In the same way that The Good News doesn't mean as much without understanding The Bad News, having presented a description of Your Promised Land last week, we must also appreciate what Your Promised Land ISN'T.  Beware of and Reject Fake Promised Lands... the enemy would love to get you to settle for far less than God's best.  Don't let him rob you.

We live in a generation that most of us have lived in the wilderness and don't have a scope of the vast, lush, beautiful, vibrant, blessed promised land that God is bringing us into... so we need to take time to hear from God's faithful spies who have seen the promised land and are bringing back word and instruction for how to possess all of it.  THAT is what we do in this message.

God creates and maximizes moments, particularly when we embrace His leading with obedience.  Now is such a time.  It's time to cross over into the promised land God has prepared for us... but we must each, individually, choose to follow His direction. We show you how.

The conclusion to our series, The Good Life, our Senior Pastor, Jerry Dirmann, describes how our God operates, as he outlines the remaining benefits of this passage.

God promised to execute righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed and call out to Him for help.  He is VERY PRESENT... to make good on all these promises, which comprise THE GOOD LIFE.

Continuing with more blessings from God to receive and eagerly share with others, we explore how God rescues and provides.

*Disclaimer for families with young children: in the discussion of God's forgiveness of even extreme sins, rape and other violent crimes are referenced at appx 29:00.  

Two main benefits of following Jesus - He forgives and He heals.  Not just some, not just a little, but ALL!  All sins can be forgiven... All sicknesses can be healed.  Place your faith in Jesus, based on the truth of the Word He's given, and embrace The Good Life.

Jesus keeps reminding us that we have an enemy who's plans for us are meant to "steal, kill, destroy" us, He doesn't want us to fall into the deadly shortcuts the devil offers us.  Instead, He invites us to abide in Him and His Word, to "lose our lives" and find them in Him.

The same processes, the same investment, the same lifestyle, all get you the same (old) results.  And if you're paying attention, "same old" isn't working anymore... if it ever really did.  It surely is time to be DIFFERENT.  Different than the world, different than the church used to operate, because we aren't rescuing nearly enough people, and we aren't making disciples of them nearly enough.  Let this be your time.  Learn how in this message.

No one ever says, "I want to live a hard, terrible, difficult life," but somehow many people end up living so far below their potential.  God has way better in store for you, if you will give yourself to His plans to give you The Good Life.