1 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,880 Hello and welcome to the Arise Church Podcast. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,000 We are so glad you're here and want to thank you for joining us 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,000 today for the audio version of our Sunday morning message. 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,440 We want to invite you to join us in person at our Sunday morning 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,840 celebration every Sunday at 10 AM. 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,520 We are located on Old Jenks Rd. in Apex, NC. 7 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,080 Well, this morning, a great friend of ours who we've gotten 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,080 to know over the last couple years has come all the way from 9 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,880 Hawaii. And yeah, he left paradise to 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:40,840 come to paradise, right? But Pastor Kiha Pimentel, he is 11 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:46,440 one of our just amazing leaders within the Foursquare Church. 12 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:51,000 His current role is he is the supervisor for all the workers. 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,360 That's a a new word that we use for missionaries just to kind of 14 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,320 to help in different contexts where that word will trigger a 15 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,280 lot of security issues. But he overseas, all of the 16 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,880 workers are for the Foursquare Church around the world. 17 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,000 And if I remember right, it's more than 300. 18 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,520 He'll give you maybe more of the accurate count, but that's more 19 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,200 than 300 workers around the world and some of the most 20 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,960 challenging situations. And he's he's a part of a team 21 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:19,280 that leads them and he's the head of that team of supervising 22 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,280 them. But he's one of the most humble 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,920 people. He's such a serving man. 24 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,560 In fact, when my family and I went to Hawaii, he took us 25 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:35,240 paddle boarding. He hosted us for a family 26 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:39,200 gathering at his mom's house where they had this big pit with 27 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:44,920 hot lava rocks, and then we cooked Kahlua pig or pulled pork 28 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,960 in it. It was unbelievably delicious. 29 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,360 And I thought we did pull pork, right? 30 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,640 But I don't know. The whole is pretty good over 31 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,360 there. But I mean, that's that's just 32 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,360 stuff you don't have to do. And he's just treated our family 33 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,200 and our kids so well. So he's just become part of the 34 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,240 fam. So this morning you can even 35 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,200 maybe call him Pastor Uncle. So, in fact, would you help me 36 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,960 welcome Pastor Uncle Kiha all the way from Hawaii? 37 00:02:18,050 --> 00:02:22,760 Good morning Arise Church, so happy to be before you. 38 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,320 I have experienced the Southern hospitality. 39 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,680 Thank you so much. I feel very, very loved. 40 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,920 Feel very at home in Hawaii. We call it the Aloha Spirit. 41 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:43,280 I feel the Southern hospitality is the North Carolina Aloha 42 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,560 Spirit and it really is the the hidden word for the Holy Spirit 43 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,840 just is an easy way to to say that. 44 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:59,560 I just want you to know that I get to serve in this incredible 45 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:04,280 role around the globe. And so I get to meet lots of 46 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,200 leaders, not just across the nations, but especially in our 47 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,760 context in the US. And I want you to know how 48 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:17,360 blessed you guys are to have Pastor Ty and Pastor Lilia in 49 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:23,360 this church. They are wanted, loved, known 50 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,200 every like. They are heroes everywhere. 51 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,120 They could be going to any church, any place would want 52 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:35,120 them, but they chose this place and you guys are blessed. 53 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,240 They're hearing the Lord to to come and serve here. 54 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:43,560 And and then there is a bunch of friends who followed them, like 55 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,520 how blessed are you guys that they would leave another place 56 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,400 to hear God to follow them. I met some of them today. 57 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,120 And so this is what I want you to hear just about Ty and Lilia. 58 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:04,080 They're trusted leaders. I put myself under leadership 59 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,520 like that in Hawaii and I just, the first thing they just asked 60 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,800 me to say, would you put away 10 chairs? 61 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,760 And I just started putting away 10 chairs. 62 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,760 And then the next thing I do, hey, would you help put away the 63 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,680 chairs for everybody? And I started doing that. 64 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,640 And little by little, I just got asked and whatever they said to 65 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:27,920 do, I just followed. I didn't even try to make sense 66 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,200 of it. I wasn't trying to like, hey, 67 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,560 why is he asking me? I was just like following my 68 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,400 leader, trusting my leader and crazy things started to happen. 69 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,720 They said, Hey, would you just start a small group? 70 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,040 And I'm like small group. I, I don't know about small 71 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:43,360 group. I didn't even read the Bible at 72 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,360 that time, you know, And so I, I, I just said yes. 73 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:50,680 And next thing you know, I was reading the word. 74 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,880 I started, hey, lucky if I was reading it once a week. 75 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,360 Maybe that's how it is for some of us here. 76 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,080 But then I was under leadership and they said, Hey, would you 77 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:06,200 join me to do Bibles together? And I just took steps and steps 78 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:07,680 and steps. And next thing you know, I'm 79 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,120 planting a church. And next thing you know, they're 80 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,440 saying, hey, would you care for all the churches in Hawaii? 81 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,160 And now they're asking me. But all it is is I'm just 82 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,440 trusting my leaders. Really. 83 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,840 I just, so can I just encourage you? 84 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,040 He said, Hey, there's starter pathways today. 85 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,200 Like even if you don't understand why, you don't need 86 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,000 to understand. It says, could you just lean on 87 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,440 the Lord with all your heart, not on your own understanding. 88 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,440 Just follow him all your way and he'll direct your paths. 89 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,720 Watch what happens when you can trust the Lord. 90 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,360 That way you don't have to understand and you don't have to 91 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,280 agree. There are times when I don't 92 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:49,680 agree. Like, Oh my gosh, you know, it's 93 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:50,800 Sunday football. Why? 94 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:52,520 Why would I have to? Why? 95 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,600 Why should I do that when I could be I put that aside and 96 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,000 like, hey, I'm just going to follow my leader because he 97 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,680 asked me Pastor Ty saw me this connection we were in forget 98 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,800 where we were Denver, I think together and he had just prayed 99 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:15,120 for the whole we're talking about 10,000 some people, I 100 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:20,040 think 49 countries, 50 country, 51 countries, 49 states, 101 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,280 something like that. And he had just right after he 102 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:25,280 finished, he came right to me said I have a word for you. 103 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,840 And he said he, the Lord has said that there are things that 104 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:34,560 are against you given your position, and there are things 105 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,880 that are ailing you and aching and aching and hey, would you 106 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,600 just take seriously the prayer cover? 107 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:47,560 Like that's the kind of person who hears the Lord and then 108 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,760 immediately obediently delivers. And then I just said, yes, like 109 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:54,160 I didn't have to process the like, is that true? 110 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,280 That's a guy I know and love and trust. 111 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:01,480 So I immediately the next day, my wife and I asked some friends 112 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,160 who were there in Denver, hey, would you guys begin to? 113 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,960 I actually recorded him and I'd let them hear the recording. 114 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,280 And they all said, yes, we'll pray from that point. 115 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,440 Miracles have been happening in my own house in my own way with 116 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,520 my own wife. Like I was ailing for two years 117 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,520 with this hip thing. I'd be like this hobbling, 118 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:27,880 hobbling for like two years. I thought it meant I had to get 119 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,200 a hip replacement. Seriously. 120 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:34,800 I talked to my doctor about it. Right after those people started 121 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,160 it, the hip thing went away, completely gone. 122 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,080 I don't have nothing. I'm walking. 123 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,200 But that's just because I'm following somebody I can trust, 124 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,920 somebody who says, hey, would you just do this? 125 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,160 This is what I'm hearing. Would you just do this? 126 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,760 So I'm just saying, you guys, you don't even know how good you 127 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,240 have it. I'm going to you're going to 128 00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:01,720 hear a little bit about it in the in, in this in my message 129 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,320 today, we're calling it empowered witness. 130 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,040 Sorry, I'm having trouble with my computer here. 131 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,600 So here we go. We're calling it empowered 132 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,600 witness. Let me see, do we have it on? 133 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,840 All right, Empowered witness. Everybody say empowered witness 134 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:25,160 and then say spirit empowered witness, spirit empowered 135 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,600 witness, followers of Jesus are spirit empowered witnesses. 136 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:30,040 That's all I want you to take home. 137 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,320 If you're a follower of Jesus, you're a spirit empowered 138 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,919 witness. I'm a coach. 139 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,440 I've been coaching athletics for many years. 140 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:47,080 I coached football high school for almost 30 years and I loved 141 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,640 it. I loved what for me was a 142 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:54,160 philosophy to prepare young men for life, using football as a 143 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:59,600 metaphor, and it was such a great way to be in and around 144 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,240 young people. And one of the things that I 145 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:08,200 learned is if I'm going to be a really great coach, not just OK, 146 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,000 but great coach, I'm going to put them in positions or in 147 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,720 conditions like the game, but I'm going to do it during 148 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,640 practice. Do you hear what I'm saying? 149 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,560 I'm going to give them as much pressure in practice so that 150 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:24,000 when they in the game, it's actually freedom. 151 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,080 They've they've already been there before. 152 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,640 They've they've already felt this pressure. 153 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:34,600 They felt the emotions, but they didn't let that get to them. 154 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,400 They knew exactly what they wanted to do. 155 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,040 And I want to give you a chance to feel that today. 156 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,400 Would that be OK? So I want to give you sort of 157 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:48,000 game time pressure situation. But we're doing it in practice 158 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,680 so that when the the game does come and you guys are like in 159 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:55,520 freedom and there's no like sense of panic and all of the 160 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:57,480 other things that happened. Are you gay? 161 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,040 All right, so got to imagine with me. 162 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,920 I've now have all of us on this magic ride. 163 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 We're all in Hawaii. You're in my home. 164 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:07,480 Yeah. Can you? 165 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,000 Can you? We're going to eat Kalua pig 166 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,120 together. We're going to get on surfboards 167 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,440 together. All right, We're hanging out. 168 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,320 And this is really what happened. 1 morning. 169 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,080 Oops. Here we go. 170 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:29,840 This is what happened. Is it came on my phone that a 171 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:37,320 missile from North Korea, a nuclear warhead was heading to 172 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,240 Hawaii. They said it's going to land in 173 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,440 38 minutes. This is not a drill. 174 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:51,520 This is not a test. You and I like right now this is 175 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,040 happening like we have that much time left. 176 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:57,880 I want you to consider what are you going to do? 177 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,840 Like you might be thinking about family members. 178 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,600 You might have family members next to you in the time that you 179 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,840 have. What are you going to do? 180 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:13,240 Some of you might be thinking, hey, I got to text my son or my 181 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,680 daughter. I got a call. 182 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:20,160 I got a like, I want you to just even take a minute Now, if you 183 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,600 know somebody can think of somebody, the Lord himself, put 184 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,600 a picture of somebody in your head. 185 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,800 Would you write to them right now on your phone? 186 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,760 Just bless them. Tell them you don't have to say 187 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,280 what's going on here. Just give them a word. 188 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,800 Tell them you love them. Tell them it's going to be OK. 189 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,360 Tell them, hey, we got to reconnect. 190 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,520 Tell them I'm sorry, whatever you got to do. 191 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:44,200 Would you just take a moment now to do that with a friend, family 192 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,760 member, whoever? 30 minutes left. 193 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,600 There are people here between you, husbands and wives, 194 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:57,280 brothers and sisters, right? Mom and dad, our son and dad or 195 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:01,640 son and mother, there are things that you just might want to get 196 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:06,160 cleared up. This was happening and it was 197 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:07,920 crazy. In real life. 198 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,840 People were running to put stuff in their cars and they were 199 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,840 racing. We have 3 tunnels under big 200 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,160 mountains. People are racing to try to get 201 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,160 into tunnels. There were mothers and fathers 202 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,960 grabbing their kids, opening sewer manholes and putting their 203 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:29,080 kids in the manholes. Like people were panicked. 204 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,920 And there were a number of people who are Christian but 205 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,520 still in this panic, like what do I do? 206 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:40,720 What are what's going to happen? You actually get to see how 207 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,200 people really are. You know, we call it the public 208 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,080 face. Hey, you're nice and unzoomed. 209 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:46,520 We all smiley and we're all good. 210 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:52,760 But that kind of position, game time situation, you get to see 211 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,600 what I call the private face. You get to see what people 212 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,920 really are going through. And So what are you going to do? 213 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,520 What do you, I want you to consider your own lives. 214 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:03,760 What are you saying in those moments? 215 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,320 You just have a few of those left. 216 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,560 It's not a it's not a drill. All right. 217 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:10,840 We do. We all take a deep breath. 218 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,960 The Bible says we're just a breath. 219 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:20,160 We're just a vapor. It ended up being a false alarm. 220 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,800 Crazy it took a while but they said it was a false alarm. 221 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:32,280 My wife was on a plane from China coming to me so I was 222 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,600 thinking that thing passed her already and all I could do is 223 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:41,840 just leave her a message. But I was with other friends at 224 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,200 a little retreat and I had just off. 225 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,200 I didn't even hear the sirens because I was on the phone. 226 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:54,160 Just by chance, I was leading somebody to Jesus that morning, 227 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,640 a person who was Korean, by the way. 228 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,480 And I was like, wow, Lord, this is so ironic. 229 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:09,000 So we're in this place and we get to pray a bit. 230 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,640 And then the news people are saying, is this real? 231 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,800 Is it not? It's like they're all this stuff 232 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,920 is happening on the news and then finally says, somebody made 233 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,800 a mistake. It's a false alarm. 234 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,600 It's a false alarm. You can imagine the relief. 235 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,960 This is the same thing that happens to me sometimes during 236 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,000 the week. I have like 3 o'clock 4:00 237 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,360 meetings in the morning because of where I live trying to meet 238 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,040 other people in the globe. And then the alarm goes off and 239 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,200 I got to get up. But sometimes I forget to turn 240 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,400 the alarm off. So the next day the alarm goes 241 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,160 off again and then I'm like ah, and then I'm like oh, false 242 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:48,760 alarm, I can go back to sleep. I'm wanting you to know you just 243 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,040 heard a false alarm. Practice false alarm. 244 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:54,720 But I don't want you to go to sleep. 245 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:56,360 Go. Don't go back to sleep. 246 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,400 We're asking you to be your name. 247 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:00,640 Church. Arise. 248 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,040 Like wake up. Hey, something's happening here, 249 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:06,280 right? Something's happening here. 250 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:11,240 Let me go to the next slide. Can I do that? 251 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:12,720 There you go. Oh, sorry. 252 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:15,960 So would everybody do that with me? 253 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:20,040 Put up two hands, right. So imagine that's 100 years. 254 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:26,320 So then put down to fingers. 80 years is what the average 255 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:31,360 lifespan is for a woman, 80 years, it's 75 for a guy. 256 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,680 So you can put down half for you guys, 75. 257 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:39,440 And so if you are, you know, I've got some teenagers here. 258 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,680 So if you're, you can just put down the one if you are older 259 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,240 than 20 years or older, you can put down to 30 years and older, 260 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:51,200 put down 3 on top of keeping the other ones up right, right. 261 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:56,240 So I'm, I'm 60 and I'm going to be at 75. 262 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,920 So look, I've only got like that much left. 263 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,240 Can you see like look around at how much left you have. 264 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,600 Do you see like maybe you only got one thing like you're some 265 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,200 of us are on we're an extended play, right? 266 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:14,240 Some of us have run out. We're you hear what I'm saying, 267 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:20,120 you got some of you. So you have you have that 70 or 268 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:21,720 80 years, but then how old are you? 269 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,480 2019? So you put down to fingers and 270 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,360 that means really you've got that much life left, right, like 271 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,520 55 years, some everybody. Can you guys see? 272 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,160 So I see that gentleman there, he's holding up one finger like, 273 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,640 oh, you got half there you go. So he's got a. 274 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,560 This is like almost like Shaka almost. 275 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,080 Yeah. So 15 years left. 276 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,240 Really. Like, please consider that you 277 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:51,280 can put your hands on. Thank you. 278 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,480 Consider that. That's the breath you have left. 279 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:58,560 If you're living to what's average. 280 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:04,680 We have no idea if it's today. In fact, my wife and I, the way 281 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:11,119 that we've been saying goodbye now is I love you, honey. 282 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:19,920 I'll see you in heaven. And it's a way for us to bring 283 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:24,839 ourselves to reality. So many of us have been living 284 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:28,040 this sort of distracted reality, right? 285 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,760 Think about the TV we watch and the scrolling and the the 286 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:37,200 football and like all the stuff is just distracted reality. 287 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,840 I want this message to make a difference to you today like 288 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,000 come to the reality of the moment right? 289 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,840 Why are we here? Consider your very purpose 290 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:50,520 right. That's why we're here. 291 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,440 That's why we're going to go to the slides. 292 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,520 Oops Thank you sister. I think I'm messing you up back 293 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,920 there. So let's go to the first one. 294 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:07,680 I want to look in Acts. We're in Acts. 295 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:15,000 We'll walk through Acts One. The first 8 verses in my former 296 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,640 book. We're talking about Luke, Doctor 297 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,640 Luke, right? Follower of Jesus. 298 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:22,920 Guy is accurate. He's a doctor. 299 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:28,040 Think about the doctors that you have very, very meticulous. 300 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,080 They know they want to get it right, right? 301 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,360 So they're delivering it. He's already written a book, 302 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,880 right? That was Luke. 303 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:40,120 And so this is the second book. This is the reap, this is the 304 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:43,480 second chapter. This is the remix for you OG 305 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,400 guys, right? Right. 306 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,200 So we're talking about this is the second book. 307 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,280 And Theophilus. Theophilus is a person. 308 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,520 Theophilus. Have you heard that word before? 309 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,040 Theophilus. Theophilus is a person. 310 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,680 It means lover of God or friend of God. 311 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:02,880 Any lovers of God and friends of God in here? 312 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:04,720 Yeah. That book is not only for that 313 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,440 guy. It's for you, you and me. 314 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,080 That's a name in Hawaiian, where we are, where we live. 315 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:17,160 When we give children names, that name gives a child its 316 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:23,320 purpose. I'm just thinking, should I do 317 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:24,480 this? All right, I'm going to tell you 318 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:30,200 my son's name is Kaliho. Ho na ikeala unapua kiha 319 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,040 piilani. Yeah. 320 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:40,800 So we call him Kaliho for sure. But it means it means the gentle 321 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:46,360 rain that brings the fragrance out of flowers. 322 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:53,640 There's a particular type of rain that is so late that it 323 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:59,360 brings the best out of a flower. And people are flowers. 324 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,760 And so his job, if you're around him, he does this. 325 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:03,680 I mean, he'll make you roll laughing. 326 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:07,600 He's so fun. But his job, his purpose in life 327 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,720 is just to bring the best out of you. 328 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:15,040 Theophilus, you are Theophilus, your friend and lover of God. 329 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,600 But let me give you another name that has been really rocking me. 330 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:27,960 This church out of Isaiah 60 is is to arise. 331 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:33,440 That is a name given you, and that is a call to you. 332 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:39,400 That is a call to your purpose. That is not just for you to to 333 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,360 arise yourself, but to gather all those around you, the people 334 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:47,160 who are yet sleeping, the people who are still in this false 335 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,160 reality, the people who are still kind of distracted and 336 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,160 don't know what it's about. Will you help bring them to the 337 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,320 very purpose of their own lives? That's God's calling you as the 338 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:03,360 church arise. What's amazing to me is as I go 339 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:09,600 factor, Pastor Tie and I last week were serving at a camp for 340 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,120 natives in Soboba Reservation in California last week. 341 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,040 Do you know what the name of the camp was? 342 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:20,000 Arise. We just sent 2 missionaries from 343 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,400 they, they're originally from Samoa. 344 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:27,240 They had come to America to get education and then they found 345 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,320 Jesus and now we've sent them back to be missionaries to 346 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:36,040 Samoa. They have called their mission 347 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,880 in Samoa called too lucky Tulati. 348 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,240 What do you think Tulati means Arise. 349 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:47,240 There's something that's happening globally and I'm 350 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,880 wanting you to know that you guys are at the tip of the 351 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,520 spear. Arise Church like we're asking 352 00:21:53,520 --> 00:22:00,320 you, would you be your name begin to live this call to help 353 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:04,760 people arise, right? Don't don't hit the snooze. 354 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,600 Don't don't turn the the alarm off. 355 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,360 All right. In my former book, Theophilist, 356 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:14,520 I write to you all about Jesus. What what that Jesus began to do 357 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,120 and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven after 358 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:22,080 giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he 359 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:29,040 had chosen. Let's go to the next slide after 360 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,160 his suffering and he's just his suffering, which you want to 361 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,080 read the whole book of Luke to understand suffering and go 362 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,280 through the other gospels as well. 363 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:43,200 But we're talking about his death, the the torture of his 364 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,600 death, the amazing walk that he did for us. 365 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:51,640 But he ties it up into, you know, after his suffering, 366 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,640 because it's not just about the suffering. 367 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,160 We're beyond the suffering now. And he's saying that guy came 368 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,720 back to life. He can't. 369 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:06,040 He walked out of the grave. He's saying he presented himself 370 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,040 to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. 371 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,240 Like, can I tell you this is the most crazy news ever? 372 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,880 This is reality, you guys. This is the thing that we're 373 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,920 talking about, right? He appeared to them over a 374 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,760 period of 40 days and spoke about the Kingdom of God. 375 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:30,000 Everybody say Kingdom of God. It's a Kingdom of God, A 376 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Kingdom. You know what? 377 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,760 Americans in general, we're living in this democracy. 378 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,520 We're living in an AI got rights. 379 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,720 Everybody's got a right. I got a right to do this. 380 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,280 I got a right to do that right. No, no, no, no. 381 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,440 We're in the Kingdom, the Kingdom. 382 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,040 The king says to do something. Everybody follows the king. 383 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,200 Like we want to keep coming back to that. 384 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,760 It's the King's voice. It's the King's directions. 385 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,960 We're under the Kingdom. Even Jesus was when he was 386 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,560 living, He got the hall, the empire and all of that, but he's 387 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,800 not submitted to that, although he does what he needs to do, 388 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:08,600 pays taxes through fishes and all that stuff. 389 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,080 Great. But he's following the Lord's 390 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,400 voice. It's about the Kingdom of God. 391 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,840 Let's go to the next slide. On one occasion while he was 392 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,080 eating with them. This is an amazing thing right 393 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,680 there. I want to say that I want to 394 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,160 stop there because while he was eating with them, I remember 395 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,520 witnessing, I was asking, do you do you know Jesus? 396 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,280 And he said, oh, yeah, we know Jesus. 397 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,240 I'm like, tell me what you know about Jesus. 398 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,640 Oh, Jesus was a guy who, you know, lived. 399 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,480 I'm like, was he a real man? He goes, yeah, he was a real 400 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,360 man. And then I said, do you know 401 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:43,080 about his death? He goes, yeah, we know about his 402 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,920 death. And then I said, and then what 403 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,480 happened? He said, oh, he came back as a 404 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,240 ghost. I'm like, came back as a ghost. 405 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,960 Where'd you hear that? Oh, yeah, My grandma told me. 406 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,880 And my grandma told me, and I'm like, really a ghost? 407 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,400 I said ghost. Have you ever seen a ghost? 408 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,560 Have you ever heard of it? Yeah, well, I haven't seen, but 409 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,560 you know, on TV they show. I said, did you ever see a ghost 410 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,040 that ate a hamburger? He said no, no. 411 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:08,760 Did you ever see a ghost eat anything? 412 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,080 I said no. I was like, well, can I show you 413 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,600 this? Jesus was eating, right? 414 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,640 He was eating like he wasn't a ghost. 415 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,960 This is a real person. People would touch him, right? 416 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,160 People put their fingers in the holes, right? 417 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:29,320 So we say he was real in body. He gave them this command. 418 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,720 Don't leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift of my father 419 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,000 promised. There's some of you need to hear 420 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,760 that again. The gift that my father promised 421 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,400 it wasn't just for those guys back then. 422 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,720 It's a gift for you too. There's some of you don't don't 423 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,400 know God the Father has promised you some things he want to read 424 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,920 it in this love letter that we have as we call the word, the 425 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,000 word of God. He's got promises for you. 426 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,800 There's some of you have forgotten promises made to you. 427 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,320 God always keeps his promises. If you need to hear more 428 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,080 promises, there are elders and and pastors in this room who you 429 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,480 can go to and say, remind me, hey, would you give me a new 430 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,480 promise? Would you, would you tell me, 431 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,280 remind me of the promises that are made for me? 432 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,600 There are hundreds of promises just in the word for you. 433 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,200 And I want you to know the Father keeps his promise. 434 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,920 But this one gift, this one gift that the Father promised, which 435 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,040 you heard me speak about. Let's go to the next slide for 436 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,960 John, baptized with water. But in a few days you will be 437 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:37,360 baptized with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was the one 438 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:40,800 promised to you, to you, you and me. 439 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:43,480 We get the promise of the Father. 440 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,720 It's the Holy Spirit. This is craziness. 441 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,680 You guys, everybody else is going to say, oh, that's non 442 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,240 reality. No, no, no, no, this is reality. 443 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,000 Everything that you catch on your phone and that's non 444 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:00,080 reality, this is reality that the Father has given you himself 445 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:06,000 in his Holy Spirit. God the Father who is for you, 446 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:14,080 Jesus Emmanuel who is with you and now the Holy Spirit in you, 447 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:20,560 in you at the moment you say yes immediately Holy Spirit is in 448 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,760 you never to leave you like what happened today. 449 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,560 I'm so, so thankful it's Jessica. 450 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:31,760 God bless you, sister. Like I'm I'm in tears to watch 451 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,280 the transformation. Just watching you. 452 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,760 Just beautiful, beautiful testimony. 453 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,800 You know what the best testimony is, is that when she said yes, 454 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:48,880 and now doing this in front of us in the same way that Jesus 455 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,880 was baptized, the Father says to you, Jess, you're my daughter, 456 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,680 my beloved daughter, and I'm pleased with you. 457 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,280 Do you want to? Are you a clap for that? 458 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,000 That's what we call identity. You don't have to work for that. 459 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,760 That's you. There's nothing. 460 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,840 There's no think about this. Your kids have to prove to you 461 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,720 that they're your kids. Like do they got to like they 462 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,920 got to behave. Then they're then you say, OK, 463 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,800 you know, you're my kid. That's no good or bad. 464 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,880 You love them. They're your kid, right? 465 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,840 How many, how many miracles did Jesus do before that baptism? 466 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:39,320 Anybody know? 00, no miracles. 467 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,880 What I'm saying is he didn't have to do anything to be a son. 468 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,320 It's the other guy's Kingdom that makes you do stuff to be 469 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,680 are you with me in the other Kingdom you do to be over here, 470 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,480 you just be and now your son and daughter are now you want to do 471 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:05,840 if you want to do like now you can be be a son. 472 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,880 You already being a son and out of that if you want to share you 473 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,880 want it like you have freedom now you have choice. 474 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,200 There's there's nothing that's going to cancel that. 475 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:18,920 All right, he's giving you his Holy Spirit. 476 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,520 Let's go to the next thing and they gathered around him asked 477 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,920 him, Hey Lord, are you at this time going to restore the 478 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:31,240 Kingdom is of Israel. I love these apostles because 479 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,360 they're just like you and me. We're we're they're still kind 480 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,360 of positioning. They're still thinking, oh 481 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,760 great, all right, finally he's back now he's winning us. 482 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,400 He's restoring us as Israel over the empire. 483 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,800 But Jesus, like I, I, I was trying to think, how does, how 484 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:58,720 is that be? It would be like if, if you 485 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,880 said, hey, are you going to buy me a hamburger now? 486 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,680 And and I was about to take you to the nicest hotel to give you 487 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,600 the greatest buffet ever. And you're like, Hey, can I get 488 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,320 a hamburger now? Like that's so small, small part 489 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,920 thinking, right? What what the what Jesus is 490 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,320 being asked is, are you giving me a hamburger? 491 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,320 And he's like, Oh my gosh, like it's way bigger than just the 492 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,560 Kingdom of Israel. You guys, it's way bigger. 493 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,600 He's not just going to be over Israel. 494 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,160 It's the whole world for all time. 495 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,440 It's both for you and for me. But this, this passage wasn't 496 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,200 just for these guys back then. It ripples to you and me. 497 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,040 All right, let's go to the next one. 498 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,120 So Jesus says it's not for you to know the times or dates that 499 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,800 the Father has set by his own authority. 500 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,200 That's why I was telling you about the Korean missile. 501 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,720 Hey, we actually don't know if there's going to be one of those 502 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,880 for you today. You don't know if today's the 503 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,960 one that you get to say goodbye, which is why when I say goodbye 504 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,200 to my wife, it's not really a goodbye. 505 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,520 It's like, I'll see you in heaven, babe, see you there, 506 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,880 I'll see you there. Like, would you live your lives 507 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:19,600 completely with the relationships that you have so 508 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,920 that there's no regrets? There's no regrets for you, and 509 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,520 there's no regrets for those who love you, the ones that are 510 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:35,040 around you. The next slide, but you will 511 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,320 receive power. Everybody say power, power. 512 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,200 That word in the Greek is dunamis. 513 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,120 Like dunamis, if I say it really fast, don't miss it. 514 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,960 Like don't miss, do not miss this supernatural power. 515 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:56,120 Not just like the natural things that we see supernatural power 516 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,000 from heaven. You not will receive it. 517 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,080 You who say yes already have received it. 518 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,800 You have it. It's in you now, right now. 519 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,280 Some of us, we don't know that it's there. 520 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,320 We sometimes we got to get stirred up, maybe somebody to 521 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,560 pray baptism, Holy Spirit of you, but it's in you. 522 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,960 If you don't understand any of this that I'm speaking right 523 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,200 now, maybe you're still a watcher and that's OK. 524 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,640 We do want you to know that hey, this is available to you now for 525 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,440 those of you maybe brand new, first time in the church, first 526 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,280 time you ever hearing this good news. 527 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,800 Hey, please let us help you become a believer in this. 528 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,640 As soon as you say yes, as soon as you say, hey, I'm willing to 529 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:41,480 check this out, then you have been deposited. 530 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,080 This power to the Holy Spirit will come on you. 531 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,840 You will be my witnesses. Everybody say witnesses in 532 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,720 Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the 533 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,880 earth. I want you to know having come 534 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,760 from the end of the earth like the word is true. 535 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:04,720 It went and it's now circling back and now it's all of us. 536 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,800 That's what we get to do as as missionaries. 537 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,440 Now you are missionaries. Maybe they didn't know that 538 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,520 you're missionaries. Now we're declaring you 539 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,920 missionaries that you get to be the whole church preaching the 540 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,680 whole gospel to the whole world like that's our job. 541 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,280 And so when we just got invitation to help be on mission 542 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:30,160 to the local mission, right, you're going to hear Pastor Jim 543 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,800 and Melinda Scott be here in just a couple of days. 544 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,640 You heard an invitation. Remember how we were talking 545 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,880 about Pastor Ty just asked you and then some of you didn't want 546 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,240 to look at the person next to you about, hey, you're the one 547 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,640 should be there. This is those places I'm staying 548 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:53,200 saying is he, when pastor asked you just all right, I'm going to 549 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,600 go, God, what do you have for me? 550 00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:01,360 Like when you get an invitation like that, the Lord is inviting 551 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,360 you himself. Like your question should be, 552 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,560 wow, Lord, what do you have for me? 553 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,679 But I also have that when I ask him for something and he doesn't 554 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:15,600 give it to me. I thought, hey, Lord, wouldn't 555 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,679 it be great if I had this job? I mean, I really thought that 556 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:23,600 was going to be it. I'd say, hey, could I have this? 557 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,440 And then I get the answer. Hey, thank you, Kia, for, you 558 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,040 know, your service. Yeah, your time is sunsetting. 559 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,040 And I was like, oh, wow, hey, thank you so much. 560 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:35,960 I really appreciate the time that I have. 561 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,560 I said, hey, what do you have for me? 562 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,080 And I just let it go. Could we have every 563 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,520 disappointment you have? Every single disappointment. 564 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,440 God has it wrapped. Another gift that says he's got 565 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,000 something special for you, something more. 566 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,240 I hear there are those of you here who've been praying for 567 00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:00,240 prodigals. They've been praying for people 568 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:02,160 who've been walking away for a while. 569 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,720 Hey, I hear the Lord say, can you just give them time to to 570 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,480 develop a testimony? This is their testimony time. 571 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:15,000 But you continue to pray not for faith, from faith. 572 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,880 It's just a matter of time, He says to you. 573 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:20,600 It's just a matter of time. They're coming. 574 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:25,120 Be ready when they're when you see them be running to them. 575 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,560 Embrace them. Hey, welcome them with the robe 576 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,720 and the and the Kalua pig like bring it. 577 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:35,120 All right, there's more, there's more. 578 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:41,600 You having the supernatural power and your witness. 579 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:49,000 Now witness in this passage, there are, there are a couple 580 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,200 ways to say witness. In the Greek, witness is a verb, 581 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,400 but in this one, witness is a noun. 582 00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:01,000 And I'm saying that in purpose, witness is a noun. 583 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,120 You are a witness. And what happens when you are a 584 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,320 witness, naturally you start to witness because you're a 585 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,040 witness. Kind of like what we're just 586 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,120 talking about. Jessica, she's a daughter and 587 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,960 now she's going to live like a daughter because she's a 588 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,760 daughter. And all these things start to 589 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,360 happen because she's a daughter. Are you with me? 590 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:26,720 But she doesn't have to do the things of being a daughter to 591 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:29,840 prove she's a daughter. She's already a daughter. 592 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,520 It goes the other way we're talking about. 593 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,480 That's why I'm bringing this up here with witness. 594 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:37,600 You are a witness. You don't have to witness, but 595 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,760 what witnesses do is they naturally share, they naturally 596 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,640 invite, they naturally ask questions, they actually engage. 597 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:50,160 They actually are out to to make and build and repair 598 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,680 relationships. We'll go to the next slide. 599 00:36:56,200 --> 00:37:01,360 We say this is your time. Witnesses you and me who are 600 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:11,960 followers of Jesus, our spirit empowered witnesses I, I, I 601 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,040 don't have my my wallet with me where I don't have a dollar 602 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:16,440 bill. If I should show you a dollar 603 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,320 bill, I would show you a dollar bill right now and I would say 604 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,640 anybody, anybody ever use a coupon before? 605 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:28,840 Like if I give you a coupon to to say a 50% off coupon for 606 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,760 Earpods, is that what it's called Airpods, The thing that's 607 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,960 in your ears? Would anybody use those? 608 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,160 Anybody want one of those? All right, so that's a coupon. 609 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,320 There's an expiration date on a coupon, 50% off. 610 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,360 You with me? You know, the dollar, the money 611 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,400 that you have, it's just a coupon. 612 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,720 It's just a coupon. There's an expiration date. 613 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,880 There's a time when it's not going to be worth anything in 614 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,440 the reality of things. Do you hear me? 615 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:02,200 I'm saying use the coupon. Make a friend, right? 616 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:07,440 Build up treasures in heaven. Find somebody you can bless. 617 00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,880 Come love on somebody. It's just a coupon. 618 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,080 That's your way to build up treasures in heaven. 619 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:21,440 Can you say, Amanda, that All right, we can is a Ted. 620 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:22,080 Yeah. Thanks. 621 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,000 Here's what I want us to do to take this home. 622 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:33,440 First of all, I want to say again, you're a follower of 623 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,680 Jesus. And if you're not, Pastor Ty 624 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:41,800 will invite this in just a little bit, but followers of 625 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,640 Jesus are Spirit empowered. Witness when you're Spirit 626 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:52,760 empowered, he gives you all of these crazy, crazy gifts like 627 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:58,520 the gift of knowledge that that Pastor Ty would know that 628 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,800 something is against me and my family and that he would speak 629 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,480 it. And then he says, hey, would you 630 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,520 just form a prayer team like that came from heaven. 631 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:14,400 That was not man made right? That's the reality that you and 632 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,360 I are living in right now. You have access to that reality 633 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,800 and I want us to not go back to sleep. 634 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,200 Don't, don't hit the snooze. Stay in the reality of things. 635 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,040 We don't know how much more time we have. 636 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,840 I do this on retreats when I'm doing couples retreats. 637 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:40,280 Can I just ask husbands and wives, would you do this 638 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:45,560 sometime later this week, maybe later today, husbands and wives, 639 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,240 but I'm doing this on retreat. I set it up the same way as 640 00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:53,320 like, hey, this is just practice, but can we make it 641 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,760 feel like real game time? Because when real game time 642 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:01,120 happens, you know what to do. And I just say, if you have a 643 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,440 spouse, can you like put a hand like just touch your spouse for 644 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,160 just a second or they're there, right? 645 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:10,560 Hey, so would you do this? I have them. 646 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:16,520 Imagine that they're in the hospital and I said your wife 647 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,480 has just been in. Some particular accident and 648 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,840 this is the last minute that you get with her. 649 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,840 This is the last one. She can hear you. 650 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:35,320 She can't say anything. Would you take a moment and say 651 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,040 the things that you said want to say? 652 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,320 Say all the things you want to say, Like all of it, all the 653 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,320 whatever it is, right? So I give people time to do 654 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:51,560 that. I switch it out and I have I 655 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,720 have it go the other way. Wives say, would you speak to 656 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:58,080 your husband? Like say the things like we 657 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:02,040 don't know how many breaths we have left, Like take the time 658 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,720 now with all of our loved ones, not just with our spouses. 659 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,880 So that's a challenge I have. Let's go to next steps, please. 660 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,200 Thanks. So I I challenge you, make a new 661 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,720 friend wherever you are. That's the only thing that we 662 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:24,640 can take to heaven. Like there are no U hauls 663 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,120 following your casket. You guys like you can't take 664 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,720 stuff with you. It's only friends. 665 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:37,800 Make a new friend, make an existing relationship that you 666 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,760 have better like pour into it, ask them, Hey, could we go 667 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,200 deeper? Could could we, could we for 668 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:51,920 those of us what making better sounds like is can I confess 669 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,720 something right? They don't know that this is 670 00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:58,160 going on. But hey, I just hey, I confess 671 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,560 that I spoke I'll of you and you didn't know that of me. 672 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:07,120 And I just want to apologize when we confess, when you're 673 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:13,800 reconciling relationships, Can I just tell you amazing places for 674 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:19,360 spirit to move in. You now are a witness, a spirit 675 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:24,960 empowered witness, making a way for more glory, more of his 676 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,480 Kingdom. Would you repair a broken 677 00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,880 relationship? Right. 678 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,080 Some of us have people we haven't talked about or talked 679 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,240 to in many years. And to the degree that you're 680 00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:40,200 able, it might be, hey, would you write a letter? 681 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:46,160 Would you make a call? And I believe that you can still 682 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,400 make peace even with those who have passed. 683 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:53,680 You can still apologize. You can still ask for 684 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,200 forgiveness because Jesus himself is the one that says I 685 00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,320 forgive. He can cover that. 686 00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:03,200 And you can be free of any regret or guilt or all of that. 687 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:08,760 Followers of Jesus are Spirit empowered witnesses. 688 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,400 That's you and me. Pass your time. 689 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,080 We want to thank you again for joining us for the Arise Church 690 00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,160 podcast. We hope you were encouraged by 691 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,000 what you heard today. You can find 692 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:31,760 us.online@arisechurchn-c.com and on Instagram at Arise Church NC. 693 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,160 If you need prayer or support or are interested in learning more 694 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,840 about Arise Church, we encourage you to connect with us online or 695 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:40,920 in person at our Sunday morning service. 696 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,440 Thank you and God bless.