Maybe It’s Okay by We Are Messengers

Maybe It’s Okay song by We Are Messengers which reminds me of a sermon by Jimmy Inman of True Life Church on We are a place where it is okay not to be okay, but not okay to stay that way.

This song reminds me of a sermon from Pastor Jimmy Inman of True Life Church in Jefferson City, TN. I share the video and sermon notes below. In that sermon, Jimmy Inman was talking about one of the core values … (see more about this toward the bottom of this blog post)

We are a place where it is okay not to be okay, but not okay to stay that way.

Pastor Jimmy Inman, Teaching Pastor of True Life Church

Maybe it’s ok if I’m not ok
‘Cause the One who holds the world is holding on to me
Maybe it’s all right if I’m not all right
‘Cause the One who holds the stars is holding my whole life

We Are Messengers

We Are Messengers is an Irish worship band from Monaghan, Ireland, which formed in 2015. For this week’s Christian Music Mondays, I wanted to feature this song, because it reminds me of that sermon from Pastor Jimmy Inman.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
If I didn’t know what it hurt like to be broken
Then how would I know what it feels like to be whole
If I didn’t know what it cuts like to be rejected
Then I wouldn’t know the joy of coming home

[Chorus]
Maybe it’s ok if I’m not ok
‘Cause the One who holds the world is holding on to me
Maybe it’s all right if I’m not all right
‘Cause the One who holds the stars is holding my whole life

[Verse 2]
If I didn’t know what it looked like to be dirty
Then I wouldn’t know what it feels like to be clean
And if all of my shame hadn’t drove me to hide in the shadows
Then I wouldn’t know the beauty of being free

[Chorus]
Maybe it’s ok if I’m not ok
‘Cause the One who holds the world is holding on to me
Maybe it’s all right if I’m not all right
‘Cause the One who holds the stars is holding my whole life

[Bridge]
Father, let Your kingdom come,
let Your will be done
Here, in my heart as in Heaven Father,
let Your kingdom come, let
Your will be done Here, in my heart as in Heaven, oh!

[Chorus]
Maybe it’s ok if I’m not ok
‘Cause the One who holds the world is holding on to me
Maybe it’s all right if I’m not all right
‘Cause the One who holds the stars is holding my whole life

[Outro]
Now I’m alive in You
We’re bursting at the seams
Now I’m alive and I can see You in everything
Maybe it’s ok if I’m not ok

Sermon Notes

This is the sermon notes from that sermon on November 4, 2018. (Download those notes)

“A Place Where It’s Ok To Not Be Ok But It’s Not Ok To Stay That Way”
1 Corinthians 5
Sermon Series: “This Is Us”

Introduction: How do we deal with sin in our lives and the lives of
others? How do we handle sin in the church? How should Christians relate to non-Christians? These are very relevant and practical questions. It is also very easy and very common to get off the road and fall into the ditch, so to speak, when we answer these questions. Many professing Christians fall into the ditch of legalism while many others fall into the ditch of worldliness on the other side.

Core Value #4: We are a place where it’s ok to not be ok but not
ok to stay that way: We meet people where they are and welcome
people to come as they are because we do not expect non-Christians
to think and act like Christians, but we expect Christians to be in a process of transformation.

1. It’s ok for non-Christians to not be ok (v. 9-13). We are not to
   judge non-Christians for not believing or acting like Christians. This
   is moralism instead of the gospel. If you are not a Christian, you do
   not have to clean up your life to please us or to please God, but you
   are commanded to repent and believe the gospel. We are not your judge, but it would be wrong of me to not remind you that you do
   have a Judge (Acts 17:31).
2. It’s not ok for Christians to be ok with not being ok. In Christ,
   we are new creations with new hearts who are set free from sin-not
   to sin. Clearly, part of the implication of Paul’s words to the church
   at Corinth is that we are to take sin very seriously. Also, a big part of
   the evidence that we are genuinely saved is a hatred for sin and a
   desire to be different, even while we battle sin in our lives. As Josh
   Charles recently said in a testimony, “If you is what you was, then
   you ain’t.”
3. It’s ok for Christians to admit that we are not ok. There is no
   excuse for sin, but none of us are sin free until we reach heaven. We
   are called to confess sin to God and others and to pursue repentance
   (Proverbs 28:13, 1 John 1:5-2:2, James 5:16). Repentance was
   Paul’s hope for the man in the church in Corinth who was
   committing this sin. He did repent, and Paul instructed the church to
   forgive, comfort, and reaffirm their love to him (2 Corinthians
   2:6-8).
4. It’s not ok for the church to be ok with church members not
   being ok. We are called to restore the repentant and protect the
   church from the rebellious. Paul is primarily addressing the church for not dealing with this man’s sin. He uses some very blunt
   language. He told them that they were proud and gave some very
   specific instructions for dealing with the situation. This passage is
   talking about church discipline. He told them that evil that is
   ignored will spread and infect the entire body. Remember that we belong to each other as part of the same body so what each of us
   does affects everybody else. The ultimate goal is restoration
   (Galatians 6:1), but that is conditioned upon repentance. If there is
   no repentance, there must be discipline in order to protect the purity
   of the church inwardly and the testimony of the church outwardly.
   As David Platt points out, Paul’s primary concerns here (under the
   inspiration of the Holy Spirit) are the purity of the church, the
   salvation of the individual (1 Corinthians 6:9-11), and the glory of
   God. As Platt says, “I will not be judged by God for the number of
   people who come to hear me preach but by the holiness of the church
   I pastor. The measure of success is not how many are coming and
   sitting in seats in the church but are those people looking more and
   more like Jesus.”

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