Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast.
We hope today's message is encouraging to you.
I'm so glad to be here and so excited about the message today.
And here at the Illuminate Church, we are learning about
the seven habits of Jesus people, and it has been amazing.
Last week we learned from Pastor Kim Beth about to serve and we
are having wonderful experience and the great opportunity to
change our lives, change habits and to become more like Jesus.
And here at Luminate Church, we focus on help people to find
abundant life in Jesus Christ and how we do this.
We help people to meet God, to discover who we are in Christ,
not what the word is saying, but what Christ is saying about you
to become more like Jesus and lead others to do the same.
And here at the church, we, we had a team of abundant life
people who people who are peculiar and they decide to
become more like Jesus in Ukraine.
And partnering with Mission 823. This group went to Ukraine.
I had the honor to go with them to Ukraine.
And it was an amazing trip, 40 hours traveling.
I thought I was in another planet.
Well, did you arrive in Saturn? You know, but so and the moon,
40 hours, like three times the planet.
Can you imagine this? So here's the team who travel to
Ukraine. Abundant life people and in
Ukraine we had the opportunity to visit a church there, the
city we were serving and we went to the church and I had the
honor to preach in that service church in that service with
different clothes. Can you see this so and I preach
in English, my English just saying I don't know why you were
laughing. OK, but and the guy, he was
translating everything to Ukrainian, I believe.
So I was saying my words and he was wow, you know.
So it was an amazing opportunity to worship our Lord and to be
with this church. Also at the end of the service,
we had Davonte and Rick Melero worshipping in that church.
Church was so special. They were explaining what they
were worshipping and the same guy was translating, I believe
to Ukrainian and was so special to be there.
We had the opportunity also to to have meals, which is so
wonderful. We have meals together, the
local team in Ukraine, and they were so lovely, so special,
Everybody hugging, you know, they never knew, they never saw
you before and they were hugging you, you know, wow.
They are so like receptive, so open.
And they were all the time creating different meals, which
I love, you know, and they were like cooking these and explain,
you know, when you are in Ukraine, a different country,
they need to explain you think that is some meat, but sometimes
not so. But they were explaining what is
this? And so wonderful people and they
all the time we were eating. You see, we are eating a lot and
what amazing. You should go to a mission trip.
So we were there and everybody so lovely, so helping us in
everything. I was so.
And every meal they were asking me to pray for the meal.
They said, you're a pastor, it's your job.
Pray for the meal. Yeah, I was in Ukraine, you know
about the war. I will obey everything they will
say. So I was praying for the meal.
But they were giving us so good time, so wonderful, welcoming.
And I pray for, for the meal. And everybody was preparing,
doing that their place, they, you know, like the plates or the
plates just here, but the mountain was over there.
But so everybody was with that kind of place.
And I was so grateful, so full of gratitude, the way they were
teaching, the way they were sharing everything and open
everything for us. Then I, I came to my mind, I
will say thank you, but I don't know why came to my mind.
I will say thank you in Portuguese, you know, thank you
in Portuguese is obrigado. Easy word.
Then everybody was with that plate, you know, and I said,
hey, hey, hey, hey Obrigado. And they then I said, there is a
way to go back home today, you know, like, so I all these faces
and they were with that food and they were looking at me like,
oh, and I thought I will not ask what obrigado means, but one guy
came to say, hey, do you know what obrigado means in Ukrainian
if I am afraid to discover the meaning of this word, But the
guy said, Are you ready to listen up?
Not good word. Then the guy said and everybody
with that muse and I'm eating and I said obrigado.
And the guy said to me obrigado means vomit.
No more words in Portuguese. In Ukraine we are done with
Portuguese. You know, let's try English.
You know, I should say thank you, but I said obrigado.
So if you go to Ukraine, don't say that word.
Look. So we were there and like having
a wonderful time with them. And we went to Ukraine to serve
in a summer camp. We were in a, in a in Ukraine,
but in our, in our, in our zone, so far from war, so far from war
in a quiet place never happened anything there.
But it was Ukraine, you know, and one church in Kiev, a big
wonderful church, they and and they, they told us they, they,
they are receiving, they are under bombed every evening in
Kiev. But the church understood they
should be there and serve the people and keeping loving the
people and the church start changing the feelings at the
church. So some offices became bedroom
to receive people. So the church decide we God is
calling us to become a Church of war.
So this war. So they are not living even with
bombs. They are there with the people
who lives there. And at the summer we have this
mission 823 and they have a big wonderful, beautiful facility
and they are come this church are coming and different also
different church. They are coming to this
facility, this quiet area with orphans and widows.
And they are came coming with them just to give a week of
rest, therapy, to play with the kids.
And we went there just to love them, just to overflow joy and
serve them. And you can see here in this
picture, like a mom with the black T-shirt, No, and her son.
And I believe if you pay attention their faces, you will
understand what's happening. They just lost husband, dad.
And they were there facing this at their side, you can see a a
boy. He's around 14 years old and his
sister around 16 years old and they lost everything.
Mom, dad, grandparents, house, friends and they have a small
brother, 5 or 6 years old and they came to this camp and we
were just loving them. We had some activities with the
kids and we were like building a ship together and you can see
her face. So we were there sharing, We
were there loving. And I need to tell you, I went
to a lot of mission trips and I love to go and share Jesus, you
know, and like knock a door and hey, how are you?
I came from Brazil to here to let you know that Jesus loved
you, you know, and, and like, it's amazing to go to a
different place and try to speak their language.
Not Ukrainian obrigado, OK. But like, it's so good when you
go to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Republican, Dominican, you know,
speaking in Spanish. I don't speak, but I feel that I
speak. So I try and it's amazing.
But in Ukraine it was different. I have never been in a country
under a war. And at the city we were far from
the war. But at the city, every place we
were walking or driving, we saw a lot of pictures of the
soldiers who was killed. So it was different.
This was a different atmosphere and I was like just we were
there just available to overflow love and overflow joy.
We were preparing the house for the kids and widows to come
cleaning the house, preparing everything.
We were loving the team who will serve there.
You know, we had a picture here from King Landry and she bought
things for the cooks and it's so important.
It's not in the Bible, but it's so important when you go to a
mission trip to be a friend of the kooks.
It is important. You need to know.
It's something I believe when we get in heaven, God will say, you
know, the kooks because they can bring you food.
It's so important, you know, so. And Kim Henry was there and she
gave some gifts to people who gave money for her to buy
things. So we were loving them.
We were playing with the kids. We were serving them.
We were like washing and cleaning the boats and preparing
the bedrooms, walking with the kids and moms.
We were listening them even without understanding.
We didn't have a lot of translator.
We have not for everybody. So we were listening and they
were just saying, you know, I'm not understanding.
But you know, they were just saying about the pain.
And we were like also rowing boats.
Devante was professional on this.
The kids were going to his boat and you know, the boat was not
obeying so much Devante, but you need to see the joy of the kids
getting in the boat. And we were there and I need to
repeat to you, we were there just overflowing, just
overflowing. So the words in English, they
didn't understand, but they understood our faces, our
hearts. So the calling was overflow.
And I want to share you something.
They they they like to play discof.
You know, what is this golf? So I'm Brazilian, so I never
played golf. So when I saw and I learned
about disc golf, I thought you put the golf at the floor and
come with, you know, the disc at the floor.
And it's not this way. If you don't know, I will
explain to you. So they were just doing this
with the discs, you know, and I don't know if you like
understood that when when you do this with the disc, the disc
does not come back alone. We need to go there and take it,
you know, And the kids were doing this, you know, and King
Langley from Illuminate Church, she was there going and taking
each disk and coming back and giving their kids hand with joy
hundreds of time doing this. I was praying for her back, you
know, so hundreds of time going and the kids were, you know, and
what she was coming and give the disk and they were receiving the
disk and she was going there, you see, but hundreds of time,
hours doing this and give the disk back to that kid.
You need to see the faces of the kids, the kids face receiving
the disk, maybe in the most difficult season in their lives.
Someone, King Landry from United States came here to take the
disc 100 times and give in my hand.
God's take care of me. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
So she was doing this. And I need to tell you, it was
so simple. So simple.
Almost nothing but everything. Everything.
Can you imagine the boy? Six years?
They did sometimes the boys and they did, you know.
But Can you imagine these little little boys doing this and
someone taken giving your hand? She was not doing this, she was
going and giving their hands with joy.
All the thiefs. It was so simple, almost nothing
but everything for that kid. How could God send someone for
so far from here to take the disc for me?
And their faces were changing. The kids, they arrived there so,
so angry, you know, so sad. When the group arrived, one mom
and her little daughter, they arrived and the little daughter,
maybe she was 5 or 6 years, she came running to me and I said
wow, she's choosing me. Can you imagine that?
You know, she ran to me and then she took my finger with both
hands trying to break my finger. And I no, I don't, but then but
you know, she was with both hands trying to break my finger.
Someone different kill her dead and I was different, so we were
there just to overflow. I could not use English words.
She didn't speak English, you know.
But you need to see we start playing with them, sharing joy,
love, you know, trying to keep my fingers far from her.
But the day after, you need to see everybody in the team.
The day after the kids were coming and kissing and hugging
this girl. She was taking my my leg and I
was walking with her, you know, and she just overflowing joy In
Ukraine, the boys, they like to play soccer.
And when they realized I was Brazilian, they said Brazilian
Ronaldo. Then I said I am Ronaldo.
You know, you were Ronaldo, Ronaldo.
Then we I was trying to play soccer with them.
You know, me and the haunted. So we play.
I was like, they are 6710 years old, Ronnie, where are you
going? Come back, you know, but just
playing with them and we were, we just had one too there.
Overflow joy and overflow love. And today we'll talk about the
sickest habit of Jesus people. And the sickest habit is Jesus
people overflow Jesus, Jesus people overflow Jesus.
Mark chapter 16, verse 15. If you need a Bible, just raise
your hand. The ushers will help you with
the Bible, but mark chapter 16 verse 15 Jesus was talking with
his disciples and Jesus said to his disciple and the verse 15 go
into all the word and preach the gospel to all creation.
Go into all the Word and preach the gospel to all creation and
preach the gospel to our creation means overflow,
overflow, overflow coming from you.
Overflow is what we know as evangelism.
You go to some place, you go in your area, you go in your job,
and you overflow. So I have something so good,
Jesus, I am excited to share something that's happened with
me that Jesus is doing God's doing in my life.
So I overflow the good news. How you overflow?
Are you understanding me?
So I overflow. So Can you imagine someone
sharing the good news? I have good news to tell for you
today. I have good news.
You know, this is not overflow, joy.
So we have good news. We have good news.
So Jesus, people overflow, Jesus overflow joy.
And I need to tell you also, everybody overflows something.
Everybody overflows something, but peculiar people, Jesus
people overflow joy. So I'm here today to let you
know and remind us that God is leading us to be peculiar and we
are Jesus people. And Jesus people have joy
available to overflow. Joy available to overflow.
I will ask you to do something to say the word joy.
Are you ready to say the word joy for four different people
around you? You can go just 4, not 35, just
4. Good, good, good, good, good.
Thank you. You see what's happened.
You just said the word joy. You see, so God wants to use our
life and I need to tell you you're smile.
You will enter that person's soul, your smile when when
you're talking with someone, your face, your smile will enter
their soul. They will receive what you are
overflowing. You are communicating with what
is overflowing from you. So you, me and you have the
opportunity to bless people around and just to receive the
presence of the Lord with your face.
So I know we have difficult seasons.
We have challenge. I know.
Can you imagine in Ukraine they were walking to the city and
seeing everywhere? We have that pictures with the
soldiers who were killed and Can you imagine the family going to
to buy food and see the picture of the dead?
So it's hard and we have difficult seasons in our life.
But I need to share with you that in difficult seasons, the
joy of the Lord means strength. Nehemiah chapter 8, verse 10.
Nehemiah in chapter 86 to 9/11. These chapters tell us the story
that it was not easy. It was not an easy season.
They were fighting. They had they had enemies
against them trying to kill them.
They had a lot of work to do. So a lot of things happening.
They were under some a lot of pressure and in Nehemiah chapter
8 verse 10 we see Nehemiah said go and enjoy choice food and
sweet drinks and send some to those who have nothing prepared.
This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of
the Lord is your strength. So we can see clear here.
They were in a season of grief, but the joy was available for
them and the joy of the Lord is our strength even in a disco
season. First Thessalonians chapter 5
verse 16 to 18 said says he joys always you see always always
means always in English. So rejoice always, always pray
continually give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's
will for you in Christ Jesus. This is God's will for you in
Christ Jesus. So you have the option to have
joy even in a difficult season. So Jesus people overflow joy.
Can you say joy again? Amen.
So do you know that joy is contagious?
Have you ever been in a place that someone start laughing you,
you'd have no idea what happened and you start you, you don't
have the information. Sometimes it's happened with
him, with me and my family, and they arrived and they don't know
what's happened. And everybody no idea.
So joy I'm you. It's contagious.
But I was trying to do some research and I, I found at the
Warwicky University in UK, they calculate the degree of
contagioness. You see contagioness, they
calculate the degree of contagion using similar methods
to those used to track the spread of infectious disease.
Have you ever heard about infectious disease when the
planets stop? OK, they calculate with the same
method. And they found, look at this,
they found that teenagers who had five friends, at least 5
friends with joy, they have 50% less probability for depression.
Amen. Amen. 5 friends with joy.
Yeah, make some noise. Five friends, some altars.
Also, they calculate that when someone have joy, look at this,
when someone have joy, the neighbor, you know the neighbor
that you love, the one who is always OK.
So the neighbor is 34% more likely to have joy just because
of your joy. So when you overflow joy,
overflow joy, your neighbor becomes 34% a friend, a friend
who lives .6 miles from you is 25% to have joy just because of
you, any sibling even living in another planet far from you, 14%
to receive and to have joy just because of your life.
We call this evangelism. You know, God using your life to
go all the world. So how can we impact our
neighbors, our region just overflowing what God is giving
to us so peculiar people, Jesus people overflow joy.
Can you say that joy again, Amen, Amen.
And I have more for you, The British Medical Journal in 2008,
they published what they found that joy.
Look at this, they found that joy extends up to 3° of
separation, 3° of separation. What it means when someone
received the joy of the Lord, Are you receiving the joy of the
Lord? When you just decide I want the
joy of the Lord, I will overflow that.
When someone overflow, your friend received this and this
friend will share this with another one.
We are not talking about COVID, we'll talk about joy.
So when you overflow, we can change the world.
Amen. You can change your family, even
a difficult season. The joy of the Lord is our
strength. So when I decide to receive and
to overflow joy, one friend of mine, he will receive and this
guy will overflow for another one.
The same joy will touch these two and this one will overflow
for three degrees. So what God is giving to us will
change people that you know don't have the idea who they are
just because you decide to overflow joy, it's available for
me and for you. So your joy is contagious and
will create an impact impacting friends of your friends.
Amen. So peculiar people evangelize
peculiar people overflow and I'm sure what will work in your life
and around you. Maybe this week someone what's
happened with you? Well, what's happened with you
and you can answer them. I decide for the joy of the Lord
everything. If they they ask you, wow, I I
what is this? If I go to church, they will
explain to you, you know, if you are afraid to explain, just do
that, you know, but you can share Jesus is in my life.
This is so good that I'm overthrow.
I have joy. Amen.
So the joy God can use this week for people seeing your faces
what's happening and you know how to receive and keep joy.
John 15 verse 10 says if you keep my commands, you will
remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you
will remain my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands
and remain in His love. I have told you, look at this, I
have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your
joy may be complete. When I keep God's commands, my
joy is complete. What means keep Lord commands?
It's not just memorizing them, but walking with them.
My life is based on Lord's command when I obey.
When I obey, my life is under the commands of the Lord.
When I when I decide to obey, the joy is complete in my life.
Joy is complete in my life. Are you understanding this?
So how much time? How many time?
How much time? Many or much you don't know?
OK, a lot of times we were looking for some experience to
have joy. But what the Bible is saying,
when you obey the Lord, your joy is complete.
So when you read your Bible, when you understand the
commandments and you walk within this, the joy of the Lord is
complete in your life. So if you are waiting for
another thing, I want to help me and you just walk, obey the
Lord, the joy will be complete. Amen.
How to receive this also we receive from the Holy Spirit
Galatians chapter 5 verse 22. But the Holy Spirit produces
this kind of fruit in your in our lives.
Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
There is no law against this. So relationship with the Holy
Spirit lead our lives to joy, relationship with the Holy
Spirit, not just one experience, but relationship with the Holy
Spirit. Let me help you to understand it
better. Luke chapter 3 verse 16.
John said to the people who he who he was baptizing and he
said, I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful
than I will come. They straps up the whole
sandals. I am not worthy to untie He.
Look at this. He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit and fire. He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit and fire. Baptize means immerse, immerse
under. All around me is the Holy
Spirit. So my life is based in the Holy
Spirit. I walk with the Holy Spirit.
He is around me, my decisions, my thoughts, everything in my
life under and immerse in the Holy Spirit.
And he said Jesus will come and he will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit.
How you understand that? And he said the Holy Spirit and
fire, they overflow. So we need to have our lives
with the Holy Spirit. If you need the Holy Spirit,
we'll be here at the end of the service.
We can come and we see, ask for that.
We will help you to pray for you.
So the Bible says when I baptize you, immerse in the Holy Spirit,
my life, walking with the Holy Spirit, are you with me?
You should be with the Holy Spirit.
So with the Holy Spirit and the fire will come.
So you overflow, overflow, peculiar people overflow also
with intentionality, with intentionality.
Philippians chapter 4 verse four and five says this way.
Rejoice in the Lord always. Always we know that I will say
it again again rejoice are you understand rejoices for you all
the time. OK, so rejoice in the Lord
always I will say it again. Rejoice.
Look at this. Let your gentleness be evident
to all, be evident to all the Lord is near be evident to all.
So peculiar people overflow with intentionality.
You will go to a restaurant today to have your lunch.
Amen. Just for Amen.
Nobody's eating today. OK, So Can you imagine you
holding the door for 55 people you know, I don't know if you
are this one that open the door when the other one is you.
I don't, you know, So peculiar people, peculiar people overflow
gentleness. Let be evident.
I'm holding for you. Welcome to McDonald's.
I'll pray for you. You know, wherever you are.
So Jesus, people overflow with intentionality.
Is it for you? Please say yes.
OK, It is for you overflow with intention.
And look at this Isaiah chapter 12, verse 4.
In that day you say, give praise to the Lord, proclaim His name,
make known, make known among the nations what He has done, make
known among the nations what He has done, and proclaim that His
name is exalted. Make known among the nations.
So you can just overflow, saying what God is doing in your life,
what God is using in your life, where He's touching your heart,
your family, what He's doing, make known among the nation what
He has done. Isn't it amazing?
So we are receiving this calling to overflow.
Peculiar people overflow, peculiar people overflow what
God has done. And you can do this with your
neighbor. You can do this with the people
who work with you. You know, some neighbor.
We have neighbors that never cut the grass.
You can cut, you can cut. Can you imagine you just can I
cut? Can I do your landscape?
Why? God loves you and he loves me so
much. You bless my life doing this
crazy thing for you, but God loves you.
Just overflow. It's not so hard.
We can overflow and joy is available for you all the time.
You can have experience like like this.
And also I need to tell you we will have Shine week here at the
church, not here in our region. We have some special
opportunities to go to places like we will go to assisted live
facility and we will be there lifting.
We'll be there showing our smiles.
We will serve food at schools to the staff.
Do you know teachers? Do you know what they face
during the year? It's a lot.
But when you were there, we are serving food.
You know, I used to be at the rice and like to give rice like
a mountain of rice and it's oh, it's too much.
You deserve to be like, Oh no, you deserve this rice, you know,
just overflowing. We need to see how they change.
One year, one year we were I believe it's Iceland, Iceland
village, and I'm not sure it's what this is cool.
But we were there at the aisle just clapping when they were
arriving. And you need to see some of them
start crying. We were just, but God was using
this. You were loved.
So I want to invite you to decide to overflow.
You can choose. You can see where we have a lot
of opportunities. You can see and open your heart
for God to use your life. One of these is just overflow to
your neighbor and you share love to your neighbor.
Peculiar people, peculiar people.
Overflow Jesus. Thanks for joining us today.
We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message.
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Have a great week.