A Generous Spirit | Pastor Daniel Floyd

Hey, welcome to church everybody. We want to welcome all of our locations, our prison campuses. You're not a project to us, you are family. And all of our Gateway gatherings. And I want to say a special welcome to everyone that is visiting for the first time or maybe the first time in a long time.

Can we put our hands together at every location? Let's welcome all that are with us today. >> ((music playing)) ((applause)) >> It's a great weekend to be in church. We are bringing in canned goods as we shared last week and already throughout the week I saw some of the campuses people were already dropping them off during the week.

And if you missed that last week cuz for some reason you weren't in church and I'm guessing ((music playing)) you were sick. That I mean that's the only reason you had missed church on a weekend. But if you missed that, then hey, run to the grocery store real quick after service and then run back over and we'll take that and we're going to help distribute that to those that are in need.

I just shared last week that we learned from some of our partners around that demand is up and supply is low and so we're helping bridge the gap. >> ((music playing)) >> And we're going to make a big difference together this weekend. So I'm excited about that. And last weekend we shared in this beginning of the series on the book of Proverbs that you could jump in on the Bible reading plan.

Want to let you know that again. If you're a week behind, don't worry about it. Just jump in where we're at together and you can text 71010 the word Proverbs to 71010 and that'll get sent to you every week and it's connected to our website. I want to let you know this is pretty amazing.

More than 31,000 views of the Bible reading plan last week alone. So that's a whole lot of people reading the Bible everybody. >> ((applause)) >> I don't know if you know this but God is moving in a significant way in the nation as it comes to Bible reading. Bible sales are up dramatically.

Gen Z is driving those sales. Which is wonderful. But people are hungry for the word of God and I don't know if you know this but in next week the UVersion app is celebrating 1 billion downloads. 1 billion downloads. How many of you know it's a good thing that the word of God is getting into the hearts of people?

((music playing)) We believe that the word of God is powerful, sharp as a double-edged sword. And it can change and ((music playing)) transform someone's life. So God's doing so many wonderful things around the nation and revival's in the air everybody. These are signs of awakening and so it's a great season to be a part of the church and it's a great season to be a part of Gateway Church.

Can I get a good amen in the house of God? God's moving in great ways. >> ((music playing)) >> We've been working from this foundational verse and I'll read this and then we'll pray. It says this, wisdom is supreme. In other words it's highly valued. Therefore, get wisdom. And then it says this, though it cost all you have, get understanding. >> ((music playing)) >> Meaning that no matter the price that you've got to pay for wisdom, pay that price because it's worth having.

Last week we began talking about the beginning of wisdom and the scripture tells us the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. And that may not be exactly what you've grown up thinking and so I'll encourage you go back and check that out if you missed it. >> ((music playing)) >> And I'm excited to jump into today.

So let's pray together. Father, our hearts and minds are open to your word. So speak to us and we believe we'll never be the same because of it. In Jesus' name. Everybody said a big amen. Amen. So we were driving down the road the other day and the two little ones, Jonas and Abigail, which he turns seven today everybody.

Little man turns seven. >> ((applause)) >> He was very excited this morning. And so they were in the back of the car. He had his iPad which really my kids don't have iPads, they're Kindles but they call them iPads and I'm let them think it. And so he had his iPad and he was playing Minecraft.

I don't know if you have any kids, grandkids that are playing Minecraft but he was playing Minecraft and was all about it. And so Abigail wanted to play with him and then ensued an argument where she wanted the iPad. He wouldn't give her the iPad and I'm sure this situation is exclusive to the Floyd household.

I'm sure within your own household it's lots of praying together and sharing, sharing is caring and right parents? Okay. I know it was just my heathen children. Sanctification is a process everybody. It's a step at a time. Come on. Are you with me? So anyways, they were they were going after it and of course, you know, we get out of the car and I'm having this conversation because Jonas didn't want to share it.

And so I I I have a conversation that goes something like this and it's a repeated conversation and it's something to the effect of, hey bud, why why weren't you sharing with Abigail why when you let her use your iPad? And the response was I don't know. Any other parents get that response?

Okay. They have no idea why they're And I feel bad for him. He's got five parents. He's got me, Tammy, Owen, his older brother, Faith and Abigail. I mean the guy's the youngest, right? And everybody's trying to parent him. And so but I have this conversation it goes something like this.

Hey bud, why weren't you I don't know. And then I'll ask, what was in your heart? What was in your heart when you were doing that? Because I don't want behavior modification. I want heart transformation in him. How many of you know you can get a kid to act right for so long but if it isn't in the heart, then it doesn't really matter.

Can I tell you something else? You can get an adult to behave right for so long. But if it isn't in the heart it doesn't really matter. Because it's out of the heart that everything flows. And so it doesn't matter how much I tell Jonas to be generous, if I don't get his heart connected to a generous spirit, then I can get behavior for a moment.

I can get behavior for a season but the heart never grabbed it. And I would propose for some of you, maybe you had a season where you walked away from church and you were like, I did all the church things. And that's the problem. Is you did all the third church things.

But if you ever let Jesus get a hold of your heart heart transformation will begin to turn into behavior modification and it'll last a whole lot longer. Can I get a better amen? >> ((applause)) >> And so I want to talk to you around this thought today and it's this, is a generous spirit.

A generous spirit. Now I know for some of you, you're thinking 87 days on the job and you're tackling this topic? You're going after generosity and you've only been here less than 90 days? Well, let us let me say, Proverbs talks a lot about it. And so I'm not going to avoid it.

And then number two if you'll come with me on the journey in this message, I think you'll find yourself at a different different place than maybe you expected. Are y'all with me? Because I want us to get to the heart of the matter. Because the Bible says where your treasure is, that's where your your heart is.

And so at the end of the day, a spirit of generosity isn't a resource issue. It's a heart issue. As a matter of fact, whenever Solomon writes in Proverbs about this idea of generous of living a generous life, he often doesn't do talk about it with what is how it's affecting the person that's receiving it.

He's talking about it from what is in us as we do it. As a matter of fact, in Proverbs chapter uh this one 11. >> [laughter] >> I forgot it for a moment. It says the world of the generous gets what? It gets larger and larger. But the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller.

So the the the approach of a spirit of generosity, I'm really hoping that you'll come on this journey cuz I want you to I want you in some way to kind of detach the act of generosity from what I'm wanting you to get today which is a spirit of generosity.

Because you can have an act of generosity and not be a generous spirit. Are y'all tracking with me? Anybody can write a check. But some of us are willing to write a check to a need but we're greedy with our business. So there's not a spirit of generosity.

Are you following me? We're we're we're good to drop something in the Salvation Army bell when it comes around Christmas time but we won't give people an extra 30 minutes of our time. Are y'all tracking with me? Cuz there's a difference between the act of it and having the spirit of it.

When I have the spirit of generosity, I don't mind to let someone merge in. I'll let that one set for a minute. When I have a generous spirit, it's no problem to cover the check. Are y'all following me? It's the difference between the act and the spirit of it.

And I want you to get the spirit of it cuz if you get the heart of it, then it'll bleed into every area of your life. And this is what Solomon is trying to get us to get in this wisdom book. So I want to show you three characteristics of the spirit of generosity.

And I'll only give you three points of application. Maybe four, we'll see. Depends on how much you amen me, honestly. Okay, I'm kidding. I'm joking. >> [laughter] >> Number one, if you're in the note-taking top right, write this down. If not, go and write it down anyways. Number one is this, a generous spirit is selfless.

A generous spirit A generous spirited person, uh a big-hearted, a larger and larger, not smaller and smaller is a person that is selfless. Proverbs chapter 11 says this, "A generous person will prosper. Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed." You may have heard this verse before. The word prosper here, I want you to look at for a moment, is not the idea that if I give God something that then he's uh a supersizer machine and he'll give back to me something.

Are y'all tracking with me? If I give him a dollar, he'll give me a Mercedes. That's not the scripture. Are y'all tracking? Yeah, is this okay? It's always amazing to me with churches whenever you hit a generous topic, it's like the amens go out of the building. Like, what is happening?

It's the Bible. You amen the Bible last week. Amen the Bible this week. Okay. Can I get an amen? All right, there we go. The word prosper is this idea, this is one of the best explanations I've heard to give you a mental picture of it is this, is in our human capacity we have limitations.

We can only go so far. Meaning, I can only go so far in my intellect. I can only go so far in my relational capacity. I can only go so far in my emotional capacity that there is a limit that I have in and of my own abilities and my own strength and my own knowledge and my own experience and are y'all try Are y'all getting it?

Like, I have a limit. The prosperity comes in is this idea, it's when God puts his hand in your back and pushes you beyond you. And this is what the Bible says is that a generous person will prosper, meaning that God will push you beyond what you can do.

It's a divine blessing. You may call it the favor of God on your life where you go, "I didn't deserve this. This isn't within my capacity. I couldn't generate this on my own. I couldn't create this." No, it's like God pushed me beyond me. How many of you would say in your life you've experienced that from God?

That you look around at your life and go, "I did not create this." This is what that scripture's talking about and it says this, this is the result, this is the action. Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. In other words, the refresher of people become the prospering people.

Are y'all following that? You're getting the result and then you're getting the the idea of what got you to the result. In other words, the person that doesn't wake up in the day and think me first is the kind of person that prospers. The person that lives the crucified life.

The the one that goes, "No, I'm not living for me. I've been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. The life I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God who died and gave himself up for me. So, whatever is in my hand, God, that you can use to be a blessing, whatever is in my talent, God, whatever in my network, whatever in my relational capacity, I have died to me."

In other words, I died to my wants. I died to my greed. I died to my preferences. I died I am crucified with Christ. Have you ever been to a funeral and a dead man be like, "Why'd you say that?" You can't offend a dead man. You can't upset a dead person.

You can take the flowers off the coffin. They would not care. Paul says that's how we're supposed to live. Matter of fact, he says that I'm supposed to live so selfless that if someone asked me to go to mile that I should give them another mile. He said I'm supposed to live so selfless that if they ask for clothes, I should take my own jacket off and give it to them.

One of the greatest examples I have in my life of this was my dad. Been in heaven 10 years ago last month. One of the most selfless, generous spirited men I ever been around. He wasn't He didn't amass a lot of resources. But I want you to see a generous spirit isn't about what you have or don't have.

It's about the heart you live with. I don't know how many times I've shared this story throughout my life, but it's so seared in my little high school mind. We were living in North Carolina. One day I'll tell you the story of how he was sick for 7 years and God healed him and it was a miracle and it was a horrible 7 years though.

We were living in North Carolina and my dad comes in one night and it was cold and I just see him walk in the door and he goes to the closet and he takes out his best winter coat. And I said, "Dad, where are you going?" He goes, "I saw a young man hitchhiking and it's going to be a cold night and I've got to go find him."

Because a generous spirit is selfless. It's not about what you have or don't have. It's about the heart you live with. Because when you have a selfless spirit, you see others, not just you. You see what's happening around you, not just what you've got to get to and the thing that you've got to go do.

A generous spirit is selfless. The Bible says whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. Says, "All day long he craves for more." This is talking about the unrighteous. But the righteous, they give without sparing. They're not even thinking about themselves. They're selfless. Number two, someone with a generous spirit is others-focused.

And you may be thinking, "Didn't you just say that before?" No, two different things. Selfless begins with me not being a selfish person. Others-focused is the next step to go, "I'm no longer thinking about me. I'm going to think about you." Are y'all tracking with me? I'm going to see how I can be a blessing to you.

Proverbs tells us this, "The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern." In other words, you know what the righteous do? They fill a lobby with food of cans and dry goods. I'm wanting you to see the scriptures aren't just something you get in your mind, but they should be something you live out in your life.

Like, it should Heart transformation should lead to community transformation. Is that not If If our lives are radically changed by the gospel and we actually believe the book that we share and preach and read, then it should lead to some action. I mean, even the commission that Jesus gave us, the most important words, the last thing he said begins with the word go.

So, this is what this verse looks like in flesh. This is what it looks like in living color. It's what it looks like whenever we are are living it out before us is that we fill the lobbies of our campuses with dry goods and with canned goods. Why?

Because the righteous Because we're righteous, we care about justice for the poor. We care about the people that can't buy the food. Well, they should have got a job and Really? That's where we go? Well, they should take care of themselves and there are enough opportunities. Aren't you glad that the good Samaritan didn't look at the person in the ditch and go, "Well, how'd you get there?

And did you finish school? Did you not get a good education?" Are y'all tracking with me? It doesn't matter why he's in the ditch. The righteous get him out of the ditch. We can help HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE. HELLO, SOMEBODY. >> ((applause)) >> YES, we should help them not get back in the ditch, but let's get them out of the ditch.

IT'S HARD TO LISTEN IN YOUR CLASS whenever your stomach is growling cuz you've had nothing to eat as a child. Is this too much? We think about others. We think about the people that can't go to the grocery store. And our little act of kindness, of being righteous, of thinking others first, creates a pathway for the gospel.

Creates a pathway for lives to be changed. All because we determine I'm just going to think about others over me. I'm going to do what Paul said in the New Testament, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility think of others." And man, in the culture we live in, they want us thinking about us, right?

What makes me comfortable? What makes life easy for me? How do I get what I want when I want it? But not the righteous according to Proverbs. They're looking out for people that can't look out for themselves. I love the way that Mother Teresa said it. She said, "A life not lived for others is not a life."

How true is that? Because here's the deal. If life is all about me, I'm living a very small life. But when I can get my eyes on others and give myself away, my world gets larger and larger and larger and larger. Are you getting this, church? Number three, a generous spirit is rewarded.

This isn't the motivation, but it is an outcome. Look what the scripture says. Says, "He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses." Let me show you one more verse, and this is a shocking one to me.

It says, "Whoever is kind to the poor" Look at these next four words. "Lends to the Lord." I don't know if you've ever seen this verse. "And he will reward them for what they've done." Think about this for a moment. I mean, wrap your mind around that. Whoever's generous to the poor is loaning to God, which makes God indebted to you.

It's what the text says. That's not heresy. That's what the text says. "And then he will reward them for what they have done." So God's on the hook to reward you when you're generous to the poor. How amazing is that? How would it change the spirit we lived in if we really believed that verse?

How would it change how we have eyes to see the needs of people around us if we really lived and believed that that verse was true? I think about a a businessman that lived late 1800s, early 1900s. His last name was, I think I'm saying this right, LeTourneau.

He was known for creating earth It's like 200 patents on earth-moving equipment. He was extremely, extremely successful, and I love this quote that he says. He goes, "The more I shovel to God, the more he shovels back to me, and his shovel's a whole lot bigger." Is that not the truth?

I heard it said like this one time. I can't outgive God. Because God is a rewarder. That's not the motivation. I'm not getting to give, I get to give. I don't have to. I don't give so God will give something back to me. I've been more blessed than I ever imagined, but I get to live with a generous spirit.

I get to see the young couple behind me in the drive-thru line and just say, "I'll take care of that." Not for anything, not for any benefit, just to live with a generous spirit. Are y'all with me? Say amen. Luke 12:15 says this. And it should keep ringing in our mind.

He said, "Beware guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own." It's not measured by how much you own. It's actually, I think heaven's going to measure it by what you did with what God gave to you. Matter of fact, God's not only going to reward you, I believe in this earth, but the Bible says that he'll reward you in heaven because there's two judgments.

There's the the judgment seat of Christ and there's the great white throne judgment. In the great white throne, they'll deal with sin, but the judgment seat of Christ, he's going to deal with what you did with what he gave you. And the Bible says he'll give crowns. Some translations says he'll give rewards.

So there's coming a moment where God's going to reward you for what he did what you did with what he put into your hands. I don't know about you, but I don't want to get to that day and be like, "I had some great cars, God." "If you'd have seen my shoe collection, Lord, even you would have been impressed."

I'm being tongue-in-cheek, but you get what I'm saying. I want him to go, "Great is your reward. You did a lot with what I gave you." Because life isn't about what I own. And what I'm wanting to stir in you is this, is that you live your life for something that's bigger than you.

That you stir your life that that I stir something in your heart that goes, "I'm living for something that's bigger than me and greater than me and doesn't even benefit me." Cuz everything in our life, in some way, it ends up benefiting us. I think God wants us to live that.

I think it's the example of Jesus. Like, "I'm going to give my life for you, and this cross does nothing for me. But I'm going to live my life for something that's bigger than me and greater than me and doesn't even benefit me that makes a difference in the world around me."

I like to say it like this. I hope you're living for a legacy. I hope you're living for something that will outlast you and live for eternity. That you don't get caught in the rat race, everybody. I'm just If I could, I'm just wanting to go, "Hey, hey, wake up!

Don't get caught in the rat race. Don't get caught in the 9:00 to 5:00. Don't get caught in the this thing to that thing to the better contract to the this goal." And all that is wonderful. And and and do it. JUST DON'T LET THAT BE THE THING.

Don't let that be the pursuit. Don't let that be the heart. Live for something that that will outlast you. That when you're gone, your influence will go on because you invested in something that was eternal. Are y'all with me? Look what Psalms says. >> ((applause)) >> Psalms 112, look at this.

It says, "They share freely and they give generously to those in need. Their good deeds" Watch this. "Will be remembered forever." This is the life I want you for you. That you would live such a generous spirit others-focused life that you would be remembered forever, that you'll have influence and honor because of how you lived your life, what you did with what God gave you.

That someone when you're not even on the earth anymore, would be like, "Their life is why I'm here. Their generous spirit is why I know Jesus." That that would be the story of your life. Second Corinthians says this. "You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and your generosity will result in what?

In thanksgiving to God." This is what happens when you live with a generous life and a generous spirit. Is that your flow of generosity touches the lives of other people and it results in God getting thanks? In your everyday, everybody. I think we think generosity within the walls of a church.

I'm wanting you to break out of that. I'm wanting you to break out of generosity. It must be my tithe. No, no, no. I'm wanting you to break out. I'm wanting There's a generous spirit. How do you treat the server that brings you your meal? How do you treat the barista that makes your coffee?

How do you treat the the person that does the front of your car before you go into the car wash? You know that kid? Are y'all tracking with me? Like, how is your Do you live a generous spirit, a big spirited a I'm going to give my life away kind of life?

That is the life that I believe Jesus wants us to live. And does it involve resources? And does it Yeah, it does all that, but it's bigger than all that. Don't make it so small that it's a check. That isn't what he had in mind. It says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only son."

Giving to him was a lifestyle. It was an everything. It was an all in. It was all of me, God. It was a I'm dead. I'm crucified with Christ, and if you want something off my coffin, take it off my coffin, and I won't be offended. And if you need something out of my hand, take it.

If you speak to me, I'll do it. I'll give the prayer. I'll give the encouraging word. I'm living with a generous spirit. It's bigger than that. Let me give you a few points of application, okay? Of how you can live this. Number one, be generous with your time.

It's free. I know some of you are thinking, "No, your time is your most precious commodity." I agree. But what does it really cost to give somebody an extra 5 minutes. What does it cost to lean in like you're engaged and you actually care about what they're saying?

To not be looking over their shoulder to see if someone better's coming along to talk to. But just to relax for a minute. Give them a little bit more of your time. What would it really cost to join a serve project at your campus? Hand out some food, love on some people.

You can be generous with your time. Number two, you can be generous with your gifts. You learned last series you have spiritual gifts. And God wants you to use them to advance the gospel and build up the body of Christ. And so some of you are sitting on them right now.

You're not using them. Need to be generous with your gifts. Number three, generous with your actions. I'm wanting to get this with flesh on it. You can be generous with a smile. You don't know who who hasn't been smiled at. And I know you're like, this isn't very deep theologically deep.

No, but maybe it would change somebody's life around you. What good is knowledge puffed up if we don't actually apply it and live it in our lives? You can be generous with your words. You would be surprised how many people never hear I really appreciate you. You're doing a great job.

I just want you to know I think the way you served my table, you're crushing it. You're a gift. Just spreading your generosity. You can be generous with your prayers. Someone tells you something, let me pray with you right now. They may freak out. 99.999% of the time someone's going to go, will you please?

I would love to be prayed with. Doesn't take a whole lot, church, to live with a generous ((music playing)) spirit. One last thought is that we would be generous with our treasure. The Bible says this, that we're to give and God will give back to you a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap.

For with the measure you use, remember that, it will be measured back to you. You want a big world? Have a big generous spirit. You want a small world? God says up to you. It's your choice. And so I'm going to give you an opportunity to put this into action.

All right? We're going to do it around the Christmas season. And I'm telling you now because God likes a cheerful giver, not somebody that gives reluctantly or under compulsion. In other words, I don't think the Lord wants me to put a happy video up on the screen and your heart get turned and then you give.

I think God wants you to be a pre-decider. You predetermine, you pray, you seek the Lord, you ask God what to do, and then you do what God tells you to do. Are you with me? And so we're going to take a year-end offering as a church on December the 6th and December the 7th.

And I know what I said for all the young people in the room. The 6th and the 7th. I got it. And we're calling it this, the Love My City Offering. And here's what I want you to know. 100% of every dollar that comes in the Love My City Offering is not going to benefit you and it's not going to benefit Gateway Church.

It's 100% going to community partners and local churches in our area that are in need. >> ((applause)) ((music playing)) >> And we've been we've been need hunting, everybody. We've been hunting for needs that we can meet. We found out about a small church in Keller that hasn't been able to replace their carpet for 22 years.

How many of you think they need new carpet? And we're going to give them new carpet. >> ((music playing)) ((applause)) >> Found out about a organization in town that helps young ladies that find themselves pregnant choose life. And they're trying to add a wing on to their building and we're going to help invest in that because we want people to choose life. >> [applause and music] >> And so we've been need hunting.

And we're going to go meet needs. And so here all I'm asking you to do, you ask God what he'd have you do. And then you do it. I'm not going to twist your arm. I'm not going to play you some emotional thing. Just going to challenge you.

Ask God. And then when God speaks, you obey. And then on that weekend, we're going to come together and we're going to take one offering and it's the Love My City Offering. And then I have the team already ready on Monday. We're going to start handing out checks.

And then we're going to report to you >> [applause and music] >> and then we're going to follow some of those checks with some cameras and we're going to report back to you exactly how it went and the impact ((music playing)) that you made because we are called to have ((music playing)) a generous spirit.

Do you receive the word of God today? >> ((music playing)) ((applause)) >> And I know some of you are thinking, well, pastor, haven't you seen the headlines? You think this is the time to do this? Well, if we live according to the kingdom of this world, the answer would be no.

But we live according to the kingdom of our God who says give and it will be given back to you, pressed down. Come on, give him praise today. >> ((music playing)) ((applause)) >> Will you pray with me? Every head bowed, every eye closed. Maybe you're here this weekend at one of our locations and you've never received the greatest gift of generosity that's ever been given and that is Jesus.

For God so loved you. You could fill your name in that spot. That he gave his only son cuz he saw you. He loved you. He knew the mistakes and the challenges and the pain and the sins that you would commit and in spite of it he came looking for you.

And he says if you'll believe in him, all that simply means if you believe he rose from the dead, that's the resurrection. And you'll make him the Lord of your life. In other words, I'm done calling the shots of my life. I don't want to be the director of the story of my life anymore.

God, I want you to be in charge. He says if you'll do that, you'll be saved. Your sins will be forgiven. Today you'll have a brand new start in Jesus. And if that's your desire, in just a moment we're going to pray together and there's nothing magical in the prayer or special about how I say it.

It's just me helping you communicate that desire to God. But before we do, I just want to know who I'm praying with. No one's looking around except myself or your pastor at your campus. No one's going to point you out. But if you say, pastor, that's me. I know in my heart that I'm far from God.

Maybe you're here today and you need to return to the Lord. Maybe it's been a while. Maybe you strayed away from your faith, but today is the day I need to come back to God. I need to receive the grace of God, the love of the Father, and the forgiveness of Jesus.

If that's you, before we pray, I just want to know I'm praying with all over the room. When I count to three, I'm just going to ask you to shoot your hand up high long enough for myself or your pastor to see and then we're going to pray together.

So if that's you, God's speaking to you, you shoot your hand up on three. One, two, three. You just shoot it up high. God bless you. God bless you. I see you all over the room. I see you in the very, very back. God bless every one of you.

God sees you more importantly. Will you pray this out loud together, church, for those who just lifted up their hand? Just say, Jesus, I need you. I ask you to forgive me of all my sin. I believe you died for me. I believe God raised you from the dead.

Today I make you my Lord and Savior. Thank you for a brand new beginning. In Jesus' name. Everyone said, "Amen." Can we celebrate those who made that decision? Incredible. >> ((applause))