1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,640 Hey, good morning, Real life Church. 2 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:04,280 Awesome to see you this morning. I just want to invite you to 3 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:07,080 stand to your feet today. We're going to kick things off 4 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,080 with just singing to our great, great God. 5 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:11,960 We're going to sing to him. And yeah, we could get those 6 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,200 hands going today. I just want this to be an 7 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:15,800 atmosphere of praise this morning. 8 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:17,040 All right? It's all about him. 9 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,200 This is our testimony. Come on. 10 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:27,840 I saw Satan fall like lightning. I saw darkness run for cover. 11 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:36,080 But the miracle that I just can't get over my name is 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:42,840 registered in heaven I believe. I believe in signs and wonders. 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,800 I have resurrection power. Yes I do. 14 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:55,840 Still the miracle that I just can't get over my name is 15 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:01,520 registered in heaven. My praise belongs to you 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,680 forever. Let's sing it. 17 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,560 This is my testimony. From death to life. 18 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:14,400 Because grace rewrote my story, I'll testify. 19 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:19,440 By Jesus Christ the righteous, I'm justified. 20 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,320 This is my testimony. This is my testimony. 21 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:33,360 Amen. Join us in singing. 22 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:40,880 Come together, sons and daughters, bought with blood and 23 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:47,000 washed in water. Sing the praises of the Spirit, 24 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,120 Son and Father. Our God, we'll finish what he 25 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:55,920 started. Yes, our God, we'll finish what 26 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:02,600 he started. Oh, this is my testimony from. 27 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:07,080 Death to life. Because Grace rewrote my story, 28 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,920 I'm testified by Jesus Christ the righteous. 29 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,880 I'm justified. This is my testimony. 30 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:27,920 This is my testimony. All right, Kai, just tell you 31 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:31,080 this morning, if there's air in those lungs and he's not done 32 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,960 with you yet, let's sing it out. If I'm not dead, then you're not 33 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:40,880 done. Greater things are still to 34 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,080 come. Oh, I believe if I'm not dead, 35 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:50,720 then you're not done. Greater things are still to 36 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:52,960 come. Oh, I believe. 37 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:55,720 Come on, Sing. If I'm not dead, then you're not 38 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:00,640 done. Greater things are still to 39 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:02,760 come. Oh, I believe. 40 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,760 If I'm not dead, then you're not done. 41 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,280 Greater things are still to come. 42 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,160 Oh, I believe. Come on. 43 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:17,600 Real life Church. I want you to to declare this. 44 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:23,120 Come on, this is my testimony from death to life. 45 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,120 Because grace rewrote my story, I'll testify. 46 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,760 By Jesus Christ the righteous, I'm justified. 47 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,800 This is my testimony now. I'm alive. 48 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,640 This is my testimony from. Death to life. 49 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:50,000 Because grace rewrote my story, I testify that Jesus Christ the 50 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,080 righteous, I'm justified. This is my testimony. 51 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:02,720 This is my testimony from death to life. 52 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:11,480 I've got a reason to sing today. Come on, real life Church, was 53 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,320 this your testimony today? We let it here. 54 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:15,600 Come on, let's praise him. Come. 55 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,920 On, come on, give Him a shout of praise in the house today. 56 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,440 Hey, that is our story. We are living proof of His 57 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,800 goodness and His faithfulness. And because of that, let's build 58 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,120 our life on Him today. Declare this song. 59 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:51,040 Worthy of every song we could ever see. 60 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,800 Worthy of all praise we could ever breathe. 61 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,960 Worthy of every prayers we could ever breathe. 62 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:06,320 We. Live for you. 63 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:21,920 Jesus, the name above every other knee. 64 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:30,480 Jesus, the only one who could ever say, worthy of every breath 65 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:45,040 we could ever greet every year. Holy, there is no one like you. 66 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:54,480 There is none beside you. Opening up my eyes in water and 67 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,640 show me who you. Are and. 68 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,320 Fill me. With your. 69 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:07,520 Heart and leave me in your love to those around me. 70 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,960 Worthy of every song we could ever sing. 71 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:26,960 Worthy of all praise we could ever breathe. 72 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,040 Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe. 73 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:46,680 We live free. Jesus, the name above every 74 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:53,560 other name. Jesus, the only one who could 75 00:06:53,640 --> 00:07:01,520 ever say, worthy of every brethren could ever breed. 76 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:09,920 With every room all we live free room holy. 77 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:17,640 There is no one like you. There is none beside you. 78 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:27,840 Open up my eyes in wonder and show me who you are and fill me 79 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:35,040 with your heart and leave me then you love to those around 80 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:41,640 me. Holy, there is no one like you, 81 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:49,960 there is none beside you. Open up my eyes and wonder and 82 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:59,040 show me who you are and fill me with your heart and leave me. 83 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,440 And you love to close around you. 84 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:27,200 Montrose different this time today on my 85 00:08:37,220 --> 00:08:45,100 own upon your hope it is of the foundation. 86 00:08:46,420 --> 00:08:58,240 I will win my trust he will not reach a game. 87 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:08,960 I will win. My I upon you is of the 88 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,680 foundation. I will avoid my trust. 89 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:28,920 In you. And I will not be shaping only. 90 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:34,800 There is no one lie, there is none beside you. 91 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:43,640 Open up my eyes and wonder and show me who you are. 92 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,360 To clear me with your heart and knee. 93 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:56,360 Being in love to those around me. 94 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,440 Holy, there is no one like you. There is no. 95 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:38,320 The world is all the foundation I will put. 96 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:46,520 My trust in. You and I will never be. 97 00:10:47,800 --> 00:11:06,080 I'll never be changing. You. 98 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,120 Were. The word at the beginning, the 99 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:22,560 one with God, that the Lord Most High, your hidden glory and 100 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:29,040 creation is now revealed in. You. 101 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,720 Our Christ, what a beautiful name it is. 102 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:43,960 What a beautiful name it is, the name of Jesus Christ my King. 103 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:51,360 What a beautiful name it is, and nothing compares to this. 104 00:11:52,440 --> 00:12:07,000 What a beautiful name it is. The name of Jesus you didn't 105 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:12,440 want without us. So Jesus humor. 106 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:25,680 On heaven your sin was. Great, your love was greater and 107 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:29,880 what could I say, boring us. Now. 108 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,480 What a wonderful day. And it is. 109 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:39,040 What a wonderful. The name. 110 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:46,640 Of Jesus Christ, what a. Wonderful. 111 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,800 Name it is. There's nothing. 112 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,640 Compressed to this, what a wonderful. 113 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,880 Name. It is the name of Jesus. 114 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:00,720 What a. Wonderful. 115 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,240 Name it is the. Name. 116 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:46,740 Of Jesus. How could you love to sing love? 117 00:13:46,820 --> 00:13:51,140 To sing who you are, death could not hurt you. 118 00:13:56,560 --> 00:14:04,840 The heavens. Are worrying the praise of the 119 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:18,360 world rain for you? Are rose to life to have. 120 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:49,600 What a powerful. Name it is what a powerful name 121 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:54,480 it is. The name of Jesus. 122 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,920 What a powerful. Name it is nothing. 123 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,800 Can't stand against what a powerful. 124 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,360 Name. It is the name all sitting out 125 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:13,880 today. You have no rival. 126 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:21,720 You have no rival. You have no rival. 127 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,040 Yours is the Kingdom. Yours is the glory. 128 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:45,120 Yours is the name of the Lord. What a powerful name it is. 129 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:46,280 What a powerful. Name it. 130 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:56,640 Is the name of Jesus Christ my? What a. 131 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:03,840 Powerful name it is nothing can. Stand against what a powerful. 132 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,240 Name. It is the name of Jesus. 133 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:11,120 What? A powerful. 134 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:16,560 Name. It is the name of Jesus. 135 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:28,800 What a powerful the name of Jesus sing. 136 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:37,320 Worthy is your name. Jesus lives that you deserve to 137 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:44,480 praise, and worthy is your name, worthy is your name. 138 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:55,200 You deserve the praise, say Worthy is your name. 139 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:05,920 Again Worthy is your name, Jesus, You deserve the praise. 140 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:14,880 Worthy is your name. Worthy is your name. 141 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:33,840 Crazy world is your name is worthy Lord, Because what? 142 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:38,040 A beautiful name it is. What a beautiful. 143 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,720 Name it is. It's just the voices. 144 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,200 Name. Of Jesus Christ. 145 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:53,240 What a beautiful name it is. Nothing compares to this. 146 00:17:54,880 --> 00:18:02,200 What a beautiful name it is. The name of Jesus. 147 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:13,160 What a beautiful name it is. The name of Jesus and. 148 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:14,600 Amen. Let's give it up for God. 149 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,680 And what a beautiful name. I want an opportunity just to 150 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,920 give worship back to God this morning and recognize the power 151 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,800 in his worthiness. And man, just the beautiful name 152 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:25,600 of Jesus. But when you call to him, 153 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,920 there's nothing more beautiful than knowing that you can rest 154 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:29,960 in the power of God. So can we give it for God one 155 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,040 more time this morning, man Amen. 156 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:34,720 Amen. Hey, I want to welcome you guys 157 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,240 here today. I want you guys to know that we 158 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,280 have a ton of new people with us again today online and in 159 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,120 person. Let's show those guys some love. 160 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:43,720 Give them a round of applause, and thank you so much for 161 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,280 choosing to gather worship with today. 162 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,480 Hey, take 30 seconds to greet somebody around you. 163 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,640 You guys can go ahead and catch a seat as you catch a seat, 164 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,240 you're getting ready to sit on something awesome. 165 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,760 It is our connection card. If you call Real Life home, We 166 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,000 love it when you fill this card out. 167 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,440 Let's know what's going on in your life. 168 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,560 We see what you guys right week in week out, we pray over them. 169 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,760 So whether it's a praise or a prayer request called Real Life 170 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,640 home, please send those in. We'd love to get it from you if 171 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,920 you call, if you're new or newer with us here at Real life, this 172 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,920 is this is for you as well. And I'm going to make this 173 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,120 promise to you. We're not going to ask anything 174 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:46,760 else from you today except this one simple thing if you're new 175 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,360 with us to introduce yourself. And we would just love to send 176 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,160 you us more information about real life, who we are, why we 177 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,000 exist, why we're here every Sunday and throughout the week 178 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,200 throughout the city. So again, thank you so much for 179 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,480 being with us. And we're here through through 180 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,600 on Sunday and throughout the week because we believe that 181 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,400 we're a church on a mission. And that mission is to see 182 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,600 people far from God discover their real life and purpose in 183 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,360 Jesus. And simply, all that means is 184 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:12,280 this is we know that it's easy to go through this world and get 185 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,680 screwed up, get messed up, get beat down. 186 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:16,920 And really, that's not what we're meant to stay. 187 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,160 We're not meant to be laying on the ground on our knees. 188 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,840 We're meant to come before God and have purpose, be on mission. 189 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,160 And that's what God's got for you today if you don't know 190 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,840 that. So we're off. 191 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,520 We exist just to get people connected back to God and we get 192 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,760 to see these awesome stories of people receive Christ week in 193 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,360 and week out. So we're so excited that you're 194 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,160 with us today and on mission. So that leads us in. 195 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,480 We're kicking off a new series called Difference Maker. 196 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,920 So for the last eight years, we've had the opportunity, the 197 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,960 joy of being on mission with God. 198 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:49,040 And what that mission has done is we've seen hope and 199 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,920 transformation brought to so many people's lives. 200 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:53,560 And that happens week in, week out. 201 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,600 And over these last eight years, it's been so cool just to see 202 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,040 God do that. But today we're stepping into a 203 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,920 new season, something we feel like God's called us to do. 204 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:07,080 And, and, and in this season, we are going to lead into our next 205 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,320 step, our next step of faith. And it's not about a facility, 206 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,160 it's not about a building, it's about a movement. 207 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,160 And so today I want you guys to buckle in and open your hearts, 208 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,480 open your minds to what God has for you in this season. 209 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,720 For the next six weeks, we're going to allow God just to to 210 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,960 clear obstacles out of our way. We're going to ask God to do the 211 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,440 impossible. And like every beautiful story, 212 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,520 whether it was the Exodus and in the Old Testament, God calling 213 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,040 his people to a mission and a purpose or whether it was the 214 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,840 early church in Acts, a coming together with 1 accord for a 215 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,840 purpose. Today we are going to take that 216 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,920 next step as real life, as a gathering to do what God's 217 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,160 called us to do here. And we're all going to be called 218 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,400 to be difference makers and to reach that next generation and 219 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,040 to see the stories that are coming in the next, in the next 220 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,440 year years coming forward to see each souls transformed. 221 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,600 So once you guys take this opportunity, look up Pastor Sean 222 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,800 with the broken arm as we kick off Difference Maker. 223 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,800 Good morning. Good morning, good morning. 224 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,000 Have I failed you already? Check 121020. 225 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,240 Oh, no. Oh, there you guys are tricking 226 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,000 me out today. You see how they did that? 227 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,640 They said broken arm. Man, we see you put them in the 228 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,480 hotspot. So well, good morning, guys. 229 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,040 You might be, you might not know, like, man, what happened 230 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,920 to Pastor Sean? I'd like to say it was something 231 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,680 really cool like a bicycle kick or some kind of like, you know, 232 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,000 Roundhouse kick. And I save somebody's life. 233 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,560 I've been joking with people that I've just may offend the 234 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,160 mature generation, but I keep joking. 235 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,480 I turned 40 and my rotator cuff tour. 236 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,600 Come on somebody right. And if you're older, you're 237 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,080 like, no, that's, that's not works, man. 238 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,240 But I tore some along the way. And I finally said, Hey, it's 239 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,080 time to get surgery. I couldn't lay in a bed. 240 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,880 I could not pull the blanket up. I said, that's probably an 241 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,200 issue. And I'm 40, so let's get that 242 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,760 taken care of. But I want to say thank you guys 243 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,480 for the prayers for the support. Some of you guys have reached 244 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,240 out and sent gifts or food or gift cards but I can feel your 245 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,080 guys prayers and honestly I'm doing really well. 246 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,200 Probably exceeded expectation. I was dreading like all sorts of 247 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,160 stuff and I've been feeling 100%. 248 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,280 Haven't had pain meds and it's a couple days past surgery 2 weeks 249 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,480 ago. You probably just slowed me down 250 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,320 a little bit and the team is trying to slow me down. 251 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,520 I love you all. I know you care for me but I'm 252 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,200 feeling good. So thank you guys for the 253 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:21,480 prayers and support. Just keep praying. 254 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,160 It's going to be a little bit of journey so kind of hanging with 255 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,560 it but I'm excited. Can I celebrate a few things 256 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,920 before we jump in the day? Can we do that? 257 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,240 Couple things. One, thank you guys for those 258 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,760 who are going out and sharing the gospel with people are far 259 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,240 from God. Not just biting people here, but 260 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,560 going out on mission. I feel like the world's a little 261 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,400 chaotic with all the politics, the assassination, Charlie Kirk 262 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:47,400 to so many things and we have just an opportunity to be hope 263 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,480 and to be lights to be salt in our city, in our families, in 264 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,200 our community and to share the hope of Christ. 265 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,320 So say thank you guys doing that because people are coming to 266 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,440 Christ because of you guys. Your people are showing up to 267 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,680 youth group to kids to here on Sunday morning. 268 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,560 People last week we had two people come to Christ because 269 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,520 someone went out and shared the gospel and brought them in. 270 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,000 So give up for that. Amen. 271 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,520 So not just not just God working people coming, but God working 272 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,520 through you to share. Amen. 273 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,160 That's that's a secret sauce. And so be be cognizant of those 274 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,440 conversations and relationships that are around you. 275 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,880 I would be a miss not to thank two people in particular this 276 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,720 last few weeks that have held down the Fort have done a 277 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,360 fantastic job sharing God's word. 278 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,200 Can you guys give it up for Barry and Logie Logie Logan. 279 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:32,680 That's for not viewing me, buddy. 280 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:35,080 Logan Hardy. Give it up big for them. 281 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,680 Next time he'll mute me faster. So anyway, I thought last week 282 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,080 was was just excellence upon excellence. 283 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,040 If you were here last week talking about fasting, that 284 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,880 message was 10 out of 10 for Logan. 285 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,240 Being a second time ever up here preaching from a platform like 286 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,240 this in a stage like this, I would give that a 10 out of 10. 287 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,680 It wasn't just like here's some information. 288 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,840 It was something that he lives out something that he believes 289 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,640 in deeply. It is full of passion and the 290 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,480 Spirit of God was moving. You guys feel the spirit of God 291 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,680 last week. You feel a conviction last week. 292 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,880 You feel like man, I I can do this. 293 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:17,680 And so to keep Logan's words true from last week, he says he 294 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,240 can hold you guys accountable, right and someone holds you 295 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,640 accountable. I mean, how many guys be real 296 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:22,840 honest. You say, hey man, last week I 297 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,360 actually fasted show of hands. Keep him up dude, that's 298 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:27,560 awesome. Go God, Amen. 299 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,440 Oh God, come on, give it up. For those guys who fasted, don't 300 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,840 be like shy about that. And if you didn't, guess what, 301 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,800 you can start, Amen. It's not too late to start. 302 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,400 I would encourage you guys to continue to fast if you did it 303 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,640 last week And you know, for some of you, it's like maybe really 304 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,280 unimpressive, like I fasted and life got hard or I fasted and I 305 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,240 was really hungry, but nothing really changed. 306 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,920 But I would encourage you guys. There's something significant 307 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,480 that happens when you fast. It's basically saying my eyes 308 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,200 are on Jesus, I'm trusting God, I'm depend on him. 309 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,320 It's not made to be easy, Amen. And it's it's this lost 310 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,280 spiritual art. And so I want to encourage you 311 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,240 guys to continue to do it. And I talked to some of you guys 312 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,560 that reached out and were like, hey, I've never fasted, what 313 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,560 should I do? I'm like, hey, take that 12 314 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,680 hours. Just pick a day a week and some 315 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,440 sun up to sundown. Refrain yourself from food and 316 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,600 just twitch your eyes on the Lord. 317 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,960 And some of you guys have, I know numerous people did that. 318 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,360 How many guys are first time fasted ever? 319 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:22,160 Last week, Show of hands 123. OK, three or four people. 320 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,680 That's awesome. Give it for those guys, Amen. 321 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,960 That's a huge step, a huge step. And some of you guys been 322 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,560 fasting. It has been a long time. 323 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,720 I know some people came there new last week and there was just 324 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,320 a word for them and had been a long time say faster. 325 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,600 They said, Lord, I really get back to I need your presence. 326 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,360 And so they fasted and some of you guys are routine of fasting. 327 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,720 You just like that's part of my lifestyle. 328 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,320 It's my habit, that's my my spiritual habit, It's my 329 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,840 practice. And you guys just encouraged 330 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,040 like in big ways last week. And so I was going to share a 331 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,800 little bit just as a way of kind of wrapping up that thought on 332 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,480 fasting about the power of fasting, really how it leads in 333 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,240 the spiritual moments. And you find us all throughout 334 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,120 the Bible. Matter of fact, I encourage you 335 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:02,120 maybe get on ChatGPT or Google and just say, give me the times 336 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:04,520 for people fast in the Bible. You're going to find there's 70 337 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,080 instances in the Bible or people fasted and they're just life 338 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,360 changing, just amazing stories, these holy moments. 339 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,520 And so if you need God's presence, you've got people like 340 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,880 Moses who fasted on Mount Sinai before they had the 341 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,120 commandments. That's a pretty significant 342 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:23,200 moment right to receive the the the law of God or Paul and 343 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:24,800 Barnabas. They fasted before they point 344 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,960 leaders in the church. That'd be a great practice. 345 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,960 By the way, as we bring up leadership, as we send out 346 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,520 missionaries, as we grow disciples is to fast for those 347 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:34,280 people. Amen. 348 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,680 We want God's will and want God's a sermon as we send people 349 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,800 out. Logan talked this last week 350 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,040 about repentance and renewal. It's about the people of 351 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,280 Nineveh. There's a Gentile nation of 352 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,680 people that are going to be judged by God, wiped the face of 353 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,440 the earth and they tore their clothes and they repented and 354 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,120 God withheld his judgment. Amen. 355 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,880 And for some of us, getting right with God, we need to fast. 356 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,120 Samuel did this and with Israel in First Samuel 7, there's a 357 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,120 verse and it's not necessarily tied directly to fasting, but 358 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,920 it's a great verse for our country and what it looks like 359 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,600 as a response to all things happening. 360 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,240 But Second Chronicles 714, it says if my people are called by 361 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,040 my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face. 362 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,400 That's what fasting is all about, seeking the face of God 363 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,880 and turn from the wicked ways. Then we'll hear from heaven and 364 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:23,000 I'll forgive their sin. Now what their land some of you 365 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,120 guys are looking for healing in your soul, healing in your 366 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:28,000 family, maybe healing some relationships in our country. 367 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:29,640 It happens through prayer and fasting. 368 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,760 Amen. It doesn't happen somewhere 369 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,680 else. It happens right on our knees 370 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,480 and this one just stuck out to me as a story of victory and 371 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,520 breakthrough. This fasting proceeded one of 372 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,840 these one of the greatest victories you find in the Bible. 373 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,800 There's a man named Jehoshaphat somebody say Jehoshaphat. 374 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,800 If you never heard of Jehoshaphat, you're going to 375 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,520 learn about today real quickly. I'm not going to go. 376 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,040 I don't have time to preach the whole piece of it, but Second 377 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,840 Chronicles chapter 20, if you get a chance to read it through 378 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,840 21 it it's on fire. Matter of fact, this king of 379 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,560 Judah, he's kind of backed in the corner. 380 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,240 There's three armies that are coming after him to besiege him. 381 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,320 They're coming down this rule of this, we call it like a Canyon 382 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,520 or a gorge. And there's massive armies and 383 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,160 they're outnumbered, their backs against the wall. 384 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,480 And so he asked all of Israel to come to the temple. 385 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,480 He says we're going to have a fast and it began to fast. 386 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,400 In the middle of the fast, he stands up, He declares there's 387 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,880 three paragraphs. You find the Bible of this 388 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,360 amazing truth of God. And he says, we don't just serve 389 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,560 the God that is in heaven, we show the God that is here, that 390 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,440 rules the nation's, is in charge of every single person and every 391 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,840 nation in the world. And he ends his prayer with 392 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,320 something we all can relate to. He says, we don't know what to 393 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,800 do, Lord, but our eyes are on you. 394 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,800 Amen. If you're wondering what to say 395 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,320 when you fast and you pray, I would encourage that would be a 396 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,320 really good thing to say. Lord, I don't know what 397 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,680 direction to go, but Lord, I'm trusting you. 398 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,120 There's a man named Zachariah. The word comes to him, he's a 399 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,680 prophet, and he says of this to the people of Judah. 400 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,160 He says the battle is not yours, The battle is actually Gods. 401 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,840 Amen. It's a spiritual battle and the 402 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,960 most significant thing happens in Scripture. 403 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,160 And if you've never seen this, this is going to break your 404 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,720 heart for the power of God because these men, they said 405 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:09,760 you're none of you are going to die. 406 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,200 Matter of fact, none of you have to fight in the battle. 407 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,520 All of you are going to go out, but no one's going to fight. 408 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:16,920 And the Lord's going to fight your battle. 409 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,040 And so you're going to go up the next morning, you're going to go 410 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,400 to this edge of the gourd, you're going to meet the enemy 411 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,640 and God's power is going to come unleashed. 412 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,520 And so as they go, that next morning, they do something just 413 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:31,200 so unorthodox in war. They start to sing and they seen 414 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,280 God's praise and they seen God's worship. 415 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,360 And they say, give thanks to Lord our God, whose love endures 416 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,480 forever. And it says the men raise their 417 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,560 voices loud. Amen. 418 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,160 I mean, that's a different type of warfare. 419 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,120 And the Bible says this, and it's so significant. 420 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,560 It says as they worshipped, God raged war. 421 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,800 Think about that. Their worship was fighting the 422 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,800 battle, and what God did is he had those enemies. 423 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,040 There's three enemies, and they begin to ambush each other and 424 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,560 to lose trust in each other and to fight each other. 425 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,920 And the time the Israelites worship their way to victory, 426 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,080 they showed up to the edge of the gourd. 427 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,960 There's not a single person left alive in the enemy, a single. 428 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,040 And there's hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers 429 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,560 dead. It took four days for the 430 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,520 Israelites to pick up all the plunder, all the weapons and the 431 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,840 food and the horses and the Chariots. 432 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,640 That's the power of God, Amen. Some of you guys didn't know 433 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,400 today when you sang those 3 1/2 songs that we call it last part 434 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,280 there, right? The tags and everything that 435 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,520 you're waging war in a battle. So we had no idea that God was 436 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,280 battling for you when you worshiped, Amen. 437 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,840 And often times you look out and say we can't do it. 438 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,120 It's not possible. But the Lord's in the battle, 439 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,960 the Lord's already, the battle is already won, Amen. 440 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,000 And that's just what we're leaning into. 441 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,120 There's just something special about fasting. 442 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,520 Remember that was all about fasting. 443 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,440 They fasted and the Lord won the battle. 444 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,760 Like there's, there's just some things only come through 445 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,560 fasting. You see this with Esther. 446 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,640 She, she fast with the Jews and for three days just for the 447 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,560 divine favor of a king to save the nation. 448 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,280 David fasted when his child was sick. 449 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,360 Ezra fasted the morning of the unfaithful's of God. 450 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,840 He brought the word of God back to the nation of Israel. 451 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,760 We had a season of that in our church. 452 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:12,960 I felt like we just brought the word of God back right to the 453 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,000 forefront of our church. Jesus fasted for 40 days as he 454 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,440 began his ministry and Satan tried to tempt them and twist 455 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,320 the word of God. They were the church fasted and 456 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:22,680 prayed before sending out missionaries. 457 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,240 Nehemiah fasted and confession before God for rebuilding the 458 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,480 walls of Jerusalem. The Church of Antioch fasted 459 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,240 before they sent out missionaries had breakthroughs 460 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,320 in their church. And there's something special 461 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,840 Jesus says about fasting in Matthew 928 and it says this. 462 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,360 It says when he being Jesus had come into the House of disciples 463 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,720 asking probably why could we not cast it out? 464 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,200 Why couldn't they cast out this demon? 465 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,560 They were trying to and they couldn't cast out the demon 466 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:45,720 there. Sometimes they couldn't heal 467 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,880 people. He said to them, he said, this 468 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,200 kind can come out by nothing but prayer. 469 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:56,760 And what's it say fasting? What this verse means to me is 470 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,520 that there's just certain places that you will never go to and 471 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,800 you'll never unlock without fasting. 472 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,760 There are certain levels, there are certain places in your heart 473 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,960 that will never be turned over to God without fasting, that 474 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,800 there are certain keys that will not be used to unlock different 475 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,600 areas in breakthroughs in your family. 476 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,840 Some areas of repentance, some areas of restoration from areas 477 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,040 of healing, some areas of hope. There'll be some areas in our 478 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,760 church that won't be changed. There may be revivals that are 479 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,480 stopped. Their souls aren't saved. 480 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,200 There's repentance that needs to happen. 481 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:36,520 The glory of God can can come into our house with pure hearts, 482 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,800 just like David and these people that fought after God. 483 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,240 There's just certain things that only happen through fasting. 484 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,080 Amen. And so ultimately we are selling 485 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,200 ourselves short of what God has for life if we're not on our 486 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,280 knees in prayer and fasting. I think for us in this season of 487 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,440 our church, there's something special that we're asking God to 488 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,000 do. This whole difference maker. 489 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,320 You guys got the booklets right and you maybe heard about this. 490 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,480 Some of you guys, we've been planting seeds for quite a while 491 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,600 now, maybe 6 to 8 months. Our Difference Maker initiative 492 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,760 is about finding our first permanent space. 493 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,199 It's about creating the opportunity to say yes to our 494 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:13,840 first permanent home. But when you hear this, the 495 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,800 temptation is this is about a building. 496 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,639 This is about money. And I want to encourage you from 497 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:22,440 day one, sentence one, this is about faith. 498 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,800 It's about faith. This is not just about 499 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,440 generosity or building. It's about faith. 500 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,719 It's about all the stepping out together in faith of what God is 501 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,440 asking us to do, Amen. You know, some of you are like, 502 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,480 man, I don't have a lot of means to to give to this and I don't 503 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:39,639 know how we're going to get there. 504 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,159 Kind of encourage you. It doesn't take a lot to be 505 00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:44,159 generous. You don't have to have a lot to 506 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:46,320 be generous, Amen. You know, sometimes a man's 507 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:47,880 don't have a lot. It's like, what do you have in 508 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,600 your hands God can use? Amen. 509 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,880 You don't mind asking to give something you don't have? 510 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,520 I know so many people, man. If I won the lottery, man, I'd 511 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,720 give to the church. Come on, somebody, right? 512 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,520 And if you do, praise God, Amen, we'll use it, right? 513 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,720 But if you don't, don't sell yourself short because you may 514 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:06,000 not have what this person has or what that person's has. 515 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,600 But you can't have faith, Amen. You can't give with faith. 516 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,400 We all can do that. We all can fast, Amen. 517 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,600 It takes zero money to fast, Amen. 518 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,800 Like if anything, prayer and fast when we're fasting in this 519 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,120 season, lean in and ask God for divine favor for, for a 520 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,800 breakthrough. We, we need those people to have 521 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,600 the ability to fund the mission. Sometimes in the Bible, it's 522 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,160 pretty cool that God even uses enemies. 523 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,480 He even uses the things of Satan to pay for the things of God, 524 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,280 Amen. Sometimes he makes the world pay 525 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,280 for it. Sometimes it's divine favor from 526 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,240 somebody who doesn't even love Jesus, but they just love us. 527 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,480 I mean, I'm just telling you, God can do what he wants to do, 528 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,800 Amen. The question is, do we believe 529 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,400 he can? Do we trust He can? 530 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,400 And so by faith, I don't want anybody to say, oh, I'm excluded 531 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,360 or like, well, that's cool. I'm excited to see what they do. 532 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,960 No, I think all of us play a part of this story, all of us by 533 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:01,760 faith. And we activate our faith. 534 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,480 I believe God activates his power. 535 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,240 Amen. And so this is the season we're 536 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:08,320 leading into. Some things only happen through 537 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,760 fasting, through faith. And so you guys get the 538 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,240 booklets. Everybody holds your booklet up 539 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:13,640 real quick. Yeah, booklet. 540 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,880 Perfect. OK, encourage you. 541 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,440 There's a space for your name. Come on. 542 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,800 Somebody reminds you of high school, right? 543 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,280 Put your name on there. All right, because I know we 544 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:24,320 have some of these. Get left behind. 545 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,600 We'll hold on. Hold on to hold on to them for 546 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:27,960 you. But put your name on the top of 547 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,440 there. I'd encourage you to read 548 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,720 through this booklet. This gives you all the details 549 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:35,520 of what this is about, why we're doing it, why now, What's at 550 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,600 stake? What's this one? 551 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,880 Fund all the different details. There's a lot of great answers 552 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,560 in the FAQ, but bring it with you every week. 553 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,400 Put it in your Bible. Take it, take it next six weeks, 554 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,160 bring it back. There's a place where sermon 555 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,760 notes we're actually going to be on page 17 today doing our first 556 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,480 week of difference maker. It's called this is our moment. 557 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:55,880 And there's a place to take notes. 558 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,080 Amen. Who knows? 559 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,560 You get closer to see than having you take notes, Amen. 560 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,400 So just take some notes, write them down, bring it back next 561 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,200 week at the bottom of every section of notes you'll see AQR 562 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,280 for our you version and you can follow along with with the 563 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,520 outline for the message today and just bring with you. 564 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,440 OK. And so I'm excited for what God 565 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:14,760 is going to do. You have a committed car. 566 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,120 Just hold on that. We'll talk about that later on. 567 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,120 We're not going to collect it today. 568 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:19,960 By the way, if you're freaking out, you see that thing, OK, 569 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:22,240 that's not going to happen. I want share my heart and 570 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:23,720 passion for this actually got a great chance. 571 00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:25,080 We shot a video. Amen. 572 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:27,960 You can scan that QR on the front of the booklet. 573 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,360 It'll take you to our website. You can watch the videos. 574 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,280 We're going to be updating all sorts of stuff on there, but 575 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,800 it's a lot on already and you can learn all about this. 576 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,640 But I'm going to just share with our video of our heart and 577 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,640 passion for difference Maker, kind of get your head around it, 578 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:39,960 what we're doing while we're doing it. 579 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,000 And so we're going to play the video. 580 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,280 Hopefully it goes good because another restart purpose in a 581 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,760 little to go thumbs up maybe. OK, cool. 582 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,280 All right, let's check it out. Real life family and friends. 583 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,520 Today we stand in a unique moment in our story. 584 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,040 Eight years ago, we stepped out in faith to launch real life 585 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,720 church. And God has shut up in 586 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:01,640 extraordinary ways. Real life, you already are 587 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:05,280 living proof what God can do through ordinary people and his 588 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,520 surrender to his plan. We've seen marriages changed, 589 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:12,120 families changed, and eternity changed and countless people. 590 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,800 And I believe with all my heart that God is not done yet. 591 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,680 There are prodigals in our city and around the world that God is 592 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,240 calling home, and this is an incredible harvest on the 593 00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:27,280 horizon that we can play a part of. 594 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,760 And today, just like 8 years ago, we once again are in a 595 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,360 place we have to write the next chapter in our story. 596 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,160 But here's the problem. Prodigals lost. 597 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,040 People need somewhere to come home to need somewhere to 598 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,000 belong, somewhere to grow and people to believe in them. 599 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,920 And listen, we've been portable for eight years, and being 600 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,000 portable has been huge. Blessing Willis Be Real has his 601 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,880 limits. And for instance, in our kids 602 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,280 ministry, it's tough to turn an elementary school into a sacred 603 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,680 life, giving space for children to encounter God. 604 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,160 The distractions are literally around every corner. 605 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,960 We also can't host things like kids camp or summer VBS because 606 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,280 we simply don't have the space. In addition to our youth group, 607 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,720 it's on the verge of outgrowing our Hope Center. 608 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:14,920 There's a space where teens are playing Nightscore in the air 609 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,360 and there's a worship team rehearsing at the same time. 610 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,520 It's amazing, it's beautiful, but it is absolutely chaotic. 611 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,480 And for adults, we would love to host marriage conferences. 612 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,680 We'd love to have weddings and dream team celebrations. 613 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,960 And the love, love, love to have a life giving, state-of-the-art 614 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,480 worship center to invite your family and your friends to 615 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,040 experience Jesus and share the gospel around the world. 616 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,600 As much as we love being portable, the truth is every 617 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,120 purple situation has a shelf life. 618 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,680 It has a time frame. And that's why after much 619 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:52,280 prayer, planning, discerning and leadership, I believe God is 620 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,560 calling us to secure our first permanent home. 621 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,360 Our vision is to purchase a facility somewhere between 15 622 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,320 and 20,000 square feet. Places like the OfficeMax, the 623 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,160 Walgreens will allow us to double our capacity and give us 624 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,800 room to grow. A place where ministry happens 625 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,160 24/7. A place where we have. 626 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,800 Long term presence in our city and it tells our neighbors and 627 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,800 tells the world that we are here to stay. 628 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:20,800 It's a place for inviting culture. 629 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,080 The designated kids space where the kids eyes light up and they 630 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,760 walk in and everything points them to Jesus. 631 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,160 It's a space for youth, for conferences, for weddings, 632 00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:33,880 camps, worship, rehearsal, and most importantly, disciple 633 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,560 making. And yes, no more set up and tear 634 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,280 down. I heard everybody say Amen. 635 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,040 Even our mail could finally be delivered to our church home. 636 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,800 This isn't about building a monument. 637 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,160 It's about building a movement. It's not about a facility. 638 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:53,280 It's about creating a launchpad for the gospel, a hospital for 639 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,880 the hurting, and a home for prodigals. 640 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,640 Psalm 78 says it best. It says we will tell the next 641 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:03,360 generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, His power, 642 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,520 and the wonders He has done. That's what the space 643 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,400 represents. It's a place where the next 644 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,360 generation hears about and learns to follow Jesus. 645 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000 So here's the vision of the next two years. 646 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,880 Our Difference Maker Initiative aims to raise $1.9 million, now 647 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:24,320 900,000 that is simply continuing to fund our ministry 648 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,240 fund already. It funds everything you already 649 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:29,520 like and love about real life. It's not going anywhere. 650 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,040 But the additional 1,000,000 position us to say yes to an 651 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,720 opportunity when God opens the door for a first permanent 652 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,000 space. But here's the most important 653 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,680 part. Our primary goal is not a 654 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,760 financial number. It's asking for 100% 655 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,720 participation. We want every person, every 656 00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:52,120 family who calls real life home to help write the next chapter 657 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,200 as a difference maker. So what does that mean for you? 658 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,600 I'm simply asking you to do three things. 659 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,480 One, let's celebrate the moment. Right now. 660 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,120 We're on the verge of something amazing with the lead the way of 661 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,600 making a difference in thousands and thousands of lives, 662 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:12,640 including your own family, your friends, and your neighbors. 2 663 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,240 Commit to hear from God. Ask him, What does faith look 664 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:20,640 like in me in this season? How May God be calling you to 665 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:25,400 grow in generosity and trust? And three, consider becoming a 666 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,920 difference maker with us. Take time to pray. 667 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:32,600 Ask God what would he have you to do to help reach this goal? 668 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,560 Friends, family, the ability to say yes to our first parent 669 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,600 space. Be the true difference maker for 670 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,040 us, not just for us, but for you, for your kids, for our 671 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,000 city, and for generations and generations to come. 672 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,640 So I'm simply inviting you to pray, to dream, and to consider 673 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,680 how you can be a part of writing the story because your faith, 674 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,520 because your generosity. We can change people's forever, 675 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,400 and that's the bottom line. That's what it's all about. 676 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,080 There's no other place I'd rather be than with you leading 677 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,600 on mission in this season. Will you join together with me? 678 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:12,440 I invite you to take time to pray and to see God and join us 679 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,280 together as a difference maker in pursuit of our first 680 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,480 permanent home. God bless, guys. 681 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,720 Come on, let's work, Barry. I like I get used to this. 682 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:33,440 Get to work, Barry. Man, what a special moment. 683 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,080 Our church. Amen. 684 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,640 It's kind of like that watershed moment, like God's ask us do 685 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,520 something so big and so, so audacious. 686 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,360 Like it goes against every piece of human nature. 687 00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:44,960 Like the fruit is out on the limb. 688 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,560 Amen. Like what's this? 689 00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:50,760 What is the fortune favors the bold like, like that we step out 690 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,520 on faith and just do something together that's just audacious. 691 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,600 And this will be the biggest step of faith outside of 692 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,080 launching this church. So I keep saying it's the most 693 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,360 important series I've ever preached because we're leaning 694 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,840 into a season where we're just stepping out. 695 00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:05,920 Like there's one of the seasons, Lord, I don't know how we're 696 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,560 going to get there, but Lord, we're trusting you like your 697 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,560 eyes are on you want to follow you. 698 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,160 And I believe in every generation. 699 00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,840 There is a there's just a moment where like God just asked us to 700 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,400 go all in. There's there's a maybe once in 701 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,200 a generation type of moment. You think about the first eight 702 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,360 years of our church, it's been amazing, Amen. 703 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,720 I mean, we have almost 500 people commit their life to 704 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:30,120 Jesus that we know about, have indicated to us and the first 705 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,720 eight years of our church, that's amazing, Amen. 706 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,280 That's eternal difference. That's like it's being attorney 707 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,000 with 500 more people that we know about. 708 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,560 That's not generational or people have gone out or anything 709 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:41,920 else. I get the impact of ripples, 710 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:43,520 right? But what is the next eight 711 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:44,960 years? We saw 5000 people come to 712 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,720 Christ. We saw 10,000 people impacted. 713 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,000 Like what if we left something behind for our kids in the next 714 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,360 generation to stand on, to stand on our shoulders and take the 715 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,440 gospel further, farther and faster than we did? 716 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,280 You know, in the Bible, you see these generational moments and 717 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,360 there's a moment found in Numbers 13 and 14 and you're 718 00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,480 going to see this, this situation where the Israelites 719 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,280 are, are liberated from slavery. They've come through the 10 720 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,760 plagues that Pharaoh is basically bowed his knee, let 721 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,640 him go, then changed the mind. He chased him down through the 722 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,800 Red Sea. God parts the sea, crushes the 723 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,680 armies and they're wandering in the wilderness and they say they 724 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,920 would take about 6 days, which is really sad. 725 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,920 We know the whole story to go from the edge of the Red Sea to 726 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,080 the promised land. And they're, they're standing in 727 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,640 this like this moment of precipice, like looking into the 728 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,720 promise that God has given them and the Moses and Aaron, they 729 00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:40,880 begin to contemplate a plan like what should we do? 730 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:44,240 And they decide to take one person from every tribe and do 731 00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:47,920 some recombinants, right, like reconnaissance, like going in 732 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,760 and saying, what's this about? And is the food good? 733 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,880 Like is there, it does a fields ripe with harvest. 734 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,480 Like where's the cities at? How how many people are there? 735 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,640 Are they big? Like they have numbers, they 736 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,560 have weapons. What's the situation? 737 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,200 Draw us a map. I don't know if that was a good 738 00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,960 idea, but I look back at the story, right? 739 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,560 Because for some of them, there was 10 of them that saw all the 740 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:13,400 obstacles and their vision stopped. 741 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,560 They saw the problems, that they saw the giants, they saw 742 00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,800 opposition, and they came back and they got everybody together. 743 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:25,680 And this is what it says in Numbers 13, verse 26, it says 744 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,880 they came back to Moses and Aaron, these spies, all 12 of 745 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,920 them, and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the 746 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,520 desert of Proran. And there they reported them and 747 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,040 the whole assembly showed them the fruit of the land. 748 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:39,440 They gave Moses this account. We went to the land which you 749 00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,200 sent us. And it does flow with milk and 750 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:43,320 honey. They were stoked about that. 751 00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,280 Here's the fruit. It says there the Grapevine was 752 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,880 so large they put it between two people on a big stick and it 753 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,600 could barely carry it, it was so big. 754 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,640 They were excited about what the promise of land looked like. 755 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:58,000 Verse 28 it says but somebody say but, but there's always a 756 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,120 but in there. But the people who live there 757 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,760 are what? Oh, they're powerful, man. 758 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,920 They're strong. And their cities are what? 759 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,920 Yeah, they're fortified. There's they're strongholds. 760 00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,240 It's going to be hard to get in. And they're very large, these 761 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:13,400 cities. And we saw even the descendants 762 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,120 of Anoch there. And Anoch is like a it's like 763 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:18,360 the Nephilim. These are giants. 764 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,400 These are like people, angels that mix with mankind. 765 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,080 If you don't know about it's it's amazing story. 766 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,360 I encourage you to to look it up. 767 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:25,560 But this is like Goliath. You guys heard of Goliath? 768 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,640 OK, He would have been one of these giants that we talked 769 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,320 about. So it's a city full of these 770 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,480 people and the Malachites living to give. 771 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,760 They drew a map and the you can see them on the ground, maybe 772 00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:36,520 drawn on a sand or drew it up on paper. 773 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,560 Wherever they had, they said the Hittites and the Jebusites, 774 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,000 Embrites, they live over here in the Hill Country, is Canites 775 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,040 that live right here near the sea along the Jordan. 776 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:47,360 And they gave this bad report and 10 out of 12 were paralyzed 777 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,440 by fear, that their fear stopped the vision. 778 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,000 And for so many people, their vision exceeds to the point of 779 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,760 which it's extinguished by the 1st obstacle or opposition. 780 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,280 You know, they say if you want to kill a vision, give it to a 781 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,680 small mind. They say if you want to kill a 782 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,560 vision, just give us somebody that faith. 783 00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:09,640 And for so many people, like you're so scared to share their 784 00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:13,320 vision because somebody else will step on it and this would 785 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,640 happen. These 10 begin to step on the 786 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,800 vision and they didn't see God's promised land. 787 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,720 They just saw land. They didn't see this was God's 788 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:24,640 area to go into anymore because the the obstacles were too big. 789 00:48:25,240 --> 00:48:28,000 It's almost like they're talking Moses out of God's plan. 790 00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:31,160 But listen, there was two guys that actually saw God's plan. 791 00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,560 One name was Caleb. You guys remember the name of 792 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,600 the next guy, Joshua. How many guys know Joshua had 793 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,080 another name before it's called Joshua. 794 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:44,960 I learned this it was crazy. His name is Heshua believe that 795 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,080 and Moses changed his name to Joshua and Joshua and Caleb went 796 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,840 in the land and they had a different vision. 797 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,160 They saw beyond the obstacles. And so in the middle of this 798 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,200 meeting, which I love these type of people that stand up for 799 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,160 what's right and Numbers 1330. This is what it says and then 800 00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,680 Caleb would be on the screen. Then Caleb said what? 801 00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,440 Caleb, what do you do? He, he silenced them. 802 00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:05,480 They're all complaining. You guys been in these meetings, 803 00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:06,600 right? We're just going off the rails. 804 00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,520 They're chasing carrots and it's faithless. 805 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,240 It's godless. It's whatever it kills like 806 00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:12,160 enough. Be quiet, listen up. 807 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:14,800 Probably maybe the other words. I don't know. 808 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,520 And he got their attention and he said before Moses and he said 809 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:24,000 we should go up, take possession of the land for we can what? 810 00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,600 Certainly do it. And he was right. 811 00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,400 Amen. He was right. 812 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:33,000 It wasn't blind faith like he's not dumb faith. 813 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:34,600 He believes the living God, Amen. 814 00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:37,120 He believes the same God we talked about earlier. 815 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,480 They were, they worship that wars were being fought on their 816 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,760 behalf. The same God that David stepped 817 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,880 on the battlefield and said, I serve the living God where no 818 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,880 man in the entire country would stand up for anything. 819 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,920 This little untrained shepherd boy said, well, God's in it, 820 00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,240 Amen. And this is what Caleb and 821 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:57,160 Joshua, they stood up and said, no, no, no, this, this is God's. 822 00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,240 He already declared we're going in and we need to go. 823 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,000 That's the thing about Caleb and Joshua. 824 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,120 I see him as difference makers. I see him as difference makers 825 00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,320 in our generation because this is something very unique. 826 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,560 They saw what everyone else saw, but they're willing to do what 827 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,200 no one else is willing to do. And you think about difference 828 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,320 maker, they see the same thing. They see what everybody sees, 829 00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:22,160 but they do what no one else does in faith, by faith, by 830 00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,480 faith. See, some people just saw a 831 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,440 land, and these people saw future. 832 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:29,800 They, they, they. Saw beyond like, oh, there's 833 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,200 giants, oh, these thieves are fortified. 834 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,480 Oh this, it's this, this can be really hard to do. 835 00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,120 And for Joshua and Caleb, they went back and said, well, we 836 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,520 just saw God destroy the Pharaoh's army literally 6 days 837 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,560 ago. By the way, technically, if 838 00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:46,240 that's what it would have taken 6 days ago, we saw the miracle 839 00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:49,520 of God and now we stand there and say, well, God can't do 840 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:53,600 this. 10 people saw giants and two people saw God's promise. 841 00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,760 It's amazing to me that so many people can stand at the same 842 00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,600 thing and see things completely differently, Amen. 843 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:04,280 Bone by faith and won by fear. And a difference maker is 844 00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,880 somebody that doesn't let fear have the final word, Amen. 845 00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,680 If you ever make a decision by fear, that is not from God. 846 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,120 God has given us the power over fear. 847 00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,520 He's the power of sound mind and strength, and the same power of 848 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:18,960 the race used in the dead lives in US. 849 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,040 And so if you're doing something out of fear, that is not from 850 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,040 God, Amen. And for so many of us, we're 851 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:26,960 operating in the under the radar of fear. 852 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,480 And this is what happened is 10 people spread this news numbers 853 00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,400 13. It went on in verse 32, just 854 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,800 after the last verse we said it says they spread among the 855 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,040 Israelites. A what, what's it say? 856 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:40,440 A bad report. You know, if you want, if you 857 00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,080 want to kill a church, give it a bad report. 858 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:45,560 If you want to kill a church, have a meeting. 859 00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,920 After the meeting, stand in the hallway, cross your arms and 860 00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,280 talk about how terrible it's going to be If you want to kill 861 00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,840 a church. I've been to churches like 862 00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:56,800 that's I, I try to kill the meetings, by the way, Amen. 863 00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,600 Like you say, what needs to be said when it should be said. 864 00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,400 And if not, you're done with it, Amen. 865 00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:05,760 Because there's so many bad reports, because so many people 866 00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,080 like, man, I have the faith to do this. 867 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,200 And these people gave a bad report and it created fear among 868 00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,600 the people. They said this is the, the land 869 00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,320 we explored. They said the land that we 870 00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,440 explored devours those, then now it devours them like it's just 871 00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,000 going to crush you. All people we saw there are 872 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,400 great size and we saw the Nephilim like these descendants 873 00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,720 of Annex like these. These people are mixed with 874 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:28,440 angels. They're they're massive. 875 00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:30,560 And we've seen like grasshoppers in their own eyes. 876 00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:35,440 And we looked the same to them. We're powerless, we're finite. 877 00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:38,880 This is impossible. There's no way. 878 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,560 And this is where their faith stopped. 879 00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:43,760 And this is what I love about Joshua and Caleb. 880 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,800 And you know, you have to ask yourself often times when you 881 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,480 read the Bible, like what have you been with the 10 or the two 882 00:52:49,240 --> 00:52:51,760 right? Like, to be honest with you, 883 00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,440 probably more likely to 10 because it's human nature. 884 00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,720 Like these people, Joshua and Caleb, they do not have their 885 00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:00,520 name mentioned, the Hall of Fame of Faith, but Jericho's 886 00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:01,640 mentioned the Hall of Fame of Faith. 887 00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,960 And who led that battle? Caleb and Joshua, Amen. 888 00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:10,040 Like these are men of great faith to simply believe God has 889 00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,120 called us to this moment, like he didn't lead it, lead us this 890 00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:18,000 far to let us die, Amen. He wants us to step into the 891 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,640 promise. And they saw beyond the 892 00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,040 obstacles. They saw something that was 893 00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,000 amazing. You think about the promised 894 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,720 land and for them to look out and maybe Joshua and kill, but 895 00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:28,360 they saw new homes. Maybe they saw their kids 896 00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:32,600 running around in the pastures. Maybe they saw a field just full 897 00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,320 of food. And they thought to themselves, 898 00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,640 you know, it's four or five cities that make some great 899 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,840 cities for us to live in. Those are great. 900 00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:40,280 Four or five cities for us to have. 901 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,520 So when the enemies come after us and gods on our side, they 902 00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:44,400 can't come in. Amen. 903 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,480 Like this be a great place to have generations grow up. 904 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,520 This is a great pace of peace after you've been slaves for 400 905 00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,320 years, that we can step into this land and have a future 906 00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:54,840 here. Amen. 907 00:53:55,720 --> 00:53:58,880 That's faith, Amen. And I think about for us As for 908 00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,800 me as a pastor, especially like what this next season looks 909 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,680 like. And for me, what keeps me up at 910 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,520 night is not the anxiety of stepping into a building 911 00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,680 initiative. It's not the anxiety of like, 912 00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:11,120 let's raise a lot of money, right? 913 00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,320 Let's work with architects and engineers and let's work with 914 00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:15,800 cities. Come on, somebody, right? 915 00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:19,320 Let's do all the stuff and let's lose some hair on the stress. 916 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:20,640 Like I've done buildings before, right? 917 00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,120 But that's not what keeps me up at night. 918 00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,720 What keeps me up at night is the excitement of the future of our 919 00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:28,480 church. Amen. 920 00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,520 Like I was sitting with my my boys back here and I got a 921 00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:33,200 chance to pray with them before I came up here. 922 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:37,800 And it's just like, man, it'll be so amazing for my kids not to 923 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:42,840 have to go to church and grow up with the burden of being 924 00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,240 portable. Amen. 925 00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,320 It would be great not to pass that on. 926 00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:54,560 I don't want to pass on debt or struggle to my kids and for them 927 00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:59,200 to be able to show up and just plug a guitar in and lead 928 00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:03,080 worship with Jesus and not to worry about if COVID or whatever 929 00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,440 whim of something, the government's going to say you 930 00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,840 can't meet and we could be in a space and say, no thanks, we're 931 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,440 going to keep meeting, Amen. We're going to keep doing the 932 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,640 things of God like not to be worried, like, well, maybe we're 933 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,120 not going to be in the space. If the dynamics change or 934 00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:22,000 politics change, the freedom for my kids to boldly book in the 935 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:26,120 gospel and the word of God will continually go forward and our 936 00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:30,600 community and that we wouldn't have to take activity and energy 937 00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:35,320 as staff members and leaders in our church to be portable and to 938 00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:37,600 meet. There is so much energy and 939 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,160 effort. I bet half of our energy and 940 00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,120 effort for any event goes into making something portable. 941 00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,080 Like we're probably going to run out jokingly about run out of 942 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,480 difference maker mugs a day. If you run out, there's more 943 00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:49,920 coming next week. Amen. 944 00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,520 But we couldn't get enough here. Like, the car is full, right? 945 00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:57,760 Like we just strap on the top of the Ford Explorer to get more 946 00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:58,400 here. Amen. 947 00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:03,080 Like there's just a wait and a burden. 948 00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,000 Then thank God for it. Amen. 949 00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:06,480 We're not. We're willing to do it. 950 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,120 Some of you guys were trying to shut me down this morning. 951 00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:09,640 Like, your arm's broken. You can't move. 952 00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,800 You know, you're I'm, I'm not like frail, OK? 953 00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:16,760 But it is a burden to do it. But I dream of the future. 954 00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:18,280 Like we could have a marriage conference. 955 00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:19,480 Do we need a marriage conference? 956 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,440 Amen. Come on, somebody. 957 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:23,720 Some of y'all are not here to admit that because the marriage 958 00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:26,640 is going crazy. I'm just telling you, like, we 959 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,120 need a space for our kids to show up. 960 00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:30,400 And it's like, oh, look at the awesome scuba wall. 961 00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:34,480 Whoa, yellow. You know, like, we need to have 962 00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,720 something where the kids walk in and they're excited to come on 963 00:56:37,720 --> 00:56:41,320 Sundays, be awesome to up the ante and have some fun. 964 00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,040 Right. Like, it's just, yeah, just this 965 00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,760 is just so repetitive and it's the status quo. 966 00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,120 It's eight years, man. Like, we have to have the faith 967 00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:51,920 and the boldness to say we're not doing it for the eight 968 00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:53,600 years. We're not going to keep doing 969 00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:54,080 it. Amen. 970 00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,480 Now, the trick about the Israelites, which is really 971 00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,560 interesting to me, is they're in a desert. 972 00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:04,800 It's anything but exciting. It's anything but comfortable. 973 00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:08,680 And they're still like, I don't know if I can go into the 974 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,560 promised land. And for us, we're portable. 975 00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:14,920 And to be honest with you, unless you're like carrying some 976 00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,440 major weight or something, you might be really comfortable with 977 00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:19,880 this. Like it's, it's nice. 978 00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,120 Got a lot of cool people, man, It's fun. 979 00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:24,240 I'm your worship pastor. I love everything. 980 00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:28,440 And it may be more difficult for us to step out on faith than 981 00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:32,120 even these Israelites, but we should Amen. 982 00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,440 It's this guy be like kind of a oh, oh moment today. 983 00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,680 Like we just can't keep doing this. 984 00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:42,840 Like we've got to be ready to say yes to an opportunity and 985 00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:46,600 there is opportunity and God can open doors and give divine 986 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,080 favor. If you're praying and fasting, 987 00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,200 man, you pray for divine favor, Amen. 988 00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,640 You pray for divine favor that people can resource this vision, 989 00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:57,080 pay for divine favor. People own these properties for 990 00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:00,360 developers that have lands. We have these connections and 991 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,160 conversations a lot, and we just need one. 992 00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,680 Yes, I'll ask 100 people and I'll take 99 years. 993 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:06,760 I'll get one. Yes. 994 00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:08,400 Amen. Hi, Tom. 995 00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,840 We raise $1,000,000, we get close to raising $1,000,000. 996 00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,200 I will call every person who owns commercial property down 58 997 00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,160 Highway and around this town and I will, I don't care if it's for 998 00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,920 sale or not. I will call them and I ask them, 999 00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,480 is the Lord put in your heart to let us use your space? 1000 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:23,640 Amen. Why not? 1001 00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,360 Why not? I'm not ashamed. 1002 00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:27,960 The Lord's in it. He's calling us. 1003 00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,920 There's something here for us and somebody's going to say yes 1004 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,440 by the grace of God, Amen. So pray for that. 1005 00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,440 Pray for God to move. The question is that can we do 1006 00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:37,800 this? Because that's what these 10 1007 00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:39,840 spies ask themselves. Can we do this? 1008 00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:44,480 They said, no, no, no, no, no. The question is, can God do 1009 00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:46,080 this? Amen. 1010 00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,560 And this is what Joshua and Caleb asked a different 1011 00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,080 question. Can God do that? 1012 00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:51,240 That's what makes him a difference maker. 1013 00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:52,720 That's why it's all past the obstacles. 1014 00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:55,280 So it's all a different future because they knew God could do 1015 00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,760 it. But the tragedy of the story of 1016 00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,360 #13 is they missed their moment. It's it's one of those moments 1017 00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,120 like, Lord help me not to be this generation. 1018 00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,240 They missed it. They didn't go on the promised 1019 00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:07,720 land. And what's really crazy about 1020 00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:10,440 the story you may not know is that they actually tried. 1021 00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:15,440 They tried to go in after they're builded by fear. 1022 00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,160 They couldn't. And then God said, you're going 1023 00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:20,880 to wander for 40 years, one year for every day, yet spies in 1024 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:24,280 that, in that promised land, you're going to spend one year 1025 00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:28,080 in the wilderness and every person over the age of 20 that 1026 00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:31,760 said no, that was faithless is going to die in the wilderness 1027 00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,400 except for my 2 boys of faith over here, these difference 1028 00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:38,440 makers, Joshua and Caleb, they're going in and they did go 1029 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,600 in. And this verse like Joshua 17 1030 00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:41,800 has been sticking on my mind and heart. 1031 00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:43,360 I saw it four times this weekend. 1032 00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:45,240 I was praying. I was taking this long walk. 1033 00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,760 I took my brace off. Don't tell anybody, right? 1034 00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,360 I took this long walk and I just kept getting Joshua 17. 1035 00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:55,160 Just be strong and be courageous just back in my mind over and 1036 00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,480 over and over again. And that's what these guys were. 1037 00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,000 They eventually win the promised land. 1038 00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,320 But every single person. They didn't have faith. 1039 01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,880 They tried to have faith, but it was, it was really fear. 1040 01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:08,920 They feared the giants and then God gave them judgement and they 1041 01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:13,000 feared God and they tried to go in on their own without God's 1042 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,680 power and they were ran out and into the wilderness. 1043 01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:19,760 It was too late for them. It was too late. 1044 01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,440 And I also encourage you, it's going to take all of us to play 1045 01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:24,720 part of the story, all of us in faith. 1046 01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:26,840 Amen. None of y'all are going to write 1047 01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:30,000 the same gift, right? And we shouldn't, but we can 1048 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,520 have the same level of generosity, but we all can have 1049 01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,280 bold faith, Amen. We all can have bold faith. 1050 01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,760 We all say Lord's in this, God's in this, we can do this, we can 1051 01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:40,400 step out. We should be a light to our 1052 01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:42,080 city. I'm excited. 1053 01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,040 Then we put down roots in our city where people go, Oh, hey, 1054 01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:46,200 they're they're like a real church. 1055 01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:47,480 And then we know we know we're real, right? 1056 01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:49,800 But people don't believe in us yet, right? 1057 01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:51,320 They're like, Oh, you're portable. 1058 01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,240 Are you that I see some signs, you know, you feel how many guys 1059 01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,520 came because you saw a sign by the way, saw like a a a there's 1060 01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:59,160 a put your hand up real high, just real high. 1061 01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:03,920 If you came here with a sign 123 some awesome, awesome people. 1062 01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:08,720 Y'all saw a sign and our signs are up for five hours a week 1063 01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:13,000 here and we start putting out the street our our signs and 1064 01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:14,560 yards. By the way, if you don't have a 1065 01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,920 yard sign, there's eight people that said, thank you, Jesus, 1066 01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:21,520 there's a yard sign Amen. But wouldn't be cool. 1067 01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:24,600 Like if you put up a building and he had a sign. 1068 01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,560 Everybody drove by. There's a space. 1069 01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:28,320 It's like, what's that? Oh, that's real life Church. 1070 01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:29,400 Ohio. I had a real life church. 1071 01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:30,400 Is that where you at? Kentucky. 1072 01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,360 Where's Kentucky Trail again? Oh, yeah. 1073 01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:34,120 I remember it was used to be go down by. 1074 01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:38,000 What's the Chinese place? What is it? 1075 01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:39,400 No. Yeah. 1076 01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:41,080 China Star. But I didn't like the men that 1077 01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:45,280 mentioned them a lot. Ryan's was the Ryan's. 1078 01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:47,320 That's right. Ryan's go by Ryan's. 1079 01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:48,440 It's down the street from Ryan's. 1080 01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,120 That's how we knew by ourselves, right? 1081 01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:51,880 And now we're like, hey, there's that Chick-fil-A. 1082 01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:56,000 Come on. Jesus Chicken pass the Jesus 1083 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,120 chicken. You know, I mean, it'd be nice. 1084 01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:01,640 Just like you have you have visibility to a lost and dying 1085 01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,720 world, Amen. And there's just something to 1086 01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:04,960 say about it. And there's late adopters and 1087 01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:06,920 there's people that are like, I'm not in for a portable church 1088 01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:08,680 because I'm not really going to. Is it really going to be there? 1089 01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:09,880 Is it really going to be that good? 1090 01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:13,040 And people wait and they need hope, Amen. 1091 01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:15,480 And we could be those guys. Like somebody's got to put the 1092 01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:19,400 foundation dying down. Nobody looks at a house and go, 1093 01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:23,840 man, what a sexy foundation, man, I love this foundation, 1094 01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:25,160 right? The only time you know about 1095 01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:28,560 foundation has problems, right? And we get to be the people that 1096 01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:32,280 can lay the foundation, Amen. Like that people can build on. 1097 01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:34,920 I love it. That's why I come and serve and 1098 01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:36,640 set up and tear down like you all don't know. 1099 01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:38,280 I come every week, 8 years, I'll be coming every week. 1100 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,760 I'll sweat and set up and I'll do it every single week. 1101 01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,720 And you're probably not going to stop me from doing it because 1102 01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:46,560 it's, it's just nobody sees it. But that's what we do Amen. 1103 01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:49,640 And so somebody's got to go first, and that's us. 1104 01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,480 That's our generation. This is our time to step in, to 1105 01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,120 see past the obstacles, to refuse, to let fear have the 1106 01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,480 final word, to trust God's promises more than the fear of 1107 01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:02,480 the cost, to step out with power to enter the promised land, Not 1108 01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:06,040 someday, but today, not 40 years from now. 1109 01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:08,320 So I encourage you to church, let's not settle for the 1110 01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:11,160 wilderness, Amen. Let's not settle for eight more 1111 01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,760 years of portable. Let's not settle and say, well, 1112 01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:17,320 this is great. Well, let's not settle and say 1113 01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:18,760 I'm really excited for what God's going to do. 1114 01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:22,040 I can't wait to see how it goes. Let's not settle for that. 1115 01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:24,400 Let's not settle for the status quo. 1116 01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,400 Like, wow, we can keep, we can do this. 1117 01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:29,120 I mean, there's got to be somewhere we can keep written 1118 01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:31,920 for eternity, but it's not where God's calling us to go. 1119 01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,360 Amen. It's not being idle or 1120 01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:36,720 apathetic. It's stepping out with power 1121 01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:39,120 because of bold faith. I would encourage you. 1122 01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:40,880 Faith isn't just believing God can. 1123 01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:43,960 I think that's where it starts. But faith is actually an action 1124 01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:45,960 word. If you said I have faith in that 1125 01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:48,120 chair and you never sat in it, I wouldn't believe you. 1126 01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,880 Faith is taking a step. I want to encourage you. 1127 01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,480 There's a moment in time where you have to start marching to 1128 01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,240 war. Even though you are heard from 1129 01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:57,440 God, that enemy's going to be defeated. 1130 01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,080 There's a time you have to step foot in the promised land. 1131 01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:03,760 They didn't have to send spies in, by the way, probably cost 1132 01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:05,360 them. They probably said, well, 1133 01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:06,920 tomorrow we go, what's over there? 1134 01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,320 I have no idea. They probably should have done 1135 01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:13,160 it without counting the costs because you start counting the 1136 01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,280 costs and numbers don't math and your power doesn't work. 1137 01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:17,800 It's like this sin census, like David took a census of his 1138 01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:19,960 people. He's measuring his power versus 1139 01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:23,720 God's ability versus his enemy. And today we just step out on 1140 01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:26,680 faith, Amen. Like we just ask God, we trust 1141 01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:29,200 you in this season. That takes a step of faith and 1142 01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,080 that's the commitment card you guys have in your in your hands. 1143 01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:35,720 That's that step of faith. That's the actionable piece. 1144 01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:37,960 And no one asked you to turn the end of the day, but I encourage 1145 01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:41,760 you read through it, pray through it, look through and 1146 01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:46,400 say, Lord, what would you have me to give to do to play part of 1147 01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:48,800 the story so we can get in the first permanent space? 1148 01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:51,760 Like what would you have me do? I just pray and just listen. 1149 01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,240 Like I don't want you to give a number that I tell you to give. 1150 01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:56,360 I want you to give the number the Lord tells you to give. 1151 01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:59,680 I would encourage you don't sell yourself short too, because it's 1152 01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:01,720 easy to look at the math and say, well, I can really fit this 1153 01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:03,400 in. And that like for us, me and 1154 01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,120 Diane, this is the largest checker and write every month. 1155 01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:08,160 Like we don't for us personally, we don't know how we're going to 1156 01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:12,760 actually hit our number, Amen. That's us. 1157 01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:14,440 That's the faith that we have in this. 1158 01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,280 But I encourage you, this is going to take bold steps. 1159 01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:20,400 This isn't like a like, oh, wow, this is going to be comfortable. 1160 01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:22,360 This is going to be easy. It's going to take us to look at 1161 01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:24,200 that page and say, Lord, what would you have me really to do? 1162 01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:27,040 Because the reality is, I don't want you to give a penny less. 1163 01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:29,760 The Lord asks you to give, don't you give a penny less? 1164 01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,000 But it all comes through prayer and fasting and playing a part 1165 01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,600 of the story. It will be honored and excited 1166 01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,840 whatever God does Amen. Like we set a goal like we're 1167 01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:40,920 one point 9,900,000 is what we're going to bring in for 1168 01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:43,880 operations ministry funds. So $1,000,000 goes a difference 1169 01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:48,000 maker you know, and maybe if you raise 700, hey, thank you Jesus 1170 01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,760 raise 1.2 million, thank you Jesus, Amen. 1171 01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:53,680 But here's what I do ask is that all of us play part of the 1172 01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:55,920 story. All of us write that legacy. 1173 01:05:56,360 --> 01:06:00,360 There's a verse I mentioned the video, but Psalm 78 four and it 1174 01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:02,040 says this, it says we will not hide them. 1175 01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:05,360 So about God's word, we're not hide God's word from their 1176 01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,960 descendants or from our descendants, but we will tell 1177 01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:13,120 somebody say tell we will tell the next generation the 1178 01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:18,200 praiseworthy deeds and the power and the wonders that he has 1179 01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,680 done. This is what I've been praying 1180 01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:25,360 and fasting for is that that we have a place where we can tell 1181 01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:29,680 the word of God to the next generation and share of his 1182 01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:32,400 praise with the deeds and his power and the wonders that he 1183 01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,800 did. And that we can look back as 1184 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:38,440 leaders, as difference makers and say to the next generation. 1185 01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:43,880 I played a part of the story. I sowed seeds in that season. 1186 01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:45,960 I was a part of the miracle that God did. 1187 01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,400 I didn't want to miss out on God's miracle. 1188 01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,120 Don't you think about this as we kind of wrap up today in that 1189 01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:55,080 generation. I don't know how many people are 1190 01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:59,240 outside of Caleb and Joshua. Hundreds of thousands of people 1191 01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:02,440 we know for sure could not say this about their story. 1192 01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:06,880 There's only two people in the entire generation for 40 years 1193 01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:11,080 that could say, hey, I saw the promised land and by faith God 1194 01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:14,280 calls to go in. And I was ready and willing to 1195 01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:20,720 go by God's power because I knew he could and that God honored. 1196 01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:23,480 But for the other generation, think about those 40 years. 1197 01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:24,800 What would they have to say themselves? 1198 01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,080 Because they knew immediately they tried. 1199 01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,920 I wish I would have. I missed the mark. 1200 01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,760 I missed it. I operate on my own strength, my 1201 01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:37,440 own power. I started looking at all the 1202 01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:38,920 obstacles. I forgot about God. 1203 01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:42,200 I'm really sorry, guys. And for 40 years it's my fault. 1204 01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:45,840 Then we're going to wander. We have a chance to be those 1205 01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:46,320 two. Amen. 1206 01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:49,080 We have the chance. We do have the chance right now 1207 01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:50,760 in this series that we can say, you know what? 1208 01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:52,360 I'm going to be the difference maker, our generation. 1209 01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,680 I'm be the guy by faith that says, you know, I'm not going to 1210 01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:57,400 stay in the status quo. I'm going to step out by faith. 1211 01:07:58,280 --> 01:07:59,280 The news is all about faith, Amen. 1212 01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,920 You guys believe God can do it. It's going to be exciting. 1213 01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:05,240 I'm encourage you guys play a part of the story, be praying, 1214 01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:08,160 be fasting, and don't worry about like how we're going to 1215 01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:10,200 get there. Let's just worry that it's God's 1216 01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:13,040 power that gets us there, Amen. Let's do what the Lord has to 1217 01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:15,360 do. Let's humble ourselves and God 1218 01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:18,399 exalts the humble, Amen. It takes a little boy that's a 1219 01:08:18,399 --> 01:08:20,000 shepherd and is awesome to a king. 1220 01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:23,080 Why humility? Joshua and Caleb, are they the 1221 01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:24,439 strongest, craziest words in history? 1222 01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:28,080 No humility, Jehoshaphat, nowhere to go, pinned against 1223 01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:28,960 the wall. What happens? 1224 01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:30,960 He worships his way to win a war. 1225 01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:34,680 That's what we can do Amen. So Father would come before you. 1226 01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:37,399 God be asked. God, you make all of us 1227 01:08:37,399 --> 01:08:38,800 difference makers in this season. 1228 01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:42,160 God, give us faith. God give us wisdom, give us 1229 01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,520 boldness. Maybe today you're a Jesus 1230 01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:45,880 follower. Maybe call real life home. 1231 01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:47,880 You're like, you know what? God is calling me to increase my 1232 01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:50,040 faith. God is calling me to be a 1233 01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:52,880 difference maker. God is stretching me like I want 1234 01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,359 to be part of the two. Like I don't be the person that 1235 01:08:55,359 --> 01:08:57,080 says, you know, no, I was a part of that season. 1236 01:08:57,720 --> 01:08:59,720 Like I had bold faith that God can. 1237 01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:02,040 I believed he could. If that's you and God speaking 1238 01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:05,040 to you to increase your faith, just lean into his power. 1239 01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:07,200 Just raise your hand high. Just declare it to God. 1240 01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:10,479 I'm going to be bold faith what God can do in this next season. 1241 01:09:11,399 --> 01:09:12,840 God, you see the hands and the hearts. 1242 01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:15,840 God help us to be people. God that desperately needs you, 1243 01:09:16,359 --> 01:09:18,920 that'll be marked by prayer and fasting, especially this season 1244 01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,160 and beyond. God that you'd make a way. 1245 01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:24,080 God be here for divine favor. God for maybe people in this 1246 01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:28,359 house today that can move the needle, that we could be able to 1247 01:09:28,359 --> 01:09:31,800 say yes to an opportunity for our first permanent space. 1248 01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:35,000 God that we can see the future. God, we see the obstacles, but 1249 01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:37,520 God, we see the future. God we see your Kingdom coming. 1250 01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:40,359 God, we see place full of worship and excellence. 1251 01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:43,359 You know, we see souls getting saved, missionaries sent out, 1252 01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:46,960 prodigals coming home, people being discipled, people growing, 1253 01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:49,800 kids being changed for the furtherance of the gospel. 1254 01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:51,680 You know, we see each bold transformation. 1255 01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:53,720 You always see your light shine in your community. 1256 01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:56,760 God, we declare God that there was a promise and you call us 1257 01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:58,360 into God. There's a first permanent space 1258 01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:01,080 you bring to bring us to. So God, give us that faith 1259 01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:03,240 together. In this season, I'll pray for 1260 01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:04,920 one group of people in the house, and that's those of you 1261 01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:06,840 that recognize today that we're all passionate about this. 1262 01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:08,840 So we're real passionate about souls. 1263 01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:10,240 We're real passionate about things of God. 1264 01:10:10,480 --> 01:10:12,480 And he may be the first time in your life you show up to a 1265 01:10:12,480 --> 01:10:14,160 church that has this type of passion. 1266 01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:18,360 And the reason we do is because of Jesus, because Jesus changed 1267 01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,720 his lives. He rescued souls. 1268 01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:24,120 And maybe today you recognize that this is this bold faith is 1269 01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:28,320 something you need and it all comes from Christ, that Jesus 1270 01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:31,560 died on the cross for our sins and he's changed all of our 1271 01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:35,440 wrongs for all of his rights. And by that we have bold faith. 1272 01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:38,360 And we are unashamedly Christians living for Christ, 1273 01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:40,120 sharing the good news of the gospel. 1274 01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:41,800 And that gospel maybe came to you today. 1275 01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:45,240 Maybe you saw a sign, maybe somebody encouraged you with the 1276 01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,880 gospel this week and you're here today for the first time ever, 1277 01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:49,920 and you're recognizing there's something special about these 1278 01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:51,240 people. I'm just telling you today, all 1279 01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:54,120 this is Jesus, that we've humbled ourselves before the 1280 01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:55,680 cross and said, Lord, we need you. 1281 01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:58,240 God save us. And that's what separates us. 1282 01:10:58,240 --> 01:10:59,600 We're not perfect, but we're forgiven. 1283 01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:02,240 And if you need Christ today and you need forgiveness today, the 1284 01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:03,840 Bible says that, Amen, because the name of the Lord shall be 1285 01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:06,760 saved, forgiven and made noon change and inside out. 1286 01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:09,640 And so if you needed Christ today, I'd encourage you just to 1287 01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:11,440 humble yourself before him. If that's you, you need Christ, 1288 01:11:11,440 --> 01:11:13,000 you just raise your hand high. This place, nobody looking 1289 01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:14,960 around to make it weird. I'm going to call you out. 1290 01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:16,760 You can see your guys's hands, see your hand. 1291 01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:19,600 If you need Christ today, would you just pray this prayer? 1292 01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:23,360 The prayer does not save you, but it's that belief we talked 1293 01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:28,080 about that faith by faith. I saw Abraham was saved by 1294 01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:29,160 faith. We're saved by faith. 1295 01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:31,440 That faith in God just called him by faith and say thank you 1296 01:11:31,440 --> 01:11:34,000 Jesus, that you died across from my sins. 1297 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:36,440 I believe you're the sinless son of God that died for me. 1298 01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:39,600 I recognize your power. I see your might all through 1299 01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:42,360 this sermon and through the Bible and God, I need your power 1300 01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:45,480 in my life to forgive my sins, come in life and save me and 1301 01:11:45,480 --> 01:11:47,600 make me new that close in Jesus name. 1302 01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:50,880 The church said, Amen. You guys have people raise your 1303 01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:52,280 hand on a building message, Amen. 1304 01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:55,880 That's the power of God, Amen. Give it up for Christ. 1305 01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:05,040 I gotcha, there we go. I mean, what an encouragement 1306 01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:06,760 today. I know for me as well, just 1307 01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:10,200 calling us to bold faith and even the title of this message 1308 01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:14,160 that this is our moment. And some of you recognize today 1309 01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:16,680 that this was your moment to meet Jesus today and you 1310 01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:19,520 recognize that you need him. You raised your hand, you prayed 1311 01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:22,080 that prayer and committed your life to Jesus today. 1312 01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:25,240 We are so excited for you. Let's give them all a hand 1313 01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:30,680 again, if that's you, come on. Hey, we would love to walk 1314 01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:33,240 alongside you to resource you today with a few things. 1315 01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:35,200 If you would just grab that connection card that's on your 1316 01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:36,840 seat. Go ahead and fill out that top 1317 01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:38,960 portion there, but make sure and check that box that says I 1318 01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:41,720 committed my life to Jesus. You can drop those in the giving 1319 01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,080 buckets as they pass here in just a few minutes. 1320 01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,600 But by doing so just allows us to get you a few things. 1321 01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:48,120 The first one is this. It's a free book. 1322 01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:50,840 We'll drop it in the mail tomorrow, but it's a short read 1323 01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:53,760 called begin. It really will be a blessing to 1324 01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:55,120 you. It's got a ton of resources, a 1325 01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:57,440 lot of information as you're kind of taking that first step 1326 01:12:57,440 --> 01:13:00,120 with Jesus this week. Also, if you prayed that prayer 1327 01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:02,840 and you are right here at Kentucky Trail, as you exit the 1328 01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:05,520 worship center, there is a table to your left there that has some 1329 01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,040 red bags. Please grab a red bag as well 1330 01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:11,240 inside as a Bible just for you. A letter from Sean with a few 1331 01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:14,160 other resources that we know will just be an awesome next 1332 01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:18,440 step for you this week. Hey, if you are newer with us in 1333 01:13:18,440 --> 01:13:21,040 the house today, thanks so much for being here today. 1334 01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:23,800 We love that you chose to spend your morning right here with us. 1335 01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,560 We really don't want anything from you except for this. 1336 01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:28,600 It's just to introduce yourself to us. 1337 01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,880 You can do that by grabbing that connection card, filling out 1338 01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:33,160 your information. You can check that first time 1339 01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:34,600 here box. You can actually take it out to 1340 01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:37,360 the new here booth as you exit just to your right there, 1341 01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:39,640 there's a new here booth. Have a free gift that we would 1342 01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:41,840 love to get to you. Just our way of saying thanks 1343 01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:44,600 very much for being here and we would love to see you back right 1344 01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:47,480 here next week. Wait, I'm going to take a minute 1345 01:13:47,480 --> 01:13:51,040 and just talk about something that I believe truly will define 1346 01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:52,760 the next chapter, a real life church. 1347 01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:55,320 And that's our difference and Maker initiative. 1348 01:13:55,320 --> 01:13:58,480 I mean, over the last eight years, we have just seen God 1349 01:13:58,480 --> 01:14:04,920 move in so many incredible ways. We have seen 500, almost 500 1350 01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:09,160 people commit their lives to Jesus, 500 people whose eternity 1351 01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:11,800 is changed forever. Can we just celebrate that for a 1352 01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:13,880 minute? So good. 1353 01:14:16,120 --> 01:14:19,440 We truly believe that we are just getting started. 1354 01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:23,240 And as we take this step into a permanent space and opportunity 1355 01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:26,680 to say yes to a permanent home for real Life Church, I mean, 1356 01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:32,040 that allows us to minister full time to students, to teens, to 1357 01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:36,400 families, and ultimately to our city because we're believing to 1358 01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:41,280 see 5000 lives changed for Jesus in the next chapter of Real Life 1359 01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:43,080 church. That's why we're asking every 1360 01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:46,040 one of us to start praying. Continue praying, in fact, 1361 01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:50,080 asking and asking God what is bold faith look like for me in 1362 01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,880 this season? You can scan the QR code there 1363 01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:55,840 on the screen. Also in your book there is AQR 1364 01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:58,680 code as well that will take you to our difference Maker website 1365 01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:01,040 just to catch the vision to learn more about what this is 1366 01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:04,720 and start asking God, what do you have for me in this season 1367 01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:08,000 at Real Life church? And I want to you to hear my 1368 01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,720 heart on this. It is not about a dollar amount. 1369 01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:15,280 It is not about a number truly, it's about 100% participation. 1370 01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:19,440 All of us who call real life church home stepping in and 1371 01:15:19,440 --> 01:15:22,760 saying yes, God, how can we do this together? 1372 01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:25,160 And I also want you to hear this sincerely that we don't want you 1373 01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:28,560 to give a penny more than what God asks you to give. 1374 01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:32,200 But this is a bold faith journey. 1375 01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,800 So we also don't want you to give a penny less than what God 1376 01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:39,640 is asking you to give. And so you got a commitment card 1377 01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:41,640 when you walked in the door. We're not turning those in 1378 01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:43,560 today. We do that later in the series. 1379 01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:46,080 So you don't have to worry about filling that out. 1380 01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:49,840 But really, now is the time to pray, to seek to believe and 1381 01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:53,880 dream together that through our faith, through our generosity, 1382 01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:58,360 we'll see thousands of lives impacted and changed for Jesus. 1383 01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:00,440 And so if you call real life home, there are a lot of ways 1384 01:16:00,440 --> 01:16:02,560 that you can take part in generosity today. 1385 01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:05,040 You can scan the QR code that's there on the screen. 1386 01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:07,840 You can text any amount to that number there as well. 1387 01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:09,760 You can drive cash or checking the giving buckets. 1388 01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:13,000 There's a box in the back as well if that is more convenient 1389 01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,400 for you. And if you or your family find 1390 01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:18,280 yourself in any kind of immediate need this week, maybe 1391 01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:20,480 it's food or clothing or shelter. 1392 01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:22,560 Would you please reach into the buckets that they pass here in 1393 01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:25,200 just a couple minutes and just grab out any loose cash that you 1394 01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:27,480 see? We really do want to bless you 1395 01:16:27,480 --> 01:16:32,720 and your family. Man, what an awesome day. 1396 01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:35,400 Can we get it for God just to call in our lives to be the best 1397 01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:36,920 of difference makers in this generation? 1398 01:16:37,440 --> 01:16:38,920 And I'm so excited for this next six weeks. 1399 01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:41,360 Hey, I want to let you guys know about a couple awesome things 1400 01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:43,400 coming up. So on Sunday, September or 1401 01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:45,520 September, they were the year ago. 1402 01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:48,280 Man, I'm getting old. October the 26th, we're going to 1403 01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:51,320 have a super Kids Sunday. So your kids are going to have a 1404 01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:54,560 great time at 9:00 or 10:45, whichever gathering they come to 1405 01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:58,160 with wearing their favorite costume, candy, and just a 1406 01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:01,640 message of faith about the real hero, Jesus in our lives. 1407 01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:04,880 And then on Wednesday of October as well. 1408 01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:08,760 So real life youth Halloween party, costumes, talent show, I 1409 01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:10,920 guess, or meet. Hey, Drew, can we do that? 1410 01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:13,360 Can we get in the talent show? We told no. 1411 01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:15,800 It's gonna be awesome. So check out, check it out 1412 01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:18,160 details online or hit the QR code. 1413 01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:19,680 And you guys don't want to miss out on that. 1414 01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:22,400 Hey, if you need prayer for any reason, we'll have somebody up 1415 01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:24,720 here to pray with you either as individuals or family. 1416 01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:27,160 Can't wait to see you guys again next week at 9:00 or 10:45. 1417 01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:30,120 And as always, remember, whoever finds Jesus discovers real life 1418 01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:31,040 and purpose.