Pastor Inna Mons
Sermon Transcription:
Jesus, we are in awe of You. God, we are in awe of Your presence. Lord, thank You for Your presence here today. God, thank you Jesus, You did all the work for us. You died on the cross and You said, "It is finished," Lord. So we stand in awe of Your magnificent works, of all that You have accomplished on the cross for us today, Lord. We stand and glorify You, give You all the honor, give You all the worship that You so deserve today, God. Lord, I pray that You have Your way in the service. God, I pray that You cover me as I share this word that You put on my heart. Father, I pray that You order my thoughts and put a hedge of protection over my mind. Lord, give me the words to speak. I don't want to say anything from my own heart, God; I want to say everything You have put on my heart. So, Lord, I pray that You would have Your way through me in this service. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
You guys can be seated. I hope I have the voice to speak; it was just a wonderful time of worship. I really missed being at our home church. With that said, I want to bring a lot of greetings from different churches that we have visited. We were in the Netherlands, and they are bringing their greetings to you. Also, in Finland, we visited a couple of churches. They said to say, "Lots of love from Jesus" to your guys' church. They were so honored to have us, and we were just so honored to be there. Also, from Canada, I spoke with Pastor Glenn and Mona. They also said, "Give them my best, give them my love. We love them, we miss them, and we hope to see them one day soon." So, from all those in Finland, Canada, and the Netherlands, they are thinking of you guys and bringing their greetings to you.
My title today is called "From Chaos to Order." We are the masterpiece. When Jesus found us, we were in darkness, and we did not know Him. We thought maybe we did, but when we gave Him our life, He took that chaos, He took all of that brokenness, whatever it was in your life, and He turned it all around. He brought order. He did that for me when I gave Him control of my life. When I gave Him my doubts, my fears, my low self-esteem, my control, and all the things that I struggled with, when I gave Jesus that room and space in my heart, He turned my chaos into order and brought the peace that I so wanted and desired.
That is the heart of my message today. With the Holy Spirit helping me speak this, I hope you can receive the same. If you have chaos, if you have disorder, He wants to bring order and peace into your life.
I saw this in Finland. I'll share this story: a girl came to us. We had a chance to pray for people there, and she just came and said, "I am so angry. I don't know why, but I am so, so angry." She said, "I am willing to let Jesus in, and I am willing to let Him have my anger." I prayed for her, and I was filled with tears. Ella saw me and asked why I was crying, and I was just crying because I was feeling her pain. As I prayed for her, she said, "I feel so much better just talking to you." The next day, she came to a meeting and said, "I have to share something with you. I feel like a rock has been lifted off my chest." She said she had so much peace that she did not have the day before. She gave it to Jesus, and the next day she came back a different person. Her face changed, everything about her changed, and I couldn't stop crying. Jesus took that and came into her heart. Overnight, she came back a different person. He took something in her life, her anger, whatever she was dealing with, and He brought order. The next day, she felt peace in her heart.
I want to take us through the beginning. We're going to go to Genesis today. Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." We see this in chapter one of Genesis. In these two verses, God created the heavens and the earth, but when He was looking at the earth, it was just darkness. There was nothing, it was empty, it was formless as the Bible says. It was empty, there was nothing there, it was just dark. There was nothing, it was just empty. Then He was hovering over the waters. As we keep reading Genesis, He starts making something out of nothing. He starts taking chaos and creating order. He separates the darkness from the light, the water above from the water below, the seas and the land. He brings order out of chaos, emptiness, and darkness. He creates life.
Before Adam and Eve were created and brought on the earth, the earth was already prepared for them. He did all that work. He looked at something chaotic, empty, and dark, and He brought order. He started forming the earth, separating light from darkness, creating everything. He brought order out of chaos. The Holy Spirit is the one who brings order out of chaos. He did it at creation, where He hovered over the chaotic waters and brought forth the land, which was filled with order and abundant life. I want to take us to the next story, where we can see God taking chaos and bringing order in Exodus.
The story about Moses and the Israelites: they had been in captivity for 430 years. Finally, someone was found to take the Israelites out of Egypt. He finds Moses and Aaron, his brother, and sends them to Egypt. He tells them to go to Pharaoh and ask to let His people go so they can leave and worship their God. As we know the story, Pharaoh does not let them go. Every single time God tells them, "I'm going to bring a plague," Pharaoh hardens his heart and refuses.
I'll name the ten plagues for you: He turns water into blood, fills the land with frogs, then with lice, then flies. He brings disease upon the livestock, so all the livestock die. Then He brings boils upon the people, followed by hail, locusts, and darkness. With all these plagues, Pharaoh continues to harden his heart and says, "No, I'm not going to let your people go." Then the Lord speaks to Moses and says, "I'm going to do one more plague, and then he will let the people go." The last plague was the death of the firstborn. When they brought this to Pharaoh, he still refused to let the people go.
Let's go to Exodus 12, where God gives instructions to the Israelites for this last plague. Exodus 12:3-4 says, "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb.'" He then tells them what kind of lamb to pick: without blemish, a male of the first year. He gives them all the instructions.
In verse 7, He says, "And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it." He gives them very clear instructions on what to do. He tells them exactly how to eat the lamb and have the meal.
In verses 12-14, He says, "For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance."
The Israelites had been in captivity for 430 years. They were in the bondage of Egypt and not living as the people God had called them to be. Then Moses comes, and hope arises in their hearts. They believe something could change for them. When the Lord tells them to do this last thing, after so many plagues, they put their hope and trust in His instructions, even though they didn't fully understand. They trust in the blood of the lamb and do as the Lord commands.
As they put their hope and trust in the lamb's blood, the Lord passes by and strikes all the firstborn of the Egyptians. There was wailing, crying, chaos, and disorder everywhere, but nothing happened to the Israelites. They had put their hope and trust in the blood of the lamb, and He brought order out of chaos. Order comes in the lives of those who trust in the lamb.
Now, let's skip forward to the New Testament, to John 19:17-18. This is about Jesus going to the cross and taking upon Himself everything for us. "And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center." In verse 30, it says, "So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished!' And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit." He took everything from us, all our sins and burdens, and went to the cross. But that's not the end of the story.
Let's read from Luke 24:5-6: "Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, 'Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee.'" The lamb, that baby lamb, was a foreshadowing of what Jesus was going to do for us on the cross. He is the Lamb of God, as the Bible says.
Today, as we put our trust in Jesus, He says, "I will take everything from you. I will bring order from your chaos. Whatever you are struggling with, Jesus invites us to put our trust and hope in Him, in His blood, and in His finished work." When He said, "It is finished," it was the end of all our struggles. He completed all the work. He took upon Himself all our doubts, fears, and chaos, and willingly went to the cross for us. If you believe in Him, He will do that work for you.
He did it from the beginning, as we read from Genesis. He took something empty, dark, and formless and created order. In Moses' time, the Israelites trusted in the blood of the lamb, and He brought order out of chaos. When Jesus came to this earth, He fulfilled that promise, went to the cross, and shed His blood for us. Today, He invites us to put our trust in His blood. He will finish everything that needs to be done in your life.
If you have chaos, if things are not going the way they should, He wants to bring order into your life and your heart. He did it from the beginning. In creation, He took something dark and empty and brought order. In Moses' time, He took the chaos of the Israelites' captivity and brought order through their trust in the blood of the lamb.
When Jesus came on this earth, He finished it. He took all our blood, all our shame, all our guilt, all of our chaos that He knew we were going to have, and He went on the cross so willingly for you so you can have order in your life, so you can have peace in your life. That's something you are not able to change, but He can do that. He is willing to do that.
Today, as we put our trust in His blood, He will bring order. He'll bring order to your thoughts. Maybe you're struggling in your thoughts. You know, those dark thoughts that you will probably not share with anybody, you feel guilty or ashamed, and the enemy messes with you in your mind because he loves to attack the mind. I spoke a message of no weapon formed against me shall prosper. He was attacking my mind. He couldn't get through anything else, but if he can get into your mind and start attacking your thoughts and what you think, what you believe about yourself, or you just have doubts and confusion, whatever it is for you, he wants to bring order into your thoughts.
Maybe it's your emotions. You feel like you're on a roller coaster; one day you're this way, another minute you're that way, and you catch yourself. I don't know if people say bipolar, but you're going from one extreme to another and you're like, "What is happening?" Your emotions are all over. God wants to bring order to your emotions. Maybe it's your loneliness. Maybe you feel so alone. You know, you're surrounded by people here, but when you leave, you just feel so alone and empty, like nobody understands you. Maybe you're just one person going through it all. God wants to bring order into that chaos of your life.
Maybe it's your business. You just seem to be on this hamster wheel, always so busy, and you don't like it. You try in your own strength to change a little, but you get out of it only to catch yourself right back in. You're so busy that it just seems like chaos in that area of your life. God wants to bring order to that part of your life. Maybe it's fears. You're just so full of fears that it controls you. You want it to look different, you want it to change, but you're just not able to. You try on your own strength, controlling it, thinking it's okay now, but then something happens and all of a sudden, your fears are right there in your face, and you thought they were over. God wants to bring order into that part of your life, into your fears.
Maybe it's relationships. You can't keep a relationship going. It's better not to trust people because they don't last, so relationships are not a safe place for you. You don't want to trust anybody because they just won't last, so you gave up on that. Whatever it is, you fill your own gap. Whatever it is in your life that you just don't seem to have control over, or you try but it slips out of your hands and you're right back with this chaos.
But God today says, if you give it to Jesus, if you trust Him, if you trust in that Lamb, if you trust in His blood, He will bring order. He will take something chaotic, whatever it is, and He can bring order and peace. You cannot imagine it because He finished it all on the cross. When He said, "It is finished," He was speaking to your doubts, your fears, your situation that you know you're trying to control but cannot. He said, "It is finished. I did it for you. I completed all the work. I took all of that with Me to the cross, and I willingly did it for you."
So if you just believe in Him a little bit, He will do that work for you. He will change you from the inside out. He will turn your darkness into light. He will turn chaos into order. He will bring peace upon you and in your households, in your minds, in your families, and wherever it is that you need it. He is so willing to do that for you if you trust Him just a little bit. I know it seems like too big of a step to trust God in something that you've been holding on to for so long and you think you have control over it, but you don't. If you give it to Jesus, He says He will. He will turn your chaos into order. He will restore things in your life. The Father does not want to see His children in captivity. He wants to see them free.
We can see that in what He did with Israel. He didn't want them to be captive. He heard their cry and prayer, and He sent Moses to get them out of there and brought them freedom. That's exactly what Jesus did for us, for you and me, on that cross. He wants to bring freedom. He doesn't want to see you struggling or being captive in the enemy's grip. He wants to see you free and bring order to your life. In John 10:10, it says, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I come that they may have life and have it to the full," or as another version says, "abundantly." Jesus removes the chaos of sin and restores spiritual order to the people who accept Him as their Lord and Savior. When you give it to God and accept Jesus in your heart, like that girl in Finland who said, "I don't understand, but I just want Jesus to take it from me," and invited Jesus into her heart, He takes over.
She gave Him this struggle that seemed so big the day before, and the next day she came back so free because Jesus came into her heart. He took something she couldn't control and deal with, and He gave her freedom. He gave her joy. She was so joyful and happy, hugging me the whole time because she didn't know how to express the joy she was feeling in her heart. She gave something to Jesus that she tried to control or hide, and when He came into her heart, He took that all out and gave her peace, freedom, and brought order into her mind.
Thank you, Lord. In 1 Corinthians 14:33, from the NIV version, it says, "For God is not a God of disorder but of peace." He is a God of peace. Maybe the enemy is saying that your problem is too big, but let me remind you that there's no problem too big for God to solve. There's no mountain too tall for Him to move, no sorrow or disappointment or hurt that He cannot heal. He can do all of that.
The living God, His Holy Spirit, is so alive and well. He comes into our hearts, takes all of that, and turns it around. He shows the world what He is able to do, how He can free us. We don't have to struggle like the people next to us at work who have no hope or future. You and I do have hope and a future. If we believe that for ourselves and see God take that out of our hearts and turn it around, then you can go to work and share what the Lord is doing in your heart—how He turned things around and brought order and peace into your life. He can do it for them too.
That is how we share the good news of what Jesus is like. He does all the work as we believe and trust in His blood, just a little bit. You might not have a lot, but just a little bit is enough for Him to work with. As He does all the work and changes us, we become a light to this world, testifying and sharing the good news of what Jesus can do for us today. Not just what He did for the Israelites, which is great, but today He is the same God who is able and willing. If you and I trust Him just a little and give Him that chaos, whatever it is—your thoughts, fears, doubts, low self-esteem—He wants to bring peace into your heart and life so your life can be a testimony to those watching you.
Our God is able to do all the work. He can turn our chaos into order and bring peace where we cannot in our own strength. If you need that peace, if you need that order, if you have chaos in your life or your thoughts or your mind, and you want to take that step of faith to trust God today, be willing to let Him into that part of your life and heart where you cannot change it. You've been trying, but you can't. Today, be willing to let Him be the King and ruler, to take over and bring peace, fill your heart with joy and love—whatever it is that you need.
He is willing to do it for you. If you want to come forward, someone can pray for you. If you want to sit in your seat and make this decision in your heart, do so today. Say, "Lord, for this area of my life, this struggle, this chaos that seems like it's not changing or going away, I am willing to give it to You today, Lord, so You can bring order into my life, so You can bring peace into my life." He is so willing because He did it for me and for many of you.
The enemy brings thoughts into your mind, saying, "This area is done, but this other area? I don't know if the Lord can do it." If he says that, shut it down because that's not our God. He can fix every area, not just one. Every single issue, every single struggle, He can bring order to something that is chaos. I'm going to pray for you as you take that step of faith to God and give it to Him—whatever struggle, whatever area—because He is a God of order. He brings order where no man can. You cannot do it on your own strength because you will run dry and empty. We want Jesus to take it today, fix things around, and bring peace and order into your life.
-Pastor Inna Mons