1 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,200 For those of you who are still standing, I appreciate the 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:08,900 Ovation. But really, that's enough. 3 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:18,600 That's plenty. I hate coming here. 4 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,000 I don't know why y'all are laughing. 5 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:31,200 Scripture, Paul tells us outdo one another in love, and I feel 6 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,200 like most of the time I get to win that one until I come here 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,600 and I feel like I lose and it's a competition and it's what I 8 00:00:39,608 --> 00:00:43,500 want to win and I do my best to out, love you guys. 9 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,800 And I Denver, and never felt like I've been able to, so you 10 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:54,600 make me feel like a loser. So, You got your bibles if you 11 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,300 would turn with me to Colossians chapter 1. 12 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:01,600 Kyle told you I was going to tell you a few things and he 13 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,000 lied. I'm not that's not what I'm 14 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,200 going to do today. If I would love to talk with you 15 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,600 about missions a lot. So anytime you guys want to 16 00:01:11,607 --> 00:01:15,700 hear, please call me text me will Zoom it. 17 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:18,600 Whatever I'll come over here, would love to talk about 18 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:23,200 missions as many times as I can. But this morning I want to Talk 19 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,700 a little bit about from a different standpoint than just 20 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:32,200 education in missions. First of all, I want to say 21 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:36,600 thank you for praying for dtn, for being so, diligent and 22 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:43,100 praying for dtn and her people. It has been a truly special 23 00:01:43,300 --> 00:01:46,400 thing when I spent, I guess the last six months or so, 24 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,800 developing what we're calling our sending Church training and 25 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,600 spent a lot of time on trying to understand what it means to 26 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,600 send. Well, I don't know if you're 27 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,900 aware but missionaries are almost always. 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,000 He's not sent well 7,000 missionaries, quit annually 29 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:08,000 because they don't get the resources and encouragement in 30 00:02:08,008 --> 00:02:11,800 the service that they need in order to be able to stay and 31 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,300 this to me is a backwards step for the gospel. 32 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,400 Our goal is to advance the gospel to get the gospel to the 33 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,700 nation's and to let those laborers labor. 34 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:26,600 Well, and so it doesn't make any sense when 50% of the 35 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,900 missionaries that were sending are coming home within two 36 00:02:28,900 --> 00:02:31,200 years. Right? 37 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:36,000 It's a backwards move and it's because plain and simply I don't 38 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,400 think the local church understands. 39 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,500 The need of a missionary, they don't understand exactly what it 40 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:48,100 means to leave a place that you know and love and go to a place 41 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:53,100 that you don't know and really don't love at least not at 42 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:57,100 first. They don't grasp what it means 43 00:02:57,100 --> 00:03:01,400 to have all the normal things in life, become completely 44 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,500 abnormal. There's no taking a break. 45 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:07,100 Anybody ever brush your teeth and be done and then not even 46 00:03:07,100 --> 00:03:08,900 remember. Like did I brush my teeth, 47 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:13,000 right? And I ever do that, because it's 48 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,600 normal. When you go over there, it's not 49 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,000 normal. If you don't pay attention, you 50 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,300 brush, your teeth with water that will make you sick. 51 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,500 And so, all the normal things in life, become completely, AB 52 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:30,400 normal. All the normal stress free 53 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,800 things in life, becomes stressful Wars in life. 54 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:36,600 And so, it's these types of things that I've just plain. 55 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,500 And simply I think that the church must be awakened to You 56 00:03:41,500 --> 00:03:46,900 must know and learn about what a missionary life is and what's 57 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:49,400 required in a missionary in order to be able to take the 58 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,300 gospel to a place that it can go and bear fruit. 59 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:56,800 Okay, so that's what we've been trying to do and so there's a 60 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,300 long way of telling you this. I spent a lot of time in the 61 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:05,300 scriptures at those places that most of the time we read really 62 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:11,000 quickly. I'm finding that my natural bent 63 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,700 is towards the doctrine stuff. I love. 64 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:16,399 When Paul start starts to talk about things that are very 65 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:20,000 practical or things that are very weighty and I just dig into 66 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,500 those areas and then towards the beginning of the books, or 67 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:26,200 towards the ends of the book. He'll start saying things like 68 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:29,900 hey greet the brothers and start, you know, tell tell these 69 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:32,600 people. Hello and and I go that alone, 70 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:34,400 all right, let's go on to something else. 71 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:41,000 And I'm Miss some things in my heart when I do this and I think 72 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:48,300 maybe this might apply to you. When I began to study about what 73 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:51,900 it means to send a missionary. Well, I found out that Paul in 74 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:56,900 the New Testament in his 13 letters names over 75 people 75 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:03,500 that he says, mean meant a lot to him and helped him to be able 76 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:09,000 to accomplish his task, over 75 individuals, not counting the 77 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:15,100 churches, but 75 individual people. that's so invested in 78 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:20,500 him and I just found it fascinating and because I've 79 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:30,300 been Walking. Along with Colin Patricia a 80 00:05:30,308 --> 00:05:32,500 little bit through the last couple of months. 81 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,600 They're teaching me so much about the Lord and so much about 82 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:43,100 faith and steadfastness in times and I'm realizing for life. 83 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:47,800 I'm not nearest 10 foot tall as I used to be I'm not near as 84 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,900 bulletproof as I used to be. And so I'm realizing that we as 85 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:56,800 Christians need these things these times that we typically 86 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,000 speed read through. Ew. 87 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,300 And these times are becoming far more precious to me and far more 88 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:06,500 encouraging and empowering to me. 89 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,300 And so this morning, rather than talk to you about missions 90 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:13,500 methodology and things like that. 91 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:16,500 I preached on that last week, so I was kind of bored with it. 92 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:20,000 Just kidding. I did preach on it though. 93 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:27,700 I want to just read Colossians with you if we could, so if you 94 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:32,200 would stand with me, And let's take a look. 95 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:37,500 Now our text today is really going to be verses verse 3 96 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:42,500 through verse 14. But starting in verse 9, Paul 97 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:46,200 starts a sentence that's 218 words long and it doesn't end 98 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,800 until the end of verse 20. So we're going to read his whole 99 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,100 sentence and then I'm really going to shrink down and preach 100 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:56,200 half his sin. It's okay, he's Paul that's what 101 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,700 Paul does. All right, Colossians chapter 1 102 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:04,600 verse 3, we always thank God. God the father of our Lord. 103 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,600 Jesus Christ. When we pray for you, since we 104 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,700 heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that you 105 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:14,300 have for all the saints because of the Hope laid up for you, in 106 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:18,300 heaven of this, you have heard before the word of the truth. 107 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:22,800 The gospel which has come to you as indeed in the whole world. 108 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:24,700 It is bearing fruit, and increasing. 109 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,900 As it also does among you, since the day, you heard it and 110 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,700 understood the grace of God in truth, just as you learned it 111 00:07:32,707 --> 00:07:35,400 from a path. Us our beloved fellow servant, 112 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,800 he's a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf and has 113 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,400 made known to us your glove in the spirit. 114 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:47,400 And so from the day we heard we have not ceased to pray for you 115 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:50,700 asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will 116 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:52,800 in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 117 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:56,500 So as to walk in a manner, worthy of the Lord, fully 118 00:07:56,500 --> 00:08:00,600 pleasing to him bearing fruit in every good work and increasing 119 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,400 in the knowledge of God being and with all power, according to 120 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,800 his glorious might for all endurance and patience with joy. 121 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,500 Giving thanks to the father who has qualified you to share in 122 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:18,300 the inheritance of the Saints. In light, he has delivered us 123 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:22,000 from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of 124 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,700 his beloved Son. In whom we have Redemption, the 125 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:31,100 Forgiveness of sins. He being Christ is the image of 126 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:33,299 the invisible. God, the firstborn. 127 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:36,700 Of all creation. For by him, all things were 128 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:40,400 created in heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible, whether 129 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,400 Thrones, or dominions or rulers or authorities. 130 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:48,600 All things were created through him and for him, and he is 131 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,400 before all things. And in him all things, hold 132 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,300 together. And he is the head of the body, 133 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:59,500 the church, he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that 134 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:03,200 in everything, he might be preeminent for in. 135 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,400 Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and through 136 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,200 him, to reconcile to himself all things. 137 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:15,200 Whether on Earth or in heaven, Making Peace by the blood of his 138 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:20,200 cross. Father, I am grateful to be in 139 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,300 your house this morning and with my brothers and sisters, I'm 140 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:28,700 grateful for the connection. We have because of you because 141 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:32,900 of Christ. And father, my prayer this 142 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:37,900 morning is that in all things, you would be preeminent. 143 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:40,900 That you would have first priority. 144 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:47,400 Because God, we recognize all of life has come from you and our 145 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:52,200 new life has all come from you. So father, I pray. 146 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:55,500 That you would help us to Hope in the gospel. 147 00:09:56,700 --> 00:09:59,800 That you would help us to bear fruit and increase. 148 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,200 For the glory of Your Great Name for ask this in Christ's name. 149 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:13,500 Amen, you may be seated. This one is actually kind of a 150 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:17,000 strange book when you think about what Paul wrote most of 151 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,600 the time Paul with his for missionary journey since most 152 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,900 scholars believe he had would go to places plant churches and 153 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:29,000 then would write them letters afterwards but it this one is 154 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,500 not one of those things. This is a church that was 155 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:34,900 planted by someone else. It's actually planted by a man 156 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:39,300 named epaphras and this is not the same epaphroditus that we 157 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:43,400 see in in Philippians. This is a Different guy but he 158 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,600 had has gone and done the work as far as we know, it doesn't 159 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,000 look like Paul knew the church at Colossians and I get that 160 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,600 from chapter 2 verse 1. He says, I want you to know how 161 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,400 great a struggle I have for you and for those at laodicea and 162 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,000 for all who have not seen, me face-to-face. 163 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Doesn't sound like Paul's been there, right? 164 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:10,300 We do know that Paul new people from colossae, the the city Paul 165 00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:13,100 has written a letter on These two final fine Lehman. 166 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:18,400 And finally, man was a colossian and at least 24 Philemon, it 167 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,400 sounds to us as if Paul led him to the Lord. 168 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,700 So it's kind of strange there is a connection but it's not a 169 00:11:24,708 --> 00:11:30,800 direct connection there. Now, this we believe was 170 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,400 actually evangelize. During pulse third missionary 171 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:38,700 journey, you can see an x 19 and verse 10 as Paul was working in 172 00:11:38,700 --> 00:11:41,500 Ephesus. The scripture says that This 173 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:44,400 continued for two years. So that all the residents of 174 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,700 Asia, heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. 175 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,800 It might have come before that even because in Acts chapter 2, 176 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,600 the scripture tells us that there were people from I can I 177 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,600 was going to look up how to say this and I didn't but Fergie. 178 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,100 Uh, it's all I know is it's not Fergie. 179 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,600 Okay. You guys can make it up however 180 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,000 you want to after that. But they were there on the day 181 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,400 of Pentecost, and so they might have heard and taken the gospel 182 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:17,100 back there, but probably we know that at least by Acts 19, the 183 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:20,300 gospel had gotten to this place at Colossians. 184 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:22,700 Now, here's why I think it's fascinating. 185 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,300 This man epaphras is considered there in verse 7. 186 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:32,600 A beloved fellow servant and then he's called a fellow 187 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:36,000 Minister and another place he's actually called a fellow 188 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,600 Prisoner as Paul was in Chains with epaphras. 189 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:44,200 This was a dear brother, this was something that epaphras had 190 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,700 worked hard. Epaphras was a colossian. 191 00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:51,400 I'll show you this in. 412, if you go maybe just one page, over 192 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:56,200 Colossians 4. Paul says epaphras who is one of 193 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,300 you? A servant of Christ Jesus 194 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,800 greets. You he is with Paul at this 195 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,600 point. He greets. 196 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,700 You always struggling on your behalf in his prayers that you 197 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:12,800 may stand mature, and fully assured in all the will of God 198 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,000 for. I bear him witness that he has 199 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,400 worked hard for you and for those in laodicea and in 200 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:23,300 hieropolis, so we recognize Paul knows the church. 201 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:27,400 Well, But not so well that it was him that has done the work 202 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,400 and maybe not even well enough that he's been there. 203 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:35,600 But he knows the brother. Very dearly, there are churches 204 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:39,900 that I've been able to work in and labor in for years, at a 205 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:45,300 Time, new life isn't one of them. but the way that new life 206 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:50,300 has adopted us and has made us feel at home, my wife, 207 00:13:50,300 --> 00:13:54,100 considers, this our home church and we've been here maybe five 208 00:13:54,100 --> 00:14:00,800 times During the handshaking time, one of my children came up 209 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:05,700 and said, can we move here? I am not making it up to three 210 00:14:05,700 --> 00:14:07,100 minutes ago. Can we move here? 211 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,600 We love the kids can write and Candy. 212 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,200 Everybody puts up with me because of my family. 213 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:22,700 I know how it goes. They you guys have just loved us 214 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,800 and I find this. So tender as Paul takes his time 215 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,100 to write a letter to the church at Colossians that he can't take 216 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:33,900 credit for. It wasn't his church, it was a 217 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:37,900 his baby, but he loves the church and the church in. 218 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:40,500 Turn loves him back and it's fascinating. 219 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:45,600 So, within 25 years of the resurrection of Christ, we know 220 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,800 that the gospel had got to Colossians 2, classy rather. 221 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:58,000 Now, I always like to think of how long it took the gospel to 222 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,100 get to where we are. Does anybody know the first time 223 00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:07,700 someone in your family became a Christian there on my mom's side 224 00:15:07,700 --> 00:15:11,700 there's actually a couple of preachers way on back but on the 225 00:15:11,700 --> 00:15:14,800 Meadows side it was my grandparents. 226 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:20,300 On my grandparents have cool stories that I wish I could tell 227 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:23,600 you because they're fascinating, like he went AWOL in WWII to get 228 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,300 married, his commanding officer was so upset at him when he came 229 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:29,900 back. He said, how did you get 230 00:15:29,900 --> 00:15:32,500 married? And my grandfather said, I 231 00:15:32,508 --> 00:15:36,700 managed it. All right, I guess, and he got 232 00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:38,300 mad at him and sent him on a bus. 233 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:41,300 They were in Austin, Texas. They sent him on a bus to San 234 00:15:41,300 --> 00:15:43,800 Diego. California, he turns to my 235 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,000 grandmother who had never driven ever. 236 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:51,200 Her and throws his keys to her and says San Diego. 237 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:56,400 California. My grandfather said she made it 238 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,600 my transmission didn't but she made it. 239 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:06,200 Right as she drove and followed his bus to San Diego, California 240 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:11,600 fascinating stories. They bought a little house in 241 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,700 1946, they bought a little house that was an old house. 242 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,100 They moved outside in March, under a lean-to, with two little 243 00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:24,100 boys and my grandfather, tore the house down, knocked every 244 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:26,700 nail out of the board's, straightened, the nails and 245 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:29,400 reuse the boards and the nails to rebuild a house. 246 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,800 They just don't make them like that anymore. 247 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,700 But my grandparents were lost. and in the first week of June in 248 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:44,500 1948, a man named Jake, Brady Came to town and he preached. 249 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:49,900 A Revival meeting is a very Revival meeting. 250 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:55,300 Okay. But by God's grace, the gospel 251 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:59,300 went forth. And in a covered wagon on the 252 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:05,300 way home my grandmother. Told me that she started to cry 253 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:09,099 because she knew that she was going to have to look at her 254 00:17:09,099 --> 00:17:11,800 brand-new husband, who did not know the Lord. 255 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,000 And tell him that she was going to have to become a Christian 256 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,099 and she couldn't help it. And she said, I looked, and I 257 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:26,300 told him that tomorrow night when the preacher gives the 258 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:30,200 invitation, I've got to go down front and I know you probably 259 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,200 want to divorce me, but I can't do it. 260 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:36,200 I have got to become a Christian. 261 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,200 And she looked at my grandfather and my grandfather was crying. 262 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,500 and he said, I was trying to figure out how to make sure you 263 00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:46,400 weren't going to divorce me because I've got to go down to 264 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,900 And on June 6th, six the 1948, my grandparents gave their 265 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:55,900 hearts to the Lord. I can tell you when that 266 00:17:55,900 --> 00:18:01,400 happened, I'm not sure here. But probably sometimes 1700 267 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,700 years later than the the time the Colossians got the gospel 268 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:11,000 Magnolia got the gospel. And it's fascinating to see what 269 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,400 the gospel has done here. It's neat to see what the gospel 270 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,500 didn't Colossians. When we if you dig down and 271 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:18,600 study that book. It's so neat to see what the 272 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,800 gospel can do. And it's so neat to see what the 273 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:27,200 gospel is doing here. But we must recognize that as 274 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,600 Paul begins to share this about this great gospel that they've 275 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,300 received. And he says there, in verse 6, 276 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:36,300 it is the hole in the whole world indeed. 277 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:41,200 He says the gospel is bearing fruit, and increasing as it also 278 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,800 does among you, since the day, you heard it. 279 00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:49,500 So great to see and to recognize that the gospel is having a huge 280 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:54,600 impact around the world. It is having this impact. 281 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:58,500 I said page five I was going to go to page five, it's actually 282 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:00,800 page for so might change that my notes for me. 283 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:09,500 Would you, you know, as we begin to think that in the whole 284 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:12,300 world, the gospel is bearing fruit and increasing. 285 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:16,400 But you understand that 300 years after the gospel has come 286 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,900 to Magnolia 17? Well, 2000 years I guess after 287 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:27,000 the gospel came to the church at colossae They're still 3.3 288 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,100 billion people that have never heard it. 289 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,400 I understand that it's not just never heard it, have no access 290 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,700 to hearing it. Eighty-six percent of the 291 00:19:36,700 --> 00:19:40,500 world's Hindus Muslims and Buddhists will live and die 292 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:42,900 without ever even meeting a Christ follower. 293 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:52,800 So, we come knowing that we're going to hear it and they don't 294 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,900 have that even even the opportunity at least not yet. 295 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,600 Not yet. But as Paul says the world, the 296 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,900 gospel is going forth. It is bearing fruit. 297 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:06,500 Is it is increasing. Let me tell you a little bit 298 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:10,300 about how what you've helped us to do through dtn. 299 00:20:10,300 --> 00:20:13,100 I want to give you this report because this doesn't happen 300 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:16,700 without you. You guys may not know but you 301 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,300 monthly donate, some funds and you pray for us and Kyle serves 302 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:25,000 on our board helping us to get missionaries in the gospel to 303 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,200 the nation's. We have a missionary in Costa 304 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,100 Rica, Costa Rica. You might think is reached Missy 305 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:34,100 ologists a for that country that has over 5 million people. 306 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:38,900 There's less than 10, biblically faithful churches, dtm's 307 00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:40,600 missionary, there is planted two of them. 308 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:47,100 Okay, their latest Church Plant just had a big baptismal service 309 00:20:47,100 --> 00:20:53,500 the other day celebrating 15 baptisms. 40 over 40 new members 310 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,400 and on November 20th, they're going to appoint three new 311 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:03,400 deacons and three new Elders. As the God is, as God is by his 312 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,300 grace, not only going in and bearing fruit, but notice it's 313 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:09,700 not just bearing fruit, right? What's the scriptures is bearing 314 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:15,600 fruit. And Thanks, there is not just 315 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:20,100 New Life there but there's a maturity that's happening, 316 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,500 right? That's what we want. 317 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:28,700 We have a couple of church Planters in Portugal and by 318 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:31,700 God's grace. One of them met a man that had 319 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:37,100 stage 4 cancer And just throughout their conversations, 320 00:21:37,100 --> 00:21:40,600 this missionary was able to proclaim the gospel to this guy 321 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:45,100 that the missionary playing preach the gospel to this man 322 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:48,100 with stage four cancer. And he became a Believer and the 323 00:21:48,108 --> 00:21:52,500 last six months of his life, he hosted the new DT in church 324 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:59,500 plant in his home. And now he's gone on to be with 325 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:02,000 Corey to be in glory because of Faith. 326 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:03,700 The Gospel made it there in time. 327 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:09,200 Because a dtn structure. The reason that your support 328 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,800 means so much to us is because we do not take all the support 329 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,600 from our missionaries. That's the way some agencies are 330 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,500 designed, right? Well, a couple of missionaries 331 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:20,100 were added this year. One of them. 332 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:25,200 We gave Eleven Hundred Dollar raise every month, because the 333 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,200 admin fee from their last mission organization. 334 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,800 Cost them an extra $1100 a month. 335 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:35,400 And with this not only are they, is he able to stay In country, 336 00:22:35,700 --> 00:22:37,700 but he's been able to multiply his ministry. 337 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:41,800 He's now pastoring two churches. And a Portuguese. 338 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaking in an English-speaking Church, he's meeting weekly 339 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,800 having multiple meetings, weekly with leaders and he's training 340 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,400 up, new church Planters throughout the country. 341 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,800 In another instance, we had a church missionary that came in 342 00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:58,500 that because of our structure. We were able to give a twelve 343 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:02,900 hundred dollar-a-month race and they're using it to start a new 344 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:07,400 home school Co-op just a few miles outside of a major u.s. 345 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,200 military base. That's overseas. 346 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:15,600 The house has 8,000 US citizens and there's no education 347 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,800 opportunities for them that are Christian. 348 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:24,300 We're privileged to feed transport and often clothes 349 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:28,700 Council and evangelize over 10,000 Ukrainian refugees. 350 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:32,000 And we're doing that in both sides of Europe. 351 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,700 We were the first ones vtn was the first cut first mission 352 00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:40,500 agency able to get funds into Ukraine when everything hit it. 353 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:44,500 Shut the entire country down. We were able to get in, we had a 354 00:23:44,508 --> 00:23:48,300 way that we were able to sneak some stuff in and we were having 355 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:51,000 an immediate impact on those refugees. 356 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,100 Thousands of them, thousands of them coming through New Hope, 357 00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:59,400 Baptist Church there in Earth's grid Ukraine on the office. 358 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,900 End of Europe are missionaries and Portugal are housing. 359 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,700 Ukrainian refugees that have made it all the way to the 360 00:24:05,708 --> 00:24:08,400 water. All the way to the Western end 361 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,100 of Portugal. Got as far away from there, as 362 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:13,300 they could, and then they have nowhere else to go. 363 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:18,300 Thankfully though, God's people are there to help and encourage 364 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:21,000 them. Feed them, how's them and 365 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,800 getting? Let me tell you a story. 366 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,100 Kyle tells me you got to hurry and I never hurry. 367 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:36,300 This is where I get so quickly. I run to just numbers and I run 368 00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:40,600 to this Doctrine in this belief and we just we got to check all 369 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,500 these boxes as I'm trying to teach everything. 370 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:48,800 Once you understand, these are people when our missionary there 371 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:53,600 in Portugal, got the first wave of Ukrainian refugees out. 372 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:58,700 He showed up to help. And there was two, women and two 373 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:01,800 children, because Ukrainian men aren't allowed to leave the 374 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,200 country. and so, they were sending women and children 375 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:13,100 across Well, what happened was, unfortunately human traffickers 376 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,600 figured that out. And human trafficking of 377 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,500 Ukrainian refugees women and children skyrocketed. 378 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:25,100 And so, as our missionary met these women, they were too 379 00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:29,500 afraid, because they had seen what was going on to them, and 380 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:33,100 they didn't know if they could trust him, and they were taking 381 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:38,000 pictures of his car and have his license plate and trying to send 382 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,600 to people. So that if something was to 383 00:25:40,608 --> 00:25:42,300 happen, they would be able to find them. 384 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:48,500 And as our missionary patiently, Opened everything that he had 385 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,100 showed him. He was that here, take pictures 386 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:53,100 of me. This is me, this is my 387 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:55,600 identification. This is a picture of my, my 388 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,000 credit cards with the same number on it. 389 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,900 My same name on it. Look at all these things. 390 00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:03,300 I'm here to help you. We're going to go to this place. 391 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:07,000 This is New Life, I'm sorry, this is cascais church. 392 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,300 This is where you're going to be staying. 393 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:12,100 We have this, he was showing pictures of their bedrooms that 394 00:26:12,100 --> 00:26:13,800 they had built inside their Church. 395 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,300 They would help them install a brand-new shower because they 396 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:18,500 didn't have have a shower in their church so that they would 397 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:23,100 be able to do right as he just lovingly and patiently. 398 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,500 Recognize that these people have been through tragic situations. 399 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,100 And was able to love on them, huge lives. 400 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:34,200 It's huge. The way. 401 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,200 God is changing lives through these situations. 402 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,500 God is at work all over the world. 403 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,500 Okay? What I want to tell you here, 404 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:48,900 that's a little bit different than because you guys have been 405 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:52,000 praying for dtn and for missionaries. 406 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,400 And so what this passage really is is the missionary praying for 407 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,300 you. And here's what I want to tell 408 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:01,400 you. Okay, he does two things. 409 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:06,200 One, he gives big, thanks. He gives big thanks for what God 410 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,300 is doing inside the church. He says we. 411 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:13,200 Thank God always. As we pray for you since we 412 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,500 heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love that you 413 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:17,300 have for all the Saints. First of all, in that 414 00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:22,300 interesting. Anybody ever been in a prayer 415 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:25,500 request time? It's never. 416 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,800 Hey, this is going really well for somebody. 417 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,700 Let's pray for them. It's always things are going 418 00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:33,700 bad. Let's pray for them. 419 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:37,400 I want you to see here, Paul is praying and thanking God, and 420 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,300 praying for them. As the gospel has come forth to 421 00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:45,500 them and is doing work in them. And this is when Paul begins to 422 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:49,900 actually love and pray for them through his efforts. 423 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:54,300 And then he begins to mention these things that we again read 424 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:58,900 over really quickly, but this Christian Triad of virtue. 425 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:06,300 Choose prayer of faith, Love and Hope and these three all work 426 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:09,100 together. But I want you to understand 427 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:13,800 that hope here as Paul is giving, thanks, he's giving, 428 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,100 thanks that. God has given this church hope. 429 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,200 Now hope when it comes to the scriptures is not the way we 430 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,000 would use the word hope I hate the way we mess up words 431 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:30,800 sometimes right but the word hope to us means wishful 432 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,100 thinking back, I hope I don't fall down the stairs, it would 433 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:36,600 be really embarrassing and you guys have already proved you'd 434 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,700 laugh right I hope I don't fall going up. 435 00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:43,700 It's not that that's not the way that the scripture uses the 436 00:28:43,708 --> 00:28:47,000 word. Hope hope is a force. 437 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:53,400 It is an Solutely assurance that is not yet fully experienced. 438 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,000 God has assured us and promised us of something that we are 439 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,100 waiting on, but has not yet come true in our lives. 440 00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:08,300 The hope is that thing that is here and now and the Fulfillment 441 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:11,100 of that hope is the thing that still lies ahead, but this is 442 00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:15,500 something that Paul says in Romans 13:11 that hope is a 443 00:29:15,508 --> 00:29:20,200 sense that our Salvation is, Nearer to us now than when we 444 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:26,700 first believed. It is this sure thing and the 445 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:30,600 reason I think Paul is thankful for this happening inside a 446 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,300 church is because he understands that hope is a sanctifying 447 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,800 force. Hope, is that thing that 448 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,800 strengthens our faith? That empowers our love. 449 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:45,700 And these are the things that Paul says is working inside this 450 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:49,100 church and is bearing fruit and increasing. 451 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:53,000 There's an intensive inner growth that causes this. 452 00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:56,400 The fruit to be born here. The gospel is at work. 453 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,900 I'm so thankful to know Kyle enough that he gets to tell me 454 00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:04,000 the things that's going on at church because I've love to hear 455 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,900 the stories over the last three years of the Gospel at work at 456 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:12,700 New Life. I love the fact that I've seen 457 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:17,100 some of your faces over the last several years and I know 458 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:21,300 specifically of the growth that's going on in you I know I 459 00:30:21,300 --> 00:30:22,500 knew it. What it was like when it was 460 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:27,700 just Kyle and Jasper And I love the fact that there's other men 461 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000 who have matured to the place that they are in leadership and 462 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,700 they're serving Faithfully here. I praise God for that and I 463 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:40,100 praise God that next year. There's going to be more stories 464 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:44,300 to tell. God is at work. 465 00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:50,400 So, he prays a lot of really cool stuff there. 466 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:01,500 In verse 9, he begins to pray with some petitions after he's 467 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:03,700 given. Thanks, he begins to pray with 468 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:08,700 some petitions. He says, since the day we heard, 469 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:10,900 we have not ceased to pray for you asking that you may be 470 00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:14,800 filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and 471 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:19,900 understanding So the word filled here is literally filled to the 472 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:23,700 point that there's an absence of everything else that nothing 473 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:27,000 else can fit inside this. And this is the way that Paul 474 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,700 says, I pray that you can be filled with the knowledge of the 475 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:35,800 will of God. So there's always these people 476 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,300 in sock about. Well, I've got to go find the 477 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:39,900 will of God. This is such a great thing 478 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:44,000 because Paul says, we can pray that you would know it because 479 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,900 it is possible to know God's Will. 480 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,800 And so many times we want to go Lord, which way do I need to 481 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,900 done? Need to marry this person or do 482 00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:56,100 I need to marry this person? And so many times, that's not 483 00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:59,500 the way we look for things like this, but this is not the way 484 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:02,100 God declares. His, will God declares his will 485 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:05,100 in this. Then we would know the will of 486 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:08,100 God. In all spiritual wisdom and 487 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:10,500 understanding. So as to walk in a manner, 488 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:15,400 worthy of the Lord, this is the way that we are to know his will 489 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:19,600 that we could walk in it, that we could walk in a way that 490 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:24,600 would give make our lives pleasing to him learning. 491 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,700 The will of God is not something that you can be learned like a 492 00:32:27,708 --> 00:32:32,900 theory and Seminary class. They made us take a class called 493 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,600 The presence of God or something like that. 494 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,600 I can't remember what they called it, but it was useless 495 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,600 because it was all talking about the presence of God in your life 496 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,700 in theory, only That's not the way. 497 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:49,800 You can learn the presence of God in your life. 498 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,700 There's an old book. That's a classic that's called 499 00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:57,100 practicing the presence of God. That's the way this is learned. 500 00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:01,500 We must actually be putting things in order this spiritual 501 00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:04,400 understanding. This wisdom must be things that 502 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,200 are gained. That does, yes, help us to learn 503 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:11,800 how to prioritize things and give think give these principles 504 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,900 that the scriptures teach, but it's then the Apple applying 505 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:18,800 them in the way you see. True knowledge always leads to 506 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,600 practical religion. It always does. 507 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:25,900 Let me said better right. Knowledge leads to right 508 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:29,000 Behavior. This is what Paul is praying for 509 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000 this church that they would have right knowledge that would lead 510 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,700 to ride Behavior. Now here's what is tempting 511 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:40,900 because you have some pastors that are really smart and 512 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:45,300 sometimes it's tempting to grab some Advanced knowledge about 513 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:50,300 God. But the not pair it with that, 514 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:54,700 practical application for your life and that's dangerous. 515 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:59,900 Knowledge that allows a wretched sinner to be puffed up and what 516 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:03,600 they think they know is a false knowledge, because knowing about 517 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,000 God and knowing god are very, very different things. 518 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:09,300 You see what Paul is praying for here is the exact opposite of 519 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:12,300 Romans 1. When Paul talks about people in 520 00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:17,400 Romans chapter 1, he says that they suppress the truth of God, 521 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,199 they force it away from themselves. 522 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,199 And what Paul is praying for the church here is that they would 523 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:27,100 not suppress it, not stiff arm. Not keep it at Bay but that they 524 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:29,699 would welcome it. You understand? 525 00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:34,800 This is how we accept all truth. To accept truth is really a 526 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,699 couple of stages. The first is you must reject 527 00:34:37,699 --> 00:34:41,400 falsehood. You can't believe that two plus 528 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,900 two is four and that two plus two is five, you can't do that. 529 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:51,500 And so you got to reject the one in order to embrace the other 530 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,400 and this is how we're called to learn. 531 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:57,900 God, we must reject all the false things that we used to 532 00:34:57,908 --> 00:35:01,100 believe about God. And this is tricky, because we 533 00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:03,500 grew up in the Bible Belt, that there's so many things that are 534 00:35:03,508 --> 00:35:06,300 pervasive, oh, well, you know, God is just loving, he would 535 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:08,800 never send you to hell. Will you that must be rejected, 536 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:10,400 why? Has the truth of God is 537 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:15,000 different than that. We must reject the falsehoods in 538 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:23,400 order to bring in the truth. Now watch this new knowledge 539 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:28,200 always leads to Good Works the new knowledge leads to the right 540 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,700 Behavior. But I want to be careful here. 541 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,100 Because good works are the fruit of God's grace and not the root 542 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,300 of God's grace. You see when God makes a new 543 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:46,000 people, it happens like this. To make a new people, God gives 544 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,300 them a new heart and that new heart has a new affection. 545 00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:54,000 And those new affections lead to new behaviors. 546 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:57,300 It happens in that order every time. 547 00:35:58,100 --> 00:36:01,200 Now, what sometimes people want to do is they want to put their 548 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,900 right behaviors and claim that God has given them a new heart. 549 00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:08,400 But you can't do that. You can't exchange the putrid, 550 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,500 vile best effort of a of a man and exchange it for the grace of 551 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:17,400 God to man, you can't do that. You can't say that this is going 552 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,600 to work, when really all that will work, is the grace of God 553 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:26,900 and giving a new heart. So new people come with new 554 00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:30,300 hearts and those new Hearts have new affections in those new 555 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:32,500 affections lead to new behaviors. 556 00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:38,000 And that's this thing that Paul is praying for that God in the 557 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,200 new heart that he's given you. This gospel that is at work in 558 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,600 you that is bearing fruit and increasing which is continued. 559 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:52,500 Because I just want to say it real clear, I love where you're 560 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:57,300 at. I know where you've been and I 561 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:01,400 love where you're at. But I also don't want you to 562 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:06,400 stay just right here. There's so much more of God to 563 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,500 go into and I can say that for all eternity because he's his 564 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:15,100 infinite. We must continue to Hosea 6s. 565 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:20,500 Let us know the Lord. Let us press on to know the Lord 566 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,800 the new heart that God has given us should always continue to 567 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,400 build in this idea that we want to pursue him in All spiritual 568 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,600 wisdom and understanding, until we're filled with the knowledge 569 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,300 of his will this idea of filled literally means that that it's 570 00:37:36,300 --> 00:37:40,900 taking control of you So many of us know things about God. 571 00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:42,200 You've been coming here a long time. 572 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,600 You've been hearing the word be preached, but the life hasn't 573 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:51,700 changed yet. You must be filled until it 574 00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:56,600 takes over. The missionary, then prays for 575 00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:00,500 this, he prays that you would have power. 576 00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:05,000 Being strengthened with all power. 577 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:12,800 According to his glorious mind. Now. a millionaire could show up 578 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:17,100 to dtn and by the way if you know one send them to DPM but a 579 00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:21,500 millionaire could show up to dtn and give of his wealth and it 580 00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:27,900 really not mean that much Right? I can give of the contents of my 581 00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:31,900 wallet and it won't get you far. This is different. 582 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,200 What Paul here, praise is not that God would give of his 583 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:40,600 wealth, but that God would give according to his wealth. 584 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:43,900 If a millionaire gives according to his wealth, we're going to 585 00:38:43,900 --> 00:38:47,900 check, right? We're getting something big, if 586 00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:51,300 God grants you from his, well, that may not be very much but if 587 00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:54,400 he gives a cording to his riches that are found in Christ Jesus. 588 00:38:54,600 --> 00:39:00,500 Says in Ephesians 1. What God has for you, is 589 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:09,000 immense. this is the power to not only strive well, but even 590 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:14,900 to Suffer Well, Where do you find the strength to do? 591 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:18,000 What's been called of you in the last 8 weeks? 592 00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:25,000 Can't do this. You can't remain steadfast on 593 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,700 your own. You can't persevere through that 594 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:35,100 on your own. But the good news is that Paul 595 00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:38,400 the missionary in this missionaries been praying for 596 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,700 you. Then when God would strengthen 597 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:45,400 you, he wouldn't strengthen you of his mighty strength, but 598 00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:50,800 according to his mighty strength, And this comes into 599 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,000 play even later when the missionary talks about, how he 600 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:59,200 serves in verse 28, if you'll notice he says him Christ. 601 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,500 We Proclaim warning everyone. In teaching, everyone with all 602 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:05,800 wisdom that we may present everyone mature in Christ for 603 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:11,000 this. I toil struggling with all His 604 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:18,400 energy that he powerfully works Within Me. if you notice Paul 605 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,000 the missionaries praying, the thing for the church that he 606 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:28,600 needs for himself, And then he I can't really tell really if this 607 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,700 is a prayer or if this is just Paul jumping into excitement. 608 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:37,800 But I jump into excitement when I think of New Life Community 609 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,200 Church. And one of the things that Paul 610 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,700 says here and I just give thanks to the father verse 12 who has 611 00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:48,200 qualified you to share in the inheritance of the Saints in 612 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,800 life. He says in Ephesians 2 which is 613 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,400 kind of a very similar book in that one. 614 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,900 He says these Gentiles though they had one time been separated 615 00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:00,300 from Christ. Alienated from the Commonwealth 616 00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:03,500 of Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise having 617 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:06,300 no hope and without God in the world. 618 00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:09,900 Now in Christ Jesus those who are far off have been brought 619 00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:13,400 near and the blood of Christ and that's Colossians and that's 620 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,000 you. Most of us in here are Gentiles 621 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,900 who have been brought near by Christ and I want you to see 622 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:24,200 this at inheritance that he says is a Sovereign Grace. 623 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,500 You know, Kandi and I have a last will and testament, it was 624 00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:31,700 required before we go overseas. Right? 625 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,100 Have a last will and testament and it will tell which of the 626 00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:39,700 kids get sweat of our assets and it was not very expensive 627 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:42,100 because if you don't have to put anything on the left side of the 628 00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:48,700 decimal, it's really easy, okay. But we have to show, which kid 629 00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:55,600 gets what, right? And they didn't earn a any of 630 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,500 it. I don't know if you know but 631 00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:02,300 they hadn't earned a thing. Right? 632 00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:06,100 You have this baby and they've done nothing but scream at you 633 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,900 and keep you awake. They did nothing but kick candy 634 00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:11,300 in the stomach for nine months, right? 635 00:42:12,300 --> 00:42:15,800 And we go how let's give this baby everything we have. 636 00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:23,300 It's the same thing with this. The grace that God has given 637 00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:26,500 you. I hope you see that has made you 638 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:31,200 qualified to receive part of his inheritance is a Sovereign 639 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,800 Grace. It is a Grace that comes 640 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,400 directly from him and not from anything that you've done. 641 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:45,400 And then verse 13, 14. Paul just cannot help himself 642 00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:49,300 because the gospel he seen in the church at colossae and the 643 00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:52,100 gospel. He's seen work not just in them, 644 00:42:52,100 --> 00:42:56,200 but around the world he prayed specifically would just continue 645 00:42:56,200 --> 00:43:01,600 to be maturing in them and he just kind of breaks into song 646 00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:06,700 and he says Christ has delivered us from the domain of darkness 647 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,400 and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son. 648 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,800 In whom we have Redemption. The Forgiveness of sins. 649 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,200 He see when the missionary prays for the church. 650 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,900 Missionaries are blessed, sometimes. 651 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,300 When God gives them the Eternal perspective. 652 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:38,300 So many times, we get so focused on the temporary focused on the 653 00:43:38,300 --> 00:43:41,300 things that are right here in the needs that we have. 654 00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:45,400 And we really forget the in Christ, all of our needs are met 655 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:51,100 for all eternity. We have Redemption and we have 656 00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:55,400 the hope of redemption because we, as Paul says, we have been 657 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,300 saved and we are being saved in the Salvation that we have 658 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:04,300 coming is so much closer to us now than when it was, and it's 659 00:44:04,300 --> 00:44:06,600 arriving. And I think Paul just with his 660 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:13,400 eternal perspective, says, guys, don't you see Don't you see 661 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,000 that? God is not just doing this right 662 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,600 here. We don't have a faith that's 663 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,600 been around. Since you got here, we have a 664 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,100 historic faith that has been going around for thousands of 665 00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:26,700 years. You are in line of a long 666 00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:31,900 lineage of believers who have lived and died for Christ in 667 00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:37,100 Christ. And it's amazing and the same 668 00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:40,600 inheritance that Paul got the same inheritance that epaphras 669 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,400 got the same inheritance that Paul prayed for the church at 670 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,000 colossae, to have is the same. When I pray that you are going 671 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,800 to have, this is a line, this is not a temporary thing. 672 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:56,600 This is a long thing. And so this is the, My ultimate 673 00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:00,500 prayer for your church that you would continue to know the will 674 00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:03,200 of God so much that you'd be filled with it. 675 00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:06,400 It should know, the will of God so much that you'd be 676 00:45:06,900 --> 00:45:10,700 overflowing with the way to please God in this life. 677 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,900 That you would have wisdom and understanding about how to walk 678 00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:20,100 worthy because to be quite honest, the world is watching. 679 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:26,800 I don't know if you know, but from recent events. 680 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:32,800 Lots of eyes have been on you. And I'm thankful that what the 681 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,800 world the watching world is seeing is a city set upon a hill 682 00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:43,400 And I pray that God would just help that to burn brighter. 683 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,200 I pray that because of the hope and love and faith that you have 684 00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:54,500 that, the inheritance you have in the gospel would be treasured 685 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:59,200 and it would be so treasured that it wouldn't Captivate your 686 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,800 soul in that you don't want to share it but it would Captivate 687 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,800 your soul so that you have to share it. 688 00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:07,700 That you got to take the gospel that God has entrusted to you 689 00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:12,700 and give it to the world. We don't send missionaries to 690 00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:16,000 send missionaries. That's dumb then get a travel 691 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,000 agent to do that. We send missionaries because 692 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,700 it's through them that the truth goes to the nation's. 693 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,600 That's what we want to. Send is the truth, we want to 694 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,100 send the gospel. That's why we send missionaries. 695 00:46:31,100 --> 00:46:35,000 It's because people have so fallen in love with the grace of 696 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,600 God, found in the gospel that they recognize their complete 697 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,100 inability to to deserve it. You see that? 698 00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:48,300 That's one of the biggest necessities. for acceptance of 699 00:46:48,300 --> 00:46:53,900 Grace is to realize your absolute lack of deserving of it 700 00:46:56,500 --> 00:46:59,200 and when you realize how the gospel has made it all the way 701 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:05,000 to here, even if it took 1700 years, Did it needs to still go 702 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:09,100 to the other 3.3 billion. And so I want to say, 703 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,100 ultimately, New Life Community Church. 704 00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:17,800 I'm praying that you would continue to love Jesus much. 705 00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:25,200 That you would. Find ways to say God anywhere. 706 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:35,800 Anyhow, any win any way that you could use me, use me. 707 00:47:38,900 --> 00:47:45,400 I cannot explain to you all the ways that you have blessed dtn 708 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,400 and you have made dtn to be. Go be able to go farther for the 709 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,000 sake of the Gospel. Then we could have ever went 710 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:59,300 without you So first, have my humble, thanks. the second, I 711 00:47:59,308 --> 00:48:05,000 want to give you an opportunity to Continue to partner with us 712 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:20,900 to go farther. Somebody's got to turn the air 713 00:48:20,900 --> 00:48:22,400 conditioner on my eyes are sweating. 714 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:48,900 I love Colin Patricia. I'm not going to look at them, 715 00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:56,400 but I love them. and, I don't know if you knew this but one of 716 00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:01,400 the things that they did when Winnie Kate past was they said 717 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,600 if anybody would like to give donations they should give 718 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:12,500 donations to disciple the nation's. and because when he 719 00:49:12,500 --> 00:49:19,200 Kate was who she was and how she was Precious little girl. 720 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,600 Who loved the Lord? And loved the Lord's people. 721 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,400 Would you saw this as a great opportunity to be able to honor 722 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:33,400 her memory and to honor what new life has done? 723 00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:39,600 And so disciple, the nation's is privileged. 724 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,100 To start a new fund called. Winnie Cates kids. 725 00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:54,700 We beg God with lettuce. To give children around the 726 00:49:54,707 --> 00:49:59,800 world, an opportunity just to be raised in the nurture and 727 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:07,300 admonition of the Lord. And I've asked Colin Patricia, 728 00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:13,500 if they would be on the team that leads, those decisions that 729 00:50:13,500 --> 00:50:20,400 would choose How we would use those funds that God brings in 730 00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:25,500 except for the first ones, because I was kind of on a time 731 00:50:25,500 --> 00:50:27,900 crunch and I wanted to surprise them. 732 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,600 And so I I got to decide the first one. 733 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:39,300 Kyle has helped. Several times with a group of 734 00:50:39,300 --> 00:50:43,000 leaders that I train every Thursday morning in Africa, 735 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,400 they're in Malawi, and Mozambique and their six guys. 736 00:50:47,100 --> 00:50:50,700 And and they oversee 21 churches there that they're pastoring and 737 00:50:50,700 --> 00:50:53,200 shepherding and doing the best they can to share the gospel in 738 00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:59,300 those areas. And it's an area where Malawi 739 00:50:59,300 --> 00:51:02,500 and Mozambique Earth to the most impoverished countries on the 740 00:51:02,500 --> 00:51:04,900 planet Malawi's. Actually number five on the list 741 00:51:04,900 --> 00:51:07,500 of most, and Mozambique is no. 47. 742 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,600 And if you take the average of the entire country, the average 743 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:17,300 annual income for Malawi is about 350 dollars a year, okay? 744 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:22,800 But these guys are the farthest away possible from any sort of 745 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:28,400 large city. And that they don't make that. 746 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:34,400 And as we just go and pray for him, three of these guys. 747 00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,300 Well, one of them, we do it as at his house. 748 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,600 And then two guys walk from about two miles away once a 749 00:51:39,607 --> 00:51:43,200 week. One way to come and listen to me 750 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:48,300 talk as we train them in Ministry and the other three 751 00:51:48,300 --> 00:51:55,000 come from about 12 km away. And they come and listen. 752 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,700 And once they did that every week Faithfully for a year, I 753 00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:03,000 decided that was enough and I raised, you know, by God's 754 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,700 grace, he brought some funds in that we could buy them bicycles 755 00:52:07,300 --> 00:52:10,200 and just of tried to find ways to serve and help them. 756 00:52:10,500 --> 00:52:15,500 They've had two years of massive flooding, then it followed by a 757 00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:19,100 year of drought. They have no food, I have 758 00:52:19,100 --> 00:52:23,300 pictures of little children, eating stuff that they should 759 00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:26,700 not be eating. Because that's what they have. 760 00:52:28,100 --> 00:52:32,600 And so these six pastors, I talk to them about what they need and 761 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,000 dtn is actually helped. We spent part of this year doing 762 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,900 some testing on some crops so that these guys could be able to 763 00:52:39,900 --> 00:52:43,500 provide food for their families and then also their widows and 764 00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:46,400 Orphans of their churches. All of them, have orphanages 765 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,500 that they've taken orphans in from around the community, and 766 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:58,100 they just serve and do whatever they can and we try to help but, 767 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,200 every week when we talked about some things that they're dealing 768 00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,900 with, they always pray, you know? 769 00:53:07,900 --> 00:53:11,600 It would love for our kids to be able to go to school and you 770 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,700 guys probably have that you want your children to be educated and 771 00:53:15,900 --> 00:53:22,100 to have opportunities. It's a little different for them 772 00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:30,300 in Malawi children, are allowed to go to school until they're 773 00:53:30,300 --> 00:53:33,500 age of 12. And then after that, there's 774 00:53:33,500 --> 00:53:37,700 what they call a secondary school that requires a large sum 775 00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:42,700 of money to be able to attend. And none of our guys are able to 776 00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:46,600 afford it. So a lot of young men get into 777 00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:50,300 big trouble that's 12 and 13 year old. 778 00:53:50,300 --> 00:53:52,700 Boys should never be allowed to be idle, right? 779 00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:56,400 And so a lot of their boys get in big trouble. 780 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:03,700 There's just no opportunity. But their biggest concern is 781 00:54:03,700 --> 00:54:12,100 there girls. Because they're having children 782 00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,900 that you can't feed. Anyways, one thing, but having 783 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,600 12 and 13 year old people that start eating like adults makes 784 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:25,300 life even harder. and so, what often happens, well, I've seen a 785 00:54:25,308 --> 00:54:32,200 lot of Twelve-year-old, Brides. And I've seen lots of 12 year 786 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:39,500 old mothers. because, They will try to find somebody else that 787 00:54:39,500 --> 00:54:44,300 could take care of them. And here's the thing, if they 788 00:54:44,300 --> 00:54:48,700 can't get married, they can't find someone that has some 789 00:54:48,700 --> 00:54:51,400 funds. That would be willing to pay. 790 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,800 Then the next logical step for these 12 year old girls is 791 00:54:55,800 --> 00:55:00,600 prostitution. And for the last two years is 792 00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:02,500 we've been training. These guys, they've been telling 793 00:55:02,500 --> 00:55:07,900 us over and over. Pray that the Lord would help us 794 00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:11,500 find a way to get our kids in school. 795 00:55:14,500 --> 00:55:19,800 And so what I've done is, I looked at the six pastors and 796 00:55:19,808 --> 00:55:24,100 have lots of kids. Oh about older and younger but 797 00:55:24,100 --> 00:55:30,000 there's four girls. At school age who they weren't 798 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:34,600 able to go to school. But because of Winnie, Cates 799 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,300 kids, they start school tomorrow. 800 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:44,200 So, I want to show you. This is actually Hadassah. 801 00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,400 I don't know how I messed up that name and Siddhartha, 802 00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,800 Francisco and Emma. Now is oniy. 803 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,200 This is Duncan's daughter. Go to the next one, please. 804 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:59,100 And this is Rebecca in memory and these girls are young girls 805 00:56:00,300 --> 00:56:04,900 who are sons of our daughters of pastors, who love them. 806 00:56:04,900 --> 00:56:08,000 Well, And want what's best for him. 807 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,800 And I'm thankful that we get to serve and support those pastors 808 00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:18,800 and make opportunities for these daughters through indicates 809 00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:24,600 fund. And I want to ask if you want to 810 00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:28,000 help because this is the last one of those decisions. 811 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,900 I'm making Colin Patricia is going to take over, but I've 812 00:56:31,900 --> 00:56:36,700 given you an opportunity. If you can scan that, if you 813 00:56:36,700 --> 00:56:40,500 want to give, then that will go into a fund that we promise. 814 00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:46,100 Will always be used to help young people. 815 00:56:46,300 --> 00:56:49,500 Young kids to be able to grow in the nurture and admonition of 816 00:56:49,500 --> 00:56:51,500 the Lord and I have don't know where it'll go. 817 00:56:52,900 --> 00:56:55,300 But I trust in their hands is going to go in a good place. 818 00:56:56,700 --> 00:57:18,900 Can I pray for you stand? Father, I love my brother and my 819 00:57:18,900 --> 00:57:23,600 sister. And God, I'm grateful for the 820 00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:31,000 gospel that has been the anchor for their soul, though. 821 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:35,700 The waves have crashed and caused all sorts of Destruction. 822 00:57:38,500 --> 00:57:44,500 You have by your grace held them firm and father. 823 00:57:44,500 --> 00:57:49,100 I know that that is having a major impact in this church and 824 00:57:49,100 --> 00:57:53,700 in this community and father. Now I pray that you would use it 825 00:57:53,700 --> 00:57:58,900 to make a Major Impact in your world as you take weenie. 826 00:57:58,900 --> 00:58:04,000 Kate's story and her love for you and love for children. 827 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:10,500 To the nation's. We do this father in your honor 828 00:58:10,500 --> 00:58:14,500 and For Your Great Name sake. And we do this so that your 829 00:58:14,500 --> 00:58:21,300 glory would cover the Earth as the waters cover the sea father. 830 00:58:21,300 --> 00:58:26,800 Thank you for giving us the ministry of reconciliation. 831 00:58:28,100 --> 00:58:35,100 This ministry of gospel Proclamation because father, 832 00:58:35,100 --> 00:58:39,500 this thing that the is happening in the church, the missionaries 833 00:58:39,500 --> 00:58:41,400 praying that the church would continue. 834 00:58:43,700 --> 00:58:49,400 Because there's so many other places that don't have it. so 835 00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:56,300 God, I pray that you don't Just bear fruit and mature new life 836 00:58:56,400 --> 00:59:02,800 for new life sake. But you would mobilize them for 837 00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:06,700 the nation's sake. For this. 838 00:59:06,700 --> 00:59:09,800 I pray in the name of your son. Amen. 839 00:59:06,300 --> 00:59:08,700 For this. I pray in the name of your son. 840 00:59:09,300 --> 00:59:09,800 Amen.