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This morning I want to speak to you
on the subject, Forgive me Lord for making
you cry.
Forgive me Lord for making you cry.
There's one verse, it's in John 11.55.
Do you know what it is?
Well, go ahead and turn to John 11
.35. I'm just going to read this one
verse, two words.
Jesus, what?
Jesus wept.
Jesus, Christ, Lord and Savior, we thank you
for your great love.
We thank you for your love for your
people.
Lord, you told us to pray for the
peace of Jerusalem, and we pray for the
peace of Jerusalem now.
You said that you would bless those who
pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
And we pray, Lord, that you bring peace
to Gaza, you bring peace to that troubled
Mideast area.
And, Lord, that you will support and protect
all of those who trust you.
We stand here, Lord, redeemed and thankful.
But, Lord, we're part of one body worldwide,
and if one hurts, we all hurt.
God, stop this war, we pray, and give
time for the gospel to penetrate and tear
down the veils, Lord, upon the Jewish eye,
upon the Islamic eye, and upon those who
are backslidden in your own church, Lord Jesus,
that the veils will be torn apart and
Christ be given entrance and peace may come
to so many hundreds of thousands, we pray.
Now, Lord, we come to this message.
We come to the heart of what you
want to say to us.
Lord, this is not a condemning message, but,
Lord, I want us, everyone within the sound
of my voice this morning, to reach out
and think of your feelings, Jesus.
We're always bringing our feelings to you.
We're bringing all of our problems to you,
and that is scriptural.
But, Lord, help us to think now of
your feelings and your wounds and your hurts,
Lord Jesus, that we can be one with
your suffering, that we can enter into your
suffering.
Lord, you're going to have to speak through
me because I can't convey this humanly.
It has to be a supernatural work of
the Holy Spirit to even comprehend where we're
going this morning.
So I bring it to you for anointing
in Christ's name.
Sanctify this vessel.
Amen.
And don't turn there, but in Luke 19,
there's a picture of Jesus approaching the city
of Jerusalem riding on a donkey.
And as he comes down the Mount of
Olives toward the gate, the crowds begin to
grow.
And you know the story.
They're throwing their outer garments in front of
the donkey so the donkey can have a
royal trail.
And they are crying and shouting, Hosanna, the
King has come.
He's coming.
The hour has come.
The King of Israel, peace, is coming to
Jerusalem.
And while they're shouting and while they're singing
their Hosannas, the Bible says, and Jesus came
to the city.
And when he looked over the city, something
amazing happened.
Now, the scripture gives the clear reason why
they were shouting.
It was not because they fully trusted him
as the Messiah.
They didn't really trust him as God in
flesh.
But the scripture says because they thought that
the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
They saw Jesus coming and suddenly the crowd
began to come rushing out of the city.
They heard the noise.
And they said, finally, a king has been
sent by God.
This means peace for Jerusalem, peace for Israel.
This means no more war.
This means that the kingdom of God is
being set up now.
He is going to arise in fury.
This is what John the Baptist preached about.
He's going to come with a sword and
he's going to cut and he's going to
slash.
They began to sing Hosannas to him.
And in the midst of it, Scripture said
Jesus broke down.
It says Jesus wept.
He looked at the city and now when
he was come near, he beheld the city
and he wept over it.
Now, here's God in the flesh.
The concept of a weeping God is an
abomination to the thought and the mind of
the wicked man.
How can you preach?
How can you conceive of a God who
weeps, a God who cries?
That's weakness.
This is God in the flesh.
And he sees.
He sees what's happening.
He's the one who cried as he looked
over Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I would have
loved you.
How I wanted to gather you under my
wings as a mother hen gathers her chicks.
In other words, I gave you miracles.
I gave you signs.
I gave you wonders.
I met your needs.
I fed you miraculously.
You've seen miracle after miracle.
I've given you every, every example, every kind
of love that the father represents.
I have done everything that God has called
me to do.
You've rejected love.
And I believe Jesus is weeping.
Yes, he's wounded.
There's no question that in his human flesh
he is wounded by what has happened.
He was wounded in the house of his
own friends.
And there is a sense, though, of weeping
because he knows what's coming.
He knows that within 70 years the army
of Titus is going to come and raze
the whole city.
The walls are coming down.
The temple is coming down.
The wives of women are going to be
raped.
And there's going to be terror and calamity.
And he sees the price, the payday for
unbelief.
What a horrible payday is coming for the
rejection of God's love, the rejection of truth
and the absolute blatant unbelief.
And Jesus weeps over the city.
He said the days are coming.
Enemies will surround you on every side.
There will be calamity.
Not one stone will be left upon another.
What about now?
What about today?
Is the glorified Christ capable of feelings?
Doesn't the Bible say we have a high
priest who is touched with the feelings of
our infirmities?
It is said of God that he laughs.
It is said of God that his anger
can be stirred.
He is a feeling God.
The same man that ascended to glory, the
same man who wept, he was moved and
wept even in his glorified state, is the
same man that was ascended to glory and
in glory now in heaven, seated at the
right hand of the Father who is spirit.
Jesus is not only spirit, but he's man.
He maintained his body.
He had a body and touched as a
high priest before the Father, touched with all
the feelings and the hurts and the needs
of his people.
The Bible says we will not have this
man rule over us.
How often does the church of Jesus Christ
wound our Savior by their unbelief?
Think of the miracles that Jesus has performed.
Think of all the gospel that has gone
out.
Think of all the thousands of pastors and
missionaries around the world who preach faith.
And thank God for those who truly believe,
such a small number that believe for the
impossible, that live with an unwavering faith, who
have come to a place where they trust
God no matter what happens.
But on the whole, as you look at
the church of Jesus Christ, there is nothing
more than a wavering faith.
It's a one crisis at a time faith.
One need at a time.
Faith sufficient for one crisis.
And Lord, if you get me out of
this, I'll never doubt you again.
And God gets us out of that and
then another crisis comes more severe, more intense.
And the doubts begin to roll in again
and again and again.
We doubt him.
What is the time?
What about the apostles?
Folks, I have a sense of the grief
of God in my heart.
I've been accused of being a negative preacher.
I am not a negative preacher.
But those who stand in this pulpits, when
you walk with Jesus and when you share
his heart.
He stirs it and he makes you feel
out of his love.
He makes you feel what he's feeling and
he wants to convey the folks.
I don't I can't explain this from notes.
I can't explain it.
But from what I see in the scripture,
I see the apostles in a boat and
they've just come from feeding 4000.
They had fed 5000 previously.
They fed 9000 people, plus women and children.
And they saw this great these great miracles.
They get on a boat and Jesus is
talking about Levin, really the doctrine of the
Pharisees.
And suddenly the disciples are saying, well, who
brought bread?
We forgot to bring bread.
And Jesus is is so shocked by what
he heard.
He said, do you not yet understand?
Don't you remember the miracle, the feeding of
the thousand?
And listen to his very words.
How is it or how can it be
you still have unbelief that you don't understand?
How can you not believe me and trust
me now after all the miracles and the
answers to prayer and everything you've seen of
me?
How is it that you still don't understand?
I wonder if Jesus wept a tear, wiped
a tear from his eye on that boat
that day.
What about the time after his resurrection?
Two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
And in essence, this is what they said.
Jesus just fell and stepped with them on
the way to Emmaus.
And you see, it's been the resurrection has
already taken place, but they don't know where
Jesus is.
And Jesus asked them, what trouble?
What is troubling?
In essence, they said, well, we don't you
understand?
Haven't you heard what's going on in Jerusalem?
Don't you know the tremendous commotion in the
city?
Jesus said about what?
They said, well, it's about Jesus.
We thought he was the redeemer.
We thought he was God in flesh.
We really thought that this was the time.
But he was crucified and he told us
he would be raised from the dead on
the third day.
It's the third day and we've just got
reports that the tomb is empty and we
don't know where he is.
Absolute unbelief.
And Jesus said, oh, you fools.
You foolish men, so slow to believe.
I wonder if he didn't have a cloth
at that time with tears in his eyes
again.
Here are his beloved disciples who had probably
been there at the resurrection of Lazarus.
They had seen him raise the dead.
They had seen all of these miracles.
And here is Christ now in his glorified
body.
Now, does a glorified Christ have feelings?
Can he feel hurt?
Oh, you fools.
You foolish men.
How slow to believe.
He still loved them, but there's a despairing,
there's something in the heart of Jesus.
Why couldn't you believe me?
Why?
I told you time and time again, why
couldn't you believe that I was going to
die and be raised again?
And I would be your life giver, that
I am the resurrection.
I am the life and I'm living.
And they still couldn't believe it, even though
they were taken from Moses right through the
Scripture of the day.
And all of the references to the prophets
about Jesus began to open their eyes.
They still didn't see it until he sat
down and had communion with them and broke
the bread.
And then suddenly they said, oh, my Jesus
Lord.
Then it breaks through.
It is written that we have a high
priest now in glory who is touched with
the feelings of our infirmities.
Afterward, after his resurrection, the Scripture said he
appeared to the eleven as they set at
meat and he upbraided them.
He rebuked them, in other words, for their
unbelief and hardness of heart because they believe
not them which had seen him after he
was risen.
They're in a room now and they're discussing
where the whereabouts of Jesus.
They've been told in that room.
They've been told this is this is his
church.
These are the pillars of the church.
And they're saying we don't know.
And they are full of doubt and their
hearts are hard.
Now, these are those who walk with them
were taught by him and loved him.
This was his inner circle.
Now, folks, I want to tell you, nobody
can hurt you more than those that are
closest to you.
Those who are in your inner circle.
No one can wound you like someone that
you're intimate with, whom you have trusted and
walk with.
And here he is in his circle.
These are his disciples.
These are the pillars of the church.
And Jesus appears in that room and he
sees unbelief and he listens to their talk
as if there as if there was no
redeemer.
Now, as if there was no living Christ,
no resurrection.
And he upbraided them.
He reproved them.
And I tell you now, I believe that
Christ was wounded.
A resurrected Christ felt the wound of those
men that he had trained and loved.
And he sees what is coming to mankind
and the calamities that are coming.
They needed men who believed in the impossible.
Here they are shaken with unbelief.
In other words, he reproved them.
He reproached them for unbelief and for hardness
of heart.
You see, these people today that are mocking
Christ, the wicked world that's mocking Christ, the
Da Vinci Code, the Judas Gospel, all the
legislation against removing a picture of Jesus from
any public school or courthouse, and absolutely setting
out to try to wipe the name of
Christ or God out of our society.
Now, I get angry at that.
I'm telling you, it's not spiritual anger.
I just get angry.
I just say, God, how can you let
them get away with it?
How long will they mock you and say,
this man will not rule over us?
And I get upset.
And the Lord says, just be still.
They're children of the wicked one.
They're children of Satan, Jesus said, and they're
just doing what their father tells them to
do.
He said, there's going to be a day.
There's going to be a reckoning.
Don't get excited.
That's not what wounds my heart.
That doesn't wound him.
They're just doing what their father tells them
to do.
It's just an outbreak of directions out of
hell.
And he has his people who have so
hardened themselves, so given themselves over to their
sins, so rejected the gospel or the love
of Christ, they're given over to it.
And the Bible said, your father is the
devil and you're doing the works of the
devil.
And that's what it is.
Please don't get nervous about it.
Thank God for those who are risen up
to defend and they write books on the
subject and so forth.
I'm going to tell you something.
If you really love Jesus, if you're walking
with Christ, that stuff doesn't that just rolls
off your Christian back.
It doesn't affect you.
Oh, yeah.
It gets you fired up.
And yours may be what you call holy
indignation.
I have to confess, it's been more than
that for me.
But I thank God for those who are
defenders of the faith.
But don't get upset about that stuff.
That's that's not that's not what wounds the
heart of God.
It's hurtful.
Yes, but that's not the issue.
The most hurtful wounds are inflicted by the
most intimate friends.
Now, I know God is no respecter of
persons, but you have to take that in
the context in which it was given.
He's no respecter of persons when it comes
to merit.
He's no respecter of persons when it comes
to salvation by faith alone.
And not by works.
In other words, he's not going to respect
somebody or be someone made special.
Say, well, I've I've said in the gospel
that you're saved by faith alone, the finished
work of Christ.
But here's a good man.
We're going to let him get in.
You know, God respect this man.
He's no respecter of person when it comes
to merit.
Other than faith in Jesus Christ.
But he's always Jesus had an inner circle.
He had those with which he was most
intimate.
You see, Peter, James and John, the most
intimate of the twelve.
You see them being brought into the innermost
circle of Christ.
You see Peter, James and John with Christ.
No one else is allowed in the room
when he raises the young damsel from the
dead, except Peter, James and John.
You go to the Mount of Transfiguration and
you will see Peter, James and John.
You you see Peter, James and John in
the Garden of Gethsemane.
Can't you watch with me and pray with
me?
He had an inner circle.
These were going to be the pillars of
his church.
And these are the ones that are most
capable of wounding, most capable.
The unbelief of these kind, those closest to
him, that kind of unbelief wounds him the
most.
But you see, he had another circle even
closer.
It was the home.
It was in Bethany, Mary, Martha and Lazarus.
And the scripture says this.
And now Jesus loved Martha, Mary and Lazarus.
There was so there was a home for
him.
There was a place he could go to
get away from the crowd for a few
moments to just clear his his human mind.
And Martha, I'm sure, cooked some lovely meals
for her savior.
And Lazarus apparently was one of Jesus closest
friends.
It was someone he could talk to.
And a minister can tell you what's that.
And often only friends include ministers.
And sometimes it's just refreshing to have a
lay person that you can just talk to.
And not so much about doctrine or the
burdens of the church, but just talk about
human things.
This was his retreat.
This was his place that he goes.
He could so trust Mary and Martha.
He knew all about that one pound box
of spikenerd ointment she hid in her room,
perhaps under her bed.
The anointment that she would put on his
feet and prepare him for his death.
This was his special inner circle.
And one day in his ministry, he a
messenger sent the one whom you love is
sick.
Mary Martha sent a message to Jesus.
The one you love.
Is sick.
And Jesus waited for two days
before.
The word came that Lazarus died.
He sent no word to them.
He allowed a hopeless situation to fall into
an impossible situation.
He allowed it to go to a place
where there was no human possibility of the
situation being changed as far as the human
mind is concerned.
And Jesus said, for your sakes, I'm glad
I wasn't there.
He's talking to his disciples.
To the extent that you may believe.
Now, get this picture, please.
God, Jesus allows a situation to develop in
his inner circle.
I don't think this would have ever been
entrusted to someone in the outer circle, a
faithless or some up and down hot and
cold believer.
This happens to those who walk with Jesus,
who are intimate with him, whose whole life
is wrapped up in him.
They're not of this world.
They don't think like other people think.
It's not because they're better than anybody else.
It's just that they've made time for him.
They've made such quality time with him and
they walk with him with with a heart
so set on him and so in love
with him.
And this is the situation now.
Jesus allows something to develop in the house.
He could have spoken the word at any
time and that man could have walked out
of the grave.
He could have done that.
And Jesus said, I'm glad I wasn't there.
You see, you think about that for just
a moment.
You think about that.
Jesus says what he's really saying.
This condition is not yet right.
This condition is not impossible enough because you
see, anyone can believe that I can lay
hands on a sick man and he raised.
But I'm going to allow to I'm going
to entrust in the home of my friend
Lazarus and my dearest friends.
I'm going to allow a situation that falls
into absolute impossibility.
He can say, I'm glad I'm not there
because he knew he was going to raise
him from the dead.
He knew the hope that was there.
But but see, he's going to be dying
himself soon.
He's going to he's been trying to get
them to believe in his resurrection.
He wants them.
I am the resurrection and one and I'm
the life.
And Jesus, Martha finds out that he comes
a second day and he's outside of Bethany,
two miles from Jerusalem.
And she runs out to meet him.
And she says, oh, if you had only
been here and the disciples are thinking what
Jesus said, I'm glad I wasn't there.
That to the intent of the purpose that
I can produce an unwavering faith is what
he's saying.
It can never again be shaken because he's
thinking, Martha, it's not just this man.
He's going to live and die again.
But you're going to be hard times coming.
You're going to face death.
You're going to face situations that are coming
now upon this nation.
Are you going to believe me in all
things?
Are you going to believe me just for
the resurrection of your brother?
We want to pick the times that we
trust God.
What about the promises God made to what
about the things God said to you?
What about the situation that you're in right
now?
Do you think that it's impossible that Jesus
entrusted you?
That he put in your hands an opportunity,
he allowed you to face the most hopeless,
impossible situation so that you can find through
the Holy Spirit a faith that will not
be shaken when you turn on the news
one day and you hear that this virus,
avian flu, has mutated and is spreading through
Indonesia or through some other country in Turkey
and now the whole nation is in panic
and the Lord is saying, I know what's
coming.
He knows what's coming to Jerusalem.
He knows what's coming to these families.
And he's trying to produce for the church
of Jesus Christ, his own church, an unshakable,
unwavering faith.
I will believe God no matter what devil
comes, no matter what calamity comes.
I'm going to have a people who believe
me and trust me.
Martha says, if you had only been here.
Then she says, but even now, I believe
that whatever you ask of the Father, he
will give it to you.
And Jesus said to Martha, Lassus is going
to rise again.
He's saying he's going to, he's going to
be alright, he's going to be raised.
She said, oh yeah, I know.
In the resurrection at the last day, we'll
see him.
How do you think Christ, how do you
think Jesus felt?
His beloved family, his inner circle.
You see, you can believe God is omniscient.
You can talk about the majesty of God.
You can preach it.
You can testify and tell everybody how you
believe God is so great and so good.
And then when God allows a situation that
demands an unwavering faith, and then we begin
to question.
We said, oh God, if you had only
been there, but now it's too late.
Things have spun out of control.
And the Bible said Martha went her way.
She didn't pursue it.
She just went her way.
That's what we do.
We just go our way without settling the
issue, without saying, help my unbelief.
We walk away and we wound him.
We just go back to our doubtful, fearful,
shaking ways.
And then as she's walking away, Jesus said,
Martha, please tell Mary to come to me.
She goes to the room and all her
friends are weeping and wailing with her.
All of her mourners and comforters are weeping
with Mary.
And Mary quickly runs out to meet Jesus.
In the same reception, she falls on her
face, weeping.
Oh, Jesus, if you had only been here.
And the Bible said he groaned in his
spirit.
In other words, oh, no, not you, Mary.
Of all people, I thought surely, Mary, you
would understand.
If you had only been here.
And that word groaned means indignant.
There was something that was up in Jesus.
Now think of it.
At this time, you can't tell me anybody
on the face of the earth that was
trusting Jesus fully.
The Jews hated him.
There was no faith in Israel about him.
His disciples are standing there just wondering what
it's all about.
There's not one evidence that he encouraged that
these disciples encouraged faith for Mary and Martha
to believe for the resurrection.
They're not thinking about it.
And when Jesus says, open, roll away the
stone, all that Martha can give him is
all you're going to get is a stench.
In other words, she's saying that's a corpse
in there.
Jesus wept.
He wept.
I've heard whole commentaries have been written on
these two words.
I look through a bunch of commentaries, the
old ones and the new commentaries.
And there must be a thousand definitions trying
to describe why Jesus wept.
But it became personal to me when I
was walking and praying with Jesus and meditating
on that scene.
And I began to say, Jesus, I want
to feel what you felt.
Not doctrine.
I don't want to hear from some theologian.
I've read and read and read and none
of it makes sense to me because that's
not how I feel.
Lord, this is a gospel that relates to
us.
It relates to how we live.
It has to be saying something to me
in my need.
And I had been going through some questions.
I've been been facing some some battles.
I have a son who is very ill
and Gwen is losing her sight.
There were other issues in the mind.
And I'm walking and there are questions that
were rising and there were some doubts that
were taking root in my heart.
And I said, Lord, have I made you
cry?
He groaned again at the tomb.
He looks around his own disciples, faithless, his
most inner circle.
Faithless.
Tell me where Jesus said when he comes,
will he find faith on the earth?
He's about to leave.
Where is the faith?
Where's the unwavering faith?
Where is that trust in God?
No matter what happens, no matter what I
face, Lord, I give myself over to you.
For it's impossible without faith.
It's impossible to please you.
And they that come to you must believe
that you are and you're reward of them
that diligently seek you.
Where was the faith?
Well, I imagine when that man Lazarus walked
out of that tomb, bound up, there was
a lot of shrieking.
There was a lot of hosannas.
I often wonder where Jesus went.
In my own mind, I think Jesus hugged
Mary and Martha.
He said, I love you.
It didn't affect his love for his people.
He loved them more than ever, even in
their doubt.
This is not about losing your salvation.
This is not about losing the love of
Christ for you and for me.
This is about entering into the sufferings of
Christ that Paul spoke about.
I'd say how this has helped me when
doubts assail me now.
When I begin to just think, Lord, where
are you?
Why?
I think of wounding him.
I think of bringing a tear to his
eye.
And I back away and say, no, Lord,
not anymore.
Not anymore.
Not after 50 years of walking with you.
No.
You see, friend, at my age, I don't
really care about how people think of my
preaching.
I just want to convey his heart.
And almost everyone listening to me right now,
at one time or another, and maybe recently,
you brought a tear to his eye.
You have, without intent, without malice, you have
wounded his spirit.
He who is touched with the beatings of
the heart of our high priest.
If you're able to shrug this off, I
don't understand that.
If you can't examine your heart under the
light of the Holy Spirit right now and
think of the doubts and the fears and
the unsettledness and the wavering.
If you consider this morning said, no, I've
never wounded him.
It's probably the greatest kind of wound you
could inflict.
And what he'd rather hear is, Lord, forgive
me.
This is the prayer I cried.
I have a place I walk.
It's a mile long.
I call it the Emmaus Road because there's
nobody around.
And that's where I walk and talk.
But when I saw this, I began to
weep with Jesus.
I began to weep and feel his feelings
when I doubt him.
And that's what he wants for you to
be able to enter into that feeling of
Christ.
He is a feeling man.
I know we walk by faith, but I'll
tell you, you can't forsake.
You can't ignore your feelings.
Feelings are there.
They're natural.
And God rejoices over you.
Christ rejoices over his church.
He absolutely loves us.
He loves you sitting here in this congregation.
But you're facing a very difficult time.
And some of you in this church right
now listening to me, you look at it
and it's going to take a miracle.
But if he is God, he's the God
of the impossible.
And you have got to believe that.
And I've got to believe it.
And I stand here now declaring to you,
I believe the God that I serve is
a miracle working God.
And that God has everything under control.
And he demands of me a living faith.
Will you stand, please?
Please, please don't think I'm losing it.
But I'm going to ask you to sit
back down.
Now, I'm really sorry if you feel that
this doesn't apply or that or that that
a omnipotent, omniscient God could feel the pain
and wound enough to weep.
But here's the invitation the Holy Spirit spoke
to my heart before the service this morning,
what I was to do in the closing
of this message.
If I gave an invitation for those who
have been fighting unbelief, if I gave an
invitation now to those in the balcony here
and overflow, wherever it is.
If you know in your heart that you
have made Jesus cry through an episode of
unbelief and something that's taking root in your
heart, there would be too many.
But I'm going to ask you to be
honest before the Lord, because this is a
time for repentance.
I have repented of my unbelief.
I've repented of my wounding my Christ.
And I'm saying, God, the enemy will come
in.
But I know now I know now what
happens when I distrust you.
I know what I do to you.
And that's been like a guard that it's
been.
I'm so thankful.
And that's what God wants as the result
of this message in the service this morning.
So I'm going to ask you in just
a moment to stand.
Everywhere you're at.
I want you to stand for prayer and
repentance.
If you honestly say, Pastor David, this message
touched me in my inner man.
Yes.
In my present battle and my present trial,
there has been question.
There have been questions and there are doubts
and there are fears.
And I'm not at ease.
We're to repent of that.
We repent before God.
That sin is the father of all other
sins.
Father of the mother of all sins.
Unbelief.
But what did Jesus say?
Who did he say grieved him?
He didn't say it was my children who
for 40 years heard my truth.
They grieved me.
They wounded me.
And he said, be careful, lest you to
what he's saying, lest you grieve me.
By your unbelief.
And you don't enter into this unwavering promise
of unwavering faith.
I'm going to pray.
And while I'm praying, if you have to
repent of that, I want you to stand
and repent now before a holy Christ.
And let's believe God right now that he
will unleash a spirit of faith.
Father, for those in the annex who are
willing to stand now and say, Oh, Jesus,
Lord, forgive me for making you cry.
Forgive me for wounding your heart.
I know you love me, but Jesus, I
have mistrusted you.
Forgive me, Lord.
Can you say that from your heart?
Just say, Lord, forgive me.
God is more than willing to forgive you
now.
Father, look on this scene now.
Almost an entire congregation standing on their feet
before you.
Lord, Holy Spirit, would you please?
I plead with you.
Let us feel your pain.
Let us feel the hurt that we cause
you, Lord Jesus.
Let us feel it and know it.
And Paul called that entering in to the
fellowship of his suffering.
Jesus, forgive me.
Forgive every one of us now.
How many believe that God is more than
willing to forgive when we ask him?
Raise your hand.
Now, will you thank him for the love
that he has for you and for us?
Lord, we give you thanks.
We love you and we worship and we
praise you.
For those that have come forward, I would
believe that you understand how simple it is
to come to Jesus.
He said, if we confess our sins, he's
faithful just to forgive us and cleanse us
from all, all our unrighteousness.
Would you pray this prayer with me now?
If your heart's really repentant, if there's a
godly sorrow.
In fact, if you don't feel sorry for
your sins, ask the Holy Spirit to give
you that godly sorrow that the Holy Spirit
feels.
And that you will sense that need in
you to walk in his righteousness.
Pray this with me, Lord Jesus.
I come to you now boldly in front
of this congregation to acknowledge you as total
Lord and Savior of my life.
Cleanse me, forgive me, and heal my spirit.
Now, let me pray with you.
Father, it doesn't take long.
If there's no routine and simple childlike faith
to believe what God said, confess your sins,
he will forgive you.
Then, Lord, you said we're to trust you
to walk in righteousness, that the Holy Spirit
will give us what we need with authority
and power to walk a clean life.
A righteous life before you, not in our
own strength, but in the strength that he
has promised and provided.
We thank you for it in Jesus' name.
Amen.
This is the conclusion of the message.