1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,760 So I know that you are excited for the word of God. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,760 I know we have something special today. 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:14,480 So please help me welcome our speaker, our pitcher for today's 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,680 no other than the most handsome guy in the world in the eyes of 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:26,240 Adi, Cassie Kuya, Eric Miller. In the eyes of Adi Cassie, 6 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:31,360 that's all that matters. Hallelujah. 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,400 Do evangelism. Look at your neighbor and say do 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:43,920 evangelism. In fact, Simon Peters says do 9 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:49,160 evangelism. OK, You know that Peter's name 10 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:52,240 was also Simon, right? You know that? 11 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,120 OK, good. All right, everybody stand up. 12 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:07,840 When I say Simon Says, like if I say Simon Says lift up your 13 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,000 right hand, everybody do that. OK. 14 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,880 Yeah. Now if I don't say Simon Says 15 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:18,840 and I say lift up your hand, don't do it because Simon didn't 16 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,560 say that. OK Are you ready? 17 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:24,480 OK, Everybody lift up their left hand. 18 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:31,840 Simon didn't say that. So you could sit down. 19 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,120 If if you lifted up your hand, you could sit down. 20 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,400 Go ahead. Look at that. 21 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,120 See Trial. Trial. 22 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,800 What do you think this is? Windows trial. 23 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,240 Windows operating system here. OK, one more chance. 24 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,000 OK, Because we forgive in church. 25 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,520 OK, Simon Says lift up your right hand. 26 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:04,840 Simon Says shake it around. Simon Says do a kiss at your 27 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:09,919 neighbor. Simon Says put your arm down. 28 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,200 Simon Says put your left arm up, now put it back down. 29 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,280 OK, if you put it down, sit down. 30 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,800 OK, good job. Good job. 31 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,720 Wow, we have some determined people. 32 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,800 Look, some of you are looking at me like I am going to win right 33 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:33,520 now, OK? Simon Says jump up and down. 34 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,280 Simon Says wave at the left hand. 35 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:46,240 Simon Says stop. He was like. 36 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,320 It was too much going on at once, OK, Simon Says. 37 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:55,360 Sit down, because Simon Says we don't want to play this game for 38 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,000 the rest of the night, for the rest of the day. 39 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,800 Praise God, Simon Says. So that's the name of this Simon 40 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:09,320 Says do evangelism, right? Well, Simon Peter, a lot of you 41 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,320 know this already. I'm just going to briefly go 42 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,280 over this. Simon Peter is considered by the 43 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,720 Catholic Church to be the first Pope. 44 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,880 OK? He was the 1st universal leader 45 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,920 on earth for the church. Now I don't believe the Bible 46 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:33,360 tells us that, and I think they came to that conclusion 47 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:38,360 according to their own theology. However, let's read what the 48 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:46,000 scripture says in Matthew 1613 through 20 very famous encounter 49 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,360 Jesus has with Peter, Simon Peter. 50 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:56,200 When Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his 51 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,680 disciples who do, who do men say that I, the Son of Man AM? 52 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,720 So they said some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, others 53 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:10,680 Jeremiah or one of the prophets. So to be put in that category, 54 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,960 people were thinking of Jesus very highly, right? 55 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,480 That's a if. If somebody were to say to you, 56 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,680 you know, Mark, you remind me of the prophet Elijah, that would 57 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,640 be like, whoa, man, that that's a high standard, right? 58 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:33,800 So they were not thinking of devaluing Jesus, but they also 59 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,440 didn't realize how valuable Jesus was at the moment. 60 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,640 So he said to them, But who do you say that I am? 61 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,080 See, that's the most important question you could ever ask 62 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,320 yourself. Who do you say that Jesus is? 63 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,640 It's not. Who do you think somebody else 64 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,760 says that Jesus is? It's Who do you say that he is? 65 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,960 Simon Peter had answered. You are the. 66 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,680 Christ. Wow. 67 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,080 What is that? You are the Messiah, the Son of 68 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,720 the living God. So this is way beyond prophet 69 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,680 status. This is way beyond apostle 70 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,600 status or any other status we could think of. 71 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,520 That's that's important in the Kingdom of God. 72 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,360 He is saying. And let's let's think about 73 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,200 Peter for a moment, OK? Simon Peter was a fisherman. 74 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,600 He was not the most educated guy. 75 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,720 OK, there was Luke who was a doctor, and Matthew a tax 76 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:45,040 collector, and there were people who followed Jesus that had a 77 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,240 real profession. Before they followed Jesus, 78 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,800 whether it was a good profession or not, they they had status in 79 00:05:52,800 --> 00:06:00,120 community, in society at large. And here the the simple 80 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:05,120 fisherman Simon Peter says you. Are the Messiah. 81 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:09,680 Now, I don't know that anybody else would have been willing to 82 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,240 say that because that right there could be considered 83 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:20,640 blasphemy. So Simon Peters saying this is a 84 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:27,080 big deal, and we all know that he would be the guy who would 85 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:31,800 speak out first a lot, but yet there was something. 86 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,160 I think he had an urge on the inside of him that he had 87 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,920 revelation. So when Jesus asked the 88 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:45,800 question, who do you say that I am, It's like you're the Christ, 89 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,600 like he, he just, it was coming. It was on the tip of his tongue 90 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:55,320 and it was coming from the overflow of the appreciation and 91 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,920 love. That he had for the Lord Jesus 92 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:03,400 answered and said, Blessed are you Simon Barjona, which means 93 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,160 Simon son of Jonah, for flesh and blood is not revealed this 94 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,720 to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 95 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,560 And I also say to you that you are Peter. 96 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:19,560 Now in the Greek, that word for Peter is Petros. 97 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:25,600 And it means a small rock. And on this rock, which is 98 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:30,240 another Greek word for large rock, like a Cliff. 99 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,600 Now, I want you to pay attention if you don't understand this. 100 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:39,000 There's a difference between small rock and big rock, OK? 101 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:45,560 Because Peter is small rock, let's call him a living stone. 102 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,360 And the revelation that he's having is called the big rock, 103 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:56,440 the Cliff, this mountain, this huge, you know, important and 104 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,200 valuable revelation that he is having at this moment. 105 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,560 You are Peter on this small rock. 106 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,000 I will build my. Church, right? 107 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,600 I, I will build and on this rock, this large rock of 108 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,800 Revelation, I will build my church. 109 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:21,080 So I will use you to build my church, but you are not the 110 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,440 foundation of the church. You are not the beginning of the 111 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,560 church. The cornerstone. 112 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,920 We know actually who tells us that Jesus is the cornerstone? 113 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,640 Peter. First Peter. 114 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:39,240 And he reiterates from the Old Testament, from the Old 115 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:45,000 Covenant, that the Messiah would be the cornerstone and. 116 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,800 So. Peter says that Jesus is the 117 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:52,400 cornerstone built upon the foundation of the apostles, 118 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,040 prophets and and teachers. And then what? 119 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:01,600 Happens you and I are like living stones being fit into the 120 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,560 building of the body of Christ the church that are making the 121 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:08,480 church look like what it should look. 122 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,840 Like. And the gates of Hades will not 123 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,520 prevail against it. Is he saying the gates of Hades 124 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,520 will not prevail against Peter? What he's saying is the gates of 125 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:25,480 hell will not prevail against the revelation that I've shown 126 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,000 you. And because you are in me, they 127 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,160 will also not prevail against you because you stand on the 128 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,800 solid, the big rock of revelation that I am the 129 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,760 Messiah. I am God in the flesh. 130 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:47,800 Does anybody believe that? Yeah, that is the key to 131 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,800 understanding who you are in Christ. 132 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,320 Because if you don't understand what foundation that you are 133 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,880 being built off of, then you're going to build something else 134 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,240 other than what the foundation looks like. 135 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:08,240 If you don't have clear revelation of who Jesus is, look 136 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,120 up here. If you don't have clear 137 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,640 revelation of Jesus is and you want to build the church, you 138 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,160 are going to build something else. 139 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,280 If it's not built off of the right foundation. 140 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:27,200 Like you can't call yourself a Christian and say I'm going to 141 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,640 build this thing my way. No, no, no, no. 142 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,000 You can't not be a man or a woman of prayer. 143 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,800 You can't not be a man or a woman of the word of God. 144 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,680 You can't not live in the fear of the Lord. 145 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,400 These things are requirements if we're going to build His church. 146 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:49,800 You can't not be a. Part of a community of 147 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,880 believers. See, This is why it's so hard. 148 00:10:54,240 --> 00:11:00,040 Because I'm praying to God that your revelation of Jesus, my 149 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,640 revelation of Jesus, everybody's revelation of Jesus, helps us to 150 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,800 build off of the right foundation. 151 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,440 Because if we don't, we're going to build something that is 152 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:17,680 comfortable to us, that is OK for our flesh to deal with, that 153 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:21,120 doesn't challenge us. You see, if if we read 154 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,320 scriptures, like Jesus said, if any man would come after me, let 155 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:28,000 him deny himself, take up his cross and come follow me, that 156 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,160 is uncomfortable. I don't really want to do that. 157 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:37,360 Who wants to die in a cross? No, but if I build off of the 158 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,760 foundation, what is the foundation say is that the one 159 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:46,960 who laid his life for me is worth for me to lay my life down 160 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:47,720 for? Him. 161 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,560 Because of this revelation, I will give you the keys of the 162 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:55,640 Kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound 163 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,360 in heaven. He's given you authority. 164 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,400 That's what these keys represent. 165 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,720 And whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 166 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,560 Look, if if you don't realize you have authority in this life, 167 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,240 then you're always going to think that in this life things 168 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:16,160 can only happen a certain way. What do I mean? 169 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,880 That if you need a breakthrough for something, you'd healing, 170 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,600 you need finances, you need a miracle, you need relational 171 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,360 tension, you know, healed and restored. 172 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,400 These things are sometimes out of our control. 173 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:37,240 But see, when we build off of the foundation of Jesus, that 174 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:44,440 revelation, we have hope outside of our limitations. 175 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,400 There's no limitations. If you're born again, the only 176 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,680 limitation is that you should not sin anymore. 177 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:55,320 But if you live. Holy. 178 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,280 If you live a life devoted to the Lord, if you believe in the 179 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,360 promises of His Word, if you choose to walk by faith, then 180 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,480 this will reveal the revelation that you have of Jesus, the Son 181 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,640 of God, the Messiah. And then he commanded his 182 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,240 disciples that they should tell no one. 183 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,720 Look at this. This doesn't sound like 184 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:24,320 evangelism, right? Like, aren't we supposed to tell 185 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,080 everybody about Jesus? Well, it's not that Jesus isn't 186 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,320 saying don't tell people about him at all. 187 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:39,680 But at that point, he did not want people to just say, oh, 188 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,760 he's the Messiah because Peter said it. 189 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:48,360 What he wants is for you to know that he's the Messiah because 190 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:53,120 you have revelation. He doesn't want people to have a 191 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:58,320 shortcut of coming to God without there being revelation 192 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,200 in your heart. Wow. 193 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:06,720 Well, what are we talking about here? 194 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,160 You need to listen and TuneIn this morning because some of you 195 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:15,720 are here and maybe some of you have been sitting in church for 196 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:20,800 years and you don't have revelation of who Jesus is. 197 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,600 And that lack of revelation is why you can't break free from 198 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:30,720 the power and bondage of sin. See Pastor Pearl had revelation 199 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,360 of who Jesus is. And because of that, it changed 200 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,240 the way that she lived. It changed the way that she 201 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,920 devoted her life and her time. She gave herself to some of 202 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,960 these young ladies and other young men and women there in 203 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:51,840 Trento. And now she's in heaven reaping 204 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:57,320 a reward because she chose to have revelation of who? 205 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:58,320 Jesus. Is. 206 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,640 Friend, are you with me this morning? 207 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:08,440 Because we need to emphasize how important this revelation is. 208 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,960 If you get to heaven and there you are standing at the gates of 209 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:19,400 heaven, God's not going to say, OK, all members of Maranatha 210 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:24,440 Church come forward. He's not going to say graduates 211 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,760 of Fire School ministry, those who went to the Brownsville 212 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:33,160 Revival come on through. No, he's going to say, OK, those 213 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:37,600 of you who have had revelation that Jesus is the Christ and you 214 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,200 made that confession on earth, you stand on the right. 215 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,680 And those of you who did not confess him, you stand on the 216 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:51,440 left. This is evangelism. 217 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:56,680 This is if we don't understand this about evangelism, then we 218 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:01,120 don't know what we're talking about because a lot of people 219 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:06,120 know methods to evangelism, but without revelation, the method 220 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:11,240 doesn't matter. Learn all the methods you can. 221 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,320 Learn how other people do it. Share your testimony. 222 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,400 I would encourage you to do that, but if you don't have 223 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,880 revelation of Jesus, you don't have a testimony. 224 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,760 What's a testimony? It talks about what Jesus saved 225 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,320 you from. Let me ask you a question. 226 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,440 I feel real evangelistic this morning. 227 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,440 Do you know what Jesus saved you from? 228 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:45,000 Sin. OK, that's a general then 229 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,400 Glacier and Christo would probably tell me that. 230 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,600 And they don't. Believe Jesus is the Son of God. 231 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,640 I had so many Filipinos who tell me, oh sin, but then I say, what 232 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,720 sin did Jesus save you for? Save you from? 233 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:05,640 See, that's the point, is that if you have a real testimony, 234 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:07,560 you know what Jesus saved you from. 235 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,760 Now, you might have grown up in a very godly family. 236 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:17,079 And I know some people who don't necessarily remember when they 237 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:20,800 got born again because they were always raised in the fear of the 238 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,560 Lord, and their heart has been sustained with God. 239 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:29,240 And I'm not going to judge their heart if I see fruit coming from 240 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,480 their life. See the goal is not just about 241 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:38,160 how many times we go to church, how many prayers we we pray and 242 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,560 how many right things we do. The goal is, is there fruit 243 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:47,400 coming from your life? See, this is what we want to do. 244 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:52,520 And This is why the parable of the sower is Jesus most 245 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:57,000 important parable. It's because if we don't discern 246 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:02,880 our purpose in planting seed and watering seed, then we're going 247 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:07,640 to try to do God's part to save people, which we cannot do. 248 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,880 And then we make people believe that they have some type of 249 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:16,960 relationship with God because of what we said instead of having 250 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:21,080 revelation in their own heart. Is this making sense? 251 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,600 Let's go on. Listen, Peter was important. 252 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:32,760 We value him as one of the 12 disciples that Jesus called and 253 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:38,360 and in Revelation 21 verse 14, he's called one of the apostles 254 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:41,480 of the Lamb. That means he is part of the 255 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,480 foundational group that started the church. 256 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,040 OK, there is a special unique place. 257 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,720 Those guys will never be replaced. 258 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,480 I believe in apostles and prophets, pastors, teachers 259 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:59,280 today, but I don't believe that that we will ever change the 260 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,600 foundation. OK. 261 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:06,480 And and we are not allowed to write Scripture now because the 262 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:11,080 Scripture is already contained. It's already been written and 263 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,040 it's not to be added to. That's what the Book of 264 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,840 Revelation tells us or taken away from. 265 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:24,080 Our responsibility is to continue to have revelation of 266 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:28,080 who Jesus is. And through that revelation, we 267 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:33,160 surrender our will to God, and whatever place in the body you 268 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:38,000 and I are called to have, we are simply living stones building 269 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:45,600 the Kingdom of God. Peter, Simon Peter, he was 270 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:50,480 important, but he was not more important than Jesus, and nor 271 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,640 was he more important than the. Rest of the body. 272 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,080 Listen, in a body there's only one head. 273 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,160 Anything with more than one head, if there's two heads is a 274 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:07,560 freak, it's a monster. And that's not supposed. 275 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:12,960 There's too many opinions there. But see, Jesus is the head of 276 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,480 the church. And because he's the head of the 277 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:21,560 church, we get revelation from him and he helps us function as 278 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:23,520 a body. Now there's different parts of 279 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,520 the body. There's parts that are seen and 280 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:31,600 there's parts that are unseen, but as you mature in your 281 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:37,400 revelation of who the head is, Jesus, he will help you and I be 282 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,760 fitted in to the body of Christ so that we don't make ourselves 283 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,680 more important than anybody. Else but what we do is say it's 284 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,800 all about the head and I'm going to play my role. 285 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:55,120 Amen. Just as there are many in the 286 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:59,440 Bible with the name Simon, there are many in the body of Christ 287 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,520 who are just as important as Simon. 288 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,040 The great thing about evangelism and missions is that everyone in 289 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,880 Christ's body is called to do it. 290 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:14,840 Now here we are in Israel with two young ladies, IDF soldiers, 291 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,640 and Angelita and Sam are with us. 292 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,040 And each of us, we're sharing with these young ladies. 293 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:26,080 We were praying for them. And you know what, people could. 294 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:32,280 A lot of times I won't go on evangelism groups unless I'm 295 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,920 training people and trying to encourage people to go out. 296 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:40,320 But like Nathan and and you guys, when you go out, you don't 297 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,680 need me to be there. And the reason I do that is 298 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,200 because I don't want there to be a difference. 299 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,000 Oh, let let's hear from Sir Eric. 300 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:56,760 Because what happens is, is that we teach people always that only 301 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:01,000 certain people can really share about Jesus because they've 302 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,360 studied, because they've been doing this for a long time. 303 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,800 Frank, can I tell you if you've had revelation of Jesus, that's 304 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:15,240 your qualification to talk about him now, Yes, we mature in our 305 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,000 understanding of the Lord and there should be a a hunger and a 306 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:23,680 thirst for God in our hearts that as we share, we understand 307 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,400 more of what the word of God says, who we are in the body of 308 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:33,400 Christ and how we are to function and our unique type of 309 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,520 evangelism. Second Timothy 4 verse 5 says 310 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:42,240 But be watchful. In all things endure 311 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:49,400 afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your 312 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:57,120 ministry to me. I believe this gift. 313 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:02,040 Of evangelism, not just evangelist, because he's not 314 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,280 telling everybody to be an evangelist. 315 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,360 He's saying to do the work of an evangelist. 316 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,760 This gift in the body is a requirement for everybody 317 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,320 because we're all called to go make disciples. 318 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:21,680 You can't make disciples without doing evangelism right? 319 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:27,360 You do evangelism because out of the overflow of your 320 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:32,720 relationship with God, you desire to tell people of your 321 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:37,840 experience of how Jesus has changed your life, and you want 322 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:43,640 to testify that his life is genuine and real to you. 323 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,240 And through your personality, your gifts, your talents, your 324 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:52,200 skills, your abilities, your experiences, all of these things 325 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:57,720 play into the valuable testimony of what God is trying to release 326 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,800 in and through your life. So if you compare yourself to 327 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:06,440 other people all the time, or you devalue yourself because you 328 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,120 don't have that, you were a serial killer before and now 329 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:13,640 you're born again. My point is that no matter how 330 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:18,920 bad your testimony seems, all were sinners and have fallen 331 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:23,840 short of the glory of God. So if Jesus Christ has redeemed 332 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,560 you and has forgiven you, then no matter what your place in the 333 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:34,120 body is, you are called to share the good news of the Gospel to 334 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:40,520 the uniqueness of your own life. God has created you with a 335 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,920 divine purpose. And you've got to understand 336 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,640 that that purpose is so important. 337 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,240 You know, I saw a video, I think it was maybe this morning. 338 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,080 It liugen he was, he was, he was being thrown. 339 00:24:54,280 --> 00:25:01,120 All around now, I know that if I were to get into the judo ring 340 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,840 with Liugen or this other guy, I would have no idea what I'm 341 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,600 doing and I would be thrown around like a fish out of water, 342 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,280 right? There's there's really no 343 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,080 function for me because I don't know what I'm doing. 344 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:22,040 So if I were to evangelize guys who do judo, of course I could 345 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,560 share my testimony. But if? 346 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,800 He. Shared his testimony. 347 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,600 Because he understands where these guys are AT and what type 348 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,040 of training and and what they have. 349 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,800 You know, the different belts that talk about their maturing 350 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:43,800 process in judo. He has such a better opportunity 351 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:49,080 to share with those people, even though that I'm the director of 352 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,720 Fire School of Ministry. Do you hear what I'm saying? 353 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:57,800 It's we can't just say, oh, this person's up here and I'm down 354 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:02,120 here and it's not valuable. No, where you are, who you're 355 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:06,400 working with, where God has placed you in this life, it's by 356 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,880 divine appointment. And if you don't see that, how 357 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:16,280 important it is to God, you're going to leave with you're not 358 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,320 going to evangelize people. In fact, you may not even open 359 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,400 up your mouth. And what a lot of us do is we 360 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,800 default and we say, oh, just come to me, with my, to my. 361 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,360 Church, can I encourage you to lead people to Jesus outside the 362 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:32,880 building? Why? 363 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,320 Because Jesus is no more holy here than he is in your office 364 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,760 or your house or your school or the jeepney or wherever your 365 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,080 college campus. What are we? 366 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:51,320 Saying is that He's holy if he lives in you and your life is 367 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,520 devoted to Him. You are a temple of the Holy 368 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,280 Spirit and that's what makes you and Jesus so important. 369 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,840 When we come together to worship, we sense the glory of 370 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,880 God. We were here Friday night and we 371 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,640 were worshiping at the Soaking in the Presence gathering. 372 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:15,840 And the glory of God was there. It was so powerful when we were 373 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,600 worshiping. And you sense just the thickness 374 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,880 of the press. That's the manifested presence 375 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,320 of God is so wonderful. And I think God does that when 376 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,080 his people come together. But you don't need hundreds of 377 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:37,040 people for God to come together. In fact, he lives in you and he 378 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,080 goes with. You. 379 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,520 And he said where two or three are gathered, there I am in the 380 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,720 midst. But let me take it a little bit 381 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,160 deeper. If Jesus and you were together, 382 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,960 that's 2. So even if you think you're 383 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,360 alone, you're never technically alone. 384 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,680 And if you lift up the name of Jesus with confidence. 385 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,720 Of knowing what God has done in your life, it will matter. 386 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,680 Let's go on out of the fivefold Apostolic servant leadership 387 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,880 gives doing the work of an evangelist a specific 388 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,200 requirement made by Paul for everyone. 389 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,600 The body of Christ. Here are different people named 390 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,840 Simon in the New Testament. Now there's some some people say 391 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,760 there's 8. Some people say 9:00. 392 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,480 I'm going to say there's nine different Simon's, and I won't 393 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,000 get into all why that is right now. 394 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,560 It's just too much to explain. But #1 there's Simon Peter, the 395 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:36,480 most famous of the 12 apostles, right #2 Simon the Zealot, 396 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:43,160 another apostle known for his political zeal or fervor #3 397 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,680 Simon, brother of Jesus, mentioned as one of Jesus 398 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:52,240 brothers #4 Simon of Serene, forced to carry the cross of 399 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,000 Jesus on the Via Dolorosa, right when Jesus was going to be 400 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:01,400 crucified, Simon the leper, he hosted a dinner where Jesus was 401 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:07,760 anointed and Mary came and washed her hair, his feet with 402 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,880 her hair, right? And then Simon the Tanner hosted 403 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:17,360 Peter and Joppa, which is when Cornelius was having Revelation 404 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,040 of, of this sheet coming down from heaven, right? 405 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,600 And, and he, well, Peter was having that revelation. 406 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,120 And then Cornelius and Peter were coming together and, and 407 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,480 Simon and Tanner hosted Peter and which was a very important 408 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:41,480 historical moment in the church #7 Simon Magus, a sorcerer who 409 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,080 tried to buy the spiritual power, right? 410 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,160 I want this power. You know, what? 411 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,920 Can I pay for it? And he got rebuked harshly #8 412 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:56,920 Simon, father of Judas Iscariot. He was the father of the 413 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,640 betrayer. Judas is known as the greatest 414 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:05,880 betrayer in history. Think about if you had to be the 415 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:11,240 Father and what type of pressure that would bring upon you. 416 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,160 And then lastly, Simon the Pharisee, a woman. 417 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,880 Now there at least are two different scenarios and all four 418 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:26,840 gospels they talk about a woman, you know, washing Jesus feet and 419 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,320 then the alabaster box, right and all that. 420 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:34,720 So one was at Simon the Tanners house and then one was at Simon 421 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,520 the Pharisees house. There were two separate 422 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,680 occasions, which is very interesting because Jesus was at 423 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,840 least anointed twice. And they're very similar 424 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,600 stories. You see, sometimes the Bible has 425 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:52,640 stories like this where in the Old Testament, Abraham and his 426 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,920 wife, right, he doesn't tell. I, I think was it Alimelech 427 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:01,880 maybe who his wife was? And he, you know, Alimelech saw 428 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,120 him kissing on his wife, you know, and, and he said, well, 429 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,320 you should have told me that your wife, you know, or would 430 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,400 have got in trouble. And he was warned by God to not 431 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,440 do that. And then the same thing happened 432 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,600 in Isaac and in Rebecca's life, a very similar story. 433 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:21,760 So sometimes there are stories that are told more than once, 434 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,520 but they are also separate stories. 435 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,520 Just as there are different people with the name Simon, so 436 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:35,200 there are unique parts of the body of Christ who impact others 437 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,400 with their own creative evangelism and discipleship. 438 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:45,640 So #1 some Simon's. Evangelize has five fold 439 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,120 ministers just like Simon Peter, right? 440 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,720 We we talk about the hand, right, Which to me is a great 441 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,400 example. Somebody showed me this a long 442 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,800 time ago that an apostle's like a thumb because he could touch 443 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,520 all the other gifts. The pointer finger is like a 444 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,360 prophet because he points the way. 445 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,880 The middle finger is like an evangelist because he extends 446 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:13,360 and reaches out the farthest. The ring finger is like the 447 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,520 pastor because he's married to the church and the pinky is like 448 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,720 a teacher because he gets in your ear. 449 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,440 But an apostle to me can touch those gifts. 450 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,400 But it should be the goal of somebody with an apostle type 451 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:37,160 anointing to kind of pioneer something. 452 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,640 And then when they see an evangelist rise up, they prefer 453 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,800 the evangelist because they could do it. 454 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,600 But then when you have this person who is specifically 455 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,680 designed to be an evangelist, they equipped the church even 456 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,720 better than you would as an apostle. 457 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:01,760 So putting that aside, I think a lot of people think that 458 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:07,040 evangelists should always be like Simon Peter because that's 459 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,200 a 5 fold ministry gift. And again, that's the reason why 460 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:15,640 I think we all defer other people to do evangelism who are 461 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:20,360 with who carry those titles. And look, if if someone like a 462 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,640 Daniel calendar walked in here right now, I would probably sit 463 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,000 down and stop talking about evangelism. 464 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,560 Why? Because there's, that's just 465 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:34,040 what he does, You know, there's, there's people that, that are 466 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,360 very obvious. I, I think Nathan carries a very 467 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,760 strong evangelist. John Paul, right, carries a very 468 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,600 strong evangelistic anointing on their life. 469 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,960 And, and are they an evangelist? I, I mean, I think it's not 470 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,440 important about labeling people about what they are and, or what 471 00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:00,800 we think they are, but just honoring what we see so that we 472 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,240 can and value the creativity coming from their life and be 473 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,199 able to receive the equipping that we need as a local body. 474 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:14,040 And so I, I, I'm all for that type of an evangelist for 475 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:18,520 evangelism, but we can't limit ourselves. 476 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:24,280 Look at here. Some Simon's right, like Simon 477 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,000 the Zealot, evangelize in the political realm. 478 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,440 How many of you have heard of Charlie Kirk? 479 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,719 I wouldn't necessarily say that he was an evangelist. 480 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,520 It maybe he was I, I don't know. But what I do know is that in 481 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:45,199 the political realm, this guy was able to keep the value for 482 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,600 Jesus. Christ and his church going to 483 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:53,239 very difficult university campuses, preaching the gospel 484 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,400 and answering questions in the political realm unlike anybody 485 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:04,160 we've probably ever heard of. And I think that's one of the 486 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,200 reasons why the enemy wanted to take him out. 487 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:10,320 And, and let me say that even though the enemy took him out, I 488 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,360 believe God allowed him to go right. 489 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,360 Jesus said nobody takes my life from me and you as a child of 490 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,280 God. There are certain things that 491 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,600 God might allow in our lives at times that we don't understand, 492 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,000 but the fact is that if we live for the glory of God, then no 493 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,880 matter how we get there, we make sure that we we get there. 494 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:37,640 And Jesus is honored Charlie Kirk, a name that is messed up 495 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,880 entire nations. Religions. 496 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,640 The Ayatollah in Iran who's hiding for his life right now. 497 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,920 You know what he knows? The name Charlie Kirk. 498 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:55,320 I promise you, he's probably seen a reel of Charlie Kirk 499 00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:02,840 saying Islam is not the truth and explaining why that is. 500 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,440 I I I think. That we have to understand that 501 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,920 Charlie Kirk was used by God and that political realm, and some 502 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:19,000 of you might be called into the political realm to evangelize 503 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,280 people. You know, there's a lot of 504 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,200 politics even in the business world here, right? 505 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,520 And we need godly people. I remember talking to a 506 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,120 businessman once, and he was talking about some different 507 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:38,800 government authorities. I won't say who, but people they 508 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,520 have to pay money to for their business. 509 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:48,480 And he was talking about how they took so much money that 510 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,040 wasn't what they were supposed to pay and it was more than what 511 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:56,440 they were supposed to pay. And and he was struggling with 512 00:36:57,720 --> 00:36:58,840 how. Do I be? 513 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:05,360 Righteous in the midst of this all, listen, I'm not a 514 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,960 businessman. I'm not in that realm of 515 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,640 politics. And let me encourage you that if 516 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:17,080 you are involved with that in some level or degree or desire 517 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:22,600 to do that, friend, you are needed to evangelize there. 518 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,960 Because there are people there who would never come to this 519 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,920 church and hear my preaching, would never come to a conference 520 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:36,040 I'm speaking at, or or maybe be on the streets in Agdao or 521 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,760 something. What are we saying is that? 522 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:43,720 There are zip codes that God has placed you in spiritual zip 523 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:45,360 codes. That he might. 524 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,720 Call you to that is extremely important and and if you feel, 525 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,600 if you feel like you have a desire to be involved with 526 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,640 politics in some way, either you are presently or have a desire 527 00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,280 to. I'm not asking you to commit to 528 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,080 anything, nor am I trying to label anything on you. 529 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:04,040 But if you feel that, raise your hand. 530 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,880 Anybody. Wow. 531 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,800 Nobody. Well, Lord, we pray that in our 532 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,720 community that you would raise up people who feel that burden, 533 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:22,480 because let me tell you why. Who feels called to go to 534 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:26,960 Cambodia? We already have somebody there. 535 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,000 That's awesome. This. 536 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,880 Political realm is just like the mission field overseas. 537 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,400 But see, we don't see it like that. 538 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:45,160 And, and, and can I encourage you and slightly rebuke you is 539 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,880 that when we take the shortcut of inviting people to church to 540 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:56,240 not personally evangelize them, we are not giving people an 541 00:38:56,240 --> 00:39:00,600 opportunity that they deserve to hear the gospel. 542 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,520 Yes, they can hear the gospel in the church. 543 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:10,080 But when people experience the power of God outside a church 544 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,400 building or facility, it takes on a whole different 545 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,880 transformation. This is why we have these 546 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,080 discipleship groups. This is why we have these small 547 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,440 groups. Because guys, we have to win 548 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:28,320 souls, make disciples, and we all have to bear that 549 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:34,080 responsibility. Especially when some of us are 550 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,440 not called to be in those other sectors. 551 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:42,800 Let me go on number 3. Some Simon's evangelize as a 552 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,920 family to the lonely, like Jesus, brother, brother of Jesus 553 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,200 right here. Family. 554 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:58,720 How many of you have a family? Do you know one of Casey and 555 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:01,800 mine's favorite scripture? I think it's Psalm 68. 556 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,800 I think it's 68. It says God sets the. 557 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,200 Lonely into a family? Who are the loneliest people in 558 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,280 the world? People who don't have Jesus? 559 00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:22,960 Your family should be so strong. That God, when he brings lonely 560 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,320 people to you, your family should be able to love on them 561 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,080 and should be able to now I'm not saying you got a house and 562 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,160 feed everybody but think about this. 563 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,160 Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these you also do 564 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:42,160 unto me. Nobody's asking you to open up a 565 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,880 boarding house. What I'm saying is, is that. 566 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:51,520 It's hard. I understand financially that it 567 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,800 costs a lot of money to do ministry. 568 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:59,160 Believe me, I understand that. And I understand if you don't 569 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:03,160 have a big house and an extra room and all that, OK, you do 570 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:08,120 what you have grace to do. But if you devalue what you can 571 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:12,200 do all the time as a family, then you. 572 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,800 Won't ever feel a responsibility to share your bread with the 573 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,280 hungry. Why? 574 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,080 Why are we talking about sharing your bread? 575 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,040 Why are we talking about housing somebody? 576 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,360 Why are we talking about clothing somebody? 577 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:28,640 Because guys, when we do that, it plants it. 578 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,280 It prepares the soil to plant the seed of the gospel. 579 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,560 If I come up to you and come up to judge and I tell him you need 580 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,880 to repent so that Jesus come in your life and he can forgive you 581 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,040 or sin, is that true? Absolutely it's true. 582 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,600 But if I take him. And I say judge, man, it's so 583 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,400 good to see you, bro, you know? I'm so proud of you, man. 584 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,680 Hey, why don't we go get lunch sometime and we sit down and we 585 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,600 talk or we play basketball and I let him win. 586 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:04,800 And we and we, you know. We communicate that way. 587 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,680 You know what's going to happen. Eventually, he's going to want 588 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,880 to hear why I am the way that I am, Why I. 589 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,160 Care the way that I care. Is this making sense? 590 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,760 You see, you have something in your hand that God's given you 591 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:26,960 to evangelize the lost. You just have to be willing to 592 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,040 do something with it and as a family. 593 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,320 Listen, maybe one of your goals is to get married and to have 594 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,800 children. Can I encourage you that when 595 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:45,200 you reach those goals, to think about people who don't have 596 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:50,280 families, think about people who don't have loved ones nearby? 597 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,480 We have a lot of our our sisters from India. 598 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,280 They, they've been away from their families for some years 599 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,280 now and they go back every now and then if they can. 600 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,280 It's expensive. And we've had some come to our 601 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,080 house. I know the Valdez have had many 602 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:12,320 times these folks come to their home and embrace them and love 603 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:13,560 on them. And I think that's part of the 604 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,000 reason why they're here in the. Church and and, and maybe they 605 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:22,040 were already born again, but the point is if if we show love to 606 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,080 them, maybe they're going to want to show love to some other 607 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:30,920 students in their school. You see, this thing multiplies 608 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:37,920 when we're willing to step out and do our purposeful obedience. 609 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,160 And not just wait on somebody else or the church to do 610 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:46,120 everything for us. Some Simon's number 5 evangelize 611 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,960 with their testimony, right? Simon the Leper. 612 00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:57,000 What a testimony. He got healed from leprosy and 613 00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,680 now Jesus is hanging out at his house. 614 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,120 This guy has something that is so unique. 615 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,400 How many of you got healed from leprosy? 616 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:13,080 That's what I'm talking about. And there's people that we hear 617 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:18,520 their testimonies who got saved out of a, a lifestyle of this or 618 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,600 that. And you know, they were, you 619 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,000 know. In prison, how many? 620 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,960 You know Nash's testimony, right? 621 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,520 Look at that testimony. Amazing. 622 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,680 Here's a guy who was in prison in gangs. 623 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,200 All kinds of trouble causing trouble. 624 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:39,600 And now he gets born again and he comes to church. 625 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,560 I'll never forget it. When we had the church in 626 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:47,480 Victoria Plaza in the cinema, we had a big open space and when 627 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:51,000 these guys would be singing and worshipping and everybody be all 628 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:55,760 excited like we were today, Nash would fall on the ground and 629 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,720 start break dancing and doing a backspin. 630 00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:00,520 If you want to see a real backspin, go ask Nash. 631 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,200 What did I know? Well, one time I had my eyes 632 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,960 closed and worshipping and I felt wind. 633 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:11,520 And I'm like, where's that wind coming? 634 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,320 And he was doing a windmill on the floor. 635 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,760 His legs are out. He would go on the stage and he 636 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,360 would jump into the crowd and stuff. 637 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,520 I'm like, this is cool. I like this. 638 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:28,120 It's a different church, right? You know, I'm not recommending 639 00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:28,760 that. OK. 640 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:30,720 We don't have a very big high stage, OK? 641 00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:32,080 No crowd surfing. OK. 642 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,760 But I mean. What a testimony. 643 00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:41,160 And now look at his life. He married, He's married. 644 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,960 He's got three children. They're pastoring a church now, 645 00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:49,360 they're teaching at FIRE school. They're going on missions trips. 646 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:54,360 They're making an impact. Look, not all of us have a 647 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:59,360 testimony that I was in prison and some of you might think, 648 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:03,200 well I don't, my testimony is not really that good. 649 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,160 No, your testimony really is good. 650 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,760 In fact, God's designed your testimony to reach some specific 651 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:17,920 people that Nash will not reach, that Eric would not reach, 652 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,600 right, that pastor aren't different ones would not reach. 653 00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:25,160 Listen, your testimony is extremely valuable. 654 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:29,480 And let me say, if you don't know theologically all the right 655 00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,840 things to say in evangelism, just talk about how Jesus saved 656 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,880 you and brought you out of darkness into his marvelous 657 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,440 light. The more you do that, the more 658 00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,480 you read the word of God, the better you're going to become at 659 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,400 sharing what God's done in your life. 660 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:52,480 Let's go on here some Simon's evangelized through hospitality. 661 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:58,080 Hospitality. Look at this Simon the Tanner, 662 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,960 right? He hosted Simon Peter in his 663 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,960 house to meet Cornelius. Why was that important? 664 00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:09,520 Because now the Holy Spirit is about to be poured out on the 665 00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,000 Gentiles. Nobody knows Simon the Tan. 666 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,160 Or, or what do you know about Simon the tan? 667 00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,640 He didn't just sit on a beach and get a tan, OK? 668 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,640 No, he wasn't on the beach of Tel Aviv like, oh, this is 669 00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,080 great. I love to live here, you know? 670 00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:28,520 But my point is, is that Simon the Tanner, he, he would take 671 00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:33,240 skins, animal skins, and he would make them into products 672 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:36,800 that people would use. And that's why he's called a 673 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:42,080 Tanner. And so Peter Simon Peter stayed 674 00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:47,800 at his house and he hosted one of the greatest events. 675 00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:53,320 In church history, in fact, everybody in this room should 676 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:57,520 appreciate that Simon the Tanner gave a place for Peter the 677 00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:02,760 Apostle to sleep because the Holy Spirit was poured out even 678 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:07,720 in the Gentiles. And 2000 years later, all of us 679 00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:11,320 Gentiles in this room are very grateful. 680 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:18,440 Look, Simon the Tanner didn't do all that Simon Peter did. 681 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:24,800 Simon the Tanner didn't have the, the, you know, the, the 682 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:31,120 testimony of a leper. But Simon Tanner had one event 683 00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,720 in his life where he showed up when he was supposed to show up, 684 00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:42,320 and that changed world history. See, if we compare ourselves to 685 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:46,520 other people all the time, we'll devalue the moment or the 686 00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,360 opportunity that God can use us because we're always thinking, 687 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,360 well, I'm never going to be like somebody else. 688 00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:58,200 Who else can I be like? Be yourself, be who God ordained 689 00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:03,360 you to be, created you to be Some Simon's evangelize 690 00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,720 apologetically in the Word and Spirit. 691 00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:14,840 Just like where is it? Simon the the sorcerer, so he 692 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:19,320 was dealt with because he was involved with witchcraft and he 693 00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,600 was rebuked. But I think, I wonder if Simon 694 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:27,560 the sorcerer just had a real desire for understanding what 695 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,440 truth was. But then he thought that he 696 00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,800 could buy it, and he got rebuked, not because they hated 697 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,760 him, but because he needed a rebuke in order for his heart to 698 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,480 open up. Who knows, maybe this guy 699 00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:45,160 started preaching the gospel after and realized that you 700 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:50,000 can't buy Jesus, but you have. To labor in His Word, you have 701 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,760 to labor in His presence. The Bible doesn't tell us what 702 00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:58,160 happened to Him afterwards, but I I have in my own experience 703 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:03,000 seen people who think they know everything or have a desire for 704 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:08,080 the supernatural and they get weird and then they get rebuked. 705 00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:12,760 And if they get rebuked in love and not rebuked to hate them, 706 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,360 what happens? They begin to see God, they 707 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,480 begin to see differently. They begin to want to teach and 708 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,160 preach and spend time in the Word of God. 709 00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,360 Listen, some of you here are called to apologetics. 710 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:32,560 Some of you are here are called to really study the Word. 711 00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,680 Maybe some of you would study the Greek, the Hebrew, the 712 00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,200 Aramaic. Maybe you would be able to one 713 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:44,560 day go to Israel and have a debate with some Jewish rabbi. 714 00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:51,960 Wow, why not what you have? You may not understand how that 715 00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:54,800 might happen, but what am I saying? 716 00:50:54,800 --> 00:51:00,720 As you give yourself over to the desires that are in your heart, 717 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,920 God will fulfill them and put you among people that you never 718 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:11,920 thought you would influence only because you were willing to go. 719 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:14,720 And allow Jesus to change your life. 720 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:22,560 Some Simon's evangelize as fathers of prodigal sons, the 721 00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:26,000 father of Judas Iscariot. We know nothing about him. 722 00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:35,600 Could you imagine what society was saying about his son? 723 00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:40,760 What he heard in the temple? Did you hear about what happened 724 00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:46,840 to Simon's son, Judas Iscariot? How awkward did he feel to be 725 00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:51,040 around the other apostles? I'm sure that he was at times 726 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,600 because his boy used to be on the team. 727 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,080 And now he no longer is. So how do you deal with that? 728 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:03,560 Again, the Bible doesn't tell us what he actually did, but I 729 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,360 would like to believe. That if he humbled himself 730 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:11,640 before God and say God, I don't understand why my son did what 731 00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:16,000 he did. But I remember a story that 732 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,840 Jesus preached one time called the prodigal son. 733 00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:24,520 And I want to be that father. I want to be that type of an 734 00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,880 event. Do that type of evangelism that 735 00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:32,840 when a young man needs me to speak into his life. 736 00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:37,720 I want to redeem what I've lost. Look again, we don't know. 737 00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:41,720 That's what the Bible says. I'm simply saying that when 738 00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:47,200 people change and they see that, they don't allow their hurtful 739 00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,200 situation. To define them for the rest of 740 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:54,320 their life, look up here. You do not need to be a victim 741 00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:59,240 the rest of your life. The point is this, if we see 742 00:52:59,240 --> 00:53:02,400 ourselves as a victim all the time, we're never going to do 743 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:06,360 anything for God and we're always going to be intimidated 744 00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,120 by people who do do something for God. 745 00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:14,960 Friend, we want you to have confidence in who you are in the 746 00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,000 Lord. We don't want you to beat 747 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,000 yourself up in condemnation, shame or guilt. 748 00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:24,840 It's not. Don't let the enemy and your 749 00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,240 life because you don't understand why your life has 750 00:53:28,240 --> 00:53:33,320 been so hard and difficult. Get healed, get restored, have 751 00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:37,240 revelation of who Jesus is. He has a purpose and plan for 752 00:53:37,240 --> 00:53:38,280 your life. Amen. 753 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:43,840 And last one, some Simon's evangelize by ministering to the 754 00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:47,680 poor. Simon the Pharisee had a a house 755 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,320 that was open where he hosted Jesus. 756 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:55,160 But what he wasn't expecting was that woman, a woman was going to 757 00:53:55,160 --> 00:54:04,600 come in in the middle of Jesus sitting there and wash his feet 758 00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:10,080 with her hair. You know, I'm not saying that 759 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,920 Simon was in a state of evangelism, Simon the Pharisee, 760 00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:19,640 but I will say this, that we are called to minister to the poor 761 00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:25,440 and it's often the poor that are very willing to accept the 762 00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:31,120 gospel. If not poor, financially poor in 763 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:36,760 spirit, broken hearted people, people that have needs and don't 764 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:40,120 know what to do in this life. You should look at people like 765 00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:44,040 that and go to them. We should share the gospel with 766 00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,880 anybody. But here's the point is that if 767 00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:51,360 you want to see people come to the Lord sometimes, if you're 768 00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:55,720 always sowing seed on hard ground and there's this one 769 00:54:55,720 --> 00:54:59,480 person over there who has some soft ground, go plant the seed 770 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:03,120 there. Do what you can. 771 00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,760 Go to the poor. Read the scriptures about how 772 00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:11,960 God loves the poor and how God wants to see them raised up from 773 00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:16,080 the ash heap. And become a great testimony of 774 00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:20,200 the grace of God upon someone's life and how he takes somebody 775 00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:24,000 from very difficult circumstances and he elevates 776 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:29,440 them in His Kingdom. The main point of this message 777 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,240 is while there are specific leadership roles in the body of 778 00:55:32,240 --> 00:55:36,640 Christ, there is only one head in the body and Simon is not his 779 00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,520 name. The reason many in the church do 780 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,560 not feel responsibility to do evangelism emissions is because 781 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:49,400 the church put so much emphasis on leaders, known leaders, and 782 00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:54,240 places little value upon the unknown parts of the body who 783 00:55:54,240 --> 00:55:58,280 impact the world on a smaller scale or stage. 784 00:56:00,240 --> 00:56:03,400 God has not only called evangelist to evangelize the 785 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:08,080 world, God has not called only fivefold leaders to evangelize 786 00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,840 the world. Doing the work of an evangelist 787 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:16,440 is the only fivefold gift of all the body that all the body is 788 00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,960 called to do. Just as with many parts of the 789 00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:23,160 body, there are different ways to evangelize the world. 790 00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,320 And God wants to use you the way that He designed you. 791 00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:30,880 Now I'm going to close with this Jude Sullivan Peters. 792 00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:36,520 This is the grandson of Keith and Darla Collins, and that's 793 00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:42,320 this is Sully and Hannah, Jude's parents. 794 00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:45,120 Some of you know Jude. I'm just going to read this 795 00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,640 short excerpt from the very beginning. 796 00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,000 Jude was a fighter. Jude just passed away. 797 00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:56,960 He was 11 years old, but he was only about this big Jude. 798 00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,720 From the very beginning, Jude was a fighter. 799 00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:03,520 At his birth, he made his presence known with a strong 800 00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:07,160 warrior's cry of many moments that would define the way that 801 00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,560 he lived. Brave, determine, and full of 802 00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,520 light. Jude was diagnosed as an infant 803 00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:18,880 with Rhizomelec, Chondral Diplasia punctata. 804 00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:23,840 I believe that's it. Or RCDP, a rare and life 805 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:28,240 limiting genetic condition. Yet Jude wrote his own story 806 00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:33,080 known by many as Super Jude, lovingly called Joyful Jude and 807 00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,520 brave little warrior. He became a living testimony to 808 00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:41,400 faith, perseverance and beauty of life, of a life deeply loved. 809 00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:46,400 Do you know that on Facebook Jude has 115,000 followers? 810 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:52,200 That's just Facebook in the Charlotte media. 811 00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:58,680 They would the news would often do stories on Jude and his 812 00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:04,240 family and what a testimony that he carried and for many people 813 00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:11,600 to be encouraged by his life. I shared something called Jude 814 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:15,560 the Evangelist that I didn't know his father would share at 815 00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:20,280 the funeral. This is Sully Peters, Jude's 816 00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:21,000 father. He said. 817 00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:24,720 When I was 15 years old, I receive a prophetic word from my 818 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:28,560 pastor at the time. He told me that he felt the Lord 819 00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,920 was telling him that my name would be known throughout the 820 00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:36,080 whole world, that even heaven and hell would know my name. 821 00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:40,000 At the time I really did not think much about it, but a few 822 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:44,560 years ago that it dawned on me that the prophetic word wasn't 823 00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:49,840 for me, it was for my son Jude Sullivan Peters because the 824 00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:54,600 impact he had on the world was far reaching, way beyond what 825 00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:58,400 his father could do. From pregnant moms telling us 826 00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,960 that they had decided to keep their babies. 827 00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:06,120 That means they would not abort their baby because they saw we 828 00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:11,160 had value for Jude's life. Do you know that Carrie Jobe 829 00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:15,920 would call almost weekly Hannah because she was inspired by 830 00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:19,640 Jude's message. She would call up Hannah and 831 00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:23,640 just encourage her and and. Jude, I don't think Jude's 832 00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:28,080 parents ever bought him clothes because so many people would 833 00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:30,800 send him, send him brand new clothes all the time. 834 00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,720 And, and they weren't like promoting it, asking for it. 835 00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:36,760 They're simply taking care of son. 836 00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:43,840 But God used this little boy's testimony to inspire millions of 837 00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,680 people. He goes on to say they decide to 838 00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:49,880 keep their babies after seeing our stories. 839 00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:53,120 The pastors and strangers telling us they were ready to 840 00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:58,280 walk away from the faith until they found Jude's testimony. 841 00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:02,200 It was a testimony of countless trials, but even more miracles. 842 01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:06,040 His strength and bravery through those trials sparked the joy of 843 01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:15,040 the Lord into so many lives. As my good friend Eric Miller 844 01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:19,600 said, Jude is one of the great evangelists of our day and. 845 01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:26,080 Even in his weakness, he has impacted more lives than most 846 01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:30,200 people ever will. I believe His reward in heaven 847 01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:33,880 is much larger than we can comprehend, and the glory of God 848 01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:44,240 is surrounding him and flowing through His heavenly body in 849 01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,640 ways that we've only had a small taste of. 850 01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:53,520 You see this picture, I don't know who made it or where they 851 01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:57,760 got it from, but it's a picture of Jude running. 852 01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:02,640 I believe the Bible says that when we're absent from the body, 853 01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:08,120 we're present with the Lord. As soon as Jude died, He ran 854 01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,120 soon as Jude died. And I. 855 01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:22,480 I guarantee you that the angels and the hosts of heaven, we're 856 01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:26,880 cheering because they watched this little boy suffer. 857 01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:31,480 And we may not understand or have all our questions answered 858 01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:37,160 sometimes, but my friend, if we think that God can't do 859 01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:42,680 something with our lives, we are sorely devaluing the power and 860 01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:50,160 the authority of the gospel. God use a boy with a form of 861 01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:55,560 dwarfism that couldn't speak, that relied upon his parents for 862 01:01:55,560 --> 01:02:00,440 food, for changing his diaper, all of these things, bathing. 863 01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:03,760 He never once walked. He never rode a bike. 864 01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:06,840 He was never able to get married. 865 01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:08,800 But here's the fact of the matter. 866 01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:13,640 He preached the gospel because his parents said your life is 867 01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:17,400 valuable and you have something to share even though you've. 868 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:22,320 Never said one word, friend. Look at me. 869 01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:29,440 There's no excuse for you and I to not evangelize. 870 01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:35,240 There's no excuse for you and I to not preach the gospel.