1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,680 Jesus came to seek and save the lost, right? 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,760 Amen. We never want to move the 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:09,560 target. The target has always been new 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,200 conversion growth around here. The target has always been 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,320 wanting to reach people. The same message that was been 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,960 given to us, we want to give that away to other people. 7 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:21,480 And evangelism is happening all throughout the week here. 8 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,040 I love this church because it is literally, I mean, I was on 9 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,400 campus on Wednesday and we're giving away. 10 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,280 It was a hot day. It was almost 90° and just 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:35,000 giving away iced coffee to college students and engaging 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 them and evangelism conversations and conversations 13 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,080 about faith. And it was just so encouraging 14 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,600 to see our people out there and they're out there throughout the 15 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,920 week. I almost can't even keep up with 16 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:46,800 it. I know we have a an evangelist 17 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,080 neighborhoods and nations chat that one of our guys holds. 18 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:55,040 He kind of holds the Fort down for just prayer and then sending 19 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,360 out messages. So I don't know how you get 20 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,960 that, but maybe talk to Jessica or talk to your life group 21 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:02,480 leader how you could be on that and find out all the evangelism 22 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:03,800 that's happening throughout the week. 23 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,680 Last week we were supposed to do those those testimonies, but our 24 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,080 administrative team says no, no, no, I think it's better for next 25 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,000 week. And so just just so happened 26 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,920 that again, like the unity of the Spirit is just cool to see 27 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:19,880 that today. What we're going to talk about 28 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,240 is why is evangelism so challenging? 29 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:24,880 Why is evangelism so challenging? 30 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,760 How many here have been, how many here are saved because of a 31 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,080 gospel tract, a gospel conversation? 32 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,800 Somebody's prayers should be everybody, everybody. 33 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:37,400 You didn't just get saved out of the womb. 34 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,640 Anybody believe that you're wrong If you do OK, you don't 35 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,160 get saved by baptism. You don't get saved by just 36 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,280 because your parents are saved. You don't get saved because you 37 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,320 go to a church. You get saved because someone 38 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,040 shared the gospel with you right Romans 10 someone shared the 39 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,040 gospel with you and you received that God opened up your heart, 40 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,280 which is the greatest miracle of all time is that somebody shared 41 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,040 with you and at that moment God opened up your heart. 42 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,640 It might have been been even been like, I know for me, it was 43 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,200 in high school, somebody was sharing their faith with me. 44 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,280 And I remember many hours just in this person's car, like right 45 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,040 in my driveway, right. And they were sharing and I, I 46 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,560 had all these questions and my heart wasn't necessarily right 47 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,080 in the moment, but I was asking all these questions, these tough 48 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,840 questions about faith. And I was asking questions about 49 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,320 Revelation and the end times and who's the Antichrist and when's 50 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:31,640 the world going to end and all that stuff. 51 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:35,040 I know God, I, I had no, I had no clue who God was really. 52 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,120 And but he was, he was this, this guy was just so gentle, 53 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,880 just answering my questions and you know, for, for a couple of 54 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,520 years, really just pursuing me and praying. 55 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:51,200 In fact, the prayers go back probably maybe even six or five 56 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,360 or six years, even before those conversations ended up happening 57 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,640 in that car in my driveway and, and I just had all these 58 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:00,240 questions. So come with your questions. 59 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,800 If you're not even saved, if you don't know God, come with your 60 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,000 questions. He's not bothered by that, by 61 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,560 the way, he's not bothered by your questions. 62 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,520 He's not intimidated. He's he, he can answer all 63 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:11,880 things, right? He's God. 64 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,480 And so just come, come, come and see. 65 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,200 Really. I mean, Jesus said to his 66 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,240 disciples, come and see. And so I was that come and see 67 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,680 person and I was asking all these questions about, you know, 68 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,840 you know, about Revelation, about the Bible. 69 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:32,200 And this person ended up being my cousin and he had gone to 70 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,000 California while I lived in Chicago area and he had gone to 71 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,520 California and he just decided every day for a while to get on 72 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,560 his knees and just pray for the family. 73 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,720 He knew that we're all lost. He knew that we didn't know God. 74 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,080 He knew that we maybe had a little bit of religion and knew 75 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,480 something about God, but we didn't have a relationship with 76 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,600 him. And so somebody maybe for you 77 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,680 guys, you're praying for the lost right now. 78 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,280 You're praying for your lost family, your parents, your kids 79 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,840 or whatever. Don't stop praying because God 80 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,160 will answer in due time. Amen. 81 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,120 Don't grow weary in doing good, for in due time you'll reap a 82 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,280 harvest. All right, Galatians 69. 83 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,880 God is, he is, He is wanting to answer your prayers. 84 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,560 And we're going to talk about why evangelism is so challenging 85 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,640 because the, there is the, there's an enemy that wars 86 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,240 against people's souls, right? And so there's a, there's two 87 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,960 ways in which the enemy 2 like bigger ways, like, you know, 88 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,480 like as far as the big picture, two ways that the enemy comes 89 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,840 after people. 1 He, he, he blinds the unbelievers and then 90 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:38,600 he comes after believers. We'll spend a little bit more 91 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,560 time on that because this is a church. 92 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:42,680 I'm talking primarily to believers. 93 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,520 But evangelism, evangelism in general, is a spiritual battle. 94 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,240 It is a spiritual battle. There is a war over your soul 95 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,520 and there was a war over my soul when I went to college. 96 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,920 Like I left, obviously. I graduated from high school and 97 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:00,440 I, I left and I, I, my cousin moved to California and then I 98 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,360 moved to the Mississippi River, right between Iowa and Illinois. 99 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,000 There I met my amazing wife and we are both unsaved. 100 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,520 We were 18 years old. We are fools for not for Christ, 101 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:17,440 but weirdest fools in the world. And we were lost, lost probably 102 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,240 I was more lost than she was. She was probably more on the 103 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,560 moral side. And but still, nonetheless, both 104 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,200 of us grew up Catholic. I'm not picking out Catholics by 105 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,240 any means, but I'm just saying like that for me, it was just 106 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,040 about knowing like about knowing the facts. 107 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,360 Like I knew Jesus died on the cross. 108 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,200 OK, I knew that, you know, there was a, there was God the Father, 109 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:41,560 God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. 110 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,880 I mean, I knew facts about I knew there's a Bible. 111 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,800 We had a Catholics have a little bit, it's not just 66 books in 112 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:48,840 the Bible. They have a little bit more in 113 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:50,480 there. I didn't know who those books 114 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:51,360 were. I still don't know what the 115 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,640 really those books are. But but I, I, I just remember 116 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,920 going to college and I wanted everything else, every, 117 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:58,960 everything, what college students want when they first 118 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,160 come, when they're lost, right. I'm ever have to go through the 119 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:02,520 list. You got, you guys know what 120 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,400 those things are the, what you do at night and you know, and, 121 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,240 and so I just, I, I love the world. 122 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,160 I did, I love the world, but yet I was seeking, I was like, man, 123 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,040 I would remember as I was out at parties, I would remember a 124 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,280 little bit what my cousin said. You know, I, I remember some of 125 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:22,080 the things he was telling me about and the lostness that he 126 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,440 came from how he has now a relationship with God. 127 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:30,520 And so I, I, I had a, a night when I came home from colleges, 128 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:34,720 but the first month in and I went to a bunch of parties and, 129 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,520 and just nothing satisfied. In fact, I would say, I, looking 130 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,240 back, I would say now with the language I have, I'd say I was 131 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,880 pretty depressed. I was, I was pretty lonely. 132 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,200 I was pretty depressed. I didn't have any purpose in my 133 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,760 life. And I remember looking out my 134 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,360 dorm room window. I was was on the 3rd floor and I 135 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,360 looked down and there was a bunch of empty beer cans there. 136 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,560 And some of you guys Remember Me telling this story. 137 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,240 But I just for so many new people coming in just to again, 138 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,600 one of the college students came up to me and they said, man, it 139 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,400 was, it was encouraging. It was a one-on-one, It was 140 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,040 encouraging hearing your testimony because we just 141 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:10,560 thought you were always like that. 142 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,080 Well, I was not, you know, whatever that means. 143 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,760 And I remember looking out my window and seeing these empty 144 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,680 beer cans. And that was I, I and I didn't 145 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,280 hear any audible voice or anything, but just in my heart, 146 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,560 I, I'd almost as if God was speaking to me saying you're as 147 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:33,200 empty as those beer cans. You're empty and there's a 148 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,560 reason why you're empty. And I didn't want to be empty 149 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,720 anymore. I just didn't know how to be 150 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,080 full. I didn't know, I, I didn't know 151 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,880 how to do that. Even though, you know, I'd heard 152 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,560 bits and pieces from my cousin over the years. 153 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,200 It was just OK, how does one get saved? 154 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,440 And I remember looking over, I remember looking out the window 155 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,960 and then looking over. I still remember where I was 156 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,880 the, the, the dresser was there with my Bible on top. 157 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,880 I never read my Bible other than maybe a few pages in Revelation 158 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,600 because it's kind of cool. But there was inside, inside my 159 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,360 Bible was a, a gospel tract, very plain. 160 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,720 I still have it in my office as a memory. 161 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,360 It was, it was September 2000. OK, Do you remember September? 162 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,840 This is like a long time ago, OK, Almost 25 1/2 years ago, 163 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,920 right. So when I, when I, when I looked 164 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,960 at that, I opened up, I opened it up and I had a gospel tract 165 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,799 from my cousin's friend in California actually a couple of 166 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:35,000 years back. I ended up seeing him and 167 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,840 thanking him for that tract and he's like, you want a bunch 168 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,760 more? Took a few. 169 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:41,559 They're the, they're the ugliest. 170 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,720 It's just a trifle blue piece of paper. 171 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:45,600 I just had questions on it, no pictures, nothing. 172 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,800 In fact, I had a little dove on the front of which I was like, 173 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:48,840 why is there a dove on the front? 174 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,800 I had no clue. Now a little bit later, I know 175 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,400 that maybe that's symbolic of the Holy Spirit. 176 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,680 I had no clue. I just, I opened it up and I 177 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:57,840 read the simple gospel. I read that God wants a 178 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,880 relationship with you. I read that that our sins 179 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,560 separate us, right that. And then I read that, you know, 180 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:07,760 you can't not enough good works. There's there's not the scale 181 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,280 like in your head that if you just have a little bit more good 182 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,440 works versus not good works, you know, sin, then maybe if you had 183 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,600 a little bit more, it would tip the scale and God would be 184 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:17,840 pleased with you and let you into heaven. 185 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,400 That's not the truth. And I knew that it's like I had 186 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,040 heard all these things, but for the first time I was like, 187 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,160 actually, that makes sense. Like I am a sinful person. 188 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,120 I want a relationship with God. I don't know how to get there, 189 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,080 but I and I know that my good works could never save me. 190 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,000 Right. And then, and then I realized, 191 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,720 OK, there's an answer. Jesus died on the cross for my 192 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,720 sin. But look, listen, how many, you 193 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,040 know, I mean, maybe this has happened to you. 194 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,760 Like, you just hear this stuff. I've I've heard it. 195 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,440 I went to I went to 1st through 8th grade in a Catholic school. 196 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,760 I mean, we heard something along those lines every day. 197 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:55,440 Yeah. I still wanted the world. 198 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:01,480 Something happened there in September of 2000 in my dorm 199 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,560 room in Rock Island, IL Something happened there. 200 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,560 It's called a miracle. What's the miracle? 201 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,200 God opened up my heart, so I actually believe this stuff. 202 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,960 That's the difference. I actually believed it and when 203 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,800 I believed it, God transformed my heart like I was a new person 204 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,480 in that moment because I trusted Christ to save me from all of my 205 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,880 sins, past, present, and future. I mean, I don't know, like 206 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,760 yesterday I didn't, I didn't have that in my mind. 207 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,880 And that day I did. And the next day was the, was 208 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:34,280 the beginning of the rest of my life. 209 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,880 The next 25 1/2 years of following Jesus has been the joy 210 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,080 of my life. And that is because of Jesus. 211 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,720 That's because of the grace of God, not because of anything I 212 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,800 did or anything I will do. It wasn't is it like God saying, 213 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,400 OK, one day you're going to be a pastor and this and this and 214 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,840 then, you know, I had no clue. And then and then I'll save you 215 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,680 because you know, your, your, your trajectory is looking good. 216 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:59,120 No, no, no. It's because of the grace of 217 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,240 God. And then it was the first day of 218 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,240 the rest of my life. I joined the church right away. 219 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,800 You know, I, I, I was reading the other day and how important 220 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,440 the church is again. Of course I'm a believer in 221 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,520 that. The last 25 1/2 years I've been 222 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,080 a part of the church. The first day I remember calling 223 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,120 my cousin up, I said, oh, look, I answered all those questions. 224 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,360 Remember that track you gave me a few years, I'm sorry, a few 225 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,400 months back in California? Yeah, well, I actually read it 226 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,560 and I believe it. I believe it. 227 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,680 Thank you. Thank you for praying for me. 228 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,880 Thank you for like all those, all those days like just, you 229 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,160 know, being in the car with you and like you answering all those 230 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,920 questions. And then I'm like, OK, so now 231 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,200 what do I do? Just join the church, find a 232 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,600 Bible study, find do something. And so I did. 233 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,800 And some of you guys know that I was a part of all girls Bible 234 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,960 study, you know, like for like for two months until they told 235 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,760 me. Do you realize gone, this is an 236 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,680 all girls Bible study? I had no clue. 237 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,080 I was just, I just looked at my dorm. 238 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,560 I was I, you know, those little bulletin board things and it had 239 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:01,160 like different things pinned up there and I was like, OK, I'll 240 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,200 go to that thing, you know, like I was even reading. 241 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,520 I apparently I didn't see girls every time. 242 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,440 I don't know. And they're so gracious to me. 243 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,040 They really were. I was, I wish I could meet them. 244 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,760 I was like, thank you so much. Like I was clueless, you know, I 245 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,400 just wasn't aware. I think I, I like over time, you 246 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,400 know, God gives you discernment and you know, I didn't have any 247 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,640 then didn't have any discernment. 248 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,760 I just was saved. I, I, I was like, I'm in love 249 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,400 with Jesus now, you know, now I'm trying to follow him the 250 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,560 best way I can. And so found inner varsity, 251 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,680 which is very similar to crew. If you don't know who that is, 252 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:35,560 and then and then found the church and then and, and Nicole 253 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:38,040 and I just we, we loved, we loved just being together. 254 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:43,040 And, and, and she got saved several months after me and we 255 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,600 did, I guess we did a little bit of what you called missionary 256 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,200 dating. You know, I kind of wanted her 257 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,640 to become a Christian and she wanted to become a Christian And 258 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,400 it just worked out, which I don't always recommend doing 259 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,040 that necessarily, but it just, it just worked out. 260 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,640 Praise the Lord, four years we dated and then we got married. 261 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,440 But there's so much. And it's when I realized like 262 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,440 the first, within the first week of of being saved, I wanted 263 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,040 others to be saved. Like I had, I had all these lost 264 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,000 people, like I had all this lost friends. 265 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,880 And it's like, it was like this different world. 266 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,000 It's like, OK, now I got to go to this church and there's all 267 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,440 these believers. But then what do I do with all 268 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,440 these people who are I've known for so many years. 269 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,280 I've known. I mean, so I would go home with 270 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,360 my dirty laundry bag because I didn't know how to do laundry. 271 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,160 And I brought that home and just dumped it with my mom. 272 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,400 Thank you mom, for, you know, she just did all the laundry and 273 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,600 then so I would go out with my friends when I would go home for 274 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,400 the weekend. And so I would meet all them and 275 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,640 I'm like, you guys got to know Jesus and they're like, what the 276 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,640 world happened to you? Like used to be this cool guy. 277 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,760 Like we used to always go out and now you're like not fun 278 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:50,880 anymore. And what happened to you? 279 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,040 Like, you know, and so I started thinking through this. 280 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,000 I was like, I don't, I mean, I, I, you know, I started feeling 281 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,120 out of place. I felt, I, so I, I felt, felt 282 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,160 like I needed to be more with my church friends and less with 283 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,520 them. And it was frustrating and, and 284 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,240 you know, and I started praying for them. 285 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,320 I started praying for my family. My brother was super lost and my 286 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,920 parents still like stuck in religion and, and so I was just 287 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,800 like between 2 worlds when I first got saved. 288 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,240 Anybody feel like that? Like when they first get saved, 289 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,880 like they're just kind of between 2 worlds. 290 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:24,920 It's like, what do I do with these people? 291 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,120 You know, I'm not like them anymore, but I want to reach 292 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,080 them and I want to be like these people and I want to be with 293 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,640 them. And you know, it's crazy. 294 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:37,200 And overtime we'll find out. There's I'm, I'm clearing you in 295 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:43,480 and to point #10 OK, so point #10I I, it'll, it'll land. 296 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:48,320 Well, I'll finish with a story, but I want to press pause there 297 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,240 for a second because I, I, I want to share with you guys some 298 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,320 other things that that will be really helpful in realizing why 299 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:59,680 it is so challenging to do evangelism, why it's so hard, 300 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,760 why it's so easy in the beginning and it's so hard later 301 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,960 on. But if you would go ahead and 302 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:11,000 turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4, verse 4, the enemy, like I 303 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,520 said, there's two different kind of, I guess you can say two 304 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,760 different points here. The big picture, the enemy just 305 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,680 blinds and distracts unbelievers. 306 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,920 And then the enemy will attack godly believers. 307 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,120 All right, and we'll spend most of our time there. 308 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,040 But the enemy blinds and distracts unbelievers. 309 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,800 He is blinded them from hearing the gospel. 310 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,360 I was blinded by the enemy. I was actually there. 311 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:40,320 Like I, I know what that feels like is, is the enemy puts 312 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,360 blinders on my on my eyes and my heart. 313 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,080 Where all these people? Like I was thinking about this. 314 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,600 I was like, man, when I, when you know, like when the light 315 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,920 bulb turns on when you're saved, it's like, oh, I understand 316 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,400 everything my cousin was saying. I didn't understand what he 317 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:57,640 really what he was saying before. 318 00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:59,160 I didn't understand his lifestyle. 319 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,600 I don't understand why he gave his life to the church and why 320 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:03,440 he gave his life to reaching other people. 321 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:04,760 Like it didn't really make sense. 322 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,160 I just thought, Hey, he's a nice guy. 323 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:12,120 But now I'm like, I understand because the reason why you don't 324 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,200 understand, and maybe that's you here. 325 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,320 Maybe that's you. Maybe this is your like second 326 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:18,600 or third time coming and you're just like, I still don't 327 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,960 understand what's going on. Like they're singing these songs 328 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,120 and people are getting rowdy and people are praying for each 329 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,680 other and people, you know, whatever. 330 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,560 Like, I mean, they're giving their life to the Lord. 331 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,200 They're going on all these mission trips and they're giving 332 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:29,800 money. It's like, why are they doing 333 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:33,280 all this? This sort of strange, we 334 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,080 understand religion. Everybody's got everyone's got 335 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:37,960 religion. I get that like you just you're 336 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,040 a Christian, this guy's a Muslim, this guy's an atheist, 337 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:41,480 whatever. I mean, we all get along right? 338 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,920 I under that's the thinking of an unbeliever because they're 339 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,120 they're blinded. It says in second Corinthians 340 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,840 44, the God of this world, the small G God of this world, and 341 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:55,000 there are many gods. Sometimes you just think it's 342 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,800 just the devil. It's it's the God, small G God, 343 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,320 the gods of this world blind you. 344 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:05,680 What have you been blinded by lately? 345 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:14,000 You're blinded like sex God blinds people from the gospel, 346 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:24,319 money God, many comforts, the American dream God. 347 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,120 You see, it's not just like one. It's not just the devil. 348 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,560 The devil is not omnipresent. He's not everywhere. 349 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:35,320 It's it's, it's just minions. It's it's demons. 350 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:39,840 It's, it's, it's small G gods that blind people. 351 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,120 It could be politics. Why did we talk about last week, 352 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:46,600 Turning Point USA? That could be that is a small G 353 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,880 God. It blinds people to think 354 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,320 they're OK. They're OK with themselves. 355 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,480 They're satisfied with themselves, but they're really 356 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,400 not satisfied because you kind of go in between, don't you? 357 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:00,360 And you're like, do you ever feel like that? 358 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:03,360 Like maybe even before you got saved, you go in between you do 359 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:05,560 you show up and be like, OK, this makes sense. 360 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,920 This is good. And you go back to your room and 361 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,640 you be like, that doesn't make any sense. 362 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,760 And you go back to your own gods because they're satisfying you 363 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:19,880 in the moment. And then Ephesians 22 says you 364 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,440 previously walked according to the course of this world, 365 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,040 according to the Prince and power of the air. 366 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,240 The Prince and power of the air it's in the airwaves. 367 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:29,560 The gods, small G gods are in the airwaves. 368 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,440 They're on your, they're on your, your screens. 369 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,720 They're, they're, they're in your, they're in the radio. 370 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,240 They're listening to your, they're in your classrooms at 371 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:38,720 UCF. They're in your class They're, 372 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:42,080 they're everywhere. There's these small G gods 373 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,160 airwaves just sort of got it going through your life, your 374 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,040 mind and you begin to believe these lies. 375 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,640 And you know, it says in Matthew 13, there's really three 376 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:57,120 different ways the enemy works in people. 377 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:02,520 Every Sunday morning, every time someone shares with you on 378 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:07,400 campus, every time these are these three ways, the word is 379 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,080 snatched from their hearts. Soon as they go to the car and 380 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,240 as soon as they put the key in the ignition, it's like that, as 381 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,840 if they just literally forgot everything that was said. 382 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:22,040 Now, is that like physically you might be like, well, I, I still 383 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,240 remember, you know, you might still remember, but it has not 384 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,280 penetrated your heart. Therefore, the enemy has 385 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,040 snatched that possibility of it going deep in your heart and 386 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,200 rooted deep. So that day, 25 1/2 years ago, 387 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:40,240 that word that I read on the page actually penetrated my 388 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:44,240 heart and never left. It never left. 389 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,600 Amen. And I'm praying that it never 390 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,880 leaves you. I I don't want it to leave you, 391 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,000 but I know how it works. The Bible says it will leave 392 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,160 Some just don't let it leave you don't get back in the car and be 393 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,440 like, oh, that was nice. All right, let's go to 394 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,440 McDonald's. You know, like, whatever. 395 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:06,840 Whatever it might be, I, I don't know. 396 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,320 Or just go home like in the fall, like watching football, 397 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,640 whatever. There's nothing wrong with any 398 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,600 of those things. Go, go eat lunch, go watch 399 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,480 football, whatever. I, I don't care what it is. 400 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:15,640 It doesn't. That's not what I'm saying. 401 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:16,960 We don't be legalistic around here. 402 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:19,880 What I'm saying is that your life isn't changed as a result 403 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,120 of the word. Have you ever had that? 404 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,160 I mean, my whole like 1st through 8th grade, that was me. 405 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:27,880 I mean, I would hear this stuff all the time. 406 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,320 I would hear and it would, it would just go, it would, it 407 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,440 would literally, it would be like water off a duck's back. 408 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,280 It would just come to me and it would leave me, come to me and 409 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,480 it would leave me, come to me. And it would leave me no 410 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,720 conviction. Every now and then I'd have a 411 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,560 little conviction. Every now and then I'd be like, 412 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:48,560 oh, maybe you know, all right. But these small G gods are so 413 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:54,520 good and so pleasurable. So that's what kept my interest. 414 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:01,040 But that day in September, God got my interest. 415 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,000 It was because of the power of the spirit. 416 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,680 Everyone should literally like when we have a response time. 417 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,320 Be on your knees for two reasons. 418 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,280 One, thank you Lord. It is like a gift. 419 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:16,040 Thank you. It it worked. 420 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,720 Your word worked in me. And the second is it's not 421 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,840 working. Please God make it work. 2 422 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:28,600 responses, 2 people, two different destinies. 423 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,160 And so that's what the enemy does and he discourages us with 424 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:35,560 persecution. So people fall away. 425 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,960 This happens all the time. I watch it in college ministry. 426 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,160 I mean, I've, we've given Nicole and I've given our life to the 427 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,240 youth the last 25 1/2 years. We've given our lives to the 428 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:47,920 youth and what, what, what, what I've seen over time is that 429 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,320 people get lured in by, by, by the gospel and they're like, 430 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:55,120 we're in, we're this is awesome. And then something hits them. 431 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:57,440 Something, some challenge, some challenge. 432 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,400 I don't know if it's sometimes it's parents. 433 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,960 Sadly, it is happened with me. I got persecution from my 434 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,000 parents. Not anymore. 435 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,800 They're saved now, praise the Lord, 3 1/2 years later, they're 436 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,800 saved because I prayed for them every day. 437 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,480 And she said Lords and and I tried to do my best to witness 438 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,920 to them and then other family members. 439 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:25,400 But what happened was when, when I got persecuted from my 440 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,560 parents. I mean, that hurts. 441 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,720 I mean, that does right? I mean, it does. 442 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:32,240 They don't understand because again, it's light and darkness 443 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,960 clashing. They it hasn't penetrated their 444 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,720 life, but it has for you. And now it's a clash. 445 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,040 And there's ways, I mean, we could talk about that would 446 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,600 soften that blow a little bit. Like you'd be kind and caring. 447 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,320 And I was just more like, you can't believe this is amazing. 448 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:53,760 You know, as you can imagine, like my 19 year old self, no 449 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:59,080 wisdom deal without knowledge. But and my mom just left this 450 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,920 week and it was just I honor, honor, honor, honor. 451 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:08,480 So thankful for for her because I mean, God produced something 452 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:13,120 deep there that just wasn't there in the beginning and so 453 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,560 and restored so much relationship there. 454 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,160 I was thinking about that. It's very it's amazing to see. 455 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:25,600 Don't give up, don't give up. But the persecutor could become 456 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:31,680 a friend, right by prayer. And, and so don't give up if it, 457 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,560 if it is your parents or if it's your brother and sister or your, 458 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,920 your, maybe it could be a professor or boss, you know, 459 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,400 maybe it's like, you know, you really want this job. 460 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,000 You're kind of going to compromise. 461 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,920 And then, you know, there's a temptation there and you get 462 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,560 that job and then you, your faith wins. 463 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,640 Because the reality is you're, you got fear of man, fear. 464 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:52,960 Man's a snare. It's a trap. 465 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,800 So now you're caught, you're caught, you're trapped. 466 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,800 Who do you trapped by? You're trapped by others man's 467 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,560 opinion and you're like, wait, hold on a second. 468 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:07,240 I'm saved the Lord of my life Is Jesus not this guy, right? 469 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,040 And like that is the most one of the most important truths is 470 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,240 that Jesus is Lord. Is he Lord of your life or he's 471 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,280 not the Lord of your life? And, and, and the way you test 472 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:21,400 that is be careful of man's opinions, how it can be a trap 473 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,480 in your life. And that's what he does. 474 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:24,720 The enemy does that all the time. 475 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,400 He does that and he snatches people away. 476 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,560 And then it, then the, the sun, it scorches the, the roots and, 477 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,760 and because it, the roots don't go deep into the ground, boom, 478 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,840 they're gone. Watch it, see it happen all the 479 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,840 time. And then the enemy lures us 480 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:42,360 because of the pleasures of sin, right? 481 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,320 I'm thinking maybe there's no long term consequences. 482 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,200 And so we're like, hey, it's not a big deal. 483 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,560 And so we give into it little by little by little, because it's 484 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,560 subtle and all of a sudden somebody's somebody's gone. 485 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,880 Well, wait, what do you do with like no one can once that once I 486 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,040 have them in my hands, right, John 10 like no one can snatch 487 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,560 them from my hand. Or what about like everyone who 488 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,280 comes to Jesus? He will by no means castaway, 489 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,040 right? What about those? 490 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,800 Well, you know, in the Bible, there's paradoxes. 491 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,440 It's there's two, there's it looks like a contradiction. 492 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:19,000 But as you listen carefully and as you live this out every day 493 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,840 of your life, you'll find that look, once you are a child of 494 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,120 God, no one can take that away from you. 495 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,040 The proofs in the pudding, man, like if you're in, if you're 496 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,160 persevering and you're in, no matter how how hard life gets or 497 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,320 how much pleasure is being, you know, being thrown at you, 498 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,960 you're like, I'm in with Jesus. Then you know, you're his right 499 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:46,880 And and and was it first John two, it says that they left 500 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,920 because they were never really of God. 501 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,080 They never really are of God. And I experienced that in high 502 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,480 school. I experienced that. 503 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,040 I I experienced there were times where I was like kind of in I 504 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,200 was like, oh, maybe I'm interested. 505 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,200 I would go to like, what was that thing called in high 506 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,960 school? Like it's like some high school 507 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:04,840 outreach. What is it young life? 508 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,840 That's it. I remember going there and I 509 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,920 remember it was like some bonfire and people are like on 510 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,680 the Qatar and like, you know, and stuff. 511 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,240 And I was like lost soul Rosalind. 512 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,600 I was like, this is so lame, Like why would anybody go? 513 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,320 But it's something was drawing me in at the same time. 514 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,280 And I remember walking home like I was walking back that there's 515 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,760 somebody dropped me off and I remember just thinking like man, 516 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,720 like I, I'm God brought back to memory that he's like, he's like 517 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,320 they were planting seeds that one day would be watered. 518 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:37,680 It wasn't a waste, but I experienced that. 519 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,320 But then one day that's it. No one can snatch. 520 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,720 No one can snatch me from His hands. 521 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,280 And then it's a life of perseverance. 522 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,160 I hope you have, I literally hope you have saving faith 523 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,280 because nothing will be able to snatch you. 524 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:58,640 You are fully secure, but if you are not in Christ, you are not 525 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,360 secure. And the enemy will throw stuff 526 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:04,080 at you. And in one day you will bite it. 527 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,800 He'll take you for a ride farther than you ever want to 528 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:12,560 go. That's why the seed must go deep 529 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,920 this morning. This is not a waste. 530 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,600 Do not waste your Sunday. OK. 531 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,560 All right. So, OK, So then the devil blinds 532 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,960 unbelievers by promoting distorted views of the gospel 533 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,560 cults like the Coexist. You ever see the Coexist bumper 534 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,080 sticker? That's ridiculous. 535 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:31,720 That's all I have to say about that. 536 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,120 Jesus is the only way. He's the way, the truth and the 537 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:38,720 life and the only way to heaven. That's it. 538 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,120 There's no such thing as coexist. 539 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,200 It just can't happen. It's a lie of the enemy to make 540 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,280 you think that everything can coexist. 541 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,880 Everything could just be nice and we can all sing together. 542 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:56,320 And Jesus divides because he loves. 543 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,600 Isn't that good? It's like a parent that just 544 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,160 says, hey, no, you can't have that. 545 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:03,680 It allows you to destroy your life. 546 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:08,600 And they're like, you hate me. No, I love you man. 547 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,400 Like hatred me. Like just destroy your life and 548 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,520 do what you want, kid. You know that's hatred. 549 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:19,040 God says no, no, no, no, no. I'm showing you the way I am. 550 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,120 The GPS system. I have it like it. 551 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:23,680 I have the coordinates to heaven. 552 00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:26,240 And if you follow me, I will get you there. 553 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,760 If you do not want to follow me, then you will not be with me, 554 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:32,480 period. That's it. 555 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,360 OK, so the enemy attacks godly disciple makers. 556 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,040 Here we go. Top 10. 557 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,640 All right, just rapid fire. Hopefully. 558 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,040 OK, rapid fire. My wife tells me how I lie every 559 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,960 week. So I'm trying to she's like, you 560 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,600 know, you were you took. Do you know that? 561 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,480 That's the like when she asked me to go for a walk. 562 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:58,400 I know like feedback, feedback time. 563 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,360 I love my walks with you. I do. 564 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,360 I really do. OK. 565 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,760 All right, so the enemy attacks us because we are the primary 566 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,040 means to get the gospel to the nations. 567 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,600 That's why. That's why he attacks you every 568 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:15,800 day. Think about this. 569 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,600 Every day he attacks you because you are the primary means to get 570 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,800 the gospel to somebody else. That's crazy when you think 571 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,680 about it. You need to know that why? 572 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,760 I mean think about that every day of your life. 573 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,400 He is he's going to give you these There's ten ways. 574 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,560 He just keeps you from the mission of God, because do you 575 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,320 know that just as someone gave you the the gospel, they're 576 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:42,960 called a disciple maker that the disciple maker. 577 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,760 They did their job like they're the disciple maker. 578 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,880 They did their job by getting me the gospel. 579 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,280 Don't kill that line. Don't let it end with you like 580 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,320 you are a disciple of Jesus and a disciple maker. 581 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,960 Where's Bravo at? Where's your at? 582 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,360 Where? OK. 583 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,800 All right, listen. What is the definition? 584 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,960 You hate going to class? Professors at UCF don't do this, 585 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:12,480 do you? Do they? 586 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:18,160 OK, so OK, So what is the definition or the goal I should 587 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:26,560 say of discipleship? It's to, it's OK, it happens. 588 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,080 It happens to the best of us and when we're on the spot. 589 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:42,720 But you got this encourage to encourage and tell someone to 590 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,880 live wholeheartedly for Jesus, for Jesus and his purposes. 591 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:51,440 Woo, let's go, 9090%, 90%, we'll eventually get 100 there. 592 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,560 We'll eventually get it. That's good. 593 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,640 It's good, good, good, good. OK, so Spurgeon said this near 594 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,280 the nearer you live to God because it's nothing, it's not 595 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,840 like wow, it's profound. It's simple, but profound. 596 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:09,960 The nearer you live to God, like on purpose, right, the more you 597 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,520 can expect the devil's opposition. 598 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,480 And it's wherever or whenever the harvest is plentiful. 599 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,120 And I think the harvest is plentiful on campus right now. 600 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:19,760 I think the harvest is plentiful. 601 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,320 Like in our neighborhoods. People are hungry for Jesus. 602 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:24,320 They are. There's hunger. 603 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,720 You know what's sad is like you have hunger over here. 604 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,960 Like you have them. The unbelievers are blinded. 605 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,880 They're blinded, but they're many of them are hungry. 606 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,760 And it's sad. It's like, OK, if the enemy can 607 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,280 blind unbelievers, but also God can override that. 608 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,200 He's beginning to open up people to hear the gospel. 609 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,640 And then you got people over here like us in this room, the 610 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,520 church, we're not really interested in in doing any of 611 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,040 that. Like sharing. 612 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,520 That's like really sad. I think about it when I think 613 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,400 about that. Let's not do that. 614 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,080 Let's be a sharing church. Let's be a people that make 615 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,320 disciples. That is Our Calling. 616 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,960 And college students, if you're in college, please give like 4 617 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,600 years to it. It'll put something deep in you, 618 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,600 in the DNA so that like, you will teach your kids how to do 619 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,520 that. You will have, you will have, 620 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:25,200 you will be a family on mission. There's nothing more joyful and 621 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,760 more purposeful than that. So OK, So what are the 10 ways 622 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,840 that keeps us? He'll do whatever enemy will do 623 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,480 whatever it takes to keep us from evangelism #1 is tempting 624 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,480 us to sin. He tempts us to sin. 625 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:42,000 When we sin, it is OK. When we sin, guys, it is very 626 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,120 difficult to talk about forgiveness, mercy and the 627 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:49,200 victory of Christ when we're bogged down with rebellion and 628 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,080 guilt. Think about that like, what's 629 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,880 the what's the last? I mean, that is like evangelism 630 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:56,760 is the last thing you want to do. 631 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,760 You just keep, if you're living like right, so close to sin, 632 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,400 right, like right on the line, that's evangelism is not the 633 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,000 first thing you want to do, right? 634 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:14,640 What so not only that, but it says in Psalm 6818 to 19 says 635 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:19,560 that our sin hinders our prayer life for the lost in or just in 636 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,000 any area. Just I mean, if you fill in the 637 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,280 blank hinders our prayers for fill in the blank. 638 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,120 This is what he says. If I had been aware of the 639 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:30,280 malice in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. 640 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,760 And you could exchange you could just like a little fill in the 641 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,520 blank for malice. I mean, it could be just drop 642 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,000 down menu, a bunch of just different things that are you're 643 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,000 dealing with. We talked about a couple weeks 644 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,200 back that husbands who don't treat their wives right, their 645 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,680 prayers are being hindered. So we we know there is a 646 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,840 theology of prayer in the Bible that says when we're messing 647 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,440 around with sin, our prayers are ineffective. 648 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:00,960 Is that right, Kai? Did I get that right? 649 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:06,720 Yeah, yeah. Kind of OK, all right, Isaiah 59 650 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,360 one through 2, the Lord's arm is not too weak to save. 651 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,360 OK, this is good. Like know this, it is not too 652 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,199 weak to save. His ear is not too deaf to hear, 653 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,320 but listen. But your sin is separating you 654 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,159 from God and your sins have hidden his face from you so that 655 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:24,679 he does not listen. That's crazy. 656 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,040 Like, doesn't that why you want to make me want to live like 657 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,480 holy lives? Like I want my prayers to be 658 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,800 effective. I want to pray for the lost and 659 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,320 then be saved. Amen. 660 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,920 So like church. So if in order for the enemy, 661 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,320 OK, the enemy to weaken this church in in the area of a 662 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:46,040 making disciples and evangelism, right, it's just to give it's 663 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,960 just put sin in front of people to weaken their lives. 664 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,920 And of course they're witness because unsaved, the unsaved 665 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:58,520 because of hypocrisy are less likely to listen to us if we 666 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,040 have ongoing sin in our lives. Like in other words, I mean, 667 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,120 this is what I would have asked if I watched the people sharing 668 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:10,560 the gospel with me. I would have said, well, if it's 669 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,520 not working for you, then why would it work for me? 670 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,640 You have to ask that. Number 2, discouraging 671 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,680 believers. The enemy is really good at 672 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,520 discouraging believers. Like the story of Elijah and 673 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,640 Jezebel, if you remember that. I think I shared something about 674 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:33,160 that a number of weeks back. The enemy doesn't quit after 675 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,240 he's been defeated once. He continues to go. 676 00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:42,840 So like you saw Elijah, right? And, and you know, kill the 950 677 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,320 prophets of Baal and then Jezebel's like, I'm coming after 678 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,880 you and he runs to a cave. So just because the enemy was 679 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,040 defeated in an extraordinary way does not mean he does not try to 680 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,200 defeat you in some other ways. He is he is relentless and he 681 00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:02,360 will continue. And then with that, he just 682 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,360 tries to get us to quit and feel hopeless. 683 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,400 He occupies us with discouragement because we're 684 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,160 just less likely to share when we're consumed with our with, 685 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,000 with all that discouragement and all the stuff that's going on in 686 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,800 our hearts, we're hopeless. We're not going to want to give 687 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,360 hope away because it first of all, we need the hope. 688 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,280 We're going to give it away, right? 689 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,680 All right, so #3 distracting us with things that are not 690 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,800 eternal. You know what Ecclesiastes says, 691 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,760 says go get perspective from the funeral over the wedding because 692 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,800 it is at the funeral. When you're there at the 693 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:44,200 funeral, you're saying one day we will be at a wedding feast, 694 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,320 being with Jesus for all of eternity at the wedding. 695 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,280 It reminds us that this isn't all that's going to last. 696 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:56,200 One day we will die and we won't have this earth anymore. 697 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:57,640 We will give account for our lives. 698 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,640 It's in that profound. I mean the proverbs are in 699 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:06,920 Ecclesiastes written by Solomon is so powerful because it we get 700 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,040 distracted on a daily basis. Just pause real quick right now 701 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,640 and think about this week, how many distractions came your way 702 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:18,520 for and especially in the area of of all the distractions that 703 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,360 had to do with this just the temporal just this life 704 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,960 distractions just in this life. Think about them all. 705 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,000 There's a lot of them in Luke 1038 to 42. 706 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,920 The enemy distracts us from the one thing that really matters, 707 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,600 intimacy with Jesus. Second Corinthians 11/1 through 708 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,920 4. The enemy takes us away from 709 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:44,000 what is most important, the simplicity and devotion to 710 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,920 Christ. He does it every day. 711 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,280 In fact, in the morning, how many moms wake up with with a 712 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,760 crying baby when you were just all you want to do is spend time 713 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,440 with God. Now listen, there's grace, 714 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,880 grace, grace because you can kill two birds with one stone. 715 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,920 You can listen to the Bible as you rock your baby or feed your 716 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,320 baby, whatever. I mean, there's different ways 717 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,560 to go about that. But honestly, we're all 718 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,200 distracted by so many different things. 719 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,880 Just every time you have a goal, you're like, OK, I want to read 720 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,040 the Bible, you know, 4 chapters a day or this is a boom the next 721 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,760 day distraction or five days later. 722 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,920 You, you because it all relied on you and your own strength. 723 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,680 You get disappointed and you quit and you stop and you don't 724 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,720 read any of the chapters, not even a half a chapter or a verse 725 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:31,120 because you're so discouraged, because you maybe perhaps 726 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,240 because we're it's, we're relying on our own strength, 727 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,600 which brings me to the fourth point, provoking pride in US. 728 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:45,240 It evangelism is can be challenging because of our pride 729 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:52,440 when we forget that Jesus is at the center of this work, not our 730 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,520 own strength. Somehow evangelism when it 731 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:59,480 becomes about us, you know, and sometimes I think I'm speaking 732 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,320 to the ones who go on evangelism often. 733 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,200 If you're one of those people like you put the stake in the 734 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:11,000 ground like Rich, you're always there, which is awesome. 735 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,000 I'm so encouraged. But a lot of times when we do it 736 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,680 over and over and over again, we rely on our own strength. 737 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,440 In other words, like you're not, you're not distracted, you're 738 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,760 going like that's what you've signed up for. 739 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,440 So the enemy, you got to watch it. 740 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,000 Don't be ignorant of a scheme. Second Corinthians 2 don't be 741 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,280 ignorant of the enemy's schemes in our lives. 742 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,280 And what is the scheme in our and, and maybe, and guys who go 743 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:39,440 on evangelism often is to do it in your own strength because 744 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,720 there was a victory. You rely on yesterday's 745 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:45,480 victories for today's right like, oh, I had that work that 746 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,400 little skill work or that little saying work. 747 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:48,960 Well, it doesn't work today because you're a different 748 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,720 person. So don't become don't be a 749 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:53,880 robot. All right so it's first First 750 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,200 Corinthians reverse Chronicles 21 one through 5. 751 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,840 You see David relying on the spirit often, but in this case, 752 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,960 David was tempted by the enemy later in life. 753 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:07,600 This is towards the end of his life. 754 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,280 He was tempted to take a census. Why, why? 755 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,200 Why was the? Why is that? 756 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,680 Some of you are like, oh, it's a census. 757 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,840 I mean, we do that all the time, every five years or something, 758 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,640 right? Or 10. 759 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:23,640 Is it 10 years? David wanted to see and show 760 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,840 others how powerful his army was. 761 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,240 He wanted, he was just flexing his arm. 762 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:34,040 He's like, look at how powerful we are and read that later. 763 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,880 It didn't go well for David. He had a pick between like, I 764 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,760 don't know if God ever came to you with like pick one of three 765 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,840 consequences. God's never done that to me. 766 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,680 Like the specifics, but that'd be scary. 767 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,560 Be like, I would like I'm reading that passage. 768 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,000 I'm like, I don't want any of those three. 769 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,680 And David's just like I rather be in your hands than the man 770 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,520 than the hands of man, which is wise. 771 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,800 So we depend on our own strength and then we fall in, in Mark 9. 772 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,400 There's a great example there when the when the disciples 773 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:11,280 tried to cast out a demon and their own strength and without 774 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,720 prayer, how did that go? It didn't go well. 775 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,080 You know who, who got the short end of the stick on that one? 776 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,200 The Father who's wanted their son healed. 777 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:27,520 So when we're relying on our own strength, guess what happens? 778 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,240 It's people don't get what they need from Jesus. 779 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:37,400 People have a disbelief in Jesus because we because of our pride. 780 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,240 So when, when evangelism becomes all about us or like when we 781 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:45,920 rely on our own strength, sadly, like the Father and the Son 782 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,400 could not get what they needed because they were, they were 783 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:53,560 basing their, their present success on yesterday's success. 784 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,000 And so #5 provoking embarrassment and fear, going to 785 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:04,280 move Luke 2252 to 62. Peter denied Jesus three times. 786 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,160 I love this part where he's like the, the, the slave girl, right? 787 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,240 She's like, are you a follower of Jesus? 788 00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:12,280 Aren't you a follower of Jesus? I've seen you with him. 789 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:14,520 And he's like, no, no, no, no, I don't know what you're talking 790 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:19,400 about. Well, who is again, who is 791 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,000 hindered there not just because of your pride, but because of 792 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,880 your fear. When we give in to fear, when 793 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,440 the enemy makes us fear. And this happens a lot in like 794 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:32,400 in a, you know, maybe evangelism contact context overseas, you 795 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,560 know, you might hear stories or you might have been there where 796 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,200 the enemy messes with you, puts a spirit of fear on you. 797 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,920 And now you're, you're like cowering in fear and trying to 798 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:43,560 deny Jesus. Not this. 799 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,520 And I mean, I don't think any one of us would be like, I don't 800 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:46,600 even know him, you know, anymore. 801 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,480 I don't think it maybe it'd be that extreme, but fear hinders 802 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,400 you from evangelism. Fear hinders you from going on 803 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:57,320 mission, whether it's fear of like rejection or fear or 804 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,200 whatever it might be. I mean, there's tons of, there's 805 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:04,600 tons of reasons for that fear, but there's missed opportunities 806 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,640 to evangelize and reach the people around you because of the 807 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,760 fear. The spirit of fear number six, 808 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:17,840 physical and mental fatigue. Maybe like there's just undealt 809 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,320 with emotions. Just you're tired. 810 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,760 How many times you're like, evangelism happens like in a 811 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:27,840 family life group that night and you're just like overwhelmed by 812 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,600 all the stuff that just happened just in that day. 813 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,800 And you're like, I don't really feel like going out. 814 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,840 It's not fear, it's not pride. It's not all these other things. 815 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,920 It's not ruining your witness. It's just mental fatigue. 816 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,360 It's it's exhaustion. You're tired. 817 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,240 Maybe you're not taking a, you know, getting enough rest. 818 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,400 I mean, you need you need rest. You're doing too much and in 819 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,800 your doing too much, you're the enemy's hindering you from 820 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,560 giving out like the the the should be your joy, right? 821 00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,640 Should be your joy to give away what was been given to you and 822 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,880 you forget. All right, and then number. 823 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,800 Oh, and one other thing at that. I know this is this is kind of a 824 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,280 an interesting. I I, I looked this up the other 825 00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,320 day or I came across this article and I thought, man, this 826 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,440 is so good. I think along with physical and 827 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:21,280 mental fatigue, there's a selfishness, there's a looking 828 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,920 inward that's unhealthy. And maybe an extreme example of 829 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:31,520 that would be I read this article on on this new trend 830 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,040 with men, not women with men, which is crazy. 831 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,720 But this idea it's it's called, I mean, it sounds so ridiculous 832 00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:42,280 when you say it out loud, but OK, so it's called looks maxing. 833 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,440 It's so ridiculous, isn't it so, so dumb when I say it out loud, 834 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,200 I'm like, Oh my gosh, but but I OK, it's ridiculous. 835 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:56,240 It's ridiculous, but OK, you, you need to understand that new 836 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:57,520 trend. It's so bad. 837 00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,440 It's so it's so bad. It is OK. 838 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,040 So this is what people do. They they break their legs. 839 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:10,080 These men break their legs. OK, so this all is all this all 840 00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,200 has to do with the fact that they think they're ugly and they 841 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,960 just want to look good, which is nothing wrong with looking good. 842 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:19,960 I mean, you definitely, you know, hygiene is good, brushing 843 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,400 your teeth, combing your hair, you know, all that's good. 844 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,960 And you should do that, right, Dick? 845 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:31,440 Yeah, So. But they'll break their bank and 846 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:36,680 even their bodies to get this image to get this sort of this 847 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,600 image that and look, it is not for the other person. 848 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:45,360 In fact, this is how crazy this is that I want to I want to be 849 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,040 sensitive. Not sure too much, but it it's, 850 00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:54,080 it isn't about attracting a mate because this idea, instead of 851 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,320 knowing that he could be with a woman or have sex with a woman 852 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,520 was in just just the idea of being with somebody else in some 853 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,320 ways is better than the deed itself. 854 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:17,570 We call that narcissism. I don't think narcissists share 855 00:46:17,570 --> 00:46:18,890 the gospel. Why? 856 00:46:18,890 --> 00:46:21,530 Because they're so focused on themselves. 857 00:46:22,170 --> 00:46:24,410 It doesn't have to be this extreme like breaking this one 858 00:46:24,410 --> 00:46:29,930 guy broke his legs and had rods inserted in his legs in order to 859 00:46:29,930 --> 00:46:32,490 be taller and he just went from 6/2 to 6/6. 860 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:40,400 I mean it's crazy, but he spent $100,000 on it and then 861 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:44,000 injecting fillers and having reconstructive surgeries to 862 00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,440 improve their jawline. They hit themselves. 863 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,680 This is the craziest one. They hit themselves with a 864 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,600 hammer in their in their cheekbones so that it could 865 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,280 actually reconfigure their face to have a better look. 866 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:02,560 It's some sort of like treat micro fractures that will cause 867 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,880 it just hurts. They even say that like will 868 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,320 cause their facial features to be more pronounced. 869 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,440 They use meth, probably know this one, to suppress their 870 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:15,960 appetite, use anabolic steroids and to sacrifice even their 871 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,640 fertility in the future. Man, Can you imagine people 872 00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,080 doing that and then went eventually when you wake up from 873 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,240 the God of this world who's blinded you, you can't have kids 874 00:47:26,240 --> 00:47:32,440 now because you are a narcissist and your blindness, it's really 875 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,840 sad. You know what's happening on 876 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,280 campus. You know, it's, I mean, there, 877 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,720 there's a neutral, I mean, it's, but they say that like in young 878 00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:49,080 men, it's about 54% are showing signs of this and 49% of women. 879 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,240 So men are leading in this, which is just crazy when you 880 00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:56,280 think about it. But this narcissism is 881 00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,640 destroying our culture and it's ultimately the enemy's way of 882 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:04,480 just he's, he's blinding the even believers. 883 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,080 And it, it doesn't even have to be that extreme. 884 00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,360 So you don't take a hammer to your cheeks. 885 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,600 I mean, that's crazy. I get it. 886 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,040 That's like extreme. But perhaps maybe you're just so 887 00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:17,120 self focused that there's, there's just, there's nothing in 888 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,560 that heart of self focus that could think about another person 889 00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,320 who isn't saved. That's a problem. 890 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,960 That's why the the slowing of growth. 891 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,560 This place, look, I don't care about like I don't, I 892 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,440 personally, I'll just say this. I don't need this place to fill 893 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,600 up for me to feel good about being a pastor. 894 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,960 I really don't care about that. You guys know that I really 895 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:42,600 don't care. But but you should like, because 896 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,520 every empty seat in here, it could have somebody sitting 897 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,760 there that doesn't know Jesus. Now they know Jesus and now they 898 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,920 have a life full of purpose. And that should be like, I want 899 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,760 that. I, I, I want that. 900 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:57,240 But you know what, we're so self consumed, so selfish in America. 901 00:48:57,240 --> 00:48:59,880 We don't really care because we got our wife or we got our kid 902 00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,480 and we got some of you young adults selfish. 903 00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,720 Like you're looking at, you're looking at the, the, the, the 904 00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:09,880 college students coming in. You're like, wow, like does any 905 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,760 of you, when's the last time you actually broke for a college 906 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,640 student? When's the last time you did 907 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,760 that? You broke because they don't 908 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:22,560 have a wife that loves you. They do not have a purpose. 909 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,600 They they they are stuck in the world. 910 00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,360 They don't have the comfortable life that you come home to. 911 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,000 They don't have that. That's not theirs yet. 912 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:35,320 Could be. But there has to be a breaking a 913 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:40,480 breaking a a a letting go of self in order to help somebody 914 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:41,960 else. Amen. 915 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:46,000 OK, I know we're 7 all right, so dividing. 916 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,960 I, I will we'll talk more about that some other time. 917 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:53,720 But when the basically, when unbelievers look at the world 918 00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:56,640 and the look at the church and they're just dividing over 919 00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:03,080 stupid stuff, or they're reading people who are hurt by the 920 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,600 church and never got over their offence and they're reading 921 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,840 ridiculous reviews. Why would unbelievers want to 922 00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,680 come to the church, not just ours, but why would they? 923 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,320 I mean, like, I honestly, if I was an unbeliever, I literally 924 00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,800 in my unbelief, I'd be like, this is lame, dumb. 925 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,960 I'm just going to do the unsaved life because what's the I mean, 926 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,680 why go through all this change for nothing? 927 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,680 So dividing over things internally keeps the church from 928 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:33,360 thinking outwardly and growing #8 blinding us from the cost, 929 00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:39,280 the cost and benefits of of evangelism. 930 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:44,040 Of course it costs you. You know, I have like every in 931 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,160 every season I have like some sort of saying, you've heard me 932 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,000 say like you can't have your cake and eat it too. 933 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,760 Some people like in the college ministry, I said that they're 934 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,520 like, what is that mean? I have no idea. 935 00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:55,320 I'm not going to explain it. Don't worry about it. 936 00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,200 Just ask somebody else. But I'm like, but now I'm on 937 00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,920 this like new kick of like this new saying that I've been 938 00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,760 thinking about it a lot. It, it's, it's sounds 939 00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:10,520 ridiculous, but I'll just say anyways, there is, there is a 940 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,080 cost to what we do and it's worth it. 941 00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:20,040 Like planning a church, going out and sharing, sharing the 942 00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:23,120 gospel with someone, actually taking a leap of faith in your 943 00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:27,360 office when it's quiet and nobody really wants to talk 944 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,600 about the things that are important and everyone's just 945 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,520 negative. But taking a stance and saying, 946 00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,120 Hey, I want to give you something that would change your 947 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,760 life. I want to invite you to church. 948 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,120 I want to share the gospel. Like it costs something. 949 00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,880 It gets really messy. Like you being in the church 950 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,880 long term, like just saying like, Hey, I'm in no matter what 951 00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:51,200 is, is, is incredibly messy. You saying as a family for me 952 00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,760 and my house will serve the Lord, incredibly messy. 953 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:59,840 And so I, I, you know, the, you want to hear the same. 954 00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,560 OK, so you can't make an omelette without breaking the 955 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:11,200 eggs. It's pretty good. 956 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,280 Hey, think about it. If we were like, I don't know if 957 00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:15,600 I, I don't know, laugh at that or not. 958 00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:22,480 But listen, listen, it's true. You can't get to this desired 959 00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:27,840 end where the a church that's on fire for God like we like the 960 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:31,360 the, the I mean, don't you dream about do you ever just dream of 961 00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:35,800 a church like coming in this place is just full of life, full 962 00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,440 of life full of unbelievers who've gotten saved. 963 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:43,080 Do you know how like fiery would be in this room if it's full of 964 00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,360 not just church transfer of people who are disgruntled with 965 00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,720 that church in Oviedo and that church in Oviedo and they come 966 00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:49,440 over here because that person hurt them. 967 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:51,640 And I don't want to. I literally do not want to lead 968 00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,880 a church like that. So if that's you, please, just 969 00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,160 please don't like, don't, don't cause any problems. 970 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,200 It's ridiculous. I have no patience for it. 971 00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,000 But what I want to give my life to is new conversion growth. 972 00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,760 And I want our church to be involved in that process of 973 00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:17,120 sharing the gospel with people. And trust me, guys, it, if you 974 00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,200 thought this was messy, it will be messy in a good way. 975 00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,480 And we will make our omelettes, but we need to crack the eggs. 976 00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,560 It's going to get messy, and you do understand that. 977 00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:32,160 OK. If you don't remember anything 978 00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,000 else, you're driving in the car Tuesday afternoon. 979 00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:38,520 Would that bald headed guy talk about something about omelets 980 00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:39,680 and cracking eggs? Yeah. 981 00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:40,920 I want to be a part of that baby. 982 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:42,240 That's awesome. No. 983 00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:48,280 OK, there's more. OK, so can't achieve something 984 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,200 incredibly beautiful without it costing you something. 985 00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,000 And the enemy wants to blind you from that. 986 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,760 He wants to blind you from the cost, but the other one blinded 987 00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:58,240 you from the cost. He wants to show you the cost, 988 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,400 but he wants to blind you from the benefits of the cost. 989 00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,840 He wants to blind you from just out, man. 990 00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,960 Like if I just step out and I and I'd be a part if I just do 991 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,920 what she just told me to do, which is make disciples. 992 00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:10,600 All right, So what do you need to do? 993 00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:12,240 It's practical. Bob. 994 00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,280 Pray for Bob. OK, Pray for Bob. 995 00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:15,880 We we nickname her little guy Bob. 996 00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:18,960 Poor guy has a complex. He one day he comes up with me 997 00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,200 and he's like, you know what, Dad, call me by my name. 998 00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:22,040 Judah. Judah. 999 00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:31,120 Judah. Fine, but Bob, break my heart 1000 00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,880 God, for what breaks yours? You came to seek and save the 1001 00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:37,920 lost. On your heart is always 1002 00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,200 brokenness. If you go to Jesus, if you have 1003 00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:43,560 a relationship with Jesus and you walk with Him long enough, 1004 00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:48,000 you will realize that his heart aches and breaks for the lost. 1005 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,240 The question is, does yours #2 that's Romans 9. 1006 00:54:52,240 --> 00:54:54,800 You could read Romans 9, the first couple of lines, boom. 1007 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,240 I mean, Paul's just like, hey, he's broken over lost Israel 1008 00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:02,040 number 20, right? Pray for opportunities. 1009 00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:04,960 And we, if, if you're, if you're having a hard time and you are 1010 00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:06,680 praying, you're praying you're like God, there's no 1011 00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,680 opportunities. We will give you opportunities. 1012 00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,000 There's plenty of them throughout the week. 1013 00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:13,520 But pray for your own opportunity. 1014 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,160 You know, Paul prayed that in Ephesians 6. 1015 00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,240 He's like, pray for an open door. 1016 00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:22,360 Pray for an open door, OK, that God would give me an opportunity 1017 00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:23,840 to share. And then what? 1018 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:25,680 Then what do you need? Once the doors open and the 1019 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,400 person's in front of you and they're like, what do I do in my 1020 00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:29,520 life? You know? 1021 00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:33,360 Then you got to pray for boldness, that you would preach 1022 00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,440 the gospel with boldness. Amen. 1023 00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:42,000 OK do not stop praying for non believers, but also pray for 1024 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,240 your heart, Pray for Bob, Pray that your heart would, that God 1025 00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:48,640 would use you. All right #9 moves the enemy, 1026 00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,840 moves the target. I think I've shared this 1027 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,680 throughout, but I just for the point, for the purpose of not 1028 00:55:55,680 --> 00:56:02,720 getting in trouble and not forgetting to say #9 he lies to 1029 00:56:02,720 --> 00:56:08,360 you and us and says we are content as a church with church 1030 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,560 transfer, not new conversion growth. 1031 00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:17,240 Are you content? Honestly, it's OK. 1032 00:56:17,240 --> 00:56:19,040 Just be honest. Are you content? 1033 00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,640 You're like, again, I got my friends. 1034 00:56:24,240 --> 00:56:25,880 Yeah. I, I mean, I'll go on mission, 1035 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:32,320 but as a general way of life, does your heart just break? 1036 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,920 And does when you go out in public, do you think about lost 1037 00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,920 people and then being opportunities to share your 1038 00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,680 faith and then being future disciple disciples of Jesus, 1039 00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,640 disciple makers, church planters? 1040 00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,120 I just can't think of it. There's the only way our church 1041 00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:52,760 is going to be a fiery life giving church is when there's 1042 00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:58,320 new church growth, like new conversion growth, new converts. 1043 00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:04,520 The enemy's fine with us. Just equating evangelism 1044 00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,160 opportunities is just like social gospel or just being 1045 00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:12,560 kind, but you have to actually speak the truth out in public to 1046 00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:15,640 people who are lost. Like evangelism. 1047 00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,680 Yes, it includes a helping hand. We want to do a lot. 1048 00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:23,600 We want to be practical. But it, it, if it's, if it's not 1049 00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,480 sharing physically your faith with somebody and using the 1050 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,200 scriptures and sharing Jesus with somebody, it is not 1051 00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:35,360 evangelism. And no one gets saved #10 And 1052 00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:37,680 lastly, we'll, we'll end this one here. 1053 00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:45,000 The real problem, the real problem, I believe the main way 1054 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:53,960 the enemy hinders new conversion growth and hinders our 1055 00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:59,920 evangelism is we have lost our fire as believers. 1056 00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:07,960 We've lost our fire, we've lost our friends and we've lost the 1057 00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:11,880 sharpness of sharing an accurate gospel. 1058 00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,520 Let me say that again, OK, because this is really 1059 00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:18,360 important. Actually, you might want to 1060 00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:22,720 write this down because I guarantee you 90% of this room, 1061 00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,360 this is where they're at, probably 95. 1062 00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:30,480 You'd be a fool not to write this down. 1063 00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,480 Actually, I honestly like I, I don't not sure what else to say, 1064 00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:37,960 but you need to write this down. And actually, you, you want God 1065 00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:42,560 to move this morning before you leave, we'll give an invitation. 1066 00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:49,640 The real problem guys, is we have lost our fire. 1067 00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:56,840 We've lost our lost friends and we lost the sharpness to share 1068 00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:01,680 an accurate gospel. Because you see, when when 1069 00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:06,360 there's passionate believers on fire for Jesus, plus they're 1070 00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:11,760 close and intentional with lost people and they have a clear 1071 00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:17,800 gospel presentation, maximum impact, we will be unstoppable, 1072 00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:24,120 no doubt in my mind to see what happens over time as Christians, 1073 00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,760 we lose our fire. We start to cut off our 1074 00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,720 unbelieving friends. We start to do the holy huddle. 1075 00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:33,400 We lose the sharpness because we forgot how much the gospel has 1076 00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:38,040 been impactful in our own lives. And so now we lost this ability 1077 00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:40,480 to even share an accurate gospel. 1078 00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,560 We've lost that ability and therefore no one gets saved. 1079 00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:47,280 So what we do is we do. And This is why we haven't done 1080 00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:48,840 that because I don't want to do that. 1081 00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:56,560 But we'll just have evangelism classes to try to pump different 1082 00:59:56,560 --> 01:00:00,200 practical ways for you to share. But we're we're pumping that 1083 01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:02,840 into a room who's lost their fire and their lost friends. 1084 01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:07,600 And So what happens is. What happens is we're, we're 1085 01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,640 just like a number of things. There's like, all right, get the 1086 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:10,840 fire. OK, great. 1087 01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:14,800 But without the fire, if we, if, if practically we're like, hey, 1088 01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,640 get in the room and and get all the evangelism, you know, 1089 01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,000 equipping we, we just, we, we're going to give you like the top 1090 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,360 three things of how to how to share. 1091 01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:24,360 OK, well, the problem is then, then we're like, OK, then go 1092 01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,080 connect with your lost friends. Without the fire, that's 1093 01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,200 dangerous. That's dangerous. 1094 01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:31,720 Without the fire, that's dangerous. 1095 01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:34,040 Why? Because they'll drag you down. 1096 01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,840 You must have fire to reach those without a fire. 1097 01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:42,760 And if you do not have a fire, they'll drag you, they'll pull 1098 01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:44,880 you away. So the answer is not just go 1099 01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:46,440 find a bunch of lost people to hang out with. 1100 01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:49,600 College students, seriously consider this. 1101 01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:57,760 If if you are newly saved, if you're newly saved and you have 1102 01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,600 that fire, it's in you, it's burning. 1103 01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:02,480 You're like, God just saved me recently. 1104 01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:04,120 It's so good. It's so great. 1105 01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:06,640 OK, keep that fire, Kindle that fire. 1106 01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:08,800 Just ask whatever God, like God, please keep that. 1107 01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:11,760 Please, please, please keep that so that that I want to continue 1108 01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:15,000 to to remain faithful to reaching my lost friends. 1109 01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:18,240 And I want to be equipped to how to share an accurate gospel with 1110 01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:20,120 those people. But if you're a young adult and 1111 01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,000 you've lost some of that fire, you lost that fire. 1112 01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,840 The answer is not just to go, just to go hang out with lost 1113 01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:27,880 people because you're in danger of falling. 1114 01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:32,800 What you need is the fire back. We need the fire back. 1115 01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:41,280 And there's only one way to get that fire is to ask for it, just 1116 01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:44,000 to simply ask for it. God, I want the fire back. 1117 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,800 I want to be used by you. I want you. 1118 01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:49,960 I want to be used by you. I want the fire again. 1119 01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,320 You know how we lose the fire? So much of it is because we 1120 01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:54,880 quenched the Holy Spirit and we grieve the Holy Spirit. 1121 01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,840 We're we're in, we're in maybe in a sin, perhaps in some sort 1122 01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:00,840 of sin habit that's just destroying our lives and you 1123 01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:02,280 know it. And you need to repent of that 1124 01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:06,040 and turn back to God. And maybe perhaps some of you 1125 01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:09,440 guys, you're hearing that prompting like go share, go on 1126 01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:12,640 Wednesday, go, go to the tent, you know, go out with the young 1127 01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:16,080 adults and, and go do the, you know, the, the white board 1128 01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:17,000 evangelism. That's great. 1129 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:18,480 Do those things. And then you're like, Ah, no, 1130 01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:20,440 you know what, I'm too busy. Whatever you're quenching, 1131 01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:21,840 you're quenching the Holy Spirit. 1132 01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:25,400 Just think of it this way. Inside your heart, when you get 1133 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:29,240 saved, you have a heart. The the Holy Spirit is beating 1134 01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:33,280 that his heart is beating, and every time you sin and do 1135 01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,760 something you should not do, you hurt his heart. 1136 01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:39,080 It's called grieving the Holy Spirit. 1137 01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:43,640 That's in Ephesians. It's in Ephesians you grieve the 1138 01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:46,760 Holy Spirit. Also equally on the other side, 1139 01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,520 you have a fire in you when you get saved. 1140 01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:53,640 And, and what happens is every time the Holy Spirit says, go do 1141 01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:56,120 that. Go pray for somebody, go share 1142 01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:57,760 the gospel. You're here. 1143 01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,360 I got a word for somebody, you know, it's just doing something 1144 01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,480 that you should do and you're like, Nah, I don't really want 1145 01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:05,080 to do that. You throw sand on that fire. 1146 01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:10,240 Can I just say that perhaps we lost our fire because in this 1147 01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:13,480 room we are grieving and quenching the Spirit on a daily 1148 01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:16,840 basis. We don't have to anymore. 1149 01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:23,280 Say, Lord, I want to please you, want to please you, and I don't 1150 01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,120 want to quench what you're doing in my life. 1151 01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:30,240 Kindle that fire again. Amen. 1152 01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:35,760 Kindle that fire. I'm so thankful for people that 1153 01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:39,880 have shared the gospel with me, You know, and then because they 1154 01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,480 share the gospel with me, they've been blessings in my 1155 01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:43,960 life. I got to share the gospel then 1156 01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,760 with them. And there is a couple people 1157 01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:49,560 that come to mind that I'm just so thankful today. 1158 01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:55,200 One, my, my brother, when I, when I first got saved, I was 1159 01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:56,800 praying for him for about 3 or 4 years. 1160 01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:01,440 And it was when I, it was about 2000. 1161 01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:06,920 And let's see 2007, six or no, it was 2000 and six, 2006. 1162 01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:12,120 He was going to a church called Antioch Wheaton because he had 1163 01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:15,320 just gotten saved. And I was thinking, man, I was 1164 01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:16,400 thinking about this the other day. 1165 01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:20,520 I was like, if that dude didn't get saved because a result of 1166 01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:23,840 praying for him. I remember walking he he was 1167 01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:25,680 living at he was living at home and I was going home. 1168 01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:30,360 I lived actually there too as well when I graduated college. 1169 01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,640 But I went past his bedroom one time and he was just sitting 1170 01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:37,640 there just so discouraged. And I was walking down stairs 1171 01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:42,320 and I felt the Holy Spirit so strong because you know, 1172 01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:45,280 brothers, especially if they're unsaved, they just, they're at 1173 01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:48,760 odds, can't be at odds cause a lot of pain in your life. 1174 01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:53,240 And then so I walked back and I felt the Holy Spirit say, go in 1175 01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:57,240 there and you comfort him, share with him the gospel. 1176 01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:01,760 So I, I sat down next to him on his bed and I said, and I 1177 01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:06,280 remember he's got more thicker like Italian hands than I do. 1178 01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:11,360 So he's we just, I held his hand and this is awkward for me 1179 01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:16,120 because I don't know, just all those years and I just prayed 1180 01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:19,400 for him and I just said, all right, Lord, just pray whatever. 1181 01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,000 I remember everything. I prayed. 1182 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,880 I just shared the gospel with him and just left it there. 1183 01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,960 He was so thankful for that. And it was years later, not that 1184 01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:30,400 long ago. He just not that long later 1185 01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:34,760 after that, he, he went to this church, Antioch, Wheaton. 1186 01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,800 And I'm just thinking man, because of the prayers, because 1187 01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:42,920 of the obedience, right? Like this church would never 1188 01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:47,400 exist as because I wouldn't have known Antioch and we would have 1189 01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:49,160 never planted a church in Antioch. 1190 01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:52,760 And just so thankful for not only the person who shared the 1191 01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:55,560 gospel with me, but then sharing the gospel with others and how 1192 01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:58,800 all those things work together. Then I want to share one other 1193 01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:02,960 one with you guys. It was hard this week after, 1194 01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:07,240 after the the college encounter night, we had gotten word that 1195 01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:11,440 if some of you guys know her, you got word that Trish, she 1196 01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:14,440 passed away. She was a part of the early 1197 01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:16,200 stages of this church plan. She's a part of my youth 1198 01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:21,400 ministry years ago and great source of encouragement like, 1199 01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:24,360 but she was lost, as lost as you can get. 1200 01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,880 I mean, she had buried drugs underneath the bottom of the 1201 01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:28,960 boat from Jamaica, bring it over to Florida. 1202 01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:32,680 I'm sure like heroin addict. The whole thing came to my came 1203 01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:36,280 to the youth ministry when I was, you know, like I left 1204 01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:39,160 Antioch, Wheaton to plant, not plant, but basically plant a 1205 01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:43,240 youth ministry that they didn't have on the beach near Daytona. 1206 01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:48,720 And we built this thing. She came in and she was, she was 1207 01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:51,840 probably in her 60s at the time and she'd come in and she would 1208 01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:55,840 be like, like, F bombing. Like she's like just, I was 1209 01:06:56,080 --> 01:07:00,960 like, I was like, OK, we are trying to build a youth ministry 1210 01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:06,320 and that is probably not what we want to do is just casually just 1211 01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:08,920 F bombing at the youth house, you know? 1212 01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:13,280 And she she's, you know, quickly caught on that that wasn't 1213 01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,080 appropriate. But she was so faithful. 1214 01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,040 She'd bring us McDonald's everywhere. 1215 01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:20,320 Like she'd bring bags of burgers and just dump it on the floor 1216 01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:22,320 and a bunch of dudes would just like pile it up. 1217 01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:25,440 She'd faithfully give me a milkshake like every week. 1218 01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:28,400 And then I would just preach the word and people would get saved 1219 01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,000 and we'd go out, we'd share the gospel. 1220 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,600 We'd see the sick healed. And I mean, on the streets near 1221 01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:36,000 the beach, it was powerful. But the time where I needed her 1222 01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:39,400 the most is when we, I lost my position there. 1223 01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,320 And I was, I was asked to plant ENIAC Orlando. 1224 01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:44,760 And we were at a youth conference in Lakeland. 1225 01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,280 I'll not forget that. But we were walking around the 1226 01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:50,720 stadium and I was, it was early stages. 1227 01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:52,680 And I, I mean, we didn't know how we're going to be able to 1228 01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:55,120 support a family and all that. And I just felt like, all right, 1229 01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:58,160 Lord, I try to take the easy way out. 1230 01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:00,200 There was a guy there that knew me. 1231 01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:03,080 It was through a mutual friend. His name's Greg Steer, but he 1232 01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,800 shared with it was a mutual friend to say, hey, we could get 1233 01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:08,840 you a job really pretty quickly. And we could just kind of shut 1234 01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:12,840 this Antioch Orlando thing down And, and you could you could be 1235 01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,440 a youth pastor in California. And so it was a really good 1236 01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,080 offer. And it was really good money. 1237 01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:19,680 And it was like decent money. It was like, you know, for, for 1238 01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:21,560 a guy with very little experience, I was like, OK, 1239 01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:23,000 they're like, they're like, take this. 1240 01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:26,720 You'll be a fool not to. And, and Trish knew what was 1241 01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:28,800 going on, but she's like, hey, let's go for a walk. 1242 01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,960 And I went for a walk and she just said, Johnny don't want 1243 01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:36,200 this. I was like, she's like, you're 1244 01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:39,720 not raising a family, you know, like she's like, you don't want 1245 01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:41,359 this. Trust me. 1246 01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,319 So I've watched you for the last three years. 1247 01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:48,080 You are made for this. You need to plant this church. 1248 01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:50,680 It does not make any sense, but you need to do it. 1249 01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:55,439 And it was in April of this year, which she told me like, 1250 01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:58,880 I'm in Scotland and she's calling me and and I put it on 1251 01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:01,399 speakerphone. Nicole and I are are listening 1252 01:09:01,399 --> 01:09:03,479 to this. And we're both weeping because 1253 01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:06,600 she's like, hey, I think I probably have cancer and this is 1254 01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:09,399 probably it. She's like, it's my fault, my 1255 01:09:09,399 --> 01:09:11,640 fault. I destroyed my life with 1256 01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:14,800 nicotine. Cigarettes finally caught up to 1257 01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:17,319 me. But I love Jesus and I'm so 1258 01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:19,600 thankful. She's like, John, you have 1259 01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:23,920 changed my life. She's like watching you. 1260 01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:27,000 You were like a fool in youth ministry. 1261 01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,200 You didn't know what you were doing, but you stayed the 1262 01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:32,840 course. You still got the same passion, 1263 01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:34,720 vision and all that stuff as you do now. 1264 01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:36,720 And she's like, you're my favorite. 1265 01:09:37,399 --> 01:09:39,840 I listen to you even though I can't come. 1266 01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:42,760 I've lost all my hair. I'm, I'm, I'm weak and I can't 1267 01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:44,240 leave. I can't come. 1268 01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:45,600 I can't drive the hour and a half. 1269 01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,840 I'm watching on YouTube every week. 1270 01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:52,359 She's like continued to go. And then she called again in 1271 01:09:52,359 --> 01:09:55,040 August just to say, hey, it is true. 1272 01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,800 The doctor told me I don't have much to live. 1273 01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:02,400 And I just want to let you know that again, you're my favorite. 1274 01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:05,840 And you've changed my life. You've changed my life. 1275 01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:11,000 Powerful. And then this, this not like on 1276 01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:14,400 Thursday night, just got the text message that she's with 1277 01:10:14,480 --> 01:10:18,200 Jesus now. And it's just, I mean, yeah, I 1278 01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,400 wish I would have been able to say one more, you know, like all 1279 01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:24,600 of us wish we'd have had like, one more, like hug or something. 1280 01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:30,360 But God knew in that moment what I needed, what Nicole needed, 1281 01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:34,360 his closure is saying all those years for the last, I don't 1282 01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:37,880 know, was it 18, some years or whatever of just doing life 1283 01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:42,360 together, seeing the life that's been changed in her like God 1284 01:10:42,360 --> 01:10:47,240 radically saved and changed her life then became a great 1285 01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:51,800 encouragement to us. And it was one of those moments 1286 01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:56,160 where if I would have just in my ignorance and pride said, Nah, 1287 01:10:56,160 --> 01:11:00,520 I'm going my own way to the West Coast, this would never exist. 1288 01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:05,440 And just so thankful for those moments that it's a beautiful 1289 01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:09,840 thing when God not when he puts passion in you, he puts you in a 1290 01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,960 family and he gives you this incredible purpose to go make 1291 01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:15,440 disciples. I just think that's how you get 1292 01:11:15,440 --> 01:11:19,040 your fire. The fire remains as we remain in 1293 01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,120 Christ, as we remain in him and do the next thing that he tells 1294 01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:24,840 us to do. So we just say right now, as as, 1295 01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,360 as the sound of my voice right now, just everybody stand to 1296 01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:30,440 their feet and just we're just going to ask God for the fire 1297 01:11:30,440 --> 01:11:34,000 of, of the Lord is to come. We're just asking Lord for the 1298 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,480 fire of God to come right now. We don't know what our future 1299 01:11:37,480 --> 01:11:40,480 looks like, Lord, but you got, you got it in the palm of your 1300 01:11:40,480 --> 01:11:42,480 hands. We just thank you, Lord. 1301 01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:44,240 We thank you for what you're doing. 1302 01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,720 We thank you, Lord, for Trish. We thank you for her life. 1303 01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:48,040 We thank you for my brother's life. 1304 01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:51,240 We thank you for my mom's life. We thank you for the people's 1305 01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:53,960 lives, the mentors that have been in our life throughout the 1306 01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:55,560 years. God, thank you for that. 1307 01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:57,200 Lord, we thank you. We thank you. 1308 01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:58,280 We thank you. We thank you. 1309 01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:00,200 We thank you, Jesus. Thank you. 1310 01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,320 Lord, we worship you. God, we worship you. 1311 01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:06,280 We worship you for giving us life when life when we don't 1312 01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:08,160 deserve it. You've given us life when we 1313 01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:09,640 don't deserve it. Lord, thank you. 1314 01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:12,080 Thank you. Lord, we never know who's paying 1315 01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:13,960 attention. We never know who's listening. 1316 01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:16,400 We never know the impact that we're making. 1317 01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:19,520 We never know and we'll make more impact as we surrender to 1318 01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:21,960 him. God, we ask you for the fire of 1319 01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:25,440 God, the fire of God to come on. Every person in this room who 1320 01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:27,480 wants it. Lord, if you've lost that, if 1321 01:12:27,480 --> 01:12:30,400 the people have lost that fire, if you've lost that fire, just 1322 01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:32,960 cry out to God. Lord, we ask you, Lord, for the 1323 01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:36,000 fire of God to come on. We ask you for the fire of the 1324 01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:39,000 Lord to come on, Lord, we don't want to go out out of duty. 1325 01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:41,760 We don't want to go out of just like, oh, just this principle, 1326 01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:44,920 that principle, whatever we ask you that, that those principles 1327 01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:48,160 would land on fire. We ask you for those principles 1328 01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:52,480 of evangelism to land on the fire of God in our lives. 1329 01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:56,640 May we not quench, May we not grieve the Spirit anymore. 1330 01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:58,840 May we not quench or grieve the Spirit anymore. 1331 01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:02,200 And if we have we, would you forgive us, Lord, Forgive us for 1332 01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:04,640 being foolish. Forgive us for being foolish, 1333 01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:07,000 Lord, with our lives. Forgive us for not obeying 1334 01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:08,480 quickly, cheerfully, and completely. 1335 01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:11,800 We ask you, Lord, to help us to obey quickly, cheerfully. 1336 01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:14,720 We ask you, God, that we will not quench or grieve the Spirit 1337 01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:16,960 any longer. We pray for the fire of God. 1338 01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:20,240 We pray, Lord, that you would rebuke apathy in US, break 1339 01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:22,480 apathy and indifference in this generation. 1340 01:13:22,720 --> 01:13:26,240 Lord, fill the seats of this house, Lord, with fiery people 1341 01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:28,640 who love you. God, would you remove all 1342 01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:30,840 religion out of here in Jesus name? 1343 01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:33,200 Lord, we thank you. Lord, thank you for what you're 1344 01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:33,600 doing.