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I've got such a short life. 
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I never saw anybody that was 
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with them. 
How is it that that that so many

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people spend all? 
Their lives accumulating things 

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in this earth that they can't 
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I don't care how much money 
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they died, it's not going with 
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All that matters is what we do 
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That's the only thing we take 
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It's here for a brief season, 
then it's just gone. 

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You're not going to be able to 
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into the world and give me 5 
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You got one life to live. 
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this question. 
What owns your passions? 

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This way. 
Last night we were up at Jack's 

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Ridge with some of the team, 
kind of a final meal together 

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before many of us are going home
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But it was at that dinner last 
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that Bishop or Pastor Hurley 
Montez had went to be with the 

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Lord. 
And I kind of when I got back to

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my room, I just kind of had that
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And just just to be honest with 
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three months, I mean, I think 
some of you know that our 

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grandson, my oldest grandson, 
Jude, went to be with the Lord 

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on January the 13th of this 
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So I guess I delivered three 
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it kind of brings in a different
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called to do what God has called
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is. 
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that that Pastor Montez had went
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Montez, you know, hearing from 
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had had on this city, this 
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regions, I really felt like it 
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shift what I want, what I wanted
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It felt like God gave me some 
clarity when I was supposed to 

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again close out my time with you
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So I want to read from Acts the 
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chapter 20 and verse 17. 
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what it means to to live with 
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to to live, we could say living 
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What does it mean as the people 
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mindset? 
How should we live our lives? 

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How should we spend time with 
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How should we spend time with 
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How should we spend time at 
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And even though I know that it's
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we are in this world, but it 
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this world, right? 
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way. 
We, we have to think 

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differently. 
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read, it's very easy to get 
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world that we live in. 
The reason that Christians fall 

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away, even leaders, even great 
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God, the the reason that many of
them fall away is simply because

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they fall in love with this 
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Again, matter of fact, Paul had 
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you know, there's not a lot that
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lot of recorded history. 
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of Dimas who was obviously 
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and Paul makes a statement about
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He says, Dimas left me for what?
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world, there are many people 
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that they want to be there 
because they don't want to go to

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hell, but they're in love with 
this present world and not 

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really in love with Jesus. 
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scripture this morning and I 
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well as maybe a little 
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teaching this morning about what
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eternal mindset, an eternal 
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supposed to live our lives. 
Amen. 

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And again, thank God, I love the
fact that this dear brother that

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went to be in the presence of 
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says to be absent from the body 
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And I don't have time to teach 
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The Bible speaks of the bosom of
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presence of the Lord. 
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Bible says that they are in in 
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And one day death and Hades will
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And then of course, they'll be a
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I'm sure you've been taught all 
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the amazing thing is the Bible 
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body is to be present with the 
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And the Bible says that it's 
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when a Saint of God, when a 
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and their spirit goes back to be
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So so as we embrace the fact 
that this brother wrote a song 

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about the about hearing the Lord
say, well done, my good and 

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faithful servant, and that's how
we all should live and listen 

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it. 
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OK, God gives us a list of 
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we're not to do. 
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but it's about being so in love 
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eternal eye in such a way that 
the only thing that makes sense 

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to us is to live a life that 
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that is given out to the Lord 
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And at the end of our lives 
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faithful. 
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other thing in my life except at
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time on earth that I can say 
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Lord. 
You know, I was, I was blessed 

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to speak at or to, to officiate 
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Funeral services of my 
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mother-in-law. 
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their lives, if you heard me 
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understand this. 
Their lives so impacted my life 

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and their lives continue to 
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And what I preached on is that 
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They're not just a memory in my 
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prophecies into my life that 
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And at the end of our very short
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60 years, I'm almost 60. 
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There was a lady that is in my 
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Her name was Miss Pearl. 
She went to be with the Lord 

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about two years ago. 
She was 106, still live by 

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herself. 
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but she lost a little her 
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vision. 
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took the driver's license away 
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But but even at her age, 106, 
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eternity. 
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earth, but that is nothing. 
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So I want us again this morning 
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much as this as I can and teach 
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But I want that to be at the 
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the forefront of our mind that 
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life. 
What am I going to do to glorify

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Jesus? 
How am I going to love people? 

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How am I going to treat my wife 
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children and the people I go to 
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With the people I go to school, 
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malls, the people I see in the 
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How am I going to live? 
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becomes the air that we breathe,
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then we live differently. 
We love deeply our prayer life 

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becomes charged by the breath of
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in such a way that at the end of
our lives we will hear the Lord 

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say well done, good and faithful
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friend. 
That's that's the ultimate goal.

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So look at Acts chapter 20 we'll
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Let me kind of give the the the 
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part of Acts in the 20th 
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What Luke is referring to is 
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when the Apostle Paul was an old
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his face towards Jerusalem, 
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it's the end of his ministry on 
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Now, most historians believe 
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off by the order of the emperor 
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And he he gave his life for the 
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And but he left such an eternal 
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here today because a lot of us, 
because maybe somebody preached 

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the words of the Apostle Paul 
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inspired by the Holy Spirit. 
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He lived a life in such a way 
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of view. 
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comfort, his his fame or his 
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Matter of fact, he lived in such
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or on the earth was in constant 
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It was not easy to be. 
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what what we call the Byzantine 
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Paul was under severe, constant 
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Roman Empire as well as by some 
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that were against this, this, 
this new message where Yeshua 

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Jesus Christ was now being 
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where he would make statements 
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My life is not my own. 
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eternity. 
That he did not live for himself

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from this. 
This is a this is a message that

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I'll be honest with you and my 
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anymore some people, but a lot 
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how God wants to make you 
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God wants to bless you. 
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famous how you can be a better 
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But we live an abundant life. 
But can I tell you something 

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there? 
There is abundant life even in 

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the midst of persecution. 
Listen, many of our brothers and

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sisters around the world do not 
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to sit in a setting like this 
this morning and to hear a 

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preacher and to worship. 
I mean it's it's against the law

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to even own a Bible, but they 
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Why? 
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them. 
The blood of Jesus has purchased

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them and ransomed them, and they
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greater than this present 
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World that we live in. 
So before I read, I am going to 

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read before Before I read, let 
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What owns your passions this 
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Are you more interested in that 
new job than you are a deeper 

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place with Jesus? 
Are you more interested in the 

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next thing you can buy with your
pesos than you are about the 

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next level of intimacy that you 
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Experience with the Lord. 
Do you have a heart and a 

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listen? 
Do do you acknowledge that, that

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that people all around us do not
know Jesus and without Jesus 

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they will slip into eternity and
be forever separated from the 

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Lord? 
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missionaries have been willing 
to go throughout the generations

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is because they were consumed 
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Heart for dying people, people 
lost and separated from God, and

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they were willing to live in 
such a way that might have been 

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dangerous, uncomfortable, 
challenging even taking their 

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families. 
There's all kind of histories of

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even families that have been 
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throughout. 
History and listen, it's not 

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just because these people were 
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courageous means some of that 
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No, there's a much higher 
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They were so in love with Jesus 
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to them than death in the 
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They were fueled by this call of
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Even as Paul said to the Church 
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by death, The gospel became 
their air that they breathed and

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they had to make Jesus known. 
God fill our hearts with this 

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truth. 
This morning once again hear the

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words of Luke as he writes of 
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Acts chapter 20 verse 17. 
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Ephesus Paul, this old man at 
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of the church to come to him. 
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when they came to Him, he said 
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I lived among you the whole 
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set foot in Asia, serving the 
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tears and with trials that 
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of the Jews. 
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declaring to you anything that 
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in public and from house to 
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and to Greeks of repentance 
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Lord Jesus Christ. 
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Jerusalem, constrained by the 
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happened what what happened to 
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Spirit testifies to me in every 
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place he'll land in or will 
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He gets to Jerusalem, The Holy 
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imprisonment, imprisonment and 
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Await me now if, if, if God said
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way there when you get there. 
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going to be persecuted for the 
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You, you might even be put in 
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sometimes even in dungeons. 
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being cold and, and, and naked 
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He's not like some 35 year old, 
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of faith to, to conquer the 
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his 80s or something like this. 
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considered an old man. 
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this old man. 
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to Jerusalem, get ready for it. 
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persecution, more tribulation. 
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Paul did not say Jesus. 
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Loved me. 
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Paul had already been beat five 
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lashes. 
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point and left outside the city 
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up to life again. 
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shipwrecked and spend a day and 
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hanging on a piece of wood. 
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on to, but he. 
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He he knew what it was like to 
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Everyone has turned their backs 
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present world and what this 
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He knew what it was like to be 
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to be. 
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arrest, he knew what it was 
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I'm like a woman in childbirth. 
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affections and his burden for 
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He knew what it was like to be 
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the churches. 
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and for the purposes of God in 
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He was consumed by these things 
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his life and instead of the Lord
saying, listen, I'm going to put

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you on. 
A beautiful beach like Paradise 

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Beach and you can just drink 
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you know the Lord said, listen, 
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again, persecution, tribulation,
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So Paul didn't say, well, maybe 
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Now Paul sets his face where he 
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Now he's going back there. 
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from. 
That's where he was sent from. 

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Now he's he's going back to the 
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But here's hear what he said 
verse 24. 

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But I do not account my life of 
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myself, if only I may finish my 
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received from the Lord Jesus to 
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He says these things do not move
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How? 
How can a man we're all humans, 

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right? 
We we all know what it what it 

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feels like to have pain, and we 
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of us do to be hungry or maybe 
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If you've ever fasted, you know 
what it feels like to be hungry.

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But Paul said, listen, I am 
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is happening, what has happened 
to me, there's even more of that

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that's going to happen before I 
enter into the ultimate presence

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of the Lord. 
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I don't count my what's he 
taught me his life. 

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He didn't mean his light. 
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physical, his, his soul nature, 
his personality, the his 

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empirical senses, what he what 
he saw and heard and touched and

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felt and snow. 
He said listen, those things 

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don't matter in comparison to 
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Upon my life, that's what 
matters. 

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Why? 
Not because he was Superman, Not

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because he was a holy save form 
of spider man, for he was a man,

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but he was owned by the King of 
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And listen. 
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him to fulfill the call of God 
upon his life. 

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He. 
Lived in the light of eternity. 

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He lived with eternity in view 
his his heart was consume. 

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Listen to more words of Paul 
Second Corinthians chapter 4 

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verse 16 through 18. 
So we do not lose heart though 

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our outer, outer self, our body 
is wasting away. 

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Our inner self is being renewed 
day by day. 

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Y For this light momentary 
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preparing for us, an eternal 
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comparison, as we look not to 
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things that are unseen. 
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transient or they're temporary, 
that they're moving, but the 

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things that are unseen are 
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afflictions compared to the 
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we're called to walk in and live
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You see, the the reason that 
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launched missionary movements is
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Normal. 
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people just sit and do nothing 
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of eternity and they just 
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the spirit of a corrupt 
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that that that tries to replace 
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Lord and and people get get get 
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age and they lose their. 
Passion. 

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They lose their prayer life. 
They they they lose the 

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willingness to to to lay. 
Their lives down for their 

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brothers and their sisters, they
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gospel to the hard places of the
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And they, they, they, they learn
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Listen friend, when eternity 
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that can happen is obedience to 
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It's full of beauty, it's full 
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Jesus didn't say if you serve 
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I'll never forsake you. 
I'll go with you even to the end

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of this world. 
He he said that he'd stick 

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closer than a mother, than a 
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He he'd be closer than that 
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Beloved. 
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us the grace. 
Listen, I know that I cannot do 

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what God's called me to do 
through my intellect. 

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I'm not the smartest person 
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Obviously. 
I know I'm not smart enough. 

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I know I don't have enough 
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I'm not pretty enough, even 
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don't have enough experience. 
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But in other words, there's 
there's there's nothing that 

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qualifies me to fulfill the call
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And I've learned that that in my
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my strength. 
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got to give myself to Him, and 
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I can't just even fall in love 
with ministry because ministry 

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can become an idol that that 
that separates you from the true

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call of God. 
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To give yourselves completely to
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purposes of Jesus, not. 
To your own ministry, matter of 

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fact, I'll be true. 
Ministry is raising up others, 

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not you being raised up. 
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friend, is when eternity becomes
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I love what Pastor Armand shared
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How that listen? 
Send out the best. 

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want to keep the best and we 
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huge church. 
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culture, big buildings, you 
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of Christian music and preaching
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And the bigger the better. 
I'm telling you friend, the more

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we send out, the more Jesus is. 
Glorified. 

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The more we are willing, because
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the hard places and take the 
gospel and and plant churches 

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and raise up leaders. 
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that way, friend, nations will 
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that He is. 
Lord, our hearts have to be 

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tempered with this constant 
eternal view. 

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And I'm, you know, a lot of 
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a, I have a plaque that I had 
made. 

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It sits over my desk in my 
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And the reason I had this plaque
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in Lindale, TX and my wife and I
and our kids, we, we spent 

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Thanksgiving one year with David
Ravenhill and a guy named Winky 

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Pratney and Sunny Jane's. 
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and his wife Nancy were living 
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Leonard Ravenhill. 
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to David Ravenhill's house, 
which was now the former House 

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of Leonard and Martha Ravenhill.
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Ravenhill's little office who 
was this just this great 

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revivalist prayer warrior that 
God used. 

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And he had a, a little plaque 
that you could see from his 

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desk. 
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he, he would read that and kind 
of pray that everyday, but it 

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just said keep me eternity 
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And so I had a guy in, in West 
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does woodworking and stuff. 
And I had him make me a plat and

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it sits right over my desk. 
And every day when I'm in my 

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office, my prayer time, one of 
my prayers is God never let me 

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lose sight of eternity, never 
let me get to a place that I 

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that I am just so involved with 
this present world. 

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Even with the busyness of 
ministry that I lose the passion

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and the heart for the reality 
that takes place when people 

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leave this world and go out into
eternity. 

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May I always be gripped by the 
fact that that unless men and 

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women come to Jesus. 
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Lost and forever separated from 
the Lord. 

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That's what's fueled missions 
throughout the generations, 

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friend. 
That's why eternity has always 

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been so real in sending out 
missionaries around the world. 

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And even in our own communities,
that must fuel us. 

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We don't live for this present 
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And if it, Paul said. 
To set your affection on things 

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above, not on the things of this
earth, let me read one more 

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scripture to you. 
Colossians chapter 3 verses one 

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through 3. 
Again, the apostle Paul. 

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Paul has a lot to say about 
eternity. 

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He said if then you have been 
raised with Christ, here we go. 

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I just said seek those things 
that are above where Christ is 

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seated at the right hand of God.
Set your mind on things that are

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above, not on things that are on
the earth, but you have died and

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your life is hidden with Christ 
in God. 

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Jesus said, if you're going to 
be my disciple, you got to pick 

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up your cross and follow me. 
You. 

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We die to ourselves and we 
embrace his life. 

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We embrace his heart. 
You see, I believe a primary 

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distinctive quality of the early
church is that they fully 

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apprehended things of eternal 
value. 

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I mean, again, you have to 
understand, when persecution 

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came very early to the 1st 
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decision that many of them had 
to make. 

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00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:57,040
Matter of fact, every disciple 
of Jesus who became an apostle 

449
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,680
except 1 was martyred for the 
faith. 

450
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,240
I mean, Peter was hung, 
crucified upside down. 

451
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:07,480
I mean, there's many of them. 
They died terrific, horrific 

452
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,000
deaths, but they were willing to
lay their lives down for Jesus. 

453
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,240
Why? 
Eternity was more real to them 

454
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,400
than the suffering that you 
might experience in your. 

455
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,440
Body, the one that they didn't 
kill, they tried to. 

456
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,920
And he was John, John the 
beloved. 

457
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,520
And they boil him in oil, church
history says. 

458
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,120
And he lived and was exiled 
about 60 miles off the coast of 

459
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,200
Ephesus on the Isle of Patmos, 
where he wrote the revelation of

460
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,680
Jesus Christ that we have in our
Bibles now. 

461
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:39,280
But in other words, what is it 
that would cause every one of 

462
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,480
these men to be willing to lay 
their lives down for Jesus? 

463
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,120
It what an exciting Sunday 
morning service. 

464
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,640
It wasn't just going to a Bible 
college. 

465
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,600
It wasn't just a noble, 
honourable thing. 

466
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:58,480
No, they were so in love with 
Jesus and his love was so real 

467
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:03,920
to them that it it brought them 
to a place of eternal vision and

468
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,600
they. 
Lived for a different world. 

469
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,640
They were pilgrims, people 
passing through. 

470
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,720
Matter of fact, James says in 
one place that our life is just 

471
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,440
a mist. 
It's a vapour. 

472
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:23,040
It's here for a brief season, 
then it's just gone. 

473
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:33,720
We got one life. 
Listen, when I was a kid we used

474
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,000
to use, well we actually used 8 
tracks when I was a little kid, 

475
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,720
8 track cassettes, then 
cassettes. 

476
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,400
Somebody mentioned this 
yesterday, but you could rewind 

477
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,920
a cassette tape. 
Can I tell you something? 

478
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,760
You can't rewind your life. 
That's right. 

479
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,280
Now, now the Lord can restore 
the years that the enemy has 

480
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:54,080
taken from you. 
Talks about how the Caterpillar 

481
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,400
and the cankerworm, how that 
those those represent wasted 

482
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,640
years. 
And God can definitely restore. 

483
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,800
But listen, when you are in 
Christ, when you're born again 

484
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,120
of the Spirit of God, as Leonard
Ravenhill said, you're not going

485
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,560
to have time to make up your 
prayer life at the judgment seat

486
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,560
of Christ. 
You're not going to be able to 

487
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,720
say hold on, God put me back 
into the world and give me 5 

488
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,080
more years so that I'll love my 
family and love my spouse the 

489
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,280
way that I was supposed. 
To you're not. 

490
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,360
Going to be able to say, God 
just give me another 12. 

491
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,720
No, Fred, you got one life to 
live. 

492
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,760
We've got this one service today
never to be in this setting 

493
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,280
again. 
What will we allow the Spirit of

494
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,720
God to do in and through us this
morning as as the Lord is is 

495
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,680
launching things even through 
IGF Asia right now in the 

496
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,080
Philippines and I believe into 
other nations soon. 

497
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,800
I mean, what are we going to do 
with that? 

498
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,640
In other words, we don't want to
just have an exciting conference

499
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,000
and say God's going to no 
friend. 

500
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,360
We've got to invest into God's 
heartbeat and eternity has to 

501
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,560
always be in constant view. 
We don't just want a. 

502
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,120
A system or a program that's no 
friend. 

503
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,000
We want to make sure that we are
seasoned that that that we are 

504
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,800
in touch with the heart of God 
for everything that we're doing 

505
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,680
and more than anything that he's
doing it through us. 

506
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,680
Our treasure has to be eternal 
or our passions have to be on 

507
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,040
things that are not of this 
earth. 

508
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,880
You see, I, I like to call us 
this and might sound strange. 

509
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,280
I'll explain it. 
I believe on an estheticological

510
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,440
level, an end times level. 
I don't even know we're in the 

511
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:38,880
last day. 
We've been in the last day since

512
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,040
Jesus ascended back to the 
Father, right? 

513
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,320
I mean, theologically, matter of
fact, if you read the words of 

514
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,800
Paul, he thought Jesus would 
come back in his time possibly. 

515
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,400
So we've been in the last, we 
were in the last days, but I 

516
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,280
believe we're kind of like the 
the already but the not yet 

517
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:57,760
people. 
What I mean by that? 

518
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,560
Those of us on the earth, those 
that have went on to their 

519
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:05,200
reward, again, we will be joined
with them, right? 

520
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,600
And will forever be with him in 
the presence of the Lord. 

521
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,800
And that's a whole other 
teaching, not for this morning, 

522
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,000
but but the reality of those of 
us that are on this side of 

523
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,600
eternity. 
Those of us that Paul said in 

524
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,320
Ephesians are seated with Christ
in heavenly places. 

525
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:27,480
We still have to deal with us. 
In other words, it's almost like

526
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,440
even though we are born again of
the Spirit of God and we 

527
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,160
experience the Lord and we 
worship him, and we can feel the

528
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,320
power of the gospel and we can 
see signs and wonders and 

529
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,800
miracles at the same time, we 
are still in these mortal 

530
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,960
bodies, right? 
We are still almost like 

531
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,000
landlocked on a certain level in
these bodies. 

532
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:51,080
And one day, one day there'll be
a a final end or a final 

533
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,840
consummation where we put off 
this mortal body and we have 

534
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,640
spiritual bodies Thessalonians 
talks about and we are forever 

535
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,000
in the presence of the Lord. 
But listen, while we are here, 

536
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,440
we must be faithful. 
Why? 

537
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,760
Because we've been born again of
the Spirit of God and other. 

538
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,880
We are the already we've been 
shield, but the Holy Spirit even

539
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,000
the the day of Pentecost in the 
upper room in Jerusalem. 

540
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,360
The baptism of the Holy Spirit 
was a seal put upon the church 

541
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,960
and the church was birthed 
through the fire of God to 

542
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,880
perform and do the works of 
Jesus in in the earth and listen

543
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,080
to me. 
We are born again of the Spirit 

544
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:35,040
of God, but we are living for a 
greater experience of the glory 

545
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,320
of God. 
That's what Paul said. 

546
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:39,520
The present challenges the 
present. 

547
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,480
Pain. 
The present battles, they're 

548
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,800
nothing. 
Compared to the compared to the 

549
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,320
glory that awaits me. 
So in other words, what when you

550
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,400
live like that, it, it, it 
really sets you free from 

551
00:34:53,840 --> 00:35:00,080
focusing on yourself. 
It sets you free from what we 

552
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,560
call the the woe is me, woe is 
me, O God, no friend. 

553
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,280
It it gives you the ability to 
live. 

554
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,600
In the fullness of the love of 
God. 

555
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,800
It gives you the the, the power 
to to to fulfill that call of 

556
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,880
God upon your life. 
Even though in the natural it 

557
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,920
might be impossible to feel it, 
it, it allows you to live. 

558
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,400
In such a way that your heart is
connected to the purposes of 

559
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,560
Jesus. 
And even though we might not 

560
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,800
always have words to explain it,
we know that we're a part of 

561
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,600
something much bigger than 
ourselves. 

562
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:43,800
And this amazing plan of God is 
taking place in and through our 

563
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:48,200
lives. 
I want to I want to share just 

564
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,880
three closing points this 
morning. 

565
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,840
You know, Lena Ravenhill once 
asked the question or the things

566
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,320
you're living for worth Christ 
dying for. 

567
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,200
And I believe that's that's a 
good that's a valid question. 

568
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,560
In other words, are the things 
that you are so committed to, so

569
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,240
worried about, are the things 
that capture your heart, your 

570
00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:17,200
passion and your desires, are 
they really worth Christ dying 

571
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,960
for? 
Or is eternity the air that 

572
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,720
you're breathing this morning? 
I've always loved that, that 

573
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:26,080
statement. 
There's another statement or 

574
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,240
quote that I want to read. 
There was a, a man by the name 

575
00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:31,160
of Nate St. 
And I'm sure Eric's talked about

576
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,720
him in the school, maybe even 
here. 

577
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,640
He and Jim Elliott, I think a 
couple other guys were, they 

578
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:40,400
were the ones that were martyred
in Ecuador by the Alka Indians 

579
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,760
in the 1950s. 
But I've always loved this, this

580
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,760
question or the statement that 
Nate St. made who was martyred, 

581
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,000
he said. 
And the people who dot, who do 

582
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,320
not know, the Lord asked why is 
it that we are willing to waste 

583
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,080
our lives as missionaries? 
They forget that they too are 

584
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,560
expending their lives and when 
the bubble burst, they will have

585
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:06,120
nothing of eternal significance 
to show for the years they have 

586
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,120
waste. 
And listen, I used to I used to 

587
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:15,040
work at a Funeral Home for a few
years and I would I would help 

588
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,440
sometimes get get like if 
someone would die, I would go 

589
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,440
pick up their bodies and bring 
them back to the Funeral Home. 

590
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,840
I would help prepare the bodies 
for the service, the funeral. 

591
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,040
I would even drive the, the car 
that you put the casket in. 

592
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,080
I would drive that to the, the 
cemetery to bury the bodies. 

593
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,440
I, I worked in that world for a 
little while. 

594
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,840
I never saw anybody that was 
buried or cremated take anything

595
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,040
with them. 
You understand what I'm saying? 

596
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,160
In other words, how is it that 
that that so many people spend 

597
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,640
all their lives accumulating 
things in this earth that they 

598
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:57,080
can't take with them Now listen,
if God has blessed you, then 

599
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:02,360
praise God, you be a blessing. 
Eric and I Jason, we have 

600
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,360
friends that are blessed that 
that help support even come in 

601
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,920
here. 
Listen, I don't I'm not 

602
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,760
personally wealthy or anything. 
They're the reason that we're 

603
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,200
able to even, you know, pay for 
IGF Asia company is not because 

604
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,240
I have a bunch of money in the 
bank or anything because people 

605
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:20,000
love the Lord and they want to 
give to the work of God. 

606
00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:23,480
So listen, if you're blessed and
you're calling, maybe it's to be

607
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,720
in the business world or to have
a successful job and God's 

608
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:30,760
called you to support the 
mission of, of Maranatha Church,

609
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,040
their friend. 
You do that is unto the Lord, 

610
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:34,840
you understand? 
But I'm going to tell you 

611
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,320
something. 
I don't care how much money 

612
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,320
somebody has in the bank when 
they died, it's not going with 

613
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,200
them. 
That's right. 

614
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,600
All their houses, all their 
cars, all their jewelry, all, 

615
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,200
everything, there is nothing. 
Listen, all that matters is what

616
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,160
we do for Jesus. 
That's the only thing we take 

617
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,920
with us. 
I remember hearing Steve Hill, 

618
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,960
the evangelist at the Browns 
revival, talking about a bouquet

619
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:05,240
one time and he talked about 
like a bouquet of roses. 

620
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,400
He talked about a bouquet of 
souls that he can lay at the 

621
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,560
feet of Jesus and say Jesus, 
you're worthy for an all listen,

622
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,320
all that really matters in light
of eternity. 

623
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,240
How did you love Jesus? 
How did you love others and how 

624
00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:24,480
did you make disciples? 
How did you win people to Jesus 

625
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,400
and make that is the only thing 
of eternal value, friend. 

626
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,840
Is our dear brother enter into 
the glory of the Lord? 

627
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:39,440
I don't know what time Yesterday
all that mattered was not how 

628
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,440
nice his car was or how big his 
church building was. 

629
00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:48,600
All that matters is the lives 
that he impacted. 

630
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:54,640
As Jason always talks about, the
one more soul that he won, 

631
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,760
that's all that matters. 
You see, friend, when eternity 

632
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:02,040
becomes real, the things that 
are valuable become the things 

633
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,480
that burn in our hearts. 
What? 

634
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,520
What are you living for this 
morning? 

635
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,480
What? 
What has captured your heart and

636
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,560
your passions? 
Listen, I'm not a genius. 

637
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,400
I actually know how to make 
money. 

638
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,880
I don't do a lot of it anymore. 
I have a business degree. 

639
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,400
I used to be in investments. 
I, you know, I sold stocks for a

640
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,720
while and mutual funds and all 
that kind of stuff. 

641
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:29,640
I was raised my biological 
father, even though a drug 

642
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,240
addict, was a bank president 
twice. 

643
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,400
My stepfather owned three 
insurance companies in Florida. 

644
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:39,120
I was raised around people that 
knew how to make money and in my

645
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,240
mind. 
I have a business degree in my 

646
00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:43,560
mind. 
Knows how to make money, but my 

647
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:50,240
heart only cares about souls 
that are separated from Jesus. 

648
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,680
So listen, I don't want to give 
some people again are called to 

649
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,480
make money, I'm called to make 
disciples. 

650
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,640
We're all called to do that 
ultimately, but. 

651
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,360
Understand what I'm saying? 
What has captured our passions 

652
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,120
in this generation? 
Are the eternal things of God, 

653
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,000
the things that matter, or are 
we living for the love of this 

654
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:17,680
present world? 
Let me give you 3 points #1 what

655
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,920
does it mean to have an eternal 
view or an eternal paradigm or 

656
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,520
understanding? 
Number one, we must deliberately

657
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,280
live for eternity. 
And what do I mean by that? 

658
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:33,760
First Timothy 612 Paul told 
Timothy, fight the good fight of

659
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:34,680
faith. 
And I love this. 

660
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,320
Take. 
Hold of eternal life to what you

661
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,520
were called about with which you
made the good confession in the 

662
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,040
presence of many witnesses. 
The Listen, I I love that Paul 

663
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:52,640
uses aggressive action 
description here, an aggressive 

664
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,160
active description here when it 
comes, he said. 

665
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,520
You got to grab onto it. 
What does he mean by that? 

666
00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:03,040
Of course it's by the grace of 
God and understand all that, but

667
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:08,120
at the same time you've got to 
live your life deliberately 

668
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:12,840
running hard after Jesus. 
If not, I. 

669
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:18,880
Promise you the lust of the 
flesh, the proud of life, all 

670
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,680
the things of this world will 
seduce you and pull you away 

671
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:28,440
from intimacy with Jesus. 
But listen, the the Bible is. 

672
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:32,920
Full of clear instructions after
we are born again. 

673
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:37,400
It's not legalism, but he says 
to flee youthful lust. 

674
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,440
Why? 
Because it kills an eternal 

675
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:45,440
mindset in the people of God. 
We got to live in such a way 

676
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:51,160
that we, as Paul told Timothy, 
grab a hold of eternal life. 

677
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:56,840
Remind yourself in the presence 
of the Lord that in my life is 

678
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,720
not my own. 
I've been bought with the blood 

679
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:06,160
of Jesus. 
I'm, I'm going quickly #2 we 

680
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:11,280
must walk and live in the Spirit
so that we have proper vision. 

681
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,440
2nd Corinthians chapter 5. 
We read a few verses here. 

682
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,920
Picking up in verse one, Paul 
said, For we know that if the 

683
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,440
tent which is he's talking about
our body, an earthly tent, We 

684
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:27,160
know that if the tent that is 
our earthly home is destroyed, 

685
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,760
we have a building from God, a 
house not made with hands 

686
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,960
eternal in the heavens. 
For in this tent we groan in 

687
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,080
this normal natural body that 
we're in. 

688
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,880
We we groan. 
Why longing to put on our 

689
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,240
heavenly dwelling, if indeed by 
putting it on we may not be 

690
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:46,120
found naked, but we are still in
this tent. 

691
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,400
We groan being burdened, not 
that we would not that we would 

692
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,120
be unclothed, but that we would 
be further clothed. 

693
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,160
In other words, remember I 
talked about the already but not

694
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,840
yet people further clothed so 
that what is. 

695
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:01,120
Mortal may be swallowed up by 
life He has prepared us for this

696
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,840
very thing is God who has given 
us the Spirit as a guarantee or 

697
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,200
as a seal. 
So we are always of good 

698
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,480
courage. 
We know that while we are at 

699
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,520
home in the we are at home in 
the body. 

700
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:16,240
We are away from the Lord, for 
we walk by faith, not by sight. 

701
00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:19,880
Yes, we are of good courage and 
we would rather be away from the

702
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,960
body and at home with the Lord. 
So whether we are at home or 

703
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:28,560
away, we make it what our aim to
please Him for we must appear, 

704
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,760
and this is challenging. 
We must all appear before the 

705
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:36,600
judgement seat of Christ so that
each one may receive what is due

706
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:40,960
for what He has done in the 
body, whether good or evil. 

707
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,560
I wish I had time to really 
exposite this, but we'd be here 

708
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,920
a while. 
But let me just conclude this 

709
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:54,440
point by saying this. 
We are not saved because of good

710
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,200
works. 
We know that Paul said it's not 

711
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,880
of any work that any man should 
boast in Ephesians. 

712
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:04,000
It's not by what we do. 
There's nothing we can do to 

713
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,720
make ourselves saved. 
But it's very clear in Scripture

714
00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,120
when we are born again, we are 
saved. 

715
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:17,720
Unto good works, not to make us 
more saved, but because eternity

716
00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:18,520
becomes. 
Real. 

717
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:23,640
And we become. 
The children of God, servants to

718
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,080
the King of Kings and the Lord 
of Lords, and we. 

719
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,680
Live for His honor. 
We live for His glory. 

720
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,120
We live for His eternal 
purposes. 

721
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,640
Therefore, one day. 
All of us, if you're born again,

722
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,240
how many followers of Jesus do 
we have in the room this 

723
00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:40,080
morning? 
Raise your hand. 

724
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,800
If you're following Jesus, one 
day you will be at the judgment 

725
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,040
seat of Christ. 
Now there's another judgment 

726
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,040
seat again. 
This is long teachers. 

727
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,240
I won't go into it there. 
There's a great White Throne 

728
00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:57,920
judgment that the sinners will 
come before God and there will 

729
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,880
be a final judgment before they 
enter into the lake of fire 

730
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,760
again. 
I told you that the death and 

731
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,120
Hades or hell will be thrown 
into the lake of fire, right? 

732
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,720
So there's that time at the 
great White throne, but the 

733
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:15,440
judgment seat of Christ is for 
me, it's for you. 

734
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,000
My heart is that this brings 
soberness or sobriety to our 

735
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:27,280
spirits this morning. 
One day we stand before the Lord

736
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:33,800
and he will speak to us. 
I don't know exactly how that 

737
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,800
looks. 
It's, it's too far from too far 

738
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,960
beyond my comprehension. 
But by the Spirit I, I kind of 

739
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,080
see it. 
But one day we will stand before

740
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,760
him. 
So that each one may receive 

741
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:51,360
what is due for what we have 
done in the body on this side of

742
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,480
the final concept, on this side 
of glory, what we've done, 

743
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,760
whether good or bad. 
Again, these are Christian, but 

744
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:02,560
one day we'll be rewarded by the
Lord at the judgment seat of 

745
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,040
Christ. 
I believe primarily for how many

746
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:08,400
souls we've won to Jesus. 
And how many disciples we've 

747
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,760
made for the King of Kings and 
the Lord of Lords. 

748
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,480
I don't know about you, friend, 
but I I don't want to enter into

749
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,480
the presence of the Lord by 
saying, are you? 

750
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:23,000
You preached sometimes it was 
OK, you know, you. 

751
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,640
And then you were in 40 nations.
You, you and Darla planted a 

752
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,720
church. 
And no, I want to hear. 

753
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:35,800
Well done. 
You've won this many because of 

754
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:40,880
your faithfulness. 
By the grace of God. 

755
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,520
There are thousands, 10s of 
thousands maybe, huh? 

756
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,840
Listen, in this room right now, 
if all of us embrace this 

757
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:53,360
eternal mindset, I believe 
there's millions that could 

758
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:54,640
come. 
I'm not saying you would purse, 

759
00:47:54,640 --> 00:48:00,200
but maybe those that God gives 
you to raise up as disciples 

760
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,280
that you pour your walk with 
Jesus into them. 

761
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,600
And you help them see how much 
Jesus loves him and who they are

762
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:11,960
in the eyes of God. 
And through them understanding 

763
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,160
that revelation, they are 
empowered with an eternal 

764
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:19,360
mindset and they are willing to 
lay their lives down for Jesus. 

765
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,280
And for others and who knows one
day. 

766
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:27,880
Listen, you know what I believe?
I'm fully convinced of this. 

767
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,800
Everybody knows the name of 
Billy Graham, right? 

768
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,840
Anybody heard of Billy Graham? 
Everybody know. 

769
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,680
Thank God for Billy Graham. 
He was faithful to preach to the

770
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,280
lost and God used him. 
I'm going to tell you something.

771
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:45,440
I believe the real heroes of the
faith are the people that nobody

772
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,400
on earth even knew, but Jesus 
knew him. 

773
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,800
Maybe they were in tribal 
regions of the mountains of the 

774
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,120
Philippines. 
Maybe they were somewhere in the

775
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,760
Bush of Africa. 
Maybe they were somewhere in in 

776
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:03,520
inland China, maybe back 200 
years ago or 100 years ago. 

777
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,960
Maybe like a David Livingstone 
or Hudson Taylor raised up a son

778
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,760
or a daughter in the. 
Kingdom and who knows the 

779
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,440
millions of souls. 
Why? 

780
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:15,040
Because they believe the gospel 
and they live the gospel and 

781
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,200
eternity became the air that 
they breathe and they live their

782
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,360
lives. 
They gave their lives. 

783
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:25,160
For the glory of Jesus, we need 
proper vision for Him. 

784
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:27,800
Not just what I see this 
morning. 

785
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,080
They say I don't just see you in
the Spirit. 

786
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:37,560
I see millions of souls coming 
to Jesus lives forever changed. 

787
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:39,120
Stand with me. 
I got one more point and I'm 

788
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:48,280
finishing this morning. 
This is the challenging 1, but 

789
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,480
it's necessary in order to have 
an eternal paradigm. 

790
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:57,880
We must become listen to me. 
Maybe this word makes sense. 

791
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:03,080
Eric, help me misfits, in other 
words, people that don't fit in 

792
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:10,320
in a world of misfortune, 
misery, sin, deception, 

793
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:14,520
misunderstanding. 
Now Jesus made a Jesus made some

794
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,680
challenging statements. 
Listen to what he said in John 

795
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,480
1518 and 19. 
If the world hates you, you know

796
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,120
that it hated me before it hated
you. 

797
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:26,840
If you were of the world, the 
world would love you as its own.

798
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,920
But because you are not of the 
world, but I chose you out of 

799
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,160
the world, therefore the world 
hates you. 

800
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,400
What does that mean? 
It doesn't just mean that people

801
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:40,400
hate you because it means that 
the truth of the gospel is so 

802
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,240
absolute. 
You understand? 

803
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:49,000
My father was what? 
My biological father was what we

804
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,360
call a universalist. 
I remember one time I was a 

805
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,800
little kid and he told me 
something, you know, he was, he,

806
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,720
he was Catholic, but he was, you
know, kind of embrace other 

807
00:50:57,720 --> 00:50:59,280
religions as well throughout his
life. 

808
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:03,160
And my stepmother was into a lot
of new age spiritism and stuff 

809
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,800
like that. 
I remember she would, she tried 

810
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,680
to teach me what we call 
extrasensory perception and all 

811
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,840
this stuff as a little boy. 
And so she had like a, a 

812
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,280
witchcraft book of white magic. 
So, you know, I was kind of 

813
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,640
raised when I was with him and 
some of that stuff. 

814
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,840
My father was Roman Catholic. 
He told me one time, he said. 

815
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:20,960
Son, I want you to hear this, he
said. 

816
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:25,720
He said going to be. 
Going into eternity is like a 

817
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:28,600
train, he said. 
In a train, there's multiple 

818
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,280
carts connected to the train or 
to the the locomote of the 

819
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:34,080
engine, he said. 
There is a Catholic cart, 

820
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,960
there's a Protestant car, 
there's a Hindu car, there's a 

821
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:39,640
Buddhist cart. 
And you know, we could go, I 

822
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,120
could go on there. 
There's a Muslim cart, there's a

823
00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:44,880
Taoism cart, there's a Shintoism
cart. 

824
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,080
There's a new, I mean, we could 
go on and on and on. 

825
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,200
There's a many, many demonic 
religions that people get sucked

826
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:51,520
into. 
But he said all of them are 

827
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,480
going to the same place at the 
end of this world. 

828
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,280
If I believe that, I would not 
be here today. 

829
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:02,800
That's right, Acts 412 says 
neither is there salvation in 

830
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,200
any other, for there is no other
name under heaven given among 

831
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,440
men whereby we must be saved. 
Jesus said I am the way, the 

832
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:12,000
truth and the life and no man. 
Comes to the Father, except. 

833
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,880
By me. 
You understand there's one 

834
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:20,080
message for him. 
Jesus Christ, virgin born, 

835
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:25,120
spotless, life without sin, 
laying his life. 

836
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,480
Down. 
No man takes my life. 

837
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:32,560
I lay it down, bursting out of 
the grave on the third day and 

838
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,280
ascending back to the Father 40 
days later. 

839
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:41,400
The Gospel. 
We are owned by the only truth 

840
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:46,240
in the world and. 
It makes us different. 

841
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,720
Why? 
Because, friend, we bring a 

842
00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:53,320
message of truth. 
The reason Jesus said the world 

843
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,640
will hate you, because the world
wants you to accept them in 

844
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:00,960
their sin and in their lost 
state and make them feel, 

845
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:05,480
listen, we're supposed to be the
most loving, compassionate, 

846
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:09,840
welcoming people in the world. 
But, friend, we cannot 

847
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,920
compromise the preaching of the 
gospel. 

848
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:16,000
If we do, then we might as well 
all leave the church and just 

849
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,560
living to ourselves for all the 
time that we have left on the 

850
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,400
earth. 
We don't fit into this world. 

851
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:28,360
Again, the Bible says we are in 
the world, but we are not of the

852
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,240
world. 
There's a man by the name of 

853
00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:36,080
Justin Martyr who lives in the 
early time of the church. 

854
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,560
Justin Martyr said this. 
Now it is evident that no one 

855
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:43,240
can terrify or subdue us who 
have believed in Jesus all over 

856
00:53:43,240 --> 00:53:47,040
the world. 
For though we are beheaded and 

857
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:52,240
crucified and exposed to 
ravenous animals or beast, and 

858
00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:55,920
are in chains and fire and all 
the forms of torture, it is 

859
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,680
plain that we don't, we do not 
forsake the confession of our 

860
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,000
faith. 
But the more things of this kind

861
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,320
which happened to us, the more 
are there others who become 

862
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:08,760
believers and truly committed 
through the name of Jesus 

863
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,000
Christ. 
Jesus said, Behold, I come 

864
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:18,080
quickly and my reward is with me
to render to every man according

865
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:22,960
to what he has done. 
It's not about works, Keith, I 

866
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,040
understand salvation is not 
about works. 

867
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,040
But, friend, it is about 
faithfulness. 

868
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:30,600
I dare you to prove me 
biblically. 

869
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,560
It is about what are we doing 
for the Lord? 

870
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:41,120
Listen, we've got this amazing 
portal called prayer, and when 

871
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,600
we give ourselves to prayer, 
history can be changed. 

872
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:50,520
It disrupts the, the, the 
demonic forces that that live in

873
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:52,520
the the Greek word is the 
cosmos. 

874
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,320
It's it's like the atmosphere 
right above the earth. 

875
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,400
It's like the the first level of
the atmosphere of the heavens. 

876
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:03,800
The, the, the, it it disturbs 
demonic stronghold, territorial,

877
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,920
hierarchical demonic entities 
that have been in nations for 

878
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,720
generations and generations. 
What disrupts them? 

879
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,240
Paul Unders Paul addressed this 
more than once. 

880
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:17,240
He understood that there was a 
spiritual climate that had to be

881
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:21,200
disrupted through prayer. 
Then the gospel would go. 

882
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,280
Forth. 
We don't do that by just some 

883
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,960
hokey, flaky thing we call 
spiritual warfare. 

884
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:31,560
No, friend, it's got to be real.
We've got to know him. 

885
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,720
And through knowing him, Hell 
knows that we're there. 

886
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:41,360
Demons know that we're present. 
This is real. 

887
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,760
I want to close with with a 
story, a real life story. 

888
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,600
Not I think I shared this here a
couple of years ago, but I know 

889
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:54,880
there's new people here. 
Several years ago, probably 

890
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,120
maybe eight or nine years ago 
now, I can look back in a 

891
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:03,560
journal and find out. 
But I was with a brother named 

892
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,840
Wayne Stotler from West 
Virginia, Pastor, that Eric and 

893
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,640
Casey know him well. 
I've known him for over 30 

894
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,280
years. 
But Wayne and I were in Bulgaria

895
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:15,440
on a missions trip and we've 
been ministering throughout the 

896
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:18,960
week and doing like a pastors 
type gathering. 

897
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:24,600
The the last night of of the 
ministry time. 

898
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,720
We were to fly home back to 
America from Sofia, Bulgaria the

899
00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:31,400
next morning. 
I had preached that night, 

900
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:33,840
prayed for it. 
I'm like maybe more. 

901
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,880
At least 200 pastors and leaders
from villages from all around 

902
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,280
the region. 
I was tired. 

903
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:44,240
Probably 11:00 at night, a 
pastor comes up to me and he 

904
00:56:44,240 --> 00:56:46,200
says, brother, would you come 
preach in my church? 

905
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:48,920
In my mind, I'm thinking, of 
course, sure. 

906
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:52,280
I'm like maybe when I come back.
So I told him that I'd be 

907
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,480
honored to, I'd be honored to 
come and preach in your church 

908
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,240
when we can. 
He said, no, would you come 

909
00:56:56,240 --> 00:57:02,400
preach in my church? 
Now I'm tired in the flesh. 

910
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,040
I just want to go to bed and 
pack and get ready to fly out 

911
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:06,480
the next morning, like 7:00 AM 
or something. 

912
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:07,640
It was early. 
I remember that. 

913
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:10,400
So I looked at Wayne. 
I said, what do you think? 

914
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:11,720
He said, brother, if you're 
going, I'm going. 

915
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:18,840
We got in his car, the three of 
us, and we begin to drive. 

916
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,360
And after about 45 minutes, he 
said, we just entered into my 

917
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,760
country of Turkey. 
This part of Bulgaria is where 

918
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,000
it, it, it connects right with 
the nation of Turkey. 

919
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,400
So we, we drove over into Turkey
and then we drove maybe, I don't

920
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,760
know, 20-30 more minutes or so. 
And he, I mean, we're in like in

921
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,560
the middle of the woods. 
I remember it was so cold, very 

922
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:40,640
cold. 
He, he stopped the car and he 

923
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:42,200
said this is as far as we can 
drive. 

924
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,880
He said we have to walk. 
We got out of the car, the three

925
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:47,160
of us, and we began to walk 
through the woods, literally 

926
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,600
through the woods. 
And after maybe, I don't know, 

927
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:54,560
10 minutes or so of walking, we 
came to kind of, it looks like, 

928
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,760
it looked just like maybe like 
these cargoes they put on shut. 

929
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,400
I think Marisk is the name of 
them these, these steel cargoes 

930
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,160
they put on the back of ships 
and haul across the ocean. 

931
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:05,760
It that, that that's what 
they're building look like. 

932
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:10,000
And so we walked up into walked 
up to the building and they had 

933
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,920
just had they had a hole that 
had been cut for the door and 

934
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,440
two holes for Windows. 
And it was so cold. 

935
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,240
I walked in. 
There was no electricity, no 

936
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:21,920
heat, had three little like gas 
lanterns, like kerosene lanterns

937
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,520
that look like had like a sheet 
over the door. 

938
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,200
And I remember I walked in there
and I'm talking and I'm blowing 

939
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:28,560
smoke. 
That's how cold it is. 

940
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,320
I mean, you're my the warmth of 
my breath from my mouth was so 

941
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,080
much warmer than the cold air. 
This happens when it gets that 

942
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:39,320
cold that I was blowing smoke 
and the brother pulls me. 

943
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:41,800
I'm it was so crowded in there 
that I had to kind of walk 

944
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,960
sideways. 
Wayne and I did to get to the 

945
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,200
middle and we got to the middle 
and the brother said, brother, 

946
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,000
go ahead and preach. 
To be honest with you, I was 

947
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,880
tired. 
I didn't feel anything, but I 

948
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:57,320
just began to share. 
And after sharing from just a 

949
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:01,360
few minutes, I begin to hear 
loud thuds against the side of 

950
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,320
that metal. 
And you could hear it because it

951
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:07,280
was a steel or metal building. 
And and I looked at the past and

952
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,040
I said, what's going on? 
He said, brother, they know that

953
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:11,560
we're here, but just keep 
preaching. 

954
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:16,760
I'm going to tell you something.
I didn't know exactly what was 

955
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:18,440
going on, but I knew it wasn't 
good. 

956
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:22,840
I did find out later that a 
young group of Muslim 

957
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:26,560
radicalized Muslim men had 
gathered and they were trying to

958
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:31,040
intimidate us and even found out
beyond that that this man's, 

959
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:34,200
this pastor's family had been 
persecuted on multiple 

960
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,360
occasions. 
Matter of fact, there was twice 

961
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:40,360
where a Muslim cleric had his 
two young boys, 1 was like 7/1 

962
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:42,760
was 4. 
They took their shirts off and 

963
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,800
came, their backs bloody in the 
middle of the village because 

964
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:50,600
their dad preached the gospel. 
So these people were not just 

965
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,800
coming to church like we're 
blessed to do that. 

966
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,320
I mean, every day. 
What was dangerous because they 

967
00:59:55,320 --> 01:00:01,520
were living out their faith. 
In Turkey, they began to throw 

968
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,320
these rocks. 
I looked at the brother. 

969
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,520
I said, He said, he said, 
brother, just keep preaching. 

970
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:10,840
I I just began to in my mind, my
human mind, I began to think, 

971
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:12,280
well, Lord, this, this could be 
it. 

972
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,880
I mean, I've taught on martyrs 
and the persecuted church and 

973
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:18,920
all this stuff for years and 
then I might not even make it 

974
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:23,600
back to America against see my 
wife, my kids, you know, No, I 

975
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,720
mean, this could be it. 
I could shed my. 

976
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:30,520
Blood in this Muslim nation for 
the gospel in my humanity. 

977
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:32,000
I'm not going to. 
Lie. 

978
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:33,960
There was a little bit of fear. 
I wish I could tell you that I 

979
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,760
was like Superman, but I did 
have some fear come over me. 

980
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:40,000
But I want to tell you what 
happened. 

981
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,440
As I looked at the people, 
something caught my attention. 

982
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,000
They were not even moving at 
all. 

983
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,000
They were so I mean I remember 
there, matter of fact, a lot of 

984
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,320
the people in there for it look 
like middle-aged to older women.

985
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,280
They had little scars around 
their head. 

986
01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:57,920
All you could see was their 
faces. 

987
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,880
And I remember as I looked into 
their face as that little 

988
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:04,760
kerosene or gas Lantern was just
kind of flickering. 

989
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:08,760
It's almost as if I could see 
just the love of God and 

990
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:12,160
eternity in their eyes and it 
pierced me. 

991
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,840
What happened next has never 
happened before or never 

992
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:19,440
happened. 
After I, I literally felt. 

993
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:23,440
As I stood there as if someone 
took warm oil and poured it over

994
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,560
my head, if I could feel it 
going ugly, literally it was 

995
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:31,040
like AI thought I was wet 
because I felt this warm oil 

996
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:33,120
just go down my face and my 
body. 

997
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:36,400
I could feel it. 
And all of a sudden I began to 

998
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,440
share things I had never heard 
before from anybody. 

999
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:44,560
And it was all very 
prophetically pointed at these. 

1000
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:49,760
People, I felt the Lord come 
upon me in such. 

1001
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:54,280
A way, it was almost like a 
fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit

1002
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:59,200
came over me as I proclaimed 
what God gave me to proclaim to 

1003
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:02,600
these people I preached from. 
I don't know another 30 minutes 

1004
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,640
or so. 
We prayed for people when we 

1005
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:08,080
left the building that night. 
Here's what the pastor told us. 

1006
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:10,800
Said brother said brothers, me 
and Wayne Staller. 

1007
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,560
He said put your face in your 
hands like this. 

1008
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:18,080
He said it put your put your 
head down like that so that if 

1009
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:21,440
they do throw rocks at you is 
what he was telling us that it 

1010
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:23,360
would maybe not hit our eyes or 
her face. 

1011
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:27,680
We we followed the pastor. 
We walked out the building and 

1012
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:31,720
Wayne and I both had our hands 
over our faces like this. 

1013
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:35,200
I just followed his footsteps. 
I'll be honest with in my 

1014
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,560
humanity, I, I was ready and, 
and and knew that I would 

1015
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,560
probably be hit with rocks. 
I don't know if I'd be killed or

1016
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,680
not, but for some reason, maybe 
it's because I'm supposed to be 

1017
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:46,360
here this morning to preach this
message. 

1018
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,200
For some reason, the Bible says 
it's appointed a man wants to 

1019
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,560
die and then the judgment. 
It was not my time to die. 

1020
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:55,040
And by the grace of God, I 
didn't even suffer anything from

1021
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:59,720
having rocks thrown at me. 
But my my point that I want you 

1022
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:03,720
to hear is this. 
It was the reality of eternity, 

1023
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:06,760
not that I experienced, but that
these people lived. 

1024
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:11,040
In that brought me into this 
experience with the Lord, and 

1025
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:13,720
this fresh anointing came upon 
my life. 

1026
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:16,400
To minister to them. 
It wasn't me. 

1027
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,520
It's kind of like where where 
Paul talks about in Romans 826 

1028
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:21,680
and 27. 
There's some things, sometimes 

1029
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,080
we don't know what we're 
supposed to pray and the Holy 

1030
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,720
Spirit prays through us with 
groanings or with words or with 

1031
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,840
with utterings and groanings 
that don't even have words to 

1032
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,040
them because the Holy Spirit 
knows the heart of the Father. 

1033
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,960
It was like the heart of the 
Father just kind of prophesied 

1034
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:38,320
through me. 
I mean, through like word of 

1035
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,720
knowledge and just very 
directive type speaking into 

1036
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:44,920
individuals and into lies. 
And it was just this, this 

1037
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:48,840
eternal dynamic that just 
encapsulated that little. 

1038
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,440
Building in the woods of Turkey 
that night. 

1039
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:54,320
I want to tell you something, 
Fran. 

1040
01:03:55,760 --> 01:04:00,480
Eternity is real this morning. 
God's called you to a higher 

1041
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,680
place. 
God's called you to a deeper 

1042
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:06,800
love. 
God's called you to a greater 

1043
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:10,480
calling. 
And if we're willing to say 

1044
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:15,160
Jesus my life for your glory, 
friend there. 

1045
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:19,400
Listen, there's nothing 
impossible for Davao, for 

1046
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:22,560
Mindanao through all these 
islands throughout the 

1047
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:27,880
Philippines, through the nations
of Asia, the nations of Europe, 

1048
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,520
through the continent of that. 
Listen, friend, there's. 

1049
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:33,720
Nothing. 
Impossible when we live for 

1050
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:34,400
eternity.