2025-06-08 – Jesse Millar

Light of the Nations' Foursquare Church in Denver Podcast

We are sojourners on this planet. So don’t ger too comfortable. When we say yes to Jesus, He takes us on this beautiful journey. To transform us, to change us, to multiply us, to grow us. You may have been born a Rwandan, but God doesn’t keep you one. He makes you a Kingdom Citizen!

The gospel have given us many things. Jesus has given us abundant grace for our lives. He has given us mercy to overcome any sin. He has given us so much redemption for every single one of us. But one thing it doesn’t give us is room to pretend. There is no license or option to lie to ourselves.

When we pretend to be all good when we are not, God has a problem with that. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. The one thing worse that having the sin in our lives is pretending we don’t have it. When we are honest with God it empowers Him over our lives.

There is nothing wrong with looking good except when we do it to gain the approval of others. When we are hiding things in our life, we give that thing power. But when we call it what it is, we gain power over that sin.

Sins like fear and doubt can gain tremendous power over us unless we call it what it is. We need to understand our responsibility to be honest and empower the Holy Spirit to do its work in our lives.

Does our church culture force us to pretend in order to be accepted? Can you be real or do you feel that you have to pretend to protect yourself? Do the people around us encourage honest growth or are we trapped in a cycle of pleasing and approval? Whoever we perform for reveals who we worship.

Honesty is a doorway for God! Let’s stop pretending. Tell Jesus about it and then listen for His response.