Come Home | Serge Durshpek

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. To share with you this morning. I. I'm sorry. If you came and you were looking for Roman to preach about the Nephilim, like Bogdan said last week, that would happen. If that's you today, I am sorry. Maybe next week. Maybe next week Roman will preach on the Nephilim. I don't know. I don't know. No promises. But what is on my heart. What is on my heart is. It's something that's just kind of been bothering me for a while now. It's a question that kind of goes through my mind every now and again. And. And it's the fact that why is it that all of us, believers, so many of us, such a large body of Christ, people who've been saved many years, some our whole life, that's me. I was born in a Christian family. That's. This includes me. And we love Jesus and we love the Word and we love scripture and the Bible, and we're filled with the Holy Spirit. And yet there's this thing where we are still struggling with different comparisons and insecurities and orphan mindsets, restlessness and fear and feeling like maybe we're not enough. And. And I still see this, and it's so. It's so prevalent. And. And I go back and think, if Jesus finished the mission, he came and he finished the mission, then why are so many of us still struggling with an orphan mindset? And so why is it that we can trust Jesus to save us, but not the Father to love us? Because we believe in the Son and we're saved by the Son, but so many are afraid to go to the Father, to go to the Father. And so I believe that part of the answer to this question is, is that many, many of us just haven't embraced the full gospel and simply maybe are satisfied with not going to hell. And I think maybe we have unintentionally emphasized pieces of the gospel more than the full gospel. And so follow me for a moment. Have you wondered why around Jesus, sinners were they. They were attracted to him like he was a friend to sinners? The Bible tells us, and, and so prostitutes, tax collectors, they were drawn to Jesus. Why is that? Because Jesus revealed a father to them that they had never known. And so I go back and I'm thinking, well, how do broken people feel around me? You can ask yourself the same question. How do broken people feel around you? Do they feel like I'm a problem? Or do they feel like, wow, I think I found home because I think that religion and control will always Put this pressure on us to want to, like, just fix people. And when we're in that mindset, then people will feel off of us, like, like, why aren't you behaving right? Do you need to, like, fix what you're doing? Because it's not, you know, fix. Fix yourself. Like, do better. You need to, like, fix this. Whatever. Whatever that may be, Right? And so. But that's what control and religious and the orphan mindset, it puts that on us. And so. And we've gotten good about telling people what they have been saved from. Like, sin, hell, death, Amen. Condemnation, shame. And that is wonderful. But we. I think we can spend more time teaching people about what they've been saved into. Into. Because Jesus didn't die just to get you into heaven. He died to bring you home to the Father. And so are you home? He died to bring you home to the Father. Are you home? The name of this message is come home. And so if you're thinking, you know, I'll go home when I die, that sounds like death to me, then death is your Savior. We'll come back to that. It should make you think, but let's go to John 14. Open your Bibles to John 14 or your phone, and I'm going to read out of John 14:6, It says, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one can come to the Father except through me. Did you notice where Jesus was taking us? He didn't say to heaven and he didn't say to religion. He said to the Father, he said, come to the Father. And so if the destination is the Father, why have so many of us stopped at the cross? He came to take us to the Father. Show us the Father. But we. We stopped at the forgiveness of sins. And so verse seven. Let's continue. If you had really known me, you would know who my father is. Verse 9. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. And so Jesus came to show us what the Father is like. And so he didn't show us just to show us miracles, but to show us what the Father's always been about, what he's always been like. And I believe that the Father God message is the primary message of Jesus. Why do I think that? Because Father is mentioned over 250 times in the New Testament. Jesus alone says Father over 165 times in the four Gospels. The emphasis is pretty heavy. And so you might be thinking, okay, like, that's cool, Serge. Like, we hear this all the time. We hear about the Father. I mean, we Just heard two weeks ago, Roman was preaching about the Father. It was a Father message on Father's Day, and it was powerful. What I'm saying is yes and yes. And I'm going to double down on that because I believe it's critical to the body of Christ. And so as we've heard so many messages, my point is, for some reason, when we look at the body of Christ, we still see fear and anxiety and depression on the rise. It's increasing. And so I don't think that we can overdo this. I think that there's a lot that needs to be done. And so, yeah, and this generation keeps being termed as the most fatherless generation of all times. And so I don't think it's. That is because we have, like, fathers running away. I think, I think it's a spirit. I think it's a. It's an orphan spirit that is so heavy, and it points to the fatherlessness, but it is that mindset where people have just kind of decided not to and just leave it alone. But the orphan mindset is very subtle. It's very subtle. It's not always so, like, loud, you know, like just a certain fear. It's nuanced. Like the way we make decisions, the way we can. Like little things. Like, do you. Do you think that you will have lack, for example? Like, do you think if you share a. A business idea with somebody, all of a sudden maybe there's not going to be enough for you? Or, you know, it's kind of like somebody's eating pizza and there's only five slices and five slices are gone, and you're thinking, somebody's not getting any pizza. Well, that's orphan. Son would say, I know the baker. There's always going to be enough pizza. So that's like son versus orphan. And so it's very subtle. But most all, I think all of us, we don't have an issue with Jesus. Yeah, we don't have an issue. We love Jesus. We don't have an issue with Jesus. And we are filled with the Holy Spirit. But for some reason, many of us have an issue with the Father, with Father God specifically. And it's wild because they are one. Jesus and the Father are one. In Isaiah, it says, when Jesus comes, one of the things he will be called is eternal Father. And so, but. But this is a scary statistic. It says 75% of believers actually have a view of God that doesn't look like Jesus. They're one. But for some reason, we have a hard time seeing them as the same. And, and so most people of the 75% that do not see God Father as Jesus, their view is simply shaped by fear, distance, punishment, maybe Father wounds, but not the revelation of Jesus. And so what I'm saying here is there's more. There's more, there's more. There's more for us as sons and daughters. And the invitation is to go deeper into the heart of the Father, go deeper into the heart of God and become sons and daughters to greater and greater dimensions. And so that is the pain of my heart for the body of Christ. And so let's go to John 17. Here Jesus talks about why he came. John 17:20 to 26. 1720-26. I'm not going to read all of this. You can, but I'm going to go straight into verse 23, because 2020-26, all of it is Jesus is praying to the Father and he's praying to the Father about us. And so in verse 23, he says, I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. [00:11:57] Speaker B: Me. [00:11:58] Speaker A: Jesus is asking his Father for us to know that, that he loves us. Us the same as he loves Jesus. The same love, the same love. You might be thinking, well, I'm not Jesus, I'm not perfect. The same love you receive Jesus, he loves you with the same love. My question is, do you believe that? Do you believe that? Not do you believe God loves Christians? Not do you believe that God forgives? Do you actually believe that Father loves you exactly like he loves Jesus? Because that is what Jesus prayed. That is what Jesus prayed. Amen. Then verse 26, it says, I have revealed you to them. He's speaking to Father. He's saying, father, I revealed you to them and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them. He's saying, father, your love will be in them. That's us. His love will be in us, and Jesus will be in us. That's what he's saying here. And I love this passage. I have revealed you to them. That means that we can look at the life of Jesus and everything he did, every moment of love, compassion, gentleness. That is the Father. Jesus describes himself as being meek, as being lowly. He's so gentle. That is Father God. That is his heart for his children. And so he's saying, I have revealed you to them. He's not saying, I revealed heaven to them, or I revealed doctrine. I revealed religion. I revealed you. Meaning Father God. He revealed him to us. And so why the following sentence? So that your love for me may be in them. So that his love will be in us. He revealed Himself to us, so that his love will be in us. Amen. Amen. That will change your whole life. Those words aren't light. It will change your whole life. Because this is about the Father's delight in me, in you. In us, the Father's love is the source. So Jesus came to reveal the goodness of the Father so that the love of the Father will be in us. And so what is the result of that? The result of that is in Romans 8. That is the result. What happens because of what Jesus did for us? We can go to Romans 8:14 to 17. I'm reading out of the NLT if you are following along. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. If you have not received so you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Fearful slaves. He does not want us to be fearful slaves. Instead you receive God's spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him Abba Father. Another word for Abba is Daddy. This for His Spirit joins with our Spirit to affirm that we are God's children. And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. So we have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry out abba, Father. The Holy Spirit in us, Holy Spirit always wants to cry out Abba. It's always responding to Father. It's always telling us about Father. It wants us to always plug back into him. No matter what, what kind of situations we are in. Go straight back to Daddy. Verse 16 says, For His Spirit joins with our Spirit to affirm that we are God's children. And so what does that mean? His Spirit joins with our Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is the one who confirms it to us that we are God's children. So if the Holy Spirit has one primary assignment regarding our identity, what is it? It's to convince us is to convince you that you belong. To convince you that you are not just forgiven, but, but that you belong to the family. You belong in the family. You are the beloved. That is what he's constantly trying to tell us. So we hear what we've been saved from, but what we have been saved into, I think is really important. Because that is everything after we get saved. Getting saved is step one. We give our life to the Lord. Now, Jesus said, I came to give you life and life more abundantly. And I think that if we just stop at salvation, we're gonna miss all the abundance he actually died for us to live in. That's. That includes every single sphere of your life. All the promises that Bogdan spoke about last week. If you weren't here, you should go back and listen to that message. It was powerful. And so we have been saved from fear, hell, sin, death, shame, condemnation, sickness, disease, poverty, and the list goes on and on. And that is beautiful, and it's wonderful. That is the finished work on the cross. And we never graduate the cross. We will forever celebrate the cross and the finished work. But we're saved into what's on the other side of the cross, which is a father, that is a family, and it's a home, it's inheritance, it is a name, it's an identity that he gives you in each of you. It's. It's a belonging that you have a knowing of. And so I think that process of how we get saved, it matters because I. I was brought up in a Christian home, been going to church my whole life. And, you know, I've given my life to the Lord, I think, in Sunday schools many times, but just growing up. But there was this one time where I went to this play called Heaven's Gates, Hell's Flames. I just gave away my age. I know how many of you have been to one of those, or it used to be called Eternity as well. And so, like, this was like a pretty legit production. There was like this 40, 50 foot staircase that went straight up the center, and there's like a podium at the very top. And so they would have just scene after scene where, you know, somebody maybe dies in an unexpected car accident. And all of a sudden these people appear in front of this staircase, the throne. And they're just standing there like, what is your name? And there's this big book. And. And so, you know, the Jesus at the top, I think, is what he was representing. He opens the book and he's going through looking for your name. And so when he sees, like, your name's not there, he just turns and then all these demons pop out of the ground and they grab this person, they open up this pit and they throw this person into this pit representing hell. And so, like, after that, like at the call, I ran, like, I ran to the altar to give my life again. Because I. I don't know. I was probably, like, in middle school, and it scared the hell out of me. And I'm like, I'm. I'm not going to be that person. I'm going to make sure. I got to make sure. The point is that I didn't get, like, in that moment. It's a good example. Like, it wasn't, like, some kind of love of God that just swept me away. The motive was fear. The motive was fear. The motive wasn't love. And I think that there's a lot of fixing that has to happen when so many of us get saved that way. Simply, like, as long as I'm saved, like, as long as I'm saved, I'm just gonna, like, park in that parking spot and, like, let life go by. And then, like, when I die, it'll be the end of trying to live this thing. But he called us into sonship, and he called us to actually, like, live in abundance and take authority and dominion as his sons and daughters on this earth. Amen. Amen. To dream with him, to co labor with him. There's so much more. There's so much more. And so why is this important? It's important to talk about this because when we look at Jesus, he first lived as a son, and then he started his public ministry in Matthew 3:16 is where we read about this. In 17, after his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him. And a voice from heaven said, this is my dearly loved son who brings me great joy. And I just want to sit on that word son for a minute, because it's not about what has or hasn't happened, really. It's more about simply, that's my son. Like, that's my son and man. He brings me joy. I have children. And after I had my children, to me, this took on a different revelation. Because when I look at my children and I see them just being themselves, being goofy or silly or they're used, they're in their world, in imagining things. And it brings me so much joy just to see them be, just to watch them be. And I can only imagine what Father God feels like. This is what he said about his son. But now he's saying that same thing about us because we are now in His Son. Amen. He is in us, and we are in him. And so why did the Father speak before Jesus stepped into public ministry? I think it's because identity will always precede assignment. Identity will precede assignment. It has to precede assignment. And I'm saying this because my own life, I experienced it in the other order. In the other order. So we were in a season before we had any kids, where we were, you know, doing the church thing. And, you know, we. We came to sun, came to church on Sundays, kind of in the back, come late, leave early, do the thing. Not doing anything, like, bad, but just kind of lukewarm, just not going anywhere, Living our life, working a lot. And so in this one season, it just felt like he was slipping all the tables. And. And in that season, I. I got burned out and I decided, you know what? I'm just going to surrender, like, all of this. I'm surrendering my business, my life, because I had my own views and versions of success. And then he started to show me, like, I'm gonna give you my versions of what you're doing, what you're doing. And he started to give me dreams. And in that season, we got into ministry and started to get involved. And it was so good because, like, I had so much emptiness. Like, I'm like, God, like, take it off, flip everything. Because I felt so empty. I was so good. Like, whatever God you want to do, I'm done. Whatever it is with my plans, I'm done. And so I got on, you know, we got on ministry. And somewhere along the way, I got on that performance treadmill. And the thing is, is down the line, you know, seasons shift, things change. And somebody messed with my performance treadmill. It was taken away from me. And guess what happened? My internal world collapsed. It collapsed. I realized that the stuff I was feeling on the inside wasn't, like, going away. I still had purpose. But for some reason, it wasn't fixing the hole that I was experiencing. It wasn't doing. Wasn't doing it. And so I started to just ask the Lord, like, what is going on? Like, I'm in ministry. I don't love these people. Like, what's. I'm reading about the love of God. And I'm like, I don't love these people. Like, let's be real. And I don't want to conjure stuff up. And so he started to show me. He started to reveal himself to me as Abba father. And he would show up and would just sit with me and. And belonging and identity. He just. He just washed. He just kept washing me. And there wasn't much dialogue. Mostly just a lot of puddles on the floor in my room. Just me and him and something started to shift. Something started to shift as I spent very intentional time with Abba father and I noticed that I started to soften in my heart because I mean, I'm a pretty like tender guy, but I don't cry for nothing. I just, I can't, I wouldn't ever get emotional. Like I'm just like, man, what is wrong with me? But when he would, when he would just sit there over time I realized that those moments were so powerful and you can't put it into words. It's very difficult to explain. But so much happens when we sit with him and allow him to, to just wash us. And I realized it is the foundation. And so we just wept and it was so sweet. Those times became so sweet to me. And even if a few days go by, I. I'm just drawn back for more. I wasn't planning on crying, But he showed me that his love is the foundation for our soul and our heart. And without it, we can't build our life, we can't build anything, we can't build ministry. He wants to be the foundation. And so I used to like purpose. If you know me, you know that purpose is my message. But in that season he started to show me that purpose without sonship rooted in God is like trying to drive a car around the world that has like a tiny gas tank and, and it's a beater car. Like you're going to struggle, you're going to get frustrated, you're going to not get very far. And so I've learned that purpose isn't enough. It's not enough. Purpose is. Purpose makes terrible identity. And I discovered that God never intended for my purpose to carry the weight of my identity. It can't. Because purpose was never designed to tell you your value. It can't. That is father's job. Only Abba Father can tell you. Only your creator. Only the Creator can tell its creation, its value, its identity, what it's for, what you're for, what I'm for. Only your Father can do that. And he said, son, I think you became a minister before you became a son. And so it was, it was a beautiful time of growing. And so purpose can give you direction, but only the Father will give you identity. I'm realizing I have to hurry up. Let's go to John 15:15, 4, 5 remain in me, and I will remain in you for a branch. Sorry, 4 or 5. John 15, verse 4 and 5 remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. He says, I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who remain in me and I in them will produce much fruit. So apart from me, you can do nothing. The words here are remain, remain, remain, remain. He's not saying try harder. He's not saying do more. He is saying remain. He's saying stay. He's saying abide, and that'll take you further. So my job is to abide, and it's his job to produce. Because we can't find our value producing, we can only find it by abiding in Him. Amen. Amen. I'm going to forward a little bit because we're almost out of time. And so a son will rest, receive, trust, celebrate in a son mind. When we are sons and daughters, we are thinking, I'm going to rest, I'm going to receive and I'm going to trust, and I'm going to celebrate, I'm going to abide, inherit and belong. Those are the thoughts of a son. And I will work from approval. So an orphan will work for the father, a son will work from the father. Does that make sense? And so my job is to abide. His job is to produce branches. I've never seen grapevines, like, strain to produce a grape. They don't. They just produce them. Why? They simply stay connected. Simply stay connected. And so Father God started to show me that son just sitting with me, you have the same value as if you're ministering to like hundreds of of people. You have the same exact value. And so out of that place, I think, is where like the true drive will be birthed. Because the thing is, is when you receive from him, it will cause you to simply realize that you get to do this because you get to be so full that it's not like I have to do this stuff, I get to do this stuff. And so Matthew 3 is important because he wants us to come from a place of sonship. A lot of you here, you volunteer, you serve, you lead, you give, you produce. And I'm not saying stop serving, I'm saying don't do it in reverse order, saying keep the order of abiding. And then from there you will release and give out. Because when we don't, the orphan mentalities that aren't corrected with him, they start to show up and pop up down the road, and then we have to deal with it regardless. And so because you will always reproduce what you are, you will always reproduce who you are, you can't reproduce something you're not. You can't give what you don't have. And so that's why it becomes critical that we become like him, because then we will reproduce other sons and daughters. Amen. And that's important because there's people that God is calling you to. But the thing is, is you will never have authority over people that you don't first learn to love. And that can only happen with him. That can only happen with him because the orphan mindset will never take you to your destiny because it doesn't allow line with kingdom realities. It will always take you the other direction. When we start to think like sons and start to think about the kingdom of God and how it operates, it will always offend an orphan mind, the orphan spirit, orphan thoughts. And so I know some of you thinking, well, how about the work? If it was I. I say this. God has angels who work 24 7. And he didn't. He created Adam and Eve because he wanted a family, not because he was looking for workers. And I didn't have children because I needed somebody to mow the lawn. I, you know, some of you, I can argue like 50, 50, I don't know. I'm kidding. But like, I. I had children because I was looking for someone to, to raise, to pour into, to care for, raise up, you know, legacy, someone to love. And so the orphan mind will always tell you that you're not doing enough. You're not doing enough. And I love that Dylan brought that up today because it connects with what I'm saying. When we're thinking we're not doing enough, guess what happens then? You're not doing enough. If I think I'm not doing enough, then I will automatically think that you're not doing enough. And if you live in my house, then that means that my wife will always feel like she's not doing enough. My kids will always feel like they're not doing enough. Whoever you're leading, they're going to feel like they're not doing enough. And it goes on and on and on. But the thing is, is the love of God actually came to remove that thing off of us, to remove performance off of us. It removes the need to perform form. And I love that the disciples even came to Jesus after he released them. They came back and there go Jesus. Even the demons listen. Even the demons left. Like we have authority, like we have power. Yay. And he's like, I like that you like that. Except for you should rejoice that your names are written in The Book of Life. What's he doing? He's saying, it's cool that you love power, but what's greater is sonship. You should celebrate your sonship, not just that you have power, because that's going to happen by default, but the fact that you're a son is the greatest call that you can have on your life, is to be a son and daughter of God. And he's making a loud statement there. It's a very bold. And in John 14:18, as I'm wrapping up, this is one of my favorite places in scriptures. Jesus says, I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. He knew our lost and broken state because from the beginning, we were made orphans when we lost our home in the garden. When Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden, they lost their home, they lost that intimate connection. Jesus came back. He goes, I know. I know how you feel. You're orphans, but guess what? I'm not gonna leave you as orphans. Thank you, Lord. The whole point of the prodigal story, the prodigal son, is like, I read it for years, for years, and I would always see the two sons you have, you know, the prodigal son, and then you have the one that's like, legalistic, kind of religious, and. But they're all both orphan minds, and that's all I would see. And then finally I'm like, the story is actually about a really good father, not just about the sons. It's about a perfect father, about a really, really kind father. And so that is the greatest call on our life. If we can stand. We're going to pray in just a moment. If I can have the ministry team come up. My heart is to. To stir you today. And if the Holy Spirit stirred in you, if any of these things landed to where you said, you know, I. I recognize myself in that maybe you've been saved your whole life, but you've never come home. Jesus says, I came so that you would go home to the Father, like he came to connect us back to the Father. And so my call today is, have you come home? You might be saved, but maybe you've never included yourself in that bunch of loved, dearly loved sons that he's talking about. And so if that's you today, I invite you forward for prayer. Because the Father wants to touch your hearts today. He wants to touch every heart he desires to manifest himself to every single one of us. He wants us to wake up every morning knowing that he's sitting at the end of our bed. Can't wait to talk to you. He can't wait to talk to you every morning. He can't wait to talk to you. That's how much he cares for you. And so. Maybe you know that Jesus loves you. But. But if you're honest, you've spent most of your life trying to find value, prove value anyway. Maybe that's you. Maybe you're still trying to belong. Maybe you're still trying to feel seen. Maybe you're still trying to find acceptance. Maybe you're still trying to feel like he delights in you. There's an invitation this morning. Maybe you've spent years following Jesus, but you've never come home to Him. You've never included yourself in that. Maybe you've been performing and haven't realized that you already are loved and that you already belong. Come home. Come home. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Father, we just love. We love you and we love your presence. Thank you, Lord, that you are touching hearts today. Thank you. That you are washing us. That you are washing us. That you are washing us. Filling us. Father, I just ask that you touch every heart today. Every heart. Every person who feels like they're still not enough, that they still need to perform. He's not looking for your performance. He's looking for your heart. He's looking for your heart. And he's saying, son, I've never been more excited about you than this version of you. Not thrown off by your problems. Your sin doesn't scare me. I'm not scared of your sin. I'm not surprised at your fall. Come home because you belong. Maybe you're here. And you have never received Jesus as your own personal Lord and Savior. Maybe you've never given him your life. There is no better time than right now. Than right now. He is calling you. He's calling you home. Thank you, Lord. We love you, Jesus. [00:42:54] Speaker B: Thank you for joining King Movement online. I pray and hope that that sermon impacted you deeply. I would love if you shared this with a few friends and family. And before you go, don't forget to subscribe. See you next week.