1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,280 Hey, good morning, real life church, excited to see you this 2 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:04,760 morning. I just want to invite you to 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,640 stand to your feet as we get ready to worship. 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,400 And beyond that, I'm going to invite you just to sing out 5 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,240 today and just to clear these words and sing directly to him 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:15,400 today. Does that sound good? 7 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:17,480 Let's have some fun this. Morning. 8 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,320 I saw Satan. Fall like lightning. 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,400 I saw darkness. Run for cover. 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:38,400 But the miracle that I just can't get over my name is 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:45,200 registered in heaven. I believe in signs and wonders. 12 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:55,280 I have resurrection power still. The miracle that I just can't 13 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,960 get over. My name is registered in heaven. 14 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,959 My praise belongs to you forever. 15 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:11,040 Come on church and sing. This is my testimony from death 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,320 to life. Because grace rewrote my story, 17 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,960 I'll testify. By Jesus Christ the righteous, 18 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,960 I'm justified. This is my testimony. 19 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,640 This is my testimony. Hey, man, is that your story 20 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,920 today? Let's keep singing. 21 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,720 Come on, come together, sons and daughters. 22 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,200 Come together, Sons and daughters bought with blood and 23 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:49,360 washed in water. Sing the praises of the Spirit, 24 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:53,480 Son and Father. Our God, we'll finish what he 25 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:58,280 started. Yes, our God, we'll finish what 26 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:04,960 he started. Oh, this is my testimony from 27 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,600 death to life. Because grace rewrote my story, 28 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:14,200 I'll testify. By Jesus Christ the righteous, 29 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,360 I'm justified. This is my testimony. 30 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:32,570 This is my testimony. All right, I invite you to 31 00:02:32,570 --> 00:02:34,250 declare this loud and proud this. 32 00:02:34,250 --> 00:02:35,210 Morning. If I'm not. 33 00:02:35,210 --> 00:02:38,250 Dead. If I'm not dead, then you're not 34 00:02:38,250 --> 00:02:43,130 done. Greater things are still to 35 00:02:43,130 --> 00:02:45,930 come. Oh, I believe. 36 00:02:46,130 --> 00:02:48,770 If I'm not dead Then you're not done. 37 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,760 Greater things are still to come. 38 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,080 Oh, I believe. Can't Sing. 39 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,280 If I'm not dead, Then you're not done. 40 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,640 Greater things are still to come. 41 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,960 Oh, I believe. If I'm not dead Then you're not 42 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,800 done. Greater things are still to 43 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:19,800 come. Oh, I believe I whip this up to 44 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:24,520 him. This is my testimony from death 45 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,840 to life. Because grace rewrote my story, 46 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:35,120 I'll testify by Jesus Christ the righteous, I'm justified. 47 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,680 This is my testimony. Oh, I'm alive. 48 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,000 This is my testimony from. Death to life. 49 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,440 Because grace, we wrote my story. 50 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:53,120 I testify by Jesus Christ the righteous. 51 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,320 I'm just about This is my testimony. 52 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:04,720 This is my testimony. Come on, real life, is that your 53 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,520 story today? Is that a testimony that you can 54 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,960 declare? Well, so I just invite you with 55 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,360 your hands and with your voice and with everything you got. 56 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,880 Can you just give him all the praise this morning, all the 57 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,320 glory? Come on, we've got a reason to 58 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,440 sing. Amen. 59 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:23,880 Amen. Give him some praises this 60 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,400 morning. And that is my story. 61 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,800 I hope that is your story, that God has a big story for your 62 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,520 life and He came from death to life for you and that work was 63 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,000 finished on the cross, but it's not finished in our life. 64 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,520 He has an active and living work in our life, so let's praise 65 00:04:40,520 --> 00:05:11,120 Him. The cross is my beginning, the 66 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:20,320 line drawn in the sand, the end of all my striving. 67 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:37,960 Now I am born again there. Jesus was forsaken, so I will 68 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:47,480 never be. His grace is my salvation, the 69 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,840 gift of God, the work of Calvary. 70 00:05:54,200 --> 00:06:01,600 It is done, it is finished, and Christ has won. 71 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:10,840 He is risen. Grace is here and love is 72 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:17,280 triumphed. All over, dead forever. 73 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:31,280 The cross needs no addition. His mercy is complete. 74 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:43,480 His love is not in question. The Son of God has spoken over 75 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:50,160 me. It is night, it is finished. 76 00:06:52,160 --> 00:07:02,720 Christ comes one, He is risen. Grace is here and love is 77 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:39,720 triumphed over day forever. Over every circumstance His word 78 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:47,440 stands final and forever. It will not be shaken as He 79 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,240 alone as one in all. You believe it. 80 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:58,240 The strongholds are bowing to the Savior and resurrection 81 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:06,480 power over every circle. Sometimes in the world stands 82 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:11,520 final in forever. It will not be shaken. 83 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:21,520 Is He alone as one it all? It is done, it is finished, and 84 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,560 Christ has won. He is reason and grace is here. 85 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:39,919 Love is triumphed over, dead forever. 86 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:50,120 Give his fingers the mercy world. 87 00:08:52,160 --> 00:09:02,960 Not forgiven seeing his name. He is worthy of our prayer. 88 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:29,200 Jesus Mercy one, because we'll sing your praise forever. 89 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:39,600 Come on, let him know you love him this morning. 90 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:41,520 That's right. We serve our God. 91 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:46,080 He says it is finished, the freedom that's found in now that 92 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,560 it is finished because of the work he did on the cross. 93 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,040 And man, this morning, I believe that God has something for you 94 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,880 even right now. It's amazing what happens when 95 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,160 the atmosphere shifts, when you just invite the Holy Spirit to 96 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:01,760 be here with us. And he always is. 97 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,200 But just to say, God, we welcome you here. 98 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,840 And it doesn't just have to be on a Sunday morning, but to 99 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,080 invite him into your relationship and to your car 100 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,880 ride, to work and to your friendships, but to say God, 101 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,400 you're welcome here. And just to see how he changes 102 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,680 things when you invite him here. We're going to do that this 103 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:20,440 morning as we just continue to worship Him. 104 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:30,920 There's nothing worth more that will ever come close. 105 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,520 Nothing can compare. You're. 106 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:55,320 Our living home, your present Lord, and I've tasted any seed 107 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:03,800 of the sweetest of loves, where my heart becomes free and my 108 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:11,720 shame is on time. In your presence, Lord Holy 109 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:29,200 Spirit, you are welcome. Come fly to this place and fill 110 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:36,440 the atmosphere. Your glory, God, is what our 111 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:44,200 hearts old to be overcome by. Your presence, Lord. 112 00:11:44,200 --> 00:12:04,320 Yes, here in your presence, Lord, there's nothing worth more 113 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:10,440 that will ever come close. The thing can compare. 114 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:20,280 You're our living hope. Is your presence lose? 115 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:36,400 I've tasted a scene of the sweetest of the loves, where my 116 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:44,440 heart becomes free and my shame is on and done. 117 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:52,520 Yes, it is in your presence, Holy Spirit. 118 00:12:52,960 --> 00:13:03,560 Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, you are well calm Confle to this 119 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:12,080 place and fill the eyes atmosphere Your glory God is put 120 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:21,160 our hearts along to be overcome by your presence alone. 121 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:32,280 Holy Spirit, You are welcome comfort in this place and fill 122 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:39,880 the atmosphere. Your glory God is what our 123 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:49,120 hearts alone to be overcome by your presence alone. 124 00:13:54,720 --> 00:14:06,330 Yes, it's your presence. I want to know you, Jesus, want 125 00:14:06,330 --> 00:14:08,610 to be overwhelmed by you Jesus, go 126 00:14:21,140 --> 00:14:29,140 away if your presence. Let us experience the glory of 127 00:14:29,140 --> 00:14:36,040 your goodness. Let us become more aware of your 128 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:42,880 presence. Let us experience the glory of 129 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:44,160 your goodness. Let us become. 130 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:56,560 More aware of Your presence. Let us experience the glory of 131 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,320 Your goodness all day. Let us be calm. 132 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:10,280 You're aware of your presence, Let us experience the glory of 133 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:18,320 Your birthday. Move what you want. 134 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:27,720 To do you. Come by you, Jesus. 135 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,200 Fill this place with your presence, 136 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:48,160 the Holy Spirit. You are welcome comfort of this 137 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:57,000 place and fill the atmosphere. Your glory card is what our 138 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:05,880 hearts long to be overcome by. Your praises Lord. 139 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:20,920 It's your praises, Lord, Do it only you. 140 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:08,400 Let us become more aware of your presence. 141 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:15,160 Let us experience the glory of Your goodness. 142 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:22,040 Let us become more aware of your presence. 143 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:28,880 Let us experience the glory of Your goodness. 144 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:38,240 Holy Spirit, we're in all of you today and we just, it's just 145 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,080 insane that you would just bestow your presence upon us, 146 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,480 God. We're just so unworthy and just 147 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,480 make so many decisions and do so many things that take us so far 148 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,480 from you, God. But you love us anyway. 149 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,120 And you're here with us this morning, God, and we're just in 150 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:55,080 awe of that. And we're grateful for that God. 151 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,840 God just I pray your presence just stays in this place today, 152 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:03,440 God, and that we're just so tuned in and locked into you, 153 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,320 God, that your thoughts become our thoughts and your words 154 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,440 become our words, and your heart becomes our heart. 155 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:13,600 God, we just thank you for who you are, who you've been, and 156 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,960 who you will always be. To the name of Jesus we pray A. 157 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,160 Man. Good morning real life church 158 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,120 man, thank you so much for worshiping with us today. 159 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,640 Man, just love hearing your voices just crying out to God 160 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,000 and man what a great start to our day. 161 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,960 Help me real quick welcoming an amazing group of people hanging 162 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,240 out with us online, Real life church online. 163 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,040 Can they hear you today? Will you make them feel super 164 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,760 welcome? Hey man, love you guys. 165 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,920 Hey, before you sit 30 seconds, greet someone around you. 166 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,000 Maybe even learn a new name today. 167 00:18:47,000 --> 00:19:22,120 Go for it. 30 seconds. After the gathering, if you'll 168 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:25,440 just line up orderly in the hub, there will be a quiz on all the 169 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,400 names you learned and people you met. 170 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,480 So please stick around. And I'm just kidding, that's not 171 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,440 true. But hey, thanks for connecting, 172 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,720 thanks for being here. Awesome to see you today. 173 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,720 Real quick shout out, real heartfelt shout out to anybody 174 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,240 who's brand new with us at Real Life Church this week. 175 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,760 I want you to know we've been thinking about you. 176 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,880 We've been praying for you. We've been prepping for your 177 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,000 visit and just planning on you being here here. 178 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,880 Everything that has happened to turn this this school into a 179 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,600 church is with you in mind and we're honored to have you here. 180 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,840 And so I'm just going to ask one small thing from you. 181 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,680 If you're brand new with us today, if you've never done this 182 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,480 before, fill out that card that's on your seat. 183 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,720 And I promise you, nothing weird. 184 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,440 Nobody shows up at your door, calls you or spams your phone or 185 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,280 anything like that. We just really think of it like 186 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,400 this. We just want you to introduce 187 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,200 yourself to us and we just want you to know that we're here to 188 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,800 answer any questions and would love just to. 189 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,240 Get to know you more at whatever speed feels comfortable to you. 190 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,120 Fill that out during the gathering. 191 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:29,080 You got plenty of time today. And then just hold on to that 192 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,400 and we'll tell you later in the gathering about where that card 193 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,800 will end up. So just seriously welcome. 194 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,600 Honored to have you here. You're a very special guest. 195 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,120 Thanks for hanging out with us today, guys. 196 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:43,760 Real life church is a church on a mission. 197 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,520 The reason that we set up and do all the things and just really 198 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,240 want to connect with you is because we're church on a 199 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,800 mission. Real life church exists to see 200 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,640 people far from God discover their real life and purpose in 201 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,680 Jesus. And we believe that each and 202 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,680 every week God is changing lives, hearts are being changed, 203 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,880 relationships restored. Just so many cool things have 204 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,040 happened throughout the life of this church. 205 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,680 And that's not on accidents because we're we're so serious 206 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,080 and heartfelt about our mission. And so thanks for playing a part 207 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,080 of that mission. You play a part when you just 208 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,960 tell people about how God's been working in your life. 209 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,640 You play a part in the mission when you to invite friends and 210 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,240 family, neighbors and coworkers just to come hang out with you 211 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:26,280 here real life on a Sunday morning. 212 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,880 So thanks for playing a part of that. 213 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,080 And if you haven't been, hey, perfect time to start doing that 214 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,400 right now. Quick question, did you enjoy 215 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,360 your summer life group? Let's hear you loud. 216 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:39,080 Come on, did you enjoy your life group? 217 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:41,360 Yeah, I did too. It was awesome. 218 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,280 And I'm excited because you know that those wrapped up here not 219 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,400 too long ago. But man, be thinking about Fall 220 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,400 Life Groups because they're coming sooner than we think. 221 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:56,880 In fact, I'm excited to announce that August 24th sign ups for 222 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,080 Fall Life Groups go live. Does that sound cool? 223 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,040 Yeah, you should be excited. I'm excited too. 224 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,640 Just a quick thought. You probably heard it before, 225 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,760 but I think it's one of those things you can't hear too many 226 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,000 times. You know, life groups are not 227 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,400 just an offering of real life church, not just like a program 228 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,960 or things we do. Real life church is a church 229 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,080 that's made-up of life groups. Does that make sense? 230 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,640 Like just the heart of that? Life groups are where you really 231 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,880 dive in and find that community. It's where you really meet 232 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,760 people heart to heart. A lot of soul care in life 233 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,440 groups, a lot of life's change, a lot of healing found in life 234 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,000 groups, a lot of fun, dare I say, found in life groups. 235 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,760 So I highly encourage you, if you've never done it before, 236 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,320 you've heard people talk about it, you know, maybe, maybe it's 237 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,560 been the 5th, 6th or 7th time you've heard it. 238 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,640 Can I just encourage you don't make a decision today, but just 239 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:51,120 pray and pray hard about what God would have you do for fall 240 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:53,520 life groups. How, how, how you play a part in 241 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,600 that. Because I promise you it's going 242 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,960 to change your life in a great way, maybe a small way, but it's 243 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,720 going to be a great way. And I just really encourage you 244 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,400 to be praying about that. Start that now. 245 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,840 I think it's a Sunday, August 24th, probably a Sunday, sign 246 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,240 ups will go live. So there you go. 247 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,200 Look out for that man. I got some bummer news, though. 248 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,040 That was the exciting news. Here's some bummer news, though, 249 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,200 in a little way. This is our last Sunday of at 250 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,240 the movies. Everybody say, oh, I know, 251 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,680 right, But hey, you know what, we're going to do it up big and 252 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,240 we're going to have fun. If you're brand new and you 253 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,000 don't really know what at the movies is it's church, which is 254 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,120 done in a in a little bit of a different way. 255 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:31,040 You're going to see some really cool people coming down the 256 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,000 aisles here trying to make this feel like the movies. 257 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,040 You probably smelt it when you came in that fresh pop popcorn. 258 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,240 Amazing. But I just want to encourage you 259 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,360 with this. Today's message is going to just 260 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,720 light a fire in you. It's going to be encouraging and 261 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,080 uplifting and you're just going to leave here on fire for Jesus. 262 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,880 And so before we get in into it, I want you to know, as our 263 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,440 ushers come down, they've got soda, they've got bottled water, 264 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,920 and they've got popcorn, and it is all yours for the taking. 265 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,400 It's completely free. It's completely on the House. 266 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,120 No one's going to judge you for whatever you pick, OK? 267 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:06,880 So if you want the full flavor, Doctor Pepper, you take it this 268 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,880 morning, OK? You have my permission. 269 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,160 Eat the popcorn, have fun and enjoy. 270 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,240 And without further ado, you're going to help me welcome the 271 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,880 stage. Pastor Sean Petri, give it up 272 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:17,680 real life. Come on. 273 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,320 Good morning, real life. How you doing? 274 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:24,800 Good. Good man. 275 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,760 I'm excited for today. First of all, if we jump in 276 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,040 though, something special is coming next month. 277 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,880 You may not know this. There's a birthday coming up. 278 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,200 Real life turns 8 years old next month. 279 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,960 Come on, somebody. Is that crazy? 280 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:41,960 Eight years. That's awesome. 281 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,280 So I want you to mark your calendars. 282 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,840 This is special for the Dream Team. 283 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,200 We're going to do something really fun. 284 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,640 We were going to do a Dream Team birthday bonfire. 285 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,880 So if you guys serve on the team, you guys give you guys 286 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,600 make the difference. I want you guys come out. 287 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,080 We're going to do something very special. 288 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,360 I'm not sure how we're going to pull us off yet, but a full pig 289 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,640 roast. Come on, somebody. 290 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,800 So I need some victims of some volunteers to stay up the whole 291 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,280 time to make this happen. I'm just kidding. 292 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,320 No really do so but it's gonna be awesome so I'm excited it's 293 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,120 gonna be hosted at Jerrys house, Jerry and Lee and Kinman and 294 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:17,680 it's going to be awesome. So I can't believe it's been 8 295 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,520 years already. So many lives being changed and 296 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,360 we'll get to shot in the arm the stories and really the vision of 297 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:23,920 what God is going to do in this next season. 298 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,360 So Week 5 at the movies, the last week. 299 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,040 Bummer, but it's gonna be a good Sunday. 300 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,560 So I love this series. So today is dedicated to those 301 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,480 of us that struggle knowing God's will. 302 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,040 What direction should I go? If you're confused in the season 303 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,160 of why God and where God and what's got up to you, or maybe 304 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,040 you asked by God to do something and you don't know why God is 305 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,840 asking you to do it. That often happens and you 306 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,840 follow God. God asks us to do sometimes 307 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,920 strange things, but this is good news. 308 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,120 You're gonna find out. You're not alone. 309 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:56,840 We have some awesome scripture walk through the triumphal entry 310 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:01,560 and this message really entitled Faith When life is murky and it 311 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:02,800 often gets murky. Amen. 312 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,120 Amen. If it's not murky, you let me 313 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:07,360 know. You can come up here and preach. 314 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:10,200 OK, This is always kind of murky, but they were jumping. 315 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,560 This is the chosen. It's going to be season 5, 316 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,080 episode 1 called Entry. Check it out. 317 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,400 Guitars. I was like, this is awesome 318 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,280 music, right? Oh man, the triumphal entry. 319 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,760 This is in scripture. Matter of fact, this isn't just 320 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,160 found in one piece of the Bible. This is actually found in four 321 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,240 places in the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. 322 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,880 And this scripture is is so powerful and often times we 323 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,880 breeze by it and it's amazing. This might be the only scripture 324 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,080 actually fitting for a king you find really in the Gospels. 325 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,400 So we're going to jump into John chapter 12 and it says this. 326 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,800 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival 327 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:31,040 is talking about the Sabbath, heard that Jesus was on his way 328 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,480 to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went 329 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,520 out to meet him, shouting, Hosanna. 330 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,840 Blessed is he who comes the name of the Lord. 331 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,800 Blessed is the king of Israel, the king of Israel. 332 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,560 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it as it was ridden. 333 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,840 Do not be afraid, daughter. Zion, His name for Jerusalem. 334 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,000 See, your king is coming seated on a donkey's Colts. 335 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,560 And at first his disciples did not. 336 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,360 What's it say? Did not, I did not understand 337 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,360 all this. Only after Jesus glorified did 338 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,240 they realize that these things have been written about him, 339 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,560 that these things have been done to him. 340 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,760 And here's the big idea, as you look at this Scripture, is that 341 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:15,280 Jesus wants us to choose compliance over clarity. 342 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,560 Jesus wants us to choose obedience over times of 343 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,120 obscurity. Even we don't have the answers. 344 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,960 He wants us to follow him. And you see his disciples, they 345 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,120 didn't understand what was happening at this time. 346 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,480 God wants us to follow him when life is murky, when it doesn't 347 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,920 make sense, you don't know where to go, you don't know exactly 348 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,080 what's happening. And maybe you're in that season 349 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,480 right now. I know for me, this last few 350 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,480 weeks has been kind of a real murky season with my family and 351 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,840 and faith. My, my oldest stepbrother Chad 352 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,480 passed away 2 Wednesdays ago at 44 years old and I had a heart 353 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,600 attack working at Walmart in the backroom. 354 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,800 And it's just one of those seasons like, OK, God, like what 355 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:55,960 are you? What are you up to? 356 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,000 Like it's just all the words that come to mind. 357 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,280 Just, it's just so young. Who knows? 358 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,800 44 is young, right? I mean, he's like, wow, like 359 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,080 man, it was confusion. It's murky. 360 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,400 I've got family members that wake up all night, just go on 361 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,120 walks and the Independence Police Department stops and what 362 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,800 are you doing? And, and the quote, I'm just 363 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,200 walking through some pain. Like you just don't know what's 364 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,440 happening, like you're confused. And that's been this season. 365 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,840 And one of the things that you learn as you walk with Jesus is 366 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,440 that we can trust the master and not our own master plan. 367 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,960 Amen. That we don't have to hold the 368 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,640 pin to everything now. We like to have the master plan. 369 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,040 Amen. We like having all the details. 370 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,360 We like to have it organized. We want to want to know what's 371 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,160 next. We want to know the season 372 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,040 that's coming and why we're in the season. 373 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,680 We often tell Jesus, I trust you with the contract of my life as 374 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,080 long as I can hold the pin. Amen. 375 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,080 This is usually how we operate. Like we don't like Jesus 376 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,280 necessarily being the architect, but we like them being control. 377 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,160 It's easy. We're like we're desperate for 378 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,480 clarity in the midst of confusion, like in our faith. 379 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:04,080 Can we follow Jesus in confusion like this confusion play a part 380 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,080 of faith? What happens if we don't have 381 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,320 the answers? And so if you look at this 382 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,640 episode, it's pretty unique because there's so many things 383 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,120 straight from Scripture. You see, not the electric 384 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:17,640 guitars come on somebody right, but the palm leaves being put 385 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,560 down, the clothes being put down, him riding on a donkey. 386 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,200 You have them shouting Hosanna, which means save now all these 387 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,280 things are found in scripture and the chosen is really 388 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,520 interesting because it does some awesome things with some artwork 389 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,280 with some imagination. They they take some items and 390 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,040 they they show off some things of God. 391 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,480 They do some things in this scene you may not know about 392 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,600 that nod to really Jesus being king. 393 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,360 There's a bridle that's on this donkey that they believe 394 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,000 historically has been passed down since the exodus. 395 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,760 So this is in the Jewish culture, the Jewish people and 396 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,240 end up with King David in the past on all through generations 397 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,240 and they put it on this donkey in this scene and it's really 398 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,200 amazing. You think about King David 399 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,760 because Jesus really comes out lineage of King David. 400 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,600 You have Joseph that really comes from there that proves 401 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,080 Jesus lineage as a king and then Mary whose lineages proves that 402 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,720 Jesus the right bloodline. And so it's really cool the 403 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,920 chosen this does this extra work to put in these little pieces so 404 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,400 we can really recognize who Jesus is. 405 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,720 Now you never know that without researching it, but it's just 406 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,320 amazing. I give a nod to the Bible. 407 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,120 What happens in the triumphal entry? 408 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,520 Jesus gets into the city and the Pharisees that tell Jesus you 409 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,560 need to tell your disciples and the people following you and the 410 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:31,280 children to stop praising you. And what does Jesus tell those 411 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,520 Pharisees? You guys remember if they don't 412 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,160 praise me, even the there you go. 413 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,320 I knew you guys knew it. The rocks will cry out. 414 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,040 If they don't worship me, even the rocks will cry out. 415 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,000 It's amazing. This is a big moment. 416 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,880 This is a massive moment. Jesus sets up everything. 417 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,560 He this exact time, the exact place where it happens, when it 418 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:53,840 happens. It's not a mistake. 419 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,400 There's a Old Testament or a New Testament historian. 420 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,960 He's really just a secular Jewish historian in the 1st 421 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:02,760 century named Josephus. And he estimated that the time 422 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,400 of the triumphal entry, when Jesus goes in Jerusalem, there 423 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:10,200 have been 2.7 million people that Jesus was proclaiming that 424 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,760 he was king too. It's pretty amazing. 425 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,160 It's not actually what Jesus doing here. 426 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,240 This is the first time he's going public with who he is. 427 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,520 He's telling the whole world, I am a king, I am Messiah, I'm 428 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,200 here, I have arrived. A few weeks ago we talked about 429 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,080 the woman at the well. And remember, he was the first 430 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,240 person that she, he revealed to that he was the Messiah. 431 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,440 He did in private. And now Jesus is proclaiming to 432 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,480 the entire world that he is the King of kings and Lord of Lords, 433 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:43,880 and he's telling everybody. I think it's, I think the Holy 434 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,120 Spirit's coming today. They're pretty good. 435 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,400 That's amazing. He's telling the whole world 436 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,280 that he is the King of kings and the Lord of Lords. 437 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,160 I mean, his popularity had increased. 438 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,440 He was a threat to really the Pharisees and the system that 439 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,080 have been set up that that pretended to know who God was, 440 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,160 but they really know who Jesus was, who God was. 441 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,600 And so he resurrected Lazarus from the dead. 442 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,560 We talked about that last week about Martha, Mary and Lazarus. 443 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,040 And his popularity is absolutely huge. 444 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,679 And he's allowing something to happen here. 445 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,320 That may be the most typical thing ever to happen in Jesus's 446 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,239 lifetime that pictured who he truly was. 447 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:18,679 He actually allowed himself to have a royal parade. 448 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,320 Think about that. Like Jesus is this humble 449 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,520 servant. He owns no property, he never 450 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,960 gets married, he doesn't have kids, He's outcast from society. 451 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,800 If people are trying to kill him for what he stands for, his 452 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,440 claims to be God and forgiving sins and all these things is God 453 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,199 is being mistreated by humanity. But here in this moment, Jesus 454 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,000 just gives a little nod. I'd do who he is and say, yeah, 455 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:47,320 put a parade on for me, get the donkey, get the things and 456 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,199 worship who I am. It's absolutely amazing. 457 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:51,960 But you think about this parade, it's kind of weird because 458 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,920 everything makes sense except for the donkey. 459 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,800 Like if you were a king of kings, you wouldn't come right 460 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,440 in a donkey might be coming in some rusted beat up truck down 461 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,280 the parade, right? I'm you get the white stallion, 462 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,600 maybe an elephant or some ornate camel decorated or something. 463 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,960 But who in the world to pick a donkey? 464 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,640 This is what Jesus does. And the disciples are confused. 465 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,280 And it said this in John 1216. We read Abednego is at first his 466 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:21,440 disciples did not understand all this. 467 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,480 That's good news, Amen. That's good news for us because 468 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,560 often times we don't understand what the guy's doing. 469 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,480 Oftentimes, like I don't know why in the world I'm getting a 470 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,880 donkey and you're coming into Jerusalem. 471 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,040 This makes no sense. And it says they didn't know 472 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,280 until it was glorified. Think about when Jesus 473 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:38,760 glorified. You're talking about death, 474 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,800 burial, resurrection, sighting, and then Jesus glorified. 475 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,640 Like they had no idea what the plan of God was. 476 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,320 And oftentimes we want the answers, but we don't have the 477 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,560 answers. The key disciples was this. 478 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,880 Even though they didn't have clarity, they still chose 479 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,720 obedience. They still followed Jesus. 480 00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:58,520 Amen. Even though they didn't have the 481 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,920 next step or the master plan, they still chose Jesus. 482 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,720 Think about this, you can follow the master without the master 483 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,120 plan. Amen. 484 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,520 You know, often times you want to have all those steps and 485 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,480 those things, but that's what makes him God. 486 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,040 He holds the keys. So what things did not did not 487 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,720 understand. It's found in Matthew 21 says 488 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:21,920 this about disciples since as they approached Jerusalem they 489 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,040 came to Bethpage on the Mount of Olives and Jesus sent 2 490 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,920 disciples saying to them, go to the village ahead of you and at 491 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:32,400 once you'll find a donkey tied there in her colt by her. 492 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,600 Untie them, bring them to me and if anyone says anything to you 493 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,840 this is amazing, Say that the Lord needs them and he will send 494 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,400 them right away. Think how crazy this request is. 495 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,560 This be like going down because the Lord told you to to the the 496 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,120 next city, which let's call peculiar. 497 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,520 That's an awesome name for this, right. 498 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,920 And you go down to the Flying J. There's interesting characters 499 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,000 of the Flying J, right? And you're and you're gonna go 500 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,800 in and you're gonna look for two cars, right? 501 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,960 And you're gonna say I need the keys to the cars. 502 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,800 And maybe it like we're keeping animals, right? 503 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,800 We'll do a Jaguar and a Mustang. Come on somebody right? 504 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:09,360 And you just go tell them, don't you? 505 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,800 I want you guys to try this today. 506 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:12,960 And so I I need the keys to your car. 507 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,720 And they say what in the world you talking about? 508 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,560 The Lord needs them. The Lord needs. 509 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,080 I want to see you guys try that, Amen. 510 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:22,720 The Lord needs your nice new Tesla, Amen. 511 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,120 That means a lot of things the Lord needs, you know, maybe it's 512 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,400 the Lord, maybe it's us, I don't know. 513 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,200 And I just want to see, I mean, think of the boldness and the 514 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,920 act of faith for his disciples to literally go borrow somebody 515 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,160 else's Burrow. Like I'm going to take your 516 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,920 animal because the Lord needs it. 517 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:38,760 The trust of the Lord had a plan. 518 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:43,200 It make no sense what God is doing, but they did it anyway. 519 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,520 Amen. They didn't understand the plan, 520 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:50,000 but they followed in obedience what God had and often falling 521 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,400 God makes absolute no sense. We, we saw this with Peter when 522 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,840 Jesus talked about going to the cross and Peter says no, no, no, 523 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,680 no, no Jesus, like I'm not gonna let you go to the cross, like 524 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,880 you're not going to die. And so it says in Matthew 1622. 525 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,160 It says Peter took him being Jesus aside. 526 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,920 It began to what, what's it say? Rebuke him? 527 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,400 We we've used this verse quite often for the will of God, like 528 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:12,840 Peter had no idea what God's doing. 529 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,200 It begins to rebuke Jesus. No, you know a clue like I know 530 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,680 you have a master plan, but my plan is so much different than 531 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,600 your plan and we're going to follow my plan. 532 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,600 He says never, Lord, he said this will never happen to you. 533 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,320 Never go to the cross. We'll never let you die. 534 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,280 And look what Jesus says to Peter. 535 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,320 He says get behind me who get behind me, Satan. 536 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,400 Like, that's not the word you want to hear from Jesus behind 537 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,400 me. Satan, you are a stumbling block 538 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,600 to me. What's it mean to be a stumbling 539 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,560 block? You're in the way. 540 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,000 Like you're tripping up the plan of God. 541 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,080 You're you're trying to drive the plan of God off course. 542 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,280 You don't have in mind the concerns of God, but merely what 543 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,640 what's it say? Yeah, human concerns. 544 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,600 You're worried about your plan. And I got a plan. 545 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,640 And often times we want to run our own play. 546 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:02,000 And Peter, he just puts his foot in his mouth. 547 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:06,400 And this is amazing. Jesus was offended by Peter's 548 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,000 disobedience and defiance of the plan that God had. 549 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,560 Jesus was offended by it. And oftentimes we have our 550 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,840 master plan. It's us saying that we're in 551 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,280 control. Like I trust you as the master, 552 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,920 but as long as I have my way, as long as I get my direction, as 553 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,880 long as I get the answers now, as long as it makes sense. 554 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:27,120 But Peter unknown, like he didn't know what you're talking 555 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,720 about. Like we don't even know what 556 00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:30,840 we're talking about. We tell God to do certain 557 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,960 things. So Peter, what he's ultimately 558 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,920 telling Jesus is that he wants everybody to go to hell. 559 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,000 Like, Peter had no idea that what Jesus had to do on that 560 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:39,840 cross. Amen. 561 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,840 He had no idea that Jesus had to take himself as a perfect 562 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,480 sacrifice, as a Lamb of God, and present himself to the Father 563 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,680 and pour out the wrath of our sin on him and be the permanent 564 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,720 perfect sacrifice for our sins. Peter had no clue that was going 565 00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:57,280 on. And we don't know what's 566 00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,040 happened either, do we? We like to think we do. 567 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,720 Like I like to think in the next step, but I don't know the next 568 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,480 step. And ultimately what Jesus is 569 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,560 telling Peter is you have no business getting in my business. 570 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,120 You have no business getting my business. 571 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,080 You ever stepped in somebody's business and they're like, you 572 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,320 didn't stay in your own business. 573 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,520 This is what Jesus is telling Peter. 574 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,160 Mind your own business. Just stay in your own lane. 575 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,520 You don't know what you're talking about, but Jesus knows 576 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:25,440 what he's doing. Amen. 577 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,680 Jesus knows exactly what he's doing, and it's so easy to take 578 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:30,800 control. It's human nature. 579 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,200 Every single time. If you look at my own family and 580 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,720 Lord, what's going on? And I just have to simply trust. 581 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,400 Like I can't see the full picture, but Lord, I trust 582 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,960 you're writing a story that you're close to us, like you're 583 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,680 in the valley. There's certain things that 584 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,360 happen in the darkness. Certain things happen with God. 585 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,520 It feels absent when you don't know what's happening next. 586 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,440 And so I only encourage you guys with some 3 truths. 587 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,800 I think it'd be super powerful for you guys today, but three 588 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,560 truths, they're going to help you stay close to God in the 589 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,960 murky moments. So #1 if you're taking notes, 590 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,800 you guys ready? Muscle confusion. 591 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,520 Somebody say muscle confusion. Any anybody like workout people. 592 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,520 I saw Dan, by the way, do you see Dan come down here, pass 593 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,680 some popcorn. You know what I'm talking about. 594 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:13,880 I told him, I said, where's the calendar? 595 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,760 Shoot, it looks like a lumberjack. 596 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,360 You know, I thought, dude, I need to start working out so I 597 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,320 can use that joke next time on myself, you know, but but it can 598 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,280 be a while. But muscle confusion. 599 00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:26,680 You go work out. And if you get in the same 600 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,560 routine and you do the same workouts, the same rhythms and 601 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,080 the same reps and the same practices over and over again, 602 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,640 what happens to you? What happens? 603 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:39,080 You plateau. Exactly. 604 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,320 You absolutely plateau. There's things called hit and 605 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,160 you know, intervals, all these different things. 606 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,920 You try to confuse your body. If you get in the same routines, 607 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,320 your body gets used to it and it doesn't react, it doesn't grow 608 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,200 and you plateau. You flat line you, you, you 609 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,480 don't move up, you just get stuck. 610 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,320 And if you work with a trainer, you, you know about working out, 611 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,320 They, they introduce all sorts of random stuff that they put 612 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,200 variations in. They make it random. 613 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,440 They put in confusion. That's what's called muscle 614 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,440 confusion. They introduce instability into 615 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,920 of your life and the new pattern of your workout is actually not 616 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,200 to have a pattern. Amen. 617 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,440 And this is what happens physically, but what happens 618 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,560 spiritually. Jesus often does the same thing 619 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,120 like he's not going to put you through the same trial and the 620 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,760 same test and you can just go up ace the test been here before. 621 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,960 I've got it figured out. He's going to use confusion to 622 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,040 strengthen your faith, says in James 1-2 says, consider it pure 623 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,120 joy, my brothers and sisters, when you face trials of what, 624 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,480 what's it say? Many kinds. 625 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,520 You're ever going to face it just that one simple trial. 626 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,400 Then who got that? Pass the test on the greatness. 627 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:46,600 I'll know the plan from here on out. 628 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:47,800 It's going to work out really well. 629 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,800 There's going to be all sorts of different trials as God is 630 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:55,720 trying to what, grow you, Amen. He's trying to get you a little 631 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,560 spiritual buffness. He's trying to get you to 632 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,040 improve your faith, to grow in your faith and says this 633 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,800 because, you know, the testing your faith produces 634 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,760 perseverance, that every trial we face is a test. 635 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,600 Amen. I mean, you guys are old enough 636 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,600 to remember when the TV's used to do certain things, like it's 637 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,840 only a task. Remember that this is a test of 638 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,400 the American broadcast system. You guys remember that? 639 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:19,720 Am I just that old? Right? 640 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,880 All the young people like, huh? T VS turned off. 641 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,000 Remember that you used to play a national anthem. 642 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,760 Then they go, Yep, at midnight. There you go, Tim. 643 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,280 You're a night owl, aren't you, buddy? 644 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:41,800 I know, right? It's a test. 645 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,840 It's a test. Think about Jesus. 646 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,760 He very rarely did a miracle the same way twice. 647 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,880 The thing about how you healed people, I mean, sometimes he, he 648 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,320 would spill on the ground and rub in their eyes, right? 649 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,560 And heal somebody's blind. Other times you say he'll wash 650 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,480 in the pool. Sometimes you say go down the 651 00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:00,280 river and dip 7 times. Sometimes you say stand, stand 652 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,720 up, take your mat and walk. Sometimes he would let somebody 653 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:04,800 die and then he'd resurrect them. 654 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,560 I mean, he just, it's just unique. 655 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,960 And we, we think that life is giving the same variables, the 656 00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,560 same problems, but God is trying to grow our faith. 657 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,480 And so if you're confused, guess what? 658 00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:15,640 You're right where Jesus wants you to be. 659 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,320 Amen, Amen. I mean, if you, if I would be 660 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,920 concerned, if you weren't confused a little bit, like if 661 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,120 you told me I know God's will, which sometimes people come to 662 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,200 me and say I have the will of God for your church and I'm 663 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,840 like, OK, it's probably the Chipotle burrito, but we'll have 664 00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:31,160 a conversation. Amen. 665 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,320 It's interesting. So 1 is muscle confusion and two 666 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:40,640 is unorthodox methods. Somebody say unorthodox methods. 667 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,520 God is going to use strange things to grow us. 668 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:50,120 God uses strange things, Amen. Very strange things, quite 669 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,240 frankly, they are very strange. Isaiah 55, eight says this for 670 00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:54,960 my thoughts are not your thoughts. 671 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,160 Drew tried to work this in the prayer. 672 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,880 I saw that, but thoughts are not my thoughts, neither your ways, 673 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,720 my ways, declares Lord, as the heavens are higher than the 674 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:05,360 earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts 675 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,320 are higher than your thoughts. Who knows? 676 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,840 God can do what we can't do, Amen. 677 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,880 And he knows that we don't, Amen. 678 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,560 And so sometimes we like to insert ourselves into the 679 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,840 driver's seat, but the Lord knows everything and can do 680 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,160 anything. But we often forget that kind of 681 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,960 power. And so when you follow Jesus, 682 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,520 you got to use the word different. 683 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,640 It's just different. There's a different perspective. 684 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,320 There's a different direction, there's a different way of doing 685 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,320 things and we grew up, we're always war against our 686 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,720 childhood. Come on, somebody we grew up 687 00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:39,360 saying these things or this kind of add to this certain way and 688 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,040 and Jesus has a different way of doing it. 689 00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,000 He does unorthodox things. Just think about all the things 690 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,960 just just ran things that Jesus didn't take long to look at the 691 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,240 miracles of God. Think about Moses and Jesus. 692 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:54,720 God speaks through what a burning Bush that's weird. 693 00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:56,760 Can you imagine going to talk to your friends A burning Bush told 694 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,800 me I'm just play these scenarios that it makes no sense. 695 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:03,880 You think about Abraham and Sarah. 696 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:07,240 I mean she's passed the years to bear a child and then she have a 697 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:10,680 son who's going to be to be at the beginning of a great nation 698 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,280 and had the faith that God could even do this and God does this 699 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,520 miracle Amen. You think about marching around 700 00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:21,040 the city of Jericho just March around 7 times or screaming 701 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,680 walls going to come down. Is that weird? 702 00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,160 I mean, would you follow me if I told you to walk around a 703 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,280 building 7 times and you yell and it's going to you'd be like, 704 00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,160 what a crazy fool, right? You, you think of giddy and you 705 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,320 think of a, you think of this army of a 30,000 people and then 706 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,640 God says, no, it's too many, too many. 707 00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,400 You're going to get the glory. You're going to be too prideful. 708 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,040 Hey, take, go down the river, have them lap those who don't 709 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,560 take those guys whittle down to 300 men. 710 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,160 And then I'm going to do something great. 711 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,600 We're going to get clay jars and then we're going to break them. 712 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,720 It's going to be crazy. And then we're going to have the 713 00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,320 torches. We like, people are going to 714 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,520 freak out. Trumpets are going to blow. 715 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,160 We're going to win the battle. Is that crazy? 716 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,120 That is so unorthodox. Like we would never think to win 717 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,920 the battle this way. And there's so many times in the 718 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,440 Old Testament, there's one that sticks out. 719 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,320 This guy's the guy's name is Nam. 720 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,480 Have you heard of Nam before? Got him Nam. 721 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,040 And God tells them he's actually a commander of a foreign army. 722 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,280 He doesn't know Jesus. He has no faith in and God, the 723 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,080 God of the Israelites. But he hears about this, this 724 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,120 man that he can heal. His name is Elijah. 725 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,160 And so he goes to Elijah and he wants to be healed of his 726 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,120 leprosy. And Elijah tells him to do 727 00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,320 something. He says go down to the the river 728 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:33,760 Jordan, the murky nasty waters of the Jordan and go dip 729 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,080 yourself 7 times and the story picks up and I'll read some of 730 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:41,160 it for you. This is second Kings 511 but 731 00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,240 Naem went away. What's it say? 732 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,760 Angry. He was so mad. 733 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,640 This is not the way you should do it, he said. 734 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:54,440 I thought he would surely come out to me and stand some by 735 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,080 Elijah and call the name of the Lord his God, and look at this 736 00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:03,640 and wave his hand over me over the spot of leprosy and cure me 737 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:08,320 of my leprosy. They have thought that God 738 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,200 should do a different way. They have had a specific 739 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,080 particular plan for God to heal his life. 740 00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,520 He thought there should be a magic wand. 741 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,880 Come on, somebody. And somebody would wave it and 742 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:21,440 he'd be healed. How many? 743 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,400 How many would be? How many think it'd be great if 744 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,720 Jesus had a magic wand? Amen. 745 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:26,960 Come on, show of hands. How many think it'd be great if 746 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:28,040 Jesus had a magic wand? Right? 747 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,080 How many know that Jesus does have a magic wand? 748 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,080 How many guys know that Jesus does exactly what he wants to 749 00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:36,680 do? Amen. 750 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:41,440 Like he can heal you, he can do this immediately. 751 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,240 He could the one word of God everything can change. 752 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,200 He is in control Amen. The the the question is, is can 753 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,520 he do it doesn't match one. Are we willing to be obedient 754 00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:55,360 even if he doesn't? We don't like the way he heals. 755 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,080 We don't like the timing of when he heals. 756 00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:01,080 We want to happen now. Names like can't you just heal 757 00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,800 my hand now? He is no go wash 7 times. 758 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,720 Look at the next verse. He still complaints, says aren't 759 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,840 Abana and power for the rivers of Damascus? 760 00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,120 Look at this, better than all the waters of Israel. 761 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,680 Like why can't I go to these rivers? 762 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,520 They're way better than that. Maybe they're even closer. 763 00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,720 Why have to go past these other rivers to go to that murky 764 00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,880 water? Can't I washing them to be 765 00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:26,920 cleansed? And so he turned around and he 766 00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,520 went off and what? Yeah, he went for rage. 767 00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,840 He was mad that God didn't do it his way. 768 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:35,560 If we're real honest, we can relate to Nahum. 769 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,920 Amen. We can, we can relate to this 770 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,440 story like, I want it now. I want it my way. 771 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,720 That's too uncomfortable. And honestly, he thought it was 772 00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:46,200 too cheap. He, he, he thought that God 773 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,800 should do some greater thing or do it instantly. 774 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,200 The rest of the story, it's not going on the screen. 775 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,720 But one of Nahum's, like, chief advisors goes up to him and 776 00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:58,800 says, if God would have asked you to do something great, like, 777 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,120 I don't know what, that might be the situation, maybe climb Mount 778 00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:05,080 Everest, like do some amazing thing, would you have done it 779 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,600 and been healed? Well, yeah, He replies, 780 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:09,400 absolutely. Then why don't you do something 781 00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,800 foolish? Would that make more sense, just 782 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,280 to do something easy? And so he actually went to the 783 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,560 Jordan River and dipped himself 7 times and was healed. 784 00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,960 Amen. It was just a simple obedience. 785 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,840 And here's the point. God will use ordinary, messy, 786 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,720 undesirable things to do miracles. 787 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,200 Amen. He'll do the everyday thing, the 788 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:38,160 nasty, murky part of the Jordan. He'll do an amazing miracle in 789 00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,120 your life. And we want to look out and say, 790 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,600 I want to see this amazing thing of God's voices speak to me and 791 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,800 I get this tablet, but it's going to happen inside your 792 00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,080 family is going to happen in just simple obedience. 793 00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:48,480 You're going to see this in a story later. 794 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,920 It's just God could use anything to bring a miracle. 795 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,600 And often God will stack the deck against himself so only he 796 00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,600 can get the glory. Like, who else could get the 797 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:57,960 glory by dipping the Jordan River? 798 00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,680 I mean, did you really get healed in a nasty water? 799 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,000 I mean, the God heal you at the Lake of the Ozarks. 800 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,840 You know, it's better if you're upstream. 801 00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:12,360 You know, we won't go there. I have a lake house down there, 802 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,480 so I know, I guess. But yeah. 803 00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:15,640 Yeah. E coli. 804 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:17,640 That was the word, right? But the God can use these 805 00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,200 waters. Only God can get the glory. 806 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,680 Amen. If God can use these waters, 807 00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,040 only God can get the glory. He wanted something where he 808 00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,200 could do something. He wanted to just praise 809 00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,280 himself. But God use uses even us to get 810 00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,720 the glory. Think about how God stacks the 811 00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:35,360 deck by you even using US First Corinthians 126 as this. 812 00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,320 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were 813 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,600 called not many. You were wise by human 814 00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,400 standards. I mean, Paul just calls us out. 815 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,080 He's not going to say we're dumb, but he didn't say we're 816 00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,000 smart. You know, he says not many were 817 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,160 influential. Not many were noble at birth, 818 00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,520 but God chose the foolish things, the world to shame the 819 00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:55,280 wise, and God chose the weak things, the world to shame the 820 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,040 strong. God will use it unorthodox 821 00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:02,400 things, including us. Amen. 822 00:52:03,240 --> 00:52:05,560 That he will even use us. You know, sometimes we get the 823 00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,760 honor and privilege of being used by God, that God would even 824 00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:10,600 use us to see someone else's life changed. 825 00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:12,400 And we actually had this happen last week. 826 00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,200 I mean, we see it all the time. But this is also a story from 827 00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,480 last week. We shared in a huddle. 828 00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,040 Dine did a good job chasing this down. 829 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,960 There is a custodian here. If you met her name is Carol. 830 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,560 I don't know if is Carol in the space right here? 831 00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,120 I can't. There's Carol. 832 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,720 Everybody say hi, Carol. So Carol's going to be 833 00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:33,080 embarrassed a little bit, but it's going to be good. 834 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,240 So she's going to run hide, but it's awesome. 835 00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:38,600 Yeah. So Carol has been setting up. 836 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,040 She's our custodian. I don't know. 837 00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:45,040 This is probably 4-4 to six months, something like that. 838 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:49,080 And sorry, I didn't see if you're like not doing this 839 00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,920 because it'd be weird, but I can't see her from the lights. 840 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:53,800 But she's been setting up and tearing down. 841 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:59,920 And last week we talked about being in the same, same roof, 842 00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:01,320 under the same roof, but not the same room. 843 00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,600 And she has been setting up and, and all these things like 844 00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,960 Martha, right? And so Frank and Kathy, who's 845 00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,480 sitting next to them, Kathy said, Hey, Kurt, why don't you 846 00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,920 come on in once you see what God's up to? 847 00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:14,880 And there's, you know, with the custodians, it's interesting 848 00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,440 with the school district because they necessarily don't 849 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,280 necessarily come in and watch church, but they should, Amen. 850 00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,760 You can do that, right? And so she came in for the first 851 00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:24,520 time last week. And guess what happened to Carl? 852 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,680 She started a relationship with Jesus, Amen. 853 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,480 So give it up for Carol, give it up for God. 854 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:37,320 Unorthodox ways. God, God put us here and she's 855 00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,720 the custodian and God works away. 856 00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:42,280 And then somebody says, you know, there's a lady right 857 00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,800 outside these doors that comes every week that should hear this 858 00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,880 and just invites her in. She comes to Christ, Amen. 859 00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,280 It's just the simplicity of an invite. 860 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,760 It's supposed to be seeing souls and just why? 861 00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:54,800 Why does God bring us to the school? 862 00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,000 Maybe it's for Carol, Amen. You have no idea what God is 863 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,560 going to do, but unorthodox ways and he uses us. 864 00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:05,840 I bet, Kathy, you're like one plan on going to use my life 865 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,760 this way. But God did, Amen. 866 00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,200 Least likely, but God chooses to use us, Amen. 867 00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:13,880 And so muscle confusion, unorthodox ways. 868 00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,440 Last thing is this. You'll know more later. 869 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:17,800 Somebody say you'll know more later. 870 00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:20,840 Yeah, who knows? Hindsight's 2020, Amen. 871 00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,720 Like when you look back, you'll see the fingerprints of God. 872 00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:25,880 When you look back, you'll see how God's move. 873 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,880 You'll know why later on. We talked about this in John 874 00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:31,840 1216. It says that first disciples did 875 00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,440 not understand all this. They didn't understand what was 876 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,280 going on. And that's often times where 877 00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:37,880 we're at. We like the disciples. 878 00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,840 These guys have walked with Jesus for almost, both over 879 00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,880 almost 3 1/2 years and they still were a little confused on 880 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,640 what God's doing. And if we're real honest, we're 881 00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,320 going to be seizing this confusion all the way through 882 00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,760 our life until we pass away. There's just going to be 883 00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,040 confusion. But you get OK with not knowing, 884 00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:55,080 Amen. You get OK with going. 885 00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:56,880 You know, Lord, I don't have to know the answer because I trust 886 00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,160 You because you're faithful. You never change. 887 00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,240 But I don't have a clue what's even happening right now. 888 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,120 But I trust your plan. You're the author and you have a 889 00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,120 master plan that I trust. But they understood what the 890 00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,720 triumphal intro is about. When Jesus was glorified, they 891 00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:13,680 didn't realize those things have been written about him and 892 00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,200 things have been done to him. They they figured it out when 893 00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:19,840 Jesus death, burial, resurrection, sighting, what 894 00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,640 Jesus was really talking about who he really was as a king and 895 00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,160 really, really was the Messiah. And here's the principle. 896 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:31,200 Obedience now, revelation later, obedience now, revelation later. 897 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,640 Are you OK with obedience without revelation? 898 00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:36,680 Are you OK with falling God, with not knowing why? 899 00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:38,840 You know, think about the original call from Abraham. 900 00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,200 Abraham, who was Abraham then? Abraham. 901 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,520 But he was called to leave the early counties to go to a land 902 00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,040 they didn't know. He, he, he left without knowing 903 00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,440 the destination. That's faith, Amen. 904 00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,000 That's faith. It's faith when you step out for 905 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,880 God, but you don't know how it's going to work out, Amen. 906 00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,880 That's faith. It doesn't take any faith to if 907 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,400 you know how it's going to go. They didn't take any faith to 908 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,040 have it planned out and say, look, I ran my plan. 909 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,240 I ran the play Whoo faith. That's not faith. 910 00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,000 Faith is stepping out without having the end written yet. 911 00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,760 Faith is saying God, here's the contract to my life and here's 912 00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,360 the pen. I signed the bond already and 913 00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,200 you can write the terms of the agreement. 914 00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,520 You can tell me where to go, what's next and what what to 915 00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:26,360 give, where to serve, how to live my life, what to say, who 916 00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:27,880 to marry. You can be in charge of 917 00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,200 everything in my life. Jesus, Amen. 918 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,040 And there's freedom that we can trust Jesus for that because 919 00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,520 he's a good God. It says in Proverbs 3, five and 920 00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,640 six, it says trust the Lord with what? 921 00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:41,720 What's it say? Yeah, all your heart, not 99%, 922 00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:44,360 not the comfortable pieces, but every piece of your life you 923 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,800 trust the Lord says lean not on your own understanding. 924 00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:49,760 That means don't trust your master plan. 925 00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:54,440 I memorized this verse on the way to Bible college and the 926 00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,960 reason I memorized it because I gave a full ride scholarship to 927 00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,440 Baylor University and I was trusting the Lord with all my 928 00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,720 heart and leaning not on my understanding because my 929 00:57:02,720 --> 00:57:04,400 understanding is going to take me a totally different 930 00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:05,280 direction. Amen. 931 00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,240 That was the moment of big faith. 932 00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:08,680 Like, I don't know how it's going to work out. 933 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,840 I've never even seen this college before. 934 00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,680 Like I'm driving into an unknown place with unknown people and 935 00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,240 let me tell you something, it wasn't as cool as Baylor. 936 00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:21,160 I'm going to be real. The Baylor's parking garage was 937 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,720 cooler than my whole school. I'm just telling you, it was 938 00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,560 gold plated. It was awesome, but I was where 939 00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:28,720 God wanted me to be. Amen. 940 00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,440 I was in his plan and his will and that is the safest, greatest 941 00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,680 place you could ever be. I think he's a Christian. 942 00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,200 The most miserable place to be in life is to be outside. 943 00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,720 The center of God's will is miserable. 944 00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,520 The only way to get in the center of God's will is a lean, 945 00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,680 not understanding and always submit to Him and He will make 946 00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,280 your paths straight. You have to hand God the keys. 947 00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,240 You have to hand God the pen. You have to say in the middle of 948 00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,400 confusion, the cast. It's not my story. 949 00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,280 It's not my story. I am just a soundtrack. 950 00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,360 I'm a servant. I'm the background music. 951 00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,400 I'm a person putting down a palm leaf, a person putting out a 952 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,080 piece of cloth. This story is not about me. 953 00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:06,360 It's all about you, Jesus. Let me give you a story that 954 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,360 kind of wraps this all together. It's found the Bible. 955 00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,040 It's found Luke 22. There's a picture of muscular 956 00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,760 confusion, unorthodox ways. If you're not listening 957 00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,320 carefully, reading this carefully, you're going to miss 958 00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,480 the confusion. So I want you to lean and I want 959 00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,440 to see if you can find the confusion in the scripture. 960 00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:25,400 Luke 22/7 says this. Then came the Day of Unleavened 961 00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,840 Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. 962 00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:33,680 Jesus sent Peter and John saying, go and make preparations 963 00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,920 for us to eat the Passover. This is the question, where do 964 00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:39,880 you want us to prepare it? They ask. 965 00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,880 And he replied, As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of 966 00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,560 water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he 967 00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,800 enters and say to the owner of the house. 968 00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:52,960 The teacher asked, where is the guest room? 969 00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:55,560 Where may I eat the Passover by disciples? 970 00:58:55,560 --> 00:59:00,880 And it will show you a large room upstairs, all furnished. 971 00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:05,320 Make preparations there. Did you guys see it? 972 00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:08,920 Do you guys see the confusion in the story? 973 00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:13,920 It's so subtle, you miss it. You just read right over it. 974 00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,880 You have no idea what God is doing in this story. 975 00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,560 The confusion has taken place to get to the place. 976 00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:24,680 The confusion part of the story is the man carrying a jar. 977 00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,680 Men didn't carry jars in that culture. 978 00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,560 That was a woman's role. She would carry the water jar. 979 00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,440 It was how in the world would the disciples have known to 980 00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,400 follow a man carrying a jar if every man carried a jar? 981 00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:43,040 Amen. Think about this, the location 982 00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:47,640 of the Last Supper to a set in place because the obedience of a 983 00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:52,600 man to break their own culture and do things differently than 984 00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:57,640 everybody else, to be made fun of, to stand out, to look weird 985 00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,760 and different and live in confusion. 986 00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,320 I don't know why God's called me, but I'm going to serve and 987 01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:05,840 I'm going to carry this jar that most men would never carry. 988 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,520 And when disciples get into town, what happens? 989 01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:10,840 Oh, follow the man, carry the jar. 990 01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,760 He's going to lead you there. So the location of the Last 991 01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,560 Supper actually is set by a man that was simply obedient to 992 01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:19,120 Jesus. Amen. 993 01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:24,240 This wasn't this wasn't like whoa, mind blowing crazy, but it 994 01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,240 was simple, wasn't it? How many guys can carry a jar, 995 01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,200 right? And God's calling you to do 996 01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:35,680 something weird, unorthodox. Why in the world, God, would you 997 01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,760 have me do this? Why like all that you can 998 01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:40,920 imagine, like if you're carrying a jar and a culture didn't carry 999 01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:42,680 a jar, how many all get made fun of? 1000 01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:45,200 How many how many your friends you make fun of you to do 1001 01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:46,920 something that's weird and different that they would never 1002 01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,640 do. I know all you blue collar guys 1003 01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,120 we made fun of immediately. Amen. 1004 01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,080 They would just tear you down in pieces and he's like, well, I'm 1005 01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:57,320 just being faithful to carry the jar because the Lord told me to 1006 01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,800 carry this jar. The Lord told me to carry the 1007 01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,520 jar. I don't know why he he had no 1008 01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:07,120 idea that God was going to use him to pick the location of the 1009 01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:10,040 Last Supper. He'd imagine being in heaven and 1010 01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,360 for all of eternity. They read this scripture and you 1011 01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:17,560 go, that was me. I was the man carrying the jar. 1012 01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:23,080 Isn't that cool? Like that's what that's what was 1013 01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,680 is put in for posterity's sake is the faith of people. 1014 01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,640 Amen. Just to do something simple for 1015 01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:31,480 God. You know, often times like God 1016 01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:33,720 will do this great thing. I'll be this, I'll do that. 1017 01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:35,800 And God just wants you to do something simple today. 1018 01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:37,360 He just wants you to be faithful. 1019 01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,120 What He's actually do next. Maybe that's the first time I 1020 01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:41,440 picked up a jar. Maybe that's the hard time I 1021 01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,240 picked the jar. I have no idea, but God used it. 1022 01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,000 Amen. It's confusion. 1023 01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:49,360 It makes no sense. When's the last time that you 1024 01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,880 did something that's confusing to your normal rhythm? 1025 01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:55,120 But when's, when's the last time that you took a step of faith 1026 01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,640 that made no sense? When's the last time you stepped 1027 01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:00,760 out and you didn't know if God could do it because you can't 1028 01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:04,960 plan out your own mind, but you trust it anyway, Amen? 1029 01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:09,600 I mean, you talk about giving or serving, like when was the last 1030 01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:11,440 time you gave you like, I don't know how it's going to work out. 1031 01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,160 That's faith, Amen? Giving is an act of faith. 1032 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,040 Or you give up your time. Like I don't know how it's going 1033 01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:20,360 to work, but I'm going to help. Like I'm going to give back. 1034 01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:24,360 Like you spoke up and then people came to Christ, Amen. 1035 01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,840 You come, I mean, simple invitation, come sit next to me. 1036 01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:29,840 You know how God's going to use it, Amen? 1037 01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,800 Some of us, we set up chairs and we tear down, we set up all 1038 01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:34,440 these different things. We don't know what God's going 1039 01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:36,520 to do. Know we're faithful doing, Amen. 1040 01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:40,720 And so the invitation today is in the midst of confusion. 1041 01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:44,400 Will you still obey? Will you still say yes, Lord? 1042 01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:47,080 It takes no faith to walk away when it's hard. 1043 01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:49,520 It takes no faith to have all the answers. 1044 01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:51,840 It takes no faith. And Jesus wants you to build 1045 01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:53,560 your life on him. He's the rock, Amen. 1046 01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:57,120 He's a sure foundation. And when the storms come and the 1047 01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:00,360 wind blows, your life is built on Jesus. 1048 01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,040 It doesn't collapse. I've seen a lot of lives 1049 01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,320 collapse around me that build a life on everything but Jesus. 1050 01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:11,000 It's amazing that in my life I get the ability to take no 1051 01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,840 credit and say the only reason my life is different, different 1052 01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:16,480 is because it's built on a rock. Amen. 1053 01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:20,160 It's built on a rock. And so Father, come before you 1054 01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,960 got to ask for a church for those of us that have been 1055 01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:27,320 trusting their own and master a plan that maybe there's people 1056 01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:28,600 in the house today. So you know what, I need to give 1057 01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:31,680 up my plan and I simply need to trust the Master today. 1058 01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,480 Like I need just to be obedient with what he's asked me to do, 1059 01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:38,680 even though it makes no sense. Maybe there's a specific thing 1060 01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:41,000 that we've been holding off or a part of our heart that we're 1061 01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,960 holding on to or we're controlling or upset. 1062 01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,760 Like, damn God, I want it now and I want it my way. 1063 01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:48,120 We don't understand what's happening. 1064 01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,360 We seem to be obedient to step into the murky water. 1065 01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:56,600 And so today, if you just be so humble to say Jesus, you are the 1066 01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,800 master and I'm no longer going to follow my plan. 1067 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:02,440 I'm following your master plan, the master master plan. 1068 01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:04,880 If that's you, just raise your hand high this place and say 1069 01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,720 that's me. God's called me to have less 1070 01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:09,760 faith in myself and more faith in Jesus. 1071 01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:16,200 The moment of vulnerability, openness, say God, I'll give you 1072 01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:22,040 the contract to my life. You can hold all the keys. 1073 01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:27,160 You can have the pin. I'm tired of writing my story. 1074 01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,440 I need you to write my story. Jesus, it's a prayer of 1075 01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:34,440 surrender. Not all of me, God, You can have 1076 01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:37,160 I laid it all down your feet. God, use my life. 1077 01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:38,880 And I don't have to know the answers. 1078 01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:40,880 I don't have to have all of it now. 1079 01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:45,960 Because one day I will. One day I'll know why I carried 1080 01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:48,960 what I carried. One day I'll know why I walked 1081 01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:50,840 through what I walked through. But today I'm not going to know. 1082 01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,320 But one day I will, I'll pray for one more group of people in 1083 01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,400 the house. That's those you say I need 1084 01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:01,120 Jesus, like I've gone every direction but to God. 1085 01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:03,760 I've trusted in every plan but God's plan. 1086 01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:05,800 And what's God plan for your life? 1087 01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:09,480 That you would surrender yourself and humble yourself and 1088 01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,640 call the name of Jesus as Lord and Savior. 1089 01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:15,800 You'd say I'm a Sinner and need a Savior. 1090 01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:20,040 I'm broken. I've built my life on myself and 1091 01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:23,200 it's not worked out. Lord, I need you. 1092 01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,320 The Bible says that today is the day of salvation that anybody 1093 01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:29,720 calls the name of Lord be saved, forgiven and made new that Jesus 1094 01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:33,840 is a good God and you can trust him to write your life. 1095 01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:36,800 It's no longer about you writing your story. 1096 01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:40,240 It's about God writing your story because he's the only one 1097 01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,680 worthy to write your story. And so they if you need us to 1098 01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:47,280 run your life to Jesus, you start a relationship with Jesus. 1099 01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:49,600 If that's you, I'm not going to make it weird or call you out, 1100 01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:50,600 but if that's you, just raise your hand. 1101 01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:53,360 Hide this place. I need Jesus today and it's our 1102 01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:55,440 relationship with Christ for the very first time. 1103 01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,720 I'm going to humble myself and call on Jesus. 1104 01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:00,400 I see your hands across the room. 1105 01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:02,480 If that's you, I'm a lead you through a prayer. 1106 01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:05,280 The prayer does not save you, but your heart towards him is 1107 01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:08,280 the humility in yourself to call on God. 1108 01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:12,640 Just say this say follow God. Thank you so much for loving me 1109 01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:17,400 enough to send Jesus and I was I was at my worst writing my own 1110 01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,400 story. Follow my own plan. 1111 01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:23,480 God, you had such a greater plan for me that your plan was to 1112 01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:28,360 send your son Jesus to die on a cross for my sins and I trust 1113 01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:31,600 what he did on that cross. God save me. 1114 01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:36,920 God, you can have the pen to my life, you can write the story. 1115 01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:40,320 I'm no longer in charge. God, I trust you. 1116 01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,720 Thank you Jesus for saving me, and I praise in Jesus name, 1117 01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:46,040 Amen. Give it up for God today. 1118 01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:48,520 Come on people, come to Christ today. 1119 01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,280 Amen. Amen. 1120 01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:53,800 Man, what an encouraging word this morning. 1121 01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:58,000 Just to think that God can use the messy, the ordinary, the 1122 01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:01,840 mundane, even the murky things in our life to do a miracle. 1123 01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:04,440 And I love that challenge too, to look at my own life. 1124 01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:07,400 And God, what act of obedience are you calling me to? 1125 01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:10,720 That just seems to make absolutely no sense to me. 1126 01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:12,280 God, what are you asking me to do? 1127 01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,680 So what a word today. Thank you so much, Sean, for 1128 01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,480 bringing that to us. Well, hey, I want to talk to 1129 01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:18,200 those of you who accepted Jesus today. 1130 01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:20,920 You recognize that He is for you, that he loves love you. 1131 01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:22,480 You committed your life to him today. 1132 01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:25,680 We are so excited for you. Congratulations. 1133 01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,120 We would love to help you on your journey if you would just 1134 01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:30,920 grab that connection card that's on your seat, fill out the 1135 01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:33,440 information on that, but check that box that says I committed 1136 01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,520 my life to Jesus. And you can drop it in the 1137 01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:37,160 giving buckets here in just a few minutes. 1138 01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,360 But we would love to come alongside you to get you a few 1139 01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:41,840 things this week. And the first one is to drop a 1140 01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:43,920 free book in the mail. It's called begin. 1141 01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:46,840 It's a short read, about 100 pages, but we know that it will 1142 01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:49,560 be a blessing to you on your journey with Jesus as you take 1143 01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,800 those next steps. And if you were here at Kentucky 1144 01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:54,800 Trail today and you prayed that prayer, you made that decision. 1145 01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:57,480 As you leave the worship center, there's a table with some red 1146 01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,920 bags inside those red bags. It's a free Bible just for you 1147 01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:02,400 and a list of a few other resources. 1148 01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:05,120 We would love to get that to you today as well. 1149 01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,640 And hey, if you are newer in the house with us today, thank you 1150 01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:10,920 so much for being here. You really are honored guests. 1151 01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,600 We love that you chose to spend your morning with us. 1152 01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:16,319 And hey, church is free. We don't want anything from you 1153 01:08:16,319 --> 01:08:18,160 except for this. And that is just for you to 1154 01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,840 introduce yourself to us. And you can do that by grabbing 1155 01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:23,560 that same card. Fill out your information, check 1156 01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:25,240 that box that says first time here. 1157 01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,120 You can drop that at the new here booth as you leave, as you 1158 01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:31,160 exit the worship center to your right, there's a booth there. 1159 01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:32,840 You can turn that in there. We have a free gift. 1160 01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:35,200 We would love to get to you and we would love just to see you 1161 01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,319 back next time right here at 915-1045. 1162 01:08:38,319 --> 01:08:41,120 Thanks again for checking us out for spending your morning right 1163 01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,840 here with us and here. About a month ago, our missions 1164 01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:48,920 team served on a trip over in Bogota, Colombia and South 1165 01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:53,120 America and they saw God move in so many ways, but they had the 1166 01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:57,479 most beautiful opportunity to help and to serve a ministry 1167 01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:00,240 family in need there, Jose and Ingrid. 1168 01:09:00,399 --> 01:09:03,040 They are a husband and wife couple that serve as ministry 1169 01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,040 leaders in a church called Family Church up in in the 1170 01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:08,840 mountains of Bogota. I'm Jose and Ingrid. 1171 01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:12,720 They are refugees from Venezuela and they came to Colombia with 1172 01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:14,800 just their son and the clothes on their back. 1173 01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:19,040 So they essentially they live as undocumented foreigners in 1174 01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:20,720 Colombia. And as you can imagine, that can 1175 01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:23,760 make a life and things just difficult for them. 1176 01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,520 In about a week before our team came, Jose's mom actually had 1177 01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:29,520 passed away back home in Venezuela. 1178 01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,680 And it was very difficult. They had no way to get back home 1179 01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:36,600 to be with their family. And our team, upon hearing that 1180 01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,680 story, when they arrived, immediately came together and 1181 01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:44,319 gave $1500 of their own money to Jose and Ingrid to help them get 1182 01:09:44,319 --> 01:09:47,120 back home. And what a blessing and 1183 01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,840 opportunity that was for them to serve them in that way. 1184 01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:52,720 And Jose and Ingrid were so touched and so moved, and they 1185 01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,640 shot this video for us just to say thank you so much. 1186 01:09:55,800 --> 01:10:14,800 So check this out. Gracias. 1187 01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:40,760 How awesome and what a blessing it is to be a blessing. 1188 01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:44,600 And Jesus said it is more blessed to give than to receive. 1189 01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:48,120 And I guarantee our team will never forget that story and that 1190 01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:50,840 opportunity, but not just because they gave of their 1191 01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:54,240 money, but because they played a part in that story that they 1192 01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:58,760 impacted lives for Jesus. I mean, we have the opportunity 1193 01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:02,520 to do that each and every day. There's stories, there's faces 1194 01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:04,920 just like Jose and Ingrid that we get to play a part of. 1195 01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:07,920 And when you give here, when you're a blessing here, you play 1196 01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,840 a part in that story of helping change people's lives and some 1197 01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,760 miraculous and amazing ways. And so I want to encourage you, 1198 01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:17,320 I want to invite you to be a blessing today. 1199 01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:19,560 You can do that if you call real life church home. 1200 01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:21,320 There are so many ways you can take part in that. 1201 01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:24,040 You can check out our website, you can text to give, you can 1202 01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:27,200 scan the QR, all sorts of ways. You can drop cash or check in 1203 01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,240 the bucket as I pass here in just a few minutes. 1204 01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,960 There's also a giving box in the back you can drop cash or check 1205 01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:33,360 in if that's more convenient for you. 1206 01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:36,640 And if you or your family find yourself in any kind of need, 1207 01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,440 whether it's food, it's clothing, it's shelter, would 1208 01:11:39,440 --> 01:11:41,960 you please reach into those buckets as I pass here in just a 1209 01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:44,400 few minutes? Grab out any loose cash that you 1210 01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:46,560 see. We truly do want to be a 1211 01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:49,320 blessing to you and your family and your time of need. 1212 01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:54,520 Awesome. Hey, who would say by a show of 1213 01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,200 hands that you really got something out of today, that God 1214 01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,320 just working in your life and doing something in this place? 1215 01:12:00,440 --> 01:12:04,360 Hey, man, I love seeing that. And my encouragement to you is 1216 01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:07,000 just one quick thing. Will you just share that with 1217 01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,320 somebody this week? Just tell someone in your life, 1218 01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,840 you know, man, all that God's doing, all that he's the work 1219 01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:16,200 he's been doing in you and just point him, point him to Jesus 1220 01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:17,960 number one. And then just man, invite him to 1221 01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:21,520 come along and hang out with us right here at Real Life Live 1222 01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:23,320 Church. That'd be really cool, man. 1223 01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:26,160 I'm excited for next week. And you should get excited too 1224 01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,760 because we're going to get to hear the stories from this 1225 01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,840 summer from our youth camp and our kids camp. 1226 01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:35,800 And so God obviously moves here with us here in the worship 1227 01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:37,200 center. And you know, we kind of think 1228 01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:41,160 of, you know, how we experience God as adults, but don't lose 1229 01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:44,280 sight of the fact that God and the Holy Spirit is working in 1230 01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:47,240 the lives of our kids, our teens and our children. 1231 01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,320 So some really cool things happened this summer at both of 1232 01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:51,320 those events. And we're going to get to hear 1233 01:12:51,480 --> 01:12:54,520 about that next week. So bring a friend, come back and 1234 01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:57,720 just be ready to be blessed by next week. 1235 01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,160 And if you need prayer this morning, we'll have people down 1236 01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:01,640 here in front that would love to pray for you. 1237 01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:03,480 So don't be bashful. Come on up and do that. 1238 01:13:03,480 --> 01:13:07,360 And other than that, we'll see you next week at 9:15 or 10:45. 1239 01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:11,960 Remember, whoever finds Jesus discovers real life and purpose. 1240 01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:16,000 Have a great week. This is the end of this podcast. 1241 01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:18,640 We hope you've enjoyed it. If you have, be sure to hit the 1242 01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:21,080 subscribe button so you don't miss another inspirational 1243 01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:23,080 podcast. For more great content and 1244 01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:25,960 updates, visit reallifechurchkc.com.