1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:04,800 That man can see. Yeah, that was that was great. 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,120 I want to introduce myself a little bit before I introduce 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,440 the network. I have a picture, I think of my 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,080 family that we're going to show you here real quick. 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,400 Can you see that? Because I can't see if you can 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:16,720 see it. Where would I have to look to 7 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,280 see what you see? So I would have to come around 8 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:20,960 here and look at that. Aren't they awesome? 9 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:25,920 Yes, I do have a son-in-law who's Nephilim a very large guy. 10 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,000 But the favorite picture that we have of my family taking this 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,360 summer is this picture. These are my grandkids and they 12 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,200 are in birth order. Can you tell the oldest child of 13 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,920 my son-in-law who is and, and I point him out because he 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,760 actually planted the 39th church in our network. 15 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,120 And the reason that we even started a network is because my 16 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,120 daughter, believe it or not, got a scholarship to play basketball 17 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,160 for the University of Iowa. And playing basketball, the 18 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:55,640 University of Iowa. We went there and we saw that 19 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,280 there wasn't a church at a Big 10 school that loved college 20 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,880 students. And so we started salt company 21 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,400 in 1987. And then we started a church 22 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,840 that loved college students in 1994. 23 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,320 But we thought people were doing that everywhere. 24 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,280 But when my daughter got a scholarship to play University 25 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,440 of Iowa, we realized there wasn't a church that loved 26 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,960 college students, and we started a salt company there. 27 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,800 And so God prospered and blessed that church. 28 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,160 Ended up falling in love with one of the men's players who now 29 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:28,640 has planted our 39th church. Just so you know, Saint City 30 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,720 Chapel is the 34th church in our network. 31 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:37,240 And we now have 4040 churches in the network. 32 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:42,200 And we have plans for 12 more and 25 and 26, and then also 33 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,160 have planters preparing for 28 and 29. 34 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,320 And the goal is that we would have a church and all the major 35 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,120 university centers in North America, 400 of them in total. 36 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,160 And the reason we go to the majors first is because once we 37 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:57,520 get the majors, we can do the minors. 38 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,680 Guys. When we started Salt Company, we 39 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,960 never thought there'd be two. When we started Salt Company, we 40 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,520 were just a small Christian ministry on the campus of Iowa 41 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,039 State University, about 50 college students. 42 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,920 And now every single week in the 40 salt companies, there's 43 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:17,160 17,000 students who attend Salt Company weekly. 44 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:22,040 And in our 40 churches, over 35,000 people that come every 45 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,320 week. God is doing something 46 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:28,760 extraordinary This year alone or last year, and now it's 2026, we 47 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:34,280 saw 2856 people follow Christ in believers baptism. 48 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,080 The vast majority of them are college students. 49 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:39,640 It is crazy to see what God is doing. 50 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,600 So this morning we want to talk about this a little bit. 51 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,640 When you come here on the weekends, most of the time 52 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:48,960 Bran's just going to open the Word of God and teach you the 53 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,040 Scripture. And so if I don't root something 54 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,360 in the Word of God, I would be a charlatan, right? 55 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,160 And so the verse for today is first Timothy chapter 4, verse 56 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,640 12. And it says this, Don't let 57 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:02,640 anyone look down on you because you're young. 58 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:06,920 Only in every way set an example of their believers in speech and 59 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:08,920 conduct and love and faith and purity. 60 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,240 And I've decided to entitle this message World changers. 61 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,000 But I've never walked into any of our facilities and saw that 62 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,360 on the wall. Did you read that? 63 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,640 It says what begins here changes the world. 64 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,480 That's a false statement of any junior high I've been a part of. 65 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:36,280 But when you plant a church in the junior high, maybe that 66 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,920 fits. Could you dream with me just a 67 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:46,160 little bit about what God might do in this place? 68 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:51,080 Could you dream with me just a little bit about a generation 69 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,720 who emerges that literally changes the world, not with 70 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,280 money or politics or power, but with prayer and faith and 71 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,200 courage and the gospel of Jesus Christ? 72 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,680 Could you imagine with me for a little bit that God would begin 73 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,040 a movement at this giant university and the other 74 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,160 universities that are connected to this valley that would 75 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,959 literally transform and change the world? 76 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:27,360 Do you know, it's an undeniable fact that you can observe in all 77 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:31,600 of history that I think that you can predict into the future that 78 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:38,600 God has a pattern. God uses young people who are 79 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:43,240 bold in faith and godly in living and willing to step out 80 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,160 into whatever sphere he calls them to, to literally change the 81 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,160 world. If you're young this morning, I 82 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,520 want to let you know that most people in my generation look at 83 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,080 your generation and says you guys are in need of drastic 84 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:02,880 change. Here's what God would say to you 85 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,040 this morning. No, you're world changers. 86 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,720 You see the way God works if you read your Bible. 87 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,880 Have you ever read about this man Joseph, who at 17 was sold 88 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,880 into slavery, rejected by his own family, but had such a heart 89 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,280 for God that he literally became a world changer, second command 90 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:27,920 in all of Egypt, saving all of the people of God? 91 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,920 Have you read about Samuel, who is a young boy who had a priest 92 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,320 who led him, who raised terrible sons, but even as a child God 93 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,360 began to speak to him and he said, yes, Lord, your servant is 94 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,080 listening. And Samuel has a child, became a 95 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,040 world changer and a king anointer. 96 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,560 What about David, the youngest of eight brothers whose dad 97 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,200 didn't even see enough worth in him to have him presented to the 98 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,200 prophet to be anointed? And yet God said David the 99 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,120 weakest of all. He is my man who became a world 100 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,680 changer. What about Josiah? 101 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:02,640 He became the king at 8. Who would ever do that? 102 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,440 But at 16, he began to read the word of God, and it so changed 103 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,200 his life that he shared it with all of the people and he became 104 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,480 a world changer. What about Daniel and he's three 105 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,120 friends. Have you read this story? 106 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:21,240 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who were brutally emasculated in 107 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,320 order to serve in the King's court. 108 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,840 And yet their faith in God, in spite of their circumstances, 109 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:34,320 enabled them to win two Pagan kings, to not be eaten by lions, 110 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,920 and to survive the furnace, the fiery furnace. 111 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:44,120 They were world changers. What about Jeremiah, a great 112 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:49,080 prophet of God at 17 who felt the call of God in his life and 113 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:53,200 he began to prophecy in a dark time and became a world changer? 114 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:58,520 What about Ruth the Moabites? Who is untimely born and in her 115 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,120 20s was widowed and yet she was committed to her mother-in-law 116 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,600 and to the people of God and became one who is now mentioned 117 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,320 in the lineage of our Savior Jesus Christ. 118 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:13,360 What about Esther, a young teenage beauty queen who risked 119 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:18,520 her life to save the people of God And guys, maybe the most 120 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:25,400 prominent of all the teenagers that God used, Mary, a poor 121 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:33,920 virgin girl who would become the vessel of the king of the 122 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:38,480 universe. So when you do something this 123 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:43,960 morning, if you're 16 to 25, that's random, but would you 124 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:54,510 stand up 16 to 25? Yeah. 125 00:07:56,230 --> 00:07:58,270 Say, say Chapel. Look at your church. 126 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:04,360 I want to read this verse over you. 127 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:12,160 Don't let anyone despise you because you're young, but set an 128 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,040 example for the believers in speech and conduct, in love and 129 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:20,120 faith and impurity. Here's what I say to you. 130 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,880 God is not waiting for you to grow up. 131 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:35,080 He's waiting for you to step up. From the beginning of human 132 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,559 history, God is looking for men like you and women like you who 133 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,840 will say, here I am, God, send me. 134 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,680 One way that you can look at this verse is to say, yeah, no 135 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:48,040 older person is going to look down on me. 136 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,600 I'm going to stand up for my rights. 137 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,120 I'm going to stand up for myself. 138 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:54,520 I'm going to fight my way to the top. 139 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:56,000 Here's another way to look at it. 140 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:01,040 Don't let your youth be an excuse for godless living. 141 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,440 The decisions you're making today are going to affect the 142 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,560 rest of your life, even as an old man like me. 143 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,000 And the godly decisions you make will shape the rest of your 144 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,160 life, even as an old man like me. 145 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,040 Don't let your youth be an excuse for godless behavior. 146 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,480 And if you're not young, you're sitting down. 147 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:31,760 Some of you barely made it. I can see it guys, if you 148 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,040 despise this generation, who is that on? 149 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,720 And maybe God is calling us to not despise this generation and 150 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,680 maybe we would see this person say, I don't want to be like 151 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:49,400 that. I want to be a person who 152 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:53,120 challenges the next generation and uses my resources and my 153 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,760 life to lift them up for the good and glory of God. 154 00:09:58,240 --> 00:09:59,680 Thank you young people for standing. 155 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:01,320 What a beautiful picture of the church. 156 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:06,600 You can sit down. Let me tell you why I'm a big 157 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,320 fan of this. Jesus was a big fan of this. 158 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:11,040 Have you ever thought about this? 159 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:12,920 I'm going to say something maybe that you have never heard 160 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:14,880 before, but if you haven't heard, it's because you've not 161 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:23,520 been taught the word of God. Jesus chose 12 men, most likely 162 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:29,280 teenagers. He discipled them for three to 3 163 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,000 1/2 years, and then he commissioned them to change the 164 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,160 world. Now, let me say it again. 165 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:47,230 God chose 12 men, only 11 good ones, most likely teenagers. 166 00:10:47,230 --> 00:10:48,590 And you're going to say where you saw that? 167 00:10:48,590 --> 00:10:49,870 I'm going to show it to you in the Bible. 168 00:10:49,870 --> 00:10:56,190 OK, Train them for 3 1/2 years, still mostly teenagers, and then 169 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,640 gave them the Great Commission and after they were filled with 170 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,040 the Holy Spirit, they became the ones who changed the world. 171 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,640 They're responsible for your faith in Christ. 172 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:14,120 I was reading randomly in my Bible reading plan, Matthew 17, 173 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:18,560 and somehow was studying also an Old Testament plan in Exodus 30, 174 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:22,200 and I came across this verse related to Matthew 17. 175 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,360 Now you've never heard maybe Matthew 1724 to 27 taught 176 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:29,280 because it's a random passage, but if you've read your Bible, 177 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,320 maybe familiar with it. And if you're not familiar with 178 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:32,480 it, I'll help you be familiar with it. 179 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,960 So Peter was a fisherman, never caught fish unless Jesus came in 180 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,560 to go fishing. And one day in his journey with 181 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,360 Jesus, Jesus was to convert them with all his disciples. 182 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,120 And they walked into the temple. And the temple taxers said, do 183 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,840 your disciples pay temple tax? And they were a little bit 184 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,120 stunned. They were all there. 185 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:55,240 And so Jesus said to Peter, why don't you go fishing? 186 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,440 And when you catch a fish, open its mouth and there'll be a coin 187 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:00,040 in its mouth. And there's enough money in 188 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,880 there to pay the tax for you and for me. 189 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,640 And so that's what Peter did. You know, I don't know if you're 190 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,120 a fisherman, but usually you can't find fish in their mouth. 191 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,000 The best you can find is maybe another fish, right? 192 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,000 But I've looked ever since this verse and there's no money in 193 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,560 fish's mouth. What is that story all about 194 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,400 that God's knows the money on the bottom of the ocean. 195 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,280 He can get fish to pick it up and get it on your hook if 196 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:25,840 that's what you need that he can provide for. 197 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,040 I've, I, I can't imagine what pastors have said about this 198 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,680 passage. It's because they never read 199 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,280 Exodus 30, because it's a clue for us about the age of the 200 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,760 disciples. Because you see, when did you 201 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,440 have to pay temple tax? You had to pay temple tax when 202 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:47,040 you were 20 years old or older. If you're under 20, you didn't 203 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,280 have to pay. Who was there and Capernaum, All 204 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,000 of them. Who was the rabbi? 205 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,520 Jesus, Who was he responsible to pay for? 206 00:12:54,680 --> 00:13:02,280 All of them. How many had to pay Peter and 207 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:03,440 Jesus? You say? 208 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,040 Well, I'm not convinced. Do you know anything about 209 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,080 history? Do you study history? 210 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,560 Here's the ancient Jewish education tradition, and maybe 211 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:13,720 this will ring a bell for you. At five, children began to study 212 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,640 the Scriptures. At 10, they studied the Mishnah, 213 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,440 which was the authoritative traditional learning. 214 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,360 At 13, fathers were responsible to teach their sons the Torah, 215 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,480 which is the first five books of the Bible. 216 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:32,440 At 15, if they were chosen by a rabbi because of wealth or 217 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:37,120 academic prowess, they could go into a formal education of 218 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,240 Judaism. Otherwise they would apprentice 219 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,120 with their father in his business. 220 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,560 Jesus was a what? Why? 221 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:54,720 Joseph was a Carpenter, right? At 18, most married, especially 222 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,440 the men. For women, it was earlier at 20, 223 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,520 they could pursue their own business or trade. 224 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:06,600 And generally for the very most, you couldn't be a rabbi to where 225 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,600 you're 30. So how old was Jesus when he 226 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:13,560 began to pick his disciples and he lived in a particular 227 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:16,160 culture. And who did you pick? 228 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,440 Who was available, who wasn't involved in business yet, who 229 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,440 wasn't doing their own thing yet, who wasn't married yet, who 230 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,480 were being trained as disciples in that culture? 231 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,360 He said everybody has cults. It was teenagers, men who were 232 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,360 15 to 18 years old most likely. You see, I'm not convinced yet. 233 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:40,480 OK, so Jesus used a term to talk to his disciples. 234 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:42,520 Here are the 2 terms. They're Greek terms. 235 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,920 I won't just tell you the terms because you wouldn't remember 236 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:49,600 that anyway. But they meant little children. 237 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,320 Can you imagine a 30 year old walking around with other 238 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,400 bearded 30 year olds and he's calling them kids now. 239 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:01,120 I call college students kids sometimes because my kids are, I 240 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,560 have a 40 year old now, right? But but they said we're no kids. 241 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:06,200 And I said I don't like doing that. 242 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,560 But my peers when I was 30, I didn't call them children. 243 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,320 And even at the end of the journey, Matthew or John chapter 244 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,440 21, when they're on the beach, he cried out to the little 245 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,040 children. Do you have any fish? 246 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,440 And you know what the response was? 247 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:30,640 It's the Lord, he said, kids, a new commandment. 248 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:35,800 I give you the terms that he uses, and I can give you 7 or 10 249 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,200 examples. We just don't have time to do 250 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,760 this. But this is my favorite one. 251 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,280 Have you noticed the behavior of the disciples? 252 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:50,120 They act like grown men to you. OK, what was their most 253 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,360 prominent argument that they had all of the time? 254 00:15:55,320 --> 00:16:00,640 Answer. Who is the greatest That's a 255 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,320 high schooler if you've ever seen one. 256 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,680 You know any high school athletes, they all think they're 257 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:10,280 going to go pro, right? They don't even realize they're 258 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,160 not athletes until they go to college. 259 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,480 But some of them go to D2 school, so they still think 260 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,760 they're athletes. The only real athletes and 261 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:20,960 culture are those who get paid for it and all the parents, 262 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:22,720 right? They think their kids are going 263 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,240 to go pro or at least make the Olympics. 264 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:35,200 Guys, they are with the GOAT. Jesus is walking on water. 265 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,400 He's raising the dead. He's casting out demons. 266 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,320 He's making blind people see deaf people talk. 267 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,600 He is taking on guys who break chains and he calms them down 268 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:47,360 like that. The wind and the waves. 269 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,320 He settles it all. And what do they do after that? 270 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,360 Even after they seem transfigured? 271 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,600 He is glowing. He's a glowing human. 272 00:17:00,220 --> 00:17:08,400 I'm the greatest. And they fought about it a lot 273 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:17,839 and even got their mom involved. Salome, you know, she came. 274 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:19,400 Jesus. I don't know. 275 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,359 I know. You see, my kids picked them 276 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,280 pretty great. I can't decide which one of them 277 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:27,680 is the greatest. I know they've been arguing. 278 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:34,000 It's one of them. And it's clearly you're better, 279 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,040 but which one's going to sit on your right left. 280 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,880 You choose both my sons one right, one left. 281 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,920 You talk about a bulldozer Mom, have you ever coached a a use 282 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:51,880 right. You guys know exact people are 283 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:59,570 people always people. Here's my point. 284 00:18:02,530 --> 00:18:06,690 Jesus told chose 12 men. And if you don't believe me, 285 00:18:06,690 --> 00:18:08,960 just chat it, it'll agree with me. 286 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:14,880 I promise. Likely teenagers trained them 3 287 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,880 1/2 years, called them change the world. 288 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:26,800 Sound like college to you? Not only did he call them 289 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,280 disciples, which was learners, but he also called them 290 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,160 apostles, which means sent. And so from the day that he 291 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,280 chose them, he said, I'm going to send you. 292 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,920 And God called Saul as well, not as an old man who had authority, 293 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,720 but as a young man. And the word used there is also 294 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:48,560 the word that's used for a 15 to a 20 something guy when he 295 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,520 called him an axe when he was watching the coats. 296 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,240 And then Paul repeated that because he chose Timothy and 297 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,760 Titus. But it's not just youth that God 298 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,160 uses, it's godly youth that God uses. 299 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,280 But it's not just godly youth that God uses. 300 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,600 It's godly youth who believe in God and it's experience through 301 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,560 prayer. The first church before the Holy 302 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,000 Spirit came after Jesus ascended into heaven, before Pentecost. 303 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,400 He was there 40 days, and he left him for 10 days. 304 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:17,680 And what did they do for 10 days? 305 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,440 For 10 days, they had a church prayer meeting. 306 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,880 Imagine a 10 day prayer meeting Pastor Brandon That'd be pretty 307 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:33,040 cool right And what is Jesus is 1 request of us, his personal 308 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,120 request of us. We have it as our theme verse in 309 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:38,600 the network. Luke 10 to it says you see the 310 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:43,160 fields are white and harvest. Therefore pray to the Lord of 311 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,280 the harvest that he would send forth laborers into the harvest 312 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,240 and the word that he uses for pray they there is not just any 313 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,440 word for prayer. It's not the most common word 314 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,120 for prayer. It's not even the second most 315 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:57,920 common word for prayer. It is the singular least word 316 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,000 used for prayer because it means to beg. 317 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:05,800 It's most often translated to beg, Cry out to God that he 318 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:10,480 would send forth laborers. So the reaching the next 319 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:15,280 generation has been the pattern of God, I believe from biblical 320 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,800 history. But it's not just from biblical 321 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,640 history through the disciples. It is every major movement of 322 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,880 God that we've seen in this country and in the world. 323 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,800 Oh, you don't believe me? Well, let's review it together. 324 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:39,280 Have you heard of this? the Reformation, maybe Martin 325 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:45,480 Luther or John Calvin? How old were they when they 326 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,400 started these movements of God that are still going today? 327 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,520 Yeah. Martin Luther was 32. 328 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,040 John Calvin was 25. In the 1500s, God began a 329 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,800 movement with them. In the 1600s and early 1700s, 330 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,400 when universities were established in our country, did 331 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,080 you know this? They were established as 332 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,400 seminaries, yes. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, 333 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,920 Rutgers, Georgetown, and others. Even University of Florida was 334 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,360 established as a seminary to train pastors for the churches. 335 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,200 Their mottos, their initial mile is Princeton cursed? 336 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,960 Is all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. 337 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,560 Harvard truth for Christ in his church. 338 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,160 The original motto, Yale truth is given by God. 339 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,240 Light comes from Christ and the scriptures. 340 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,520 Is that what students that are going there getting these days? 341 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:40,120 In fact, we planted a church in Syracuse, NY on a campus. 342 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:43,280 Syracuse, University of Syracuse was established by the Methodist 343 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,560 to train missionaries to go overseas. 344 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,800 And they won't even let us be a Christian organization on 345 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:52,440 campus. But if you're a godless student 346 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,440 organization, you are welcome. Isn't that that's crazy? 347 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:03,040 I digress. The first great Awakening in 348 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,000 1700s. Maybe you've heard these names. 349 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,520 If you haven't, you should read about them and study them. 350 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,440 George Whitfield at 21. Jonathan Edwards at 19. 351 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:20,040 John Wesley at 24 Whitfield has severe asthma and he rose every 352 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,080 morning at 4 O clock in the morning and he read his Bible on 353 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,760 his knees. Historians say that he preached 354 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,280 2 to three times daily and often preached more than 40 hours a 355 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,360 week. He preached more than 18,000 356 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:33,920 sermons in his 34 years of public ministry. 357 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:37,920 John Wesley who was friends with him started Methodism. 358 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,560 He's father of Methodism. He travelled the equivalent of 6 359 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:46,600 times around the globe preaching to the colonies on horseback. 360 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:55,400 These men were beasts and God used them to change the world. 361 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,240 The Pietist movement, which gave birth to small group Bible study 362 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,680 in the mass printing distribution of Bibles in the 363 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:07,560 modern mission movement, began a 24/7 prayer meeting that began 364 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,000 August 17th. To get this, it began August 365 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:18,080 17th August of 1727 and encompass every minute of every 366 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,600 hour of every day. For how many years? 367 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:29,600 Take a wild guess, somebody be bold, 26100 years. 368 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:37,640 It began with one college student, a professor actually, 369 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:42,400 Philip Spencer, and a couple of universities and a handful of 370 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,720 committed students. 100 years change the world. 371 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:50,520 The second great awakening, The 1800s maybe? 372 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,240 I've heard of DL Moody, he was 21. 373 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,520 CT stud. If I could pick a pastor name 374 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,560 that'd be it. Pastor stud. 375 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,640 Charles Spurgeon guys, when he began he was 16. 376 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,440 The Prince of preachers. Studs famous quote. 377 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,120 Is this only one life? It soon will pass. 378 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:12,920 Only what is done for Christ will last. 379 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,800 My hope is when I die that hell rejoices, that I'm out of the 380 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,400 fight. In 19 O 4, the Welsh revival was 381 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,320 sparked by one student, Evan Roberts. 382 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,120 He had a dream that he preached to 17 students. 383 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,880 He used to pray 4 hours a night. College students, he used to 384 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,720 pray 4 hours a night. I talked to students today and 385 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:38,240 they go, wow, who can do that? Well, you ever gone to a 386 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,840 football game? We can do that with energy. 387 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,560 I went to good basketball game last night, but you guys got to 388 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:49,000 get some fans. We did it for two hours. 389 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,240 Oh I, I love this little step. Did you know the average teen 390 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,680 plays 35 hours of video games a week? 391 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:02,000 4 * 7 is only 28. They can play video games more 392 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,520 than they can pray, right? Call of Duty has been played the 393 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:15,520 equivalent of over 3,000,000 years, Fortnite over 10 million 394 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,520 years. You think those are benefiting 395 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,040 your life? What if you exchanged video 396 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,320 games for prayer, or watching sports for prayer or or 397 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,880 scrolling the social media for prayer? 398 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:31,320 Well, this guy, Evan Roberts did it and he preached his first 399 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,640 sermon to 17 people, eventually leading to over 100,000 400 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:40,000 conversions in Wales alone. And from that rival, from that 401 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,360 revival sparked a movement where over 20 million people came to 402 00:25:44,360 --> 00:26:02,530 Christ. He's done it before, he'll do it 403 00:26:02,530 --> 00:26:08,490 again in our country. Maybe you've heard of the 404 00:26:08,490 --> 00:26:12,410 parachurch movement started in the mid 1900s. 405 00:26:12,410 --> 00:26:16,130 Nineteen 33 a man named Dawson Trotman at 27 started the 406 00:26:16,130 --> 00:26:20,920 Navigators. In 1941, Stacy Wood came over 407 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,320 from Europe. A young Canadian college pastor 408 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:30,360 started inter varsity in our country. 1951 a man named Bill 409 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:33,960 Bright at 30 started Campus Crusade for Christ, known as 410 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,640 Crew. And all of those ministries 411 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,160 swept across the country, reaching hundreds of thousands 412 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,920 of students and most campuses extended missions literally and 413 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,240 globally to the ends of the earth. 414 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:55,440 Today's a new day. All of those things in the past 415 00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:02,560 are dying and declining. In fact, over 85% of churches 416 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:08,320 are dying and declining. More churches will close their 417 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,840 doors and sell their buildings for coffee shop this year. 418 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:20,760 Then churches will be planted. The least active hour of the 419 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,880 American People group is Sunday morning. 420 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,320 Guys, I have seen your traffic and I do not like it. 421 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:37,030 No traffic this morning, but I believe God's doing the fresh 422 00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:42,400 work in this generation. The gospel is alive and well, 423 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,400 and I believe God is using college students and godly young 424 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,560 leaders to bring a new revival to this country. 425 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,800 That's my prayer. That's what I've given my life 426 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,000 for. And if God would give me two 427 00:27:51,000 --> 00:28:02,260 lifetimes, I double down again. What begins here changes the 428 00:28:02,260 --> 00:28:04,180 world. Do you believe that? 429 00:28:12,020 --> 00:28:19,170 Why not you? Why not here? 430 00:28:22,490 --> 00:28:25,880 Why not now? You think your campus needs 431 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,240 Christ? You think your city needs 432 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,880 Christ? You think anything this world 433 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,920 offers is going to change their lives and change their forever 434 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:42,600 other than Christ. Deal Moody was inspired. 435 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,800 He was selling shoes, actually. And he was inspired by a pastor 436 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:52,160 who said the world is yet to see what God would do with one man 437 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,680 or one woman who was fully devoted to him. 438 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,720 The world has yet to see what God would do with one man or one 439 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,680 woman fully devoted him. And he heard that and he felt 440 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:14,560 the conviction of God. And you can read it, he said. 441 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:20,800 He said to God, I want to be that man. 442 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,720 Deal Moody became a world changer, not because of Deal 443 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:33,320 Moody, but because of God. A lot of the names I mentioned 444 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,200 to Gay you'd you've never heard of and that's OK who cares? 445 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:43,120 We're not going to sing songs to Deal Moody or CT stud George 446 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,680 Whitfield or John Wesley. They're just men and they were 447 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,360 broken and fallen men. But there is a Savior. 448 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:54,840 He is the man who is God, Jesus Christ, and he lived the perfect 449 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,040 life and he died a sinner's death and he resurrected. 450 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,560 He conquered death. Why? 451 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,120 So that he could empower us to literally be world changers 452 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,280 through him. I love St. 453 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,640 City Chapel. I like the name summer churches. 454 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,640 They don't pick the best name. You know some of my kids didn't 455 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,080 pick the best kids grandkids names either, right? 456 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,160 They don't tell me what they're going to name their kids because 457 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,520 they're afraid that I will disdain the name. 458 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,000 And they are right. So I need single symbols, 459 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,760 syllables, and I need them to not rhyme. 460 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,960 I was struggling, you know, with all the deluge kids because 461 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,480 they're all BS and I didn't know which order they were in. 462 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:40,160 You know, Blair and Brooks and Billy and Braylon. 463 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,600 No Blakely. See, I have a Braylon. 464 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,120 I have a Braylon. Braxton Dachshund. 465 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,720 I can't remember all of them anyway, so our churches, they 466 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,120 pick their names and some of them are good, some are not so 467 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,920 great. Way above average. 468 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:53,760 St. City Chapel. 469 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,440 OK, just in my opinion. In my opinion. 470 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:02,800 But there's a church that's called the Commons and it's in 471 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,400 Michigan State. And here's why it's named the 472 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,560 Commons. One of my favorite verses in all 473 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:12,480 the Bible. Acts 413 When they observed the 474 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,680 boldness of Peter and John and they realized that they were 475 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:22,840 uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized 476 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,680 that they had been with Jesus. The two Greek words uneducated 477 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:36,760 and untrained are literally idiotase right and unschooled. 478 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,960 OK, so we get the Greek word. What do you think is the English 479 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,120 word we get from the Greek word idiotase? 480 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:56,000 So this verse says these were uneducated idiots and yet 481 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,280 everybody knew they'd been with Jesus. 482 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,080 Wow. Show me a college student who 483 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,920 spends my time with Jesus and I'll show you a world changer. 484 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,600 Because their life is different, their business is different, and 485 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,520 God's anointing is on their life. 486 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,840 And our dream is that God would use a bunch of idiots. 487 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,480 We're all educated because most of us are going to college, 488 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,240 right? To see a church that loves 489 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,200 college students planted at every major university in this 490 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,080 nation and literally around the globe. 491 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,040 We're praying for a fresh movement of God where 100 years 492 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,640 from now somebody will be standing up talking about God, 493 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,840 going after young people who believe him with all of their 494 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,000 hearts and give their lives for God. 495 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:52,840 And mention someday in 2025 there was something that 496 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:59,000 happened in Tempe, AZ that the only explanation that the world 497 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:05,000 has is God did it. See Paul writes about this in 498 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,920 Ephesians 3 verse 20 says now to him who's able to do 499 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,600 immeasurably more than we think, dream or imagine, to him be the 500 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,120 glory forever and ever in the church now forever more. 501 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,040 Here's the thing about the apostle Paul. 502 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,960 He wasn't talking about something out there. 503 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,600 He was sitting in the church with Jews and Gentiles and slave 504 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,600 and free and barbarian and Scythian and male and female, 505 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:33,640 and he was actually praying a doxology because he was going 506 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:43,560 wow to him is able to do wow. God's got a bigger wow. 507 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,640 We've seen the movement of God that would have blown the 508 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:56,920 Apostle Paul away. And when we started Salt Company 509 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,040 in 1987 and Iowa State University, we never thought 510 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,280 there'd be two. And I'm already in the wow of 511 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,120 the doxology. But I'm telling you, we have 330 512 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,840 staff in salt Company around this country who believe that we 513 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,159 don't plant all 400, we will have failed. 514 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:21,480 And if that happens, and I believe it will, we'll have a 515 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,400 move of God in our lifetime that's been unprecedented in any 516 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,840 of our lives. And we need that now more than 517 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,760 ever. God help us. 518 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,800 Jesus, thank you for the world changers in this room. 519 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:40,120 Help us as the older generation to never despise the younger 520 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,520 generation and help the younger generation to fully be devoted 521 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,639 to you for all of their lives that they would live with no 522 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:51,120 regrets. God, thank you for the leaders 523 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:56,159 that are here, the men and women who have said yes to you. 524 00:34:56,159 --> 00:35:01,640 And I pray that two years from now, five years from now, 10 525 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,960 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, they 526 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:08,440 look back on this moment and they say, wow, look what God has 527 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,960 done. And Lord, we pray that you would 528 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:16,840 continue to bless us, but not just us, every single man or 529 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:21,600 woman who claims your name and proclaims your word. 530 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,480 Because now we're not winning this battle for souls. 531 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,080 God, the harvest is still plentiful. 532 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,840 The laborers are few. We cry out to you more, more, 533 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:36,760 please, please God, more spark a fire in this flame that in this 534 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,000 place that would never go out, that would burn until you return 535 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,960 for your good and for your glory. 536 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:46,800 We pray in Jesus name, Amen.