In Matthew 26: 36, the message centers on gethsemane | surrender under pressure. Walk into Gethsemane with Jesus in Matthew 26 and explore surrender, pressure, suffering, prayer, and trusting the Father when obedience is costly. Rather than treating the passage as abstract theology, the sermon traces what these truths reveal about God, the gospel, and the way followers of Jesus are called to live.
A major emphasis is the believer's response to God through prayer, surrender, worship, and spiritual hunger. The message challenges passive Christianity and invites listeners to pursue God intentionally, trusting that transformation grows as we bring our desires, habits, and decisions under the authority of Scripture. The goal is a faith that moves beyond information into communion with God and obedient action.
Along the way, the message engages themes including Matthew 26: 36, gethsemane | surrender under pressure, pressing, plan. These ideas help place the primary passage within the larger story of Scripture and show how its theology speaks to real spiritual formation. At its heart, the sermon helps answer questions such as: What does Matthew 26: 36 teach about gethsemane It also considers surrender under pressure?
For someone studying this passage, exploring the Christian faith, or looking for practical biblical teaching, this sermon offers a clear path from the text to everyday discipleship. The invitation is to hear what Scripture says, receive it with humility, and take the next faithful step in following Jesus.
What does Matthew 26: 36 teach about gethsemane | surrender under pressure? | How should gethsemane | surrender under pressure shape the way Christians live? | How can believers apply Matthew 26: 36 in everyday life?
Matthew 26: 36, gethsemane | surrender under pressure
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Again, we had a beautiful communion service this past week and I shared about Jesus sitting with us in our mess and how how Jesus had asked Peter if he agape loved him, which is an unconditional love. And then he actually chose to lower his love because Peter would only respond with phileo. I only I only love you with brotherly love and on the third time that Jesus had asked this question, Peter, do you love me? He lowered himself, Jesus, lowered his love to meet Peter where his love ended. That's good, right? And I I I I just want to to posture our hearts from this place that no matter where you are in your in your walk with the Lord you you may got dragged to church today by by a family member and that's okay. You're in a good place, all right? We're not going to do anything weird. But Jesus will meet you where you are today. Just have an open heart to what he wants to do. He meets us where we are. And we rejoice today because this past Friday Jesus gave his life for us with unconditional love. And 3 days later come on, Jesus arose back to life defeating death, hell, and the grave. And we get to walk in that today. So that we can live in freedom no matter the circumstances that we face. I love this in in 2 Corinthians 4 8 through 12 it says, "We are hard pressed on every side but not crushed, perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body." This is what I'm talking about today. So then death is at work in us but life is at work in you today. It's because of his death, it's because he rose again that we get to walk in this full life. Because Jesus was pressed, we get to enjoy the benefits of the oil of his life. That because of Jesus, we will not be crushed, abandoned, or destroyed. We carry the sacrifice of Jesus in our lives, in our sacrifice. In us taking up our own cross, the life of Jesus is revealed in us. And and and that honestly, that'll preach all day. When when the more that we lay our lives down to Jesus, the more we become like Jesus. Because it's in our laying down of our life that we become pressed and it just if you if we are a dwelling place for the spirit of God, when we get pressed in our flesh and in our bodies, even in our spirits, Jesus comes out. More of him, more of his oil. And that's what I want to talk about today. Before Jesus is betrayed by Judas and arrested, before he's tortured and and beaten, before he's nailed to the cross, there's this moment where Jesus is praying in the Garden of Gethsemane. Everybody say Gethsemane. Gethsemane actually means olive press. The Garden of the olive press, which is so fitting for Jesus in this moment. There's olive trees everywhere. Olive trees actually originated in Israel. When the Greeks discovered olive trees, they're like, we got to make some salad. Um and they they took it to Greece, they took it to Italy, Spain, Cyprus, all the things. Um these are beautiful, strong wooded trees. Can we show some pictures of of some some uh olive trees? If we if we've got them, there we go. That's actually in the Garden of of Gethsemane in Israel. Um which I got to be there back in February, uh which was really, really cool. They can actually live the very strong wooded trees. They can actually live for for thousands of years. And many times they'll die and then another tree will actually grow up inside of it and then almost take the dead tree as its own. It's very interesting. Um it's very fitting that Jesus was in the garden of the olive pressed because it was symbolic of him being pressed for what he was about to endure. And I don't have any pictures of it, but in in the garden there were these big old stones kind of like these basin stones and what they would do is they would take the olives from the trees and they'd place them in these stones and then they kind of work them around and they had this whole process for creating olive oil and different kinds of oil. Crushing the fruit. While I was in Israel this past February, we actually sat in this garden near the Mount of Olives, right outside where the Temple Mount was. And it was beautiful. It was it was really impactful. It was really moving. We were close to the spot where Jesus may have been when he prayed. It was quiet. We were praying, we were worshipping. I was with like 30 other pastors. And one of the pastors started sharing this devotional. And uh he started sharing about the disciples and waiting in the garden and he and he talks from Luke 22 verse 39, Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, he said to him, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation." He withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them. He knelt down and prayed and he said, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me. Yet not my will, but yours be done." And then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. And when he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. "Why are you sleeping?" he asked them. "Get up and pray so you will not fall into temptation." The gospel actually gives multiple accounts of the story. In Matthew, the disciples actually fall asleep multiple times, and Jesus goes back and wakes him up, and he goes back and and wakes him up, and it's the same sort of story. I I You can go and check it out in Matthew 26: 36 through 45. Where he goes to them again and again and and in verse 42, it says, "My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done." And he came back again, he found them sleeping because their eyes were heavy. So, he left them, went away once more, and prayed the third time, saying the same thing. And then he returned to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? And it was a really good word that the the pastor had shared, and he's talking about, "Hey, don't fall asleep in the olive press. You know, don't fall into temptation in the moment when you should be pressing, when you should be pursuing, when you should be contending even with Jesus." And it was really powerful, it was really great. A very James-centric word about trials and temptations. Resist the temptation, lean into the trial, because God has a purpose for the trial. Stay awake, don't fall asleep, don't become sluggish, or avoid the pain. Don't lose heart and quit when the pressing comes. Again, Jesus is getting ready to go to the cross and the disciples, maybe they don't fully realize what's about to happen. And Jesus says, "Pray, don't fall into temptation to avoid the trial that you're facing." It was a very moving, very very appropriate word for being there in the garden at that time. But uh the whole time that we were in Israel, this is really funny. We actually had a guide. His name was Shimon. Everybody say Shimon. Kind of like Simon, uh but with a SH. And uh we we all had these Bluetooth headsets on. They were good within like 50 to 100 ft or so. So, anywhere that we were going, you know, there would be 30 of us all spread out. It was like more like 40 of us. And we could hear him talking into the microphone, no matter where we were. And we're checking out all these different sites and seeing all these things and and he's telling us all these different facts every everywhere we went. And so, here we are, we just had this like really holy moment. Like, I'm crying, the guy next to me is crying, like God is moving. We just had we just sang holy forever or whatever worship song it was. It was just like powerful moment. And I'm getting ready to go hug a tree in the garden. Like, it was it was just a powerful moment. And then out of nowhere, Shimon gets on the microphone and he said, "Here's a fun fact for you." There's actually three phases to the olive press. And I'm just like, "Shimon, you got to you got to be quiet right now. Like, we're we're having a moment. Like, th- this is a spiritual this is a spiritual thing." And he starts going through all these these everything, but but again, in my mind, I'm like, "This is not the time. Like, this is a holy moment that you're that you're ruining." But he said, "The first press is the easiest. And it gives us the best virgin olive oil, the extra virgin olive oil. How many of you love some extra virgin olive oil? Put your hands in the air. Come on. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And I I'm not going to make fun of his accent, but it was really funny when he said the word salad. I'll just tell you that. But he said, "It can be used for salads, dressing, but most importantly, that oil could be used for healing when it's mixed with other properties." And he said, "Even beyond that, that oil was used in the temple to burn as incense as an offering of worship to the Lord." And I was like, "Shimon, okay. He's preaching." So, [clears throat] I'm like getting my notes out and I'm I'm starting some notes here. Like, "God, this is really cool. This is really interesting." And he said, "The second press is harder. And it gives us olive oil for the home to cook, to provide sustenance for life and for the family." And I'm like, "Slow down, Shimon. Okay, I got to write all this down." And then the third press, the final press, when you get down to the very seeds, is the hardest press. Crushing the olives into a thick oil, this oil was used to light the lamps that would bring light to the whole city. Wow. Not good? Our guide was preaching and he didn't even know it. Jesus under the pressure and weight of sin and the wrath of God, drinking the cup of God's wrath, he knew that his death was coming. He knew that we would sin. He knew He knew every moment of our lives that we would call him Lord and then go and sin. And yet he still chose to go to the cross. And he didn't have anything that we don't have. He was a man, but he had the spirit of God. Aren't you grateful for the spirit of God in your life today? >> Amen. Amen. The disciples have been falling asleep, betraying him, about to deny him, scattering. Jesus faced the pressing with no earthly help, asking God, "Would you take this cup from me? But not my will, but yours be done." Jesus understands more than any other deity on earth what it means to suffer trials and pressure in life. He faced persecution, being misunderstood, pain, suffering in his body, in his mind, and his spirit. But Jesus did all of this knowing that there was a purpose behind his sacrifice. The more Jesus submitted to the pressing, the greater the reward for others. It was the oil of Jesus' life. Jesus understands that in this life we will face trouble. Scripture tells us we will face a pressing of our hearts, souls, and spirits. And because he willingly faced it, Jesus wants to be with us in that pressing. Hebrews 4:15. For we do not have a high priest, Jesus, who's unable to empathize with or understand our weaknesses. But we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Amen. There is a grace and a mercy for each and every one of us, an oil that comes from Jesus. Because he lives, I can face In our time of need, Jesus is available to us. And here's what's fascinating. Jesus dwells in each and every one of us. And I said this already, but I need to say it again. It's in the pressing of our lives when we have called him Lord and he dwells within us. The more our flesh and our spirit is pressed, the more the oil of his spirit comes out in us. The more we become more and more like Jesus, the more WE ARE PRESSED AND CRUSHED AND PUSHED DOWN, THE MORE WE depend on him. The more we exemplify him in our lives. I got this really cheap Amazon juice presser. Um it's not easy to press. Um I took some grapes and some pineapples the other day with the kids and uh we start pressing it and at the start it's like it's really easy cuz you just there's there's no give back. I'm just kind of twisting the thing and like, "Oh, this is this is really this is really easy. Oh, stuff's already coming out. This is so cool." I didn't expect it to work this quickly. Here we go. >> [snorts] >> Anyways, we made we made some juice. Um and the kids are starting to get their little cups out and filling it just at the beginning of it as as stuff was starting to come out. But but they filled up one cup and realized really quickly there's not enough for everyone. And so I'm I'm pushing and I'm pressing this thing and and trying my best to just keep pushing and pushing and pushing. And after a while I couldn't really go anymore. Like I I I it it got to a point where like I wasn't strong enough to continue turning this and pressing this. It's olives, guys. Just just chill out, okay? Y'all are looking at me and you're like, "This is so gross." But I got to a point where there was some coming out, but it wasn't enough for everyone. Hear this today. You can press and strive on your own, but it's not going to be enough for everyone. It's when we press with Jesus, it's when we press with brothers and sisters in Christ and do it together. Nate, get up here. Muscles, okay? It's when we do this together that more and more begins to come out. Right? Can we do this? Yeah, we can do All right. I'm going to I'm going to hold it cuz you're so strong. And we're just going to keep twisting here. Woo! I got to hold it. Yeah, you go. You go. Now it's really coming. Come on, somebody. Holy cow. All right, stop. Say again. Here we go. Here it comes. Give him a hand. Come on, somebody. >> [applause] >> Listen, we cannot press alone. We cannot face the trials ahead of us alone. We need to face them with Jesus. We need to allow him to come into our lives and come into these moments and and recognize I'm not alone. Recognize I'm not facing these things on my own. Maybe there's some brothers in Christ, Christ in them, that I need to invite into my life, some sisters that aren't just gossiping but are actually speaking life into me and encouraging me and lifting me up and letting me know I'm not doing this alone. Because when we can sit in these spaces and allow Jesus to press down on our lives, the oil and the anointing of his spirit will come out. And just like we read in Shimon's story, there's a purpose to the oil press in your life. And the first one is a pressing for healing. The first press gives us the best part. It's the healing oil. It's the extra virgin olive oil that can be mixed into other things like frankincense and myrrh and allow it to to heal your body. Heal scars. Heal cuts. It's an incense in the temple of worship. Can you remember the pressing moments of your life? The stress, the pain, maybe even the trauma, the difficulty. Maybe recently, maybe maybe maybe it's still a battle and a fight for you right now from your past where it keeps coming up again and again and again triggering you. Can I tell you there's a purpose to the pressing? There's a purpose to leaning into those moments and what happened to you, what was spoken to you? The painful words that someone spoke that cut your heart in two, the loss that you took, that person that hurt you in ways that were out of your control. Bills piling up, relationships going the wrong way, loneliness in your journey, maybe it's a hindrance for you and your faith. >> [clears throat] >> This story, this trauma, this moment, why would God allow this to happen to me? Where was God in this moment? How can I praise God for this pain that I'm experiencing? Where is God's plan and purpose in this? Genesis 50 20 to 21. You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good to bring it about that many people should be kept alive as they are today. What the enemy meant for evil, God wants to turn it to good. But here's the thing, if you leave it in the enemy's hands rather than take it to Jesus, it's still going to be evil in your life. This is why we press together. Could it be that Jesus wants to bring about healing in the midst of your pain in the pressing? I can tell you when I've invited Jesus into my life to meet me at the oil press of my heart, there's a shift that takes place. I begin to see more of Jesus in my life and the more that I press with Jesus, the more oil comes out of my life. And and something really powerful that I've been doing recently and and I'm going to challenge all of us to do it today in this room. But when I read the Gospels, I'm not just reading it for studying on Sunday morning. But just for me when I when I take and begin to read it, I I begin to see myself as a child. Where I begin to put myself in the story of what I'm reading in the Gospel. This is a a very powerful practice. And I go back to my earliest memories as a child, the the moments that maybe were the most difficult or the most memorable or whatever it might be, but I imagine myself as 9 years old when I read the Gospels. Because again, we tend to live as children in our struggles. When we're really going through a difficult moment, you may be 35, 45 years old, but you feel like you're 16 again. You feel like you're 9 years old again. And the emotions and the things that are coming out in that moment are are stemming from that childhood moment. You feel helpless, innocent, curious, and you're raw with emotions. Many of our triggers and emotions today, they stem from our childhood. And Jesus said it like this. He said in Matthew 18:3-4, "Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Okay, so be like a child. Okay, got it. So, I'll read about Jesus in the book of Luke when Martha and Mary invite Jesus into their house. Some of you know the story. Jesus is is speaking and Martha is in the kitchen. She's cooking up something big for everybody. She's putting in the work. And Mary's just sitting there at Jesus's feet. Just soaking in the presence of Jesus. And Martha, what does she do? She comes out and she's like, "Jesus, what the heck? Like, tell my sister to do something. I'm in here slaving away for all of you." And Jesus just says, "No. Mary's chosen a good thing." Some translations say Mary's chosen the better thing. Right? So, I want to ask you this. This is This is the practice that God's been showing me in the last few months. Where are you in this story? Where are you in this moment? And I'm not I'm not saying, "Oh, I'm Martha. Oh, I'm Mary. Oh, I'm one of the disciples." No, where are you as your childlike self in the room? It's going to It's going to feel like a silly practice, but this is going to change your life, I promise you. Because for me, I'm 9 years old and I'm sitting in the corner and I'm in timeout. Because I was being a little too wild, too much of a distraction, and I felt like I disappointed my family. Just being real. Where are you in the room? Cuz I can tell you where you find yourself in scripture is the place that the Lord wants to heal you and touch your life. Because the more I sit in that room, I'm looking around and I see Martha in the kitchen, she's busy, and I can't go help her because I'm just going to cause more problems. I see Mary, and if I go sit by her, I'm going to distract her and all all these things, but then I see Jesus. And he's just smiling at me. And he lets me know, "Son, you're not a disappointment." Church today, the Lord wants to meet you in that place, meet you in scripture, and heal the brokenness of your heart. And it's in that pressing that the oil of his spirit begins to come out and heal your life. I don't know where you may find yourself today in scripture, but the more that I I see myself with Jesus in the Gospels, the more I see Jesus in my own life. That's good. I could drop the mic and leave right now. The more I see myself with Jesus, the more I see him in my life and in my heart. One of the things that I want to do starting today for the next 50 days, if you go to our website [snorts] fulllifeag.church, right on the homepage, there's a little 50-day Bible study. If you click on the button there, it'll take you to from now Easter until Pentecost Sunday. Going through the book of Luke. Slowly. Seeing yourself in that scripture. Questions for you to ask and engage with and allow Jesus to meet you there in that moment. And allow him to press. Allow him to push because it's in the pressing that we find healing. It's in the pressing that now now I'm worshipping from a whole new place. Because I've been saved from so much. I've been delivered and healed from so many things. I have a reason now to worship other than this being my favorite song. Because my the healing has now informed my faith. So good. Sorry, I'm preaching on myself. >> [snorts] >> There's purpose to your pain. And when we invite Jesus to the oil press, there's healing that he wants to bring into your life. Healing, forgiveness, a grace and oil on your life that will change everything and everyone in your life. It's a grace that you can even give to others. Again, the more you let Jesus press with you, the more oil comes out of your life, the more grace comes out of your life. You're a different person because of the oil of God. I've faced this pain with Jesus. And now I can sit in that pain with other people and bring healing. Number [snorts] two, pressing brings sustenance. Again, now my worship is different. Because I'm worshipping from that place of understanding, look what God has done in my life. He's taken every point of pain and disappointment in my life and he's brought about healing and deliverance. My my perspective is now changing because now I'm sustained in the understanding of God has a plan. I may not understand the plan, but I understand that he has a plan. And so the more I lean into his way, the more I see his plan come about. Cuz his way is pick up your cross. His way is come to the pressing floor. His way is if you want to become more like Jesus, you need to get the world out of you and that's going to require some pressing. That's going to require some some change and some discipline within your life, but the more you lean into that, the more you become like Jesus. Now I'm sustained. God's way. Living worthy of the gospel brings about a fullness of life that sustains me. >> [snorts] >> Again, the pressing began for Jesus not on the cross, but in submitting to God's way in the garden. We like to say like God's plan, right? We will will will sing the Drake song or whatever. God's plan, yeah, okay, cool. You guys are better Christians than me because you don't know that song. Okay, cool. >> [snorts] >> But we say God's plan as if we have some say in what that plan is. I guess this is just God's plan. And we say it like it's an inconvenience. But when there's purpose to this life that he's given us, God's plan is for you to follow God's way. To live worthy of the gospel, a submission to live in a way that brings about outcomes that are needed to bring about God's plan for your life. Let me say that again because that was really good. We're submitting to live in a way that brings about outcomes that are needed to bring about God's plan for your life. God has a plan for your life, but if we're unwilling to submit to his way, we're never actually going to see the plan fulfilled. This is why many of us, we may feel like we're in this this long desert season. It's because we haven't submitted to God's way. God's way brings about God's plan. Again, God's plan on paper is really exciting. Dreams, pinnacle events, and encounters with God that that that just fill me with joy, life, and passion, but then I go out and I face the real world, and it's not all dreams and excitement and all these things. But, the plan is really to to position us not just physically, spiritually to be able to fulfill these plans of God for our lives. It It requires committing to difficult ways of living that make us into the people positioned to position and prepared to handle the plan. It's a lot of P's. >> [snorts] >> God has a plan for your life, and he wants to put you in a place and prepare you to be able to handle the plan that's about to come. See, I I I don't know about you, but I've got character flaws. I've got things that if God took me to the top of the mountain of my plan, I would I would suffocate because I don't have enough oxygen. Because I haven't prepared myself for that place. It's in the pressing that Jesus prepares us to fulfill the plan. >> [snorts] >> Like we can read books like the the Art of War or biographies of Lewis and Clark, the pioneers here in America who journeyed and fought battles from positions of preparation. They were training, they were putting on weight, they were curating resources and knowledge needed for the expedition ahead, finding enjoyment in the the process of preparing, and every step of growth taken informs them of their future. We all have moments in our past, battles that we fought, and trials that we faced that now inform us on how to handle our current life, right? You've got history. You've got stories. And they help you see your life today through that lens. Lessons that give us joy, sustain us in faith, and even bring wisdom and light as we forge ahead. Jesus knew that one day he would lay his life down for you and for me. He prepared He prepared the table of his heart for the journey ahead. To bring salvation to the world and be resurrected, but it didn't change the fact that there was still another test to face. There was a way that he had to go in order to bring about this plan. And Jesus, he wrestled with God's way. Which is cool because it means it's okay that you wrestle with God's way, too. Jesus wrestled. Because this wasn't a quick death. This wasn't a bullet in the head or or pills that make you go to sleep. This was the sins of the world placed on one man. Pressing upon his life, torture of the most grotesque kind. His body will be torn apart by whips and stones and thorns. And then he was forced to carry the wooden cross that he would be nailed to like a criminal. On display for the world to see. The knowledge I think it's what gave him joy. The knowledge that the pressing was going to bring about an eternal outcome for the world sustained him. Even when his sweat was full of blood from the extreme stress upon his body. Church, if we can get this revelation today that the oil of Jesus is being pressed out of us. It's God's way to reveal God's plan and purpose in your life. Preparing us for more. Preparing us for the plan. Worship team, would you come? Number three, >> [snorts] >> pressing brings light. Again, I go back to the the story in the garden and I and I hear this preacher saying, "Don't fall asleep in the garden. Don't fall asleep in the pressing. Don't fall asleep. Don't quit when the pressure comes and the the things hit you." And I think about Jesus and the joy that was set before him. Because of that joy in Hebrews 13 he endured the cross. And here's here's what I here's what I love. The enemy thought that he had victory in this moment. When Jesus lays his life down willingly for us, the enemy is like having a party. >> [snorts] >> And and get this today, the enemy is having a party in your life when you accept where you are and choose not to press. Because we we whatever we're facing, whatever the difficulty, whatever the circumstance, and we just sit in that place, we just sit there defeated, and the enemy is like, "Yeah, I did this. I stopped [snorts] them. They're so stuck in their mud and in their mess, they're never coming out." But it's when we submit to the way of God, it's when we lean in with him and say, "JESUS, WOULD YOU COME and sit with me in my pressing, in the pressure, in the stress, in the pain, IN THE PAST TRAUMA and story? WOULD YOU COME AND MEET ME HERE?" BECAUSE THAT'S the beauty of Jesus. No other deity in history >> [music] >> has left the throne of heaven and come down AND BECOME FLESH AND SAT WITH PEOPLE. He meets us where we are. His love will meet you where your love ends. And my heart breaks because I I've I've seen so many people in the church holding on to a victim STORY WHEN JESUS CHRIST HAS ALREADY WON THE VICTORY for them. You're not broken. You're made whole in Jesus Christ. He wants to sit with you in that pain. He wants to sit with you in scripture and he wants to heal that child wound. He wants to heal that insecurity that you're facing, that you're holding on to, that fear of what if this doesn't work out or that fear of God, I I there's too much unknown, there's too too many things. The enemy would love to keep you in that place where you're just avoiding the pain rather than inviting Jesus to bring the oil of healing into your life. Because here's what happens. The oil heals, the oil sustains, and then the oil brings a light into every dark place of this world. Yeah. Amen. Church, we're not called to just sit in the mud and sit in the dark and say, "Woe is me, Jesus." >> [snorts] >> Oh, would you come and help me? Would you come and save me? And Jesus sitting, "I already did. Do you want me to help you get out of this mess? Do you want me to press down on your heart just a little bit harder so we can get to the root of this pain and this problem and bring healing and bring life into you again? Because here's the the powerful thing. >> [music] >> Each and every one of us has a testimony of victory. And that victory when we profess it, when we share it, when we testify of his goodness, it's a light beam shot into everyone that hears it. Where people begin to to get stirred up and go, "Man, if he did it for you, he could do it for me." That's right. That's right. You're the the light of your testimony is is lighting my pathway forward and now I can step into this. Now I can walk in freedom. I didn't realize that Jesus would come and sit with me until you shine this light here in this space. Church, we're called to see a victory. Not just for ourselves, but for everyone around us. Listen, your marriage is not falling apart. You're just avoiding the pain. God wants to meet you and press with you in that space. So that the healing oil would come and sustain your heart. Would you just Would you do that with me right now? Would you just posture your heart in a place where you just invite the Holy Spirit, invite Jesus into your childlike heart. And maybe you've never done this before. Maybe Maybe you've never called Jesus the Lord of your life and I I I'd love to to walk with you and pray with you through that. >> [snorts] >> I can't promise that your life is going to get better, but I can promise that you're going to get healed. That he will meet you in the pressing. He'll meet you in the garden of your heart. Holy Spirit, would you make us more like Jesus? Would you sit with us in the disappointment and begin to show us your plan and your purpose for it? Would you begin to give us wisdom to understand why this happened. Why these words were spoken. Why our hearts are broken. And maybe we never get the answer. Maybe it's just the peace of God that comes in that moment and goes, "It's okay. I'm with you." >> [music] >> Church, every time you wept, Jesus was weeping with you. >> [music] >> Every time you cried, Jesus was crying with you. Don't fall asleep or run from the pain. Embrace it today with Jesus so that your life can be a light to the world where we can say, "Look what God has done with my life. My testimony has power and purpose to light the path of my life and for others. I'm walking in healing. I'm walking in sustenance. I'm walking in light, God's way, takes the pressing of our life and turns it into oil that Jesus Christ in me can come flowing out of me. Church, you don't have to be a victim because Jesus already claimed the victory for us. He defeated death, hell, and the grave. And he wants to bring healing, [snorts] deliverance, freedom, and life, fullness of life, fullness of your presence, that we would live worthy of the gospel, that we would be an Axios church, >> [music] >> and be who you us to be. Would you all stand with me today? As we worship. We're just going to sing this song and I'm going to close. And then we're going to have ice [music] cream. Come on. But don't don't don't mi
