 You know just after this last message. I was I was out in the back talking to a lot of parents and even adults that are Going through a lot of crazy stuff with their with their kids And we live in a crazy world, you know, I mean look at the social media. We all share the social media It doesn't matter where you go in the world, South Africa Asia I was just in Australia a couple days or two weeks ago is on Australia And then I was in the Colorado, which was Boulder, which is the second most liberal city in the United States And as you cruise through all these different areas even the churched areas you realize that we're all connected on our devices And we're all looking at the same stuff or we're all can be exposed to the same stuff and we know that a device Can either edify your soul or curse your soul. There's no in-between It's either gonna lift you up or it's gonna destroy you by the stuff that you're watching Jesus says the eye is a light to the body and whatever goes in goes into the heart And that's what comes out of the heart is whatever is going into the ears the eyes and what you're putting in So the good news is is that Jesus Christ is moving. That's awesome. We're traveling around We're seeing that a lot of kids get saved last time I was here nine months ago I was doing a tour called wake-up tour and it came from John 435 it says Jesus said wake up and look around the fields are already right for harvest since the last time I was here We toured the public high school system and I'm gonna show you guys some photos right now of a highlight reel this last year We went to 59 public schools around the nation and outside of the United States Mexico Toronto the states We've seen 19,000 students show up and we've seen 15,000 students come forward and give their life to Jesus Christ God is moving. It's like the book of Acts Revival and riot we were out of middle school and we couldn't get enough kids into the gymnasium So they had to shut the door So they had to call the principal and the teachers to block the door because there was enough room and then a riot broke out And they started throwing their sandwiches and lunches and then everyone inside got saved. It was amazing Just like a book of Acts We're living it then we went to the school in Tustin High School. They had 20 kids in their Christian club that they would meet at lunch and they invited us and I said get the gymnasium We ended up having 350 kids show up 250 of those kids came forward and gave their life to God now Now the Bible Club is 200 strong every week. They had to move out of their classroom into the gymnasium We as Christians walk by faith. We don't we walk by faith not by sight We walk by faith and we never look back because we're not going backwards We're moving forward when Paul talks about the breastplate in the helmet in the shield He never talks about protection on the back because we're not going backwards We're moving forward like the 300 in that movie the 300 or William Wallace We put our war paint on and we're taking the land in Jesus name The scriptures say the Lord is a warrior and Yahweh is his name It also says that God is a consuming fire We need him to consume every part of our life so we can be full and empowered with the Holy Spirit So we can live that destiny and that purpose that we were created for so we walk By faith and not by sight James 1 verses 2 to 4. I'm gonna this what I'm gonna do today I'm gonna read a few things to kind of build up For this moment that I'm gonna talk about in John 1212 we're gonna talk about a day in life with Jesus But I need to kind of build the story because of the issues and the things that we're gonna be talking about today So just go along with me listen, and then we'll turn to John 12 12 and read some scriptures from there together James 1 verses 2 to 4 it's about faith and endurance and this is for women and men as James writes Dear brothers and sisters, so we speak into everyone in the room When troubles of any kind come your way consider it an opportunity for great joy. I hate that verse When troubles come your way consider an opportunity for great joy I know you don't like that one either But then as we keep reading and we don't take it out of context It says this the next verse for you know that when your faith is tested your endurance has a chance to grow So let it grow for when your endurance is fully developed you would be perfect and complete Needy nothing in ten years of me being a Christian. I've experienced many types of storms I'm meeting with people that are going through storms or my own personal storms My life. I'm either going into a storm. I'm actually currently in the middle of a storm right now I'm going in the middle of the storm or I'm coming out of the storm I see a storm behind me or I see a storm brewing in front of me My life has been very stormy if they were to name me after a garbage pelt kid My name would be called stormy nor me But what I've come to realize is that not all storms have come to disrupt our life Some have come to clear our path Not all storms have come to disrupt our life Some have come to clear our path My message is called God's signs in the storms ten years ago I Gave my life to Jesus Christ in a hotel room I was managing a professional skateboard team and working in the music industry currently I'm still working in the music industry as well and Reaching out to the skateboard community UFC community all like the action sports and art communities But I gave my life to Jesus Christ I was going after the lust of the eye the pride of life and the lust of the flesh It says that these are not from the father and this is what the world what means what worldly means is going after These things it's not what you look like or what you wear It's going after these things if these things are manifesting in your life the lust of the eye the pride of life The lust of the flesh these are the things of the world and basically I went after those things I made success But I was empty and I had lost 16 friends to suicide and drug overdose. I lost one of my friends A couple weeks ago or maybe a month ago now Tyler Evans. He's the one that helped pioneer the whole freestyle motocross Industry and sport and he just committed suicide. It's in the news But a lot of a lot of great things happening a lot of success and good times Sinning's fun But then what happens is sin gets a grip on you and it got a grip on me And I gave my life to Jesus Christ in a hotel room I OD'd from 10 10 day 9 days of Xanax alcohol and Cocaine and I said Jesus if you're real and you are the son of God prove that you're real to me Because my dad's a pastor. I was jaded by religion and want nothing to do at church or church people And I said if you're real Jesus prove that you're real to me I'll follow follow you and I said Jesus forgive me for my sins and come into my life Well, I thought Jesus Christ was gonna show up in his clouds of glory with his angels rainbows and lightning bolts Be like my son Ryan. I've been waiting I don't know if he talks like that, but He never showed up Jesus Christ was a no-show, so I jacked the Bible or stole the Bible from a hotel And I got on the plane. I read it for six hours straight. I landed peace And I was in the storm in my life and I went home woke up the next morning I heard this song singing through my head. This is the day the Lord has made How the small still voice God spoke to me in the storm a sign in the storm So I knew that God was real and I started reading the Bible And that led me to go to the holy land to Israel and I did the whole tour and I ended up in the Garden of Gethsemane And I was in a storm in my life because I was like Jesus Christ. What are you gonna do with my life? I work in the music industry someone. This is me actually praying in the Garden of Gethsemane Someone sent this to me a couple years ago. I was in a storm. I was broken. I was messed up I did not know what God wanted to do in my life, but I knew that God was real But I didn't know what would he do with me? I work in the music industry I work in the skateboarders. I do music festivals. How would I fit into this whole Jesus thing? And I remember the prayer that the message that was given by Pancho Juarez And he was talking about the story about Jesus being at the crossroads and he all he had was the cross on his eyes On the focus and he prayed the Father God He said Father God if you could take the sins away without me going to the cross and dying that gruesome death Please take the sins away, but not my will Thy will be done and I knew at that point and put Pancho also said this You've all come from LA and you have this baggage Today's the day you're either gonna leave your baggage here at the cross and deny self Not your will, but I will be done or you're gonna take all that baggage and it's a lot of it He didn't say that but I can tell you this the baggage you brought in today It's a lot because the enemy likes to put a lot of baggage on us He says or you can leave it here at the cross today or take it back home with you So I went out and I sat there in the Garden of Gethsemane that photo right there And I said Jesus, whatever you want to do in my life if you want me to tell my story and Follow you whatever that looks like in ministry of some format. I don't want to be a pastor like my dad I said If you want me to tell my story have someone contact me that's not in my inner circle So I know it's you I need a sign in the storm So that day and is that next day in Israel I got a phone call from a pastor in Las Vegas Derek nighter and he heard through friends and friends I gave my life to Jesus and he invited me said hey I heard he called me said I heard you gave your life to the Lord I want you to come tell your testimony at my church. I was like Jesus. I was just joking. I Didn't know you were gonna answer this prayer. Maybe I was emotional in the garden. No, I wasn't emotional I was real. I was getting real with God Signed in the storm. I said all right. I'm gonna follow you. I went to Vegas Told my story. That was the birth of the whosoever's movement We are movement of whosoever's the anybody's from presidents to bums Movement of whosoever's leading the way to reflect Christ in culture if you believe in Jesus Christ You are a whosoever whosoever believe it so basically what happened from here the movement started all these rad things were happening Still storms This is just a highlight reel of my life a lot of crazy stuff What was going on but then I found myself in a place maybe like some of you guys where you were single and ready to mingle But there was no one to mingle with and it gets let's just be real for a second. It gets lonely. Sometimes, you know You're going through life. I'm 32 years old. I feel like God's doing rad things in my life He saved my life. He's transformed my life, but now here I am single and I'm like man I've always had a girlfriend in my life, you know, and I was like God You know, I love to meet the girl of my dreams one day and I would pray for five years. God never answered any person five years God where's she at? Where's she at? God was doing a work in my life though. I wasn't ready for her And what happens is finally after five years. I'm like Jesus. Do you have the girl of my dreams? Just tell me like a yes. I just need to speak to me. I'm not hearing anything Speak to me and I won't bug you anymore. And I heard him say yes Just a small still voice signed in the storm. Yes. I said all right Jesus I'm not gonna bug you anymore, but I kept bugging him. Where's she at? Where's she at? Fast-forwarding I ended up meeting her and you guys know the story how that all went down. I meet her Well, right when I meet her Next you know a division breaks out a storm breaks out a storm breaks out where people that around me don't like her Christians in the church Girls that liked me and I said that I'm not saying that I'm just telling you guys what happened these things happen in ministry Right, you guys know that servant ministry So I get this girl from the God brings to me then next you know these other Christian girls that are been very Rooted and grounded in church for a very long time come against the girl that I just led to the Lord two weeks ago Spit and poiment poison rumors Gossip James says the tongue will edify lift up or the tongue will destroy spits them venom Deadly poison and now this place. They're spitting poison on my wife. My wife's like I don't like Christians that much She was a Catholic girl and then that received the Holy Spirit and then everything transformed She was like wow, everyone needs to know about this. This is surreal But she her first impressions where Christians weren't that great and then that division Spread through the Bible study I was doing and I said listen We're gonna serve the Lord any division makers in the church anyone. That's with this crew of people you and all your friends Get up and get out of here. We don't want you here. We're gonna serve God We're not gonna deal with this stuff and they left and God kept pouring out his spirit and people were getting saved like crazy. The Bible talks about That don't don't waste your time with that stuff You couldn't make the clean break, but then that division had a ripple effect and then it went into My parents and my other family members because some other stuff that was going on now There's division in there then that division goes into the whosoever's team and it spreads and all this crazy stuff It's going on and I'm going God You brought this girl. I know this is the one Why is my world falling apart? I feel like the Bible studies messed up the we lost the worship team The the whosoever it's just all the stuff's going on and I remember I would go and listen to Chuck Smith Every two to three hours a day on Bible study and I'd walk through Laguna Hills Where I live in that area and I would walk there and I would go to this cave every day And I would pray to God, but this particular time. I was like Elijah. I was very scared Nervous. I didn't know what the heck was gonna go on and I was like God I need you to show up in my life, and I just prayed this prayer I said God is this person leaving and he said yes. Well, I said, well said you're talking. Is this other person leaving? He said yes, God signs in the storms later on I got a vision we talk to you hear about visions in the Old Testament the prophets would get them or In the New Testament Paul or Peter would get these visions. They're a gift of the Holy Spirit Some of you guys might get them or a picture or vision. I got a vision from a girl and the vision was emailed to me And it was a it was a tool shed it on it says whosoever's forever and in the vision I guess me and my wife were sitting there and Jesus walks up to the tool shed And he starts pulling out an old hammer that was corroded and rusted and broke down Pulled it out and started getting other tools that were old rusted and pulling them out And I guess in the vision I was going God why are you taking these tools away? I need them for the movement and then God started replacing them with the heavy-duty hammer that will never rust and never break And he started replacing the team the new Instruments for the movement in the vision. Well, guess what shortly after that on the money Those people stepped down and God replaced the team with brand new people Then that's when the whole new vision and the new ideas came together with us Starting the high school tours and middle school tours so God was getting the old wine skins and Removing them because he can't put new wine into old wine skins or also burst So God was removing the old crew and bringing a whole new crew bringing new wine skin new Ideas new move of the Holy Spirit. We started going to the high schools and revival started breaking out because Not all storms have come to disrupt our life Some have come to clear our path I've learned that Jesus wants to come in and clean house sometimes and he also Wants to show the characters and the people that you're dealing with So you don't run into bigger storms later on life. That's just personal lessons that I've learned that you guys could take that into your life So this is the next thing I'm going to read mark 16 says this Oh really quick But what is Jesus? Oh Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever But what does Jesus Christ say about signs and wonders mark 16? Says this it's about the great commission He says later Jesus appeared to the 11 disciples and he sat at the table He rebuked them for their unbelief and their hardness of hearts Because they did not believe those who had seen him raised from the dead They didn't believe in the signs and wonders they didn't believe in the resurrection the miracle these guys are with Jesus for three years And they did not believe that he could be raised from the dead talking about hard hearts and stubborn meals, right? She's then remember this faith and unbelief cannot coexist. They're mutually exclusive You have to have one or the other first 15. He said to him Jesus said go into the world and preach the gospel to every living creatures He who believes and is baptized will be saved but he who does not believe will be condemned and These signs will follow and I underline will they will follow those who believe in my name They will and I underline that they will cast out demons. We just cast out a demon of a girl 19 years old That was suicidal at my dad's church about about a month ago before I went to Australia Dealing with suicide. She was completely deceived that she was gonna be rich She was communicating with this demon talking to him and she wasn't manifesting like exorcists like Demons do that sometimes but sometimes they just talk in a normal language and Basically, this this girl was from around here She was completely deceived that this that this demon was gonna make her rich And after it was I don't name demons like the demon of deception or anything like that The devil wants to deceive lie and all these other things But this particular demon had a stronghold in her life that deceived her that he was gonna make her rich through Prostitution and she was 19 years old. It took took word of knowledge It took prophecy God was manifesting the gifts of the Holy Spirit when we were in that room for three hours with her Read in her scripture. It was a process to finally when she came to full clarity and we cast the demon out of her You will cast out demons it says They will speak it you will speak in tongues They will take up serpents and if they drink anything daily it by no means will hurt them They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover so then after the Lord has spoken to them He was received up to heaven and they sat down at the right hand of God and they went out preached everywhere the Lord was working with them and Confirming the Word of God through the accompanying signs They what did the disciples do? This is lessons for us. They obeyed God They preached the Word of God and sometimes the only sermon that anyone's ever gonna see is your life So it's about our life and sometimes when we could use words we could do that too the Word of God was confirmed Signs and wonders followed looking at Jesus's public ministry. He was born of a virgin Which was a miracle he obeyed God to the point when he was gonna get baptized He went to John the Baptist and he said hey baptize me and John's like dude. I can't even like reach down and untie your sandals I'm not worthy and Jesus says this is what God requires the obedience and the submission So John said all right and he baptized him then it says that Jesus the sky split the Holy Spirit Came down like a dove and filled Jesus It led him by the Holy Spirit in the gospel market says it driven him by the Spirit to the wilderness Where he fasted ferociously and pray for 40 days and prayed hard Then he made disciples He and then he fought before that he actually fought off Satan with the Word of God Remember he got tempted by Satan in the wilderness He got tempted with the lust of the eye the pride of life in the lust of the flesh and what did he do? He fought off Satan with the Word of God These are the tools that we use the sword of the spirits because why Satan always comes knocking at our door You're good for nothing. You're still struggling with pornography. You're struggling with your marriage. You're a horrible Christian You lie your past life. You've been divorced Suicide depression anxiety the devil always comes knocking but he's a liar. He's a serpent of old He's the destroyer Jesus says that Satan has come to kill deal kill still in destroy But Jesus says I've come to give life Abundantly the Word of God is truth the Word of God is the DNA of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ is the DNA of holiness So we fight off Satan with the Word of God Then he made disciples he got ordinary men and did extraordinary things blue-collar people, right? Thank God for using ordinary men to do extraordinary things Then he was preaching and teaching from city to city in the temples where which were like the churches here We did house ministry He was in the streets. He was in front of large crowds and one-on-one ministry just like that story with Nicodemus at night What else did he do he showed God's love his grace his mercy and he was living out the great commission Jesus Christ was unorthodox. He was radical He even went in at the beginning of his ministry into the temple And it says in the scriptures that he kicked over all the tables and he knocked over all the money changers And he made whips. I don't know where he looked for whips with the animals or whatever He says he made whips and he chased all the men and money changers out all the people and animals Now I've been to Israel and some of you been there in the old city where they would have had the temple area Where they would have sold this stuff is probably like four or five times as big as this place Imagine Jesus just called the disciples. Hey guys follow me. Okay. Let's go. Where are we going? Right to the temple Jesus makes whips Chases everyone out That's but they have the Roman guards and everyone there. They probably think they're gonna go to jail They're like, what did we sign up for? Jesus who is this guy Jesus? This is insanity. He is wild and out right now We didn't sign up for this we were fishermen But then if that wasn't enough after he went through his three-year ministry at the end again He went in and destroyed the temple again tore it up because they were ripping off God's people and they were keeping the blue Collar common folks to poor people to be able to come at be able to come in and worship God They were ripping them off and Jesus don't play that's AW tozer says this about Jesus Jesus Christ was Untameable Jesus did many miraculous signs and wonders. He turned water into wine He cast out demons. He healed the paraplegic the blind the sick the death The the man with leprosy the woman bleeding for 12 years remember no money or doctors can fix her bleeding But she was bleeding for 12 years straight She was desperate and I love the way she went after Jesus and I believe 100% This is the way we have to go after Jesus every day of our life She was desperate for God and she says that she chased after Jesus and Jesus had a whole people of a whole group of People around him because he's healing people. He's doing all kinds of things Of course you want to be close to Jesus. She had to plow her way through crawling kicking moving Whatever she had to do to get through to touch Jesus and when she touched Jesus healing power went out by faith He she did everything in her power to touch Jesus and God he touched her life Then he fed the 5,000 plus the women and children. He walked on water That's amazing silence the storm by speaking to it Well, he is the God that says that nothing was created except through him Jesus Christ He is of course God over the elements since he created him He fulfilled prophecy he raised gyrus from the dead and Lazarus from the dead Then he went to the cross and die and raised from the um from the dead on the third day Another miraculous sign proving that Jesus Christ is the Son of God John 20 says this The disciples saw Jesus do many other miraculous signs in addition to these ones recorded in this book But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah the Son of God And that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name Warren Wearsby says this Faith in his miracle should lead to faith in the Word of God and a personal faith in Jesus Christ Faith in his miracle should lead to faith in the Word of God and personal faith in Jesus Christ We don't chase miracles. They just happen He told us in Matthew 6 mark 16 go out preach the gospel and these signs and wonders will follow and all it does is prove That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that the Word of God is real so now Let's turn to John chapter 12. I want to just hone in on a couple verses. It's gonna be Jesus Christ in a storm just a day in the life with Jesus Christ in the storm John 12 12 I'm gonna read about 10 verses just to kind of lay out the story where we're at in this particular time But everything I just read you and told you leads up to this point where Jesus is at in his ministry Verse 12 the next day the news that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem swept through the city of Jerusalem a large crowd of Passover visitors Took palm branches and went down to the road to meet him. They shouted praise God or in the King James version Hosanna Hosanna Blessed is the one that comes in the name of the Lord hail to the King He's fulfilling a prophecy in Psalms 1 18 Then it goes on to say Jesus found a young donkey and wrote it to fulfill the prophecy That said don't be afraid people of Jerusalem. Look your king is coming writing on the donkey He's fulfilling prophecy in Zachariah 99 verse 16 His disciples didn't understand at the at the time that this was to fulfill the prophecy But after Jesus entered into his glory They remembered what had happened and they realized that these things had been written about him up to the exact date in Daniel 9 you got to be Jesus you got to be God in order to fulfill prophecy up to the exact date Verse 17 many in the crowd had seen Jesus called Lazarus from the tomb Raising him from the dead and they were telling others about it That's the reason why so many people went out to meet him because they had heard about this miraculous sign Then the Pharisees said to each other There's nothing we could do look everyone has gone after Jesus now These are the religious leaders that have been trying to crucify him ever since he he started his public ministry now Jesus at the is at the peak of his famed in his ministry in Jerusalem and now the religious leaders the people that don't like them are like look There's nothing we could do everyone is gone after him That is so awesome that everyone is going after Jesus at this point verse 20 Some Greeks who had come to Jerusalem for the Passover celebration paid a Paid a visit to Philip who was from Bacelda in Galilee They said sir we want to meet Jesus and Philip told Andrew about it and they went together to meet Jesus Now these are the verses I want to hone in on Verse 21 Jesus replied now the time has come for the Son of man to enter into his glory Now the time has come for the Messiah to enter his glory This is the end of Jesus's public ministry. He's about two two years and a half deep and now He's on the way to the cross He knows that he's gonna go get spit on he knows he's gonna get the crown of thorns He knows he's gonna get whipped 39 times in those days if the prisoner wouldn't confess a crime They would whip them harder the next time You know those whip the cat of nine tails have lad bone and different objects in it So when it would hit him it would break bones and ribs it would wrap around the skin Connect and then they would rip it off so you got high impact and you got ripping breaking the bones and shredding of meat Jesus knows the time has come to go to the cross and die for the sins of old because father God Sent to son Jesus Christ on a risky mission out of eternity to die for mankind so that you and I Who's so ever believe it than him will not perish but live forever We will not die our spirit will never die But when we take our last bath we will get we will enter heaven and we will live Forever so it says now the time has come for the Son of man to enter into his glory This is the end of his public ministry and now he's just heading to the cross He says I tell you the truth unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies It remains alone, but its death will produce many new kernels a plentiful of harvest and new lives Here he is he's given an illustration of how he's gonna how he's gonna die verse 25 Those who love their life in this world will lose it, but those who care nothing For their life in this world will keep it for eternity He's talking about a tree here, and he says that a little bit better better in Matthew 16 He says if you want to be my disciple or you want to be his followers And this is why we're here at church because we do want to be his disciple and his followers He says you got a turn from your selfish ways You got to pick up your cross and follow me and what is the man prophet if he gains the whole world Then he loses his own soul Is there anything worth more than his soul? So what is he saying? He's saying if you want to be my disciple or my follower You got a turn from your body appetites You got a turn from your body appetites You got to get them and you got to hang them on the cross and you could crucify them The cross is a beautiful place because the forgiveness of sins the grace the mercy But it's also a gruesome place where Jesus was murdered and I just told you how it went down So we got to deny ourself. We got to get our body appetites We got to hang them to the cross and we got to crucify him Romans 8 13 says if you live up to the flesh ye shall die But if you live up to the spirit and do modify the deeds of the flesh ye shall live That's only in the King James version Modify in the dictionary means the self-deflict pain. We got to get our body appetites Which are which which are they the less of the eye the pride of life the less of the flesh We know these are not from the father We got to get our body appetites and we got to hang them on the cross and Crucify him and when you crucify your body appetites it is painful Painful, right when you try to deny yourself, but that's where the power of the Holy Spirit comes So he says you got to be if you want to be my disciples You got to turn from your selfish ways take up your cross and follow me and in Luke it says daily And then he says if you try to hang on to your life, you're gonna lose it But if you give up your life for my sake, you're gonna save it for eternity What's he saying? He's talking about eternity If you give up if you try to live this life without Jesus Christ being the Lord of your life You're gonna lose it for eternity But if you give your up your life you give your life to Jesus Christ on this earth, you're gonna save it for eternity What's he talking about eternity? There's two places and it's very simple. You get the pick smoking or non-smoking Heaven or hell The question is easy and this is what Jesus is saying, but we got to deny self then he says this What does a man profit if he gains the whole world and he loses his own souls or anything worth more than your soul? I told you I just had one of my friends commit suicide last week. This dude was driving a Bentley money not an issue He gained the world pioneered The sport top of his game people love this guy awesome dude. I got to meet with him and talk to him awesome dude But what does it matter if you gain the whole world and you lose your own soul? There's nothing worth more than your soul Then he says this Jesus is this this is why we got to deny itself We got to kill the knowledge we had destroy all gods destroy all idols in our life then Jesus says this Anyone who wants to serve me must follow me Where's he going? to the cross to die For gonna fall and we got to head to the cross to deny self And then he says this Because my servants must be where I am. Well, where's he gonna be? He tells us in chapter 14 the next one. Don't let your hearts be troubled trust in God and also trust in me There's more than enough rooms in my father's home And if it were not so I would have told you that I'm going to prepare a place for you And when everything is ready, I will come get you so you will always be where I am Jesus is trying to hang out all of eternity with us He's getting it dialed in and when everything's ready. He's gonna come scoop us up when we take our last breath Hopefully that's in like a hundred years or something. I'll live like 143 or something just joking But when that happens God's gonna be there. It's all about eternity. We are eternal beings We are created with the eternally eternity in us That's the whole thing and the deny itself it sounds brutal, but it's not when you deny self That's when the Holy Spirit and God starts showing up and things start moving and shaking in your life It gets exciting and some of you believers that are walking that life, you know it It's worth it. It's all worth it. Then he says this then he goes on to say Because my servants must be where I am and the Father God will honor anyone who serves me So that's like the icing on the cake. So Father God's gonna honor anyone who serves me Now he goes from talking and he flips to a prayer and these are the last verses. I want to hone in on Now he goes to a prayer boom So he's he's facing the cross. It's getting serious and he says now my soul is deeply troubled. He's praying What should I pray? What should I say? Father save me from this hour? But this is the very reason why he came. Why did he come? He told us in verse 24 I tell you the truth or barely barely barely unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies It remains alone, but its death will produce many new kernels a plant the fall harvest of new lives So he's saying just like a plant just like a seed of a plant will die You bury into the ground you water it it grows a plant and then the plant produces Fruit or produces a flower and then the seeds drop they die They go into the ground and then it produces another plant and then you have a plant a full a harvest of a new light a harvest Well in the same way Jesus is saying what he the illustration is I need to go and die on the cross Then my bear my body needs to get buried into the ground for three days Then I'm gonna get watered with the torrents of living water, which is the Holy Spirit I'm gonna raise from the dead then I'm gonna go sit at the right hand of the father just like after he rebuked the disciples He said he was at the right end of the father and then anyone who so ever believe it than him Will have everlasting life anyone that will believe that he is the son of God God will send his Holy Spirit and they will be filled and they will start living that spirit led life in the same Way we must die to self that Ryan Reese that troublemaker He needs to be buried that old man needs to be buried into the ground I need to go to the cross and crucify the lust of the eye the pride of life the lust of the flesh that old man and bury him into the ground and Be raised from the dead to that new spirit lot of life that Jesus talks about in John 3 when he's talking about Nicodemus he says you see you hear this You hear the wind blow you see it, but do you really see the wind blow when you look outside? No, it's like the Holy Spirit you don't see the wind blow You just see the effects of it and in the same way when you're filled with the Holy Spirit people see around you like Dude that do change. He's like the same crazy guy Ryan Reese, but there's like something different about him He's not like watching porn and cheating and drinking and use of drugs, but like he's the same crazy guy, but he's like Not in all this crazy stuff So that's what the work of the Holy Spirit does There's only one of you. They'll only ever be one of you created God has a perfect plan and individual. That's awesome You're not gonna like change all like this whole lifestyle of stuff Just the lust of the eye the part of life all the stuff that's like dragging you down that stuff change and God shows you your destiny So in the same way we got to deny itself. So Jesus says this He says now my soul is deeply troubled. What should I say? Or what should I pray? Father say me from this hour, but this is the very reason why I came Father bring glory to your name not my will thy will be done is what he's saying Jesus is a hundred percent man He's a hundred percent God. It doesn't matter what storms you are going through Jesus His soul is crushed Imagine having to go die for the sins of the world. You know how hardcore that is This is unbelievable. He's a hundred percent man He's a hundred percent God so any struggles any storms that you're going through right now or that you've been through or that you're gonna Go through in your future. Jesus has been there He's going through the worst of the worst and I'm gonna tell you right now. He knows he's a hundred percent man A hundred percent God. He knows what you're going through. So what does he do? His soul is deeply troubled So what does he do? He's in this storm? So he prays father save me from this hour the prayer I say all the time Lord Save me from this save me. It's when we're talking to him. Then he reasons wait a minute. This is part of God's eternal plan and purpose God is working out his plan and his eternal purpose for my life He sent me on a rescue mission to die for the sins of the world So anyone all the world can believe me and they could be saved and they could live forever So God is working out his eternal plan of purpose. He reasons and then what does he do after he reasons? He submits and he says father bring glory to your name. Not my will that will be done in full Submission two years ago. We meet my wife We went through infertility and what I didn't tell you last time I was here nine months ago is when we were going through This stuff we got we got basically we got pregnant. We couldn't get pregnant for two years We got pregnant with twins fraternal twins. We went to the doctors and you know They they said look it's a high-risk pregnancy So keep going back every two weeks. We came back two weeks later one of the eggs put an identical twins and they said listen Now you know, you know, this baby's gonna die out So we prayed by God's grace God brought that baby back So we had three and they said this is a very high-risk pregnancy Your wife needs to be on extreme bed rest. That means you have to lay down hips up gravity Basically, you can't get up and cook food. It's a very high-risk pregnancy And basically we come back and at four months the doctor says these babies are millimeters from coming out and that we are gonna lose All of these kids and there's nothing science doctors or medicine can do to keep these kids alive But we're gonna lose them and we just kept praying and praying and God woke my mom up in the middle of the night with a vision And the vision was a stormy sea from Jesus's time and there was a boat from Jesus's time when you go to Israel You'll see like a remake of those boats and on the front of the boat There was one baby with brown hair looking out the front two identical twins in the bottom Sleeping and that boat manifested or transformed into Jesus's hand in the storm So God gave us a sign in the storm. It was very gnarly place My wife's life was in danger and these kids lives were in danger But God gave us a sign in the storm So we knew that God was in control then we got a another girl that had a dream That saw my wife with a huge belly in front of a stone wall Then we got another received another vision from another girl That was three coffins and need in each coffin. There was a rose and on each coffin It said death and in the vision Jesus walked by and wiped off what said death and wrote life So we knew that God signs in the storms because remember all of God's signs point back to the fact that the word of God is Real and that Jesus Christ is the Messiah That's it. That's just how it all works So we knew that we were in a dark storm Bogados and control and we kept praying and praying and it was very dark place in our life Very very dark place and then the doctor said we have to take these kids out They're not eating enough baby C's not eating enough and when we take them out their lungs aren't developed So now they're all gonna have to get lung surgery and we're like kid this get any worse our soul was so Crushed and in trouble these little babies have to come out premature And then they're gonna have to do open open them up and fix their lungs. This is crazy crazy stuff And we keep praying and what happens is God ended up keeping those babies in To 30, I don't even know how many weeks a long time basically and God kept them in and we ended up having Healthy triplets with no lung problems. Nothing you guys have probably seen this photo now this is This is the kicker this story that I said today about my my me finding Jesus Christ God bringing the girl of my dreams me having my kids This is the story that I'm going around telling the story in the high schools and middle schools and even colleges now We've seen 23,000 students give their life to Lord in the last couple years Just in the public school system because not all storms have come to disrupt our life Some have come to clear our path. I went through hard times This is just a highlight reel of my life people the Gospels that we read it's a highlight reel acts was like 30 years It's a highlight reel do you understand things are happening every single day of our life Which I don't doubt God could do whatever he wants But not all storms have come to disrupt our life some have come to clear our path now in closing It says this Jesus says my soul is deeply troubled. What should I say? What should I pray? Father save me from this hour, but this is the very reason why I came Father bring glory to your name He's in deep trouble. He prays. He reasons and he full fully submits and give God the glory Then boom verse the next verse says then a voice spoke from heaven saying I've already brought glory to my name And I will do so again when the crowd heard this voice some thought it was thunder You know how loud thunder is? Others thought it was an angel who's a declared it was an angel who spoke from heaven Then Jesus told them this voice was for your benefit not from mine a sign in the storm Jesus is in the storm Pretty much the biggest storm of his life almost he's about to go he's heading to the cross and he prays and God gives him a Stein sign God speaks to him in the storm just the same way God will speak to us in storms But Jesus says this because some of you guys well, he doesn't speak to me when I'm in a storm Jesus said seek me and you will find me knock and the door will be open when you look up the word seek Go look it up when you leave here seek in the dictionary It means to be on look out for to hunt for to seek out Are you when you're hunting? I've been hunting before you're like Rambo Are you Rambo in for Jesus? Are you looking for Jesus? Jesus? I love you. I'm praying worship you up show up in my life Were you at where you at seeking you will find knocking the door will be open. You can't just be like hey Jesus I love you to show up one day show up. Do you when's the last time you read at your Bible? Huh, you go to church once a month Seek them and you will find them I guarantee you that you know why because Jesus said it and he is the Mashiach the son of God the king He's the king and He loves you and he'll show up in your life Seek him Seek him with everything in your heart your mind your soul and I promise you 100% guarantee Jesus will show up in your life You got to seek him What this voice do this will voice? Confirm that Jesus's prayer Jesus was in a his soul was crushed He was in a deep storm, but it confirmed his mission to the cross Jesus God gave Jesus a sign in the storm that he was with them as he was going through this because all things work together For good for according to his purpose. God was working on his eternal purpose in Jesus's life at this point Then it also proves that Jesus was in contact with God the father so that everyone would believe Through the signs and wonders that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and that the word of God is Real because in mark 16 it says go out and preach the gospel and these signs and wonders will follow We need to go out and live the gospel and in closing. I got one short story. That's gonna blow your mind right now this is that Ender five years ago I Came up with a concept and I designed it all to come up with this I've always been into like creative stuff and I said, you know, I would like to create a building Project that would be a bridge from the streets to the church and it would go into low-income neighborhoods and We could put it in a low-income neighborhood where kids don't have a computer or kids Don't have instruments or beat machines or microphones And they don't know how to play music or they don't know how to start a band Or maybe they want to be skaters. We have a skate park there. We have a concert venue We can do battle the bands we can do art shows We're gonna teach kids how to do music and art and find out their purpose because Jesus Christ is the creator and he We were created to create that's what we do and then through all that we can disciple him Turn him into a little John the Baptist and set him out to go tear it up and light the world on fire using these gifts So I came up with this whole idea and basically what happened is we met with someone and they were going to give us like It's like a million dollars or something to do to do the whole thing and we were looking at buildings This is five years ago and we couldn't find the right building And we saw we were on hunt. We were looking for it. We couldn't do it The door's then open and it was all good on paper, but it didn't happen. So I walked away and I was in a storm I was like, man, god People aren't kids aren't coming to church. This would be amazing And I just walked away and it said you're working out your eternal plan and purpose of my life God That will be done. I'm just going to keep following you. Where are we going? You said follow you. Where are we going? So I kept following me never told me still hasn't told me. I'm just going and uh what happens is Five years later. I'm at an autograph signing. Jesus shows up in funny places I'm at an autograph signing for a secular band that are my friends and I was showing them my My wife and my kids railroad down there hanging out with them And one of the girls in the bands like hey my my my uh cousins out here on tour She's a she's a soul sister from the south mississippi or george or something She got the crazy abonics going on And she's awesome. We were talking, you know her slang so gnarly and uh, we're talking and you know for like 15 minutes and then uh She gets on and i'm like, okay well I gotta take my kids the nap time because nap time is my favorite time and uh I'm about to leave and she goes hold up. She goes i'm getting a vision. I'm like, oh no I never met this girl in my life She goes I see a vision and she says there's a man that's gonna come to you And this man's gonna come to you. I see he's like I see he has like several properties But he's gonna come to you And he is gonna give you a building And this man's gonna give you a building And it's a big building and she's like, oh, it's a massive building And this building she says there's brick all over it massive brick building He's gonna give it to you for maybe an idea that you had maybe years ago, but he's gonna give it to you For an idea that you had maybe years ago and she goes. That's all I got I was like, that's all you got So I left I told my wife I'm all dude this girl said this round We drive home 40 days later I'm speaking at a rehab I walk in this guy's like a right good to see you. He's like, hey when you're done. I'm speaking Um, I want to show you a building. I just bought I go, okay so We got get done speaking and after he's like, yeah He's like, I just bought the uh the ymca building for like 2.6 million and uh, you know, I want to show it to you after So we drive down there I'm like 2.6 million. Who is this guy's guy's like, there's a lot of money right there so we go we go down And uh, we we basically pull up and as we're as we're walking through a right when I pull up. I see this massive brick building There's nothing but brick on this building and windows Massive well turns out this building's 80 000 square feet massive brick building I get out. I'm walking up and then he's like, yeah, man He's like, I want to do like a skate park over there And then I want to do like a cafe here and then we walk into this one room He's like, I want to do like a concert venue here. He's like, I want to teach go to the second one He's like, I want to teach kids how to do music and art and this I'm like, is this dude in my mind And so at the end I'm like, so so this is amazing, man I love it in p-town right there, dude This is like hotbed for human trafficking and gangs and prostitution and I mean I deal I meet with a lot of the cops I deal with I I meet I know these things because I met with the the dea Of of la they came and met me a couple months ago. I meet with the orange county sheriffs I meet with the la cops because I work with human trafficking victims. I work in rehabs I work with gangs. I work with all kinds of people. I know everything that's going on in the cities They give me the insight so I know what the heck's going on in certain areas of neighborhoods, obviously So this would be a perfect area to go and have a building. So I go, listen I go, this is amazing. I grew up in laverne. I'm like right there neighbors I'm oh, this would be amazing to do when we're so would do this is awesome But like what do you have me here for he goes because God showed me you're the guy to do it And I'm like what so that's the building right there Go down there and walk around and see if you find anything but brick you won't So this is the deal it's in the news. You can look up in the article Just look up ymca got purchased by a new owner and it's happening. It's being restored and the whole thing now This is the ender God loves you God is love God came on a rescue mission out of eternity to die for the sins of the world I've given you the gospel the raw gospel. It's black and white God is love. He wants to forgive you. He wants to feel you. He wants to remove anxiety He wants to move remove depression. He wants to remove say suicidal thoughts He wants to remove addiction pornography drugs alcohol problem broken marriages He wants to restore Prodigal kids. He wants to bring them home He wants to use you like I said, there's only one of you created and there only ever be one of you You have a plan you have a destiny You have marching orders But you'll never know until you turn on the light and when you're walking through this earth without jesus christ There is no light on when you are illuminated and filled with the holy spirit That's when the light turns on and that's when you get your marching orders And jesus is going to say follow me and you're going to go where we going? He's not going to tell you everything because we walk by faith We walk by not knowing what's in front of us But as we take each step just like j peter stepped out of the boat And started walking on water. He started living the impossible Peter would have never known he could live the impossible unless he would have stepped out of the boat and walked by faith What were the other 11 disciples doing? They were scared They didn't do nothing. They were scared But peter the risk-taker which I love about him never said the right things But he was a risk-taker And he stepped out of the boat and he denied jesus three times at the end of all that and guess what jesus did He repented and god used that dude powerfully Blue color common folks just like you and me awesome god loves he wants to forgive and he wants to empower you