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Amen. 
Take your Bibles, if you will, 

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and turn to Acts chapter 17. 
Acts chapter 17. 

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That'll make you want to get up 
here and preach. 

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That was going to be a short 
message, but I don't know if 

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it's going to be. 
Now, I don't ever say that. 

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I, I don't ever say it's going 
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soon as I say that it's going to
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it off after the short part is 
over. 

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And I don't, I don't like to get
to that point. 

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But boy, we had a great Bible 
conference. 

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And I know it was a couple weeks
ago now I've wanted to preach a 

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follow up message to that. 
But last week was our friend day

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and next week is Easter. 
The following week is going to 

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be our missions emphasis. 
And so, you know, this is the 

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only chance I really have to 
give you a follow up message 

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that that follows up our 
conference. 

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I haven't. 
I have another message that 

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God's laid on my heart that I'm 
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think. 
It'll be helpful for us as well.

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I'm going to preach that soon, 
but you have a. 

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Conference where God speaks to 
your heart and where you know 

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you're you, you made some 
decisions and you you know that 

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you need to make some changes 
maybe or, or some of the things 

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that you're already doing, you 
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Where do you go from here? 
How do you take steps forward 

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after you've made a decision for
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And I think right along with 
this, this, this passage here in

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Acts chapter 17, we're going to 
get there in just a minute. 

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And I would, I would recommend 
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bookmark in there. 
We're going to come back to it. 

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We're going to jump around a 
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morning. 
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history, there's, there's been 
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change the world. 
Most people want to make the 

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world a better place, whatever 
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You know, that's not always the 
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terrorists, you're trying to 
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next explosion or the next 
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change the world in that way. 
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try to change the world by 
destroying computers and hacking

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into systems and doing all those
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I always. 
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would actually use the knowledge
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something good, they could 
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if not billionaires. 
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that? 
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But if you were to ask a kid or 
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they want to do with their life,
the answer would always be or 

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mostly would be that they want 
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world. 
I want to change the world and 

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you know. 
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to come up with the greatest 
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the cure for cancer or this or 
that. 

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I want to change the world. 
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that, you know, drives 
innovation or, or comes up with 

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some kind of program computer 
wise or technology that that 

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just that just drives the world 
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I mean, you think about, you 
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how it changed the world, the 
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it changed the world. 
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inventions that that people came
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that changed the world. 
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sometimes it doesn't always go 
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That was the case with the 
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Anybody ever ridden a Segway? 
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See, I, I have not. 
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founded Segway was actually a, a
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they're things that we use a lot
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that he was working on. 
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going to be the invention that 
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And for months and months, in 
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he was, he kind of hid himself 
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this invention. 
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way that people travel around, 
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everything else. 
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off. 
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hit a road bump, Jimmy hit 
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He was actually the, he wasn't 
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owner of the Segway company. 
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about this because I think it 
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something like that. 
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riding a Segway and he rode 
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and died on his Segway. 
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Not not very good advertisement 
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You know, everybody wants to, to
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Everybody wants to make an 
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And as we, as we read this 
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this morning, you can see that 
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different idea about what 
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what a lot of people mean when 
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change the world. 
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those two things, many people. 
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they mean that they want to make
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place to live or develop things 
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easier. 
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when they say they want to 
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might even say that they want to
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whatever that means when they 
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But what most folks mean by 
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to have a global impact. 
They want to do something that's

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going to make an impact on the 
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Everybody is going to know their
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Everybody is going to use their 
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Everybody's going to benefit 
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changed the world. 
But how do you make that happen?

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Everything you do has a ripple 
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your own family, your wife, your
kids, your friends, your 

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coworkers, and it and it goes 
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And that's that's not simple 
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I believe that we can change the
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Look what these men did in 
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and verse #1 now when they had 
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And excuse me, Amphibolis, in 
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Thessalonica, where was the 
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And Paul, as his manner was, 
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And three Sabbath days reasoned 
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opening, and alleging that 
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and risen again from the dead, 
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preach unto you, is Christ. 
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This is what's known as Palm 
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This is the day that that they 
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rode into Jerusalem on the back 
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crying Hosanna in the highest. 
This is Jesus Christ. 

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Didn't take long for that to 
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A week later, they crucified him
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For months and years after that,
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didn't even believe that Jesus 
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In fact, that's that's what I 
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That's what the Jews still 
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But Paul was going into these 
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Christ had to suffer and he had 
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again from the dead. 
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arguing with them, but debating 
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things with them. 
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And some of them believed and 
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and of the devout Greeks a great
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women not a few. 
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moved with envy, took under them
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resort, and gathered a company, 
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uproar, and assaulted the House 
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them out to the people. 
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they drew Jason and certain 
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city, crying. 
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upside down are come, hit her 
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that there is another king, one 
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And they troubled the people and
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heard these things. 
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of Jason and of the other, they 
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night unto Berea, who coming 
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synagogue of the Jews. 
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stopped, right? 
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synagogue, they preach and they 
teach Jesus that they, they turn

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the world upside down and they 
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They beat them and they said, 
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leave, get out of here in secret
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And they left and they went to 
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I didn't, they didn't hide their
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They didn't say, wow, that was a
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going back home. 
They went right back into the 

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synagogue and they started 
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But having a global impact 
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You don't say I'm going to 
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impact the world for Christ and 
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But I think if I were to ask you
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every one of you would raise 
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make an impact on this world for
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How does that happen? 
How do you, how do you start 

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that process? 
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want to make an impact on the 
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an impact on the world. 
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You have to start somewhere and 
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Bible conference that we just 
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It pushes us in that direction. 
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things that we need to change 
that are going to help us to 

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reach this world for Christ, 
that are going to help us make 

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an impact on this world for 
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There's a number of steps that I
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that'll help us to view this 
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right way. 
We want to impact this world for

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Jesus Christ. 
That's that's the only thing 

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that's going to matter. 
One of these days. 

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We're going to stand before God 
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did you cure cancer? 
Did you come up with the next 

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greatest invention? 
Did you did you help the world 

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become a better place to live? 
He's going to say, what did you?

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Do for me, what did you do that 
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Christ? 
It's pretty much impossible for 

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one person to change the world, 
but every one of us has the 

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potential to impact our world. 
We can impact the world that we 

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live in here. 
I may never be able to do 

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anything in Africa. 
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I may never be able to do 
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some of the other places around 
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I've never been there. 
But I can impact my world. 

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I can make an impact on the 
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And maybe there'll be a ripple 
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Spread out and it'll affect 
somebody else who will affect 

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somebody else who will affect 
somebody else and we can change 

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the. 
World for the cause of Christ. 

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But I want to look at that 
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I have 8 things and they're 
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Don't panic. 
You have lunch right after this,

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all right? 
Lunch is right after this so I 

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can go till one O clock. 
And you'll be fine. 

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That's about the time you'd get 
home for lunch anyway. 

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Change your world. 
That's the that's the thought 

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that I want to talk about this 
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How do we make that happen? 
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We'll look at a few things this 
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Father, again, we thank you so 
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We thank you for the opportunity
we have to be here together this

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morning may be a help. 
Now you give us a greater desire

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to impact the world that you've 
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Jesus Christ. 
And may this be a help to get us

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to that point. 
Thank you again for all you do 

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for us in Jesus name, Amen. 
Number one, I want you to see 

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this. 
Examine yourself, examine 

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yourself. 
Keep your finger there in Acts 

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chapter 17, but let's go to 
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Philippians, Chapter 3. 
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what I'm saying is that if you 
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have to start with yourself. 
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if you were looking to make an 
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you've got to know Jesus Christ 
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How are you going to make an 
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How are you going to tell 
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heaven? 
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somebody else how they can have 
their sins forgiven if you don't

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even know that your sins are 
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Of course, that's the first 
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also with studying yourself. 
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weaknesses to get you to be 
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And I I I. 
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many more times, but I know when
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and God points things out to you
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this is a weakness of mine. 
I need to change this. 

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This is something that I need to
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that I, I really need to get a 
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make an impact for Christ. 
You need to study what your 

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weaknesses are because I can 
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already done that and he knows 
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he's going to attack them and 
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he's going to hammer on them. 
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that weak point, then he's made 
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The reason he's so effective at 
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don't realize what their 
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their. 
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They just they know they have a 
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they just pretend it doesn't 
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that that's just the way that 
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That's who I am and that's how I
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to be Philippians chapter 3 and 
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though I had already attained 
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I follow after if that I may 
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am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 
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not arrived. 
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and I'm not. 
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I've already attained everything
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I know I'm not perfect. 
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I know I have shortcomings and 
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I'm pressing toward the mark for
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Of the high calling of God in 
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Turn over to Revelation Chapter 
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See, to to be self critical is 
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want to influence the world 
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And I know that goes, that goes 
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world is telling you today. 
You need to be your own best 

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friend and you need to love 
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of these things for yourself. 
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it's, it's I mean, it's not, 
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something that you enjoy doing. 
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that you should, you know, go 
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But what I'm saying is we need 
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too often. 
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You know, think about how hard 
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and how easy we are on ourselves
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ourselves many times. 
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Work on those and shore them up 
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Figure it out. 
You've got to know yourself. 

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Revelation chapter 3 and verse 
#2 Be watchful and strengthen 

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the things which remain that are
ready to die. 

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For I have not found thy works 
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What stirs you into action? 
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except you, right? 
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not going to be as critical as 
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Don't give yourself a pass that 
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a pass on. 
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I don't pray enough. 
I don't read my Bible enough. 

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I don't witness enough. 
I don't give enough when it 

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comes. 
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Critic, you know, you probably 
have a long list of things that 

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you see that are wrong with me 
that you don't like or, or 

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different things that you wish I
would do differently or whatever

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else. 
I can promise you this, my list 

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of of the things that I'm 
working on and the list of the 

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things that I don't like about 
where I'm at, it's. 

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Probably twice as long as yours 
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We ought to be our own worst 
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We ought to know where our 
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And if you don't know what your 
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fall, right? 
I mean, it's if you if you think

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about a a chair that's sitting 
there and somebody saw it almost

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all the way through one of the 
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you're like, yeah, it's it's 
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It'll be fine. 
You second, you sit down and 

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it's probably going to break and
it's going to crack and you're 

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going to fall, right? 
Because you just ignored the 

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problem that was there. 
Everybody else can see it, but 

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you gave yourself a pass. 
It'll be all right, right. 

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And we do that with ourselves so
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Well, I know that this is a 
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I know that I've got an issue 
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But you know, I'm, I'm, I'm all 
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Look at him. 
Look at them. 

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Look at that church, right? 
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ourselves. 
We should be comparing ourselves

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to Christ and, and comparing 
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God. 
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the light of God's holiness, we 
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The hardest we could be on 
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less than what we should be on 
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You know, the list goes on. 
Don't beat yourself up, but be 

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honest. 
Paul said this. 

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This is a faithful saying and 
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Christ Jesus came into the world
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chief Paul. 
This is the great apostle Paul. 

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And Paul didn't say. 
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everybody else. 
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I mean, I know I'm not, I'm not 
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pretty close to it, right? 
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and he was very honest with 
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He was very honest before God. 
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How can you, as the apostle 
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all sinners? 
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Because you, you see yourself 
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light of God's holiness. 
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and the more magnified God 
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more powerful you see God and 
the bigger you see God in your 

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life, the smaller you see 
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see yourself. 
Oh, wretched man, that I am all 

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right. 
Was it John Newton that that 

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wrote the words to the song that
that he would come to save? 

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What's the just I just lost save
a Wretch? 

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Like me? 
Why did I, why did I forget 

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that? 
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one that I was thinking of, He 
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But he called himself a worm, 
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What's the phrase that I'm 
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crazy? 
For such a worm as I, right? 

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How can you say that? 
Because you know who you are in 

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the light of God's holiness? 
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somebody else. 
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And if I want to make an impact 
on this world, I've got to start

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with me, and I've got to 
understand that I've got to 

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improve the areas that need to 
be improved. 

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I've got to fix the things that 
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A man that is fully aware of his
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for God's service. 
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his incapabilities can fix those
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Used in God's service to change 
your world, you must examine 

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yourself but #2 engage the right
people surround yourself with 

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other people who are going in 
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One of the reasons you're here 
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vision, whatever your plan, 2 
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when it comes to those things. 
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you, you get somebody else to 
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you can accomplish a lot 
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When it comes to winning souls 
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more likely to stay on course if
you if the others around you are

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interested in the same things. 
If it's just you every Saturday 

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morning showing up to go out 
knocking on doors and telling 

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other people about Christ, 
you're probably not going to do 

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it for very long if you're the 
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But if you come out here and 
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other people that are doing that
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much more likely to show up and,
and keep going because you get 

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excited about it, because 
there's a lot of other people 

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who are excited about it and 
they're going in the same 

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direction. 
But that's why it's so 

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imperative that you don't skip 
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That's why it's so imperative 
that you stay away from the 

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people, the movies, the 
television, and other things 

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that could sway your mind and 
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Whether you think it's so or 
not, or whether you realize it 

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or not, your companions are 
going to influence your 

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decisions. 
The things that you watch on 

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television are going to 
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The music that you listen to is 
going to influence your 

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decisions. 
The people you hang out with are

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going to influence your 
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And you may think, no, I'm 
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but I promise you they are 
making an impact on you. 

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And when you put yourself around
people who are stronger than you

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are, and when you put yourself 
around people who have a great 

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desire to live for the Lord, 
it's going to encourage you to 

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keep doing that same exact 
thing. 

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You put yourself around all the 
people who are weaker than you 

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are. 
You put yourself around people 

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who have no desire to live for 
the Lord. 

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It's not going to be long before
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At the very least, you're not 
going to accomplish what you 

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could be accomplishing for God. 
Turn over to Philippians chapter

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2. 
See, what we're doing in this 

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church is so important. 
It's so important that we all be

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on the same page and have the 
same desire to win souls and to 

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serve God. 
It's so important that we be a 

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group of like minded 
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In fact, it's not just 
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Bible, Romans chapter 15 and 
verse #5 Now the God of patience

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and consolation grant you to be 
like minded one toward another 

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according to Christ Jesus. 
Philippians chapter 2, you're 

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there. 
Look at verse #2 fulfill ye my 

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joy that ye be like minded. 
Having the same love, being of 1

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accord of one mind. 
You ought to put yourself in a 

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place where everybody else is of
the same mind and going in the 

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same direction. 
You want to be encouraged to 

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keep living for the Lord. 
Do it with a bunch of other 

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people. 
Boy, I, I mean, I mean, I can't 

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miss church or you'll know that 
I'm not here. 

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But you have the choice. 
The only person that has to be 

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here is me and my wife and kids.
They don't have a choice either.

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But you could, you could have 
chose to be anywhere this 

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morning, right? 
You could have chose to go 

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anywhere this morning. 
You could have chose to stay 

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home this morning if you wanted 
to. 

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But you made the choice to get 
up and come because you knew 

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that there was a lot of other 
people that are going in the 

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same direction that you are that
are going to be here this 

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morning that are, that are going
to be having a desire to sing 

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praises to the Lord and that are
going to have a desire to 

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worship him together. 
And so you came and that's 

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that's why we do it. 
I watched the video clip. 

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It's it's been a couple years 
ago since I saw it now, but 

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there's it was some guy and I 
don't even it was actually, it 

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wasn't just a video clip of of 
music playing, but this it was, 

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it was actually somebody in the 
background kind of saying, hey, 

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this is this is look what's 
happening here. 

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This guy was there was it was 
some kind of music festival or 

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something like that. 
I don't know. 

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00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,720
There's a big stage that was way
off in the distance and 

451
00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:47,760
everybody was kind of sitting on
this like grassy hill. 

452
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,200
I guess there was no seats. 
It was just a grassy hill. 

453
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,240
And the music's playing in the 
background. 

454
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,760
And this guy by himself dancing 
just like, you know, just just 

455
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,400
like a nut. 
I mean, only guy out there. 

456
00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,520
And and you can hear, you know, 
people are videoing, you know, 

457
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,640
it's, it's just a video camera, 
I mean, a cell phone camera and 

458
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,080
and somebody's video. 
I mean, you can hear him 

459
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,200
laughing in the background. 
And look at this guy. 

460
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:08,840
I mean, he was making a fool out
of himself. 

461
00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,440
He really was. 
I mean, he was dancing around 

462
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,960
and doing all this stuff. 
The next thing you know? 

463
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,360
Another guy goes running over 
there and starts doing the exact

464
00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:19,640
same thing and instead of 
looking at him like he was 

465
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,880
crazy, the guy that was dancing 
there first stuck his hand up 

466
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,240
and they high fived each other 
and they said and they started 

467
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,680
dancing together. 
You know, just doing this. 

468
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,080
I mean, just, I say dancing. 
I mean, I don't know what you 

469
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,520
would call it, what whatever 
they're doing was, but they 

470
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,000
were, they were, they were, they
were just, you know, going at it

471
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,080
and and next thing you know. 
Two other people jump up and run

472
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,200
over there and then and then 
three more people and all the 

473
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:42,960
all the sudden the people who 
were actually sitting on the 

474
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,560
ground laughing at these guys 
were now the ones that were 

475
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:46,760
getting up and running over 
there. 

476
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,000
And next thing you know, there's
a huge crowd of people that 

477
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,040
we're all doing the exact same 
thing as this one individual guy

478
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,720
to the point where eventually 
the people who are sitting on 

479
00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,040
the ground that were not taking.
Part in it look like the odd 

480
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,920
ones out. 
Right and I and I and I thought 

481
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,560
it was I thought it was very 
interesting this this original 

482
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:10,040
man embraced the first follower.
He treated him as an equal. 

483
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,160
And before long other people saw
that something was happening 

484
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,520
that they wanted to be a part 
of. 

485
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,600
And the next thing you know, 
there's a whole crowd of people 

486
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,400
jumping be that that were so 
large they actually dwarf the 

487
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,920
people who were not joined in. 
Let me tell you and, and 

488
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,240
obviously that's just a goofy 
illustration, but. 

489
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,760
That's how you change the world.
The leader is important, right? 

490
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,520
The, the, the without, without 
the vision of the leader, The 

491
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:34,800
thing is never going to get off 
the ground. 

492
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,880
But without the first few 
followers, the guy who is 

493
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,920
leading is not a leader, right? 
He's just a, he's just a nut 

494
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,000
that decided to do something 
that nobody else was doing. 

495
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,240
And if nobody ever followed him,
that's all he would ever be, 

496
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,120
right? 
But you get people behind them 

497
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,040
and get people following them. 
And that's what's important is 

498
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,240
to have followers who show other
followers how it's done. 

499
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,440
And that's honestly, I think 
that's what we're doing here in 

500
00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,320
a lot of ways. 
I was crazy enough to start a 

501
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,120
church or to try to start a 
church anyway. 

502
00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:04,280
And before long we had people 
willing to join in, willing to 

503
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,240
to hitch their wagons to the 
goal. 

504
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,320
We're doing the same thing in 
Belize, right? 

505
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:13,040
It's, it's my job, but it's my 
goal to treat everyone as 

506
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,400
equals. 
We are all in this together. 

507
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,720
Somebody has to be the one 
that's in charge. 

508
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,400
Somebody has to be the one that 
leads. 

509
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,080
Somebody has to be the one with 
the vision. 

510
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,280
But you could, there would be no
church here this morning if it 

511
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,360
was just me standing up here by 
myself, right? 

512
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,360
If, if it was just me preaching 
a message to empty seats, it 

513
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,960
wouldn't accomplish very much, 
right? 

514
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,120
You have to have people who are 
willing to follow. 

515
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,760
You have to have people who are 
going in the same direction 

516
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,800
together. 
And there may be some people who

517
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,680
are sitting down there laughing 
at what we're trying to 

518
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,560
accomplish. 
And there may be some people who

519
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,320
are saying those people are 
crazy. 

520
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,640
But if we're all crazy together,
eventually they're the ones that

521
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,040
look like the crazy ones because
they didn't get involved in it. 

522
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,560
All right, that's why it's so 
necessary to find like minded 

523
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,640
individuals who can encourage 
you in the work of the Lord. 

524
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,000
And I'll be honest with you, 
everybody's crazy. 

525
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,120
Just a matter of what you're 
crazy about, all right? 

526
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,840
I'd rather be crazy about the 
things of God and be crazy with 

527
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,800
you all together #3 to change 
your world, you must examine 

528
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,800
yourself, engage the right 
people #3 establish integrity. 

529
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,400
Turn over to Ephesians chapter 
4. 

530
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,520
You must have integrity. 
If you want to have an impact. 

531
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:26,400
You have to be consistent. 
You can't be one thing when 

532
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,640
you're around the people at 
church and a completely 

533
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,360
different person when you go 
around your work friends or when

534
00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:34,880
you're alone. 
That hypocrisy is going to 

535
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:39,320
become apparent very soon and 
you'll have 0 impact on those 

536
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:40,840
people. 
The way you're going to win 

537
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,880
souls for Christ, the way that 
you're going to make an impact 

538
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,360
for Christ, is when they 
consistently notice that there's

539
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:50,640
something different about you. 
Why would somebody want what I 

540
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:55,040
have if they have exactly what I
already have, right? 

541
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,160
If I'm living the same way that 
the world is living and I'm 

542
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,160
doing all of the things that the
world is doing? 

543
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,720
By the way, that's the problem 
with most of the churches today.

544
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,760
You're playing this contemporary
music that sounds no different 

545
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,000
than what they could go down and
get at in work after hours if 

546
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,040
that's what they wanted to. 
You, you have a set of standards

547
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,560
that is no different than what 
they have anywhere they go. 

548
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,000
You have you have nothing 
different. 

549
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,880
Why would somebody want to come 
into the church and, and have 

550
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,720
their life changed if their life
is not changing to anything 

551
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,840
else, right? 
I want to be so different from 

552
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,200
the world and I want to be so 
distinctly Christian that people

553
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,160
say something's different about 
you. 

554
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,080
What is it about you that you 
have that I don't have because I

555
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,640
want it? 
That's how we ought to be living

556
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,040
our lives, right? 
So when we talk about making a 

557
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,240
difference, you have to be 
consistent. 

558
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,040
You have to be consistently a 
Christian all day, every day. 

559
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,320
You don't get days off as a 
Christian, right? 

560
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,160
You go to work, you work five 
days a week, you get 2 days off.

561
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,200
You can take vacations. 
You don't have to be that worker

562
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,280
every single day. 
But when it comes to being a 

563
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,840
Christian, you don't get days 
off if you want to make an 

564
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,640
impact for Christ. 
You're a Christian everywhere. 

565
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,280
You are, You're a Christian at 
home, you're a Christian at 

566
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,600
church, you're a Christian at 
work, you're a Christian on 

567
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,520
vacation. 
We're getting, we're coming to 

568
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,880
the, to the, to the vacation 
months, right? 

569
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,040
And all the sudden everything 
goes out the window. 

570
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,880
When you go on vacation, you can
act how you want, you can dress 

571
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,560
how you want. 
You don't have to go to church. 

572
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,720
I'm free, right? 
You're a Christian everywhere. 

573
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,080
Or you're going to lose the 
opportunity to impact Christ, 

574
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,360
Ben Franklin said. 
Character is what you are when 

575
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:39,400
no one is looking. 
That's character, right? 

576
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,120
It's not character. 
It's not integrity when you're 

577
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:45,200
doing that only because 
everybody's watching you, right?

578
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,120
If I'm a Christian when I'm 
around other Christians. 

579
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,720
But I live however I want and do
whatever I want when, when 

580
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,160
you're not, when the pastor is 
not sitting there in your home 

581
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,760
with you or when other 
Christians are not over at your 

582
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,760
house. 
And you can do whatever you want

583
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,200
to and act however you want to 
and live however you want to. 

584
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,280
And long as I clean everything 
up and, and, and, and, and make 

585
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,680
it look good by the time I go to
church on Sunday, that's not 

586
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,960
integrity. 
It's not character that is doing

587
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,920
whatever you want to in the 
dark. 

588
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,280
Character is, is doing the right
thing even when no one would 

589
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,760
ever find out. 
I use the illustration with the 

590
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,120
kids, right? 
There's a candy bar sitting on 

591
00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,200
that table, and I'm in here and 
nobody else is in here. 

592
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,640
And I could grab that thing and 
walk out and nobody would have 

593
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,720
any idea that it was ever me. 
And I knew that I could get away

594
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,560
with it. 
What are you going to do? 

595
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,320
That's character. 
That's integrity. 

596
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,040
I could get away with it, but 
it's not right. 

597
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,280
Right. 
And how many people are 

598
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:55,560
dishonest when you go to the 
grocery store and they forgot to

599
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,760
scan something and you walked 
out with it, right? 

600
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,560
I can't tell you how many times 
that's happened. 

601
00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:02,480
A. 
A A case of water that was 

602
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:03,800
underneath the bottom of the 
cart. 

603
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,480
And I walked out and I was like.
Oh, stink. 

604
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,680
I never, I, I didn't pay for 
that. 

605
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,200
And you go back in the store and
you'll see the face of the 

606
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:16,240
cashier. 
You what? 

607
00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:18,920
You want to pay for that. 
You already got out of the 

608
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,360
store. 
Why would you come back in here 

609
00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:22,040
and pay for it, right? 
But that's what integrity is. 

610
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,760
That's what honesty is. 
I'm either a Christian all the 

611
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,840
time or I'm not a Christian at 
all, right? 

612
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,760
I want to be like Christ all the
time if I have the opportunity 

613
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,840
to do it, and I do. 
Without character, you or we as 

614
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,560
a church will drift with a 
cultural wind, or we'll join in 

615
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,160
whatever is popular with the 
crowd. 

616
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:45,320
That's why the church has such a
low impact on this world today, 

617
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,960
because the church is trying so 
hard to be like the world that 

618
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,000
they're not making an impact on 
the world. 

619
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,720
Why don't we go make an impact 
on the world instead of letting 

620
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,120
the world impact the church? 
Drifters never make an impact. 

621
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,200
Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 
#13 Till we all come in the 

622
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,840
unity of the faith and of the 
knowledge of the Son of God, 

623
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,240
unto a perfect man, unto the 
measure of the stature of the 

624
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,080
fullness of Christ, that we 
henceforth be no more children 

625
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,920
tossed to and fro, and carried 
about with every wind of 

626
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,120
doctrine by the sleight of men, 
and cunning craftiness, whereby 

627
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,800
they lie in wait to deceive. 
I don't want to be just. 

628
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,120
Well, let me test the wind today
and see which way is blowing. 

629
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,960
OK, I'll go this way, right? 
I don't care what culture is 

630
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,120
doing. 
I don't care what they say we 

631
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,880
have to be, or what we have to 
say, or what we have to do. 

632
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,160
What does the Bible say? 
I'm going to do that. 

633
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,960
That's going to last a whole lot
longer than culture will. 

634
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,000
The Bible's been around a long 
time and it'll be around 

635
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,360
forever. 
That's what the Bible says 

636
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,600
forever. 
O Lord, thy word is settled in 

637
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,200
heaven. 
This is going to be around a 

638
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,200
long time after the cultural 
shifts have changed and things 

639
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,640
are different than they are 
today and things are different 

640
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,400
than they used to be back then. 
The, the, the winds of culture 

641
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,040
change all the time. 
The God's word never changes. 

642
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,720
And this is what I want to put 
my anchor in. 

643
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,920
If you want to make an impact 
for Christ, then you better 

644
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,440
establish that integrity. 
It's exactly why we're seeing 

645
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,000
the modern contemporary churches
doing what they're doing today. 

646
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,000
They may be huge, but they're 
not making an impact for Christ.

647
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,120
They may, they may be making a 
dent in, in, you know, getting 

648
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,800
out some food to some people 
that that are homeless or 

649
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,400
whatever else, or that are, you 
know, insecure in their food or 

650
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,840
whatever those things. 
And I'm not saying that those 

651
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,640
things are bad, but what impact 
are you making for Christ? 

652
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,600
How are the how are the lives of
the people in that church 

653
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,160
changed today compared to where 
they were? 

654
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,800
If you're not making an impact 
for Christ, there's a there's a 

655
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,360
reason why because you're just 
drifting with culture and you're

656
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,400
not standing up for anything. 
Doesn't mean anything unless you

657
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,800
actually have the integrity to 
stand up and do what's right, 

658
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,080
even if nobody else is ever 
going to know if you do it, even

659
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,280
if nobody else is doing it. 
I want to make an impact for 

660
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:02,640
Christ. 
I want to change the world. 

661
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:03,920
That's how I'm going to have to 
do it. 

662
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,720
Turn over to 1st Corinthians 
chapter 15. 

663
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,320
I want you to see #4 it had 
changed the world. 

664
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,000
We need to extend compassion, 
need to develop compassion 

665
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,640
toward other people. 
Think about where you were 

666
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,600
before you met Jesus Christ. 
Think about where you were and 

667
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,560
where you were headed, what your
life would be like without 

668
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,080
Christ. 
It's very difficult for me to 

669
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,040
imagine that I've been in church
my whole life. 

670
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,360
I didn't know Christ as my 
Savior my entire life. 

671
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:34,440
I accepted him as a as my Savior
when I was young, but I don't 

672
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,360
know what my life would be like 
if I didn't know Christ as my 

673
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,000
Savior. 
Some of you have an idea because

674
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,480
you got saved a little bit later
in life and you saw Christ 

675
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,680
change your life. 
But I don't know what. 

676
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,280
My life would be like if I 
didn't know Christ as my Savior,

677
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,120
but I know it'd be very 
different than it is now. 

678
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,760
I know it would be a totally 
different person than I am now. 

679
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,040
Allow that to develop a 
compassion in you for the state 

680
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,160
of others who have not found 
Jesus Christ yet. 

681
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,480
First Corinthians chapter 15 and
verse #10 But by the grace of 

682
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,880
God, I am what I am. 
And his grace which was bestowed

683
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,760
upon me was not in vain, but I 
labored more abundantly than 

684
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,880
they all, yet not I, but the 
grace of God which was with me. 

685
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,920
Paul says, by the grace of God, 
I am what I am. 

686
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,880
And there are people out in this
world that are doing everything 

687
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,240
they can, it seems like to 
destroy Christianity and 

688
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,760
everything they can to, to, to, 
to get rid of the of, of God's 

689
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,520
word and to make it irrelevant 
and to call it hate speech and 

690
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,440
everything else. 
There's a lot of people that 

691
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,320
just seem like they hate God and
I think they do, but you just 

692
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:42,240
have to remember that was you. 
That could be you, but not for 

693
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,920
the grace of God. 
Let's look at them the way that 

694
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,440
Christ looked at them. 
He said when he looked over 

695
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,720
Jerusalem, he wept and he was 
moved with compassion because 

696
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,960
they were, they were less sheep 
without a shepherd. 

697
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,160
Once you open up your heart and 
your mind to the needs of 

698
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,480
others, if you understand them, 
then you can help them and 

699
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,520
ultimately you can lead them #5 
turn over to Matthew chapter 5. 

700
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,240
To change your world, you must 
examine yourself. 

701
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,480
Engage the right people, 
establish integrity, extend 

702
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,320
compassion #5 embrace the 
mission. 

703
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:18,640
Don't focus on recognition, but 
focus on moving the mission 

704
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,680
forward. 
And our mission, maybe I should 

705
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,000
say our Co mission, is to go out
and win souls for Christ. 

706
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,320
I believe God could use us so 
much more if we weren't 

707
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,080
concerned about who got the 
credit for actually getting out 

708
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,520
there and doing it. 
It's one of the reasons why when

709
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,840
we do these cards and we pass 
all these cards out and we have 

710
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,800
a contest between the adults and
the kids, we don't write names 

711
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:40,320
down. 
We just write the numbers to see

712
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,400
who's who's winning and who gave
out the most cards. 

713
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,280
Because it's not about, oh, I 
get, I get more recognition 

714
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,040
because I gave out this many 
cards and. 

715
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,520
And you get less recognition 
because you didn't give out as 

716
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,600
many. 
And it all becomes about show. 

717
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,680
I'm doing it because I want to 
be recognized, not because I 

718
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,120
want to get the gospel out 
right. 

719
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,960
I believe God could use us so 
much more if we didn't care if 

720
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,160
we got credit for the things 
that we're doing for God. 

721
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,560
But most people, I said, 
shouldn't say most. 

722
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,880
A lot of people will only do it 
if they can be recognized. 

723
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,159
For doing it well, I'll go out 
and do that for God as long as I

724
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:14,880
can be out there in front and 
everybody can see me doing it. 

725
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,840
You'll never find me cleaning 
the auditorium when nobody else 

726
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,239
is here. 
You'll never find me cleaning 

727
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,040
the bathroom. 
When, when, when, when it's late

728
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,239
at night and needs to be done 
right. 

729
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:26,800
Nobody's going to see me doing 
that. 

730
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,840
I hope that's not your mindset, 
but if we're going to accomplish

731
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,199
something, then we're going to 
have to be willing to accomplish

732
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:35,679
it whether we get credit for it 
or not. 

733
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:38,560
And this is something that that 
most people will never be able 

734
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,040
to accomplish because it's 
against our nature and training 

735
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,199
to accept zero recognition for 
our achievements. 

736
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,560
And there's the quote is 
attributed to several people, 

737
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,159
but it's so true. 
It's amazing how much can be 

738
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:51,320
accomplished if no one cares who
gets the credit. 

739
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,400
It's amazing how much can be 
accomplished if nobody cares who

740
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,560
gets the credit right? 
Eagle can wreck even the best 

741
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,280
plans and intentions, but if you
master the ability to sit in the

742
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,680
shadows and just watch the work 
that you've put into it blossom,

743
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,600
you're going to learn very soon 
that no, no deed goes 

744
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,520
unrewarded, no matter how small 
it is. 

745
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,880
If it's done for God, if it's 
done for His work, He's the one 

746
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,920
that's seeing it, and He's the 
ultimately the one that that 

747
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,640
that matters anyway. 
Matthew chapter 5 and verse #16 

748
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,200
let your light so shine before 
men that they may see your good 

749
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,280
works and glorify your Father, 
which is in heaven. 

750
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:32,120
But he says this in Matthew 
chapter 6 and verse #1 Take heed

751
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,840
that you do not your alms before
men to be seen of them. 

752
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:40,240
Otherwise you have no reward of 
your Father, which is in heaven.

753
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,320
You can do all the right things 
and if you do it with the wrong 

754
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,200
motive, it doesn't count for 
anything. 

755
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,440
If you're only doing it because 
you want people to recognize 

756
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,960
what you're doing, it doesn't 
count. 

757
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:56,440
He's saying you can give, you 
can give all of the money in the

758
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,400
world. 
You can, I mean, and that's what

759
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,600
these Pharisees were doing. 
They were taking these bags of 

760
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:05,320
gold and making a big show about
dropping all of this money in. 

761
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,520
To the treasury, right? 
They were bringing all this 

762
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:14,160
money to the temple to donate it
to the work of God, but they 

763
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,840
couldn't just donate it. 
They had to make sure that 

764
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,720
everybody saw them donating it, 
right? 

765
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,160
And God says, well, thanks for 
the donation, but it doesn't 

766
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,560
count for anything because 
you're doing it just to be seen.

767
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:28,640
And that's the only reason 
you're doing it. 

768
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,600
You're not doing it for me, 
you're doing it to be seen. 

769
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,440
And you have no reward in 
heaven. 

770
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,520
Keep your heart in mind on the 
end game creating the the type 

771
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,840
of change in our world is a 
serious and it's a tough 

772
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,320
responsibility. 
Those without the power of the 

773
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,880
Holy Spirit are not going to 
last very long. 

774
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,920
And if you're doing it to be 
seen, then it's very obvious 

775
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,640
that you're not doing it in the 
power of the Holy Spirit. 

776
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,600
The world is such a tremendous 
distraction. 

777
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,440
Money, popularity, power things,
all of those things. 

778
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,080
Second Timothy chapter 4 and 
verse #10 for demons. 

779
00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:00,600
Demons hath forsaken me, having 
loved this present world. 

780
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,920
Stay focused on the finish line.
Our goal is to serve God until 

781
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,640
our life ends. 
Well, I don't want to. 

782
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,000
I don't want to trip 10 feet 
before the end of the finish 

783
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,480
line and fall and not make it 
there all right. 

784
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,320
If we lose sight of that, we're 
never going to impact the world 

785
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:17,680
for Christ. 
The way that we could or the way

786
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:22,960
that God wants us to #6 the way 
that you make an impact for 

787
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,320
Christ is to exit your comfort 
zone. 

788
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,480
Had to start with an E, But you 
understand what I'm saying is 

789
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,600
get out of your comfort zone, 
right? 

790
00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:34,400
That change involves moving out 
of our comfort zone. 

791
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,960
It takes great courage to stand 
up and stand out. 

792
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,080
And to go takes even greater 
courage to have the conviction 

793
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:45,880
to remain steadfast after you 
experience some kind of failure.

794
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,680
See, the devil's goal is to get 
us to quit because we didn't see

795
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,120
the results that we wanted to 
see. 

796
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,680
Oh, we went out and we invited 
all these people to come out to 

797
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,680
church, or I tried to share the 
gospel and I didn't see anybody 

798
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,720
get saved or I didn't see 
anybody to come to church. 

799
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,040
Why am I doing this anyway? 
This is such a waste of time. 

800
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,640
I can't believe that I put all 
this effort into it and nothing 

801
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,560
happened. 
Well, I can't tell you how many 

802
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,760
times we especially at the 
beginning. 

803
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:12,480
We we would order 5000 Flyers 
for anniversary Sunday or friend

804
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,240
day or something like that and 
we'd go out and pass out 5000 

805
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:19,040
Flyers and not one person came 
from from getting a flyer. 

806
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,480
Don't talk about discouraging. 
We did all this work for 

807
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,280
nothing, but it wasn't for 
nothing. 

808
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,280
We had the gospel on it. 
People read it, I'm sure, and 

809
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,120
maybe they didn't come to 
church, but it counts for 

810
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,840
something. 
We're doing God's work. 

811
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,000
And He didn't tell us to go get 
results. 

812
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,680
He told us to go do it. 
He told us to go tell people 

813
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,960
about Christ. 
He told us to share the message 

814
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,960
of the gospel. 
And if I'm doing what God's 

815
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,920
called me to do, then it doesn't
matter if I see results or not. 

816
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,560
We like it. 
We like to see something come 

817
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:49,960
from the work that we're putting
into it. 

818
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,760
But whether we see anything come
from it or not, we still have to

819
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,720
do it. 
And a lot of times it takes us 

820
00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:58,400
getting out of our comfort zone.
We just finished up with the 

821
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,400
Winter Olympics last month. 
And then, you know, the talent 

822
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,560
of those athletes is on full 
display. 

823
00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:06,000
But I can guarantee you that 
none of them would have been 

824
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,880
there without the determination 
to develop their talents. 

825
00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:13,640
There's a lot of talented people
in this world who probably could

826
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,320
do a lot of the things that 
those Olympians did, but they'll

827
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,520
never wear a metal around their 
neck because they don't have 

828
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:24,800
the, the, the, the desire or the
strength or the intestinal 

829
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,240
fortitude. 
If you will to get up off the 

830
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:29,720
couch and go out and make 
something out of themselves, 

831
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,520
right. 
I know you, you look at the NFL 

832
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,280
or the NBA and you think all 
these guys got all the talent in

833
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:36,680
the world. 
They're no wonder they're so 

834
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,320
successful. 
And yes, it it does take talent 

835
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,680
to be in these professional 
leagues, but. 

836
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,200
Most of those guys have worked 
so hard to develop those talents

837
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,760
and those abilities to get to 
the point that that where they 

838
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,160
are. 
There's a lot of people out 

839
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,960
there with talent who never 
accomplished anything because 

840
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,520
they weren't willing to get out 
of their comfort zone. 

841
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,200
And I think the same thing is 
true in the church as well. 

842
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,240
There's a lot of people who have
a lot of things that they could 

843
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:03,680
bring to the table when it comes
to serving the Lord, but it 

844
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:04,880
takes work. 
It takes effort. 

845
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,120
I'm not I, I, I, I'm not going 
to get up off the couch and go 

846
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,240
do that. 
Why would I do that? 

847
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:10,240
They don't want to get out of 
their comfort zone. 

848
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:12,960
It's very uncomfortable to move 
away from your comfort zone. 

849
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,560
That's why it's called the 
comfort zone. 

850
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,720
Remember the story of Peter 
walking on the water in, in, in 

851
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:23,000
Mark chapter 14, Peter had to 
step way outside of his comfort 

852
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,560
zone. 
Nobody had ever walked on water 

853
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:28,480
before. 
And Peter said, can I get out of

854
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:32,320
the boat and come to you? 
And Jesus said, sure, get out of

855
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,640
the boat and come right? 
It was comfortable in the boat. 

856
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,200
He knew that it was dry in 
there. 

857
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,000
He knew that he was safe in 
there. 

858
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,200
The second you step over that 
edge and you're walking on 

859
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:43,720
water, it's exactly what 
happened with Peter. 

860
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,200
He started looking. 
Around at all the waves and and 

861
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,880
he started looking at everything
that was happening. 

862
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,840
He said this is not normal, this
is not natural. 

863
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,160
What happens if I start to sink 
and what did he do? 

864
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,080
Took his eyes off of Christ. 
And he started to sink. 

865
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,000
And Jesus had to reach down and 
grab his hand and save him, 

866
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,520
right? 
How do you think you're going to

867
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:03,800
accomplish something great for 
Christ? 

868
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,080
Peter would have never walked on
water if he wasn't willing to 

869
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,680
get out of the boat. 
You got to be willing to get out

870
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,000
of the boat if you're going to 
accomplish something for Christ.

871
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:14,760
It's not easy to get out and 
knock on doors for the first 

872
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:19,440
time, but it's necessary. 
Not easy to hand out that track 

873
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,520
for the very first time, but 
it's necessary. 

874
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,800
It's not easy to say no to the 
things that are holding you 

875
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,200
back, but it's necessary. 
You've got to get outside of 

876
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,600
your comfort zone. 
It's not easy to go through your

877
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,480
house and throw away the things 
that are keeping you from being 

878
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,480
what God wants you to be, but 
it's necessary for you to get 

879
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,280
outside of your comfort zone if 
you're going to change the world

880
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,080
for Christ. 
Not easy to say no to the crowd 

881
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:44,280
and to serve God, but it's 
necessary if you're going to 

882
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,040
change the world. 
For Christ to be a world 

883
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:52,640
changer, courage and conviction 
are of utmost importance. 

884
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,680
You've got to be willing. 
Those are two qualities that so 

885
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,760
people, so few people actually 
have, but you've got to be 

886
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,480
willing to step. 
Outside of that comfort zone, to

887
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,320
accomplish something for Christ,
let me give you #7 turn over to 

888
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:10,040
2nd Corinthians chapter 12. 
If you want to change your 

889
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,520
world, you have to exercise 
generosity. 

890
00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:16,480
Give until it hurts. 
Giving should always be our 

891
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,400
primary focus. 
We should have things that we 

892
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,360
want to do in our life, but we 
can't because we give too much 

893
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,240
away. 
Somebody said if you're giving 

894
00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:28,040
does not affect your lifestyle, 
then you're not giving enough. 

895
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,160
Why do you think God gave you 
all that in the 1st place? 

896
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,720
So you could hoard it? 
So you could die with $1,000,000

897
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:38,320
in the bank. 
So I think God gives money to 

898
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,280
people so that they can give it 
back to Him. 

899
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,520
The world is full of people who 
who are going to take take, 

900
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,320
take, take, take positive 
change, changing your world, 

901
00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:50,800
take sacrifice and takes a 
giving heart. 

902
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,680
How should you give or you give 
your money to the things of God?

903
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,400
This this church needs a 
building at some point. 

904
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,120
I don't know when it's going to 
happen, right? 

905
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:04,160
God does, but we need, we just, 
we'll need more ways to reach 

906
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,920
out that and we need obviously 
we need money for missions and 

907
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,080
for this thing and Belize it 
all. 

908
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,000
It takes money for all of those 
things to happen. 

909
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,720
And I'm not, I'm not standing up
here begging for money. 

910
00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:14,440
God's going to provide. 
I'm not worried about that. 

911
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,080
But God has promised that he'll 
give a blessing to all of those 

912
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,120
who give with the right heart. 
By the way, if you're just 

913
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,760
giving to be seen, same thing 
God doesn't, It doesn't reward 

914
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,840
you if you're giving only to be 
seen. 

915
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,680
But at the same time, God will 
provide for his church. 

916
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,240
Why not let him use you to do 
that, right? 

917
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,040
He's going to provide. 
He always has. 

918
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,600
He always has. 
We've been in, we've been into 

919
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,120
tough situations before and 
we're not in a tough situation 

920
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,320
now, but we've been in tough 
situations before where we 

921
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,600
didn't know exactly how God was 
going to provide. 

922
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,920
Most of you probably don't even 
know this story, but when we 

923
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,120
were, when we first started out,
we went, we went out and raised 

924
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:56,160
money to start this church. 
And you know most places you can

925
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,600
find a little place for 1000 
bucks a month, 800 bucks a 

926
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,400
month, something like that. 
We were renting a hotel right up

927
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,800
here, the Wingate Hotel for 
$3000 a month. 

928
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,200
That was a lot of money at the 
very beginning when you don't 

929
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,560
have any people coming. 
And so we raised a bunch of 

930
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:13,600
money and I, I worked full time 
as we were on deputation. 

931
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,840
And so all of the money that we 
got is love offerings and 

932
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,600
everything else. 
We just, we put it into a fund 

933
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,400
and we saved it because we knew 
we were going to need it. 

934
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,640
So we, we bought everything that
we needed for all of the 

935
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,320
different, you know, things that
we needed in the auditorium and 

936
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:26,760
everything else. 
And then we started making those

937
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:32,440
payments, $3000 a month comes 
very quickly and is a huge bill 

938
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,200
when you don't have people 
coming that are giving $3000 a 

939
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:36,960
month. 
And I don't know what our 

940
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,200
offerings were. 
They were maybe 12-13, fourteen,

941
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,920
$100 a month when you think 
about losing $2000 every month 

942
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:44,320
out. 
Of that fund that you had there 

943
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,640
and you see it going quicker and
quicker and quicker. 

944
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,440
You start to wonder what's going
to happen if we don't get some 

945
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,200
people in here soon. 
We're not going to have enough 

946
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,880
money to pay the rent. 
And I told my wife. 

947
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,360
I forget, I don't know, it's 
maybe six or seven months after 

948
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:02,200
we had started and we were 
looking at the, the budget and 

949
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:03,600
looking at the money in the bank
account. 

950
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,760
And I said, I, I don't, I don't 
think that we're going to, as if

951
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,040
this goes on for another month 
or two like this, we're not 

952
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,760
going to have enough money to 
pay the, the rent. 

953
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,600
And we have the, the PO Box down
there and I don't check it all 

954
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,160
the time. 
I go every couple weeks and 

955
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,360
check the PO Box and I went down
there. 

956
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,160
I was, I told her that on 
Monday, I went down on Monday 

957
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,840
afternoon. 
And once, you know, I opened up 

958
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,040
the, the PO Box there and 
somebody just randomly and I 

959
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,960
know I knew who it was. 
It was a guy down at the, at, at

960
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,360
our home church that we came 
from. 

961
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,640
Never asked him for a dime, 
never knew that. 

962
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:38,520
I mean, he didn't know that we 
needed anything check for $7000 

963
00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:43,920
in the mailbox. 
And that was enough to help us 

964
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,480
keep up until we got enough 
people coming that we could 

965
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:50,000
actually pay the, the rent on 
that building. 

966
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,360
God provided, right? 
And God has provided like that 

967
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,920
over and over and over and over 
and over again. 

968
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,920
He's going to provide, but he 
uses his people to do it. 

969
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,560
And he promises a blessing to 
the people who who will, who he 

970
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,520
does use to do it right. 
So why not be the one that God 

971
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:09,600
blesses for giving back to his 
work? 

972
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,480
And by the way, I mean, most of 
you probably know this anyway, 

973
00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:15,800
but I'm not asking you to do 
something that I'm not doing. 

974
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,560
I'm not sitting here. 
Just take, take, take, take, 

975
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,200
take. 
We give, right? 

976
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,360
I give to missions. 
We, we put our tithes and 

977
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,720
offerings in every, every week, 
right? 

978
00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:25,320
I'm not saying that so you pat 
me on the back. 

979
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,240
I'm saying that because I want 
you to understand. 

980
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,040
This is this is something that 
we all can be a part of and this

981
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,720
is something that God has told 
us to do and then he says do it.

982
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:36,520
But if you do it, I'll bless you
for doing it. 

983
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,200
Seems like a no brainer to me, 
right? 

984
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,040
I'd rather invest in God's bank 
account. 

985
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,000
There's a lot of pretty good 
returns there, right? 

986
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,360
That's never going to go 
bankrupt. 

987
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,400
You never have to call the FDIC 
and say, hey, the bank failed, 

988
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,520
can you give me my money? 
Right, God's bank. 

989
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,640
Never, never, never runs up 
short. 

990
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:03,240
Second Corinthians chapter 12 
and verse #15 Paul says this. 

991
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,880
And I will very gladly spend and
be spent for you. 

992
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,080
Though the more abundantly I 
love you, the less I be loved, 

993
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:12,480
see? 
Because not only should we give 

994
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,480
our money to the things of God, 
but we ought to be given our 

995
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:20,200
time, our talents, our 
blessings, the things that we 

996
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,840
can do to bless others, 
especially your love. 

997
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,160
Paul said, I'll, I'll gladly 
spend and be spent for you, even

998
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,880
if you don't love me, even if I 
don't get anything back for it. 

999
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,520
I'll gladly spend and be spent 
for stingy and hoarding the 

1000
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,320
things that God's given us to 
use for His service. 

1001
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:35,920
We're never going to be able to 
change the world for Him. 

1002
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:39,080
Let me give you the last one. 
Turn over to Matthew chapter 17.

1003
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,880
Matthew chapter 17, and I'm not 
going to take a long time on 

1004
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,400
this because we just talked 
about it on Wednesday night for 

1005
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,880
a while. 
The number 8, if you want to 

1006
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,400
change your world, exhibit 
faith. 

1007
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,040
So you were created for a 
purpose. 

1008
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:57,920
God's put you here for a 
purpose. 

1009
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,200
God has you on this earth for a 
purpose. 

1010
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,640
It wasn't to make a name for 
yourself. 

1011
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,080
Isn't have you on this earth so 
you can become big and powerful 

1012
00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:14,920
for the sake of your own legacy 
and your own name and everything

1013
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:16,240
else. 
That's not why God has you here,

1014
00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:18,800
all right? 
God has every one of us on the 

1015
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,760
earth to make an impact for 
Christ. 

1016
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:23,960
And some people have longer than
others. 

1017
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,040
Some people make more of it than
others. 

1018
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,600
But why is God heavy here? 
It's to make an impact for 

1019
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,880
Christ. 
It's to change your world for 

1020
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,760
Christ. 
And the way that we do that is 

1021
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:42,240
by following the call that God 
has placed on your heart and 

1022
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:45,680
then to just trust him. 
I know that every, you have to 

1023
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,760
work, right? 
You have to work to make a 

1024
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:52,080
living. 
If you just stop working and did

1025
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,720
whatever, you're going to die, 
all right? 

1026
00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,160
You got to have money. 
You got to, you got to work 

1027
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,320
right. 
But what kind of impact are you 

1028
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,920
making in your workplace? 
Maybe God has you in that 

1029
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,600
position at your work so that 
you can reach the people that 

1030
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,960
nobody else would have an 
opportunity to reach, right? 

1031
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,880
You're a construction worker. 
Not everybody can just walk up 

1032
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,240
and talk to the construction 
worker, right? 

1033
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,640
You're, you're in a specialized 
position. 

1034
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,760
You're in government. 
Not everybody can just walk in 

1035
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:27,400
and talk to whoever, right? 
God might have you there for a 

1036
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:31,480
reason, not might. 
He does have you there for a 

1037
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,360
reason so that you can make an 
impact in that place for Christ,

1038
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,360
right? 
God puts you in the family that 

1039
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,400
He puts you in so that you can 
make an impact for Christ. 

1040
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,040
God puts you in the area that 
you're in so that you can make 

1041
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,680
an impact for Christ. 
He puts you in the neighborhood 

1042
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:44,400
that you're in so you can make 
an impact for Christ. 

1043
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,520
That's why God has you where you
are. 

1044
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,920
At the end of the day, you were 
created to love and to serve God

1045
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:55,520
and to love and to serve others.
Matthew chapter 17. 

1046
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,680
It's probably one of the most 
challenging, but but maybe one 

1047
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,160
of the saddest verses in all the
Bible. 

1048
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:07,480
Matthew chapter 17 and verse #20
Jesus said unto them, Because of

1049
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,720
your unbelief. 
For verily I say unto you, if 

1050
00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:13,560
you have faith as a grain of a 
mustard seed, you shall say unto

1051
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,960
this mountain, Remove hence to 
Yonder place, and it shall 

1052
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:22,880
remove, and nothing shall be 
impossible unto you. 

1053
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,640
Nothing will be accomplished 
without faith to believe that 

1054
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,760
God can use you. 
Nothing's going to be 

1055
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,920
accomplished without faith to 
believe that God can perform 

1056
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:30,440
miracles in your life. 
Nothing is going to be 

1057
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,080
accomplished without faith to 
believe that God can change the 

1058
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:35,320
hearts of the people who just 
don't seem like they want to 

1059
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,920
change. 
But you keep praying, you keep 

1060
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,440
working, you keep trying, you 
keep, you keep doing what God's 

1061
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,800
called you to do. 
And you have faith that he'll do

1062
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,120
it, right? 
He's just called you to do it. 

1063
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,920
He hasn't. 
He hasn't called you to, to, to,

1064
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,760
to make the change. 
He's called you to do what he's 

1065
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,400
called you to do. 
Let him work in their hearts. 

1066
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,080
Let him be the one that makes 
the change, but let him use you 

1067
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,840
to do it. 
All right, let's look back in 

1068
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:06,920
our text one more time in Acts 
chapter 17, Acts chapter 17 and 

1069
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:12,120
verse #6 look what? 
Look what they said these were. 

1070
00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:14,520
These were just guys that were 
on the outside looking in. 

1071
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,560
It was not somebody that was 
trying to give a compliment to 

1072
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,480
Jason. 
In fact, it was guys it was it 

1073
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,960
was somebody who was trying to 
make him look as bad as he 

1074
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,080
possibly could, right? 
They were trying to get the 

1075
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,280
people stirred up against them. 
They're hoping probably that 

1076
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,840
they would at the very least put
him in jail, but maybe even kill

1077
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:31,840
him. 
We saw that happen. 

1078
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,920
Paul was stoned and a lot of 
different things happen, right? 

1079
00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:40,320
But Acts chapter 17 and verse #6
when they found them not, they 

1080
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,640
drew Jason and certain brethren 
under the rulers of the city 

1081
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,000
crying. 
These that have turned the world

1082
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:50,520
upside down or come hit her. 
Also, these guys that have made 

1083
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,480
an impact on the world are here 
now. 

1084
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,440
That's what they're saying. 
These that have turned the world

1085
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:59,680
upside down are here also, 
right? 

1086
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,040
They had made an impact to the 
point where they knew exactly 

1087
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,840
who they were and they got there
and they started making an 

1088
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:10,200
impact. 
See, these men were able to be 

1089
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,160
world changers because they 
believed that what they were 

1090
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,280
doing was ordained of God. 
What they were doing was 

1091
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,080
something God had called them to
do. 

1092
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,920
Whatever happened, they didn't 
care because God had called them

1093
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,680
to do it. 
We have a tremendous opportunity

1094
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,200
to impact this area. 
We have a tremendous opportunity

1095
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,840
to impact our world, right? 
And God's called us to go to 

1096
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:35,360
Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the 
uttermost part of the earth. 

1097
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:38,800
And we're trying to do that. 
We're trying to reach this area 

1098
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,760
with the gospel. 
That's why we show up on 

1099
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,160
Saturdays and, and go out 
knocking on doors and hold the, 

1100
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,880
the Bible signs and, and, and 
have people come in and get 

1101
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:46,840
Bible. 
That's why we're trying to, 

1102
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:48,280
we're trying to impact this 
area. 

1103
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,160
But there's a Jerusalem, there's
a Judea, there's a Samaria. 

1104
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,280
The farther out you go, there's 
the uttermost part of the earth.

1105
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,560
That's that's why, that's why 
we're moving forward with this 

1106
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,720
thing in Belize, right? 
It's a big step of faith. 

1107
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,360
It's not easy to try to, to try 
to start a ministry in another 

1108
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,960
country when you're not there 
to, to do it, right? 

1109
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:08,960
But we can have an impact 
everywhere. 

1110
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:10,720
God has called us to have an 
impact. 

1111
00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:14,960
And if I can change the world 
here, where God has called me to

1112
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,560
to change the world. 
Then I want to do it if it's an 

1113
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,920
hour from here and we have an 
opportunity to help a church get

1114
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,280
started. 
And then then I want to be 

1115
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,760
involved in and I want to do it.
I want to change the world where

1116
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God gives us the opportunities 
to change the world. 

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If it's in Belize and we have an
opportunity to create a missions

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hub where where we have a chance
to reach an entire country, I 

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want to do it. 
I want to change the world where

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God has given me an opportunity 
to change the world. 

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I, I may not be able to reach 
everybody, but I can reach 

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somebody. 
I may not have an opportunity to

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have an impact on everybody, but
I can have an impact on 

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somebody. 
And I want to do it while I have

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the opportunity to do it. 
And I want him to come back and 

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I want him to find me faithfully
doing what he's called me to do.

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I want him to find me faithfully
serving and faithfully living 

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for him. 
How does that happen? 

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Examine yourself, engage the 
right people, establish 

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integrity, extend compassion, 
embrace the mission, exit your 

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comfort zone, exercise 
generosity, and exhibit faith. 

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That's how it happens. 
I know it's a lot of things. 

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We could probably add another 10
things to that list. 

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There's a lot of things that we 
can do, but as as we follow 

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these principles in the Word of 
God, you can change your world 

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and isn't that what you want to 
be? 

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You say that as a kid. 
What do you want to be when you 

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grow up? 
I don't know. 

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I just want to change the world,
right? 

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Maybe you didn't say it exactly 
that way, but that's what you 

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thought. 
I want to be the next, you know,

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Elon Musk. 
I want to be the next Bill 

1143
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Gates. 
I want to be somebody that 

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everybody knows because I 
changed the world. 

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I'll tell you how you changed 
the world. 

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Just live for Christ. 
Just be who God has called you 

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to be. 
Just do what God has called you 

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to do. 
Just faithfully serve. 

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Just do it whether you get 
recognized or not, because one 

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day you'll stand before God and 
He'll give you all the 

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recognition that you could ever 
want if you're doing it for Him.

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Don't you want to change the 
world? 

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Don't you want to make an impact
on the world that God has called

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you to? 
Pick one of these things. 

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Pick two of them. 
Pick three of them and focus on 

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them this week and see if God 
doesn't help you to make an 

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impact in the area where He's 
called you to make an impact and

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to allow you to change your 
world. 

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What an amazing, amazing thing 
that would be. 

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Let's pray. 
Father, again, we thank you so 

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much for your goodness to us. 
Thank You for the opportunity we

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have to be here this morning. 
And I do thank you for the fact 

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that You want to use us. 
May we all be in a position 

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where you can You help us to 
love you, to live for you, to 

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00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:53,280
serve You with all of our hearts
and all of our souls, all of our

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mind and all of our strength 
until you come back. 

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Thank you again for all you do 
for us in Jesus name, Amen. 

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If you'd stand at your seat 
through the heads bowed and your

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eyes closed, we're going to have
a short time of invitation. 

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I just want to give you an 
opportunity to respond to the 

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message. 
If God spoke to your heart this 

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morning as the piano plays, if 
God spoke to your heart, you 

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come.