(ethereal music)
- [Girl] Beach Retreat is what brings me closer
to the lord every year.
- [Girl] I just had like such a great experience
and it was so much fun.
- [Boy] It brings me back into the church whenever
it seems that everything's busy.
(ethereal music)
- [Girl] This whole week
is just centered around you and God.
And that's the most important thing.
- [Girl] It's just a week
to like get your mind off everything
and just focus on like what's really important.
- [Girl] When we come here
we're getting away from everything.
And we're just praising the Lord together.
It's just incredible.
- [Boy] Coming to Beach Retreat is really eye opening.
It helps you realize that you're not alone
and there's always someone you can turn to.
- [Girl] Beach Retreat is the best week of my life.
(ethereal music)
- I always believed in God
but I never had like a strong faith
because for awhile I was pretty depressed.
Like I believed in God, that he was our creator
and everything but I didn't trust in him.
I didn't have faith in him.
- I was just living life like there was no God
it was just only at night, pray before I go to sleep
and just wake up, live day by day.
- I went through a time where I was looking
for social acceptance.
I would go to parties.
I would, you know, I would let bad influences influence me
and I did that for a long time.
- I have a lot of anger in me, a lot of depression.
It came from my parents divorce six years ago.
It really broke me.
I felt lost and I just, I honestly felt
like not moving on in life.
Like I was just trapped.
- My parents they split up when I was four.
I lived in Orla, Texas, and I moved
to Houston with my grandparents.
And then like, it was like five years later
after my parents split up my mom got paralyzed.
'Cause like, she was on drugs and stuff
and like she, I guess she let somebody stick
a needle in her neck and it caused like a bubble
in the back of her spine so they had to take
two bones outta her spine
and it made her paralyzed like for the rest of her life.
- I came home from school one day
and my dad was really, really drunk
'cause my dad's an alcoholic.
And he told me and my mother to leave
and so I was like, all right.
So my whole family has been divided for years.
So it was never like one big family.
It was like, oh, let me go to this side
and let me go to this side and this side.
- I grew up in a single parent household.
And my mother, she's the best mother.
Like, she's amazing you can see Jesus through her.
She's taught me so much.
But it was tough, I wasn't, I had to learn how to change
a tire through somebody else.
I had to learnt through YouTube how to put a nail in a board
to fix the fence.
- I was bullied for at least five years.
I didn't have an escape.
I was confused, didn't know where I was going.
I didn't wanna be here anymore.
- I felt so hopeless, like I felt like there was no reason
for me to be here.
Like, I had friends but they weren't really the greatest.
So honestly I felt like hopeless.
I felt like no one was there, nobody cared is what I felt.
And now I currently live with my aunt.
And she was like one of the rules living with me is you have
to go to church.
- I went to church before but I was younger.
I didn't understand it.
It didn't have meaning to me.
Actually beginning of freshman year I called myself
an atheist I was so cut off from him, my relationship
was minimal to nothing.
And something was lost inside of me.
And I just felt something was missing.
- I felt I couldn't trust him just because I didn't see it.
Like I couldn't see it, I went to church
but I didn't, honestly didn't have faith.
I had no faith at all.
- My view of God was very little.
I didn't trust him, I didn't associate.
I didn't pray, I thought I was alone.
It felt like I was being trapped somewhere
and I would throw my walls up and I wouldn't let them down.
- It was just tough, like, my parents splitin' up.
Me having to live with my grandparents since I was four.
Like, not having my parents in my life.
You know, like, that kind of stuff, that's tough.
Sometimes I would question, like, God why?
Like, why would you allow this to happen?
- I would sit down in bed and be like,
God how can you like, be our father?
And like not give me the right father?
- I felt like I couldn't trust anyone I felt so alone
and I thought I about it.
I was like, why would Jesus
and God just let me feel so alone?
Why would they let me feel so terrible?
Like, doesn't he love everyone, why is this happening to me?
So I stopped because if God loved me I thought he
would make me feel good but I was missing him.
I just felt empty so I was like, I stopped believing in him.
- We're all here by divine appointment.
And we're all here to do business with God.
But I'm afraid some of us are here.
We're much like fish on the beach.
For example I found somebody who'd never been
to the beach, they didn't know anything about fish
but there had been a great wash of fish on the beach.
Something like you can see.
Fish on the beach everywhere and I would say I want you
to go down there and I want you to take a pencil
and a piece of paper and I want you
to write down everything you see and report back
to me about fish.
And you would go down the beach and you'd see all the fish
that had been beached and you'd start writing down
and say well, they stink, okay.
And they're breathing heavily
and they're eyes are bulging out, okay.
And they're dirty, they're rolling over
in the sand and the dirt.
And you'd give us a report on fish about their eyes
are bulging out, they're dirty and they're flopping around
and you'd say well that's what I found out about fish.
But you missed the most important thing.
That's everything you saw,
everything you observed, you recorded
but what you missed was you can take those fish
and if somehow they would go back
in the ocean they would not have bulging eyes.
They'd not be flopping around.
They'd be clean, they wouldn't be dirty any longer.
How do fish get off the beach?
They're flounding around, they can't live there very long
just flounding around.
How do they get in the ocean?
There would have to be a wave.
There'd have to be a giant wave that would come
and (gurgling sound) just cover the beach
and wash all those fish back in the ocean.
Young men, young women, that's what I've been praying
would happen to us here.
That the holy spirit would come with his big wave of love
and emotion and sweep over all of us who are floundering
in so many areas of life
and sweep us right back in the ocean.
Where we can thrive and where we can grow
and where we can be alive and where our lives would
be right with him and we'll have clean hands
and a pure heart.
Some of us have come here, we're flopping on the beach
and we would say I'm all out.
But I want us, I pray when this wave sweeps through us
that we'll be able to say, do this with me
and say it with me.
I'm all in. - I'm all in.
- If that were true we'd be in the ocean swimming.
Our life would be full of meaning and significance
and we'd be alive if we were, say it with me.
I'm all in. - I'm all in.
- How do you get all in with God?
How does God get all into you and into me?
Remember we talked about Peter Parker
and he was bitten by the spider who'd
had some radioactive rays passed through him
and he fell down and he got up Spiderman.
We said, that doesn't happen with Christian life.
We immediately come to Christ as many of you have
but to live that life, to stay in the ocean,
to stay in the deep part and to have a life that's full
and meaningful and relevant,
that's free and clear, that's what we want.
How do you stay there?
And we discovered that God is on our side.
When we see Jesus Christ we look,
remember Ephesians chapter number one
and we said, you know God chose me, God chose you
on his team and that's something.
And God adopted you into his family.
Whoa, I receive Christ I'm in his.
God forgives you.
God has a plan for you.
And God is working in you.
Listen carefully, since the beginning
of time man has tried to build a bridge to God.
In the Bible they call the tower of Babel.
Man said I'm going to build this tower so high we gonna
go all the way up and we're going all
the way up where God is.
Yuri Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut who was the first one
to move away from the gravity, went into outer, outer space.
When he came back he said, I went all the way outta the pull
of the Earth and he said, I didn't see God.
Looking for God.
And so from the beginning of time man has built bridges
trying to reach God.
Now that's all the religions of the world.
But all the time, follow me.
Let me tell you what's happening.
God was building a bridge to reach man, humanity.
And it started, I guess, when old Abraham
and the heir cowdies, modern day Syria, Iraq, Iran.
He said by faith God spoke to him and said,
"Abe, you get up, you leave
"this Godless kind of living.
"And I'm gonna make out of you a people
"and you're going to built a city
"that has a foundation whose builder and maker
"is the almighty himself."
So there's Abraham, here's the bridge, Isaac
and Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David,
the prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Malachi,
until finally in the fullest of time
Jesus was born.
And Jesus lived that perfect life.
Remember, God made out of human flesh.
So no one could ask, "I wonder what God is like."
We just say, "Look what Jesus,
"look at Jesus, that's God."
Until finally he was nailed to the cross
and he said, "Tetelestai, it is finished."
And they said, "He's dead, he's finished."
That's not what he said.
He said, "It is finished."
What is finished?
The bridge.
The bridge, not manmade, man making all these bridges
trying to get to God,
but the bridge that God made,
and he drilled those nails in the hand of Jesus,
the bridge was finished
so that man now can get all the way to God.
Ready? Yes! - Yes!
- Ready?
- Yes!
- And, therefore, those who've received Christ,
man, you have walked on that bridge,
you have understood that bridge.
And you are a young person now in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it's wonderful.
And now three things are true.
We have a right relationship with God.
Isn't that something?
To have a right relationship with God,
that's a fabulous thing.
That we know Him and He knows us,
we can talk to Him and listen
and He speaks back to us.
A personal relationship with God is available.
Why? Because we're in the family.
How do we stay in relationship with God?
We keep our eyes on the S-O-N,
on the light of Christ in our lives
and our eyes on the S-O-N.
Suddenly, we know how to walk with God.
Let me tell you something, teenagers.
I wanna invite all of you
to join the knee team, K-N-E-E, knee team.
I've been on that team a long time.
Let me tell ya' about the knee team.
The biggest problem anybody here has with living
the Christian life is spelled S-E-L-F, self.
And therefore we have to deal with self.
To be on the K-N-E-E team, let me say
this is what we do, as a regular thing
for the rest of your life.
When I get into bed at night,
I get down on my knees.
And on my knees, I remember the number one problem
I've had this day that I've just lived.
S-E-L-F, and so I take those letters.
I put my hands on the bed
and I spell S, S, "Lord, I surrender to you.
That's the first thing.
"Lord, I give myself to you."
And I talk about things
in that day that I just lived
that I needed to surrendered when I charge,
when I should've retreated,
when I spoke, when I should've been silent
and when I was silent and when I should've spoke.
And I surrendered that day that I just lived to him.
And then I lift my hands up off the bed
and I empty myself.
I said, "Lord, take all of this
"trash, this stuff, that's accumulated in my life.
"I empty myself to you."
S-E-L, and then I turn my hands up and I say,
"Lord, I love you.
"I thank you, I love you and I praise you
"for your grace in my life today.
"I love you."
Then I hold my hands up and say,
"Lord, fill me with your spirit.
"Give me that power to live your life through this night."
And then I get up.
And then when I wake up in the morning,
I roll out of bed,
I get right back down on my knees
and I know what my problem is gonna be that day.
What is it?
- [Audience] Self.
- What is it?
- [Audience] Self. - So I deal with it.
Surrender, it's been awhile, empty,
love, praise, fill me with your spirit
so my life will count for you today.
And when you do that, I call knee to knee,
K-N-E-E, K-N-N-E.
The last thing to head to the floor,
you go bed, your knee, the first thing that gets up
is your knee.
And you're on the knee team, and I can tell ya',
that will help you to swim in the Christian life.
Great story in second Kings, chapter number five.
It tells a story of a man named Naaman.
Naaman was a general in the army
of the most powerful nation in the world
at this moment in history.
He served at the right hand of the king.
He had one of the most
powerful armies in the world, undefeated.
And the bible tells us Naaman was strong,
talented, a warrior, a leader,
a man of integrity and he had the total confidence
of the people as well as the king.
But the bible says
he was a leper.
A leper.
Leprosy is one of the oldest diseases
we know about in history.
We know what it's a bacterial infection.
Leprosy affects your skin,
and then it affects your eyes,
many lepers went blind.
It affects your mind, it affects your lungs,
you have trouble breathing,
just like a fish out of water.
That was what leprosy was.
It was a terminal illness.
I'm sure there in Syria
that he got all the soothsayers to come and
put all kinda ointment on him.
I'm sure he had some witch doctors
who danced around him.
I'm sure he went to all the pagan temples
and asked those priests to pray for him
and to get their god, whatever his name might be,
to come and heal him.
He did everything he could to be healed.
But he kept looking and he was a great man,
but those spots were still there.
But he was a leper
But in the household, there was a little Jewish maid,
a little Israeli maid.
She'd been brought out from Israel
when they'd gone down and conquered Israel,
and she was a slave.
And in that household,
she saw what had happened.
And she went to Mrs. Naaman and said,
"You know, back where I'm from, in Israel,
"there is a prophet there who heals people who are lepers."
Oh, healing?
A chance not to die, a chance to get well,
a chance to be whole again.
You see, he was a great man,
one of the greatest men in all the world,
but he was a leper.
And so he went to the King of Syria
and told him that there was a prophet in Israel
who could heal people who had leprosy.
And the king said, "No problem, I'll write a letter.
"I'll command the king to bring that prophet out
"and you will be healed."
He wrote a letter.
And so the king of Israel told Naaman,
you go to Samaria and there's a prophet there
named Elijah and he will come out
and he will see that you're healed.
He's a man of God.
So Naaman, a little confused, but excited still,
got all of his entourage together, all the wagons,
the gold, the silver.
And they make that little trek down to Samaria
and they get there and they come to Elijah's house
and he knocks on the door.
And a servant comes to the door and says,
"Who are you?"
And he looks around, and he said,
"Oh, I'm Naaman, I've come for the prophet to heal me."
And the servant says, "Wait outside."
And he goes in a little while,
he comes back.
He said, "Elijah, the man of God
"said for you to go down to the Jordan River
"and dunk yourself seven times in the river
"and you'll be clean."
Just go and wash in that muddy old Jordan River
(chuckles) where all the common folks wash,
and be healed.
And he goes and must've taken off all of his medals
that told everybody what he'd done.
He took off his uniform that told everybody
who he was.
And he wades in that muddy old Jordan River.
All the troops are watching and Naaman goes
down once, comes up, still leprosy.
Down second time, comes up, leprosy.
Third time, comes up, fourth time, comes up,
fifth time, comes up, six time, comes up.
And he though, you know, "When we get back to Syria
"they're gonna tell everybody what a crazy loony nut I am
"down here in this muddy old river."
But he goes down the seventh time and he comes up.
And the bible says his skin was as pure and clean
as a baby's skin.
And Naaman comes out whole, healed, complete.
That's an amazing story.
You see, when we present our body,
(chuckles) we present everything.
And then it begins to cleanse up our minds.
And then a miracle comes, Christ comes.
And suddenly people begin to see
without you even telling them,
though you're welcome to,
that that, teenagers, something happened down there
in Pensacola, Florida, I didn't think was possible.
The attitude has changed, the outlook has changed.
Look at the eyes have changed,
the smile has changed,
the whole relationships have changed.
That is a new person.
I wouldn't even know my daughter.
I wouldn't even recognize my son.
They are brand new.
They moved away some friends that were dragging them down
in the trash.
They cleaned up this, their attitude now,
they're a part of the family.
Others who you have rejected as a friend,
you go back to them and ask for forgiveness
and try to help and pick them up.
And now here's that teenager.
It was all about me.
I'm like a general in my life.
Oh, no, no, no, not a general anymore.
I've given my life to Him.
I'm a servant, I'm a servant.
You know what the difference in being an instrument
of God and servant of God is?
An instrument of God is something God picks up and uses.
He used Pharaoh, he could use somebody like you,
or a teacher, or somebody on the staff.
He just picks it up, and uses us.
That's an instrument.
But a servant is somebody who's available 24/7,
who's humble themselves, and said,
"Lord, I'm not in for me, I, mine, anything else,
"I surrender my body and my mind to you.
"Make me brand new from the inside out."
That's who we are, that what we must become.
Young teenagers, let me tell you something.
If we can get in a right relationship with God.
- [Audience] Yes!
- And right relationship with ourselves?
- [Audience] Yes!
- And right relationship with other people?
- [Audience] Yes!
- That means that we are really ready for God
to work in our lives in ways that we can't even dream of,
miraculous ways, beautiful ways.
When you go back and everybody who knows you
sees that God has changed you and will continue
to change you, man, your life will begin
to be something beautiful and something good.
- My friend Lindsay, she comes up and is like,
"Hey, are you going to Beach Retreat?"
And I was like, "No, my situation, I don't have the money."
And she was like, "Oh, well, you can get the sponsorship."
And I was like, "Oh, okay, well, let me do that."
So I'm here on a sponsorship.
- My mom told me to come one day.
And, honestly, I didn't wanna go.
Just because sometimes you would make that excuses
like, "Oh, I'm sick mom.
"Not tonight, go to church."
And she told me to come and I was just like, "Okay."
So I ended up going.
The first worship night, oh.
And I looked around and I just see kids on their knees,
some people crying.
And you could just see God moving through the room.
And it was just evident.
And I was in awe.
- Well, last night, it really made me feel His love.
He's gonna love me no matter what.
I felt ashamed coming into this.
And it just showed me He loves you no matter what.
Taking me in, knowing the things that I've done,
things I've done in my past, He still is like reaching out.
- I felt as if I wasn't loved,
as if He wasn't there for me.
But when I learned more about Him,
He gave me hope to live on.
He gave me hope to look forward to something
every single day.
And I love that that He gives me hope.
And He gives hope to everybody.
I hear stories of people, their lives being change
by Jesus and Him giving hope.
And I thank His hope to every single one of us.
- I always say I wanna be a great man,
but what am I doing to do it?
And then I thought about it and I was like, wow,
Jesus is the man.
He is the best man that I wanna be.
- When I was going through my dark times
I didn't trust God.
And I'd sound, I feel so awful saying that, (chuckles)
right now, because I've done a complete 180 from that.
And I trust in Him more than ever and anything. (chuckles)
- When I came to Beach Retreat,
I felt something go through me
that I haven't felt ever.
I feel like a weight has been lifted off of me.
And no pressure is there on me anymore.
I feel free.
Two days ago, I accepted Christ into my life.
- Through this week, it's changed me by just saying,
you know what?
You need to let all this go, you can't hold grudges.
You can't hold pain inside.
And through worship and through the messages,
through silent sounds, it's kind of helped me
release all my pain.
His love will always be real no matter what happens
what you do and you can always go back to Him.
- When I didn't know Him, I was getting hurt constantly.
But now I have hope.
And I forever will have hope.
- I wasn't all in at all.
Like I said, I would just pray at night.
And just wake up and live day by day.
But after seeing this, the testimonies
and the preachings and just all that,
that is just joyful,
it could bring joy to my heart.
Like I know God could do that for me, too.
Like I wanna live for Jesus.
- I want a fresh start and I wanna know,
I wanna achieve what He has planned for me in life.
- When Dr. Young made us all put our heads down and pray.
And he prayed for all of us.
And he said, "If you want Jesus in your life,
"please raise your hand up."
And I did.
And when I did that, I felt whole.
I felt as if this something was missing and
that was Jesus.
And He filled up my life.
And I feel like a different person.
I feel changed.
- And then last night I just felt this rush,
I kinda lost my breath.
I was just, "Lord, just deliver me.
"I wanna be closer to you, I wanna know who you are."
And it was like, you know what?
You need to get baptized.
So I'm ready to go all in, all in for Him, yep.
(ethereal music)
♪ Chains fall ♪
♪ Fear bow ♪
♪ Here, now ♪
♪ Jesus, you change everything ♪
♪ Lives healed ♪
♪ Hope found ♪
♪ Here, now ♪
♪ Jesus, you change everything ♪
♪ Chains fall ♪
♪ Fear bow ♪
♪ Here, now ♪
♪ Jesus, you change everything ♪
♪ Lives healed ♪
♪ Hope found ♪
♪ Here, now ♪
♪ Jesus, you change everything ♪
(powerful music)
♪ Jesus ♪
♪ Jesus ♪
♪ Chains fall ♪
♪ Fear bow ♪
♪ Here, now ♪
♪ Jesus, you change everything ♪
♪ Lives healed ♪
♪ Hope found ♪
♪ Here, now ♪
♪ Jesus, you change everything ♪
- This has been quite a night at Beach Retreat.
We've had over 24, 2500 people here.
Every night we've had great music, praise times,
a sermon in which we invited people to know Christ,
to live for Christ.
And tonight it's a special time in this coliseum.
We baptized hundreds and hundreds of teenagers,
some of your sons and daughters and friends.
So I just wonder in church today
if this is a time as an invitation with him being sung,
for you to stand up and say,
"You know, I need to do what these kids have done
"to humble myself, to publicly put up my flag
"for Jesus Christ, that's what they've done."
We've taken a blue flag that I'm gonna see right here.
And they've held it over heads.
And they put their flag for Jesus Christ.
They put on a shirt in that church,
it says I'm All In, I'm all in for God.
I'm all in for Christ.
And we've baptized these tonight.
Some of you are Christians, you need to find a church
where you can worship and serve and grow biblically.
If God is leading, come into our church family
as we sing in a moment.
If God is leading you, never put up your flag for Christ.
Say, "I'll understand it all."
After you come forward, there'll be counselors there
that will sit down with you,
explain clearly what it means to be a son
and daughter of God.
These kids, man, what a week we've had.
None of us will ever forget it,
because God has changed the lives of hundreds and hundreds.
And he wants to change your life.
They'll come back to your homes
and you'll see a different kid, a different teenager,
because through the power of Christ,
something beautiful, something good,
has happened in their lives.
They've been humming this
as I've issued this invitation to you.
Now, listen, as we sing it triumphantly.
Sing it, gang, would ya'?
Here we go.
♪ Something beautiful ♪
♪ Something good ♪
♪ All my confusion ♪
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