Michael Koulianos emphasizes the importance of remembering God's mighty works and testimonies in our lives, drawing from Joshua 4 where the Israelites set up stones as a memorial of God's faithfulness. He encourages the congregation to cultivate a deep desire for Jesus, sharing personal stories of miraculous encounters that demonstrate God's power and faithfulness. Koulianos warns against the dangers of forgetting God's past deeds, which can lead to a hardened heart, and calls for a revival of faith that recognizes Jesus as the source of all miracles. He stresses that true faith is rooted in who Jesus is, not in our own abilities, and invites the church to pursue a deeper relationship with Him.

As you know, this would be our third week on me teaching on the word of God. I teach the word every week, but you know what I mean. The teaching is called the word of God. And we're in the same space at Jesus School. It's been really powerful. But today I felt the Lord kinda throw me a little audible. And I'm gonna obey, if that's all right. And I don't plan on retiring any time soon as your pastor. So I think I've got like 50 years to finish this series on Jesus. It's my only series, so we'll get to it. But I felt like the Lord wanted me to start in Joshua chapter four, so go there. Joshua chapter four, verse one. Holy Spirit, thank you. Thank you for your word that is bread and food, life. That we can build our life on your word. That's what you said, that when the storms would come, that we'd be all right. So Holy Spirit, show us Jesus today in your word. And have our lives more fully in Jesus' name. Say amen. Amen. All right. Verse one of Joshua chapter four. And it came to pass when all the people had completely, I think I'm good for now, Joel, love you. It came to pass when all the people had completely crossed over the Jordan that the Lord spoke to Joshua saying, take for yourselves 12 men from the people, one man from every tribe, and command them saying, take for yourselves 12 stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priest's feet stood firm. Say amen. Say I am a priest. My feet were meant to stand firm in the river. Oh my. You shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place where you lodge tonight. And then Joshua called the 12 men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from every tribe, and Joshua said to them, cross over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, that this may be a sign among you, listen carefully now, when your children ask in times to come, saying, what do these stones mean to you? Then you shall answer them, well, that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever. I wanna talk to you today based on this passage and the power of it. I wanna share some stories with you. We've been meeting now, this Sunday morning family. When did we start? March? Yeah, so how long has that been? Like seven months, eight months? So we're a new church family and I feel like the Lord has been building you in a very solid way, that the scriptures are going deeper and deeper, the presence of God is thickening, and I think it's important that you just hear what my eyes have seen and that it would be an invitation for you all to go after Jesus with more beautiful fury, not with flesh, but this holy fury, this insatiable desire to have more. And I think it's important since you've made a covenant here to be part of this church family that you know what your DNA is, where you're planting, what the origins of this canopy that you're sitting under is. I just think that's really important. And I want my kids to hear about the mighty works of God. And I want your kids to hear about the mighty works of God. I was thinking last month that I probably needed to just document every encounter, every miracle that my mind would allow me to remember, that I need to somehow document all that and give it to my children. And as I'm sharing, I'm sure many of you know, but one of the translations for the word testimony is Lord, do it again. It actually means that. So what I've learned, it was Bill that really helped me with this. It was like when people come to our healing services, sometimes I wouldn't hear anything from the Lord. For me, when I worship, prior to praying for the sick, I'll get pictures, which I'm sure many of you do. And sometimes based on the environment or how comfortable I feel with the worship team or just stress you take in to a moment can shut you down. Gosh, thinking you know exactly what God's gonna do can really shut you down. I mean, we know he's gonna do good things according to the word, but none of us can say we know exactly the time he's gonna do it and how long it's gonna take him and who he's gonna heal first and what that's gonna look like. None of us really know. So anytime you bring preconceived notion into God's presence, you're less pliable. And God really can't carry you the way he wants to carry you in those moments. So what I've learned is if I can't feel anything or see or hear anything, I've learned to share a testimony and it opens up the moment. It becomes a living window for God to do it again. So every time you possess something in the spirit and refuse to forget it, it's always at your disposal. Does that make sense to you? So when you need to go to war, you should have that Rolodex. I don't care if you have to write them in your Bible. None of us remember them all when we're put on the spot. But if you can remember one, God can do the same thing in that moment. Yeah, so remember them. It's actually sinful to forget them. Yeah, and it actually is connected to a hard heart. Remember when the disciples crossed over Galilee, they were freaking out that there was no bread. Right after Jesus multiplied, literally, literally right after he multiplied enough fish and bread for 15,000 total people because it only mentions men, maybe 20,000. That's a lot of people. Immediately after that, they get on the boat and they freak out and they go, we have no bread with us. And it's in moments like these that the Bible actually says, and Jesus was amazed. Really. And so let me tell you what doesn't amaze the Lord. Massive crowds, though we're not against them. I'm just trying to give you a perspective as to what wows the Lord. Big buildings, being well known. Somebody getting healed doesn't amaze him because he did it. So never once have we laid hands on the sick and he goes, shocking man, how did you get that breakthrough, Michael? He's well aware that if he doesn't flow through the hands, nothing happens. What does amaze him, according to the word, two things amaze Jesus in the New Testament. One, a severe lack of faith or unbelief. Not believing he is who he says he is. So if you wanna wow him, don't think he is who he says he is. Forget about it for a moment. You'll wow him every time. Secondly, what amazes him is great faith in who he is. So what amazes him in the opposite direction is a lack of faith. What amazes him in the positive direction is great faith in who he is. Now let me be really clear here. Your faith must be in who he is, not what you think you can pull off for him. So you don't wanna try to pull off great things so that he'll smile about your idea. What you wanna do is let him speak to you, have great faith in the faithful one who is full of faith. You missed that. Great faith comes from an unbroken vision of the one who is filled with faith. He's the faithful one. So imagine he's like the pinata that when his heart breaks open for his people, the treasure pours out. All the faith is in him. That's why we say, you are faithful. All right, he's full of faith. So when I'm with Jesus, faith is available. You see this with the Syrophoenician woman, remember? Her daughter has a devil. Jesus wants to rest. This is all in the word. Go back and look it up. For the sake of time, we're not gonna turn to all these passages. His daughter, her daughter has a demon. She's from the coastline north of Israel. All right, she's called the Syrophoenician woman. She comes to Jesus. The disciples are like, hey, you can't get to him. He's resting. That's fair enough. In one passage, Jesus heals the sick for three straight days. Have you ever seen a three-day straight healing mini? But Jesus did that. Incredibly, he fed them after that. What a loving Lord. He's so beautiful, so faithful, so kind. So she wants to get to him. The disciples rebuke her. They're like, get away. And she barges her way in when Jesus is resting, asks for a healing, basically. He said, it's not right that I give the children's bread to dogs, so he calls her a dog. He literally called her a dog. You're like, that's not my Jesus. It is. It's completely your Jesus. It's right there. He says, it's not right that I give the children's bread to dogs. And then she says, but Lord, even the dogs eat the crumbs from the table. And he's blown away in the next passage. He's blown away and amazed. He says, great is your faith. So that amazed him. The disciples didn't believe he could provide bread just to cross a lake after he provided it for thousands. And that improper view amazed him as well. But what he says to them is very powerful. He says, have your heart so hardened. Listen to the wording. Have you forgotten that I multiplied fish and bread? In other words, when you forget the mighty work of God, it's connected to a hard heart. So the psalmist says, forget not his benefits. That's not a recommendation. That is a literal command. We are forbidden as God's people to forget what we've seen, to forget what we've heard. So I wanna bring some things to your remembrance today. And hopefully there's two, three of you, five, I don't know. Maybe you'd be like me sitting in some of the meetings I used to sit in as a kid or coming up in my father-in-law's meetings or Bill's meetings long before we ever knew each other, Reinhardt's meetings. And I would just sit. And I remember sitting right here in Orlando with Bill and Randy and hearing these testimonies and wanting more in my own life. And I feel like that's what the Lord wants to do today. When I got saved right here about, I don't know, a mile down the road, our family had been swept into, I don't know how else to say it. My father-in-law and I, I went and stayed the night up at his place about four or five nights ago. And we just talked about all these seasons of God. And we were crying, at least I was. And my whole family got swept up into the kingdom like that. Like God came to live with about 50 or 60 crazy Greek people and he came to live with about 100 Greek people. One was a priest who was my uncle. And he read a book called Good Morning Holy Spirit that really messed him up. He was a theologian, he was a Marine. He's gone on to be with the Lord now. He was a chaplain in the Marine Corps, powerful theologian, just a wonderful, kind man. And he read Good Morning Holy Spirit. And when he did, he drove over here to OCC. And my father-in-law called him out of the crowd because he was wearing a collar. And it reminded him of the Greek priests in Israel. So my mom was there, I know my mom hadn't gone yet, but my cousin went and he got prayed for and literally got electrocuted. And I had never seen anything like that. He brought the video home and I still hadn't accepted the Lord and I had been sick for like a year with Epstein-Barr disease and he put this tape in and I don't know how to explain it other than I could just feel God coming off the screen. And then to see him fall, it looked like he got shot by a sniper. I was just like, this is wild. And around that time, his son, my cousin, he also read Good Morning Holy Spirit and I think a little while after that, he got filled with the Holy Spirit and for a whole night spoke perfect Hebrew and Aramaic. I'm telling you guys this stuff so it sparks something in you. The God we serve is real. He's not a mere doctrine. Doctrine is important, but he's a living, breathing, holy God-man. And so my cousin who, you know, how many of you know your cousins if you're really close to them? Okay, we all know our cousins well enough to know they can't speak Hebrew and Aramaic fluently. English was a good start in our family. So his dad, when my cousin got filled with the Holy Spirit, he started speaking this language and his dad, knowing the biblical languages, goes, I think he's speaking Hebrew and Aramaic. And so they took him to the rabbi that was near the Greek Orthodox Church and he goes, your son is reciting entire chapters of the book of Isaiah verbatim in the original language. Well, when you know your cousin and he starts doing that, you're like, oh yeah, wow, okay, yeah. And it was like we lived in the cloud of the Spirit in those days, dozens of us together. Prior to that, at seven years old, my cousin, in our culture, if they're older and they're a cousin, you call them uncle. So I guess technically he was a cousin. He was much older. He got cancer and died. And so we would have these memorial services in homes where you like, they weren't like, they didn't have like a priest officiating them, but you'd gather and mourn and then have a meal and just talk about their life. And so the house was packed and I was seven years old, never forget it, 1984. And I was sitting on the floor because all the couches were packed with our family. Everybody was wearing black. And my dad was sitting on the couch just above me. So I was kind of leaning back against his legs. And I just remember to this day, everybody weeping and it being a really heavy, sad atmosphere. He died of colon cancer. Well, a few minutes later, the door opened. And when the door opened, an old man walked in who was also a priest. And I didn't know what this meant back then, but he'd received the baptism of the Holy Spirit near Pittsburgh. I think it's possible it was connected to Catherine's meetings in Pittsburgh. So he gets filled with the Holy Spirit. I don't know this and none of us do. We didn't know what it meant. And he walks into the front door. And all I can tell you is that when this man walked in, the whole room changed in a moment. The air got so hot, it was charged with voltage. You could feel literally, listen, I'm not giving you figurative sermonese here. You could figure, you could literally feel the currents of the Holy Ghost power going through the room. Well, as a little kid, that got my attention. And I remember looking at this man's face and he had the boldness of a lion and the meekness of a lamb exuding from his countenance. And my little seven-year-old heart knew this much. This man knows Jesus and Jesus just walked in with him. That feeling to this day has become that presence of the Holy Spirit, what I felt that day in that living room set the course for my whole life. All I press into corporately with you, all I try to press into in a stadium gathering, all I try to press into in my prayer room, it was the first time I came face-to-face with the manifest glory of God. And it was wafting off a man. He sat down on the couch. My dad had basically been crippled for the most part in one leg for about five to seven years. He had a bone disease called mycobacterium marinum. It eats away at the bone. And the crutches were placed behind the couch. So there was no way this priest could see the crutches. He was sitting across from my dad on a separate couch or chair. And the priest looked my dad in the eye. I'll never forget this. And he said to him, I have a question for you. And you know, because of what I felt in the room, my ears perked up. And he said, have you ever seen Jesus? To my dad. And my dad goes, no. You know, like we had no grid for any of this language. And he said, why not? And my dad goes, well, I don't know. He said, would you like to? Oh, dude. So I'm on the floor and I'm like, this is gonna be awesome. Because I thought the Lord was gonna appear. Literally, that's what I thought. I thought, oh, he's gonna appear. This is gonna be the best memorial ever. So instead, he walks up to my dad who has jeans on. And my dad was one day out of his fifth surgery, I think. So he had staples on his knee, but the knee was covered by jeans. And so the priest walked up to my dad's knee and took his hand and put his hand on the staples and squeezed them. And had no idea there were staples on the knee. No idea. He'd never met us, had no way of knowing. When he squeezed the staples, my dad winced with pain. That's fair enough. And then a tear went down my dad's knee. Eye, down his face. And the priest said, I should say this, after my dad felt pain, he said he felt fire go through his leg. And so the priest took a step back. His name was Father Anthony Morphessus. He took a step back and he said to my dad, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk. First of all, it was amazing he even knew he needed a healing. So my dad reached behind the couch and grabbed the crutches to walk. And the priest said, no crutches, walk in Jesus' name. So my dad started walking. He started weeping. All of us in our family were blown away. This was a miracle in a living room. The next day, my dad went back to the orthopedic surgeon who did the knee, who helped develop the artificial knee. And my dad leg pressed more with the leg that he had been barely able to use for five years, leg pressed more a day later with the staples in the knee than he could with his healthy knee that he'd been using for five years. All the muscle grew back that he had lost in one night. One night. Come on. And the question that he asked my dad framed my life. Have you ever seen Jesus? And today we're walking in that question, hopefully giving the world an answer that you can see the Lord. He's real. I remember getting Good Morning Holy Spirit, which is a required read at Jesus School and reading it and asking God this wild question. That's crazy. You know, God answers prayers. I read in that book, my father-in-law wrote about his challenge with his dad being saved. His dad was a Greek Orthodox leader in the church and I'm reading the book going, because my dad hadn't gotten saved yet. I wanna say to you, God answers simple, bold prayers. So I was out at the swimming pool, reading Good Morning Holy Spirit, 12 years old, and I said this to God, God, you seem to use Pastor Benny. I didn't know him, but I said this to God. God, you seem to use Pastor Benny. Could you use me one day? And I said, I really like what I'm reading here. Could you use me in a similar way? And then I said, you saved his father. Could you save my dad too? So my mom had been driving us here from Tampa Bay. My dad, my dad was a leader at the church and my dad gave my mom an ultimatum. This is 1990. If you take my children to that crazy church again, I'm gonna divorce you. So my mom, have you ever bumped into an old school Greek mother? They're incredibly honoring, but they're like, I don't know, you don't cross certain boundaries. Jesus is one of them, if they've discovered him. My mom told my dad, she said, have you ever had a day without good food on the table? He said, no, and I can attest to that. It was good food for a long time. She said, how about your clothes? Are they dirty and wrinkled? He said, no, not a single day. She said, I've given you my life, but I'm not giving you Jesus. She said, you're not taking him from me. He's too beautiful, I can't do that. Now, if you were to ask me, if my husband told me not to go somewhere, that's a separate convo. I'm just telling you what went down in our house. So I pulled my mom aside because I had come here to OCC and I'll get into that later. I had pulled her aside, I said, mom, don't take me out of the presence of the Lord. We all love dad, but do you remember what we found over there? Do you remember what Jesus felt like? You remember the joy in the room, the crisp nature, the clarity in the air, the worship, the love of God, the people, we're of another world. You know, I had the joy of doing Jimmy and Mackenzie's wedding on Friday. And they're on their honeymoon now. Hopefully they come back with six or seven twins. And we'll grow the church that way. But when we left, when we left, Jessie said to me, she said, don't we have the best students? I said, we do. And I said, babe, did you notice how they all kind of shine? They're all happy. For the most part, they're pretty normal. You know, there's a few interesting little diamonds, we'll call them, in the rough. Some of y'all are quite cosmic at times, but we still love you. But, can I take 15 extra minutes today? All right, so, I said, babe, they shine. They stand out. They stand out in a crowd. There's something about them. And I was reminded of the psalm that says, they looked unto him and their faces were radiant. And that's been a beautiful thing to watch. But that's what happened at OCC. I told my mom, you can't take me from that place, please. And I, I meant it with all my heart. And so my mom took me. Way to know my dad followed us. And he wasn't playing games. And he had had the divorce papers drafted up to leave my mom. So he followed us with my cousin, the priest. My cousin was like, look, if you're gonna go divorce your wife, you need a priest in the car. Maybe that'll stop it. So they, we got there early. And my dad came in to, he wasn't playing, to get us out of there and to leave my mom. So we were singing one of the old hymns. And my cousin nudges me. He goes, in Greek, we have a slang word. It's R-E-Y. You say in English, it would be Ray. It means like dude. So when we're with like American people and we go, Ray, anybody named Ray, they all look at us. They think we've changed our names. But it's just a slang word. He goes, Ray. I go, what? He goes, your dad just walked in. This is during the worship set. So I look over my right shoulder and my dad's walking down the center aisle. We had second row seats. And so I went right back into hallelujah for survival. I was just like, closed my eyes, started singing right away. I don't, and I was scared. I was like, oh, we're done. We are toast. So I didn't look at my dad one time. I was like, Lord, please, let's keep singing. Don't, no transitions. So we were singing. And then the worship comes down a bit and God starts healing people. So I'm like a kid in a candy store. I mean, I found a new world. And you know, God's presence is a brand new, it is a new world. It is completely otherly. That's why we can smile in an hour like this in the nations because of him. So the miracle started. My dad's very antagonistic and he says to God, this is all bogus. If this is real, and now a lady was walking upstage left up onto the platform with a one-year-old baby who wanted to give, she wanted to give a healing testimony. So my dad said to the Lord, if this is real, when Benny prays for the mother, because he thought all the people were faking it by falling. He said, when Benny prays for the mom, I don't want the mom to react at all. But if he prays for that little one-year-old baby that she's carrying on her shoulder, have the baby somehow manifest and react to the presence of God. So my father-in-law touches the mom and I'm telling you, she stands there like stone cold, just like, but then he touches the baby. And when he touched the baby, the baby's head, I'm not joking, went like this. The baby literally like fell under the power of God. Okay, at which point my dad, who was one seat over to my right, who I wouldn't look at. Literally, I would not look at him. He went flying through the air. No one touched him. He went flying backwards, like a Matrix video, like straight back, hit the pew with his back, slid under the pew in front of us, and laid on the ground. So my hands are up and I'm like, you know, it's like, thank you, yes, yes. I didn't know, I didn't wanna know how to react to that. I didn't know how to celebrate, I was new to all this, but I did tell the Lord, yes, Lord, yes. It's been a long year. What a long year this has been. So I look down and he's hyperventilating, sobbing. And it goes on for like an hour. And finally, my dad stands up and looks all of us in the eye and repents and says, I'm sorry, lifts his hands and accepts Jesus. Gets born again, yeah. Is that amazing? Yeah, come on, let's give the Lord praise. Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Lord. Now, my dad's a pastor. We serve a mighty God. I think back of so many precious memories. I think I've shared this here before. I remember the first time I met Lindy. This is a wild story. Are these okay? Yes. You know, before I share this, I've seen tumors literally explode and come out of people's bodies. One lady had a tumor on her uterus in Guatemala. I put my hand on it. I could feel when I mentioned the name of Jesus, I was new to the healing ministry for the most part, for my own ministry. And when I touched the tumor and said the name Jesus, I felt a ball in her stomach about the size of a tennis ball start moving about two inches in every direction in front of the whole crowd. So nobody teaches you like how to walk this stuff out. You just have to take a risk. And I was, I guess, smart enough or simple enough to think this way. If it's moving, it's probably scared of the name of Jesus. Cancer bows its knee to Jesus. Say amen. So I thought, well, I'm gonna say his name again. And there's 4,000 people in the room. The aide to the secretary of state is there. The family of the secretary of state is there. The future secretary of state is there. And this tumor's moving. And I walked, I had given a word of knowledge during Agnes Day, that old song. We were singing it and I got a picture in my spirit of a woman's womb with a large mass in it. So I just released it. At which point I walked off the, started walking the aisles in this massive building, 4,000 people, walked up to a single lady, one lady, out of that whole crowd. And I literally walked up to the lady with the tumor in the uterus while singing. I'm telling you, worship will take you where you never dreamed of going. I was singing, I literally walked up to her and I said, what do you need? After I had seen the picture and I had announced it and she said, I have a tumor in my uterus. So we prayed, it started moving. I did it again. And then I brought the aid, the future aid of the Secretary of State over. She was my translator. She put her hand on it. Her name was Helen. I said, Helen, what do you feel? She said, it's moving. Well, I thought, if it's moving, it's afraid. Now let's take its head off. So we rebuked it, at which point she jerked back. Part of it came out of her mouth. And just because of where it was, the rest ran down her leg. She screamed, I'm healed. And I said to her, this is how God will use you. God doesn't use you because you're so gifted or professional. He just uses simple people who want to know him. And she said, I'm healed. And even after all that, I said, how do you know? And she stared at me like, I thought you're the preacher. What do you mean? But I remember going to another meeting with my father-in-law, and it was in Newport Beach. And his meetings, they're lengthy in the most beautiful way. In case he's watching this, that's the word I chose. Lengthy in a beautiful way. So we got out really late. And I think I went to bed at one, and I have a dream. And in the dream, Lou Engle walks up to me. And he literally walks up to me like Sergeant Slaughter, which there's a pretty good resemblance there if you remember Sergeant Slaughter. He walked up to me and got in my face. And he said these words to me. This was wild. He said, you didn't know you were supposed to be part of the call, but you are. And the dream ended. Well, during that time, this was before the Azusa Now event. During that time, Lindy and the whole crew of the circuit riders and a bunch of YWAMers had been fasting and praying. I think you guys were like on day 36 or something wild. And now Lou walks up to me in the dream, and it's all in this season. And it's a couple weeks before Azusa, which was a stadium event in LA. So Lou comes up to me and says, you're supposed to be part of this. I open my eyes from the dream, and my phone vibrates on the nightstand in the hotel. And it was a text from Brian Brent and Matt Nelson. And they said, hey, Lou and us and a bunch of wild YWAMers are on the campus of USC right now. We're fasting and praying, and Lou feels like you're supposed to come and speak tonight. Now, Lou and I had only hung out once or twice, and it was on television, so we didn't have much equity at the time. So I literally have the dream. My phone buzzes. I pick it up, and it's a text from two leaders, two YWAMers, two circuit rider leaders, saying, come be with us tonight. Lou wants you. And I'm like, oh my gosh. So I go there that night, and it was on the campus of USC, and there was a little Methodist church there, right? And Lou had holed up upstairs, I think, for a few weeks fasting and praying before the event. So I walk in, and on the way up the stairwell that night, I felt literally the glory of God coming out of this, I didn't know how big the room would be or what. I just knew that whatever was going on in that room, God was there, and it was like coming down the stairs, the Lord's presence. So I walked in, and everyone was standing and just going after Jesus together in the most radical way, and I couldn't find Lou, because Lou was just part of the crowd. He wasn't sitting up front, he was like in the middle, maybe three-quarters of the way back, just rocking, doing his ab roller move, and he was going for it. So Lindy was on keys that night, and I remember like it was yesterday, she had a black tank top on, her hair pulled back real tight, everyone in there was sweating like we were in a sauna, going for God. So I start ministering, and I'm walking through the crowd laying hands on people, and I finally spot Lou, and he grabs me by the shirt, and pulls me to his face just like the dream. He's like, you're supposed to come to the call, and I'm like, I knew that. Let go of me quick. You're supposed to come to the call, and oh man, the Lord met with us, that night. The rest is history, you know, the whole sin narrative. It's really beautiful. So that night I left, and I was tired, I had to drive back to Orange County, and I got stopped on the way to the car, it was Lindy and one other girl, Chloe. It was Lindy and Chloe Brent, and they grabbed me, and I'll never forget Lindy's words. Help me there, Joel. I'll never forget Lindy's words. She said this, Michael, I want more of Jesus. I have to have more of Jesus. She said, I want him so bad, would you pray for me that I could know him? And there was something in Lindy's eye that I just believed it, I knew it was true. Just two people out of the whole meeting, were hungry enough to chase the speaker down the stairwell, and say, I want him. That's what the Lord is looking for. All these stories are meant to bring you to him. I want to tell you today, listen carefully, the hour of cultural Christianity is dead. What I mean by that is, the day of going to church, because you always have, without burning with the love for Jesus, it's dead. The days of going to church, because your family always went to church, or maybe you're from Texas, like they say there, we're from Texas, we go to church. But do you run to Jesus, there's a big difference. Do you know him? And the Lord, the Lord looks, listen carefully, the Bible says, has he who formed the eye, does he not see you? The Bible says that the Lord is looking, searching for worshipers. That means much more than his soul. He's looking for people who want him badly.