Two Roads

[@JanVanDerMerwe-x8n]

This is Father's heart to us

[@lizdabest6904]

I don't know how to change these things inside me but I needed this today to reassure me of his grace and love

[@Rockah0lic]

You don't have to, Jesus does the changing. "...he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." - Phil 1:6. What we do is abide, per John 15. All the work we do comes out of that rest we have given to us by Christ, and it's not even ours, to our credit or at our (ultimate) expense. But we don't work for anything, our efforts are still only in the context on the finished work and perpetual love of Christ.

[@kennagler2670]

This message from God through John broke my cycle of sin, guilt and shame... praise the Lord

[@constancereams1098]

This is my second time listening to this message, and at this particular time I needed to listen to this powerful message again. God never stop loving me with all my stuff. He wants me to trust Him more, to leave all my problems I am facing in this room; for Him to handle. What a mighty God I serve, with all my stuff, His mercy and grace is still available to me. I can take my mask off, and allow him to nurture me back to His will; He loves me regardless of my stuff. Thank You Jesus, and thank you Dr. Powell for sharing this message again.

[@carlamcmullen1]

Thank You! Biblically Sound, New Covenant Grace!!!!

[@muhammadal-farouq7342]

I have literally never met anyone from the first group. I have met those who believe God's Grace helps them live a life that God called them to.

[@RobLangley]

I've heard this message several times, and read the book several times, as well. And regardless of how many times I listen to it or read it or watch it, my mind always drifts to times when I've experienced life in each room. Oh how my soul longs for the comfort of the Room of Grace. To live in the messiness of my life, and the lives of others, without condemnation or shame or guilt. How I can let down my guard, take off my mask, and enjoy the Love of God and others. To pour out the love of God to others who need it. I can't thank you enough John, and all your team, for this message. I come back to it often to remind myself that this is what God wants - for us to trust Him, not perform for Him. To trust others with who I am, and give grace to others who desperately need it. Thank you for explaining the true meaning of grace.

[@profipix]

Rob Langley love you, brother!

[@josecaraballo8434]

Awesome God bless you!!

[@carmenmcintyre684]

I just love this-I saw him on the Prodigal son documentary and it was awesome!

[@no_nameington]

check out aaron budjen

[@nathanielpeters4537]

Rob Langley what is the book you’re referencing?

[@sewingbarn3266]

My Professor sent this to me at the opportune time. My family is faced with so many challenges right now. Trusting God really is pleasing God. Thank you for sharing.

[@ImMyra..]

This might be my favorite video.

[@karenwaring6909]

Wow, just wow ❤

[@DarlaMartin-h8q]

I really needed to hear this. My Professor sent this in an email and I open it not knowing what to expect. WOW! Thank you for showing me the road He has been taking me down is the trust road. Just trust me He says. You don't have to do all the things you think you need to just because that's all you know. Stop and get to know me and get to know yourself. Thank you!

[@mikecleveland7453]

This was my comment to a friend who sent me this link: This is absolutely wonderful! I lived in that room of Good Intentions for so many years, even made a "ministry" (Setting Captives Free 1.0) directing other people how to get to that room where God is pleased with you, too. Until I got so sick of pretending to be something and somebody I wasn't, until the mask no longer fit, until God showed me the gospel. When God began teaching me the gospel that Good Intentions room seemed empty, hollow, filled with hypocrites and "older brothers", of which I was the very worst. When God opened my heart to His love, by showing me how far He went to secure it, He told me to stop "doing" and start "trusting". To just look at what He accomplished and rest in it. To see that I, so filled with sin, so dishonoring to the body of Christ and even to humanity itself, am loved and accepted, even treasured by God. It brings me to tears, it makes me shake sometimes because His love is so strong and I so undeserving. On my best day He does not love me more, and on my worst day He does not love me less. His love seems to be the same yesterday when I sinned so badly, today when I'm hurting and probably will be forever, no matter how I am doing on any day. He doesn't play the hokey pokey with me, putting His love in to my heart one day then taking it out the next. No He just loves me, all messed up like this, hurting and broken, feeling oh so unworthy and very much an outcast. How will this impact me for my walk today? it causes me to stop, be still ,and know that I am loved. Deeply. Eternally. I wish the author would have connected this deep eternal love to the gospel, but we just fill in the blanks. Because Jesus suffered in my place I know I can trust Him now. He bought me with His own blood so I trust that He won't lose me along the way. He died and rose again so I trust He has power to help me with all my problems. This new room for me is a place of trust and rest. In here nobody seems to be looking at how they, or anybody else, is doing. We're too enthralled with how Jesus did. And we know God is actually in this room with us. In a manner of speaking He is "trusting Christ" too, not for His own sins but as payment for ours. God Himself is looking at Jesus, too, and trusting His death as full payment for all the people in that room. This is a room of very broken people. We're all bruised and wounded from our falls, from life's hits, from our very poor performance. We aren't the beautiful in here, the successful or those with strong will power. In fact we're made up of the failures, the hopeless, the downcast, the outcast, the miserable and the despised. But in here I feel loved, even accepted. In that other room I felt like people were always looking down on me, judging me, thinking in their hearts that I wasn't as good as them. I didn't read my Bible as much or as consistently as they did, didn't "pursue hard after God" like they were, I had more falls that dishonored my family and everyone who knew me, and I just generally didn't fit in that room. Some people even escorted me out of the room and asked me to go and get better so I could be accepted back to them. I didn't blame them, they were right. But now that I'm in this room of trusting God, trusting the finished work of Christ, I'm accepted in the Beloved. People in here seem to genuinely want me in the room, failures and all. Just this morning a guy hugged me and said he loved me. It made me weep because he knows how bad I've been, the things I've done, and how undeserving I am, but he said it and I know he meant it. I've been coming more and more to realize that God really does love me, that Jesus proved it at the cross, and that I actually have value (after believing for so many years that I was entirely useless and shouldn't be breathing up good people's air). It's slow. This process of being able to experience love has been slow for me. So how will I apply it in my life today? I'm just going to rest in Jesus. Trust in His finished work. Accept that I'm accepted. Oh and I'm going to try to invite some of my friends in to this room. I'm looking for someone who knows he's messed up too. Who knows he wasn't really accepted in that other room either. Who knows what he "should" be doing, but just can't quite seem to get there. I'm going to invite him to look at the proof of God's love and acceptance for him, a Man hanging on a tree as an outcast, one who was pushed out of the other room too, one who was loaded down with a cross and pushed up a garbage hill, one who was rejected by the good people too. And I'm going to invite some other people to come to this other room and trust God.

[@landonschott8864]

Mike I was wondering if the current version of setting captives free have been revised to leading people to the room of grace or would you say it is still leading people into the room of good intentions?

[@landonschott8864]

Mike by the way your response to this video was beautiful thank you for the gift of that.

[@AudreyRush-Green]

We should trust God because He is worthy of our trust. Unlike men, He never lies and never fails to fulfill His promises. “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?” (Numbers 23:19; Psalm 89:34). Unlike men, He has the power to bring to pass what He plans and purposes to do. Isaiah 14:24 tells us, “The LORD Almighty has sworn, ‘Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand.’” Furthermore, His plans are perfect, holy, and righteous, and He works all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His holy purpose (Romans 8:28). If we endeavor to know God through His Word, we will see that He is worthy of our trust, and our trust in Him will grow daily. To know Him is to trust Him. In the same way, without faith it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Hebrews 11:6). The author of the book of Hebrews points out two critical convictions of believers. First, “anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists.” Those who desire to draw near to God must have a deep-rooted belief that He is real. Such belief is not mere intellectual knowledge but a wholehearted devotion to His presence and participation in every part of one’s life. Without a genuine conviction that God exists, it is impossible to have an intimate relationship with Him. Second, the Lord’s followers must believe “that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” This aspect of faith trusts in the character of God as a good, loving, generous, gracious, and merciful Father (James 1:17; Psalm 84:11; Lamentations 3:22-23). These two certainties are the groundwork of saving faith-a faith that pleases God. Without faith, it is impossible to please God, because faith is the avenue by which we come to God and trust Him for our salvation. In His infinite goodness, God provides the very thing we need to draw near to Him: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). God gives us the faith required to please Him.

[@gisellerichards9076]

Love, love this - trust Him, and you will please Him! Thanks, Trueface!

[@dlawrence1314]

This is EXACTLY where I am right now. You have articulated my thoughts and feelings perfectly. God bless you.

[@constancereams1098]

It always amazes me how you can listen to a recording several times and receive a different message each time. Three years in a row, I've watched the TrueFace narration of Two Roads on KZbin, and last year I wrote about what message I got from the video. "God loves me, but He likes me less when I mess up," I say this year; this is the space of GRACE in which I find myself at this time of my life. Jesus often speaks of creating, marking, and changing a particular character to produce change, creation, and behaviors. My character will generate the genuinely proper type of life, but the "self" of which it will ultimately be true is the redeemed, transformed self, not the "discovered" self of common thought alone. "God is big enough to handle my stuff; He's crazy in love with me, and He wants me to let others love me with everything I have." Thank you, God, for giving me another message, and Dr. Powell for sharing the Two Roads video again.

[@VirtueOnFire2]

Such an amazing message. Thanks so much for the inspiration!!

[@denisekspalding]

Mmmmm...Grace and Peace 😌 💜🙏💜

[@nikkihaler1298]

My Professor asks us to take notes and ask questions about this and here are mine. Thank you so much for this video, it really helped to inspire me to think and see things in a new light! How is trusting God passive? We are actively trusting God everyday, each day being something new. The first room sounds amazing, but how can hiding behind a mask be satisfying? The second room sounds perfect. God truly is amazing. Why wouldn’t pleasing God and trusting God be one and the same? We trust the path that God gives us as well as He puts items or people in our path to please him, which as planting a seed, little miracles, such as my son, honestly Doctors have told me over and over that I’d never be able to have children, God already had a plan and gave me my son when He was ready, I had to trust Him to pave they way for me. Also when when I lost my Grandpa, he was the most amazing person I’ve known, I had to trust God because honestly last year I was 23 and have never lost anyone other than animals, I still have my Great Grandmother, I lost one at the beginning of this year, but I still have the other one who will be 103 in August. At my Grandpas funeral, after everyone had left, I played my violin for my Grandpa, there was no wind that day until I was finished and a breeze took my paper from me. The man standing next to me told me it fell right next to his hand, and that he was having trouble with his faith. The man hugged me and said thank you for helping to restore my faith in God. In that moment, both trusting God and pleasing God we’re hand in hand.

[@damonwyrick68]

TRULY SPEECHLESS.Perfect timing.WOW!!!!!!

[@WCGO.]

Incredible!! Wow!

[@AaronLaFette]

I have heard this message before, and it gets better every time I hear it. My mask is off since the first time I heard it

[@billsandygraefe1388]

Sara Flowers Honest truly needed this Today. Sarah I thank God for you and Blaze and your hubby. Don't ever stop letting God use you🙏❤

[@drlynnschriner3686]

Thank you "They know your mask" I am leaving that behind and it came after I was ready to chuck it all, because I never fit in. I am now raw and wide open and I am finding others with such love and grace. Amen to this

[@danadekalb2293]

Thank you for enlightening us with the truth of the Gospel message! How easy it is for us to assign a worldly standard - one of doing - to God's gift - one of being. My husband and I had our lives transformed last Fall by partaking in the cup of "The Cure" through true face. We have been blessed and changed!!!!

[@jim_tennant]

@RT If you think that John doesn't preach the Gospel, than you weren't listening. Listen again and leave legalism behind. Also, there were 3 solas....Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide (Faith), and Sola Gratia (Grace). Your interpretation of these messages leaves out the latter two, which are absolutely Biblical and central to freeing the believer of bondage. John says in his other messages (that you claim to have listened to) that pleasing God is a great desire, it just can't be our primary desire because it will enslave our hearts. The fact is, the Bible says it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God without faith (Hebrews 11). The process of sanctification follows salvation, but if the believer is constantly fixed on what they DO, they are missing the point of the gospel entirely. Also, the new heart Christ gives us will spur us to holiness, not self effort. He does not leave out that we are called to be holy, he addresses this in his full sermon. I urge you to listen again and I challenge you to examine your heart to see if perhaps pride is getting in the way.

[@jim_tennant]

@RT Also, you're conveniently ignoring 1 Peter 1:13, which immediately precedes the verse you quoted. "Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed". If we allow God's grace to penetrate our hearts deeply enough to where it becomes apart of us (as is this video's goal), then we will want to please God because of the new desires He gives us, not self effort.

[@romper58]

beautiful truth - how did we miss it for so long? thank you Trueface!

[@damonwyrick68]

Amazing.Ive needed to hear this my entire life......52.

[@mididas2151]

This brother is a master storyteller...and the message is super clear...

[@briangeoff5800]

Why didn't I hear this message growing up? Why did it take me so long to even realize there was ever a fork in the road to begin with? Jesus saves. Religion kills. The following two words are not enough to express my gratitude, still.. Thank you.

[@johnsebreros415]

Grateful, your resource is like a north star to the compass of my soul

[@sharonrenee1448]

I needed this. I was given this link to this video from a woman who looks out for my well-being with my relationship with God and Jesus. I tried to please God as well and I too was fake about it. Learning to trust God and be true and real and letting myself be loved with all of me is a challenge that I am up for and will succeed.

[@davidayala8615]

Thank you for sharing this radical good news on yet another platform. My mentor had me read "Bo's Café" and it lead to this powerful message in "The Cure" to "On my worst day." These truths have impacted my life and experiencing God's Grace. So liberating. Thanks John, Bruce and Bill. I love the podcasts with David. P.S. John, Your opening in On My Worst Day reeled me in - my dad Frank was on was on that legendary ball team with you and your Bro. here in Upland, CA - it was a intimate look on your pilgrimage through these Two Roads!

[@kingjames104]

I'm coming here from a class I'm taking and I'm leaving with tears in my eyes. This was a very powerful video and the concept of the two rooms and the one with Grace and the ability to take off one's mask and reveal who you really are really hit me for I often feel like I'm betraying God with my inability to be perfect in pleasing him. I often make mistakes and do the wrong things sometimes even intentionally though in my mind I make excuses for them. I am a flawed person but a person who loves God. It sometimes is hard to square my life and that of God. I sometimes feel I'm the black sheep and not worthy of his love. But this video reminds me that we are all imperfect people we just need to be real with God and those around us. We need to be open and honest and understand that God is able to understand our flaws and it was for these flaws that he sent his Son down to us. Thank you so much for this video and God Bless.

[@Jayinseason]

What a wonderful message of hope and we can learn to take off our masks. Thank you Jesus in our new identity you accept us as we are, with our successes and failures. We trust you because we know You are are in control. The room of grace! I am in there now and learning who I am, regardless of my feelings which are up and down. God is my constant and I am learning His crazy love for me does not change, even on those days my trust falters.

[@CAIrondad]

Beautiful, John..... thanks for all you do.

[@Hogelief]

You really managed to hit something deep and real. I love watching videos from this channel just like i enjoyed reading the books Bo's Café and On My Worst Day. Back in 2011 i was involved in a group and during this period I also stumbled upon the book Bo's, somehow we ended up sharing the message from the book within our community. Friendships grew stronger and closer but also became more real as people din't felt the need to hide their fears behind shame. I just want to say thank you for what you have written and shared here on youtube, it means the world to me and others that i know. I hope and look forward to keep hearing more from this channel : )

[@lindaballenger8199]

THANK YOU FOR THIS MESSAGE! LET GO & TRUST GOD, TAKE OFF YOUR MASK, GOD LOVES YOU NO MATTER WHAT! THEN YOU CAN BEGIN TO Love Others.

[@d.caviness9361]

I watched this video at the request of my professor. As I drank in your message my answer to your question was immediately, "you must trust God in order to please him." Hebrews 11:6 came to mind. I've lived long enough to stop playing the mask game. I live in the full disclosure to God and the ones that I have come to know and love. Sometimes I get to talk to those who are just learning to take off the mask and I love every minute of it. Thank you sir for you wonderfully explained video! Many Blessings!

[@suzannebirk7245]

Wow. I choose the road to trust. Thank you Professor Powell for sending this to us.

[@jim_tennant]

This video absolutely wrecks me every time I watch it.

[@clydebennett8325]

An absolutely amazing video! Having on a mask makes things easy. But for who? I love the notion of being in the Room of Grace. I want people to love me for who God says I am and not for the presentation of a person behind a mask. No more mask!!

[@brandonmullins463]

Masks aren't normal they are more weight

[@CozyToni]

That was so beautiful and made me feel so inspired. I am at that fork in the road. It seems sounds so easy to give God all your trust, so why do we keep seeing to "do" more for Him. It can be exhausting.

[@melissarifenbury5760]

Wow this such a GREAT Message!!!!!

[@cameronanddianne]

... and all God's people said... Amen.

[@TheFathersLoveForYou]

amen

[@Rockah0lic]

Wonderful message I've treasured for years - but now I just really wanna know where I can find more of the background music!

[@matthewcox9131]

Wow amen. Very true word of wisdom. Humble Is what I want to be more of

[@dylanharrington1318]

Very strong message. Well-delivered. Excellent production quality. Outstanding piece overall.

[@ErikaParkerLeeMinHo]

Such a blessing!

[@rayelfers3730]

Amen!

[@zoesherwin5159]

Yes

[@snuffyfordsmom]

Ron Ford

[@nathanielfinley8054]

Anyone know the background music?!

[@jasonbolster3259]

What exactly do you mean here by “failing?” If by that you mean not succeeding in your work or certain goals, that is quite different from the impression I got: that you mean sinning. Sin is not attempting to please God and failing. Sin is deliberately rejecting God’s way and breaking His law. Tell me how you work the Epistle of James into your way of thinking. The way I read it, Ephesians isn’t a comprehensive guide to salvation so much as a contrast of grace with religious works, specifically those proscribed in the Law of Moses. We are saved by grace, not by works of law. But that is hardly the same as saying that we’re saved by faith alone. James 2:14 - 26 “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food and one of you says to them, ‘Depart in peace; be warmed and filled,’ but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, ‘You have faith and I have works.’ Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe - and tremble. But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’ And he was called the friend of God. You see, then, that a man is justified by works and not by faith only. Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” I see nothing at all in Paul’s epistles (or anywhere else in the Bible) that contradicts that. Revelation 20:12 “And I saw the dead, both small and great, standing before God and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.” To say that we do nothing at all because Christ has already done it all is not totally Biblical. We are saved by grace, absolutely, but also by works. We are judged before God’s throne by our works.

[@billcarlton2312]

So sorry to hear your sadness brother. Let God love you- always- and He will guide you home. James wrote in an effort to address a lack of love on the part of some Christians he knew. Paul writes to help lessen the load of Jewish Christianizers. Following Jesus has never been easy schmeezy but it certainly isnt as hard as we wanna make it. Trust Him- He can get you thru.

[@mihretudessalegne3759]

From my understanding, this message is implying that our focus as Christians can primarily be on works to the point of our works representing our attempts to please God as a higher priority than our trust in God. Our motivation to please God needs to come from our trust in Him - with everything - our talents, desires, fears, flaws, situations, tangibles...everything. Hebrews 11:6 points to this, "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." We need to trust that because of Jesus' perfect life, death, and resurrection, He has the power when we allow Him to by our trust in Him to change us completely. I can definitely speak for myself when I say this, but it seems that when we struggle to trust in Jesus, that a common alternative is ourselves. This seems to be the most subtle forms of pride, to prove our worthiness to Jesus so that He can accept us. But the speaker here is trying to remind us and open us up to the truth that Jesus has already accepted us for who we are going to be in Him! Regardless of where we are now! To believe in this truth is the only way to let go of ourselves, completely and utterly rely on Jesus, and throughout the living of this life be transformed into a new creation by Him, not by our pride-filled efforts. 2 Corinthians 5:17 confirms this: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" The works that come and are indicative of our faith will come as we live and are not the foundation of faith. In fact, good works not done out of trust in Jesus are not good at all. Truly good works are works that are done out of faith in Jesus, and faith in Jesus is the means of salvation. Truly good works, by definition, show that good works are not a side-by-side condition for salvation, but simply a byproduct of faith - to let go and let Jesus work in us.

[@barbarac481]

James is speaking to the 12 tribes of Israel scattered abroad. It's not written to the body of Christ. We are in the dispensation of grace. 1 Corinthians 15::1-4 Ephesians 3:2 KJV

[@garyanderson7058]

I am at the fork - scared - lonely- need help

[@mmm-hv1qv]

sorry this is a year late, but how are you doing now? do you want to talk?

[@brandonmullins463]

Honest

[@Malick333]

The problem is "The Room of Good Intentions" is falsely labeled the "The Room of Grace" ... so you think you're in the REAL room of Grace, but you are not.

[@randallscharf76]

The comparison of “Trusting (faith in) God” versus “Pleasing God” is invalid. You cannot please God by putting on a mask for God sees into the very core of our being and knows more about us then we do. (Heb 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do). In fact pleasing God is based first on trusting (having faith) in God (Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him). The comparison could have been: “Trusting God” versus “Pretending to be something I am not before men”.

[@dmath3223]

Yes that is true, I was thinking that too but then it made sense when it said the word "primarily" in the description. We have to primarily trust in God and then we will be able to please Him too.

[@zoesherwin5159]

It's over zoe and hamish are over

[@Joniyah444]

I used to believe this, but we need to repent and do the will of God. Those who do not repent or obey will not make it. God makes the way yes, but we have to walk his way. I'm afraid this won't be good enough excuse

[@cowpattycreek]

Gal 3:2 Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ. Gal 3:3 How foolish can you be? After starting your Christian lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?

[@billcarlton2312]

I used to be a sinner, now I am a saved sinner. Fighting against faith does no one any good. Yes, to obey is better than to sacrifice. To obey is to trust.