Tonight we have praise and worship led by our very own Kev Cummings. The word of God is brought to us by Chris Houghton. The service is led by Sue, with input by John and Mark.
e e e e e e EX e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e good evening friends and welcome to biker Church y welcome those who join us online uh to St Martins here at Wilston what a beautiful day yeah well done to all of those who’ve been out for a ride those who come here on bikes and for the many who still probably out on Bikes let’s be honest so we’re bit low in numbers don’t feel like it does it cuz you’re here it’s all right yeah yeah and I make up a lot of numbers I do well we do between us and and uh and of course it’s super bikes up at Alton Park oh you know of course it’s super bikes up at Alton Park yeah so been stuff going up there I think bikers church should send me and you up to Alton Park sometime you went need Super bikes you know you I mean and we’ll do Outreach all expensive pay absolutely just as it was at uh the Stafford classic bik show couple of uh weekends back 21 21st uh group went up on behalf of CMA and bikers Church thanks to all those who went up and tonight of all things we’ve got to do a shout out to guy Martin hello guy hello guy text us guy I’ll give you my phone number guy so yeah guy Martin we blame Amanda for this Amanda’s not here Amanda got into conversation with guy and he said give us a shout out so guy few other shout out you want to shout out to some of your crew oh yeah I want to shout out to the Yorkshire Coast Classic motorcycle riders group and they’re a fantastic group down in East Yorkshire North Yorkshire and uh I want to say hi because I know some of them are watching tonight fantastic we’ve also shout out to Amanda uh Mike fitton uh and all the CMA and bikers Church who are at is it will will be at the TT so TT well done to the crew that are going out there is that where they are that’s where they so we’ve got that going on what else we going oh ah okay do you know it’s getting like Methodist this with all the notices it really is so we’ve also got coming up uh truck stop Phil up uh uh Midway okay guys 8:49 time of worship and fellowship Friday the 17th 5 till 7 if you can be at that please join the crew there and then uh in a fortnite’s time fortnite’s time what have we got biker Church biker Church oh Stone St yeah we got sto it’s we’ve rehearsed this bikers Church Stoke so hello to the guys there some of you watching and uh hello to Mal big thumbs up to you big thumbs up and thinking about Mal don’t forget that we also have the podcast sunny side up Podcast uh with uh Mal and Andy uh it’s great if you’re not listening to it already it’s really really good stuff so that Sunny Side Up on the this way up this way up I prefer Sunny anyway this way up that way up that way up uh podcast uh it’s on various things that you and it’s there so podcast we’ve got that going on uh oh hello Glenn hello Seb and hello Mick have we done it everything now oh no we haven’t we haven’t we we’ve got some something else can you just give us a twirl biker Church hoodies we were asked about biker Church hoodies so uh we’ve done a a small run for those of figure physique like us because anyway so bikers Church hoodies if you want a bikers Church hoodie um our glamorous assistant on the merchandise test Ian uh would love uh to for you to take a little deposit and then we can get some ordered for you uh and on the desk is don’t forget the welcome packs if you’ve not been for before welcome packs please take a welcome pack and anything else that’s on there particularly biker Bibles yeah please if you’ve got a way of giving those out uh uh you know they’re great with testimonies in and God’s word then please take some with you and hand them out that’s what they’re there for as we share God’s word now what else have we got uh have you done that one how much of these by the way how much are those well what we do they’re going to work out £25 we re do you know that’s what it works out quity they’re very good quality excellent and we’ve obviously got these and we’ve got special offer hold on we’ve got a special offer oo cuz we got some old stock in t-shirts they’re only a f now oh wow so get your Bargains well you can okay uh have we done that this is Sue’s written this no we’ve done that done that done that one done that one did you do that what’s that one oh yeah uh couple of shout outs for some uh some bikers Cafe there’s the castle Cafe at withen se let’s say it for them there be some uh watching from there and one that I frequent which is trackers in Bridlington fantastic big one for trackers and Midway Truck Stop we’ve done that yeah but we could do it twice okay and Midway TR yes Miss and Midway Truck Stop so without further Ado after all those wondrous notices and the wondrous model we now hand over to the wonderful Sue as she begins our worship together thank you sue we can go sit down you know are we done yeah we’re not going to interrupt her are we no we’re not interrupt at all no no [Applause] no I don’t know why I’ve got my glasses on because I got nothing to read and I can’t see anyone when I’ve got them on so and then my big ones as well tonight they’re not even my small ones and i’ just like to just like to welcome everybody and um open with a prayer if we may thank you oh God I’m so grateful Lord for the gift of humor and I know I don’t always have it um but others do and make up for me in spades absolute Spades Lord and uh just thank you God for the role and the gift that humor has and plays Lord in in our lives um and uh I just think about the emergency services and the and the military particularly when I thank God for humor um yeah thank you so much Lord that uh it’s a gift that brings health to our bodies and strength into our bones and uh once upon a time there used to be a publication called the Readers Digest and in that there used to be an article every time called laughter is the best medicine so Lord God I ask that you would shed abroad in our hearts um laughter and joy amen Kev may I invite you up to come and lead us in song brilliant anybody ever watch Justin’s house I like Justin’s house I watch Justin’s house me twoe grandson daughter right please forgive me that’s about our level is it pluged in yeah it is Justin’s house go won come watch it Justin and Robert the robot what saying she good enough to be on no I’m not not what I’m saying right well good evening from me um I got a request to uh sing a song that came through a my little text and uh I didn’t know it and so I’ve actually to go to YouTube to try and learn it and find out what it’s like uh so I’ve not learned it very well uh but if you uh if you all know it you can sing really loud and help me out but the person who requested it is now going to come and explain why they asked for this song so if we can have a big biker Church Clap for Sue I just like it what a it girl okay should you all stand up who said no oh sorry if you can let’s no prayer Heavenly Father we just going to worship you now we’re just going to sing our songs and as we sing we’re just going to open our hearts and we’re going to open our minds and our bodies to you to your son and to your Holy Spirit and we pray that you’ll minister to us tonight heavenly father it’s not that you need us to sing to you you have angels to sing to you in heaven but you say that you will inhabit all praises and we pray for that tonight amen amen okay it’s a song called God is for us anybody know it anybody know it please say you do [Music] right we will fear the battle we won’t fear the nights we will walk the valley with you by our side you will go before us you will lead the way we have found a refuge only you can sing sing with joy now I got his Forest The Father’s Love is a strong and Mighty Fortress raise your voice now the love is greater look us stand against us if but God is Forest even when I Stumble even when I fall even when I turn back still your love is sure you will not abandon you will not for saake you will Che me on with an NeverEnding Brave sing with joy now I got his for us the Father’s Love is a strong and Mighty Fortress raise your voice now the love is greater who can stand against us if our God is for us sing with joy now oh I got is for us the Father’s Love is a strong and Mighty Fortress raise your voice down all of is greater who can stand against us my God is for us neither height nor death can separate us hell and death will not defeat us he who gave his son to us holds me in his love neither height nor death can separate us hell and death will not be fed as you came his son to us holds me in his love soon with joy now I got his Forest The Father’s Love is a strong and Mighty Fortress raise your voice now a love is greater who can stand against us if a God is for [Music] us see with joy now I got his Forest The Father’s Love is a strong and Mighty Fortress raise your voice now no love is greater look stand against us if my God is for [Music] uh Rob can Rob can I have more loudness on my guitar I can’t hear myself sorry [Music] than to the L I got his love and just forever he is good he’s Above All Things his love and just Forever sing praise sing praise his mighty hand is outstretched out love and CH forever Yes master for a life that has been reborn his love and just Forever sing praise sing praise sing praise sing praise forever God is faithful forever God is strong forever God is with us forever [Music] forever God is faithful forever God is strong forever God is with us forever forever I start again why I mess with the first up give thanks to the Lord Our God and King his love and just for forever for he is good he is above all things he love and just Forever sing praise sing praise his mighty hand and outstretched arm his little angels R for a life that has been reborn is love and just Forever sing praise sing praise sing praise sing praise come on let’s set the roof off forever God is faithful forever God is strong forever God is with forever forever God is faithful wherever God is strong whever God is with us forever forever from the great to the sadome is love and just forever find the gra God carry on his love and just Forever sing praise sing praise sing praise sing praise forever God forever God is faithful forever God is strong forever God is Withers forever forever God is faithful forever God is strong forever God is with us forever forever [Music] his mighty hand and I rest on his love and together together for a life that has been reborn his love Andes Forever sing praise sing praise sing praise sing praise forever God is faithful forever God is strong forever God is with us [Music] forever forever God is faithful forever God is strong forever God is with us forever [Music] forever forever [Music] forever forever forever [Music] hallah Praise Jesus hallelujah praise you Lord hallelujah praise you praise the Lord yeah and there’s only a few of you you have to make more noise it’s a very very old song and when I was um when I played last time bik church and I was going home and God laid this song on my heart to sing and I oh God no I don’t want to sing that it’s ancient he oh good I don’t want to do that song and anyway I tried it and I liked it so let’s see if you recognize it oh the light of your love is shining in the midst of your dark The Shining Jesus light of the well shine upon us set us free by the truth you now bring us shine on me shine on me you ready Shine Jesus Shine fill this land with the father’s Glory BL BL set our hearts on fire Glory overflow let the nations with grace and mercy s with your word Lord and let there be light Lord I come to your awesome presence from the Shadows into your Radiance by your blood I may enter your brightness search be true me soon all my darkness Shine On Me Shine On Me Shine Jesus Shine fill this land with the father’s glory and bl Spirit BL set our hearts on fire Glory will flow let that name ations with grace and mercy send forth your word Lord and let there be [Music] light as we Gaze on your king the brightness so our face has displayed your likeness Ever Changing from glory to glory Mir him May life set a story shine on me shout of me Lord shine on Me Shine Jesus Shine fill this land with the father’s glory and bl Spirit BL set our hearts on fire Flow River flow blood the nations with grace and mercy send for your word Lord and let there me Light Shine Jesus Shine build this land with the father’s glory and bl Spirit BL set our hearts on fire Glory over flow blood the nations with grace and mercy sful your word Lord and let there be light one more time Shine Jesus Shine fill this land with the father’s glory and bl Spirit Place set our hearts on fire glow Riv flow blood the nation with grace and mercy send forth your word Lord and let there be life Hallelujah [Music] Heavenly Father we pray we pray we pray that you delighted in our worship and our humble voices and our humble singing but with our hearts open to you amen God bless thank you I’m really tempted to sing that again without with with no no um no I know Bob he hates my voice I’m so grateful Jesus doesn’t with all due respect just want to read this Short scripture in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he was with God in the beginning through him all things were made without him nothing was made that has been made that’s every one of us in here in him was life and that light that life was the light of men the light shines in the darkness but the darkness has not understood it and in other translations it says that Darkness has not put it out there came a man who was sent from God his name was John he came as a witness to testify concerning that light so that through him all men might believe he himself was not the light he came only as a witness to the light the True Light that gives light to every man was coming into the world he was in the world and though the world was made through him the world did not recognize him he came to that which was his own but his own did not receive him yet to all who received him to all all who believed in his name he gave the right to become children of God children born not of natural descent nor of human decision or a husband’s will but born of God the word became flesh and dwelt among us we have seen his Glory this is John writing he had seen his glory amen the glory of the one and only who came from the father full of grace and truth elsewhere Paul St Paul writes of the love that that the father Our Father in Heaven the perfect dad the perfect father lavished on us that we may be called children of God and that is what we are that is what we are so thank you Lord for your promises amen please may I invite you up Chris Chris is going to bring our message today [Music] it’s lovely to be here was here was here oh really really okay right go for it I’m of a certain age that my parents used to have a particular tabloid newspaper delivered to them every day we up there right who who remembers these y y well that that puts me a month of I’m I’m still in my late 50s should we say enjoying late 50s and yeah so this introduces the theme for this evening and yeah knowing you’ll be loved until the end of time Hallelujah knowing you won’t leave her bedside okay oh I’ve got one here as well and this wonderful one hitting the road together now those of you who know Ruth and I know that that’s probably not going to happen again in the future uh but we won’t go there we won’t go there if Colin was here I’m sure that five days on from now 24 hours a day Colin would probably run out of steam and say I’ve just done a little bit on the love of God but so I’m going to try and do in 20 minutes something about the love of God but I’m going to start off with something a little bit more quirky than this Q2 so pop songs these are either the first lines or specific lines in the songs hands up if you know the group who did line one or Shout It Out sing a bit B okay I’m in not always love you yeah okay so Beach Boys wonderful next one How Long Will I Love You wonderful well done Round of Applause to that person um Ellie Golding yeah Queen and I didn’t even have to say a word it was every teenager’s song can [Music] anybody than me somebody to [Music] okay and I will always love okay who y Dolly Parton originally Whitney Houston did a cover she loves [Applause] you okay so we know that’s by the Adam Adam ants don’t we yeah love of my life queen queen yep queen queen The Power of Love Frankie Goes to Hollywood top marks to sue all of me loves all of you leg leg John Legend and this Crazy Little Thing Called [Music] Love okay so what we say to you every day every so what we’ve got is the P Persistence of love the questioning of How Long Will I Love can somebody actually in my loneliness find me somebody to love and then oh I’ll always love you and then that declaration yes she loves me Ruth you’re giving it away here you know and we’ve got the energy of Love The Power of Love All of Me Love loves all of you and we’re beginning to get into interpersonal relationships here and then you got that wonderful one from Queen which is about how confusing love can be there Crazy Little Thing Called Love okay moving on okay why do you think we are obsessed by love songs okay they the answers up there but don’t look at the screen um because yes love songs Express something about relationship and our need our almost god um defined element which which is about relationship being important to us if we go back to the Garden of EG God creates Adam so you have that relationship well you got relationship between God and His creation and then God and His creation and Adam comes along and then you’ve got God and his relationship with creation Adam and Eve comes along so we we build up this notion that it is almost Godly defined that we are in a sense created for relationships but we know from the Garden of Eden that things don’t always work out right Adam and Eve they wanted to be like God they wanted to have that knowledge of what is good and evil and so that relationship with God got broken and God said no you can’t stay in this place and Adam and Eve were evicted at the Garden of Eden because they wanted to know the difference between good and evil right and wrong if we go into Judaism in Judaism there’s a concept which is called the which is the personification of evil we would probably describe Satan devil whatever but we see how evil comes in to relationships and how serpent in the Garden of Eden said did God really say this to you did he really say and that doubt formed the breakdown of that relationship between God Adam and Eve so from that we have the concepts of Love inter personal relationship our relationship with God but also we have the breakdown of love where hurt and harm come into play and I’m sure that there’s a lot of us at different aspects and points in Our Lives who have experienced hurt and harm in relationships so having looked at love hurt harm relationships and just going to park that there for a little moment because I’m going to do a little bit of hypotheticals um CU I like doing things like this um but I want to give you my credentials for sort of doing this because you some people might say well is that really can that really be so I surrendered my life to Christ at the age of 17 at an Eric Del mission in St Helens I’ve been in the church for 36 years now 8 years Parish life 8 years Hospital chaplain and then 15 years as a British Association of counseling and Psychotherapy NHS mental health counselor that’s a long long word for you long sentence and I’m giving you those credentials because I’m about to profer some hypotheticals which I want you to sort of stay with me about and some of these hypotheticals relate to the idea of hurt and harm and Trauma now just as an aside from that you’ll gather from the screen that yeah part of my Branch nickname is I’m Admiral sensible thank you Kev um although Kev decided on a different nickname but we’ll stick with the Admiral sensible now I do believe in all the gear all the time so you’ll see that at atg at and the reason why and this was something that traumatized me at the time was I took my test at the age of 24 in the new witness test center out leading out onto the bridge and we were all asked to stay for until 1:00 so there’s 12 of those there and then these two police bikers Rock up and they pull out some photograph albums well needless to say a couple of the folk in Shell suits and trainers went off and wretched on the nearby grass Verge um so they weren’t very nice um sort of photograph albums but it traumatized me it traumatized me to the point where it made a difference it made that difference that I believe in all the gear all the time so what I want to do now is just describe a hypothetical scenario it has no factual relationship to anyone and some of the details are purposely going to be completely inaccurate so my Advanced apologies if this is a little bit too close for anybody I’m sorry and if it does touch some sensitivities if you’re listening here or if you’re listening online in the future seek help if it does touch some sensitivities so the essence of bikers church is that we are bikers we are Christians and bikers and as bikers we are fully aware of the risks that beset us none of us thinks that we it’s going to ever happen to us but when we get on those two wheels we are aware of the potential that could happen so the hypothetical I want to give to you long Country Lane 50 Zone obviously it’s not Wales because it’s a 50 Zone um and there aren’t any snails crawling along the road overtaking us um and in the far distance there’s this little road coming off and we say I know for the purposes of this evening I’m just going to say a red Vox all just coming out to the edge of the road now those of us who might have done might not have done speed a word as courses um you will know from the training that people aren’t looking for vehicles they are looking for spaces they’re not looking for other people on the road they’re looking for a space that they can jump out into so this bikers going for it sees the red fox all come to a halt thinks fine carries on 20 M away from the junction Fox all decides no I’m going to go for it yeah we we all know what happened don’t we because it’s that typical smidsy sorry mate I didn’t see you there the person was looking for a space they just went for it so unfortunately the biker um yeah biker break but wasn’t time enough to stop themselves and sadly went over the Bonnet and rolled over a few times down the road in all probability there’s probably going to be some injuries a little bit of gravel rash possibly I know broken arm broken collar bone those type of things and in that moment as the biker comes around they knew they’ve been robbed of their physical well-being because oh it hurt it hurts and those have I do see a few nods in here so this is probably touched home a little bit but the car had disappeared car had gone it done a runner they know they’ve been robbed of their physical well-being they know they”re been robbed of their no claims discount they know they’ve been robbed of their functionality of their bike their jackets torn their helmets cracked but hey I’m still alive so still on the road surface wondering about their well-being they hear the distant sounds of Emergency Services an ambulance whizzes past them they’re thinking hey mate sorry um well can’t raise arms but I’m here and I’m not going to do an impersonation of a fire engine or a police car you get the idea but they pass and go and they leave the biker thinking am I invisible what’s just happened here and they’re getting really angry so then the next person to rock up is a cyclist the cyclist duie Parks the bike next to the curb with the left left pedal on the curb side so yeah I’ve been cyclist in the past they come over and they have a look oh mate that looks bad that looks really bad yeah I’m not really sure I’m equipped for this I’m I’m a I’m a work’s first AER mate but this is just too much for me um so I what um look oh flck the kill switch on your um look I’ll fck the kill switch on your bike and here’s your keys but I’m sorry I’m just going to have to leave you just someone else I’ll deal with you so then white fan man stops oh gosh we had a few Chuckles and about white van man so yeah and obviously for most bikers white van man has a purpose and they don’t want you to get in the way of their purpose so there’s a sense a little bit of enity between bikers and white van men anyway this white van man driver gets that oh mate we need to get it sorted don’t we so he checks him over makes sure that yeah okay it’s probably a broken arm so bit puts a sling in out of his first a kit from in the van gets him into the van trundles the bik on to the pavement locks it up and white van man then takes s biker off to A&E A&E deal with him and biker recovers what I’ve just told you is a story of the Good Samaritan but I don’t want to stop there the Jesus focuses on the concept in the Good Samaritan about the Samaritan and what he does for the person who’s been robbed and beaten and these two people really have no reason to like each other whatsoever but the Good Samaritan puts him on his donkey takes him to an end asks the inkeeper to look after him make sure he gets him well but I don’t want to look at the Good Samaritan because this Good Samaritan has been spoken about a lot of time what I want to talk about is the victim because we don’t hear anything more about what happens to the victim in the Good Samaritan person was robbed people walked by indifferent didn’t bother until one person picked up and ensured that they were looked after yes the Good Samaritan probably felt quite smug that he’d done the right thing at the end of the day we don’t know we’re not told that but if I I go to my paraphrase of the story yes the biker has been robbed of their bike in a sense they’ve been robbed at their physical well-being through their injuries their ability to work and function normally because of their convalescence and then because the other driver had done a runner they’ve had to claim on the no claims discount of 17 years so that’s their premium is going to be going up Sky High and as they eventually get back on the bike there’s that sort of shakiness about getting back on the bike for the first time and there’s that over cautiousness about oh right okay perhaps it’s better to do 15 miles an hour on this 50 stretch just in case and it almost gets to the point of a little bit of paranoia what they didn’t account for was the long-term impact that drama has on the human psych how we have the potential to retain hurt and harm so as they’re riding along every time they see something might be an avert on the road sign which says buy your new Vox all Vox all they see a red car they hear a siren where is he where is he where is he where is he and even the poor cyclist that pulls up at the side of the they just want to Bunch their Living Daylights out of this person because they’re a cyclist and then when they finally get into work in the toilets it says your workplace first AER is so they get to a point where it’s almost rageful there are what kind what’s happened is bik has been hurt yes their physical ailments and their injuries May well have been healed and um their bones fixed mended braces fixators casts we can do things like that with bones but they’ve been traumatized by their past experience what is happening in the present moment is they are still reacting not responding reacting something very instinctual about it they’re reacting to unresolved triggers their interpersonal relationship with other people in the world has been damaged by another person’s poor judgment or laps in concentration and what I want to say is that at an interpersonal relationship level it’s likely that we have all been hurt and damaged by the words actions or inactions the emissions of others and the loving trust that we should have for our fellow Brethren around us has been marred because yes we are suspicious every time that red Vox all oh if we see a red Vox all red light rage full-blown own rage and we are untrusting of others so what does the bible tell us about forgiveness Peter’s always the one who seems to ask the awkward questions isn’t he and he always gets the really challenging answers from Jesus very often in triplet as well so Peter challenges Jesus how many how many times must I forgive my brother if they hurt me it’s up to seven times thinking well seven times that’s pretty good going mate and Jesus says no no Peter no up to 70 time 7 Peter had been brought up with elements of the levitical law which said it’s Leviticus 24: 19-21 in as much as a person was injured they had the right to injure the person back it’s pretty gross isn’t it the concept of restitutional theology but what Jesus was advocating is forgiveness and love beyond the rigidity of Old Testament law that actually we are going somewhere beyond that in terms of our interpersonal relationships not just with ourselves and others but with God as well what it points out though as well is that in as much as each and every one of us have been harmed or hurt by others we have all potentially been involved in hurting and harming others if we go to John’s first epistle if we say we have no sin the truth isn’t in us but if we confess our sins God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from every kind of wrong we have all sinned we have all fallen short of the glory of God now I’m sure you’ll have heard the phrase the flippant phrase oh forgive and forget well yes we can forgive and we’re called to forgive but we don’t have a file delete option in our brains the notion of what has happened to us remains part of our chronological history oh that we could have a file delete option but then we’d be thinking what’s in that space I’m sure there was probably something a bit dodgy in that space But I can’t remember it it would be lovely to be able to forget but we can’t so if you find yourself struggling with those type of memories research done in counseling Realms said that potentially 75% of us will recover from trauma without the help and support of others we will res solve it in our own way in our own time and get through it but some of us might need extra help in doing that and that’s where if you need help ask and seek for help and don’t just leave it to the last moment because when I worked in the NHS the waiting lists eventually went from 6 weeks to 51 weeks so if you feel you are struggling and you need help and support go and ask and seek help also oops I’ll just discreetly reconnect this microphone you got this organization here and these wonderful badges here um mental health might bank I’m going to say yes if you can join you’ll find support there um but they are a signed posting service they’re there to try and help people who are struggling also there’s lots of other Charities out there that are focused on trying to help people who are struggling with psychological issues if it’s stuff in your childhood National Association for people abused in childhood napac they do a lot of good work and they’re accessible for people there’s all sorts of stuff in terms of help perhaps two of the most significant would be trauma Focus CBT or IM movement desensitization regime in terms of trauma Focus therapy but go and seek for help but what I want to also say is that hurt might not just be inter personal hurt might be an organization that has damaged or hurt you so there’s a little bit harder the popular one at the moment is the Royal Male Scandal and we will have if you’ve seen the the um the series about the Royal Male Scandal and how people have been hurt by an organization we are called to for for give and be forgiven if we are to love God with all our heart with all our soul with all our mind and with all our strength and love our neighbors as ourselves and that’s what these little bits are down the side here o Israel the Lord your God is one you should love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind with all your strength strength is about how we access support from each other and love your neighbor as yourself if we are going to offer that level of love then not only do we have to realize our responsibilities to forgive but to also acknowledge our need to be forgiven when we look at the Grim scene of the crucifixion we see Jesus being nailed to a cross hand and feet and what are the words that Jesus says father forgive them for they know not what they do and the criminal at the side who’s been crucified with him there’s two Jesus turns to the one and says today you will be with me in Paradise if you’ve been hurt or are mortified by the hurt that you’ve made done to others then Jesus offers you forgiveness he offers you the ability to have a new life a new life from this moment and going forward into the future a new life with him knowing that you are forgiven and yes it is really hard at times to think that perpetrators of hurt and harm can also seek God in Repentance and be forgiven but we are called to love not to love conditionally the ones who we think are worthy of being loved but we are called to love with unconditional love if you already know this love and know this forgiveness but there’s an obstacle in a relationship then scripture tells us go confront that person if they still have a problem then get two witnesses and go back and confront them again scripture tells us to be congruent to try and make good to try and bring about forgiveness and seek a resolution that’s in Matthew 18 we are called to love unconditionally despite our differences we are all part of one body and yeah sometimes we make such a big issue over the little stuff that it gets in the way of that call by Jesus to love unconditionally so if you don’t already know this loving forgiveness in your life and want at this moment to reach out for the love of God in your life and the ability to know forgiveness and to be able to offer forgiveness and I ask you pray the words of this prayer with me and once you’ve prayed it to seek out somebody from church someone at work who you know to be a Christian someone who wears a white cross on the back of their cats or somebody who wears tribe of Judah or long riders or God squad or many of the other Christian different biker organizations to reach out to them and say I’ve prayed this prayer I want to go for with Christ so As We Gather here and those of you online just want you to read through this prayer with me this evening dear Lord Jesus I realize I’m a sinner I’ve hurt you and hurt others by my words actions and inactions I ask for your forgiveness I believe you died for my sins and rose from the dead I turned from my my sins and surrender my will to you by your Holy Spirit be present in my heart and life I want to love and trust you as my Lord and Savior amen reading from Matthew’s gospel chapter 22 this is from the Baptist Church version the Contemporary one of the teachers of the law of Moses came up while Jesus and the sades for arguing and when he heard Jesus give a good answer he asked him what is the most important commandment Jesus answered the most important one says people of Israel you have only one Lord and God you must love him with all your heart soul mind and strength the second most important commandment says love others as much as you love yourself no other commandment is more important than these and the man replied teacher you’re certainly right to say there is only one God it is also true that we must love God with all our heart mind and strength and that we must love others as much as we love ourselves these Commandments are more important than all the sacrifices and offerings that we could possibly make when Jesus saw that the man had given a sensible answer he told him you are not far from God’s kingdom after this no one dared Jesus any more questions thank you John thank you Chris can I don’t know this microphone y um I have a person who was also um taken aside and talked to by somebody when I was a new biker when I was 16 17 years of age long time ago now 50 years and I was filling up with petrol and the person um who was looking after The Filling Station um waited until I went with my money and um in those days I was I had a little C d7500 and um I used to to ride that in all sorts of peculiar clothes and we’re talking about the 1970s um I had a pair of lilac metallic lilac boots that came up to my knees and I used to wear them with shorts on my bike and ride from where I lived down to taon to college and he didn’t want me to do that anymore so he took me aside into his office and he told me about the loss of his son who had died because he wasn’t adequately clothed and I will always be grateful all the gear all the time I adopt that myself I would love it if everyone else did but we’re creatures with free choice in every area of life and within 5 years ago I was exceedingly glad on the m6 to have had all the gear on all the time when I had a crash so no broken bones no real injuries except bruising and Trauma Chris thank you very much for your word and uh Lord I pray you bless us all that you give us wisdom while we ride and that you reveal the truth and reality of your son Lord Jesus Christ in front of us on our roads each one amen amen please feel free to have a cup of coffee tea we may even have some orange squash there were some sandwiches there are biscuits and there’s us thank you very much for joining us see you all [Music] of last well I yes
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God bless bikers church and everyone associated with it. Amen
A really great talk from Chris, very much speaking from the heart. Loved the worship, turn up that fuzzy guitar!