1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,280 I'm going to get a stand. There we go. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:08,039 The last four weeks, if you've been with us, we have been 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:13,480 walking through and looking at how Jesus is at the center of 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,720 the entire Old Testament. The whole thing is a beacon 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,360 pointing us towards him. I've heard from a bunch of you 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,720 how much you have enjoyed that time and putting those pieces 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,920 together. And if you're in the boat where 8 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,600 you like, hey, I wish we could do another four weeks, I've got 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,840 a great news for you. On Monday, April 20th, we start 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:38,480 an equip class where for four weeks, Laura Tucker, who is 11 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:41,680 hosting this morning is going to be walking through Jesus in the 12 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,480 Old Testament. And so if your heart is really 13 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:48,000 left and you want to kind of get to understand this even better 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,040 and see how the Old Testament points towards Jesus in the new 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,040 want to encourage you to sign up for that equip class. 16 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,480 I have loved the last four weeks too, but I'm really excited to 17 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:03,560 get back into Luke this morning. Next 10 weeks we're going to be 18 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:10,000 in Luke Chapter 9 and and we want to see how Jesus shaped his 19 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 disciples and is shaping us for ministry. 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,080 Here's our our kind of series big idea for the the next 10 21 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,560 weeks as we track together that following Jesus is not simply 22 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,160 about believing right things about him. 23 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:28,080 It is about being shaped by him. It's not just giving 24 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,000 intellectual assent or knowing certain things about Jesus, but 25 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,240 it is actually allowing Jesus to shape our lives. 26 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,240 Throughout this section of Luke's gospel of the account of 27 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:50,160 Jesus life, we see Jesus really intentionally forming his 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,000 disciples, especially the 12 disciples who he calls out as 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,000 his apostles. We see Jesus working on them to 30 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,040 humble their hearts. We see Jesus working on them to 31 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,400 confront their fears, to to strengthen their faith, to give 32 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,760 them a bigger vision of what he has come to do and a bigger 33 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:19,040 vision of who he is. And then ultimately to call them 34 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,480 into what he has already begun doing. 35 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,480 And, and I think as we walk through this, we're going to see 36 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,080 how Jesus wants to do that with each of us. 37 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:31,320 If you're here today and you're like, I, I really want to 38 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,480 understand what does Jesus have for my life? 39 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:34,800 What's my purpose? What's my calling? 40 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:39,120 I think Jesus going to show us that if you want to know, hey, 41 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:43,680 how can Jesus shape me to be a more courageous, less fearful 42 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,240 person, We're going to see how Jesus does it. 43 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,320 If you want to say, how can Jesus help me see a bigger 44 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,320 picture of who God is and a bigger picture of what his 45 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,160 Kingdom is meant to be on this earth, we're going to see that 46 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:00,160 in Luke Chapter 9. And I want to say this, I've 47 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,680 just been so convinced of this as I've been putting this series 48 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,720 together, as I've been thinking about walking through this 49 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:09,440 section like our world desperately, desperately, 50 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,520 desperately needs followers of Jesus. 51 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,760 Don't just know some stuff about Jesus. 52 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:22,600 It needs people who know Jesus. It needs people who are actually 53 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:28,480 being shaped to look more and more like Jesus in their lives. 54 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,840 And so before we get into the, the, the sermon today, as we 55 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:34,880 kind of begin to enter into this whole series, I just want to 56 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,320 pray over our time together over the next 10 weeks, over our time 57 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:39,960 together this morning. Then we're going to read God's 58 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,680 Word together. Father, as we open your Word 59 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,200 today, we thank you that the same spirit that inspired the 60 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:54,240 words that Luke penned lives in each and every follower of you 61 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,840 who is here today. And so as you have given us 62 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,680 these words passed down and transmitted to us through the 63 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,840 Scriptures, allow your Spirit, who is the transcriber of those 64 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,960 words, to also be the interpreter of those words in 65 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,000 our heart today. Help us to see where we need to 66 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,320 take the words that we hear and apply them to the lives that we 67 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:23,840 are called to live, particularly in this area of being shaped for 68 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:27,680 mission. Father, I just desperately want 69 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:33,520 you to show each of us, myself included, how we can live more 70 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,440 in line with the mission that you have called us to how we can 71 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:42,120 be better ambassadors for you. So God would you for each one of 72 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:47,680 us, give us ears to hear today and then give us the courage and 73 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,360 the boldness and the power to put into practice what we hear 74 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,720 in Jesus name, Amen. All right, let's read this 75 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:00,960 passage from Luke Chapter 9, the 1st 6 verses together this 76 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:06,440 morning. Luke records this. 77 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:11,640 It says summoning the 12, that is the 12 apostles. 78 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:17,240 He gave them power and authority over all demons and to heal 79 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:22,000 diseases and then he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God 80 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,960 and to heal the sick. Take nothing for the road, he 81 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:31,000 told them. No staff, no traveling bag, no 82 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,680 bread, no money and don't take an extra shirt. 83 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,000 Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there. 84 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,040 If they do not welcome you when you leave that town, you shake 85 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,840 off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them. 86 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,280 And so they went out and they travelled from village to 87 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:54,720 village proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere. 88 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,960 So if we go back and we think about where we've been in Luke, 89 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:07,280 Luke calls the first disciples to begin to follow him and walk 90 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:14,160 alongside him in Luke chapter 5. And then he calls twelve of 91 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:20,200 those disciples to be his inner circle, to be those who are just 92 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:28,280 with him all the time watching, observing, healing, watching him 93 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,600 teach, watching him heal, watching him cast out demons 94 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,680 and, and, and those 12 are called the apostles. 95 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:42,160 And now in this section, everything begins to change 96 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,840 because the watchers are now called to become doers. 97 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,600 The observers are called into participation. 98 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,480 Jesus is saying in this moment, as we start now into this 99 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,880 chapter, guys, it's your turn now. 100 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,520 You've been around me, you've seen what I've been doing. 101 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:09,080 Come on and join me in it. Right in Luke 443. 102 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:14,440 If you go back and you look at that verse, Jesus said that His 103 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:19,400 mission is is to proclaim the good news about the Kingdom of 104 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,320 God. In fact, He said when 105 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,120 individuals were coming and asking him to stay where he was, 106 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:33,440 to continue teaching and healing and casting out demons, he said 107 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,360 no, it's necessary for me to proclaim the good news about the 108 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:42,680 Kingdom of God to other towns because that's the purpose I was 109 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:44,640 sent for. This is why I've come. 110 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,080 And then what's he calling these guys to do The exact same thing, 111 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,240 right? Proclaim the Kingdom of God and 112 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,080 heal the sick. The same thing that he has been 113 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,080 doing, He's now calling the disciples into. 114 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,680 This is really important because we need to understand this. 115 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:10,560 This is not a new mission. It's not the disciples mission. 116 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:16,400 It's Jesus's mission that he is now inviting the disciples to 117 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,600 enter into, and he's invited them to enter into it. 118 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,120 I want you to see this morning He also invites us to enter into 119 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,560 it. This is the mission of every 120 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,440 follower of Jesus. Jesus is calling us to 121 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:36,400 participate in his mission. Jesus mission is our mission. 122 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,520 Christianity is not a spectator sport. 123 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:49,680 It is simply impossible to follow Jesus from the stands or 124 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:55,760 the computer screen or the balcony seats or the seats on 125 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,040 the main floor. Like if that's the totality of 126 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,880 your understanding of what it means. 127 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:06,200 To follow Jesus is to show up, to listen to somebody else do 128 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,320 things for Jesus, to listen to somebody else talk about Jesus 129 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:11,200 and feel like you are following Jesus. 130 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,640 You are not a follower of Jesus. You may be a fan of Jesus, but 131 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,840 but Christianity is not a spectator sport. 132 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,680 Sometimes Christians argue about really dumb stuff. 133 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:27,440 I don't know if you noticed this now, and I will say this because 134 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,280 I don't. This is just because people 135 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,440 argue about dumb things and Christians are people. 136 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,480 So if you're here and you're not a follower of Jews, you're like, 137 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:37,960 oh, the Christians, yeah, they're always. 138 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,360 I'm just telling you, everybody argues about dumb stuff. 139 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:45,600 Christians follow into it too. And one of the things that 140 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,640 Christians argue about that's really dumb is whether 141 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,920 Christianity is at it at its core. 142 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,200 Are we supposed to be evangelizing or making 143 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:01,240 disciples? And the reality is you can't 144 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,840 separate those two things. Is like saying is breathing 145 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:10,560 about taking in oxygen or is about expelling CO2. 146 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:17,280 It's the same thing. It's one in the same you, you, 147 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,320 You have to have evangelism and discipleship because they're one 148 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:26,960 in the same. Evangelism is required to make 149 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,040 disciple. You got to invite people, tell 150 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,520 people of Jesus, invite people to follow Jesus if you're going 151 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:37,000 to have disciples and disciples evangelize, because that's what 152 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:42,320 it means to be a disciple. If you're a disciple of Jesus, 153 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,200 your mission is to proclaim the gospel or the good news, just 154 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,120 like it was Jesus's mission to go proclaim the good news. 155 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,200 That's the definition of evangelism. 156 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,920 Proclaiming good news is literally what it means. 157 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,640 The gospel is good news, you angelion. 158 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:07,160 It's the good news, and Jesus said, I came to proclaim this 159 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:12,120 good news, to herald this good news that the Kingdom of God has 160 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:16,240 come. Now the question we should ask 161 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:22,040 is why is that good news? Why is it good news that the 162 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:26,640 Kingdom of God has come and the Kingdom requires a king? 163 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,040 Can't have a Kingdom without a king, Doesn't work that way. 164 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,560 Why is it good news that the Kingdom has come? 165 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:35,480 Why is it good news that the king has come? 166 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,360 The reason that it is good news that the Kingdom has come and 167 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,080 that the Kingdom has come is because the king is the only 168 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,600 hope for this world. You know what? 169 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,280 Ultimately, there's all sorts of people that want to sell all 170 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,480 sorts of hope out there. There's people who want to sell 171 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,640 you on the hope that if we could just get new or better or 172 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,840 different leaders, everything would get different. 173 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,200 And I've lived long enough to see every leader is basically 174 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,960 the same leader. We end up going through all the 175 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,960 same stuff, but but entire realities are built around 176 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,200 getting you to convince, get worked around, getting you to 177 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,680 believe that if you could just change the guy at at the top 178 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:17,000 who's in control with a different guy at the top who's 179 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,520 in control, everything would be different. 180 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,800 People will tell you if we could just get better education, you 181 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,760 know, people would just, we just educate people. 182 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,240 If people would just have better information. 183 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:32,440 We are awash in information. We got too much information. 184 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,160 It has not solved the problems. People say, well, we mean what 185 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,680 we need is better laws, better rules. 186 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,800 We got so many rules. My wife will tell you I'm not 187 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:50,360 exactly a rule person. I'm not a bureaucracy person. 188 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,080 We got so many rules. It hasn't fixed things. 189 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,680 Some people say, well, you're better technology. 190 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,360 Well, I think we know the answer to that. 191 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:04,000 Better technology is just better technology. 192 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,120 It doesn't make things better. And often times if the people 193 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,960 who are using it aren't better, it makes things worse. 194 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,520 I even hear people what we need is a four day work week or a 195 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,760 social program or guaranteed income or what we need is more 196 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,000 empathy. No, like all those things may be 197 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,400 good things. I don't know. 198 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,000 I just know that none of them are actually going to fix what's 199 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,440 broken. There's no real hope. 200 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:31,480 If you're pinning your hope on that, you're going to end up 201 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,400 disappointed. The hope, the good news for this 202 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:39,080 world is that the King has come. That's why we celebrate Easter. 203 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,760 And that's why we celebrate every Sunday, because every 204 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:44,640 Sunday is a celebration of Easter. 205 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:54,000 That the King came, that he set in motion the hope for us, That 206 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:59,240 as Val prayed not just the hope for us as as individual, but the 207 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,880 hope for all things, That restoration and renewal not only 208 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,680 might happen, but is going to happen. 209 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,880 That everything that is wrong will be made right. 210 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:15,480 Jesus came and he died on the cross for the full penalty of 211 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:20,960 our sin and the sin of the entire world to make right all 212 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:26,840 that was set wrong by sin. And then Jesus as the King rose 213 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:31,960 again to prove that he reigns. He reigns over all things, 214 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,160 including death itself. That's why Easter is so great, 215 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,520 because Jesus rules and reigns over all. 216 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,360 So proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom is to proclaim the 217 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,520 good news that that is the King who has come, that there is a a 218 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:54,640 King who has paid the price, pay the price that sin made 219 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:59,920 necessary. He, he has come to set us free 220 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,440 from guilt and shame. He has come to set us free one 221 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:08,040 day ultimately from the entire reality of sin that corrupts and 222 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:13,920 breaks everything. And that King, Jesus, he is the 223 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,960 King who rules and reigns over all things. 224 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:27,040 Followers of Jesus are not first and foremost sent to proclaim a 225 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:33,440 moral message or a social message or a psychological 226 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:39,240 message or a political message. We are sent to proclaim a truth. 227 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:45,680 Jesus is the King who died, Jesus is the King who is buried, 228 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,680 and Jesus is the King who is risen and reigns over all 229 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,680 things. That's we come to proclaim. 230 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:59,240 And I'm just going to tell you when when Christians and the 231 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,960 church, when the mission becomes something other than that. 232 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:09,760 First and foremost, when the mission becomes political, we 233 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,800 fail in our mission. When the the mission of the 234 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:18,640 church becomes social, we fail in our mission. 235 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,800 When the mission of the church becomes about doing good, we 236 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,240 fail in our mission. When the mission of the church 237 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:33,160 becomes about anything other than proclaiming that Jesus 238 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:37,600 Christ is the King, the Lord, and our Savior, we fail in our 239 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:44,560 mission. But because Jesus Christ is the 240 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:49,240 King and the Lord and our Savior, it changes all of those 241 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:52,280 things. And if we don't recognize that 242 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,720 and allow that truth to shape us in every other way, then we'll 243 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:00,160 fail in our mission. But we can't get them backwards. 244 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,079 And far too often, Christians and churches get it all 245 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,160 backwards. It starts with proclaiming a 246 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,640 truth, and that truth changes everything else. 247 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,480 To proclaim the good news that Jesus has come. 248 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,280 He's made it possible for every single person to be part of his 249 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,000 Kingdom. That's our mission. 250 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,480 And as we're going to see from the rest of this passage, if 251 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,280 we're going to do that, it's we're going to require some 252 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,600 things. The first thing that we see is 253 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:35,440 that the mission that we've been given requires us to declare the 254 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:40,600 gospel. To declare this truth following 255 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:46,800 Jesus requires us, as I said, to move from from from observers to 256 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,400 participants. I would also say it requires us 257 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,680 to be heralds, not mimes. Here's what I mean by that. 258 00:17:55,560 --> 00:18:00,800 Look at what he says. He sent them to proclaim the 259 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:06,200 Kingdom of God. That word proclaim has meaning 260 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,840 it it to proclaim it was what a herald is think about a town. 261 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:13,360 If you've ever seen one of those funny town and I'm sorry if you 262 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:16,560 are a town crier because maybe there's somebody in here that's 263 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,480 but even people with the funny hats they go they say hear ye, 264 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,480 hear you. They stand out and they they 265 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:27,400 make an announcement. That's what it means to proclaim 266 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:32,800 is a stand in the city square and to make an announcement on 267 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:39,640 behalf of the king. Most Christians avoid 268 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,440 announcing, and they hope they can kind of mime it. 269 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,520 Mimes are confusing and weird and nobody likes them. 270 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:57,560 OK, and again, sorry if you're a mime, you can't do mime 271 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:01,880 evangelism. You can't do charades of Angel. 272 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,960 Also, nobody likes charades, so don't do it as a party game. 273 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,000 You can't do mime and charade evangelism and just hope people 274 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,400 get it. If we're going to proclaim the 275 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,720 good news about Jesus Christ, sooner or later we have to use 276 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,600 words. You have to use words. 277 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,480 If you don't use your words, I feel like I'm talking to when my 278 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,320 kids were little. If you don't use your words to 279 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,520 share Jesus with people, then we talk about all the time, hey, 280 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,880 we, we're a church and our whole mission is to make disciples of 281 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,240 Jesus who love God, love others, and serve the world. 282 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,360 You can't serve the world. Can't do that part of being a 283 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:50,080 disciple of Jesus without using words. 284 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:55,080 Can't. You can't if serving means 285 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,200 meeting needs, right? I think we'd all agree serving 286 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,080 means meeting. It means meeting the needs of 287 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,000 somebody else, every person's deepest need. 288 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:12,800 Is to know that they need Jesus. That is the deepest need that 289 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,520 every single person has. The deepest need is not 290 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:21,080 ultimately to have friends. That's important. 291 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,080 Deepest need is not even to have food and shelter. 292 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:33,320 Incredibly important. The deepest need of every 293 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:38,000 individual is to hear that King Jesus came, that he died for 294 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,480 them, He paid the penalty for their sins, and he rose again. 295 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,520 And here's why. Because you can give people 296 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:50,040 food, you can give people housing, you can give people 297 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,200 healing, you can give people community and friendship. 298 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,200 What is true of all those people, no matter how much of 299 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,400 that you give them, is they're going to die. 300 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:05,160 And if you die without knowing Jesus, you die separated from 301 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,920 God forever. That's what we call hell. 302 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:13,760 And if you don't tell somebody that you just give them 303 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,160 everything else they need, but you don't give them that, you 304 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,120 haven't given them what they need the most. 305 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,880 Ultimately, if we love people, we're going to share the truth 306 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,880 of how much we love them. If we are going to serve them to 307 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,960 the deepest need that they need to be served at, we have to use 308 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,880 words to tell them what Jesus has come to do for them and to 309 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:42,560 invite them to follow him. The mission that Jesus gives us 310 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:47,040 requires word, words, but the mission we've been given also 311 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,080 requires us to display the gospel. 312 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,280 See it says then he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God in 313 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:02,360 the next part matters and to heal the sick again. 314 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,800 I like, I like people say you do not like morning. 315 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,720 No, I like mornings like this where everybody gets 316 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,840 uncomfortable that I think we should. 317 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:14,960 We should always feel a little bit of tension. 318 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,280 We should always feel a little uncomfortable in church. 319 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,320 This matters not only that you say the gospel that you display 320 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:29,400 the gospel that matters. Now when it says healing the 321 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,000 sick, I, I again, here's where I'm going to get everybody a 322 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:37,640 little annoyed here. This is not because healing is 323 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,400 normative at all times and places for all people all the 324 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,800 time, and that if you aren't doing, if healing isn't 325 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,880 happening, that something is broken. 326 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,480 OK, Does God heal the sick today? 327 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,320 100% Some of you can give testimony that right now and can 328 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,920 have you stand up and you could share how God answered prayer 329 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,200 through somebody else and you've been healed. 330 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,240 Might God call you to pray over someone for something? 331 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,480 100% I think honestly, if you're following Jesus, sooner or later 332 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,240 he's going to call you to pray over in some really 333 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:14,560 uncomfortable ways. People healing the sick, though, 334 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,040 What, what is this for? Why did he send them out to heal 335 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,480 the sick? Because healing the sick was 336 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:23,000 meant to be demonstrative of the fact that the Kingdom of God, 337 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,440 the, the restoration and renewal of all things is breaking in 338 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:32,280 the, the, the Jesus came to see it's, I was out in my garden 339 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,240 yesterday and I was taken and I know I'm not supposed to take 340 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,200 all the stuff out yet because the bugs and stuff are in there 341 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,560 and I, but I was nice and I was doing it. 342 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,720 I cleared it out and I started to see the little shoots coming 343 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:49,120 up and I was so happy to see green breaking through that when 344 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:52,280 when Jesus says the Kingdom has come, it's the shoots breaking 345 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,760 through. And so when someone is healed, 346 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,160 it's like, hey, that's the shoots breaking through. 347 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,600 This is what the Kingdom is going to look like in its 348 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,320 fullness. Everything's going to be healed. 349 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,160 Everything's going to be restored. 350 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:08,600 And so Jesus sends them out with power and a proclamation to say 351 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,200 I'm doing something. The kingdom's breaking through. 352 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,960 This is divine power to authenticate the message. 353 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,560 But even in the New Testament, everybody doesn't get healed. 354 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:26,120 Paul wouldn't have left his friend Trophimus in Second 355 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:30,320 Timothy 420 sick if everybody just got healed when they were 356 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,600 prayed over. He he wouldn't have told Timothy 357 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:37,760 to go take some wine for his stomach. 358 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,960 Now I'm now I'm making the Baptist mad, too. 359 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,520 You wouldn't have told Timothy to go take his some wine for his 360 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,880 stomach's sake, which was a common remedy at the time 361 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:50,240 because people got sick from the water, if he could have just 362 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,000 said, hey, if you just pray, you'll be healed. 363 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,280 So, Timothy, go find a healer, OK? 364 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,200 It's not that healing is meant to be normative for all places 365 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,640 at all times for all people. You just pray and people get 366 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,880 healed all the time. But should it be true that we 367 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,040 pray sometimes people get healed? 368 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,800 Yes, we should not shy away from the miraculous. 369 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,640 We should not shy away from the fact that the same power that 370 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:21,600 was at work through the apostles can be at work through US and is 371 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,880 at work in the world today. And we should ask God to do the 372 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,640 miraculous and then let God be God and decide what he's going 373 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:34,040 to do because he does the thing to do a lesser miracle. 374 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:40,400 And the healing is a lesser miracle to prove that God can do 375 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,760 the greater miracle, which is raising people from death to 376 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,800 life. That's what it is. 377 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,880 Every time someone gets saved, that's the greatest miracle. 378 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,400 It's the greater miracle. Healing or casting out demons 379 00:25:53,400 --> 00:26:00,240 was always meant to be in service of the proclamation of 380 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,040 the truth of the gospel that the Kingdom has come and the king 381 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,560 has come. It's an authentication. 382 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:11,600 The gospel isn't just that Jesus came to save sinners from their 383 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:16,240 sin, but that he came to renew and to restore a world that has 384 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,920 been ravaged by sin. He came to undo what sin has 385 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,520 done. He came to reverse the curse of 386 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,760 Genesis 3. That should always be a part of 387 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,920 the gospel. That should be a part of how we 388 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,640 bring the gospel to people. Good news is always meant to be 389 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,040 accompanied by good deeds. That's why we are doing the big 390 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,200 serve. It's at the heart of the big 391 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,000 serve. We want everyone who's a part of 392 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,960 Forward to be in because we want the world around us to see that 393 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,000 God has come to bring something new and something better. 394 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,640 We want people to see that living under a different king 395 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,440 looks different and that that different king wants to bring a 396 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,720 different type of Kingdom into the world. 397 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,320 We are sent out. I mean, this is good news. 398 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,800 We're sent out to be beacons of hope in a world that is 399 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,400 hopeless. That's at the heart of what 400 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:17,480 evangelism is all about. When Peter says be ready to give 401 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:22,040 an answer for anyone who asks you, he says it is for the hope 402 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,840 that is within you that people would be asking you, do we go 403 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,640 out and live like people of hope? 404 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,400 Do we go out and live like we live under a different king in a 405 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,800 different Kingdom? Do we do things differently in 406 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,640 the world? When you do that, people notice 407 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,400 and they will ask and then you proclaim the truth of the King 408 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:45,120 to them. We aren't just going out when we 409 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:49,720 do the big serve to do random acts of kindness. 410 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:57,480 We are going out to point people to the God who in His ultimate 411 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:02,840 kindness sent us Jesus Christ. OK, I need us to understand this 412 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,240 is all. There's not one or the other. 413 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,280 It's both. And Matthew 516 says this. 414 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,680 This is Jesus words. Let your light shine before 415 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,160 others so that they may see your good works. 416 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:23,280 And some of us want to cut it there and give glory to your 417 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,160 Father in heaven. But they can't give glory to 418 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,520 your Father in heaven unless they know that you've gone out 419 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,920 to do your good works because of your Father in heaven. 420 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:37,040 OK, see most of us tend to be words people or deeds people. 421 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,280 We need to not be either or people. 422 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:45,480 We need to be both and people. We need people who will share 423 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:53,600 Jesus message Jesus way in Jesus character with Jesus power, 424 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,680 seeing Jesus things done in this world. 425 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:02,240 And we can't do that on our own. That's why verse one matters so 426 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,720 much. He gave them power and authority 427 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,360 over all the demons to heal diseases, and then he sent them 428 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,480 out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 429 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,520 The mission that we have been given requires God's power and 430 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,600 provision. Some of you, when this type of 431 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,200 message comes, we talk about evangelism. 432 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,720 You just want to get in a corner and curl up and start rocking 433 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,800 yourself because you get so anxious on the inside. 434 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,200 You're like, I can't do this. I don't know the words to say. 435 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,800 This is going to be really awkward. 436 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:45,000 Your voice changes like that. The good news is this, it 437 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000 doesn't rest on your power and ability. 438 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,960 It doesn't rest on your eloquence. 439 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,960 The success of the mission, if it had rested on those 12 man, 440 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,720 as we read through the Gospels, they're dummies. 441 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,240 They get stuff wrong all the time. 442 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,040 They, they, they're with Jesus. They still can't see Jesus. 443 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,560 If you're a dummy and you get stuff wrong all the time, good 444 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,800 news, it doesn't rest on you rest on Jesus. 445 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,560 They would have been cooked, and we would be cooked if we go out 446 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,600 there and try and do this on our own. 447 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,600 But Jesus gives his power and authority. 448 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:30,520 When we go out in obedience, in submission to Jesus, he gives us 449 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,760 everything that we need. That's the good news. 450 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,000 Now, does that mean that training is useless? 451 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,800 No, of course not. The disciples have been watching 452 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,560 him for almost three years at this point. 453 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,000 He's giving them training and He's sending them out, and He's 454 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,080 sending them out, as we're going to see in a little bit, knowing 455 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,320 that they're still going to mess up sometimes they're going to 456 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,160 fail at the thing that He sends them out to do. 457 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,840 We have an equipped class coming up, May 12th, 3 weeks on how to 458 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,800 be a good neighbor because we want to equip you to be able to 459 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,880 do this type of thing and give you some tools. 460 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:09,280 If Jesus tells you to do something, though, He's going to 461 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,440 give you what you need to do it. That's the point here. 462 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:18,160 So if Jesus says I want you to go tell your friend about me, 463 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,560 you don't get to say but Jesus, I didn't take the equip class 464 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,760 they offered back in the fall. I think you should ask somebody 465 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,840 else now. If Jesus asks you to do 466 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,640 something, your response is yes, Jesus, I know you're going to 467 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,800 give me what I need. That's why Jesus says take 468 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,960 nothing for the road. No staff, no traveling bread 469 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,520 bag, no bread, no money and don't take an extra shirt. 470 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,400 Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there. 471 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,240 Because they wanted, he wanted them to understand you're 472 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,960 ultimately dependent on me in this. 473 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,080 You can go out and do whatever you want to do and make all your 474 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,520 plans and preparations to have all the training in the world. 475 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,240 Nothing is going to work if it doesn't come through my power 476 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:05,560 and my provision. The call here is to submission. 477 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,840 It's to trust. It's to surrender. 478 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,880 God gives you everything that you need. 479 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,560 He's Jesus saying you don't need provisions. 480 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,800 All you need is a yes, it's all you need. 481 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,240 We've been given a mission by Jesus and Jesus gives us 482 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,480 everything that we need. It's the same mission that he 483 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,600 modeled to proclaim the good news of the King and the Kingdom 484 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,440 in a word and in deed. And he'll give you everything 485 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,320 that you need to accomplish it. And here's the part you're 486 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:46,400 really going to not like. But the mission that we've been 487 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:52,400 given requires facing rejection. So if they do not welcome you, 488 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:57,640 which means when they do not welcome you, when you leave that 489 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,160 town, you shake off your dust from your feet as a testimony 490 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,360 against them. The good news is great news. 491 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,080 It's the best news. It's also hard news. 492 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:15,000 See, to say Jesus is king is also to tell somebody else and 493 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:22,000 you are not to say Jesus came to save you is also to to say to 494 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,000 someone you're lost and you need saving. 495 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,800 Lots of people want to hear, I found, about how Jesus can take 496 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,640 the life that they currently have and make it better. 497 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,120 A lot less people want to hear about the fact that without 498 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:45,360 Jesus, there is no life. Jesus is telling his disciples 499 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:49,320 that there are people who are going to reject the message that 500 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:57,520 they bring. But don't let that fact stop you 501 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:03,160 from sharing the gospel. And when it happens, don't keep 502 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,920 it. Don't allow it to keep you from 503 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,920 going and sharing it with somebody else. 504 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,840 You move forward, you keep on going knowing that there will be 505 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:15,120 times where they reject you, where they don't want to hear 506 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,520 it. And it may be a time in their 507 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:20,800 life, maybe a season in their life, maybe the totality of 508 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,360 somebody's life. That's not for us to decide. 509 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,920 All we can do is offer Jesus to people and then leave that 510 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:34,239 between God and them. Be ready for it, because if 511 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,040 you're not ready for it, it's going to catch you off guard and 512 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,400 it's going to devastate you. After these instructions from 513 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,199 Jesus, I think it's really important to see how the 514 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:49,159 disciples respond in verse 6. So, so they went out and 515 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:51,639 travelled from village to village proclaiming the good 516 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:53,880 news and healing everyone. And we can miss something 517 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:58,360 important if we don't stop here, because the mission that we've 518 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,720 been given, this tells me, requires action, not just 519 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:07,400 intention. To be, as I said, a disciple, 520 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,600 Jesus is to be shaped increasingly more and more in 521 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:16,000 every area of our life. Like Jesus, every disciple is 522 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:22,040 called to live on mission. For Jesus everyone to do that, 523 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,600 it's not enough to have good intentions. 524 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:36,000 It actually requires action. You do not grow by intending to 525 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,680 be obedient. You grow by being obedient. 526 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,200 If if you've been following Jesus for any length of time, 527 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:50,040 the fact that you are called to share the good news of Jesus 528 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,240 with others, I would hope, especially if you've been in 529 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:55,760 this church for it's that this is not new information that you 530 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,840 have received today. If it is, my apologies, we have 531 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:07,720 failed you. But I know something else by the 532 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:11,600 admission of the people in this room, most of you aren't doing 533 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,720 it. I know that because we take a 534 00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:16,120 spiritual health survey every fall. 535 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:24,880 Here's what the Spiritual Health survey tells me. 25% of 536 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,480 Christians regularly share their faith with people who don't know 537 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,360 Jesus. I also know that on surveys 538 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,120 there's something called the Halo effect that numbers 539 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:41,920 inflated. 48% are actively cultivating relationships with 540 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,080 people who don't know Jesus. Like you're actually looking for 541 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,400 people who don't know Jesus and just having them in your life. 542 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:53,800 55% pray for ways to show and speak God's love to non 543 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,600 believers. By the way, that's just total 544 00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:00,000 even lack of intention can't even be bothered to have an 545 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:05,320 intention to pray and think I hope somebody wants to hear 546 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:10,120 about Jesus and that you would use me God and and and again I 547 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,800 need a Ruby really clear. I am saying this out of love for 548 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,320 you. This is I don't, I don't want to 549 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:21,920 heap things on you as a church, but I do want you to fully 550 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:26,000 experience all of what Jesus wants you to experience. 551 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,800 You know, I meet so many Christians who feel like 552 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,840 rudderless and lost no purpose in their life because they're 553 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:36,880 not doing anything that has any eternal purpose or value. 554 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,160 If you're not sharing your faith with other people, you're really 555 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,040 not doing anything that has real eternal meaning or value. 556 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,400 You just kind of spinning your wheels and wasting your time on 557 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:53,280 earth. And I say this out of love for a 558 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,840 world that's all around us, that's going to hell without 559 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,800 Jesus. And I wonder, do any of us care? 560 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:04,160 Do we even believe that? Because we don't act like we 561 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:09,480 believe it. If you're a follower of Jesus, 562 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:16,560 then follow him. Don't just intend, act. 563 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:23,200 This is a call to action. If you aren't at the very least 564 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,760 praying for people who are far from Jesus who need to 565 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,680 experience and hear about his love for him. 566 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,960 Let's at least get that number to 100% of followers of Jesus. 567 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:37,280 Then we would all commit ourselves to regularly be 568 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,800 praying for people who are far from Jesus to know Jesus and 569 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,960 that he would use us to be a part of that mission. 570 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:48,720 I think that's an easy we should be able to get to 100% next fall 571 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:53,240 on that. If you're praying, My guess is 572 00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:57,480 God's also been prompting a little bit in your life and it 573 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,720 might be time to stop taking those prompts as suggestions and 574 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:05,400 start taking them as commands. If you've what we've been 575 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,160 talking, God's been laying people on your heart. 576 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,640 He's been like, hey, I've been this is the Holy Spirit doing 577 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,920 this. I've been telling you, you know, 578 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,000 I've I've been telling see, he's telling you what I've been 579 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,080 telling you because he's speaking my words to you. 580 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,000 Talk to that person. Pray that God would give you a 581 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,440 time to sit down and just say, hey, I'd like to tell you about 582 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,080 Jesus. He's made a world of difference 583 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,480 in my life. All that stuff that you've been 584 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,720 noticed about my life, that's because of what Jesus has been 585 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:30,600 doing. That's because of the Holy 586 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,640 Spirit are working. It's not because of me. 587 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,920 And also want to say this, some of you are here today and I know 588 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,720 that you don't know Jesus. And I would be remiss if I 589 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:49,240 didn't give you the opportunity right now to receive the King 590 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:51,880 who has come and to enter into his Kingdom. 591 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,800 Jesus is the king. You're not the king. 592 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,400 I'm sorry to tell you. You're not the queen. 593 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,240 You are lost. But he came to save you. 594 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,600 He came to fix those things, all those things in your life right 595 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,280 now. You know there's so much broken 596 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:08,960 in your life and you've been working away. 597 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,600 Reading the self help books, doing the work, you're trying to 598 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:14,800 get it right. You've been doing all the 599 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,720 religious stuff. You can't get it right. 600 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,280 You can't fix yourself. What's broken in you could only 601 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,520 be fixed by what Jesus did on the cross, and he came to fix 602 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,440 it. He died on the cross for your 603 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:33,480 sin, and he rose again to prove that he's the King over death 604 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,880 and everything else and that your sins have been forgiven. 605 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,880 And all you have to do is to call out to him as your Savior 606 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,800 and King and invite him in and say, Jesus, I choose to follow 607 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,520 you. I want to walk in your way now. 608 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,840 I want you to be Lord over my life. 609 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,360 You came to save me. I'm yours. 610 00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:57,520 If you do that, Jesus enters in right now and he makes peace 611 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,320 between you and God and the Kingdom begins to break into 612 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:06,560 your life. He saves you from that eternal 613 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,560 death and he and he invites you into eternal glory and eternal 614 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:16,400 life with him through Christ. I said earlier, following Jesus 615 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,920 is not a spectator sport. There are way too many 616 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,760 Christians who think they are following Jesus when they're 617 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,680 really just acting like fans of Jesus. 618 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,920 They're sitting in the stands, they're sitting in the seats. 619 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:37,680 They like him, agree with him half the time they'll sing songs 620 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,680 about him. They're not actually following 621 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,080 him. The call of Jesus to anyone who 622 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:49,600 would claim to be his follower is that we would be shaped for 623 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:55,400 his mission to proclaim in a word and in deed that the 624 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,800 Kingdom and the king have come and they've come for you. 625 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,920 So I'm going to invite the band to come on out. 626 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,160 We're going to finish with a song that is familiar. 627 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:13,000 If you've been around forward for a while and as we sing these 628 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,840 words, and they might be again, really familiar words to you 629 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:21,040 today, would you allow these words to be a prayer? 630 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:28,280 Would you allow these words to not just be an intention, but 631 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:32,160 these words this week would be your commitment as to how you 632 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:36,440 are going to be shaped by Jesus? Live for him and follow Him. 633 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:41,680 Church, would you stand?