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You're listening to the 
Bridgetown Church Podcast with 

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Pastor Casey Kendall, where our 
vision is Jesus, our mission is 

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people, and our cause is love. 
Thanks for tuning in. 

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Let's dive in turn to Isaiah 
chapter. 6 And our our vision at

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our church is that we. 
Exist to reach people where 

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they're at and to connect them 
to everything that God has for 

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their life in Christ. 
Jesus. 

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And we're just going to put it 
up on the. 

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Wall for just a second. 
That we as a church, we exist. 

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To reach people where they're at
and then to connect them to 

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everything that God has for 
their life in Jesus. 

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This is the driving force of our
church. 

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This is the mission that we 
believe. 

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That God has called. 
Us to be on is that we're going 

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to be a. 
Church that exists to reach 

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people where they're at, not 
where we. 

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Hoped they would be, not where. 
We necessarily see. 

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Them in the future. 
But where they're at, actually, 

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right? 
Now and then we're going to 

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connect. 
Them to everything that God has 

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for their life in Christ. 
And so if we give someone food, 

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but we don't give them Jesus, we
might have filled their. 

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Stomach, but we didn't fill 
their heart. 

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If we now rescue someone. 
Out of a. 

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Certain situation which I. 
Believe we should all be a part 

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of. 
In defending the orphan and the 

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widow, is it? 
If we've just done that without 

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giving them Jesus, I believe 
we've missed the whole. 

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Picture. 
And I believe that Jesus needs 

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to be in the work of Jesus, the 
forefront of our minds and our 

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hearts. 
And I believe that that that God

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is calling for the church to 
have boldness, to be bold enough

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to stand on the word of. 
God and the. 

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Convictions that we have in the 
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This is not going to be a church
that you might be swayed by 

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culture. 
We don't want to be a church 

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that's the cool church. 
We want to be a church that's 

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the convicted church, the church
that's going to stand upon the 

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authority of what God has given 
to us in his word. 

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So if you have someone sitting 
next to you, if you would just 

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look at them and say neighbor, 
my neighbor, here am I, here am 

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I, The Bible says in Isaiah 
chapter 6, if you would jump, 

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jump with me down to verse, 
verse. 

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One we'll. 
Start there. 

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In the year that King Uzziah 
died, I saw the Lord sitting on 

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a throne high and lifted up. 
In the train of his robe filled 

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the temple, and above it stood 
Seraphim. 

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Each one had 6 wings. 
With two he covered his face, 

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with two he covered his feet, 
and with two he flew, and one 

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cried out to another, and said, 
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of 

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host. 
The whole earth is full of his 

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glory. 
And the post of the door was 

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shaken by the voice of him who 
cried out, and the house was 

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filled with smoke. 
And then I said, Woe is me, I'm 

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undone because I'm a man of 
unclean lips, and I dwell in the

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midst of people of unclean lips 
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Guys have seen the king, the 
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And then one of the seraphim 
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Hand a live coal. 
Which he had taken with the 

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tongs from the altar, and he 
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said, Behold, this has touched 
your lips, and your iniquity is 

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taken away, and your sin is 
purged. 

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And then I heard the voice of 
the Lord, which I believe he's 

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even speaking today. 
Whom shall I send and who will 

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go for us? 
And then I said, here am I. 

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Once again Isaiah said, here am 
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It was about 300 years ago that 
a visionary by the name of Count

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Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf 
found in something called the 

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Order of the Mustard Seed. 
He had gathered a group of men 

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together. 
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It was a an eclectic group that 
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the Archbishop of Canterbury, 
Scotland, Secretary of State and

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an 84 year old who was the chief
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They'd all gathered together and
each member wore a ring and on 

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the ring it said these words. 
None of us lives to himself or 

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for himself. 
On the rings there was this 

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inscription and each member 
pledged their wealth and their 

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influence for the cause of 
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The Mustard Seed Order had three
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keep amongst themselves. 
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followed was that they would be 
true to Jesus Christ no matter 

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what happened in their land on 
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That Jesus was their king and 
they would follow after him #2 

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rule is that they would be kind 
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The number three rule is that 
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the nations. 
It was Count Zinzendorf that 

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began something called the 24/7 
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He founded what they called the 
Monrovia Society and in that 

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they prayed every day for 100 
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When you join a prayer meeting, 
like what happens at 9:00 to 

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9:30 at our church and you pray 
for 100 days straight, you begin

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to learn what breaks the heart 
of God will begin to break your 

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heart also. 
And so this Monrovian Gospel 

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correlation group began to form 
so big, and there were two men 

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that decided to do something. 
Radical. 

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And as they decided to do 
something radical, these two 

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members that have no name that 
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know, they joined to their lives
to something to abolish slavery.

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It was William Wilberforce who 
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slavery with their Parliament 
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Monrovian society as an 
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But these two guys decided that 
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two men sold themselves into 
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You might never recognize their 
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their name at all. 
Johan Dobert was one man, Daniel

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Nichman was the other man. 
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property that they would go to 
the land of Saint Thomas as 

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slaves themselves that they 
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Those who were slaves with the. 
Gospel of Jesus Christ crying 

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with their families as they 
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The boat would leave the dock. 
These men shouted out one 

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statement to their family. 
May the Lamb who was slain 

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receive the reward of his 
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If there was ever a time that we
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what these men experienced, I 
believe it would flow back to 

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Isaiah chapter 6. 
If we reimagined and God would 

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to reverse engineer all of 
mission. 

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I believe it takes us back to 
Isaiah chapter 6 verse 8 where 

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the prophet Isaiah said to the 
Lord when he heard the call here

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am I. 
I believe it was Isaiah who 

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would now show to us that if 
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God would take someone and 
anyone and give them courage to 

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do anything at all for His 
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I believe it was Isaiah who's 
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And I know a lot of times we 
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which they were, who had two 
functions of their lives as they

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answered the call of God. 
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they also foretold the word of 
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And here is Isaiah as a person 
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what God had for his life. 
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when it comes to mission and 
being bold for Jesus is I don't 

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have the ability to do this for 
the Lord. 

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But that's really not the 
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The question is, do you have the
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Lord in which after the 
availability He gives you the 

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ability to do something great 
for His name. 

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And here is Isaiah. 
You remember our number one rule

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is you can't give a golf clap 
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If you really agree on 
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Amen to that or you could say 
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Listen, Isaiah came to a spot in
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himself available to the Lord. 
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just want to back up to what 
Isaiah was actually experiencing

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in this moment. 
The Bible says in the year that 

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king Uzziah died all the way in 
chapter 6, verse one in the year

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that king Uzziah died. 
This was a very sorrowful time 

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for Isaiah. 
This was could have been a very 

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stressful time for Isaiah 
because Uzziah was a great godly

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king and ruler. 
He stood on the principles of 

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scripture. 
He stood for people and for the 

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glory of God. 
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So personal was this to to 
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Isaiah's cousin. 
This was something that was 

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personal to him. 
This was something in a moment 

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of grief, that possibly Isaiah's
close relationship with King 

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Uzziah was a family 
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But he lost someone he loved, 
someone that was ruling 

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according to the authority of 
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And here is Isaiah in this 
moment of grief, sorrow, pain, 

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and loss. 
And I don't know if you've ever 

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been there in a moment of grief,
sorrow and pain and loss, when 

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you lose someone that you loved,
when their heart beats for the 

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last time, when they take their 
breath on this planet for the 

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last time. 
When you hear there, I love you 

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for the last time, and you wish 
you could have given them 

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another, I love you. 
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finds himself. 
It's in this place of grief and 

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pain and loss and agony that the
calling of God came to Isaiah. 

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In his darkest moment, God 
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in the nation of Israel through 
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And it's here in the pain that 
God gives Isaiah his call. 

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This is the moment. 
In this moment he said, I saw 

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the Lord and now mission. 
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not often going. 
I saw the Lord. 

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This is what I often say is. 
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For the Lord, but I believe 
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Mission begins with vision, He 
says, I saw the Lord. 

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The name of the Lord is the one 
who has absolute authority, 

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complete control and sovereign 
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And notice what he says about 
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Even though King Uzziah died and
this is bad, he says, I saw the 

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Lord. 
I saw the Lord sitting on his 

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throne. 
He's not standing and wringing 

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his hands, wondering what's 
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what's going to happen to 
Europe, What's going to happen 

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to South America. 
He is sitting on the throne. 

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That is a vision of God in the 
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And then he says this high and 
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And the train of his robe filled
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That always baffled me, but the 
king in this time would often 

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have a robe and when he 
conquered another nation he 

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would attach the. 
Robe of that other. 

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Nation of that king who was 
defeated to his robe. 

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Every life that Jesus has 
rescued, every time that Satan 

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has lost that life, it's 
attached to the robe of Jesus 

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Christ and the train of his robe
is filling the temple. 

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Isaiah sees the Lord. 
I really believe that if we're 

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going to really have a heart for
mission that we're really going 

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to have to have a big vision of 
Jesus. 

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Not Jesus the hippie Jesus who 
comes alongside in the field and

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rubs his hands against the 
flowers. 

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No, no, no, not the American 
blue eyed version of Jesus who 

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has a trimmed beard and and blue
eyes and, and he's posted up on 

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on our walls back in the 70s. 
I'm talking about Jesus born to 

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a Hebrew woman named Mary, Jesus
the Carpenter, whose hands are 

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calloused with the work of wood 
and stone. 

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I'm talking about Jesus who 
carried a hammer. 

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I'm talking about the perfect 
Jesus who never sinned. 

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I'm talking about Jesus who 
someone of the Roman origin took

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another hammer and would nail 
him to the cross. 

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I'm talking about Jesus the Lamb
of God who takes away the sins 

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of the world. 
I'm talking about Jesus the one 

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who has absolute authority, the 
one who has supreme strength, 

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and the one who's in complete 
control. 

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I'm talking about Jesus who, 
though he was dead, was made 

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alive. 
You see, the Pharisees couldn't 

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stop him, but the grave couldn't
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I'm talking about that Jesus. 
I'm talking about a Jesus who is

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in complete control of your 
life, Jesus who is the Lord of 

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all. 
I think sometimes what happens 

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is we place our circumstance 
over our God, and our God 

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becomes small and our 
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That's what Isaiah could have 
done in this moment. 

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But he says, I saw the Lord high
and lifted up, and the train of 

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his robe was filling the temple.
And this vision leads to this 

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revelation. 
He says above it stood Seraphim.

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Each one had 6 wings. 
Can you imagine that you thought

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Jurassic Park was strange? 
With two he covered his face, 

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with two he covered his feet, 
and with two he flew, and one 

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cried out to another. 
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord. 

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If you ever see someone named 
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attention to it. 
He is holy. 

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He is even holy. 
He is holy is the Lord. 

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Notice he doesn't say majesty, 
majesty, majesty. 

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He doesn't say glory, glory, 
glory. 

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Why? 
Because what represents the Lord

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is holy. 
He's holy, and I think we need a

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bigger view of the holiness of 
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He's called the Lord of hosts, 
not just for any unknown reason,

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but he's the Lord of the angels 
armies and he fights on the 

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behalf of what's happening in 
Cambodia and what's happening in

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your life today. 
I need a bigger version of 

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Jesus. 
The whole earth is full of his 

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glory. 
I need a bigger version of 

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Jesus. 
If you just watch the news, 

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you're going to be very 
negative. 

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But if you really get the news, 
you could be very positive. 

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You might look at it and say, 
no, no, I don't see the whole 

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earth being filled with the 
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I see problem after problem 
after problem. 

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This is the vision that Jesus is
in control. 

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And because he's in control, 
yes, bad things have happened 

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and are happening, but he's 
ultimately in control. 

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His Holiness reveals his glory. 
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of Jesus, the post of the door 
was shaken, and the voice of him

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who cried out in the house was 
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In the temple. 
It would fill up with smoke and 

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it would be representing of the 
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which meant the weightiness of 
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Oh, that we would experience the
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Lord. 
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experience. 
The presence of the Lord, 

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there's something about that 
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what he's called us to. 
Notice, if you would, the wow of

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God. 
Led to the woe of Isaiah do. 

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You see that he says, woe is me,
for I'm undone because I'm a man

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of unclean lips, and I dwell in 
the midst of a people of unclean

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lips, for my eyes have seen the 
king, the. 

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Lord of Hosts notice. 
That he that the wow of God led 

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to the woe of Isaiah. 
We live in a time where we're 

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preaching very positive things. 
But maybe, maybe we shouldn't 

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just say positive things. 
Maybe we should say that we are 

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sinners separated from a holy 
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Maybe we should say that we need
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Maybe we should be willing to 
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Maybe we should be preaching 
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Real hell is real. 
I think sometimes we want to 

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preach to people. 
Just look in your look in the 

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mirror and say I'm OK, I'm OK, 
I'm OK. 

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Maybe you're not OK. 
Maybe you need the presence of 

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God to come into a such a place 
in your life to change what's 

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not OK. 
Maybe it's God working in 

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certain area. 
I think sometimes we're getting 

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away from what scripture is 
actually teaching and that is is

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that you're a good person and 
you're going to be OK. 

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No, I'm sinful, I'm separated 
from God and it's only through 

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Jesus Christ that I could be 
saved. 

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And I think we want the wow of 
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And I think sometimes we want to
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really want the woe. 
We don't want what God is 

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revealing about ourselves that 
desperately needs to be changed.

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And it's in this vision that 
Isaiah first gets of God that 

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actually changes him. 
He says, I'm a man of unclean 

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lips. 
I don't know what that I don't 

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know. 
What did he have? 

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Like a cussing problem. 
He had unclean lips. 

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But the Bible does say this. 
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heart, your mouth speaks. 
So whatever is coming from here 

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is normally tucked in here. 
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He says, I'm a man of unclean 
lips. 

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I wonder in your life today, 
don't shout it out. 

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That'd be kind of weird at 
church. 

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But what's unclean in your life?
What is the thing that's 

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unclean? 
Are you lying? 

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Are you into? 
Pornography. 

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Are you doing drugs? 
You're getting drunk all the 

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time to. 
Escape from the pain. 

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And the reality of your own 
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What's unclean? 
Isaiah dealt with the specific 

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thing that was unclean in his 
life. 

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What? 
Why did he say I'm a man of. 

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Unclean lips, that was his. 
First response. 

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To the revelation of God, I'm a 
man of. 

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Unclean lips. 
What he was saying was I can't 

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go any further Lord, until you 
work on this area of my life and

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I truly believe this about 
mission is we can't go forward 

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without confessing our sin and 
turning from our sin and. 

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Being broken and repentant, 
leaning into Jesus and saying 

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you're right and I'm wrong and I
ask for your forgiveness. 

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It's here in this spot that he 
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And then one of the Seraphim 
notices flew to me having in 

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his. 
Hand a live. 

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Coal which he had taken with the
tongs, and it says these words 

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from the altar. 
And he touched my mouth and with

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it. 
And he said, behold, this has 

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touched your lips, your iniquity
is taken away and your sin is 

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purged. 
Look at he saw the problem. 

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God dealt with his problem out 
of the confession of his 

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problem. 
There is no healing when you're 

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hiding. 
What you're doing in the sight 

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of God. 
And then the Lord touches his 

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lips, oh, that God would touch 
our lips in these areas of our 

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lives. 
And then he heard another voice,

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not just holy, holy, holy. 
He heard another voice. 

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Whom shall I send and who will 
go for us? 

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Now, a lot of times when it 
comes to this vision, it leads 

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to the mission that God wants to
send you on. 

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God poses a question. 
Why did God pose the question? 

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He is the one who has absolute 
authority. 

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He's the one in complete 
control, and He has supreme 

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strength. 
Why is God, the one who is all 

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fishing sufficient asking this 
question so we could realize 

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where we're at? 
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Why did God ask? 
Adam in the garden. 

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Where are you? 
I think Adam's like hiding in 

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the the fig bushes, like God 
doesn't see me right here. 

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You think like God's like, oh, I
wonder where he is. 

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I created the garden. 
I made every plant. 

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He's named them. 
And I named and numbered the 

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stars and I've formed these 
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And I wonder where Adam is. 
No, no, no. 

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God wasn't like questioning 
where. 

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Adam. 
What? 

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It was a Revelation question. 
The revelation question was for 

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Adam to realize where he was. 
Then listen to this question in 

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that light. 
Whom shall I send? 

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Who? 
Am I going to? 

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Send God. 
Is a missionary God. 

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The Father sent the Son, the Son
sent the Spirit, and the Spirit 

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sends the Church. 
God is a missionary God. 

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He sends people to reach. 
People now some of you are 

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wondering now. 
I'm saved in Jesus. 

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Why didn't God just Take Me 
Home? 

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That would have been a lot 
easier, right? 

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To live with Saints. 
Above that would be glory to 

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dwell with the Saints. 
Below, that's a whole nother 

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story. 
Why didn't God just Take Me 

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Home? 
He saved me. 

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Why? 
Because He saved you for a 

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purpose. 
And on purpose. 

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People reach people. 
Through the Spirit of God and. 

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This is where the mission sends 
us is it sends us to people. 

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Now I know you're thinking. 
Man, I love my dog. 

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I don't like people. 
I don't like what happens on the

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California highways, byways and 
freeways. 

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I don't want to be a part of 
this. 

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Listen, God. 
Uses people to reach. 

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People you might. 
I don't know. 

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No. 
God wants to use you. 

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I was just at Stacks in 
Glendora. 

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You ever been to Stacks? 
Thank you. 

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Thank you. 
Stacks is a breakfast restaurant

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right over here and in Glendora.
And I go there with my wife on a

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date every Monday because that's
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And we get away and we go work 
out together and then we go have

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oatmeal together because we're 
getting older and we can't eat 

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other foods. 
And so now because of that, 

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we've gotten to know a lot of 
the servers, the owner, the 

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manager of the restaurant, and 
there's this girl she's serving 

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us. 
Her name's Hannah and I'm just 

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thinking, OK, Lord, can you give
me an opportunity to reach 

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people? 
I had the opportunity at the, on

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that morning to, I saw some 
Highway Patrol officers eating 

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breakfast in the corner. 
And, and I just, I, I, I went 

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and bought their breakfast and I
gave them a no strings attached 

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card. 
And I just said, I want you to 

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know I support law enforcement 
and we support you and we're 

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praying for your safety in the 
name of Jesus. 

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And Jesus loves you. 
And these three women were like,

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what, three officers? 
Wow, thank you. 

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So I'm like, OK, Lord, who's the
next? 

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So I'm telling this is our 
server about one of our girls 

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here at church named Lindsay, 
how she just met this great guy 

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and she has a great 
relationship. 

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And we're just so excited for 
her because she asked how 

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Lindsay was doing and she said, 
I wish I had a boyfriend. 

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And my wife and I just kind of 
like. 

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What? 
And then she says to us, she 

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said, yeah, my boyfriend died. 
Like, really? 

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I said, how old is was he said 
35? 

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What did he die of? 
He died of sepsis from a tooth 

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infection. 
And I said to her when she came 

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back because she went on break, 
I said, can you go track down 

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Hannah for me? 
I asked one of the guys. 

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I said please, let's pray for 
her and we're seated right by 

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the kitchen and right by the 
restroom. 

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It's like it's super popular 
area, the restroom. 

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And my wife says right here, so 
right here, right now, right 

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right now, we need to do this 
right now. 

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Hannah comes up just like a 
little tentative and like, can I

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pray for you? 
We lay our hands on her and we 

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just weep with her. 
We just wept with her and we 

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prayed in the name of Jesus for 
the glory of Jesus and the honor

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of Jesus. 
And I think sometimes it doesn't

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take boldness to reach people. 
It takes our obedience to reach 

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people. 
Some of us are looking like at 

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evangelism, like that's radical.
No, that's not radical. 

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That's normal. 
That's normal Christianity. 

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Read the book of Acts. 
It's just normal Christianity 

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and it's what God moves. 
You to he moves. 

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You to people because the Bible 
says. 

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That, that, that. 
Isaiah said. 

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Here am I. 
And then God said, I want you to

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go and I want you to go to this 
people that keep on hearing and 

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do not understand, keep on 
seeing but do not perceive I 

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put. 
This over my kids. 

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Bedroom. 
No, I'm just kidding. 

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That would be funny. 
Sometimes I'm. 

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Parenting it feels. 
Like you're Isaiah, make their 

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heart of this people dull in 
their ears heavy, and shut their

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eyes, lest they see with their 
eyes, and hear with their ears, 

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and understand with their heart.
And return to be healed. 

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God sent Isaiah to people and 
like God sent Letty to Cambodia,

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Isabel to Africa. 
He sends you to Mexico. 

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He sends you to the city streets
of Glendora, Virginia. 

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Linda, Ron, Rachel, Yolanda last
night reached over 400 people 

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with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Can you just? 

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Remember this? 
Can you remember this? 

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The faithfulness of the church 
is not measured by how many 

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people fill these seats, but how
many people are sent from these 

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seats to reach people with the 
gospel of Jesus. 

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It's about people. 
My daughter went to the hospital

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to deliver a baby. 
She went to a hospital there. 

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At the hospital, they serve 
people. 

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I've been into good hospitals 
and not so good hospitals. 

456
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I've been around good doctors 
and not so good doctors. 

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I've been around some joyful 
nurses and not so joyful nurses.

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I've been around people that 
work sometimes in the medical 

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field and some are excited. 
About what they do. 

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00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,760
Some are not so excited about 
what they do because it's 

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another person and they become 
another statistic. 

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And that's what happens even in 
pastoral work, even in you who 

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are called to the ministry. 
It just becomes about the 

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statistic rather than one person
who is lost where Jesus would 

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leave the 99 and run after that 
one person. 

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I'm sure Jesus is not stupid 
sheep, that lamb. 

467
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,760
Why don't he go? 
No, no, no, he's. 

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I'm sure he's weeping and 
expectant and finding the one 

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and bringing that one back to 
himself. 

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It's about people and that. 
People lead us to notice. 

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This a motivation. 
What is the motivation of all of

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this? 
Why are we saying this and 

473
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sharing what Letty's doing? 
What is the motivation? 

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The motivation is love, the 
apostle Paul said in the book of

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Corinthians. 
He said it's the love of Christ 

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that constrains me. 
It is the love of Christ. 

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00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,000
Notice this. 
The vision leads to the. 

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Mission The mission lead to the 
motivation. 

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So what does that all that mean 
for me? 

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How do I live this out? 
How do I live this out in my 

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junior high school? 
How do I live this out? 

482
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,880
I'm sorry, middle school? 
How do I live this out in my 

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00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,280
high school? 
How do I live this out in my 

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college? 
How do I live this out in my? 

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Neighborhood this is this. 
Is how I live it out. 

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If you want to write something 
down, now is your time to write 

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down. 
All right. 

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00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,960
This is what I should be doing 
write this. 

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Down. 
I should have a love for the 

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lost. 
I should have a love for the 

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00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,880
lost. 
I should begin to pray for the 

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people around me that don't 
know. 

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00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,440
Jesus Matthew 28 Jesus told his 
disciples to go into. 

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All the earth. 
And make disciples. 

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It starts with a love for those 
who are lost. 

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They're not the problem. 
My heart about them is the 

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00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,040
problem. 
Notice this if you're taking 

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note intentionality and. 
Purpose is the way that God 

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00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,360
calls you to live. 
Intentionality and purpose is 

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the way that God calls. 
You to live. 

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00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,280
And just remember that 
everything that happens in your 

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00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,520
life is not just an accident. 
They didn't just arrive you at a

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00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,160
certain spot by accident. 
God's at work. 

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00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,880
And then remember this. 
We need to have reliance on the 

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00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,600
Holy Spirit. 
We have to have reliance on the 

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00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,640
Holy Spirit. 
You want to read about this, 

507
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,920
read in Acts chapter 13 when 
they fasted and prayed and they 

508
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,480
sent Paul and Barnabas out into 
the fields and then write this 

509
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,280
down because this is so 
important. 

510
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:53,040
You need to have flexibility and
adaptability, flexibility and 

511
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:58,880
adaptability, flexibility and 
adaptability. 

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00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:08,240
I was in Mexico as a 17 year old
and we were serving. 

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00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:14,760
We'd driven about 3 hours South 
of the border and I was with a 

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00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:19,240
missionary by the name of 
Jeannie Sue, and she was 

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00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,760
disciple in young people to 
Jesus in Mexico. 

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00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:30,760
And these Mexican citizens had 
come into this church and they 

517
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,320
were on fire. 
They were singing at the top of 

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00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,440
their lungs, they were lifting 
their hands, they were praising 

519
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,600
the Lord. 
And it was quite different than 

520
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,560
what I experienced in San 
Bernardino, CA. 

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00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,640
Now, if you've ever been to San 
Bernardino, it's. 

522
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,640
You probably should. 
Take a trip there. 

523
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,560
It's one of the four known best 
places in California. 

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00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:59,440
That's where I grew up. 
It's a good spot, but it was 

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00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,720
different. 
There was more excitement and 

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00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,680
expectation in the room and I 
asked Jeannie, because she also 

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00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,320
came from that area. 
I asked her, I said what is the 

528
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,080
difference? 
She told me these words. 

529
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,080
She said here we have nothing, 
so Jesus is everything. 

530
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,600
She said in America we have 
everything, so Jesus is nothing.

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00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,400
And I believe when it comes to 
the mission of God, some of us 

532
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,720
have settled for the crumbs 
falling from the table. 

533
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,240
So we're not really hungry for 
the real meal when it comes our 

534
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,080
way. 
And I want to challenge you 

535
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,880
today to take some cards with no
strings attached. 

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00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,960
Just hand it to him. 
Pay for someone's coffee, pray 

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00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,520
over them, reach people for the 
glory of God. 

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00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,640
Amen. 
We hope you enjoyed this message

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00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,840
and we'd love for you to join us
in person every Sunday at 10:30 

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00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,440
AM. 
For more information and 

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00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,640
updates, visit 
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00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,920
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