Bill Johnson · Bethel Church · Published June 1, 2026
0:00 There's something about the fear of God in relationships that is to define my approach. It doesn't mean there's never correction. It doesn't mean there's not dealing with hard problems and issues. That's a part of life. But the default must be a holy fear of God for the significance and the value of that person that God has put in your life, members of one another. the human body is actually the ultimate i think the ultimate illustration of community because each member stays alive because it's connected my my wife my late wife um benny was an animal lover and uh and and i i am too i i just prefer them next to the potatoes this When we were pastoring in Weaverville, one of the families, a couple, older couple in the church, that had a little ranch, and they had sheep.
1:12 And they needed one of them cared for her. I forget why, but they needed one cared for her. And they wanted to know if Benny wanted to take care of this lamb. And she said, absolutely. So we had a baby lamb in the house. In the house. This thing would follow Benny everywhere. Benny had a little lamb. Her fleece was white as snow. You remember that? Followed her everywhere. Thought that my wife was mom. I mean, literally, just followed her everywhere. And this cute little thing, the way it jumps around and prances. And so we had a lamb in the house for a season. and what I didn't know is that sheep are born with long tails. I didn't know that. I never hung around sheep much, but when I saw them, I never saw them with long tails. So what the owner of this little ranch did is they had this little device, put a rubber band over the tail just about so far out from its behind, and that little rubber band just was tight, and it just cut off all supply, and eventually it just fell off.
2:16 And that's what happens to any member that has supply cut off. The human body is actually a prophetic picture of the nature of community. We live because we're connected. We live, we thrive. Our measure of life is actually, in many ways, due to our connection with people. There's a warning in Scripture, quite a few of them actually.
3:05 It says, Don't forsake the assembling together, as is the habit of some, and all the more as you see the day approaching. Is the day the return in Christ? I don't know, but whatever the day is, we're closer to it now than we were yesterday. And the point is, is the intensity of the hour has a solution to it, and that solution is make sure you're connected to people.
3:32 Make sure you're connected to people. In this me-centered culture, it's easy to think in terms of fellowship just out of what I get out of the environment instead of realizing that it's actually an exchange of life. It's learning to do life together that makes it work.
3:53 In Weaverville, we had one of the elders of the church, a man named Bill Daraberry. Chris talks about him often, and he was just the most amazing individual. Here's a church of, let's just say we were 100 people, Here's a church of 100 people, and I would ask on a Sunday, I asked this, I think, a few times through the years, how many of you are here because of Bill Derryberry?
4:22 Two-thirds of the church would raise their hand. They were there because of him. They weren't there because of me. The other third was there because of Chris, I'm pretty sure. It was because of him. But they were there because of this man's love. Now, we would have small groups, home groups, try to help Bill in teaching. He didn't teach well. He was a lover of people, and he could talk well and communicate, but he wasn't a teacher. He couldn't lead in worship. He didn't do a number of the things that we thought would really help a small group. But he had a trump card that he would pull out, and it's called I Love Everybody. And our entire community was affected by this one man. And our church was filled with people that were there because he loved them.
5:06 Extraordinary gift. Man, I wish there were a thousand more in the earth exactly like him because he never met a stranger and he just welcomed everybody into his home. That affected our entire city. What did he know how to do well? Community. He was reverend community. He was pastor community. He was the one who knew what it meant to value gathering together with believers. He would pour himself into young believers. Chris talks about how he was mentored by Bill, but he just would pour himself. He was a great, he knew how to celebrate people in our community, and it was such a treasure to me, and very significant. The point is, is he understood the value of community. He single-handedly affected the nature of our entire church family. We were different because of his love for people. He was an elder in the church, but he didn't have any pulpit kind of representation.
6:07 Amazing gift. Amazing gift. Jesus says, wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst. So in another sense, community is where Jesus likes to manifest himself. Community is where he unveils himself. It's not that I don't have a personal relationship. It's not that I don't have personal encounter. but things are exponentially increased in community. There are things you can get in a community of believers that you can never get on your own. I believe in the personal relationship, absolutely so. But there's something about being together with other people, laying down my own preferences, my own rights, whatever, sacrificing to the point of fellowship. Now in Hebrews 13, turn to Hebrews 13 if you haven't, I don't think I mentioned it to you. How many of you just knew by word of knowledge to being, besides Chris, Hebrews 13?
7:05 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hebrews 13. I'm not going to read the amount that I did earlier just because we're hurting for time. But I have plenty of time to do what I need to do. So let's go down to verse 15 of Hebrews 13. Verse 15. Therefore by him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name. But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Please notice, sacrifice is plural. So what do we have here? He says, number one, don't neglect to offer the fruit of our lips, that which gives thanks to his name. Don't forget to give praise.
7:59 So we do that. Every time we gather, it's our priority to minister to the Lord. We minister. We give an offering. We go beyond what's convenient. You've had a rough morning. You come in. If you're like me, you raise your hands anyway. You sing. You declare his greatness regardless. It's a sacrifice. You go beyond convenience, and it actually changes the giver. It changes the person who is giving the offering. But then he goes on and he says, don't neglect doing good. Doing good are the good works. It's caring for the poor. It's visiting somebody in prison or the hospital. It's extending ourselves out in a sacrificial way to help somebody else. Excuse me.
8:43 Good works. Jesus said, let your light shine before men in such a way that they see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. We have the privilege of doing sacrificial things, not to draw attention to ourselves, but to draw attention towards the one who loves and forgives. And so that's the challenge. And here in Hebrews, the writer says, don't neglect this sacrifice. The praise is important, but it's also important. Do the good works in a way that touches people and directs them to the Lord. But this last sacrifice I find fascinating. He says to share. It's actually the word for fellowship. don't neglect praise, don't neglect sacrificial good works, but also don't forget fellowship, for with such sacrifices. So that tells me then there is an expression of fellowship, of community, of togetherness that enters a sacrificial dimension that brings the greater breakthrough.
9:47 fire falls on sacrifice the fire of his presence will always touch whatever we offer to him in glory it may be our words, it may be our skills our skill set, our work, our office, our home our families, whatever it might be, everything that we offer to him continuously we repeat that devotion to him there's something about attracting the presence of God into that environment so imagine now fellowship you have three or four people over to the house you pray together, you share testimony it doesn't have to be a duplicate of a service it's the fact that we make connection and Christ is our common bond and in that connection there's genuine value and celebration of another person when that is done outside of what's convenient outside of what is just fun for me but actually move into something that's designed to benefit somebody else.
10:47 That realm of sacrifice not only attracts the Lord into that environment, but it does something in me as the offering giver, as the one who is being sacrificial. Something's happening in me that's endearing me to a level of presence and breakthrough I cannot find any other way. The Lord designs us in all aspects of life to discover Him. For example, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil because you are with me. What does that say? There's a measure of his presence that you can only find in the valley of the shadow of death. Every part of life gives access to greater breakthrough. And to have opportunity to, in this environment, to make connection that impacts our life and theirs is a missed opportunity for many. One of the scariest verses in the Bible for me, absolute scariest, is this verse out of Proverbs 5.
11:47 I'll just read it to you. Proverbs 5, verse 14, if you're taking notes. I was on the verge of total ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation. I was on the verge of total ruin in the midst of the congregation. There's a statement that's often credited to a couple of different people, Marilyn Monroe, and then one of my favorite comedians. His name slipped my mind. But the statement goes like this. The worst thing in life is not to be alone. It's to be with people who make you feel alone. and sometimes you have to be the one who initiates and it doesn't mean that I can't connect with every person, neither can you, but I can connect with somebody and I've got to make sure that my life not just from a pulpit, I'm thankful for the position, but real life happens on the one to one, in the connection, being in one another's homes, workplace, in the marketplace, having fun together, doing the things that we do in life.
13:06 This family camp thing is awesome. So I just want to encourage and hopefully strengthen you today in the sense of the beauty and the wonder of community. If we could look at it this way, the simple privilege of being together is something he delights in so much, he wants to reveal himself right in the middle. He wants to reveal himself. There's something so tangible and special about that great privilege of community. And the Lord has actually called us.
13:41 Chris brought this out a couple of weeks ago, and I'll end with this. He brought out a couple of weeks ago, a great message on the great commandment. I love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength. And then he said to love your neighbor as yourself. But then he He pulled out the fact that Jesus, in John, I think it's 14 or 15, he says, I give you a new commandment. Well, the old commandment was love God with all your heart, so love each other as you love yourself. But the new commandment was love your neighbor as Jesus loved them. That's a little higher notch than loving as you love yourself. And that was what he introduced is a new level. And that's what we're tapping into here, is to be able to love and to care, to do what we're capable of doing, to pour into other people's lives. It is so significant that it is described by Jesus as an evangelistic tool.
14:34 He said, they will know. How many of you want the revelation of the saving grace of Jesus to touch our entire city? They will know. Say that with me. They will know. They will know what? They will know. Because if you love one another, they will be convinced of a Christ. And honor is such a huge part of our life here. And really, it's just, unfortunately, it stands out. It should be normal.
15:10 Because it is the normal Christian life. It is the value that you put in another person. It's the fact that Paul said, submit to one another in the fear of Christ. In other words, I'm going to respond to you as I would respond to Jesus. I wish I could say I've done that well all the time. I have not. I have succeeded some, and I have failed miserably other times. But this is what we're learning. We're all on this curve to learn to actually respond to one another as we would to the Lord Jesus. When you do that, you bring greatness out of people. We've had people ask us to come to teach on the subject of honor, people specifically, various leaders, because they want to be honored more. The report that they give is that, you know, my people just don't honor me good enough, and there's a lot of disrespect and dishonor, et cetera, and we really need that teaching of the culture of honor. And the worst thing in the world to do is to try to create a culture of honor so that you'll be honored because you will be disappointed.
16:18 But if you create a culture of honor so that everybody around you thrives, then you can succeed. You can succeed. It is a doable quest. And this concept of creating a culture of honor so that we are applauded will backfire because it's nauseating. Bleh. It's gross. but honor is the atmosphere in which people become their best the reason to pursue the culture of honor is because it is an atmosphere it's more than an act every once in a while i'll have a have a pastoral friend that will call or send me a note and say hey we took an offering for such and such a place you know how's that for honor and and it is it's wonderful thing. They'll be maybe a family in crisis or another church in crisis. They'll receive an honor, an offering, and give a generous gift to help them. And I love when we have a chance to do that. And I love to see others respond that way to the needs of the community and world conditions, etc. But an act is not a culture. It's a step towards developing culture. Culture is actually way of thinking and it becomes an atmosphere it actually becomes something that's tangible you can almost you can almost taste it and what happens in the culture of honor is is that people are celebrated for who they are Instead of a stumbling over who they're not, there's a value for gifting graces.
18:12 One of the things that I think we're going to be learning in the next 10 years, as a side note, is I think we're going to be required, not in a law sense, but just for advancement's we're going to be required to learn how to know people after the spirit.
18:32 The discerning of spirits isn't just the recognition of evil spirits. The discerning of spirits is a discernment of the spirit realm and to recognize one another after the spirit. Because some people would slip past easily and yet they're supposed to have a significant role in your life. And if you don't recognize what they carry in God, you'll never stop long enough to receive what they have because they don't come in a package that appears to be acceptable to you. But one of the challenges that we have in this culture of honor that we're working on, one of the big challenges that we have is that we unintentionally create a system. a system where people are looking to be honored. In fact, if they're not honored, if they're not celebrated, then they'll go somewhere else.
19:31 That's just stupid. I don't know another phrase for it. Just say with me, that's dumb. That's just dumb. That's just dumb. It is because the Lord will oftentimes arrange the greatest treasure, the thing that we ache for, the thing we long for the most, he will actually package it in the most offensive context. No, he will, because he needs to know the resolve that we have in our heart. It's not an issue of punishment. It's not like he mocks those who are weak in heart. What he's looking for is he's looking for people that can carry the weight of his kingdom, because his kingdom is a glorious kingdom, and the word glory is heavy or weight. So he's looking for people that when they carry greater measure of kingdom, greater measure of presence, greater measure of responsibility, authority, they don't crumble under the weight of what they've been given.
20:30 And so the Lord is constantly testing us to see what we can carry. The test is not to humiliate or to punish. The test is just to see what can I entrust to them. the lesson of the minas and the talents, the faithfulness of the one who used the one mina and earned 10 minas more, they were put in charge of 10 cities. There was a weight of responsibility that was given to the one who acted with the greatest character in carrying their assignment. They were given responsibility of management, influence over cities. So the point is, is that God is always testing the metal, so to speak, to see what the strength is, to see what our resolve is. How easily can we be distracted?
21:23 Paul says in his chapter, he says, whenever you partake of this meal, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes, which is interesting. You could have such a quiet moment that prophesies, that shouts into the unseen world, the death of Christ was real, his return is real. And that's what actually takes place in that moment. If you can imagine the heavens shaking with a shout of what you do when you partake of that broken body and shed blood of Jesus. So here we have these three different approaches. I want to take the Catholic one for a moment. Mine is my personal approach. Obviously, I don't have a right to require anything from you. But my personal approach is much closer to the Catholic tradition than certainly than what I was raised with in the Pentecostal world. And I like to, when I take the bread, I like to acknowledge I receive your body into mine. I want to develop a greater holy fear for the moment that I'm in, a real fear of God to treasure the moment. So just my personal journey.
22:23 I was in a Catholic church, and I believe what I'm describing to you took place after I left the place. but there was communion involved, and somebody had spilled, had dropped the cup of the wine onto the floor. And the picture that was described to me was quite gripping. It was of a Catholic priest that was down on his knees, had his hanky out, and he was with tears in his eyes, was cleaning up the blood. Remember, it's not symbolic to him. the blood of Jesus that was spilt without any regard.
23:04 There wasn't a sense of remorse. There was no anger at the person who was accidentally spilt. It wasn't that kind of an issue. The issue was, here is something that I consider to be the actual presence of the Lord Jesus and his shed blood, and cleaning up something that was spilled without any remorse.
23:30 And so when I look at passages like this, it's for this reason a number of weeks. I'm sick. Some have died. I don't think it would be right for us to trace any condition that we see in our body back to something that we did like this. But at the same time, this is the most sacrificial group of people I know in loving others. And then I can't help but feel the Lord brings us to the surface again because there's more. That He's really calling us to a higher level. So here's this moment. When He says not discerning the Lord's body, is He saying that you don't value the bread for actually being the body of Christ? Is there that kind of disregard? is Or is he saying, that here you're recognizing the Lord's body, that when you come to the friend, the person you're connected to, that family member, that spouse, the stranger that sits across the aisle from you on a Sunday morning, is the fact that he didn't distinguish between was he talking about the bread or was he talking about people?
24:55 maybe he didn't distinguish because they're the same the reverence in cleaning up what was on the floor is to be the reverence towards another person in the family there's something incredibly holy about that meal that I think has been lost. I think has been forgotten. Somebody captured a title that I really love. They call it the community. They call it the meal that heals. And I like that because that's actually a part of it. It's supposed to be this life-giving engagement that we have with the Holy One. is the bread the actual body of Christ or does it represent and his presence rests upon and imparts to you I don't know I don't care I'm approaching it in mystery part of the church tries to explain other parts of the church just embrace the mystery and say you know what don't understand it but I'm coming to it this way and I'm wondering if perhaps we should upgrade our approach to partaking of the broken body of Jesus and the shed blood of Jesus but dramatically upgrade our approach to the person you're sitting in front of and beside and behind.
26:19 What would it be like to be angry at somebody frustrated and letting them know how you feel because everybody deserves your honesty? and with finger pointed expressing yourself and then have that person actually turn into Jesus and realize that he says when you've done it to the least of these you've done it to me it's actually that's actually the approach of scripture you know people often will say they'll refer to their church their ministry wherever they're part of I said, oh, it's just not a culture of honor. Which what they, they measure the culture of honor by what they've received, not by what they've given. it's easy to find where the fault is instead of how to bring a solution, how to adjust personal lifestyle and approach.
27:22 There's something about the fear of God in relationships that is really to define my approach. It doesn't mean there's never correction. It doesn't mean there's not dealing with hard problems and issues. That's a part of life. But the default must be a holy fear of God for the significance and the value of that person that God has put in your life. Members of one another, Scripture says. Members of one another. It's crazy that many of the physical diseases that exist right now, I don't understand our medical community can explain it to you. I've been asking questions. I still don't get it, but it's where your body kind of turns on itself. I mean, there's some colons, you know, where the body, actually Crohn's disease and such, where it starts eating itself.
28:17 It turns on itself. There's issues in the joints and stuff where the body turns on itself, and there's a crippling effect on how we do life. perhaps our body is yelling out to us trying to get our attention to realize that when we turn against one another it's our body turning against itself and uh there's something profoundly possible in learning this particular lesson.
28:57 See, Jesus actually taught a different way of handling problems. He taught a different way of pursuing reconciliation. He actually, see, when it's Christian love that you're giving, when it's God's love you're giving, you don't need anything in return. When it's your love you're giving, you need something in return to keep going. And the real test is, how long can I go? What can I do serving and loving and caring for people who don't acknowledge or give it back in return? How long can I continue to do that? See, most of us at some point stop and just say, well, it's just not worth it. I'm not going to continue to invest in that way. Is this making any sense to you? The sacrificial love that Jesus illustrated, the sacrificial love that we've been invited into, is actually costly. It's expensive.
29:49 It doesn't require in return. It actually, the love of Christ through us is best seen in conflict. It's best seen when there's a problem, when there's a challenge, when there's maybe a relational, maybe it's a health thing, Maybe it's the city fires that we had here, you know, 2018. The love of Christ is oftentimes is best seen when there's a crisis. It doesn't mean it can't be seen otherwise. It should be seen all the time. But it's most notable. And every one of us run into situations where it's not the most convenient thing in the world to stop and to serve somebody or to care for somebody or to speak a kind word when they've been so rude. Sometimes it's just easy to pass on. I think of the Good Samaritan where the story goes, there's an injured guy in the road, and a priest sees him and goes to the other side of the road, and the Good Samaritan comes and takes care of him.
30:51 And I've been the Good Samaritan. I've stepped into those kinds of moments, and I've paid the price, and I've lived sacrificially to honor God and to honor that person. But I've also been the priest that walks to the other side of the road to avoid any kind of sense of responsibility or connection. And there's something of the love of Christ that is to be seen in this noble renaissance, if I can use that book title to illustrate, in this noble renaissance. There's something of the character of Christ that is actually to be illustrated in the most difficult moments. That's when it's recognized the most. I read a book on leadership years ago. Actually, I didn't finish the book. But what I read was really good. What I read was so good. The first three pages were amazing. Yes. It just made me want to read more. Yeah. Now, I ran across this phrase in this book that really, really did honestly stood out to me. It said, there were many great leaders in human history that nobody has ever heard of because they did not have the privilege to live in a time of crisis.
31:53 there's something of leadership and now it's transitioned to just the nature and character of Christ there's something of the character of Christ that is best seen in dark moments, in challenging moments it doesn't mean we need problems, it just means it stands out and when we have situations with a neighbor when we have stuff that goes on with somebody that we work with or online. I hear that there are reports online. That's what I hear.
32:30 And what you do in those moments, honestly, it's one of the reasons I like when I take communion, when I take that broken body of Jesus and the shed blood of Jesus, I bring to the Lord the names of the people who publicly criticize and oppose me. And I pray for them by name, asking for God to prosper them inside and out, that they would have a rich legacy, that their children would have children, would have children who would all love and serve God faithfully. It's how you keep from building a case against people where you see the Bible says love does not gather information against other people to accuse them of wrongdoing. It doesn't keep an account. and sometimes we just have to cleanse ourselves from that with deliberate Christian action that isn't just passive but is aggressively to display the love and the favor of Christ on other people.
33:27 imagine imagine making stew and you've got all your favorite ingredients in there and then you allow anybody else to put in what they want and you've got people who hate you and you've got people who criticize you and you've got their putting their poison in and somehow when you become thankful it sanctifies the whole pot what somebody put in there to destroy you actually becomes part of what strengthens you because you came to the Lord in thankfulness. Thankfulness recognizes lordship. Thankfulness recognizes and illustrates, demonstrates, pursues a manifestation of the lordship of Jesus in the most broken situations. We're members of one another.
34:18 The human body is an illustration of lordship in this sense. The Bible calls us members of the body of Christ. So the picture is the head and the body. Now, just to let you know, I was the head of my home. My wife was the neck. just saying just saying it worked great so christ is the head we are the body individual members of the body now this body when it's all connected right and healthy illustrates or reveals something that is absolute divine design but if let's say the arm is dislocated it's still attached to the body but I can't lift anything there's pain, there's anguish it doesn't function it's alive but it doesn't function that's you and me doing things outside of the lordship of Jesus it doesn't represent a body that anybody out there would recognize as prophesying the nature of this wonderful father If you can imagine every bone being out of joint, and oftentimes that is the picture of the body of Christ who is functioning outside of the lordship of Jesus, trying to fulfill religious routines, selfish desires, all these things.
35:47 And you see a distorted, perverted, crippled body, and that is what is supposed to be representing the Father. Are you getting this? It's the lordship of Jesus. is I want to explore in thought. I want to analyze. I want to consider. But I only want to come to the conclusion that is based on scripture and what the Holy Spirit is highlighting in that moment, in that season. And so going to this other ministry in town and literally just washing their feet, just finding out who they are, what they do, why they're in the ministry they're in. And all we did, we just had a wonderful time. And when I was through, they wanted to make everything right that was wrong. And I never asked them to do anything. what happened when Jesus is walking down the street and there's this guy up in a tree and Jesus sees him up in the tree and it's Zacchaeus, it's the tax collector. It's the one everybody hated because he's like the mafia in that region.
36:44 He's the chief tax collector. He stole from everybody. And Jesus said, I want to come to your house. And everybody's outraged because see, the way the kingdom functions is it does not function by human popularity. It does not go with the flow of what everybody celebrates. It works to illustrate kingdom that is sometimes best displayed in the most difficult situation. It's forgiving the unforgivable. it's serving the person who least deserves it it's celebrating so jesus says i want to come to your house to eat as they're walking zacchaeus starts confessing his sin and starts promising to make restitution to repay everything he stole jesus never once talked to him about it what did he do he washed his feet how did he do it he honored the most rejected and despised citizen of that city, and he honored him by wanting to be with him. And that honor did something to this guy where he finds himself in this position where he just wants to make things right. He washed his feet.
37:52 we were not called to the ordinary we're not called to be normal we're not designed to blend in I don't mean we become obnoxious and draw attention because that's the opposite but showing kindness compassion in the worst situations the woman caught in adultery showing kindness in that situation absolutely provoked a cultural shift in the mind of everybody involved in that moment. It's something they could never forget. And it was so profound, it got put in the book. Because there was a revelation of a father through an action nobody expected, and I think no one supported until it was done.
38:51 it's the kindness to the undeserving. It's the compassion for... a person in a broken situation. you ever hug somebody that had a sunburn what you don't do is you know you hug them they go oh you don't go you should have put on sunscreen what we don't do is you shouldn't have spent so much time in the sun what do we do i am so sorry the action wasn't wrong that's not what i'm telling them i'm telling you the action wasn't wrong but it still caused pain my concern is not that i look good in front of them my concern is they experienced pain because of my action even though my action was legitimate Thank you.
39:48 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Kingdom functions different than who's right and wrong. Kingdom looks at brokenness and says he has an answer for that. If he can use me to heal it, I pray he does. If he doesn't, at least I'll contribute so that somebody else can come along and complete what started. So Jesus then was, the scripture says in Hebrews 1, the exact representation of his nature, the perfect image of the Father. complete image of the Father. No single person will ever carry that much. I actually need you so that together in unity we illustrate the Father.
40:45 Marriage, friendships. I was in Canada this week, and I had such a wonderful time. A new friend there was telling me a story. It was a guy that he's been ministering to for, I think it's over 20 years, a really good friend of his, and trying to get the guy saved. And he just wouldn't budge. and so he would he would beg him he would preach literally preach the gospel to him and the guy just wouldn't budge and here not too long ago I think it was in the last six months or so he came to him and he says would you just do me one favor and they were really good friends so the guy said yeah he said I'll do you a favor he said would you watch four episodes of The Chosen Thank you.
41:40 and he showed him he said but you have to watch all four you can't just watch one or two and stop all four and that guy said yeah yeah i'll do that so he watched and before he got through all four he he came to this now who's not my mutual friend said did jesus really say this or was it written in by the scriptwriters. And he said, no, Jesus said that. He came another time, he said, when the woman was caught in adultery, is that actually what Jesus did?
42:17 When he saw in this show the Father through Jesus, he fell in love with Jesus and became a follower of Jesus because he saw not a deformed, distorted body trying to represent wholeness, but instead he saw this Jesus went to the undeserving, to the rejected, the despised, the broken, and served them. And he fell radically in love with Jesus. you're the image bearer of God. And God has positioned you, placed you right where he wants you. Because he wants everybody around you to see what the Father's like.
43:15 so let's make a joined effort to walk entirely in the lordship of Jesus in word in action so that the people that we think are resistant to the gospel would see. a man, a savior, who stoops to the widow, woman caught in adultery, and sees how she was treated, and realizes, I've got to give my life to this one. That's the call of God on this house. So Father, I pray for an increased awareness of what it is to be a new creation.
44:09 it actually says we're a new creation it says we're a royal priesthood royalty that represents God before people and people before God Father let that profound assignment permeate our hearts to drive us to such an absolute dependency on you that everyone around us would say, Jesus Christ.
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