WEBVTT - Get Back What You’ve Lost -- Part 2 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.440 When we lose our way or feel like something's missing 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.360 in life, how do we regain our joy? That's the 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.960 subject today on Bold Steps with Mark Jobe. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:11.879 If you really know how much God has cleansed you from. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.760 If your heart is full of the joy of God's salvation, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:17.960 no one's going to have to bend your arm to 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.880 serve him. You're going to say, where God. How God. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.360 I want to give back to he that has given 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.360 so much to me. But listen, if you lost it, 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.080 you lose the joy and the energy of serving God. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.080 Welcome to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe. Mark is founding 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.880 pastor of New Life Community Church in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.879 Mark is talking us through the biblical process of how 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.960 to get back what you've lost. And spiritually. The first 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.400 step we have to take is simply realizing that we 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.880 need to be clean again. We need to acknowledge our sin, 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.399 identify where we've gone astray, and make the choice to 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.080 go in the opposite direction to continue with this key point. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.440 Here's pastor Mark now with today's message. Get back what 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:12.480 you've lost. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.760 You'll never be free from addiction until you own your 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.520 addiction and admit that you have a problem. As long 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.160 as you live in denial, you will never be free. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.440 You will fall over and over and over again because 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.840 the first step is admitting I have a problem. I 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.520 own my problem. I have an issue. It was cold 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.520 this past week, wasn't it? It was like not really 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.800 cold for Chicago because I should expect it. But you know, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.880 we were kind of teased with 75 degree weather a 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.640 few days ago, and then it just dropped to 40. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.279 And my wife has been saying, I want to get 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.720 a pumpkin to put out in front of our house. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.040 She picked the coldest day to go get a pumpkin, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.210 but she didn't tell me in the morning that she 0:02:01.210 --> 0:02:02.650 was going to go get a pumpkin. So I just 0:02:02.650 --> 0:02:06.290 had like a light jacket on. And so she drags 0:02:06.290 --> 0:02:12.889 me to this pumpkin place. And she says, get me 0:02:12.889 --> 0:02:17.609 a good one. Well, they're all picked over. I mean, 0:02:17.650 --> 0:02:19.690 we should have done that a month ago. I'm like, 0:02:19.690 --> 0:02:21.410 it's all the ones that you look at and say, 0:02:21.410 --> 0:02:24.290 that looks nice in the back is missing to it. 0:02:24.290 --> 0:02:27.410 And you know, it's hard to find a perfect pumpkin. 0:02:27.450 --> 0:02:29.530 I mean, they're like, hey, they look good on the outside. 0:02:29.530 --> 0:02:32.010 It's like the guy that you're trying to date on Facebook, 0:02:32.090 --> 0:02:35.450 you know, the dating site eHarmony. He looks good in 0:02:35.450 --> 0:02:37.730 his profile. When you meet him, you're like, whoa, he's 0:02:37.730 --> 0:02:39.730 got a whole nother side of him. That's what I'm 0:02:39.730 --> 0:02:45.170 talking about. And you know what? The longer I was 0:02:45.169 --> 0:02:48.930 out there, my teeth were going like this. And, you know, 0:02:48.970 --> 0:02:51.850 I'm dragging this little red wagon around me, trying to 0:02:51.850 --> 0:02:55.369 find a perfect pumpkin, and she wants two. And the 0:02:55.370 --> 0:03:00.010 colder I got, the less I cared about the perfection. 0:03:00.210 --> 0:03:03.810 I'm like, by the end it's round more or less. Okay. 0:03:03.850 --> 0:03:06.410 It's not that round. It's a little bit oval. It's 0:03:06.410 --> 0:03:08.930 got a little growth on the side. It's a little discolored, 0:03:08.930 --> 0:03:12.690 but it's a pumpkin. I notice the colder I got, 0:03:12.730 --> 0:03:20.330 the less I cared. The colder you get spiritually, the 0:03:20.370 --> 0:03:25.250 less you care. The less you care about your failures. 0:03:25.250 --> 0:03:27.530 The less you care about your compromise. The less you 0:03:27.570 --> 0:03:29.850 care about your language, the less you care about what 0:03:29.850 --> 0:03:32.490 you watch, the less you care about what you do. 0:03:32.650 --> 0:03:34.850 The less you care about the fights that you have, 0:03:34.850 --> 0:03:36.890 the less you care about what you tell your wife, 0:03:36.930 --> 0:03:39.450 the less you care about what you what how your 0:03:39.450 --> 0:03:45.330 life looks. Because the colder you get, the less you care. 0:03:49.650 --> 0:03:55.290 As soon as David was woken up. Out of his 0:03:55.770 --> 0:04:01.700 dark place, out of his cold heart. Then suddenly. He 0:04:01.740 --> 0:04:06.620 started to care about his transgressions. Suddenly he started to 0:04:06.660 --> 0:04:11.380 see them for what they were. Suddenly he started to notice. Yeah, 0:04:11.380 --> 0:04:14.300 I sinned, a man. It's ever before me. I can't 0:04:14.300 --> 0:04:17.140 get away from it. Before I didn't care, but now 0:04:17.180 --> 0:04:19.380 I see it. When I go to bed, I wake 0:04:19.380 --> 0:04:21.780 up and I think about it. I ask myself, how 0:04:21.779 --> 0:04:26.619 could I have done that? I own it, I take responsibility, 0:04:26.620 --> 0:04:31.740 I'm flawed, I'm broken. God, I've grieved you. I've hurt people. 0:04:31.740 --> 0:04:35.580 I've messed up. I've lost it. God, I lost my joy. 0:04:35.620 --> 0:04:38.020 I lost my walk. I lost what I was doing. God, 0:04:38.020 --> 0:04:41.979 look at where I've slipped down to God now. David 0:04:41.980 --> 0:04:47.419 started caring. And when you start caring, you start realizing 0:04:47.420 --> 0:04:51.620 how bad it really is and he confesses it before God. 0:04:51.620 --> 0:04:55.140 Proverbs 28, verse 13 says, whoever conceals their sin does 0:04:55.140 --> 0:04:58.900 not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces it 0:04:58.900 --> 0:05:06.220 finds mercy. Our tendency is to try to minimize our sin. 0:05:06.220 --> 0:05:09.100 That means it just wants once in a while. It's 0:05:09.100 --> 0:05:11.460 not that bad. There's a lot of people worse than me. 0:05:11.700 --> 0:05:14.020 We try to excuse it. Everyone else does it. I'm 0:05:14.020 --> 0:05:15.940 not that bad. I mean, look around. There's a lot 0:05:15.940 --> 0:05:18.620 of people that do it. We try to deny it. 0:05:18.660 --> 0:05:21.219 I didn't really mean it that way. It wasn't really 0:05:21.220 --> 0:05:24.140 like that. We try to shift the blame. It's really 0:05:24.140 --> 0:05:26.860 not my fault. It's because they made me angry or 0:05:26.860 --> 0:05:29.620 they influenced me. Or you didn't do that, or someone 0:05:29.620 --> 0:05:32.339 didn't reach out to me. It's other people's fault. Or 0:05:32.339 --> 0:05:35.580 you generalize it. We all fall short. We're all sinners. 0:05:35.580 --> 0:05:41.940 We're all human, aren't we? When God wakes you up 0:05:42.820 --> 0:05:46.060 and your heart starts getting warm to God, it's no 0:05:46.060 --> 0:05:50.060 more minimizing, generalizing, excusing. It's not. We all sin and 0:05:50.060 --> 0:05:53.060 we all fall. We all are human. It's not about that. It's. 0:05:53.060 --> 0:05:56.980 I have sinned before you, Almighty God, and I acknowledge 0:05:56.980 --> 0:06:00.630 specifically how I failed against you, God and my sin 0:06:00.630 --> 0:06:03.910 is before me, and I need the weight of the 0:06:03.910 --> 0:06:07.070 stain off me. I need to be clean again. I 0:06:07.110 --> 0:06:10.910 lost it, God, I want to. I need the joy 0:06:11.510 --> 0:06:14.630 of my salvation back. I need the energy of what 0:06:14.630 --> 0:06:19.070 it was to worship you. Feel your presence, see your face, 0:06:19.110 --> 0:06:23.030 not walk at a distance knowing that you're somewhere out there. God, 0:06:23.070 --> 0:06:30.390 I need to regain what I've lost. You say, well, pastor, 0:06:30.390 --> 0:06:33.870 I've confessed it to God and that's a start. Do 0:06:33.870 --> 0:06:36.669 I need to confess it to someone? The condition of 0:06:36.670 --> 0:06:42.270 my heart. Well, here's the thing. You confess to God 0:06:42.270 --> 0:06:46.870 for forgiveness. You confess to others for healing. I don't 0:06:46.870 --> 0:06:49.310 know if you noticed in this auditorium, but there's no 0:06:49.310 --> 0:06:53.750 confessional booth. Some of you are a little worried about that. Like, 0:06:55.510 --> 0:07:02.750 where's the box? No confessional booths here. you say, well, pastor, 0:07:02.750 --> 0:07:05.470 how am I going to get clean? Not through any 0:07:05.510 --> 0:07:09.190 confessional booth. And you say, well, pastor, can you have 0:07:09.190 --> 0:07:11.630 a half hour for me to tell your sins? Not really. 0:07:12.790 --> 0:07:14.910 To be honest, I don't really want to hear your 0:07:14.910 --> 0:07:20.230 sins that much. I don't have the power to forgive 0:07:20.230 --> 0:07:26.190 your sins. There's one perfect sacrifice. There's one who died. 0:07:26.230 --> 0:07:29.110 There's one who rose again. There's one who is the 0:07:29.110 --> 0:07:32.230 blameless Son of God. His name is Jesus, the mediator 0:07:32.230 --> 0:07:35.590 between man and God. He alone has the power to 0:07:35.590 --> 0:07:39.270 absolve you from your sins. Yea, he alone. He alone 0:07:39.630 --> 0:07:46.950 has the power. There is power in confession to others. 0:07:46.950 --> 0:07:50.110 But it's not for forgiveness of sins. It's for healing 0:07:50.150 --> 0:07:56.030 of the soul. And so sometimes we need to sit 0:07:56.030 --> 0:07:58.630 down with a good friend or prayer partner and just say, 0:07:58.630 --> 0:08:00.960 you know what? I'm making my way back to God. 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.000 But I have to be honest with you, where I'm at. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.040 And I want to tell you this is where I'm at. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.680 I need you to pray with me, for me, over me. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:16.520 Because I need healing. James chapter five, verse 16 says, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.160 therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:23.960 each other so that you may be healed. Number three 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.800 not only awaken to your need to be clean, stop 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.960 hiding and excusing your failure. Number three press in for 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:37.240 full and lasting restoration. So after David had owned his sin, 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.040 he says, cleanse me with hyssop, which was an herb 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:52.240 that the priests would actually. With an ointment, sprinkle over 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.240 people with leprosy and other diseases to signify that they're 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:00.840 clean now. So it's this image of God. If you 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.079 cleanse me, I will be clean of all my imperfections. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.439 Wash me and I will be whiter than snow. Let 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.160 me hear joy and gladness. You know what David is saying. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.400 I haven't heard joy and gladness for a long time. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.439 How many of you know when you're sad, when you're down, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.240 when you're. When you're when there's darkness of your soul. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.920 It's hard to hear gladness. You don't even hear the singing. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.720 You don't even hear laughter because your soul is in 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.559 a dark place. All you hear is negativity and darkness and, and, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.400 and the world shuts out the joy and the laughter. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.640 David says, I want to hear joy and gladness again. 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.120 Let the bones that you have crushed rejoice. God, I 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.560 feel like my body is suffering the consequences of my 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:47.800 own sin and being away from you. God. God, hide 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.199 your face from my sins. Blot out my iniquity. Create 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.000 in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.000 steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.959 your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Verse 12. 0:09:59.960 --> 0:10:02.570 Listen to this and restore. Yeah. Here you got it. 0:10:02.570 --> 0:10:10.089 And restore the joy of your salvation. I want it back, God. 0:10:11.370 --> 0:10:13.849 I want the joy back, God. 0:10:19.490 --> 0:10:22.290 Well, you're listening to bold steps in our Bible teacher, 0:10:22.290 --> 0:10:25.730 Mark job. Today's lesson is titled Get Back What You've Lost. 0:10:25.730 --> 0:10:27.570 And we'll continue the lesson in just a bit. But 0:10:27.570 --> 0:10:30.370 right now, Mark, let me pose a question to you 0:10:30.370 --> 0:10:32.410 that was posed to us by a listener, and you 0:10:32.410 --> 0:10:35.490 can send your questions to Mark through our website, bold steps.org. 0:10:35.850 --> 0:10:39.170 This lady in Plant City, Florida writes and asks, Dear 0:10:39.210 --> 0:10:42.209 Pastor Mark, I have a question in heaven. Will we 0:10:42.210 --> 0:10:45.130 have personalities? Will I just look like myself but not 0:10:45.130 --> 0:10:48.290 have my personality? And will people that recognize me, but 0:10:48.290 --> 0:10:50.610 not as I used to be on earth? Thanks for 0:10:50.610 --> 0:10:53.449 your response. I have a mixed reaction to that question. 0:10:54.250 --> 0:10:55.610 How I'd like it to be answered. 0:10:57.010 --> 0:10:59.330 Well, listen, that's a great question. And you know, there's 0:10:59.330 --> 0:11:05.490 so many questions about heaven and, um, some of these 0:11:05.850 --> 0:11:09.530 scriptures somewhat vague about, but I would say this about 0:11:09.530 --> 0:11:13.650 this question is there's no indication that we won't be 0:11:13.929 --> 0:11:17.250 us who we really are. Mhm. The Bible talks in 0:11:17.250 --> 0:11:24.370 first Thessalonians chapter five about the trichotomy of human beings, body, soul, 0:11:24.370 --> 0:11:28.010 and spirit. The body is the main thing that's going 0:11:28.010 --> 0:11:33.170 to be glorified and transformed. Uh. Thank God. Uh, mortality 0:11:33.170 --> 0:11:36.850 will give way to immortality. Our spirit is that part 0:11:36.890 --> 0:11:40.210 that connects to God because we're spirit beings. But our soul, 0:11:40.610 --> 0:11:46.930 our soul is our. It's our will, our intellect. It's 0:11:46.929 --> 0:11:50.890 our personality. Right. And so for the most part, I 0:11:50.890 --> 0:11:54.610 believe that you're going to have the same personality except 0:11:54.610 --> 0:12:01.140 a sanctified, refined, redeemed, Jesus looking personality. 0:12:01.179 --> 0:12:02.780 No more annoying other people, huh? 0:12:02.820 --> 0:12:07.819 But that's right. But your understanding of life, your memory, 0:12:07.860 --> 0:12:10.939 your recognition of people, the essence of who you are 0:12:10.940 --> 0:12:12.980 that's going to remain the same. Except it's going to 0:12:12.980 --> 0:12:17.300 be a glorified one. And so the beauty is, it 0:12:17.340 --> 0:12:21.180 is that, yes, I believe that you'll recognize people. I 0:12:21.220 --> 0:12:24.939 think you're going to have a different disposition, because the 0:12:24.940 --> 0:12:29.100 presence of God will transform how you see the world. 0:12:29.260 --> 0:12:29.740 Of course. 0:12:29.780 --> 0:12:33.180 Yeah. And so people ask, am I going to regret 0:12:33.220 --> 0:12:35.780 what I did on earth? You know, you're going to 0:12:35.780 --> 0:12:39.140 be so consumed in who God is and such a 0:12:39.140 --> 0:12:44.420 clear understanding that the hang ups and the sinful nature 0:12:44.420 --> 0:12:47.420 will be done away with. But this will be a glorified, 0:12:47.420 --> 0:12:51.260 refined you, but it'll still be you. 0:12:51.300 --> 0:12:53.700 Well, in all seriousness, thanks to our listener for asking 0:12:53.700 --> 0:12:55.860 the question. It's a good question. And if you have 0:12:55.860 --> 0:12:57.780 a question or comment you'd like to share with Mark 0:12:57.780 --> 0:13:00.100 and the Bold Steps team, just go to our website, 0:13:00.140 --> 0:13:03.140 bold steps.org, right there on the website, there's a tab 0:13:03.140 --> 0:13:06.140 that says ask a Question. It's that easy. Or you 0:13:06.140 --> 0:13:07.700 can send us a letter in the mail by writing 0:13:07.740 --> 0:13:12.260 to us at Bold Steps. 820 North LaSalle Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. 0:13:12.500 --> 0:13:15.780 606 ten. Thank you Mark. Let's get back into the 0:13:15.780 --> 0:13:18.500 message now. Get back what you've lost. 0:13:24.660 --> 0:13:29.460 Restore the joy that I used to have. And grant 0:13:29.460 --> 0:13:31.460 me a willing spirit to sustain me. Can I tell 0:13:31.460 --> 0:13:35.459 you this? There's a difference between repentance. Repentance means removing something. 0:13:36.140 --> 0:13:44.100 Restoration means renewing something. Repentance means I'm turning around. I'm 0:13:44.100 --> 0:13:49.620 admitting and turning away from restoration means now I gotta 0:13:49.820 --> 0:13:54.980 renew or grow back what wasn't there? Repentance is pulling 0:13:54.980 --> 0:14:00.990 up the weeds. Restoration is growing new grass. Some of 0:14:00.990 --> 0:14:04.470 you need restoration. You need repentance and restoration because you're 0:14:04.470 --> 0:14:07.309 not where you know your heart needs to be. You've 0:14:07.309 --> 0:14:11.310 lost your joy. That energy, that fervency. You got up 0:14:11.309 --> 0:14:13.590 and dragged yourself to church. But it's not a joy 0:14:13.590 --> 0:14:15.750 to be here in the presence of God because your 0:14:15.750 --> 0:14:20.870 soul is dry, dark, hard. You lost the energy of 0:14:20.870 --> 0:14:24.070 serving God, of wanting to please him and open up 0:14:24.070 --> 0:14:25.630 your Bible and say, God, what are you going to 0:14:25.630 --> 0:14:27.350 say to me today? It's so good to be in 0:14:27.350 --> 0:14:30.510 your presence. It's like you have no drive for that anymore. 0:14:31.030 --> 0:14:33.030 You can't even remember the last time you shared your 0:14:33.030 --> 0:14:35.270 faith with someone, because how can you share out of 0:14:35.270 --> 0:14:41.670 your own dryness and darkness? God saying, hey, you lost it. 0:14:41.910 --> 0:14:45.910 You need to regain it. Don't live without it for 0:14:45.910 --> 0:14:49.790 so long. You need it back. You need it back. 0:14:50.830 --> 0:14:54.390 David says, restore to me. God. Yeah, that joy that 0:14:54.390 --> 0:14:57.230 I had, that energy that I had, the joy of 0:14:57.230 --> 0:15:01.760 knowing that I'm saved, washed. Cleanse. Yeah, I've blown it. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.200 But the joy of coming before you as a person 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.120 that's clean before you, as a person that's redeemed. God, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:12.200 I want it back. It's a restoration. It's a prayer 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.000 of restoration. He's pressing in to say, God, I need it, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:23.400 I want it. This is the language of restoration. You see, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:28.800 you have to release something before you gain something. He's saying, 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.960 give me a pure heart. Create in me a pure heart. God, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:38.440 renew a steadfast spirit. Don't cast me from your presence. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:46.520 I need to experience your presence freshly once again. And 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:51.240 then lastly. So not only do we have to be awakened, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.040 stop hiding excusing, but then press in for full and 0:15:55.040 --> 0:16:05.080 lasting restoration. Remember what you've lost. And determine. I'm. I'm 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:15.560 not going to live without it anymore. I want it back. Lastly, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.760 number four, find the voice of your calling again. Then 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:24.360 David says, if you do this, God restore a clean heart. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:31.720 Then I will teach transgressors. Then. Then, God, if you 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:37.000 restore me the joy of my salvation, my heart, my energy. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:43.200 If you restore it, then. I will teach transgressors your 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:48.720 ways and sinners will turn back to you. He goes 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.600 on to say, Lord, open my lips, and my mouth 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.240 will declare your praises. You know what we see. What 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.040 I see from this? David says, if you restore my heart, 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.400 You're going to see how my ministry blossoms. I'm going 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:07.119 to engage in serving you. If you restore my heart, God, 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.240 my lips are going to praise you once again like 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.240 I used to praise you. Can I tell you something? 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:19.960 Lethargy in serving God is often an indication of a 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:24.640 heart that's cold. Because if you really know how much 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.520 God has cleansed you from. If you really know how 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.480 much God has washed you from. If your heart is 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.640 full of the joy of God's salvation, no one's going 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.040 to have to bend your arm to serve him. You're 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.040 going to say, where God. How God. I want to 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.920 give back to he that has given so much to me. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:45.040 I want to serve you God. Use me, Lord. I'm 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.080 going to open up my mouth. But listen, if you 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:52.359 lost it, you lose the joy and the energy of 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:59.520 serving God. People that have redeemed and cleansed and washed 0:17:59.650 --> 0:18:02.570 and forgiven people that know it and experience it. People 0:18:02.570 --> 0:18:05.330 that have the joy of their salvation. They want to serve. 0:18:05.970 --> 0:18:09.370 They want God to use them. If they know how 0:18:09.369 --> 0:18:13.290 much they've been forgiven, they want to praise, he says. 0:18:13.330 --> 0:18:16.130 And then my lips will praise you. Man, I'm going 0:18:16.170 --> 0:18:18.690 to open up my mouth and I'm going to praise you. Listen, 0:18:18.690 --> 0:18:21.050 when you're not doing well, you don't want to serve God. 0:18:21.050 --> 0:18:23.330 When you're not doing well, you don't want to praise God. 0:18:24.250 --> 0:18:27.609 I don't want to go to the worship and then blah, blah, blah, sing, sing, sing. 0:18:27.890 --> 0:18:33.410 I just. I'm going to show up, sit down, get 0:18:33.410 --> 0:18:39.050 out early. When God has done so much, when God 0:18:39.050 --> 0:18:42.609 has touched you, when your joy has been restored, man, 0:18:42.650 --> 0:18:44.290 you want to show up early. I don't want to 0:18:44.290 --> 0:18:46.409 miss a second of the worship because I want to 0:18:46.410 --> 0:18:48.330 bless him. I want to praise him. I want to 0:18:48.330 --> 0:18:51.210 lift my voices. I want to raise my hands without shame. 0:18:51.210 --> 0:18:54.810 And I'm going to honor God. Whether the music is 0:18:54.810 --> 0:18:57.970 right or not, whether the words are on the PowerPoint 0:18:57.970 --> 0:19:00.660 or not, well, I'm going to bless him, praise him, 0:19:00.660 --> 0:19:04.100 honor him. I'm going to let my voice ring out 0:19:04.100 --> 0:19:07.340 in the praises of my God and King, because I 0:19:07.340 --> 0:19:13.260 know what God has done for me. That's what happens 0:19:13.260 --> 0:19:17.060 when what was lost is found. That's what happens when 0:19:17.060 --> 0:19:22.860 we restore our joy. That's what happens when God starts 0:19:23.820 --> 0:19:29.300 working in our life again. I want to close with this. 0:19:32.380 --> 0:19:43.460 Every person in this auditorium. Falls short. We're all sinners. 0:19:45.420 --> 0:19:55.020 It's not if you sin, it's when you sin. It's like, well, pastor, 0:19:55.020 --> 0:19:56.580 if I ever sin. No, no, no, don't tell me 0:19:56.580 --> 0:20:03.740 if you ever. Sin is when you sin next. If 0:20:03.740 --> 0:20:05.500 I ever sin, if I ever fall. No. You already 0:20:05.500 --> 0:20:09.700 sinned in pride right there. Because you're going to fall 0:20:09.700 --> 0:20:17.060 short and I'm going to fall short. The question is 0:20:17.060 --> 0:20:23.380 not if we fall. The question is, are you going 0:20:23.420 --> 0:20:27.500 to stay down there? Are you going to live there? 0:20:27.500 --> 0:20:31.260 Are you going to harden your heart? Are you going 0:20:31.300 --> 0:20:36.340 to lose your joy? Are you going to get used 0:20:36.340 --> 0:20:40.900 to living like a Christian that knows God but has 0:20:40.900 --> 0:20:45.540 a hard heart? Because there's a lot. You can live 0:20:45.580 --> 0:20:48.940 a long time as a believer that hardens their heart. 0:20:49.420 --> 0:20:52.540 And you know what? You are a one miserable person 0:20:52.540 --> 0:20:56.459 to live with because you don't fit in the world, 0:20:58.100 --> 0:21:00.340 because you got the Holy Spirit inside of him and 0:21:00.380 --> 0:21:02.419 inside of you, and it keeps telling you that's not 0:21:02.460 --> 0:21:04.980 who you are, but you don't fit in God because 0:21:04.980 --> 0:21:08.780 you're living in sin, so you don't fit anywhere. You 0:21:08.780 --> 0:21:11.140 can't party like an animal like you used to, because 0:21:11.140 --> 0:21:13.419 now you're all convicted about it, and something inside of 0:21:13.420 --> 0:21:16.699 you doesn't let you really enjoy it like you used to. 0:21:17.460 --> 0:21:19.580 And you can't feel great in the people of God 0:21:19.580 --> 0:21:23.739 because you get under conviction. So you're in a frustrated 0:21:25.540 --> 0:21:30.780 no man's land. And I'm telling you, you might as 0:21:30.780 --> 0:21:35.220 well surrender to the one who loves you, who pursues you, 0:21:35.260 --> 0:21:38.500 who's after you, who will never give up on you, 0:21:38.540 --> 0:21:41.820 who has a call upon your life, who has sealed 0:21:41.820 --> 0:21:44.420 you unto the day of redemption. You might as well 0:21:44.420 --> 0:21:47.300 surrender to God and say, let's get this over. I 0:21:47.300 --> 0:21:50.619 need the joy of my salvation back, God. 0:22:00.630 --> 0:22:02.950 Yes, you may be listening to this message and say, 0:22:02.950 --> 0:22:07.790 pastor Mark, that is me. I've lost the joy of 0:22:07.790 --> 0:22:13.350 my salvation. I've let my heart just wander away from God. 0:22:13.390 --> 0:22:18.750 I can relate to David, I need repentance, I need restoration, 0:22:19.390 --> 0:22:22.070 and I want to say, I'm glad that you've listened 0:22:22.070 --> 0:22:25.030 to this message. I'm glad the Holy Spirit is speaking 0:22:25.070 --> 0:22:27.830 to you, and I'm glad that you feel the tug 0:22:27.830 --> 0:22:31.550 of God bringing you back to himself. And I believe 0:22:31.550 --> 0:22:37.830 it's just one decision away. And you didn't descend down 0:22:37.830 --> 0:22:41.150 into the place that you're at overnight, and you're not 0:22:41.150 --> 0:22:45.869 going to be restored fully overnight. But it starts with 0:22:45.869 --> 0:22:48.750 the first step of saying, God, I want to be 0:22:48.750 --> 0:22:52.870 back to the place where I walk in communion with you, 0:22:52.910 --> 0:22:56.190 where I sense the joy of my salvation, where my 0:22:56.190 --> 0:22:59.750 calling is real, where I can enjoy your presence again. 0:22:59.750 --> 0:23:02.790 And so I want to pray with you and for 0:23:02.790 --> 0:23:08.670 you right now. Father, I pray for that person that, 0:23:09.350 --> 0:23:14.710 like David, feels like their bones are wasting away and 0:23:14.710 --> 0:23:19.190 their heart is sad. And they haven't felt joy in 0:23:19.190 --> 0:23:23.910 a long time because they've just been wrestling with hardness 0:23:23.910 --> 0:23:29.070 of heart. I pray that today God, under the conviction 0:23:29.070 --> 0:23:32.590 of the word, there will be a spirit of repentance 0:23:33.390 --> 0:23:36.149 and a longing to get back to you and a 0:23:36.150 --> 0:23:39.790 choice to say, God, I will not live this way anymore. 0:23:39.830 --> 0:23:43.750 I need you, God. And so I pray today that 0:23:43.750 --> 0:23:47.270 you would give a spirit of repentance, a hunger for you, 0:23:47.310 --> 0:23:50.230 a turnaround moment. God, I pray that you would restore 0:23:50.230 --> 0:23:53.870 the joy of the salvation of that person that's lost 0:23:53.869 --> 0:23:57.470 in a while back. God restore their calling. Restore their 0:23:57.470 --> 0:24:02.720 desire to follow after you, God. Today we pray for 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:07.000 a turnaround. And I ask this in Jesus name. Amen. 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:10.159 Amen. Thank you Mark. And you're listening to Bold Steps 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:12.320 with Mark Jobe. 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