lord, but we're gonna get that done for you. And so. But this morning, I was gonna speak on righteousness before I started this series. And then God led me to just go ahead and jump right in into this message series called "Unbroken" or "The Unbroken". Now I got to explain the heartbeat behind this series before I get started. I've been going to church for 20 some odd years. 22, 23 years, 20-24 years. I've been going to church for 24 years, and some have been going longer than me. But in church, I've noticed. Now, please understand my heartbeat. I believe we come to church for healing. But church isn't just a hospital. Church is a place where we can find revelation knowledge to become a community. And if we're always coming to church broken, why would I keep going to a doctor that keeps me remaining sick? And so, in 24 years, I've noticed that Christians come with a lot of things going on in their lives, and they come with the same things happening in the same mindsets and the same enemy. We have the same phrases. We say things like, you know, the devil is trying to stop me. A testimony of me being right with Christ is the level of my persecution. All these phrases that we use to justify problems in our lives. And I don't think we need to justify problems. I think we need to expect promises. [00:03:27] Amen. [00:03:29] I think we need to be in alert expectation for good in our lives. If we're in alert expectation for the devil in the bush or the demon in the street or whatever else, then we're only alert to negative. We're not alert to God's promises. And whatever we focus on, we give power to. [00:03:53] Amen. [00:03:54] So as we go through this series together, I don't want you to feel ashamed or guilty for the things that's going to come out, okay. I don't want you to feel like, oh, I'm broken and I'm not supposed to be broken. No, this is not about brokenness to unbrokenness. This is about the revelation of old things are cast away and all things become new. Your past is no longer your prison and your problem is no longer your perception. What we have is a promise from God. Can I say that again? Your past is no longer your prison and your problem is no longer your perception. A lot of times you can listen to people about what they're perceiving in life because their problem is on their lips all the time. And it just gets to me. I'm like, man, I just can't listen to you because I want a faith builder in my life. But I'm called to walk with you and I'm called to be your friend and your brother, so I've got to be here with you. I can't just negate you, but I want to see Christians stop being broken bulldogs and start being faith filled, Holy Ghost filled, joyful people. We should be the most joyful people in the world because we know where we're going. We should be the most joyful people in the world because we know who wins. So what, what they did in the Olympics, who cares? I don't. I ain't watching the Olympics. Well, you should be. No, I shouldn't. Y'all win in all the water sports anyway. Praise the Lord. So, life. Let's talk for a minute. Life is often a journey filled with trials and tribulations. Can anybody agree with that? We encounter moments that fracture our hearts, our minds, and our spirits, leaving us in a state of brokenness. However, there is a profound sense of healing that many find through our faith in God. Through their faith in God, this sermon series explores how divine intervention mends our brokenness, you know, offering us solace and renewal. [00:06:14] Amen. [00:06:16] I mean, they spend thousands to millions to billions dollars a year on pills to take to make you feel better and people to talk to to help you keep coming back to try and resolve the same thing. Christ has called us that in a world full of challenges, we are often grappling with our feelings, our inadequacies, our brokenness, our despair. But the message of Christ. Come on, somebody hear me. The message of Christ brings us to profound hope and transformative healing. [00:06:51] Amen. [00:06:52] In Christ I have hope and transformation. [00:06:57] Amen. [00:06:59] All right, I'm going to say it again. In Christ I have hope and transformation. In Christ I don't have despair. In Christ I don't have guilt. In Christ I don't have condemnation. In Christ I have healing, hope, joy and transformation. Through his life, his death and resurrection, we are made whole and restored and unshaken. [00:07:29] Come on. [00:07:30] I'm going to say that again. Through his life, his death and his resurrection equals us being made whole, restored and unshaken. Last week I got up here with a buck. I had a bucket tear in my meniscus. I said, had. Did you hear me? I had a bucket tear in my meniscus. I had to wear a knee brace up here. Or was it two weeks ago? My first week back on Sunday and we were watching YouTube videos for praise and worship. Praise God. We had our praise and worship team this morning and there was nothing keeping them from being up here. Hallelujah. And I'm up here leading worship through YouTube, dancing around with a knee brace on, saying, oh my God, how am I going to do this? I went away to do some work and I'm thinking, oh my God, how am I going to do this? And he said, when are you going to ask me how you going to do this? I said, okay, lord, how are you going to do this? He said, well, Kyle, you say all the time that you fight from healing instead of for healing. So you're acting like you need a healing when you have a healing. So why don't you fight for from your healing instead of for your healing? Let your faith shift from a broken mindset. It's broken. Yes, it's broken. But let your faith say it is healed. Let your faith say it is mending. Let your faith say that it is going to be reached and touched by God. [00:08:50] Amen. [00:08:52] So it healed and I didn't have to have surgery. And God is good. [00:08:58] Amen. [00:09:00] What's up, little fella? How you doing? Oh, he's so cute. What's it, what is that? What's the baby's name? Benjamin. Benjamin. That's a good name. Now, listen, y'all don't need to be embarrassed. I love babies. I preached with babies in my arms before. Listen, y'all, let that baby run around, do whatever it wants to do. Because his name is Benjamin. He's great. And call to the Lord. [00:09:26] Amen. [00:09:27] Hallelujah. That's probably why he named him Benjamin. It's because God gave a word over his life. [00:09:32] Amen. [00:09:33] Hallelujah. Good to see you back, brother, by the way. Amen. So. But let's talk about the nature of brokenness and why it's such a problem inside of our faith. So I wouldn't be preaching a message on unbroken if there was not brokenness in the body of Christ. We need a revelation. Somebody say revelation? We need God to reveal to us that we do not have to remain broken, traumatized and triggered by everything that goes on in our lives. [00:10:08] Amen. [00:10:10] I mean, I'm triggered. Me, too. I got war syndrome. I had war syndrome. PTSD. What do we call it, Patty? Ptsi. It's an injury, not a disability. [00:10:25] Amen. [00:10:26] I was diagnosed with that, and if I keep identifying with it, I'll keep having it. [00:10:32] Amen. [00:10:34] But the more I identify with my healing, the nature of brokenness is to remain broken. Human brokenness stems from the original sin. Did you know that this chasm that separates man from God, this separation, often manifests as guilt? See, when you're broken, you feel guilty that you're broken, right? Well, I'm not as happy as Pastor Kyle. Well, you only see in my highlight reel. You don't get to see me behind the closed doors and out in the backyard and crying in the shower. I need Jesus just like you. I've just decided not to remain broken. [00:11:13] Amen. [00:11:15] A lot of times, brokenness comes out as guilt. It comes out as shame. If they only knew my past. If they only knew what I've done. If they only knew what I've been through. If they only knew what I'm doing. Can I tell you something? God said that I take your sins and throw them as far as the east is from the west. And the only one reminding you about your past is the devil in you. [00:11:37] Amen. [00:11:38] God is more concerned about your next step than your last step. Can I tell you that again? God is more concerned about your next step than your last step. Amen. So we can let shame dictate the next step through brokenness, or we can let faith override fear, and we can take the step in the direction of God. So, brokenness has various forms of personal and collective suffering. You ever seen someone self sabotage? They just can't handle it to be good. I used to be a person that was like, I'm just a trench person. I'm a soldier. I roll up my sleeves. I'm in the trenches. I'm in the chaos. Well, the problem about being a trauma nurse or a trauma pastor or a chaos person is that when things are good, you don't understand it. [00:12:34] Amen. [00:12:35] You actually are waiting on something to break because things always break. Can I tell you again? Be in alert expectation for good instead of alert expectation for brokenness. [00:12:50] Amen. [00:12:51] Well, you know, they gonna leave, pastor. Well, people come in and out of church all the time. Well, you know, they ain't gonna be a faithful friend. As soon as somebody else offers them something that you don't have, they gonna move on. People do all the time. I'm not here to. I'm not here to worry about who's coming and going. I'm here to worry about what the spirit's coming and going and doing, you know? And wherever the spirit is, that's where I'm gonna be. I find it funny when people leave a church, we think they've left our lives, huh? That is a broken thought process. When people leave the church, they just still welcome my house. They still welcome at my events, they still welcome on Sundays my baby dedicated. I ain't having no more babies, by the way. They welcome every part of my life. [00:13:38] Amen. [00:13:40] They didn't leave you. God moved them somewhere else. It's a broken mentality to exit people out of your life. [00:13:53] You hear me? [00:13:55] It's a broken mentality to exit people out of your life just because they've left where you are. Loyalty is. Is not staying where you are. Loyalty is saying, I will be a cheerleader for what God is calling you to do. [00:14:13] Amen. [00:14:15] We try to mend brokenness with earthly solutions. And, you know, they are a good start, but without the revelation of Christ. I like what Claire and Jules do because they don't just use earthly solutions, they use natural earthly solutions with supernatural revelation. And they combine those two together so that people can heal from their trauma and get a revelation of who Christ is. Well, that's not faith. We know what it is. It's using the spirit and taking the tools that God gave us in the world and the tools of the Holy Spirit to see people made whole. [00:14:54] Amen. [00:14:57] But when we try and use earthly solutions alone, true healing eludes us. That's why we need spiritual healing first let's look at where spiritual healing starts. It starts with a revelation of forgiveness of sins. All right, so forgiveness of sins. Christ's sacrifice on the cross says the penalty of our sins. First Peter 2:24, that he pays on the cross the penalty of our sins first Peter two and 24. Can we go to that scripture? He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right by his wounds. You were healed. You are healed. You might be healed. Does that say are the revelation in first Peter two and 24 is that you are healed from the dominion of sin. The devil made me do it. The only person choosing to sin anymore, once you've come to Christ, is you. Now what is sin? It's missing the mark. Now, why does God tell us not to do things? Cause I wanna explain today. Maybe you're here today and you're new Christians, or you're not saved and you wanna know more about what this is? Listen, God doesn't tell us not to do things just cause he's got a set of rules and he's a Billy stick cop and he's like a cop, you know, you drive without insurance, they're gonna charge you a lot of money. Drive without your license, they're gonna get on your phone, they're gonna give you a big old charge here in Australia. Trust me, I know. Praise the Lord. God is not someone looking to give you a fine for your mistakes. He has paid the fine. He has paid the price for the mistakes you're going to make. What he's looking for is for you to turn away from those things because those mistakes have a result that are no good for your life. [00:16:52] Amen. [00:16:52] Well, why can't I have sex before marriage? Well, because there something happens when two people get. They can say that it doesn't, but it still does. Something happens when two people get together and there's a connection and a mingling of the souls. That happens when two people get together. And the reason we want that to be in covenant so that you're not giving pieces of yourself to all these different people. And brokenness means that when I'm with a bunch of partners, I'm breaking a piece of myself off to someone and to another and to another. And then I find my someone and I'm trying to take what's left and gather what's been broken off and give them something broken into my marriage. That is the reason why God said no sex before marriage. He didn't say because he didn't want you to have. He created it for married folk to have fun. Leaving that right there. [00:17:36] Amen. Amen. [00:17:41] So sin is not just rules that you shouldn't break or you're gonna catch a fine or God's gonna kill you. He's not Zeus. That's what the pagans created to rule people. He wants you to have an abundant life. Life. And life more abundantly. [00:17:54] Amen. [00:17:56] So spiritual healing comes when we have a revelation of when we are healed from sin. When we accept him, we are forgiving, freeing us from guilt, shame of the past and our mistakes. Let's look at Ephesians one and seven. He is so rich in kindness. Somebody say, he's so good to me. He's so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his son and forgave our sin. He forgave our mistakes before we even made them. Now, let's clean this up just a little. Does that mean I can go do whatever I want? Oh, well, you know, if I was out at the club last night and I got drunk and I woke up with coyote ugly next to me and I gnawed my arm off to get up to come to church. I am that pastor that talks this way. By the way, I came to church, does that mean God's good with me? No. That still means you need to repent. That's still. See, your forgiveness has been given to, but your direction needs to change. Can I say that again? Your forgiveness through the blood of the lamb has been given. But if you are a saved, bought, blood bought, holy, ghost filled person, it's gonna be hard for you to make those mistakes in the first place. That's one. Two. You need to repent and have a change of heart and mind and direction. God's good with you. But I'm gonna tell you what, just like my sons, when they don't clean their room, I'm good with them. But they better clean that room. I'm not gonna kick them out of the house for breaking rules, but they better clean their room. I have rules that are for their maturing and their spiritual and physical growth. That's why I have these rules. And God, who is greater than me, has these same rules. [00:19:35] Amen. [00:19:36] Is this good? God has purchased me and gave me freedom from my past mistakes. Anybody that's made some big mistakes in your life, can you just say hallelujah? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm going to go hallelujah. Hallelujah. And hallelujah. I'm going to look like, because God is so good. Spiritual healing also starts when you have reconciliation with God. See, sin separates us from God, but Christ bridges the gap. [00:20:09] Amen. [00:20:11] Through his death and his resurrection, we are reconciled with God, restoring our broken relationship. Verse 18. Whoo. Let's go to the next verse. And all this and all this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us the task of reconciling people to him. Sin separates us through his death, resurrection, we are reconciled with God, restoring our broken relationship. Second Corinthians 5:18 through 19. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer accounting people's sins against them, and he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So what is my responsibility now? Is it to remain broken? Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. I see a fit person. I want to know what gym they go to. [00:21:12] Amen. [00:21:14] You know what I'm saying? I see a happy person. I want to know where this ate at, because food is the happiest thing in the world. [00:21:22] Amen. [00:21:24] And if somebody's talking about the movie they just watched, I'm like, what's the name of it? I want to go. But when someone's like, uh, yeah, my life sucks. The devil, you know, he's riding my bag. And I'm praying all the time, though, and I go to church, I'm like, I ain't going to your church. My goodness. If someone was sick, and they've been sick for 15 years, would you tell them to change doctors? Yes. Well, I just need to change churches. No, you need to change your revelation and change how you perceive Christ so that you can walk in the wholeness of reconciliation and go spread that message to me. Christians, so many Christians only pipe up when there's a problem. Christians I ain't heard from in years. I'm talking about years. Look at the blue man on the Paris Olympics. Look at the girl that represents Jesus with the crosshair. Who does she represent? You have done. People have done more talking about what the devil's doing than what God is doing in the last five days. Then I don't care about all that. Spread me some good news. [00:22:37] Amen. [00:22:38] I watched Pastor Stephen Furtick on Easter. He wore a $2,000 sweater. Well, praise God. It looked like his grandma's curtain. Let him preach in it. [00:22:48] Amen. [00:22:49] But let's give me some good news. [00:22:53] Amen. [00:22:54] Give me some good news. Broken people are always spreading bad news. [00:23:05] Amen. [00:23:07] This is how bad my life is. This is how bad my mama was to me. This is how bad my friends are. This is how bad my job is. Make some changes, either in your perception or your position in life, through the revelation of Christ. [00:23:21] Amen. [00:23:23] Because the next spiritual healing we need to have is we need to realize we're new creations. [00:23:29] Amen. [00:23:30] When we accept Christ, we become a new creation. Our old broken selves are transformed and we are given a new identity and purpose in him. Let's look at two Corinthians 5 and 17. This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone and the new life has begun. Now I'm going to talk real adult. We got any little kids in here? All babies. Okay, good. Listen, when Mary Magdalene came as a, the Bible says in the new king James as a whore. Amen. And when her sins was forgiven and Jesus said, go and sin no more, she was no longer a whore. She was a messenger for Christ. [00:24:06] Amen. [00:24:07] You're no longer a drug dealer. You're no longer an addict, you're no longer an alcoholic, you're no longer a womanizer. You're no longer a failure. You are somebody new in Christ, and your new life has begun to quit, letting the chains of your past anchor you to your current position. We are anchored to our past and we're trying to move forward. We get a little. You ever seen somebody, they're doing really good and they just get to the end of that chain that they're anchored to. Boom, and they bounce right back to where they were. You have got to unshackle yourself through the revelation of Christ, to unanchor yourself from the past so that you can keep moving forward. That can come through prayer, that can come through your revelation and salvation, that can come through counseling, that can come through spiritual advisement. We're going to empower the whole church today at the connect counter on how you can receive the help you need. [00:25:10] Amen. [00:25:11] I hope I didn't speak too big. Did I say the whole church? Yeah. Hmm. Well, God, Christ can do it. Amen. Our broken selves. All right, so look at this. Christ's sacrifice. You understand what I'm saying? His old life is gone. We have peace. Let's not go there. Christ's sacrifice. Christ's sacrifice on the cross is the pivotal event that changes everything. His life was the beginning of sowing a seed into the ground. His death was the germination. That seed had to happen. It had to die so it could produce life. If anybody understands agriculture, a seed goes into the ground. It dies. Then heat, and something happens and it fuses and it becomes life. It grows a root and it sprouts. Christ had to go into the ground to produce fruit in this world of himself. [00:26:22] Amen. [00:26:24] Oh, Jesus. It was a pivotal event when he was resurrected, just as it was pivotal when he was born. His death was just the seed going into the ground. That was the power being taken back. And by willingly taking our sins, he bridges the gap between humanity and goddess. [00:26:45] Amen. [00:26:46] His atonement, his sacrifice, his payment for our sins. Why does he have to pay for our sins? Cause we no longer have to wear the weight of our shortcomings. When you fail in life, does it feel good? So the world is performance based, right? Yeah, it's performance based. It's do good, get good. Do good, get a promotion, don't do good, get fired. [00:27:16] Amen. [00:27:18] Isn't it good to know that there is someone in the universe that is for you? When you make mistakes, doesn't that give a little hope so that when you fail and everybody else leaves you, that there's one that won't? That when you're not exactly what he wanted because you're not a size zero or you're not exactly what she wanted because you have a keg instead of a six pack. [00:27:48] Amen. [00:27:50] That there is still someone that calls you a masterpiece. You're not. Who said you had to have a six pack anyway? You want one, you have one. Thanks, Jack. I know you got one. Yeah, thanks, John. I know you both got one. It's okay, you're young. What happens when you get older? Gravity sets in. You can no longer eat what you want. [00:28:14] Come on. [00:28:14] Some over 35, shout out, amen. [00:28:17] Amen. [00:28:19] Enjoy it while you can, lads. [00:28:21] Amen. [00:28:21] But who said? Who said? Do you know that back in the day, being skinny would have not been promoted? You know, right now, I'd be a king somewhere on this planet because of how round I am. Do you know that they would call me the most masculine man in their tribe? So the world dictates what's acceptable, but God takes you in all shapes and sizes. [00:28:47] Amen. [00:28:48] Who is telling you that you're not fit for a relationship? If that person doesn't like you for who you are, they're not meant for you to go into covenant with. [00:28:58] Amen. [00:29:00] If that person is constantly trying to change you, then let them change themselves first. [00:29:05] Amen. [00:29:07] I love the fact that through Christ's sacrifice, the weight of our shortcomings is no longer for us to bear alone. The cross symbolizes the ultimate act of love and selflessness, providing the antidote to our inherent brokenness. So do you know that through the cross, that through Jesus you have an antidote? You have healing for your brokenness that you do not have to remain broken. Through Christ. Somebody say through Christ. Through Christ. With his sacrifice in place, we can begin our spiritual and emotional journey as well. See, our emotions sometimes have us instead of us having them, and we need emotional healing along this journey. Do people get emotional? I bet you did on the drive here. I bet you did when you couldn't get a parking lot this morning. [00:30:10] Amen. [00:30:11] Or when they. When they had shut the coffee and you drove here thinking you were gonna get a coffee and you didn't have a coffee and to go out and get one. Emotions can get ahold of us, and we need healing because we need peace and comfort. Through Jesus, we find peace and comfort. Jesus promises peace that surpasses all understanding. When we are anxious or burdened, he invites us to cast our cares on him, and he will give us rest. Let's look at John 14:27 for a second. I am leaving you with a gift. Okay? When someone leaves you a gift, let me say this. If I gave this to you, right, do you now have it? Do you possess it? Okay, then everything inside that gift is yours, right? So let's think about that for a second. Jesus said, I am leaving you with a gift. That means you currently have it. Somebody say, I have it. And that gift that you have is peace of mind and heart. If you are not at peace in your mind and heart, then you're unwrapping the wrong gift. Because the world, let me say the world, will hand you gifts as well. It'll be full of malice and condemnation and gossip. And if you unpack that gift, it will challenge the peace of mind and heart that you have. And it's like, well, what do you do with it? You throw it away. It's not a gift I want. Think about what just happened. How many times do you receive things that are not from God? You're broken because you receive from broken things. Stop receiving from brokenness and receive from Christ alone, and then give that reconciliation to others. See, see, when you're seeking approval, that's a broken mindset. You need man. That's fear of man. You need man to tell you that you're good. Christ has given us a gift, peace of mind. And this peace I give you is a gift the world cannot give. You are approved by God. You need no more approval. I mean, on your job, when you put an application, you got to show up, do the work. Yes. [00:32:35] Amen. [00:32:38] But you need no more approval because God has approved of you. You do not need to be afraid, because God has given you peace that the world can. So don't be troubled and afraid. Let's look at one. Peter five and seven. Give. So you've received. Give me that box. Now. Jeremy threw this box, but Christ said, I want what you threw away. Give it back. He said, I will give you beauty for the world's ashes. I will give you dancing for mourning. Amen. I give all your worries and cares to God. And he, because he cares for you, he doesn't care what you're offering. He has something for you. He's not looking at what you have to offer. He says, give me what you have and I'll give you all that I got. [00:33:29] Amen. [00:33:31] Hallelujah. Is that good? Look at Matthew 11:28. That's a good one. That's a good one. Then Jesus said, but here's the key. Jesus said, come to me, all who of you who are weary and carry heaven burdens, and I will give you rest. See, some of us have been carrying the wrong box, and it's starting to. And we've been. We've been. Can I borrow the. Is it hooked up? Is it hooked up? That's great. Well, it's got a chain to it. That'll be oop. No, don't worry about it. This is great. We start carrying things that limit us. We're carrying baggage that's not meant to be ours. And what we need to do is set some things down, give them to God so that he can give us rest from carrying things that are of our shortcomings. [00:34:24] Amen. Amen. [00:34:29] Come on, somebody. Because God is mending or binding our broken heart, God takes your shattered heart and he begins to molded together. And there's just a simple thing that you got to do. There is a simple thing that you got to do. Huh? You got to simply. Matthew 11:29. Take up his yoke. Lay your yoke. Your yoke is what, like a harness the things you're pulling through life. And life is heavy. You got to take off the yoke of heaviness and put on the yoke of righteousness. You got to take off the yoke of past promises and hurt. And you got to put on the promises of God because he wants to give. Let me teach you, because I'm humble and gentle at heart. And I will find, and you will find rest for your souls. Your mind will begin to find rest. How many people can't sleep because of all the things you're thinking about? [00:35:32] Amen. [00:35:36] Let's go to verse 30, for my yoke is easy to bear, and my burden I give you is light. God is binding the broken hearted. Psalms 147, three tells us that God heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds. Jesus emphasizes with our suffering and provides comfort and healing to our emotional wounds, truly walking out a life of restoration and redemption. Let's look at psalms 147 and three. Let's just read it. Let's see it in front of eyes. He heals not. He will. He heals. He's healed. He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. If you're feeling lost at heart, anxious, there's a spiritual mending that has to take place inside your spirit. And then there's a revelation that has to take place in your mind so that you can begin to perceive things differently. And then there's some mentoring that has to take place so that you can start living a life of wholeness. [00:36:43] Amen. [00:36:45] So there's three things that got to happen. You can't just come to church and go, yes, I'm saved. You got to come to church. Go, yes, I'm saved. Let God do the spiritual mending. And then once you find revelation in your mind, you got to have mentorship to walk out this new way of living. That's why we go to Bible study. That's why we come to church, so that we get some discipleship, some mentorship on how to walk out this new way of living. [00:37:11] Amen. [00:37:13] So one of the things we have to do to walk out unbroken is to live a life of holiness through sanctification. Living in the wholeness Christ offers requires us to accept and eternalize his love and forgiveness. This transformative power allows us to, what? Forgive ourselves and others. When we walk in the fullness of Christ, we can give forgiveness, and we can receive forgiveness, and we can do it freely. Just as Christ has forgiven us. We are called to forgive. This releases us from the change and grudges of bitterness. Anybody? Bitter. Bitter. My mom was so riddled with bitterness over my. My father, my real dad, who left her for another woman. Even when she got remarried, she would still talk about my old dad so much. And even when my real dad died, it just wasn't enough. She was so bitter and so angry that it shaped how she would interact with people, and especially Menta. Bitterness and unforgiveness, if not unresolved, through all these things, we've talked about will be await into your life. [00:38:29] Amen. [00:38:30] We need mentorship in these areas and we need mentorship in another area. To walk out this life of wholeness and live this life of wholeness in Christ. We need to find purpose. [00:38:43] Amen. [00:38:46] You know, not having meaning in your life is like a balloon without air, a gun without bullets, a car without gas, keys without a home, a ring without someone to put it on. Call them your wife or husband. You need to find purpose. Our lives take on new meaning when we align our actions and goals with God's plans. You want to read more about that, go to romans twelve, one and two. Another way that we can experience this wholeness and walk free from this brokenness is that we can. What? Experience peace, man. Peace. He is the prince of peace. He is the author of peace. He is our peace. Jesus. You know, when things don't go exactly as planned, I used to blow up and I would think, where's Eli? Is Eli somewhere? [00:39:39] Yeah. [00:39:39] There you are, bud. Yesterday something didn't go as planned and my blow up was about, what, 30 seconds? What you said, I'm in it. You can tell on me here. It's okay. Five minutes high felt like 30 seconds of me, but it used to be all day. It used to be all week. My blowups used to be long, loud and large. Now they're just like, all right, come on, boys. And peace comes in because peace should be our choice over our ambitions and anger. Peace, Christ. Peace transcends over earthly trouble. When the bill's due and you ain't got money, listen, go to work. You'll get paid at the end of the week and you'll pay what you can and you'll do what you can. Don't let problem make you sit still and paralyze your life. Let God's peace allow you to move forward. Give it. Because this peace gives us inner serenity amidst external chaos. One of the things about living a life that's unbroken is we can actually spread love, you know? Have you ever been crippled in love? I mean, church folk go through it all the time. I mean, I've got people that have been with me since the beginning. I came here eight years ago and there's only two of you left. And it's like at one point we all said, well. Well what? Four. Four left at one point. There's probably more under ten. And, you know, we at one point said, I just get tired having to get to know new people because they're just going to leave anyway. That's a broken mindset when your purpose is Christ. When you're walking in wholeness, you can reflect Christ's love through acts of kindness, compassion and justice. You're no longer looking at the past and what other people did. You're not looking at what happened before. You're looking ahead to what Christ can do now. And you have a new opportunity with people in your life to actually experience good. See, alert expectation for good is unbroken. Alert expectation for bad is a mindset of brokenness. Come on. But we also have something even more precious. We have eternal life and eternal wholeness. Through Christ, we receive the promise of eternal life. John 316 the ultimate healing ensures that we will one day live forever in a place with no more pain, no more suffering or brokenness. Let's look at John 316. I know we know it, but let's look at it. For this is how God loved the world. He gave his one and only son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. Let's look at Revelations 21:4. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever. Come on, people. That means that we have complete restoration. Right now you are whole. Somebody look at your neighbor and say, you are whole. Now let for those people that need to hear it this way, and it's okay to hear it this way, and it's okay to say it this way. Look at somebody next to you and say, you have the opportunity for wholeness. [00:43:19] Amen. [00:43:20] In the new heaven and new earth, God promises to make all things new. Revelations 21 five, where we will experience perfect wholeness and communion with him. And the one sitting on the throne said, look, I am making everything new. And then he said to me, write this down for what I tell you is trustworthy and true. Man. Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody. Look. Perceive. See. With eyes of faith, I am making everything new. So I always pick the wrong guys just because you're looking with the wrong eyes. [00:44:05] Amen. [00:44:06] I always take a job that I regret taking. It's because you're looking through the money you want to make instead of the career God wants you to take. [00:44:15] Amen. [00:44:16] Let God lead you. [00:44:20] Amen. [00:44:20] Come on, somebody who in summary, Christ heals and makes us whole by bringing forgiveness, reconciliation, peace, emotional and physical healing and ongoing transformation with the promise of eternal life. Through him we are restored and made complete. [00:44:43] Amen. [00:44:45] Oh. So what do I do if I don't feel whole right now? Remember, I said, salvation comes with a promise, an opportunity for wholeness. So if you don't feel whole right now, you actually need. You actually need. What you really, really, really need is somebody to sit with you and help you see the wholeness that you have opportunity for. [00:45:16] Amen. [00:45:18] You need to go to Bible study. You need to go. You need to go sit with somebody that's not going to sit there and tell you no. That's not how you should think. I love those Christians. You shouldn't talk that way. Well, I feel that way. I'm going to talk this way. [00:45:33] Amen. [00:45:34] That sound country enough for y'all? Sound like Beverly hillbillies. [00:45:37] Amen. [00:45:39] Sometimes people need to know that it's okay to feel, but they need to know what to do with those feelings so those feelings don't become direction for their life. And when we teach people how, those feelings no longer have to dictate direction. They know how to overcome, they know how to heal, and they truly, truly, truly, truly know how to walk out the promises of goddess. Stop telling people that they shouldn't feel or think that way. Well, life and death is in the power of the tongue. It's when the mind and the tongue and the heart are in agreement that the words you say have power. [00:46:15] Amen. [00:46:17] So if my mind is telling me no, I'm not going to do that right now. If my mind is telling me no, but my heart is telling me yes. [00:46:25] Amen. [00:46:27] My mind, my mouth will sound confused. My mouth will speak confusion. There's no power in confusion. But when my mind and heart have aligned, the words of my mouth have power because they have direction. And we need our heart, what we believe and what we think to align so that our words have direction for our life. In Christ, we find the true antidote for our brokenness. His love, his sacrifice, his resurrection provided not just a temporary fix, but a complete transformation. Not to be conformed to religion, because religion is just an outworking of what one believes, but to be transformed through relationships. See, what you don't realize is when I got married and Tina said, you ain't gonna talk to me that way no more. I loved her enough to say I ain't gonna talk to her that way no more. When she said, I like walks on the beach, she still tries to get me to take walks on the beach. When she said I like sailboating, I said, it makes me sick. We found a way to go sailboating. Hallelujah. [00:47:46] Amen. [00:47:46] We didn't have to go too far, and it was nice but when you love somebody and they love you because of the love they give you, you make a change through that relationship. You can't make these changes through religion because you're gonna be constantly changing what you believe. But you can make these changes through your relationship with Christ. We are no longer broken. We have an opportunity to respond to this opportunity for wholeness. We have an opportunity to be redeemed. We have an opportunity to be ready to live out our God given potential. Embracing this truth allows us to walk in confidence, purpose, and deep seated joy. I met a pastor in Florida. He had cancer. He'd been through hell. Him back, Mandy. But for the last four years, when we've been down there, maybe, I don't know, six years. But we've only been down there three times. But in the last six years, we've been there three times. He's went through people dying in his church, young people dying in the community, him having cancer and then cancer coming back. But never once did I see him without a smile because he had deep seated joyous. When cancer came back, he asked God, God, am I going to die? God's reply says, read your bible, stupid. Everybody dies. Why do we fear death? We're all going to die. Man has once appointed to die, but we're so afraid of dying that we forget how to live. Oh, come on, somebody. We're so afraid of dying that we forget how to live. God's been talking to me lately. He's been saying, Kyle, stop, pause, look, see, listen, feel, hear, desire, want, touch, speak. You have the availability to do all these things and to truly enjoy life, let's realize that we have deep seated joy in Jesus. So with every head, every head bowed and every eye closed now only respond to this if you want to. You know, some of you I know, and some of you I don't. And there's no pressure here. Religion can't save you. Only Jesus can. If you're here this morning and something is tugging on your heart and you want to take a chance to try this, Jesus, every head bowed and every eye closed. Come on, everybody. Can you just lift your hand and say, I want Jesus? Thank you. Thank you for the hand. Thank you for the hand. Thank you for the hand. Thank you for the hand. Amen. [00:50:45] Thank you for tuning in to today's message. To connect or find out more, you can reach us online at "worldchangers.life". Remember to subscribe for more uplifting messages from our pastoral team, and may you continue to walk in faith and transformation until we meet again.