following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church church get real about the fact the truth that jesus is the truth that the word is the truth jesus is a truth and that we want to get real we want to challenge every individual in here to be able to look at their life and say do i honor the truth do i live the truth do i walk the truth do i know the truth so long as i get real i pray that your holy spirit will get real with each person this room and that they won't have to look at themselves in themselves alone and ask themselves do i know the truth is the truth set me free you pray this in jesus name aimin with christ you've got to jump it all the way if he's the truth why would you not want all of the true think about that if he is to truth and this is the truth why would you not want all of it every bit of it the truth will set you free let's get real if you do not apply the truths that are found in scripture you will not walk in freedom if you don't apply the truth it don't matter how much truth it is if you know all about chemistry but you don't do the experiment that's wh not going to work you got to apply it if you not believe the bible is the word of god you will not apply the truths that are found in scripture that will give you a bill to walk in freedom if you don't believe this is the word of god if you think this is some old book yes well you want to apply the principles saw the day and did a bible study with people i realize there are people that don't believe this if you don't believe this why would you apply i'll tell you the defeat mean you why is it that some of you grew up in christian holmes some of you grew up with religion some of you grew up in the church and you don't believe this buyable me is an atheist believes in this bible why because as an atheist i did something i says if i'm going to believe this book i got to know it's true so what i did is i took this book and i compared it i look up archaeology i look up science i get a book that says evidence demands a verdict by josh mcdowell i study it out i say what is the reality how these prophecies for them to come to true what's the odds of these prophecies to come t and all the stuff started seeing something for this book to not the odds of this book not being true is greater than this book being true the reality is this book can be confirmed all over and over and over again it's all there's so many bible translations yeah there is guesswork all these bible translation but they all say you need to accept jesus christ your lord and savior to be born again i don't care what translation it is this is the same thing all yeah but it says  accept to the lord asst so that's the true why no they all say the same thing except jesus christ your lord and savior and so if you don't believe this is the truth you want to apply to if you want to apply it you won't walk christ and then you say ah doesn't work i want to serve jesus but i don't want to believe the book tells me how to serve jesus so if you don't believe this is true why don't you go to hud what you'd say to god you know what i don't know if this bible is true you prove to me it's true i put on you got to prove to me it's true and i will tell you he will prove to you it's true but the problem is some of you when he goes to prove to it's true to give you some evidence you're going to deny the evidence because you don't want this to be true because if this bible is with this is the truth of jesus the truth what does it mean about my life it means i got a line my life up to the truth or i'm walking a line and i know what i'm it i'm walking a lies so all throw away the truth go ahead and throw the truth the way listening to me maybe you're on the in you're listening to me listen to me the bottom line is when you meet god in the day of judgment go say you remember when you was on channel seventy seven on the cable channel in seattle this past a rich stood up and says if you don't believe this is the truth a check it out and you didn't check it out do you believe that that god will hold us accountable that he gives us that opportunity today to look for the truth to search for the truth to acknowledge the truth so that we don't spend eternity in but if we don't believe the truth we're going to have a problem and if we don't believe that truth or not believe in jesus christ the truth will set you free let's get real if you do not spend time in relationship with christ the truth to grow his grace you will not walk in freedom i wish i had freedom like that person that person seems not struggle with sin why is because they spend more time with jesus than it is because they're better do you really think that connect tell you something has to riches no better than any person i've ever worked with and i've worked with the last lost of lost of human beings this is side i've been with child molesters that molested little girls i've been with murderers that killed more than one person i've been with drunk is i choose to walk in the truth the best i know how and i fall short of the time but here's the reality if you're not walking with jesus you're not going to have freedom because the truth what gives you free he's with if your freedom if you don't know jesus christ your lord and savior you will not have the ability to walk in freedom try it if you don't know jesus try to live a godly life without christ come on how many know it's hard to walk a god of life with christ so it's hard to walk a guy like with christ how much more if you don't know christ is the truth jesus that gives us the grace to live in overcoming a life of freedom i say over and over again i know that grace is unmerited favor people say grace is a favor that's true but i hate that definition is not for me to sin and get away with it possible also just the opposite of that the grace is not so you know i can do some people are saying this and paul's time they say it now i hear christians say it today well you know what it's ok to do a little bit of sin because then jesus just shows his forgiveness to mercy and it shows people who grace really the way show people god's grace is i turn around and i cheat on my wife and god doesn't kill me and see gaza gracious merciful god is all nobody believes that i have had christians say those kind of things i've had christians turn around be in a church husband and wife husband wife husband cheats on his wife with that person's wife they all get divorced and the pastor marries is the new couple and the past is about because you know good straights covers a lot of said what i'm saying is that in the greek it means to learned in old to come to know to get a knowledge of to perceived to know to understand to have knowledge of to become acquainted with the juice idiom four to six or eight of course between a man and a woman so the jewish it is if you if you know your wife is that you had sex with your wife is that intimacy their closeness and the question for you is do you know jim jesus in an intimate way do you know him in the greek word of knowing him is not about had knowledge shown in christianity of today especially in america will do you know jesus what does it mean to you have some kind of head knowledge about who jesus is that's not what knowing jesus is knowing jesus is to have an intimate relationship with the norm as your best friend to know that he's your confident he's your lover he's there if nothing house is working you know that jesus is there for you and i can remember those days of suicidal thoughts for three four five six seven years as a christian one day i knew as i still knew jesus was i knew that jesus was going to get me through what i'd have that g of christ if i had they had knowledge as some of you have i'd be hopeless to not be dad because he had knowledge will not give you freedom had knowledge will not save you it has to be that you know men an intimate close man or do you know the truth jesus many people about is but only born again christians can give no school jesus only christians to know him in a personal intimate level yet many christians never take to jesus in the intimate level we spend more time with our know him is also know his sufferings to die to self that you may be closer to him if you know jesus you know something about jesus jesus knows about suffering that you know about suffering not the suffering because you did what you weren't supposed to do oh i suffered  broken to the bank and they put me in jail for three years i suffer no overtime about the suffering where the bible talks the people you're doing everything right you're doing everything right and you suffer anybody know that but that's like if not suffering that's not suffering really that suffering oh what about when you turn around and you're in a situation and you take a stand and you lose your job you see i had to quit a job i worked  that was a christian i was operations manager for the company he was the owner i was operation manager was no other body that was in charge of just me and him and he really wasn't in charge he just told the company i did it i ran the whole company internal or doing some things that he's sworn into bill customers i walked out the door and i lost the whole money when i walked out but i did lose my integrity you see when you know jesus you're walking it with your jesus you will suffer for the cause of christ what's the benefit to know the from apart from me you can do what nothing if you don't have your life whatever you do it is nothing in god's eyes in the end what is going to get you in the end if you don't have christ in the midst of it but he continues on the see what else he has t say verse six if anyone does not abide to me he is thrown away as a branch and dries up and they gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned if you abide in me and my words abide in you ask whatever you wish will be done for you my father's glorified by this that you bear much fruit so to prove to be my disciples he says but if you don't abide in him if you don't have a relationship with jesus christ what does it say this is if you don't have a relationship with jesus christ you're going to be like a branch that is dries up and is going to cast the fire and burned up you're going to be sent to hell this is if you buy to me and my words abide to you you can't say i'm in jesus and you speak of this bible if you say no jews and you say everything of his bible you don't know jesus this is if you buy to me my words of bye to you whatever you wish it will be done for you all i know what i wish to have a limousine so be pulled up tomorrow that's not what it's saying because guess what if you're buying in his word you only will wish for those they delight up with th were you will be wishing for things that don't line up with his word because you're in his word what is your wish your wish will be for the things of god your wish will be is that people get saved your wish is that isis will be destroyed and no longer innocent people killed yes as a christian you can believe that this is my father is glorified by this list of what it says if you buy it in jesus a glorifies god when you have intimacy with jesus it glorifies god and he says you prove that my disciple so i have a question for i message is let's get real this get real with you if you are really abiding in christ this is that you will bear fruit are you bearing fruit was the reflection of you that you were a christian is somebody know that you're a christian don't have to tell him that because they know something is different about you but if you really change you will tell them about jesus because you want to have the same thing is saying if we buy to christ people will see that there's something different about us so when see people see you they think you're a christian do they think you're born again or do you think you're a nice person being a nice person doesn't glorify god can i tell you that there's nice people that that my mom was a nice person she never left the ship with christ but she was a nice person she was a wonderful person but that didn't get into heaven because being a person nice person is going to heaven be nice isn't reflecting christ is being like jesus and could i people really well i'm going to be real with you the reason this church is a filled up because you're not hanging about lost people because of all of us were hanging with lost people around lost people they would get to know the jesus within us that were abide in jesus and they'd want to know the jews that you know and they'd be here but if we all hang with our crowd you know the people we feel comfortable with you know we don't want to rock the boat with anybody we don't want to finish anybody you know what there's a lot of people that need to know that god loves them and the only way there is someone knows to be in this room of religion learn how to have a relationship with jesus christ soul abide in its to abide in to continue into perseverance remain beside to resist to continue near to wait for terri to abide what is really talking about it to abide is the given is the same there was to know all it's about an intimate close knit relationship and is that your know what it says to be one with in unity with the father and jews are one jesus and us should be one we should be wants to live skit rill are you abiding in jesus are you growing in your relationship with jesus are you spending time on the truth the bible do you even have a savior relationship with jesus christ do you want to be set free do you want to be set free the only way you're ever going to find freedom is get closer to jesus probably every person this room i know ll just about every person this room has some kind of relationship with christ hopefully it's not just a relationship that is head knowledge but that is that you know him as your lord and savior the question is are you walking in freedom within your lord and savior or do you still have sins that you still struggle with are the things that you still deal with if there is then i would say you have to give those to jesus christ you have to be real with yourself and really say really am i at my relationship with jesus christ is the real or is the a story is the my savior but is he my lord is he my lord and savior what about in this area of my life is the lord and savior every one of us falls short in this room every one of us have areas where we fall short every one of us struggle with certain areas where maybe there's an area where we lack faith in or maybe there's an air that you know we need healing in there somewhere where there's something missing and the question is will you lead to something missing jesus christ be in the midst of that situation the circumstance that experience from way back when we counsel with individuals when these i strongly believe and i've seen god do some rock was things as i've seen where people have gone through scars and wounds of things that nobody here would ever want to go through individual that i knew who saw his girlfriend's head blown up right in front of his face who turned around that was had a chain wrapped around his neck he was maybe like a dog from a dog turn around and being used as a male prostitute being driven in a truck taken from place to place in hollywood the use of male prostitute eleven years old story after story after story can i tell you do you think there is some wounding from that you don't think there's scars from that he went to drugs to take care of that then he got off the drugs the gram gambling to take care of that and he can find something else to go to but will never take care of the scars the memories for you and you know take care of his jesus is so i prayed with people to say you know what this take jesus in the best midst of this situation do you know that jesus is everywhere and that bad trial that situation that jesus was there and people say well where was jesus that when this happened we live in a fall world with evil people with jesus there and i've turned around i've prayed with people does this take geez i remember a man that turned around and you know in what the story is it was christmas time and he was about two three years old maybe three or years old and he was playing around he knocked a lamp over the nap lamp fell over and because there was a lexical short in the wiring a cot to the house on fire caught the tree on fire not a major fire but destroyed christmas day this to say and he was three four  do anything wrong again and he became a perfectionist and add a performer so his whole life even as a christian and it came from a domination that was a lot of legalism minutes and then at the nomination he came from his lolly and got to perform yet to perform he had to have to be good at to be a good and to be good so he spent all his life trying to be good but guess what you try to be good guess what happens you're never good enough for somebody to visit for anybody else you're never good enough for yourself you're never good enough for your god because your god is the god because again i believe in you apply the truth the truth set you free and we prayed with him and he said i want you to imagine right there here that little boy i want you to get in that moment he got moment and said turn around was a feel like he started crying and he said i'm sorry i'm sorry daddy i'm sorry said we want you to imagine the g s in that room and jesus right there he's looking at you as his arms wrapped around you the sand you're ok you're forgiven you don't have to perform for me ever again never did you have to perform it it started we crying he walked out of that room and the from that day on that man's life was changed and today he's doing what he loves doing has a wife and has kids his life is going great because jesus in or the moment so what moment do you need jesus to enter to in your own life what hardship what struggle what trial what situation do you need in the or into your life we'll let him do that jesus be there that is hope to god or there is there is hope to be done or and we have information frequently asked questions about christianity relate you know step by step out accept jesus christ you lord and savior encourage you to go to there is hope tb dot org happen to our churches our vision is loving god loving people loving life now that's a vision for a church to love god to love people love life let me tell you something that if you love god and love people you will love life you know why some people don't love life you said god i just love you with all my heart thank you jesus so you've done so much for me that i just love you yeah what can i do for you that's what happens when you have true love yeah what can i do you love me how can i love you you know god is going to answer love people that's what he's going to say he's going to say love me because you already love him anybody know the greatest commandment love the lord thy god with all your heart soul mind and the second greatest commandment is what the father said yourself so lisa loving people let me tell you if you love god or i love you so much what can i do it says i want you to love this person over here i want you to love this person over here i want you to do this for this person here almost all you start loving people start loving god you don't think there's a fire let me tell you if you say i don't have a fire and me why don't i have a fire in the wind i'm not excited about life you're probably not loving god loving people try it just try it if you if you think life is kind of boring to start saying god help love people and let me tell you you won't be able to love people the way god has you to love them unless you start loving god so long i my life and i'm a deadbeat human being i'm a deadbeat christian i'm the boss blowing christian there is gonna change me people so that's our vision you have been listening to there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in period committed to loving god loving people  loving like seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty nine street in peoria next to the southwest courthouse