1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,560 Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,600 Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,039 I hope the following message challenges, encourages, and 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,160 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,640 Hey, I'm not Pastor Dave, I'm Pastor Adam, I'm your executive 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:16,840 pastor. So glad to be here today to be 7 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,760 able to minister. The Lord's put a specific word 8 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,720 on my heart for the church in this season, you know, praying 9 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,160 and and thinking about where we're at in our season as a 10 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,240 church. And you know, given that Pastor 11 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,680 Dave even ministered, I believe it was last week on times and 12 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,480 seasons. There's just a specific word 13 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,000 that God wanted to bring out today. 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,520 He's been preparing me for about a month and Pastor knew it was 15 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,600 coming. I knew it was coming and here we 16 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:44,760 go. Are you all ready? 17 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,160 I love to open the word, love to get in, let God do what he wants 18 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:50,680 to do. So we're going to do that this 19 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,080 morning. Let me pray. 20 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,400 Heavenly Father, I just thank you that you are faithful and 21 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:01,200 you're good. You're having a good day, Lord. 22 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,640 You're having a good day, Lord. Your word says that to those who 23 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,640 believe out of their bellies will flow rivers of living 24 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,240 water. And so right now I release your 25 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:20,200 Kingdom in this place. And to everyone who hears this 26 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,280 message, I release your Kingdom in Jesus name. 27 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:26,480 Have your way. Amen. 28 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,720 This morning, I want to minister to you a message that I call 29 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:35,040 called to ministry. And as I get started this 30 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,120 morning, I'm reminded of Moses in the Old Testament. 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:44,160 And Moses is a guy who had a, you know, a divine heritage, you 32 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,520 know, from God and, and at one point starts to step into that 33 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,800 and set people free. And then, and then he gets 34 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,400 afraid and he runs out into the desert and, and then he gets 35 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,560 married and he, he, he finds him himself out with the sheep in 36 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,000 the wilderness. And one day he's just doing the 37 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,280 do. He's doing what he did every 38 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,080 day. And all of a sudden he looks up 39 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,919 and he sees this Bush that's on fire. 40 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:16,800 And he, he decides that, you know, like any of us, what, what 41 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,280 is that? So he decides to draw near to 42 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:25,400 the fire, and as he draws near to the fire, the Lord speaks to 43 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:31,120 him out of the fire. In my heart for today's message 44 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:37,080 is that you would at this moment just decide to draw near to the 45 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:43,600 fire of God, that He could speak to you out of the fire. 46 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,000 You know, one day there's another story in the Old 47 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,880 Testament about Elijah. He was a prophet of God, a man 48 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,240 of God. And and there was another guy 49 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,920 named Elisha and Elisha's out in his field. 50 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:02,880 One day he's out there and he's got oxen and he's got a plow and 51 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,840 he's plowing along. He's doing his everyday calling 52 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,520 what he's called to do. And all of a sudden, what 53 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,280 appears to be in the Scriptures feeling out of nowhere, Elisha, 54 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,800 this prophet of God, this man of God, walks on to his land, walks 55 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:21,480 over him, takes the mantle which was like a cloak, takes that off 56 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:27,000 of himself and puts it on Elisha and then walks away. 57 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:32,800 And in that context, and in that day, that was a very special 58 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,000 thing known to the Hebrew people, known to that people 59 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,280 that I am being called to follow. 60 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,080 And he runs to Elijah and he says, Elijah, Elijah, let me go 61 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,720 back and tell my parents. Let me, let me tell my parents 62 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,880 what's happened and I will come and follow you. 63 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,920 And Elijah knowing the cost of what he just asked of this. 64 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,520 Man. Says go and do it. 65 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,440 For what have I done to you? What have I done to you? 66 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,760 It says. And so he goes, and he he takes 67 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:16,720 his plow and he breaks up his plow, slaughters the oxen, 68 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,519 lights the plow on fire, he burns the plow, and he 69 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:25,680 sacrifices the oxen. And his family celebrates 70 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:32,680 together this moment and this momentous, awesome, holy 71 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:39,200 occasion of him accepting the call to follow into ministry. 72 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,320 Today I'm going to open up the Scriptures and we're going to 73 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:52,400 enter into Ephesians chapter 4. Because perhaps God in his 74 00:04:52,400 --> 00:05:00,800 divine nature, just like Elijah just came across Elisha on that 75 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:07,960 day, just like Jesus showed up in a fire in a Bush when Moses 76 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:15,720 was least expecting it, maybe God brought you here today and 77 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:21,400 under the sound of my voice to light a fire for your own 78 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:31,960 ministry call from God. Ephesians chapter 4 it got quiet 79 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:39,720 in here verse one it says this therefore IA prisoner for the 80 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,920 Lord beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling for you 81 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,560 have been called by God. Paul is writing to the church at 82 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,040 the the town of Ephesus and, you know, just like he could be 83 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,560 writing to us today. And he's saying to all the 84 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:01,000 believers that are there, those who have already believed on the 85 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,480 Lord Jesus Christ that that he came, he died for their sins. 86 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,520 And they've placed their faith in him and they're expecting 87 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:13,080 Jesus to come back one day to to judge the living and the dead. 88 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,920 They know that he's alive, he's in heaven and he's coming back. 89 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,880 And he's writing to this church, this group of people that meet 90 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,760 regularly together for worship and learning and mission. 91 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,960 He's writing to them and he's saying to. 92 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:32,320 To all the believers. Lead a life worthy of your 93 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,840 calling, for you have been called by God. 94 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,720 My first point for today is this. 95 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,160 Believer. You have been called to ministry 96 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:51,400 by God. Every believer in Jesus Christ 97 00:06:51,760 --> 00:07:00,200 has a calling from God, a divine, unique, special purpose 98 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,400 for existing. Fact. 99 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,440 Every person ever created. God has known them. 100 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,360 I always say there's no accidental children. 101 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,680 There are accidental parents. Maybe some of you have been. 102 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,520 That. There's no accidental children, 103 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:18,320 though God knows them all by name. 104 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,720 He sets them in families, the Scripture tells us, and He's 105 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:29,000 given each one of you a unique and special calling, a ministry. 106 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,600 I'm going to read down in verse 11 and we'll read farther. 107 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,560 Now. These are the gifts Christ gave 108 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,960 to the church, the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and 109 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,600 the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip 110 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,120 God's people. How many of you would say I'm 111 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:49,400 God's people? That's me. 112 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,560 I'm God's people. Good to meet you. 113 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:57,120 Awesome. To equip God's people to do his 114 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,320 work and to build up the church, the body of Christ. 115 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,680 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith 116 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,080 and the knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature in the 117 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:12,320 Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. 118 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:18,880 What he's saying here is that every believer in Jesus, every 119 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,280 person has a unique purpose for existence. 120 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:26,600 So find and fulfill your ministry. 121 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,400 Find and fulfill your calling from God. 122 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,960 Back up to verse one. Lead a life worthy of your 123 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,600 calling. Your calling, your calling, 124 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,400 don't you think? How many of you guys work at a 125 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,000 job where every year you have something called an annual 126 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,960 performance review? Anybody. 127 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,440 Pretty common in a lot of businesses. 128 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,320 You know, you go in at the end of the year and the boss says, 129 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,800 well, you were supposed to do this, you're supposed to do 130 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,760 this. And on a scale of zero to 10, 131 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,360 you know, you knocked it out of the park. 132 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,000 I'm sure you all get that all the time. 133 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,800 You're you were an 11 out of 10. And so we're going to give you a 134 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,480 bonus this year, right? It's a performance review 135 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,200 because you did your job. Wouldn't it be? 136 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,760 Odd. If you, if you were, let's say 137 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,720 that your job is a barista, OK, And your, your job is to make 138 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,160 espresso drinks. And you, you know, that's what 139 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,000 you're hired to do. And you've worked making 140 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,560 espresso drinks for six months. And then one day you decide, you 141 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:35,600 know what? My friend makes pizzas at their 142 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:41,320 job and I want to make pizzas. And so you go into the coffee 143 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,520 shop where you work and you decide to pick up the stuff, the 144 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:47,800 all the all the different things for pizzas. 145 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,120 You pick up flour and yeast and all all the fixes for pizzas. 146 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,840 And you go in there to the coffee shop and you're making 147 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:59,080 pizzas. Your boss walks in. 148 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,600 How do you think your boss would react? 149 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:08,720 What are you doing? You're not called to work here 150 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,040 to make pizzas, you're called to. 151 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:17,200 Work here to make espresso. Drinks but my friend makes 152 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,000 pizzas and I want to be like. My friend I haven't hired. 153 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,560 You to be like your friend I've hired you to be. 154 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:32,320 You make espresso drinks. Jesus is saying lead a life 155 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:37,920 worthy of your calling. Don't look around the body of 156 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,000 Christ and all the other Saints and say well. 157 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,520 I wish. That I could do that or you 158 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,840 know, because they pray for people like that, I'm going to 159 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,960 pray for people like that or because they do that, I'm going 160 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,240 to do that. No, no, no, you have a unique 161 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,040 calling from God. Lead a life worthy of your 162 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:04,560 calling when you get to your final review in heaven and you 163 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:08,280 sit with the Lord. You want to hear well. 164 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,960 Done good. Well done. 165 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,400 Right, my servant. Well done. 166 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:19,200 You don't want to hear you made pizzas for 20 years. 167 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,920 You struggled to make pizzas for 20 years. 168 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,600 But I called you to be a barista. 169 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,040 Romans chapter 12 gives us some different gifts that God gives 170 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,080 to different people in the church. 171 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,360 He gives the gifts of prophecy to certain people and not 172 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,920 others. He gives the gift of serving to 173 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,880 other to people. He gives a gift of leadership to 174 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:50,760 certain people. He. 175 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,600 He. Wires all of us different and 176 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,000 when we get. To heaven. 177 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,240 God's not going to say why couldn't you be more like so and 178 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,200 so? No. 179 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:04,880 He's going to. He's going to look. 180 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,400 At you and say. I gave you these gifts. 181 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:12,720 This was your calling. How'd you do being you? 182 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:19,560 We need to rejoice and being who God has called us to be. 183 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,720 Every believer has a ministry from God. 184 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:29,240 Find and fulfill yours. Talking to you about Call the 185 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:34,680 ministry. Point #2 Every. 186 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:38,640 Believer is called to be a disciple. 187 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:44,200 Matthew chapter 28 says to go and make disciples of all 188 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:49,320 nations, teaching them, teaching them well. 189 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,400 If the original. Apostles went and made disciples 190 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:54,880 down through the ranks of the. Generations. 191 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:56,680 We are those. Disciples. 192 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:01,360 And what are we called to do? Become disciples and make 193 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,320 disciples. Well, what is a disciple if I'm 194 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:05,840 called? To be a disciple. 195 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,880 What is a disciple? A disciple is a learner. 196 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:15,360 The Lord, literally. Said he literally said go and 197 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,880 make learners. Of all nations teaching them to. 198 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:20,840 Observe. And to do all that I've 199 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,280 commanded you to do, you're called to ministry. 200 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:28,280 You're called to a specific. Ministry from God and you are 201 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:33,240 called to be a learner in first. Timothy. 202 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:34,920 Timothy. Right. 203 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,960 Or Paul writes. To Timothy, he says to. 204 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:42,960 Go after training in godliness training in. 205 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:44,920 Righteousness. We. 206 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,360 As the people of God and living in our current culture, we have 207 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:52,280 a training culture. We have a training culture. 208 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:57,480 I mean, people spend a lot of time training their bodies. 209 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,120 They trained their bodies. You know, when they're, when 210 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:03,840 they're in their teens, they're training their bodies. 211 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:05,680 They need to get muscles for the first time. 212 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:08,280 And then when they're in their 20s, you know, they're like. 213 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,840 I have to look. Good. 214 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,200 And I have to have the right picture. 215 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,720 On social media so that. Hopefully I can find that 216 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,640 special someone even though I don't want them to be attracted 217 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,360 to my body. I'm going to. 218 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:25,960 Make my body the focus. Word. 219 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,240 In your 30s, maybe you can marry and you, you have some Ninos and 220 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,360 Ninas running around and, and these kids and you're like, I 221 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,440 don't have time to work out as much as I did. 222 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,560 And in your 40s, you're like starting to feel things in your 223 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,480 body a little bit. Different and so. 224 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,640 You're like, I remember what it was like when I was 20. 225 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,240 I could run miles and I could lift this. 226 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:54,560 And so you go try it and God reminds you that your body is 40 227 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,360 and you start to get little aches and little pains. 228 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,560 And at 50 you rebel. You're like, oh, I rebel against 229 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,600 it all. I will train my body and I will, 230 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,880 I will train my body to eat right. 231 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,320 And I will eat the healthy, the most natural, the best. 232 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:16,160 Or I will do the keto diets, or I will do the vegan diets, or I 233 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,440 will do the no diet, fasting and prayer and fasting and prayer. 234 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,760 And there's something that will work for me. 235 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,640 And we spend this environment training and training and we get 236 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:29,600 60s. Well, not me yet, but you get 237 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:34,720 60s and 70s and you're like, you're if if you're on Facebook, 238 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,080 you're like, you see this ad come to you. 239 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:42,360 And it's for the. Chair workout Anybody see the 240 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,600 chair workout? Yes, definitely. 241 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:46,720 And they saw that they saw the person. 242 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:47,640 You don't. You don't have. 243 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,840 To go to the gym. You don't have to run for miles, 244 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:52,640 you know, you don't have to eat all this stuff. 245 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,000 All you have to do is get a chair and you just get on the 246 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,600 chair and you just do these things and you'll look like this 247 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,080 and they show you this. Picture. 248 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,400 Of a old man face and a young man body. 249 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,160 It's like connected with AI. Anybody ever seen that? 250 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,680 And you're like, believe me, all you have to do is use this chair 251 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:13,560 and you'll become all brand new. And we spend millions of dollars 252 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,080 as people training our bodies. We do. 253 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:23,200 We're a training generation and then we, we right now our whole 254 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,680 culture is a therapeutic generation. 255 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:26,800 Culture we. We are. 256 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,320 Training. We're spending money on therapy 257 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,880 like no generation of the past. We're training our souls, and 258 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,440 not all of that's bad mind will and emotions and understanding 259 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,200 how that integrates and all that stuff. 260 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,360 But what I'm saying is we're a training generation. 261 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:41,960 We're giving ourselves the training. 262 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:46,520 But Paul writes to Timothy and he says train yourself in 263 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:52,920 godliness. So we invest in our workout, we 264 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:54,800 invest in time, we invest in our diet. 265 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,800 We invest in in chickens. That. 266 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,600 Roam around instead of chickens. That were in a a shed and you 267 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,520 know their eggs are different and you'll be investing all this 268 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:09,560 kind of stuff we'll pay I mean people pay 78910 eleven $12.00 269 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,079 per dollar per egg. You know we invest. 270 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:16,359 In these things, but how much do we invest in our training and 271 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,359 godliness? So you're called to. 272 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,960 Ministry, you have a unique calling from God. 273 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,520 He's got a wiring for you. That will light you up. 274 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,920 And bring you fulfilment like because that's. 275 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:33,120 What you were created for. And we'll train our bodies, and 276 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:38,080 we'll train our souls. But we also need to train our 277 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:43,600 spirits. So there's this calling to 278 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:50,960 ministry that all people have. All people are called to 279 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:56,480 ministry. Now when we come to church, we 280 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,440 come together as His Saints and we minister to one another out 281 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,960 of the grace of God. That's in that we have in our 282 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:08,360 hearts and our lives. Ministry is ministry for most 283 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:10,920 people. You, you, you come into the 284 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,760 church, you minister to one another as one big divine, 285 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:19,880 godly, multi generational, multi ethnic family and it's the most 286 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:24,320 beautiful thing. We come together and. 287 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,160 And we don't say yeah. That's not that's not my. 288 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,200 Gift to change a diaper or that's not my gift to smile or 289 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,880 that's not my gift to to work with. 290 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,720 Teenagers or kids or. That's not my gift to stand 291 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:39,800 behind a camera. Why? 292 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,880 Because everybody in the family does the dishes. 293 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:46,960 Everybody in the family gets up and helps. 294 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,120 The only people who don't do the dishes are children that are too 295 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:56,240 small to do the dishes. Guess don't do the dishes. 296 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:01,040 And that weird uncle that never grew up, he doesn't do the 297 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,480 dishes and everybody knows he's everybody knows something's off 298 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,000 with that uncle. No, we're a. 299 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:10,840 We're a. Family and we minister to one 300 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,360 another with our grace gifts, OK? 301 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,640 But the majority of your. Ministry. 302 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:24,400 The majority of your calling is actually worked out outside the 303 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,880 walls of the church. Building you come in here. 304 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:34,120 To develop in your ministry, you serve within the. 305 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:37,040 Church, you rub shoulders. With the people in the church, 306 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,320 those that make you mad and those that don't so that you. 307 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,400 Grow to become. Mature like Christ so that you 308 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,120 can go out into your true mission field, so that you can 309 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:53,280 lead your family, lead, lead your marriage, lead your 310 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:56,800 children. Show up like Christ in the 311 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:03,640 workplace, affect culture for good, Reflect his glory in the 312 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,640 earth. That's your ministry. 313 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:12,800 That's your ministry. Every believer has a ministry. 314 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,320 Every believer is called to ministry. 315 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:17,960 Every believer is called to learn. 316 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:24,360 But there are some. The Bible says there are some. 317 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:29,320 It says Ephesians 411. Now these are the gifts Christ 318 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,240 gave to the church, the apostles, the prophets, the 319 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,760 evangelists, and the pastors and the teachers. 320 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,560 The new King James Version of the Scriptures and possibly the 321 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:42,240 English standard version of the Scripture say some. 322 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:47,920 There are some given. There are some given as gifts, 323 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:53,880 apostles, prophets, evangelist, pastors and teachers to the 324 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,800 church. So everyone in the church has a 325 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,280 ministry. And yet from the church there 326 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:06,920 are those who are called out among the church with a unique 327 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,840 calling back to the church itself. 328 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,400 And what do they do? The Bible says here their 329 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,920 responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and to 330 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:25,920 build up the church, the body of Christ. 331 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,720 What's the goal? Maturity, Maturing the Saints so 332 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,000 that their lives look like Christ, that Christ is shaped in 333 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 them not to look like me, to look like Christ in you. 334 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:46,360 So there are some everybody's called to a ministry, 335 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,680 everybody's called to learn. There are some that God calls 336 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:56,880 out from the body and he calls them as apostles, prophets, 337 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,960 evangelists, pastors, or teachers. 338 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:05,360 Your version may say shepherds and teachers, Apostles, they're 339 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:09,120 like the thumb on the hand. You may have heard this, these 5 340 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:14,240 gifts that Christ gave the church as A5 fold ministry. 341 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,800 It's like a hand. The apostles like the thumb. 342 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,840 The apostle touches all the other gifts that minister to the 343 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,560 church. The apostle brings strength and 344 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:30,800 foundation. The pointer finger is like the 345 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,040 prophet. The prophet hears the word of 346 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:41,360 the Lord in due season and points the way for the body, the 347 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:44,040 evangelist. Reaches farther. 348 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,600 Than any other gift into the darkness. 349 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,720 The evangelist becomes very uncomfortable if all of their 350 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,960 time is spent inside the church walls. 351 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,960 They want to go out there and get right in front of the enemy 352 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,160 in his territory and call people out. 353 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,880 And they want to train people to do that as well. 354 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:13,440 The apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor, the 355 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:18,680 pastor, the shepherd, he's married to the church. 356 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:25,840 She's married to the local church, walks with the church 357 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,680 members, talks with the church members, smells like the church 358 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:35,920 members, marries the church members right and and buries the 359 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,920 church members and is there to weep with them and to to walk 360 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,800 with them through all the hard times of life. 361 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:45,040 They're not there to put on a show. 362 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,400 They're there to be authentic and with you. 363 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:53,440 And then there's the teacher who you might say is the smallest of 364 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,400 the gifts and yet they're not at all. 365 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,400 They're all equal. They're just unique and 366 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,720 different. The teacher is gets into the 367 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:09,400 nooks and crannies of what holds things together and connects the 368 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:16,040 dots of all the ideas of doctrine and philosophy and how 369 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,160 they connect to our daily life and they make sense out of it 370 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,800 all. And this apostle, prophet, 371 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:29,920 evangelist, pastor and teacher are gifts that Christ Jesus gave 372 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:36,720 you because he loves you. He loves you so much that he 373 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,720 didn't just go to heaven and say good luck. 374 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,560 He gave you these gifts to help you find your ministry, get 375 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:51,000 equipped for your ministry, get built up for your ministry, and 376 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,640 then grow in your ministry to maturity. 377 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,280 How do you? Come to. 378 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:03,280 Be one of these gifts. You ever asked that How do you 379 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,760 be a pastor? Is everybody that? 380 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,040 Preaches a pastor. I can tell you no. 381 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,680 How, how, how? Why does some people call 382 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,640 themselves prophets and others not? 383 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,480 And does everybody that call themselves a prophet, are they a 384 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,840 prophet? I can tell you no. 385 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,400 All believers can prophecy, but it doesn't mean you're a 386 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:36,400 prophet. This afternoon you could go 387 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:40,200 home. You could pull up to your house. 388 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,200 You can get in your garage, shut the garage door, and sit in your 389 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:48,160 garage all day long, but it won't make you a car. 390 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,120 Why? That's not your wiring from God. 391 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,040 You can sit in the garage, but it won't make you a car. 392 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,400 You can prophecy, but it doesn't necessarily make you a prophet. 393 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,600 You can shepherd people, but it doesn't with good good advice, 394 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,520 but it doesn't necessarily make you a pastor. 395 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:19,760 How does all this happen? He says here that he gave these 396 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:26,600 5 gifts to help the body fulfill the work of ministry. 397 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,360 The New King James Version, the English Standard Version, says 398 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:35,800 the work of ministry. In other words, every believer 399 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:41,440 has ministry to do. My job is to equip you and build 400 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,880 you up so that you fulfill it yet. 401 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,800 We run. Into this issue in America with 402 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,800 our English language because we use. 403 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,160 The word. Called to ministry to talk about 404 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:58,360 people that are pastors and apostles and prophets and 405 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:00,840 teachers, and we say they're called to ministry. 406 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,320 Well, that gets confusing because. 407 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,600 Every believer is called to ministry. 408 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,640 And your ministry is wonderful and the world can't happen 409 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,480 without it. If your ministry context that 410 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,200 God's called you to make a difference in is a hospital and 411 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,640 you have a mercy gift and you go over there and you serve with 412 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,120 that mercy gift from God. One day you will probably be 413 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:27,720 ministering to my body so I can stand up here and preach. 414 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,560 We need we need everybody, don't we? 415 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,680 So we have this. Thing in the English language 416 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,160 where all people are called to ministry yet? 417 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,680 Yet we have these. Some that are called out to 418 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,800 ministry as well, but the word. In the in the original. 419 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,360 Languages for that gifts right there where it says. 420 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,560 And Christ. Gave these gifts to the body. 421 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:56,400 That word is Domata. It separates these people out as 422 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,760 unique. Unique not, as they're another 423 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:05,120 level of human being. But unique in their grace. 424 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:10,680 Gifting from God, you have grace to fulfill your ministry. 425 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,200 I have grace to fulfill. My ministry, it's a unique 426 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,600 grace. You know what I did this 427 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,920 morning? I got. 428 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,440 Up and I took a shower. I hope you. 429 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,400 Guys did too. You know what else I did this 430 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,920 morning? I put on my pants one leg at a 431 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,400 time. You know what? 432 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,160 That's how every minister puts on their pants. 433 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:38,640 We're not a different level of human being just because God's 434 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,400 provided a. Platform for us to equip Saints 435 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,920 to fulfill. Their ministry doesn't mean that 436 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,600 we are a better. Version of. 437 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,240 Humanity and I, I think there's been some instance over. 438 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,800 Time and culture. Where there's been a separation. 439 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,720 Between oh, those are the. Ministers. 440 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,920 And we are the laity. Those are the special. 441 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:10,520 People and we are the non special people but we are all. 442 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,360 Given ministries and we are all. Special in God's eyes. 443 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:19,720 We simply have unique and different callings from God, but 444 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,480 what does it look like if someone is called? 445 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,720 To. Delmada Ministry. 446 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,080 You can. You can. 447 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,560 Be in a Church, 20. Years and nobody. 448 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:34,000 Explained this to you and then you won't know how to function 449 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,720 with these. People that come alongside you 450 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,640 or or you. Could be in a church for 20 451 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:43,640 years and. Never know how to become who God 452 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,720 has graced you to be. And I'll, I'll just break it 453 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,960 down really simply and we'll put this up on the screen for you 454 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,800 today. If you're called to Delmada 455 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,320 ministry, we often see these four things happen. 456 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,400 There's a time of calling where God comes across your life in 457 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,160 some way, whether it's through a divine encounter with Jesus 458 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,360 himself, or it's through God speaking through another person, 459 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,480 through a worship experience, or something. 460 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:16,000 Where God calls you with a desire to serve Him in one of 461 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,200 these ways, you may not know. Oh, I'm an. 462 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,360 Apostle right away or I'm a pastor or whatever. 463 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,440 You just know I am called as something different. 464 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,480 I'm called out from the. Maybe you've been a businessman 465 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,080 or business woman for, for years and all of a sudden there's this 466 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,600 desire growing in you and, and God speaks to you in a moment. 467 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,400 Like I need to separate myself to this calling. 468 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,920 God's doing something in me. I need to, I need to go after 469 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:43,880 this. This is different. 470 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,240 This is unique. So there's a calling moment, 471 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,280 then there's a preparation time, a preparation season, which will 472 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,360 include education. And oftentimes you see Bible 473 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,640 schools prop up for this reason that they're educating people to 474 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,960 fulfill their function. Just like you would go, if 475 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,360 you're a call to be a nurse, you would go to go to college and 476 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,240 learn how to nurse and how to care for people and put the 477 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:09,840 stuff. In their veins. 478 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,840 And you know all that kind of stuff and learn how to deal with 479 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,880 the smells of the human body and all those kind of. 480 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,600 Things you need training. And sometimes we get especially 481 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:26,200 in Karas maniac circles, which I grew up in and I love. 482 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,280 I'm all for the Spirit of God, but sometimes we get so lit up 483 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:30,320 with the. Spirit of God. 484 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,360 That we're like God will figure out and we forget like man, it'd 485 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,680 be good to get some skills. Like get some education along 486 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,040 the way, you know? Like I I didn't even know that 487 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,440 I'm teaching the whole counsel of the word of God, not just my 488 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,760 own ideas, because you know. Sometimes, you know, you get. 489 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,040 Praying. And then you eat something and 490 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,760 you eat something that's off, and then you get some unique 491 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:57,560 ideas coming. Not everything. 492 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,400 That comes out your mouth is from God. 493 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,680 So we have to know. We have to be able to know, 494 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,680 right? So there's a preparation season, 495 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,080 which will include education in a mentorship environment. 496 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,000 You come under people who speak into your life and call out 497 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,720 things in your life and, and help you grow in those things 498 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,720 and help you understand your wiring from God. 499 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,040 And then there's a separation season. 500 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,680 The separation season is kind of, you may have heard this 501 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,320 before, like someone being licensed in ministry or 502 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,200 provisionally ordained in ministry. 503 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,240 This is a time of testing where they, they step out and who they 504 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,280 know themselves to be, but they, they start to, to function in 505 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,080 it. And you know, if I was a 506 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:46,160 counselor and I'm giving counsel and everybody I give counsel to 507 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,120 is worse off when I'm done with them than I was when I started. 508 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,200 I need somebody, a mentor. To come alongside my life and 509 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,720 go, hey man, I love you too much to let you continue in this 510 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,840 vein. Like that's not your wiring from 511 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,120 God. Like here try this right? 512 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,240 At the same time if. You know, I'm called pastorally 513 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,520 and, and I feel pastoral and, and I get put in a counseling 514 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,400 environment and, and all of a sudden fruit shows up in 515 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,080 people's lives. Like marriages are getting 516 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,400 fixed. People are getting 517 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,880 understanding, anointing is showing up in the room and all 518 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,440 this kind of stuff's happening. Then. 519 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,560 Then we bless that and we say yes, that's what. 520 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,520 God's doing. You are a pastor and then what? 521 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,480 And. Then we Commission them, we send 522 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,080 them. This is when, like the elders of 523 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,560 the church, we'll get get together there be an assignment 524 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,120 from God. I'm called to go here, do this. 525 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,520 Yes, you are. We agree and we come up and we 526 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:45,520 lay hands on you and we send you in the anointing and in the 527 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,320 relationship necessary to maintain longevity. 528 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,120 That's why we need mentorship. That's why we need relationship. 529 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,720 So God calls. People to ministry he. 530 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:04,320 Lights a fire in them, and God is lighting a fire. 531 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:12,880 And some of you this morning for ministry, what is minister? 532 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,080 'S responsibility. Their responsibility. 533 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:20,120 Is to God to please God, not you. 534 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,199 If they want to please you, they won't say the things to you that 535 00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:26,920 you need to hear when you need to hear them. 536 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,920 They will always try to make life comfortable for you. 537 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,159 And you won't grow because we don't grow to maturity without 538 00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:40,400 going through testing. So your pastors love we. 539 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:45,960 We do like it when we please you, but our goal is to please 540 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:52,239 God by serving you with spiritual equipment and 541 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:57,760 spiritual edification, building you up to become mature. 542 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,280 All believers are called to ministry. 543 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,880 All believers are called to learn. 544 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,880 Some of those believers are called out as Domata Ministry 545 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,840 gifts to become the equipers and the Edifiers. 546 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,600 In the body of Christ. And if you're called that way 547 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,760 and you're not functioning in that way, you are very 548 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:29,240 uncomfortable inside right now. God is lighting you up. 549 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,880 I want to make this announcement this morning. 550 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,240 Heartland Church. This fall, starting in 551 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:48,080 September, we are launching Heartland Bible College. 552 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,520 Heartland Bible College is an Academy for cultural 553 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:58,920 transformation. It's an Academy to train those 554 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,120 who want to go deeper in their faith to understand their 555 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:04,400 ministry. Call from God. 556 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,080 The first year is going to be foundations. 557 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,640 It's going to be heart. It's going to be Kingdom 558 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,400 foundations. Kingdom Heart. 559 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,120 We're going to have classes like the Kingdom, the love of God, 560 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,080 getting into the Father's love and our identity. 561 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,080 We're going to have a class called Harmatology, which is 562 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:23,200 about the nature of sin and temptation, how to overcome it. 563 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:27,280 We're going to have all these classes lined out, one Class A 564 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,120 month. It's going to meet on Thursday 565 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:34,360 mornings from 8:30 to 11:30 and then it's going to meet once a 566 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:39,200 month, usually the last Sunday of the month for a mentorship 567 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,600 environment. And that mentorship environment 568 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,840 is going to kind of be rabbinical in nature. 569 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,480 It's going to be like sitting with your rabbi and he's going 570 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,560 to say, what did you learn? What stuck out to you? 571 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,080 What are you struggling with? What are you having a hard time 572 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,120 with? And you're going to go back and 573 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,360 forth with that, going to teach you how to get into the presence 574 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,480 of God, how to pray, learn how to pray and walk through these 575 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,080 things. That's first year. 576 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,840 Second year is going to be on Kingdom Minded. 577 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,840 What is your ministry now that you have this foundation from 578 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,680 God? What is your ministry from God? 579 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,560 Are you called to be an apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd or 580 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,240 teacher? Or what context are you called 581 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:18,920 into? Where is your ministry? 582 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,600 And you're going to start to see yourself as the minister God has 583 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,760 called you to be. You're going to learn about 584 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,360 faith. You're going to learn about the 585 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,960 history of revival and how to walk in that. 586 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:33,120 And then third year, it's going to move from the basics of 587 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:37,240 foundations to a year of internship and growth into a 588 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:41,000 year of apprenticeship where you live in the context that you're 589 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:46,080 called to ministering, helping people, walking in that so that 590 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,800 by the time you're done with your three years, you will have 591 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,840 built the relationships in this house necessary for 592 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,920 credentialing with the Heartland Alliance Ministry Network and 593 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,080 where we can send you where God is calling you to be in 594 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,760 relationship. So we're going to end up having 595 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,480 an orientation. It's going to be like August 596 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,240 24th is the orientation. But right now where things are 597 00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:14,800 at is the website is just being developed. 598 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,520 Final things are being put into put into space for the budget 599 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,000 and things like that. But if you'd like more 600 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:26,080 information about it, if you'd like more information, you can 601 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,760 scan this QR code and that'll take you to our website where 602 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,840 there's a page on our website now, right at the top it says 603 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,160 Bible college. You can click on that. 604 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,680 You can put in your e-mail. You get placed on a list to be 605 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,680 able to get updates and information. 606 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,960 Who is this for? This is for anybody out of high 607 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,240 school that wants to step into knowing their ministry. 608 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:52,080 Call this is this is you don't have to be called and know that 609 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:54,400 I'm a pastor. You don't have to know that 610 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,600 coming in. God calls everyone with a 611 00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,640 ministry and he calls you to learn. 612 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,000 He calls you to be a disciple. And you may be hearing God this 613 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,160 morning like, hey, my season, I can I can see this and I want 614 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,760 you to pray about it coming into the fall. 615 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:14,520 Are you to enter a season of learning, of discipleship, of 616 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,200 mentorship? Do you want, do you want to 617 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,840 experience that? That student life experience 618 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,400 with the whole cohort of people gathering every Thursday 619 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,440 morning, growing in God with spirit filled, qualified 620 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,280 lifelong ministers who want to pour into you and develop you in 621 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,680 the meeting once a month on Sunday nights. 622 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,720 Working that stuff out in relationship and in Holy Spirit 623 00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:43,040 activation, praying together and seeing what God does in your 624 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,160 life. If that's what God's calling you 625 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,960 to do, I just ask you to fill out the stuff and get the 626 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:53,080 information. There is no pressure here from 627 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,920 me, no pressure from Pastor Dave. 628 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,920 God calls those He wants to with a unique calling. 629 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,960 Elijah came to Elijah because God showed it to him. 630 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,240 Jesus. One day, he's walking along the 631 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,240 seashore. And he calls out to these 632 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:24,920 brothers on the boat, Hey, hey, you up there? 633 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:32,680 Come follow me and I'll make you a Fisher of men. 634 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,480 Their ministry up to that point had been to serve their Father, 635 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,240 their natural father, as fishermen. 636 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,320 He was calling them to serve the Heavenly Father. 637 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,120 And you know what they did? They dropped their Nets and 638 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,560 they. Followed him Paul one day. 639 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,320 He was. He's known as Saul at that time. 640 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,520 He's just he's. Persecuting the church, killing 641 00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,760 Christians. He's avid for the things of God, 642 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:01,040 but he. Doesn't have the right 643 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,560 direction. And God meets him. 644 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,800 On the road to Damascus, Jesus shows up. 645 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:09,880 He drops to his face. Lord, Lord, who are you? 646 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:12,640 I am Jesus that you're persecuting. 647 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,800 Now get up I'm. Sending you to the Gentiles and 648 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,440 I'll show you how much you much. Suffer for my name's sake. 649 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:25,160 I'm calling you to minister. This way he encountered him in 650 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,440 1997 I'm. Riding home from high school. 651 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,200 In my mom's. Car and we're. 652 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:36,120 Just talking and just. On a random day, I'm a senior in 653 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,160 high school. I'm I'm second semester senior 654 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,600 and I'm struggling. She doesn't know how much I'm 655 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,840 struggling, but inside I was struggling. 656 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,800 I was looking around me at the environment. 657 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,960 I'm I'm thinking all these people appear to know what they 658 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,920 want to do with their life. Look like this. 659 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,600 One's going to college. Here, this one's going to do 660 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:57,640 that. This one's going to be a nurse, 661 00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:58,640 This one's going to be. A doctor. 662 00:41:58,760 --> 00:41:59,800 This one's going to be a. Lawyer. 663 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,000 This one's going to be the I don't see any of that for me. 664 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,680 I don't know what's going on and I'm in the car just quiet like 665 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,000 all teenagers. How was your day? 666 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:12,280 Good. Very descriptive for my mother. 667 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,200 But that day, she said, hey, have you given any thought? 668 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,200 To what you want to do after high school. 669 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:28,120 I blew up. I blew up at my nice and sweet 670 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:29,920 mom. I just blew up. 671 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,800 It just something is the. Pressure on the inside, the 672 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,320 tension on the inside between. What public school was? 673 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:41,960 Leading me toward and what apparently God was shaping me 674 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,080 toward. Was. 675 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,440 Very tense in there and I didn't even know it, but one day I 676 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,400 came. Across this nice. 677 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,640 Question And I just erupted, you know, I'm just like, I have no 678 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,520 idea what I'm going to do. I'm like loud in the car. 679 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,160 In the passenger seat and she's just driving. 680 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,240 Sweet driving home. I have no idea what I'm going to 681 00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:01,280 do. Everybody knows what they're 682 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,080 going to do and I'm just tearing up. 683 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,440 I'm shouting in the car and I'm like, I don't know what I'm 684 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,080 going to do. All I know is that I really love 685 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:16,000 people. That's all I knew, no idea. 686 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:22,600 And she kindly nicely. We'll just keep walking it out. 687 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:30,600 God will show you, and he did two years later, after a season 688 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:35,120 of fraternity life that I some of which I regret, some of which 689 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:39,640 I don't, I found myself in an. Altar I found myself in. 690 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:44,080 ACY Stevens Auditorium up in Ames and I on my knees in the 691 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,320 presence of God and His presence. 692 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:52,600 Came on me like warm honey all over my back, and I'd felt that 693 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:53,520 several. Times. 694 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,440 Before growing up, I just. Didn't know what God was. 695 00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:02,600 Saying and finally, I, I just, I understood I love people. 696 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:08,880 I I love people way more than other people seem to love 697 00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:14,240 people. Like I'm around people and 698 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:15,760 they're all thinking about how they're going to make money. 699 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:24,480 I'm thinking about are they OK? And I'm on my knees consecrating 700 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:29,680 my heart to God and hear him just this knowing in me comes 701 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,200 not like an audible voice. There's no audible voice that 702 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:37,840 said, Adam, I have called you to the nations. 703 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,040 That would have been nice. Honestly. 704 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,760 But it was just knowing that was. 705 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,720 So big. On the inside of me that I could 706 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:53,760 no longer deny the need to be wholly consecrated to whatever 707 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,720 he had. For me to do. 708 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,440 And it did not align. With the. 709 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:04,360 With the trajectory of regular. I just said regular I'm. 710 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,840 On I'm not an engineer, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not it just did 711 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,480 not align. I I just, I'm like God. 712 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,320 I'll go any, I'll go anywhere you want me to go. 713 00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,040 I'll do anything you want me to do. 714 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:24,080 I just don't want some boring version of Christianity. 715 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,280 I want the real deal. Give me an adventure. 716 00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:34,360 And he's never let me down. Never let me down. 717 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:44,960 Less than six weeks later, the girl I was dating and myself 718 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,040 checked out of Iowa State University and went to Bible 719 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:54,680 school. Did I go back eventually and get 720 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:55,880 different things? Yes, I did. 721 00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:00,080 I finished that journey. But in God's trajectory for my 722 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:05,640 life, it's never been just a point A, point B, Point C, point 723 00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:08,960 D. It's been like, do this here, 724 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:18,080 now do this and just trust me. Jehovah, sneaky God. 725 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:30,760 Almighty and so, so good to know that you're doing what you're 726 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:41,200 wired from God to do. So God is speaking among us this 727 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,320 morning. You are called of God with a 728 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:50,640 ministry. All of you are called from God 729 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:57,400 to learn to be disciples, some under the sound of my voice. 730 00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:02,160 God is calling into the fivefold ministry. 731 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:08,480 You may not know which digit you are, but you know you're part of 732 00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:12,360 this hand. You're part of Christ's hand to 733 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,320 help His church become who they're called to be. 734 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,720 Let's bow our heads and give God a chance to speak. 735 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,040 Thanks for listening to our podcast. 736 00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,520 If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you 737 00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,160 can get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on 738 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,480 social media. If you'd like to support the 739 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,320 ministries of Heartland Church, you can do so at Heartland 740 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,520 Church online.com/give.