What Are You Hiding? | Francis Chan

I I uh I've pastored in Seami Valley for the last 16 years and believe the Lord is leading me to something new. Still not sure. In fact, even last night, uh my wife as we're flying home from Florida last night, she just said, you know, do do you think maybe the Lord just has you in a season where you don't really have a home and maybe you just were just called to float around and encourage the believers for a period of time before we start the next thing.

And and I go, that's weird. That's totally what I've been sensing lately. And and it's just kind of a unique time in our lives where we're going, we could just land in any city, in any country, and just go, let's just stay here for a few years, or let's just stay here and do this.

Because all my life I've said, okay, I'll go anywhere for the Lord. But I've never really been freed up to do that. And you know, I've always been careful not to get ourselves in debt because I want that freedom just to go wherever and do whatever and and uh and just be open to the spirit.

So, it's been a really, really fun season um in my life. And I I've just had a blast today getting to know the church and and hanging out with you guys. Um but but if I'm totally honest, I I was uh just in between just after the last service um in Brit's office and just praying.

Uh I I haven't been at total peace um with the last two services. I mean, they went well. Everything was great. the word of God was taught and I believe that good things have happened and I believe it was a spiritfilled time. But you know those times when you just go there's just something else.

There's something else and um uh so if you don't mind I'm going to go a little bit of a different direction this service and you can get the tape from last service if you want and go okay that's what everyone else heard. Um but here's what hasn't been sitting well with me.

Um when um is it really Pastor G? That's what you guys call him. >> Okay. All right. Pastor. Yeah. I wasn't sure. But uh you know when he was telling that story about Britt and all um and the words he said about me, it uh it it was it was hard to hear because because the last few weeks um and and even yesterday on the plane ride home, I uh I had a real time of repentance before the Lord.

I was reading through Philippians and um I I I love that time on the plane, you know, just I I don't know that just the cell phone can't go off. No one can bug you and and uh you know, the person next to you is a Christian, you don't have to witness.

And you know, you just like, okay, and I was with my wife, so I was pretty safe. And uh and so I just, oh, I can just have some time uninterrupted with the Lord, you know, and just reading his word and reading through Philippians. And I got to Philippians 3 and um which is not the passage I preach this morning but when he says indeed I count everything verse 8 as lost because the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.

Um where where Paul just talks about his love for Jesus. The what I was saying about just beamed out of Brent Brent Britt you know what just just beamed from his face and from his words. is like, "Oh, this guy loves Jesus." You know, I he he just loves him.

He just loves him, the person. And as I was reading through Philippians, this passage hit me because it was just time for the Lord and I where I was going, Lord, you know, I've been totally sidetracked. I've been distracted. I've been thinking about, okay, what's my future ministry going to look like?

I'm I'm feeling all this pressure. I got to land somewhere. Everyone's asking, "Where are you going to land? What are you going to do?" And so, I'm I'm thinking this. I'm thinking, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? What am I going to do?

And I really have neglected just that I love him personal relationship with Jesus. And as I was I was reading Philippians 3 and he just says I count everything as loss. Man, nothing else matters. It doesn't matter that you know you've got this ministry here, this ministry here.

It doesn't matter that uh you know even even with the family and we had some great family time together and stuff like this. But but and another another issue with me is I I love to play. I I love to play. Like if I could surf and golf every single day, life would be wonderful, you know?

Like I just like to play. And then you I just find myself entertaining myself. And the last few weeks have just been kind of a time of laziness. And not that it's not okay to to go and hang out and then and mess around. I I think we need times like that occasionally.

But you also know when you know what I I here I am focused on all these other things, finding pleasure in things outside of God, just being lazy, and then I read these words of Paul and I go, "H, what happened to me?" You know, isn't it weird how quickly, like a few weeks, a few weeks of not just being deep in the word and deep in communion with God, and you begin to fill your life with other things, and suddenly you start craving all these other things other than Christ.

And it's almost annoying because you'd think, gosh, Lord, if I've been walking with you this long, can't I just a few weeks like, you know, and still be close to you? And it's not. It's it's like a daily and and you thank God for that, you know, but but it's it's it's just amazing how quickly that that that relationship with him can get uh not severed, but it just you start getting more and more distant.

And so I I just felt like I I got to confess that to you as I confessed that to the Lord yesterday and really just begged him to restore that relationship and that I would have the self-control and the the willingness to wake up early, the willingness to dig into his word because I know he's better.

I know he's better than all those other things. And it's just been a time where I haven't loved him with all of my heart, all my soul, all of my mind. And so I think that's been bugging me the last two services to just uh kind of take that uh statement and say, "Oh, here's a guy who's in love with Jesus."

And go and not say anything, but be honest with you and say, you know, the last few weeks uh not so much. Um it's it's I'm not in gross sin or anything like that. It's just that whole I I think you're you're tracking with me those times when you just start loving other things that aren't necessarily evil things.

They're just not Christ. And you don't consider the other things rubbish. In fact, you think, well, that's kind of cool, too, and that's kind of cool. And and here Paul was as he as those words just jumped out at me last night. I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord.

For his sake, I've suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

So, let me ask you this morning. Um, what are you in love with right now? I mean, here there's my garbage before you. Um, let me ask it a different way. What's the biggest lie in your life right now? What's the biggest lie in your life right now?

You you don't want anyone else in this room knowing you've been hiding it. And probably when I asked that question, boom, the answer was right there for a lot of you. You didn't even have to think much because because you know what you've been hiding. passage that comes to mind as I was in the office just a moment ago was was that letter that Jesus writes to the church in Sardis where he makes this statement in Revelation 3:1.

He says, "I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you're dead." where Jesus made that statement and here's Jesus the son of God who who just says listen you've got this reputation you you let someone introduce you as this man who's so in love with Jesus okay you got the reputation but I know the truth about you it's amazing he says to this church man everyone thinks oh you guys in Sardis you're so alive you're so on fire for Jesus you're so in love with him he goes but the truth is is he goes I look you.

I'm God. He goes, I'm the one, you know, remember that that I'm the one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. He goes, I I I hold the churches in my hands. I see everyone in you. He everything about you. It's it's Psalm 139:1 where he says, "I've searched you and I know you."

See, I don't know. I don't know any of you. And and I could try to spy on you. I could try to ask the people around you and try to find out and I could search you. That word Psalm 139:1 searching is like digging trying to find a buried treasure looking for something.

I could search into your life and still not know the truth about you. And you could be just like that church in Sardis where you have this reputation for being alive, being in love with Jesus, and yet Jesus himself says, "But but I know the truth." And the truth is is you're not alive, you're dead.

And that passage always hits me because as a person who communicates, I can communicate anything I want. Most of it's not that hard to lie, you know? I I mean, I I grew up in Detroit and I spent a lot of my life lying, stealing. See, I didn't grow up in Detroit.

I just lied to you. It It's just that it's it's just like, wow, that was hard. You You just We can all do it. We can all pretend we're something we're not. And what we end up doing is we we build these reputations for ourselves, right? We communicate to people who we want them to think we are rather than who we really are.

And uh and that's what was going on here in Sardis. It says, "Wow, you've got this reputation, man. That church in Sardis, they're so fired up. They're so good." And honestly, man, you guys have a great reputation. I mean, why I reached out to Brit was because of the reputation of Reality Church, because of what you stand for. and I praise God for you.

Great reputation. Now, whether it's real or not, only God knows. Um, but but but think about it. Let's say, let's say right now, let's say I went to like some people that are close to you and I interviewed them and I said, "You know what? Tell me tell me about what's your name?"

Yeah, you Richard. Okay. Tell Tell me about Richard. You know, tell me about Richard's life. Okay. If I if I went to your friends, your neighbors, your family, your workplace, and I, you know, people in the church and I just started interviewing, hey, tell me about tell me about you and I asked them about you.

I want you to think right now the people closest to you, what would what would they say about you? If I went to them and said, "Tell me about this person. Tell me about her. Tell me about him." Think through the things they would say. You got some thoughts in your head what they would say.

Okay, let me ask you a second question. If right now I could go into the throne room of God and speak to God himself. If I could have a face-to-face conversation with the holy God who knows everything about you. And I said, "You tell me about Richard. You tell me about Lisa, Tammy, whatever your name is."

What would he say about you? Would I get the same answers from people than I would with God? Or would the people say much more flattering things about you and good things about you than God would? Because that was true of Sardis. The people would have said, "Oh, you kidding me?

That church is the greatest. Here's the people there. They're in love with Jesus. They're this, this, this, this, this." And Jesus comes along and says, "Man, that's great. You got them thinking that, but here's the truth about you. You're dead." And I look at that passage and I go, man, people have said some very nice things about me.

And at the end of it all though, there's one person who knows the truth and I stand before him. And that's why Paul says, I I don't care who judges me. He goes, I I judge myself. My conscience is clear. Even that that doesn't make me innocent. It's a Lord who judges me.

And I just want you to think about that. Not I'm not not, you know, judging anyone here. I'm just saying if what others say about you is is is pretty different from what God would say, chances are you've been far more concerned about your reputation than your character.

And you want people to think that you're a certain type of person rather than being honest before the Lord. And please believe me when I say this. I am the I'm one of the last people in the earth that will judge you. I I I just I I just felt like I need to share this because I remember times I remember a period in my life specifically when I was so deceptive and and I would come into church and we'd sing these songs and I wouldn't have a real peace. like I'd sing it and it it was kind of there but but because my sin was with me, it's like when you're you're you're like David where where he says it felt like my bones were wasting away inside of me.

You know, in Psalm 32 and Psalm 51 when he talked about those times when he held sin in and it was just like h everything's aching inside and and and you're miserable because you have the Holy Spirit in you and so you don't really enjoy like when you're when you're in your sin, you don't really like it.

I mean, you like it and you enjoy it, but it's not a total, oh, this is great because there's so much guilt because of the Holy Spirit being in you. And then you come to church and you try to worship and you enjoy it, but not totally because your sin is with you and you know you haven't repented.

You know that there's still this this fakeness about you and and you're not loving the Lord with all your heart and soul and mind. And so when you're in your sin, you're not totally fulfilled. when you're you're you're trying to worship or or or pray, you're not totally fulfilled because your sin is with you and it's like you're in this weird gray area, never really fulfilled.

And I remember those times and just, you know, just like David says, "Oh, then I finally just confessed it. I finally just let go of it. I finally was just like, "Okay, here it is. Here's the truth about me." And he says, "Ah, it's all the life came back."

But I remember those days that, you know, someone would say to me, those times when someone would go, "Hey, Francis, I need to talk to you about something." I remember my heart would just start pounding, going, "Oh no, did they find out?" You know, anytime someone would say, "Hey, hey, I need to talk to you."

And your heart just starts pounding. And then later on they go, "Yeah, I want to know what you're doing next Friday night." And I go, "Oh, good, good. That's all you you know what I You know what I'm talking about. That's why you're laughing. You know those moments when they say I got to talk to you and you're just like h do they know?

Do they know? Do they know? Cuz I'm hiding something. And as I thought about that and I thought about this morning, I just thought that's my point in bringing this up is that freedom that comes when you just go, "Here it is. Here's the lie. Here is the lie.

We've all been there. >> Come on. We've hidden it." and you let it go and you go, "There it is." It's like, "Okay, there. I said it. I move on and I'm forgiven." Um, accept the grace of God. We confess our sins to one another so you can be healed.

Um, or you can go on pretending and have the reputation of being alive like that church in Sardis. Um, I remember doing this camp. Um, and again, you need to take get the tape from the last two services. It's good message, but I I'm just going somewhere else right now.

Um, one of my greatest times in ministry was doing this high school camp in Colorado. It must have been seven, eight years ago, and I still remember it where I talked about honesty. something similar to this. And uh when I was done, I sat down and the leaders of this conference, you know, probably massive 500 600 high school students and the leaders come up to me and they say, "We feel like the Lord wants us to do something different this tonight that we've never done before."

Like, "Okay, go do it." He goes, "No, I we think you're supposed to go up there with a microphone and just invite kids to confess their sins to everyone. They don't have to, you know, make sure they understand. They don't have to, but maybe some of them want to.

Don't worry, we're not doing it here." Everyone's like, you know, um but uh but but but he said, you know, maybe maybe there's just for some people that have lied to a lot of people, maybe they just want to get it all out. and and I'm like, "All right, I'll trust you guys.

You know, you're the leaders of this thing. I'm just here to serve you guys." So, I grabbed the mic and said, "Hey, your leaders asked me just to hold a mic up here." And maybe some of you want to confess to everyone. You don't have to. The Bible says you got to confess to the Lord.

And the Bible does say confess your sins to one another, but that doesn't mean everyone. Um, and even all these strangers. I said, "But maybe you'll want to." And, uh, this uh this guy gets up first, you know, a high school kid. And you know, it's kind of wonder who's going to go first.

And this one kid walks up and goes, "Um, you guys, I I was cussing the other day." I'm like, "That's it? Okay, sit down." You know, um, you know, it was a safe one. Uh, but but then uh but then this, you know, another guy gets up and he starts sharing about um being addicted to pornography.

And then uh this gal gets up and she starts sharing about this relationship she's in that's gotten really physical and she knows it's absolutely wrong in the sight of the Lord and just confessing it to everyone saying make sure I end this thing because I've known it's wrong for a long time.

A couple more people shared and then I remember this one kid came up and this is what I'll never forget. big guy, you know, from Texas where they're all cornfed, you know, and uh and this, you know, his senior in high school, big old guy. I guess he was one of the leaders in the in the youth ministry.

And and he starts confessing. He goes, "A lot of you guys have no clue who I am." He goes, "When I was a freshman, you guys already saw me as a leader in our youth group." And uh he goes, "Meanwhile, I was looking at pornography the whole time, but just hid it."

It was my sophomore year. I started uh messing around with this girl and pretty soon we started sleeping together. Meanwhile, I led a Bible study on campus, a public school, and everyone saw me as this great Christian leader. And he just starts crying. He goes, "Last year, my junior year, I started getting uh real tempted by homosexuality." and um didn't tell anyone about it.

Then I started just engaging in it and then he could hardly even speak. He goes, "It got so bad I tried to talk my little brother and then he just couldn't even say another word." And I'm holding this mic going, "What? What? What are you What are you saying in front of everyone?

High school students. What What are What are they going to do?" And immediately like 30 or 40 of these high school students just stood up where they were and just rushed the stage and started hugging this guy and crying with him and and praying over him. And I remember just just standing there just just shocked by the whole thing going what what would possess a guy before his senior year to just just throw all of that out there.

But at that moment it was just like he was so tired of lying. He was so tired. He didn't care what anyone else thought. He just goes, "Man, I just got to be honest. I got to just let it all out. Here it is. Here's who I am."

And and I tell you, it was it wasn't just that moment. It was what happened the rest of the night as they went back to their cabins and everything else. It was revival just broke out. I mean because that's that's what happens when people because once he confessed that everyone was like, "Okay, I killed two guys."

You know, I you know what I mean? It's like, "All right, here it is." It it just took this this honesty like, "Wow. Wow. you just threw it all out there, laid it all out, and immediately there was just this outpouring of honesty. And it was like, "Wow, this is so refreshing.

This is so amazing. This is so beautiful." Um because the truth is is there's secrets in this room. No one wants their garbage up on that screen. And and yet we start laying some of it out. we realize, okay, in this room there's some there's some hurting people and there are some serious lies in here.

Man, I know for 16 years I've had people shake my hand and say, "Nice sermon." Um, and then years later, you find out what was really going on in their lives and you go, "You hit it. You hit it." And and and it's weird. We we play it's it and I'm a people pleaser, man.

I like people to like me. Yeah, like this and that, you know, and so, but you got to you got to have this picture of this this this big God, this this God we fear, this this being that we come before at the end. And that's what Jesus was saying goes, recognize who I am.

And while everyone else says, you have a great reputation, I know the truth about you, that you're dead. And as I I read that passage in in Philippians where where Paul says, man, I I I count everything as loss. And he just says, "I just want to know Christ, man.

Everything else is garbage right now. I It's all rubbish. I don't care how famous I am. I don't care how much I did, how much I accomplished, all my righteousness." He goes, "It's all rubbish. I just want to know Christ." Is that true of you? I mean, is it is it really Christ that you love right now?

Is it him that you desire? And I don't mean this concept of God like some of us are in love with this concept that there's a being up there all powerful who's shown us grace. I'm not saying that. I'm saying him, not loving the concept, the idea of God, the idea of forgiveness.

It's it's it's loving Jesus himself, the very person of God. Are you in love with him? And I saw, you know, as a the whatever slides were going on in the beginning, you know, one of the books that was up there was Piper's book, God is the Gospel.

Um, beautiful, beautiful book, but deals with that very issue, you know, and he asked this question. And he goes, "Man, if you could have heaven with everything, you know, I can't word it perfectly, but you know, no pain, no sickness anymore, all the physical pleasures you've ever tasted, all the best foods you ever had, no trials, all the most beautiful scenery, but Christ was not there, would you be happy?"

You know, would you be content? In other words, is it the stuff that he offers that that that you love and want, and of course, we want that stuff. But or is it is it him? See, God himself, he's the gospel. Jesus himself, it's like, oh, to have Jesus, to have the son of God, such a powerful yet such a loving and graceful and merciful God.

Oh, I love him. I love him. I love him. And that's what Paul's saying. I just want to know him. I It's It's not just all the theology I want to know. It's not just this great ministry I want to have. I just want to know him. And he says, "And I and I want to know the power of his resurrection."

Don't you want the power of his resurrection to to say, you know what? I all this other stuff, man. I just know there have been times in my life when I experienced his power, when I experienced him. And it's the real thing. I didn't manipulate it. I didn't force anything.

It was just like, wow, that was serious. Holy Spirit power that's beyond any other pleasure on this earth. It's just I experience God. Is that still the longing of your heart that you want to know him? You want to know his power? But then he goes on and he says, "And may share in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death."

See, I I would have amen the first two, but then you get to that third part where you go, "Oh, man. I want Christ so bad. I want to share in his sufferings. I I want that fellowship that I would have as I suffered with him." You see, we can uh get in this mode where we're like, "Okay, I want Christ, but not that much Christ."

Honestly, I I remember being a Christian in high school when I first gave my life to the Lord. I I remember one of my first prayers was, "God, I just I don't want to lose my friends. I don't want to lose any popularity, you know. It it it it took a while to get here, you know.

Um, and now that I've not that I was like the most popular kid in school, but it's just cool to have some friends. And uh, I was like, "Okay, Lord, just don't let me lose anything now that I'm following you." Um, and I didn't I honestly I didn't want to be like Jesus.

I didn't want to be rejected. I didn't want to be like Christ. And the beautiful thing was no one told me I had to be. You know, I just thought, okay, good. I'm going to be this cooler version of Jesus where the holiness, you know, I just don't want to be rejected.

I don't want to be spit on. I be nailed to a cross. And no one told me I had to be. You know, they didn't say following Jesus meant literally following Jesus. And they didn't tell me, you know, that anyone who claims to know him must walk as Jesus walked.

They didn't tell me that Jesus says if the world hates you, keep in mind it hated me first. They didn't tell me that that Jesus says, "No servant's greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they're going to persecute you also." They didn't tell me 2 Timothy 3:12 that anyone who anyone who desires to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

They didn't tell me Philippians 1 29, for it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ, you should not only believe in him, but also suffer for his sake. They didn't tell me that. They didn't tell me, you know, that that that First Peter 4 says, "Do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you as though something strange were happening to you."

They just said, "Just just pray this prayer and then raise your hand and you get to go to heaven. Right? And they didn't lay it out and say, "No, you're you're saying you're going to follow Jesus." And following Jesus means you become like him. It means you become you may be rejected like him, but then you'll be glorified like him.

And uh and and in in this desire for Jesus himself. I just didn't want to go to hell. That was it, you know, right? Let's be honest. I mean, most of us, I don't want to go there. All right, I'll I'll I'll raise my hand and uh I'll come forward if you want.

Um but but you realize as you go on in life and you read this book for yourself, you're going, "Okay, he's called me to follow him." That's what the you know, he's called me to die to myself and that's what baptism is. And follow him, pick up my cross and follow him.

And to see him is so valuable that you go, "Oo, I just got to have Jesus. I want to know him. I want the power of his resurrection. I want the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings. I I just want it all. I want to become like him in his death."

And because we all want to become like him in his glory. And again, I just I I ask you to just be honest with God today and say, "God, I I'm not wanting some of that. And I I haven't had that desire for you so much. I've wanted comfort.

I've wanted pleasure. I've wanted all of these other things far more than I've wanted to know you. And that's what I believe the Holy Spirit has led me to share with this service and to give you some time. We're not going to have an open mic to have you share your sins.

Um but but you know how like uh in Hebrews it talks about how some of those saints even though they're dead they still speak like there's still a power something lasting about their lives. And uh maybe this is one of those things where that kid I don't even remember his name but the honesty of that kid who just said here's what you all think of me but here's the truth.

Let me be honest. maybe that that testimony could still speak for us today. Um that you would just look at your own life and say, "Where is it? What is it about my reputation?" You know, can we have the worship team just come up and um I don't if you guys Yeah, there you are. maybe just play softly and and if we could have um the prayer team the service just kind of get along the sides of the room.

I just want I want you to I want you to have peace. I I I feel peace just telling you some of that stuff and throwing it out at you and going, "Okay, Francis Chan has this reputation." Um, but lately I've loved other things and even the Lord was revealing to me, you know, he his Holy Spirit gives us power, right?

He didn't give us a spirit of weakness, but of power and love and self-control. And a lot of times, you know, when we struggle with sin, we get angry at God and saying, "God, why didn't you take away that desire?" You ever done that? Like you pray and say, "God, deliver me from this.

Deliver me. Deliver me. You know, I'm I'm struggling with lust, you know, so take away my my love to look at women, you know, and then you look at a woman and you stare at her and go, didn't work. I still like them, you know, and it's like, God, what were you doing?

Why didn't you listen? You know, and but but God, you know, and I've heard people say that whether it's with drugs, whether it's alcohol, I beg God to take it away, take it away, take it away. But that's not how God usually works. God says, "I gave you a spirit of self-control.

I give you a spirit of power." It's just like the trials. We say, "God, fix the trial. Take away the fix the problem." He says, "No, what? I want to give you the strength to make it through the problem. I'm not taking away that that fleshly desire. I'm giving you a new desire.

I'm giving you a spirit of self-control that you can resist these temptations and actually you personally flee from them." That's why he loved when Solomon didn't say, "Hey, destroy all my enemies. Get rid of this. Get rid of this. Get rid of this." He goes, "Just give me the wisdom.

Give me the wisdom so I can figure this out. Give me the strength so that I can be powerful enough over this. Give me the self-control so that I don't give into this sin anymore. See, that's the prayer we ought to pray. And maybe some of us have just said, "God, take it away."

And we almost get mad at God that he didn't take away this desire. When he says, "No, I've given you my spirit and my grace, and that's sufficient for you. You can make it through this trial. I'll help you. I'll give you the strength to persevere through it.

I'll give you the wisdom to work through this situation. Honestly, sometimes as a pastor, I've even asked God to remove certain people from the congregation. And uh we're being honest here, you know, and and uh and God's answer is no. I gave you a spirit of love to love the person through that.

Don't pray they would leave or die. You know, this is honest service, okay? Just that's a dumb prayer. Pray for yourself that you would be able to love through that. So with your desires and everything else, it's it's a time where you say, "God, I'm I'm weak right now, and you've given me a spirit of power, love, and self-control.

So don't take those things away. By your grace, empower me to make it through the trial, to love this person through it, to show self-control through all this flesh that wants to go that direction. make me a man or woman of God. So, as we just pray and sing and take up communion, maybe some of you just want to come up and kneel and just start confessing things to the Lord.

And maybe some of you need to take another step of confessing to someone else. And that's what these leaders and counselors are here for. And maybe it's even someone sitting next to you that you feel more comfortable just confessing to to say, "Look, here's the truth about me.

I'm feeling sick cuz I've been lying about this. I know, gosh, I'm going to be praying for you. I'm going to just I'm just going to stay up here and just get on my knees and pray for you because I know some of these lies have gone on for so long." and and and you don't just say a word and you go, "Okay, I'm just going to confess this big old lie."

Man, it's going to be a move of the Holy Spirit for that to happen. And so, I'm just going to be up here praying for you, begging that the spirit just works in you, not to judge you, but so that you can be free and you can walk out here without that burden of deception anymore.

So, just spend some time praying to God. Feel free to get on your knees. Feel free to go pray with one of the leaders. Feel free to sing, take communion, whatever the Lord leads. But I'm just going to be on my knees praying for you that the Holy Spirit would speak to you right now.

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