Jo Saxton Message Review...Teaser

I see across the earth, across every different country, from all different backgrounds, all different ages, that we would, for two days, come together and ignore our feeds, ignore all the noise, ignore the chaos inside of us, and listen to the

Word of God taught. And what Paul is saying to these people is that because of what Jesus has done, because of what the

Spirit of God has done, you don't have to be defined by fear anymore. We believe in just people full of the

Spirit of God, teaching the Word of God, praying to the living God. We believe in you to change the world.

But I beg you to consider the question, where is fear defining your life? Which face of fear shows up on your best days and your ugliest days?

And let me tell you what we're going to talk about this year, because it has never been more important for you to host your people in your place.

We are going to talk about Jesus. This time, the power of the Father sets you free.

This time, by the Spirit of God, you do not have to be defined by all the things that have labeled your identity.

If 2020, we are going to focus completely, entirely, solely on the person of Jesus.

I was preoccupied by my Father's absence, defined by His absence in my life, until the

Spirit of God revealed Himself to me in a whole new way. Every talk is going to be about Jesus.

The theme of If Gathering 2020 is Jesus. We have those phrases, don't we, where we say, sticks and stones don't break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

It's such a lie. Such a lie. We've been owned by the things that people said are too much about us, not enough about us, things that we're always, and things that we will never be.

But because we're going to preach the name of Jesus, we're going to preach the name of Jesus. It's the only name we care about, it's the only name that changes lives, the only hope we have to give.

And I ask you, what part of your old life is still laying claim to you, is still holding on tight?

What are the words that you can't escape? What is the past you can't get past? It is what we're going to put all of our hope, all of our stock in, because we know

He is the only hope. We know there is nothing that can solve the chaos of this world and the chaos inside of us except for Him.

And so He is going to be the thing we focus all of our attention on in IF2020, so that means that we want you to invite your people, because we believe there's going to be people that meet

Jesus for the very first time. We believe there's going to be people that have been far away from God and the church, and they're going to come back.

We believe there are people that love Jesus, but they don't know what it means to live for Him, and we're going to talk about all of that.

What are the fears that whisper in your ear, and you've sung the songs, and you've prayed the prayers, and you say you're not a slave to fear, and yet you see that woman, and you're like,

I should have worn a different outfit. If I'd have worn those jeans, it would have lifted and sculpted in all kinds of glorious ways.

We're going to start this thing off with one of my favorite chapters in this book called the

Bible. And whether you've known Jesus for a long time, or you're just checking

Him out, we're not going to water Him down here. We're going to Romans 8.

I don't know that there's a deeper theological piece of work in the

Bible, so we're going here. If the things that we've learned already from Romans 8 about the

Spirit of God living in us, changing us, no condemnation, then it has implications.

It has implications for the life that we live, and for what it means in the everyday, what it means this weekend, but also on Tuesday, on Wednesday morning, on Friday night.

It has implications. My dream, guys, I don't dream small, I only dream big. And my dream is to disciple a whole generation, and that takes all of us working together.

We give you the tools, you all take them and use them in your places. We cannot wait to see what God's going to do.

Do not miss. If 2020, it will be the best one yet. And the Father has given us gifts that we refuse to unwrap because we're afraid of them.

And what you will leave with, I believe, is more of Jesus. At the 2020

IF gathering conference, Jo Saxton gave a message on our adoption and inheritance as children of God from Romans 8, verses 14 to 17.

What does it mean to be adopted by God, and what do we receive in our inheritance according to Jo Saxton?

How did she handle this text? Let's find out. Coming soon on Thoroughly Equipped.