1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:05,280 Well, guys, go ahead and just keep your finger at Luke 15. 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:07,680 I just want to encourage you guys, man. 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,800 It it has been such an encouraging season as we 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:17,320 launched into 2026 so far just in Acts 931, we had this word 5 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,040 about strengthening our families to multiply and there's a way to 6 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,560 do that. We're not just presuming upon 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,880 God to grow our church just without partnering with him, 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,480 right? And so Act 931 is very specific, 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:31,080 right? It said. 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,080 There's four things that we are to focus on, two of which we're 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,600 going to focus on this spring, and then two, which we'll focus 12 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,320 on when we come back from missions in the fall. 13 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,640 And of course, you, we could focus on all four of them. 14 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,840 But just specifically, we, we really felt like the Lord wanted 15 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,480 us in light of, you know, what God has called us to what God 16 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:51,040 has called us to, you know, reach the nations and, and reach 17 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,720 our own city, but also in our personal lives. 18 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,320 We're, we're called to grow where God sanctifies us. 19 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,600 And there's so many different distractions the enemy puts in 20 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,320 our way. And there's so many different 21 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,239 ways that the enemy attacks us personally and corporately that 22 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:07,880 we just really felt like we needed to do a spiritual warfare 23 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,760 series. And today will be the last day 24 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:13,320 of that. Can you believe it? 25 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:16,880 It's it's going so fast. And we just completed that 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,400 second part of Act 931, which is to build one another up and 27 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,200 encourage. So it's said that all the cities 28 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,640 in the regions experience, they experience growth, but they 29 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,000 experience this peace of God, they experience protection of 30 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,200 the Lord. And we took that as all right, 31 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,240 Lord, how do you want us to prepare for that? 32 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,240 We need, you know, there's when there's a peace in the church, 33 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,680 that there's a peace in the land, the church can flourish 34 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,520 and grow and we're praying for that protection. 35 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:45,800 But how many, you know, that is not automatic. 36 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,800 It's not automatic, like, you know that in your own life. 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,400 Like as soon as we're done with the spiritual warfare series, 38 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,520 some of you kind of took that as like, oh, cool, we're going to 39 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,920 do something new. Some of you took that as like, 40 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,600 oh, no, we're not going to be reminded that we're in a war. 41 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:09,720 And I might lose. I might be more susceptible. 42 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,720 I like this series because it's reminding me over and over again 43 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,240 both what the enemy does and how we can combat the enemy, how we 44 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,240 can fight the enemy back with the tools that he's given us in 45 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,680 the Scripture, right? We are always in a war. 46 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,320 The the Bible continually reminds us of that. 47 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,320 And so don't lose focus. All right, you are victorious in 48 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,320 Christ, but it's not automatic. It's not it's that's why it says 49 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,280 daily put on the armor of God, right, because the enemy is 50 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,360 attacking you individually, your family and the church at large, 51 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,840 right. So we felt that we wanted to 52 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,720 equip the church, not just inspire them to go and be that 53 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,880 we're going to be multiply, you know, gods and multiplies. 54 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,680 He's going to strengthen us. He's going to grow us, but 55 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,000 there's a way in which that's going to happen and we really 56 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,560 felt the Lord put on our heart this series and I can't believe 57 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,880 it's over, but it's not over. You can always go back and 58 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,680 listen to messages. We have a book list that you 59 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,960 can. Again, there's about 3 or 4 60 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,680 different books that we recommend that you continually 61 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,280 read if you want to know more about spiritual warfare. 62 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,960 No way did we exhaust this topic. 63 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,880 Just want to let you know, I mean, I know that. 64 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,680 I think you know that already. There's so much and the 65 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,120 storyline of scripture, I think it's called Spiritual Warfare. 66 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,800 The Storyline of Scripture by Chuck Lawless, that is a great 67 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,160 book to read and in fact, he gives a lot of recommendations 68 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,960 in that book as well. And so really want you guys to 69 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,800 to lean into, you know, spiritual warfare because we're 70 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,040 in a war. Second thing, which was 71 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,320 incredible to see that we've, we've done a 40 day campaign of 72 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,040 encouragement and it ended on February 26th. 73 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,200 How many guys encouraged the last two days even when it was 74 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,880 over, right? We should be. 75 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,960 That's the point of it. The point is we put training 76 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,640 wheels on so that when the training wheels come off, it's 77 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,640 not that you just stop riding your bike. 78 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,400 It's just that it's, it's training you right to do this as 79 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,520 a lifestyle. It's, it's so that you can you, 80 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,640 you as a lifestyle. It's not just a trickle, but 81 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,840 it's a literally a fire hydrant of encouragement for the rest of 82 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,160 our life. We need this. 83 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,399 The Bible is clear about that. I'm not going to stop setting my 84 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:23,160 alarm for 10:25 personally because I need that reminder to 85 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,360 spur one another on and good deeds, right? 86 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,920 And encourage one another. And so I want to share one 87 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:31,960 story. There's a girl in the young 88 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,040 adult ministry. She was asking a simple prayer 89 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:36,800 and maybe you guys asked this too. 90 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,280 She's just said, I want to feel near to God. 91 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,040 I want to know more of it, which like what God calls me to my 92 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,560 identity, my purpose. And and so she just started 93 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,400 opening up to the Lord and say, all right, Lord, use this 40 94 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,680 days, not just as a way to bless me. 95 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,520 I want to be blessed. These are questions that I have, 96 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,200 but I want to bless other people. 97 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,280 So she came into it with the right heart. 98 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:04,600 And then she, she started getting verses from people from 99 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,160 her peers. She didn't tell anybody. 100 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,400 She just told, she just told the Lord that. 101 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,320 And because God's a big God and he answers our prayers, he hears 102 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,960 us. She started receiving texts from 103 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,400 her friends that said, Hey, you know, here's a here's a verse 104 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:20,040 that I felt like the Lord put on my mind. 105 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,120 And it was verses that was meeting that need in her heart 106 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,160 to feel the nearness of God. Isn't that awesome? 107 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,480 Not only that, but then the overflow, which is the whole 108 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,280 purpose of this, the overflow of her heart from receiving those 109 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:35,800 encouragement, She decided to say, Hey, I want to go bless 110 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,920 other people. I want to do that physically. 111 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,320 I want to do that, yes, with sending other texts and 112 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,840 encouragements and voice memos, but I want to serve 113 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:45,720 sacrificially. So she began to do that. 114 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,800 And then she just had another prayer. 115 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,600 She said, Lord, I want to go to awaken. 116 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:55,560 And it's $295 doesn't seem like a lot to some, but it is a lot 117 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,920 to some people, right? And she just said, hey, I, I 118 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,920 want to go. And so little by little, she 119 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,040 restarted receiving donations to go. 120 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,640 And at the end, the kind of the, the, the, the last one to get 121 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:14,160 her there was, was given by somebody that had a need of 122 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,320 their own. And so in this church, it's just 123 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,120 encouraging to know that people give out of the place of their 124 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,280 own need so that others can go. And that awesome. 125 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:25,640 I was just so many, so many crazy things. 126 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:27,880 Like I could tell you like throughout the, I mean, I, 127 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,440 they've sent me a list of just different testimonies. 128 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,840 I can't share them all, but just I, I wanted to say this, please 129 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:37,440 don't stop, like please don't stop encouraging each other. 130 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,080 Just that was one life that got touched and out of the overflow 131 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:47,000 of being touched by God, they began to bless other peoples. 132 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,360 And then she was touched by God again and she's blessed other 133 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,040 people. It's just the way it should work 134 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,320 all the time, every day in the Kingdom. 135 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:55,440 Amen. So good. 136 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,840 All right, well, hey, I got 5 you guys like list. 137 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,160 You told me that. So here's 5 things. 138 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,160 OK, so here's five ways the enemy attacks us as it relates 139 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,720 to missions. All right, so last week, you 140 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,840 know, I I was telling this to the back rail. 141 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,000 I was telling to the guys as we were praying. 142 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,320 One of the things I said is, you know, when, when you're, when 143 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,960 you're teaching, when you're preaching, one of the ways you 144 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,920 know, you're effective is not just people say, oh, you're a 145 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,960 communicator, all that inspiring, whatever. 146 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,040 But do they do the work? Do they do they actually take 147 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:30,720 the word and do something with it? 148 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,760 Well, this week, because we talked about it last week, last 149 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,680 Sunday, we talked about what, you know, why is evangelism so 150 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,320 challenging? And we just gave people just 151 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:44,080 simple challenges to go out. And pretty much every life group 152 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,880 and people flooded the campus this week. 153 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,040 And every life group was out on campus, out on the streets, 154 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,720 sharing the gospel. And they came in this morning. 155 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,880 And it was so funny because everyone just seemed like in a 156 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,400 good mood this morning. I don't know if it's just like 157 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,520 the, you know, someone said, well, the last two days it's 158 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,720 cloudy and, you know, it's sunny today. 159 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,000 I'm like, OK, yeah, all right. But I'm like, there's more. 160 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 There's more. You know who you are. 161 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,240 OK, so there's more than that, right? 162 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,840 There's there's, there's a, there's a reason for that. 163 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,720 And I just immediately when they said that, 'cause everybody was 164 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,480 just like, and everybody I talked to, I was just like, man, 165 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,960 I they're just full of life. It's great. 166 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,400 We were together as a church this week, maybe more than 167 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:24,280 usual. I don't know. 168 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:25,720 There's just so much encouragement happening. 169 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,400 It could be the 40 days encouragement. 170 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:32,120 I I used to be a biology major, so I understand science to some 171 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,280 degree and did experiments. And so there's variables, right? 172 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,480 There's lots of different variables, but I would say this 173 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:42,520 is probably the top variable. You guys all week got outside 174 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:47,000 yourself and look, didn't look at yourself this week and gave 175 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,400 what you have away. That's why you came in joyful. 176 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,240 I believe that. I believe that's the reason why. 177 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,320 And we could do that every week. Every week we can do that. 178 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,000 And you know what? We're made to do that. 179 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:05,040 We're made to do that every week. 180 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,480 Don't you? I mean, I don't know about you, 181 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,880 but you get it. Once you experience joy, it's 182 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:16,800 like it's addicting, right? It's like, I want to, I want to 183 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,160 experience that all the time. And the Bible's like, well, you 184 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,200 can. I want to experience this peace 185 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:23,880 like every day of my life. Is that possible, God? 186 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,800 Yes, it is. That doesn't mean trials and 187 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,400 tribulations don't come. That doesn't. 188 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,640 I mean, you know, what's crazy is that no one was saying all my 189 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,480 trials went away this week. Everybody had the everyone had 190 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,320 the same trials. I don't think anybody's trials 191 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:39,320 went away. Just miraculous. 192 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:40,640 I mean, maybe yours did. That's great. 193 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:41,880 You're going to have another one. 194 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,840 I mean, I don't want to be the bearer of the bad news, but 195 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,480 that's just going to happen. But it was in the midst of just 196 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:53,120 living your normal life, right? Just trial, tribulations, things 197 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,520 that are happening. The reason why you experienced 198 00:09:55,520 --> 00:10:00,080 joy is because you got your eyes off of yourself and on to 199 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,560 others. And by getting your eyes off of 200 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:06,560 yourself and on to others, God blessed you with his joy and 201 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:07,840 bless you. And you don't realize you're 202 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,000 even in a trial. You're like, wow, this is 203 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,600 amazing. You still have a crime baby, 204 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,160 still got to change the diaper, still got to get up in the 205 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,080 middle of the night, still got to go to class, still got to 206 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,040 take the test. I mean, all the things still got 207 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,080 to go to work, all the things still happen. 208 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:21,760 You still got sick. I got sick this week. 209 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,880 I was like, all right, well, but there was a joy in giving out 210 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,920 that you don't get when you're occupied with your trial and 211 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,320 you're at home wallowing and complaining. 212 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,000 It's amazing. Like choice is yours this week 213 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,360 again, it's amazing. All right, so #1 the number one 214 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,080 reason why, OK, there's a five of them. 215 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:47,640 The number one reason why missions can be so challenging 216 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,160 and people give up is because when we see missions as a waste, 217 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,360 optional and uninterested, we stop, right? 218 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,600 So some of us, in other words, we might be, we're bored with 219 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,280 it. We're, we're, we're uninterested 220 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:00,560 in it. There's apathy. 221 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:02,240 We talked about that several weeks ago. 222 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,880 Apathy is a, is, is a, is a joy killer. 223 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,800 It's just you're occupied with your own pleasures, right? 224 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,160 And so when you see missions, this is the way the enemy 225 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,120 attacks us. When we see missions as a waste, 226 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,800 optional or uninteresting, uninteresting, the opposite that 227 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,680 we see Jesus, he says this. He was like looking down a 228 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:27,880 mountain and he saw crowds as far as the eye can see, and he 229 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,240 was looking out and he was noticing something. 230 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,520 He was noticing there was an observation. 231 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,880 He was noticing how lost people were distressed because they 232 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:44,080 were without a shepherd. Do you ever just like observe 233 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,800 the lost? What happens when you observe 234 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,640 the lost? I'll tell you what happens with 235 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:55,120 Jesus when he observes the lost. What happens is he feels what 236 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,160 they feel. It says that he had compassion 237 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,440 because he felt spleck nizomi. That's just the Greek word means 238 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:06,680 he felt deeply, felt deeply what they feel. 239 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,680 So he got into the mind of a lost person because Jesus said 240 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:12,360 he came to seek and save the lost. 241 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,680 He lived out the mission of God. So he saw people and he's like, 242 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:19,680 I'm not going to ignore that or look at that as uninteresting 243 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,280 because I'm going to go do my own deal. 244 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,840 He looked out and he says, he says, I had compassion. 245 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:31,000 And so therefore when he observed, that led to a place of 246 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,520 compassion, that led to a place of urgency. 247 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,560 So when he so next time you observe the lost, you should not 248 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:43,320 feel indifferent from that experience. 249 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:45,360 You should say something along the lines of Jesus. 250 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,560 I feel compassion for them. And and he says he gives us 251 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,600 something to do. What does he give us to do Not 252 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,720 not even going to share, not not not yet. 253 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,200 What does he say first? Matthew 935 to 38. 254 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:02,840 What does he say first? Pray, pray to the Lord of the 255 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,120 harvest because he's saying the harvest is ready. 256 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,800 He's looking at the people who were lost without a shepherd. 257 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,720 He's like it is ready. If I had 5000 troops ready to go 258 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,680 boom, they go and share the gospel 1 to one ratio. 259 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,240 I mean it's ready. They're ready to hear. 260 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,680 It's just but he says the workers are few. 261 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,080 The workers are few. Does that bother anybody here? 262 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,600 Do you look at the nation's like you look at the news like I 263 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,360 have, I had, I have two trips planned this, this this summer. 264 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,000 Well, I mean, besides Italy, but on the back end of Italy. 265 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,720 I'll start with the first one. The first one was to go to 266 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,600 Puerto Vallarta. You know anything about Puerto 267 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,320 Vallarta this week or last week? I can't wait. 268 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:46,400 I we can't go. They, they cancelled the trip. 269 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:48,720 State Department says no good, no bueno. 270 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,040 So I said, OK, we're not going. Second trip. 271 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,080 I planned back into the summer of Italy. 272 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,640 We're going to Israel. Anybody read anything about 273 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:04,400 Israel this week? I'm like, well, Lord, I hope we 274 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,360 can go to Italy. You know what I mean? 275 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:13,600 But do you look at nations? When you see nations, do you 276 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:19,520 look at them as just a geopolitical landmass, right? 277 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,840 Do you just look at the map and say, OK, that's just a nation, 278 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,360 or we don't like those people because they're United States 279 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:30,080 enemy? Or do you look at them in such a 280 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,560 way, the way that God looks at them and he looks at the map, he 281 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:38,320 looks at the globe. He's, he's, he's with people all 282 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,080 the time, all day. He's omnipresent. 283 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,800 He's with people right now in Iran. 284 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,880 I don't care about enemies and this and that and the other. 285 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,920 I, I, I don't that it's not what that's irrelevant right now. 286 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:53,320 What matters is that in people in Iran right now did not wake 287 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:59,280 up in the morning, meet with Jehovah Jireh, meet with God the 288 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,760 provider meet with meet with their God Yahweh. 289 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,520 They did not get up in the morning and what I I began this 290 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,840 service with Exodus 33. Meet with me in the morning and 291 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:17,840 find out this I am a loving God. I am compassionate and then 292 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,440 everybody got rowdy for the rest of the morning because they were 293 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,680 excited about that truth and they worship God. 294 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,200 The people in Iran woke up today without that truth. 295 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,960 There are many people who have because it's supposedly it's one 296 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,400 of the fastest growing churches. So they do have church. 297 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,200 They do have believers. But I'm just, I'm making the 298 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,640 point. Do you look at Iran as a enemy 299 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,920 or do you look at Iran as people that need Jesus? 300 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:45,920 That's what we got to look at the we, we look at all those 301 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,280 flags, we're not looking at like, oh, they're, they're OK. 302 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,680 They're not OK State Department says this, this, that, the 303 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:52,680 other, they're all these people are people. 304 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:56,760 They're either going to heaven or hell and there'll be 305 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:00,240 thousands right now as I preach this message that are going to 306 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,480 hell. I I I wrote a book called 307 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,400 finishing the race. It's just in the beginning. 308 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,480 I sure vision on why this is important to finish the race, 309 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,280 why it's important to reach the lost all that and I gave like 310 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,440 AII forgot the status you know it, but it changes everyday but 311 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:19,880 just how the how many people die in in a day, how many people die 312 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,240 in a year? How many people die in a second? 313 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:26,280 Just a second? Every second somebody is dying 314 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,760 around the world right now, either with Jesus or without 315 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,520 Jesus. Every second I think about that. 316 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,600 Do you think about that? I'm going to ask you a question. 317 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,960 How many grieve over lost souls When we we read about wars, 318 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:49,920 disasters in the news, like a challenge for you, you, you woke 319 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,720 up. My mom likes to remind me of the 320 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,480 places that I go. And she just sends me a text 321 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,760 saying, do you did you read about this? 322 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:02,720 And I love her. She's trying to protect our 323 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:04,880 family, the grandkids. She don't care about me, but the 324 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,960 grandkids, she's like, are you going still? 325 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,520 I'm like, I don't, I don't know, mom, we'll see. 326 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,000 I mean, like, you know, I'm 44 years old. 327 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,319 My mom's still like, you know, she sure you want to go there. 328 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:21,480 Are you sure there's other places in the world? 329 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,800 Thank you, Mom. But when you read about these 330 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:33,240 nations, many grieve over lost. Do do do you grieve over the 331 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,600 lost souls? When you think about these 332 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,960 nations like Yemen? When's the last time you thought 333 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,040 about Yemen? When's the last time you thought 334 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,720 about Saudi Arabia? There was bombs that went off in 335 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,800 the UAE, which is very rare. Like when's the last time you 336 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:54,200 thought about Dubai? How much time do we set aside to 337 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:55,880 pray for the nation's? Not we will. 338 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:01,480 I mean, we got March 2nd, 4th this week, just at least fast. 339 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:06,560 One meal this week, just one meal, just one. 340 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,080 Like what? I don't know, Like a lot of us, 341 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:09,960 you know, we'll sit down and watch people sit. 342 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,600 They'll sit down and campus, they'll have their phone out, 343 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,640 they'll have their meal. They're eating and they're 344 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:21,160 scrolling just just for one meal, fast from the phone, fast 345 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:25,000 from the food, and just say, all right, Lord, I want to pray for 346 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,760 Israel. I want to pray for Iran. 347 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:28,040 I want to pray for the United States. 348 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,440 I want to pray for Canada. I want to pray for Brazil, 349 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:31,880 Italy. I'm just looking at nations in 350 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,000 the back right now. Turkey, whatever. 351 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,040 Sweden, just pray for the nations. 352 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:37,640 And what are you praying for? Salvation. 353 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:38,560 You're like, I don't know what to pray. 354 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,960 We, we're, we're going to give out resources this week and 355 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:44,680 there'll be plenty to pray. So just even read those. 356 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,440 And I'm telling you something will shift in you that morning 357 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,520 or that afternoon or that evening or maybe even all day. 358 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,080 Some of you guys were like, I'm doing all three days great. 359 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,680 You will feel different. You'll feel hungry, but you also 360 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,280 feel different. You will feel different because 361 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,560 you're beginning to think like God. 362 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:06,840 You're beginning to feel what God feels. 363 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,400 Do you not think I want to ask you this question? 364 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,600 Do you still think? I know this is going to be 365 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,600 sounds. This is going to sound crazy, I 366 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:23,000 know, but I wonder if this is how the enemy hinders us from 367 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,760 going on the mission field. This is rich. close your ears 368 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:31,520 right now. But do you still think people go 369 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:41,440 to heaven by being good? If you answer no to that 370 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:46,400 question, then what are you doing staying home and not going 371 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,960 on mission? What are you doing from not 372 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,360 sharing the gospel in our city on our campus? 373 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,320 Because if that question is yes, then let's all stay home because 374 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,840 we know more people go to heaven because you know pretty much the 375 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,960 they're good people, right? But if you answer no to that 376 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,000 question, which we all know is the truth. 377 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,320 The goodwill never outweigh the bad. 378 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,720 Then someone has to share the gospel with them, otherwise they 379 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:24,000 won't be saved. The easy places like Saint 380 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,640 Thomas. You ever think when's the last 381 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:26,760 time you thought about Saint Thomas? 382 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,600 Like the Virgin Islands, you don't need a passport to go 383 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:35,680 there. You can take a cruise there or 384 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,800 Yemen with the State Department. I look at it all the time. 385 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,000 I'm always, I'm on there. I'm looking at the Do not travel 386 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,240 zone. We've been as a church to the 387 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,040 number three level. Never. 388 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,800 We've never done level 4 yet, but Level 3 for sure. 389 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,280 Saint Thomas is 1, if you're wondering. 390 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,640 It's like a level 1. Just normal precautions. 391 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:04,000 Yeah. It's sobering, isn't it? 392 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,040 Just to think about it, Spurgeon says this. 393 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,480 Our pulpits are well supplied around just talking about the 394 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,960 nation, right? United States, England. 395 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,760 But we need men who will build on new foundations. 396 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,920 Millions have never heard of the name of Jesus. 397 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,240 Millions have seen a missionary only once in their lives and 398 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,480 know nothing about our king. So we let them perish. 399 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,000 Can we go to our beds and sleep while China, India, Japan and 400 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,600 other nations are perishing? Who's going to go? 401 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,480 I thought about this the other day. 402 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:41,160 I was like, man, Lord, like I'm just thinking, I'm like, if God 403 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:44,080 is calling every, like he's calling believers all the time, 404 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,760 make disciples, make disciples, make disciples, like go to the 405 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,040 nations, like all the nations, like plant churches, like all 406 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,160 the time. I just, I often think I like, 407 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:52,440 OK, we've been at church for 14 years. 408 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,000 I often think I'm like, OK, maybe maybe he's not calling 409 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,640 anybody here. Maybe he's not calling people to 410 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,200 plant churches. Maybe the reason why we're not 411 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,440 planning more churches because maybe God's really not calling 412 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,720 anybody. And I thought about that. 413 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,040 I'm like, wait, no, I wonder if he's called somebody in the room 414 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:14,160 or many in the room and they've ignored his voice. 415 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,640 So I think that's what's more, I think that is probably what's 416 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,360 happening, don't you think? Or maybe he just doesn't think 417 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,200 anybody's called and he doesn't want to call anybody. 418 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,480 He just kind of let's move on to the other church next door. 419 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:33,800 No, no, no. I think, I think weekly you're, 420 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,920 you're feeling that tug and every time you say no, no, no, 421 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:41,920 or maybe you're, you'll find yourself in one of these reasons 422 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,520 or one of these reasons why perhaps missions are so 423 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:51,680 challenging and why people don't go is because, I don't know, 424 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,680 maybe that's really, maybe that's why and we're going to 425 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,200 fix that. But 3.1 billion people have 426 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:01,920 never heard of Jesus. 3.1 billion people, that's with AB 427 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,520 The Joshua Project says that about 7000 people groups remain 428 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,960 unreached. That's a lot of people. 429 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,880 All right #2 to #1 we see missions as a waste, optional 430 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:19,080 and interesting number 2, when we allow the enemy to divide our 431 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,640 teams. So you just bring so much 432 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,400 division, not just our mission teams. 433 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,040 I think it's a church, but we've addressed that before, but 434 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,320 specifically on our mission teams, there's five 435 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,760 characteristics of a mission culture. 436 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,120 I'm not going to, I'm not going to belabor that. 437 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:34,200 I'm just going to share them. One is prayer, thanks, 438 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:38,040 thankfulness, encouragement, humility, honor and love. 439 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,680 And we say that again, prayer, thankfulness, encouragement, 440 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,800 humility, honor, and then love kind of encapsulates it all. 441 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,000 But I, I shared, like I just shared this. 442 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,760 It's like an hour and 40 minute teaching. 443 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,880 It's the culture of the team, what makes a team. 444 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,120 It's just so important we decided to do this because I've 445 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:00,840 taught on this like dozens of times to the point where I'm 446 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,640 like, I don't ever get tired of teaching. 447 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,040 I'm just like, we just need to make a video at this point and 448 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,640 we just need to send this out to everyone. 449 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,080 Because when you go out, how many know it's not just why you 450 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,160 go out? Because we want to care for the 451 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,440 lost. It's not, you know, there, there 452 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,960 what we, what we carry when we go out and that's the gospel. 453 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,480 But it's how we go out. It's actually how we do this. 454 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,120 And we're either going to be well received or not in a 455 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:31,200 country. And so, so many get discouraged 456 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,680 because once they go over overseas, I don't think this has 457 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,120 happened as much in our church because I think we we do do 458 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:41,280 trainings like this. But as we scale out, I'm 459 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,280 thinking like, as we scale, like I looked at the room full of, I 460 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,760 don't know, it's like 60 people that are going in the Italy 461 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,600 based team. I'm looking at how I'm like, 462 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,960 this is amazing. But I, I'm thinking in the next 463 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,920 5 to 20 years, all you guys are going to lead base teams 464 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,240 somewhere in the world and you're going to need to carry 465 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,720 this culture. And so we just we made the 466 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:03,920 video. It's online. 467 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,120 You can ask Jessica. Yeah, ask for administration if 468 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:08,760 you're going on mission with us, which I believe pretty much the 469 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,360 good majority of you guys are like 250 people going on 470 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:12,120 mission. Amen. 471 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,040 But like, you're going to, you're going to watch this 472 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,520 video. And because it's, there's a 473 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,520 passage in Acts that is so dear to my heart that I, I really 474 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,440 want being said about Antioch, Orlando, no matter where we go. 475 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,040 But it's from Acts 413. It said they were untrained, 476 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:33,840 unschooled men and the people observing these people, which 477 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,480 are the disciples and the the people who are the 120 that were 478 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,360 with Jesus and they were filled with the spirit. 479 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:44,200 They said they are unschooled and untrained, but we knew that 480 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,160 they had been with Jesus. Amen. 481 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,960 So when we look at the the training, when we look at like 482 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,480 prayer, that's what Jesus did. Like when they're praying, 483 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,680 they're depending on God, they're they're walking like 484 00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:58,920 Jesus. When they're thankful and they 485 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,920 have, they're full of gratitude, which is like the number one 486 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,840 motivation, by the way, to share the gospel is out of gratitude. 487 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,400 I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm thinkable to have Jesus. 488 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,760 I'm thankful to have what I have and I want to give that away. 489 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,800 Encouragement. People need encouragement daily. 490 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,760 As we talked about humility, that it just means be teachable, 491 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:20,440 be dependent, and then honor, Honor not only just leaders, but 492 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,720 honor one another. Because a relational ministry 493 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,040 requires us to resolve conflicts, help people and 494 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,240 clarify misunderstandings. We are committed to a fam to be 495 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,600 a family on mission and it's going to get messy as we go. 496 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,880 So we're like, OK, we're, we're not even on mission yet. 497 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,440 I don't see the messiness. It'll come. 498 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,520 You'll remember this, that it's just messy, but we're called to 499 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,200 it and we're going to continue to be committed to resolving 500 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,720 conflicts, helping people and clarifying misunderstandings and 501 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,920 training teams. Amen. 502 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,840 All right, so #3 when we are defeated through discouragement, 503 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,320 we're just defeated through how many know when you soon as you 504 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,640 go on mission, it's like, OK, now I just got sick, you know, 505 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,800 right, stomach bug, whatever it is. 506 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,360 I mean, we, I mean, pretty much every mission trip, it seemed 507 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:16,360 like sickness plagues every team. 508 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:17,880 It just comes with the territory. 509 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,200 But you're going to get sick here. 510 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,680 I mean, you know, so don't let that keep you from going. 511 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,280 But it does discourage us. It makes us feel defeated. 512 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,640 And not only that, but maybe family is not supported. 513 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,800 I've talked to many of you guys and I say this with great love 514 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,400 and compassion. I I know how you feel like 515 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,280 you're fired up, ready to go as a college student. 516 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:41,680 And then you go home. You're like, this is where we're 517 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,400 going. And it's just as simple as Baton 518 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:44,320 Rouge. Like, no, you're not going 519 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:45,360 there. It's too dangerous. 520 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,040 I mean, Baton Rouge is, you know, Baton Rouge, but it's 521 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,960 nothing more dangerous than Orlando. 522 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,480 But I understand the fears that come. 523 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,040 There's a lot of fear. There's a lot of, I mean, Jesus 524 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,000 has called us to leave jobs. Drop your Nets. 525 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,880 Remember that one, drop your Nets and follow. 526 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,440 I'm not saying that you need to quit jobs, but some people are 527 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:10,640 and we're not even telling them to. 528 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:14,000 They're just like anytime I hear like, oh, they're going on base 529 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:14,760 team, they're quitting their job. 530 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,560 Like what? No, like who told them to do 531 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,200 that? And they're like, we just felt 532 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,800 like God said to do that. Like, OK, as long as it's the 533 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,320 Lord. I'm not, I mean, like we're not 534 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:24,720 telling people to quit their jobs. 535 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:30,480 But I want to say this, Jesus did, he said, drop your Nets and 536 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,280 follow me. And they did. 537 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,920 Sometimes that is going to be the case, especially if it's 538 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,720 long term, drop your Nets. It's worth it. 539 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,080 Some of you guys right now, even by hearing this, somebody just 540 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,760 maybe the Spirit of God is like that's you. 541 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,920 I want you to drop your notes. I want you to leave your 542 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,960 workplace. I don't want you to go. 543 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,480 I'm calling you to go to go to go where like where do you want 544 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:08,640 me to go? I will show you not only that, 545 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,400 but leaving homes, you leave your home. 546 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,800 Jaden Phil. I've, I've talked to them many 547 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,320 times in the last couple weeks. They're just going through 548 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:19,400 things. We're just praying. 549 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,120 We're talking through stuff and it's been great. 550 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,000 They're responding well. The churches seem to be doing 551 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:31,000 pretty good, but they're regularly counting that cost of 552 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,880 like, man, I left home at one point. 553 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,200 They're like, oh, like if John, if you just told me to come home 554 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,960 and work with the college ministry, we would do that in a 555 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,960 heartbeat, you know? But at the same time, we know 556 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,440 that's not what God's called us to. 557 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:52,960 We left home, we left jobs. You leave friends, you leave 558 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,640 family. You leave the comforts of 559 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,800 America. It's very comfortable here. 560 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,920 But do you know that God has called us as a country because 561 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,080 we're so equipped? We have bookstores, we have so 562 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:07,720 many resources. We have churches on pretty much 563 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,800 every block. I'm like, come on, we are called 564 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,640 to it. So, so is our partners in the 565 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,560 Uki mean they're made for it as well. 566 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,840 The soil is rich of missionaries. 567 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,840 So is Korea, so is Portugal. I mean Portugal, so is Brazil. 568 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,200 I mean, they're they're like the number one sending countries in 569 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,600 the world. I mean, just between the four of 570 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,200 us countries, we should, we should literally see Jesus come 571 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,440 back, right? I mean, let's go. 572 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,040 God's called us to this and I believe it, but it is costly and 573 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:42,520 we could be defeated through these things. 574 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,160 It all sorts of challenges come up. 575 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,880 I mean, language learning, you know, it, that's not hard. 576 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,360 That's not, it's, I mean, Jay just finished. 577 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,360 She doesn't speak fluently, just so you know, she just went 578 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:55,880 through the first round. But it was hard. 579 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,120 It was costly. I mean, leaving Phil at home to 580 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,520 be a stay at home dad for a, you know, a few hours and it was not 581 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,240 easy to do that. So they had to do a bunch of 582 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,120 different things and to learn the language. 583 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,160 Why are they learning the language? 584 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,600 So they can be effective in sharing the gospel with the 585 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,920 people that they love and they came to serve. 586 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,880 It's not easy. It's not I'm, I see it first 587 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,680 hand. I see, I watch it, I see, I 588 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,920 watch it first hand. I watched every step of the way. 589 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:24,640 It is not easy, but there's so much joy, so much blessing, so 590 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,840 much provision, so much fruit that comes from that. 591 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,280 Maybe that's you. Maybe someone's being called 592 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,120 even right now as we speak, even as you're listening, you know, 593 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,760 Tuesday afternoon on YouTube, somebody will go, somebody will 594 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,600 say yes. And he says, and, and I love 595 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,160 what the disciples said. They're like, all right, Jesus, 596 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,320 just let us know this. We've left everything for you. 597 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,560 We left moms and dads and houses and jobs and all these things 598 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,480 like what's in it for us? I mean, it was kind of like, and 599 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,800 Jesus said graciously, he's like, man, yes, you have left 600 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,040 all these things and you will receive a hundredfold in this 601 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,120 life and the life to come. You will be blessed. 602 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,360 I will make sure that if you say yes to me and give up all these 603 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,880 things, I will make sure that your life is blessed beyond 604 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:15,000 measure. He says if you let like if you 605 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,160 hold on to everything, you know, just holding on, controlling, 606 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,600 you'll lose your life. It's elusive. 607 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,480 I love this. It says here that, you know, 608 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,400 people will continue to reject Jesus. 609 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,000 This is also a hardship. People feel defeated on the 610 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,680 mission field and even on short term. 611 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,360 Short term, I hear it all the time. 612 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,840 We come back, people are like, why are we still here? 613 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,760 You know, people say that why are we still here? 614 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,440 Like what are we doing here? Can't seem to gain ground. 615 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,360 Every time we we, we try to share the gospel and somebody 616 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,080 seems to be somewhat interested and then two or three steps back 617 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,320 and it can feel like that. You know what Paul said in First 618 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,480 Thessalonians 218? He's like, we wanted to come to 619 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,000 you. I Paul more than once. 620 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,280 But what does it say? But Satan hindered us. 621 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,560 The enemy does hinder us. He doesn't have the last say, of 622 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,280 course. But if that's what makes 623 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:15,240 missions so challenging is we have an enemy who does not want 624 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,640 people to know the gospel and will throw at us sickness and 625 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,720 throw at us, defeat the feeling defeated. 626 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,880 And he would throw us all, everything possible to 627 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,160 discourage us, distract us so that we press the eject button 628 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,880 and go and don't see why, why God had sent us there in the 1st 629 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,840 place. And then #4 when we are 630 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,760 distracted and in many directions, our phones, 631 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,520 sometimes I just want to throw it across the room. 632 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,800 Anybody with me? Just like throw the thing across 633 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:48,840 the room, like I'm done with it. But yet you after you throw it 634 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,720 across the room, you hear it ringing, you have to pick it up. 635 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:56,200 So it's like right there might be something really important 636 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,440 like my mom telling me I can't, I shouldn't go on on mission. 637 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,800 So I don't know. No, just I'm kidding. 638 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,320 I love you, mom. You're amazing. 639 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:09,960 I I I know you care. OK, so but the media and the 640 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,760 news and the worldliness, it just takes her, it just takes 641 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,000 her attention away, doesn't it? Like constantly, like I watch 642 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,159 people being taken out. I see college students who are 643 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:20,320 so passionate, so hungry, so ready to go. 644 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,080 Like they're they're on campus, they're sharing the gospel. 645 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,040 And then something distracts them. 646 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,520 And it might be, maybe it is school, maybe not, I don't know. 647 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,199 You have to have discernment. That's why you need community. 648 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:33,360 You need the people of God to say, hey, let's pray about that. 649 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,440 Don't just assume something's distracting, right? 650 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,040 Like it could be your kids. They're not. 651 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,040 I mean, they're not just they're not distracting. 652 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,400 They're your kids. You should care for them. 653 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,360 Your wife is not just honey. Have I ever said you're 654 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,960 distracting? Maybe sometimes. 655 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,920 Yes, I have. I have said that I have, so I 656 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,120 admit it. I I right. 657 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,400 They're your family, your friends. 658 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,320 They're school. You need to go to school so you 659 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,120 get a job. Yes, that is a good thing. 660 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:10,280 Like you need a job, you need to pay the bills. 661 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,920 There's those things are not distracting and thinking in our 662 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,080 immaturity, we're like just just like I'm not going to class and 663 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,480 I'm just going to spend time with Jesus and whatever. 664 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,680 No, no, no, like in your busyness, whatever. 665 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,280 God's called you to just discern. 666 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,680 Lord, I don't want to be distracted. 667 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,520 Help me, help me to discern. I don't want to be taken out by 668 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,320 the enemy in this area. You know, sometimes, you know, 669 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,880 I'll challenge somebody and then they'll be like, man, I'm just, 670 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,880 you know, I just have no time. I've no time, I've no time. 671 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,080 And I'll challenge somebody. I'll be like, hey, you know, 672 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:43,720 I'll throw that challenge. I was like, what about this? 673 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,000 And they're like, man, because you challenged me, it made me 674 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,320 think maybe I do have two hours over here. 675 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:51,800 Maybe I do have an hour over here. 676 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,760 Maybe I have wasted my time on YouTube. 677 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,920 Maybe I have just and you just re evaluate your schedule and 678 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,960 your life because you got to make the most of every 679 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,600 opportunity because the days are evil and the date that Satan 680 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,680 wants to distract you from the things of God. 681 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,520 Right. OK, here we go. 682 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,120 We got to finish this thing when the enemy takes us out. 683 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,680 That's the last one. All right, the enemy takes us 684 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,640 out. Maybe that's through like bad 685 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,520 theology. Maybe you start, you know, I 686 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,080 heard a missionary one time. He worked in France, his family, 687 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,680 and they just met a lot of nice people. 688 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,440 They met a lot of nice, friendly people. 689 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,640 And they began to say something like, how can a loving God send 690 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:40,280 people to hell? And all of a sudden the enemy 691 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,160 started distracting them away from the Scriptures and they 692 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,480 just started falling trap and then believing lies. 693 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,640 And they said, you know what? I don't even know if I want to 694 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,240 be a missionary anymore. These are nice people. 695 00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:51,880 What am I doing? Harassing them? 696 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,520 And then they go back to the United States and they're not 697 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,360 only taken out from being a missionary, they're taken out 698 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,760 from following Jesus. I know that person. 699 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,560 Sad, but it can happen. Not only that, but enticing 700 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,560 missionaries to moral, moral failure. 701 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,360 It's not just bad theology, but it's also just being gullible, 702 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,160 lack accountability. You, you neglect quiet times, 703 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,160 isolated, vulnerable. Do you know that they did some 704 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:23,120 survey and 100% there is like other reasons why people fail, 705 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:29,120 but 100% of the reason why missionaries get taken out or 706 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:34,600 pastors get taken out, number one reason and it was 100%. 707 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:36,880 The rest were like 80% here, 70% here. 708 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,640 Number one reason they neglected spending time with Jesus. 709 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,880 That's it. Did you spend time with God 710 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,720 yesterday? I just think about Saturday. 711 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,440 You're like, dude, I deserve a day off. 712 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,920 I don't want to do anything. I've worked all week. 713 00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:00,800 You start buying into that lie. You've deserved something and 714 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,520 you'll find out by the end of the week you've royally screwed 715 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,360 up in every area and you're in danger. 716 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,320 You're in the danger line, the zone. 717 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,520 It's not good. That's crazy when you think 718 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:16,560 about it, 100% of people that come home will tell you like, 719 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,080 oh, why'd you come home? It's because I stopped spending 720 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:25,400 time with God. OK, we fear persecution, 721 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,400 sickness, maybe bureaucracy that just takes us out, you know, 722 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,720 like just, I can't handle all the laws of the land and just 723 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,680 too hard. I, I mean, I, we got a little 724 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:37,960 taste of that in the nation's right. 725 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,000 Maybe they were ordered not to preach Acts four and five says, 726 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,920 but they pressed in and they continued to preach the gospel 727 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:50,320 even though they were ordered to stop not not to preach anymore. 728 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,040 That is what God's called us to, to keep persevering, keep 729 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,120 pressing on no matter what. I want to, I'm going to give you 730 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,720 guys this. We're going to close here soon. 731 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,280 We're going to we're going to have people pray for the 732 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:07,200 nations, but in the last days and we've been in the last days 733 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,520 for the last 2000 years, OK. So I'm not like making a 734 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,400 statement that says, OK, this is it. 735 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,840 This is it, you know, but I'm just saying this is what the 736 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,720 Bible says happens in the last days. 737 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:21,360 I'm going to give you 7 lines that you can meditate on this 738 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,120 week, OK? So hopefully it'll motivate you 739 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,720 to want to share the Gospel because it says something really 740 00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:29,480 interesting. And Matthew 2414 says this, that 741 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,320 remember that Joshua Project STATS 7000 people groups have 742 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,920 not heard. They estimate in the year 2033 743 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,200 that those groups of people will hear. 744 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,920 And that is the two thousandth anniversary of Jesus's death, 745 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,720 burial, resurrection, and the birth of the church. 746 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,560 That's in seven years. So I want you to listen to 747 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,080 something. I want you and it says this 748 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,440 gospel will be preached to all nations, all ethnic groups, all 749 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,560 people groups to 7000 people that are remaining, seven groups 750 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,760 that are remaining, not people, but seven groups that are 751 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,680 remaining. And then the end will come. 752 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,240 So you're like, well, I, I mean, I, I have nothing to do with the 753 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:09,280 incoming God only knows yes and no, yes, you do not know the 754 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,640 date. That's true. 755 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,960 But no, you're wrong in that if you continue to share the 756 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,960 gospel, especially to unreached places, you can usher in the 757 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,440 second coming of Jesus to your eyes. 758 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,520 Like, whoa, this is crazy. I didn't know I came to an end 759 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:27,440 times church. You didn't. 760 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,960 But this is in the Bible, So this is, let me give you #1 OK, 761 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:35,600 last days #1 so many levels of crisis. 762 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:42,000 Crisis and drama will arise. The enemy wants to wear you out. 763 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:45,520 Do you remember that passage? I think it's in Daniel the the 764 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:50,240 the enemy wears out the Saints. So there will be crisis after 765 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:54,600 crisis, drama after drama in the church in the church. 766 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:57,960 Like some of your leaders are like, Yep, I believe that one. 767 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:02,680 Some of your like, I don't want to hear that. 768 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,800 I'm so tired of like living from drama to drama. 769 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,640 Well, you don't need Netflix to do that. 770 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,280 You literally see that every day of your life in the church. 771 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,120 I'm not talking about the world, even in the church, in the 772 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:22,840 church #2 rumors of wars and the volume will be turned up and 773 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,480 drown out the important. So if we just like pay attention 774 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,920 all the, I mean they're how many know there's rumors of wars? 775 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,360 I mean, like now you see it, right? 776 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,840 It's true. Rumors are war and there will be 777 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,200 more and increasing more and more and more and it will always 778 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,400 feel like we're on the brink of World War three because that's 779 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,800 what it feels like to live in those times. 780 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,520 Jesus is saying towards the end of the gospel as he starts to 781 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,520 break this down and it will drown out the important, it will 782 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,640 make you focus, hyper focus on CNN or Fox News or whatever. 783 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,400 It'll help you focus on that. But don't be fooled. 784 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,440 Turn it off and say, Laura, what do you want me to be? 785 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,880 What do you want? What do you want to be the most 786 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,880 important in my life right now? Pray for the nations. 787 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:15,120 Go share the gospel. That's what's important #3 sin 788 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,080 will compound and increase. We've seen that happen. 789 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,480 Just seems like it just keeps getting worse and you hear more 790 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,920 horrendous things over and over, like just in the news or even in 791 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,240 your own life. Be careful of that. 792 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:34,080 The enemy wants to take you out by luring you into sin that will 793 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:40,360 destroy you #4 Life will be busy and people will be running all 794 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,040 over. But listen to this. 795 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,960 How will we reach a people that are too busy to believe? 796 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:51,000 How will we reach a people that are too busy to even hear us 797 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:58,000 because their world is so noisy #5 Knowledge will increase. 798 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,440 Full of facts on the Internet, right? 799 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,120 I mean, you can't not find something that you want to find. 800 00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,280 And it's only going to get more, only going to get worse. 801 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:08,760 I, I guess you can say, or better. 802 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:13,880 I mean God can use that stuff, AI and all that, but it will 803 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,520 distract us again from the important. 804 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,040 Knowledge will increase, it says in the last days. 805 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,520 Does that not wake anybody up? Knowledge will increase. 806 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,040 We're watching it happen right before our eyes. 807 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,920 Guys, we're like in the midst of knowledge increasing like crazy, 808 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:41,600 but yet it's not important. Number six, many will fall away 809 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,640 and abandoned the faith. You will watch your friends, 810 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,760 even the person, perhaps even next to you, fall away from the 811 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:53,000 faith because it'll get so bad and so intense that people will 812 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,000 say it's not worth following Jesus anymore says this. 813 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,880 I'm not making this up. They will give up on God's 814 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,120 institutions like marriage. They already done that family, 815 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,560 the church, who needs it. People will say we don't need 816 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,320 marriage anymore. Marriage between a man and 817 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:11,720 woman, no problem. We don't need that. 818 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,400 We need more. We, we, we need to UN unhinge 819 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,440 ourselves from unstrap ourselves from this oppression or 820 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:18,640 whatever. You know, you hear. 821 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,320 And then same thing with the family, you know, and it was 822 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,680 funny. One of our kids, we're watching 823 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,840 some like something the other night and it's just like one of 824 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:32,680 those like shows that like I'm baking and you know, like, it's 825 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,480 one of those like, what do they call those like a reality TV 826 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:37,080 deal? All right, so we're watching 827 00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,200 that. And it, it these shows have 828 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,760 gotten so bad because they're literally trying to put in your 829 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,800 face like, this is what family is. 830 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,560 This is what marriage is. This is what culture, this is 831 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,200 what, you know, just kind of in your face. 832 00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,720 And we're like, we ain't falling for that in our house. 833 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,280 So we'll say it out loud. We're like, that's ridiculous. 834 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,440 Because you know, sometimes you're silent and you're like, 835 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,320 just, you know, like little ears are listening and watching and 836 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,640 like, no, that's not what a family is. 837 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:14,600 No, no, no, right. And so we're watching it and it 838 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,280 was so cool because like all the contestants and, and one of the 839 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,280 one of the kids said, that's my favorite. 840 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:21,800 And I'm like, why is that your favorite? 841 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:26,720 Because it's just so wholesome. They love they love their their 842 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:30,000 husband as a as a the wife was on the show, love their husband, 843 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,520 love their kids. They're praising their kids, 844 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,120 praising their husband. And it does it just warms you. 845 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:34,920 It's like that's the way God made it. 846 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,360 The presence of God is on the stage and they don't even know 847 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,600 it, but that's what's going to happen. 848 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,080 Just more and more that like you're going to, you're going to 849 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:45,960 see that because it's gotten so dark. 850 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,920 But the beautiful thing is, Isaiah 60 says it's going to get 851 00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,400 dark, but as it gets darker, the lights going to shine brighter. 852 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,840 And you're like, you're going to pick out from all the darkness. 853 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,160 Yes, that's beautiful. That's good. 854 00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,440 I want more of that because it's so rare. 855 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:07,520 And then #7 people will pursue personal preferences. 856 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,120 In other words, they'll leave this church to go find something 857 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:20,040 that will itch their ears. Guys, if you don't think I'm 858 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:24,640 kidding, I have literally watched that people like you 859 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,360 sitting in those maroon, purple, whatever the color they are, 860 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:29,720 chairs, they're kind of comforting, aren't they? 861 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:38,320 But I've watched people leave a good biblical church that will 862 00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,160 not just tell you what you want to hear to leave so that they 863 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,760 will just find people to suit their needs. 864 00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,120 Don't do that. But that's what's going to 865 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,640 happen in the last days. People get sick of hearing the 866 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:59,360 truth and they'll want to go find other places where people 867 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:00,520 just tell them what they want to hear. 868 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:05,960 So what should we do? We're going to keep the nation's 869 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:07,640 before us as much as we possibly can. 870 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,200 We're not going to we just we're going to do night for the 871 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,560 nations. You guys, just this week, if 872 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,080 you're born in your life group, just do a night in for the 873 00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:15,320 nations. Just let's pray for the nations. 874 00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,320 Put up maps, put up flags, whatever the cakes to get your 875 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,640 eyes off yourself to say this is what God's into right now in 876 00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:28,720 this hour saving nations and then #2 ground us in the Word. 877 00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:32,240 We need to remind ourselves over and over Jesus is the way, the 878 00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:35,440 truth and the life. No one goes to heaven apart from 879 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:36,320 him. No one does. 880 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,760 And we have to remind ourselves of that often because we'll be 881 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,720 like that guy, that missionary that went to France and came 882 00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:44,400 home. He left as a believer so-called, 883 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,800 and came home an unbeliever because he did not root himself 884 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:53,520 in the truth #3 building strong mission teams. 885 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:57,160 Do not go alone, never go alone, never go alone, always go with 886 00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,040 somebody. Jesus always sent out two by two 887 00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:01,800 number four, remember it is God's battle. 888 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,600 He is fighting for us. Exodus 1414. 889 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,200 We used to have that somewhere in our house that just reminder 890 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,720 like up on the wall like God fights for us. 891 00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,400 Guys, this might like sometimes I don't know if this makes sense 892 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,280 to you, but like sometimes this is so overwhelming to think 893 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,440 about the nation's to think about how many people, 3.1 894 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,680 billion people, people dying like every second. 895 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,280 Like that is overwhelming. But what is not overwhelming? 896 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:28,080 What puts courage back in me as God is fighting this battle, he 897 00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,120 is saving people and he wants to use us, which is crazy when you 898 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:36,560 think about that. Do you think David could have 899 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,560 fought the giant on his own? No, I mean, we, we look at that, 900 00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,880 we look at that story and he's like, he slings the the rock at 901 00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,440 the guy and he falls over. That is impossible, is 902 00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,200 impossible. There's no way he could have 903 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:53,360 done that on his own strength. And just a reminder, we cannot 904 00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,240 go in our own strength this summer, guys. 905 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,280 We cannot defeat giants in the land. 906 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,080 They are literally giants in the land. 907 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,240 You know what the giants are, Islam. 908 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,400 It's about to crumble before our eyes. 909 00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:14,960 Hinduism, Buddhism, these are real giants. 910 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,160 These are real gods, small G that will be defeated and 911 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:23,080 everybody else who follows these gods. 912 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,080 But as we remain in Christ, it was remain in Him. 913 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,920 He will give us strength to defeat these giants. 914 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:35,080 It says in Second Chronicles 21 through 29, the battle is not 915 00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,840 yours, but the Lord's. This is overwhelming. 916 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,120 He says Joseph, he's like, this is overwhelming. 917 00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,400 I don't know what to do, but I'm going to keep my eyes on you. 918 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:47,920 And he fought that battle #5 remember, God is with us. 919 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:50,680 The Great Commission comes with the promise. 920 00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,720 Matthew 2816. I will be with you to the very 921 00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:55,440 end of age, right? 16 through 20. 922 00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:00,120 He says that in all the Gospels. Acts 18, He's going to give us 923 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,080 strength, rely on his strength when we're weak. 924 00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,080 When you go this summer, when you go this spring to awaken. 925 00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:10,120 I mean, guys, we can't do this out of our own strength. 926 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:13,560 The guys from Baton Rouge I talked to this week, they have 6 927 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,040 people in their college ministry. 928 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:17,360 They're like, we need a breakthrough and you guys are 929 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,720 coming at the right time. You're bringing 150 people. 930 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:26,480 That's a little overwhelming, but we need a breakthrough. 931 00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:29,120 And just to hear their leaders say, you know what, we don't 932 00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,880 know what to do, but we're believing for a breakthrough. 933 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:36,120 And we thank you because they're like, I don't know why a people 934 00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:42,120 from Orlando would want to come to the to Baton Rouge, LA, but 935 00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,040 you guys are coming. And it's so encouraging. 936 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,520 Our whole staff is so encouraged. 937 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,480 We can't wait. Jesse's parents are flying out. 938 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,360 That's amazing. Like they're flying out to do 939 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,800 what? To do what they do best, cook. 940 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,280 It's amazing. I mean incredible. 941 00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:03,240 They don't even go to our church. 942 00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:04,800 They don't even go to our church. 943 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,040 We got people that go to our church are still not serving and 944 00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:10,080 they don't even go to our church. 945 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:17,880 Not good. That's amazing because why? 946 00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,360 Because they love their daughter, Yes. 947 00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:28,360 And their new grandson and maybe their daughter-in-law. 948 00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,120 I'm just, I'm just kidding. Sorry, Lori. 949 00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:37,400 All right, They love you, but they're coming to. 950 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,560 They love the church and they're doing what they know how to what 951 00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:45,400 to do on mission. We're called to pray, give, go. 952 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,720 Sometimes all three, sometimes one. 953 00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:52,680 I think the default is go, by the way, that's what I see here. 954 00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,000 All right, All right. So I'm going to, I'm going to 955 00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,680 have the band come up and we're going to, we're going to do 956 00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,240 something a little different. We're going to have people pray 957 00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:02,840 for the nations in their own native tongue. 958 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,040 We got a few people that do that. 959 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,160 I think we're going to pray in Korean this morning. 960 00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:10,960 Chinese, I think. Right. 961 00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,240 OK, awesome. I'm going to interpret that. 962 00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:21,400 What else we got? We got Portuguese, Portuguese, 963 00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,480 Italian and Spanish. Can't forget Spanish, and I 964 00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:27,360 don't know if we got anything out. 965 00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:28,920 Anybody else. We got Dutch. 966 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:30,920 We could do Dutch, I suppose, if she's here. 967 00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,120 But OK. SO11. 968 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:41,040 Last thing here the church is always reproduced itself, you 969 00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:45,000 understand that, right? Is always gone to places it has 970 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:50,240 not ever gone before. In 8042, Mark went to Egypt. 971 00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,160 Mark, writer of the gospel, went to Egypt. 972 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,920 Paul went to Turkey, Thomas to India, 174 to 280. 973 00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,880 They went to northern Italy, where we're going, and Austria. 974 00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:04,000 Let's see it again. Lord, come on. 4/30 they went to 975 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:10,400 Ireland, 600 to England, 635 to China, then 740 they went to 976 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:14,720 Iceland, 900 to Norway. Then in 1200 AD the Bible is 977 00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:18,440 available now available in 22 different languages in 1500. 978 00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,600 Then they went made their way into Kenya 1544 they were the 979 00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:26,080 first believers about 1500 them in Thailand in 1722 the 980 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,600 Moravians if you guys know under Zinsendorf in Germany. 981 00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:36,120 He, he looks at this painting and he, he's just a kid. 982 00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,120 He's I think he's a teenager if I remember early 20s and he 983 00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,440 looks at this painting and this painting is Jesus. 984 00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:45,640 He's all bloodied up. He's hanging on the cross. 985 00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,920 He's like, this is what I do for you. 986 00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,040 What now will you do for me? Wrecked him. 987 00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,840 It wrecked him. He's like, man, I got to give my 988 00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,800 life. So he spent the 1700s of just 989 00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,720 radically like going, sending hundreds of people all around 990 00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:06,640 the world. They, these Moravians were 991 00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,360 absolutely crazy. They sold themselves into 992 00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:13,080 slavery in the West Indies, like where we go and take cruises. 993 00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,840 These people decided to come from Europe to sell themselves 994 00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:18,920 into slavery in order to reach these people. 995 00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:24,480 That's amazing. All this I do for you, he says. 996 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:30,080 What will you do for me? And then the 17 hundreds, 1800s 997 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,880 this these people, the Moravians influenced Wesley Whitfield and 998 00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:39,440 Edwards and the church planning began all over the Northeast and 999 00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,720 then spread through the United States and to the South. 1000 00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:46,080 And in 1923 Highland Baptist in Waco, TX was birthed. 1001 00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,280 And then in 1986 Jimmy started tonight named Jimmy started a 1002 00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,960 training school and it turned into Antioch in 1999. 1003 00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:57,880 And then in 1999, they just started to plant churches. 1004 00:54:57,880 --> 00:54:59,240 They planted a church in the northeast. 1005 00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:03,200 And then this church was planted in 2004 in a place called 1006 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:08,720 Wheaton, IL in 2004. And then in 2011, we're asked to 1007 00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:12,600 plant this church in Orlando, taking over 40 plus short term 1008 00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:17,320 trips now one long term trip to Japan over the last 14 years. 1009 00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:24,880 And in 2019, we plant Kyoto. And then in 2026, they decided 1010 00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,680 to go to Southeast Asia for their first scouting trip and 1011 00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:32,400 plant this summer. The church has always gone to 1012 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:37,520 places, always gone to places where it has not gone before. 1013 00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,560 We're committed to that. We're committed to that. 1014 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:47,000 To go, to pray, to give. Is this our vision? 1015 00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,440 No, it's not our vision. I didn't come up with this 1016 00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:52,000 stuff. He did. 1017 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:58,760 Jesus lay down your Nets. Go make disciples. 1018 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,400 I'm with you to the very end of age. 1019 00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,200 I'm with you. You guys can be a part of this. 1020 00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:06,200 This is amazing. Like do it. 1021 00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:09,560 Please be a part of this. Let go. 1022 00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:14,240 Just what are you living for? I mean this you're seeing 1023 00:56:14,240 --> 00:56:16,000 literally rockets go off in the Middle East. 1024 00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,160 People are dying. Like you never know when the 1025 00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:22,560 last day you don't know you don't know and it's not to scare 1026 00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:24,440 people in the mission. Jesus never scared anybody into 1027 00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,560 mission. He calls people in the mission. 1028 00:56:27,240 --> 00:56:29,240 He's calling every single one of you to go to mission. 1029 00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:31,960 He's calling every single one of you to be a part of this this 1030 00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:33,800 summer, this spring. Go. 1031 00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,200 There's still a few more slots left to Baton Rouge. 1032 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:37,800 If you're a college student, just go. 1033 00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:42,240 What have you had to lose? Cole was on his way, you know, 1034 00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:43,360 you know Cole. Where's Cole at? 1035 00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:45,600 There he is. He was on his way just to go get 1036 00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,600 drunk, to go hang out with girls, go get on a just a beach 1037 00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,360 somewhere and just literally destroy his life. 1038 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,920 And someone just said, hey, I think you should come to awaken 1039 00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:57,440 with us. Where's that at? 1040 00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:59,360 What's awakened? It's in Miami. 1041 00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,800 Miami. This is like a few hours from 1042 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,160 us. Why'd it go there? 1043 00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,320 All right, fine, I'll go. He's literally never been the 1044 00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,600 same. Never been the same. 1045 00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:16,040 What did he do yesterday? He just gave his life to just 1046 00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,600 pouring into young students and wrestling. 1047 00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,040 There's a guy now reading the Bible for the first time. 1048 00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,880 He's sharing the gospel. He's doing what he's called to 1049 00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:29,880 do. What are you called? 1050 00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:35,280 Where are you called to go? Where's God calling you? 1051 00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:40,560 What's he doing? It was Ricky that was, I don't 1052 00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,200 know, a number of years back, and John Evans, where we used to 1053 00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:46,240 meet there before it maxed out. He was up at the front. 1054 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,880 We just had a similar service like this early on. 1055 00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,600 It was, I don't know, probably 201516, something like that. 1056 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,680 We're ready to go to Belgium and meet the, the needs of the 1057 00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,920 crisis, the European crisis when people were coming from Syria, 1058 00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,200 from Turkey, from all over. And they were, they called it 1059 00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,800 the, the graveyard, like the mission, the, the, the life 1060 00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:06,800 jacket graveyard. I mean, literally like people 1061 00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:10,160 got off the boats from from the Middle East and they're headed 1062 00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,440 to Greece and they just threw their life jacket. 1063 00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,320 Many people died, but they, they, they threw their life 1064 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,200 jacket there and they started a new life. 1065 00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,080 And these people came and they've never heard of Jesus. 1066 00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,360 And we just took a team of 20 there. 1067 00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,400 Cole was on that, Michaela was on that. 1068 00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:28,520 Many of you guys were there. And we just got to go from 9:50. 1069 00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,840 And I remember like Cole was just like, hey, I want to, I, I, 1070 00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:36,120 I want to still forget this. Like he's like, I, these people 1071 00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,160 have never have no grid of Jesus, no grid of Christianity. 1072 00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,560 He's like, hey, I really feel like we need to wash your feet. 1073 00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:47,520 These Middle Eastern guys in a tent in France and he's they're 1074 00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:52,160 washing this guy's feet and the guy just is touched by that 1075 00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,680 because Jesus says, I give you an example. 1076 00:58:55,720 --> 00:59:00,720 You do the same. You go and serve the nations and 1077 00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:05,520 the nations will come running and obey because I put glory on. 1078 00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:08,720 Set your alarm for 555. Let's go. 1079 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:10,200 Let's pray for the nations.