The Sermon Assurance by David McGee
Jun 02, 2013
Assurance (32:19)
Referenced Scriptures: 1 John 1:1-4; John 1:1
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1 John 1:1-4
1) That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
2) (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
3) that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
4) And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
John 1:1
1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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I I'm speaking on. First John and the title on the messages short and assignment. I am an individual. I like John, I mean, there's a lot of lot of writers in the Gospels in a lot of this for writers of the Gospels. There's a lot of things going on in New Testament, Old Testament, but I like to read John's writings. His themes in his description of his descriptive text give us a great insight to Christ, then establishing great comfort in our life and great faith. It's it's a matter of John has this just very unique relationship with Jesus now everyone has a relationship with Jesus and other writers and inspired by God and things like that. Jonathan also Jonathan Ross, author of the book of John, first, second and third John, and the book of Revelation. So it's this guy. That's the guy were talking about and he's still one of the twelve. He's one of the inner circle. He is often referred to as disciple whom Jesus loved at the Last Supper. John is the one who lays his head upon the shoulder of Jesus. I mean, he is a justice incredible person and his relationship with Christ and in these the only that tradition has it, he's the only one to die a natural death. All the rest are beheaded or killed. There's sought in half, coming all the way that you could come up with with the torturing them, and so on. And John is the one who is exiled to the Allapattah this for his sentiments were the book of Revelation is received and he is exiled there at the death island that he is sentenced to die, but they are even in a place of death where he sentenced the dive deck as you can get off the island and it's very good. He receives the revelation of Jesus Christ in the book of Revelation. We have, and it was later on when he's an older older person that he is discharged from the island and dies. Tradition has it, he now died in old age. But as as John we seem to have some declarations. We see this intimate relationship with Christ. Then John wrote to affirm our faith in Jesus. He doesn't even start out and give us these ideas, and I like that we read this, so before number of weeks ago, months ago. Perhaps where John begins his Gospel and the other writings you have all these things going up. And then there's the declaration that Jesus is the son of God or John begins with Jesus is the son of God, he has brought in his God with us, and then he begins to tell us all of the things going on in this and in his life and in his teachings and you find that John wrote to affirm to shore up our faith in Christ, then, and to disclaim and disarm the false teachers who were arising at that time they were coming on the scene and they were trying to say what he really wasn't the son of God, war, he really wasn't born of a virgin, or he really didn't rise in the dad and in all and people were just agreeing to this. And John's writing thing. Now you can't do that you can't take away these truths and he would talk about how that the truth of the gospel in the truth of Jesus Christ are therefore must to shore up our faith in the make our faith strong and so building, then the truth about Jesus, knowing the truth about Christ becomes the foundation that we stand on it is a very safe, solid rock that we are standing on and specifically. First John first John was written to dispel doubts and to build a short first John was to come against the people who were creating doubts in the church and to continue to build upon the faith of the group of the individuals have and he begins and talks about a very clear picture he presents a very clear picture of Jesus Christ. So John leaves no doubt that Jesus was and is God in the flesh. There is no doubt in John's mind that, and in what he writes that Jesus is God is God incarnate, God with us and John declares that he has seen God. He has heard God he has touched God. He has handled God. He's been with Jesus and he has been with Jesus and he gives the loss, this assurance. I've seen him. I've heard him I've touched him, and I have handled the miracles that Jesus performed so John walked. He talked with Jesus and he saw Jesus heal he heard Jesus teach. He watched him die. He saw him risen from the dead he saw Jesus ascended to heaven, he was there on Pentecost, when the spirit of God descended upon the disciples in great power, and John knew God King. I'm not have a point to know what went again to get through the introduction to the main point here. This introduction and something that they would have to affirm over and over and over in our life. Whenever we read the Gospels only read about this message are we read about the writings of John and and and and he knew the display. John knew. You believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the son of God, God incarnate, incarnate human with him. He saw the working of the miracles he heard what Jesus taught about life and about love and about forgiveness. John declares he enjoyed fellowship with God. He declares that he enjoyed friendship with Jesus Christ. John writes that we this is the point. His writings are so that we might have the same friendship. His writings are that we the readers on this right of his writings could have the same friendship with Jesus as John had it be like while the peer name at multiple K I'm sure he would just jump right up until not unlike the mouth-to-mouth area bound by life. They welcome off their monk novices, I would say about a friend I would say about this guy is really good guys really great friend. He does this he does this because this now and EEO. This is what he's liking this looks like the know him. I've been around them for yell three years I've talked with any guys really good guy. Now his name is Steve I give you my friends list. Dave and pencil was going on my impression of my friendship with Steve to any now being off of this friendship with me that now that it's all about. He's a liberal talk. The state pays all these expectations of what Steve is like because I told him Sony expects this is the one Mrs. John telling us in the writings all about Jesus and then he wants us to have that same printer produces. So John is telling us a flight whenever going as long as it's that time again, we know. But when his pot from him and think John beheld him. John talked with Jesus. He was close with him, is for the event. The new intimate conversations, questions, concerns and talk to Jesus with him. And Jesus then was part of this and I think one of them, and I mentioned this before, but I think one of the greatest miracles that the disciples remember is the feeding of the five thousand because they each had a basket case, and they each saw what little Jesus had to start with five loaves and two fishes five flat five flat pancakes into sardines. The floor was the was a salmon that they can't do with fifty thousand Gamaliel, if five flat pancakes into sardines in June of twenty started with and all the disciples around the moment baskets and Jesus begins to divide any Fathi filled all of their baskets. Then they went and fed five thousand plus women and children and then they went back and picked up all the leftovers and they came back with a basketful. They were part of the miracle. That's what I is what John wants us to be aware of in his friendship with Jesus, the right this so that we are coming very now. Oh my gosh you John, you were very near the basket. He filled up. I only five loaves and two fishes in the multiplied them, and he gave your basket and jobs relating this to last any time that's in Waco, will I get to meet him, and then we go and meet Jason John chapter one. First John chapter one where did they come from faith comes from hearing the word of God. What would John say to office and this is the direction of the message today, John the disciple is here now talking to lots. What would John the disciple tell us that would inspire us to want to go on the Jesus John chapter one verse one first John chapter one from the very first day we were there. This is the message Bible from the very first day we were there taking it all in. We heard it with our own years salon with our own eyes. Firefight it with our own hands. Okay, John, is that John is talking about what he saw Jesus do now the disciples are wanting a Messiah, but they are everyone and everyone in Israel wanting a Messiah there praying for Messiah, but even now never false. The science people that showed up at Saddam, the Messiah name the only one that really crazy guy. The street but Jesus comes along and the disciples began to follow him. And Jesus unfolds to them who years three years after three years, they still don't get it because he dies we raise monies risen from the dead. That's when the begins to settle in, begins to make sense and the coming of the Spirit just totally make them aware. So John tells us from the very beginning. We heard it. We saw and we handled it, and from the very beginning God was trying to unfold all of this in our lives and they and they were able to understand all of who he is divine. You don't and they know what the Midas touches with the Midas, the Golden touch every you touch turns to gold. I only wish you had the Midas touch the baby for an hour every day of the regular meeting, I want to& Google will go gold colloidal spenders now don't think the way I will do this now Jesus is not is nothing exists that he didn't create there is nothing that existed, he doesn't create the word made flesh and dwelt among us. He was there in the beginning, before there was a beginning. One one, before the beginning began was God when time began. That was the beginning before time began, there was God. Jesus spoke the entire universe. Everything the stars and the planets in the solar system. He spoke at all into existence. So even then he becomes a man, God becomes man Jesus incarnate. He could have gone around goal similar gotcha in a kind of God around on all that smoke and yell plum tree over there and now, like over there water on the deep meaning of your they would tell them go looking to do this guys argumentation all night. I want you to throw the net. On the other side of the boat. See what happens when it is full of fish Jesus& and that all was not coming to the miracles, but it wasn't. He wasn't here to say wow what a wonderful miracle worker. He was here to give us the message. The word himself, this written word and the word describes McCain. What's now what's while that's what Steve like I lost a step in that mysticism. John is here and he's riding out what you know, this is what Jesus is like I let you know this is what Jesus is like a gunshot. He says the word of life, the word of life. Jesus is life. What happened in the very beginning we created man in our image made them best and bravest in the breath of life and man became a living soul. The word of life to get a breath mankind is Jesus is standing here the word of life appeared right before our eyes. We saw it happen. John saying, I saw this I saw this using the word was there, and the Word was God and the Word was with God and the word of life appeared right before my eyes. If this revelation that John saw Jesus God, their present we saw God. The revelation come into being, and we saw and understood so here is John Day and night, night and day with Jesus and beginning to understand in doing you walk on water, you can open blinded eyes, they can raise the dead, you can have people fishing and get a big net by throwing on the other side. He told Peter to God, and that sufficient pool out of its mouth was a coin and say that which is the better you know those pictures on it. It's dangerous while rendering to Caesar what is Caesar and God was God they got from affairs, he's able to do all this, what's the message that I can rearrange life by my touch you believe God examines not movement is gone or is it easy here the word of life made flesh and dwelt among us, the word. The word wall, the word of God is God. John is telling us it is now and now we're telling you in the most sober prose. We are telling you in the most common of words. This is John telling us. John is sanctified. I'm going to tell you now, in the most easy terms that I can, that we witnessed that eyewitness. This incredible this infinite life of God himself. How this infinite life of God the shape before my eyes. This is John talking to us. I want to tell you in the most simple terms, I John saw God take shape before my eyes, not shape as in shape shifters and snow. But that Jesus standing there in over three years. John says, I began to understand and when she and John is there at the cross. When John is at the cross Jesus says to John. John holds her mother, mother, behold your son is to take care of you. I'm not going to be with you, but Johnny is an Chavez very sees all of this and that, when the resurrection happens in the ascension is a John is now talking to you and I I want you to know why to shape and took form before my very eyes in a matter of three years. I recognize that he is God and what he is saying transcends time and what he instills in my life is beyond knowledge and it is it is God with us. I saw it happen. I put my head on the shoulder of God before they took him to the cross and die. But yet he didn't die. He lives I saw this happen is they are on now telling you in the plainest language possible. I witness this incredible this incredible happening this infinite life of God himself was in front of me. The word that spoke the world into existence the universe into existence. You go back to John's writing, the first Gospel John chapter one verse two things he was with God in the beginning of verse three, throw him work for all things were created without him nothing was created. Can you imagine sitting there and looking over at Jesus and saying going on in your head. He spoke the world into existence he he he is. He's got half an eye. I broke I broke bread with him. I drank from the same cup. He did high was privileged to have dinner with God every day for three years and I didn't realize what it was. But after he ascended all of this began to make sense and I want you to know I let you know that I saw him I saw him die at sunrise. I saw him touch people and their lives were changed, but the word that didn't come to rearrange circumstances, the word came to create life. The word Jesus came to create life and everyone who will listen and listen, I want you, John Sandra was want you to listen to his word, and when you take is wired into your life. You'll be changed. You'll be changed and that word that he puts in your life in your heart, it will change the way you think it will change what you say it will change how you appear it will change what you talk about it will change things that there there is virtuous things you will see them if they are lovely things. He will talk about the RPR things, thoughts and intentions. You'll understand because that word is life. John says the life within us before the beginning began. He was, and now he is and he will be forever and he's in me and I want to tell you I saw it. I heard it. I touched him, and it changed my life and that word inside of us is still creating the word of God that spoke the world into existence. That word of God is inside of us and there is so much power in that word in that person of Christ alive in us. There's so much power in it. Then I can talk, you know in school. They called self fulfilling prophecy what's up of unprocessed property features that the bad boy in you tell them long enough that they are bad. No believe you. My mother believes that I'm a bad boy, my mother believes my parents believe, and they keep telling me over and over again. I'm a bad boy, self-fulfilling prophecy, is there going to become that because of the power of the influence of that person over another. The power of the word of God spoken through us is fulfilling because we believe that God will inspire his word. It are high so that we can talk about it so that we can dream about it so that we can believe that the God who spoke the world into existence. It is still abiding within me and no matter what happens in my life. I can believe what God has told me everything has a way of working out. Not because I believe in stars. Not because I believe in faith because I believe in the God who made the stars who called me to be his child, and I in his for an eternity, and he has worked in my life, and this is an overview this life isn't over yet, and when and as I was safe for eternity because John says I saw him die. I was there I saw him on the cross. I saw him say father and Yahoo. I commit my spirit. I saw him die I saw him stand before me in St. John. Put your hand here, and touch my wounds for which I had here. Luckily my side is not a spirit is flesh and blood, and it's me. John says in this introduction I saw it. I heard it, I felt that I wanted tell you about that so that he can be alive and you and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, the word of God never leave you nor forsake you confess your sins, I will forgive you. Cleanse you from all unrighteousness. All right your name in my book of life, and you will live forever. I have a plan for you. I have a purpose for you while you are yet in your mother 's womb I knew you, I formed you I put the package together and I have a plan for you. Nothing shall ever separate you from the love of God, not height nor depth, the principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things past face in the future. Nothing is not available separate that word comes to life inside of us literally down Waverly, John. It took him three years, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the ascension and the coming of the Holy Spirit and John finally got it, though, that it takes time for this to happen, but it comes he John says I want you to meet Jesus I want you to meet Jesus. This is what he's like. Take received this word into your life. It will change you forever. It will create a new a clean heart, it will renew a right spirit. It will bring no thoughts, no dreams, no house new life because we've only begun to dream of what God can do, and it hasn't even entered into our hearts and minds what God has yet prepared. So get ready there's a new journey coming. There's a new day coming. There's a new purpose in God is at this renewal process, and only the drains of God are big enough to fulfill a life that God is created in his calm to indwell our hearts and lives in an John says come let me tell you about this Jesus does you read first. John is you read it, see what John is telling us about this Jesus, who is alive in him who he saw we heard we talked with who he touched and now ill. He's an older man and a short period of time using the exile to the Isle of Patmos to die, but John never gives up on this infinite dream. This incident reality of who Jesus is and the FBI will have to miss still maintains his wonderful relationship. This island view maintains this wonderful relationship with Jesus. Then as you read the book of revelations, is I don't know if I was in my spirit in my body, or whatever, but this is what happened. That's the relationship that John has with Jesus and he begins to tell us about that in first John chose them. So where it got us come to touch our lives to instill his Word in our hearts and minds as we read his word, it's eternal changes us. I can't make myself change, but his spirit and his presence with me can make all the difference Jesus, but your spirit be upon us, but your words while in us richly, but your spirit. Oh God, take your word and make it alive to us quick enough. So God by your spirit make a alive within us. May we have dreams. May your dreams VNS may we have dreams being enough that we have dreams than enough for the God created the universe. The solar systems. The touch blinded. I fed five thousand plus women and children with five loaves and fish. The God who spoke about love and forgiveness. God help us to see you help us to see you in this realignment update the tenth way all powerful way we pray open eyes, Lord Jesus, we want to see Jesus and open my eyes, Lord, I want to see you and then God bless you some wonderful day. AmenI I'm speaking on. First John and the title on the messages short and assignment. I am an individual. I like John, I mean, there's a lot of lot of writers in the Gospels in a lot of this for writers of the Gospels. There's a lot of things going on in New Testament, Old Testament, but I like to read John's writings. His themes in his description of his descriptive text give us a great insight to Christ, then establishing great comfort in our life and great faith. It's it's a matter of John has this just very unique relationship with Jesus now everyone has a relationship with Jesus and other writers and inspired by God and things like that. Jonathan also Jonathan Ross, author of the book of John, first, second and third John, and the book of Revelation. So it's this guy. That's the guy were talking about and he's still one of the twelve. He's one of the inner circle. He is often referred to as disciple whom Jesus loved at the Last Supper. John is the one who lays his head upon the shoulder of Jesus. I mean, he is a justice incredible person and his relationship with Christ and in these the only that tradition has it, he's the only one to die a natural death. All the rest are beheaded or killed. There's sought in half, coming all the way that you could come up with with the torturing them, and so on. And John is the one who is exiled to the Allapattah this for his sentiments were the book of Revelation is received and he is exiled there at the death island that he is sentenced to die, but they are even in a place of death where he sentenced the dive deck as you can get off the island and it's very good. He receives the revelation of Jesus Christ in the book of Revelation. We have, and it was later on when he's an older older person that he is discharged from the island and dies. Tradition has it, he now died in old age. But as as John we seem to have some declarations. We see this intimate relationship with Christ. Then John wrote to affirm our faith in Jesus. He doesn't even start out and give us these ideas, and I like that we read this, so before number of weeks ago, months ago. Perhaps where John begins his Gospel and the other writings you have all these things going up. And then there's the declaration that Jesus is the son of God or John begins with Jesus is the son of God, he has brought in his God with us, and then he begins to tell us all of the things going on in this and in his life and in his teachings and you find that John wrote to affirm to shore up our faith in Christ, then, and to disclaim and disarm the false teachers who were arising at that time they were coming on the scene and they were trying to say what he really wasn't the son of God, war, he really wasn't born of a virgin, or he really didn't rise in the dad and in all and people were just agreeing to this. And John's writing thing. Now you can't do that you can't take away these truths and he would talk about how that the truth of the gospel in the truth of Jesus Christ are therefore must to shore up our faith in the make our faith strong and so building, then the truth about Jesus, knowing the truth about Christ becomes the foundation that we stand on it is a very safe, solid rock that we are standing on and specifically. First John first John was written to dispel doubts and to build a short first John was to come against the people who were creating doubts in the church and to continue to build upon the faith of the group of the individuals have and he begins and talks about a very clear picture he presents a very clear picture of Jesus Christ. So John leaves no doubt that Jesus was and is God in the flesh. There is no doubt in John's mind that, and in what he writes that Jesus is God is God incarnate, God with us and John declares that he has seen God. He has heard God he has touched God. He has handled God. He's been with Jesus and he has been with Jesus and he gives the loss, this assurance. I've seen him. I've heard him I've touched him, and I have handled the miracles that Jesus performed so John walked. He talked with Jesus and he saw Jesus heal he heard Jesus teach. He watched him die. He saw him risen from the dead he saw Jesus ascended to heaven, he was there on Pentecost, when the spirit of God descended upon the disciples in great power, and John knew God King. I'm not have a point to know what went again to get through the introduction to the main point here. This introduction and something that they would have to affirm over and over and over in our life. Whenever we read the Gospels only read about this message are we read about the writings of John and and and and he knew the display. John knew. You believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the son of God, God incarnate, incarnate human with him. He saw the working of the miracles he heard what Jesus taught about life and about love and about forgiveness. John declares he enjoyed fellowship with God. He declares that he enjoyed friendship with Jesus Christ. John writes that we this is the point. His writings are so that we might have the same friendship. His writings are that we the readers on this right of his writings could have the same friendship with Jesus as John had it be like while the peer name at multiple K I'm sure he would just jump right up until not unlike the mouth-to-mouth area bound by life. They welcome off their monk novices, I would say about a friend I would say about this guy is really good guys really great friend. He does this he does this because this now and EEO. This is what he's liking this looks like the know him. I've been around them for yell three years I've talked with any guys really good guy. Now his name is Steve I give you my friends list. Dave and pencil was going on my impression of my friendship with Steve to any now being off of this friendship with me that now that it's all about. He's a liberal talk. The state pays all these expectations of what Steve is like because I told him Sony expects this is the one Mrs. John telling us in the writings all about Jesus and then he wants us to have that same printer produces. So John is telling us a flight whenever going as long as it's that time again, we know. But when his pot from him and think John beheld him. John talked with Jesus. He was close with him, is for the event. The new intimate conversations, questions, concerns and talk to Jesus with him. And Jesus then was part of this and I think one of them, and I mentioned this before, but I think one of the greatest miracles that the disciples remember is the feeding of the five thousand because they each had a basket case, and they each saw what little Jesus had to start with five loaves and two fishes five flat five flat pancakes into sardines. The floor was the was a salmon that they can't do with fifty thousand Gamaliel, if five flat pancakes into sardines in June of twenty started with and all the disciples around the moment baskets and Jesus begins to divide any Fathi filled all of their baskets. Then they went and fed five thousand plus women and children and then they went back and picked up all the leftovers and they came back with a basketful. They were part of the miracle. That's what I is what John wants us to be aware of in his friendship with Jesus, the right this so that we are coming very now. Oh my gosh you John, you were very near the basket. He filled up. I only five loaves and two fishes in the multiplied them, and he gave your basket and jobs relating this to last any time that's in Waco, will I get to meet him, and then we go and meet Jason John chapter one. First John chapter one where did they come from faith comes from hearing the word of God. What would John say to office and this is the direction of the message today, John the disciple is here now talking to lots. What would John the disciple tell us that would inspire us to want to go on the Jesus John chapter one verse one first John chapter one from the very first day we were there. This is the message Bible from the very first day we were there taking it all in. We heard it with our own years salon with our own eyes. Firefight it with our own hands. Okay, John, is that John is talking about what he saw Jesus do now the disciples are wanting a Messiah, but they are everyone and everyone in Israel wanting a Messiah there praying for Messiah, but even now never false. The science people that showed up at Saddam, the Messiah name the only one that really crazy guy. The street but Jesus comes along and the disciples began to follow him. And Jesus unfolds to them who years three years after three years, they still don't get it because he dies we raise monies risen from the dead. That's when the begins to settle in, begins to make sense and the coming of the Spirit just totally make them aware. So John tells us from the very beginning. We heard it. We saw and we handled it, and from the very beginning God was trying to unfold all of this in our lives and they and they were able to understand all of who he is divine. You don't and they know what the Midas touches with the Midas, the Golden touch every you touch turns to gold. I only wish you had the Midas touch the baby for an hour every day of the regular meeting, I want to& Google will go gold colloidal spenders now don't think the way I will do this now Jesus is not is nothing exists that he didn't create there is nothing that existed, he doesn't create the word made flesh and dwelt among us. He was there in the beginning, before there was a beginning. One one, before the beginning began was God when time began. That was the beginning before time began, there was God. Jesus spoke the entire universe. Everything the stars and the planets in the solar system. He spoke at all into existence. So even then he becomes a man, God becomes man Jesus incarnate. He could have gone around goal similar gotcha in a kind of God around on all that smoke and yell plum tree over there and now, like over there water on the deep meaning of your they would tell them go looking to do this guys argumentation all night. I want you to throw the net. On the other side of the boat. See what happens when it is full of fish Jesus& and that all was not coming to the miracles, but it wasn't. He wasn't here to say wow what a wonderful miracle worker. He was here to give us the message. The word himself, this written word and the word describes McCain. What's now what's while that's what Steve like I lost a step in that mysticism. John is here and he's riding out what you know, this is what Jesus is like I let you know this is what Jesus is like a gunshot. He says the word of life, the word of life. Jesus is life. What happened in the very beginning we created man in our image made them best and bravest in the breath of life and man became a living soul. The word of life to get a breath mankind is Jesus is standing here the word of life appeared right before our eyes. We saw it happen. John saying, I saw this I saw this using the word was there, and the Word was God and the Word was with God and the word of life appeared right before my eyes. If this revelation that John saw Jesus God, their present we saw God. The revelation come into being, and we saw and understood so here is John Day and night, night and day with Jesus and beginning to understand in doing you walk on water, you can open blinded eyes, they can raise the dead, you can have people fishing and get a big net by throwing on the other side. He told Peter to God, and that sufficient pool out of its mouth was a coin and say that which is the better you know those pictures on it. It's dangerous while rendering to Caesar what is Caesar and God was God they got from affairs, he's able to do all this, what's the message that I can rearrange life by my touch you believe God examines not movement is gone or is it easy here the word of life made flesh and dwelt among us, the word. The word wall, the word of God is God. John is telling us it is now and now we're telling you in the most sober prose. We are telling you in the most common of words. This is John telling us. John is sanctified. I'm going to tell you now, in the most easy terms that I can, that we witnessed that eyewitness. This incredible this infinite life of God himself. How this infinite life of God the shape before my eyes. This is John talking to us. I want to tell you in the most simple terms, I John saw God take shape before my eyes, not shape as in shape shifters and snow. But that Jesus standing there in over three years. John says, I began to understand and when she and John is there at the cross. When John is at the cross Jesus says to John. John holds her mother, mother, behold your son is to take care of you. I'm not going to be with you, but Johnny is an Chavez very sees all of this and that, when the resurrection happens in the ascension is a John is now talking to you and I I want you to know why to shape and took form before my very eyes in a matter of three years. I recognize that he is God and what he is saying transcends time and what he instills in my life is beyond knowledge and it is it is God with us. I saw it happen. I put my head on the shoulder of God before they took him to the cross and die. But yet he didn't die. He lives I saw this happen is they are on now telling you in the plainest language possible. I witness this incredible this incredible happening this infinite life of God himself was in front of me. The word that spoke the world into existence the universe into existence. You go back to John's writing, the first Gospel John chapter one verse two things he was with God in the beginning of verse three, throw him work for all things were created without him nothing was created. Can you imagine sitting there and looking over at Jesus and saying going on in your head. He spoke the world into existence he he he is. He's got half an eye. I broke I broke bread with him. I drank from the same cup. He did high was privileged to have dinner with God every day for three years and I didn't realize what it was. But after he ascended all of this began to make sense and I want you to know I let you know that I saw him I saw him die at sunrise. I saw him touch people and their lives were changed, but the word that didn't come to rearrange circumstances, the word came to create life. The word Jesus came to create life and everyone who will listen and listen, I want you, John Sandra was want you to listen to his word, and when you take is wired into your life. You'll be changed. You'll be changed and that word that he puts in your life in your heart, it will change the way you think it will change what you say it will change how you appear it will change what you talk about it will change things that there there is virtuous things you will see them if they are lovely things. He will talk about the RPR things, thoughts and intentions. You'll understand because that word is life. John says the life within us before the beginning began. He was, and now he is and he will be forever and he's in me and I want to tell you I saw it. I heard it. I touched him, and it changed my life and that word inside of us is still creating the word of God that spoke the world into existence. That word of God is inside of us and there is so much power in that word in that person of Christ alive in us. There's so much power in it. Then I can talk, you know in school. They called self fulfilling prophecy what's up of unprocessed property features that the bad boy in you tell them long enough that they are bad. No believe you. My mother believes that I'm a bad boy, my mother believes my parents believe, and they keep telling me over and over again. I'm a bad boy, self-fulfilling prophecy, is there going to become that because of the power of the influence of that person over another. The power of the word of God spoken through us is fulfilling because we believe that God will inspire his word. It are high so that we can talk about it so that we can dream about it so that we can believe that the God who spoke the world into existence. It is still abiding within me and no matter what happens in my life. I can believe what God has told me everything has a way of working out. Not because I believe in stars. Not because I believe in faith because I believe in the God who made the stars who called me to be his child, and I in his for an eternity, and he has worked in my life, and this is an overview this life isn't over yet, and when and as I was safe for eternity because John says I saw him die. I was there I saw him on the cross. I saw him say father and Yahoo. I commit my spirit. I saw him die I saw him stand before me in St. John. Put your hand here, and touch my wounds for which I had here. Luckily my side is not a spirit is flesh and blood, and it's me. John says in this introduction I saw it. I heard it, I felt that I wanted tell you about that so that he can be alive and you and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, the word of God never leave you nor forsake you confess your sins, I will forgive you. Cleanse you from all unrighteousness. All right your name in my book of life, and you will live forever. I have a plan for you. I have a purpose for you while you are yet in your mother 's womb I knew you, I formed you I put the package together and I have a plan for you. Nothing shall ever separate you from the love of God, not height nor depth, the principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things past face in the future. Nothing is not available separate that word comes to life inside of us literally down Waverly, John. It took him three years, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the ascension and the coming of the Holy Spirit and John finally got it, though, that it takes time for this to happen, but it comes he John says I want you to meet Jesus I want you to meet Jesus. This is what he's like. Take received this word into your life. It will change you forever. It will create a new a clean heart, it will renew a right spirit. It will bring no thoughts, no dreams, no house new life because we've only begun to dream of what God can do, and it hasn't even entered into our hearts and minds what God has yet prepared. So get ready there's a new journey coming. There's a new day coming. There's a new purpose in God is at this renewal process, and only the drains of God are big enough to fulfill a life that God is created in his calm to indwell our hearts and lives in an John says come let me tell you about this Jesus does you read first. John is you read it, see what John is telling us about this Jesus, who is alive in him who he saw we heard we talked with who he touched and now ill. He's an older man and a short period of time using the exile to the Isle of Patmos to die, but John never gives up on this infinite dream. This incident reality of who Jesus is and the FBI will have to miss still maintains his wonderful relationship. This island view maintains this wonderful relationship with Jesus. Then as you read the book of revelations, is I don't know if I was in my spirit in my body, or whatever, but this is what happened. That's the relationship that John has with Jesus and he begins to tell us about that in first John chose them. So where it got us come to touch our lives to instill his Word in our hearts and minds as we read his word, it's eternal changes us. I can't make myself change, but his spirit and his presence with me can make all the difference Jesus, but your spirit be upon us, but your words while in us richly, but your spirit. Oh God, take your word and make it alive to us quick enough. So God by your spirit make a alive within us. May we have dreams. May your dreams VNS may we have dreams being enough that we have dreams than enough for the God created the universe. The solar systems. The touch blinded. I fed five thousand plus women and children with five loaves and fish. The God who spoke about love and forgiveness. God help us to see you help us to see you in this realignment update the tenth way all powerful way we pray open eyes, Lord Jesus, we want to see Jesus and open my eyes, Lord, I want to see you and then God bless you some wonderful day. Amen