1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,440 Why don't you guys go ahead and turn the book of Ephesians? 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:03,520 We're not going to go through the whole thing. 3 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,960 We're just just kind of have your spot there. 4 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:11,080 But man, so much and so little time here. 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,760 OK, so always happens. I just, there's a part of me 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,440 honestly that kind of want to just close the Bible, maybe read 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,720 a passage, close it, and then just go back into worship. 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,520 I just really feel like it has been such a rich morning 9 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,160 already. But I do want to show you guys a 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,880 few things in the in the spiritual warfare series that I 11 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,560 think will be helpful in laying the groundwork just to the kind 12 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,520 of something to capture why we're doing this series again, 13 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,080 giving you a little bit more of a vision to why we're doing 14 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,440 this. And so before we get there, you 15 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,080 know the, there's been a lot going on, right? 16 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,200 We got Acts 931. We laid out the plan for 17 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,040 strengthening families to multiply. 18 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,000 We want to strengthen as a family, as a church. 19 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,120 So we might multiply. That is in our marriages, that's 20 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,360 in our personal life, that's in our parenting, that's in the way 21 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,560 we do mission. We want to strengthen to 22 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,600 multiply. How many know that we don't want 23 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,720 to invite people into an unhealthy church? 24 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:11,920 We're not we. Don't want to multiply that. 25 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:13,720 We want to multiply something that's healthy. 26 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:15,200 Amen. Right. 27 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,800 So God wants to do that. That's the word of the Lord for 28 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,320 us to multiply. Amen. 29 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,000 I mean, everybody wants that. We want our church to grow. 30 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,520 We want our church not just to grow in church transfer. 31 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,440 We don't want to just take other sheep from other churches. 32 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,480 That's fine if you're here and you're new and you're coming 33 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,440 from another church, especially if you're from college. 34 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,160 You know, like you're in Fort. Lauderdale or Tampa or 35 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,640 something, you have to have a local church to belong to. 36 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,760 We love that. But if you know, but at the same 37 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,640 time, we want to grow with new church conversion, right? 38 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:44,760 I mean, we want to. We want to. 39 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:48,120 New conversion growth, that's what I'm trying to say. 40 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,640 New conversion growth, we want to have people that are lost and 41 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,280 come here and find find Jesus for the first time. 42 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,360 And those are the most fun people to be around. 43 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:02,600 That was George Lopez. I mean, just I, it was, it's, 44 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,960 it's so fun to watch. I mean, I could go down the 45 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,080 line. I'm literally looking at people 46 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,920 that got saved with us. It's so much fun to walk with 47 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:14,040 you. And again, I am not saying 48 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:15,760 there's anything wrong with coming from another church. 49 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:17,360 That's great. I mean, welcome you. 50 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,400 We want you here. We want you to actually live it 51 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,320 out and disciple. Those people you know? 52 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,240 But we're just saying, man, it is so much fun to to see the 53 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,600 lost get saved. That is the business of Jesus. 54 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,440 That's like what he's doing, you know, like, hey, just transfer 55 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:32,880 churches. That's what I came for, you 56 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,120 know? No, he came to seek and save the 57 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,800 lost. Anybody want to do that? 58 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,600 I mean, let's do that. Let's give our life to that. 59 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:43,880 Let's actually do that for a living. 60 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,480 I don't care what you do during the week. 61 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,960 It don't really matter because people change jobs all the time. 62 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,280 But one job does not change. Make disciples. 63 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:54,160 That job never changes. For everybody in this room. 64 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,320 The one thing you'll be doing until the day Jesus comes back 65 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,760 is make disciples. He will ask you on that day. 66 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,680 Well, my good and faithful servant, that's not just hey, I 67 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,720 did a good job at parenting and this and that and the other 68 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,240 right, or or I I've done a good job at my job, you know, like 69 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,040 literally my day job. No, no, it's did you make 70 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,160 disciples? And part of that is like. 71 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,040 Having a family, like I'm making disciples in my household. 72 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:20,080 There's four dudes in my house, you know, one girl in my house, 73 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,000 we make disciples. And that is the hardest one 74 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,680 that, you know, like me being at Barnes and Noble with a college 75 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,480 student is a little bit less challenging than raising up. 76 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,800 Kids, but it's worth it. That is making disciples. 77 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,080 If you've given your life to making disciples. 78 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,120 And I'm not just talking about going on campus and sharing the 79 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,200 gospel. I'm talking about actually 80 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,480 talking to them about Jesus, sharing the gospel, and then 81 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,040 teaching them to do everything Jesus said and did. 82 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,480 Are you doing that? That is the greatest privilege 83 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,880 of my life. It's crazy to think about this 84 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,600 church like to look at this church is this this is like this 85 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,400 is like Nicole and I this is this is our baby. 86 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,720 You know, this is like y'all are kids, right? 87 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,720 I mean Dick, you're not my kid other than but everybody else 88 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,640 right? You know I'm your kid, your 89 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:18,800 child. He rebukes me all the time. 90 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:20,959 He just called me the other day and rebuked me. 91 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:25,000 So no, he encourages me. But it comes a challenge. 92 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,360 As well. I'm thankful for that. 93 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,680 But. Where's Where's Christian Bravo? 94 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,920 What is the definition of discipleship? 95 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,280 Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready. 96 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:42,400 Are you ready? Yeah. 97 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,120 Nope. I mean to live. 98 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:48,720 Yes, you want. You don't want to be OK. 99 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:49,960 Yeah. You can't make disciples dead. 100 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,080 All right, Courage. And challenge. 101 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,400 Someone to live full? Harmony for. 102 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,280 Jesus and his purposes and his purpose. 103 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,720 All right, 85%. There we go. 104 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:04,920 Way to go. You did good in the car 105 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,080 yesterday when we're in Texas, it was 80%. 106 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:08,720 Now you got 85. You got missed. 107 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,040 One word. All right, we'll get we'll get 108 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,400 better every time. OK. 109 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,280 So, yes, if you didn't hear them, it is to make disciples. 110 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,600 Discipleship is right to encourage. 111 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,640 And to challenge someone right you're walking with to live 112 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,880 wholeheartedly for Jesus and his purposes and then multiply that. 113 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,440 Amen. That's it. 114 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:31,880 My question to you is, are you doing that? 115 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,240 My question to you, are you in discipleship? 116 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,840 Are you a follower of Jesus? And making more followers of 117 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:48,600 Jesus, That is the greatest joy. When we came here in 2011, we're 118 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,480 like, I mean, literally and, and just even, it's crazy to think 119 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,600 about this. One of the girls that was with 120 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:55,960 us, she's a college student. She's a part of the youth 121 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:57,640 ministry. She's in Hungary now picking up 122 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,000 her adopted daughter. But that was like 18 years ago 123 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,520 or something back in the youth ministry days. 124 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:06,800 But Nicole and I came just with three of our young kids in 125 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,760 diapers. One of them is newborn, 14 years 126 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,080 ago. And the reason why I keep 127 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,160 bringing that before you is because God doesn't want to just 128 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,560 do it here in Oviedo, but he wants to do it all around the 129 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,800 world, and He wants to do it with you. 130 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,800 He wants to do that with you like Morello's. 131 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,680 He wants to do that with you. Jurwitz's, he wants to do that 132 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,400 with you. Now, it doesn't mean you have to 133 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,880 move, although that could be a part of it, right? 134 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,640 And go plant something somewhere else. 135 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,760 But if he did it with us, we did not know what we were doing. 136 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:39,280 We still don't know what we're doing. 137 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,600 Like. That's a little laughter from my 138 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:43,640 wife. If you didn't hear where that 139 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,160 was coming from, that was hers a little. 140 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:50,040 Awkward laugh. But what I what I'm saying is if 141 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,560 we, we don't know what we're doing back then, it was just a 142 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,240 call of God and all it was was the call to make disciples. 143 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,320 It wasn't even like, I don't look at it as like, oh, we're 144 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,000 planting. A church and so we got to kind 145 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,520 of have to do the thing. I don't even know what The thing 146 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,320 is. It just we're just meeting with 147 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,320 people. So we got a team from Waco, TX 148 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,240 and they just said, hey, we're going to come and we're going to 149 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,920 help you guys get launched. And many of those people in that 150 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,400 early stages of the church are still with us. 151 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,360 They're leading, they're leading this church with us. 152 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,880 What a joy and a privilege. Why would you not want to do 153 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,920 that? You don't have to do it to the 154 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,120 same degree. And I understand there's gifts 155 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,600 and calling gifts and all that. I understand all that makes. 156 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,640 But God's called all of us to do that, to just take the few in 157 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,960 front of us, to inspire them, to equip them to multiply. 158 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,280 It's what he's called us, everybody to do. 159 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,600 Do you understand that? Everybody in this house, you're 160 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:48,840 like, that's not what I want to do. 161 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,080 Then you're not going to like this church very much because 162 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,840 we're going to kind of always push you in towards that 163 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:54,680 direction. And by the way, that's what 164 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,800 Jesus said. I. 165 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,320 Am with you until the very end of age. 166 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,440 What is He with us? What is He with us for? 167 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:05,480 What's the purpose? What? 168 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,080 What is he with us for? What is He giving us His power 169 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,960 to do, to make disciples? Amen. 170 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,360 So we have to understand what is a healthy church. 171 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,720 Before we understand what spiritual warfare is, we have to 172 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,160 understand what is what is what are we living for? 173 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,680 Like what is the what is the big purpose, the grand scheme? 174 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,880 Like what's? The What are we living for, what 175 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,720 are we giving our lives for? And what is the enemy trying to 176 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:30,720 get? Us to do. 177 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,159 What is he trying? What is he fighting against? 178 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,960 He's fighting against a healthy church that will multiply. 179 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,280 That's what the enemy does every day of your life. 180 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,560 In my life, that's what he does. And we'll dive in this morning 181 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:47,000 as much as we can. We'll get as far as we can, but 182 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,600 we have to start off with what is a healthy church. 183 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,840 So what we're going to do is we're going to put that up on 184 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:55,320 the screen again. Is Joel back there? 185 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,960 Where's Joel at or who's? Back there I can't see all. 186 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,320 Right, Jordan Morgan. All right, Morgan, you got this. 187 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,680 OK, Morgan, what is a healthy church? 188 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,400 OK, so put that up. All right, So God, all right, so 189 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,920 we're going to look at this and we're going to look at this 190 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,240 again, and we're going to look at this multiple weeks because 191 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,280 until it's in US, until you sit like this is who we are as a 192 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,520 people. And we have to look at what is 193 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,720 healthy. And then we see that, wow, the 194 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,200 enemy wants to destroy that like every day. 195 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,280 So all right, so. OK, so God is the main topic of 196 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,280 the Bible, not the devil. I, I wanted to spend on purpose, 197 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,240 spend more time talking about who God is than who the devil 198 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,200 is. And not that he doesn't, not 199 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,360 that it doesn't matter. The Bible talks about the devil, 200 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:45,040 but. How many know? 201 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,280 The Bible talks a whole lot more about God and who he calls us to 202 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,160 be than about the devil and his tactics. 203 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:53,240 Amen. So that's why we're doing that. 204 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,880 All right? So God is building a transformed 205 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:57,600 family. He's the one building it. 206 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:00,360 He's the one that built that 14 years ago. 207 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:04,200 It's not us. He built it, He gave us a family 208 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:08,360 and it's a transformed family. You're no longer the same. 209 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:11,400 You've been bought with a price. You're no longer under the 210 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,360 Egyptians rule of reign, but you're a Jesus now. 211 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:16,840 You've been bought with a price. Your life is not your own. 212 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:18,840 He's a family, right? And then? 213 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,840 Because we are transformed because of what God has done in 214 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,200 our lives. Now we are seeking Jesus with 215 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,360 our whole heart. How many know when you are 216 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:32,080 redeemed, when you're adopted, you're no longer a part of that 217 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,680 orphanage that was under the power of the enemy. 218 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,760 And now you're in a new family. Now you're in a with a new 219 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,600 people. The the the light of God has 220 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,680 shined into the darkness of your hearts and transformed you. 221 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,720 You no longer can live the same way. 222 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,880 Do you guys know that? The greatest weapon that you 223 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,000 have in your arsenal against the enemy, Do you know what that is? 224 00:10:58,040 --> 00:10:59,760 My Italian friends are shaking their head. 225 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,120 Yes, I want to know. Huh. 226 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:02,160 Light. OK. 227 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:06,200 Yeah, yeah. Is is light Lalouse. 228 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,240 Oh, that's the Spanish Luche. I like that. 229 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:10,560 See. OK. 230 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,240 La luche. OK. 231 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,440 Yes, that's great. No, the greatest weapon. 232 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:21,080 The greatest weapon, I mean, it is, you know, it is to a degree, 233 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,200 it's our holiness, it's our transformed lives. 234 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,880 That is the greatest weapon because that really is the whole 235 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:31,320 armor of God. It's just showing the 236 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,080 transformed life. You have the breastplate of 237 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:34,680 righteousness, you have the helmet of salvation. 238 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:37,640 He's showing you what something that you, you don't just go in 239 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,160 the closet one day and just grab it. 240 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,240 It's something that you have, it's already in you, the 241 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,360 transformed life. So you seek Jesus with your 242 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,200 whole heart building up and honoring one of us. 243 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,920 And now it not only they transform from the inside out, 244 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:56,720 now it, it has to go horizontal. It has to actually begin to 245 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,800 transform other people's lives, right? 246 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:00,800 Building up and honoring one another, serving them with 247 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,440 humility, grace and joy. We are a family who lives on 248 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,080 mission. We are not selfish. 249 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:07,760 We are not people who hold us in. 250 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:09,800 We make disciples of all nations. 251 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,240 That's why we go on mission. That's why every summer we have 252 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,880 7 locations this summer, because we can't hold it to ourselves. 253 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:19,600 We can't just keep this to ourselves. 254 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,280 Our lives are full. They should be full in God and 255 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,800 it's our delight and our joy to give that away to other people. 256 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,120 So we accomplished this not in our own strength, but through 257 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,800 word worship and prayer. That's why we spend time in 258 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,600 corporate worship. There's something special about 259 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,120 corporate worship and something special about your individual, 260 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,880 individual worship that you do in your own bedroom with God. 261 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:45,440 You put on worship music. That's great. 262 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,440 There's something different about corporate worship. 263 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,240 We fight the enemy by praying for one another, by fighting for 264 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:53,920 one another. If you know someone else is 265 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,840 going through a hard time and you know that the Lord speaks to 266 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,880 your heart, he might be tapping you on the shoulder, say, hey, 267 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,440 why don't you go across the room and pray for them. 268 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,720 We had an incredible moment up here. 269 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:07,960 Incredible. It was incredible. 270 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:12,240 Some some some beautiful moments of I've just Nicole and I tag 271 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,600 team and praying for different people just to tears. 272 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,240 People are weeping in the presence of God because they're 273 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,520 being touched by the Lord and not only by the Lord, but the 274 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:23,560 love that they feel from their family. 275 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,840 That's how we fight the enemy. We kind of know what health 276 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,800 looks like. What is health look like in the 277 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:31,720 church? This is it. 278 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,400 This is who we are as a people and this is what the enemy is 279 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,320 attacking. All through COVID, ever really 280 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,200 since the day we birthed the church, he's been trying to take 281 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,640 this thing down. We got people on the outside 282 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,480 that who hate us, who literally want to see this church 283 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,000 destroyed. And the cool thing is, is God, 284 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,760 Jesus already said it. The gates of hell will not be 285 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,640 able to prevail against it. Like it's not going to happen no 286 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:01,920 matter how hard you try because Jesus is the one that birthed 287 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:04,000 this thing and he will see it to the end. 288 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:06,520 Amen. That should give you great 289 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,800 confidence. God is here, here he's working 290 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,640 on our behalf. So we do this in the power of 291 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,600 the word, worship and prayer. We do this by the power of the 292 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:18,800 Spirit until Jesus comes back all for his glory. 293 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,040 It's not for our glory. As I said, we could set up and 294 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:23,800 say, look, I'll look what a great job we've done. 295 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,840 No, no, no, it's to say it. Look, he did it all. 296 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,840 He did it all. And if you have any victory, 297 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,280 whether it's, you know, personal, like you've overcome 298 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,120 sin this week, you know, you just said, no, you found the way 299 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:38,920 out, right? And you got victory. 300 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,920 Not great isn't great isn't victory tastes much sweeter than 301 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,120 defeat when you when you go that direction. 302 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,520 OK, so you feel that you feel that victory. 303 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,760 That's God. God did that. 304 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,080 Did you partner with them? Yes. 305 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,400 You work out your salvation with fear and trembling. 306 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,080 You work out what he works in. And so we give him glory because 307 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,000 we know that. All those little tastes. 308 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,200 Of victory is because of what Jesus has done in our lives to 309 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:07,560 the power of the spirit. Amen. 310 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,320 OK, so we have kind of like what you see like a vision. 311 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:15,120 The vision is like 1355. I know that sounds kind of 312 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,960 funny, but just in your head. There's one vision that we have 313 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,400 that's transformation. The three is Jesus family 314 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,440 mission. OK And then the five rings of 315 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,880 the church again, this is what the enemy attacks all the time. 316 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,480 He's attacking these areas all the time. 317 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,840 And when I flew in I we just got back from Texas, We took 95 318 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,800 people to to world mandate. We've been going to world 319 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:43,080 mandate for years. So back in 2007 was my first 320 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,680 world Mandate ENIAC Wheaton. And so for 18 years just being a 321 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:48,640 part of this conference is a great deal. 322 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:53,960 But there there's so the enemy is attacking is not necessarily 323 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,000 Christians going to a conference. 324 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,200 He don't care if people go to a conference that don't matter 325 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,000 really to him. I mean, it doesn't want you to 326 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,480 hear the word, but people have been doing that for decades. 327 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:09,920 What he cares is if you live it out because again, that's the 328 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,920 greatest weapon. Jesus came to destroy the works 329 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,800 of the devil. And as we are in him, we also 330 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,360 destroy the works of the devil, not only in our own life and not 331 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,720 only in the church, but the city and the nations for his glory. 332 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,840 Amen. So these five areas that I know 333 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:29,680 a lot of you guys are like, I know them, I know them. 334 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,160 I can I just say that's great that you know them. 335 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:33,560 That's awesome that you know them. 336 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,240 Are you living them and are you reproducing them into other 337 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,960 people? Because we can't, we can't carry 338 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:41,640 Nicole and I can't carry the church. 339 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:43,800 We can't we this it's impossible. 340 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,920 It's been reproduced in the next generation, the next generation, 341 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:48,840 next generation. You have to carry these vision 342 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:50,360 and values. This is what a healthy church 343 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:51,680 looks like. And what does it look like? 344 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:53,880 It's people spending time with Jesus everyday. 345 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,320 The first thing isn't that interesting. 346 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:57,760 You know, like you, you have plans. 347 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,840 You're like, man, I can't wait to spend time with God tomorrow 348 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:01,520 morning. Well, something happens, right? 349 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:05,160 If your mom, you're up all night, you're up all night, 350 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:05,920 right? With your kid. 351 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:08,040 You're like, it's just one of those nights. 352 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,839 You're like, man, I planned on spending time with God and now 353 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:13,760 I'm up all night. Like I'm just what is that? 354 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:15,480 You. Can't always just blame that on 355 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,880 the on the devil you know. Right. 356 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:23,359 But they're right, so. But there's distraction and 357 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:27,040 instead of looking at that, oh, there's an opportunity to be up 358 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:28,960 with my child. Spending time. 359 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,840 You could spend time with God as you take care of your child. 360 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,600 That's the season you're in is mom's, that's the season you're 361 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,360 in. It's a good season. 362 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,720 It's a great season. It's not going to last forever. 363 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,080 But you could. Spend time with God in that 364 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:42,320 season. No one's telling you you can't 365 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,800 put worship music on. No one's telling you can't pray. 366 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,160 No one's telling you can't read the Word or listen to the Word. 367 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:49,400 No one's telling you can't do that. 368 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:51,960 But sometimes you can get all bent out of shape because we're 369 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,600 we're thinking, Oh my goodness, all my time is being disrupted 370 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,560 for that time in the morning. Sure, OK, maybe. 371 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,600 But you can utilize that. For your for. 372 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,960 Your benefit, you could, you could say like, OK, Lord, what 373 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,240 am I doing right now in this moment? 374 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,400 Because God wants all of us to spend time with him. 375 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,120 Sometimes even college students, you stay up like a super late at 376 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,160 night, you're getting 4 hours of sleep the next morning. 377 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:13,720 It's just impossible to spend time with God. 378 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,920 Then you're doing it like 10:00 in the you know, or 12:00 you 379 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,240 get up or you know, whatever you know. 380 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,440 It's like you're just like frustrated with yourself all day 381 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,400 because you didn't get time with God. 382 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,160 The enemy's going to do whatever it takes to distract you from 383 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,040 God. Everything He's going to use 384 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:31,960 all, he's going to use his arsenal of weapons and he has a 385 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:36,120 lot of them to use against you so that you won't spend time 386 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:39,080 with God. So we have resources, right? 387 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:40,880 We have the McShane plan. We have other plans. 388 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,400 But if you don't have a game plan, if you do not have an 389 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,840 actual plan to spend time with God, then you're going to fail. 390 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,600 Like you're, you're not going to, you're not going to actually 391 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,040 do it. You can't play Russian roulette 392 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,360 with the Bible. You have to actually open up the 393 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:56,960 Bible and say, OK, God, there's a plan and I need that plan. 394 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,840 I've been walking with Jesus for 25 years and I need that plan. 395 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,120 I need someone to tell me like this is what you're reading 396 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:04,880 today and I get to check that off right? 397 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:07,520 It's a steady diet of the word of God is going to defeat the 398 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,960 enemy in your life. It's just going to happen guys. 399 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:12,480 It's just basic. You're like, I know that, but 400 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,720 are you doing it because everybody does that in this 401 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,200 room. It's I mean literally like this 402 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,240 is crazy little experience for Bible. 403 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,920 Like it's incredible. There's no doubt. 404 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,440 And then are we praying? Do we have a prayer card? 405 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,640 Do we have something to guide our prayers? 406 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,240 Again, we need something outside of ourselves to direct us and 407 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:31,960 Jesus has many ways for us to pray. 408 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:36,000 You can lose the Lord's prayer. I've, I've shared with this many 409 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,560 times, but just me, you know, me and Jesus. 410 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,240 I have there's like probably the longest because I have a lot to 411 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,960 pray for for myself. And then I start praying for my 412 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,560 wife and then that moves into praying for all four of my kids. 413 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,680 And then that moves into praying for all you guys is the church. 414 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:55,120 And then I move into praying for the nation's five. 415 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,720 And I just sometimes I'm running and I have to hold my finger as 416 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,600 I'm running and praying because sometimes I can't just sit and 417 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:02,400 pray. I have to run. 418 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,320 But I'll be holding on to my finger just so I can keep me on 419 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,200 my place because I want to make sure I get through those 420 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,120 prayers, not out of legalism, but because God answers them. 421 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,400 See, I haven't talked about the devil much, just talking about 422 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,080 the disciplines of God in your life and worship. 423 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,280 Why is worship so important? I remember that one of the 424 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:28,360 speakers, the conference speakers, his name is Clint. 425 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:33,680 He's spoken here before. He but I think back in 2020 and 426 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,320 he one of the things he says he's like. 427 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:37,560 Why would you? Listen to anything other than 428 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,280 worship music, you know, like, why would you do that? 429 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,720 Like, it just doesn't make sense, right? 430 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:44,760 The pull of the world is so strong. 431 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:46,640 Why would we want to listen that? 432 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:48,000 And again, that's not a legalism. 433 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,840 It's like I want my heart to be engaged with God. 434 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,960 I want I because music is powerful. 435 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,760 It's just sticks in your head. And sometimes when I'm shopping 436 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,600 or something, I go out or the store, you know, like they're 437 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,080 playing secular music and I get in my car and I like I and I'm 438 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,200 not, you know, like I'm not ready to listen to worship me. 439 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,400 And it's just in my the secular songs in my head and something 440 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,600 is not something I want. I had like just a dirty song in 441 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,400 my head when I was in Vancouver. Ricky and I were in the car and 442 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,920 it was just, it is a bad song. And like the guys from like the 443 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,000 Middle East or something like that. 444 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,480 He's driving this car and I'm looking at him and like, should 445 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,920 we tell him to turn it off like. You know. 446 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,200 But just in my head, like all day, I'm like, no, get it out of 447 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,840 my head, you know? But music's powerful and the 448 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,920 devil knows that. So we need to make sure like how 449 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,040 we fighting this battle. We can't fight this battle with 450 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,960 the wrong songs in our head, which is not going to happen. 451 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,600 Like it's not even the thing you want to do those things in the 452 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,240 song. It's just it's there. 453 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,160 And I already have the bombardment of the world 454 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,040 everywhere. I need something to again point 455 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:52,000 me to Jesus. That's just point #1 it's so 456 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,320 important. That is the bull's eye of this 457 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:53,880 church. Guys. 458 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,920 If you're not spending time with Jesus, you will not defeat the 459 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,000 enemy at all. You will continually be knocked 460 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,200 around every day and even that quiet time of the half hour or 461 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,320 an hour or whatever it is, I just challenge you, at least you 462 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,360 30 minutes tomorrow. But whatever that is, it's still 463 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:11,400 not enough for me. It's still not enough for me. 464 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,440 Like I need all day with God to keep me from all the devices of 465 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,360 Satan. I need him. 466 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,320 I need God. And there's nothing wrong with 467 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,560 that. To say like I'm weak. 468 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,440 I can't, you know, like to say like, you know, it is better to 469 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:30,440 say, hey, I can't do Instagram because I'm weak than to fail 470 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,880 and say I shouldn't have done that, right? 471 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,880 I mean, just, it's preventative. It's like I I'm just weak, but 472 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,360 no one's going to fault you for that. 473 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:41,440 People might fault you for falling, but no one's going to 474 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,080 fault you for saying, hey, I'm weak. 475 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,680 I can't go there. You see what I'm saying? 476 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,120 Just know your weakness. The devil knows your weakness 477 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:52,000 probably better than you do, but you want to get in tune with 478 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,520 your weakness. You want to know what you can 479 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,760 and cannot do. All right, so the second thing, 480 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,320 what would you talk about is discipleship. 481 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,280 Please everybody, everybody make this promise. 482 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,440 Spend time with God tomorrow and say, all right, who am I being 483 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,840 discipled by and what is who is God calling me to disciple? 484 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:10,280 You got to have that written down somewhere. 485 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,520 I know that if you ask me, if you want to ask me after church 486 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:14,720 something, I don't want to test John. 487 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,800 I want to see if he's being discipled and I want to say 488 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:17,480 fine. Ask. 489 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,520 I know that off the top of my head. 490 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,560 I'm not going to just name names up from the front, but I, I, 491 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,960 there are people who are pouring into me and I am pouring into 492 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,520 others and there's mutual. Everybody should have a Paula 493 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,120 Timothy and a Barnabas, right? We've heard that before. 494 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,880 Do it. So much of what I'm going to 495 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,920 repeat on, I'm from the front on purpose. 496 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,200 I, I, I'd say that with a twinkle in my eye, right on 497 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,800 purpose. I am going to be saying things 498 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,840 that are so obvious. I'm just hoping someone actually 499 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,960 does it because that's where the transformation begins. 500 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,600 I'm actually on purpose not going through like 3/4 of my 501 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,320 notes right now. I'm making this painfully 502 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,360 obvious because I'm done with just teaching something and 503 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:59,640 people are not living it out. That does nothing for anybody. 504 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,240 We are going to be the church that's known to live it out. 505 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,880 And if you don't like that, go somewhere else because we're 506 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,800 going to live this stuff out. And and look, there is so much 507 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,040 grace. There's so much grace. 508 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,240 I cannot do this myself, but we are going to live it out. 509 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:19,080 We are going to say we cannot just hear the word of God. 510 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,320 We must be doers of the word and where there's weakness must be 511 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,040 like, man, I'm just struggling. I mean, I call people on a 512 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,840 weekly basis. I talked to my wife and a week 513 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,520 my wife on a weekly basis and just say I'm not doing OK. 514 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,960 I need help. It might be just 20 seconds. 515 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:37,880 Let's just. Go for a walk. 516 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,280 Let's talk about it. We are weak, but lean in in your 517 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,600 weakness. Lean in, don't shy away. 518 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,680 So like, oh, what was me? I can't ever do it right. 519 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,920 That doesn't do anything. That doesn't do you good to 520 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,360 compare. Comparison will destroy you. 521 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:53,680 I'm never going to be like that guy. 522 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,120 That guy's too holy. They're not holy. 523 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:58,360 They're just facade. I mean, in some ways, you know, 524 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,360 I mean, it could be real and genuine, but if they are 525 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:02,880 genuinely holy, it took them work. 526 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,120 It's work, it's hard work, and they're leaning in. 527 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,800 To the people of God to say, hey, would you help me? 528 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,440 Would you lift me up? Would you pray for me? 529 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,040 Let's fight this together. That's discipleship. 530 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,800 Amen. If you need more, you need to 531 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,640 definitely just go to where's Christian Bravo. 532 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,040 Wherever he sit, just go to him. He, he knows discipleship. 533 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:24,920 OK. All right. 534 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,880 So the third deal is you need a family. 535 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,040 People are so lonely. When I flew into Orlando, I was 536 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,080 reminded again, so I was in Texas. 537 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,840 I, I don't know what I, I don't live there. 538 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,040 I mean, it's like my second home. 539 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,240 I know Dallas airport, Dallas love airport like the back of my 540 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,960 hand. But I, I mean, and then driving 541 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,720 down I-35 to Waco, I mean, that's like a second home to me. 542 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,400 I, I still today don't really know what they deal with over 543 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:56,160 there, but they have, they have strongholds in the city, OK, but 544 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:57,040 I don't know what they deal with. 545 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,560 I know what we deal with. Do you all know what that is? 546 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,520 Sometimes you're just so used to your own dirt, you don't even 547 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:06,800 know. You don't even know what's on 548 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,720 you. You know, like that smell, like 549 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,880 everyone. Some people are like, you know, 550 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,680 they could like if somebody borrows a shirt or something, 551 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,040 like I have a shirt somewhere. They're like, it must be the 552 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,480 criolis. Like, how do you know that? 553 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,720 Like you know what I mean? You know, you're like, you know, 554 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,320 you're like smells like, oh, that's. 555 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:23,760 That like just have a certain scent. 556 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,120 Everybody has a certain scent. Oh, it's good. 557 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,520 But like a certain scent, right, But it's like you can blindfold, 558 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,040 you can smell like, oh, I'm, I'm at this person's house, you 559 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,440 know, just have a certain. Well, when you come. 560 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,960 Here when you're, you're so used to the dirt, you know, you're so 561 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:42,360 used to, you know, the, the, the atmosphere of, of just, you 562 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:48,760 know, it's, it's apathy. One of them is apathy. 2 563 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,720 loneliness. And three, immorality, 564 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:58,720 particularly sexual immorality. Anybody struggle with any of 565 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,080 those 3? It's real. 566 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,360 And I'm not saying there's more, because there is. 567 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:11,040 We don't live in New York City. They got their own demons, so to 568 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,600 speak. We have ours. 569 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,360 And every time I fly in and I see that green carpet, right? 570 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:19,520 You don't know what I'm talking about. 571 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,520 The green carpet. It's the famous green carpet of 572 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,000 MCO. I love it. 573 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:24,200 It's like, I want to hug the carpet. 574 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,440 I want to like lay on the carpet, but I don't, you know, 575 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,400 there's like dirty spots and there's the clean spots they 576 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,520 always like trying to put. I just love that carpet. 577 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,320 I don't know. I have AI have socks that are 578 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,800 from the carpet like I've and they're in my office. 579 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,280 I don't wear them, but I just look at them. 580 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:43,200 It's a reminder of how much I love our airport, but it when I 581 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,720 fly in, it's a reminder of like, uh oh, I'm under it again. 582 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,000 Like I walk into this building and I just, I just, I don't know 583 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,240 how to explain it, but I just sense this like apathy, like 584 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,760 there's a part of us that's like, man, I want to do the 585 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,560 things of God. I want to change the world. 586 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,360 I want to be a part of that. I want to give my life to 587 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:02,200 something that's where that's eternal. 588 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,600 But. Something is pulling me away 589 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,760 from that. Do you ever feel that? 590 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,320 Do you ever feel indifferent and apathetic? 591 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,480 That is demonic. I mean it's not from God. 592 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:27,840 The second is loneliness. I mean people feel lonely if I 593 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,800 mean even as much as we do family, it's still there's 594 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,040 people that are like, I just don't feel like I belong. 595 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:37,520 I don't feel like I'm, I'm really in, I mean, Florida in 596 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,720 general, when you think about where we came from, like just 597 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,440 the state of Florida, it's all these people from the north who 598 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,080 want to get out of the cold and move here and they left half 599 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,840 their family up north. So it perpetuates loneliness 600 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,240 anyways. It's just a, it's just a lonely 601 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:58,320 place for a lot of people. It's just in the, it's like in 602 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,480 the soil. But I'm seeing God change that. 603 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,680 I see a room full of radical people who are like, I want to. 604 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,360 I want to live on purpose. I want to be, I want to have 605 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,560 purpose. I want to live for Jesus. 606 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,520 I want to live for something outside myself. 607 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,480 Like there's your like. The apathetic spirit is breaking 608 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,800 here and it has over the last 14 years and it's awesome. 609 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,680 But there's more to go and there's newer people are coming 610 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:21,760 in. They're still feeling that, 611 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,520 they're still under the apathy and they're like, man, let's 612 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,680 break that off. Let's continue to share vision. 613 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,200 It's like, it's almost like, I feel like there's a, like, I've 614 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,760 seen this illustration before, but there's like a Styrofoam cup 615 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,960 and you're putting it under, you know, water fountain, but it's 616 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,600 got holes underneath, right? And you're just pouring it in 617 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,440 and every week is pouring in, pouring in as soon as like you 618 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,400 get to Monday for as soon as you just even leave the building, 619 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,920 it's like, oh, I'm back, I'm back to it's like I'm back to my 620 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,480 like the, the the pull of the world. 621 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,520 I had a guy this week. I just, I like, I he's a dear 622 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,480 friend and I've known him for years, but I saw him in Texas 623 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,560 and Antioch, Waco, and I was like, we're just talking about 624 00:29:58,560 --> 00:29:59,960 Vancouver. And he's like, oh, I love the 625 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:01,360 mood to Vancouver. I've always wanted to move 626 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,360 Vancouver. And he does, like, he, I mean, 627 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:04,640 he is literally all over the world. 628 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,440 The guy like has a lot of vision. 629 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,760 He's sacrificing in unreached places like that. 630 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,480 I can't mention it from up here, but he says he's like he said. 631 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,600 I was just kind of joking. I was like, yeah, well, you 632 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,120 know, a lot of people, when the new church went out to 633 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,400 Vancouver, not many people went there, but a lot of people went 634 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,360 to Miami. And he's like, oh, I could never 635 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:23,880 move to Miami. I was like, why not? 636 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,080 He's like, oh, I lived there when I was until I was 11 years 637 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,640 old. He's like at the worldliness, 638 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,880 the worldliness that's in Miami, I can never live there, which is 639 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,360 kind of funny in a way, because I mean, like some of these 640 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,960 unreached places. But I understand what he was 641 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,840 saying. And he's like, Orlando. 642 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:45,560 I was like kind of the same. I mean, maybe it's not as 643 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,800 intense as Miami, but we just have so many things to pull us 644 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:54,240 away, so many things. And I'm not saying that everyone 645 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:55,680 like I'm not just saying it's Disney World. 646 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,440 And I think that's why Joe Ewen back in 2011 and we just got to 647 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,240 have it was so cool. The same guy that spoke this 648 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,880 word, we got to have, I don't know about 20 of us just in a in 649 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,840 a small room, just he was praying for our kids. 650 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,640 He's praying for a family, He's praying for a lot of you guys. 651 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,280 And he said, man, this is before the church even got off the 652 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,440 ground. It was not even a church yet. 653 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,080 But he's like you will be a part of a move of God in Orlando that 654 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,520 shines brighter, stands taller than anything Disney and 655 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:30,840 SeaWorld have to offer. We're seeing a glimpse of that. 656 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,480 But I nothing till I think the magnitude of what I think God 657 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,880 intended that to be just the pull of the world is so strong. 658 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,320 People come from all over the world to be entertained here. 659 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:48,400 What if they came from all over the world to meet with God, to 660 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:49,880 actually meet with God? And I'm not saying we're the 661 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,560 only ones. I mean, let's partner with other 662 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:52,720 people that are like minded. Great. 663 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,600 I mean, it's not like we're not the heroes here. 664 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,480 I'm just saying like, wouldn't that be awesome if people went 665 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,720 all over the world to come here? Because testimonies like George, 666 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,960 testimonies that are just what God's doing in our city, what 667 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,640 he's doing in our neighborhoods, because we're getting this 668 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,800 stuff. The enemy wants to attack that. 669 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,320 He wants to attack you with loneliness, that you don't 670 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,920 matter, that you're alone and you got to. 671 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,400 He wants to attack you with apathy and indifference. 672 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,240 That's what he's doing. Do you understand that? 673 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,000 Stop letting him blindfold you and fool you. 674 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,160 When you see the health of what the church can be and then you 675 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:33,400 see how the enemy comes against that, It's it's like there's you 676 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,480 understand, you're like, wow, OK, I think I understand the 677 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,200 battle a little bit more because we could go in depth and we can 678 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,760 do it. We're going to unpack a lot of 679 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:46,720 this as as we go throughout the weeks leading up to mission, but 680 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,920 I just want us to understand in the simplest way, like you 681 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,120 belong to a family, like there's a life group invitation for 682 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,200 everybody here and you could either make that life group 683 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,440 amazing and worthwhile going to or just like the world. 684 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,160 Like, that's up to you. That's your fault, not my fault. 685 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,880 My life group's great. I have like 2 engaged couples. 686 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,520 They're amazing. We have fun together every week. 687 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:18,680 That's my life group in this season. 688 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:24,480 Then I'm going to college. If your life group is boring, 689 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,600 it's your fault. If your life group is not worth 690 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,800 going to, it's your fault, not my fault. 691 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,720 It may not even be your leader's fault, although it might be. 692 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,440 And if you're under that impression, if you're under that 693 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,520 spirit of apathy, you come to life grief, you're like apathy. 694 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,080 Just get together with a bunch of people, say, hey, man, we're 695 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,480 feeling that, You know, that empathy that John was talking 696 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:52,800 about. I'm kind of feeling that a 697 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:53,680 little bit. Let's. 698 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,920 Just break that off because that's not how we're supposed to 699 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,560 live as people of the people of God supposed to come to the 700 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,440 household of God. I mean, look at can I just, I 701 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,960 mean literally, can I read you like a? 702 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,760 A passage in the Bible that speaks of like I'm just curious. 703 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,600 I'm, I'm just, I'm not I'm not saying that it is like this or 704 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:17,040 not like this, but Acts 242 right people just got saved in 705 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,960 verse 41 thousands, three thousands of souls. 706 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,639 And so they're like, well, what do we do with all these people? 707 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,000 We said, well, this is what we need to do. 708 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,480 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles 709 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,920 teaching the fellowship to breaking a bread into prayer. 710 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,600 Man is like just listen to this and see like, is this the is 711 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,679 this the family that I go to on a Wednesday or Tuesday night? 712 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:43,040 Is this the people of God? We all have a role to play in 713 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,800 this. We all come with this 714 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,840 understanding. Lord, break the apathy, break 715 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,280 the loneliness, break that orphan spirit that I don't 716 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,880 belong. I belong in this place. 717 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,239 I was invited to this place. Come on, I want to be in let's. 718 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,719 I want to see God. Move to become of the household 719 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,520 of the Lord. On Tuesday night like that, 720 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,240 everyone kept feeling a sense of awe. 721 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,400 When was the last time you've sensed awe in your life group? 722 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,320 Because God was moving powerfully. 723 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,400 We're going to do a few baptisms this week in the college man. 724 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,320 There's a sense of awe. There's a sense of awe on 725 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,200 Thursday night, the encounter nights, there is a sense of awe. 726 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,400 I mean, it was, it was 11:00 PM that night and college students 727 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,840 didn't want to leave the building because they're 728 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,600 experiencing God. They're encountering him in a 729 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,240 real tangible way. Everyone kept feeling a sense of 730 00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:34,680 awe and many wonders and signs were taking place to the 731 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:39,920 apostles and all, all, all, everybody. 732 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,400 Not just the leaders, not just the elite, not just people, but 733 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:52,480 everyone in in that household had believed they were, They 734 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,080 were together and all things in common and they began selling 735 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,440 their property and possessions. In other words, they were giving 736 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,080 generously to people who were in need and they were sharing with 737 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,760 all as anyone might have need there. 738 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,400 In other words, like how do you know that someone has a need? 739 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,080 They share it. It's pretty simple. 740 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,040 They're just vulnerable. Are you guys coming in 741 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,000 vulnerable? Because family can't happen 742 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,520 without vulnerability. It can't happen with without 743 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,240 humility and coming in and can't happen with we're not honoring 744 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:27,840 and meeting those needs and sharing that the love of God 745 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,480 with such graciousness and love. People coming in broken and 746 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:38,120 hurting and lonely, apathetic and these should be a no 747 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,000 apathetic zone or life groups, no loneliness zone. 748 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,920 Everyone should feel a sense of all and sense of family. 749 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,640 They began selling their property they shared with those 750 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,000 need and day by day continuing with one mind. 751 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,040 That's the unity factor. That's a healthy church. 752 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:57,240 Unity in the temple and breaking bread from house to house. 753 00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,520 They're taking communion. They were remembering what? 754 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,600 Jesus has done for them. They confess their sin without 755 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,440 you can't have community without confession of sin and and 756 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,320 authentic. So that's what it's Speaking of 757 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,800 it, although it's not explicit in the text. 758 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,120 But if they're breaking bread, yes, they're eating together. 759 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,000 There's fellowship, there's meals, and then there's breaking 760 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,120 bread. Breaking bread speaks of 761 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,520 communion and sharing meals together. 762 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,120 Just it's, it's there's a sense of fellowship. 763 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,960 And when you break a meal together, it's softened people's 764 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,200 hearts. Do you ever notice that? 765 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,840 Like you might even be a little bit at odds with somebody or 766 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,400 might even have in one of those meetings, you know, you have to 767 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,440 have with somebody and you just have a meal just softens hearts, 768 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,560 especially if you cook for them. Showing the love of God softens 769 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:41,840 hearts. The people aren't going to come 770 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:47,280 in all right with Gladys and sincere to heart. 771 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,160 They're praising God and having favor with all the people and 772 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,480 the Lord again, here's multiplication, right? 773 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,840 The Lord was adding to their number day by day. 774 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,600 Those who are being saved, new conversion growth multiplied 775 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,680 because they sense, man, you guys are a healthy church and 776 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,120 will the enemy do something about that? 777 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,640 Yes, because the whole book of Acts, at least the 1st 8 778 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,000 chapters, 9 chapters, which Scott said even last week in the 779 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:15,280 context of our passage at 9 Acts 931 for the year, I mean, that 780 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,560 was in the context of people being persecuted and the devil 781 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,680 works through persecution. We'll talk about that next week. 782 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:25,640 Just the four areas and ways that the devil just attacks us 783 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,240 as a church. He attacks our unity. 784 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,480 He attacks, he attacks us through external persecution. 785 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,720 He attacks us in, in, in many different ways through sin, 786 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:36,440 blatant sin for people hiding their sin, right? 787 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,200 He attacks us and those that we'll unpack that and then we'll 788 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,960 unpack ways to fight the enemy and then give you tools in your 789 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,120 toolbox. But right now we got to discuss. 790 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,920 What is a healthy church? What is a healthy church? 791 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,440 What are we trying to protect around here? 792 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:59,960 All right, lastly, so life group is encountering family, life 793 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,360 time when Jesus is encountering God, life group encountering 794 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:04,600 family. We're living out the vision and 795 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,840 values together and we multiply that out Sunday service 796 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,760 encountering God, right? So we're encountering the vision 797 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,920 who he's called us to be. And then we, we serve the 798 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,280 church. So everybody in this house 799 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,600 should serve the church, right? We have 195 volunteers or 800 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,920 something like that. It's a good majority of the 801 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,320 church. That's amazing. 802 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,240 But with sincerity, with, with a love for one another, that's 803 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:30,160 what God's called us to. And then lastly, you know, I 804 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,480 don't even have to mention it. You all know mission. 805 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,120 I mean, everybody goes on mission around here, which is 806 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,040 amazing. But why do we do that? 807 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,080 Because we're, we're full. We go on mission because we're 808 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:47,320 full and I think there's quite a few people. 809 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,520 I mean, I can have the band come up. 810 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:49,680 I'm just going to go short today. 811 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:55,680 But I I think the I want to minister it to. 812 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,680 People who aren't full this morning. 813 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,920 Some of us have come full. We're full. 814 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:05,600 We have the fire of God. We're ready. 815 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,120 Let's go. Let's go make disciples this 816 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,640 week. Let's go change the world. 817 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,600 Let's go share the gospel. We want to do that. 818 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,000 But some of us are really. Struggling with that. 819 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:18,560 And I think maybe perhaps some of these areas that Orlando, for 820 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,280 whatever reason, has been plagued with this loneliness, 821 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,240 this, you know, the sense of apathy and indifference, you 822 00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:27,280 know, like that. Do you ever just feel like, man, 823 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:31,280 I'm like, sometimes it's just hard to engage in the things of 824 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,760 God. You just feel like you're, it's 825 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,880 just, you're not there. You're, you're just not there. 826 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:42,160 You're I, I, I think sometimes you might need a nap, you know, 827 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,640 you might need more sleep. That could be. 828 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,440 But sometimes, you know, it's spiritual. 829 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:52,080 You know, the enemy's trying to distract me from something I 830 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,480 need to hear this morning or I need to engage with. 831 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,960 I just wonder if some of our guys in here and if you could 832 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,600 just if maybe that maybe that's the first time you've heard that 833 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,720 you're like, wow, I didn't realize apathy is like a 834 00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:07,680 spiritual warfare. I didn't I didn't know that that 835 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,600 was something that I have to fight. 836 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,960 I just thought that's just the way things are in the world. 837 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:19,280 No, it's not like ask the disciples, you know, as they're 838 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,920 walking with Jesus and they're experiencing the time of their 839 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,400 life, watching literally bread come out of Jesus's hands to 840 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,960 feed 5020 thousand people. Like I don't think he'd be bored 841 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:33,200 there. I mean, imagine like coming down 842 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,320 from transfiguration. The transfiguration is pretty 843 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,360 cool, right? Jesus face glows and he's 844 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,040 showing you what he looked like before he came to earth, right. 845 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:45,400 The flesh sort of Shields you from that because you just can't 846 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,560 take the glory of God. You see the glory of God, you 847 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,960 die. But they got to experience that. 848 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,000 And then they go down the mountain and then they're seeing 849 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,840 this demon attacking this guy's boy and that some of the other 850 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,960 disciples that didn't go up on that cool mission trip, you 851 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:03,840 know, like little conference up in the mountains. 852 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:10,120 And and they're like, oh, OK, reality hits him on the floor or 853 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:11,880 on the ground. And Jesus said, you know, we're 854 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,320 praying. It's the demon comes out with 855 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,760 praying and fasting. I don't think they lived a 856 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:22,280 boring day in their life. And Jesus is inviting you on an 857 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:26,480 adventure. I think some of us forgot that 858 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,040 just living the everyday grind life. 859 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,560 And you kind of almost said like, maybe that's for the new 860 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,760 college student coming in. And that's just not for me as a 861 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,960 30 year old. I started the church at 29. 862 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,280 I think the adventure was just beginning. 863 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,120 And maybe some of you guys were like, I'm 2930. 864 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,520 I'm just wondering what I'm called to do. 865 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,160 Maybe just maybe just go on a surf project for a year or two. 866 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:58,520 Just go to Columbia. Just go get out of the just get 867 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,840 out of the, the whatever this is, you know, just get out of 868 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,640 your funk. You're the apathy, the just 869 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,080 you're so comfortable. It's like you partner with 870 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,040 apathy and it becomes comfortability and then you just 871 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:16,360 sort of waste away. I don't know, I, I don't, I'm 872 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,000 not saying a mission trip always fixes that, but I just think 873 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,160 getting out of your comfort zone, you know, just like I want 874 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,080 to immobilize the next generation to go change the 875 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:25,960 world. And I just think that's what 876 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,080 God's calling this place to be where the special OPS, where the 877 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,920 green Berets, you know, like we're let's just go, let's go 878 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,480 live it out until Jesus comes back. 879 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,400 Can't imagine anything it's all worthwhile. 880 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:42,440 Then just give me your life it's not your life anyway, right? 881 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,440 It's his it's his life. He owns you now he used to be a 882 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:54,240 slave of sin, kept pulling you in, but now Jesus pulls you in 883 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:59,200 you're a slave of righteousness. He tells you what you need to do 884 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:04,680 and just listen to him. You know, it's not just like the 885 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,960 apathy, but it's the loneliness. Like, I mean, I'm in love with 886 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,960 God, but I'm just having a hard time with this horizontal plane. 887 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,120 Like I'm good with God, you know, like I'm good and I 888 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:14,520 believe you. I think you are. 889 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,800 But just the horizontally, I'm just struggling and there's so 890 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:22,040 much disunity or like I'm comparing and it's just like 891 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:23,760 you're, you're, you're so horizontal. 892 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,880 You're not seeing that God put you in a family to encourage you 893 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,200 and for you to encourage other people to take what you're 894 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:30,920 getting from God, your relationship with God's great 895 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,200 and great, and give that away and be an asset, be a good 896 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,880 friend. Be a good friend, be a good 897 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,560 family member, be a good brother, be a good sister. 898 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,160 Pull someone aside and in your pain, you. 899 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,360 Reach out to other people, not to get something, but to bless. 900 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,200 Isn't that what he called us to you? 901 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:50,680 They're always going to feel. Good. 902 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:53,720 When you come to church, that doesn't mean you sit in a 903 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:56,320 corner. It means you. 904 00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,720 Reach out and say, I either want to say I, I have a need to pray 905 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:03,200 for me or I'm just going to go pray for somebody else and I'm 906 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,520 going to refresh somebody. I'm just going to trust God, you 907 00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,560 know, like he, he gave us everything, gave us everything 908 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,440 that we need. I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm 909 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,680 with you, I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm with you. 910 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,960 That's enough. That means he's going to 911 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,480 overflow my life and to other people. 912 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:21,560 I'm going to want to bless other people. 913 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,000 I'm going to run this, spend the rest of my life not comparing. 914 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,480 I'm going to spend the rest of my life not being offended. 915 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:28,840 You know, we'll talk about that later. 916 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,040 Like just the. Bitter root. 917 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,400 I've seen people be so bitter, so bitter. 918 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,960 Bitter, bitter, bitter. Don't give your life to 919 00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,440 bitterness. Don't do that. 920 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,240 It's bitter. Is anybody better? 921 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:40,680 I don't raise your hand. That's covered. 922 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:44,800 But it's like bitter like. Is anybody? 923 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,920 Bitter. You know that's not a way to 924 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,120 live. Believe God wants to break that 925 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,520 bitterness. Off of people today. 926 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,440 And just we live that, we have life, we have life. 927 00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,640 We're full. We're people, the people of God. 928 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,880 If there's anybody that's full in this city, it should be this 929 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,480 room. Amen. 930 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,920 We're full wake up. Oh, Sleeper, 931 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,200 People mobilized all over the earth. 932 00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:39,080 One of the things that Joe gave us, you know, it's like maybe 933 00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,640 once a year or something I jotted down when he might speak 934 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:42,920 over us. But this year it was just 935 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,360 simple. He's like God's called to go to 936 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,480 the north, the southeast and the West, and the seeds that you've 937 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,200 been planting will turn into church plants. 938 00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,600 He's called us to, and maybe that's a distant future. 939 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,240 Maybe that's a year. There's no time on it. 940 00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,000 Maybe a year or two years, whatever it is. 941 00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:02,400 But he's calling you in this room to do that. 942 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,560 He's calling you guys in this room to do that. 943 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,600 You know anything I don't know about that. 944 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,840 You this I don't know how to explain it, but this is not like 945 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,520 this isn't your typical pastoral church. 946 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,000 I don't know how to break the news to you. 947 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,760 There are other churches that are amazing at doing that. 948 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,280 That's awesome. But God's called us to be 949 00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,440 mobilized all over the planet. He's called us to do that. 950 00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:27,840 That's who we are. You will be pastored. 951 00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,960 We have amazing pastors that can help. 952 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,640 You out with that, but you are called. 953 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,040 To take this Bible, open it up in the morning, say God, meet 954 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,440 with me, be with me this morning, me with me, speak to 955 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:40,400 me. I want to know you. 956 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,320 I want to hear your voice. I want to cultivate that. 957 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,800 But there's two, there's two riverbanks, right? 958 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,520 There's the word of God and there's the people of God. 959 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,120 As you get in the river of hearing him, as you get the 960 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,800 river of, of just knowing Jesus, there's, there's protection, 961 00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,520 there's the word of God and there's the people of God and 962 00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,040 you'll never miss it. I remember just, you know, 963 00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,880 you're talking college students. It's not going to be out like 964 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,280 what Thursday night Jesus, like, I don't know, I just feel like 965 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:03,920 I'm going to miss it. And I don't know, I was like, 966 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,800 listen, you'll never miss it if you give with God and every day 967 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,280 when you're Bible and you give with the people of God who live 968 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,960 in isolation, you'll never miss the calling of God on your life. 969 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,280 You understand that. Never look at it that way. 970 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,320 You'll never, ever miss it ever. You don't have anything to worry 971 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,120 about. I know it's like and that's. 972 00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:23,640 That's just calls to this for everybody. 973 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:28,200 Else we're called to intimate intimately meet with God. 974 00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,360 You know, like this is what we're called to. 975 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,800 To walk with him. So Jesus, we ask you right now, 976 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:38,160 all across the rim, Lord, we pray that tomorrow would be a 977 00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,040 new day. That as we wake up with you, we 978 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:45,360 spend time with Jesus, we spend time with you, We cultivate 979 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,560 hearing you. Walking with you is a 980 00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:48,960 relationship. We talk to you. 981 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,440 You speak to us through your word. 982 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:51,720 You speak to us through your spirit. 983 00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,440 Thank you for that. Lord, You play no favorites in 984 00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,680 the room. You've called all everybody in 985 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:46,960 this room to meet with you to that doesn't have an apathetic 986 00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,120 bone in their bodies. So that I pray for my kids every 987 00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,360 day, Lord, I pray for hunger that they would not give in to 988 00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:55,680 apathy or indifference, but they would be on fire for God and 989 00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:56,840 nothing would be able to quench it. 990 00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,480 That is my prayer every day for them and that's my prayer for 991 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,720 you this morning. That God, that they would, yes, 992 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,640 Lord, that the sons and daughters of the Lord would, 993 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:09,000 would take up their scripture, take up prayer and work, worship 994 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:10,880 in prayer and fall in love with you. 995 00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,600 That they would never have an apathetic day ever, 996 00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,560 it's great. We will not give into this 997 00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:36,680 anymore. We will not give into 998 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:38,280 loneliness. If there's anybody that doesn't 999 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,920 feel like family, just go ahead and raise your hand. 1000 00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,520 Come on, just say have people pray for you. 1001 00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,440 Just we do this every time. Just people just are feeling 1002 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,240 like that. Don't feel ashamed by that. 1003 00:50:47,240 --> 00:50:49,960 Don't feel that way, which is how about this, but everyone 1004 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:51,800 just stand their feet. We're just going to give 2 calls 1005 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:52,920 this morning. The apathy. 1006 00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,160 And the loneliness deal. If you're just feeling apathetic 1007 00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,360 from the Lord, just go. If you're feeling apathetic and 1008 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:00,600 feeling a distant. From the Lord. 1009 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,920 And you're like, man, I want to cultivate that intimacy, that 1010 00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:04,800 fire again. Just raise your hand. 1011 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,080 We'll get around you. Don't be ashamed of that. 1012 00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,240 I've seen God change that in a day, in a moment. 1013 00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,160 You can look back at that and say he moved. 1014 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,280 If there's anybody here feeling like they just don't feel like 1015 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,400 family, they're in church. And you might be someone who've 1016 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,280 been here for a while. There's no offense to that. 1017 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,320 I can share you story after story after story of people 1018 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,080 feeling that way. I've just given calls, whether 1019 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,400 it's in Mexico or whether it's down in Miami in the early days. 1020 00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,480 There's people still in this room that said I don't feel that 1021 00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,640 way. And something changed in that 1022 00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,320 moment. Something changed because maybe 1023 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,400 the devil's holding you in bondage and lying to you. 1024 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,320 If you're feeling a sense of loneliness and outside, you're 1025 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,640 feeling like that person looking from like an outside looking at 1026 00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:46,840 me, I. Wish I had that. 1027 00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,320 I wish I had that. Go ahead and raise your hand. 1028 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,400 We want to get you around you and pray for you. 1029 00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:55,480 Just coming up to the front just to skip ministry in these two 1030 00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:59,560 areas because you can't move forward and the and the and the 1031 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,200 rest of this series without these two things being taken 1032 00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:03,800 care of. This is the stuff that we deal 1033 00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,640 with in our city. So God, we pray over every. 1034 00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,120 Person stir hunger in their hearts. 1035 00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,680 Again stir hunger in their hearts. 1036 00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,480 Lord, we pray for every person in this room that. 1037 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:18,000 Just feels on the outside. It's not how you made us. 1038 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,160 Maybe you're new. Maybe you're like, I don't have 1039 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:21,880 no idea what you're talking about, Laura. 1040 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,320 I want to belong to a family, a people of God, the people of 1041 00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,120 God, living stones for your glory. 1042 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:33,560 Lord, we pray for that. No one would leave with a sense 1043 00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,840 of feeling. On the outside, no more of that. 1044 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,520 God, when they come back next week, they come back full of 1045 00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,760 God, full of hunger and full of the sense of man. 1046 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,200 I belong to this place I'm in, not because anything I did. 1047 00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:49,680 It's because God