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Well, hey, good. 
Morning, real life. 

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Hey, we're so excited you are 
here in the house worshipping 

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with us today. 
Whether you are here with us in 

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person or you're watching 
offline, stand to your feet. 

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We're going to worship God. 
Together this morning you see my

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big dream, the mountain you see 
a. 

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Mountain and as I walk through 
the shadow, your love surrounds 

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me. 
There's nothing to fear now for 

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I you say. 
When? 

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I fight out, flying on my knees 
with my hands lifted high. 

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Oh God, the battle belongs to 
you, and every fear out they 

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ain't your feet. 
I'll sink through the night. 

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Oh God, the final belongs to 
you. 

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And if you are for me, you can 
be against me. 

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For Jesus, there's nothing 
impossible. 

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Do you believe that today? 
Come on. 

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When all I see are the end 
shapes, you see the beyond day. 

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Thank you, God. 
When all I see is a cross God, 

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you see the ante too. 
So when I fight, I'll fight on 

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my. 
Knees. 

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With my hands lifted high. 
Oh God the battle belongs to 

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you. 
Every fear I make your. 

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Feet. 
I'll sink through. 

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The night, oh God, battle 
belongs to you. 

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Almighty Fortress, you go before
us. 

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Nothing can stand against the 
power of our God. 

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You shine in the shadow, you win
every battle. 

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Nothing can stand against the 
power of our God In Almighty 

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Fortress you go before us. 
Nothing can stand against the 

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power of our God. 
You shine in the shadow, you win

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every battle. 
Nothing can stand against the 

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power of our God in Almighty 
fortress you go before us. 

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Nothing. 
Nothing can stand against the 

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power of our God. 
You shine in the shadow, You win

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every battle. 
Nothing can stand against the 

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power of our God. 
So when I fight, I'll fight on 

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my knees with my hands lifting 
high. 

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For God, the battle belongs to 
you. 

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Every fear. 
I lay in. 

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Your feet I'll sing through the 
night. 

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Oh. 
God, the battle. 

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Belongs to you. 
Oh. 

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God, the battle belongs. 
To you. 

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Come on, get back some praise 
this morning. 

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That's right. 
Come on. 

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So much comfort just in knowing 
that he fights our battles for 

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us, that he's with us through 
all that stuff. 

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Christ is my firm foundation, 
the rock on which I stay, and 

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everything around me is shaking.
I've never been more glad that I

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put my faith in Jesus 'cause 
He's never let me down. 

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He's faithful through 
generations, so how would he 

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feel? 
Now he wants. 

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He won't, and I've still got joy
in chaos and I've got peace. 

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That makes no sense. 
So I won't be going on and I'm 

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not helped by my own strength 
because I built my life on Jesus

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and he's never let me down. 
He's faithful in every season. 

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So I would heave him out. 
He won't. 

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He won't won't. 
He won't help. 

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He won't fail. 
He won't. 

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He won't. 
He won't fail. 

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He won't fail. 
Christ is my firm foundation, 

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the wrong kind of which I stay. 
When? 

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Everything around me is shaking.
I've never been more than glad 

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that I put my faith in Jesus. 
He's never let me down. 

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He's faithful through 
generations. 

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So I would he fail now He won't.
He won't go. 

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He won't fail, He won't fail. 
Never fail me, God, you won't 

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fail me. 
Now rain came. 

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Came and went blue and my house 
was built on you. 

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I'm safe with you and I'm gonna 
make it through. 

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Came and went blue and my house 
was built on you. 

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I'm safe you and I'm gonna make 
it through. 

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Rain came and went, blew and my 
house was built on you. 

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I'm safe with you and I'm gonna 
make it through. 

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Yeah, I'm gonna make it through 
'cause I'm standing. 

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Strong on you? 
Yes, I'm going to make it 

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through 'cause my house is built
on you. 

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Christ is my firm foundation, 
the rock corner which I stand 

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when everything around me is 
shaking. 

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I'm never been more glad, but I 
put my faith in Jesus 'cause 

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he's never let me down. 
He's faithful through 

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generations and so I will eat 
them now. 

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He won, He won. 
He won't fail. 

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He won't fail. 
He won't. 

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He won't won't. 
He won't fail. 

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He won't fail. 
No, he. 

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Won't. 
Amen. 

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If you believe that this morning
he'll never, ever fail, give him

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a shout. 
This grander earth is quake 

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before move by the sound of his 
voice and sees that are shaken 

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and stirred can be calmed and 
broken from my regard. 

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He's threw it all, threw it all.
My eyes are on you and threw it 

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all, threw it all it is well. 
And threw it all, threw it all. 

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My eyes are on you and it is 
well with me. 

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Far be it for me to not believe 
even when my eyes can see, and 

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this mountain lands in front of 
me will be thrown into the midst

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of the sea. 
Do you believe it? 

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This morning they threw it all, 
threw it all my eyes are on you 

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and threw it all, threw it all 
it. 

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Is well and. 
Threw it all, threw it all. 

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My eyes are on you. 
And trust in him. 

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The waves in wind. 
Still know his name so let go 

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my. 
Soul and trust. 

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In. 
Him the waves in. 

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Wind still know his name, so let
go my soul and. 

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Trust in him, the waves in wind.
Still know is there the waves in

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wind. 
Still know is there. 

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It is Where? 
Where my soul singing after him,

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and it is a with my soul. 
It is a with my my soul. 

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It is a well. 
It is a well with my soul. 

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Oh, it is a Wellness well. 
With my soul because of who you 

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are or. 
It is away with my soul, all 

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you've done, or it is away. 
Cuz threw it all, threw it all. 

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My eyes are on you and threw it 
all. 

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Threw. 
It all it. 

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Is well Lord. 
And threw it all. 

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Threw it all. 
My eyes are on you. 

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Man can weave it up for God this
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and I and I know there's people 
in here walking today with winds

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and waves and storms of life is 
crashing in on you, but turn 

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your eyes on Jesus. 
And my prayer for you today is 

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that you meet Jesus in the midst
of your storm and you're 

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comforted and you're healed. 
And man, you're just restored to

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the hope that God's got for you 
in the gospel. 

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Let's give it up for God one 
more time, Can't we? 

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Man, I love worship with you 
guys. 

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Man, you guys are killing us 
today, man, I didn't, I know. 

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It's just a blessing to God that
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So man, thank you guys so much 
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God. 
Hey, once you guys take this 

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opportunity, we have a lot of 
new people with us today that 

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are online and in person. 
Can we show those guys some love

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as well? 
Just give them some round of 

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applause. 
Hey, once you guys take 30 

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seconds to greet somebody around
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The. 
All right, you guys can go ahead

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and be seated. 
Hey, I want you to know we've 

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got something awesome for you 
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We've been praying for you guys.
We've been praying for this 

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gathering all week. 
And on your chair there's a 

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connection card. 
This connection card is for 

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everybody. 
This is an allscape moment, as 

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our pastor Sean loves to say, if
you call real life home, we love

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it when you fill this outlet us 
know what's going on in your 

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life. 
Maybe you've got a prayer 

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request, then maybe you've got a
praise. 

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Maybe God showed up in your in 
your life this week and 

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something you've been praying 
for. 

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So we love to hear about those. 
Write those down, send them in. 

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We love to look at those we pray
over week in and week out. 

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If you're new with us, we're so 
excited that you chose to join 

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with us in this gathering. 
I'm going to make a promise to 

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you. 
We're not going to ask anything 

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else from you all day, but for 
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want to know who you are, which 
we would love it if you would 

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introduce yourself to us. 
And the connection card is the 

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best way that you can do that. 
And the reason that we collect 

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these is we want to send you out
some more information about real

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life. 
We're not going to show up your 

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door. 
We're not going to do anything 

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weird, but we want you to know 
that we love you, that God loves

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you. 
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God's called you to come in and 
be on mission with us. 

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And so we'd love to say that 
we're a church on a mission. 

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And that mission is to see 
people far from far from God, 

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discover the real life and 
purpose in Jesus. 

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What that simply means is it's 
like in the song, right? 

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The winds in the way, the storms
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it breaks people. 
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mission is we get to see people 
commit their lives to Jesus week

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in and week out. 
And so we love to be on mission 

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here and we pray that you jump 
in and are on mission with us. 

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Before we do anything else, 
before we get Pastor Sean up 

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here, one awesome announcement. 
If you are a real life youth or 

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a parent of a real life youth, 
6th through 12th grade, we're 

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inviting you out to our second 
annual sporting event. 

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The So we have a very generous 
family that has donated some 

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tickets. 
And so this is the second time 

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we're doing it being second 
annual, right? 

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And so we want your kids to get 
signed up early. 

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There's limited spacing and this
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and real life elite leaders. 
So it's an awesome opportunity 

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to go have a great time as as a 
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So love for you guys to check 
that out. 

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So today we're continuing our 
series The Elephant in the room.

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And if you guys missed the last 
week, you need to go back and 

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check it out. 
But the elephant in the room is 

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this, it's the question that you
think you're the only one 

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asking, right? 
It's the deep dark thing that 

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you're ashamed to ask. 
You know, where's God where I 

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heard, you know, why does God 
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What does this mean in my life? 
You know, where's the purpose? 

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And, and I don't understand, but
I'm afraid to ask. 

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And we all have those elephants 
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But I can tell you one thing, 
you're not the only person 

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asking that. 
And so in this series, we're 

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really diving into what God has 
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There's no church cliches here, 
just some some good honest 

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biblical truths. 
So I want you guys to take this 

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opportunity as we continue 
Elephant in the Room and just 

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show some love to Pastor Sean as
he comes up. 

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Hey, thanks, guys. 
Well, good morning. 

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Happy Labor Day weekend. 
Oh, wow. 

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We can do better now. 
Good morning. 

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That's what I call Labor Day. 
It was like, yeah, good morning,

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pastor. 
I like some as like a smoker 

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voice or something happened 
there. 

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So could you give one more time?
Everybody's new and newer today.

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Let them know you love them. 
Come on, one more time. 

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I want to honor somebody today. 
Very special. 

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This is just a unique Sunday. 
I'll be last Sunday here for a 

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while. 
George, may we stand up? 

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Where's Jordan? 
He's like, don't do this to me. 

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So Jordan, he is going to Spain 
to play for the national 

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basketball team and he leaves 
tomorrow. 

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So give it up for Jordan. 
So we're proud of you, Jordan. 

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I've had a privilege, the honor 
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man's youth pastor, pastor and 
known him for a long time. 

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And his family, Scott and Dana, 
we get for Scott and Dana as 

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well. 
They've raised some good kids, 

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man, and we're just we're proud 
of you, Jordan. 

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We're proud of what God's doing.
And I heard this. 

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This is what I'm most proud of. 
Scott was actually bragging on 

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you this morning. 
You probably you probably didn't

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figure that, but he said that 
you actually just finished up 

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sometime last week. 
You read the entire Bible and 

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you journaled all the chapters 
of the Bible of this last year. 

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Is that amazing? 
Go God give it up. 

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Come on, dude, That's probably, 
I don't know, one to million. 

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I don't know. 
There's not very many people 

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would ever do that, especially 
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being an athlete and all the 
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that time. 
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going to do in Spain and we're 
praying for you. 

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We love you. 
Give her more time, love, know 

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we love him. 
Come on man, thanks for 

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following Jesus, man. 
It's it's it's fun to watch. 

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So a couple things for jump in 
one, we've got baptism coming up

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on our birthday, 8th birthday, 
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It is a significant step in your
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And if you know Jesus and yet to
get baptized, I was gonna 

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explain but why it's so 
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us to do outside of really 
knowing Jesus, getting baptized 

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is the second most spiritual 
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significant spiritual step you 
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And Jesus actually asked us to 
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He says go therefore in the 
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nations, baptizing them and name
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And so when you get baptized, 
it's a picture of what Jesus has

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done in your life. 
Matter of fact, it's significant

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for you to be unashamed what 
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You're sharing your story with 
the world that I was buried is a

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picture of Jesus being buried 
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of sin. 
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Christ has done in your life. 
And so you want to be a disciple

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of Jesus. 
One of the marks of the disciple

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is to get baptized. 
Amen. 

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And a lot of people miss this. 
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baptized? 
Show of hands. 

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So I'm preaching to the choir, 
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But there's some you're like, 
come on, right? 

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And in the Spirit, God's asking 
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And the Bible says it's, it's 
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If you confess me before men, 
I'll confess my father. 

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my father. 
It's very interesting. 

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that. 
I don't think it plays a part of

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your salvation, but I think it's
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water and let the world know 
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Amen. 
So we're excited for you guys. 

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Didn't get baptized yet. 
This is your chance. 

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We baptized twice a year. 
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It's a giant pool in the middle 
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through the steps. 
But get signed up today. 

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Today we, we jump into our 
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elephant in the room, and this 
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we're walking through taboo 
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questions we we, we dance around
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and so heavy that we probably 
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We have questions about doubts 
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his plan, if I doubt it's who's 
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Do I go to heaven? 
Am I saved? 

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Like is, is hell a real place? 
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God really do these things. 
Why are Christians so 

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judgmental, right? 
I mean, kind of, you know, you 

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walk this season like, I can't 
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this. 
And you kind of walk away from 

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gobble because you see how 
Christians act sometimes you 

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look out and you're like, but 
why are Christians so divided 

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over politics and the things of 
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And these are questions that we 
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And a day is going to be a very 
interesting, heartfelt question.

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And it deals with Labor Day of 
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And it's a really this idea, 
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we're can't find meaning and 
purpose and what we do for our 

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work or in life? 
You're not going to probably ask

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our spouse or really anybody, 
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I'm not really feeling it Like 
what, what do we do? 

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We kind of feel numb to the 
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Ever just gone through the 
motions and punch the clock and 

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it's just year after year or a 
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believe I'm still doing this. 
It's frustrating. 

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God, why am I in this season? 
And so there you go walk through

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what's the purpose in work? 
What, what's got up to, why 

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would I walk through this? 
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And if you start thinking about 
your life and futility, it can 

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be kind of meaningless pretty 
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It can feel that way. 
And so on my prayer day is that 

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you will find significance. 
You find purpose. 

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You'd have this aha moment, 
Jesus, where he purposes your 

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work, where you have a higher 
calling than just showing up to 

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punch a clock that's more than a
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It's Kingdom minded. 
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today, it's always intriguing to
think about why holidays exist. 

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Labor Day, I had to research 
this. 

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I've never actually researched 
why does Labor Day exist? 

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That sounds kind of interesting.
Amen. 

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I know you all Googled it, You 
know, Chachi PT, they're like, 

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oh, maybe what's going on with 
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And I learned something. 
It's so interesting. 

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Back in the 1800s, late 1800s, 
it had been the industrial 

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revolution. 
People are are working 

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endlessly. 
There's no laws for labor and 

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children are going to factors 
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People are working 12 to 1618 
hour days, seven days a week and

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with the threat of being fired 
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people actually getting killed 
in riots. 

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the 1890s. 
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memorialize. 
This sets up what we know today 

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as Labor Day, not just to honor 
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honor the laborers doing the 
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Now, how about you? 
But who's thankful for Labor 

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Day? 
Amen. 

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I mean, that's a different take 
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end of summer, it's a fun 
holiday, we really appreciate 

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our workers, but to actually 
honor people and say we're not 

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going to take advantage of you. 
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Jesus Christ, thank you that we 
will have a Labor Day, Amen. 

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Like we've never had to do labor
with Jesus. 

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Jesus finished all the work on 
the cross, Amen. 

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And so we just get to take a 
part of that. 

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relationship with him. 
But what do you do when life 

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feels a little meaningless when 
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a day? 
Imagine go back to eighteen 

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1800s and that would be kind of 
meaningless to be in a factory 

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and put a nut on a bolt 12 hours
a day. 

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That seemed pretty meaningless. 
So wouldn't it? 

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And this isn't really anything 
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Matter of fact, Solomon, he 
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Solomon got the gift of wisdom 
from God, one of the wealthiest 

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people, if not the wealthiest 
personnel of history says in 

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Ecclesiastes 227. 
He says, so I hated life because

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the what? 
What's it say? 

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Yeah, the work, the labor that 
is done under the sun was what? 

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What to say? 
Grievous to me. 

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But why is it grievous? 
Listen, this, he said. 

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All of us meaningless. 
I chasing after the wind. 

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I hated all the things I had 
told for under the sun because I

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must look at this, leave them to
the one who comes after me. 

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And who knows where that person 
will be. 

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Wise or foolish, who knows 
they're going to take care of it

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like I spent all this time and 
energy to build this. 

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And who knows where the next 
person is going to do? 

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Yet they will have control over 
all the fruit of my toll into 

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which I poured my effort and 
skill in the sun. 

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And this too is what to say 
meaningless. 

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What do you do in life and work 
is meaningless and he's just 

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figuring it out. 
It's meaningless. 

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And so my heart began to despair
over all my tollsome labor under

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the sun for a person may labor 
with wisdom, knowledge and skill

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that that's what we want. 
And then they must leave all 

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they have to it one to another 
who has not told for it. 

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So like this is inheritance in a
nutshell. 

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And it like you get to leave 
your heritage like you didn't 

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work for any of this. 
What are you really going to do?

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This is the end of life. 
I just, you know, basically 

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here's a paycheck that goes to 
my heirs. 

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This is it. 
This, this is this is 

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burdensome. 
He says this too is meaningless.

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And he says it's a great 
misfortune. 

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It's really interesting how he 
says that. 

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And he asked this question in 
his text. 

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It says, what do people get for 
all the total and anxious 

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driving with which they labor 
under the sun? 

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It says all their days their 
work is grief and pain. 

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This is really exciting. 
Even at night, their minds did 

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not rest. 
This too, is what meaningless. 

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It ever felt this way, just real
honest. 

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Ever felt this way before? 
Real honest, just real honest. 

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Yeah. 
I mean, I, I, I feel like this 

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is one of those like questions 
that we have a lot that we don't

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ask. 
And I've definitely had seasons 

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where I was like, why am I doing
not ministry, but why am I doing

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this? 
I, I was a general contractor 

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and I finally was like, the 
Lord's not called me this like 

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this isn't what I'm supposed to 
be doing. 

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Is it was total some, but 
there's purpose in that. 

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It wasn't my purpose. 
But you think about this. 

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I've had sayings. 
I think this is a jerryism. 

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This is my father-in-law. 
He'll he'll say stuff like in 

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100 years won't matter anyway. 
Amen. 

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It's just like, it's kind of 
meaningless. 

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Like what, You know, it doesn't 
really matter, right? 

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The next generation's really not
going to appreciate that as much

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as we did and saw his mind say, 
look at the words, use 

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frustration, grieved, despair, 
great misfortune. 

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Here's the big truth today 
without purpose, work and life 

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are meaningless. 
They're they're useless. 

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They feel wasted. 
There's there's not a purpose to

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tie what we're doing what we're 
doing to back to then it feels 

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useless like you're in this rat 
race in this cycle who, how many

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guys know purpose matters? 
Amen. 

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I know purpose matters. 
There's a greater purpose matter

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of fact in our church. 
We say it's every week, twice a 

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week we talked about in the 
welcome, but our mission 

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statement and at the end we, we 
say real life and do it again 

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now real life. 
And there you go, right. 

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We, we, we, we say it every 
week, right. 

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Like, oh, we do say every week. 
It's so important to our lives 

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that we actually talk about in 
our mission statement of church.

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Then they find real life. 
What's real life? 

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They find real life. 
The only real life is found in 

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Jesus. 
So one that find Jesus and two, 

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they find purpose. 
They find their purpose in 

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Jesus. 
It's one thing to know Jesus. 

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Nothing, no, why another thing 
to, to, to, to surrender, 

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understand his plan. 
You know, it's been said this, I

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don't know who put this 
together, but the 2 greatest 

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days of your life, right? 
The day you're born and the day 

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you figure out why. 
Why? 

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Why am I here? 
What is the point of all of 

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this? 
Check out this picture. 

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I'll give you illustration of 
purpose. 

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All right? 
This is a Lego truck. 

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A transformer Lego truck. 
Now, I built this. 

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It took me 5-6 hours. 
That's exciting. 

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You know what really makes it 
exciting is I'm colorblind. 

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Come on somebody. 
And these aren't Legos, these 

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are Phacos. 
You know what I'm saying? 

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The off brand that the Chinese 
brand that comes in and that you

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can't read the thing that you 
know and it will do at the 

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bottom. 
She has shown your pace every 

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page and you're just discouraged
because it's 105 steps, 768 

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pieces, microscopic and blue and
everything looks the same. 

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And and you know why I built 
this? 

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00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,320
Let me know why I built this. 
You said because Diane wanted me

454
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:04,240
to build a Lego transformer for 
that is not correct, right? 

455
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,320
Oh no, no, Levi wanted me to 
build this. 

456
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,560
It wasn't because I like Legos 
and it wasn't because I have 

457
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:12,520
time. 
Amen. 

458
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,920
I did not have time to take two 
nights out of my week to build 

459
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,200
this Lego transformer. 
I'm telling you and and and and 

460
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,400
it's supposed to like have 
another thing a dude, all the 

461
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,800
instructions since it's in 
Chinese, I didn't know you can 

462
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,480
either build the truck or the 
dude. 

463
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,520
They don't transform. 
It's a non transformer. 

464
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,440
OK, so it took me 7 hours to 
figure out this is a waste of 

465
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,360
time. 
And as soon as I built it, Levi 

466
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:40,720
goes. 
That took a long time. 

467
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:47,200
Dad, where's my transformer guy?
He's in there and he's going to 

468
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,200
stay in there because there's no
I'm ever going to do this again.

469
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,560
Was like, I should get a super 
glue out and glue this truck 

470
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,320
together, dip it in some kind of
glue like I'm never doing this 

471
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:58,840
again. 
I was just waiting for the knock

472
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,680
off the table immediately and 
I'm like oh what boobs dad I 

473
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:02,600
was. 
Like. 

474
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,880
No right? 
But why did I build this? 

475
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,800
I didn't I didn't build it 
because I wanted to build it. 

476
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:08,800
I didn't build because I like 
Legos. 

477
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,159
I don't like Transformers. 
I really don't care for the 

478
00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:12,320
movie series, to be honest with 
you. 

479
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,120
It's cool, but not for me. 
Like I don't like any. 

480
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,239
I don't spend time on it. 
But I did it for Levi. 

481
00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:20,719
Levi to get home from from from 
school or from, you know, 

482
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,840
grandparents. 
And is it done yet, Dad? 

483
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,320
Is it done yet? 
We work on that dad yet. 

484
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,639
I'm like not enough time. 
And he just like he just wanted 

485
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:29,120
so bad and he has so much 
excitement and joy. 

486
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,560
Ever seen a little kid smile and
light up? 

487
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,040
I mean, he was gonna say I'm a 
sucker, right? 

488
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,440
Like, I'm gonna say yes. 
So I'm like, OK. 

489
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,040
And it's pain and suffering. 
I'm just telling you. 

490
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,679
Everybody's walked by and he 
complained. 

491
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:41,520
Dad's taking forever. 
I'm like, you're telling me, 

492
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,320
son. 
You're telling me, right? 

493
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,040
There's a purpose. 
Purpose matters. 

494
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,960
Amen. 
There was a deep meaningful why 

495
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,760
behind the what. 
There was a meaningful why 

496
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,679
behind building this. 
If I built that and I didn't tie

497
00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:56,560
it back to Levi and I did it 
myself, you guys would think I'm

498
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,960
weird. 
Weird. 

499
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,200
Now some of y'all build these 
things I've insulted to you, 

500
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,160
right? 
But you think I'm weird. 

501
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,160
But what do you do when life 
feels meaningless? 

502
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,520
What do when work feels 
meaningless? 

503
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,680
You got a member of your 
purpose. 

504
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,840
And there's a great passage on 
purpose. 

505
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,760
And I was reminded this week as 
I was reading through the Bible 

506
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,640
with some of our men. 
But John Chapter 9, if you got 

507
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,320
your Bible, John Chapter 9, 
there's a story of a blind man 

508
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,840
who receives sight and gets 
healed where we right at the 

509
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,160
beginning, John Chapter 9 verse 
one. 

510
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,040
And this is one of the most 
profound pieces of scripture 

511
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,240
that has spoke to me in my life.
It says this, it says as he went

512
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:34,000
along, as Jesus went along, he 
saw a man. 

513
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,120
What's it say blind? 
And it's from birth. 

514
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,200
This man was was born blind. 
He didn't go blind. 

515
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,960
So his life would have been a 
life of a beggar. 

516
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,440
He would have been a poor, he 
would have been on the streets, 

517
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,240
you couldn't afford a wage, you 
couldn't do a job. 

518
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,360
He would just have to beg and 
beg and beg. 

519
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,200
And that was his life until 
Jesus found him. 

520
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:02,400
It says this, his disciples 
asked Jesus, Rabbi, teacher, who

521
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,440
sinned, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind. 

522
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,080
And there's always an assumption
with suffering. 

523
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,800
We talked about this a little 
bit last week, but there's 

524
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,800
always an assumption of 
suffering that's caused by sin. 

525
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,960
There's always assumption that 
somebody did something wrong, 

526
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,720
somebody's at fault for 
somebody's life looking so bad 

527
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,800
or so horrible or so tragic that
there there must be somebody to 

528
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,480
blame for that person being born
blind. 

529
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,960
If he sinned for his mother and 
dad stand or some of his family 

530
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,240
saying that he has some kind of 
consequence to his life, it'd be

531
00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:43,520
unfathomable that God himself 
would actually allow us to be 

532
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,000
broken and be frail. 
It'd be outside their mindset to

533
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,840
even think this way that he'd be
born blind with this complete 

534
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,600
opposite. 
God is actually in charge of our

535
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,240
suffering, yet actually put this
whole story together. 

536
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,480
That's what Jesus says to him. 
He says neither this man nor his

537
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,000
parents send it's been shocking 
statement to disciples, said 

538
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,520
Jesus. 
But this what's it say? 

539
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,280
This this happened somebody say 
happened. 

540
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,280
Yeah, this happened. 
This was put together so that 

541
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,280
here's the purpose that the 
works of God might be what 

542
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:23,400
displayed that this happens on 
purpose so that the works of God

543
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:29,520
will be on display in him. 
This verse blew my mind when I 

544
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,520
first read the book of John at 
17 years old. 

545
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,400
This verse was it was 
catastrophically different from 

546
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,480
my life because I at that point 
I Lily didn't understand why I 

547
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:38,480
was going through. 
I was going through. 

548
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,280
I didn't understand that God had
a hand in the story that there's

549
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,880
a greater purpose, like your 
life is not accident, man. 

550
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,640
Your job and where you work and 
all the things you told through 

551
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,720
doing the dishes, doing the 
laundry, having their family, 

552
00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:53,080
the kids, where you live, all 
these things. 

553
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:57,280
God has ordained these things. 
God has put you in these places,

554
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,680
Amen. 
It's not an accident and there's

555
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,880
a purpose to your life, just 
like the purpose is blind man's 

556
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,640
life. 
You might look at the blind man,

557
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,040
say man, that guy got dealt a 
really bad hand of cards, like 

558
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,360
life just happened to him and 
his environment dictate his 

559
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,400
life, like he was just a victim,
like he was downhill from 

560
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,680
uncontrollables. 
It was somebody else's fault. 

561
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,600
It was it was somebody else. 
There's an accident. 

562
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,960
It was on purpose and it wasn't 
a result of sin. 

563
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,360
It was actually a result of 
God's sovereign, selective hand 

564
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,560
that he was born blind, that God
had put him in this situation so

565
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,560
that he might get the glory and 
the power for what he's going to

566
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,680
do in his life, like God put him
in this season so he could 

567
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,840
redeem it and use it to bring 
himself glory. 

568
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,120
Jesus knew his life would be 
hard. 

569
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,920
Jesus knew that he would suffer.
Jesus knew that he would spend 

570
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,240
time being a beggar. 
If you read the story, he's old 

571
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:53,680
enough to not live at home. 
So all John Chapter 9 you can 

572
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,120
read going through it. 
It's like 45 verses a day. 

573
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,400
But he he actually lives. 
He lived at home and he's 

574
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,560
outside the home. 
He's is of age. 

575
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:04,240
His parents won't even testify 
about him being blind. 

576
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,080
And so this man is not young and
he knew he'd spend his life in 

577
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,760
hardship. 
And here's the reason there was 

578
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,160
a bigger purpose. 
There was a mission to his life.

579
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,560
Amen. 
There's something greater than 

580
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:21,320
the suffering that Jesus and his
his sovereignty knew that with 

581
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,440
the glory that he would show and
the works to be done in him 

582
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,760
would be displayed to a lost and
dying world. 

583
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,600
And somehow it would be more 
effective in his brokenness than

584
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,920
in His victory. 
Like the redemption of his story

585
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,760
would bring glory to God in such
a way it was worth the man being

586
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,880
born blind. 
Look at verse 6. 

587
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,280
And after saying this, Jesus 
spat on the ground. 

588
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,360
That's fun. 
And he made some mud with saliva

589
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:50,040
and put it into the man's eyes. 
Now, it's interesting because 

590
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,120
when God created us as humans, 
he actually created us out of 

591
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,840
the dust of the earth and he 
formed us and instantly designed

592
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,560
us and he breathed into us the 
breath of life. 

593
00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:03,160
It's that same dirt that Jesus 
spits into any And you know, you

594
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,280
might think he might actually 
like put together eyes with clay

595
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,440
or just mold them up and then 
smeared him on this man's eye 

596
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,120
sockets or put him in the eye 
sockets. 

597
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,200
Who really knows, right? 
And he put it in his eyes and he

598
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,400
said go. 
He told him wash in the pool 

599
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:22,240
Salome, which means since 
somebody say sent since because 

600
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:25,520
he's going to be a messenger for
the things of God, he says So 

601
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,360
the man went and washed and came
home seeing. 

602
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,960
Now at this point he's actually 
never seen Jesus. 

603
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:36,800
He never actually saw Jesus. 
He left with mud on his eyes to 

604
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,320
go to the pool and to wash. 
And later, only later will he 

605
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,760
see Jesus. 
And we serve a God that does 

606
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,040
miracles in the mundane. 
This man was sitting and Jesus 

607
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,640
found him. 
This man didn't see Jesus. 

608
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,520
This man didn't ask for Jesus. 
He was sitting at the perfect 

609
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,720
moment for Jesus to come by and 
do a miracle. 

610
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:57,880
Do you know that Jesus 
positioned your life? 

611
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,400
Amen. 
He's not an accident where 

612
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,120
you're at. 
He's placed you and He's 

613
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:06,280
perfectly designed you and your 
story, the family you're born 

614
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,320
into, the circumstances you grew
up with. 

615
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,520
He's perfectly designed your 
story so that God can get the 

616
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,920
maximum amount of glory from 
your life. 

617
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,360
Amen. 
He's using all these things to 

618
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,240
bring himself glory. 
And listen this, he didn't just 

619
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:26,520
give the man sight, He actually 
gave the man purpose to give him

620
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,640
purpose. 
The golden miracle wasn't that 

621
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,480
he just see. 
The golden miracle is that the 

622
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,520
Gods works will be on display, 
Amen. 

623
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,600
So he didn't just give him sight
to see. 

624
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,000
He didn't do a miracle in his 
life. 

625
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:38,920
And thank you Jesus, what a 
great story. 

626
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,360
He actually did a miracle. 
So he live on mission. 

627
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,360
He did a miracle so he could 
proclaim that to other people. 

628
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,320
He could go out and say he did 
proclaim this. 

629
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,880
He said I once was blind, but 
now I see that that's a 

630
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,360
proclamation of God's glory, 
Amen. 

631
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,200
And the whole rest of his life 
he's going to go around and tell

632
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,920
the whole world that I was a 
blind man, I was a beggar on the

633
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,840
street. 
But Jesus, the Messiah, the 

634
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,480
Christ healed me. 
That's the glory of God. 

635
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,680
And it's the reason it's so 
powerful in the New Testament, 

636
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:14,440
in this story, is that only one 
person and all of history could 

637
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:18,480
ever give sight to the blind, 
and that was the Messiah, 

638
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,360
Christ. 
That means the Messiah anointed 

639
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:25,480
1 the chosen one of God, the one
prophesied in Genesis 315, the 

640
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,200
one that there was to come. 
They didn't know it was going to

641
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,160
be Son of God, but he is the Son
of God. 

642
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,600
And so this, this blind man, 
this beggar who receives his 

643
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,720
sight isn't just clearing a 
miracle of God, He's actually 

644
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:40,960
declaring the identity of God. 
He's saying no, no, no, that 

645
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:46,040
Jesus is the Messiah because he 
did something to me only God can

646
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,200
do. 
He's literally a picture. 

647
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,640
He is the living proof of the 
living God. 

648
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,720
Amen. 
He is living proof of a living 

649
00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,960
God. 
His story is saying only Jesus, 

650
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:05,040
God himself, the Messiah could 
have done the work and nobody 

651
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,680
could ever do this. 
He actually says this later on 

652
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,280
in in in Chapter 9. 
It says verse 32. 

653
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,840
It says nobody has ever heard of
opening the eyes of a man born 

654
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,040
blind like this blind man like 
no one's heard of this. 

655
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,400
If this make we're not from God,
he could do nothing. 

656
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,080
What he's saying is like 
Abraham, Moses, the prophets, 

657
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,960
there's nobody that's ever done 
this miracle. 

658
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,120
You see a lot of crazy miracles,
Old Testament, Amen. 

659
00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:34,800
There's a lot of crazy miracles 
and Isaiah, it mentions that 

660
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,680
this person will give sight to 
the blind, the Messiah, and so 

661
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,000
is a picture of Jesus. 
Matter of fact, you search the 

662
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,960
New Testament, you have 
disciples that heal people who 

663
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,040
are blind but make them walk. 
So you don't really have any 

664
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,800
specific story of a disciple 
healing somebody's blind. 

665
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,840
It's it's crazy. 
Like it was just a picture. 

666
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:57,200
It was a sign that Jesus was the
Son of God. 

667
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,160
He's the Messiah. 
He's a chosen one for us. 

668
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,040
And so this means living proof 
of a living God. 

669
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,680
Amen. 
Amen. 

670
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,400
Y'all with me now. 
It's just significant. 

671
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:14,040
The miracle is not just for you,
the miracles for others to see 

672
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,640
God through. 
You see, this blind man wasn't 

673
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,200
supposed to have sight for 
himself. 

674
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,320
He's actually helping other 
people have sight, the spiritual

675
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:26,560
blinds to see the things of God.
He's there to declare God's 

676
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,440
glory. 
Like I said, when I was 17 years

677
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,200
old, I've read this for the very
first time and I grew up in a 

678
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,360
broken home. 
I grew up, I saw my dad, you 

679
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:38,200
know, every other weekends. 
I grew up with step siblings. 

680
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,080
You saw my picture last week. 
I think that's last week, week 

681
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,200
before last week. 
Elblers together. 

682
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,600
I'm not going to put it back up.
Don't you dare do that. 

683
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,240
I never probably got there. 
It's probably back in the folder

684
00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:51,840
there, right? 
You saw my family, right. 

685
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:53,680
And you know, at 17's 
interesting age because you 

686
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,720
start thinking about the future 
quite a bit, like you're getting

687
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,120
close to graduate high school. 
Like what's my life? 

688
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,760
Can you be out? 
Like I'm going to make a bunch 

689
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,120
of money. 
Like what? 

690
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,320
What do I go to college? 
Like is it about money is why? 

691
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,360
Why is this hardship? 
You start seeing the news and 

692
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,680
it's making a little more sense 
and you start realizing your 

693
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,720
family wasn't like the like a 
nuclear family, you know? 

694
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:14,360
And you're like, why did this? 
How did this? 

695
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,360
And you start wondering like, 
what's the point of life? 

696
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,160
Like, am I going to really spend
the next 40 years like slaving 

697
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,120
and making a paycheck just to 
maybe get sick and not enjoy it 

698
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,320
Like you like I'm starting 
thinking about this stuff like 

699
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,720
17 and, and wondering like all 
these purpose questions and I 

700
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:30,960
read this passage and just stuck
out to me like there's a reason 

701
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,760
I'm here. 
Like I have a purpose. 

702
00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:36,800
Like it's not an accident that 
I'm in a blended family in 

703
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,000
Raytona Beach. 
Come on with somebody. 

704
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:40,960
That's Raytown, by the way, 
right? 

705
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,600
Maritona Beach. 
Like it's just not an accident 

706
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,280
that I'm in this, in the place I
am with the last name I have, 

707
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:48,840
with the family I have and the 
friends I have. 

708
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,800
It's not actually God has put me
on purpose so I can declare his 

709
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,040
works. 
That's refreshing. 

710
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,480
Amen. 
Like this is not an accident 

711
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,720
like I'm not coming out some 
cesspool and all the evolved and

712
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:02,280
what's the point of life? 
Like I don't know just enjoy all

713
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,280
you can because once it's over 
it's over. 

714
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,640
Like it was so significant to my
life that I knew I had to live 

715
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,480
my life for God because he'd 
give me such purpose like what 

716
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,480
it look like my life to display 
his glory and it begin this 

717
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,480
battle of my soul for the next 
year. 

718
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:20,360
Whether I should go off and be a
doctor, go pre Med or I should 

719
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,880
go into what I've considered 
full time ministry. 

720
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,240
And I was I was fighting back 
and forth and it went down to 

721
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:28,080
the very end. 
I changed, I changed schools 

722
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,480
about two weeks before school 
started and it was crazy. 

723
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:35,280
But that that's because of this 
scripture that was in my mind. 

724
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,880
I found my purpose. 
It was the second day, right? 

725
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,800
Greatest of your life. 
So what do you do in life feels 

726
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,280
meaningless. 
And I think you got to go back 

727
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,400
to your purpose that God's work 
is greater than our work. 

728
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,360
Doing God's work is greater than
doing our work. 

729
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,680
It's not about just running 
cable or flying UAVs. 

730
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:55,920
Come on, somebody right here, 
this guy's about to change the 

731
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:56,840
world. 
His name's Adam. 

732
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,120
And there's some drones that may
be flying out for Amazon that 

733
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,600
will go over your house and 
hover. 

734
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,280
If you see that at all. 
He's the guy to go talk to. 

735
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,280
And you think I'm joking, but 
I'm dead serious. 

736
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,000
It's happening, dude, it's 
happening literally changed the 

737
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,040
world. 
Thank you for doing what you do,

738
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,680
Adam. 
I appreciate that, but it's just

739
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,120
not about that, right? 
It's a bigger point to this 

740
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:17,760
whole thing. 
And this is what it says in John

741
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,120
Chapter 9. 
This is what Jesus was teaching 

742
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,560
the disciples at the beginning 
of this this whole thing. 

743
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,880
We healed the blind man. 
John Chapter 9, John Chapter 9, 

744
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,720
verse 4, it says as long it is 
this day, we somebody say, we 

745
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:33,400
say we all right, as long as 
they we must do the works of 

746
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:34,000
him. 
Thank you. 

747
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,320
We must do the works of him who 
sent me. 

748
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,560
Night is coming when no one can 
work so much crucifixion. 

749
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,600
So Jesus, he's actually 
including his disciples. 

750
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,440
He's not just him doing the work
of the Father. 

751
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,440
It's including disciples. 
It's really the point of our 

752
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:53,440
life that we do the work of the 
Father that sent Jesus. 

753
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,080
Who knows? 
You're in your Father's 

754
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,680
business, Amen. 
That's who you work for. 

755
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,280
You're doing the works of the 
Father. 

756
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:04,160
When Jesus talks, he's actually 
taking conversations that he had

757
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:09,360
around the throne of God and he 
speaks to us the words of the 

758
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:14,040
Father in heaven around the 
throne about he's doing and his 

759
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,480
purposes in his ways. 
That's amazing to think about. 

760
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,480
Like you're part of a way bigger
company than Amazon, Amen? 

761
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,320
You're part of the company. 
What God is doing this with the 

762
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,120
Father's work and our work is do
the work of the Father who sent 

763
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,200
Jesus. 
It's way bigger than a paycheck.

764
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,800
We got to make a paycheck, Amen?
I mean, that's what earthly is 

765
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,040
about. 
You got toil, you got all these 

766
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,040
things, but it's more than a 
paycheck. 

767
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,160
There's something way deeper 
than this punching the clock, 

768
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,920
put in the four O 1K going to 
retire. 

769
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,120
I talked to so many people. 
I've talked to a man. 

770
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,440
He, he owned like everything on 
the South side of College Blvd. 

771
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,880
between Null and Row. 
He was a anesthesiologist and 

772
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,520
and he went into commercial 
business and he's still working.

773
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,760
He's still working and he's 
upper 70s. 

774
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,720
And I asked him, I said you 
could retired like you're 40. 

775
00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:00,280
You know, you could retire when 
you're 50. 

776
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,160
You could do all this stuff. 
And he said, hey, you know what,

777
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:04,960
You're right. 
Like, I wish I would have gone 

778
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,640
back 40 years ago and had a 
vision for my life, for 

779
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,240
retirement. 
And so I just keep working. 

780
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,480
He's like, just to kind of what 
I do. 

781
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,880
It's just, it's just amazing 
because we have just kind of 

782
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,080
settled into like, that's the 
life I'm going to have. 

783
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:19,840
But what's the purpose beyond 
that? 

784
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,800
Amen. 
Maybe maybe the purpose is to 

785
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:27,120
fund missions or to be on 
mission or just share the 

786
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:28,760
gospel. 
These are all purposes we should

787
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,080
live out every single day of our
life. 

788
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,040
You might ask why work is 
unfulfilling. 

789
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,120
It's because we mistake work for
purpose. 

790
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,200
We mistake work for purpose. 
And God could use your work and 

791
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,960
maybe your work has a purpose, 
like maybe it ties more directly

792
00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:45,000
and maybe God put you there to 
be a light. 

793
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,440
Amen. 
And the gospel or, or to, to. 

794
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,160
I always think if you're going 
to do something you do with all 

795
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,360
your might, like like whatever 
your hand puts to do with all 

796
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,240
your might, like you're working 
to the Lord, Amen. 

797
00:49:57,720 --> 00:49:59,360
I always think like if you're 
roofing a house, you should roof

798
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:03,440
it like it's Jesus house, Amen. 
Like you, you should do 

799
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,120
everything for the glory of God.
So it's not just like they're 

800
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:07,840
spiritual and secular. 
I don't want you to get that 

801
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,200
idea, but like you're doing it 
for the glory of God. 

802
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,000
But it may not, but it's tied 
back to the fact that people get

803
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,800
glory through that. 
Why do you roof the house so 

804
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,600
well? 
Oh, because I love Jesus and you

805
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,680
get to Share your story with 
people around you and point 

806
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,040
people to Christ as 
relationships. 

807
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:23,880
You build. 
It's not just about roofing, 

808
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,360
it's about the relationships. 
But you, we, we say this often, 

809
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,080
you know, people ask you, hey, 
what do you do? 

810
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,160
And we, we tell them like 
earthly answers, which makes 

811
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,800
sense, but we don't really tie 
it back to the bigger purpose. 

812
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,680
She'll say, what do you do is 
say, oh, I'm a nurse, you know, 

813
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,720
I work construction, You know, 
I, I, I clean, I'm a, I'm a 

814
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,200
custodian. 
Like we fill in the blank. 

815
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,480
Like people ask immediately, You
tell them a job title, you tell 

816
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,600
them the earthly job title. 
Some of you guys are teachers, 

817
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:53,920
like I said, to pick on the 
Amazon drunk guy here in the 

818
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,600
front, right. 
Quite a bit, right? 

819
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:56,960
But these are all earthly 
titles. 

820
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:58,720
They're man made titles. 
These are smaller purposes and 

821
00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:01,520
they're awesome purposes, Amen. 
Like we need every one of these,

822
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:07,360
Amen, Amen. 
Some of us need to I won't I'll 

823
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:13,360
stop interesting day yesterday, 
but here's what God calls us. 

824
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,320
Here's our heavenly purposes. 
All right, I'll I'll give you 3 

825
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,720
big heavenly purposes. 
There's way more than this and 

826
00:51:18,720 --> 00:51:21,560
one is we're ambassador for 
Christ, we're bashed for Christ.

827
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:25,240
2nd Corinthians 517. 
This is a famous passage by Paul

828
00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,280
says, therefore, if it was in 
Christ our new creation, the new

829
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,040
has come, the old is gone, the 
new is here. 

830
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,160
That sounds the moment you come 
to Christ, the moment you start 

831
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,920
relationship with Jesus that 
you're a new man, a new woman, 

832
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,400
the old is gone. 
I love it that Jesus doesn't 

833
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,600
upgrade your life. 
He tears down the old one and 

834
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,080
brings a new one. 
Amen. 

835
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,720
You don't get little tweaks. 
You don't paint the cabinets. 

836
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:48,240
No, no, you're a new person in 
Christ and says all this is from

837
00:51:48,240 --> 00:51:51,200
God who reconciled us to himself
through Christ. 

838
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,000
And look at this. 
He gave us the ministry of what?

839
00:51:55,720 --> 00:51:59,600
The ministry of reconciliation. 
He gave us the ministry of 

840
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,560
sharing good works and being a 
light man. 

841
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,440
You quit smoking. 
Yeah, I don't smoke. 

842
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,360
I heard you maybe a little bit. 
That's good. 

843
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,560
But it gives a ministry to bring
people back to himself. 

844
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:17,800
Like like God didn't move. 
We moved. 

845
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,360
That's why we're reconciled back
to God and we have the ministry 

846
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,560
of sharing the gospel so that 
other people can get back in a 

847
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,520
relationship with Jesus. 
That that's why we're here. 

848
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,560
It's a purpose that God was 
reconciled the world to himself 

849
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,200
in Christ. 
This is the message you preach. 

850
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,760
So we tell people God was 
reconciled the world to himself.

851
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,600
We down the cross, but we did 
not counting people's sins 

852
00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:38,680
against them. 
Who's playing for that verse 

853
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:43,000
Amen that we don't have a Labor 
Day with Jesus. 

854
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,560
Like I said earlier, we don't 
have to earn our way back to 

855
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,120
God. 
God is actually carries a big 

856
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,760
eraser and we know Jesus and we 
make mistakes. 

857
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,920
He forgives us all says we 
confess our sins faithful and 

858
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:54,680
just forgive our sins and 
cleanse us from all 

859
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,000
unrighteousness like we came to 
Christ. 

860
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,320
We just said we were confessing 
our need for him. 

861
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,680
Lord, I need you, Lord, forgive 
me. 

862
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,040
And he took that eraser out and 
he washed away as far as the 

863
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,400
east is from the West. 
And every time we mess up, God 

864
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,440
erases. 
Sometimes you think God's out to

865
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,800
get us and we're not good enough
for God. 

866
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,160
But God is not sitting there 
going in heaven and he's writing

867
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,160
down all this of your sins and 
going, man, I'm going to get 

868
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,880
you. 
He's not that kind of God, Amen.

869
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:24,080
He's a grace filled God and he 
is reconciling us back to him. 

870
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:25,000
This is the message of you to 
preach. 

871
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:26,280
That's a great message to 
preach. 

872
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,320
He's committed to us. 
So not only did he give us, he's

873
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,600
committing to us the message of 
reconciliation. 

874
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,720
He's saying it's no longer mine.
I'm leaving. 

875
00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:37,120
I'm going back to heaven. 
It is yours to preach. 

876
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,440
Amen. 
I mean, I always think God help 

877
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:41,160
me. 
Oh, thank you. 

878
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,400
I didn't even see you over here.
That was tricky, Rick. 

879
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,160
Nice work, my friend. 
You're a good man, Rick. 

880
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:55,200
I like that. 
I'll probably trip on it later. 

881
00:53:56,720 --> 00:53:59,680
It's a trap. 
But He gave us the ministry of 

882
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,120
reconciliation, verse 20. 
We are there for Christ. 

883
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:04,600
Ambassadors. 
Who are we? 

884
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,000
Christ ambassadors? 
We're diplomats for Christ. 

885
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,920
We're ambassadors for Christ. 
That means we speak on behalf of

886
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:13,320
Christ. 
We're sharing things with 

887
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:14,800
Christ. 
He's not here to share. 

888
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,160
We are sharing for Him as the 
God. 

889
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:18,520
We're making His appeal through 
us. 

890
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,880
We implore you on Christ's 
behalf to be reconciled to God. 

891
00:54:22,240 --> 00:54:24,080
God made him. 
This is it. 

892
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:29,800
Who had no sin to be sin for us,
so that in him we might be the 

893
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:33,600
righteousness of God. 
That's the message we preach. 

894
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,840
Amen. 
And so while you're spinning and

895
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,320
you're toiling and you're 
thinking, oh man, well, 

896
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,240
everything owns you to go to the
next generation. 

897
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:42,080
And I don't know if it really is
going to matter if we have 

898
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,000
excellence and it's kind of hard
to get a bed to go to work and 

899
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,520
you gotta go wait, wait, wait, 
wait, wait, wait, wait. 

900
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:50,080
I'm not showing up to do it. 
Just a job that's important. 

901
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,680
I'm actually here because I'm an
ambassador for Christ. 

902
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,880
Amen. 
The gospel has to go into every 

903
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:01,120
little place where you work, 
play, live, study everything. 

904
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,840
The gospel goes with you. 
So not only ambassador, you're 

905
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:06,800
actually salt and light. 
Matthew 514. 

906
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:08,640
This is the Beatitudes, Jesus 
sermon, the mount. 

907
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,560
He said you're the salt of the 
earth. 

908
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,600
But if salt loses its salt in 
this, how can it be made salty 

909
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,640
again if it's no longer good for
anything except be thrown out 

910
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,880
and trampled in her foot? 
I learned something about salt 

911
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:21,840
this week. 
This is going to be really 

912
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:25,880
interesting. 
There's a man in my group named 

913
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,920
Jamie Montgomer. 
You guys know Jamie, He's in. 

914
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,920
He's actually not here today. 
All right, now we can say we 

915
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:36,200
want to. 
He he read a book on the history

916
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,680
of salt. 
I said, dude, you're a boring 

917
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,480
dude, man. 
He said it was really 

918
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:43,640
interesting. 
I was really curious. 

919
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,920
Tell me something about salt. 
I don't know, He said. 

920
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:49,240
You know what's crazy is they 
used to pay people with salt. 

921
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,600
A Roman soldier would get paid 
in salt sometimes, like when 

922
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,120
this time period salt was 
valuable. 

923
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,160
Like nowadays we don't think 
anything of it, you know, just 

924
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:00,600
get the shaker out filled up. 
You buy, you know, buy the ton, 

925
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,760
right? 
We just put on the road and it's

926
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,960
icy out, right. 
But but salt like it was 

927
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,240
significant. 
Like you need it to be healthy. 

928
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,800
And so they would actually get 
paid in salt off and they'd 

929
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:12,360
store salt. 
He told me in Civil War they'd 

930
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,680
just be salt like carts for 
people to have enough salt for 

931
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,600
their bodies. 
It was crazy. 

932
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,520
But the thing like that salt was
significant in that time period.

933
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,680
And if you lose your salt in 
this, what good is it like if 

934
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,520
you're not getting the salt that
you're supposed to get? 

935
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,960
Like salt was valuable is a 
preservative. 

936
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,960
It was a flavor. 
He told me that salt is actually

937
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,240
why you have salad named after 
salt to keep its flavor, to keep

938
00:56:35,240 --> 00:56:37,280
it to last. 
I was like, OK, dude, you're 

939
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,200
blowing my mind now. 
Like he's going through all this

940
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:40,840
different things, right? 
It's like, I'm not. 

941
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:41,920
What's the name of that book 
again? 

942
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,000
I didn't go there, right? 
I just got the Cliff notes from 

943
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,560
him Is perfect. 
They said this. 

944
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,200
You're the lie of the world. 
We're 14. 

945
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,360
A town built on a hill could not
be hidden. 

946
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,080
I always think about Bogota, 
Colombian, as a town on the 

947
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,400
hill. 
You get out and like the, the 

948
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,440
mountains and you get little 
houses or little villages. 

949
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,880
I mean, it's just a such amazing
picture that when you turn a 

950
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,120
light on it don't matter if 
you're 20 miles or 10 miles or 

951
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,200
five miles. 
You know, there's a, there's a 

952
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,560
city there, there's a house 
there and you can see it, it, 

953
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,560
it's something we don't really 
think about here in the States a

954
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,760
lot because you don't have this 
kind of rolling valleys and 

955
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:16,960
stuff. 
You just kind of see 

956
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,640
subdivisions, but out in 
different areas of the world, 

957
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,960
there's villages in the night. 
He says neither do people light 

958
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,760
a lamp and put it under a bowl. 
Instead, they put it instead on 

959
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,800
a stand. 
They elevate the light so it 

960
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,400
gives light to everyone in the 
house. 

961
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:32,440
They elevate it at their 
workplace. 

962
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,920
They elevate with their family. 
They elevate it wherever they 

963
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:38,600
play, elevate at school. 
They elevate it so people can 

964
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:39,480
see a light. 
Amen. 

965
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,560
Amen. 
Like your goal is to be light, 

966
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:48,240
to be salt, to preserve the 
things of God and to shine out 

967
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:53,280
God's glory and God's work so 
that people can see him and know

968
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,400
him. 
He says, therefore let your 

969
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,600
light shine for others that they
may see your good deeds and 

970
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,880
glorify your Father in heaven. 
That's a purpose. 

971
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,360
Amen. 
If you're discouraged, I would 

972
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,240
encourage you, baby, to get your
eyes more on Jesus because it's 

973
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:09,520
easy to go. 
Well, I can't get these 

974
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,440
deadlines and all this is 
stressful and we're so looking 

975
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,720
down at all the things, you 
know, like, oh, there's there's 

976
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:17,040
my you know, there's this 
account. 

977
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,840
There's an all all man so busy, 
so busy, so busy. 

978
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,520
Why? 
What's Jesus want you to do? 

979
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:28,720
Share the Gospel, shine a light,
be different for the things of 

980
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,600
Christ. 
Maybe it's add to change, right?

981
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:32,600
Negativity. 
There shouldn't be a bunch of 

982
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:33,840
negativity in the Christian 
life. 

983
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:37,400
Like it just shows like there's 
some room to grow. 

984
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,560
Amen. 
Last thing is this your disciple

985
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:44,200
maker Matthew 28, 18 says, then 
Jesus came to them and said all 

986
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:47,840
authority in heaven and on earth
have been given to me. 

987
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,280
This is one of the last things 
that Jesus says to the disciples

988
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,800
for you to act rightful 
ascension. 

989
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:57,520
He says, therefore, go and make 
disciples of all nations. 

990
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:03,720
Go and make what make disciples 
if if, if you're if you're can't

991
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,520
find your purpose in me in life.
Like Solomon, he was like, he 

992
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,560
was so discouraged. 
Like, I'm just gonna hand off 

993
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:14,240
everything. 
What are you leaving disciples? 

994
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,920
Disciples. 
If your life isn't invested in 

995
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,560
disciples, it would probably 
feel pretty meaningless. 

996
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,200
If your life wasn't about the 
things of Christ going to the 

997
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,560
next generation, it'd feel 
pretty futile. 

998
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,840
Like, what would be the point? 
That's why I kind of love this 

999
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,280
story over here. 
I mean, Scott and Jordan, the 

1000
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,280
family, right? 
Like, dude, God's got them. 

1001
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,080
This guy's reading the Bible, 
praying, seek care of things 

1002
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:40,360
like God. 
That is reassuring and that's 

1003
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:41,800
the gospel going forward. 
Amen. 

1004
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,920
As we talk about the future and 
what it looks like, it means 

1005
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,880
that we're making disciples of 
the next generation. 

1006
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,280
They're pouring all of the 
things of God in our life into 

1007
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,120
somebody else. 
That is significant. 

1008
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:55,840
That's the purpose. 
You guys ever thought about 

1009
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:57,000
starting a Bible study at your 
work? 

1010
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:00,920
You guys ever thought about 
asking different questions like,

1011
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,320
hey, man, I heard heard that I 
saw on Facebook, man, how can I 

1012
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,400
pray for you? 
Like, hey, what? 

1013
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:10,160
What's God showing you? 
Just building spiritual, 

1014
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,440
redemptive relationships with 
people around you. 

1015
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:14,160
This might be brand new to think
for. 

1016
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,840
Like, you know, we're really, 
really good at our jobs, but 

1017
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,960
we're really, really good at our
job, our Heavenly Father's job 

1018
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:25,600
to make disciples. 
That's what we got to focus in 

1019
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:29,440
on because that's a life worth 
living and a life worth dying 

1020
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:32,400
for. 
So Jesus died for to make 

1021
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,720
disciples. 
This passage is about making 

1022
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,080
disciples. 
We go so we can make disciples. 

1023
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,120
We baptized because we made 
disciples. 

1024
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,080
We teach because we made 
disciples. 

1025
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,360
Go and make disciples with all 
nations. 

1026
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,040
That's every person. 
That's your workplace. 

1027
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,120
And I promise you, I ain't show 
up to your work. 

1028
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,840
Amen. 
I'm going to be around all your 

1029
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:52,320
friends. 
I'm gonna hang with your fried 

1030
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:53,920
night buddies. 
That's your place to make 

1031
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:56,240
disciples. 
Live on a mission where you go 

1032
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,880
every place you step foot, 
baptizing the Father, Son, the 

1033
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:00,960
Holy Spirit and teach them to 
obey you. 

1034
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:02,840
Teach you obedience, not just 
thanks God, but teach them to 

1035
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,720
follow God, obey God and 
everything. 

1036
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:09,440
I've command you and surely I'm 
with you always to the very end 

1037
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,800
of the age. 
What a great promise. 

1038
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,120
Never forget who you really are.
When somebody says, hey, what do

1039
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:16,960
you do for a living? 
I always love this. 

1040
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:20,040
Imagine an airplane. 
It's a great captive audience, 

1041
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:21,840
Amen. 
And they always ask the same 

1042
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:23,600
questions. 
It's never anything new. 

1043
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,040
Nowadays it's more like earbuds 
and nobody talks. 

1044
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,040
But if you start talking to say,
what do you do? 

1045
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:31,160
Seems like the first or second 
question. 

1046
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:33,600
And usually you tell somebody, 
hey, you know what? 

1047
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:35,560
Actually, I work in my father's 
business. 

1048
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,400
It's an international company 
kind of worldwide, Amen? 

1049
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,680
Like it actually helps people 
discover real life and purpose. 

1050
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:44,520
It's a pretty cool company. 
It's a lot of fun. 

1051
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,880
Matter of fact, I'm actually an 
ambassador. 

1052
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:50,200
Oh, really? 
Wow, that's so exciting. 

1053
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:51,440
Wow. 
Tell me more about that. 

1054
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,120
Well, I don't, I don't mind. 
I will. 

1055
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:54,800
I think I'll, you know, I got 3 
hours on this flight. 

1056
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:55,760
Thank you for asking. 
Right. 

1057
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:58,600
It may be a little cheesy, but 
that that's the point. 

1058
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,520
Like we are ambassadors. 
We are disciple makers. 

1059
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,120
Like it's way bigger, it's way 
bigger. 

1060
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:08,120
It's way bigger than just all I 
got to get A to B get my job 

1061
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,960
list done, be transactional, get
my stuff put together, notice 

1062
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:14,600
slow down. 
Who in your life can you pour 

1063
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:18,760
into to build disciples? 
I'm not sure who I'm poured into

1064
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:22,280
is my kids, but put put that 
thing back on the screen by my 

1065
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:26,400
awesome truck. 
So proud of this truck, right? 

1066
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,040
You know it's never going to be 
the same, right? 

1067
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,440
This is a good illustration of 
hanging it to a teenager and 

1068
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:31,880
start driving. 
It's just never going to come 

1069
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,560
back the same way you left it, 
right? 

1070
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:36,040
But you know why? 
Why do this? 

1071
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:40,520
Because you know, it's not just 
all I built a truck because he 

1072
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:42,800
was excited. 
What I was excited about was 

1073
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:46,040
spending time with my son. 
He's 4, right? 

1074
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,040
And he didn't sit next to me for
six hours. 

1075
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,800
OK, But he came next to me. 
Dad is already blah, blah. 

1076
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,080
And I can just start telling him
the things of God. 

1077
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:55,880
I can say, hey, leave a story. 
What's that? 

1078
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:58,120
So. 
Well, I once was blind. 

1079
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:00,400
Come on. 
Somebody. 

1080
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:06,240
I once was blind, son. 
Yeah. 

1081
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,560
I was a 15 man. 
Didn't go to church, grew up in 

1082
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,800
a family, didn't follow Jesus. 
You're so lucky to know Jesus, 

1083
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:13,160
man. 
I found Jesus and changed my 

1084
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:16,720
life. 
Now I see, just slow down for 

1085
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:19,640
that relationship, Amen. 
And you can do that. 

1086
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:21,720
Everywhere you go, you work on 
something. 

1087
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,880
Hey, man, I'm going to tell you 
a story, man. 

1088
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:26,640
I think you know, it's a great 
storyteller. 

1089
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:29,040
Bill Hardy was a great 
storyteller. 

1090
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:32,360
That boy could tell a story. 
If you don't know Bill, Bill, 

1091
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,680
Bill went on the Lord a few 
months ago, and he always had 

1092
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:38,080
time for a story. 
He didn't always have time for 

1093
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:39,840
work. 
He did work hard, but he 

1094
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:41,640
interrupted your work to tell 
some stories, Amen. 

1095
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:44,360
And those stories always are 
redemptive. 

1096
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:48,320
It always went back to the 
things of God, always challenge 

1097
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:50,240
you spiritually, always 
encourage you deeply. 

1098
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:51,880
That's what it looks like to 
make disciples. 

1099
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,920
Amen. 
And this week, if you could just

1100
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,160
say, I can't find meaning and 
purpose in my work, well, maybe 

1101
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:59,640
it's because you've been living 
for work and not for Jesus and 

1102
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:01,600
say, what does it look like to 
to encapsulate my word for the 

1103
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:03,800
things of Christ? 
Yes, with excellence, yes, with 

1104
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:05,480
passion. 
But I've got coworkers in the 

1105
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,040
Christ. 
I need people to be some 

1106
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:08,840
encouragement. 
Am I praying for these people? 

1107
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:10,720
Am I loving those people? 
We're looking to start a Bible 

1108
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:12,200
study. 
Invite them to your house, 

1109
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:13,520
invite them to the things of 
God. 

1110
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,040
Our job as a church is not to 
get people to church and to get 

1111
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:18,000
them to Jesus. 
Amen. 

1112
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,200
There will not be a banner in 
heaven that says real life 

1113
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,320
church. 
There will not be a name in 

1114
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:24,720
light that says Sean Petrie. 
There will be a name that says 

1115
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:26,800
Jesus. 
There will be a throne. 

1116
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:31,280
He sits on it and so our job is 
to scatter out throughout the 

1117
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:35,240
week and live on mission for 
Christ and come back and gather 

1118
01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:38,040
and celebrate what God's done. 
That's why we're here. 

1119
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:40,240
That's the purpose. 
That's what makes life 

1120
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,200
meaningful. 
Being come back and say, man, 

1121
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:43,560
you know what, God did something
amazing. 

1122
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,160
I saw this person hear the 
gospel be praying for him. 

1123
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,320
He may come to Christ. 
I'm trying to share these things

1124
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,240
with them. 
Hey, I'm linking about sort of 

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01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:52,440
Bibles with my kid like I want 
to walk through where should I 

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01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,040
start because I'm living on 
mission with my family. 

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01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:56,760
These are the conversations we 
want to have a church. 

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01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,200
Amen, like we don't want to talk
about football. 

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01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,200
Amen. 
We want to talk about the things

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01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:06,400
that matter, the deep things of 
God that once was blind, but now

1131
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:10,160
I see, Father, come before you 
can help us to purpose our 

1132
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:12,640
labor. 
Remind us for Our Calling. 

1133
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:15,880
Maybe that you're speaking to 
some people in the room today 

1134
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,320
For those of you that are so you
know what, I need to purpose my 

1135
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:21,760
life. 
I need to purpose my work. 

1136
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:24,600
I've just drifted into my own 
routines. 

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01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:28,600
But the day I realized that God 
has put me on purpose here with 

1138
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:31,040
a purpose to share his life, to 
be an ambassador, to be a 

1139
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:34,040
stopmaker, to bring in light to 
share my story. 

1140
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:37,560
If that's you and God speaking 
to you, to live out your purpose

1141
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:40,240
and your calling in these 
different areas, raise your hand

1142
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:42,720
high, says me. 
God speaking to me to live on 

1143
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:47,520
mission everywhere I go. 
Come on, God sees the hands. 

1144
01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:52,560
He knows the hearts that help us
to be ambassadors, to be 

1145
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:56,760
reconciler speakers, to share 
the good news. 

1146
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:58,440
You're not counting our sins 
against us. 

1147
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,840
Help us have the boldness and 
the courage to share the deeper 

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01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:06,360
things in life, to slow down and
to share the stories of God with

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01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,200
our children, with our 
coworkers, with our friends, 

1150
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,520
with their family. 
And we would just put our light 

1151
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,160
up on a light stand, a lamp 
stand for the world to see, to 

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01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:19,320
be on display. 
Just amazing about the blind 

1153
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,720
man. 
He never asked to be healed. 

1154
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:26,840
He never asked to be healed. 
It's because God had purposed 

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01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,760
him to be healed. 
Maybe today you need to find 

1156
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,520
your purpose. 
Maybe today for the very first 

1157
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,880
time, you recognize who Jesus 
really is. 

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01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:38,520
And the Bible says the day is 
the day. 

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01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:41,400
Salvation. 
You heard about Jesus not 

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01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:43,800
countering sins against us 
because Jesus the only one who 

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01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,960
can erase sins, the sinless Son 
of God who came 2000 years ago 

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01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:49,600
down across for us. 
The Bible says today if you call

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01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:52,200
name of Jesus, you be saved, 
forgiven and made new. 

1164
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:55,840
The Bible said right earlier, 
first Sin Corinthians 217, First

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01:06:55,840 --> 01:07:00,720
Corinthians 2/5/17 that the old 
has gone, the new has come, your

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01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:02,440
new creation in Christ. 
And today if you need to be new 

1167
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:05,520
in Christ, that means you find 
your purpose in Christ, your 

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01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:07,720
identity in Christ, your name in
Christ. 

1169
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:10,240
You'll be given a ministry of 
reconciliation that's actually 

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01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,040
coming to save you. 
It's supposed to go through to 

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01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,000
the world. 
If you'd be saved by Jesus, if 

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01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,640
that's you without me looking 
around, would you just raise 

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01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:20,080
your hand, hand high? 
So I need Jesus, I need, I need 

1174
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:22,920
my purpose. 
I recognize a sinless Son of God

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01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:25,640
who died on the cross for me 
that's you. 

1176
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:28,080
Those are the called out and 
make it weird but that's you 

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01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:29,440
need Christ. 
Just put your hand in the hair. 

1178
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:38,880
See your hand that you need 
Christ just call it to him. 

1179
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:43,480
I believe through a prayer. 
The prayer does not save you but

1180
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:45,680
your heart towards him. 
This crowd say Father God, thank

1181
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,560
you so much that you have 
purposed me. 

1182
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:52,080
You love me enough to send your 
son to down across from me. 

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01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:55,240
He erased my sins as far as the 
east is from the West God. 

1184
01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:58,840
And I recognize today I'm a 
Sinner in need of a savior and 

1185
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:00,560
I've been living my own path, my
own direction. 

1186
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:02,840
I've been struggling trying to 
maybe figure it out or been 

1187
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:03,920
prideful. 
Look at me. 

1188
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:06,160
But today I recognize the story.
It's all about you. 

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01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:08,480
This story is about your glory. 
It's about your work. 

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01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:12,800
And today I can proclaim for the
first time in my life that was 

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01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:16,359
spiritually dead. 
But the day I was blind and 

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01:08:16,359 --> 01:08:18,680
leaving here today and I can 
see. 

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01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:22,720
So thank you Jesus for saving me
and I praise in Jesus name and 

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01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:25,200
the church said Amen. 
Come on, give some glory to God 

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01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:26,240
today. 
Let them know you love him. 

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01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:32,680
What a powerful word today. 
Just a reminder on our purpose 

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01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:35,960
and where our purpose is found, 
not in what we do, but in whose 

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01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:38,080
we are. 
And some of you have prayed that

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01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:41,000
prayer and found your purpose in
real life in Jesus today. 

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01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:43,600
If that is you, we are so 
excited for you. 

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01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,279
We would love just to walk 
alongside you this week to 

1202
01:08:46,279 --> 01:08:48,120
resource you with a couple of 
things. 

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01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:50,760
So if you would grab that 
connection card that is on your 

1204
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:53,880
seat, fill out your information,
but make sure and check that box

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01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:55,920
that says I committed my life to
Jesus. 

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01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:58,000
And you can drop that in the 
giving buckets here in a few 

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01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,399
minutes. 
But by doing so, it allows us to

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01:09:00,399 --> 01:09:02,439
get you 2 things. 
And this is the first one is 

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01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:03,800
this. 
It's a free resource. 

1210
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:05,399
I will drop it in the mail 
tomorrow. 

1211
01:09:05,399 --> 01:09:09,200
It's a book called Begin short 
read, but a powerful one really 

1212
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:11,439
will be a blessing for you as 
you're taking these next steps 

1213
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,960
with Jesus this week. 
Also, if you pray that prayer 

1214
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:16,600
and you're right here at 
Kentucky Trail, as you leave the

1215
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:19,359
worship center, there is a table
with some red bags inside. 

1216
01:09:19,359 --> 01:09:22,160
Those bags are free Bible and 
some other resources that we 

1217
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,760
would love to get to you today. 
And once again, we are just so 

1218
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:27,800
excited that you chose to make 
that decision today. 

1219
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,960
We love that you committed your 
life to him today. 

1220
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,800
And hey, Next up is fall life 
groups. 

1221
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,680
Hey, they are starting very 
soon. 

1222
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,479
They start meeting next Sunday, 
September 7th. 

1223
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:40,479
I know summer's winding down for
all of us. 

1224
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:42,439
Kids are back in school, 
routines are in place. 

1225
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:44,840
This is a great time and 
opportunity to really get 

1226
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:48,680
connected and to get plugged in 
with the people of God. 

1227
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:51,479
And so I want to ask this, how 
many of you do you raise your 

1228
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:54,920
hand if you have been 
encouraged, if you have been 

1229
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:57,720
challenged, if you have been 
changed by attending a life 

1230
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:01,720
group, turn around and look at 
all these hands. 

1231
01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:05,720
Well, that is real community. 
That's what community looks 

1232
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:08,400
like. 
It's real people just doing life

1233
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:10,800
together, growing deeper in 
their faith together. 

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01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:12,960
And that's why life groups 
exist. 

1235
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:14,680
And so I want to challenge you 
with this. 

1236
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:17,320
Maybe in your mind you're 
already saying, I don't really 

1237
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:20,800
know a lot of people here. 
I've never joined a life group 

1238
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:22,520
before. 
I don't really know where I 

1239
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:26,440
would have fit in. 
But that is exactly why life 

1240
01:10:26,440 --> 01:10:29,520
groups exist. 
That is your community for 

1241
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:32,720
people to do life shoulder to 
shoulder with and to know 

1242
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:34,200
people's names and to get 
connected. 

1243
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:36,920
That's why we do life groups 
here at Real Life Church and we 

1244
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:39,000
would love to have you in a life
group this fall. 

1245
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:41,440
There are so many ways that you 
can check them out. 

1246
01:10:41,440 --> 01:10:44,440
You can go online to see them. 
You can go out in the Hub. 

1247
01:10:44,440 --> 01:10:46,440
There's a life group board that 
has all of them on there. 

1248
01:10:46,440 --> 01:10:49,760
You can scan the QR and sign up.
Once again, They start meeting 

1249
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:53,120
next Sunday, September 7th. 
If you have questions about life

1250
01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:54,200
groups, I'll be hanging out 
there. 

1251
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:56,080
Come hit me up. 
I'd love to talk to you, help 

1252
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,200
you find a life group, life 
group that would be a good fit 

1253
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:01,920
for you. 
Hey, if you are new with us 

1254
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:04,200
today, thank you so much for 
being here. 

1255
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,320
We truly are so glad that you're
here. 

1256
01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,040
We've been praying for you this 
week. 

1257
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,000
We've been planning for you, 
preparing this gathering just 

1258
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:13,440
for you and with you in mind. 
And so thank you so much for 

1259
01:11:13,440 --> 01:11:15,560
being here. 
We don't want anything from you 

1260
01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:17,320
except for this. 
And that was just for you to 

1261
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:20,160
introduce yourself to us. 
You can do that by grabbing that

1262
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:22,720
same card, fill out your 
information on there, check 

1263
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:24,960
first time here and you can take
that out to the new here booth 

1264
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,120
as you leave. 
We do have a free gift that we 

1265
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:30,000
would love to get to you just as
our way of saying thank you for 

1266
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:31,640
being here with us. 
And we would love to see you 

1267
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:34,640
back next week right here at 
9:15 or 10:45. 

1268
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,360
And thank you again so much for 
being here. 

1269
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:40,240
Hey, I want to share and say 
thank you so much to those of 

1270
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:42,200
you who give here at Real Life 
Church. 

1271
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:45,520
I was just looking last week at 
a report and so far this year, 

1272
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:49,760
we've had 61 people come to know
Jesus because of your giving. 

1273
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:51,960
That is huge. 
That's right. 

1274
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:53,880
Give it up. 
That's amazing. 

1275
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:59,120
Your generosity is making an 
eternal impact. 

1276
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:02,200
And every time you get here, 
it's so much more than just 

1277
01:12:02,440 --> 01:12:05,160
allowing us to turn the lights 
on to rent this space. 

1278
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:10,240
To me, it truly is allows us. 
It fuels a ministry, it changes 

1279
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:13,640
the lives, it opens the door for
more people to come to know 

1280
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:16,480
Jesus. 
And that's exactly what it's all

1281
01:12:16,480 --> 01:12:18,680
about. 
I want to share what we believe 

1282
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:20,080
about money here at Real Life 
Church. 

1283
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:22,640
It's a simple principle, but 
man, it's powerful and it's 

1284
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:24,000
called the funnel. 
And that's this. 

1285
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:27,600
You give to God first and that 
honors God, shows that you trust

1286
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:28,640
him. 
Hey God, I'm going to give to 

1287
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,280
you first before all the other 
things get in the way. 

1288
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:33,640
You invest 2nd and that builds 
wealth. 

1289
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:35,240
That's like the parable of 
talents. 

1290
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,880
It's using what we have and 
multiplying it to be able to 

1291
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:40,560
give back to Him. 
And then you live on the rest. 

1292
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:42,960
And that builds contentment, 
just says, hey, God, I trust you

1293
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,560
with what you've given to me. 
And I'm content with what I 

1294
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:48,480
have. 
And it truly, at the end of the 

1295
01:12:48,480 --> 01:12:50,960
day, is about so much more than 
money. 

1296
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:54,600
It's about souls. 
It's not just a financial plan. 

1297
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:57,880
It is a discipleship plan. 
Because man is our generosity, 

1298
01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:00,800
heroes, our impact. 
Gross and at the end of the day 

1299
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:04,600
that is what it's all about so I
invite you I encourage you today

1300
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:06,880
to take part in that If you call
real life church home, there are

1301
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,600
so many ways you can take part 
in that check out the screen 

1302
01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:11,160
there. 
You can go to our website 

1303
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:13,960
reallifechurchkc.com. 
You can text any amount you can 

1304
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:16,360
scan the QR. 
The buckets are going to pass 

1305
01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:18,560
here in just a few minutes. 
You can drop cash or check in 

1306
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:21,400
those or you can drop it in the 
giving box in the back. 

1307
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:24,440
And as always, if you're your 
family, find yourself in any 

1308
01:13:24,440 --> 01:13:28,080
kind of need this week, food, 
clothing, shelter, would you 

1309
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:30,360
please, please reach into the 
buckets here and just a minute 

1310
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:33,440
as they pass and grab any loose 
cash that you find there. 

1311
01:13:33,440 --> 01:13:36,000
We really do want to bless you 
this week. 

1312
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:40,840
Man, what awesome day. 
Who's thankful for what God's 

1313
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:42,320
doing. 
And get rid of these elephants. 

1314
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:45,320
I got kicked over your water, 
Sean. 

1315
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:48,160
I didn't even see it was there. 
Hey, before we get out of here, 

1316
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:50,160
I want to let you guys know 
about something awesome. 

1317
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:52,240
So real life is having a 
birthday. 

1318
01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:55,280
We are turning a man. 
And God is so good, isn't it? 

1319
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:58,120
Yeah, give it up for God. 
So we celebrate every time. 

1320
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:00,040
If you've never been to one of 
birthday parties, we celebrate 

1321
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:02,480
with baptisms and we just blow 
the walls out. 

1322
01:14:02,480 --> 01:14:05,600
So that's coming on the 21st. 
But for our dream team, or maybe

1323
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:07,600
you're looking at serving and 
jumping our dream team. 

1324
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:09,760
We have an awesome party on the 
16th. 

1325
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:12,160
It's a Tuesday. 
We want to invite you guys to 

1326
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:15,600
come hang out with us. 
It's it's at Jerry's house in 

1327
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:16,920
Raymore. 
We'll get you some directions. 

1328
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,520
But we have a whole hog roast, 
S'mores, yard games. 

1329
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:22,240
It's just going to be a party. 
Great time to make some memories

1330
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,360
and just hang out. 
So we'd love for you guys get 

1331
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:27,040
these things on your calendar. 
And we want to just blow this 

1332
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,480
out for our 8th birthday party. 
Hey, if you guys need prayer for

1333
01:14:29,480 --> 01:14:30,960
any reason, we'll have somebody 
up here. 

1334
01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:33,680
We'll pray with you guys either 
as individuals or families, you 

1335
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:35,120
know, whatever makes sense for 
you guys. 

1336
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:37,800
And we can't wait to see you 
guys again next week at 9:15 or 

1337
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:39,840
10:45. 
And as always, remember, whoever

1338
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,280
fights Jesus discovers real life
and purpose. 

1339
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,600
This is the end of this podcast.
We hope you've enjoyed it. 

1340
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:02,480
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1341
01:15:02,480 --> 01:15:04,320
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1342
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:06,560
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1343
01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:08,560
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