1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,040 Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,640 We hope today's message is encouraging to you. 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,760 Today we're starting a brand new series that is intended to 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,880 unfurl in you a part of God's design that may be laying 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:21,480 dormant in you. It is a superpower that God has 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,960 given you. When it's utilized, there is 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,360 fulfillment unlike any other. You can't find it anywhere else. 8 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,640 And not only that, you will produce repeatedly healthy fruit 9 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,320 out of your life that you can't accomplish any other way except 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:41,120 through this design that God has given you if you're utilizing 11 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,520 it. On the flip side, much of the 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,000 angst that you feel in your life could be might be because you 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,240 aren't living as you were designed to live, specifically 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:54,680 in this one area. This essential ingredients of 15 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,280 your identity. If it's left untouched, 16 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:02,800 unutilized on you're performing lots of UNS unfulfilled. 17 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,600 It can leave you in one of the most dangerous, vulnerable 18 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,000 positions that a human can be. It's called isolation. 19 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:18,640 Good things typically don't happen when we're isolated. 20 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,320 The enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he 21 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:25,320 may devour. And it's easier for him to 22 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:31,160 devour the one who is isolated. So let's turn to the Bible. 23 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,360 Genesis chapter 1 is where we're going to be the very first book 24 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:34,680 in the Bible. If you need a Bible, raise your 25 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,240 hand. Our ushers will bring you a 26 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,640 Bible, Amazingly. Do we have Bibles? 27 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:41,320 Yep. Oh, you're waving at me. 28 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:41,920 Hi. Yeah. 29 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:42,520 Bible. Bible. 30 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:43,920 Bible, Bible. They're going to come to you as 31 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,120 they're coming. Genesis chapter 1 is where we're 32 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,120 starting today. We're also going to be later in 33 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,720 Genesis chapter 1. But if you want to put a 34 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,960 footnote in Galatians chapter 4, we'll end up there eventually 35 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,920 with some pit stops in the way up in the mezzanine. 36 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,920 We we need Bibles. I see you. 37 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:00,600 We're coming. Thanks, Natasha. 38 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,920 She's on it. 2 claps for Natasha. 39 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,280 OK, that was poor. When I say 2 claps, it's just 40 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,280 like this. See this guy's hands ready 2 41 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:16,160 claps for Natasha. Just like that. 42 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,960 Genesis chapter one, verse 26 is where we're starting. 43 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,240 Lock in. We need Bibles down here in a 44 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,680 very front row. We're coming for you, young man. 45 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,800 Here he here he comes. Look, Javier is literally 46 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,400 running for you. Or then will he? 47 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:29,720 As soon as they said it, he stopped. 48 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:33,640 There we go. Any others? 49 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:39,120 Any others Allison weren't you in wasn't something wrong with 50 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,600 one of your legs this week and here you are running in the name 51 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:49,200 of Jesus healing Genesis chapter one verse 26 everyone ready? 52 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:52,320 I like to wait till everyone you guys are waiting just waiting. 53 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:57,040 I see you Eric waiting here we go then God said verse 26. 54 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,600 Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that 55 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,640 they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the 56 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,280 sky, over the livestock and all, over all the wild animals and 57 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,880 over all the creatures that move along the ground. 58 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,480 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God. 59 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,640 He created them, male and female. 60 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,520 He created them. God blessed them and said to 61 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,920 them, be fruitful and increase the number, fill the earth and 62 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:21,600 subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea 63 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,800 and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that 64 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,040 moves on the ground. God says, I'm going to create 65 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:33,240 humanity in a specific way in our image, the Imago day. 66 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:38,360 The image of God being created in God's image means that you 67 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:43,800 and I are God's walking, talking billboards on the earth. 68 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,120 You and I are to reflect His goodness on the earth. 69 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,000 We're to reflect His authority on the earth. 70 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,960 We are together to reflect His character by the way that we 71 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:00,440 live. He says you are created in our 72 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:01,880 image. What's the image? 73 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,040 Goddess Spirit, which you can't see. 74 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,840 So how do we see the image of God? 75 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,800 Look up earlier in Genesis chapter 1 and you will see in 76 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,720 the very first 3 verses of the entire Bible the image of God 77 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,760 written out for us. Genesis chapter one verse one. 78 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,120 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 79 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:25,520 Now the earth was formless and empty. 80 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:29,800 Darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God 81 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:35,320 was hovering over the waters and God said let there be light and 82 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,640 there was light. Right here the first 3 verses of 83 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,680 the Bible we see the person of God, the Spirit of God and the 84 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,320 word of God. John chapter 1 says the word 85 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,360 became flesh and dwell amongst us, meaning that the word is the 86 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,920 Son of God. So here we have the person of 87 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,080 God, the Spirit of God and the Son of God. 88 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,480 To say it another way, we have Creator, we have presence, and 89 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,040 we have agent, all three persons working together in one. 90 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,600 Historically and theologically, this is called the Trinity. 91 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,200 Everyone say Trinity. Yes, this is the image of God, a 92 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:22,320 communal God, God existing eternally in community. 93 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,760 Which leads me to the point of our entire series is putting the 94 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,200 front right out here at the beginning. 95 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:33,680 We are created for community by community dot dot dot, not 96 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:38,080 written so that we will continue to make community and the 97 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,280 community. This DNA identity that God has 98 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:45,280 implanted on us is the superpower that He's given to 99 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:50,560 all of us in His image that may be laying dormant in you. 100 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,760 You don't yet fully understand or have engaged or grasped or 101 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:01,200 benefited from the power of the image of God, the community of 102 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,840 God in your life. In our image, he says, in our 103 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:07,000 likeness. What is God like? 104 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,360 He's like community. You and I were created in the 105 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,560 image of community. And yet, if we were being 106 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:18,120 honest, most of us tend to live isolated, insulated lives. 107 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,680 It's risky to love people because they may hurt you. 108 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:26,760 So better to stay in plasticky acquaintances at a distance, 109 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:33,360 what Facebook calls friends. Let's be real, I have 2600 110 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,080 friends on Facebook. I just looked. 111 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:37,600 I couldn't name 50 of them probably. 112 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:39,080 Maybe I could. I'm just kidding. 113 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,960 It's ridiculous. We were at dinner the other 114 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:46,120 night and Christine goes hey, look around the restaurant and I 115 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:52,640 looked around and 100% of the people not at our table all look 116 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,960 like this. Sitting together as family is 117 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,320 right next to a loved one. I pray and they're like this 118 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,760 tech neck. I couldn't believe it 100%, not 119 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,360 like 1 table. It was 100% of the people in the 120 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:15,120 restaurant like this isolated, segregated out from each other 121 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,400 plastically. But we everybody, believer or 122 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,440 not believer in Jesus, doesn't matter. 123 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,680 We were made from community so that we may live in community. 124 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,400 As soon as God made Adam, he looked down and like, well, 125 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,160 that's not right. And then he created woman. 126 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:39,920 And when he created woman, he created community right from the 127 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,080 get go at the beginning, to understand what real community 128 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,560 looks like, we need to, with our finite minds, try to grasp this 129 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,960 relational, communal nature of God's existence in the Trinity. 130 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,320 We're going to do our best to do this. 131 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:59,280 But you understand, we're trying to describe the majestic, 132 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:05,800 incomprehensible nature of God. This is how God exists. 133 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,560 This is his nature, and this is the DNA that he's put on each of 134 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,960 us. Three things. 135 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,240 Because it's a Trinity. You know, we could do thousands 136 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,400 probably, but number one, always belonging. 137 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,840 Everyone say belonging. Yeah. 138 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,240 In the Trinity, they belong to one another so that there is 139 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,320 never, and I mean never, any loneliness. 140 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,360 And when there's no loneliness, there's no resultant neediness 141 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,559 that leads us into behaviors that we don't really like. 142 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:39,200 Based out of my need to feel loved and accepted, I may do 143 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,159 things that I don't really like. My dad was in the Army and we 144 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:46,960 moved a bunch, but by the time I was 13, I had moved nine times, 145 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:50,920 right? And so that's a lot of time 146 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:57,920 showing up as the new kid. Oh, by myself, yeah. 147 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:12,000 I started a little high when I was in 8th grade. 148 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:22,520 I moved to Florida 198739 years ago, which is crazy because I'm 149 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:28,600 only 35. I have premature grain in my 150 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,720 beard. When we moved here, I moved into 151 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,040 a neighborhood where all the dudes, and I mean like all the 152 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,360 dudes my age were skaters. And I don't mean like ice 153 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,680 skaters, like the national hockey team that just won gold. 154 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:46,120 I'm talking about this kind of skateboard. 155 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:52,640 You know what I'm talking about. And I was so lonely that I 156 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,160 thought I I could care less about skateboarding. 157 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,280 Not enthused by it. I don't like falling on the 158 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,360 asphalt and skinning up my knees and my head. 159 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,720 But because I'm lonely, I'm going to do something I don't 160 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,760 like. So I went and bought a Billy 161 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,880 Gruff deck. That's the wood. 162 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,120 Got some grip tape, some trucks and wheels. 163 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:23,920 I grew my hair down like this. I did skate or die. 164 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,600 My hair is in my eye. And I don't know why you don't. 165 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,000 You never heard this. Yeah. 166 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,200 I became a skate rat not because I wanted to, but because I was 167 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,040 lonely. And when you're lonely, you do 168 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,200 things you don't like just to be accepted. 169 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,880 Yours may not be skate rat. And maybe other things that you 170 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,400 have done just to feel like you belong. 171 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,600 Anybody. Don't raise your hands. 172 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,360 But this is the opposite of what happens in the Trinity. 173 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,600 In the Trinity, the Godhead exists with always a welcome to 174 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,560 one another, always communicating between the three 175 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:04,640 of them. You belong here, you are valued 176 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,360 here. You are one of us, and we are 177 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,320 one of you. Always belonging always occurs 178 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:15,720 in the Trinity, and that's the DNA that you have #2 always 179 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,960 honoring everyone. Say honoring to be honoring 180 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,720 means that we're that the Godhead is always for each 181 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,800 other. They practice the joy of mutual 182 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:26,720 deference. You first. 183 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,960 No, no, no, you first, no, no, you first, right? 184 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:31,800 Just goes. They just defer to each other 185 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,880 constantly. Philippians chapter 2 tells us 186 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:37,640 that the Father exalts the Son. John chapter 17 tells us that 187 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,120 the Son glorifies the Father. John chapter 16 tells us that 188 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:42,920 the Spirit glorifies both of them. 189 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:47,240 Mutually deferring everyone in the Trinity is giving honor 190 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,360 always. No one is under. 191 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:56,400 No one is lesser in the Trinity because they're always honoring. 192 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:02,880 There's not first class. And then coach, you know what 193 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,680 I'm feeling? You ever get on the airplane and 194 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:10,440 you're not in first class, which is me, always, And you have to 195 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,720 walk through the shame of being a poor person. 196 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,520 Hi, y'all, I'm going. I, I must be a lesser human 197 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,480 being than you, because I'm going to go sit next to the 198 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,600 toilet with the stewardess, right? 199 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:31,640 In heaven, there's none of that because no one is less than 200 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,080 anyone. Everybody is first class in the 201 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,480 Trinity, everyone. And we're just talking about the 202 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,040 Trinity. Everyone in the Trinity is equal 203 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:46,920 to each other, perfect, honoring no one, lesser, always 204 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,480 belonging, always honoring the last one, perfect unity in 205 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,120 diversity. Each of the persons of the 206 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:58,240 Godhead, all three of them, are glorious in their own way, but 207 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:03,200 they're not threatened by the greatness of each other, right? 208 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:09,520 There's no isms. As a result, when we compete 209 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,080 against each other and look at our differences as reason to 210 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,520 describe how we're different, instead of appreciating the 211 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,000 difference, we get all of our isms. 212 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,920 Racism, sexism, ageism, Republicanism, and Democratism 213 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:29,760 In the Trinity, there's none of that because there's perfection 214 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,680 in their unity despite the diversity. 215 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:36,200 Instead of being competitive with each other, they appreciate 216 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,760 each other. I'm wondering if you appreciate 217 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,120 the people in the room who the world tells us we need to 218 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:53,160 compete against. So this is the picture, small 219 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,400 and in our finite thinking as we can, that describes how the 220 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,240 Trinity exists, the nature of God always belonging, always 221 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,160 honoring, always perfect in unity in the midst of their 222 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,000 diversity. And it helps us understand first 223 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,040 John chapter 4, verse 8, which says God is love. 224 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,280 This is not an emotion, but a state of God's being. 225 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:17,280 This is how he exists because of belonging, because of honoring, 226 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,680 because of this unity, it's always this love. 227 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,200 And here's what happens, Community. 228 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:30,160 And this kind of love begets, generates more community because 229 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,160 of love. It's the overflow of the heart. 230 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,160 I want to love more. I want to draw in more. 231 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,880 I want more people to be involved in what it is that we 232 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,680 are experiencing because I love. It's just it's not an emotion, 233 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,840 it's who I am. And so from this community of 234 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:48,320 Trinity, more community is made, specifically humanity, you and 235 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,200 I, and the DNA is laid on you, created in His image. 236 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,560 This is then how we are to be. 3 things that won't surprise you 237 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,960 #1 we with the DNA of God in our community should always create a 238 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:03,400 place of belonging. We in our community should 239 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,080 always create a place of honoring. 240 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,880 We in our community should always be perfect in unity, 241 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:12,720 despite A myths right in the middle of our diversity. 242 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:19,480 That's what community is for God in the Trinity and for us who 243 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,800 bear His image, belonging, honoring unity amidst diversity. 244 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,920 Romans chapter 12, verse 10. Be devoted to one another in 245 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,480 brotherly love. Check out this word. 246 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,880 Outdo yourselves and honoring one another. 247 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:34,720 You're not competing against the person next to you. 248 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,120 You're competing against yourself. 249 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,000 How'd I do today? Tomorrow I'm going to do better. 250 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,000 I'm going to outdo what I did today and do it better tomorrow 251 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,480 in the way that I love people and serve them and honor them 252 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,400 above myself and draw them into unity. 253 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,160 I'm going to do better tomorrow. I'll do better today. 254 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:55,400 Why wait till tomorrow? Philippines chapter 2, verse 255 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,920 three. Do nothing out of selfish and 256 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:02,080 ambition or vain conceit. This means don't do nice things 257 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:07,840 so that you look better. Rather, in humility, value 258 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,440 others above yourselves. Let me ask you, did you take the 259 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,200 best parking spot today? Did you hold the door? 260 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,680 Did you open the umbrella? Let yourself get soaked? 261 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,200 Do you even know the people sitting behind you or in front 262 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:30,960 of you? Do you value them? 263 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,160 Because God does. And something tells me if we 264 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,080 understood Philippians chapter 2 verse 3 right, we would value 265 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,360 the people sitting right next to us that we don't even know. 266 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,440 It's how the Trinity operates. It's the DNA that's been placed 267 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,200 on you and I right here and right now. 268 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:53,400 Loving becomes a state of being. Love is not what we do, it's who 269 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:59,280 we are. This is the DNA that we have. 270 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,000 It may be laying dormant in you. That's the point of the series, 271 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,760 to waken it up and unleash it on the world in Jesus name. 272 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,040 The result? If we live out this way, 273 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,440 community is God created out of community. 274 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,119 Then he blessed humanity to go and do the same. 275 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,319 And since we are like him, we will produce what God produces. 276 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:23,839 And God produced community more and more community, he says be 277 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:27,839 fruitful and increase in number. In other words, go make more 278 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,720 community. Community replicate the image of 279 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,400 God on the earth and the image is community. 280 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,120 Have you heard that term community, community, community 281 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:40,040 belonging, honoring, unified, though we are diverse. 282 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,960 So let's take a little measurement today, shall we? 283 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:49,640 Some introspection and ask ourselves, God is the standard 284 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:54,120 in his trying nature. How do we as a church, how do 285 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:58,640 you as an individual, how do the world around us, measure up to 286 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,560 what he has given us as the standard, The Trinity, 287 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,760 belonging, honoring, unified, though we are diverse. 288 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:11,400 Originally, you probably know this, we were crushing community 289 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,920 in the garden. In fact, community was so great 290 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:17,920 it has a scripture. Brace yourself. 291 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,200 Genesis chapter 2 verse 25. The man and the woman were in 292 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:27,400 the garden naked and unashamed. Don't let your mind go to 293 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,720 depravity here because naked in this sense has nothing to do 294 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,320 with sexuality. Naked in the sense has I have 295 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,480 nothing to hide, I am unashamed. Why are they like this in the 296 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:39,560 garden? Let me tell you why. 297 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,520 Because with God and with each other, they belonged. 298 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,880 They were honored. With God and each other. 299 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,520 They were in perfect unity, though they were diverse, male 300 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:55,320 and female, a little bit different, a lot different. 301 00:18:58,160 --> 00:18:59,960 I heard a man say, Amen. I hope you're not sitting next 302 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:02,920 to your wife. OK, just kidding. 303 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,400 Yeah. And then something happened. 304 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:11,480 For the first time in human history a human felt that they 305 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:17,880 lacked something because the devil came and said you are 306 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,640 lacking something. To God really say that you 307 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,000 shouldn't eat from this tree which has good and evil. 308 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:31,840 He has something you don't have and out of the need the lack 309 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:37,000 humanity send and the results are devastating to community. 310 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:43,080 Genesis chapter 3 verse 23. So the Lord God banished him, 311 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,160 which is male and female from the Garden of Eden to work the 312 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:47,520 ground from which he had been taken. 313 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,760 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the 314 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,120 Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and 315 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,880 forth to guard the way to the tree of life. 316 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:03,080 Sin then and sin now breaks community. 317 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,600 That's what happens when we live outside of the design. 318 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,400 When we live outside God's communal design, we end up 319 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,760 living within the devil's playground. 320 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,280 He's got us right where he wants us. 321 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:22,840 When the breakdown of community happens because of sin, things 322 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:27,600 like isolation happen, loneliness, or think of these 323 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,600 words pride. That's a breakdown of community 324 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:37,240 because pride says I don't need you, or self-sufficiency, which 325 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:43,440 says I can do this on my own. This is the devil's playground. 326 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:49,520 It speaks of isolation, anything short of community. 327 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:53,240 Again, belonging and honoring and unity is living outside the 328 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,680 design and it causes the community to break down. 329 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:00,480 We just seen it in the garden biblically, but the entire Old 330 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,360 Testament is rife with the stuff. 331 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:09,720 The very first set of brothers, 1 kills the other, and on it 332 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:10,920 goes throughout the Old Testament. 333 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,840 Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Moses and his 334 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,840 siblings, David and his brothers. 335 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,560 Then David's children's sin continually breaks down 336 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:24,840 community. We recognize it in the Bible, 337 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,360 but we probably also recognize it in our own lives. 338 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,480 It's one of the greatest roots of all of our harms. 339 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,240 You don't need to be a pastor. You don't need to be a licensed 340 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:39,560 mental health counselor to know that many of our issues have 341 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,880 resulted from relationship wounds. 342 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,920 Don't raise your hand. Unless you're home watching 343 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,280 online, then you can. Anyone here? 344 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:51,280 Oops. Don't raise your hand. 345 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:58,120 Father wounds. Father wounds are the result of 346 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:05,840 community broken the image of God in US, broken mother wounds. 347 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,320 I used to only say father wounds until some people came and say 348 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:10,960 why do you always leave out the mothers? 349 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:25,480 Rejection, divorce, These are the outflow of sin, which breaks 350 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:31,320 down community. And because we have broken 351 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:38,760 community, we have pain, and that leads us often to all sorts 352 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:44,440 of misbehaving to medicate the pain, to make it go away. 353 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,600 The constant breaking of community. 354 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:57,240 What if God could and would restore the community to heal us 355 00:22:58,040 --> 00:22:59,680 as God does? God makes a way. 356 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,120 Amen. Amen. 357 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,560 The point of this series is to help all of us to live within 358 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,040 God's communal design, His communal nature. 359 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,120 It's how you were wired in the womb from birth. 360 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:15,120 Fulfillment and healthy fruit arise from community. 361 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:19,880 So let's figure out God's way to heal it #1 God creates a way to 362 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,960 community. That's what He does. 363 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,680 Pastor Kim's just talking about. He's the waymaker. 364 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,480 I don't know what you do when you feel disconnected or 365 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:36,360 isolated. Where does your mind go? 366 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:38,800 Where's your heart go? What do you actually do? 367 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:44,720 Is there something you can do? Sometimes we are isolated from 368 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,760 others because of the actions of others. 369 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,600 We have been the recipient of somebody's harm, abuse. 370 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,720 They perpetrated something against you. 371 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,360 And there's distance. And other times there's distance 372 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:04,200 between US and other people because we ourselves are doing 373 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:09,560 the wounding and pushing away with the way that we speak, the 374 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,160 way that we behave. We shove people away, and this 375 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,080 is what happens by shoving people away. 376 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,640 We make the clouds and then later we complain that it's 377 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:26,590 raining. I know that we do this to each 378 00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:29,950 other because we do this to Jesus. 379 00:24:31,830 --> 00:24:34,990 No one has loved us more perfectly or purely than Jesus. 380 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,800 And we said to Jesus by our words and by our actions away 381 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,480 from me. That's what sin communicates to 382 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,320 Jesus. I don't want a part of you and 383 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:52,040 your life so and we move away from community. 384 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:59,880 So if it's true that God can restore us through to excuse me, 385 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:01,680 is it his? What am I trying to say? 386 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,760 Is it true that God can restore us to Jesus and relationship and 387 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,920 take away our sins and certainly he can restore us to one 388 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,080 another. If it's true and you and I know 389 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,720 that it is true that God has made a way to restore us to the 390 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,680 heavenly community. Look at Galatians chapter 4, 391 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,320 this beautiful scripture, verse 4, Galatians 4. 392 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,880 But when the right time came, and it has come, God sent his 393 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,280 Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. 394 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,720 God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, 395 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,560 so that he could adopt us as his very own children. 396 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,000 And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his 397 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,880 Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out ABBA Father. 398 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,360 Now look at verse 7. I hope that you know that if 399 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:48,960 you're a believer in Jesus, this exchange has happened for you 400 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:55,000 and you are no longer a slave, but now you are God's own child. 401 00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:01,040 And since you are his child, God has made you his heir. 402 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:09,040 This isn't correct theology, it's not a 100% match, but I 403 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:14,360 can't help but think of Little Orphan Annie and she's make 404 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:18,360 believe but you know that she represents many who live outside 405 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:21,800 of community. The orphan spirit. 406 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,920 I'm unlovable, I haven't been loved, I'm over here alone. 407 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,440 And Daddy Warbucks is a horrible representation of the Lord our 408 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,800 God because at first he can't stand the girl right? 409 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,600 But his heart warms up to her, and she moves from living in the 410 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:44,240 orphanage to living in the Father's house with extreme 411 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:49,160 wealth. Now, God, I don't think is 412 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,440 concerned as much about material riches as he is with the riches 413 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,560 of heaven, which are grace and mercy and love. 414 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,600 And we go from being under the law, condemned to death, and 415 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,240 through faith in Jesus, restored to God, where the riches of 416 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,320 heaven are at our fingertips. We're heirs to the throne of 417 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,960 God. Just meditate on that one 418 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:11,440 morning. What? 419 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:17,920 What does that mean for you? And if God has done this for us 420 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,080 in the greatest relationship that between US and him, can He 421 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,720 also restore relationship between humans? 422 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,840 Can't He also restore relationship between humans? 423 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,320 Anybody believe with me? Yes. 424 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,080 So he creates a way to community. 425 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,840 And secondly, in tandem, it's almost the same thing. 426 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,480 He places the lonely in community. 427 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,480 One of the most beautiful scriptures in all the Bible, 428 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:47,520 Psalm 68 verse 6 says that God sets the lonely in families 429 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:56,160 those especially in biblical days, and you'll hear about this 430 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,520 in the upcoming weeks. Family mattered so much. 431 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,440 And then sometimes people would lose their family, death, 432 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,160 disease, abandonment, whatever, and they're all by themselves. 433 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:10,640 And God through his mercy would say, I'm putting you in a family 434 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,920 where there's shelter, where there's support, where there's 435 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,280 belonging, honoring and unity. Even though each part of the 436 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,960 family is diverse. Don't think of just biological 437 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,880 family. For us, Ingram's a few months 438 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,960 ago, way back in the like 2025, I don't remember when, it might 439 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,920 have been September, October, I don't remember. 440 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,040 But one Sabbath morning, which for us is Saturday in our house, 441 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,280 which is usually this joy filled daytime of rest, kick back, 442 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,560 relax, read the scriptures, just enliven each other with the 443 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:50,200 Spirit of God, good food, watch some sports. 444 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,560 I mean, it's such a great day. But this particular Saturday, 445 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,720 Kristen and I both woke up feeling a little, a lot 446 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,480 depleted. Relationally, we were great. 447 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:06,360 Wasn't a marriage issue, but man, just like so much hard 448 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,240 things happening, we experience loss, we experience some 449 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:11,800 frustrate. All this stuff is going on. 450 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,600 And you know, sometimes in a relationship, somebody's up and 451 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,000 the others down and then they pull you up and then the other 452 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,920 and then it goes like this, you know, back and forth it goes. 453 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,480 You know what I'm talking about? What happens when you're both 454 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,080 like this? Then what do you do? 455 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,600 I got nothing to give you and you got nothing to give me. 456 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:32,960 Then suddenly some friends are at the door. 457 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,200 They come into our house and they listen to our hearts and 458 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,200 they covered us in prayer for hours. 459 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,920 They sat with us and though we couldn't lift each other, these 460 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,640 neighbors came and went like this. 461 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,280 Now check it out. They don't have our same last 462 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,880 name. We're Ingrams. 463 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:02,840 They're not. But they are 100% family. 464 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:09,000 They are 100% community and things that can't happen when 465 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:14,080 we're by ourselves can happen when we live in community. 466 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,680 The strengthening, the growth, the shelter, the belonging. 467 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:24,200 You were not meant to be isolated and lonely, but to be 468 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,120 in community. Here's how to join the family. 469 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:30,880 Here's how to get in community. I'm going to give you some three 470 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,120 things. Number one, you got to engage 471 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,800 the community. Everyone say engage. 472 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,840 Yeah, I want you. I'm inviting you. 473 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,120 I'm instructing you as the pastor of this church to begin 474 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,480 or to join intentional relationships inside of this 475 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:50,280 church family. Which means you're going to have 476 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:55,560 to turn around or turn forward to the people around you that 477 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,520 you don't know and be intentional about it. 478 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,520 The book of Acts starts the beginning of the church and how 479 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,000 it flourished. And the way that it flourished 480 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,080 is because the biblical community from the very 481 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,440 beginning was very intentional about community. 482 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,760 Very intentional. Look at Acts chapter 2, verse 483 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,560 42. They devoted themselves to the 484 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,680 apostles, teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of 485 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,800 bread and a prayer. Everyone was filled with all the 486 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,320 many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 487 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,920 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 488 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,320 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone 489 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,280 who had need. Every day they continue to meet 490 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,640 together in the temple courts that broke bread in their homes 491 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,240 and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and 492 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:43,880 enjoying the favor of all the people. 493 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,000 Now look what happens because of their intentional community 494 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,400 living as the DNA of God. The Lord added to their number 495 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:58,560 daily those who are being saved. This is the ideal picture. 496 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,520 This is the image of God on display beautifully through the 497 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:07,760 people in the book of Acts in their community as they loved 498 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,600 one another and served one another. 499 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,040 The church grew, the Kingdom of God advanced. 500 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,120 It's no wonder the devil is against community. 501 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,600 It's no wonder the devil is trying to divide us, to burn 502 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,280 bridges, to take my ball and go home. 503 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,560 You know, I'm talking about I'm not playing with you anymore. 504 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,680 We're done as friends. We're done as family. 505 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,440 That's why the writer of Hebrews says. 506 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,000 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love 507 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:42,120 and good deeds, not giving up meeting together as some are in 508 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,480 the habit of doing, but encouraging one another all the 509 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,640 more as you see the day approaching. 510 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:54,320 Intentionally engaging, refusing to sit back and not be a part of 511 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,760 the community of the church. It's a famous story. 512 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:04,400 Maybe you heard it before, but a man went over to, well, not a 513 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,480 man. A pastor went over to a man's 514 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,600 house who hadn't been at church in a while, knocks on the door 515 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,120 and the man opens the door. They don't say anything to each 516 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:15,200 other. They just kind of look at each 517 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,200 other, like the man looking at the past is like, I know why 518 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,640 you're here. Doesn't have to say a word. 519 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:24,960 Invites him into his house with a hand gesture. 520 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,000 No words are exchanged. They go and sit at these two 521 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,920 seats that are right in front of the fireplace. 522 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,560 And the fire has in it this burning orange, beautiful 523 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,240 crackling fire. Can you see it? 524 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,960 Can you see it? They don't say anything to each 525 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,240 other. They sit there in the chairs and 526 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,480 eventually the pastor stands up and he grabs the fire tongs or 527 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:50,720 like this, it's go Gators just. And he reaches into the fire. 528 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,000 The pastor does and he takes out one of the burning embers and he 529 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,360 moves it over here to the side on the fireplace and sets it 530 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,400 down. And then he sits down and he and 531 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,560 the pastor, he and the other man look at this ember and of course 532 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:06,960 they watch it. Burnout. 533 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,719 It goes from bright burning ember to this charcoal Gray 534 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,280 nothingness right in front of their eyes and they just sit 535 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,360 there for a second. Then the pastor stands back up. 536 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,639 He grabs the tongs, takes the ember and he places it back into 537 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:27,760 the fire and sits back down. And almost instantaneously, this 538 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:32,880 burnt out charcoal ember wood thing catches back the fire. 539 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,920 It lights up orange. It starts crackling itself. 540 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:42,280 Beautiful. Pastor stands up, heads to the 541 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,000 door, gets to the door and turns around. 542 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:50,320 And the man finally speaks. He says, Pastor, I understand 543 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,840 the message. I'll see you at church on 544 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,760 Sunday. Amen. 545 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:58,120 Yeah. Anyone heard this before? 546 00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,720 I've heard this 1000 times. Yeah. 547 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,320 Anyone else heard this before? Yeah, I heard it so many times 548 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,920 and I thought, well, it's an interesting story, guys. 549 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,400 Like, hey, when I was just praying, I was like, I, I want 550 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,680 you to focus on something different in the story. 551 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,560 People focus on the the fire and the the pastor and the man and 552 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,840 what's being said. But he said have the people 553 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:23,360 focus on the tongs this morning. I want you to consider what it 554 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,560 is that caused you to disengage instead of the fire. 555 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,080 That's what these tongs represent. 556 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,640 Something has taken you from being in community to being out 557 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,320 of community. Certainly this could represent 558 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,520 another person that's wounded you and they've taken you out of 559 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:39,880 community. You put up a wall. 560 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,320 I'm not going to. I'm not going to engage anymore. 561 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,440 I'm putting distance between us. I'm done with it. 562 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:49,640 Or these tongs, maybe you, you're the one who's put up the 563 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,560 wall and made the distance by your own actions. 564 00:35:53,560 --> 00:36:00,120 No matter what has taken you out, the same answer for what 565 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:05,440 takes you in for both. Forgiveness. 566 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,920 Forgiveness. You may need to forgive 567 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:16,840 somebody, or you may need to ask somebody for forgiveness. 568 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,200 I don't know why I'm pointing at you with fire. 569 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,080 Toms goes down so nobody loses an eye. 570 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,280 If we do not forgive each other, the Bible calls it a root of 571 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:30,280 bitterness will grow and that root of bitterness will 572 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:35,520 intertwine up into your spirit. It will impede the way that you 573 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:41,240 think and see people because all you can see is the hurt, the 574 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:44,840 bitterness, and you're like, I'm done, get out. 575 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:52,160 No more forgiveness moves us from being isolated and alone 576 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,200 back into the community where we burst back into flame. 577 00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,200 You have to engage the community. 578 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,520 They say there's three kinds of people that go to a movie 579 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,400 theater. When you go as a group, I don't 580 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,120 know if you've ever heard this before, when you go as a group, 581 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,080 you'll notice that one person will run down in front and sit 582 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,120 in a row and then just wait and see who's going to come and sit 583 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,240 next to him. Because they're thinking to 584 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:20,400 themselves, I'm going to run up the front and sit down and see 585 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,760 if I matter enough to anyone else to come and sit with me. 586 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,680 And they wait and everyone sits 3 rows back. 587 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,920 They're like, nobody likes me. Then you have the other people 588 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,960 who come into the theater who aren't thinking about anything. 589 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,400 They, they're just, well, I'm here to see a movie and they 590 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,680 just sit down wherever. They don't care about who they 591 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,440 sit next to and why it matters. And then you have the third 592 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:46,240 person who walks in, typically last, and they're looking, is 593 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:50,200 anybody alone in my group? I'm not talking about you're 594 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,080 there to date somebody like, oh, she's by herself. 595 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,640 I'll go sit with her, right? You're in a group, right? 596 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,640 Everyone goes in and you're like, OK, who can I sit next to 597 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:03,960 to make them feel included, loved, seen? 598 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,680 Let me ask you, of these three kinds of people, which one is 599 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:11,800 Jesus? The third one, this is the DNA 600 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:16,080 of God placed on us, and most people are going through life 601 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:19,680 and vividly, ignorantly, I don't know what's going on. 602 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,200 I'm not paying attention to the mission. 603 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,320 I'm not looking about who's hurting. 604 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:25,760 I'm just sitting down to watch my life. 605 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,280 And then there's others who are sitting down. 606 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,280 Does anybody love me? But Jesus would be in the seat 607 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,840 of I'm going to make sure that everybody here feels loved. 608 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,120 That goes to the second point, which is to create community. 609 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:45,080 Create community to place the lonely in your family. 610 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,960 If God places lonely people in families and He's put His DNA in 611 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:52,080 US and it is up to us, it's on our spirit to also then place 612 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:54,840 the lonely in families. Stick around in the series. 613 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,000 We're going to teach you how to do that. 614 00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,800 I hope you will. But for now, reach out to 615 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:04,200 someone who feels isolated or alone and invite them in. 616 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,240 That's what we see in the book of Acts, the sharing of life. 617 00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:11,920 The invitation to the community causes the Kingdom to grow. 618 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,680 It worked then and it still works today. 619 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,840 Let me show you how. I got some friends that I 620 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,720 invited to come up on platform. You know who you are. 621 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:21,600 And if you're here, come up right now and come quick. 622 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:23,720 Here they are. Come on. 623 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:25,280 Would you just give these people a round of applause? 624 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,480 Let's go. Let's go. 625 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,880 Here they come. Come on. 626 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:36,040 Terrell here running. Well, they're taking wash. 627 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,640 They're going to have to cough some more. 628 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,400 Hey, stand a little closer. Stand closer this time. 629 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,160 Leslie, make sure they're all up here. 630 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,160 Come on. I'm going to tell you the story 631 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,120 as quick as I can. And it's just an incredible 632 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,440 story that's happening right here in front of our eyes. 633 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,400 This is William and Chanel. Wait. 634 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,360 Chanel's hiding. William and Chanel wait. 635 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,200 Everyone say hi. They have three kids. 636 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,840 You can guess which one. This is Thea. 637 00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:14,360 James and William also there say hi. 638 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,080 They're from Ireland. So you say, how do you say hi in 639 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,040 Ireland? What about you? 640 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:23,400 What about you? What about you? 641 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,200 Right. They're living in Ireland. 642 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,920 They realize that if we keep growing our kids up in Ireland, 643 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,360 all they're going to know is Irish white kids. 644 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,720 That's it. And that is not what the Kingdom 645 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:41,160 of God looks like. And it grieved their hearts that 646 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,680 they wouldn't know the full expanse of the Kingdom of God. 647 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,000 I said we got to move somewhere where there's all sorts of 648 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,800 nations gathered together and all the world comes to Orlando. 649 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,520 So in their wisdom, what happened? 650 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:02,280 Did you do a hidden Mickey? OK, so they moved here to 651 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:07,560 Orlando last year just to understand the beauty and the 652 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,840 diversity of God's creation. Incredible, right? 653 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,360 So as it goes, they just happened to meet some people, 654 00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:20,120 some great people. James. 655 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,360 Then all of a sudden in your heart, because of your parents 656 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,400 upbringing, you have this evangelistic nature in you and 657 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,640 what, what do you go about doing? 658 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,720 Just kind of fill us in. Wait, wait till you hear his 659 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:30,480 voice. Oh, it's so good. 660 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,960 So basically I was just like out with my friends and we were all 661 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,880 talking about like going to church the next day. 662 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,800 And then Andrew, this guy right here, he was sitting and he 663 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,400 wasn't talking. I was like, Andrew, do you go to 664 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,320 church? He said no, there we go. 665 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,520 He said no, he doesn't go to church. 666 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,760 I invited him to church and I sent him the link to come to 667 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,680 Illuminate and then he came and then he invited Terrell, then 668 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,520 Terrell invited Kenneth, and then they all got baptized with 669 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:11,720 the. This is so beautiful what God is 670 00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:13,120 doing now. Here's Terrell. 671 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:14,880 We had a phone conversation this week. 672 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,880 Andrew, thanks for inviting Terrell so that we could hear 673 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,840 the story. Terrell, before Illuminate, was 674 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:26,920 studying in the mosque, studying Islam then. 675 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,200 But this guy was so brilliant and the Spirit of God was 676 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:39,800 speaking to him even before he really knew God, that something 677 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,840 in here is not right at the mosque. 678 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,960 Something wasn't making sense connecting. 679 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,880 So he left and went home and started praying in his room. 680 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:53,840 And Terrell, with the mic up near your mouth, what happened? 681 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:56,840 I was just sitting down in my dark room. 682 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:01,880 I guess I was sitting down. I was like, let me just go into 683 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,120 prayer. Let me go pray to Jesus and see 684 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,400 where my heart was at. And I was sitting there. 685 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,800 I was praying. I was like, you know, Lord, 686 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,440 please, I, I don't know what I'm doing. 687 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,560 And then, you know, I was praying. 688 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,920 And then I finally opened my Bible that I got from a work, a 689 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:26,800 coworker at work because I asked her and I was like, hey, do you 690 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,120 got a Bible? And she was like, yeah, gave me 691 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,760 the Bible. Next three days. 692 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:33,560 The next three days I work again. 693 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,160 She was on the schedule and she left and I feel like she was an 694 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:37,120 Angel. I was. 695 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,360 Definitely an Angel. And then there's a lot of people 696 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:46,840 in here. And then I was like, I opened 697 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,920 the Bible and I open up to Proverbs. 698 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,280 The first, the first thing I opened up to that I was just 699 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,560 open it. And I open up to Proverbs 35 and 700 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,280 then say, do not trust on your own. 701 00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:02,080 Do not trust in your own understanding, but trust in the 702 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:08,120 Lord passed in his direction. And that that meant something to 703 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:13,480 me and that meant a lot to me. And I was like, Oh Lord, you got 704 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,400 me. And he and I heard a voice in my 705 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,720 head and and the Lord was like, Son, I got you and I was beyond 706 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:22,480 blessed from there. And now I'm still on my journey 707 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:27,080 and growing in a man of faith. Yeah, come on, Blessing. 708 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,160 Can I can I can I can I pray over everybody because a. 709 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,480 Little Let's go he's. On fire right now. 710 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,080 He's on fire right now. All right. 711 00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,480 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for another day and thank you 712 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,240 for another blessing. And today we don't know what is 713 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:49,640 planned, but we know that you got great plans and great 714 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,760 blessings for us, Lord. And I pray in Jesus name that we 715 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,840 all submit to your direction in your path, Lord, in Jesus name, 716 00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:58,440 Amen. Come on. 717 00:45:07,850 --> 00:45:10,810 Hallelujah. OK. 718 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,520 All right, I got it. I'm I'm not even done telling 719 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,360 you the best part. Like in case you missed it, this 720 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:43,280 is what happened last Sunday. Now look, the Matusa's here are 721 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,600 part of our Life Step 2 leadership and they met the 722 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:49,600 weights in Life Step 2 and formed community together living 723 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,880 in the design of God, right? And through this whole process, 724 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:56,200 the weights, the Medusa's getting to meet Kenneth on the 725 00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:00,240 end, Andrew here and Terrell who just prayed over us like brand 726 00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:03,720 new believer already praying. Step up your game is all I'm 727 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:07,200 saying. Together, all of these people 728 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,320 work together to see this incredible thing happened last 729 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:11,840 Sunday. And this is what I'm trying to 730 00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:16,040 show you in the book of Acts, the book of Illuminate, right? 731 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,160 When we do community, right, the Kingdom of God advances mightily 732 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,560 on the earth. And check this out, right? 733 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:28,400 Our world today says that this white man and this black man and 734 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,200 this brown man, they're not supposed to be friends. 735 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,960 Am I making this up? Isn't that? 736 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,560 I mean, when I open social media, it tells me that I'm 737 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,280 supposed to stay in my white lane and you're supposed to stay 738 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,600 in your whatever lane and communing together. 739 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,920 This is exactly what the enemy is trying to divide and exactly 740 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,480 why we're doing this series so that we can come together as one 741 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,680 Unity 1 Lord of all. Will you give a big half for all 742 00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:58,680 of them? Thank you guys. 743 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:00,480 Bless you. Well done. 744 00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:11,440 I love that story. So good. 745 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,400 Hey, James is 16 and he's invited people to church. 746 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,920 What's your excuse? What? 747 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,600 I love it. All right, last thing, join the 748 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,440 forever family. Join the forever community. 749 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,120 I'm asking you to engage. I'm asking you to create. 750 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:32,440 I'm asking you to join the family. 751 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:36,040 Some easy, simple steps are #1 get the Life Step 1 next week, 752 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,000 March 1st. It's where community begins 753 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,600 here. Life Step 2 follows after and 754 00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,600 you'll be in a group of people. When we were doing these 755 00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,920 baptisms last week, a bunch of them are from Life Step 2. 756 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,800 And when those people went down in the waters their entire life 757 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:52,840 step two groups around them cheering for them, strangers 758 00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,440 before they started, now sharing this incredibly special moment 759 00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,120 together. Get yourself the Life Step 1 #2 760 00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,800 use our digital discipleship that we are creating for this 761 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,920 series. There's going to be AQR code up 762 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:05,840 here. Oh, it's already there. 763 00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,840 If you click on that QR code or go into the church app every 764 00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:13,480 single Monday, you can get resources downloaded to your 765 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,280 e-mail inbox so that you can understand how you can live out 766 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:21,680 to the design of God, the inmate imago day of God in your life. 767 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,440 So jump in and jump in quick. Don't delay. 768 00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:30,880 The last thing is this men. I have seen strangers terrified 769 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:35,680 to come to men's conference, but projecting an air of confidence, 770 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,760 just really faking it, showing up to men's conference and 771 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:45,520 lifelong friendships bonded over the blood of Christ sealed by 772 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,240 the Holy Spirit come out of men's conference. 773 00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,680 The Lord wanted you here today to hear you. 774 00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:54,840 Men especially do not do this life alone. 775 00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:00,760 No more solo artists, right? We're meant to do life together. 776 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:06,800 I'm inviting you in. And finally, the most important 777 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:11,200 thing is as you recognize your need for commit community that 778 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:16,560 you and me, all of us. It begins with a relationship 779 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:22,960 with Jesus Christ, becoming a child of God in the household of 780 00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,640 faith where you will be welcomed, you will be honored 781 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,800 and you have unity with the Father in this supremely 782 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,960 wonderful, diverse household of faith people different than you. 783 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:43,600 All you have to do is say yes, yes to the invitation and begin 784 00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,200 a life with Jesus Christ. So we're going to pray right now 785 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,280 and give you the opportunity. Everyone bow your heads, close 786 00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,000 your eyes, repeat nice and loud after me at home. 787 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,920 You can pray this as well online saying, father, come on a father 788 00:49:56,680 --> 00:50:01,640 in the name of Jesus. I recognize that I am a Sinner 789 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:09,880 in need of a Savior, and today I confess and I believe that Jesus 790 00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,880 is Lord. I receive you Jesus as my 791 00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,880 Savior. Now come into my heart and live 792 00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,680 your life through me all the days of my life. 793 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:30,520 Just take a little moment here between you and the Holy Spirit 794 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:36,960 to pray. And if you just made that prayer 795 00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:42,280 for the first time, the biggest of congratulations to you. 796 00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,200 Welcome to the family. I'm going to have you do one 797 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,320 thing that's bold. I'm going to count to 3. 798 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,400 And if you've prayed that prayer for the first time today, 799 00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,040 receiving Jesus, you're going to raise your hand up as high as it 800 00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,400 can go when I count to 3. And I need you to do this 801 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,040 because I have something I have to get you. 802 00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:02,480 I want to give it to you today before you leave. 803 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,440 Hands are already going up, so let me count 123. 804 00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,880 Anyone believing today for the first time, hold it nice and 805 00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,000 high. Our ushers are moving quickly to 806 00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:11,760 you a bunch. Right up here. 807 00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,320 We got you in the mezzanine. Come on. 808 00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,360 In the middle back. We're coming to you as well. 809 00:51:19,720 --> 00:51:21,720 Any others over here? Come on. 810 00:51:21,720 --> 00:51:23,560 If you got somebody raising their hand next to you, we don't 811 00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,480 want to miss anybody. I see you, my sister. 812 00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,600 We're coming to you. Anyone else? 813 00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,360 Come on, if somebody's missing, if we're missing, we don't want 814 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:36,320 to miss nobody where back left. See, Lord loves people on the 815 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:45,880 left. I'm going to say Amen Church and 816 00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,880 then I want you to rejoice with the sound of heaven over those 817 00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,280 being saved and joining the community today in Jesus name, 818 00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:57,000 Amen. Thanks for joining us today. 819 00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,040 We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message. 820 00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,040 If you'd like to connect with us, you can text connect to 821 00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:09,560 407-588-0115 or visit Illuminate dot church. 822 00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:11,280 Have a great week.