 God is good and all the time We know that God is good and we always like to witness God's goodness. We always like to witness What God does it just keeps our memory fresh it keeps our it keeps our heart fresh so that we don't forget that God is truly good Amen, because a lot of times we can go through the motions without seeing the evidence of God being good And as you saw that's why we want to share even though the the audio quality of the video clip was not Was not the best, but we just want to share at least a little glimpse of what God does What he wants to do and that he wants to do even more amen and so Today is a good day our pastor pastor Vlad. He's he's teaching kind of like a school internship college type of a deal in In Portland area of an covert area there for a whole week. So that's why he's not with us It's it's interesting how how a how a guy that didn't go to college now is teaching college Huh with God all things are possible. Amen when you commit your ways to God when you When you give yourself to God when you answer God's call God's gonna take you to the places That you never dreamed of I think I remember TD Jake said one one thing. He has his own college now And I think it's even accredited and he's he's teaching many pastors many leaders He's raising up many different people now they even have different courses financial courses and other stuff So he's the he's the head of the college and he's also never went to college himself And so it's funny how just when you go after God when you do what God has called you to do God's gonna take you to places that you will never ever be able to achieve on your own amen and so With that being said College is good you go to college get a degree get a career I wouldn't want a doctor operating on me without a college degree, right? So we don't discourage people in any ways But what I'm saying is that when you were God you when you're with God all things are possible amen so I want you to Open a scripture with me. I'm just gonna share something that I really been kind of I've been stuck on it for a week at least at least a week so I want you to open up with a Ephesians chapter 1 and I'm gonna read from chapter Chapter 1 verse 4 to 7 and So it goes like this even before he made the world God loved us and chosen us in Christ To be holy and without fault in his eyes God decided to advance God decided in advance to adopt us in his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ This is what he wanted to do and it gave him great pleasure So we praise God for the glorious grace. He has poured out on us who belongs Who belongs to us to his dear son? He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased us That he purchased our freedom with the blood of his son and forgave our sins So I just want to talk on the subject that I called sight adjustment and Talking from these couple of scriptures and I just want to talk to us a little bit about God about his heart and How he sees us how he expects us to see ourselves and how we should see others So from the scripture I Want you to notice one thing you can underline it is That Bible says that God Loves us and then later in the scripture we read that he says this is what he wanted to do and this gives him a great pleasure to love us God loves us, you know, I started to think about this whole thing. God loves us. What does that mean? God's love Bible says that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that we won't perish, but we will have life God loves us, you know, as I begin to think about what is God's love? What does it mean to me and you know, I've Just had a baby. Well, my wife had it and I get to share it And I became and I became a father and I begin it to just I begin to from this from this experience of my life I begin it to learn it's been a week and a half and I'm beginning to learn of What it means to be a father and what it means to love your own child and as big and as I begin to think in this context and the context of that my That I have a father that is in heaven that I have a God that loves me And when I begin to think of my love for my little child and I'm thinking that I would do anything for her I Would move the mountains for her. I would I would come and and I'll do you know I put up with everything you know all the poopy diapers and all the crying and everything and all that stuff it's because I I I love her and I begin to think of our own father that is in heaven Bible says that we should pray our father who art is in heaven and so I begin to think of God in This terms and I begin to I begin to have I begin to have conversation with God God. Do you Do you actually truly love as? much as I love my own baby girl is That something You know, is it true that you love us this much because if it's true This is crazy because I would do anything for her I would do anything for my own child and if I am like you call me your child. I Mean I just begin to begin to Begin to see God in a completely different light That we are God's children. I am God's child and Bible says that he loves us so much You know in a story of of a lost son of practical son father the son he gets rebellious and he he takes up the portion of father's goods and The portions that you supposed to get when the father dies So imagine the insult and the and it is you know And how the father feels like the child is leaving the house and taking what what belongs to you What you supposed to get when you die and leaves the house So he insults the father and he runs away, of course He begins to live a life of sin a lifestyle of sin And if you know one thing you should know is the lifestyle of sin will never bring you good and never bring you blessing Being in a father's house, even though sometimes it might be tough sometimes might be rough, but you will always have something Being with outside of the father's house living a lifestyle of sin. It's not that God will hate, you know, it's just sin will rub you Sin will steal from you sin will take your peace your joy and like this practical son Having everything in his life was reduced to wishing to eat pigs food and Nobody would even let him and this was the life of sin and life of sin life away from God will bring and so but the practical son being Being so low in his life recognizing that this is this is the end. This is this is the end of my life For some reason had an audacity to come back to the father I think the reason why he was able to come back to the father is because he knew the father's heart He knew the father will not judge him. He knew that the father will not condemn him He knew that father loved him and that gave him confidence to at least ask to be a servant and Father's science and we know that the father did not even let him finish his speech. He embraced him He gave him his he gave him clothes. He gave him a ring. He pretty much restored everything That was taken that the son was lost. It was restored to him And so in this story we see a love that is backed up with action by Bible says that our God he loved us so much that he gave his only son So that he could gain us So that he could have us he gave away the very precious thing the only thing that he had in Heaven that mattered to him the most he gave his son Jesus Christ And so we have to understand that the father father loves us We have to recognize we have to receive that revelation in our life that our father He loves us and he's willing to do anything for us. He's willing to be anywhere for us He's willing to he is willing to move the mountains for us because in aromas 832 Bible says that if he has given us his son to us will he not give anything and everything with him and so our Our relationship with God Can go as far As our as our understanding of how much God loves us how much he cares for us how much he really truly Loves us. You know We have a saying that love is blind and In this case Love is truly blind like we read in the verse 4 that he loved us and he chose us And he sees us without fault. I mean imagine that God sees you without a fault Like you've done nothing wrong. I Bet you don't even see yourself that way, but God does God sees us without Fault, you know, and I'm thinking, you know if About about my own child, you know, if if God forbid the child was born, you know, without without fingers without a leg Without an arm without an eye would I still love her and the answer is of course, I would just as much as I love her right now Maybe she would have fault she would have deformities, but I still love her our father loves us despite of our Deformities in our character despite of our deformities with our action. He loves us despite of us the way we are and So I want us to understand that God truly cares for us The God truly loves us the God loves us not because of what we do wrong or we do right And I know sometimes it's hard to understand, but God loves us because we are in relationship with him As we heard this example, and I'm gonna repeat it again that the difference between you joining a let's say a gold gym membership and You being in a family the difference is this is that when you join a gold gym membership You assign a contract you signed to abide by certain rules and bylaws of gold gym And when you break him When you do let's say for example, there is a if I remember correctly There is a policy or there's a there is a rule that you have to have shoes right to work out And you have to wear a shirt correct sort of for most part. Okay, some people some guys like not yeah anyways, but But let's just say the rule is that you have to work out with shoes on I mean It's for your safety obviously But for example if if you come and begin to work out or run on treadmill without shoes on or work out Lift weights without shoes on and one of the one of the people they come and they warn you say sir Please put your shoes on or leave and then they warn you again. They warn you again You keep breaking those rules eventually they will wave the contract and they say you can no longer be a member of gold Gym and you are disqualified you have to leave right you broke a rule and you can't be a member any longer and This is not this is sometimes the way we see our relationship with God We see it as a set of rules. We see is the 10 commandments We see it as a set of things that you have to Accomplish a set of things that you have to do and if we by you know if we come short of these things sometimes it's just a sometimes it's just a Standard or or a bar that we set in our own mind We see somebody and we see their relationship with God and we admire to be like them And so we set our standard to be like, okay I'm gonna pray 30 minutes a day and I'm gonna read the two chapters a day or I'm gonna do this or that and sometimes when we fall short we feel like God's love has been reduced in our lives We feel like God just loves us just a little less when we feel great. We feel like we accomplished things We feel like you know, I didn't see anything. I didn't think of it. You know, I didn't think of bad thoughts I you know, I've been good to people. I didn't get angry I didn't flip that person off that caught me on a freeway. I didn't say bad words, you know I I did my devotions this week every single day So I feel good and then at that moment we feel like God loves us just a little more And we feel closer to God and then in the moments that we fall short. We got a busy week. We You know, we got we couldn't we couldn't spend a regular time in prayer we couldn't Reach the Bible or maybe we did things or we got angry. We did something that That we shouldn't do and then next thing we know is that we don't even want to lift our eyes to heaven Because we feel like God is disappointed with us you know, and at that moment we have to remind ourselves that God still loves us No matter what we do No matter what we've done and doesn't matter how we feel about ourselves at the current moment In my life many times, you know, I you know, we all go through good seasons and bad seasons in our lives and You know in in in bad seasons you you come You know when you did something wrong you come to God and you're you know You beat yourself down you feel like if you beat yourself down more if you talk yourself down If you think you're worthless and nobody that that God for some reason somehow is pleased with you And you know you crawl, you know emotionally speaking, you know mentally speaking You crawl on your force to God begging for mercy and forgiveness and then there are days You know when you've been doing good things are good and you kind of come to God and You kind of feel like you know, I've done things I feel good and this and that and did you notice that in those moments and no moments that you kind of like When you're broken when you feel like when you feel like Nobody did you notice sometimes God actually shows more grace and more love and you feel like God just pours and showers is Grace upon you and and all and and in the moments when you feel like you've done something you've done You've done good and that sometimes it's a struggle to get into presence of God Sometimes they struggle to feel to feel the presence of God Do you guys notice didn't notice that in your life sometimes a Lot of times that happens is Because we begin to rely on our own Strength we begin to rely that oh because I did good Because I was good because I accomplished these things God must be pleased with me more now Versus the time where I did not do so good. I fell short of my own expectation God must be less pleased and pleased with me And so I want us to always keep in mind that when it comes to God The way God sees us The way he looks at us. He always sees us faultless He sees us righteous We don't have to do More or less we don't have to do anything to be in relationship with God to experiences love to experiences grace to skin experiences mercy Bible says that we read that this is what he wanted to do and they gave him great pleasure God finds pleasure in you. God is not like a police officer. That's riding Behind you, you know, I had that experience today You know, and I'm like, you know the feeling that you get, you know the police officer like gets out of like the exit and you're driving a highway and he like pulls behind you and you think he's like He think you think he's going after you and you're like, you know, you sit up straight You know, I said in the road to two hands on the wheel You never drive with your hands on the wheel and you're like turning signals left and right, you know Make sure everything you're keeping your distance in your mind. I don't know. Maybe you don't do that But I'm like counting, you know, thousand one a thousand two a thousand three a thousand four proper distance between the cars Who counts the distance? Come on, right? And we feel like sometimes like this is God That he's riding on your butt and he's waiting. Okay When is he gonna make a mistake? When is he gonna not turn that signal? When is he gonna mess up so that I can write him a ticket so that I can punish him? That's not God That's not that's not God. God isn't the opposite He's there to help you Even when you make a mistake he says come on get up. You can do it. You can do better next time. I'm with you I'm here. I loved you so much that I gave my son for you the best thing that I could come up to give I gave it for you and so I Want us to see that when it comes to God The God, you know when they're saying that love is blind the God truly is Blinded blindsided by love when it comes to us that he sees us perfect. He sees us complete He sees us righteous and he sees us holy When the more that we begin to understand this truth in our life that the more consistent and The closer our relationship would be with God How many you want to have a consistent relationship with God? Come on. Most of us all of us here. How many how many of us this is only our desire. We fall short of it Well, all of you should pretty much raise the hand, but it's okay. Thank you for the honesty You know in my life I Same thing I always wanted to have a better relationship with God I always want wanted to have a deeper relationship with God And you know sometimes when you listen to the preachers here on this on the stage And or you know you listen to them on podcast and they talk about their love for God they talk about their devotion for God and sometimes Sometimes you think of them like this these these super men and women of God They're like never fail a day to pray in their life Never sin in their life that these these people are like saints. I mean they always walk so close with God They're like they're like buddies with God, you know and and you're like you're like a spire to be that But you shortly get you quickly get disappointed because you figure out that you fall short of Those expectations and you feel like you are second-class to who they are So if you hoped and wished to live that lifestyle to to be used by God to to to live out your calling Like they're living out in your own way Then your expectations are quickly your expectations quickly shattered because you you quickly find out that you're consistent in level and your Your relationship with God not where you would like it to be right? You know and what what begin to help me is this one preacher he once said this He's like you think that I don't have bad days and I really admire the preacher I look up to him I look up to his Relationship with God and how God is using him how his life is and he said this one thing that set me free and begin Help me to begin to get more and more consistent with God. He said do you think I don't have bad days? He said do you think I don't have days where I don't pray You think I don't have days that I don't read the Bible Do you think that I don't have bad days where I don't feel like doing anything? I don't feel like getting out of the bed He said yes, I do He said but what I've learned from how I've learned to be more consistent in my life and be in the consistency Became better and better in better my life is I begin to learn to see myself That despite of what I do or what I don't do God loves me and he sees me He he sees me just He sees me as as complete as full as flawless on the good on my good days as on my bad days He said that helped me to To be more consistent and even when I fell even when I didn't do certain things even when I didn't Skip thought on something that helped me to be to shorten that that that self-pity party. You know what I'm talking about To shorten it to be less and less and less every single time and to jump right back into it To jump right back on the horse and and keep riding and keep going and keep pursuing after God Because the biggest time the biggest hindrance in our relationship with God is not That we fall short of our expectation of the expectation We said for us we fall short of the of the things that we should do we fall short of God's grace. It's that we spend so much time peering self-peering around around that problem Is that you know if it would be like this you did something? You've sinned you said you got angry you did something bad and and you recognize it and you are And you I got to for forgiveness you repented and you jump right back into it Like literally just the very moment and you keep going like nothing happened God forgive you. You keep going you keep living in Being as righteous then that that there would be no break in our relationship with God But really what kills us what kills our relationship with God what kills our Consistency is that we not necessarily we spend time sinning is that we spend time Self-pitting ourselves we spend time beating ourselves down not realizing that God loves us that he sees us Holy and without fault and that we just need to get up and keep going. Amen, and this will lead me Into the second point is that if God sees us This way so that we must see ourselves this way There's nothing worse that when God Sees ourselves holy as righteous as faultless But we fail to recognize that we fail to receive that and continue to Beat ourselves down Have self-pity party and continue to live in that lifestyle. Let's take the story of The last son of the practical son So he comes back to the father's house Of course, you know the story goes on the father for Embraces him gives him the his clothing gives him the rain gives him the shoes Restores his position throws a party. He's a son this room that you had, you know, I kept it for you I never let anybody take it. This is your room come and sleep in it This is your house you restore to the original position. This is who you are you are my son You know, you're not a servant. You're not a slave. You are restored to the original position, right? So the party is over, you know They have you know the go to the whole motion and then the father is so excited He's still in disbelief that my son came back He can't sleep the night because he's so excited. He said no I'm gonna go check on my son make sure he's still in the room Make sure he's sleeping make sure everything is well with him He gets back into the room and he can't find a son Where is it? Where is the son at? So he starts his begin to worry. He looks around the house He goes into the barn and he finds his son sleeping by the pigs He wakes him up and says, what are you? What are you doing? You have a room, you know You have a bed comfortable bed. You have everything you have servants at your disposal Why are you still sleeping by the pigs? Why are you still, you know eating that stuff, you know But the son says oh father. I'm not worthy. I used to eat the pigs pigs food He used to sleep with them. So I'm just gonna do that, you know, how would that look like? Do you connect the dots now how sometimes we act with God? God has made you righteous God has restored you God says that I don't remember your sin anymore I don't remember your past your sin is as far as ease is from the West That's infinite. That's not that's that's can't you can't compare that to God forgot about it and then we still used to roll in that in that In those in that sin in that self pity party still whenever we have a bad day We continue to remind ourselves of the past how bad we were how You know how we messed up or how how we did not live up to our expectation or some place else as expectation Do you see what I'm saying? It would be disrespect to the father After he has forgiven you so much after he has given you so much after he restored your position to go back To the barn and reduce yourself to eating with pigs when God has prepared a feast on the table so We must see ourself the way God sees us In order for you to succeed in your relationship with God in your order for you to move further with God is you always have to see yourself as Holy righteous and without a fault Now yes, I had I agree and I understand that you have faults I understand that you have character flaws. So do I so does everybody we will be We are perfected as we go on as we grow in our relationship with God But we must see ourselves as people that are forgiven as People that God loves unconditionally That nothing you do will do or you've done will change his love or will move a measure of his love up and down He loves us all the same way Unconditional love means there is no conditions Attached to his love. He just loves you because you are his son his daughter because you are his Creation and there's nothing you've done to deserve it. Bible says he chose to do that when you see yourself at Fault you will not be able to cooperate with God In order to cooperate with God you must see yourself the way God sees you the problem see the reason why The reason why you must see yourself the way God sees you You must see yourself as loved as accepted. You must see yourself whole and righteous and without fault Because if you don't see it you begin to quickly do well develop the syndrome of unworthiness. I'm not worthy I don't deserve it. I'm not good enough and When you think these thoughts when you think on this level when you think that I am not I am not worthy Then God cannot cooperate with you You cannot work with God because God is thinking on this frequency on this level of that you are worthy because I died for you You are qualified because I qualified you on the cross You are good enough you all without fault and you're thinking right here. I'm not worthy. I'm not qualified I'm not good enough. I can't do this and you're not able to connect with God You're working with you can't work with God. You cannot cooperate with God because you're operating on two different frequencies And so in order for us to cooperate with God in order for us to take next steps in order for us to go deeper with God We must always come back to this truth that God loves me That I am complete and whole and I'm perfect in his sight and I choose to see myself that way when you feel unworthy You begin to disqualify yourself of the promises of God Because you begin to see that you're not worthy But the whole point of the gospel the whole point of the good news is that you don't have to be worthy He made you worthy You don't have to qualify he made you qualified and so We need to focus less or We can't focus on ourselves and our shortcomings and our unworthiness and we need to focus on What God says about us and what he's done for us and who he made us to be amen See in the story of prodigal son Listen to the listen to the mindset or the thoughts of the son and to the thoughts or to the actions of the father The son says I'm gonna come to the father and I will ask him to be at least a servant The father is thinking He he is my son. You are my son. You are my daughter. He is my rope. Here's my house. He is everything that I have Do you see the problem? That he's thinking on a level. I'm a servant. God is thinking on a level. You're my son Thank God that in this that in this parable that son was able to accept the gift of sonship the gift of belonging to the family and Just take what father had for him and so I want us I Want us to see the story of this particle son and I want us to see us and very on every day on every day life on every time Everywhere we go that we We see ourselves the way God sees us We must see ourselves the way God sees us because otherwise we can't go further with God We can't grow with him. Amen. I Want to to see why We have to see ourselves this way in the story of Moses and When he was with when he is with Israel There are no wilderness and wilderness and Israel Israelites and Jews. They're just They're whining. They're complaining. They're sinning. They're doing everything that God told them not to do and they just they're Just like a rebel child, you know anything you tell them not to do They'll they'll for sure do it and that's what Israelites are doing. So God sent They just got fed up God just got fed up with them He send the snake snakes begin to bite them and they begin to die And so Moses goes to God and he says God please spare him Please forgive him God has mercy on them in his it gives Moses. He gives him gives him instructions as you make a snake Build a snake put it on a stick and he says anybody that's gonna look to that snake they will be made well and so And so it happened that everybody that begin to look at that snake anybody who was bitten by a snake and begin to look that That's a snake that Moses made everybody They begin to make become well and those that did not look they died and sometimes I think in our lives is that When we begin to focus our self focus on our Mistakes when we begin to focus on our shortcomings when we begin to focus on what we've done We've left undone or we did not do or things that we shouldn't do that we do that we did That we become quickly bitter and we quickly began Fall short of God's grace so instead of focusing So if you focus on a bite you will be better But if you focus on the cross you will get better if we'll focus on what God has done who he called us to be But what God has done in our lives who he calls us to be Then we will become better because focusing on our mistakes Will not get as better focusing on your shortcomings will not gonna get you further focusing on On the characters flaws that you have will not get you further. It'll get you more depressed and will get you Deeper into your pit self-paid party and it just it's not gonna get you anywhere But lifting your eyes to the cross lifting your eyes to Jesus Accepting who God calls us to be will get us out and will get us into a better place Bible says the righteous fall seven times. He gets up funny thing is that God Doesn't call a righteous that fell a sinner but will still cause him a righteous person. Why because he's quick to get up We are righteous not because we don't fall we are righteous because we're we get up Because we choose to put our faith put our hope in Jesus Christ in the cross of Jesus Christ we choose to to accept that God sees us faultless and holy and we Get up quickly and keep going and God calls that righteousness Not righteousness because we fall or we don't fall but because we fall and we quickly get up amen You have to understand that doesn't matter how good you will get Doesn't matter how far you will get with God you will never outgrow the need for the cross It's the cross that qualifies us. It's the cross that makes us worthy It's his love poured out on the cross that allows us to be faultless and to be Accepted by Jesus by a father. It's nothing that we do or left undone. It's simply because There is a cross So key to the last in relationship With the Holy Spirit is not sinless life, but a righteous life It's not a life without shortcomings without flaws, but it's a life where we surrender to God And we accept his love and we accept to see ourselves the way he sees us Consistency is not when you don't fall, but when you learn to get up quickly So you ask you ask you may ask how well how do I then You know, I've I got so much on my mind I've did these things or keep doing these things, you know And I don't you know, I got the sin that's weighing me down guilt and shame. How how do I go about it? Bible says that if we ask God for forgiveness, he'll be faithful to forgive us and What we do after that when we still receive attacks on our mind when we still get when we have those down days and we You know, there's guilt and shame keeps coming back like that like the Bible says here that he chose to think That we are holy and faultless Then it says in next verse that God decided in advance So what I want you to do is right now is to set your mind already in advance that when I fall I'm not planning to fall. I'm not planning to sin. I'm not planning to To hurt God, but when I do when it happens I'm deciding in advance that I'm gonna think I'm righteous that I'm gonna think That God sees me without fault. I already choose to think right now in advance That God sees me holy righteous without flaws and without faults And this is the only thing that will help us to stay consistent in our relationship with God This is what's gonna help us to stay To grow in our God to grow in the understanding of him who he is What he is like and how much he loves us and I think if all of us in this place would get a glimpse of God's love And how much he loves us? I think we will be swept and overwhelmed with his love and we would never look ourselves and a look never look at God the same Just like I would never do anything to hurt my baby girl. That's why just like I will not do I will not I will do anything. I Will do anything For her when she needs something to my best abilities how much more our family Heavenly Father is willing to Help us to love on us to encourage us to lift us up and to help us to achieve our dreams and goals and the purpose and a vision that he put on our hearts Bible goes as far as to say that even Is God Bible says that even if your birth mother God says even if your birth mother forgets you I mean imagine how difficult it would be For a birth mother to let go of a child. It's almost unspeakable and next to impossible The only people that do that it is that is the people that have something wrong with their heads But even if that happens God says that I will not forget I will not forget you I will not leave you and always be with you before Jesus left Before Jesus left this earth. He said these words that I will always be with you You know last words of a person when a person is leaving when a person is dying They choose the words very carefully And whatever one you know what they make sure to say what is the most important What is the most dearest to the heart and if Jesus before leaving he said that I will not leave you And I will not forsake you that means he mounted a lot They mean this is what he was thinking at that moment. This is was his heart at that moment So I want us to be encouraged this this evening. I want us to lift our head up and score our shoulders I want us to stop beating ourselves down. I want us to stop talking down on Upon ourselves. I want us to begin to see how God sees us. I want us to begin to Lift ourself up from the ground and to begin to say what God says about us is that I am righteous I am holy. I'm without a fault and I'm with and I will not condemn myself I will not beat myself down. I will pick myself up and I will think the thoughts that God thinks about me God says that I think good thoughts about you the thoughts how to bless you how to prosper you How to do good things in your life? God is on our side God is for us God is supporting our position God is supporting your position You didn't do anything too bad and you're not that good But because of his love because that he chose to show his love to us Today we're qualified for his love and so this evening all you have to do is receive it All you have to do is just put your past behind Receive that you're worthy receive that you qualified a take on the position of a son and a daughter That he has made you to be today Amen. Amen. Come on. Let's put our hands together for Jesus in this place Bible says in verse 7 he's so rich in kindness and grace in verse 5 verse 6 this verse 5 this is what he wanted to do He wanted to show you love and it gave him a great pleasure It gave him a great pleasure You know sometimes you can love a person but love him from a distance Right some some was help those people right where you just you know You can't get away from them because maybe they're a family or somebody or something or something like that And you kind of have to you kind of have to love him from a distance What I want to tell you is that the God didn't decide he decided to not not to love you from a distance He got as close as he could so that He can call you a son and daughter. He does not love you from a distance He has pleasure in loving you. He finds pleasure in loving you So let's make a commitment today To see yourself this way. Let's make a commitment to cooperate with God What does it mean to cooperate with God is to see yourself the way God sees you The moment you can embrace your position with God the moment That is the moment that God will take you to the places that you've never seen before Because it's not gonna be it won't be because you are qualified or good or anything of that sort It is gonna be simple because he loves you. I have a story to share It comes actually you guys all know the story It's from the book that we just read the book of reading the book of four dimension I think the story comes from the second chapter of that book. So this letter he comes to pastors Pastor young gitcho. She comes to To his office and she's just crying and she's distressed and and he's trying to come her down and says lady Please tell me what is your problem? And she begins to pour her heart out and she says pastor, you know, we have a good family My husband is very respected person in the business my sons, you know, they go to respected school, you know And we have a daughter and this daughter. She is she is not living the right style lifestyle She is a prostitute. She goes sleeps around and if it's not that's not bad enough She sleeps around with my husband's co-workers. So it brings shame to our family You know, she sleeps she sleeps around with her brother's friends And so they make fun of our family then this is this brings brings a lot of shame to our family If you know about Asians Asian culture, it's all that's all about honor in their family, you know And they for things like that they they they will just own They will just own a family member because of this dishonor that they bring you to the rest of the family And so she was crying and she's pouring her heart out. So pastor, I don't know. I'm ready to just own her I don't know what else to do. I've been praying but nothing's happening And so he comes her down and he said he said this he said I know you just told me all the bad things about your daughter How terrible she is how horrible she is how, you know All these things she's like, but I want you to do this. I want you to see Your daughter behind the cross I want you to see your daughter through the eyes of jesus I want you to see not the way she is now But the way jesus sees her And so he began to draw an image for her. I said can you see her as being a A person of integrity and a woman of honor Can you see her being home being with the family? Can you see your family being restored? Can you see her? Can you see her through the through the cross of jesus christ how jesus sees her right now? And she said she just she got happy. She wiped her tears. She says yes pastor I can see it and he said I want you to keep that image of her In your mind every single time you pray and she continued to do that And sometime after that three or four months later This woman The one woman with with another lady runs into her to her office says pastor pastor. Do you remember me? I talked to you a couple months ago. He says yes, I remember you He says so did god answer your prayer. She says yes, this is my daughter. That's with me. She got saved She she came home one one moment one time. She was sleeping around somewhere in the hotel She woke up. She felt dirty. She felt disgusting She said I'm gonna come back home and I'm gonna try once if they're gonna accept me. I'm gonna surrender my life I'm gonna change my life. She comes home mother opens the door She embraces or gives her hugs give her kisses as you're welcome and from their moment her life completely changes Come on. Let's put our hands together for jesus Little bit later after that this woman she got saved at church. She got baptized She became a home group leader. She got married. She had kids. She had a wonderful family and now she's one of the top leaders Stop home group leaders in his church. You have to remember that his church is a million members and his home group leaders are Have like 50 60,000 people underneath of them. So What god can do When you see yourself and when you see other people not the way they are not the way you are but But through the cross of jesus christ and this is serves a challenge for for those of us that are leaders here But as for all of us as christians See people the way god sees them Don't see people Through their character flaws through their mistakes Even through the things that that they did wrong against you See people the way jesus sees them See people holy and righteous and without a fault and you will see that your relationship will go to another level You will see that god will do great things through you in those people's lives Especially for those of us that are leaders here and as a church If we want god to move in our midst if we want god to move through us if we want our home groups to grow We must see people the way jesus sees people We must love people the way jesus loves people. We must see them through the cross We must see them that god sees them and loves them and he sees them holy