1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,960 Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,520 We hope today's message is encouraging to you. 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:14,120 I'm so glad to be here and so excited about the message today. 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,680 And here at the Illuminate Church, we are learning about 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:24,560 the seven habits of Jesus people, and it has been amazing. 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,720 Last week we learned from Pastor Kim Beth about to serve and we 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:33,120 are having wonderful experience and the great opportunity to 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:39,720 change our lives, change habits and to become more like Jesus. 9 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:46,320 And here at Luminate Church, we focus on help people to find 10 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:51,120 abundant life in Jesus Christ and how we do this. 11 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:57,760 We help people to meet God, to discover who we are in Christ, 12 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,600 not what the word is saying, but what Christ is saying about you 13 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,800 to become more like Jesus and lead others to do the same. 14 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:13,280 And here at the church, we, we had a team of abundant life 15 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:21,920 people who people who are peculiar and they decide to 16 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,720 become more like Jesus in Ukraine. 17 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:33,600 And partnering with Mission 823. This group went to Ukraine. 18 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,560 I had the honor to go with them to Ukraine. 19 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:41,480 And it was an amazing trip, 40 hours traveling. 20 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,440 I thought I was in another planet. 21 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:52,000 Well, did you arrive in Saturn? You know, but so and the moon, 22 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,520 40 hours, like three times the planet. 23 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,560 Can you imagine this? So here's the team who travel to 24 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,040 Ukraine. Abundant life people and in 25 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,240 Ukraine we had the opportunity to visit a church there, the 26 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,360 city we were serving and we went to the church and I had the 27 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,040 honor to preach in that service church in that service with 28 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,200 different clothes. Can you see this so and I preach 29 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:28,640 in English, my English just saying I don't know why you were 30 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:33,160 laughing. OK, but and the guy, he was 31 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,560 translating everything to Ukrainian, I believe. 32 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:44,080 So I was saying my words and he was wow, you know. 33 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:49,800 So it was an amazing opportunity to worship our Lord and to be 34 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,480 with this church. Also at the end of the service, 35 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:57,360 we had Davonte and Rick Melero worshipping in that church. 36 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,600 Church was so special. They were explaining what they 37 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,920 were worshipping and the same guy was translating, I believe 38 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:07,920 to Ukrainian and was so special to be there. 39 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:13,120 We had the opportunity also to to have meals, which is so 40 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,720 wonderful. We have meals together, the 41 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:22,000 local team in Ukraine, and they were so lovely, so special, 42 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,240 Everybody hugging, you know, they never knew, they never saw 43 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:31,040 you before and they were hugging you, you know, wow. 44 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,080 They are so like receptive, so open. 45 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,400 And they were all the time creating different meals, which 46 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,720 I love, you know, and they were like cooking these and explain, 47 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,840 you know, when you are in Ukraine, a different country, 48 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,360 they need to explain you think that is some meat, but sometimes 49 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,040 not so. But they were explaining what is 50 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,400 this? And so wonderful people and they 51 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,000 all the time we were eating. You see, we are eating a lot and 52 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,080 what amazing. You should go to a mission trip. 53 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:09,960 So we were there and everybody so lovely, so helping us in 54 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:11,960 everything. I was so. 55 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,680 And every meal they were asking me to pray for the meal. 56 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,640 They said, you're a pastor, it's your job. 57 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,120 Pray for the meal. Yeah, I was in Ukraine, you know 58 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,600 about the war. I will obey everything they will 59 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,360 say. So I was praying for the meal. 60 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:31,440 But they were giving us so good time, so wonderful, welcoming. 61 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,080 And I pray for, for the meal. And everybody was preparing, 62 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,160 doing that their place, they, you know, like the plates or the 63 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,840 plates just here, but the mountain was over there. 64 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:45,680 But so everybody was with that kind of place. 65 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:51,280 And I was so grateful, so full of gratitude, the way they were 66 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,560 teaching, the way they were sharing everything and open 67 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,480 everything for us. Then I, I came to my mind, I 68 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:04,920 will say thank you, but I don't know why came to my mind. 69 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:10,240 I will say thank you in Portuguese, you know, thank you 70 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,680 in Portuguese is obrigado. Easy word. 71 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,200 Then everybody was with that plate, you know, and I said, 72 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:27,840 hey, hey, hey, hey Obrigado. And they then I said, there is a 73 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:34,600 way to go back home today, you know, like, so I all these faces 74 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,760 and they were with that food and they were looking at me like, 75 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:45,400 oh, and I thought I will not ask what obrigado means, but one guy 76 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,440 came to say, hey, do you know what obrigado means in Ukrainian 77 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:54,640 if I am afraid to discover the meaning of this word, But the 78 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,680 guy said, Are you ready to listen up? 79 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:02,400 Not good word. Then the guy said and everybody 80 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,960 with that muse and I'm eating and I said obrigado. 81 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,360 And the guy said to me obrigado means vomit. 82 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:18,000 No more words in Portuguese. In Ukraine we are done with 83 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,360 Portuguese. You know, let's try English. 84 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,400 You know, I should say thank you, but I said obrigado. 85 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,640 So if you go to Ukraine, don't say that word. 86 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,560 Look. So we were there and like having 87 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:35,360 a wonderful time with them. And we went to Ukraine to serve 88 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,320 in a summer camp. We were in a, in a in Ukraine, 89 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:45,800 but in our, in our, in our zone, so far from war, so far from war 90 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,720 in a quiet place never happened anything there. 91 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,960 But it was Ukraine, you know, and one church in Kiev, a big 92 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,960 wonderful church, they and and they, they told us they, they, 93 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:05,560 they are receiving, they are under bombed every evening in 94 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,440 Kiev. But the church understood they 95 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:14,280 should be there and serve the people and keeping loving the 96 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,120 people and the church start changing the feelings at the 97 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,920 church. So some offices became bedroom 98 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,840 to receive people. So the church decide we God is 99 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,720 calling us to become a Church of war. 100 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,320 So this war. So they are not living even with 101 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,560 bombs. They are there with the people 102 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,280 who lives there. And at the summer we have this 103 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:41,000 mission 823 and they have a big wonderful, beautiful facility 104 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,360 and they are come this church are coming and different also 105 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,120 different church. They are coming to this 106 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,960 facility, this quiet area with orphans and widows. 107 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,560 And they are came coming with them just to give a week of 108 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,120 rest, therapy, to play with the kids. 109 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,320 And we went there just to love them, just to overflow joy and 110 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:08,760 serve them. And you can see here in this 111 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:16,440 picture, like a mom with the black T-shirt, No, and her son. 112 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:23,920 And I believe if you pay attention their faces, you will 113 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:31,880 understand what's happening. They just lost husband, dad. 114 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:40,200 And they were there facing this at their side, you can see a a 115 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,640 boy. He's around 14 years old and his 116 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:49,280 sister around 16 years old and they lost everything. 117 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:56,400 Mom, dad, grandparents, house, friends and they have a small 118 00:08:56,560 --> 00:09:04,080 brother, 5 or 6 years old and they came to this camp and we 119 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,760 were just loving them. We had some activities with the 120 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:17,200 kids and we were like building a ship together and you can see 121 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:23,880 her face. So we were there sharing, We 122 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:28,600 were there loving. And I need to tell you, I went 123 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:33,320 to a lot of mission trips and I love to go and share Jesus, you 124 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,920 know, and like knock a door and hey, how are you? 125 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,160 I came from Brazil to here to let you know that Jesus loved 126 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:47,320 you, you know, and, and like, it's amazing to go to a 127 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,320 different place and try to speak their language. 128 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:55,600 Not Ukrainian obrigado, OK. But like, it's so good when you 129 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,320 go to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Republican, Dominican, you know, 130 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,400 speaking in Spanish. I don't speak, but I feel that I 131 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:09,080 speak. So I try and it's amazing. 132 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:15,320 But in Ukraine it was different. I have never been in a country 133 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:22,160 under a war. And at the city we were far from 134 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,440 the war. But at the city, every place we 135 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:32,720 were walking or driving, we saw a lot of pictures of the 136 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:40,600 soldiers who was killed. So it was different. 137 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:46,600 This was a different atmosphere and I was like just we were 138 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:53,880 there just available to overflow love and overflow joy. 139 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,920 We were preparing the house for the kids and widows to come 140 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,080 cleaning the house, preparing everything. 141 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,680 We were loving the team who will serve there. 142 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:09,080 You know, we had a picture here from King Landry and she bought 143 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,120 things for the cooks and it's so important. 144 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,600 It's not in the Bible, but it's so important when you go to a 145 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,680 mission trip to be a friend of the kooks. 146 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,160 It is important. You need to know. 147 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:27,120 It's something I believe when we get in heaven, God will say, you 148 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,240 know, the kooks because they can bring you food. 149 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:36,120 It's so important, you know, so. And Kim Henry was there and she 150 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,040 gave some gifts to people who gave money for her to buy 151 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,360 things. So we were loving them. 152 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,240 We were playing with the kids. We were serving them. 153 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,760 We were like washing and cleaning the boats and preparing 154 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,640 the bedrooms, walking with the kids and moms. 155 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:58,160 We were listening them even without understanding. 156 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:00,520 We didn't have a lot of translator. 157 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:05,520 We have not for everybody. So we were listening and they 158 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:10,240 were just saying, you know, I'm not understanding. 159 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:14,080 But you know, they were just saying about the pain. 160 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,040 And we were like also rowing boats. 161 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,720 Devante was professional on this. 162 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,200 The kids were going to his boat and you know, the boat was not 163 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:31,680 obeying so much Devante, but you need to see the joy of the kids 164 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,480 getting in the boat. And we were there and I need to 165 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:40,200 repeat to you, we were there just overflowing, just 166 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,000 overflowing. So the words in English, they 167 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:46,800 didn't understand, but they understood our faces, our 168 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:50,200 hearts. So the calling was overflow. 169 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,120 And I want to share you something. 170 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:56,360 They they they like to play discof. 171 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,400 You know, what is this golf? So I'm Brazilian, so I never 172 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,840 played golf. So when I saw and I learned 173 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,480 about disc golf, I thought you put the golf at the floor and 174 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,240 come with, you know, the disc at the floor. 175 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,560 And it's not this way. If you don't know, I will 176 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,520 explain to you. So they were just doing this 177 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:21,560 with the discs, you know, and I don't know if you like 178 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:26,320 understood that when when you do this with the disc, the disc 179 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,720 does not come back alone. We need to go there and take it, 180 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,440 you know, And the kids were doing this, you know, and King 181 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:40,800 Langley from Illuminate Church, she was there going and taking 182 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:47,520 each disk and coming back and giving their kids hand with joy 183 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,440 hundreds of time doing this. I was praying for her back, you 184 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:57,080 know, so hundreds of time going and the kids were, you know, and 185 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,360 what she was coming and give the disk and they were receiving the 186 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:07,680 disk and she was going there, you see, but hundreds of time, 187 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:12,000 hours doing this and give the disk back to that kid. 188 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:19,960 You need to see the faces of the kids, the kids face receiving 189 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:26,880 the disk, maybe in the most difficult season in their lives. 190 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:36,040 Someone, King Landry from United States came here to take the 191 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:40,760 disc 100 times and give in my hand. 192 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:49,040 God's take care of me. Yes, yes, yes, yes. 193 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,280 So she was doing this. And I need to tell you, it was 194 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,360 so simple. So simple. 195 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:05,720 Almost nothing but everything. Everything. 196 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:08,960 Can you imagine the boy? Six years? 197 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,720 They did sometimes the boys and they did, you know. 198 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:21,320 But Can you imagine these little little boys doing this and 199 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,920 someone taken giving your hand? She was not doing this, she was 200 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,680 going and giving their hands with joy. 201 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:38,120 All the thiefs. It was so simple, almost nothing 202 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:43,720 but everything for that kid. How could God send someone for 203 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,400 so far from here to take the disc for me? 204 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:53,960 And their faces were changing. The kids, they arrived there so, 205 00:15:54,120 --> 00:16:01,560 so angry, you know, so sad. When the group arrived, one mom 206 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:07,000 and her little daughter, they arrived and the little daughter, 207 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,720 maybe she was 5 or 6 years, she came running to me and I said 208 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,040 wow, she's choosing me. Can you imagine that? 209 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:20,840 You know, she ran to me and then she took my finger with both 210 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:28,160 hands trying to break my finger. And I no, I don't, but then but 211 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,400 you know, she was with both hands trying to break my finger. 212 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:44,240 Someone different kill her dead and I was different, so we were 213 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:50,400 there just to overflow. I could not use English words. 214 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,120 She didn't speak English, you know. 215 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:59,360 But you need to see we start playing with them, sharing joy, 216 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,440 love, you know, trying to keep my fingers far from her. 217 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,240 But the day after, you need to see everybody in the team. 218 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,440 The day after the kids were coming and kissing and hugging 219 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,680 this girl. She was taking my my leg and I 220 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:25,200 was walking with her, you know, and she just overflowing joy In 221 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,640 Ukraine, the boys, they like to play soccer. 222 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,320 And when they realized I was Brazilian, they said Brazilian 223 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,240 Ronaldo. Then I said I am Ronaldo. 224 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,200 You know, you were Ronaldo, Ronaldo. 225 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,840 Then we I was trying to play soccer with them. 226 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,680 You know, me and the haunted. So we play. 227 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:49,560 I was like, they are 6710 years old, Ronnie, where are you 228 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,400 going? Come back, you know, but just 229 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:57,920 playing with them and we were, we just had one too there. 230 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:04,800 Overflow joy and overflow love. And today we'll talk about the 231 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:11,720 sickest habit of Jesus people. And the sickest habit is Jesus 232 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:20,080 people overflow Jesus, Jesus people overflow Jesus. 233 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:26,560 Mark chapter 16, verse 15. If you need a Bible, just raise 234 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,080 your hand. The ushers will help you with 235 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:38,440 the Bible, but mark chapter 16 verse 15 Jesus was talking with 236 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:45,720 his disciples and Jesus said to his disciple and the verse 15 go 237 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:51,640 into all the word and preach the gospel to all creation. 238 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:58,720 Go into all the Word and preach the gospel to all creation and 239 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:02,680 preach the gospel to our creation means overflow, 240 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,920 overflow, overflow coming from you. 241 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:09,840 Overflow is what we know as evangelism. 242 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,560 You go to some place, you go in your area, you go in your job, 243 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,600 and you overflow. So I have something so good, 244 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,920 Jesus, I am excited to share something that's happened with 245 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,520 me that Jesus is doing God's doing in my life. 246 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:29,280 So I overflow the good news. How you overflow? 247 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,680 How you overflow? Are you understanding me? 248 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:36,240 So I overflow. So Can you imagine someone 249 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,720 sharing the good news? I have good news to tell for you 250 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,600 today. I have good news. 251 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:44,400 You know, this is not overflow, joy. 252 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:50,400 So we have good news. We have good news. 253 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,800 So Jesus, people overflow, Jesus overflow joy. 254 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,600 And I need to tell you also, everybody overflows something. 255 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:07,520 Everybody overflows something, but peculiar people, Jesus 256 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:15,240 people overflow joy. So I'm here today to let you 257 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:24,120 know and remind us that God is leading us to be peculiar and we 258 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:28,440 are Jesus people. And Jesus people have joy 259 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:34,120 available to overflow. Joy available to overflow. 260 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,680 I will ask you to do something to say the word joy. 261 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:42,880 Are you ready to say the word joy for four different people 262 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:57,220 around you? You can go just 4, not 35, just 263 00:20:57,220 --> 00:21:00,660 4. Good, good, good, good, good. 264 00:21:00,660 --> 00:21:03,940 Thank you. You see what's happened. 265 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:10,020 You just said the word joy. You see, so God wants to use our 266 00:21:10,020 --> 00:21:12,260 life and I need to tell you you're smile. 267 00:21:12,260 --> 00:21:18,960 You will enter that person's soul, your smile when when 268 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:25,080 you're talking with someone, your face, your smile will enter 269 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,760 their soul. They will receive what you are 270 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,840 overflowing. You are communicating with what 271 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:40,120 is overflowing from you. So you, me and you have the 272 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:45,640 opportunity to bless people around and just to receive the 273 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,880 presence of the Lord with your face. 274 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,520 So I know we have difficult seasons. 275 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,720 We have challenge. I know. 276 00:21:56,360 --> 00:22:01,840 Can you imagine in Ukraine they were walking to the city and 277 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:06,920 seeing everywhere? We have that pictures with the 278 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:12,320 soldiers who were killed and Can you imagine the family going to 279 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,280 to buy food and see the picture of the dead? 280 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:24,120 So it's hard and we have difficult seasons in our life. 281 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:29,440 But I need to share with you that in difficult seasons, the 282 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:38,480 joy of the Lord means strength. Nehemiah chapter 8, verse 10. 283 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:46,760 Nehemiah in chapter 86 to 9/11. These chapters tell us the story 284 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,880 that it was not easy. It was not an easy season. 285 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,080 They were fighting. They had they had enemies 286 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,000 against them trying to kill them. 287 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,200 They had a lot of work to do. So a lot of things happening. 288 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:07,120 They were under some a lot of pressure and in Nehemiah chapter 289 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:13,640 8 verse 10 we see Nehemiah said go and enjoy choice food and 290 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,880 sweet drinks and send some to those who have nothing prepared. 291 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:24,600 This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of 292 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:32,000 the Lord is your strength. So we can see clear here. 293 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:37,640 They were in a season of grief, but the joy was available for 294 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:44,520 them and the joy of the Lord is our strength even in a disco 295 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,040 season. First Thessalonians chapter 5 296 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:55,600 verse 16 to 18 said says he joys always you see always always 297 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:03,800 means always in English. So rejoice always, always pray 298 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:10,960 continually give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's 299 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:17,280 will for you in Christ Jesus. This is God's will for you in 300 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,800 Christ Jesus. So you have the option to have 301 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:27,040 joy even in a difficult season. So Jesus people overflow joy. 302 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,240 Can you say joy again? Amen. 303 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,040 So do you know that joy is contagious? 304 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:39,280 Have you ever been in a place that someone start laughing you, 305 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:44,600 you'd have no idea what happened and you start you, you don't 306 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,920 have the information. Sometimes it's happened with 307 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,960 him, with me and my family, and they arrived and they don't know 308 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:57,840 what's happened. And everybody no idea. 309 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,200 So joy I'm you. It's contagious. 310 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:06,120 But I was trying to do some research and I, I found at the 311 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:12,400 Warwicky University in UK, they calculate the degree of 312 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,920 contagioness. You see contagioness, they 313 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,280 calculate the degree of contagion using similar methods 314 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:27,840 to those used to track the spread of infectious disease. 315 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:32,640 Have you ever heard about infectious disease when the 316 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,800 planets stop? OK, they calculate with the same 317 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,240 method. And they found, look at this, 318 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:49,960 they found that teenagers who had five friends, at least 5 319 00:25:49,960 --> 00:26:00,400 friends with joy, they have 50% less probability for depression. 320 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:05,080 Amen. Amen. 5 friends with joy. 321 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:14,160 Yeah, make some noise. Five friends, some altars. 322 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,040 Also, they calculate that when someone have joy, look at this, 323 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:23,240 when someone have joy, the neighbor, you know the neighbor 324 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,800 that you love, the one who is always OK. 325 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:37,880 So the neighbor is 34% more likely to have joy just because 326 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:43,440 of your joy. So when you overflow joy, 327 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:53,000 overflow joy, your neighbor becomes 34% a friend, a friend 328 00:26:53,120 --> 00:27:02,800 who lives .6 miles from you is 25% to have joy just because of 329 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:11,960 you, any sibling even living in another planet far from you, 14% 330 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,960 to receive and to have joy just because of your life. 331 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:21,600 We call this evangelism. You know, God using your life to 332 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:27,840 go all the world. So how can we impact our 333 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:33,280 neighbors, our region just overflowing what God is giving 334 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:38,840 to us so peculiar people, Jesus people overflow joy. 335 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,800 Can you say that joy again, Amen, Amen. 336 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:53,360 And I have more for you, The British Medical Journal in 2008, 337 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,240 they published what they found that joy. 338 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:08,240 Look at this, they found that joy extends up to 3° of 339 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:16,360 separation, 3° of separation. What it means when someone 340 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,640 received the joy of the Lord, Are you receiving the joy of the 341 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,760 Lord? When you just decide I want the 342 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,080 joy of the Lord, I will overflow that. 343 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:34,000 When someone overflow, your friend received this and this 344 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,840 friend will share this with another one. 345 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,720 We are not talking about COVID, we'll talk about joy. 346 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,280 So when you overflow, we can change the world. 347 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,680 Amen. You can change your family, even 348 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,720 a difficult season. The joy of the Lord is our 349 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,880 strength. So when I decide to receive and 350 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:08,280 to overflow joy, one friend of mine, he will receive and this 351 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,040 guy will overflow for another one. 352 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,160 The same joy will touch these two and this one will overflow 353 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:21,360 for three degrees. So what God is giving to us will 354 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:26,280 change people that you know don't have the idea who they are 355 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:33,080 just because you decide to overflow joy, it's available for 356 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:37,360 me and for you. So your joy is contagious and 357 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:41,640 will create an impact impacting friends of your friends. 358 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,320 Amen. So peculiar people evangelize 359 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:51,160 peculiar people overflow and I'm sure what will work in your life 360 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,000 and around you. Maybe this week someone what's 361 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,360 happened with you? Well, what's happened with you 362 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,360 and you can answer them. I decide for the joy of the Lord 363 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,160 everything. If they they ask you, wow, I I 364 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,280 what is this? If I go to church, they will 365 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,000 explain to you, you know, if you are afraid to explain, just do 366 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,520 that, you know, but you can share Jesus is in my life. 367 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,600 This is so good that I'm overthrow. 368 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,280 I have joy. Amen. 369 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:29,080 So the joy God can use this week for people seeing your faces 370 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,600 what's happening and you know how to receive and keep joy. 371 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:41,040 John 15 verse 10 says if you keep my commands, you will 372 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,840 remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you 373 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,400 will remain my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands 374 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:55,640 and remain in His love. I have told you, look at this, I 375 00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:01,760 have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your 376 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:09,800 joy may be complete. When I keep God's commands, my 377 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:15,840 joy is complete. What means keep Lord commands? 378 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,280 It's not just memorizing them, but walking with them. 379 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:25,320 My life is based on Lord's command when I obey. 380 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,720 When I obey, my life is under the commands of the Lord. 381 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:36,280 When I when I decide to obey, the joy is complete in my life. 382 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,200 Joy is complete in my life. Are you understanding this? 383 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:46,120 So how much time? How many time? 384 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,800 How much time? Many or much you don't know? 385 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:57,480 OK, a lot of times we were looking for some experience to 386 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,480 have joy. But what the Bible is saying, 387 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,280 when you obey the Lord, your joy is complete. 388 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,760 So when you read your Bible, when you understand the 389 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:14,440 commandments and you walk within this, the joy of the Lord is 390 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,080 complete in your life. So if you are waiting for 391 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:22,920 another thing, I want to help me and you just walk, obey the 392 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,160 Lord, the joy will be complete. Amen. 393 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,200 How to receive this also we receive from the Holy Spirit 394 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:37,440 Galatians chapter 5 verse 22. But the Holy Spirit produces 395 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,560 this kind of fruit in your in our lives. 396 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,480 Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, 397 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,800 faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. 398 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:53,480 There is no law against this. So relationship with the Holy 399 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,800 Spirit lead our lives to joy, relationship with the Holy 400 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,320 Spirit, not just one experience, but relationship with the Holy 401 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,800 Spirit. Let me help you to understand it 402 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,880 better. Luke chapter 3 verse 16. 403 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,400 John said to the people who he who he was baptizing and he 404 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,760 said, I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful 405 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,680 than I will come. They straps up the whole 406 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,760 sandals. I am not worthy to untie He. 407 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,600 Look at this. He will baptize you with the 408 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,920 Holy Spirit and fire. He will baptize you with the 409 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:36,680 Holy Spirit and fire. Baptize means immerse, immerse 410 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,480 under. All around me is the Holy 411 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,720 Spirit. So my life is based in the Holy 412 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,600 Spirit. I walk with the Holy Spirit. 413 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,680 He is around me, my decisions, my thoughts, everything in my 414 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,360 life under and immerse in the Holy Spirit. 415 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:55,280 And he said Jesus will come and he will baptize you with the 416 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,000 Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit. 417 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,400 How you understand that? And he said the Holy Spirit and 418 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,960 fire, they overflow. So we need to have our lives 419 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,639 with the Holy Spirit. If you need the Holy Spirit, 420 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:12,480 we'll be here at the end of the service. 421 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,199 We can come and we see, ask for that. 422 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,080 We will help you to pray for you. 423 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,360 So the Bible says when I baptize you, immerse in the Holy Spirit, 424 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,960 my life, walking with the Holy Spirit, are you with me? 425 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,560 You should be with the Holy Spirit. 426 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,960 So with the Holy Spirit and the fire will come. 427 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:39,719 So you overflow, overflow, peculiar people overflow also 428 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:44,920 with intentionality, with intentionality. 429 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,920 Philippians chapter 4 verse four and five says this way. 430 00:34:53,199 --> 00:35:00,640 Rejoice in the Lord always. Always we know that I will say 431 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:05,680 it again again rejoice are you understand rejoices for you all 432 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,600 the time. OK, so rejoice in the Lord 433 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,520 always I will say it again. Rejoice. 434 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,240 Look at this. Let your gentleness be evident 435 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:24,440 to all, be evident to all the Lord is near be evident to all. 436 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,680 So peculiar people overflow with intentionality. 437 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:32,960 You will go to a restaurant today to have your lunch. 438 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,880 Amen. Just for Amen. 439 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:42,280 Nobody's eating today. OK, So Can you imagine you 440 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:49,880 holding the door for 55 people you know, I don't know if you 441 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,880 are this one that open the door when the other one is you. 442 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:59,800 I don't, you know, So peculiar people, peculiar people overflow 443 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,560 gentleness. Let be evident. 444 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,280 I'm holding for you. Welcome to McDonald's. 445 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:14,200 I'll pray for you. You know, wherever you are. 446 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:20,080 So Jesus, people overflow with intentionality. 447 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,680 Is it for you? Please say yes. 448 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,960 OK, It is for you overflow with intention. 449 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,320 And look at this Isaiah chapter 12, verse 4. 450 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:35,320 In that day you say, give praise to the Lord, proclaim His name, 451 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:45,440 make known, make known among the nations what He has done, make 452 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:51,840 known among the nations what He has done, and proclaim that His 453 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:57,320 name is exalted. Make known among the nations. 454 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,480 So you can just overflow, saying what God is doing in your life, 455 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:07,120 what God is using in your life, where He's touching your heart, 456 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:12,560 your family, what He's doing, make known among the nation what 457 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,680 He has done. Isn't it amazing? 458 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:21,080 So we are receiving this calling to overflow. 459 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:27,160 Peculiar people overflow, peculiar people overflow what 460 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:32,320 God has done. And you can do this with your 461 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,040 neighbor. You can do this with the people 462 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,840 who work with you. You know, some neighbor. 463 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,640 We have neighbors that never cut the grass. 464 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:56,960 You can cut, you can cut. Can you imagine you just can I 465 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,520 cut? Can I do your landscape? 466 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:09,720 Why? God loves you and he loves me so 467 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:11,160 much. You bless my life doing this 468 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,800 crazy thing for you, but God loves you. 469 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,760 Just overflow. It's not so hard. 470 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:27,080 We can overflow and joy is available for you all the time. 471 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,640 You can have experience like like this. 472 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:35,440 And also I need to tell you we will have Shine week here at the 473 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:40,000 church, not here in our region. We have some special 474 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,760 opportunities to go to places like we will go to assisted live 475 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,920 facility and we will be there lifting. 476 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,320 We'll be there showing our smiles. 477 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,800 We will serve food at schools to the staff. 478 00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:58,760 Do you know teachers? Do you know what they face 479 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,440 during the year? It's a lot. 480 00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:05,920 But when you were there, we are serving food. 481 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:11,040 You know, I used to be at the rice and like to give rice like 482 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,240 a mountain of rice and it's oh, it's too much. 483 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:20,880 You deserve to be like, Oh no, you deserve this rice, you know, 484 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:25,680 just overflowing. We need to see how they change. 485 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:31,720 One year, one year we were I believe it's Iceland, Iceland 486 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:34,440 village, and I'm not sure it's what this is cool. 487 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,880 But we were there at the aisle just clapping when they were 488 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,760 arriving. And you need to see some of them 489 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:48,640 start crying. We were just, but God was using 490 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,200 this. You were loved. 491 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,400 So I want to invite you to decide to overflow. 492 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,200 You can choose. You can see where we have a lot 493 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,520 of opportunities. You can see and open your heart 494 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,760 for God to use your life. One of these is just overflow to 495 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,960 your neighbor and you share love to your neighbor. 496 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,240 Peculiar people, peculiar people. 497 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,720 Overflow Jesus. Thanks for joining us today. 498 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,800 We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message. 499 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,760 If you'd like to connect with us, you can text connect to 500 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:32,320 407-588-0115 or visit Illuminate dot church. 501 00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,000 Have a great week.