We are so glad to have you with us every fresh life location, church online, partner churches around the world.

Thank you for being with us. If you have a Bible, we are in John chapter 5 today.

We are exploring, not in the book, the last supper on the moon, but we are exploring seven signs in John's Gospel

verses, seven different miracles, seven different dramatic illustrations of who Jesus is, of what he intended to accomplish, what he wants to do in our lives today.

And these seven signs can give us a glimpse into who he is.

In the last supper on the moon, we look into the seven things Jesus said as he was hanging on the cross.

We look at the seven letters he wrote to the seven churches, and we also looked in the book at seven different things that he says that he is.

But these, as we look at, in connection to those messages and those themes, give us a picture of what he wants to do.

And I believe what he wants to do in all of our lives, and the title of our message today is getting off the ground.

Getting off the ground. I was whole, NASA's whole thing they wanted to do. They are trying to get man off the earth for the first time to another heavenly body, namely the moon,

240,000 miles away. How are we going to do it when there is something that all of our lives has been holding us down? Gravity, right?

I mean, I have to jump here to show you that it's like working still, like at this moment currently, I mean, getting off the ground is the problem.

Even if you can get up, it's going to Newton taught us that. It's coming back. How do we get off the ground when I believe that is God's plan, God's hope for all of us?

I believe there is something not only just scientifically speaking, but something that just pulls us down, pulls our focus down, pulls our attention down, wants to hold our progress down.

What God has for us, there are these invisible forces that are always pulling us down. The Bible says, our battle is not against flesh and blood. Your problem is not your cousin or your coworker or your husband.

The Bible says, behind the scenes in any battle we are facing is this invisible battle. There are spiritual forces at play, and these things want to keep you down on the ground.

The ground, getting off the ground that wasn't just NASA's goal in the space race, it's also God's plan for your life.

That you would set your mind, your focus, your heart, your citizenship, not on the earth, but on the heavens. God wants you to aim higher.

Whatever it is today that you have in your heart for your life as what you hope to accomplish, as what you hope life will be, I believe God wants that to be bigger than you could possibly ever conceive of, but different probably than you would ever in your wildest imagination concoct.

Interestingly enough, for NASA to get off the ground, that meant going into the pool, and all along the history of manned spaceflight has been the simulation and the preparation for missions by going into the pool.

The first seven, and it's interesting, the seven show up, not just in the Bible, but all across NASA's history as well. The first seven astronauts, they called them the Mercury Seven. They did get ready for it. I have a photo here for some of their missions by, this was pretty chill, right? They're in Florida, it's Coco Beach, it feels like spring break to me. They're like how are we going to get out of this module, we're going to do it here with these rafts, and it's awesome.

That was the first, but that was certainly not the end or the last of NASA being in water. When Buzz Aldrin was getting ready for his Gemini 12 mission, they realized that there was really no way to practice for spacewalks on Earth except by being underwater, because if you wait the human body properly, you can simulate the conditions of being in outer space.

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