One King for Another

Well, we're in a series called Right in the Eye. Some of you are like, right in the eye, what does that mean? It's a message through Judges. And last week we began this series, and I told you this last week and I'll say it again. I really believe that this, God has really put this on my heart.

And by the way, if you want to connect on the Bible app, Bible.com, look for week two at Salt Church. I think I had week one up there as well, kind of running over, so some of you could catch that because there was a hiccup with the technology last week. But you can go back and listen to that, and you need to listen to last week's message. Let me just say this, if you missed last week's message, you need to go back and listen to that message.

You need to hear that because it really sets up what Right in the Eye is all about. Very challenging, very thought-provoking, but very encouraging at the same time, this message. So we're going through Judges. So last week we discussed this, the underbelly of the American dream, really. That I want to do what I want, when I want.

I have the freedom to do what I want, when I want, with whom I want, as long. And this is what, you know, it sounds great, but we're Christians, or Christian nation, or we're Americans, so we're good people, right? So what do we do? Do we tag this little thing at the end? That says, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, I can do what I want, when I want, with whom I want, as long as it doesn't hurt someone.

But is that really true? And what we learned last week, yes, it does hurt others. Number one, it hurts you and your somebody. Number two, it hurts the people that are with you, because when you're around people, it eventually hurts them, right? Number three, it hurts the people that love you most.

It really hurts your parents and the loved ones that are closest to you, your spouse or your family and people like that. It really hurts them. And then, more importantly, and this is really key, it hurts the people that are coming after you. It hurts the people that are coming after you, because here's the deal. All of us are a little off.

You're a little messed up, right? All of us are a little messed up. You're messed up. You're kind of weird. You're kind of strange.

There's something that's just not doing right up here, and you can't figure it out. You're like, why do I always do that thing that I always do? Why do I always make those choices? Why am I obsessive-compulsive? Why do I just blurt out things?

Why do I have this weird tick or this weird personality thing? There's something wrong with me, and all of us probably can admit that there's some part of us that isn't right. And then we all, like, become these pop psychologists when we hit about 30 years old, right? Like, we start thinking about, oh, okay, where did this come from, and what do we do? We say, oh, it was my mom.

Or, oh, it was my dad. It was my parents. And we blame our parents, and we figure out, wow, they did that, and they passed that down to me. And that's why I feel the way I do. That's why I do the things I do.

And why does that happen? Because somewhere along the way, they decided to do what they wanted, when they wanted, with whom they wanted, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, yet it's hurt you every single day of your life. So it's a myth to say that doing what we want, when we want, with whom we want, having that freedom to do that really doesn't hurt anybody, because really, nobody wins. And you need to go back, and you need to listen to that message, and you need to get the details of that, because what we learned is that it's expressed in so many different ways. I mean, in different times, in different places, in different forms, in different seasons of your life.

Like, when you were a teenager, it was a little different. It wasn't different. When you were in college, right? When you were a teenager, it was just sneaking out of the house, you know? That's what I would do.

I'd sneak out of the house and ride my bike around the neighborhood with my friends, right? Yeah, that was like, I'm going to do what I want when I want. My parents said I have to be in bed on time. And there's always trouble with that, right? And then you go to college, and then some of you had to repeat your first year of college because you decided that you were going to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want.

And then you had to change colleges because you hurt somebody at the previous college you were at. And then you hurt your parents because they went bankrupt because they paid for your college, and they lost a lot of money there. So you do hurt people. And then when you get into your 40s, you kind of have one of those midlife crisis, you know? Like you're not a teenager, but you want to go back to being a teenager again.

So you got more money but less hair, and you buy a car, you do something, you start doing these things that make you youthful again. And almost like you revert right back to where you were before. So these work out in different stages in life. And this is nothing new with ancient Israelites, okay? They did the very same thing.

This is nothing new under the sun. You are not a special case. We are not a special culture, okay? It's happened in history. And we had in Israel, during the judges, we had a theocracy.

And God was the king, right? God was the king, and he laid out the law, and we would follow the law. The people of Israel would follow the law, and they established this kind of commonwealth type situation. So what was going on, they were deciding the laws, they were working as a commonwealth. There was no king in that time, and he would assign judges to help people navigate the law, lead people into battle to deliver them from certain enemies.

So God would position certain people in that particular era. And the narratives in Judges takes place between the time Israel settled in the land. So we had Moses who delivered them from Egypt, and then they come to the promised land with Joshua. Joshua led them in the promised land. Joshua sets up camp, gets everything together.

And then we have that stage. And then we have King David about 1050 BC. King David steps into place, so we have a king that's issued. So that's the age of the kings. So we have about 330 years where the Israelites had no king.

They had no ruler, and they had this commonwealth theocracy type thing going on. And like we learned about last week, the deal with the Israelites is, they're like you and me. They don't like being told what to do. They didn't like being told what to do. And they would do what they wanted to do, what they felt was right in their own eyes.

So you saw this reoccurring thing. You saw this cycle take place. First of all, you saw disobedience. They knew God's law, and we'll throw that up on the screen. They were disobedient.

They were disobedient to God. And then there was disaster that took place. So being disobedient led into disaster. You're like, what happened? Where are we?

What's going on? I'm in a mess. Uh-oh. We better call for God to help us out. So God comes and delivers them.

And then they're, yay, God, hallelujah, praise God. He has saved us and rescued us. Let's just go disobey again. And they did it again. Disaster, deliverance, disobedience, disaster, deliverance through the book of Judges.

We see that over and over and over again. And God had to send judges to help them. And last week, we looked at the final episode of the book of Judges. And what we learned is how horrific it was, how sickening it was by some people's choices. It started with a simple choice of doing what I want, when I want, with whom I want.

And tens of thousands of people were slain. A whole tribe was taken out. And the choices they were making to reestablish that tribe were just terrible. And the book doesn't end with a savior. It doesn't end with a king.

It doesn't end with some kind of, yay, we obeyed God and everything's good again. We called out to God. It doesn't end but with this statement, this very statement. In those days, there was no king in Israel and everyone did what was right in their own eyes. And it stops.

That's it. Judges is over. Another way of saying this is in those days, there was no binding moral consensus. There was no binding moral law that people stood by. So everyone followed his or her own moral compass.

They had their own moral compass. What you do, what's right. You do what, I'll do what's right. We'll leave each other alone. We'll go about our business and everything will be okay.

What I think is right is right and what you think is right is right. And if you want to go and do what you think is right, we've got different rights. That's okay. So there was no... There's no absolute truth.

There's no moral compass to build that on. And this is how the very people that God led out of Egypt acted. They didn't have a law that they were standing on. And while this end of the book ends like Texas Chainsaw Massacre with some purge kind of in it. I mean, it was definitely a Halloween story.

If you missed last week, you missed a really good one, but you need to go back. Because it was like a Halloween story. It's not the story you would share with any of your kids by the bedside. It's not like the parting of the water, parting of the seas kind of stories that you tell your children at bedside. This is scary stuff.

Dad, can you tell me about the chainsaw and the concubine story? You know, no, that's for Halloween, okay? Yeah, because that's what was going on there. Sliced concubines and all. It's just, it's sickening.

It's awful. It's terrible. And I don't mean to make light of it, but it was, it was just an awful, awful situation because of what the people decided they were going to do on their own without God in charge. So, it's a little different in this one, though. But we're going to, we're going to go back to the beginning.

We're going to look at the Israelites. The book of Judges begins with a scene right out of like the last week of church camp. All right? So, if you're a Christian and you grew up in church and some of you are like, what's church camp? Okay, so, so if you went to church camp, you know about the last, last night of church camp, right?

The last night of church camp is always like that night, you know? Like the evangelist has been, the youth evangelist has been speaking all week. You've had the worship songs. You've been going, you kind of know everybody now, and you're kind of in this meeting. And the last night, an evangelist just asks you to put everything down.

There's just passion, and there's like people are crying, people are praying, and I'm going to go back home, and I'm going to give up everything. I'm going to give up everything. I'm going to go home. I'm not going to smoke anymore. I'm not going to sneak and drink anymore.

I'm not going to, I'm going to get rid of those friends. I'm going to break up with that boyfriend. I'm going to break up with that girlfriend because I'm going to do it God's way. And that lasts about a week. That lasts maybe, maybe a month.

And then you kind of go back to, to, to the same thing or where you were before. You kind of come out of that. And that's how Israel is. That's how ancient Israel was during this period. And, and let me just take you there because at the end of Joshua's life, this began a new era.

And they have, and they're having their final campfire, their final thing, you know, and they're like celebrating God and what God had done. Here's what Joshua does in Joshua 24, 14, if you're following. Now fear the Lord and serve him with faithfulness, with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods, and he was very adamant about this, you gotta throw away the gods of your ancestors' worship. He's talking about Egypt and all the stuff that came in beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt.

And so basically he's saying, you gotta break up your boyfriends and girlfriends, you gotta throw out your cigarettes, you gotta throw out that liquor you have hidden, stashed under your bed. You gotta get rid of all of those little things. You gotta get rid of those things because you need to serve the Lord. Then the people answered, and here's what they say, because this is what we do after church camp, right? Far be it from us to forsake the Lord and serve other gods.

I mean, we would not do that, right? I mean, it was the Lord, our God himself, who brought us and our parents out of Egypt. So yeah, we're looking back, we see they brought us out of Egypt and the land of slavery and performed those great signs before our eyes. I mean, why in the world would we forsake them? We too will serve the Lord because He is God.

Then Joshua kind of picks on them a little bit and says, will you really? Are you really gonna do this? I'm not sure about this. I'm not sure if y'all are gonna, you gotta hear me here. Are you gonna do this?

And then the people, they respond, but the Lord said to, or the people said to Joshua, no, we will serve the Lord. And then Joshua dies. And not even before the flowers on his grave die, they have rebelled against God. They said they would serve the Lord. And we go into Judges chapter 2, verse 11, and it says this, and this is after the big camp meeting, this is all, it's not just, it's not too far after this.

Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals. They forsook the Lord and God of their ancestors who had brought them out of Egypt and they followed and worshipped, meaning they devoted themselves to, some versions say they devoted themselves, they followed and they worshipped various gods of the people around them. And they aroused the Lord, and go back to verse 12, and they forsook the Lord, their God, their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt to follow and worship other various gods. And they arose, excuse me, they aroused the Lord's anger. They aroused the Lord's anger.

So the Lord was angry because they forsook Him and served Baal. So the Lord was like, let's try to warm up. And the Asterisks, the Asterisks, which Asterisks is just a god, a female god, Baal god, in case you're wondering, so he's talking about Baals and Asterisks, and it wasn't simply the Baal represented, the Baal that was represented as a god that was overthrowing God necessarily. Here's the deal, the people understood that they are not to put any other gods before God, and God certainly didn't like that. You know, the Ten Commandments, you got Moses and all that, but it was much more than that.

What arose God, aroused God's anger, arose, aroused God's anger, what aroused God's anger, what made God angry is that the people worshiped them, fully devoted themselves and worshiped them. Here's what they were doing. When things would get really bad, when things would get bad, when they needed the gods to respond to them, these Baals, when they needed them, they would sacrifice themselves. They would sacrifice their people to the gods. When it got really bad, when it got really bad, they would sacrifice their children.

And we just had a child dedication, and we had an emotional moment. These people would sacrifice their children to the gods. When it got really, really, really bad, they would sacrifice multiple children. These are Israelites, the god, the true god who led them out of Egypt. They would sacrifice their children, and in one case in history, they sacrificed all the wealthy of the land, sacrificed every one of the firstborn to the gods, to appease the gods.

And this did not make God, Yahweh, happy. This made God angry, and it aroused the anger of Yahweh. And it says this, In his anger against Israel, the Lord gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. And he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around whom they were no longer able to resist, and they were in great distress. So God said, you want to be like the Canaanites?

You want to look like the Canaanites? You want to act like the Canaanites? You want to adopt their ways? Then have at it. I'll let them take you over.

I'll let them enslave you. You want a choice? I'll give you a choice, where you don't have a choice. Ultimately, the plan. And ultimately, the plan.

The people that they wanted to be like, that they made the free choice to be like, to step out and be like, ultimately enslaved them to the point that they didn't have the choice. He says, you abandoned me freely? Well, embrace them freely. And then, do it to the point where you're not going to have any freedoms. So, Israelite, and here's what Israelite did, Israelites did, Israel did.

They simply traded one king for another. They simply traded one king for another. In their attempt to throw off authority, in their attempt to say, I have the freedom to do what I want, when I want, with whom I want, they found themselves under the authority of something else. They lost their freedom. They did what they thought was right.

But ultimately, they said, this isn't right. So, they did this through Scripture. They forsook the Lord. I'll do what I want, when I want. They followed the people around them.

Is that familiar? We just follow the people around us. They did that. They ended up doing what everyone else did, right? And they surrendered.

They ultimately surrendered their freedom. They lost their freedom to choose. They were no longer able to resist it, the Scripture says. And they tried to fight, and they lost. So, here's the point of today's message.

The thing that always slips in, always gradually comes in, and we're like, where did this come from? How did this happen? It never happens overnight. When we do what we want, when we want, with whom we want, eventually lands us in a place where we can't quit doing what we want, when we want, with whom we want. And eventually, we don't want to do what we want, when we want, with whom we want, because we don't like it.

And we're stuck in it. So, we ultimately lose the very thing we did. We practice our freedom, that American thing. We practice our freedom. I'm going to do what I want, when I want, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody.

And then, it ultimately comes back to own us. Because Israel simply traded one king for another. And they were no longer able to resist. They could not freely go back. They were locked.

They were in prison. They were enslaved. So, there's a lesson for us all here. All of you. You have your own story, whether you grew up in a religious home or you're a church, you were raised in a church, you went to church when you were younger, or maybe you just have a good conscience, so you know what right or wrong is, and you abide by those.

Wherever you are, you would say, I think I have clarity around what God says is right or wrong, but at some point you said, I think I'm going to do what I want to do. I don't like this Christian thing, I don't like being like this Jesus follower or being a part of this thing, I don't want to go to church, I don't want to do any of that stuff anymore, and it might not have happened right away, but it was gradual and to the point, but somewhere along the way, you walked away from God. You turned your back on God, you said, you know what, I don't want this anymore, and maybe you weren't even a Christian, maybe some of you are just kind of kicking the tires about this Jesus thing, but you grew up in a home that had good values. And at some point in your life, you said, you know what, I think I'm going to do something different, I'm going to do what I want, and I certainly don't want to trust an invisible God, because He's not there for me anyway. And then one day you wake up, and you're like, oh no, what have I done?

I didn't gain freedom, I lost my freedom, I don't have my freedom anymore, and without even meaning it, because it always slips up on us, always comes in, without even knowing, you traded one king for God. For another. Now let me say this, and some of you probably aren't going to like this, and some of you are going to send me emails, probably. Some of you are going to walk out of here, and you're not going to come back to church. Maybe that would be the case, I don't know.

But here's what I want to say. You were created to be ruled over. You were created to be ruled over. You were created, and there is a creator. And you were never created to be your own king.

You were created to be ruled over. That's why when you choose to forfeit the king of kings, you choose another king. Because you were created, and you were meant to be ruled over. It's not popular, but true. There's no such thing as total autonomy, okay?

There's no such thing as total autonomy. Until you can control your birth, and you can control your death, you're not completely autonomous. Not only that, if you... If you were completely autonomous, no one would really like you, okay? C.

S. Lewis wrote a book called The Great Divorce, and he talked about, it's basically hell, it's about hell, and everybody could create what they wanted by just simply thinking about it, and everybody wanted what they wanted, when they wanted, with whom they wanted, whatever, and eventually nobody liked anybody, and everybody was isolated. And that's a lot like, and he was demonstrating that can be a lot like hell. If everybody just did what they wanted, when they wanted, with whom they wanted, because nobody really is autonomous, nobody would like you if you were, if you had complete freedom, because you were created to rule. And when you say no to God, don't you eventually trade it for another king, another God?

When you throw off God's authority, you eventually place yourself under the authority of something smaller and less compassionate and less loving and less concerned about you. And when you throw off moral, religious, and ethical restraints, you surrender the rule of these little kings, the mercifless, the unmerciful, the unforgiving little kings that rule our life. Let me just give you a few of these kings. If we'll pop them up on the screen, I'm not going to go over all of them. We could list a lot of little kings.

But here's just a few. The first one, appetite. And maybe you have, you know, you struggle with that. You got this appetite and whatever that might be. Fill in the blank for that appetite.

You might say, you know, I struggled with that. I want to be done with this. I don't want that appetite anymore. It comes back to get me. And I've said no.

I said no. And finally, you just said, I'm tired of being a failure. I'm tired of doing this. I give up. I'm doing it.

And all of a sudden, you can't say no to that appetite. You can't say no to that thing because it has ruled you. Your appetite now rules you. And there is no way out. Maybe it's insecurity.

Where you work or where you play, it's kind of like you're a stranger. It's really strange because you're a Christian, right? And it's hard for you because the people around you, they probably don't invite you to the stuff that they go to. They kind of wander around and talk around you and about you because you're like this Christian, this Jesus follower or whatever it may be. And they're thinking that.

And you're like, I'm done. I don't want to do this anymore. So you decide, I'm going to quit playing the Christian game. And I'm just going to be a part of the group. And all of a sudden, you've determined...

You are enslaved by your insecurity. You don't look like yourself, you don't act like yourself, and you can't get out of it because you're so interested in what others think about you rather than what God thinks about you, and it has enslaved you. And then it's fear, and then there's compassion, and then there's lust, and then there's greed, and then there's consumption, and then there is family history that can be your little God. Because for some of you, the number one goal in life is to say, I am not going to be like my dad. I am not going to be like my mom.

I refuse to repeat history, and you know, I'm not going to let history repeat itself. So one day you decide to abandon God because of it, because you've determined in your heart, I am not going to be like them and what they've done. But let me say this, and this is real, this is it, guys. And I'm going to tell you something, and you're just going to have to accept it because I've seen too many cases of it, and I've seen it happen too many times. But if you turn your back on God, whether it's intentionally or accidentally, you turn your back on God, and you trade God for the little God of family history, your family history will repeat itself.

Every single time. It's not that I'm smarter. It's not that I got a lot of psychology degrees. I have zero psychology. I talk, and I ask a lot of questions.

I do a lot of counseling, and I know. Your family history will repeat itself. You were made to be ruled over, not controlled. And the best way to break the chain of your family history, perhaps, is turning to a God who actually loves you and has the best interest for your family. And your future family and those who are coming after you.

Why not say yes to God as your king? Because the little gods, they tempt you and they declare, come on, come on, come on. Yeah, you do what you want, when you want, with whom you want. It's going to be great, and they're going to try to push you, and they're going to say that. But who, in the end, will lead you to a place where you cry, I can't, I can't give up, I can't give up this.

I can't change. And so many people are trapped in that. I want to go back to the way it was, where I thought clearly. It's about the death of Christ. And now or eventually, in the end, I wasn't veryisto and there you've been honest, it's been worried.

I surrounded myself with healthy people that led me in the right direction, going the right direction, but I can't seem to get back there. I can't seem to get back to that clear conscience of the way it was at one time. I can't get back there because the little kings, and this is why it's like this, because the little kings don't love you. They don't care about you. They're not interested in your mind.

They're not interested in your best interest. They don't have your best interest in mind. They're unloving, they're not compassionate, and they don't care. They don't want the best for you. So why is it that it's always easier to say no to God than to say no to the thing that substitutes God?

Why is that? Why is it easier to say no to God than to say it to the thing that substitutes God? It's easy to say yes to things that has control over us, right? Why is it easier to say no to God and yes to the destructive relationships that you're in or the relationship that you're in? Why is it easier to just say, you know, no, no, no, God, you know, I'm doing the right thing.

I'm doing what I want, and I feel like this is the right way, and God says no, and you say yes. And why is it easier to say yes to that relationship? Why is it easier to say no to God and yes to that thing that has become a habit in your life? Like, God, I got it. I got it under control.

It's no problem. I just, you know, leave me alone. Why is it easier to say yes to those kings and not to God? Why is it more difficult to say no to the creator and say yes to the created thing? Why is that?

Why is it harder to say no and say yes? Because the little kings are not merciful. The little kings never give life. They take it, and they want to control you. There's no freedom under the canopy of the little kings.

There's only control. They do not offer you freedom at all. But you need to write this down. You need to make, I'm going to make this, I'll owe you online. You need to type this down, type it in, whatever.

Whatever. Absolute freedom is only found under the canopy of God's authority. Absolute freedom. Maximum freedom is only found under the canopy of God's authority. God's authority brings freedom.

Any other authority does not bring freedom. The little kings control you, and that's why it's harder to say no to them. Even because they have control over you. But God gives us the ability to have choice and have freedom under His canopy. So Judges 3a says, And the anger of the Lord burned against Israel so that He sold them into the hands of the that word and that word.

Okay? I just figured I would do that so I didn't have to embarrass myself trying to pronounce it. I tried. I had it down the other day and then I practiced it this morning. I couldn't do it again so I decided just to skip over that word.

To whom the Israelites were subject for eight years. I'm not a grammar person so you know my wife reminds me of that all the time. So he said, Don't want me as king? You don't want me? Okay.

I'll give you these guys. At least you could spell my name. I mean, eight years they suffered under a king whose culture they adopted. And in conclusion, they gave up their freedom. They gave up their rights.

Which they thought, well I could do what I want, when I want, with whom I want complete freedom. Which ended up subjecting them. Which ended up in our attempt to do what we want, with whom we want, when we want. We simply trade one king. We're going to choose a king.

You're going to have a king over you. You're going to have a master over you because you were created to be ruled over. But absolute freedom is found under the authority of Yahweh God. A king. A king who loves you.

A king who cares for you. A king who understands what you're going through. A king who isn't interested in controlling you. A king that's interested in bringing you complete freedom. And as long as you attempt to, you will eventually find yourself if you serve other kings at the mercy of a little king.

And when you're at the mercy of a little king, you're like, I can't. I can't get out. I'm stuck. I'm in prison. You're, I can't.

Thank you. But as a pastor, one of the greatest joys in my life is watching people return to the King. Watching them choose a King, a godly, a God, a Father, a loving Father, a loving Savior. But my greatest sorrow is knowing that we can't regain the life that was lost while we're serving the lesser kings. That's why I'm so passionate about.

Because you can't get back your 20s. You can't get back your 30s. You can't redo some of those events and those things that happened in the past. You can't reparent your children. You can't redo a first marriage.

When those years and experiences are gone, they're gone. But the great news is this. The great news is this. No matter what happens, no matter what your past, no matter what you've been through, you can always cry out and say, God, that little king that has controlled me, he's waiting for you to call him king. He's waiting for you to call out for a deliverer.

So don't be deceived. Those who do not or who do what they want, when they want, and with whom they want will eventually discover that it leads to another king. But wherever you are in your Christian walk, maybe you're a mature Christian, maybe you're starting off, maybe you don't know the Lord at all. What I want to instruct you today is that we have a Savior, a God. And all of us can say, even I can say, and you can say that there have been kings in our lives that have controlled us.

And have pushed us to do things that we really don't want to do when we want to do them, with whom we want to do them. And we never did in the first place. We thought we did, but when we got there, we realized that we didn't want it. And we certainly don't want it now. But perhaps some of you here today need a Savior, a King.

The King Yahweh, the true King, a Heavenly Father that loves you greatly. That's why Jesus invites us to call the Father, a good Father, our Heavenly Father. So with all heads bowed and all eyes closed, I want you to take this moment. Some of you have been struggling for a long time with some of these little kings. You have little kings over your life.

I want you to just in your own process, in your own prayer, just reach out to God right now. Don't resist Him. Don't turn from Him. Don't turn your back to Him. Because the little kings ultimately enslave you.

But God wants to bring true freedom under His authority. Just surrender it to Him. God, I give you every bit of me right now. All the things that I've been through. All the things I'm going through.

And all the things I'm struggling with. God, I believe that you have the answers. God, be authority over my life. Be king of my life. Come and set your throne in the heart of my life.

Believe it with all heads bowed and all eyes closed still. Maybe some of you here today, you've never even made Jesus king of your life. You come here kicking the tires trying to figure out the Jesus thing maybe. But something called you. There's a reason you're here today.

And maybe you need true freedom. You need to experience freedom for the first time. The Bible says that Jesus came to this earth. The Father, that good Father sent Him, His only Son, to die on the cross for our sins so that we could know Him. So He could be king of our lives.

And if you receive Him, He who confess their sins and believes in the name of the Lord. He who calls on the name of the Lord, a deliverer king will be saved. You can make that decision today, right now. He gives you the choice. So pray this with me.

If that's you today. If the Holy Spirit's pulling you. If something's pulling you inside of you. Make that decision today. Jesus, I believe that you're the Son of God.

That you died on the cross for my sin. And I surrender my life to you. I make you Lord. I make you king. I go from one king...

Can y'all give God a hand clap of praise?