Begin the Journey

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Okay, I said I'd say it again. We're going to be in Matthew 13 today, Matthew chapter 13. As you're turning there, I want to tell you a story. At the age of 25, world-renowned rapper Drake went, thank you, somebody is with me this morning, okay, somebody's with me. World-renowned rapper Drake, he went back to high school. He went back to high school after dropping out 10 years earlier. And of course, if you are Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto and Drake is going to be graduating in whatever class you're graduating, you're going to ask him to be the speaker. And so he made a speech at graduation. And as he did, and I don't know how he did this, but he wandered into the profound. Okay, Drake said this, and I want you to just hear it. Drake said, sometimes it's about going there, not getting there. Sometimes the journey, it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your

destination. And sometimes when you get there, you look back and you realize that you wish you could go there again. Because all the experiences are the reason that you are who you are today. Profound. Good old Drake. Always good for a quote. Look, whether you are a rapper, whether you are a theologian, whether you are a plumber, whether you are a school teacher, it doesn't matter. Everyone, everyone understands that our lives are a journey. Everybody. You don't need to convince them. And sometimes whenever you talk about it, maybe we forget about it, but our lives are always a journey. And if you are a follower of Jesus, this really should resonate with you. The idea of a journey should resonate with you because in the Old Testament, you had Abraham, you had Moses, you had the prophets, all leading journeys out of slavery and into God's promise. In the New Testament, we are called pilgrims and sojourners.

In 1 Peter 1 and in Hebrews 11 and Philippians 3, we're talking about how we're continually growing into the likeness of Jesus. Many have attempted, many Christians have attempted to describe this spiritual journey. Most famously, John Bunyan tried to talk about it in the Pilgrim's Progress. I realize not everybody's read a Pilgrim's Progress, but you know enough about it to know. It's this extended allegory about the pilgrimage of what it is to be a Christian. St. Augustine's Confessions, C.S. Lewis wrote a book called Mere Christianity. Francis Schaeffer wrote True Spirituality. J.I. Packer wrote Knowing God. John Piper wrote Desiring God. We are not short on people, Christian people, trying to describe this whole thing of walking on an extended journey with the Lord. All those works are great works and they are worth the time and the investment of reading.

I am not attempting to compete with or add to those words rather, I want to help us all see this journey in our own lives because when I speak with people about this kind of journey, and I might not name it such, but when I talk to people, many, many people do not know how their spiritual lives are going. They don't understand. There's no words to describe it. They have trouble talking about it. They stutter, they get caught up. They don't know if they should use religious words or not. And it's just a really tough thing to explain that. And so in an attempt to better understand where they are spiritually, they do one of two things. Either they measure their journey by the activity, by the spiritual activity in their lives. So they go to worship regularly. They were baptized. They read the Bible a lot. And usually how they feel they're doing on their journey ebbs and flows with how much

discipline they have in their life. So are you doing well on your journey? Well I don't know, I haven't read my Bible a lot, maybe I'm not doing well on my journey. Or I have read my Bible a lot, so I'm doing great on my journey. So that's one ditch. Another way that people try to measure their own spiritual journey is by how they're feeling. Typically that ebbs and flows by how much pain they're experiencing at the time. Is praying hard right now? If it is, then I'm not doing very well. reading the Bible easier and you're learning a lot, oh yeah, okay, well then I'm growing and I'm doing great. If things are too hard in their lives, maybe God's not real. If things are going too well, sometimes people actually get worried, like things are getting, things are going too well, maybe I should be worried that something bad is going to happen. Both of these, both of these

are traps, right? Measuring by your, measuring by your spiritual activity or measuring by your, how how you're feeling are both traps. And neither of them help for very long. They're very frustrating. So most people that I speak with just drift along. They go between what they were raised with and trying something new. They vacillate with every book that comes out, every fad that comes out, and they don't know. They don't have clear grounding on what a spiritual journey actually should look like or actually should feel like. Asking somebody how they're doing spiritually. I mean, I might as well ask them to explain equals MC squared. Okay. They're just, they don't have the words. They don't have the way to talk about it with any kind of confidence. They feel stupid. When I talk to people, many times I will not tell them I'm a pastor first. The reason is not because I'm ashamed.

The reason is because it changes the conversation. Because when I say I'm a pastor, I watch people rewind the last 10 minutes of whatever conversation we were having and break a sweat and try to figure out, okay, what did I say that was condemnation worthy or whatever. And you can tell, you can feel it in the conversation. It changes, right? When people find out I'm a pastor, it's like, oh, well, I mean, I go to church. No kidding. No kidding, one time in an airport, I met a really famous sportscaster, Craig Mortensen, who's on ESPN a long time. I met him in person, right? And it was a small group of people there. It was a small airport. He just happened to be there. It was in Arkansas. And I just went up and shook his hand because I'm that guy, so I'll just go up and shake his hand. And it was the... Still, it's a weird situation. I said, hey, I'm Drew. I love, you know, your work on ESPN. It's great. And he goes, he goes, thank you.

What are you guys doing here? And I said, oh, we're, we're all going on a mission to Mexico. And as he was shaking my hand, Craig Mortensen, I mean, bless him, I'm sure I'm not, I'm not trying to throw dirt on it, but in that moment, Craig Mortensen, physically shrunk back, looked down and said, well, I go to church. No kidding. That was his first response to me saying, I'm going on a mission trip. And I'm not trying to throw rocks at Craig Mortensen. I am just saying,

when I talk to a very successful sports broadcaster and I bring up a mission trip, he crumbles. He crumbles because he doesn't know how to talk about it with confidence. He knows how to talk about first and ten with confidence, but he doesn't know how to talk about his own spiritual journey. And I get it, man, it's weird and it's hard. And we don't talk about this like the water cooler, you know, and be like, hey Brad, hey Tim, so, you know, how are you doing spiritually? Like, that doesn't work. It's weird. And so because of that, because of all of that,

we drift. It's easy not to talk, it's easy to talk about anything else in the world than whatever we're going through spiritually than our journey. So here's my invitation to you. Let's quit drifting. Let's stop that. Regardless of age, life experience, status, let's get grounding. Let's get grounding on what it should look like and what it should feel like to be on this spiritual journey to follow Jesus. And so over the next nine weeks, so this is the first week of nine weeks, I know that's a long time. We're going to be looking at what Scripture talks about when it's talking about this journey. And even in the last four weeks of the series, so starting in October 20th, we're going to be doing the journey in depth. We're going to be going on Wednesday night. We're going to be meeting back again. And we're going to be kind of following up on the sermon and talking through a

little bit of how that applies. The point of this is not to raise the bar. Let me be absolutely clear. When we are talking about the journey, we should not read scripture. We should not understand what the Lord is telling us so that we can find new activities to measure ourselves by. Okay. That's not what this is. This is not figuring out how we're going to look or appear more spiritual. Yes. Yes. We will all feel this conviction. We will. We'll feel it. But if what we do with that conviction is try to measure up, we've missed it. it all over again, we've missed it. I don't want to miss it. The point is not to raise the bar, the point is to see the path. We need to see the journey. We need to understand it. We need to recognize that we're on it, first of all, or that we could be. And we need to embrace it. We need to see it as a whole. What is Jesus doing in our lives? What are we doing?

How are we responding to that? Where is He taking us? How are we cooperating with that? Following Jesus is the greatest journey of our life. It will cost us everything, but it is worth more. This is the greatest journey of our lives. It will cost everything to take it, but it is worth more. It's worth more than anything that you have in your possession. It's worth more than any legacy that you can build up. It's worth more than that. And that is why I'm encouraging many people, hey, this is our first week, right? But continue to listen to this series, either in person or through our website. I believe that Jesus is aiming this at us, at everyone, so that we can see where we are on this journey, if we are on it. We can find our next steps and we can begin to dream about where that journey is going to take us. So, we're gonna start our journey with a packing list.

Forgive me for being so kitschy that we're actually having a packing list on a series about the journey, but I'm going to own it. We're going to have a packing list. We're going to discover many of these items on the way, backpack, map, rope, so on. But the first thing that you're going to need for this journey is a passport. That's the last thing I have listed there. You're going to need a sleeping bag. You're going to need binoculars. You're going to need shoes. But first, what you're going to need is a passport. You could call this a ticket. You could call this admission. You can call it anything, whatever you want to call it. What we need to do first, if we're going to begin this journey, is to make sure that we're on the journey, to make sure that we're on the path. So maybe putting it in the form of a question would be, how do we begin this journey? Well, to do that, we need to explore what Scripture says

in Matthew 13. I told you I was getting there. Matthew 13, we're going to start in verse 44, and we're going to go through 46. So they're all going to be up on the screen. And really what this amounts to is two very short parables that Jesus tells that help us see how this journey begins. So let's start by reading them. Matthew 13, 44 through 46, and I'll just read these two parables. This is Jesus speaking to the crowds. He says, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it. So these two parables that Jesus is talking about are parables about the kingdom of heaven.

And just really quick, if you are in the kingdom of heaven, then you are on the journey. If you're not in the kingdom, if you're being invited into the kingdom, kind of what Jesus is doing here, then he's inviting you to the journey. Okay? And so what I want to do is I want to break both of those down. It's just two parables. It's really short, but I believe it's profound as we continue to kind of understand where we are in this journey. So one thing I want you to notice about both of these is that in both of the, going to the scripture real quick, Larry.

Just go back one. There you go. Good. So in both of these cases, the finding is the moment. In both of these cases, so in verse 44, it says that a man found it, that he happened upon it. You get the impression that he was not looking for treasure in a field that he bought. He bought the field, he was probably planning on using that field agriculturally, He was probably using that field in a different way other than, I have a treasure map and so I bought the field to find the treasure.

Every indicator that we have is that this man has stumbled onto the treasure. In the second case with the merchant of fine pearls, the merchant is in search. There is a diligent search for this treasure. right? So in the first one, the guy kind of stumbled upon it. In the second one, there's a diligent search in a location after he has, there's a location after a long search, after a long journey. The thing I want to say about this is that the journey with Jesus is discovered. That's really the first thing we can point out about this, that in both of those parables, there is this idea of finding it. That's actually where the tension is. Okay? So because if the parable The parable was the kingdom of heaven is like a man who bought a field, the end. That's not much of a parable. The meat of the parable, the understanding of the parable is that he found something

in the field, that he happened upon something in the field. Sometimes, sometimes that journey with Jesus is discovered, sometimes it's on accident. Sometimes you just kind of stumble upon it. You just kind of, you're not really looking for it. And this is my story, right? I came to Jesus, I stumbled upon my journey with Jesus. And yes, like my mom and dad, my mom and stepdad, like know the Lord, love the Lord. But I had no real clue of what was going on. And then at some point, I just figured it out. I don't know how it happened really. I knew I was a liar. I knew I was a liar and I knew I needed acceptance. Jesus made himself very real to me. I was like, cool. And I said, okay, I'm going to follow Jesus, having very little understanding of what that meant. And realizing only later, I kind of hit the friend jackpot, okay, with Jesus, the best friend ever. Okay, I hit the friend jackpot. And Jesus made it clear to me eventually.

He said, look, Drew, you're a liar, and I want to make you a truth teller. That's it. Like, It is the most accidental. I mean, it's like a man walked into a bar and met Jesus. I mean, it's that. It's just occasional. I wasn't like pouring over books, asking the deep questions of life. I wasn't like looking at the sunset going, this must come from somewhere. I mean, I was a moron. I didn't ask those questions. I wasn't looking for them. And I'm not saying you're a moron if you're not looking for them, them, but I was a moron and I definitely would not have been looking for him. It's, I'm the example to the extreme, if you will.

Sometimes we just stumble on it. And sometimes we search for it. Sometimes people are really looking hard. The gospel coalition recently published this article called a letter from a teenage anti-Christian skeptic, which I, I mean, you talk about clickbait. I mean, that, that got me. I was ready, you know, just like, okay, I'm on. So they published this letter that this 17-year-old anti-Christian skeptic wrote, and I want to read some of it because it's great. And this is just the letter, so it's the teenager speaking, says, you asked me my religious views, I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof of any of them. And from a philosophical standpoint, Christianity is not even the best. All religions, that is, all mythologies, to give them their proper name, are merely man's own invention, Jesus as much as Loki. Superstition, of course, in every age has held the common people,

but in every age, the educated and thinking ones have stood outside it. Though usually outwardly conceded to it for convenience, But I am not going back to the bondage of believing in any old and already decaying superstition." That is a letter from a 17 year old anti-Christian skeptic. This letter, that's actually much longer than that, it's just an excerpt from it, it could have been written by many people today, right? Your neighbors, your friends, your classmates, your family members, your co-workers. There's a a lot of people who believe all are part of that and they are at least confused, if not antagonistic to what Jesus is doing, right? So some people are like, yeah, I'm not sure of the superstition. That's going to make them at least kind of pull back a little bit from religion because they're not sure, right? And maybe they had a bad experience with religion and

that only compounds all the pain, right? maybe like, you know, your dad was a pastor and was, you know, like he was a terrible father and husband. That's not going to help you in, like, further on your journey with Jesus. That's going to be a roadblock, right? There are a lot of people who have these kinds of roadblocks. These people, however, even though they are frustrated, they are searching intently to find a better answer than the one that they have. Because let me tell you, every thoroughgoing atheist I know, every everybody that has completely and surely rejected the Lord as Lord or as Christianity as anything real, those are not people that are infused with joy. Those are not people that are hopeful. Those are people that get really excited about their birthday. They're not effervescent. When you walk away from the world, when you begin to kind of turn all that away,

that dead ends you inside. It actually erodes your soul. It erodes your soul. They are looking for a better answer than the one that they have, because they don't like the fact that their souls are eroding. They don't like the fact that they don't have joy. They don't like the fact, but it's either that or believe in some fairy tale. That's how they see it. It doesn't mean they're not searching. It just means they're confused. There are people that are diligently searching for that. This letter actually, it could have been written by anyone, but it was actually written by 17-year-old C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis went on to become one of the most eloquent defenders of Christianity that the modern world has ever known. And when he was 17, he penned that letter. C.S. Lewis was searching for something and he eventually found it. If you follow Jesus, then your journey may have been stumbled upon.

Your journey may have been the result of diligent searching where you overcame skepticism and nagging down and all of that. Either way, either way, the discovery of it was only the first part, because as we see in the verses, in both cases, it's not just the discovering. In both cases, the response is the same. They sell everything, right? And so in Matthew 13, in verse 44, it talks about the man who stumbled on the treasure. It says, then in his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys a field. So that's his response. Verse 46, here's the response of the guy looking for the pearls. On finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.

This means a couple of things, and I wanna state them very clearly, if not provocatively. First, the journey with Jesus is not ours when we find it. The journey with Jesus is not ours when we find it, because you notice in both parables, no one steals anything. In the first parable, the guy, he finds a treasure in a field and he doesn't say finders keepers. He doesn't hurry up and pull the treasure and look both ways and run. He doesn't do that. What does he do? He puts it back. And then he goes and he buys the field so that he can have the treasure. And the one who searched for it did not think that just because, just because he diligently searched for this pearl of great price, that he owned that pearl just because he searched for it. Just because he invested a lot of energy, probably a lot of money, a lot of time. When he found the pearl, he wasn't going to be like, oh, okay, I've searched so hard

for this. This should be mine because I've looked for it and I've found it. To begin the journey with Jesus, we need to determine its value and respond appropriately. Jesus is showing us in these parables that there is a cost to following Him. And He spells it out in a lot of places, naming Mark 8, 34 through 35. I'll just read it. It's up here, but I'll read it too. It says, and the crowd, and calling the crowd to Him with His disciples, He said to them, this is Jesus' words, to the crowd. If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me, for whoever would save his life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. Our journey with Jesus begins as we find Jesus, but we must make a decision. We must make a decision. I wanna end our time, my time with you, by giving you a warning and then giving you an insight.

In this journey with Jesus, I wanna give you a warning. It is easy, and I don't want you to make the mistake of believing that the discovery of the journey is the same as the journey itself. Let me tell you what I mean with an illustration. Once upon a time, I was in London, England. I was in London, England at a pub. The mission trip that I had gone on, we did pub trivia to just strike up spiritual conversations with people. Fantastic, fantastic mission trip, really enjoyed it. One of those guys that I ended up talking with his name was Tom. Tom was in his mid-50s. And Tom did not look like he cared what I thought, which made him like every other person in England. But in other words, he wasn't trying to, he wasn't trying to wow me, he looked moderately annoyed that I was there and talking to him, but he humored me and kind of kept talking to me, which is great, I'm really thankful.

Tom then told me a story, and I just said, I said, hey, have you ever, what is your spiritual experience? I'm just trying to help gauge where he's at, just so I'm not assuming things or whatever, I'm just trying to hear his story. So I asked him a question, I said, you know, tell me what kind of spiritual experience you had, you know, have you ever been in church? Have you ever, you know, do you ever hear anybody talking about anything about God growing up or anything like that? And he said, he told me this really involved story that I'll give you the flyover version. There was a graveyard on his way home from work. He would pass by it every day on the train. He would think day after day, I need to go visit that graveyard. One day, afterward, he walks home, instead of taking the train, goes by the graveyard, goes in the graveyard. As he's listening to his iPod, he's just hearing all these songs, like all these different songs.

He hears one song, two songs, three songs in a row about angels. He thinks that's weird, because he has thousands of songs in there. And when the third song comes on, this is just Tom telling me his story here, he said, a blinding light came over him as he was in the graveyard. else was around. And it just washed over him and he said it felt like home. He said it felt like such love and such tenderness that I just sat down. I got in kind of the fetal position and I just began rocking. And I heard something Tom says, I heard something say, I love you, I love you, I love you. Oh my gosh. And I'm sitting there going, I did not expect him to tell the story. This guy doesn't seem like he's... And so he wasn't pulling my leg. I mean, he was telling me a real story and almost like, you're not even going to believe it, right? Almost daring me to listen to this story. And so upon hearing that story,

I mean, I almost couldn't... I could only ask one question and my question was, what What happened next? And he said, well, what do you mean? I said, well, how long ago was that? He said, about eight years ago. I said, well, what did you, what happened? Like, what'd you do with that? He goes, well, what would I have done? I said, I don't know what you mean. I said, I said, do you think that what you happened, that what happened he was real? And he said, yeah. I said, then who did it? Well, I, maybe God. I mean, just real kind of like God, maybe God. And I said, did you ever ask any questions of like, they have Vickers in England, did you ever ask a vicar about that? Did you ever meet somebody who was a Christian and asked them about that? Did you ever follow up at all in any capacity with that? And he said, no, never did. And what I tried to help Tom understand in that moment, and I don't know if it,

I mean, I hope it was efficacious, but I don't think it was. Tom thought all there was to a relationship with God was blinding lights in the graveyard. That was it. That was all there was to it. It's just these fantastic, phenomenal experiences that aren't strung together, that don't have anything to do with the relationship, that don't have anything to do with ordinary life, or with marriage and family and kids and career and treating people well and loving people and finding joy, none of that. It was just blinding lights in graveyards. Let me just issue it as a warning. Don't mistake the finding of the journey, like the discovery, with the response. Those are two different things. There are many people, particularly in Burleson, because we're in the south, right? This is where we are. Let's just own it. We are in Texas, and you can throw a rock and hit a church.

You can also have any conversation pretty much with anybody here and hear about some kind of spiritual history, some kind of religious experience in some capacity in some way, typically. It is rare for you to meet an atheist who's never stepped into church in Burleson, okay? There are people like that. They're just, they don't live here for some reason. Okay. And who knows, maybe I'm wrong. If you know of an atheist who's never been in a church and they live in Burleson, introduce them to me, I'd love to meet them. In Burleson, we have a particular problem where people will say, oh, I, I, you know, I cried at camp, you know, when I was 13 or I walked an aisle at VVS when I was 10 or I, whatever. And they had this, don't need to doubt it, they had this supernatural experience. They had a real experience where they felt Jesus was calling them to himself in some capacity.

But then there was never that followup. There was never that moment where it was like, okay, I'm gonna count the constant, I'm gonna say yes to this, and I'm gonna embrace this. I'm gonna embrace this journey. I'm gonna begin this journey with Jesus. They mistake the invitation for the relationship. So I don't want to just leave you with a warning. I also want to leave you with some insight. Because you might be wondering, okay, well then, Caperton, how? Right? Don't tell me what it's not. Tell me what it is.

Beginning this journey requires an emotional connection. It requires an emotional connection. That might sound weird to some of you. And that's okay. But it is to say that when we begin the journey, part of the counting the cost, part of understanding what that is, is to actually have an emotional connection with Jesus himself, with the person of Jesus, with a guy, with an actual person. And he's speaking to you, you're speaking to him. You see this in Scripture, right? You see it all over. It doesn't say emotional connection. What it says in Scripture in Acts 2, You see people that are just there, they understand that they need to start this journey with Jesus. And what does it say? It says that they were cut to the heart. It didn't say they were cut to the mind. It didn't say they were cut to the soul. It didn't say they were cut to anything else. They were cut to the heart.

And that is that they felt it. Romans 10, 9 and 10 says, if you want to start a relationship with Jesus, says you need to believe in your heart. For with the heart, one believes and is saved. I'm not saying there's no intellectual component. I'm not saying it doesn't, that it's completely irrational or illogical. That's not what I'm saying at all. Yes, following Jesus makes perfect sense. I can tell you all that. But if all Christianity is to you is something that makes sense, then you are missing it. It is an emotional connection with Jesus. Repentance itself, actually coming to Jesus and saying, I need to change, is there's an emotional component to it. There is sorrow over sin. There is a feeling of guilt in your heart. There's knowing deep down some way that you can't quantify that you need salvation. And when you find, and here's the indicator, When you find this emotional connection with Jesus, when you form that,

when you make that, you will find joy waiting there. There will be joy. There is an unspeakable joy in knowing Jesus. It is good. There's a joy in obedience. It's not just about, you know, it's not following rules or looking right or dressing pretty on Sunday or blah, blah, blah. It's just, there's a joy. There's a true joy in obedience. There's a true joy in knowing that you are loved and accepted just like you are, but that Jesus doesn't want to leave you as you are. There's a joy in knowing that you have a purpose beyond renewing your Netflix subscription. Okay? It goes beyond that, I promise. It goes beyond that. And it's not just for your kids. It's not just for your spouse. It's not just for the marginalized in our community. It's not just for... It's not just any of that, it's all of it. That the purpose that Jesus has called you to, it encompasses all of those things and goes beyond in ways that you can't even imagine.

The journey that you're being called to, the journey that we are on with Jesus goes beyond. All of those things, it includes all those things, but it goes beyond it. The parable, the parable of the man that stumbles onto treasure. It says that he sells all that he has in his joy. He sells it in his joy. He is so exuberant that he has found something worth selling everything for, that joy has lit him up like a Christmas tree. That he is more than excited. He's more than happy about it. He's found the thing that he didn't even know he was looking for. And this thing that he didn't know he was looking for is going to change his life forever. All he has to do is go by a field. It is a joyful thing to realize that your creator has found you, that your creator loves you, and that your creator has made a way for salvation for you. This is what it is to begin the journey with Jesus.

And I hope I didn't make it sound too hard. What I wanna do just as we sing, we're gonna have a time where we just respond in song, where we're just gonna sing songs to the Lord. My encouragement for you is just as we do, I'm gonna be sitting right over there. I'll be sitting on the front row right there. And as we sing, if there's a moment where you just want to, you need someone to pray for you, you want to make a decision for the Lord, I'm not into high pressure. You know, I don't, I'm not looking to twist anybody's arm or coerce or anything like that, but I'm just making myself available. And truly, if there's somebody that you need to pray with and you don't like me very much or something and you don't want to pray with me, you want to pray with somebody else, do that. But let this time be your time of response as we sing.

Let me pray for us. Jesus, I pray that you would help us to understand what you're calling us to do, that you would make it clear that you want us to begin or take a step on this journey. And that as we do, as we move forward, that you're there waiting, that you're on, you're in the middle of it. You're on the side that we're on, on the other side, that you're walking us through the battle. Pray that we would understand that and that we walk with you in a literally every prayer.

Let's stand as we sing. Every song we can ever sing. Worthy of all the praise we can ever be. Worthy of every breath we could ever be Live for you, live for you Jesus, the name above every other knee Jesus, the only one I could ever sin Worthy of every breath we could ever be Live for you, live for you And hurry, there is no one like you There is none beside you Open up my eyes, then wander and show me Who you are and tell me What the night is in the evening Is your love to those around me

Worthy of every song we could ever sing Worthy of all the prayers we could ever bring We're here, that we will help you get help from Jesus We're here from Jesus Jesus, in the name of the Lord of the Lord Jesus, the Lord of the Lord, I give strength We're here, that we will help you get help from Jesus in the morning there is no one like you the earth may be silent over my eyes in the morning there is no one like you who I fear with your heart in me I'm gonna be in love with you And I will be my villain I will be your villain It is a fun time to shine I will be my villain And I will not be saved if not you And I will not die if I don't know your name If you don't know my name And I will not trust you

There is no one like you, there is none beside you Open up my eyes and wonder and show me who you are And you'll meet with your heart and lead me In the love to those alone of you