Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South
Australia. You know, I did, I did say that
this was a you know, talking about hell is a hard topic.
Not for us, not like not for us in this place, right?
Like when we think about who we are in this place as a look
around this room, we are believers in this place.
So talking about this isn't a hard topic for us.
Talking about this is a hard reality for those around us in
the community and the world around us, but not for us.
Like talking about hell and you know, the lake of fire and, and
judgement and these things. This is not a hard topic for us.
This is a good thing for us. We're going to see that Jesus
judging the world and separating between the good and the bad is
the greatest day ever for all of creation.
Separating evil and separating darkness from the good is the
greatest day, you know, for us as believers.
So you know, it should it should stir some excitement in us
because that's the day that's approaching that we're coming
into. Can I just say as well, like I'm
just thinking about, you know, our time of singing and stuff in
our gathering here this morning. And it's like, what's our
expectation of the presence of God, of being with God in this
place and seeing God do what God can only do?
Because, you know, when I read the Scripture, when people
follow Jesus, they were expecting that when they were
following him and when they were in his presence that something
was going to happen. That's the reason that they
followed him. The crowds gathered to Jesus
because stuff happened when Jesus was there.
And so I just want to remind us of where we stand in this place
today. You know, it's not just through
lovely songs and beautiful voices and all of that, that God
moves. It's because he's here.
And so I just want to remind us that that Jesus is in this
place, that the Holy Spirit is with us in this place.
And we've got to be expecting that when, when God's in this
place that God can move. And that means that the, that
the stuff that needs to be dealt with in my life or, or just the,
the stuff that I need God to fix, You know, my, the needs
that I have as a, as a believer to serve him and go after him
that I can come to my loving father.
It's Father's Day and come to my loving father.
And he will take care of my needs because he is a good
father. He is a good God.
So I hope that we're even just seated in this place today.
I hope we're expectant that Holy Spirit can come in here and fix
some stuff and heal us and, and set us up for success and, and,
and that we could leave this place empowered that we could
receive power because the powerful 1 is in our midst.
Amen. So Lord, we, we seek you for
that this morning. We don't even seek you for what
we can get from you, Lord, but we seek you because you are the
God that has promised amazing things that you have the God
that promised that we would come from death to life and that you
would restore us and heal us and strengthen us and guide us and
speak to us and, and lead us, Lord.
That's the God that we seek today, Lord Jesus, we come to
you and we say, Lord, we're, we're opening ourselves up to
you. My heart is open to you, Lord,
to do whatever it is that's needed in my life, in my heart,
in my thinking, in my understanding.
Lord, we, we seek you for revelation in this place today,
that you would reveal your word to us, Lord, that we would see
you clearer, that we would have a clearer understanding of why
we're here. Why?
Why I'm alive on this planet, but why you've planted this
church, Lord, why you've gathered us to be together in a
part of the church in this place in this time.
Lord, reveal yourself in this place today.
Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. I read a quote this week and it
says if we don't accept the reality of hell, we won't
rightly understand the glory of the gospel that is true.
If we don't accept the reality that God's going to do what he
says, then we won't realize how wonderful the gospel is and how
wonderful salvation is. And so, you know, as we look at
the as the Scriptures today and as we dig through some of this
stuff, again, this is exciting to us that sit in this place
because that that's going to stir a, a Thanksgiving in our
hearts for what God has done and for what Jesus did on the cross
and for the fact that this is no longer the reality that we were
destined for, but Christ, but Jesus.
And so again, just to, to set the stage, I'm talking about
like the final, the final judgement, the final separation,
this is this is hell, this is today, this is hell, this is the
lake of fire. This is where it's, this is like
the end of all this stuff. You know, it says that hell and
death and Hades will be cast into this place.
It says that, it says here in Revelation 20, it says the devil
who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone
where the beast and the false prophet are.
And they will be tormented day and night forever.
It doesn't sound good. Then Death and Hades were cast
into the Lake of fire. This is the second death.
And anyone not found written in the book of Life was cast into
the Lake of fire. Anyone not written in in the
Book of Life is cast into that place where who is there?
Satan, you know, the false prophet and all, like everyone
that's rebelled against God. You go in there and
unfortunately there are a lot of people that are going to go
there. A lot of people were going to
reject the gospel, but that's it.
That's that's the end. This is like Revelation 20 we're
getting. There's only two more chapters
after that. It's just like that's the end.
And I love like, you know, that was Revelation 20 verse 15 that
I read here with those not found written in the book cast in
there. Verse 21 says this, this is how
quickly things move forward. Revelation 20 verse 21 says now
I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the 1st heaven and the
first earth has passed away. It's just like once that's done,
now it's like now we're going to talk about the new stuff and it
doesn't revisit, you know, like these people's reality or
anything like that. It's like now we're going to
talk about the new Jerusalem with a bride coming down from
heaven and stuff like that. You know, so that's the, this is
like the end of this stuff. And like I believe we're living
in a time and, and a season of, of that in our world of our
planet. We're we're coming into this
stuff. You know, people have lived for
centuries before us and they believe that, you know, Jesus
could come in anytime. How much more now Jesus could
come in this moment? I hope that like we have some
sort of reality of that, that like, if we're not right in here
with him, we got problems because the time is short.
He is coming. All right.
So Jesus, I said last week again, you know, it's sort of
going over a lot of the same things, but Jesus spoke a lot
about hell. Jesus spoke a lot about hell.
Like when you look at what Jesus was was saying, Jesus spoke
about hell in great detail. So we just got to look at some
of the things that Jesus said about hell.
So Matthew 1028 says do not fear those who can kill the body but
cannot kill the soul, but rather fear him who is able to destroy
both the soul and the body in hell.
Jesus said that. I'm just going to unpack this
first a bit because there's a little bit in this.
It says fear, you know, don't fear Him who can kill the body,
fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Now that word for fear is the same word.
I just want to touch on that for a minute because Jesus is saying
don't, don't fear him who can kill the body.
If I was going to run at you with a knife to try and kill
you, what sort of fear are you going to be fearing with?
You're going to be scared for your life, right?
Same word is used here. Jesus is saying don't fear those
who can kill your body, fear him who can end it for good.
Do you see what I'm saying? Say fear, like a fear, real
fear, you know. And I think when I think about
that, I think that I think that we've shield away from the fear
of God. I think we have because we,
we've made it some sort of a form of respect or honour for
God. And you should have honour and
respect for God. But I would have honour and
respect for a sporting star if he came and stood before me.
Do you see what I'm saying? This is not the same honour and
respect that I'm supposed to have for God.
You know, when I think about, you know, it's Father's Day and
when I think about, you know, when the boys act up or
whatever. And if I'm at work, some really
my life doesn't really plan out this way because of my work life
and stuff. But you know, you hear the
stories of Dad's at work and Mom's just like you wait till
dad gets home, right? And these kids, this is not
because Dad's abusive and you know this and that, but Dad's
going to correct things. And when you, when you know that
you've done wrong, right? When these kids know that
they've messed up and mum's going to tell dad when he comes
home, they're fearing dad, not because he's a scary guy that
wants to hurt them, but because dad will do justice, right?
And I'm in trouble here because I have, I've acted up, you know,
I mean, I'm to be blamed. You know, kids know that when
they, when they do wrong and that there's going to be
consequence, they know that they've messed up.
You don't have to try and convince them they did the wrong
thing. They're just like, Oh my gosh,
like they're, they're fearful, You know, and I think that's
just a small picture of, of this fear that we have for God.
You know, Solomon was one of the wisest men on the planet.
Well, he was the wisest man at the time outside of Jesus.
I believe he was the wisest man. God blessed him with wisdom, and
Solomon writes this in Proverbs 17.
He says fear, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Let's not be foolish. Let's not be foolish in having
some sort of flippant understanding of the fear of
God. God will judge right, and we
want to be that the fear of God for us, knowing that, you know,
Jesus has paid the price and we we are saved.
The fear of God wants to keep me from stepping outside of the
grace that Jesus has made for me that he has given me right.
The fear of God wants to meet make sure that I am not taking
advantage of God's grace and living in a way that's like, Oh
well, you know, Jesus paid the price.
That is a scary place to be living.
You know, I want to be fearful that in the way that I live, in
the way that I speak and how I, how I lead in these things that
I don't slip into some sort of a oh, well, you know, Jesus has
paid the price attitude. I want to be fearful that man
like I, I, I don't want to step outside of God's grace.
I don't want to. You know, there's, there's a
prayer that says, you know, Lord, let me be worthy of your
coming. That's an interesting 1, isn't
it? Let me be worthy of my coming.
Yeah, but Jesus paid the price. Well, of course I'm worthy of
his coming, you know, but we're instructed to pray, pray that
you would be worthy of your coming because we could, we
could mess this up. Do you know what I mean?
You could turn your back on God and turn your back on.
I don't want to get into the once saved away saved stuff, but
I just want to be fearful that that couldn't happen because if
it could, I don't want it to happen.
Do you see what I'm saying? I don't know, I just want to be
fearful. I just want to to look at my
Lord and give him the honour and the respect that only he is due.
Another thing from this passage in Matthew 10 that I just want
to address here is where it says fear him who he was able to
destroy both soul and body. I've heard people try and say
that, you know, this just means that this destroy word means
that those that are cast into hell will just be destroyed and
they won't exist anymore. This is not what this is saying.
You know, this the scripture, you know, we don't have time to
dig right into this, but that word destroy is used in many
ways in the Scripture if you go and look at it.
And I would encourage you, if you're questioning that, go and
look for yourself. That's the safe place.
Go and find out what the Word of God says.
Go look at the word destroy. Go look at where how it's used
in other contexts throughout the Scripture and you'll see that
it's not saying that, you know, the other thing that you know,
sort of lands up for me is that the rest of the Scripture
doesn't teach that. You would have to if, if that's
what that's saying, that you know, God's going to destroy
them in hell and they just cease to exist.
You have to discount a whole bunch of other scriptures.
You know, the one that I read before about, you know, Satan's
cast into this, into the lake of fire, and it's eternal torment.
And everyone not written in the Book of Life is thrown in there
as well. Yeah.
But they're just going to be burned up and not exist.
But Satan's going to be in there.
You see, it just doesn't make sense.
It's not. It doesn't fit what the Bible
teaches. So people will be, you know,
people that don't know him will be in eternal suffering,
separated from God and conscience like we in in a
conscious state, knowing they're there, knowing that God's not
there. That's hell, right?
That is hell. All right, Let's look at some
more verses here. So Matthew 1342, this is some of
the ways that Jesus describes this place, right?
He says gnashing of teeth. You know, this is like anguish
and regret. This is the sort of feelings and
emotions people are going to be feeling here.
Matthew 25. I'll give you the references
we're going to be. Don't bother turning there now.
Matthew 2530 Outer darkness, Jesus calls it.
He says it's outer darkness. And again he says weeping and
gnashing of teeth doesn't sound like a nice place.
Mark 943 He says hell is fire that shall never be quenched.
Further on in Mark 944 Jesus quotes Isaiah 66 and he says
they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of men.
This is not the bit Jesus quotes, but who have trans.
Let me just start again. This is what it says in Isaiah
66. It says, And they shall go forth
and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed
against against me. And this is what Jesus quotes
for their worm. For their worm does not die, and
the fire is not quenched. It's like you're not passing
away there. It's like eternal fire and
torment. Luke 161931 These verses talk
about again, it's a place of torment.
They're tormented by fire. There's crying out for help.
Jesus has already come. Jesus has already died on the
cross. Jesus, the Scripture says he's
not going to be crucified a second time.
He's already paid the price. If you've rejected salvation,
he's not going to die again for you, right?
If you reject it, there's a crying out for help that just
goes unanswered. It's horrible.
And you know, it says that you can't pass from this place into
this place. You know, there's this parable
about about the rich man and Lazarus.
Yeah. And he and he says, you can't go
from here to here. You know, there's a, there's a
it, it says it's fixed, which means it's unchanging.
All right, I'm just going to talk a little bit about some of
the, some of the myths or the misconceptions that our world
has taught us about hell through books and TV and, and Hollywood.
Just a couple of these things. You know, you sort of taught
that hell is like Satan's domain, like where Satan dwells,
you know, like he's working out of there.
It's like, it's like his headquarters.
It's like we're Satan sending the demons out and getting stuff
done. And you know, that is not hell.
That is not the hell of the Bible.
Satan will not rule in hell. Satan is there in eternal
punishment and torment. He's not having his way there,
right? He's not reigning and rolling
over all the people and getting him to do all his will and all
that. He is not having a good day.
And you know, Satan is here. Where is Satan right now?
He's not here. I don't think he's here.
I think Satan's got more important things than to give us
a hard time here at the White church.
Can I just say that Satan can't be everywhere.
I don't think that we're the biggest threat to Satan's
Kingdom here on the earth. I wish we were.
I pray that we could be, but I don't think that we are, right.
So I think that Satan's probably where, you know, I'm just going
to leave it at that. I'm not going to get into that.
Satan is somewhere. He's probably not here.
But that's not to say that he hasn't got his workers in around
here doing his will and causing trouble for the church here,
Right? OK, so the lake of fire is empty
right now. It says the first one that's
cast in there is the false prophet and and the beast.
And then Satan goes afterwards. And and so there's a place that
God's prepared that it's, it's not being used yet.
This is the hell we're talking about.
There is other demons and stuff like that.
Fallen angels chain somewhere. I don't really know where that
is, you know, but I don't think it's this end place.
I think that it all just gets dumped in this in this final
existence, which is the lake of fire in the Scripture.
All right, So another misconception that, you know,
you hear this when you talk to people.
I heard someone say sort of some of these things, you know, this
week that hell is a place for just the really bad people.
You know, hell is a place for like murderers and, you know,
people that do things to kids and, you know, just the most
heinous crimes that you can think of, like hell is this
place for them, but not for me. Like I, I haven't, you know, I'm
not like that. You know, people would think
this, right? I spoke to someone this week and
I said, you know what? What do you think happens when
you die? And he says, well, I'm hoping
that I'll go to be in heaven. I said why?
Like, you know, like we had a conversation.
I said, so who goes to hell then?
It's just like, oh, you're the bad people.
It's like you think you're a good person.
Like anyway, I'm not going to I'm not going to get into the
conversation, right?
But in here somewhere, you know, when you dig a bit and when you
pardon, when you poke and when you ask some, some questions,
people realise they're not that good, right?
We know like you know. That, you know, I'm, I'm fallen,
I'm doing stuff that I don't even want to do.
Do you see what I'm saying? Like hell is for people that
fall short of the glory of God. You know, it's like hell is to
separate all of the unrighteousness and all of the
ungodliness and all of the evil and all that stuff from a
perfect, righteous, holy God and his existence and everything
that he, you know, the stuff where where God wants to dwell
and the good and the stuff that he creates that's perfect.
He can't have all of this stuff tainting it.
And unfortunately that's you and I before Jesus came along,
right? Like we're not that perfect.
And that means that it I can't be there.
This is why we have a place in hell, or at least that is why we
were destined for hell right until our names written in the
book of life, right? Because of what Jesus did, not
because of me. Like I've been lived even like
when Jesus came and saved me. I haven't lived a good enough
life for me to expect to go to heaven.
Right. When you understand, when you
have some sort of an understanding of how good God
is, you just go, well, yeah, I'm sort of falling way short of
that God now what, my son Jesus. Thank you, Lord.
You know, that's the point. So so all of that just to say
that hell is not just for a place of the really bad people.
It's for everyone that's outside of Christ, that's outside of
receiving the gospel, which is people being able to be forgiven
for being short of perfection. I haven't met anyone that I
could look at and go, that person's perfect apart from my
wife, you know? No, I'm joking.
Of course she's not. But do you see what I'm saying?
Like you would never have met anyone and go on.
Yeah, that person's perfect in every way.
Imagine what it was like meeting Jesus, though.
When you think about that, I don't think, like, you know,
there was reasons why the Pharisees hated him and wanted
to kill him, and everyone else wanted to kill him.
There's reasons for that, right? But it wasn't because he wasn't
perfect. If anything, it was because he
was perfect, right? I'll cut to the heart.
I was just like, you can't be perfect.
We have the law. Like, you know, we're the
perfect ones, not you, you know, you see, So.
Oh, man, I just I can't wait to meet Jesus.
That's going to be a day, isn't it?
I didn't like because it says that you know, when you see him
as he is, then then you'll know how you are.
Like it's I'm not quoting it perfectly, but it's like to see
him, you, you know who you are. That's amazing to me.
That means that when we see him clearly, we go, Oh my gosh, that
is what we you created us to be. Hallelujah, Lord, isn't that
cool? All right, so one other thing,
just when it comes to to Helen and everyone's going there, Luke
1247 it says this. And the seven, and the servant
who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself to do
according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
But he who did not know yet committed things deserving of
stripes shall be beaten with few.
And I think what that's saying is that there's different levels
of punishment in hell, it would seem.
So, you know, I'm, I'm sure that there's people there that
deserve greater condemnation than others.
And our righteous holy God will justly judge every single
person. So we just leave that with him.
He will take care of that, you know, But again, all of us fall
short of the glory. All of us deserve to receive
judgement from the Lord, but our judgement was put on Christ,
Amen. So again, you know, I just
repeat sort of what I've been saying in the last couple of
weeks, like hell is this place of separation from God.
It's simply what it is. It's being cut off from life.
It is being cut off from goodness.
It is being cut off from the loving Father.
John 14-6 says Jesus said to them, I am the way, the truth,
and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me.
That means that no one is escaping hell but through Christ
Jesus. Whether you lived before,
whether you live now, where, whenever you lived, the only
reason that anyone that was ever born will be with the Father
through eternity will be because of Jesus Christ.
That's it. And you know, that's just the
worst thing about hell. What's the worst thing about
hell? That God's not there.
That's the worst thing. And then knowing that God's not
there and knowing that you could have been where he was would be
the most tormenting truth to have to live with forever.
You know, I've got things from my past that I've done that I
have to live with. And it can torment you, you
know, and I just have to go, Lord, you know, I, I thank God
I'm forgiven, you know, but that thing to know that you could
have been saved and you rejected it will torment you forever if
you should find yourself there. Very scary.
So Hell's God's plan for hell was just to deal with rebellion,
right? When he says that he created
hell for Satan and his angels, right, it's because that they
rebelled against God, right? And those, that the people that
will find their way there are only going there because they're
rebelling in rebellion against God.
God is dealing with rebellion here.
And not just the rebellion of mankind.
There's other rebellion that God's having to deal with Satan
and the, and the angels. There's a spiritual realm where
there's been rebellion and God's having to deal with that.
And so This is why this is the, the reason that he has to put a
place for all of that to go, not just people, but everything,
because they won't honour God as God.
Satan chose not to honour God as God.
You know, I had a conversation with someone this week about,
you know, because people will say things like, well, what sort
of a God just needs to be on it? Like, what sort of a God?
Like how, how selfish do you have to be to have to create
things just to be worshipped? It's just twisted understanding.
It's just like God gave you life.
You wouldn't even be, you would have nothing if he didn't give
you life. Of course we're going to honour
the one that gave you life. Of course.
Only he is worthy of all praise and all honour because he is
God, right? To say that, you know, he's
twisted because he made us just the need to worship him.
He's just. It's the most ridiculous thing
I've ever heard. You like to be alive, don't you?
Yeah, God did that. He didn't have to, right?
And so like, but we've taken everything for granted.
When I think about the life that I've lived and when I think
about the life that people outside of him live now, we take
everything for granted. We take everything for granted.
You know, I take for granted the air that I breathe.
I still do this now. And until you get centered
again, until you go, oh, thank you, Lord.
You know, like Thanksgiving just brings you back to this place of
putting God in his rightful place and, and putting you under
him again. But you know, like I just,
we've, we've all lived this life and just taken life for granted,
taking the sunshine for granted. You know, the, the wicked and
the good. The sun rises every single day.
You know, in God's Jesus says this, he says that, you know,
I've made like the sun to rise on, on the evil and the just
because we're in a period of grace, you know, God's allowing
things to happen right now. He's allowing us to live.
He's allowing people that don't know him that reject him, that
speak against him, that blasphemy, his name, that that
speak against his bride, that speak against believers.
He's allowing those people to wake up, have some air, eat some
food, right? But he's going to bring it all
into account one day. And I just hope that for us as
believers that we're living in a in a, in a respectful way to God
in that you don't he doesn't have to allow you to wake up
tomorrow, right. Our lives are in God's hands.
And I think that even as believers and, and us that, you
know, receive the promises and live in the goodness of God and
have salvation and, and know that our futures have sown up in
him. I think that we, we still need
to just have a solid reminder that we are blessed.
You know, life is tough. Many of us are facing many
things, but life is good. Life is a blessing from God And
there's, there's work to be done.
It's just like we have to just center ourselves daily and just
say, Lord, you know, I'm just going to wake up and be thankful
today because you've blessed us in every way.
You know, how much more us than those that don't even know him.
I think we I think we've got some work to do church.
I think that we've got some work to do in our togetherness to be
thankful for even the opportunity to meet together.
You know, this is amazing thing for us to be together as a body.
You know, I hope we're grateful and thankful for those things.
I'm just going to bring this to a close.
You know, I started off by talking about the fear of God.
You know, it's echoed here in Hebrews 104031.
It says it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the
living God. You know, that's a New Testament
scripture. That's not like, you know, the
God of the Old Testament was, was, you know, the harsh
taskmaster. But then Jesus came along and
he's just all loving and, you know, just don't worry about it.
You know, God is perfect and he loves you.
You know, Jesus didn't say anything that wasn't in line
with the Old Testament Scriptures, you know, and what
This is why we need to dig into the words of Jesus when he talks
about hell and when he talks about the reality of things,
because I think we've just put all that aside and just gone,
you know, Jesus just loves you, you know, come and come and know
Jesus. You know, when we're, when we're
preaching the gospel, it's just like this happy message of like,
you know, Jesus loves you and he, he wants to get to know you
and you can, you know, get all the things that you need and be
happy and have joy and peace. And we're sitting in this room
just as believers just going, yeah, not really, you know, And
it's weird because like we, we share that message with people
and then we're not living it out when it's not our reality.
It's not true, right? Because we have hardships and we
have pain and we have suffering. And now they're looking at us,
just wondering whether it's even true what we're saying because
the witness that we're bearing isn't reflected in our lives in
a real way, Right. But Jesus is wanting us to
declare the goodness of God no matter what is going on.
And you know what people do, they go, you know, there's a,
there's a scripture that says, you know, what is this hope that
you have? What is this hope you have?
You just go. Let me tell you about my Lord.
You know, that's the hope. That is the gospel.
That is like the gospel message that no matter what is going on,
he is Lord, He is my Savior. He is coming.
I'm waiting for him. He has a place for me in
eternity where all things will be in you.
And he's going to all of those things.
You know, the pain that I feel, the tears that I cry, all of
those things will be washed away.
Yeah. And Jesus is going to make sure
that every evil thing, everything that's rejected him,
everything that's ever rebelled against him is put in another
place far from where we are. Amen.
People need to hear that. You know, people want to hear
that because people aren't stupid.
People know when they look at us, when they look at, you know,
the life of a Christian, they know that we're not living in
this place where we're healed all the time and we never die
and we don't grow old and we're not in pain, right?
We're lying to people when we say that, you know, Jesus's will
to heal every single time And, and you know, like that sins
dealt with once and for all and we never have to live in any of
the repercussions of sin. That's not true.
I'm sore, I'm aching, and I know that I won't be in an eternity,
right? That means that there's still
things to do to be dealt with. And this is the dealing,
throwing all of the stuff in the in the lake of fire.
Amen. So we got to bear real witness
to the truth of the gospel and that means being real sometimes
or all the time, being truthful, meet people with the truth.
It's the truth that sets free, not our sugar coating message of
how God's going to do this and God's do going to do that.
Amen. I'm going to close here.
This is this wonderful scripture in Jeremiah 29.
You know it, I'm going to read it.
Jeremiah 29 verse 11 it says, for I know the thoughts that I
think towards you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not
of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Then you will call upon me and go and pray to me, and I will
listen to you, and you will seek me and find me when you search
for me with your with your whole heart.
And I will be found by you, says the Lord.
And I'll bring you back from captivity, and I'll gather you
from all of the nations, from all the places where I've driven
you, says the Lord, And I'll bring you to the place from
which I caused you to be carried away captive.
The gospel is about God gathering all of the people from
all of the nations everywhere and gathering them to be
together with Him forever. I will be their God.
They will be my people. And so, you know, I just want us
to think about like, I really felt just to say this, there's,
there's people in amongst your life.
You know, I've got some people, you've got some people that
don't know him. Can we just think of one person
right now? Just one.
Just give you guys a second. Just think of one person that
doesn't know him. And I want you to think of
someone that's close to you, close enough for you to reach
out to them. Not like on the other side of
the world, not someone that you don't even speak to anymore.
I want you to think of someone that you have contact with that
doesn't know him. And what I want us to do, just
as we close this meeting, I would like you for you to tell
someone who that person is. And they're going to tell you
your person, their person. It can just be the person next
to you or whatever, but just, we just need someone next to you.
And we're just going to pray. Well, let's just pray now.
Just God's hand upon them that he would reveal himself, that he
would send workers into the field of their life, that he
would use me, that he would give me boldness and power to, to
have the courage to reach out to them.
And I want us to spend this week praying for those, those two
people. And we're going to have to lift
our expectation that God can come and do what we can't do.
Thank you, Lord, Let's just bow our heads and pray.
Father, we we thank you for who you are.
You are a good, good God. You are a good, good Father,
Lord, we thank you, Lord, that for the stirring of our hearts,
for the lost around us. God, we pray that that this
week, Lord, that you would embolden us and encourage us,
Lord, to, to, to work the harvest, Lord, to see eternal
reward. Lord, we thank you, Lord, that
that we partnering with you that we don't have to do any of this
in our own strength. Lord, but Holy Spirit, come even
right now, just empower your people with boldness, with
strength, with courage, with the words of of truth.
We pray, Lord, that we would bear solid witness, Lord, in
these people's lives, Lord, that we've prayed for by name.
Just remind us daily to be praying for these people.
We want to see you move. We want to see salvation.
We want to see your mighty hand to save.
So Lord, empower us, Lord, to partner with you in this all for
your glory in Jesus mighty name, Amen.
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