1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,000 Hey, good morning, real life Church. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,880 Awesome to see you today. Literally, it's awesome to see 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:06,000 you. This is so cool. 4 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Will you go and stand to your feet? 5 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,640 And we're just going to start off with some praise this 6 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,600 morning. We're going to sing to him. 7 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:14,400 We're so thankful for all he's done. 8 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:21,120 So let's just sing out, wandering into the night, 9 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:29,680 wanting a place to hide this weary soul, this Vagabond. 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:39,760 I try with all my mind, but I just can't win the fight. 11 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:51,200 I'm slowly drifting a Vagabond just when I ran out of the road. 12 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,920 I met a. Man, I didn't know. 13 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:05,519 He told me that I was not. You pick me up, You turn me 14 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:09,720 around, You place my feet on solid ground. 15 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,240 I think the Master. I think the Savior, because you 16 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,640 heal my heart. You change my. 17 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,120 Name forever free. I'm not the. 18 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,120 Same. I think the master, I think the 19 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,680 Savior. I thank God. 20 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:26,920 Yeah. There we go. 21 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:28,480 Let's go. Let's have some fun. 22 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,160 Oh, I cannot deny what I've seen. 23 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,320 I've got no choice but to believe my doubts are burning. 24 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:48,080 Yeah, like ashes in the wind. So, so long. 25 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:53,240 To my old friends. Burning in bitterness. 26 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:58,720 You can't just keep it moving. You ain't welcome here. 27 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,360 Let's declare this. From now till I walk the street 28 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:09,080 to go, I'll sing up How you save my soul. 29 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,760 This wayward son is found the way back. 30 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:22,440 You pick me up, You turn me around, You place my feet on 31 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,960 solid ground. I think the Master. 32 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,400 I I think the Savior. Because you heal my heart. 33 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:34,400 You change my name forever Free. I'm not the same. 34 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,720 I think the Master. I think the Savior. 35 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:42,000 I thank God. Yeah. 36 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,640 Keep those hands going. I love this part. 37 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:50,360 We can declare this confidently. Hell lost another one. 38 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,440 We are free. Come on, let's sing this. 39 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,760 Lost another one. I am free. 40 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,440 Oh, I am free. Yes, I am free. 41 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,120 Hell lost another one. I am free. 42 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,800 Oh, I am free. Yes, I am free. 43 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:08,920 Come on. Hell. 44 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:11,440 Lost another one. I am free. 45 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,880 Oh, I am free. Yes, I am free. 46 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,920 Hell lost another one. I am free. 47 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,560 Oh, I am free. Yes, I am free. 48 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,680 Declare I lost the number one. I am free. 49 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:30,320 Oh, I am free. Yeah, I am free. 50 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:34,080 I lost the number one. I am free. 51 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,280 Oh, I am free. Yes, I am free. 52 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,360 I lost the number one. I am free. 53 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,120 Oh, I am free. Yeah, I am free. 54 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,640 I lost the number one. I am free. 55 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:54,160 Oh, I am free. You picked me up. 56 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,960 Turn me around. You place my feet on solid 57 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 ground. I think the Master. 58 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,320 I think the savior. Because you heal my heart. 59 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,560 You change my name forever. Free I'm. 60 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,960 Not the same. I think the master, I think the 61 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,360 Savior. I thank God. 62 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:28,120 I thank God, I thank God. Come on. 63 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,440 Are you thankful this morning? Real life, Give it up for Jesus. 64 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,480 Come on man. I don't know about you, but I'm 65 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,520 so thankful for what God has done for me. 66 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,120 And it doesn't take me very long to look back and see all of the 67 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,160 ways that He's shown up in my life with His goodness, with His 68 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,240 healing, with His faithfulness. I mean, the longer I walk with 69 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,960 Him, the sweeter it gets. So let's continue to lift Him 70 00:04:50,960 --> 00:05:00,670 up. This morning, when I was lost 71 00:05:00,950 --> 00:05:06,710 and all alone, your presence was where I found home. 72 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:16,680 You were there and you're here right now when we see you in 73 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:23,920 every heart and every love. You never left me without hope. 74 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,120 You were good and you're good right now. 75 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,160 So how quick is your faithfulness? 76 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,800 I've seen you breathe light with. 77 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,760 And so I pour out my praise again. 78 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:49,160 You're worthy God, you're worthy of all of it. 79 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:56,840 Your promise is never there. I've got stories I live to tell. 80 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:04,000 So I pour out my praise again. Is you're worthy, God, You're 81 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,440 worthy of all of it. I believe he's worthy this 82 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,080 morning. Give him a shout as you left the 83 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:18,840 throne and chose the cross, laid down your life to rescue us. 84 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,120 The Saviour there and the Saviour now. 85 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:35,520 But even death was not the end. You conquered him so I could 86 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,120 live. Resurrecting dead. 87 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:50,080 Resurrecting now, resurrecting then, resurrecting now Is that 88 00:06:54,250 --> 00:06:59,890 witness your faithfulness. I've seen you breathe my breath. 89 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:07,880 And so I all of my brains, your worthy got your worthy, your 90 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:13,560 honor, your promise is never fail. 91 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,800 I've got stories I've been to tell. 92 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:25,640 So I all of my brains taking your merry got your worthy, your 93 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:46,600 honor, baby. You're good and I went instead. 94 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,920 You're strong and I've witnessed it. 95 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:57,640 You're constant. I witnessed it and I'm confident 96 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,200 that I'll see it again and again. 97 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:07,960 You love and I've witnessed it. You healing, I've witnessed it. 98 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:15,720 You save and I've witnessed it and I'm confident that I'll see 99 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,520 it again and again. You're good and I've. 100 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:24,640 Witnessed it. You're strong and I've witnessed 101 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,640 it. You're constant. 102 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:33,559 I'm witnessing and I'm confident and I'll see it again and again. 103 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:36,679 You love it. I'm. 104 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,320 Witnessing. You heal it. 105 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,240 I'm with. This day you steal it. 106 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,360 I'm with this day and I'll pop the day and I'll see it again. 107 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:54,480 I'll bring this your faithfulness. 108 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:03,920 I've seen you revive with that. So I pour out my brains in your 109 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,200 worthy, got your worthy of all of it. 110 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:15,880 Your promises never fail. I got score means I live to 111 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,000 tell. So I pour out my brains in your 112 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,960 worthy got your worthy of all of it. 113 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:34,400 I'm broken on Witness death to the harming of Witness death to 114 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:35,680 the. Lost out the winters. 115 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,760 Death. And I'll tell them this. 116 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,170 I'll tell them when I will go to my sin. 117 00:09:48,050 --> 00:09:52,450 On winners, death. To the nations. 118 00:09:52,490 --> 00:10:11,650 On winners, death. God, in this place, somebody 119 00:10:13,170 --> 00:10:17,130 brought your message to us, your message of healing, your love, 120 00:10:17,130 --> 00:10:19,130 your faithfulness, God, somebody brought it to us. 121 00:10:19,130 --> 00:10:23,170 And God, this is your call to go out into our family, our city, 122 00:10:23,210 --> 00:10:27,570 to the world, God, to share the love we've seen, to share your 123 00:10:27,570 --> 00:10:35,120 faithfulness. God, 'cause I've witnessed your 124 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:40,360 faithfulness, I've seen you breathe life with. 125 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:47,320 And so I pour out my grace again, 'cause you're worthy, 126 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,720 God, you're worthy of all loving. 127 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:59,320 Your promises never fail. I've got stories I live to tell, 128 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:14,320 so I. Amen. 129 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,920 You know, this season we're just leaning into this idea of being 130 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,480 a difference maker. And one of the ways we can be 131 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,280 bold and confident in that is because we've witnessed all that 132 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,680 he's done. And more than that, we just have 133 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:30,760 so many instances where he's proven over and over again that 134 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:35,560 he is more than able to provide. And so we just declare that this 135 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:38,640 morning. Just invite you just to pour 136 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,560 your heart out as you sing in worship today. 137 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:52,640 When did I start to forget all the great things that you did? 138 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:01,200 When did I throw away faith for the impossible? 139 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,960 How did I start? To believe. 140 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:18,680 You weren't sufficient for me. Why do I talk myself out of 141 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:28,520 seeking miracles? You want more than able. 142 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:48,450 You want more than 8? You want more than able. 143 00:12:51,330 --> 00:12:58,800 You. Want more than 8 able? 144 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,880 Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? 145 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:19,480 It's easy for you. Now I see all that I have and 146 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:27,840 I've got my comfort is bad, so I put my trust in the one room who 147 00:13:27,920 --> 00:14:06,920 still does miracles. You are born and able. 148 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,520 Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? 149 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:20,120 Can you imagine with all of the faith in the room, what the Lord 150 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:20,960 can? Do. 151 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:28,670 What? The Lord just let the waymaker 152 00:14:28,670 --> 00:14:30,590 through. He's going to move. 153 00:14:31,830 --> 00:14:33,550 He's going to move. Can you see it? 154 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:39,800 Can you imagine with all of the? Faith in the room what the Lord 155 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:45,320 can do what the Lord can do if. It's going to happen. 156 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,240 Just let the wave make. It. 157 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,080 Through. It's going to move. 158 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:57,240 It's going to move. And Can you imagine all the 159 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:03,040 faith in the room, what the Lord can do, what the Lord can do, 160 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,760 He's going to happen you. Just let the wave make a move. 161 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:14,550 He's going. To move he's. 162 00:15:19,340 --> 00:15:29,240 Going to move. Anything is possible to deny 163 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,000 what the? Lord can do. 164 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,360 Anything. Is possible? 165 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:47,280 Anything is possible. Anything is possible, but who am 166 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:55,160 I to deny what the Lord can do? Who am I to deny what the Lord? 167 00:15:55,640 --> 00:16:01,400 Can do who am? I to deny what the Lord can do. 168 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:14,050 Come on, let's. See, we want more than any. 169 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,840 You want. You. 170 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,240 Want more than a less you? Want. 171 00:16:30,270 --> 00:16:33,830 Come on, Sing, you want more than a more. 172 00:16:33,830 --> 00:16:50,640 You want more than a more. To deny what the Lord can do. 173 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,560 Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? 174 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:08,440 Who am I to deny what the Lord? Can do and Amen. 175 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,240 Amen. Who believes that God is able, 176 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:12,400 man? The God that raised the dead, 177 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,720 the God that heals sickness, man. 178 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,880 He does those things today, man. So let's give it up for God one 179 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,040 more time, can we, man? Thank you guys so much for 180 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:21,640 choosing to worship with us in real life. 181 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,079 Then we have a lot going on. I don't know if you saw this or 182 00:17:24,079 --> 00:17:25,400 not. Do you guys see all the little 183 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,920 superheroes in the costumes running around? 184 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,200 Man, we are going to blow it out back there. 185 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:32,760 The kids are getting candy, parents. 186 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,880 You're welcome. You guys excited. 187 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,760 Hey, I, I did get some spiritual advice today that I'm going to 188 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,320 share with you guys. So when my kids were younger, 189 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,360 the tax man showed up, right? And I would take the 10%. 190 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,640 Well, we're going to be a little more spiritual in real life. 191 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,920 You guys know the story of Nehemiah, the cup bearer. 192 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,040 He had to take a sample so the king didn't die from poison. 193 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,840 So you guys tell your kids the story of Nehemiah taking the 194 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,840 poison or the opportunity to take it. 195 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:58,440 And you guys can do this for the kids you're going to make. 196 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,080 We want to make sure these Reese's Cups aren't bad. 197 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,160 So you guys take that opportunity as parents to do 198 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,360 that. So hey, thank you guys so much 199 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:08,200 for choosing to join to worship with us today. 200 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:09,080 I don't know if you guys know this. 201 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:10,400 Not man. We have a ton of new people 202 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,240 online with us and in person. Can we give those people some 203 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:14,240 love? Yeah, lift it up. 204 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,680 Hey, take this opportunity. Take about 30 seconds to greet 205 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:48,520 somebody around you. All right, you guys go ahead and 206 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,320 grab a seat. It's a little different. 207 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:51,920 Have the lights on in here today, man. 208 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:56,160 I can see everybody I know. So this week when Pastor Sean's 209 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,920 preaching to you individual, you will know who he's looking at. 210 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,240 You guys always think that we know, but we don't. 211 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,360 Hey, I want you guys to know that you guys are sitting on a 212 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:05,840 connection card, man. This connection card is the way 213 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,840 that we love to stay connected with you in real life. 214 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,280 If you go real life home, then we love it when you grab it, 215 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,600 fill it out. Let us know what's going on your 216 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,840 life, whether it's a prayer, a praise, whatever it is, man, 217 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,040 we'd love to get these and we read over them and we pray over 218 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,000 them every week. Hey, if you guys are new or 219 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,800 newer with us, we love it when you fill out the top section of 220 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:22,920 this. And I'm going to make this 221 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:24,480 promise to you. We're not going to ask any other 222 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,880 things from you today except that one simple thing. 223 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,480 Just introduce us by filling out that connection card. 224 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,560 And we just want to send you out something this week, let you 225 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:33,960 know a little bit about more who we are in real life and just 226 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:38,000 stay get you guys connected an opportunity to to maybe be on 227 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,920 mission with us here. We'll let you guys know what to 228 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,920 to do with those cards a little bit later on in the gathering. 229 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,640 And Speaking of mission, we believe that we are a church on 230 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,960 a mission and that mission is to see people far from Jesus 231 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,600 discover the real life of purpose in him. 232 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,840 And So what that simply means is this is that we know just 233 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,000 throughout the week, throughout the months, throughout the years 234 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,240 that the world just destroys people, right? 235 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,280 It takes you, beat you down, throws you away and you walk 236 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,120 away, feel it broken. You don't have any purpose, you 237 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:04,800 don't have any hope. But we know that the God that is 238 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,640 more than able. That's part of what he does is 239 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,880 is that he brings you back to the full brings you back to a 240 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:11,240 family. When we give our lives to 241 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,320 Christ, man, it is such a blessing just to see people 242 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:15,880 commit their lives week in and week out. 243 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,960 And you guys are going to hear a little bit more of that and a 244 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,280 little bit about just the people that give their lives to Christ 245 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,680 just weekend. And so that's just a blessing to 246 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,720 be on mission. And so today we're going to 247 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,840 continue and our series difference maker. 248 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:29,560 And so for the last eight years, God has blessed this church, 249 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,160 this community by bringing hope and transformation just to be 250 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,520 being able to to bring that conduit and get people connected 251 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,640 back to God. But we believe that we're in the 252 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,880 midst of our most important series that we've ever gone 253 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:42,160 through. And this is the difference 254 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,560 maker. And this is God's call for us to 255 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,160 make that next step of faith, right? 256 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,800 To believe, for God to be more than able to clear obstacles, to 257 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,520 do the impossible. And what we're leaning into is a 258 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,800 building initiative. But this isn't about a facility, 259 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,720 it's about a movement. And we all as individuals are 260 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,400 gathering together and just honing in, in, in coming in 261 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,520 prayer and fasting just to put our hearts before God to see 262 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,400 what's next in this season. So I want you guys just to be 263 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,400 ready for the next, this next message that's going to bring 264 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,720 hope and transformation and the, the, the prayer and the courage 265 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,040 to change the next generation. So I want you guys to take this 266 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,760 opportunity, put your hands together. 267 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,600 And as Pastor Sean comes up and continues difference maker. 268 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,440 Good morning guys. Do you guys kind of brag what 269 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,720 the Lord's been doing? By the way, that last song, I 270 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,120 don't ever plan these things. This how God works it out. 271 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:34,920 It's going to be perfect for today. 272 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,200 Step out of faith, but I'm going to celebrate a little bit. 273 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:38,960 Is that good? You're going to hear some 274 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,320 amazing stories this last Sunday. 275 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,000 This is just amazing. It's got a little revival going 276 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,240 on with eight people commit their life to Jesus last Sunday. 277 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:51,120 Is that fantastic? And so you back up last Sunday, 278 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:53,880 the same before 3 weeks, we've had 16 people commit their life 279 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,440 to Jesus and we're talking about have a building initiative and 280 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,680 people come to Christ. I mean, that is the foundation, 281 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,080 that is the why. That's the reason we do this. 282 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,120 And so thank you, Jesus, Amen. And it really comes back to 283 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:07,040 everyday difference makers. We talked about that last week, 284 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,000 right? Like going out and inviting and 285 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,920 sharing, but not just saying come and see, but to go and 286 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,880 tell, to actually share the gospel, to pray with somebody. 287 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,600 Say I've been, I've been thinking about you and you call 288 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,720 somebody up or you're in line with somebody and you're having 289 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,400 a great conversation. Instead of cutting off like, 290 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,480 Hey, let's just talk some more and just asking great questions 291 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,360 and truly listening and that soul to soul, there is very 292 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:28,840 little community in the community, right? 293 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:30,840 We all have friends, but we're not connected. 294 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,240 It's just slowing down and say, how can I pray for you? 295 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:35,960 Or can I share something to you that's changed, made difference 296 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,920 in my life? Or can I suggest something? 297 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,800 Can I introduce you to someone to, you know, share Jesus and 298 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,720 then invite him, invite him to know Christ. 299 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,280 And it's very, it's not really complicated, but it takes a step 300 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,000 of faith. Amen. 301 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,960 It takes gospel eyes and because you guys have been doing this, 302 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,480 we have just an amazing crew of people that have been coming. 303 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,960 That's why people are coming to meet Jesus because you guys are 304 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,200 out there making a difference. And we have some awesome 305 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:58,680 everyday difference makers in our house. 306 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,640 They're called life group leaders and do a fantastic job. 307 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:02,800 So get up for our life, Group leaders. 308 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:03,920 Come on, let them know you love them. 309 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,640 It's fantastic. I want to highlight just one 310 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,200 story. This season's been really good 311 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,600 for our life groups, and so we'll put this on the screen and 312 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,320 this is Jana's group, Jana Jensen. 313 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:15,960 I don't know if they always meet at Panera, but they're at 314 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,320 Panera. But what you don't see in the 315 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,080 picture, there's actually, we barely see it. 316 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,280 There's a Bible down there in the bottom right corner of the 317 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,240 picture. And that is very exciting for me 318 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,520 as a pastor, when people are together and open the Word of 319 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,440 God and things just start to change. 320 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,400 Amen. There's some stripping away. 321 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,040 And Jana reached out to me and she reached out to many people 322 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,200 and Holly's been traveling around the groups and she has 323 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,360 said this has been one of the most refreshing, like shaping 324 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,720 just challenging seasons for her own self, but also for the 325 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,840 ladies are in that group. They've been growing. 326 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,280 And she said thank you for the opportunity to bring hope and 327 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,720 confidence to these women and even to myself as a life group 328 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,040 leader. And they've been opening 329 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,720 stories. And one of the stories they read 330 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,080 through is the story of Rahab. If you're reading the Bible, 331 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,520 she's called Rahab the prostitute and she's mentioned 332 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,560 that numerous times and how God even used her, her and her past 333 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,440 didn't define her future, her, her trauma, the stuff she'd been 334 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,640 through didn't find who she was, just had a different identity 335 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,200 for a better identity, a fresh identity of grace and mercy and 336 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,120 love. And he washes away her sin and 337 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:14,760 makes us new and he's laser seeing this thing and are being 338 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,440 challenged and growing. And so I want to say thank you 339 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,520 for everyday difference makers just bringing the word of God to 340 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,400 people, even through our church. Amen. 341 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,160 And we need more of that. We need to get into the word and 342 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,400 see we have a lot of people coming out lately and we have 343 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,440 something special. If you've been, if you're new or 344 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,000 newer to real life, I want to invite you to something that's 345 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,400 happening next Sunday. You know what I mean by new or 346 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,600 newer is maybe coming last few months or maybe coming for even 347 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,960 a long season and you're not really connected. 348 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,680 And I want to invite you out to something we're calling a 349 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,080 welcome party. It's going to be next Sunday. 350 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,880 It's going to be between the gatherings and it's a place, if 351 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,520 you're wondering like, can I belong here? 352 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,480 Why does this church even exist? Like how did it come about? 353 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,960 Like this portable crazy group of people, right? 354 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,840 Can I grow here? Can I find my people? 355 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,560 What are we all about? I'll invite you out. 356 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,880 We're going to have some refreshments, some swag. 357 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,280 Come on somebody. And just going to hang out for 358 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,440 about 30 minutes from the gathering. 359 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,960 So if you come to the first, just stay after. 360 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,480 You can leave your kids back in kids. 361 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,240 If you come to the second next week, you can come early and 362 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:13,560 then leave it. Drop your kids off early, come 363 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,880 back there. It's been a great time to hang 364 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,880 out. You don't have to sign up. 365 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,480 You can check it out online, but it's no registration. 366 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,640 Just show up, go for it and it will help you guys get connected 367 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,240 and grow. It's easy to come and sit and 368 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,280 that's not the type of church we were called to be. 369 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:28,920 We're called to live on mission. Amen. 370 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,200 And so can you guys get for everybody's new or new or let 371 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:32,680 them know we love them and be a part of the welcome part. 372 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,640 It'd be great. So today we're diving in 3rd 373 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,760 part of our series Difference Maker, and hopefully you guys 374 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,000 have got the booklet over the last three weeks. 375 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:44,680 There's a booklet we passed out the door. 376 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,800 If you haven't got it, you can get it at the table on the way 377 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:48,360 out. There's also a mug. 378 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:50,920 I don't know if you like mugs, but in the mug is a decal which 379 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,640 you can stick on your car only if you drive like Jesus. 380 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,400 Amen. I'm like, I don't know whether 381 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,600 this is going to represent us good or bad, but we put them in 382 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,680 the car. But make sure you grab that as 383 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,240 awesome as candy. All things but take that booklet 384 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,800 and I would encourage you to really read through it. 385 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:11,400 Don't just like, oh, I'll put on the shelf, read through it and 386 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,280 and understand exactly what this difference maker is all about, 387 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,720 what the goals are, where we're going, What what's a one fund? 388 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:19,560 Like? How does this play a part? 389 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,560 Like get to know all the details because it's easy. 390 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:23,920 Like up here. I'm not going to walk through 391 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,640 all the maybe all the questions, but we have an extensive FAQ in 392 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,840 the book and it answers a lot of stuff. 393 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:30,960 And it took a lot of time, the energy put together because a 394 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,000 lot of different thought processes on this, but read 395 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,840 through it, pray through it. You can take notes. 396 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,200 I think you're on page maybe 19 or 20 today. 397 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,480 I should know this, but a story or a story, a message called 398 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,840 Motivated by Faith. And so they just take some notes 399 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,800 in there, but really dive into what the Lord has. 400 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,720 I'm going to give you an overview again, if you heard a 401 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,480 couple weeks ago, you've seen this video already, but just 402 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,560 remind you of really the goal and the passion and why we're 403 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,080 doing this difference maker initiative so you can share the 404 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,000 video. We're doing the old school with 405 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,800 the light switch, so it's going to be good. 406 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,680 Hey, real. Family, friends, today we stand 407 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,600 in the unique moment in our story. 408 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,120 Eight years ago we stepped out in faith to launch real life 409 00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:13,360 church, and God has shown up in extraordinary ways. 410 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,760 Real life, you already are living proof what God can do 411 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,920 through ordinary people when they surrender to His plan. 412 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,600 We've seen marriages changed, families changed, and eternity 413 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,800 changed, and countless people. And I believe with all my heart 414 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:32,040 that God is not done yet. There are prodigals in our city 415 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,440 and around the world that God is calling home. 416 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,520 And this is an incredible harvest on the horizon that we 417 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,080 can play a part of. And today, just like 8 years 418 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,440 ago, we once again are in a place. 419 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,440 We get to write the next chapter in our story. 420 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,120 But here's the problem. Prodigals lost people need 421 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:54,680 somewhere to come home to. It is somewhere to belong, 422 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,040 somewhere to grow, and people to believe in them. 423 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,960 And listen, we've been purple for 8:00 for years and being 424 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:01,560 portable has been a huge blessing. 425 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,480 But let's be real, it has its limits. 426 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,560 And for instance, in our kids ministry, it's tough to turning 427 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,400 elementary school into a sacred life giving space for children 428 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,800 to encounter God. The distractions are literally 429 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,840 around every corner. We also can't host things like 430 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,880 kids camp or summer BBS because we simply don't have the space. 431 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,120 In addition to our youth group, it's on the verge of outgrowing 432 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,720 our Hope Center. There's a space where teens are 433 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,200 playing Nightscore in the air and there's a worship team 434 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,360 rehearsing at the same time. It's amazing, it's beautiful, 435 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:37,200 but it is absolutely chaotic. And for adults, we would love to 436 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,600 host marriage conferences. We'd love to have weddings and 437 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,240 dream team celebrations. And the love, love, love to have 438 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,960 a life giving, state-of-the-art worship center to invite your 439 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,080 family and your friends to experience Jesus and share the 440 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,680 gospel around the world. As much as we love being 441 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,840 portable, the truth is every portable situation has a shelf 442 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,520 life. It has a time frame. 443 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,520 And that's why after much prayer, planning, discerning and 444 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:08,280 leadership, I believe God is calling us to secure our first 445 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,360 permanent home. Our vision is to purchase a 446 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,680 facility somewhere between 15 and 20,000 square feet. 447 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,200 Places like the OfficeMax, the Walgreens will allow us to 448 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,320 double our capacity and give us room to grow. 449 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,240 A place where ministry happens 24/7. 450 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,520 A place where we have long term presence in our city and it 451 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,360 tells our neighbors and tells the world that we are here to 452 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,280 stay. It's a place for inviting 453 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,720 culture. The designated kids space where 454 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,640 the kids eyes light up when they walk in and everything points 455 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,760 them to Jesus. It's a space for youth, for 456 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,560 conferences, for weddings, camps, worship, rehearsal, and 457 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,440 most importantly, disciple making. 458 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,080 And yes, no more set up and tear down. 459 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,440 I heard everybody say Amen. Even our mail could finally be 460 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,000 delivered to our church home. This isn't about building a 461 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,800 monument. It's about building a movement. 462 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,960 It's not about a facility. It's about creating a launchpad 463 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,200 for the gospel, a hospital for the hurting, and a home for 464 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,160 prodigals. Psalm 78 says it best. 465 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,400 It says we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy 466 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,440 deeds of the Lord, His power, and the wonders He has done. 467 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,320 That's what the space represents. 468 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,160 It's a place where the next generation hears about and 469 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,480 learns to follow Jesus. So here's the vision of the next 470 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,560 two years. Our Difference Maker Initiative 471 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:35,400 aims to raise $1.9 million, now 900,000 that is simply 472 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,040 continuing to fund our ministry fund already. 473 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,520 It funds everything you already like and love about real life. 474 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,240 It's not going anywhere. But the additional 1,000,000 475 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:48,960 position us to say yes to an opportunity when God opens the 476 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,600 door for a first permanent space. 477 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,400 But here's the most important part. 478 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,520 Our primary goal is not a financial number. 479 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,760 It's asking for 100% participation. 480 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,400 We want every person, every family who calls real life home 481 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,600 to help write the next chapter as a difference maker. 482 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,000 So what does that mean for you? I'm simply asking you to do 483 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,640 three things. One, let's celebrate the moment 484 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,000 right now. We're on the verge of something 485 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,400 amazing that the lead the way of making a difference in thousands 486 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,320 and thousands of lives, including your own family, your 487 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,320 friends, and your neighbors. 2 Commit to hear from God. 488 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,440 Ask him, what does faith look like in me in this season? 489 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:36,200 How May God be calling you to grow in generosity and trust? 490 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,680 And three, consider becoming a difference maker with us. 491 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,400 Take time to pray. Ask God what would he have you 492 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:48,320 to do to help reach this goal? Friends, family, the ability to 493 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,080 say yes to our first permit space. 494 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,240 Be the true difference maker for us, not just for us, but for 495 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,920 you, for your kids, for our city, and for generations and 496 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,720 generations to come. So I'm simply inviting you to 497 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:04,800 pray, to dream, and to consider how you can be a part of writing 498 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,200 the story because your faith, because your generosity. 499 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,040 We can change people's forever, and that's the bottom line. 500 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,640 That's what it's all about. There's no other place I'd 501 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,880 rather be than with you leading on mission in this season. 502 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,920 Will you join together with me? I invite you to take time to 503 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,600 pray and to see God and join us together as a difference maker 504 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,400 in pursuit of our first permanent home. 505 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:39,000 God bless guys. Come on. 506 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,480 Is that? Exciting, gonna make Barry work 507 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,160 today. Up and down, up and down. 508 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,280 Oh man, I, I think of this vision and this season we're in 509 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,920 and I think how special it is what God is leading us into. 510 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,520 This is like a holy moment for us as a church. 511 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,040 I mean, eight years, all the different things. 512 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,840 And to step out and say, Lord, we're going to say yes to the 513 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,400 vision that you have that you put in place already to do 514 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,880 something special. And hopefully you at this point, 515 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,080 3 weeks in, you're starting to have a little burning passion to 516 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,080 say yes to the Lord through this, to get behind what God is 517 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,960 leading us into as a church, as a church family, and to step out 518 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,360 on faith. I know this as a pastor that has 519 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,800 had to preach about money and giving and generosity for all 520 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,840 the years. There's one thing I hear from 521 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,600 people quite often, and it's not usually people who go to our 522 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,360 church, but people struggling in the culture. 523 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,800 Maybe some people new to church, they would say something like 524 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,320 this. All the church wants is my oh, 525 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,600 they didn't say Jesus. All the church wants me. 526 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:39,800 I know Jesus. No, that's right. 527 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,040 All the church wants is my money. 528 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,200 And we we feel this at times. Maybe you like, man, I don't 529 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,920 know about this. Like that'd be hard to give a 530 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,320 large gift. I don't know what part of the 531 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,040 story that's that seems difficult. 532 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,560 And we can almost feel like under compulsion, like I've 533 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,920 really got to do this, but I don't want to or do it 534 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,040 begrudgingly or do it hesitancy, like I'm not so sure. 535 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,560 And I just want to remind you guys today, my prayer is you 536 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,080 leave here knowing that when you give and your generosity, it is 537 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,880 an act of worship. It's not an act of duty. 538 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,920 This isn't a religious organization where you give your 539 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,440 little peace or your thing so you can make yourself right with 540 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,639 the Lord. This is a place where we give, 541 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:19,840 we lay down what we have our best because we believe what 542 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,080 Jesus is doing. And so it's an act of worship. 543 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,920 And I'm going to walk through today and share a story with you 544 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,440 that those are going to be very powerful. 545 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,080 It's a story of family in our church that moved from that 546 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,520 hesitancy stage and holding on and said yes to to giving. 547 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,639 And it's one of those giving from stories like we talk a lot 548 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,199 about people who receive generosity, but this story is 549 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,159 actually a story of somebody who gave and what God did in their 550 00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:43,679 life. So why don't you lean in and 551 00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:46,960 watch this video and just see all the little pieces of how God 552 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,520 changed their heart and the the the results of their generosity. 553 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,239 So check this out. My name is Mike. 554 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,280 My name is Kristen. And this is our story. 555 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,520 Kind of going into a season of like unknown chose to go down a 556 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,440 different career path. I remember she asked, you know, 557 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,400 hey, we should give this amount of money. 558 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,880 And my first thought was like heck no like. 559 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,080 Hard. Absolutely. 560 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,800 It was a hard no just because we had no idea like what the next 561 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,920 step was going to be and how it was going to play out. 562 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,160 Like me going back to school. How everything went was very 563 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,440 different for me when we first talked about it. 564 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,320 It was hard for me not to get upset when you said no because 565 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,600 because of what that would mean and. 566 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,720 It was during the service last year and Sean had said that your 567 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:42,120 bank account is directly tied to your heart. 568 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,240 That kind of really stuck out to me. 569 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,680 And after that service, I texted her and I said, hey, let's go 570 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,240 for it. I remember seeing her daughter 571 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:53,480 just worshipping during band practice and it was just such a 572 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,520 cool feeling, like seeing her do that. 573 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,920 And the Hope Center is not free. It takes a lot of resources to 574 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,880 make that happen. Takes a lot of time and the joy 575 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:08,040 of giving, knowing that that can go towards that and just helping 576 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,440 shape young kids just strengthen their relationship with God. 577 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:19,040 It was a lot on my end to have to rely on God for the patients 578 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,880 that I needed to be able to trust him that even though this 579 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,960 is something that I, I think we can do and I think we should do 580 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:32,160 that, doing something without you and doing something that 581 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,960 your whole heart isn't in, that's not what he wants. 582 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:43,600 It was so amazing to see God's faithfulness and how He worked 583 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:48,040 in your life and in your heart to bring us on the same page for 584 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,280 this something that we are not off and on. 585 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,240 I was definitely nervous at first just not knowing like how 586 00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,520 this 2025 was going to shape out. 587 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,920 But as the year kind of progressed, it's like everything 588 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,400 has worked out. I feel like even better than 589 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,280 expected, you know, going to school and not knowing how I'm 590 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,840 going to fit in there, how I'm going to handle doing homework 591 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,640 again. And God just kind of guided us 592 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,560 through this year, played a huge part on the success we've had in 593 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,400 2025. Knowing how our generosity 594 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,040 played a part on all these stories. 595 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,480 It's it's really cool to be on stage during, especially during 596 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:34,480 baptisms and seeing all these families come up and just taking 597 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,320 a leap of faith and just showing 1 to proclaim, you know, to the 598 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,480 world that they want to get baptized, you know, for Jesus 599 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:46,040 And just it's really cool seeing them go underwater and then 600 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,360 coming up. It's like a breath of life, you 601 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,920 know, it's the joy on their face, in their families face as 602 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,480 well. Just seeing that from the stage 603 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,600 is is pretty awesome. I mean, it really feels like an 604 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,400 investment in this home that we're becoming a part of, that 605 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,080 we're helping to build, that we're getting to know all over 606 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,600 again. I mean, even not having had a 607 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,040 church home for a really long time. 608 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,240 Especially a church home that we both liked being a part of. 609 00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:14,400 That we were, yeah, that we both felt comfortable with. 610 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,840 It was something we had really been missing all along. 611 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,720 And then being able to pour ourselves into that is a whole 612 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:22,760 new level of reward and blessing. 613 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,720 You were talking about this last year. 614 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:27,640 Like, on paper, it doesn't work. He makes it work. 615 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,720 I mean, looking back, it almost doesn't make sense to invest in 616 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,640 anything else. I feel like if you take that 617 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,320 leap of faith, you won't be disappointed, you're not going 618 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,040 to regret it. Just to see the the direction of 619 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,760 this church is going and to being able to play a very small 620 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,680 part of that is really awesome. For me, I think it was more 621 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,280 humbling than anything else, just to be able to feel like I'm 622 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,520 where I need to be and I'm being obedient. 623 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,880 I mean, the money will come from anywhere. 624 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,280 He doesn't need my money. When we make the sacrifices, he 625 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,400 uses that to transform us. If you're watching this and 626 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,040 you're on the fence of giving, just just go for it. 627 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,680 What's holding you back? God's going to use that money to 628 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:11,200 change lives. Ask Him to do something bigger 629 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,200 or better with that money. This is what we were made for, 630 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,960 was to worship Him and to serve Him and to use every good thing 631 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,080 that we have to pour back into praise for Him. 632 00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:27,320 This could be your chance to experience the joy of generosity 633 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,480 and make a difference together. If God can use our gift, he can 634 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:39,140 use yours too. Come on, give it up. 635 00:39:42,340 --> 00:39:44,660 Thank you Mike Christopher sharing that story. 636 00:39:45,420 --> 00:39:46,820 We all walk through that season, don't we? 637 00:39:47,420 --> 00:39:50,860 Like Lord, can I trust you? And there, there is 2 distinct 638 00:39:50,860 --> 00:39:54,520 spots in a Christian's life, those who see giving as worship 639 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,920 and those who don't know why they should give. 640 00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,360 And there's something about your life when you can look at 641 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:00,920 yourself and say, Lord, you can have it all. 642 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,720 Like, I'm trusting on you, I'm counting on you. 643 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,800 But it's a real deal, isn't it? Like he, he talked about that 644 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,040 moment. If you listen to the video where 645 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,680 he's like, Nah, man, I'm good, right? 646 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,880 I'm good. You may look at that chart we're 647 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,680 looking at, right? And go, I'm good. 648 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:19,920 And then you say, OK, Lord, like what I have is actually what I 649 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,360 worship, what I spend it on. Like where your heart, where 650 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,760 treasure is, your heart is also. And that that's what spoke to 651 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:25,880 him. He said, well, OK, Lord, let's, 652 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,760 let's test it. Let's let's just see, let's just 653 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,400 step up faith, right? And there is there is a risk to 654 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,840 it. Like it's not called to be easy. 655 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,680 And you're going to find today like a story or a walkthrough 656 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,520 where where things shift. But there's something special 657 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,080 that happens even in their story where like you, you sow seeds, 658 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,200 you plant seeds, you give towards it. 659 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,720 And all of a sudden, everything you look at looks at 660 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:49,680 differently. He saw he saw his kids 661 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,120 worshipping it. It was really youth group like 662 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:53,760 when they played through and the kids are worshipping it. 663 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,440 Like I played a part of that. I sowed seeds in that. 664 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,440 Amen. There's something special when 665 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,560 you like, I played a part of the story, like moving from they to 666 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,800 we like, oh, they got it. That's cool. 667 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,160 I'm excited to see how it turns out. 668 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:06,920 And you know, I played a part of that. 669 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,280 That's significant. And they come up here on the 670 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,000 worship team and they're saying and they see these stories of 671 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,560 people that have been prodigals and addictions or just lost or 672 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,400 little children come into Christ and saying, Lord, thank you. 673 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,280 I get to play a part of the story that that's that's joy. 674 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,320 Amen. And the Bible says that's the 675 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,240 only quote from Jesus that's given past the Gospels and read 676 00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:29,240 letters you'll find in Acts Paul course. 677 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:31,080 Jesus says better blessed is more blessed. 678 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,480 They give than to receive that there is no better joy or 679 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,920 greater joy than giving in your life. 680 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:39,640 Matter of fact, you think about this. 681 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:44,240 I for me personally, I never forget what I give, but I always 682 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:47,280 forget what I spend. Totally different worlds. 683 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,960 And when I invest in the King of God, I always look back. 684 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,520 I'm so glad I did and I wish I had more to give. 685 00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:58,120 I wish I could do more. I want that spot in my Christian 686 00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,680 life. And today I want to encourage 687 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,320 you. What will it look like for you 688 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,280 to step in and see what it's like to give as an act of 689 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,880 worship, No obligation, not out of duty or compulsion or because 690 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,200 it makes sense. And this makes my great plan for 691 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,440 the year or looks like this. But to say, Lord, what would you 692 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,280 have me to do? We don't go to the Lord and say, 693 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:19,920 here's my plans. We go to the Lord and say, what 694 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,160 are your plans? How can I invest in the things 695 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,160 that matter to your heart and the things that you want me to 696 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,960 give towards? So I'm going to walk through a 697 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,440 story today, and this story is probably lesser known, but it's 698 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,360 going to be very powerful. And we're being First Chronicles 699 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,720 and so we'll be all throughout First Chronicles. 700 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:38,800 But if you got your Bible, we'll be in First Chronicles 10 when 701 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,080 we start off. I'll give you kept some context. 702 00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:47,440 Saul is the the king of Israel. He has turned his back on God. 703 00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:50,680 He's walked away from God. He's done everything but inquire 704 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,800 of God. He's fighting the Philistines, 705 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,280 which seems to be a theme over and over again. 706 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,840 And he's going to Babble. He's going to lose his three 707 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,160 sons, get killed. It's hard to watch Jonathan get 708 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:00,800 killed. If you follow Jonathan, the 709 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,640 Bible, it's hard, hard to watch me go down like that. 710 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,240 And then Saul gets killed. He gets shot with some arrows. 711 00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,760 He asked the seer like, just kill me because they're going to 712 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,000 take me. And he won't. 713 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,600 So he takes his sword and falls on it. 714 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,320 And that's the end of Saul's reign. 715 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:15,600 And this is what it says about Saul. 716 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,760 They're going to bring in David, but this is what it says about 717 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,880 him. First Chronicles, 1013, it says 718 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,920 Saul died because he was what? What's it say? 719 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:29,520 He was what? He was unfaithful to the Lord. 720 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,920 That is significant. He he was taken out of this 721 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,880 human race because he stopped chasing down God and following 722 00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:39,600 him. It says this, he goes further. 723 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,800 He said did not what keep the word of the Lord. 724 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:44,840 I don't know if it's on there yet. 725 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,320 Maybe it is. Oh, it is on there. 726 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:48,840 There you go. I didn't hear anybody go with 727 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:49,880 me. So I was like, is it real? 728 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,760 He did not keep the word of the Lord and look what he said. 729 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:57,240 It even consulted a medium for guidance. 730 00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,160 That's that's called tarot cards, right? 731 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,120 It's called crystals. It's called somebody reading 732 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,200 your palm and telling you what direction to go. 733 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,640 He consulted the prophets of Bao. 734 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,720 He went everywhere but to the Lord. 735 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,200 And he started instead of worshiping the Lord, he actually 736 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,720 started worshiping himself. He actually built a statue of 737 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:18,240 himself, like Saul thought he was the man and says this, and 738 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:21,360 this may be the SAS part, he did not inquire of the Lord. 739 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,520 So Lord put him to what to say. Yeah, put him to death. 740 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,000 He's in the highest level leadership in the entire nation 741 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,640 of Israel. He didn't inquire the Lord, and 742 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,120 the Lord took him out and turned the Kingdom over. 743 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,560 To who? David, the son of Jesse. 744 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,600 Now, remember, David was anointed. 745 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,000 He was a shepherd. He was a little boy. 746 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,240 He's a teenager. He's probably 1413, whatever. 747 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,040 And he was just on the backside of a mountain taking care of 748 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,360 sheep, and they killed Goliath. We'll Fast forward about 14 749 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,960 years or so. This actually happens. 750 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,680 And so first Chronicles 13, so Fast forward a few chapters, it 751 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,800 says this let us bring, now Dave is in charge. 752 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:07,280 He says, let us bring the ark of our God back to us for we did 753 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,680 not inquire of it during the reign of Saul. 754 00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,760 That's really crazy. This is a crazy statement. 755 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,560 That would be saying, hey, Sean, he preached the Bible, OK, for 756 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,080 14 years or wherever it's been, and he never inquired. 757 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,440 The Lord never prayed, never saw after God. 758 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,440 He led on the auspice of God, but did not know God. 759 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,400 And so he raises up David. He was anointed, but now he's 760 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,240 installed and one of the first acts of David is to bring the 761 00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:40,600 Ark of the Covenant. Now the Ark of the Covenant. 762 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,760 This is really significant. The Ark of the Covenant is maybe 763 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,040 the greatest, if not the greatest object in the entire 764 00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,200 Old Testament. Moses is an Exodus 25. 765 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,040 God gives them rules, and he says, I want you to make this 766 00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,080 Ark of the covenant. It's going to be about four feet 767 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,120 long, 2 1/2 feet wide, 2 feet tall. 768 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,360 It's going to be made of Acacia wood, and inside of it you're 769 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,200 going to have the 10 commandments. 770 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,360 This represents God's word. You have Aaron's staff, which 771 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,600 represents God's power, and you're going to have a jar full 772 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,320 of mana, which represents God's provision. 773 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,440 I want you to put that in the ark, and then I want you to seal 774 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:13,560 it. I want you to cover it with 775 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,800 gold, wrap the entire thing in gold, and on top, I want you to 776 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,800 put these two angels on the edges that face each other made 777 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,080 of solid gold. And this is what? 778 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,760 This is what the Lord said to Moses, Exodus 2522. 779 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,200 There above the cover between the two cherubim, the 2 angels 780 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,920 there over the ark of the covenant Law. 781 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:32,480 I will. What's it say? 782 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,560 I will? Yeah. 783 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,160 We'll meet with you. I'm going to meet you in that 784 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,960 spot. I'm going to give you all the 785 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:43,240 commands for the Israelites. This is the spot, it's called 786 00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:47,280 the mercy seat of God. This is where God's presence was 787 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,560 going to meet with the leader of Israel. 788 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,480 He made it with Moses and then it traveled in the wilderness 789 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,040 for 40 years. And then it moved around in the 790 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,520 thing called a Tabernacle, which is a is a tent that they put 791 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,480 together and built. And as they traveled, they take 792 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,360 it with them. It's the first horrible church. 793 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,600 Come on somebody. You know what I mean? 794 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:09,960 This thing, it's almost 400 years now. 795 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,560 So it went with Moses, and then it kind of got set aside. 796 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,720 And then Saul was established as the first king that little 797 00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:18,160 judges. And then Saul is the first king, 798 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,880 and he was supposed to meet with the Lord at the mercy seat. 799 00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,400 He was supposed to inquire the Lord and hear from him, but he 800 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,800 never did. He never went to the Arctic 801 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,840 covenant. This is significant when David 802 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:35,320 says that Saul never did this. And so it's sat just idle, out 803 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,720 of sight, out of mind. This thing went to Shiloh, to 804 00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:41,520 Bethel, and finally David's bringing it close to Jerusalem. 805 00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:44,720 It's been 400 years. So you think, what is David 806 00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:45,840 going to do with the Ark of the Covenant? 807 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:50,080 What do you guys think? Give me with the Lord to inquire 808 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:54,840 the Lord to hear from him. No he doesn't. 809 00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,360 He does nothing. He brings it closer and does 810 00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,680 nothing. He does nothing. 811 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,400 He just waits and sits. And here's the temptation when 812 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,920 it comes to following God, that there is a scarecrow that God 813 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:11,160 puts in front of your bank account. 814 00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,960 There's a scarecrow that the devil puts in front of 815 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:16,240 everything you hold in your hand. 816 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,560 And the scarecrow says this. You'll never have enough. 817 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,560 You need more to be secure. When you get enough, you can 818 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,440 come in here, but don't use it. Don't invest it. 819 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,480 Don't give it. This is yours and you need to 820 00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:30,800 keep it. Hold on to it. 821 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,600 Life is the result of the accumulation of everything you 822 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,760 have. There's a scarecrow, and that 823 00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,680 scarecrow sits there and we hold on to it as if everything we 824 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,320 have is ours. And we start holding on to our 825 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,600 own strength and ability. And we don't acquire the Lord. 826 00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,560 We don't say, Lord, what would you have me to do? 827 00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:50,320 And we do things in our power. And the temptation is that when 828 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,000 you look at your life, that's what happens to David. 829 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:58,480 It gets preoccupied with comfort and it gets preoccupied with 830 00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,720 your own ability instead of gods. 831 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,440 And so this what happens as the Ark of the Covenant sitting idle 832 00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:08,200 that he's supposed to worship and lead from First Chronicles 833 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:12,120 14, One says this now King Harem, king of Tyre sends a 834 00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,680 message to David along with cedar logs, if you know what 835 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:19,680 cedar closet smells like, Right. Stone Masons, carpenters. 836 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:20,960 Hmm. I wonder what's about to happen 837 00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,640 here to build a palace For who? Who's it say? 838 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,800 Yeah. For him being David, this is one 839 00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,360 of those like friendships, like hey, I'm going to pay you off, 840 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,400 right? This is like, hey, if you want 841 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,360 to keep good, I'll send everybody over there. 842 00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,080 We'll build a palace where buddies don't come in, right? 843 00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,440 And so David, he is tempted and look what happens. 844 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:45,280 Another chapter over First Chronicles 15-1 after David had 845 00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:53,160 what constructed buildings for himself in the city of David. 846 00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,240 This place is now fortified. It smells good, it's all made of 847 00:49:57,240 --> 00:49:59,840 cedar. He's got everything lined out. 848 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,600 He's in the life of the city. It's fortified, it's beautiful, 849 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:09,800 it's exactly what he wanted. After David constructed these 850 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:16,160 buildings, he prepared what to say a place for the Ark of God 851 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:21,800 and pitched a tent for it. That's interesting. 852 00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:23,840 That's how you know you have bad worship. 853 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:29,080 After you build yourself a palace, you give God a place. 854 00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:31,800 That's how you know worship's out of whack, isn't it? 855 00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:34,480 Like when you spend way more money in yourself when you're 856 00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:39,000 not generous, when when you don't even have a strategy to be 857 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,240 generous. That's how you know you got bad 858 00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:43,640 worship. This is being real. 859 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,720 Like we don't look at everything as, Lord, this is yours. 860 00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:48,800 How do you want me to leverage it for your Kingdom? 861 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:53,000 Where's the best places to invest for Kingdom impact? 862 00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,160 If you don't think that way, your worship is whacked. 863 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,360 Just being real. And David builds a palace and he 864 00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,160 puts the Ark of Covenant in a place. 865 00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:07,960 And what was that place? A rusty rickety 5 year old 500 866 00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,040 year old tent. He didn't give a new tent. 867 00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,960 He put up the old tent. He just moved it around. 868 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,520 And I don't know why did he do it? 869 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,160 Why would he do it? He's preoccupied, right? 870 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,480 He had life like we do. He had palaces to build and 871 00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,360 places to go. And maybe he was just accustomed 872 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:32,000 to being in a tent. Maybe David was just used to, 873 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,960 just like that's the way it is. It's always been that way. 874 00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,640 It never dawned on him that it should be something different. 875 00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,440 It it didn't occur to him that that this is a place where the 876 00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,920 power and the presence and the provision of God rests. 877 00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,080 But of course he hasn't because he's not been meeting with God. 878 00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,960 He's not be sitting with God. And so he gives God the 879 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,880 leftovers. Now something happens in First 880 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,000 Chronicles 17, David hearts begin to shift. 881 00:51:56,080 --> 00:52:02,360 Fast forward 17/1 after David was what to say, settled in his 882 00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:06,200 palace after he kicked up his feet, got all the right paint 883 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:07,680 colors. It's all furnished. 884 00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,480 It's looking good man. This is where it's at, he said 885 00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,800 to Nathan the prophet, Here I am living in the House of Cedar 886 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:18,360 while the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord is under under a tent. 887 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,800 This is a famous passage. It's also found in the first 888 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,560 Samuel. He says, what am I doing here 889 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,040 living in this a fantastic life with all this amazing 890 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,000 commodities and all the stuff I have and I've accumulated all 891 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,520 the great wealth of the world and the power and the presence 892 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,800 of God sits out in a rickety tent. 893 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,960 What am I thinking? And God does something very 894 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:38,840 special. I don't have time to walk 895 00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,080 through the whole chapter, but does something very special. 896 00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:46,400 In this moment of David's humility, God gives him one of 897 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,040 the everlasting promises of God. There's five everlasting 898 00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,280 promises of God in the Bible. He gave one to Noah. 899 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:53,720 I want to destroy the world, the flood again. 900 00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,000 You give one to Abraham where he said to make you your name 901 00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:58,920 famous and your people and your people great. 902 00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,120 And name shall be you. Those who bless you, bless those 903 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,200 who curse or curse you. You have you have you have 904 00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,080 another covenant with the Palestinian people. 905 00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,360 You hear the divinic covenant with God, an everlasting promise 906 00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:12,280 that I'm going to rule and reign from David's throne for all of 907 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,240 eternity. Now David thought that was going 908 00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:17,440 to be his son to be one of his boys, but it's actually going to 909 00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:21,600 be who It's going to be Jesus because Jesus is the line, the 910 00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:26,000 tribe of David. He's an offspring of David. 911 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,560 And then the last covenant is the new covenant which Jesus 912 00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,280 issued in So out of this moment where David has humility, God 913 00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,960 speaks and says, congratulations, you figured out 914 00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,640 this is about worship. You got to do something with my 915 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,800 presence. Go ahead and build it. 916 00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,000 I'm so establishing an everlasting covenant with you. 917 00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:42,640 Now, what do you think David did? 918 00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,720 I'd like to say he built a temple. 919 00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,640 He he upgraded the presence of God. 920 00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:54,000 I would like to say that, but if you go to study this, David does 921 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:59,920 nothing. He does nothing for 30 years and 922 00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:01,200 this is where the story picks up. 923 00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,760 Fast forward now obviously he's not been meeting with the 924 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,200 presence of the mercy seat of God. 925 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,280 He's not inquiring Lord. He has taken no thought of what 926 00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,800 to do. Zero thought in the Bible. 927 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,120 You read it, read First Samuel, Second Samuel, First Chronicles, 928 00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:16,280 Second Chronicles, 1st St. Kings. 929 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,640 He does nothing. That single plan put together to 930 00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:24,560 put God's tent and make it a palace or a temple. 931 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:31,320 First Chronicles 21, Satan rose up against Israel and inside of 932 00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,120 David. That's how Satan works, by the 933 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:34,200 way. He comes after the leader, 934 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,440 right? So if you lead your home, if you 935 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:41,120 lead somewhere for Christ, he's coming after you inside David. 936 00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,760 And now he's vulnerable because now they walk the Lord and he 937 00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,880 says inside him to take a census of Israel. 938 00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:48,600 Now just read through this and you're going to picture what 939 00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,840 this means. So verse 2 it says so David said 940 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,240 the Joab, the commander of the troops, go and count the 941 00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:54,800 Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. 942 00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:59,200 They report back to me so that I may know like I got to know how 943 00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:03,600 many there are some about soldiers take a census of all my 944 00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,160 ability. But Joab replied, may the Lord 945 00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:10,040 multiply troops 100 times over. May the Lord the king or they're 946 00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,640 not all Lord's subjects. Why does my Lord want me to do 947 00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,560 this? Why should he bring guilt on 948 00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:16,720 Israel? Joab's like, let's not do this. 949 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,000 This is a terrible idea. Like the Lord will take care of 950 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:21,720 it. He'll multiply troops first 951 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:22,720 four. The King's word, however, 952 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:25,080 overruled Joab. And so Joab left and went 953 00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:28,560 throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem and Joab 954 00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:30,640 reported the number of the fighting men to David and all of 955 00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:31,960 Israel. There was, look at this, 956 00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:36,520 1,100,000 men. It's pretty good. 957 00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:38,640 Amen. I mean, I don't have that many 958 00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:39,840 people. I'm not even close. 959 00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,040 I dream team is 150 something. Come on, somebody. 960 00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,480 You know what I mean? Maybe you should stop counting, 961 00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:48,640 right? There's 1,100,000 men who could 962 00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:52,760 handle a sword, including 470,000 in Judah. 963 00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,160 He's probably feeling pretty confident right now. 964 00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,040 He's going to whip any enemy around him, and most of those 965 00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,560 guys are right by him. He's surrounded, he feels pretty 966 00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,920 good. But Joab did not include Levi 967 00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,960 and Benjamin the number because the King's command was repulsive 968 00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:08,800 to them. And they said there's no way 969 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,640 we're counting. I'm not being a part of your 970 00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,760 evil schemes. This is a good picture going 971 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,000 against the government and even godly people that should be 972 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,600 godly, right? First seven says this command 973 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,320 was also evil on the side of God. 974 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,920 So he what's it say he punished them. 975 00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:26,120 See, when you walk away from the Lord and you're not in God's 976 00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,200 presence, not only like worry about your comfort, you also 977 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:33,120 start counting your ability. You, you start looking at your, 978 00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:36,560 your bank accounts and retirement and assets and, and, 979 00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,840 and work and all the things you can accumulate and do. 980 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:40,800 And you say, well, Lord, listen, I can do this. 981 00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:45,360 I don't really need you. Like I've got it, I've got it. 982 00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:47,560 Who's in my hand? I mean, how does David go from a 983 00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:51,280 sling and a stone against the power of living God, just a 984 00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,880 stone to counting up millions of soldiers? 985 00:56:55,960 --> 00:57:00,520 He lost God's presence and he knows this is the exact reason 986 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,160 Saul was killed. He's no different than Saul was 987 00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,120 acting. He took matters in his own 988 00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,840 hands. Verse 8. 989 00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,760 Then David said to God, I've sinned greatly by doing this. 990 00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,080 Now I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. 991 00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:15,480 I've done the very foolish thing. 992 00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:19,440 So Lord said to God, David sear, go and tell David, this is what 993 00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,840 the Lord says. I'm giving you three options. 994 00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,160 Who knows? This is good parenting. 995 00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:27,600 I'm going to give you 3 choices right now and this is the way it 996 00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,600 says choose one of the may carry out against you. 997 00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,880 Verse 11. So Gad went to David and said to 998 00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,080 him, this was the Lord says take your choice. 999 00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,440 Three years of famine, it's your first option. 2-3 months of 1000 00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,400 being swept away by your enemies with the swords overtaking you 1001 00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:45,400 or three, three days of the sword of Lord, days of plague in 1002 00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,000 the land with the Angel Lord ravaging every part of Israel. 1003 00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:51,040 Now then decide how I should answer the one who sent me. 1004 00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:54,040 And so David said to Gad, by the way, I don't like any of those 1005 00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,120 three choices. Those are all bad choices. 1006 00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,400 But David in his wisdom, he says, I'm in deep distress. 1007 00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,960 Let me fall into the hands of the Lord. 1008 00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:07,800 Listen to this for His mercy is very great, like at least is a. 1009 00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:09,760 Chance. Because the Lord may have 1010 00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,920 compassion, but do not let me fall in the human hands. 1011 00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:17,640 So Lord sends a plague on Israel and 70,000 men of Israel fell 1012 00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:24,520 dead and God sent what to say? How many? 1013 00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,960 Yeah, one. God sends 1 Angel. 1014 00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,160 It's probably Michael. He's the warrior Angel. 1015 00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:34,720 He shows up. There's no negotiations. 1016 00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:38,600 It's just what it is to destroy Jerusalem. 1017 00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:45,040 But as the Angel was doing so, did anybody cry out in humility 1018 00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:49,400 and ask God? No, but the Lord saw it himself 1019 00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:54,240 and relented concerning the disaster and said the Angel who 1020 00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:58,040 was destroying the people enough would draw your hand. 1021 00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:01,720 And the Angel Lord was there standing at the threshing floor 1022 00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:06,440 of Arona the Jebusite. Verse 16. 1023 00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,880 David looked up and saw the Angel Lord standing between 1024 00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,240 heaven and earth with a drawn sword in his hand extending over 1025 00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,360 Jerusalem. Dude, is that a freaky sight? 1026 00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,880 I mean, if you imagine looking out at downtown Kansas City and 1027 00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,360 an Angel standing by the city with a sword drawn over it, 1028 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:22,760 70,000 people already been killed. 1029 00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:26,400 The Lord's hold back his hand. This is only probably been 15 1030 00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:30,400 minutes. You would be about that tall, 1031 00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:35,120 absolutely humbled. And then David and the elders 1032 00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,720 clothed the sackcloth. They fell face down. 1033 00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:40,960 This is this is there's just two choices of God, right? 1034 00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:47,480 Be humble or be humbled, Amen. There's like two ways of doing 1035 00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:48,880 it. And David, at this moment, he 1036 00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,600 gets humbled and he recognizes, he starts doing math. 1037 00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:56,320 I have 1.1 million soldiers and that means nothing, means 1038 00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,040 nothing. I am nobody. 1039 00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,960 Who in the world was I to think that I had any control or any 1040 01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:04,960 power that was anybody at all? This one Angel can whip the 1041 01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:07,360 entire human race out of existence. 1042 01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:09,280 This isn't God himself. Amen. 1043 01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,840 Imagine Jesus coming back. But he does later on, right? 1044 01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,080 But imagine that. And so he is humbled. 1045 01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:20,400 He is broken. He he here's nothing left. 1046 01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:24,400 His arrogance is stripped away. And David said to the God in 1047 01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:28,160 verse 17, was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be 1048 01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,160 counted? I, the shepherd have sinned and 1049 01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:32,600 done wrong. These are but sheep. 1050 01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,720 What have they done? Lord my God, let your hand fall 1051 01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:39,640 on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your 1052 01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:41,520 people. He's taking full responsibility. 1053 01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:43,920 Amen. I sorry, Lord, for making about 1054 01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:45,840 myself. Sorry, Lord, for counting all 1055 01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:47,480 these people up. It's totally my, my fault. 1056 01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:49,440 It's not their fault. It's my sin. 1057 01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,400 It's my responsibility. I'm the one who turned my back 1058 01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:53,640 on you. I've not inquired of you. 1059 01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,120 I've made the mistake of counting and being comfortable. 1060 01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,640 Take it on me, Lord, That's repentance. 1061 01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:01,400 Amen. That there's something 1062 01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:03,000 significant. If you don't have repentance, 1063 01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:04,000 you're not going to have worship. 1064 01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:08,720 And so David has a uh oh moment, verse 18, that the Angel Lord 1065 01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,320 ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar of the 1066 01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,120 Lord on the threshing floor of Arona the Jebusite. 1067 01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,880 And so David went up in obedience to the word. 1068 01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:20,720 This might be the first time he's done that in 30 years in 1069 01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:24,560 obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the 1070 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:26,920 Lord. Verse 20, when Arona was 1071 01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:31,520 threshing wheat, that boy was unfazed by that Angel. 1072 01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,800 Amen. He's in there still doing some 1073 01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,120 work. Angel's up there with a sword. 1074 01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,560 That boy didn't care. Amen. 1075 01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:41,920 He says he turns. All the Angel and his four sons 1076 01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:46,960 who are with him hid themselves. So as kids ran hid, Arona just 1077 01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:50,320 stood there. Verse 21. 1078 01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,800 Then David approached, and when Arona looked at him and saw him, 1079 01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,600 he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his 1080 01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,000 face to the ground. This guy understood that this 1081 01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,600 man was the king and he was honoring him to worship him. 1082 01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:03,880 And then David said to him, let me have the side of your 1083 01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,880 threshing floor so I can build an altar to the Lord that the 1084 01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:08,440 plague on the people may be stopped. 1085 01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,440 Sell it to me at the what? What's it say? 1086 01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:16,000 Y'all want the full price? Like don't give me no discount. 1087 01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:20,160 I'm not going cheap right now. Verse 23 a Rona said to David, 1088 01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,520 take it. Let my Lord the king do whatever 1089 01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:24,440 pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for 1090 01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:27,400 the big offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, the weed, 1091 01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:28,560 the grain for the grain offering. 1092 01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:30,960 I will give all this for you also to be a blessing to you. 1093 01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:32,680 I mean, this guy knew who to worship, Amen. 1094 01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,280 He recognized the king had a need and the Romans like, just 1095 01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:38,040 take it, it's all yours. It's for God, it's for the king. 1096 01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,400 Use it how you see fit. And David and his humility and 1097 01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,200 his brokenness, he's about to give the one of the greatest 1098 01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,840 acts of worship you're going to see in the Bible in verse 24. 1099 01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:52,040 But David replied to Arona, no, I insist on paying the full 1100 01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,320 price. I will not take for the Lord. 1101 01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:58,240 What is yours. I'm not going to get I'm not 1102 01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,640 getting any worship if you give me this piece of property like 1103 01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,440 I'm going to buy it. I'm not going to sacrifice a 1104 01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:09,320 burnt offering that what to say that cost me nothing. 1105 01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:12,600 I'm not going to give a gift that didn't cost me anything. 1106 01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:14,920 I'm not going to give you a hand me down. 1107 01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:19,160 Come on, somebody like I'm going to give you something of 1108 01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,880 significance. And so he buys that threshing 1109 01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:26,360 floor for the Lord. He's going to pay full price and 1110 01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:28,600 his humility goes on to verse 25. 1111 01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:32,080 It says this. And so David paid Arona 600 1112 01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:35,760 shekels of gold for the site. Now, this is amazing because 1113 01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:36,960 this must have been in his pocket. 1114 01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:39,840 That's about one million U.S. dollars. 1115 01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:43,080 When you did math on that, he paid $1,000,000 for a threshing, 1116 01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:46,720 for a place where you separate just the, the, the the grain 1117 01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,080 from the rest of the stock. He paid $1,000,000 for a flat 1118 01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,120 piece of stone. That sounds like a really bad 1119 01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,120 investment, doesn't it? What were you doing buying that? 1120 01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:57,520 It's also amazing he had $1,000,000 on them, by the way. 1121 01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:00,200 That's pretty cool. I've never had that kind of 1122 01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:01,840 pocket change. I mean, I carry a couple 1123 01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:04,000 hundreds every now and then. Never carried a million. 1124 01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:06,440 That sounds cool, right? But I don't know if it would 1125 01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:08,080 have cost 100 million, I think you would have paid it. 1126 01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:11,120 I think you would have given anything and everything you had 1127 01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,520 to to pay for that floor. Here's the point. 1128 01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:17,200 The greater the sacrifice, the greater the worship. 1129 01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:22,520 You guys getting that, the greater the sacrifice, the 1130 01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,760 greater the worship. So here's the thing. 1131 01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:30,080 When you give, you're not giving money, you're giving honor. 1132 01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,040 When you when you give, you're giving away your control. 1133 01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:37,720 Amen. We don't like that, do we? 1134 01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:41,440 We like to have it. But see that when you say the 1135 01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:43,760 Lord is everything you're you're everything I need. 1136 01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:45,680 I desire you. Who am I to think that I could 1137 01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:48,600 do this myself and I can have all my abilities and my palaces 1138 01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:50,320 and I'm doing it my way. I haven't consulted you, 1139 01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:51,920 inquired of you. And all of a sudden he goes, 1140 01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:56,120 what was I thinking in that broken repentance, in that 1141 01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:58,800 humility? That's the greatest offer you 1142 01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:01,120 can ever give you. You've had a moment of life 1143 01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:04,400 where you offer yourself to God. We call it surrender. 1144 01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,560 You're over that moment life where you take a piece of paper, 1145 01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:09,040 you sign the bomb and say, Lord, whatever you want. 1146 01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:13,840 You read that moment, your life where it's not cheap. 1147 01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:18,480 Like David didn't go cheap right here, Amen. 1148 01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,440 Like you're not called to go cheap on the Lord because the 1149 01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:25,280 Lord could do whatever, whenever, however, with whatever 1150 01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,760 he chooses to. You're like, Lord, use me. 1151 01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,040 I am a humble servant of yours. And the Bible says when you're 1152 01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:34,320 humble, God lifts you up. Amen. 1153 01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,080 That the first shall be last and last shall be first. 1154 01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:39,960 Like our economy doesn't work in God's economy. 1155 01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,960 Like it requires faith. And David, for the first time in 1156 01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:47,760 30 years, he activates his faith and he gives a largest gift. 1157 01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,120 He's going to give more. He's going to give way more. 1158 01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:51,160 By this time, this story is done. 1159 01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:54,200 And maybe it's one of those prayer of Jabez that's found the 1160 01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:58,520 first Chronicles as well. Lord bless me, extend my 1161 01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:02,880 territory and keeping me from pain like he started to get it. 1162 01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:05,680 He's starting to click like I need God's power, God's 1163 01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:08,360 protection, God's blessing. I don't need what I have. 1164 01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:09,920 I need what the Lord is going to give me. 1165 01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:13,560 I need him to direct my life. I trust you, Lord, I'm counting 1166 01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:17,760 on you for the first time in 30 years or more. 1167 01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:22,040 And so he paid $1,000,000. And so David says verse 26 built 1168 01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:23,920 an altar. Lord there sacrificed burnt 1169 01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:26,320 offerings and a fellowship offering, and he called the 1170 01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,600 Lord, and the Lord answered him from from fire, from heaven on 1171 01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,680 the altar of burnt offerings. Then the Lord spoke to the Angel 1172 01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:34,480 and he put his sword back in his sheath. 1173 01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,720 This entire time that angel's been sitting there just ready to 1174 01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:41,320 like take out the whole city of Jerusalem and at the level of 1175 01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:45,200 worship and humility and sacrifice and repentance. 1176 01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:49,840 The Angel, she is the sword. And at that time when David saw 1177 01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:51,960 the Lord had answered him on the threshing floor of her own of 1178 01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:55,800 the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there and humility 1179 01:06:55,800 --> 01:07:00,880 and brokenness out of his own need, no longer counting his own 1180 01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:05,760 ability. Verse 29 this is story gets 1181 01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:08,120 crazy. All right. 1182 01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:11,800 This says the Tabernacle Lord which Moses had made in the 1183 01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,720 wilderness. We talked about the whole time, 1184 01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:17,240 the beginning. Remember where it's in that on 1185 01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:21,800 that tent, an altar of Brent Offering where at the time the 1186 01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:28,240 high priest at the high place of Gibeon, he saw it says, but 1187 01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:31,240 David could not go before it to inquire of God. 1188 01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:35,200 This is the first time we even talked about inquire of God. 1189 01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:38,360 If you read all First Chronicles, this is the first 1190 01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:41,800 time that any person in First Chronicles has said, I'm going 1191 01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:44,680 to go inquire of God. Now David's had a change of 1192 01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:46,560 heart, Amen. Mike had a change of heart. 1193 01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:49,400 We talked about that. Now David has a change of heart. 1194 01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,960 Now he's like, I got to get back to the mercy seat. 1195 01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:53,480 I got to get back to God's presence. 1196 01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:57,480 I got to inquire of God and he says I can't because the he was 1197 01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,760 afraid the sword of the Angel Lord. 1198 01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:02,360 He was afraid the sword of the Angel Lord. 1199 01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:04,840 Why would David be afraid of the sword of the Angel Lord? 1200 01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:13,320 This is a significant, very significant moment because David 1201 01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:19,840 had repented for the census, but he hadn't repented for 1202 01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:24,399 neglecting his house. He had more work to do. 1203 01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:28,000 He had more humility to give. He used to hold all the things 1204 01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:29,520 he's going. Oh yeah, the 30 years ago we did 1205 01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:33,080 have a conversation. I did build all these palaces. 1206 01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,720 I did spend all my money on myself. 1207 01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:39,240 And look what David says in his most broken moment, humility. 1208 01:08:40,319 --> 01:08:45,160 Then David said the House of the Lord God is to be where, where 1209 01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:51,600 at is to be here is to be here. He finally decided to build 1210 01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,800 God's temple. Amen. 1211 01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:56,760 He finally decided to move. Humility. 1212 01:08:56,760 --> 01:09:00,080 I'm done playing games. I'm looking past the scarecrows. 1213 01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:03,000 I'm done counting my ability. I'm done building my comfort. 1214 01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:07,600 And for the rest of David's life, everything he does is 1215 01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:13,760 about planning, securing, funding, organizing for the 1216 01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:15,800 building of the temple of God that his son would build. 1217 01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:18,960 Because God told him one to give me him. 1218 01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,359 He is too disobedient. He'd killed too many men. 1219 01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:24,880 He'd rage too much war and David spent the rest of his life to 1220 01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:26,720 build that temple. That's really cool about the 1221 01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:29,800 story you may not know is that that side of the temple, that 1222 01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:33,479 temple we built about 1000 BC, that's that same temple that 1223 01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:35,960 Jesus actually tear apart because it is the whole, the 1224 01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:38,920 whole holiest comes out. But inside that temple, there's 1225 01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:42,319 different courts and places. And the closer you get in, the 1226 01:09:42,319 --> 01:09:44,120 further you get in the temple, you get closer to the presence 1227 01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:48,040 of God because at the middle of the temple, the no man can go 1228 01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:50,160 into it for once a year called the high priest. 1229 01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:54,720 There was a place called the Holy of Holies, and the holies 1230 01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:56,680 of holies contain the presence of God. 1231 01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,640 I'm going to take guess what's inside the Holy Holies. 1232 01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:02,920 What is it? You guys all hear it. 1233 01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:06,680 I hear it. The Ark of the Covenant, that 1234 01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:10,920 floor where David humbled himself, that threshing floor 1235 01:10:11,480 --> 01:10:15,280 where he weeped and bought and cried to God and repented the 1236 01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:19,680 God was the very floor that he would build and say that Ark of 1237 01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:25,520 the Covenant is going to come here to this very spot of 1238 01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:30,560 humility, of brokenness, that God's presence is going to meet 1239 01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:34,560 me here and inquire the Lord, I have forgotten this and I'm 1240 01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:36,280 going to get my greatest act of worship. 1241 01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:42,000 It's pretty amazing, isn't it, that God's presence, his 1242 01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,200 greatest presence, because the Old Testament, that was the 1243 01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:49,480 greatest presence of God, meets us in the places where we give 1244 01:10:49,480 --> 01:10:54,600 the greatest worship. Come on, somebody that's good. 1245 01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:57,880 Amen. We give the greatest worship and 1246 01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:01,320 God gives the greatest presents. And this is exactly what 1247 01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:03,920 happened to David. That temple will be built by his 1248 01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,280 son. Now, here's the rest of the rest 1249 01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:08,840 of the story. First Chronicles is not written 1250 01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:12,160 by anybody at David's day. It's not written by Samuel. 1251 01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:14,080 It's not written by Solomon or one of his sons. 1252 01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,080 It's written 500 years later by a man named Ezra. 1253 01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,680 Ezra was a man that came back from the Babylonian captivity in 1254 01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:23,960 the second wave, second rim that people come back at the temple 1255 01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,560 had been destroyed in 500 AD ish. 1256 01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:31,280 And he came back, he showed up and they had put some of it 1257 01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:32,560 together, but they put all that together. 1258 01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:35,160 It's still in disarray. And the priests weren't doing 1259 01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:39,000 they should do wasn't ornate like it should be been torn down 1260 01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:42,520 by the Babylonian captives or the people that took captive the 1261 01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:45,080 Babylonians. And Ezra couldn't stand it. 1262 01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:47,360 And the thing that made Ezra stand out, the only thing that 1263 01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:49,200 makes him stand out, he was a man of the word of God. 1264 01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:53,000 That's the only thing. That's the only thing. 1265 01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:56,320 He was a nobody. But he had the word of God and 1266 01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:57,200 he followed. Everybody had it. 1267 01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:59,320 He followed it. And so God put him in charge as 1268 01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:01,520 a priest. And he wrote first Chronicles, 1269 01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:03,040 everything we talked about today. 1270 01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:06,680 He wrote with a mission that they would get back to 1271 01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,720 worshipping God. This house shouldn't be in 1272 01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,840 disarray that they should sacrifice. 1273 01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:15,400 And he got their attention because they came back home from 1274 01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:17,160 the remnant. He told them all and said, hey, 1275 01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:19,480 if we're going to have a meeting, you know all the men 1276 01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:21,600 that show up and the way he got the men to get there, it wasn't 1277 01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:22,880 Donuts. Come on somebody. 1278 01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:26,280 He told me, he said if you want to have a home, a piece of the 1279 01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:29,760 property they've come back from, you're not going to keep it 1280 01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:32,600 unless you show up. So you want to keep, you want to 1281 01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:34,760 have somewhere to live, then come to the meeting. 1282 01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:38,440 At the meeting, you started reading the Word of God and he 1283 01:12:38,440 --> 01:12:40,720 started sharing all these stories about David and how he 1284 01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:42,360 neglected and became about himself. 1285 01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:44,440 And he left the temple in disarray. 1286 01:12:44,440 --> 01:12:48,240 And he shows David's humility and his brokenness and his 1287 01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:50,640 worship. And he encouraged the people in 1288 01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,640 that time for the second time to rebuild the temple. 1289 01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:57,080 Amen. I kind of feel like we may be in 1290 01:12:57,080 --> 01:13:03,040 that third time, just the repentance, the worship. 1291 01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:06,440 Like when's the last time we stopped counting on ourselves? 1292 01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:10,600 We start counting on God. Like when's the last time we 1293 01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:14,480 said God by faith, I'm trusting you, God don't want all of you. 1294 01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:19,040 God, what am I thinking? Like I get this little breath of 1295 01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,400 life, this little dash, Is it going to be like I get done? 1296 01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:28,600 It's like good job made a sand castle, made your own palace, or 1297 01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:32,200 is it going to be Lord, thank you. 1298 01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,520 I trusted you while doing my good and faithful servant. 1299 01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:42,320 Like which one's going to be? The greater the sacrifice, the 1300 01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:46,480 greater the worship. It's just how it works. 1301 01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:50,960 When I was a pastor here, people say I can't give or that's a 1302 01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:54,280 lot, or I can't give X amount of percent. 1303 01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:57,720 I'm not talking about percentages. 1304 01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:02,720 I'm not talking about a number. I'm talking about worship. 1305 01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:06,320 Amen. Worship. 1306 01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:08,760 How much do you want to worship the Lord? 1307 01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:13,520 That's what it comes down to. And so my prayer for you guys is 1308 01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,520 open your hands, say Lord, whatever you have me to give, 1309 01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:18,840 I'm going to give it because I've made the story about me. 1310 01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,880 I don't do a very good job of managing God's stuff, doing it 1311 01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:25,120 my way, Lord, I want to do it your way. 1312 01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:27,080 And we all have a starting point, Amen. 1313 01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:31,040 And some of us like, hey, I can, I can give to that. 1314 01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:36,640 It's not my life, remember? It's been at 18 years old, I had 1315 01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:39,200 very little money. I had started giving when I was 1316 01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:40,840 15. I had very little. 1317 01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:44,080 I knelt down by this tree outside of a camp and I didn't 1318 01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:47,040 give my bank account. I gave my future. 1319 01:14:48,440 --> 01:14:51,440 I gave my breath. Lord, whatever you have me to 1320 01:14:51,440 --> 01:14:54,520 do, I'm going to give to you. Every moment of my life is 1321 01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:56,600 yours. You tell me where to go. 1322 01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:59,360 You tell me where to speak. You tell me what to do. 1323 01:14:59,880 --> 01:15:02,240 It's no longer about Sean's dreams, it's about your dreams. 1324 01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:07,440 That's worship, Amen. You remember those moments and 1325 01:15:07,440 --> 01:15:08,680 this could be a moment today, Amen. 1326 01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:12,360 When we repent, we turn to God, we surrender and we open our 1327 01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,880 hands, say Lord, whatever you want, I'm willing to give. 1328 01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:17,680 So Father, come before you. God humble us. 1329 01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:20,680 God, thank you for the story of David. 1330 01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:23,320 We reminded that we can have everything that will, but we 1331 01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:26,400 miss you. So they as Jesus followers. 1332 01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,440 How many would say I didn't inquire the Lord today. 1333 01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:33,160 I didn't humble myself today. I want to give great worship to 1334 01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:34,600 the Lord. I need to spend some time to the 1335 01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:35,800 Lord and find what that looks like. 1336 01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:39,240 I need to open my hands. I need to see past the 1337 01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:40,640 scarecrow. I need to stop making plans for 1338 01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:44,200 myself and building palaces and barns and places to lift up 1339 01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:45,920 myself or provide comfort myself. 1340 01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:47,560 I need to do something for the Lord. 1341 01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:50,560 How do you raise your hand high and say that to you today? 1342 01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:57,640 That's speaking to you, Father. Teach us that we can trust You 1343 01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:00,720 with everything. It's not our life, it's not our 1344 01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,480 money, it's not our stuff, it's not our time, it's not even our 1345 01:16:02,480 --> 01:16:04,720 breath. God, teach us to give our breath 1346 01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:10,360 back to you, to worship you. God, that you could give glory 1347 01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:13,400 through our gifts. The devil knows what we don't 1348 01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:18,360 give cannot be multiplied to see souls and so God, I pray you'd 1349 01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:21,640 cause a revival in our hearts God and we give we see souls 1350 01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,280 changed. The Gospel going out, your 1351 01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:27,480 presence coming down that you'd shape something in us that you 1352 01:16:27,480 --> 01:16:30,040 can be trusted. And we have a journey of living 1353 01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:33,200 by faith that will not just change others, but change 1354 01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:37,440 ourselves and every time we see a move of God, say I play the 1355 01:16:37,440 --> 01:16:40,480 part of that. My life was not about making my 1356 01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:41,880 name famous. It was about making his name 1357 01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:43,480 famous. God help us. 1358 01:16:43,480 --> 01:16:46,520 That's become true for us. I pray for one more group of 1359 01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:47,480 people. That's those you in the house to 1360 01:16:47,480 --> 01:16:50,560 say, man, I need this Jesus. I need the one that's worthy of 1361 01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:54,040 my entire life. I've been writing my own story, 1362 01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,800 doing it my way. And just like David chose God 1363 01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,720 because he knew he'd be merciful, when you choose God, 1364 01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:03,360 he is merciful to you. The Bible says those who call 1365 01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:05,600 the name of Lord will be forgiven from all their sin. 1366 01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:08,760 As far as he says from the West being given a name, you'd be in 1367 01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:11,840 a purpose he'd be given gifting from God, the presence of God, 1368 01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:16,600 the Holy Spirit of God and they'll change you in an instant 1369 01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:19,800 because of your humility. He'll change you and make your 1370 01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:22,200 right with him and give you his righteousness and you're forever 1371 01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:28,240 forgiven and made free as a hand or as a as a instrument in the 1372 01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:30,840 hand of Redeemer. They can use your story to 1373 01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:34,200 continue to propagate the gospel as a humble servant of the Lord. 1374 01:17:34,760 --> 01:17:36,240 The Bible says there's no other name. 1375 01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:40,720 Do I mention where which men are saved the name of Jesus and 1376 01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,920 today something you call on Jesus same name that David cried 1377 01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:48,000 out to the same presence and power and provision of God in 1378 01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,360 that holy of holies. That mercy seat in the ark of 1379 01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:54,280 the covenant lives in us that know Jesus and you can have that 1380 01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:56,640 today in your life. And so if you can humble 1381 01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:58,960 yourself and call on Jesus for the very first time. 1382 01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:02,240 If God's speaking to you and you say yes to him. 1383 01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:04,480 We let him be looking around you just raise your hand highest 1384 01:18:04,480 --> 01:18:05,680 place. I need Jesus today. 1385 01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:08,560 I need to humble myself and get right with God. 1386 01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:12,120 So your guys's hands, yes, I need Jesus today. 1387 01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:17,320 So your hand, I'm going to lead you to a prayer. 1388 01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:18,480 And the prayer does not save you. 1389 01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:23,000 But it's that same humility that David had, the same brokenness, 1390 01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:27,000 that same repentance. It's not just a thought, it's an 1391 01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:28,640 action. I'm doing it differently. 1392 01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:31,320 I'm done with the old man. Lord, I need you. 1393 01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:34,240 We just pray this prayer and just cry out to God and say 1394 01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:37,040 Father God thank you so much. I've got to recognize my need 1395 01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:38,720 for you. I'm a Sinner and need of a 1396 01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:40,720 savior. I'm a broken man just like 1397 01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:42,880 David. I've counted my own self. 1398 01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:44,680 I've built my life on my own ways. 1399 01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:47,760 I've followed my own direction. I've consulted other mediums. 1400 01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,040 I've found other wisdom. I've done my own thing. 1401 01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:53,480 But today I need you to lead my life. 1402 01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:57,360 I surrender my life to you God, I trust you. 1403 01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:00,320 Thank you for Jesus for dying across my sins. 1404 01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:03,520 I praise in Jesus name, the church said, Amen. 1405 01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:05,080 Come on, give some glory to God today. 1406 01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:06,200 Come on, let's give some worship. 1407 01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:15,960 Such a reminder that his presence is worth any sacrifice. 1408 01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:20,080 And some of you recognize today all that Jesus did to sacrifice 1409 01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:22,640 himself for you. And you raised your hand and you 1410 01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:25,200 committed your life to Jesus today. 1411 01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:28,160 And if that is you, if you raised your hand, if you prayed 1412 01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:32,040 that prayer today and we are so excited for you, we're here for 1413 01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:33,840 you. We would love to help you and 1414 01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:37,440 support you and resource you as you're taking this journey with 1415 01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:38,840 Jesus. So if you would grab that 1416 01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:41,480 connection card, fill out that information at the top there, 1417 01:19:41,480 --> 01:19:45,320 but make sure and check that box that says I committed my life to 1418 01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:46,600 Jesus. And you could drop that in the 1419 01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:49,600 buckets as they pass here in just a few minutes. 1420 01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:52,520 But just by doing that allows us to get you a few things. 1421 01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:54,440 We'd love to get you a free book in the mail. 1422 01:19:54,440 --> 01:19:57,160 It's called Begin. It's a short read, but it really 1423 01:19:57,160 --> 01:19:59,920 gives some really good practical steps as you're starting your 1424 01:19:59,920 --> 01:20:02,320 journey with Jesus. And also, if you pray that 1425 01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,320 prayer and you're here with us at Kentucky Trail, as you exit 1426 01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:08,360 the worship center, there is a table with some red bags. 1427 01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:10,520 Please feel free to grab one of those red bags. 1428 01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:13,760 It has a Bible in it for you. There's a list of some resources 1429 01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:16,280 as well from Pastor Sean, but we would love to get those to you 1430 01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:19,680 just to be able to help you as you are taking those first steps 1431 01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:22,200 with Jesus. And if you are newer in this 1432 01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:24,480 space today, this is your first time at real Life Church. 1433 01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:28,320 Thank you so much for coming and spending the morning right here 1434 01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:30,360 with us. We don't really want anything 1435 01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:33,160 from you this good morning except for this and that's just 1436 01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:36,240 to introduce yourself to us. We would love to know that you 1437 01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:37,600 were here. And so if you could grab that 1438 01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:40,480 same connection card, fill out your information there, but hold 1439 01:20:40,480 --> 01:20:42,080 on to that and take it to the new here booth. 1440 01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:45,000 As you leave, it says you exit those doors just to your right. 1441 01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:47,040 There's a new here booth. Somebody's there. 1442 01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,440 Would love to just talk with you, get you a free gift. 1443 01:20:49,440 --> 01:20:52,640 Just our way of saying thank you so much for being here with us 1444 01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:55,200 today and we'd love to see you back next week. 1445 01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:57,960 And then we have an opportunity coming up in just a couple of 1446 01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:00,240 weeks. I want to share with you, if you 1447 01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,080 have a kiddo and you're in this space, if you have a family, 1448 01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:05,920 maybe we have an opportunity for you as parents to dedicate your 1449 01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:09,560 kiddos right back to God. Children are such a blessing 1450 01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:11,680 from the Lord. And so we have an opportunity on 1451 01:21:11,680 --> 01:21:15,840 November 9th to be able to say, hey, I'm choosing to raise my 1452 01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:18,400 kids to know Jesus, to love him and to follow him. 1453 01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:20,520 And so if that's you, if you haven't dedicated your kids, 1454 01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,160 even if you just have questions about that, feel free to scan 1455 01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,760 that QR code or you can head to our website and register there. 1456 01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:28,480 Just by doing that, somebody from our team will reach out to 1457 01:21:28,480 --> 01:21:31,040 you love just to answer your questions and help you every 1458 01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:33,920 step of the way. And I want to highlight a few 1459 01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:35,920 things through our difference Maker initiative. 1460 01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:39,720 And man, just watching Mike and Kristen's video was just so 1461 01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:44,600 inspiring and moving just to hear even the impact it's had 1462 01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:46,600 just personally on them being able to see. 1463 01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:49,560 He had mentioned watching his daughter worship and seeing 1464 01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:52,440 things from the stage. Everybody here, people raising 1465 01:21:52,440 --> 01:21:55,600 their hands and, and committing their lives to Jesus. 1466 01:21:56,440 --> 01:21:58,640 And that's what it's all about. I mean, having a permanent space 1467 01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:02,480 allows us to minister to so many more kids, to so many more 1468 01:22:02,480 --> 01:22:06,480 youth, to families, to see more prodigals come home to know 1469 01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:07,920 Jesus. And that's what it's all about. 1470 01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:09,920 We truly believe that we're just getting started. 1471 01:22:10,480 --> 01:22:13,680 We're believing to see 10s of thousands of lives changed 1472 01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:17,920 through the gospel. And this, this commitment card, 1473 01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:19,080 you should have gotten one of these. 1474 01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:20,280 If not, we'd love to get you one there. 1475 01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:23,480 It's at a table in the back. But this is our act of worship. 1476 01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:26,360 This, this is all of us. It takes all of us, not just 1477 01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,720 some of us, but it truly is about 100% participation. 1478 01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:35,320 All of us trusting God through faith, all of us trusting God 1479 01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:37,760 with our generosity. And so take this card and pray 1480 01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:41,680 and fast over this and ask God, man, what, what part do I play 1481 01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:45,040 in moving us out of this temporary space, out of this 1482 01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:49,200 Tabernacle and into our first permanent home? 1483 01:22:49,480 --> 01:22:50,920 And we're not going to collect these today. 1484 01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:52,840 So no worries about that. I don't need to fill that out or 1485 01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:55,120 worry about that. But take this card and think 1486 01:22:55,120 --> 01:22:56,720 about the question that Sean asked too. 1487 01:22:56,720 --> 01:23:00,760 What does it look like to give? Not out of my own ability, not 1488 01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:03,840 out of what's in my wallet, what's in my pocketbook, but to 1489 01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:08,040 give God's ability and how He will provide with us through 1490 01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:10,840 that. Not just to give gold or silver, 1491 01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:13,960 but to give him bold faith through this. 1492 01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,480 And I want to celebrate too. Man, we had three first time 1493 01:23:16,480 --> 01:23:19,080 givers last week. Thank you so much for 1494 01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:21,640 worshipping God through giving. Can you give them a hand? 1495 01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:25,200 That is so awesome and it's not too. 1496 01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,320 It's not too early. It's not too late to give you if 1497 01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:29,360 you call real life church home, there are many ways you can take 1498 01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:31,160 part in that. You can check out the screen 1499 01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:32,680 there. You can scan that QR you can 1500 01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:34,800 text to give. You can head on over to our 1501 01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:36,560 website. You can also just drop cash or 1502 01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:38,320 check in the giving buckets as they pass. 1503 01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:41,600 There's also a giving box in the back as well, if that is more 1504 01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:44,560 convenient for you. And as always, if you or your 1505 01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:48,360 family find yourself in any kind of immediate need today, food or 1506 01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:51,200 clothing, shelter or whatever that looks like for you as those 1507 01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:54,120 buckets pass here in just a moment, please, please to them 1508 01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:55,800 grab any loose cash that you see. 1509 01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:58,000 We really do want to help you and resource you this week. 1510 01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:04,200 Man, what awesome day can we get it for God and just the ability 1511 01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:07,280 to just create and model a difference makers here. 1512 01:24:07,480 --> 01:24:09,840 And I love that story, David. Hey, lot of last couple things 1513 01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:11,200 before it gets you guys out of here. 1514 01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:14,760 So this Wednesday, real life youth, 6th through 12th grade, 1515 01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:16,840 man, they're going to kill it. Going to have a real life youth 1516 01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:20,200 event, Halloween event. They're going to have games, 1517 01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:21,960 candy. I think there's a talent show. 1518 01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:24,920 So check out the QR going to come online and find out some 1519 01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:26,840 more information. Love to have your kids there. 1520 01:24:27,440 --> 01:24:29,360 Last thing is this, I want to remind you of what Pastor Sean 1521 01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:31,320 was talking about earlier. Next week we're going to have 1522 01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:33,920 our first welcome party. So for those of you that are 1523 01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:36,920 newer and newer, and if you wonder if that's you, that's 1524 01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:38,560 you. So come hang out with us next 1525 01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:41,160 week between the gatherings. This is for for anybody that is 1526 01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,320 looking to get connected, people that are looking just for 1527 01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:46,520 answers about what real life's really about just the time you 1528 01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:49,160 guys can hang out. We would love to come for you 1529 01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:50,880 guys to meet some more leadership, ask the questions 1530 01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:53,120 you've got. So we'll spend about 30 minutes 1531 01:24:53,640 --> 01:24:56,120 and have an awesome welcome party next week. 1532 01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:58,400 So put that on your calendar. If you guys do prayer for any 1533 01:24:58,400 --> 01:25:00,360 reason, we would love to pray with you up here, whether it's 1534 01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:02,720 as individuals or as families. If we see you guys next week, 1535 01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:05,600 9:00 or 10:45. And as always, remember, whoever 1536 01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,120 finds Jesus discovers real life and purpose. 1537 01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:14,200 See you next week. This is the end of this podcast. 1538 01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:16,840 We hope you've enjoyed it. If you have, be sure to hit the 1539 01:25:16,840 --> 01:25:19,280 subscribe button so you don't miss another inspirational 1540 01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:21,680 podcast, one more great content and updates. 1541 01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,120 Visit Real Life Church KC. Dot com.