1 00:00:00,430 --> 00:00:04,140 Good morning everybody. Great to see you today. 2 00:00:04,270 --> 00:00:06,940 If you brought a Bible with you want your turn with me to 3 00:00:06,950 --> 00:00:09,840 Matthew's gospel, Matthew chapter 13. 4 00:00:09,890 --> 00:00:13,000 If you're not familiar with the Bible's first book in the New 5 00:00:13,010 --> 00:00:16,200 Testament, make your way there. Matthew 13. 6 00:00:16,890 --> 00:00:19,950 I hope you've had a good week. I hope you have them quite 7 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,720 gotten over Easter weekend, our celebration of the death and 8 00:00:24,730 --> 00:00:30,800 resurrection of Jesus Christ absolutely changed the world, 9 00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:33,690 turned the world upside down and changing the lives and it 10 00:00:33,730 --> 00:00:36,240 changed my life, continuing to change my life. 11 00:00:36,250 --> 00:00:39,300 I hope it's that he is changing your life. 12 00:00:39,890 --> 00:00:42,680 Last week I said that millions of Christians are gathered all 13 00:00:42,690 --> 00:00:45,700 over celebrating Easter. Actually, I meant to say 14 00:00:45,710 --> 00:00:50,000 billions of Christians, 2.4 billion Christians around the 15 00:00:50,010 --> 00:00:54,040 world right now, to be precise, well, roughly precise to a lot 16 00:00:54,050 --> 00:00:57,200 of people. And he's still changing lives 17 00:00:57,270 --> 00:01:03,340 today in keeping with the immensity of the event of 18 00:01:03,350 --> 00:01:06,840 Christ, death and resurrection. I want us to wrap our minds 19 00:01:06,850 --> 00:01:09,620 around something today. I want us to wrap our minds 20 00:01:09,630 --> 00:01:13,240 around a pretty big idea, an idea that we can't, can't really 21 00:01:13,250 --> 00:01:15,660 address. It's, it's, it's too big for one 22 00:01:15,670 --> 00:01:18,080 sermon. So we are making this into a 23 00:01:18,090 --> 00:01:20,680 series that we've entitled Multiply. 24 00:01:21,510 --> 00:01:24,910 You know when the good news woke me up? 25 00:01:26,010 --> 00:01:31,860 Been in church all my life, university stage completely 26 00:01:31,870 --> 00:01:34,280 rejected Christianity altogether. 27 00:01:34,290 --> 00:01:37,620 But when the good news of Jesus Christ woke me up, when I came 28 00:01:37,630 --> 00:01:44,010 to realize how loved I am by God and that even in the midst of my 29 00:01:44,020 --> 00:01:46,930 resistance of Him and trying to live my own life, He was 30 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:49,890 pursuing me. And that He had given His life 31 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:54,270 for me when I woke up to that. And that He had given heaven to 32 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,710 me for free, that I didn't have to earn it. 33 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,630 Here I am trying to be good, trying to be trying to be good, 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,930 and actually thinking God wasn't very good and then realizing no, 35 00:02:04,940 --> 00:02:08,430 he is so much better than I ever realized. 36 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,950 When I realized that Heaven's given as a gift for free, it 37 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:17,730 absolutely blew me away. Totally blew me away. 38 00:02:18,220 --> 00:02:21,480 And I what was on my mind is what's the catch? 39 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:26,720 This is too good to be true. Heaven for free, being loved 40 00:02:26,730 --> 00:02:28,020 like this, it's too good to be true. 41 00:02:28,030 --> 00:02:30,460 And I remember the guy, the man, the gentleman by the name of 42 00:02:30,470 --> 00:02:34,280 Brent who led me to Christ and who is discipling me. 43 00:02:34,350 --> 00:02:36,380 Remember this conversation that we were having? 44 00:02:36,390 --> 00:02:38,780 And I'm just sharing with him like, what's the catch? 45 00:02:38,850 --> 00:02:40,530 What's the catch? You saying there is no catch, 46 00:02:41,550 --> 00:02:44,200 but the more that I read the scriptures and the more the 47 00:02:44,210 --> 00:02:47,680 conversations that we had, I'm realizing there is a catch. 48 00:02:48,430 --> 00:02:53,780 I have to now go and share this good news with other people and 49 00:02:53,790 --> 00:02:56,010 that didn't excite me very much at the beginning. 50 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,610 That was a catch to Brent. It was like, no, this is the 51 00:03:00,620 --> 00:03:03,710 core to what this good news is all about. 52 00:03:04,220 --> 00:03:07,630 You know, you haven't quite got the good news if you're not 53 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:11,590 ready to be sharing it. Be in the aroma of Christ to the 54 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:18,070 world, over time growing in my understanding and appreciation 55 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,270 of the goodness of God. Come to realize, you know what? 56 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:22,880 This isn't? It's not about me. 57 00:03:24,250 --> 00:03:29,920 It's not just for me that, yeah, I am meant to receive and enjoy 58 00:03:29,930 --> 00:03:34,140 the love of God for myself, but it's one that is meant to move 59 00:03:34,150 --> 00:03:38,640 me to this place a passing it on to another, another person. 60 00:03:38,870 --> 00:03:41,160 You know, I've been touched by the love of God. 61 00:03:41,670 --> 00:03:44,860 Can you say that? You've been my my life has been 62 00:03:44,930 --> 00:03:48,500 has been utterly transformed. He's continuing to transform me. 63 00:03:48,610 --> 00:03:51,600 But I've been touched. And it was all the result of the 64 00:03:51,610 --> 00:03:56,230 influence of another person that God moves through other people. 65 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:01,830 And if it wasn't for someone passing on that touch to me, I 66 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:03,460 just, I wonder, where would my life be? 67 00:04:04,260 --> 00:04:07,770 Where would it be right now? You and I have been invited into 68 00:04:07,780 --> 00:04:10,940 the greatest venture that the world has ever known. 69 00:04:11,670 --> 00:04:13,690 There's there's nothing that compares to it. 70 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:17,769 The Church of Jesus Christ. Now, it may not look so great, 71 00:04:18,940 --> 00:04:22,690 like it might not look like much, but this is the greatest 72 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:24,550 venture that the world will ever know. 73 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,050 But through the eyes of faith, we can come to realize the 74 00:04:28,060 --> 00:04:31,730 potential for world change. There's no other way that the 75 00:04:31,740 --> 00:04:36,580 world is going to change then through this plan that God has 76 00:04:36,590 --> 00:04:40,300 called the Church of Jesus Christ in passing on the good 77 00:04:40,310 --> 00:04:45,680 news of, of, of Jesus. In the early 80s, John Scully, 78 00:04:45,690 --> 00:04:50,460 who was the president of Pepsi at the time, he was asked to 79 00:04:50,470 --> 00:04:53,740 join a tech startup operation out of someone's garage. 80 00:04:54,030 --> 00:04:56,760 And that garage happened to belong to Steve Jobs. 81 00:04:56,770 --> 00:04:59,960 And Steve was working at the beginnings of the Apple 82 00:04:59,970 --> 00:05:03,180 Corporation, which I'm sure we all know about. 83 00:05:03,290 --> 00:05:05,700 Anyway, Scully turned him down. He says, you know, my office is 84 00:05:05,710 --> 00:05:09,250 bigger than your garage, right? Total rejection. 85 00:05:09,260 --> 00:05:12,320 But Steve Jobs didn't give up and he kept persisting. 86 00:05:12,370 --> 00:05:14,670 And at one point, he just, he, he put the pitch. 87 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:19,240 He says, he says, he says. Do you wanna sell sugar water 88 00:05:19,250 --> 00:05:22,480 for the rest of your life or do you wanna join me and help 89 00:05:22,490 --> 00:05:27,440 change the world? And Scully recognized that there 90 00:05:27,450 --> 00:05:30,510 was a purpose that could be higher that he was being called 91 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:32,590 into. Now that's just business. 92 00:05:34,130 --> 00:05:39,240 Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is inviting each one of us into a 93 00:05:39,250 --> 00:05:42,800 venture with him. Come and join me and let's 94 00:05:42,810 --> 00:05:51,020 change the world together. Today I want to introduce this 95 00:05:51,070 --> 00:05:55,390 big idea to multiply. That's that's simply all I'm 96 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,250 gonna be doing today. Now, when you think of the word 97 00:05:58,260 --> 00:06:00,490 multiply or multiplication, what comes to your mind? 98 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:03,530 You might think immediately times tables and elementary 99 00:06:03,540 --> 00:06:06,170 schools like, OK, what's 6 * 7? Quick, quick. 100 00:06:06,180 --> 00:06:07,710 It's like, you know, freeze, right? 101 00:06:08,260 --> 00:06:10,890 Some of us have nightmares of remember, we haven't fully 102 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:13,470 memorized or at least we've forgotten the times tables or 103 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,970 whatever. Others of us, you know, maybe as 104 00:06:15,980 --> 00:06:19,970 we relate multiplication to church, we might think, you 105 00:06:19,980 --> 00:06:22,150 know, maybe if we're a little bit on the cynical side, we say, 106 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:26,470 oh, that's all about numbers and getting big and, and, and more 107 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:27,850 money and all that kind of stuff. 108 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,730 I just want to level all that stuff out today and talk about 109 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:35,810 multiplication, just just how natural it actually is. 110 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,810 We're coming up to dandelion season. 111 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:41,530 It's, it's, it's almost here, friends. 112 00:06:41,540 --> 00:06:44,630 Now if you, if you know, if you look out onto a field as you're 113 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,550 driving through the country and you see this, you know, this sea 114 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,260 of yellow, it's gorgeous. But if you own a lawn, you hate 115 00:06:53,270 --> 00:06:55,260 dandelions, right? You hate them. 116 00:06:55,270 --> 00:06:58,020 Why? Because they multiply like 117 00:06:58,030 --> 00:07:00,650 nobody's business. You know when they get ready, 118 00:07:00,660 --> 00:07:05,040 when those seeds get ready and the wind blows, or if you kick a 119 00:07:05,050 --> 00:07:08,380 dandelion, what's happened? You get 1000, right potential 120 00:07:08,390 --> 00:07:10,990 like 20,000 seeds go out from one dandelion. 121 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,980 They just multiply like crazy. Living things grow. 122 00:07:16,170 --> 00:07:20,520 Living things multiply. That's that's, that's that's 123 00:07:20,530 --> 00:07:25,880 what we're meant to do. And multiplication is a 124 00:07:25,890 --> 00:07:28,790 completely biblical idea. You know what? 125 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:33,620 The very first words that God spoke to human humankind or the 126 00:07:33,630 --> 00:07:36,440 very first words, Genesis chapter one, verse 28. 127 00:07:37,430 --> 00:07:44,050 Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth, subdue it. 128 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:51,660 Why fruitfulness and multiplication are very 129 00:07:51,670 --> 00:07:53,510 important to God. First words out of His mouth. 130 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,510 Why? Because He wanted us to fill the 131 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,670 earth with His goodness. We are image bearers of the 132 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,200 living God, and so we are, you know, every single one of us. 133 00:08:03,250 --> 00:08:05,750 We're similar in the fact that we're human, but every single 134 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,750 one of us looks different. There's no one person that's 135 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,760 completely like in each one of us is reflecting the image and 136 00:08:11,770 --> 00:08:15,370 the beauty and the goodness of God just by who we are and just 137 00:08:15,380 --> 00:08:20,720 I want to fill the earth with more of the goodness that's 138 00:08:20,730 --> 00:08:22,920 going to make a difference in this world. 139 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,910 But you know what? The last words that Jesus spoke 140 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:32,150 to his church. Matthew 28 Go and make disciples 141 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:37,710 of all nations. Go and multiply the number of 142 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:44,390 disciples on the planet. That should tell us something. 143 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:52,570 Multiplication is very important to God, multiplying the number 144 00:08:52,580 --> 00:08:55,470 of disciples in the world. What are we talking about? 145 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,730 We talk about disciples. We at Forest View, we talk very, 146 00:08:58,740 --> 00:09:00,620 very simple. The disciple, we defined it in 147 00:09:00,630 --> 00:09:02,970 three ways. They abide, they love, they bear 148 00:09:02,980 --> 00:09:05,020 fruit. That's what it disciple is. 149 00:09:05,850 --> 00:09:10,460 The disciple is one who loves God, who loves people, and who 150 00:09:10,470 --> 00:09:14,040 passes it on. If something's missing there, 151 00:09:14,050 --> 00:09:18,530 that person is not a disciple. That pass on part is the part 152 00:09:18,540 --> 00:09:22,850 that many Christians and many churches just haven't got yet. 153 00:09:22,860 --> 00:09:26,230 We've got a lot of work to do when it comes to the passing on, 154 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,190 and that's what we're going to focus on in this series. 155 00:09:29,540 --> 00:09:31,510 We're going to look at some parables of Jesus. 156 00:09:33,290 --> 00:09:37,910 The parables of Jesus talk about they, they kind of encapsulate 157 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:42,330 their little stories where they encapsulate his main teaching 158 00:09:42,340 --> 00:09:44,670 about the Kingdom of God. You know that there's no other 159 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:47,740 topic that Jesus talks about more than the Kingdom of God. 160 00:09:47,820 --> 00:09:50,530 That is the rule of God, the reign of God. 161 00:09:50,540 --> 00:09:53,260 Everything that happens in the dominion of God, which is all 162 00:09:53,270 --> 00:09:56,280 about his love and his goodness. It's all about his healing and 163 00:09:56,290 --> 00:09:58,010 his wholeness and his restoration. 164 00:09:58,060 --> 00:09:59,850 All of that is about the Kingdom of God. 165 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,490 Where the Kingdom of God is things are being done right, 166 00:10:03,020 --> 00:10:08,730 wrong is being made right, lives are being made whole and Jesus 167 00:10:08,740 --> 00:10:10,550 is teaching us about the Kingdom now. 168 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,130 Number of years ago just hit me like a ton of bricks reading 169 00:10:14,140 --> 00:10:18,610 through the parables and realizing almost all of them are 170 00:10:18,620 --> 00:10:21,070 about the expansion of the Kingdom of God. 171 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:23,380 It's all about growth. We're going to see this through 172 00:10:23,390 --> 00:10:26,330 through through this series and we're going to look at a couple 173 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:31,470 today, but actually only we're gonna be in we're gonna be in 174 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,960 Matthew chapter 13 and we're gonna start at verse 31. 175 00:10:35,010 --> 00:10:39,820 And, and Lord, as we, as we look at your word today, we pray that 176 00:10:39,830 --> 00:10:44,720 you would open our eyes, Lord, that you would instruct our 177 00:10:44,730 --> 00:10:49,180 minds, Lord, that you would soften our hearts to the things 178 00:10:49,630 --> 00:10:54,110 that are important to you. Holy Spirit, come minister to us 179 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,610 through your word this morning in Jesus name, Amen. 180 00:10:59,150 --> 00:11:03,680 OK, Matthew chapter 13. Now Matthew chapter 13 begins 181 00:11:03,730 --> 00:11:06,540 with a description of the kind of the context and that is that 182 00:11:06,550 --> 00:11:11,510 Jesus is speaking to a great crowd and a lot of people and 183 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,070 he's telling them a number of parables. 184 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,120 And so we're going to pick it up. 185 00:11:14,130 --> 00:11:17,900 In verse 31, he told them another parable. 186 00:11:19,010 --> 00:11:23,420 The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took 187 00:11:23,430 --> 00:11:27,670 and planted in his field, though it is the smallest of all seeds. 188 00:11:29,210 --> 00:11:32,400 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows it is 189 00:11:32,410 --> 00:11:36,800 the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree so that the birds 190 00:11:36,810 --> 00:11:42,780 come and perch in its branches. So we'll just pause there. 191 00:11:42,790 --> 00:11:45,160 First parable that we're going to look at today is just really 192 00:11:45,170 --> 00:11:48,040 about the mustard seed. Anybody held a mustard seed? 193 00:11:48,150 --> 00:11:49,980 And this is how big a mustard seed is. 194 00:11:51,150 --> 00:11:53,520 It's like the size of the head of a pin. 195 00:11:53,530 --> 00:11:56,660 It's very, very small. Now, the mustard seed was not 196 00:11:56,670 --> 00:12:01,480 the smallest seed ever, but Jesus was using the common seeds 197 00:12:01,490 --> 00:12:04,260 that that farmers would know and that farmers would be using. 198 00:12:04,310 --> 00:12:06,320 Like there's poppy seeds that are smaller. 199 00:12:06,330 --> 00:12:10,090 They're orchid seeds that are smaller, but what Jesus 200 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:14,150 emphasized is from this very, very small seed is gonna come a 201 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,610 Bush, a tree, and take a look at this like they, they go up there 202 00:12:17,620 --> 00:12:23,460 like 4 meters high out of this minuscule little seed. 203 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:28,610 So Jesus is talking about how the Kingdom of God, the rule of 204 00:12:28,620 --> 00:12:33,060 God, the way that it enters into the world starts very small. 205 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,740 Now this would have been a mind Bender to the Jews at this time 206 00:12:37,460 --> 00:12:40,950 because to think about the Kingdom of God, it's like man, 207 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,320 the majesty of God, the power of God coming to the earth, you'd 208 00:12:44,330 --> 00:12:47,610 think this big splash. But no, that's not how God comes 209 00:12:47,620 --> 00:12:49,530 to us. He comes gently. 210 00:12:52,670 --> 00:12:56,180 He starts small and then he grows. 211 00:12:56,430 --> 00:12:59,820 The Kingdom of God grows and expands, and it's gonna have a 212 00:12:59,830 --> 00:13:01,740 reach. You know, its branches are gonna 213 00:13:01,750 --> 00:13:04,800 stretch out and so that it's gonna provide shelter for many 214 00:13:04,810 --> 00:13:10,920 people beyond its boundaries. There is a concept here that God 215 00:13:10,930 --> 00:13:14,440 wants, Jesus wants to get us to understand, and that is that the 216 00:13:14,450 --> 00:13:16,480 Kingdom, those smart starting small. 217 00:13:16,570 --> 00:13:19,900 It's going to expand, it's going to grow, it's going to multiply 218 00:13:19,990 --> 00:13:22,340 in the earth. Let's take a look. 219 00:13:22,630 --> 00:13:26,590 Verse 33. He told them still another 220 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,580 parable, the Kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took 221 00:13:30,590 --> 00:13:34,570 and mixed into about 60 lbs of flour until it worked all 222 00:13:34,580 --> 00:13:38,570 through the dough. So this this little parable is 223 00:13:38,580 --> 00:13:41,280 about yeast. And as you know, yeast if you if 224 00:13:41,290 --> 00:13:44,130 you have bread, if you have flour and you have water and you 225 00:13:44,140 --> 00:13:46,410 mix it together, all you got is mucky paste. 226 00:13:46,460 --> 00:13:50,250 But if you include yeast, it's going to allow the dough to rise 227 00:13:50,260 --> 00:13:52,430 and make bread. Beautiful thing. 228 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,760 And just a handful of yeast here and like 60 lbs of power feed 229 00:13:55,770 --> 00:13:59,860 about 100 people. Again, something has very small 230 00:13:59,870 --> 00:14:03,850 beginnings is going to permeate. This is what yeast does when 231 00:14:03,860 --> 00:14:06,340 you're working into the dough. It permeates through the whole 232 00:14:06,350 --> 00:14:10,110 thing, multiplies. It, it, it, it, it, it expands. 233 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:15,300 This is what the Kingdom of Heaven is like, no? 234 00:14:16,350 --> 00:14:21,140 In Jesus's time, yeast was often used in a negative sense, as 235 00:14:21,150 --> 00:14:23,740 sort of a description or a metaphor for evil, the way that 236 00:14:23,750 --> 00:14:26,550 it spreads to the world. But then again, Jesus is kind of 237 00:14:27,420 --> 00:14:30,450 he's turning, turning things on its head, and he's saying no. 238 00:14:30,460 --> 00:14:34,310 Now I'm talking about the goodness of God spreading 239 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:43,220 through the world, multiplying. How does it spread? 240 00:14:44,590 --> 00:14:46,160 How does the Kingdom of God spread? 241 00:14:46,170 --> 00:14:48,480 How does the rule of God, how does the healing of God, the 242 00:14:48,490 --> 00:14:50,240 love of God, spread throughout the world? 243 00:14:50,290 --> 00:14:56,310 It's passed on very personally. It's not it can't be done on 244 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,370 mass. It's something that's done very, 245 00:14:58,380 --> 00:15:00,760 very personally. It's something that's 246 00:15:00,770 --> 00:15:03,780 experienced by each one of us. I think of the about the 247 00:15:03,790 --> 00:15:07,000 testimonies have happened just over the last last while at 248 00:15:07,010 --> 00:15:09,580 Forest View, people that have testified about their faith from 249 00:15:09,590 --> 00:15:14,830 this platform. I think of, of, of Holly and 250 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:20,860 Jackie and Chloe and Tucker and Tiffany and and Rachel speaking 251 00:15:20,870 --> 00:15:23,900 about how the goodness of God had touched their lives, 252 00:15:24,950 --> 00:15:29,010 realizing that their, their, their experience of grace, that 253 00:15:29,020 --> 00:15:31,430 they're not defined by their past mistakes. 254 00:15:32,050 --> 00:15:34,960 They're not defined by the expectations of others, that 255 00:15:34,970 --> 00:15:39,030 they're not defined by the sins that may have happened to them, 256 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,790 but they're defined by the love that God has for them and that 257 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,850 their love just as they are. And that God is in the in the 258 00:15:47,860 --> 00:15:53,210 process of healing them and using them in the most beautiful 259 00:15:53,220 --> 00:15:55,930 way to be instruments of transformation in the lives of 260 00:15:55,940 --> 00:15:59,480 other people. It's a very, very personal thing 261 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,650 and it's passed on through our relationships with one another. 262 00:16:05,790 --> 00:16:09,330 Jesus knows this. The Kingdom of God is gonna be 263 00:16:09,340 --> 00:16:14,160 spreading as we are intentional about loving people with the 264 00:16:14,170 --> 00:16:16,380 love that we've been given. Every single one of us has been 265 00:16:16,390 --> 00:16:20,100 influenced by somebody. Every single one of us has been 266 00:16:20,110 --> 00:16:25,200 influenced. The good news necessitates the 267 00:16:25,210 --> 00:16:28,820 passing on of that good news. That's what it's meant to be 268 00:16:28,830 --> 00:16:35,000 stingy, to be, you know, to, to not do it. 269 00:16:35,010 --> 00:16:37,930 It would be stingy, right? It's just for me. 270 00:16:37,940 --> 00:16:39,310 It's just for me. It's just for me. 271 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,030 I said no, no, it's it's not. And in fact, part of the beauty 272 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,170 of our lives, part of the thing that's going to grow us up, part 273 00:16:47,180 --> 00:16:50,870 of the things that's going to be given us more joy than more than 274 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,370 more joy than anything else, is to have that privilege of 275 00:16:54,380 --> 00:16:57,590 passing it on and seeing the life of another person be 276 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:01,750 changed. You and I were made to multiply. 277 00:17:02,510 --> 00:17:04,010 We were made. We were made for it. 278 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,910 Every single one of us has a part to play in Jesus grand 279 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,359 venture invited to be world changers. 280 00:17:13,369 --> 00:17:17,060 Now let's just take an honest look at this. 281 00:17:17,130 --> 00:17:21,220 That seems impossible to many of us, right? 282 00:17:21,430 --> 00:17:24,839 The mission of God changing the world through this simple 283 00:17:24,849 --> 00:17:28,630 message of God's love for us. It's like it's, it's, it's, it's 284 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,720 unattainable, this, this mission to transform the world. 285 00:17:32,230 --> 00:17:36,450 But just think about it. It all started with one man 286 00:17:36,740 --> 00:17:40,820 named Jesus of Nazareth with a little band of disciples. 287 00:17:40,950 --> 00:17:43,660 And what happened? I mean, the world was literally 288 00:17:43,710 --> 00:17:45,960 turned upside down as a result of that. 289 00:17:46,090 --> 00:17:49,180 Always start small and you might think, OK, well, I'm not Jesus 290 00:17:49,650 --> 00:17:52,060 and you're not right? We're not, I'm not like the 291 00:17:52,070 --> 00:17:54,860 disciples. I'm not, I'm not like Rob Who 292 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,270 says what he thinks and everything's everything's 293 00:17:58,280 --> 00:17:59,970 alright. I'm not like Jacob who can 294 00:17:59,980 --> 00:18:03,010 articulate the message so clearly. 295 00:18:03,020 --> 00:18:07,950 I'm not like Lisa, who is so relational and it has no problem 296 00:18:08,060 --> 00:18:11,950 sharing exactly how she's feeling and how God has made her 297 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,090 feel like. I'm not like that and I'm not 298 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:15,940 like that. I'm not like any of that. 299 00:18:15,950 --> 00:18:19,670 Like each one of us is so unique, but I've been made to 300 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,980 multiply. And if you're a follower of 301 00:18:21,990 --> 00:18:26,010 Jesus Christ, you have been made to multiply. 302 00:18:27,570 --> 00:18:31,140 God's inviting us to trust him in this. 303 00:18:31,820 --> 00:18:35,080 He's, He's inviting us this. This is what the whole call is 304 00:18:35,090 --> 00:18:37,400 all about. Matthew. 305 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,670 Sorry, Mark. Mark chapter one, verse 17. 306 00:18:40,570 --> 00:18:44,680 Jesus says this. Come follow me, and I will make 307 00:18:44,690 --> 00:18:49,460 you fishers of men. Come follow me and I will make 308 00:18:49,470 --> 00:18:51,150 you fishers of men. I will make you. 309 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:53,410 This is incredibly comforting to me. 310 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,270 He, Jesus, does not call people that are already made. 311 00:18:57,250 --> 00:19:01,160 It isn't called made people. He calls people any to himself, 312 00:19:01,170 --> 00:19:05,360 just as they are, just as we are, and he's gonna make us into 313 00:19:05,610 --> 00:19:10,490 fissures of people. Chris Hemsworth. 314 00:19:10,740 --> 00:19:17,430 You may know him as Thor. Chris was not for before Thor. 315 00:19:18,140 --> 00:19:21,060 I don't know if you've seen pictures of Chris before Thor. 316 00:19:22,030 --> 00:19:26,000 Good looking guy but scrawny and compared to 4. 317 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,390 But the casting director saw Chris and said he's got the 318 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,400 frame that could be made into Thor, all right. 319 00:19:34,410 --> 00:19:41,720 And so this massive dietary in in infusion of food into his 320 00:19:41,730 --> 00:19:45,170 life and pumping iron and everything, and suddenly he 321 00:19:45,180 --> 00:19:47,740 becomes thorn. We know him, know him is that he 322 00:19:47,750 --> 00:19:50,880 was made into Thor before he was Thor. 323 00:19:50,890 --> 00:19:52,980 I mean, he's not really Thor. He's the actor and he does a 324 00:19:52,990 --> 00:19:56,780 really good job of being for Jesus is calling each one. 325 00:19:56,790 --> 00:19:59,710 He's the casting director and he's saying I've chosen you. 326 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,680 I've chosen you. I've chosen you and I'm gonna 327 00:20:03,690 --> 00:20:07,270 make you into a fissure of people. 328 00:20:07,460 --> 00:20:12,050 I'm going to use you to spread my Kingdom to this earth. 329 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:17,500 I'm going to empower you to pass on the greatest news through 330 00:20:17,510 --> 00:20:21,440 your life, not just a message, but the way that you live with 331 00:20:21,450 --> 00:20:23,550 other people. And we're going to change the 332 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:29,070 world together. Now you might think, OK, can't 333 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,410 do it. My life is too full. 334 00:20:31,460 --> 00:20:34,190 I don't have time for this. Or I, you know, I, I mean, I'm 335 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,460 just trying to keep my head above water. 336 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:40,950 I just don't have the emotional capacity to be worrying about 337 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,830 that kind of stuff. I get that. 338 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,710 I totally get that. And that's why Jesus gives us 339 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,800 this invitation. Come and follow me. 340 00:20:51,950 --> 00:20:54,720 I know you got tons of doubts. I know you don't think it can be 341 00:20:54,730 --> 00:20:56,510 done. I know you don't think it's 342 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,450 gonna be attainable. But come and follow me, and I'm 343 00:20:59,460 --> 00:21:03,220 gonna make you. That's a, in order to respond to 344 00:21:03,230 --> 00:21:06,100 Jesus's statement like that, that is a, that's a act of 345 00:21:06,110 --> 00:21:08,200 trust. And that's what it means to 346 00:21:08,210 --> 00:21:10,460 follow Jesus. I'm going to follow you. 347 00:21:10,470 --> 00:21:12,800 And I don't know exactly where this is going to go. 348 00:21:12,890 --> 00:21:14,920 I know it's going to be good because I trust you. 349 00:21:14,970 --> 00:21:18,040 And I don't think it's gonna, you know, I've got problems, 350 00:21:18,050 --> 00:21:20,340 Lord, but I'm going to follow you and I'm going to trust that 351 00:21:20,350 --> 00:21:21,530 you're going to take me by the hand. 352 00:21:21,540 --> 00:21:23,580 You're going to walk me through. Because even when we're going 353 00:21:23,590 --> 00:21:28,000 through the worst of times, God can use us to do mighty things, 354 00:21:28,410 --> 00:21:33,020 beautiful things in this world. All of us have problems and 355 00:21:33,030 --> 00:21:35,720 some, and if we don't have problems now, we're going to 356 00:21:35,730 --> 00:21:37,230 enter into problems. So we've just come out of 357 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,070 problems. Problems. 358 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,670 That's just what life is about, it says. 359 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,310 Come follow me. You who's troubled, he's got 360 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,390 tons of problems, and I'm gonna use you. 361 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:52,710 And even your problems I'm gonna use to make my goodness known to 362 00:21:52,720 --> 00:22:00,490 the people around you. So it starts with just two 363 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:01,920 things. Starts with a yes. 364 00:22:03,060 --> 00:22:06,790 It all begins with a yes. Lord, I am willing to follow you 365 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,870 now. If you're a Christian, that 366 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,210 means that you've made a decision to follow Jesus. 367 00:22:14,310 --> 00:22:18,400 That means that we have made a decision to be one who passes 368 00:22:18,410 --> 00:22:22,880 on, who multiplies. And that part of it, what it 369 00:22:22,890 --> 00:22:26,760 means to be a disciple is it might be a bit of a a bit of a 370 00:22:26,770 --> 00:22:28,340 challenging thought to us right now. 371 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,780 But can I trust God enough to say I'm going to follow you and 372 00:22:33,790 --> 00:22:35,880 I'm going to be made into the kind of person who's going to 373 00:22:35,890 --> 00:22:38,200 multiply and I'm just going to trust you with it? 374 00:22:39,910 --> 00:22:43,840 That is so critical. It all begins with a yes. 375 00:22:45,070 --> 00:22:51,070 Secondly, though, it all starts small, and this is the 376 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,470 encouraging part to me. And you know what? 377 00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:56,510 It never gets big. It's always meant to be small. 378 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,910 But God knows how overwhelmed with life we can be. 379 00:23:00,060 --> 00:23:03,150 And so He has made it in such a way that we can participate in 380 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:07,400 His Kingdom work and be multipliers just by keeping it 381 00:23:07,410 --> 00:23:11,350 small. You may have been told way too 382 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:16,670 late that if you invest $50.00 a month when you're 18, you'll be 383 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,330 a millionaire by the time you retired, right? 384 00:23:21,190 --> 00:23:27,280 Was that a laugh over there? Yeah, just a small amount every 385 00:23:27,290 --> 00:23:32,550 month and watch it grow. That's a Kingdom principle, 386 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,250 investing a little bit and watching God make it grow. 387 00:23:36,260 --> 00:23:38,680 I mean, God, God's, I'm not talking God's the big banker in 388 00:23:38,690 --> 00:23:40,170 the sky. I'm not talking about that. 389 00:23:40,460 --> 00:23:42,880 Talking about these are these are Kingdom principles. 390 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:48,440 Jesus showed us how this works. Think about it, the Son of the 391 00:23:48,450 --> 00:23:52,110 living God came to the earth to change the world and what did he 392 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:54,850 do? He invested in a few men. 393 00:23:56,130 --> 00:23:58,220 That's what he did. He invested in a few. 394 00:23:58,270 --> 00:24:03,600 He preached to the multitudes, but he invested his time and 395 00:24:03,610 --> 00:24:07,240 energy into just a few people. Eugene Peterson put it this way. 396 00:24:08,230 --> 00:24:12,260 He said Jesus, it must be remembered, restricted 9/10 of 397 00:24:12,270 --> 00:24:17,180 his ministry to 12 Jews because it was only because it was the 398 00:24:17,190 --> 00:24:22,400 only way to reach all Americans. Thought that was well put. 9/10 399 00:24:22,410 --> 00:24:25,910 of his ministry went to 12 Jews because it was the only way to 400 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,430 reach all Americans. That is counterintuitive. 401 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,450 We gotta win the world. We gotta do it big. 402 00:24:32,460 --> 00:24:35,140 No, Jesus says this day we're gonna do it small and we're 403 00:24:35,150 --> 00:24:38,240 gonna stay small. And I want you to invest in just 404 00:24:38,250 --> 00:24:42,180 a few people and watch that multiply, many of you. 405 00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:45,060 So I mean, this is how, this is how Jesus started, right? 406 00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:48,190 He started by addition. He's calling. 407 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,130 Come follow me. I'll make you fishers of men, 408 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:56,740 but then eventually it gets to know you go and you make 409 00:24:56,750 --> 00:24:59,520 disciples. You go fish for people. 410 00:25:00,730 --> 00:25:06,740 Addition turns to multiplication for for for those of you who 411 00:25:06,750 --> 00:25:09,360 have done Discipleship essentials, read that book by 412 00:25:09,370 --> 00:25:12,910 Greg Ogden and it's a tool that we use to for for for our, for 413 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,230 triads. You may have seen a chart that 414 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,900 looks like this. I've just taken it from the, 415 00:25:16,910 --> 00:25:22,070 from the, from the first chapter and I, I couldn't fit the whole 416 00:25:22,260 --> 00:25:24,650 chart in there. But if you look at the work of 417 00:25:24,660 --> 00:25:28,010 an evangelist, a very powerful evangelist that's leading, think 418 00:25:28,020 --> 00:25:31,730 of yourself as leading an individual to Christ every day. 419 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,790 That's a, that's a huge impact, right? 420 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:36,410 Every day. And you see the work of 421 00:25:36,420 --> 00:25:39,320 evangelists. And so 365 days in the first 422 00:25:39,330 --> 00:25:41,510 year and then the next and then the next. 423 00:25:41,660 --> 00:25:45,290 But if you were to disciple someone to maturity and you took 424 00:25:45,300 --> 00:25:54,180 one year for one person, it starts small but by the time 16 425 00:25:54,250 --> 00:25:57,050 years goes by look at the difference. 426 00:25:57,940 --> 00:26:02,730 If I was to lead someone to Jesus one every day after 16 427 00:26:02,740 --> 00:26:09,560 years it be 5840 disciples. But if I was disciple 1 person 428 00:26:09,570 --> 00:26:14,110 to matricial maturity and help them to be able to pass on the 429 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:17,330 faith like you're passing that on to them and you continue to 430 00:26:17,340 --> 00:26:22,550 do that one every year, you'd have 65,536 disciples made. 431 00:26:24,110 --> 00:26:28,450 Jesus says we're starting small, friends, start small. 432 00:26:28,660 --> 00:26:35,390 Invest in a few and do it well. Love the people that we're with. 433 00:26:35,690 --> 00:26:39,320 Actually, you know, we have been loved by God that way, and I 434 00:26:39,330 --> 00:26:42,100 want you to love the people that you're spending that time with. 435 00:26:42,110 --> 00:26:45,960 I think of where my life would be if Brent Dolfo had not 436 00:26:45,970 --> 00:26:48,700 invested some time in me. Like, where would my life be? 437 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,150 And now I think, you know, GAIL and I just marvel at this on an 438 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,290 ongoing basis is saying where would our lives have gone? 439 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:01,080 Like we're under no illusion that what is happening in our 440 00:27:01,090 --> 00:27:03,830 life is something that we have put together. 441 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:06,990 God has done it. And I look back on the influence 442 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,450 of Brent. We spent all that time with me, 443 00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:11,960 years time with me, discipling me. 444 00:27:13,170 --> 00:27:17,340 And I think of my children and my children's children and I 445 00:27:17,350 --> 00:27:22,390 think of my the the coworkers and the neighbors over the years 446 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,670 and pastor congregation, like all that happened from one 447 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:31,200 person investing in me. I think, wow, that is that is 448 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,140 that is impact, and that's just me. 449 00:27:37,730 --> 00:27:40,950 So Jesus invites us, each one of us. 450 00:27:41,020 --> 00:27:45,190 Let's take some ground together, let's RIP it out of the enemy's 451 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,790 hand. Let us build the Church of Jesus 452 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:49,910 Christ. Let's fill that. 453 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,170 There's no other way that the world is going to get changed 454 00:27:52,220 --> 00:27:55,030 unless people's lives are touched by the love of God. 455 00:27:55,080 --> 00:28:00,130 And that's what the work of the Church is all about, moving His 456 00:28:00,140 --> 00:28:02,900 Kingdom. Now in this series, we're going 457 00:28:02,910 --> 00:28:06,020 to be looking at some of the practices of a multiplier, 458 00:28:06,950 --> 00:28:12,080 practices that we can we can apply in our homes, in our 459 00:28:12,130 --> 00:28:16,350 schools, in our workplaces, in our neighborhood, in our church. 460 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:18,300 We're going to learn these things. 461 00:28:18,310 --> 00:28:23,040 But all I want to do today is just for us to ponder whether 462 00:28:23,050 --> 00:28:26,370 we're really saying yes or not. Am I saying yes? 463 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:32,890 Am I willing to start small and say yes to Jesus and allow Him 464 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:37,300 to lead me and make me into the person that He wants me to be? 465 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:42,410 Think about that for a minute. Just think about that for me. 466 00:28:48,130 --> 00:28:53,540 Jesus is inviting us into this Kingdom work, and His Kingdom is 467 00:28:53,550 --> 00:28:59,090 unstoppable. The church is unstoppable. 468 00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:00,960 We're going to be talking about that through this series. 469 00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:08,650 You think of 1st century Rome. Rome was out to squelch 470 00:29:08,660 --> 00:29:12,570 Christianity, persecuting Christians, and what happened? 471 00:29:12,580 --> 00:29:17,320 It's like kicking dandelions. 1000 pop out here and there, 472 00:29:17,330 --> 00:29:19,840 right? That's what's happened. 473 00:29:19,850 --> 00:29:22,490 That's what happens. Even under persecution, trying 474 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:24,200 to be squelched, it's not going to happen. 475 00:29:24,250 --> 00:29:29,070 I think of China 1950s was a cultural revolution that took 476 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,770 place in China. There was about 4 million 477 00:29:31,780 --> 00:29:35,150 Christians at the time and they put a ban on all. 478 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,850 They kicked all mission Christian missionaries and and 479 00:29:37,860 --> 00:29:41,780 Christian workers out of the country, and everybody wondered 480 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,920 what was gonna happen to the church in China. 481 00:29:45,850 --> 00:29:48,240 Would it still be around? Would it survive? 482 00:29:48,250 --> 00:29:51,360 Well, 20 years later, the band has lifted and they realized the 483 00:29:51,370 --> 00:29:54,200 church has grown by 20 million people a year. 484 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,330 Now it's like, I don't know somebody between 160 and 200 485 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,580 million people, million Christians in China, many of 486 00:30:03,590 --> 00:30:08,330 which have been underground. Why it's been multiplying Wasn't 487 00:30:08,340 --> 00:30:10,090 just surviving, it was multiplying. 488 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,620 It was multiplying and that's the call. 489 00:30:13,970 --> 00:30:17,960 That is the call for us. We think of a secular Canada 490 00:30:19,060 --> 00:30:23,290 trying to squelch Christianity. Silence Christians. 491 00:30:25,210 --> 00:30:29,350 Not gonna happen friends. The only thing that is stopping 492 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:35,210 the church from making a dent in this world of bringing change is 493 00:30:35,220 --> 00:30:38,100 Christians who are not willing to multiply. 494 00:30:39,890 --> 00:30:45,150 Jesus is inviting us. Come follow me, let's join in 495 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:50,250 this incredible venture. I have made you to multiply. 496 00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:53,170 That made you to multiply. I want to leave you with one 497 00:30:53,180 --> 00:30:56,080 last image. This blew, blew me away. 498 00:30:56,130 --> 00:30:58,740 Anybody heard of columns of creation? 499 00:30:59,230 --> 00:31:03,080 This picture here is, I mean, you can't really capture it too 500 00:31:03,090 --> 00:31:06,740 well, but this is from the James Webb telescope. 501 00:31:06,790 --> 00:31:11,260 This image, this is about 7000 light years from Earth in the 502 00:31:11,270 --> 00:31:14,470 middle of the Milky Way. And it looks like rock 503 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,930 formations, isn't it? But it's, it's just, it's 504 00:31:17,940 --> 00:31:23,860 made-up of gas and dust, and it's really an incubator for new 505 00:31:23,870 --> 00:31:28,110 stars. The the pillars begin to 506 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,370 collapse under their own gravity and they slowly heat up and they 507 00:31:31,380 --> 00:31:35,000 eventually produce new stars. New stars are being made all the 508 00:31:35,010 --> 00:31:36,930 time. I think that's just the coolest 509 00:31:36,940 --> 00:31:41,910 thing that the universe that God has created continues to expand. 510 00:31:42,420 --> 00:31:45,600 It's amazing. We're on this little planet and 511 00:31:45,610 --> 00:31:48,920 God has gifted us with his capacity to look at everything 512 00:31:48,930 --> 00:31:51,480 He's created. It's like, wow, are we ever 513 00:31:51,490 --> 00:31:55,640 small and is he ever big? He is glorious and we get to 514 00:31:55,650 --> 00:31:57,840 look at this kind of stuff, but He is. 515 00:31:57,890 --> 00:32:03,530 Stars are still being produced. They're they're multiplying the 516 00:32:03,540 --> 00:32:09,200 same voice that spoke stars into existence and he knows them all 517 00:32:09,210 --> 00:32:15,190 by name is speaking to us now. It's saying I want you to join 518 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,330 me in multiplying and expanding my Kingdom on the earth. 519 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:28,860 Let's pray. Lord in heaven, thank you for 520 00:32:28,870 --> 00:32:31,350 your Kingdom. Thank you, Lord, that you have 521 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,830 not let us. You have not let humanity just 522 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,110 completely go off the rails, but you have come after us and you 523 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:46,030 are bringing your Kingdom through individuals into lives 524 00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:48,730 for transformation because you want to change the world. 525 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,030 Thank you for your saving grace. Lord. 526 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:59,830 Forgive us where we have not captured and and appreciated the 527 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:01,270 beauty of what you're trying to do. 528 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,930 We thank you for your your grace in our lives and we pray, Lord, 529 00:33:04,940 --> 00:33:08,810 you give us a heart for those around us who are not 530 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:12,440 experienced experiencing that same grace. 531 00:33:13,580 --> 00:33:17,480 Yeah, forgive us, Lord. Lord, we ask. 532 00:33:17,490 --> 00:33:22,440 That is, we step into this series together and obey your 533 00:33:22,450 --> 00:33:25,980 command to come follow You. That you would make us into the 534 00:33:25,990 --> 00:33:29,800 people that you want us to be. That we would be multipliers. 535 00:33:30,110 --> 00:33:33,060 That your goodness will be seen and experienced throughout this 536 00:33:33,070 --> 00:33:37,980 earth. We lay our lives out before you. 537 00:33:40,430 --> 00:33:42,080 Thank you for what you're gonna do. 538 00:33:42,310 --> 00:33:45,120 Increase our faith for it. Lord, we prayed in Jesus name. 539 00:33:45,870 --> 00:33:46,340 Hey, man.