CROSS TO COMMISSION | Mercy For The Villain | Matthew 27:2-10 | Arik Hayes

Look at the 2018-19 church. Like that. Thank you for being grateful for those that came out to join us today. We are a church that is a house of prayer, presence and proclamation. I want to welcome our online community digital disciples, clap it up for them, some Massey being in the building. Knocked out there are those in the chat, hiding the chat, beloved, we love you. And also want to welcome the unbeliever. This is a place where you absolutely can belong before you believe. Clap it up for the unbeliever in the building. Tung Nian. Blessing and the claims are Christ. It is our hope and prayer and plan and just to put the development of your faith, man, in hopes that the Holy Spirit, the same one that already pricked our hearts, will procure us one day that you would come upon the Ark of Safety and get to know the true living God, have everlasting life. Amen? And I actually want to pause right now. I want to honor the pastor of this Ecclesi, Philip Anthony Mitchell. Amen. Amen. That's the one to take time to do that. Pause, pause and honor the pastor of this house. You haven't seen them in a couple of weeks. You are not forgotten. He loves you. With that being said, if you have been here or been following us online or even joined us at West Side, it's been a tough year. Amen? We have the VK premises and that wasn't on our timeline. That could West Side. But the Lord provided the space that we're in today and typically takes us a battle again sometime in the summer. But we were heavy in the middle of ministry. We did that during December. I just want to say, you can take this for yourself. Rest is holy. You can say it again on this side of the rest is holy. All right. So we want to definitely give him and his family the time to be able to do that. So as the church we are continuing to walk through the book of Matthew in a series we've titled Cross to Commission and have the honor and privilege of preaching this sermon that I've titled Mercy for the Villain. Amen by your head please allow me to pray for us again. Holy Father, I just thank you for just your grace and your goodness, for your written word, for your scriptures, for the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures, God. And truth that we can come back to and meditate on and actually help to conform us into the image of Christ and give us an anchor in our souls. In a weary land, oh God. In a world that preaches everything against what we believe. Thank you for the Scriptures, God. I thank you for everybody that's in the building on the way to the building that just logged on across this camera, God. If it happens to be the recording, go up. God, I just thank you for everybody. I'm attentive here, God. I seek to decrease that you would increase that your son would be glorified, that your love would be made known by your precious Holy Spirit, have your way in this experience. I thank you, God, for these people with this sermon. So she just stayed my prayer. Amen. Amen. Hey Frank, my hanging out with your brother, I appreciate you. I'm not a movie buff, but it doesn't take a lot or a lot of dedication to know that especially in movies, sometimes in real life. We don't like the villain. If I could use language, my mom, you know, you got to catch the language. I'm going to use the H word, the hate. We hate the villain. Is that true? We hate the villain. Those are our movie buffs, right? If I say you to pitch in one of your favorite movies, as you look at all the time, and I have, I say, hey man, you know, tell me about the villain. A lot of times, if you love the movie or if it was written in the way that you love the main character, you really have a visceral reaction to the villain. No man, nowadays, it wasn't always like that. Now you have Instagram, you can follow the actor, and you can see this person, and you're just forget they got a whole real life. They got kids and a wife or whatever. When you see them, you see the villain. You can see them in the airport. You look at them. You yell on your face, why? Because you was the villain and you hurt the main character. Some villains played their part so good, you cannot wipe it out of your mind. It could actually hurt them when they get recast with someone, like at another movie. If you played that villain very well, it could take you out of business. We can't just cache you as a loving father over here. It's not even believable. You played that so well because you weren't the villain. Some of us have played the villain. I know we like to talk about how the villain was played to us, but in somebody's story, you may be the villain. I know you don't like thinking about it, but if I asked somebody that knew you, they don't necessarily have the, he's blessed and highly favorite testimony. They have the villain story about you, not the person sitting next to you. I'm talking about you. I know you sweet now, but if somebody's like you may have played the villain. And you will forget the main character, but you can remember the villain. If that being said, beloved, you can be saved, be a disciple, new convert, or not even no guy. Most of us have heard of the villain named Judas. In rap, in songs, in pop culture, it's very well known. When you say Judas, you're talking about snakeish behavior. And the way that he did it too, he was betrayed. He didn't come up and steal off on his nut like that. He actually came and betrayed with a kiss. With a kiss. At least let me know you coming. Please be straight up. So I don't like you. I know what I'm dealing with. You will betray with a kiss. And back to the movies, the reality is they'll give you a really serious villain. But sometimes what they'll do is after that, the success of that movie, they'll back up and give you a part two, but it'll be a prequel to give you the backstory of the villain. And a lot of times when you start to see the villain in a different way, you start to see why they got there, how they got there, like their origins story, five, six, seven, what happened to them to make them so evil? And as we dive into Matthew 27 and 1 through 10, we're going to talk about the villain Judas, but I'm also going to give you a prequel in scripture to let you know how we got there. You want me to love it? All right. Amazing. I want you to verse 1 and 2, Matthew 27. And I actually be turning with you on some of this and we're going to look at the scriptures together. They know. All right. Verse 1, it says, when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put them to death. And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to pilot the governor. Now in my last sermon two weeks ago, we saw where Christ was put through. He actually submitted through what I would call a mocked. He was like the mockery trial. There was a corrupt trial where they actually sentenced him to death. Now in fact, though, when they sentenced him to death because they were under Roman rule at that time, they didn't even have the power to do it. How wicked are you? How you gonna send it somebody or something? You don't even have the power to do it. But since they conspired and they came together and gave him a sentence, they're actually taking him over to Roman court now because at that time, the Romans did have the power to execute. And I'll jump in to verse 3. He says, then when Judas, his portrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. Now the last experience, somebody yelled out, well too late. Some of y'all didn't yell it out. We probably filled that way. Okay, you don't brought it back. My crisis is already in prison. What did you do? I don't care. But now I actually want to take you back to the prequel. Let's talk about the villain story. We're going to jump into a couple of verses. The first one's starting with John 12, 3 through 6. It reads as, Mary therefore took a pound of expensive equipment made from pure gnar and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. So you got this amazing worship moment where Mary broke her alabaster box on the feet of Jesus. But here's Judas in verse 4. It said, but Judas is scary at one of the disciples. He who was about to betray him said, why was this appointment not sold for 300 denari and given to the poor for 6 till exactly why he said he said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and having charged with the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it. All right. So at the beginning of this story here, talking about his back story, listen. He was Judas was revealed as a thief. Come on, family. He was still in the church's money. Like, we want to juxtapize? That's got to be some of the lowest of the low, right? And our human estimation. A thief acting like he cares for the poor. Hey, man, we could have done something for the poor. You have no care for the poor. You are a thief. We could have done something for you. You have no plans for them. No outreach plans in your back pocket. Judas want to take the money. And my guess is he wanted enough in there so now he can pinch off. He was not a lot in there. We got eyes on it. So I can't pinch off. So now you being sneaky with your thievery. A sneaky thief. All right. Let's jump into John 13, one and two. John 13, one and two reads, verse 1. He says, now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to the part out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. Verse 2 says, during supper, when the devil had already put into the heart of Judas to scare Simon's son to betray him. So it's another point in the story. Yes, he was a sneaky thief. But now we see that Judas is dealing with warfare that he don't know how to deal with. It said Satan put the thought in his heart. Notice it didn't just say a regular demon. Judas is dealing with Satan himself in a warfare he is not prepared for. And if I can stop right here, some of us are doing the same thing. You are here trying to battle a thought with a thought and you are losing. Losing left and right. Satan or a demon put a thought right because he can't suggest to you. Everything that comes to your soul does not originate with you. You need to know that beloved. You have to have discernment. That is not me. That may be the enemy. That may be my flesh. But I don't think Judas has that theological understanding. Mercy for the villain. All right, let's drop down in that same chapter. John 13, 21 through 27. John 13, 21 through 27. And it reads, after saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit and testified truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me. The disciples looked at one another uncertain of whom he spoke. One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at a table at Jesus side, at the same table that Jesus, let me stop here. So this is interesting. Like, y'all ever dealt with somebody that speaks about themselves in the third person? We've got to look at you weird. Why don't you just say myself, right? John did the same thing. John wrote the gospel of John. And in the middle of that, he says, one of his disciples in 23, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at the table at Jesus side. Right, it's a little funny, but let me tell you something. If you keep meditating on the truth, it'll start to change you. I mean, if you identify yourselves as many things, but it's not that one of the disciples that Jesus loves, how can your life change if you ran into situations? I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on, but I am one of the disciples that Jesus loves. I know, I don't look right now, but I know one thing. I am one of the disciples that Jesus loves. I don't know how it's turning it right now, but you're going to work it out for my good. Because I am one of the disciples that Jesus loves. Look at me sideways, you feel like. John didn't care, we shouldn't care either. Keep reading, verse 24. It says, so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. So Simon Peter motioned to John to ask Jesus, you know, what does he mean here? So that disciples, speaking of John, this third person stuff. So that disciple leaning back against Jesus said to him, Lord, who is it? And Jesus actually answered. He said, it is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it. So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon scarier. Two things, two things, two things. There's something about being close to Christ that is underrated, right? Even Peter, right? I'm breaking down, right? So I understand just being like positionally close, right? It wouldn't make sense that Peter is sitting right beside him for him to motion to John, right? So John positionally, like in real life, was sitting close. Actually, I want to say in life to amplify and say he actually leaned back on his chest right there. That's how close he was. And he got special information that nobody else got. Something you don't know because your soul is not leaning against Christ. It's not because he doesn't want you to know, right? You think you know what I mean? No, no, no, no. He was in a position to ask, oh my goodness, ask disciples, we are in a position to ask. It says, he who wants wisdom. It said, ask him. You know what I love about? He didn't say ask him. He said he actually gives it liberally. You get enough stuff about that leaning into the scriptures. Don't make us preach all the scriptures to you. Go get to know him for yourself. He will tell you things. Why? Because you want to the disciples that he loves. Go get them. Verse 27 where I want to land. It says, then after he had taken the morsel, speaking of Judas, it said Satan entered into him. Jesus then said to him, what you are going to do, do it quickly. So we went from a sneaky thief to being courted by Satan in your soul with your thoughts in spiritual warfare. And now we see Judas has full on being possessed by the devil. And I'm making it up and said, enter into him. I didn't even say a press bar. It says, enter in. You are possessed by the devil. The devil possessed. Can I insert here? I believe it made it easier for him to do that. And then he went away back in seed form when he just regarded aiquity in his heart with a little bit of stillness, a coin here, a coin there. break it up, out of the box, that Judas came right beside and confessed his sin and gave his life to the Lord there. and gave his life to the Lord there. Amen. Amen. Amen. But yet in the middle of a display of worship, the idolatry in his heart was highlighted. Ha, ha, ha. Hey, are you one of those that say, hey, man, it don't take all that. Maybe your idolatry in your heart has been highlighted. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. I'm going to church every Sunday. No, no, maybe that's your idolatry being highlighted. You want to forgive all of them. Maybe it is your idolatry in your heart being highlighted. Amen. I'm sneaky beef. Court it by Satan himself. Possess by Satan. Let's go to Matthew 26, 14 through 16. Matthew 26, 14 through 16. Verse 14 says, I loved here and paid this time. I'm going to wait a few seconds for you. Verse 14, then one of the 12 whose name was Judas Iscariot went to the chief priest. He says, he went y'all and said, what will you give me if I deliver him over to you? And they paid him 30 pieces of silver. Verse 16 and from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. Right? This is why again, I believe it started here. Listen, when he went to betray Jesus, it was already in seed for him in his life. So I'm asking you, what sin are you coddling in your heart? Because you think it'll never get that far. Do you think Judas thought it would ever get that far? When he was just cycling off a little coin there for the poor? You know one of the most arrogant things we do as believers? We ask you to try to predict how the sin will affect us. We justify the sin by sin. It's just a little white lie. It'll be okay. It's just a little money. It'll be okay. It's just a little adultery. Nobody will find out. It's just a little resentment not knowing that you may end up with a straight cold heart. And unfortunately beloved, especially those that are coming to the faith, rededicated, we have had a habit of coddling sin like a pet viper. It's walking on your little pet viper. What's that? It's my pet viper. It's a viper. It wants the bite. It's not going to calm down. You keep feeding it. It will only grow. It will only grow. It will only grow. Just get the imagery every night. You sleep in a sleeping bag. Every time you do it, you actually put that pet viper right at the bottom and zip up and go sleep. It's comfy to sleep. That's some of us look spiritually. We say, man, I ain't got to give up that, do I? It ain't that serious. Just a little envy, it ain't that bad. It's a little jealous. It's okay. I can look at other things. Little covetousness. These are all the little sins that nobody talks about. Little back body. Little gossip. You can come to leadership. We reach. And we just sound so judgmental to you. But all we hear, we look at you. We see all we hear is you got a pet viper at the bottom of your sleeping bag. It's only a matter of... Only a matter of time. You see, but that's not judgmental. You know what that's actually love when you talk about seeing. And as we look at, hey, man, we're trying to be gracious. We talk. They got a pet viper, elder. Pat and viper don't even go together. Pat viper, but it ain't rabid, anything. Just don't put a viper there. It's going to bite. And this is what's tough. You know what makes it tough? When sometimes your counsel is somebody in your little spiritual mature. You realize or you remember when you've been bitten yourself. I've had a pet viper before. And it bitten me too. The viper isn't going to change its nature. You have to change yours. By the power of the Holy Spirit and His grace and scriptures and truth and community conform to the image of Christ. So that when you see a viper, can I tell you something? It's not that I don't get tempted to sin. I've been time at the Lord almost three decades. Then now I see more of the end from the beginning. Not perfect. But I can look at that. Although it may seem tempting, that's a viper. What you come over here? I see it. It may appeal to my flesh. I'm still being conformed. I'm like, nah, that's a viper. I'm good on that. I don't have to get as close anymore. As you mature, you start to sharpen your discernment. You're like, I know they got a wig on, but that's a viper. That's that wig off. You are a viper. The way that His flesh cracked, He betrayed Christ, was already seed form in His life. And then He let a thought be planted by Satan, and then He was possessed by Satan. And then the betrayal, it was just a matter of... Now let's jump back into the primary text. Let's go Matthew 27. Verse 3. Read it a little bit over again. Verse 3 again. Then when Judas' betrayer saw that Jesus was condemned, He says, He changed His mind. And He brought that 30 pieces of silver to the cheap priests in the elders. Take that down. Listen, can I keep it a buck? Judas actually did a better job of repenting than some of us. He was broken in heart, and He brought the money back. Some of us have been sorry, but we've kept the money. Or already spend it. Right? But no, that actually submits to me how, how remorseful He was. I believe much like the parable in the... that Christ said about the prodigal son, I believe when He saw Christ, and they were transporting Him, I believe He came to Himself. Now I may not be all in. You know what I'm saying? It's called Him, teach you, you didn't call Him Lord. This conversation for another day. But, man, I don't want this to happen to Him. I brought the 30 pieces of silver back to the cheap priests in the elders. And this shows how remorseful He was. He says in verse 4, He says, I have sinned by betraying innocent blood. Let's stop here. Take that down. So now we have in word and indeed, hey, man, I want nothing to do with this no more. He's innocent, man. We betray the innocent man. He's cheap, preschool. In the verse 4, after He said, I have sinned by betraying innocent blood. He said, they said, what is that to us? See to it yourself. I really don't like these guys, man. What do you mean see to it myself? You are whole cheap priest. Your primary job is to be a mediator between the people and God and deal with their sins. What do you mean deal with it yourself? He has no way of dealing with it himself. That's not the way things are set up of which you teach. You have to bring a sacrifice and bring it to God. And the people were not allowed. They had to go to the cheap priests, the hot priests and the elders. The people were not allowed to go to the cheap priests. Verse 5. After they said that to him, verse 5 says, he went down the pieces of silver into the temple. He departed and he went and hanged himself. He went home himself, man. He was actually remorseful. I believe he tried to run it back. Come on, man. This is going too far. I've come to make this thing right. I've come to the high priest. You guys care about righteousness, don't you? Here's even the money. I didn't even spend none. I'm a no thief. I didn't even spend none. I'm a no thief. What's that got to do with us, fam? Go deal with that yourself. See how you can get a little more mercy for the villain? You know what this is big? We don't get into how he felt, right? Because if you judge him that way, when you get in the jam and you betray them, you're going to judge yourself like that. Instead of running too Christ, you're going to run away. If you judge other people like that, you're not going to give them grace, inforgiveness, and compassion. You're going to say, you know what? Go. People can come and ask you, apologize to you. What they got to do with me. You already did what you did. I'm done with you. Intercamp so culture. We need, hey, as disciples, we need to chill out. I understand the world. But how much have we been forgiven? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, tell your sin. How much have we been forgiven? I'm not saying all situations need you need to come back and be enclosed. I understand there's abuse or not minimizing what they did. But the scripture says, God, if you counted oniquity, who could stand? If he counted oniquity, you want to put them in line and you want to talk about all this, see it, don't you? Will you jump right behind them? Now me, I won't none of that smoke. Keep it all under the blood. And if we're wise, we would do the same. You know what? That would make us much more gracious people. Much more loving people. And by the way, it actually says that in the scriptures, disciples shall be known by our love. But as I was prepping, man, I feel like the Lord supernaturally just gave me a glimpse of like despair. And if you did that, no doubt some of us are just dealing with despair. I'm talking about your soul is dark. You're walking around probably in like a thick, grey, dark, black cloud of sorts. Because you believe what you're currently in is your end. And you either see no way of escape or you think the way of escape ain't there for you. Because what I believe about Judas is he was one more soul. He went to the high priest. He was trying to undo it. And I think what drove him into deep despair is that the one person he knew would hear him. He does not have access to him now. And not just that, he played a pivotal part in ushering him into imprisonment. How much despair you think he was dealing with? Now, check me out. Now, if he's coming back and saying, I don't want to do it, the possession from the devil is over. Now, he's coming himself. He's looked at what he's done. He's looked at what he's in. He tried to fit. That didn't work. And Christ, the compassionate one, is no longer within his grasp. And some of you feel that way. I've gone too far. My sin is too bad. I have done too much evil. I have outrun the grace of God. And beloved, I want to tell you that is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. It says, we're sin abounds. Grace super abounds. Again, I will reiterate what you're saying is that God doesn't do good math. You won't say that out loud, but that's what you're saying. You're saying when he did all the calculation for all of the sin of all the world and all mankind. And he nailed them to the cross in Christ Jesus and put the iniquity of the whole world on him. He left yours out. God, you did bad math. If you let's see, you forgot something. Now, none of us would say that out loud. But how many of us felt that way? Maybe even got reveled, just felt that way. I felt that way before I knew the gospel. I really said we're sin abounds, grace super abounds. Now, shall we continue and sin? Absolutely not. But if we sin, we have an advocate with the Father. His name is Jesus. You are not the same situation that Jesus is. You have access to the real high priest. So I'm not saying you won't have down times. You absolutely have to walk out the human experience. But you are never without the power of the Holy Spirit to sustain you. You are never without Christ who redeems our Heavenly Father who restores. The one who heals the broken hearted. The one who provides. The one who conforms us into the image of Christ. The one who sets the captives free. I mean, my elder, we're talking. You know what our primary problem is? What are our primary problems? We put God on a time limit. So you got a self-imposed time limit. You say, if God don't show up here, it ain't going to happen. And it leads us to despair. And we feel desperate. But that's not our God. The system of Lazarus said, if you would have been here, he would not have died. But she did not know she was talking to the resurrection. He's never too late. You can die when he shows up. The resurrection is there. You can be in the middle of depression. And he shows up. He's already there. I'm going to watch my wording. That's the thing. You actually think that God needs to come. He's already there. In the middle of your closet, in the middle of your car, he's already there. And much like John, one of the disciples, whom Jesus loves, you can just lean in. I'm preaching right now. You can lean into his presence, beloved. And you can get freedom. You've got to lean in. Some of you are leaning in. And it's not yet. But you're being sustained while you're leaning. That's the old Holy Ghost power. You can get white and star. Give me verse 6, man. The chief priest called him. So at the end of five, you just still left the money. He threw it into the temple. So the chief priests, they taking the pieces of silver, said in verse 6, it is not lawful to put them into the treasury since it is blood money. The more I think about this thing, man, you just just left out the dry. He was used and abused and left out. And that is exactly what idolatry does. You think you're having a good time. You think it's till you're winning. And then it runs on a little longer. And you see how it has destroyed your soul. And then you know sometimes we come out and jump right back in line. And get used and abused again by another idol god. Then we go to Jesus and he restores us. And then we go on. And then instead of standing here, we get right back in line. To get used and abused again. You know what the love of our souls, our, I'm included here. You know what the love of our souls does? He has compassion upon us. He embraces us because he knows our frame. He knows we're going to lose some. Now should we purposefully lose some? No. It's called idol worship, idolatry, sin living in the flesh. No, we should walk in the spirit. But he's compassionate. That's the thing. Judas didn't have access to the compassionate one. He ran into the woman at the well. Told her how many husbands she had. He didn't judge her. The woman called it adultery. She was actually doing it. She was caught in it. She was guilty. Where are your accuses? Me to do eye accuses you. Hey, don't do that no more. There was no judgment. It was compassion. And we should be known as compassion to people, beloved. There's too many mean Christians running around here. Come on, beloved now. You know what that means? You have been leaning in. A byproduct of leaning into the presence of God is a softened heart. So, I'm saying this blood money. Verse 7. So, they took counsel and bought with them a pot of field as a burial place for strangers. Therefore, that field has been called the field of blood to this day. You know, I've passed the said something. I'm going to make my pain pay me. Can we learn from Jesus' pain here? The very money that he used to justify betraying God, all of a sudden nobody wants to touch it. I don't want that. We can't put that with the world. That's blood money. May you gave it to them. You supply the blood money. Now, we come back at your feet and get it out the temple. We can't do that. You see how wicked that is? You see how crazy we look when we bow to anything other than Jesus? I'm going to close it here. Give me a verse 9. Jesus didn't fulfill what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah saying, and they took the 30 pieces of silver. The price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potters field as the Lord directed me. It's actually a quote of an Old Testament prophecy. I want to lean in there and draw the point. God knows the end from the beginning. One of the things that absolutely will lead to despair is if you only really lean on your understanding. One of the most recent revelations I got from the Lord is he is the one that sees around all corners. He knows your end. So instead of trying to know all, just focus on knowing him. Say that again. You trying to plan. You got stuff coming up that you did not plan for XYZ. And we're stressing out and we're in despair because it's not adding up. You're going crazy for Christmas and rent is due on the first. It still do. I promise you it's going to be due. So instead of tying our identity and having to give a gift for people and trying to say face, why don't we just chill out on all that? The real gift is Jesus anyway. Some of us have extended ourselves financially, emotionally, relations or professionally or parental and it's driven us into despair. You got to fit cloud and understand man. There's going to be a lot of good times had this holiday season. We're not believe this to the fact that sometimes for some of you guys, it's some of the most stressful time of the year. This is your first, second, third Christmas without your father who passed or your mother or grandmother. Or you're going through a divorce and maybe this the time you actually don't have your kids. I'll do an alternating thing. Or why everybody else is having fun, you're submitting resumes and you're trying to get, listen, listen. I don't want to minimize that. Like I understand how that can rattle your soul, but ultimately our God sustains. And he provides. And he heals the broken hearted. And he loves. He's the lover of our soul. And he gives peace. And he gives joy. And he gives a covering that he loves. And he gives wisdom. Try leaning in like John, one of the disciples in Jesus' love. And I hope with this beloved, we'll start to give a little more mercy to the villa, even if the villa is you. By your head, let me pray for us. Holy Father, I'll take you for today. The fact that you do give mercy to the villa for the scripture, say, you justified the ungodly, and that was us. And while we were yet sinners, Christ died on the cross first. God, I pray for those that are heading to the season and they're feeling lonely. God, I pray you give them the revelation that they are never alone. And that during this time, they would spend time in this holiday season leaning into you. And God, I thank you for meeting them in that place, God, with sustenance of the soul and power of the Holy Spirit to change the human heart. To the glory of God. Is anybody in here? You're dreading going into this holiday season. Like you may be depressed. I'm not trying to make a preacher moment. I just want to pause. You're dreading going into this holiday season. I see you, sister. I see you, sister. I see you, sister. I see you, brother. I see you. Holy Ghost. If you want prayer for that, come to the front. I just want to pray with you. Come to the front. Go in, move. I just felt the nurture of the Holy Spirit there. Now, start your worship. Oh, come let us adore you. Oh, come let us adore you. It cries the Lord, O come, O come let us adore you. Oh, come let us adore you. Oh, come let us adore you. He is cry as the Lord. Oh, come let us adore you. Oh, come let us adore you. He is cry as the Lord. In Christ, the Lord is worthy for He alone. for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. He is worthy for the Lord. We give you all the glory. We give you all the glory. We Christ the Lord. We giving you all the glory. We give you of the glory. We give you of the glory. We give you of the glory. We cry, the love. We give you of the glory. We worship you, hallelujah. You are worthy to be praised. We give you of the glory. We worship you, we worship you. I love you, hallelujah. We give you of the glory. We worship you, we worship you. I love you, I love you. I'm worthy to be praised. We give you of the glory. We worship you, I know you worship you. I love you, I'm worthy to be praised. We give you of the glory. God, we worship you, Jesus. I love you, I love you. So we give you, we give you of the glory. God, we worship you, we worship you. I love you, I love you. Worth is your name, Jesus. You deserve praise, worthy is your name. Worth is your name, Jesus. You deserve praise, worthy is your name. Worth is your name, Jesus. You deserve praise, worthy is your name. Worth is your name, Jesus. You deserve praise, worthy is your name. She be exalted, be exalted. Now in the heavens, as your glory fills this place. You will all deserve our praise. You're the name of our names. 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If you do not want to stay for prayer, you are formally dismissed in the presence of the Lord. Hope you enjoy the holiday season. And remember Christ during this time. OK? Remember Christ? And remember that he gives grace to the villain. All right, I love you guys. God bless you.