1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,400 This is City Post Church, we're about three things, build 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,000 equipped and send all under the lordship of Jesus Christ, a 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,300 small Church Plant in Fort Worth Texas, who decided to do things 4 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:16,000 a little differently. I would almost I had to Crystal, 5 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,000 I love City Post because of the people. 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:22,100 It's where I belong, we truly preach the word. 7 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:24,100 I love City Post because of the community. 8 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:25,800 We've been able to build to do ministry. 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,800 Like Jesus perlite to push back Darkness. 10 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:38,800 This is City, Post podcast. Okay. 11 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:42,600 Hey, what's up City? Post-church, how we doing this 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,600 morning? All right two people are doing. 13 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,000 All right some of you are like. Who is this Mexican? 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,300 That we don't know. That's not Ricky's, not Mexican 15 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:54,700 but we've adopted him. So I claim him as one of us, no 16 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:57,600 offense. Hey, if we have not had the 17 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:02,000 check real quick, could you help me think the worship team and 18 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,099 they are phenomenal? I was, I was getting blessed. 19 00:01:05,099 --> 00:01:08,800 I was, I was kind of grooving like In the on the side and live 20 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,300 was looking at me like what is this dude doing? 21 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:14,300 So where the groove is? The move is and the move of the 22 00:01:14,308 --> 00:01:18,700 spirit is, here is so man. We have just been excited to 23 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:20,400 worship with you all this morning. 24 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:21,800 We have not had the chance to meet yet. 25 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,100 My name is Izzy, no one important so it doesn't really 26 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:30,000 matter but I am a church planter Pastor in San Antonio Texas, 27 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,700 don't hold that against me, some of your Maps fans dr. 28 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:36,300 Cortes in the building home with a five-time NBA champion, San 29 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:37,800 Antonio Spurs. Purrs, I'm just throwing that 30 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,100 out there just so you know, no Shades anybody here. 31 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:44,000 But man, we are so excited. I am so excited. 32 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 My wife and I are excited to be here with you and you guys have 33 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,300 shown incredible hospitality and kindness and graciousness toward 34 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:55,400 me. And so, yeah, it is an honor to 35 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,300 be here with you again. I've no one special, I told rig 36 00:01:58,300 --> 00:01:59,400 is not like I got materials with. 37 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,400 So anything, if I did be VHS tapes in the back and some 38 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,700 8tracks made but it's like he, that's like that. 39 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:09,000 AM radio kind of pasta right there. 40 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,800 That's me. And so, but man, I am so excited 41 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:17,500 to be with you all this morning. We're so much of the being here 42 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:20,800 is like being home, you know, it's a beautiful thing, we're 43 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:24,300 Church Planters to. So we know the struggle of you 44 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:27,500 know, just as we were starting a breaker tripped and I was like, 45 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:29,900 it's just like being home. Let me, we're can I, where can I 46 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:31,500 help? And in fix something? 47 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:34,700 In fact, when I was in the parking lot getting ready and I 48 00:02:34,708 --> 00:02:37,300 start my phone started blowing up and it's their my Our church 49 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:39,600 back home saying hey what's the password to the computers? 50 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,600 And I'm like, bro, I already gave that to you all like a year 51 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,100 ago in. I mean, God has just been 52 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:48,700 incredible to us. And so we started our church 53 00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:52,000 planting Journey about a year ago in downtown San Antonio. 54 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,400 And you know, we're still. I know y'all started in a school 55 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,000 and did the setup teardown life and that's kind of where we're 56 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,800 at right now and probably will be for a very long time and God 57 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,600 has just been gracious. And this morning I'm talking to 58 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,600 you guys and and are in just Family on evangelism and the 59 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,700 gospel because we've seen a huge need for it in our community out 60 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:18,900 downtown, we planted, we had a team of about 23 people. 61 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,900 We moved downtown and moved into the area, and God just started a 62 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:26,000 work. And right now, we're about 200 63 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,800 people, strong in the heart of downtown. 64 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,200 San Antonio, we've seen people come to know Jesus. 65 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,100 In fact, this this year alone, there's already been about 15 66 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:37,500 people that have come to know, Christ. 67 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,600 And in this season, where we're at, as a church, we've committed 68 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,800 to praying and fasting for the month of February. 69 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,500 As we've asked, we're asking God, to have people come to know 70 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:53,800 Jesus and folks, in our church to share the gospel and what 71 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,200 that means, for our communities in our neighborhoods. 72 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,800 And so this is a passion of mine, I will be honest, I'm not 73 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,000 the best preacher in the world and I'm not even the greatest 74 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,700 evangelist at all. I feel like Those are some of my 75 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,600 least amount of gifting. I feel like we're God is, is 76 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,100 gifted, me is in the area of care and teaching, and some 77 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:18,100 degree. But I come to you this morning, 78 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:21,800 just as a practitioner of somebody that's like, hey this 79 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,000 is what is working for us? You know, we planted our church 80 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,100 Downtown, I asked my the we planted together, there's a 81 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:33,500 myself and another Pastor named Ryan and a team of folks that 82 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:36,100 kind of split the teaching and are part of our core team and 83 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:39,100 this hey, what What is the DNA of our of our church? 84 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:43,500 What is, what is it that we do well on a guy says we're decent 85 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:48,000 and making disciples and we throw a really good parties and 86 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,400 that is kind of been our strategy to reach downtown San 87 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,200 Antonio. And what we had was was people 88 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,300 who came to know Jesus who lived a life of sin. 89 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:00,300 But we're like the party people. And then they just came to know 90 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:02,400 Jesus and then only throw parties and invite everybody. 91 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,700 And then next thing, you know, people are coming to know Jesus. 92 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:08,100 And and it's a beautiful thing where Have to understand that 93 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:11,100 evangelism doesn't have to be a difficult thing. 94 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,400 It could be just witnessing with your life and inviting people 95 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:17,600 in. We at we say this all the time 96 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,600 but it's about inviting people into life before you invite them 97 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,700 into church but inviting people into our lives. 98 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:26,900 And so I want to just get started quickly in First 99 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:31,400 Corinthians chapter 15, verses 1 through 8. 100 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:34,000 And this is going to kind of be a launching pad. 101 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,400 This is one of the greatest Treatise of the Gospels. 102 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,500 In all of the New Testament. And so, I'll read along with the 103 00:05:40,508 --> 00:05:42,700 screen says now, brothers and sisters. 104 00:05:42,700 --> 00:05:46,100 I want to remind you of the Gospel, I preached to you, which 105 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:50,300 you received and on, which you have taken your stand for stew 106 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,000 by this gospel, you are saved. If you hold firmly to the word, 107 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,100 I preached to you, otherwise, you have believed in vain. for 108 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:01,800 what I received, I passed on to you as of first importance that 109 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,500 Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures that 110 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:08,900 he was buried, that he was raised on the third day, 111 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:13,200 according to the scriptures, And that he appeared to cephas. 112 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:17,500 And then to the twelve, After that, he appeared to more than 113 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:21,200 500 of the brothers and sisters. At the same time, most of whom 114 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,000 are still living though. Some have fallen asleep. 115 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 There we go. Then he appeared to James then 116 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:34,500 to all the apostles, And last of all he appeared to me as to one 117 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:39,700 abnormally born, a few months ago, I was in my discipleship 118 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:42,000 group and it's one of my favorite parts of the week. 119 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,400 I meet with two other guys were, we're keeping each other 120 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,300 accountable. We're walking through sin. 121 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:49,900 We're confessing to One Another. We're encouraging each other, 122 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:52,500 we're asking each other. What are we doing to live out 123 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:56,000 this Mandate of the Gospel? What does this look like for our 124 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,700 lives? It's one of my favorite things. 125 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:00,400 I do, I get to do every week, we meet at a coffee shop. 126 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:02,700 Sometimes we meet at a restaurant, we read it. 127 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:05,200 I hop the other day just because I don't know, I'm feel like I'm 128 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,000 60 at this point and that's the place to meet. 129 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:10,900 It's terrible, everything there is terrible, the service is 130 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:13,300 terrible. But like they, like there was 131 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:18,200 one waiter there that was like 456 people and they're like just 132 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,200 so you know it's going to be like as a 45-minute. 133 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,400 Wait we're like well we're just reading her Bible anyway so 134 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,900 let's wait, but we were doing this one of my favorite parts of 135 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:30,200 the week and as we were walking through these things, we were 136 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,900 reading. Acts together and it one of the 137 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:37,000 questions about sharing, the gospel came up and then all of a 138 00:07:37,008 --> 00:07:39,600 sudden, people got nervous like the guys in my discipleship 139 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,800 group were like, oh, it's and it was like, almost an immediate 140 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:45,900 reaction when I ask. Hey, what does it look like for 141 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:48,000 you to share the gospel? What does that, what does the 142 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 gospel look like in your life? What's it mean to share that 143 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,500 with people and and the questions kind of a rose in that 144 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:56,600 group? Like do you feel weird when you 145 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,600 share it? Like is that like a strange 146 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,200 thing or statements? Like I think I have an idea of 147 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,900 what that looks like. I just don't know what to say 148 00:08:05,500 --> 00:08:09,500 and the reality is that the if I were to ask any of you just kind 149 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:12,300 of blanket statement, like, hey, could you share the gospel and 150 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:14,600 mean some of you would just probably like, starts shaking in 151 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:15,900 your boots? Like, no, please don't call me. 152 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:18,400 Please don't call me, like, like, I think I have an idea of 153 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,000 a man. I, when you ask me, I'm gonna 154 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 screw it up. I don't know the words to say 155 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:24,600 and I totally understand that man. 156 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,600 I grew up in a crazy Pentecostal church. 157 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,000 When I was in my younger days and like, I like, if you were to 158 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,600 ask me that, I'm just like, I have Idea, but I am about to 159 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,000 start speaking in tongues or something. 160 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,100 I don't even know how to do that. 161 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:37,000 Just like I could I can do that before I can share the gospel. 162 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,700 I got, I just don't know the words to say, like, it can be 163 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:43,500 kind of odd in strategy. Like, please don't ask me. 164 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:44,900 You're gonna start playing praying in the spirit. 165 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:46,400 Like, Lord don't let him call me. 166 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:47,800 Don't worry, I'm not going to do that. 167 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,100 I'm not going to call anybody this morning. 168 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:54,300 But here's the reality of if the gospel is, how people will know 169 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:59,100 and experience, love and freedom and this redemption and 170 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:03,400 forgiveness of sin that Christ offers surely our response to 171 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,300 sharing the gospel should be better than what it is, right? 172 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:09,900 Like our our, our response should be one of Joy. 173 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:14,700 If we believe that this message has life and freedom and offers 174 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:19,700 people hope then surely, we should be better about Desiring 175 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:23,400 even to share it. Surely we should be eager as 176 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,400 first Peter would say to be ready to give a defense or a 177 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,300 better way. Is the NLT puts it? 178 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:31,700 And if someone asked you about your hope is a Leave her always 179 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:34,600 be ready to explain it. We should always be ready. 180 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,500 If you consider yourself a follower of Jesus in this room 181 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:42,100 this morning, we should be ready and we should be willing. 182 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,000 Now, if you're feeling shame that's, that's, that's not the 183 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,300 goal. That's, that's not what we're 184 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:49,000 here to do. But sadly, I think we have this 185 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,800 knee-jerk reaction to giving the message of Life. 186 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,400 The unfortunate reality we face is that it's not limited to you, 187 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,000 or just me, but a majority of those who would consider 188 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,300 themselves. Elves Evangelical Christians and 189 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:03,900 I hate how that term has been used. 190 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:07,100 And what not but those of us that would consider us followers 191 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:11,100 of Christ. So we have this reaction to the 192 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:13,400 Great Commission. In fact, some of us would 193 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,900 wouldn't even know that language or had to even share it. 194 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:19,800 According to Barna research group about only seventeen 195 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,600 percent of Christians. Surveyed could tell you what the 196 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:27,400 Great Commission is and how to explain it Seventeen percent of 197 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,100 Christians as a whole could couldn't The only ones that 198 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:35,100 could actually tell you what the gospel is and how to share it, 199 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:39,100 even among people who would claim to be followers of, Jesus 200 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:43,000 have no idea how to share the gospel or no real grasp of what 201 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,400 the gospel is. And maybe we have a actual 202 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,500 narrow view of what the gospel is. 203 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:52,200 And perhaps, we might not know what it is to begin with. 204 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:57,100 So this begs the question, well then, what is the gospel? 205 00:10:57,500 --> 00:11:00,100 And to that, I would respond. I'm glad you hypothetically. 206 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:02,000 Ask Because no one actually asked it. 207 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,000 But what is the gospel? Wow. 208 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,400 First Corinthians 15? And I would love for you to when 209 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,500 you get home, read this on your own highlight, it Circle it do 210 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:16,500 some podcast research on it. It's a beautiful example of the 211 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:19,000 gospel. And while this is one of the 212 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,800 greatest pieces on the gospel, in the New Testament, it is 213 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,400 essential that we Define our terms, right? 214 00:11:26,500 --> 00:11:29,700 The gospel we know this. And if I were to ask that you're 215 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:33,200 like, If you were to ask me like 15 years ago, what is Gospel, 216 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,500 Mike music? Like, as a gospel music, it's 217 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:37,900 the one that has to be. It's not the Hillsong stuff that 218 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:40,000 I'm just like, I don't know. That's kind of whack. 219 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 The only got four chords and the beats the same. 220 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:45,300 There's no Groove to it. There's no sauce on that. 221 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:50,200 Like I can't get into that. If you were to ask me years ago, 222 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,800 what the gospel was, I wouldn't have been able to tell you. 223 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:56,000 We hear the word gospel and there's a few things that come 224 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,000 to mind, right? It's like the music or or this 225 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,800 idea is like, oh, I I know it's like the Romans road and things 226 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,800 like that, we have these ideas of what the gospel is. 227 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,700 And if you grow up in like Sunday school, you're like I 228 00:12:08,708 --> 00:12:11,300 know it is good news. It's like, yes. 229 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:11,900 Yeah. Here. 230 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:13,300 You're right. You're right. 231 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:15,700 That is good news. And then you're like, okay, but 232 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:18,000 can you say that? I don't know, bro. 233 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,800 I got a call me to that right now. 234 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,400 I just I, I prayed about it enough. 235 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:24,700 Some of y'all are super Christians. 236 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:26,600 You're like I got it down. What you want you wanted in 237 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,700 tongues, you want in Spanish? What are you eating Glacier? 238 00:12:28,700 --> 00:12:33,600 Like, you are ready? But but, but if your immediate 239 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,900 response is good news, I would say you're on the right track. 240 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,400 So, we must understand though, that the gospel, the word gospel 241 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,300 is not traditionally, just a Christian term. 242 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:46,800 It was a term used in Kingdom language. 243 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,700 The gospel. In fact, is a kingdom 244 00:12:49,700 --> 00:12:52,400 announcement. It's not just this thing that we 245 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,200 throw around Loosely. It is a announcement from a king 246 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,000 or Kingdom something that King decrees for people. 247 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,800 You know, it's precisely why when we see the word gospel in 248 00:13:03,808 --> 00:13:07,500 the New Testament is used to summarize all of Jesus teaching 249 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:10,600 and his new rule and reign as king. 250 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:13,600 The gospel writer says that that he meaning. 251 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,200 Jesus went proclaiming good news of God's kingdom, but in the 252 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,500 gospels Jesus proclaims, that he is not only the messenger, 253 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:24,100 delivering the good news, but he was indeed the king. 254 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:27,900 And this is good news for all of us this morning. 255 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:32,700 This good news of this key. In is to be declared. 256 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:36,100 It's not something that we just sit on this information and keep 257 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:39,200 it to ourselves. The announcement of a kingdom is 258 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,100 meant to be declared to people. It's why in the gospels, we have 259 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:46,200 the heading, The Gospel, according to Matthew Mark, Luke 260 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,100 John. It's an announcement of King. 261 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:51,000 Jesus, according to the messenger, delivering the news. 262 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:52,700 Paul. Does this in the passage? 263 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:55,500 We just read in 1st Corinthians 15, where he begins by saying, I 264 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:59,700 want to remind you of the good news that I received and it is 265 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:03,600 of first importance. It's crucial that, you know, 266 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,500 this every time Paul or the gospel writers mentions, the 267 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:09,600 phrase, according to the Scriptures. 268 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:12,700 It means that Jesus whom they declare is the promise and 269 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:17,300 prophecy fulfilled In the Flesh. The King has come or as the 270 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:19,200 Theologian. John ortberg would say the 271 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,500 kingdom of God has now through Jesus become available to 272 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:27,200 ordinary humans that he's invited into this relationship. 273 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,200 The kingdom of God is available through Jesus. 274 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,800 And it has significant ramifications for when it comes 275 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,900 to our identity of who we are in Christ. 276 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:41,100 Here's what I mean that the gospel is the announcement of a 277 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:44,500 king and his kingdom, then the gospel is a pronouncement of new 278 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:47,700 identity for those who would call themselves Believers. 279 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:52,000 It's now, this identity that we have as Sons and Daughters of 280 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,200 said, kings that the scripture would say that we are co-heirs 281 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,400 with Christ who have been adopted into this King's family. 282 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:04,000 The skiing has welcomed Us in has his children and with the 283 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,300 adoption comes a new way to live according to Christ, new rule, 284 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:11,100 which has tangible expressions for you. 285 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:15,900 And for me that as sons of said, King of the Kingdom that we 286 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:21,100 cannot live, just as Ordinary People because of Jesus, 287 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:23,600 scripture says, again that we are co-heirs with Christ. 288 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,400 So we have been adopted into this family as Sons and 289 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,800 Daughters of God joining God in his Rule and his reign. 290 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,300 But there's a problem with modern kind of ideas of what the 291 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:41,600 gospel is in our response, see, for much, of evangelicalism 292 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,000 throughout the years. What we have heard over and 293 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,400 over, is that that your relationship with God? 294 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,500 Like the, this idea of the Gospel, we have used language, 295 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:55,900 probably to our detriment of personal relationship with Jesus 296 00:15:55,900 --> 00:15:59,000 when it comes to accepting the gospel, if you heard that like, 297 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,900 oh, it's just a personal relationship, it's a personal. 298 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:05,100 So so what we've done is we've mistaken personal relationship 299 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:08,200 with private relationship. And so what we've done in that 300 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,000 regard to the farthest degree is created Christ on our terms. 301 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:14,700 Oh, my relationship with God. It's good. 302 00:16:14,700 --> 00:16:18,300 Like, and you have no fruit to show of your life with my 303 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:21,100 relationship with God. It's private and so there's no 304 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:23,800 discipleship or formation actually happening. 305 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:28,500 We confuse personal with private and some of this is not actually 306 00:16:28,500 --> 00:16:32,400 biblical at all. Some of this is actually Even to 307 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:36,600 produce terrible theology when it is completely inaccurate. 308 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,400 Well, yes, we have a personal relationship with God, meaning 309 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,200 that we have direct access to him. 310 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,600 What modern evangelicalism has taught us by saying, this is 311 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,800 that we have proven to be true in some spheres of progressive 312 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,800 Christianity's that we get Jesus on our terms and that is 313 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,000 entirely false. I would say it's probably 314 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,500 nothing more than a christianized version of 315 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:01,200 Buddhism or something along those lines where this is what 316 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,600 following Jesus. And it's nothing like what 317 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,800 scripture actually calls Believers to. 318 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:10,000 And the issue isn't just with what some would divide Define as 319 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,599 Progressive Christianity. This is true of a lot of us that 320 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:16,200 we have created this idea of Jesus on our own terms. 321 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:20,200 So we take a little bit about what we like in the gospel in 322 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:21,300 Jesus, kind of doing these things. 323 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:24,099 We help the poor. He did all these good things and 324 00:17:24,099 --> 00:17:26,500 I'm not saying that bad eye. That is part of the Gospel. 325 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:29,800 It's part of how it changes our lives and how we ought to live, 326 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,200 but it's more than just a set of Out of do's and don'ts and 327 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,300 beliefs. It is a invitation to a new way 328 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,800 to live, but it's on Jesus terms, not ours. 329 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:46,000 Again, this is sometimes it at odds with, with Christ rule or 330 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,600 rain and we have ignored this idea of what it means to fall 331 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:54,300 under the lordship of Jesus, we kind of just want to do our own 332 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:56,300 thing. We like to throw Jesus name on 333 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:58,400 it, we sing some songs. We're good. 334 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:01,100 I'm good. This doesn't really affect me at 335 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:04,100 all. But here's the resolution that I 336 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:07,500 suggest that the good news of Christ's kingdom, is that it 337 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:10,600 shatters, the Divide between the left and right, Progressive, 338 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,900 conservative, rich, or poor, And unites the body of Believers 339 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:17,700 under the banner of Jesus where we Proclaim together from every 340 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:21,200 nation tribe and tongue saying, salvation Belongs To Our God, 341 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,900 who sits on the throne and to the lamb, blessing and glory and 342 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:28,500 wisdom and Thanksgiving, and honour, and power, might be to 343 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:33,100 our god forever and ever. Amen, is revelation 7 says, this 344 00:18:33,100 --> 00:18:38,000 is an identity as a king and under the ruling and reign of 345 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,600 Jesus. See what we have done. 346 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:43,700 Is that we've made? The gospel pretty much just 347 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:47,000 about us. It just kind of wipes away my 348 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,600 sin, I don't feel guilty anymore, I can kind of do what I 349 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,800 want. I can kind of live however want 350 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,400 but hey, I'm good. I raised my hand at a VBS when I 351 00:18:54,408 --> 00:18:56,600 was seven years old. Like I said it. 352 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,000 I said the prayer repeated the pastor, but here's what I want 353 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,300 us to really take away. It's not fire Insurance, here's 354 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:07,700 the reality. That the gospel is less about 355 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:10,000 what happens when you die and more. 356 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,000 What happens if you live If you following Jesus, it's less about 357 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,000 what happens when I die. But more, what happens if I 358 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,400 continue to live, or is one of my heroes in the faith, John 359 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,200 Mark Comer would say, it's less about getting into heaven, and 360 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,800 more about getting Heaven into you, right? 361 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,900 It's more about getting the presence in the kingdom of God 362 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:35,100 into our lives. And here's the, the beauty of 363 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,100 joining Jesus in this gospel Rule and Reign is that the 364 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:43,600 spirit, the Holy Spirit has empowered every A Believer to be 365 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,400 witnesses witnesses, to the kingdom of Jesus that promises 366 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,500 forgiveness of sin and the Redemption of all things. 367 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:54,800 The beauty of the Gospel is that Jesus extends an invitation to 368 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,800 follow him and receive salvation forgiveness. 369 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,900 And, again, a new way to live, I say the word invitation is 370 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:03,700 because that's exactly what it is. 371 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Jesus, invites us into new life and as Witnesses. 372 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,100 We bear witness to this new life and call other people to join 373 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:15,900 us. Following after him, let's say 374 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:18,700 it's an invitation because it's true but it doesn't mean it's 375 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:21,600 not costly everybody in the room. 376 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,200 Probably have, if you've been following Jesus for a while, has 377 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,500 stories of what following Jesus is actually cost you. 378 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:30,500 For some of you you're like, is it cost me time? 379 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:32,900 Like I'm like I'm here all the time. 380 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:35,000 I'm helping Ricky set everything up. 381 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,900 I can't watch the Cowboys game because we run late sometimes. 382 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:40,000 There's a men's group and a Bible study and they want me to 383 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,200 do this and and praise God for that. 384 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:45,700 But the reality is that like the following Jesus cost to 385 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:47,900 something for some of us it's deeper than that. 386 00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:51,000 I was just a joke but but like for some of us it's cost us like 387 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,300 relationships right? That maybe we used to roll with 388 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:57,600 the group and arts were that was our what our identity was in and 389 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,600 that that group no longer accepts me because of what I 390 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,800 believe, maybe it's cause some of us family. 391 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,500 I know, that's true of some family that I have the that grew 392 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:10,800 up in a very religious environment, but once they went 393 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,600 personal relationship were really In to know, Jesus was, 394 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:16,000 hey, you're pretty much on your own Now dog. 395 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:20,100 That's that's on you for some of us, it doesn't mean just because 396 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:22,100 it's an invitation that it doesn't cost us something. 397 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:26,100 In fact, the gospel itself is very costly. 398 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,400 It requires surrender. It requires a change of heart, 399 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:34,300 it requires repentance or is Jesus, would say The Gospel 400 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:37,600 According to Mark requires us sometimes to repent, and believe 401 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,600 it requires something of us when we hear the word, repent, and we 402 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,400 don't like it, right? You're like, oh no. 403 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:45,800 Oh, he's going there. That's like, don't worry. 404 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,100 I'm not go Street Preacher on anybody - anybody over the head 405 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:51,400 with a Bible? Maybe that's something that's 406 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,300 somebody would do. But some of us when we hear the 407 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:56,300 word, repent, we have these images of Street Preachers that 408 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:59,500 have just shouted at people non-stop, right? 409 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:04,000 And I'm saying, I get that. But repentance is biblical that 410 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,500 we need to come to terms with the reality that we need to 411 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:12,400 change. We have so many ideas of or bad. 412 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,900 Inside with the word repentance. But Jesus tells us to repent and 413 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:18,700 believe the gospel because his way is better. 414 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:21,600 In fact, it is the only way to truly live. 415 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,900 Jesus makes this bold statement, declaration in John 14:6 where 416 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:29,400 he says, I am the way the truth, the life. 417 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:33,200 No one comes to the father, except through me and in this is 418 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:38,800 a very, very controversial Topic in today's generation in age, in 419 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,700 fact, and I know Eric was here or corn, and is what Here a 420 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:45,400 couple a couple weeks ago, as a couple weeks ago, something like 421 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:46,200 that. I don't know. 422 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,700 I don't know how long I know saw it on the Facebook or something 423 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:52,600 and and he deals with apologetics and all that stuff 424 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,400 and it's great. But we're I'm in downtown San 425 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,200 Antonio, nobody cares about truth claims they're kind of 426 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,900 like hey you believe that that's good for you that works for you 427 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:06,500 that doesn't work for me or they say hey if you're saying Jesus 428 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:08,700 is the way the truth, the life. No one comes to follow. 429 00:23:08,700 --> 00:23:10,700 Hey, I don't believe that that's your truth. 430 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:14,700 That's not my truth and so we What we're declaring is at odds 431 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:19,600 with the culture and we have to realize that what we believe 432 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,500 costs us something that doesn't mean we back down from truth. 433 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,800 In fact, we lean harder into it again, doing so with gentleness 434 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:33,700 and respect but we have to be ready and I love this is that we 435 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:38,200 have to have a very biblical view of the Gospel. 436 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:44,600 Causes the cost but calls us to change to live differently and 437 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,500 here's what the writers of Hebrews. 438 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:50,800 He said we get to this idea that gospel and we think that 439 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,800 everything is going to change right away and what people don't 440 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,200 tell you that it doesn't actually happen that way. 441 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,400 There's a thing called sanctification that takes some 442 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,400 time sometimes, it's the old, is he wants to come out, you know 443 00:24:02,408 --> 00:24:05,600 what I'm saying? Sometimes just like, I remember 444 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,900 reading on some of that someone something on Facebook the other 445 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:10,200 day just like, hey, Didn't you give your life to Christ? 446 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,100 Yeah, but I'm from the south side of the Kingdom, but 447 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:17,600 sometimes, sometimes that side wants to come out, it that 448 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,500 things ready to throw down sometimes, but we think that, 449 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:25,700 that the gospel is this immediate change in. 450 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:29,300 Here's what's true is that sometimes it transformation 451 00:24:29,300 --> 00:24:32,100 takes time. What people don't often tell you 452 00:24:32,108 --> 00:24:35,700 is that it's a struggle following, Jesus can be 453 00:24:35,700 --> 00:24:38,500 difficult. And here's why you just hear 454 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:41,100 what the writer of Hebrews will tell you that probably 455 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:46,400 secularism Satan inside. Society, will tell you, in the 456 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,300 church doesn't is that sometimes for a little bit, sin is 457 00:24:50,300 --> 00:24:55,000 pleasurable for a season. But you you've been told so much 458 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,900 it's just like hey it's bad and it is it is but what people 459 00:24:58,900 --> 00:25:01,700 don't tell you say that for a little bit you're like oh this 460 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:03,400 makes sense. It's why it's enticing. 461 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:06,100 It's why I want to stay with us, right? 462 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:07,800 It's just like me. Like, I've been trying to get 463 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,600 healthy and I appreciate who the people that bring like all the 464 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,800 fruit y'all bring fruit somebody somebody. 465 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,000 Yes, yeah. I love all the fruit. 466 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,900 Here's I'm trying to get healthy me and wife trying to get if 467 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:20,100 she's healthy. I'm not I but I'm trying to get 468 00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:21,700 there. Here's the thing. 469 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:25,300 If you put Put a stack of Water Burger right next to that fruit. 470 00:25:25,300 --> 00:25:29,500 I'm like, oh man. That water looks good, but I 471 00:25:29,508 --> 00:25:33,200 know that I need to choose the healthier option. 472 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:36,500 Here's the reality. Sometimes sin is, is that way. 473 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,100 It's looks really enticing and it's pleasurable for a moment is 474 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:44,600 what scripture says, but the season will run, its course, it 475 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,700 will catch up with you in the end and you'll find yourself 476 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:50,900 going further than you ever thought you'd go. 477 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,800 And you'd end up in situations you never thought. 478 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,000 You'd end up in and all of a sudden you start to think about 479 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,500 where you're at in your less satisfied than when you begin. 480 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:01,900 This is the reality of When sin ruts. 481 00:26:01,900 --> 00:26:05,700 Its course, our life, I worked in College of Ministry for over 482 00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:09,400 a decade and I saw this play out all the time, kids would come on 483 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,300 the canvas and be like, I'm gonna do me. 484 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:13,700 I'm gonna do what I want. I'm gonna do it. 485 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:17,000 Yeah, and I look, hey, I was there, look, I'll be honest. 486 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,700 So I got to the college campus. I'm like, I am free to do 487 00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:23,000 whatever I want and live, however, I want and just A 488 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:27,600 little bit of that will leave you wanting and I found myself 489 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,900 in a place where I didn't thought, didn't think I'd end up 490 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,900 being and all of a sudden we found a no life in the things 491 00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:38,100 that we live for the same was true of the Prodigal Son. 492 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:42,400 The same was true of Adam and Eve and the same is true of me. 493 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:46,100 It is through Jesus, though, and his Rule and reign in the 494 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:48,400 gospel, where we really find life. 495 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:52,600 John 10:10 says that the enemy comes to steal and to kill and 496 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,100 destroy, but I come so that you might have life in abundance. 497 00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:59,400 It is in this posture that we respond to the gospel and find 498 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,800 forgiveness. We find life, we find redemption 499 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,600 in the promise of eternal life. The beauty of the Gospel is that 500 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,700 for the believer, eternal life doesn't start the moment you 501 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:10,300 die. It begins the moment that you 502 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:14,000 receive the Gospel but that eternal life is something that 503 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,200 given to me. Now, where I extend God's 504 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,100 message and his rule in his reign. 505 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,400 Paul Romans Paul in Romans says with great urgency that if you 506 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,800 confess with your mouth and believe that Jesus is Lord and 507 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,100 believe that when you're hard, they got raised him from the 508 00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:32,100 dead. You will be saved, but he 509 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:35,700 communicates this message to share with people with urgency 510 00:27:35,700 --> 00:27:37,900 and church. I am sorry, but we have lost the 511 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:41,500 urgency of sharing the gospel. With people, we're fine coming 512 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:43,800 to our little service on Sunday mornings, maybe a little 513 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,200 community group and on Wednesday nights or something, and then 514 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:49,600 the message never leaves the floor walls, and our life. 515 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:52,100 Life is not reflective of a kingdom that we're actually 516 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:54,400 living in. We're comfortable. 517 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:57,700 We've turned the church into a country club and we're cool with 518 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:00,300 doing community service events every now and then, but there's 519 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:03,800 no real fruit in our lives were sharing Jesus and there's no 520 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:06,000 urgency for people to come to know him. 521 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,100 So when we talk about evangelism we're like hey man, I'm just 522 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:13,400 going to invite them to church. Ricky could share the gospel 523 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,200 with them. He can either they'll, like, our 524 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,100 lights, you know, they'll like our little setup there, like, 525 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:21,500 all these things and meanwhile, people like I don't care about 526 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:26,800 that but, you know, like I want the real thing and we have to be 527 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:31,500 willing in ready. Not only again, we receive 528 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:33,400 salvation reconciliation forgiveness. 529 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,000 But we are given a whole new way to live. 530 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:40,200 If we believe that the gospels are, in fact, the gospel is why 531 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,000 it Graham would say, then we would know that. 532 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:44,500 It did that. Jesus teaches us the way to 533 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:48,900 truly live the way we were away where we find Freedom, true joy 534 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:51,100 and love that can only be found in Christ. 535 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:54,600 And the gospel has a direct impact on what that looks like 536 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,500 outside these four walls that have the gospel is captivated 537 00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:02,200 your heart. It needs to change something in 538 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,000 our life. In fact, I remember when I came 539 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,600 to really know Jesus, my parents are incredible. 540 00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:13,900 They have I talked about him a few weeks ago and church their 541 00:29:13,900 --> 00:29:17,500 members at our church Downtown, which, if you're pastoring your 542 00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:18,800 parents, it's always a weird thing. 543 00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:22,900 You're like, I'm like, they've known me and they were praying 544 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:27,400 for me when I was in college. They know all the mess and love 545 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,200 us. Anyway, in, and I remember 546 00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:35,000 talking about my parents and my parents did their best absolute 547 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,700 best to raise me in the ways of the Lord. 548 00:29:36,700 --> 00:29:39,600 And for some of you in this room, you're praying for your 549 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,400 children. I would say, keep praying. 550 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:45,600 Praying for them to know Jesus, or, or to come back to Christ. 551 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,200 Keep praying. I was, I was one of those kids 552 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,000 that when I got to college, I was like, I'm gonna do me and I 553 00:29:51,008 --> 00:29:52,300 had a Praying Mother and a praying. 554 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:55,500 Father, that that prayed my way back into the kingdom. 555 00:29:55,500 --> 00:30:00,600 This is kind of how I would, I would say it but I remember when 556 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:05,300 I really came to know Jesus in college for myself, I'd lived a 557 00:30:05,308 --> 00:30:07,400 life and I was kind of like I want to do my own thing. 558 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,200 And finally I was kind of like okay this I'm not happy there's 559 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:12,500 no joy. Oh, in my life. 560 00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:17,100 And I've surrounded myself with some friends, after some, some 561 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:20,000 dumb decisions that I was just like, I need something 562 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,100 different. And I found a BSM actually. 563 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:26,400 And I was walking and I'll never forget this. 564 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,400 I was like walking on to psychology class in Manning Hall 565 00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:31,600 and forgive my language. Rick, what about to say? 566 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,800 But a guy ask me, he's, hey Min, I want you to come to our BSA 567 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,800 and I go, oh, hell no, I'm not going to your ministry. 568 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,500 I was like, I was like, I don't know. 569 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:42,200 I'm not doing that, man. I was a very honest about I'm 570 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,200 still I still am sometimes too much and I remember thinking, 571 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,700 like I'm not doing that. Like I know what this is, is a 572 00:30:48,708 --> 00:30:50,900 Ministry, they're going to, they're going to try wrote me in 573 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:56,400 in my mom probably called them. If you know Melva she might have 574 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:01,700 that woman's feisty it's where I get it from and and and I 575 00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:04,300 remember saying like, hey I'm not doing that. 576 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:09,000 Then your boy got hungry. Not not spiritually. 577 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,300 I was like physically hungry. They I heard they had food there 578 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:13,700 that they were doing free. Lunch and I was like, all right 579 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:17,000 well maybe I'll check that out but I'm not. 580 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,500 I'm not doing this Jesus thing though. 581 00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:21,300 And so I walk into the building in the director that time. 582 00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:24,300 Mike Cervantes was just like, I thought you were showing up and 583 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:26,300 I was like, I like this guy, he just roasted me. 584 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:30,800 And I told him, I, you know, I got hungry and all this time. 585 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,300 I keep going back. There's people that I see, I'm 586 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:39,800 invited to a Bible study of a men's group and I day, two of 587 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,500 being a part. Like going to this ministry, I 588 00:31:41,508 --> 00:31:44,400 get invited. To this man's group, I show up. 589 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,900 I have no idea what to expect next thing I know, they're like, 590 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:50,800 all right, let's do confession. I was like, oh no, oh my, what 591 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,600 did I just walk into this guy's like, hey, I got to be honest. 592 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,300 I just got high like two minutes ago and I was like, I love his 593 00:31:57,300 --> 00:32:01,500 honesty and I was like I can be here like this is a place for me 594 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:04,200 to fit in and then all of a sudden I saw guys, let's say, 595 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,500 hey man, we're here to walk with you. 596 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,600 Like I know this has been a struggle in your life and we 597 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,900 Jesus has better for you and I just started to be Be grasped by 598 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:15,600 these people who were living a different way. 599 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,000 I saw the joy that they had and I wasn't ready yet to follow 600 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,800 Jesus. But I was like, man, they have 601 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,500 something that I want and I remember getting to a point 602 00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:28,800 where I was really struggling and I posted something super emo 603 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,600 on Facebook. This is back. 604 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,200 Then when people like could just you know people still do it now 605 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,100 I guess but Facebook really wasn't. 606 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:37,100 The thing is most Myspace. It was my space. 607 00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:38,900 I focus on some of your like man. 608 00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:41,800 I didn't know you were that old. I posted something. 609 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,800 Primo, Myspace. And and the director saw it is 610 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,400 11:30 at night and he's like, hey man, I saw what you post and 611 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,500 this is after me, coming to this thing for about a few months, 612 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:55,800 and just kind of refusing what God was trying to do in my life 613 00:32:56,500 --> 00:33:00,100 and post something super emo like 11:30 on a Thursday night 614 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:02,700 and he's a, hey saw what you post is everything, okay? 615 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:06,600 And finally, after a few months of just being there, I said, no 616 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,800 man, it's not. And he said, hey, would you meet 617 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,900 me at the Whataburger on 77? I said, Absolutely, it's 618 00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:17,700 Whataburger and we sit down and Mike starts to lay out the 619 00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:18,700 gospel. For me. 620 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:23,800 He said he's like, man, Jesus has better for you like he has 621 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,700 life, he's offering you that and I said man, I see Ivan, I see a 622 00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:30,500 sassy these guys and they have the life that I want. 623 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:33,600 They have Julie, he goes, you know what it is that they have 624 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,400 they have Jesus. And at that moment I said that's 625 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,100 what I want. I gave my life to Jesus in the 626 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:42,900 middle of this Water Burger in Kingsville, Texas off Highway 627 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:44,400 77. I still pass by it. 628 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,900 Sometimes, I'm going in South Padre and I'm like, praise God 629 00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:52,100 for that, but I remember it immediately, my life changed 630 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,000 and, and some things were still a struggle. 631 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,000 But I the internal side, the nature of me was just like, I 632 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,300 want everybody to know about this Jesus. 633 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:08,000 And so I remember as a brand new believer like a week in, I got 634 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,300 somebody Did me this little New Testament, and it was like, 635 00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:12,800 share. It's in the front of it, says, 636 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,300 sharing the gospel without fear. I think. 637 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:16,900 I was given to it from somebody. Gave it to me from the DSM. 638 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:22,300 I had no idea how to share the gospel, but I was like, I met 639 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:24,800 with my director said, hey, what are the verses that you use to 640 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,100 tell people about Jesus? And he was like, we do this 641 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:29,699 thing called the Romans road you should eat. 642 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,900 And I was like, where are they? And I literally had no idea 643 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:36,199 really what to do with it. I just started paper clipping 644 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:39,199 those, those passages and I was just like like I wrote them 645 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,000 upside down so that I could just shoot do this of the Bible to 646 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,199 some of my friends and God use that. 647 00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:47,400 I had terrible gospel presentations. 648 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,699 I'll just like, hey, you need to believe in Jesus, but we were 649 00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:54,900 like, alright, but I, but I remember getting this hunger to 650 00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:57,100 share Jesus in. And I was in a journalism 651 00:34:57,100 --> 00:34:59,100 department at the time and nobody was Christians. 652 00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:01,900 They call me and they don't call me the Tim Tebow of the 653 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:04,900 journalism department. But it's because my life had 654 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:08,100 changed so much. And all of a sudden people are 655 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:11,800 asking, hey man, like, what is it that you found or they were 656 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,100 like, hey, could you pray for me? 657 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,900 And I remember getting this passion to share the gospel with 658 00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:18,700 people, and I got to see some of my closest friends come to know 659 00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:21,700 Jesus, and that journalism Department some who are now in 660 00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:24,900 Ministry and pastors. It's kind of funny to see, but 661 00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:28,200 all that to say that, that we need to have this urgency to 662 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,700 share the gospel, Charles Spurgeon once had the quote that 663 00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:34,500 says every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. 664 00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:38,100 If we're not willing to share the gospel with people, then 665 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:41,400 what are we actually inviting people into if we're not willing 666 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:42,700 to share the gospel with somebody? 667 00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:46,700 What we're inviting people into is just another gathering on a 668 00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:49,400 Sunday, where we eat some good food, seeing some, some good 669 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,700 songs and some music. But our lives, don't really look 670 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:54,100 any different than the people outside of these four walls. 671 00:35:54,700 --> 00:36:00,500 And we need to have a hunger to share the gospel with people. 672 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:04,700 And so if you're a believer in the room, this looks like 673 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:09,400 inviting people into your everyday life and showing them 674 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,300 what the power of Jesus actually has accomplished. 675 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,800 Remember, if you're a believer in this room that you were 676 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,100 empowered by the spirit to be a witness and to make disciples, 677 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:22,400 you don't need to be an expert, you don't even have a seminary 678 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,400 degree, you don't have to have anything like that. 679 00:36:24,700 --> 00:36:27,400 In fact, in the book evangelism in early church, Michael Green 680 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,000 talks about the early churches evangelism methods by stating 681 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:34,800 This must often have been not formal preaching but informal 682 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,900 chattering, two, friends in chance, acquaintances in homes, 683 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,400 in wine, shops on walks and around Market stalls. 684 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,100 They went everywhere gossiping about the gospel. 685 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,700 They did it naturally enthusiastically. 686 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,800 And with the conviction of those who are not paid to say, that 687 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,100 sort of thing. Consequences song, consequently, 688 00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:57,300 they were taken serious in the movement spread. 689 00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:02,700 They went about gossiping the gospel and People into that 690 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,900 life. And remember, again, remember to 691 00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:09,300 share your life. Not just information Rosario 692 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:12,400 Butterfield in her book on Hospitality, the gospel comes 693 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,400 with a house key. She says this that are 694 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,800 post-christian neighbors, need to hear and see and taste and 695 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,700 feel authentic, Christianity Hospitality spreading from every 696 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:25,100 Christian home, that includes Neighbors in prayer food 697 00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:27,800 friendship. Childcare, you might be dog 698 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,200 walking in the daily matters upon which friendships are 699 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,200 built. You might be thinking, well, 700 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,400 that's easy for you to say, you're the pastor. 701 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,300 And again, the truth is that hasn't always been me, you know, 702 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:43,200 it's until the gospel really got a hold of my life that this 703 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,600 change. So if you're a believer in the 704 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,800 room, what does it look like to engage with the people around? 705 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,900 You not just spit out information and throw them a 706 00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:56,800 Romans road and be like, do you want to know Jesus? 707 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:01,100 But really invite them into your life and see and taste. 708 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,600 It's the goodness of God. What does it look like to be the 709 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,300 most caring person in your, in your workspace, to be the 710 00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:12,200 hardest worker to demonstrate what God has done to invite 711 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,500 people into life and to be okay with questions, faith can be a 712 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:20,200 difficult thing. But God has equipped every 713 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,600 single one of us who would claim to be followers of Jesus to step 714 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,700 into those spaces and share the love of God. 715 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:32,100 And if you're not a Christian in this room like just forget 716 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:32,700 everything. I said. 717 00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:36,000 No, I'm kidding. But what would it look like for 718 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,000 you to take Jesus up on this invitation? 719 00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:44,100 In Matthew 11 he says come to me all who are weary and carry 720 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:48,400 heavy burdens and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you. 721 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,700 Let me teach you because I'm humble and gentle and heart. 722 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:52,700 You will find rest for your souls. 723 00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:56,400 He says, for my yoke is easy to bear and the burden I give you 724 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,400 is light. What would it look like for you 725 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,600 to take Jesus up on his invitation? 726 00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:06,700 Would you take into consideration the reality of the 727 00:39:06,700 --> 00:39:09,300 Gospel? Would you consider the gospel? 728 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000 That we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of 729 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,100 God. But even then that God loved us 730 00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:18,800 so much that he gave his life for us. 731 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,800 That the scripture would say that even while we were sinners 732 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:26,200 Christ died for us, what would it look like for you to take 733 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:32,100 Jesus up on this invitation? My prayer is that that we would 734 00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:37,100 leave this room this morning captivated by the gospel. 735 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:42,200 The heat died according to the scriptures that he paid for our 736 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:47,200 sins and that he calls Believers to share the message of 737 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,900 transformation. The kingdom of a new way to 738 00:39:49,900 --> 00:39:53,300 live. Would you be encouraged in your 739 00:39:53,300 --> 00:39:56,000 efforts? Would you even right now? 740 00:39:56,300 --> 00:39:59,500 Some of you have a notepad, some of you have phones, what would 741 00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:02,800 it look like for you right now to ask God to reveal to you, 742 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,000 maybe two names of people that you're going to commit to pray 743 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,800 for this week. That you're going to say, hey, I 744 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,200 know this person doesn't know Jesus. 745 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,700 What would it look like for me to engage and to pray for them 746 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,900 and pray that God would give me an opportunity to share the 747 00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:22,300 gospel with them. Would you do that? 748 00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:25,900 Just just just write down two names, people that come to mind, 749 00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:27,800 maybe their friends family coworkers. 750 00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:31,600 I'm going to devote the next week to pray for them. 751 00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:33,600 I'm not. And I'm going to ask God for 752 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,100 opportunities, to share the gospel. 753 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,800 Not just invite them to church and invite them to church. 754 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,000 Yes, we would love that. I would love that. 755 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,100 There's no better place. I think in Fort Worth and 756 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,500 there's somebody get connected here at city post his family, 757 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,100 it's like Chili's or whatever. So when you're here, you're 758 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:53,000 family, but what would it Like for you to share the gospel with 759 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,100 him. What would it look like for you 760 00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:58,800 to commit to prayer? As a church? 761 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,900 We've been doing a month of prayer and fasting every day. 762 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:07,400 Just begging God, to save our friends and save family. 763 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,500 Our family of save our loved ones and just a quick testimony 764 00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:16,600 we had a couple in our church that have been praying for 765 00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,700 friends. They rotate names down. 766 00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:21,000 We have like this wheel and we write eight names down. 767 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,100 We're like okay God give us Insight. 768 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:26,500 Give us wisdom discernment on how How to share how to pray 769 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:28,600 for. Maybe there's things that we can 770 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,800 do to serve them the, you know, if it's a neighbor. 771 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,100 Okay. Hey, we're going to invite them. 772 00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:35,100 We're going to ask if we can do child care for them so they can 773 00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:36,700 go on a date night. We're going to pay for a date 774 00:41:36,700 --> 00:41:38,300 night. I mean, we're trying to get 775 00:41:38,300 --> 00:41:42,200 creative with how we do this and there's a family in our church. 776 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,800 A couple young couple in their 30s that have been praying for 777 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:51,200 their family and Nikki and Renee are the names and so pray for 778 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:55,900 them, they came up to me on Sunday and say, hey, Is he like, 779 00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:58,200 what they're, like, five of the people that we've been praying 780 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,800 for here this morning. And I was like, what, what like 781 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,500 they is, are like, they've never, they hadn't been to 782 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:06,300 church in years, all this kind of stuff, like they come, our 783 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,800 whole family comes from a Catholic background and they've 784 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,300 not wanted anything to do with this, and they're all here 785 00:42:11,300 --> 00:42:14,100 today. And by the end of that service, 786 00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:17,300 I was talking to our other Pastor Ryan, and he goes, hey, 787 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,800 one of those people just gave their life to Jesus. 788 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,500 And it was through faithful prayer in Opportunity. 789 00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:27,000 Got them begging God. Hey, would you save their soul? 790 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,000 Give us Insight. Give us an ability. 791 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,200 Give us the words to say and I would encourage you. 792 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,000 What would it look like for you to take time this week, to truly 793 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,900 get before God, say, God, would you work on their behalf? 794 00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:46,600 Would you allow so-and-so to come to know you and really 795 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,500 devote that time to prayer? I want to pray for us. 796 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:57,800 God we thank you so much that you've invited us into New Life. 797 00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:03,200 That you have saved our souls, that you have given us, not just 798 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:07,300 a personal relationship, although we do have that. 799 00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:11,400 But you've given us a family that we've been adopted as Sons 800 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:16,200 and Daughters of the most high King, and as followers and as 801 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:20,200 children of God, even trusted us with a message to reach the 802 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,900 world. We pray that starts in our 803 00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:24,400 neighborhoods. We pray that starts in our 804 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,400 family. God, would you give us a burden? 805 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,900 Burden for the lost. And would you give us the 806 00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:36,500 ability to share the love of Jesus and how good you are? 807 00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:39,600 God, would you work in our lives? 808 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:46,000 Would you work in our heart? God, would you give us just the 809 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,000 passion and the Zeal to share Who You Are? 810 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,100 God. We love you. 811 00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:53,200 We thank you in Jesus name. We pray. 812 00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:55,200 Amen, stand and sing.