Right Believing Produces Right Living: Three Beliefs That Keep Us From Abundant Life

Thank you for showing up on Super Bowl Sunday. How How many people are planning on watching the game today? Okay. A good Okay. How many Seahawk fans do we have in the room? Okay. Um I I'm just going to I'm just going to tell you this that [music] uh the last time I preached on Super Bowl Sunday, the the Patriots were playing and they lost. So, I just prophetically want to say you uh you're welcome in advance and you can receive the word of God with gladness this morning and and and be anxietyfree. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, let's stand for the reading of God's word. I'm so excited

to get into the word of God together. How many people are thankful for Pastor Keith? Like I don't think we realize what a gift he is. Him and uh Pastor Car in San Diego today ministering at a church. Um yeah, they're not just down enjoying the sunshine. They're down there bringing a Romans 111 impartation to a church in San Diego. So we just bless them, honor them. But I'm so grateful we have a worldclass communicator who fills this [music] pulpit day in. I've been doing this for a long time and I'm telling you, Pastor Keith is like elite. And so I'm so grateful to be able to sit under the word and he's [music] not here today, so you have me. Praise the Lord.

Um, but if you if you Hey, I'm I in in all in all in sincerity this morning, I'm really excited. I believe prophetically that the Lord is going to [music] the word I've been hearing is recommission. Recommission [music] some people this morning. H how many people know you're sovereignly graced, gifted, and called by God? Doesn't just have to be to a platform at a local church. You are sovereignly graced, [music] gifted, and called by God to engage those around you. Amen. And so, I just I just want to tell you, I'm excited this morning as [music] we delve into the word. [snorts] And so, uh, let's look at we're gonna we're going to look at three different, uh, scriptures, and we're going to be bouncing around this morning. The first

is John 20:31. If we could pull it up, I'm going to read it right back here with you. It says, "But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that [music] believing you may have life in his name." Then we're going to look at John 10:10. The thief, everybody say, "The thief does not come except to [music] steal, kill, and destroy. I've come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly." [music] Yeah. And then one more. One more this morning. Romans 12:2. And do not be conformed to this world or the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good,

acceptable, [music] and perfect will of God. Thank you, Haley. Thank you, Haley. Can we just say thank you to Haley this morning? Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you, Jesus, that your word is living. It's active. It's sharper than any double-edged sword. And I'm asking this morning for an encounter with your word. I thank you, Jesus, you are the word. I'm praying in Jesus name. Holy Spirit, you give us an ear to hear. I thank you. You don't have to endorse my words, but you always endorse yours. And so I'm asking Lord that you would touch your beloved. You would touch your people this morning in a tangible way in Jesus name. Come on, if you're in agreement, say yes.

How Yeah, you may be seated. H how many people, show of hands, you had the great privilege and opportunity to grow up next to your grandparents? Is it Is it not the best? Was it not the best? I I would not be who I am today without grandma and grandpa Joanne and Adrian. Like they were Yeah. Shout out to grandma and grandpa. Your favorite grandchild loves you very very much. But they we were in close proximity to my grandparents. And so my grandma would often pick my brother and I up from school or sporting events. And so I'll never forget the day that she picked us up in her brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee.

And we're talking like 1997. Okay. Um and if you still drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee, they're fire. Okay. But I'll never forget rolling into the front seat and her saying, "Brandon, you you've got to check this out. This is really incredible. I said, "What, Grandma?" I call her Grandma M, by the way. Um, she said, "This CD player is incredible." She said, "All you have to do is say hello and it powers on." Somebody's already laugh. I'm like, "Sure. All I have to do is say hello and it powers on." She's like, "No, I'm serious. It's this new crazy technology. Try it." So, I'm 13, 14. I say hello. She's like, "No, no, no, no, no, no. You have to like say it with some force. I mean, it's on the dashboard. You're sitting back here. So, I say, "Hello."

And wouldn't you know it, that thing powers on. And like on the front of the uh the CD player, it says, "Hello across the screen." Hello. Not audibly, but the words. And I'm like, "This is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life." And and I'm not from the city. I'm from the country. Okay. So, it's not like we're used to crazy technological stuff. And this is before Elon, right? And so, I'm like, "This is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life." I talk essentially to the dashboard and the sound system powers on in my grandma's car. So, I remember spending the night at grandma's house and then the very

next day um waking up and being like, "Grandma, can I um take your vehicle just for a a ride around the farm?" Cuz my grandpa's a farmer and they lived on just a ton of property. She's like, "Of course, sweetheart." I mean, my grandma's the best, you guys. Like, don't you know grandma's make the best sandwiches and and and and give the best back rubs, right? Like my my grandma is literally she's like Mother Teresa 2.0. She's incredible. So she says, "Sure, sweetheart." Like, "Take the keys." And so I roll out on the farm because I want to just mess with the CD player. So I get into the car and I immediately say, "Hello," and it doesn't power on. I say hello again and I'm like, "Oh, bro, you just

got to say it a little louder." So I say, "Hello." and it does it's it's not working. So, I begin to raise my voice and then within about 30 seconds, I'm full-blown yelling at the dashboard of my grandma's vehicle. Like yelling, "Hello." And and I'm frustrated and all of a sudden my my frustration just moves into fear. I'm like, "Oh my gosh, I just I probably just broke my grandma's sound system. I'm I'm not kidding. I remember I remember my nervous system. You know what it feels like just in the nervous system when fear just hits you? That adrenaline I'm like my grandma's going to kill me.

And if she doesn't, my grandpa is definitely going to kill me because he's a farmer and he's old school. And so I'll never forget driving back into driving driving back into uh the ranch area and jumping back into the house and being like, "Grandma, I I don't know. I don't know how to say this. Um, but your CD player is not working anymore." And she said, "Honey, what do you mean it's not working?" I said, "Well, I said hello and I said hello and I said hello and I raised my voice and it's not working." Like something happened between the time that we were in the car yesterday

and like when I got into the vehicle here just a little bit ago. And my sweet little grandma, all 5 foot one of her, just starts belly laughing, like belly laughing. And when she stopped, she says, "Um, sweetheart," she said, "when you got in the car yesterday, your brother was in the back, and when you said hello, he had a little remote that goes to the CD player, and he hit power and it turned on." And I remember just thinking in that moment, my sweet, innocent little Mother Teresa grandma just punked 13-year-old Brandon.

And I I remember just thinking, bro, like, you're delusional. Thinking that if you yell at the dashboard of a car, the CD player is going to turn on, right? I'm like, bro. And listen, I'm a prankster at heart, so I actually kind of loved it. Like, if you know me, I'm a practical joker. But I was I was delusional in thinking that if you yell loud enough at a CD player, it would work. And church, I'm here to tell us this morning with all sincerity, grace, and love, okay? that that there are some delusional beliefs we're holding in the western church that just aren't working.

They just ain't working, bro. Okay? There's some there's some beliefs that we're holding on to that are keeping us from experiencing the life of God, the abundant life of God. So, if I was to put a title on this message, and I did, I'd call it right believing produces right living. Right believing produces right living. So John 20:31, these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the son of God, and that by believing, somebody say believing, you may have life. Come on, somebody say life. Life. Like a good charismatic preacher in his name.

Listen, there absolutely is a connection between believing and experiencing the life of God. Okay? And listen, not just believing, but right believing. Okay? Right believing produces right living. Right? believing about who Jesus is, this son of God, this anointed one, this Christo, the Messiah, will absolutely produce the intended life that you and I were designed for. Do you believe that? Yeah. But listen, if we're not careful, if what we're believing about Jesus, Yeshua, or about the nature of God is off, we going at some point, we're going to be like 14-year-old Brandon yelling at the dashboard of a car wondering why it's not working.

Why? Because John 8, the truth will set you free, but only the truth that you know. Only the truth that you know. Okay. Now, John 10:10, if we can pull up John 10:10, tells us that the enemy comes to do what? Steal, kill, and destroy. But Jesus says, "I've come that they might have life and have it in abundance." Now, this word abundance can be uh translated as extraordinary. I like that. Anybody else? Listen, you and I are designed by God to experience the extraordinary life of God. But we have to we have to understand that the primary way that the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy is in the way that you think.

More specifically, in how you think about God in yourself. Because watch this. If the enemy, if he can distort or manipulate even by one degree how you see him and how you see yourself, he can absolutely steal, kill, and destroy the prophetic assignment and mandate that rests upon your life. And you by design are created this morning right here in Bend, Oregon to experience the extraordinary life of God. due to the sheer fact that the one who's living on the inside of you is anything but ordinary abundance. Abundant. Come on, just look at your neighbor. Say, "Right believing produces right living."

No. Romans 12:2. I love Romans. Anybody else love Romans 12:2? Tell do not be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Listen, Paul tells us that we can experience transformation. Transformation with a capital T, okay? By renewing our mind in the knowledge of God. How many people want to experience real transformation in your life? Okay, a third of the room. No, I'm serious. This will change your life this morning. I promise you. It's It's worth the price of admission. How many people want to experience real transformation in every area of your life? Listen, this is the play.

This is the play. Romans, begin to renew your mind in the knowledge of God. This is why Paul says in Colossians 3, set your mind on things above, not on the things of this earth. Okay? How you think, listen, how you think is how your life goes. Some of you should write that down. How you think is how your life goes. To put it even better, Awtoer. So many of us are familiar with this quote. What you think about God is the most important thing about you. What you think about God is the most important thing about you. Have you ever wondered why? Why?

What I think about God is the most important thing about me. Why? Because it absolutely impacts how much of the abundant life of God we'll experience on this side of heaven. What you think about God is paramount because it absolutely impacts the level of extraordinary abundant life that you will experience on this side of heaven, this side of eternity. How you think is how your life goes. I don't know about you, but I'm an experiential Christian. Okay? I want to exper I want to experience that which has been paid for by his death, burial, and resurrection. That which he's procured for me. I want to experience intimacy with the Holy Spirit.

We got to just encounter the presence of God. I do not want to spend my life hanging out at Starbucks talking about theology and not experiencing the goodness of God. Amen. So my question to us this morning is what's keeping us from experiencing the life of God in every area of our life. So I want to look at three primary beliefs this morning. Everybody say three. Three. Uh I'm going to call them delusional beliefs. Okay, if you will. And and and by the way, I want to preface all of this by saying God is so good and that he meets us in our delusion. That's right. In fact, he's already met you in your delusion. Scripture says that you and me, we were once enemies of God in our own minds in the way that we thought about God.

And his goodness met us there. It's the goodness of God that leads us to And what is repentance? Metaninoia. It's to change the way you think. Listen, if you try to have somebody do a 180, we need to renew our mind as it pertains to the word repentance. You try to have somebody do a 180 without changing the way they think first, you develop a schizophrenic Christian culture. because I'm I'm going to try to tell you to come up here and weep and whail every Sunday or every Thursday, but if you haven't changed the way that you're thinking about God and you and that issue, you're never whole.

We have to begin to renew our mind. Somebody say, "Renew your mind." So, I preface all of that to say this. This isn't this isn't shame, condemn. This is good news. Yeah, the gospel is good news. When you hear the gospel preached, you ought to be able to go, "Oh my gosh, that sounds too good to be true." It's because it is. You and I now get what we don't deserve. Anybody's preaching a gospel message that says you're supposed to get what you deserve. Run. Run. This is good news this morning. Amen. Amen. So, the first delusional belief that we're going to unpack is that we're just sinners saved by grace.

Now, this is kind of a review from the last time I preached seven or eight months ago. Who was here the last time last time I spoke? Okay. So, we talked about the difference between cristoism and christologology, right? Christom, this theological word has to do with what what we're going to do with Jesus. We make Jesus famous. We put Jesus first. All good stuff. Christologology is the study of who Jesus is and what he's done with us. So, what has he done with us? He's made us righteous. Come on. Come on. Second Corinthians 5:21. He who knew no sin, come on, somebody help me this morning. Became sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ. Come on. You're righteous and it's not your fault.

And because it's Jesus's righteousness that covers you, you're as righteous as God is righteous positionally before the father. Sanctification now is re renewing our mind in this revelation. Amen. This is good news. I'll never forget I'll never forget um four years ago now uh I had signed a record deal with a guy named Toby Mack and I had turned in a song. Now, when you signed to a record label, you have to turn in songs all the time, and you never hear back. And generally, like your ANR will be like, "Yeah, your name." But I'll never forget November of 2021. I got a phone call from Toby because I turned in this song called Good Mood. And Toby calls and Toby's on the line and he's like, "Bro," and if you know Toby, he's like 60some now, but he talks still like he's in his 20s. He's like,

"Bro," he's like, "I I just wanted to call and tell you this this is going to be a big song for you, doggy." That's he he calls everybody doggy. This is going to be a big song for you. And I'll never forget it because I had just gotten out of the shower. I was wearing shorts and I had one sock on. And I'm like, and then he goes on to say, "And we as a label need to thank you for turning in a song of this kind of magnitude. Anytime we get songs like this, we as a label, we just say thank you." I'm like, "This is the craziest thing ever. Toby is telling me, "Thank you for a song I just turned in." Like, this is wild. And he says, "I hope you're ready because this song is going to change your life. This is going to be a massive, massive song at radio." And so they put me on this radio promotional tour where you go

to radio station to radio just smoozing these program directors like, "Please play my song." And within about a month and a half, we realized that the song was going to tank at radio. was not going to work. Not because it didn't sound good, not because it's not a earworm and catchy. I mean, I think it's I wrote it. I think it's a pretty catchy song, but because radio could not wrap their heads around the theology of the song. It It caused a lightning storm of controversy amongst the programming directors in in the radio community. I'll never forget there was a radio station in Kansas City that added the song. They loved it. The chorus, if you never heard it, all the chorus says is God is in a good mood. Let me just

remind you, his smile stays fixed on you because it's Jesus that he sees you through. I'll never forget this one lady in Kansas City. She loved the song. She's like, "The church needs to hear this." and then dropped the song two weeks later because the largest donor in Kansas City and it was a church said if you keep playing this song Good Mood by this guy named Richland we will no longer financially support this station because we find it to be borderline heretical. I'll never forget sitting down at a restaurant in Franklin, Tennessee with the largest radio network in America

and their two programmers and we sat down at this restaurant and they just began to ask me practical theological questions because they were a bit confused too. And I'll never for guys I'll never forget just beginning to talk about the knowledge of God. the finish work message of the cross. Romans 6, 2 Corinthians 5:21. And it doesn't always happen this way, but within about five to seven minutes, the presence of God just felt like a like a holy hush at our table. And one of them, tears just begin to stream down their face. And and the other just looked at me in the eyes and said, "I've been in the church for 40 plus years, and I've never heard the gospel this way." and I quote, "I I've largely believed that God is disappointed with me, but Jesus has just absorbed his wrath, so I'm okay."

And I'll never forget that moment, just soaking in the presence of God and watching the Lord touch them and then leaving with my team, getting in the van, being like, "They about to start playing the song, bro. Let's go." And they never added the song. [laughter] They were too afraid as to what the large, you know, the large theological net that they have to cast these songs to. They just didn't think it would go over well. Listen, they couldn't believe that God is that good. They could not wrap their minds around the revelation that they've been made righteous. And I'm here to tell us this morning, if we do not wrap our heads around this revelation, we are going to spend the rest of our lives trying to achieve something that was only ever meant to be received.

Um, I I just want to trump it prophetically this morning in this house to those watching by way of live stream, we need to begin to take Romans 6:11 seriously. Paul says, "Consider yourself dead to sin." This this is an indicative. This is an identity issue. Consider yourself dead to sin. Listen, there's some of you in this room, you need to stop trying to resurrect the old you. Some of you in this room need to stop trying to resurrect dead things. Come on. There's no life there. Hello preacher. There's no life. You wonder why you're not experiencing the abundant extraordinary life that God's designed for you.

You're not taking Romans 6:11 seriously. You're not just a sinner saved by grace. You've been made alive in Christ. You're as righteous as Jesus is righteous. What would happen if we begin to take this seriously? What would happen if we begin to believe, God forbid, that we've been co-crucified, co-arried, co-resurrected? Now we're a co-air seated with him in heavenly places. What would happen if we believe that in 2026 I've been crucified with Christ? It's no longer I who live, but today in February 2026, it's Christ who's living through me. What would happen?

I listen I can tell you with certainty this morning we would begin to talk differently to ourselves than the way that we talk to ourselves right now. Y let me ask you this morning. How do you talk to you? It's an honest question. How do you talk to you? You wake up in the when you wake up in the morning you say good morning Lord or you say good lord it's morning. No, in in all seriousness, how do you talk to you? Gosh, you're such a you're such an idiot. If you're a fraud, bro, if people knew who you really were, you don't have anything to give.

You don't belong here. How do you talk to yourself? I think in all in all sobriety and seriousness, I think if we were honest this morning, the majority of us, we're not good to us in the way that we communicate to ourselves. And the majority of us do not feel like we're enough. I spent the majority of my life not believing that I was enough. Couldn't pray enough. Could never fast enough. Could never be in the the scriptures enough. And listen, you're talking to somebody who was on fire. Set his life apart. Two different times before we had children, I took two different sabbaticals for three months and locked myself in a closet for for 90 days straight, 10 to 12 hours a day, just eating the just eating the scroll, meditating the scriptures, soaking in the presence of God. And I came out

every time still feeling like I wasn't enough. Because listen, re religion has one message. try harder. And I'm here to tell you this morning that if you receive the revelation of righteousness, you don't have to try anymore. of the spirit because you're not trying to earn your righteousness. Yes. Because you don't believe that you're just snow covered dung as St. Augustine would say. It's time that we get this right. If we're going to experience the abundant life of God, it's time we get this

right. Right beliefing produces right living. Second delusional belief, and this is a big one, is is that as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, we can still be separated from the father. Listen, Isaiah, if you're in Christ, everybody say in Christ. In Christ, if you're in Christ, Isaiah 59:2 does not apply to you. Okay, Isaiah is saying Israel's sin has separated them from God. Okay, thus the lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world.

This is the gospel, friends. Okay, [snorts] the words of Buddy the Elf. Shocking. Jesus paid for this. Listen, God does not do abandonment. Yes, the father does not do abandonment. There's no separation in the love of God. Colossians 2:9, in him dwells the fullness of the godhead bodily and you've been made complete in him. The fullness, listen, it's the word playma. You've been plomatized. I don't see any separation in that verse. Romans 8:35. What can separate us from the love of God? I'll give you the cliff notes. Nothing.

Nothing can separate. And by the way, God's isness is love. He is love. Everybody say, "God is love." God is love. Nothing can separate you from God. But listen, some of us without knowing it, we've subscribed to a theology called dualism. Dualism is this theological word that implies separation thinking. Okay? And practically, this is what this looked like for me growing up when I got born again filled with the spirit on fire for Jesus. Instead of going and reading Paul, I went and grabbed all these revival history books and revival literature and ate it up. All these charismatic teachers and preachers, men that I love, genuinely love and honor. Okay, here my heart. But so many of them espoused this idea that as a man or a

woman of God, you will go through a desert season in which God will remove his presence from you and turn his face from you. And we call this the dark night of the soul. And listen, in no way, shape or form am I am I saying that life doesn't begin to life at some point, right? We go through hard things. Suffering is real. Trials so real. But never ever ever does the father distance himself from you in those seasons. Good word. And if you or I ever feel distant, it's always on our end. It's never on his.

Listen, when it comes to the presence of God, it's never a proximity issue. It's always just an awareness one. Okay. I'm tired of hearing this folklore theology being espoused. Like we don't even know what we're saying. Often times the church in the west that's not Pauline and it's not Petristic. Guess what? I don't even have to ascend the hill of the Lord. He took me up to a place that's so much higher. And that's not poetic language from Paul. That's ontological language. Yes, you are the real you is seated with him right now in heavenly places. It's it's just a mental turning in my eyes and my focus to him. I'll never forget I'll never forget when I was seven, my mom took me she used to go for these runs and I'd ride my bike.

Anybody ever do that with a parent back in the day? Yeah. And I'll never forget, I was seven and we're in Paisley, Oregon on the Sheiwokan River. And she decided it she decided that it was time to tell her firstborn son that you know who who shows up on December 25th isn't really a who. Just trying to be careful in the room, in case you're still up. Anyways, delusional beliefs. The Lord's drowning them this morning. And my world in a moment, I'm not kidding. And I'm not just trying to be funny. I lost my mind.

I didn't just begin to cry like it was weeping and nashing of teeth. I'm like, "No, no." She's like, "Yes, yes, we're the ones." And my world just my world just fell apart. It's so funny to this day my mom's like, "You were too young. Shouldn't have said shouldn't shouldn't have told should have waited a year." I'm like, "Mom, I'm good." She still needs inner healing. So if you think of Rebecca, pray for Rebecca. She needs a soozo. But listen, I'm so glad that at 40 years of age, I don't wake up on December 25th and wondering if you know who ate the cookies that I put out for him the night before.

I'm living in the truth. And I want to tell you, sometimes it's painful when the truth slaughters your religious cow, but I'd rather be living in the truth. I'd much rather be living in the truth because it's the truth that sets us free. How many people have ever heard the story of uh brother Lawrence, the practice of the presence of God? One of one of my favorite stories, this monk who would have he'd be washing dishes and people of high nobility would come watch him do the dishes because there was such a prophetic atmosphere that he released. They said it was like the glory of God was emanating from his person because he gave his life to thinking, meditating on one thing, his union with Jesus. Just practicing the presence of God, not striving, not trying harder, not fearing if he's separated.

And he would always say, "You're one conscious thought away from the manifest presence of God. transformation even in your intimacy with Jesus. It's renewing your mind in who he is and what he's accomplished for you. Listen, if you're born again, you are not separated from the love of the father. Can't happen. Okay? God is so good. Right believing produces right living. Now [snorts] listen, once you're confident, everybody say confident. Confident. Once you're confident in who you know God to be and who you are in him, you can't help but give your life away. I I I love meditating on these truths, but if all I did was just meditate on these truths and not give my life away to other people, I would not experience

the abundance, the life of God flowing through me. Okay, which brings me to the third and our last our last point here. The third delusional belief that we need to drown this morning, church, is that whatever I'm called to do, God's just going to organically make it happen. Okay. 2 Timothy 1:6-7, just to summarize, Paul essentially tells Timothy, his spiritual son, stir up the gift of God that's on the inside of you. Now listen, scholars will tell you that this would be the last letter that Paul would ever write to his spiritual son. And some will say that Paul actually knew this would be his last letter. Let me ask you a question. If you knew you had one text, one email, one last letter of correspondence to your son or

to your daughter, what would you tell him? What would you tell him? And Paul comes out of the gate exhorting his son in the faith saying, "Stir up the gift of God that's on the inside of you." Listen, this is so good. Strong's concordance states, "The gift of God is regarded as a fire capable of dying out through neglect." The gift of God is regarded as a fire capable of dying out through neglect. It was God's responsibility to deposit that thing inside of Timothy. But it was Timothy's responsibility to stir up the gift. My question to us this morning is why would we neglect our gifts? And listen, when you neglect your gift, you dishonor your gift. That's right. That's right.

When you neglect your gift, you dishonor your gift. Why would we neglect the gift of God? Because right believing is understanding that I'm called as a bloodbought son and daughter to stir up the gift of God that's on the inside of me. That's on me. I believe there could be a number of different reasons, okay? But I think primarily there's two. One is fear. Paul Paul addresses this one. He's like, "Yo, Timothy, like God's not giving you a spirit of fear, but power, love, and a sound mind." Right? And and and I'll just be honest. There's some things that God's calling you to in 2026. Some areas where you need to stir up the gift that if it doesn't scare you, it's not God.

We we we need to learn how to begin to do some things scared again. Run to pressure. Holy Spirit is our comforter. Your little comfort zone is not. You want to you want to get out of that thing. Okay. So, fear's fear is a big thing that'll keep us from stirring up the gift. But you know what I think the primary one is? [music] And this is where I want to land the plane this morning. I think the number one reason that we refuse to stir up [music] the gift of God, we begin to neglect our gift. I I think it's age. I think it's [music] age. Either we're too young or we're too old. Paul addresses the first one. He's like, "Don't let anybody look down on you cuz you're young." I look at these young people here in the front row. These these girls, these guys come up and they're worshiping. And I'm like, man, God, would you just give them grace to stir up the gift? Use them. Use them.

Release them into our own backyard here. Central Oregon shall be saved. We're going to need our young people. Amen. [music] But listen, this this this this one I I want to tell all my seasoned saints who are over 50, I don't care if you're 96 years old in the room today. Paul never gives an expiration on the exhortation to stir up the gift of God. There is no expiration on the exhortation to stir up the gift of God. And and I just I just want to declare prophetically, it's [music] time for some of you in the room this morning to begin to stir up a gift and get back in the game.

My generation needs you. This church needs you. Revival, [music] a move of God in its purest form, is not just one generation. It takes the synergy of the ages, the generations coming to get through. And listen, I'm all about retirement. enjoy your life, but that does not mean that you're ever supposed to just completely stop stirring it up. [music] What what stirring up the thing that God has sovereignly graced and gifted you with? There's something of fulfillment in this abundant life that we will not experience if we're not stirring up the gift of God. And I and I just I just want to tell us this morning, it's time to stir up the gift. This is the word I heard in prayer. Just a recommissioning.

There's a recommissioning this morning in the spirit. It it it doesn't it doesn't matter what happened. It doesn't matter who dishonored you. Do not let what happened or your past or even the old man define what God's calling you to in this season. I'm telling you, I'm telling you this morning, it's time [music] for you to begin to stir up the gift of God. Come on, stand with me this morning. Right believing produces right living. Right believing produces right living. Listen, this is the hour for us as a church to know who we are and to know what we're called to.

You're righteous. You're a new creation. You're a big deal in the kingdom. And now [music] it's time to stir up the gift. I tell I tell guys that I pastor or disciple, [music] I say, "It's time to begin to take the word of God like a supplement. You You do not fully renew your mind by listening to your favorite podcast or listening to your favorite preacher. You have to begin to take the word of God, put it in your mouth, and begin to declare it over your life." So, I have, this is practically how a disciple I tell them, hey, seven times a day, seven times a day, I want you to say, "I am righteous." and it feels so good. I'm righteous [music] and it feels so good. Some people are like, "That's goofy." I'll tell you what's goofy is saying, "I'm an idiot." Seven times a day. The way that you talk to yourself is goofy.

I am righteous and it feels so good. I'm perfectly loved by the father and it feels so good. You start to feel that anxiety creep in. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm righteous and it feels so good. [music] Romans 12:2, as we as we walk out of these doors this week, begin to take the word of God like a supplement. I am and it feels. And then secondly, begin to stir up the gift.