1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,280 Hey, good morning, Real Life Church. 2 00:00:02,280 --> 00:00:04,000 It is so good to see you this morning. 3 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,560 I just invite you to stand to your feet and worship as we kick 4 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,160 off the Christmas season right here at Real Life Church. 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:24,240 Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey. 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,320 Unto you this day a baby's born, He's Christ's Messiah. 7 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,720 Shepherds have come, the angels sing. 8 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,960 They follow the star, the three wise kings to come and bat on 9 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:57,360 bended knee. The king is here, the king is 10 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:07,640 here. Hey, hey, here, Good tidings of 11 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:15,400 great joy unto you A Savior is born. 12 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:29,840 Hey, hey, in a danger laze Christ the Lord all have come to 13 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:36,120 endure, to worship him. Our Savior, the King is here. 14 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:47,680 The King is here. Hey, hey here, good tidings of 15 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:54,880 great joy until you, a savior, is born. 16 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:08,479 Here good tidings of great joy, until you, a Savior, is born. 17 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:27,200 Glory to God in the highest. Glory to God in the highest 18 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:34,240 peace on earth and goodwill towards men. 19 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:42,520 Glory to God in the highest. OK. 20 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,800 Hey, hey, come on, give it a book for. 21 00:02:55,400 --> 00:03:01,760 Jesus this morning, and it's so good to worship him in every 22 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,880 season, but especially in Christmas with the anticipation 23 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,920 and the hope and the expectation of what is to come in this 24 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:11,800 season. So lean into that this morning 25 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,680 as we worship Him with anticipation, with expectation 26 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:23,040 and hope of who He is. In the darkness we were waiting, 27 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:29,480 without hope, without light, till from heaven you came 28 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,560 running. There was mercy near us to 29 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:41,760 fulfill the Lord and prophets. To a virgin came the world, from 30 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:56,200 the throne of him is glory to a cradle in the day Praise the 31 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:10,240 fire, praise the sun, praise the Spirit. 3 And one God of good, 32 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:27,530 my Jersey. Praise war ever to the King to 33 00:04:27,530 --> 00:04:35,570 reveal the Kingdom coming, and to reconcile the lost to redeem 34 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:40,490 the world creation. You did not despise the cross 35 00:04:41,490 --> 00:04:47,960 for reaping any or suffering. You saw to the other side, 36 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:54,400 knowing this was our salvation. Jesus, for our sake you die. 37 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,280 Come on you pray, go for him this morning. 38 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:10,440 Praise the God, praise the sight, praise the Spirit. 39 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:28,000 Oh God, oh go me my just need praise forever to the king of 40 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:38,880 King, and the morning may use all of heaven. 41 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:45,400 Heaven its brother said that storm was moved for good for the 42 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,680 Lamb and conquered death. And the dead rose roaming their 43 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,800 tombs. And the Angel stood in all. 44 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:02,080 For the souls of all who come to the Father are restored. 45 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,160 And the Church of Christ was born. 46 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:13,200 Then Spirit lived the flame, Now this gospel truth of world shall 47 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:19,600 not me, shall not breathe by his blood and in his name. 48 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:25,280 Then he's free. Oh, I am free for the love of 49 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,160 Jesus Christ who has resulted me. 50 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:42,240 Praise the Father, praise the Son, praise the Spirit in the 51 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:45,720 world, Heart of the Lord, my just 52 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:21,340 please praise forever to the. Luke 1 verse 26, in the sixth 53 00:07:21,340 --> 00:07:24,220 month of Elizabeth's pregnancy gets in an Angel Gabriel to 54 00:07:24,220 --> 00:07:27,940 Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledge to be married to 55 00:07:27,940 --> 00:07:30,220 a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. 56 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:33,420 The virgin's name was Mary. The Angel went to her and said, 57 00:07:33,420 --> 00:07:37,140 Greetings, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you. 58 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,080 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of 59 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,160 greeting this might be. But the Angel said to her, Do 60 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,560 not be afraid Mary, you have found favor with God. 61 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,880 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you're to call him 62 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,720 Jesus. He will be great, and he will be 63 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,240 called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the 64 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,360 throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob's 65 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,360 descendants forever. His Kingdom will never end. 66 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,080 How will this be? Mary asked the Angel, Since I'm 67 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,440 a virgin. The Angel answered, the Holy 68 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,120 Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will over 69 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,000 shadow you. So the Holy One to be born will 70 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,920 be called the Son of God. And we skip down to 48 or to 46. 71 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,560 And Mary said, my soul glorifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices 72 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,480 and God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state 73 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,960 of his servant. From now on all generations will 74 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,200 call me blessed, for the mighty One has done great things for 75 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,039 me. Holy is his name, His mercy 76 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:40,520 extends to those who fear him from generation to generation. 77 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:42,960 He has performed mighty deeds with his arm. 78 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,400 He has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. 79 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,280 He has brought down rulers from their Thrones, but has lifted up 80 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,560 the humble. He has filled the hungry with 81 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:54,640 good things, but has sent the rich away empty. 82 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,920 He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be 83 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,840 merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as He 84 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,200 promised our ancestors. Man, that Scripture is so 85 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,040 powerful. And Mary shows us that even in 86 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,040 the waiting, there's worship and surrender, even in just a simple 87 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:14,920 posture of saying, God, I'm here. 88 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,040 Even how, even though I don't understand what is about to 89 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,440 happen, God, I'm here. So as we continue in worship 90 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,600 this morning, man, that is my prayer for us. 91 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,760 So we lean into Jesus that we can worship in the waiting, with 92 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,520 expectation, with anticipation, and with hope. 93 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:51,880 If faith can move the mountains, let the mountain move. 94 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:59,600 We come with expectation. Waiting here for you. 95 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:18,520 Waiting here for you. You're the Lord of all creation, 96 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:27,040 and still you know my heart, the author of salvation. 97 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:43,240 You've loved us from the storm, waiting here for you with our 98 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:54,800 hands lifted high. And it is. 99 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:17,040 We adore singing. 100 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:32,480 You are everything you promised. Your faithfulness is true and 101 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,080 we're desperate for your presence. 102 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:51,840 All we need is to you. Waiting here for you with our 103 00:11:51,840 --> 00:12:07,160 hands lifted high it rain and it's you we adore. 104 00:12:07,240 --> 00:13:08,040 We're singing on Man Lose. The. 105 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:29,880 With our hands faking hard. It plays and it's you. 106 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,880 We're done. We're singing. 107 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:55,120 We're waiting here for you with our hands. 108 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:46,680 Waiting here for you with our hands lived in hard, I in 109 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:53,840 praise. And it's you we adore. 110 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:08,080 We're singing on a loose. You're singing on a. 111 00:15:27,830 --> 00:15:31,310 Man, just to hear you guys worship in the Spirit. 112 00:15:31,790 --> 00:15:34,910 Man, the Holy Spirit's moving through this crowd, through 113 00:15:34,910 --> 00:15:37,910 these people, through through God's children, and man to give 114 00:15:37,910 --> 00:15:41,110 that worship back to God. Man, who here is thankful for 115 00:15:41,110 --> 00:15:43,680 the Holy Spirit today. Can we give it up for him, man, 116 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,280 if you guys don't do this, the Holy Spirit is our comforter. 117 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,600 He's the power that we have to worship, man. 118 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,640 He's the promise that Jesus will come back again, man. 119 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,040 So it is so awesome just to get to worship with you guys in the 120 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,480 Spirit today. And we are so thankful you chose 121 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,680 to worship with us here at Real Life today. 122 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,320 I want you guys to know we have a lot of new people with us and 123 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,680 met him coming in. They're with us here in person 124 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,760 and online. So we can can we show everybody 125 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,800 that's new here some love today. Give them a round of applause, 126 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,200 man. Winter is in and it's cold 127 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,760 outside, but it is hot in here with God just moving. 128 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,360 So hey, I know, right? So I want you guys to take 30 129 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,000 seconds and just screw somebody around you. 130 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,280 Let him know how much you are exact studies are to see him. 131 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,800 All right, you guys can go ahead and be seated. 132 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,040 Hey, I want you guys to know you guys are getting ready to set on 133 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,000 an awesome card. And this card is for everybody 134 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,079 in the house. So if you call real life home, 135 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:05,839 we love it. When you fill this card out, let 136 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:07,040 us know what's happened in your life. 137 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,240 Maybe something awesome happened this week. 138 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,160 You had an answer to prayer, or maybe you got a prayer request. 139 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,280 Maybe you got something heavy, something you want us to know 140 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,400 about you come talk to some person. 141 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,520 But hey, if you want to ride it on a card, that's awesome too. 142 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,240 If you're new or newer with us, we're not. 143 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,680 I'm going to I'm so excited that you're here today and we're not 144 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,920 going to ask anything else from you except maybe a simple 145 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:28,800 introduction. And if you fill out the top of 146 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:30,600 this card, just give us your information. 147 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:31,680 We're not going to do thing weird. 148 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,280 We won't show up at your house, but we would love to have a way 149 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:36,480 to send out some more information due this week about 150 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,560 real life, who we are, why we do and maybe how you can be 151 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,640 connected here at real life. So again, we'll let you guys 152 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,640 know in a little bit what you guys can do with that later on 153 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,120 in the gathering. We do everything that we do for 154 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:50,080 setup, to tear down to connection cars because we are a 155 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,240 church on a mission, right? My mission is to see people far 156 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,280 from God discovered their real life and their purpose in Jesus. 157 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,440 What that simply means is, is that that life's not always 158 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,240 easy. It's not always, it's not 159 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,920 always, you know, Christmas presents under the tree and all 160 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,000 that kind of good stuff, right? Which that's coming up. 161 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,480 We're going to have a great season here, but life pieces 162 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:13,000 down doesn't always go our way. But no matter what season you're 163 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,080 in, God's got something big for you in it. 164 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,600 And we don't always get to live on the mountain tops, but we 165 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,240 always have God there with us, whether you're in the valley or 166 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:21,880 you're on the mountain. And that's what we're called 167 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:26,120 here in real life, keep people connected to Jesus because if 168 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:28,040 you don't have Jesus, it doesn't matter if you live on the 169 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,880 mountain time. It's an empty place to be. 170 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,800 And God makes everything real. And that's what we're called to 171 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,200 do to get people committed. And that's what we love. 172 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,760 And we get to see people commit their lives to Jesus week in and 173 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:39,120 week out. That's the joy. 174 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,040 That's why we do what we do. So we're excited for you guys to 175 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,280 be on mission with us. So we're kicking off a new 176 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,480 series today. And maybe some of you guys are 177 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,160 are like that. And what I talked about. 178 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,200 Maybe you're walking here with something heavy, man. 179 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,840 Maybe you have an unanswered prayer, something that you can't 180 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,720 control, something that you don't know what to do with next, 181 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,960 and you're at your wit's end. Today we're going to look at one 182 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,000 of the best acts of worship that Mary did in the Bible in Luke 183 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,680 chapter 1. And my prayer for you guys today 184 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,720 is that when you hear this message, you know that God is 185 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:09,880 for you. God has something big for you 186 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,520 today and you don't have to juggle all these plates on your 187 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,560 own. You don't have to fix everything 188 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,080 on your own. You peel on your boots by 189 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,040 yourself, man. God's got something for you 190 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,040 today. So I want you guys to buckle in 191 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,480 and let the power of God just reach into your hearts today. 192 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,920 Let's give it up for Pastor Sean as we kick off our first part of 193 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,400 series. Here I am to worship good. 194 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,440 Morning guys. Hey, it saves me a good day. 195 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,840 We finished up our series grateful last Sunday and a 196 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,480 couple things I'm really, really grateful in for in this season. 197 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,080 Last week we had two people commit to life to Jesus. 198 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,160 Amen. That's just why we do this. 199 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,760 So it's exciting. So those who come to Christ this 200 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,160 year, we have this thing called baptism, right? 201 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,240 And Jesus asks you to do that. And last week it was so amazing. 202 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,840 There's a lady, I've been friends a long time, her fiance 203 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:00,120 was in my youth group, all sorts of stuff. 204 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:02,960 She came to Christ a few weeks ago and decided to get baptized. 205 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,200 Checked the box said hey I wanted to get baptized on 28th 206 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,800 and so we'd have about 8 people signed up so far to get baptized 207 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:09,680 on 28th. Amen. 208 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,400 Fantastic. That's like the only metric I 209 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,240 think you find in the Bible. Like go and baptize and we can 210 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,360 measure sending and measure baptism. 211 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,280 I would encourage you guys to get baptized. 212 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,240 If you do not get baptized, and I can't say this enough, baptism 213 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,160 is not a bad person becoming good. 214 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,960 You not get upgraded, you don't go to the self help section at 215 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,160 Barnes and Noble. Been a while. 216 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,720 Come on, somebody, they're they're making a last stand by 217 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,520 the way, right. But you don't go there and 218 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,680 improve yourself because if you could improve yourself, then you 219 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,520 could just be a better person. You can say glory to me, but the 220 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:42,880 reality is it's all glory to God. 221 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,800 And so when we get baptized, it's something very special 222 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:47,520 happens. And Jesus was baptized. 223 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,720 It was a picture of something, and he was leading the way for 224 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,440 us and for Jesus. When he got baptized, it was a 225 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,480 start of his public ministry. It was a new season that came 226 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,520 after his baptism. And for us, when we get 227 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:04,200 baptized, it's a start of a lifelong journey of obedience to 228 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,360 Jesus. We said yes to Jesus. 229 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:07,760 You're receiving a free gift. Amen. 230 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,360 But when you get baptized, that's like your first decision. 231 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:14,160 You're like less of me, more of you, Lord. 232 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,840 And for the rest of your life it's that same commitment. 233 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,760 I'm going to come under Jesus and follow him. 234 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,680 That's what we're called, the first step of obedience. 235 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,720 So Jesus calls to be baptized. There's a lot of things that 236 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,120 come together in your life to get baptized. 237 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:27,360 Amen. It's one thing that to say I 238 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:28,800 love the grace of God. It's another thing is that I'm 239 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,280 going to live for you. And I think that's why God asked 240 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,920 to do it, to step into that call and you're going to see that 241 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,120 today. But it's, it's an act of 242 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:37,240 worship. It's an act of surrender. 243 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,200 It's, it's because of salvation, not for salvation. 244 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,440 But I would encourage you, if you've not been baptized and 245 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,760 maybe you grew up in church even, or baptized as a, as a 246 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,400 baby or a kid before you knew Jesus, I would encourage you to 247 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,320 get baptized. Our church has been very, very 248 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,440 good at having a lot of people getting baptized in our church 249 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,200 because there's conversion growth, there's people coming to 250 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,000 Christ and then getting baptized in obedience. 251 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,640 We set a goal this year. You never know God's going to 252 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,560 do, but like, hey, we'll be baptized 50 this year. 253 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,080 That'd be pretty amazing. Like we've baptized 35 one year 254 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,680 before. Like we've never been to 50. 255 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,400 We're like Lord, let's get to 50. 256 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,800 Like let's try it. And so the idea behind that was 257 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:12,760 let's think a little differently. 258 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,280 Like how could we get to 50? Like we don't control like 259 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,880 outputs, but we control inputs, Amen? 260 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,440 So if we can increase our evangelism, can increase our 261 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,680 outreach, increase our conversation when somebody comes 262 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,240 to Christ, we can increase, increase our follow up, like 263 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,080 that's our vision. And maybe we get 50, maybe we 264 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:28,720 don't, but I know we're getting close. 265 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,560 Amen. And so if you're on the, the the 266 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,880 fence, you're like, man, I'm not sure we'd love to do this last 267 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,360 night of the year. And that's where I asked the 268 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:37,520 team already for next year's like, you know what we're doing 269 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,040 really good, by the way, a difference maker. 270 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,920 So about a second. But next you're like, what if we 271 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:46,360 baptized 100? Like, why not like, like the 272 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:49,240 Lord's willing, like what, what can we teach and share with our 273 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:50,720 people? What can we lead and model for 274 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,160 ourselves and increase our scattering? 275 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,120 Like actually like taking the gospel to a work, live play and 276 00:22:57,120 --> 00:23:00,840 study and build a different relationships and just help 277 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,840 people know Jesus. Like we need to get really, 278 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,800 really good at being hands feet of Jesus outside of Sunday 279 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,000 morning. Amen. 280 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:08,840 And so we're just going to lean in. 281 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,080 That's that's next year, like with division heart behind that. 282 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,120 But I encourage you guys step in. 283 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,200 If you're not been baptized, we'd love, love to do it. 284 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,440 There's a card on your chair, Big Blue card. 285 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,640 We had three turn in last week, Amen. 286 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,160 And maybe you're in today. Like, man, I want to do that and 287 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,640 we'd love to do that. So difference maker, I'm not 288 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,920 going to say a lot about it. We're going to celebrate next 289 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,320 week with our celebration Sunday, revealing all stat 290 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,480 stories, all sorts of cool things, participation. 291 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,400 It's going to be awesome. I will say this, we are like 292 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:41,800 super close, super close. I'm like tempted. 293 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:46,040 Should I change my number just to make the number, you know, 294 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,280 but I would, I would just encourage you if you've not 295 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,600 participated yet. And I'm grateful. 296 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,400 Thank God for what God's done in our church. 297 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,120 Like when we set out this number that the number is not like it 298 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:01,640 was a stretched number. I'll just put it that way. 299 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,240 It was like above and beyond what the people coaching us and 300 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,320 seeing our numbers are like you could probably do. 301 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,560 Boris said, OK, Laura, let's just shoot for the stars, maybe 302 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,200 land on the moon, right? And there's a lot of people that 303 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,800 have not participated in this as well. 304 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,920 And I would encourage you. This is today is like the best 305 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,920 time to get in because one day there's going to be a building 306 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,480 that's full of hope and, and full of healing. 307 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,240 And it's like an incubator for the things of God to go out. 308 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,040 And you can be like, I planted some seeds in that season that's 309 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,240 producing fruit well beyond myself. 310 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,480 And like, we all love investments, you know, at least 311 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,040 I do. And I like return on my money. 312 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,920 Like I like to see things happen with my money. 313 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,360 And for us, spiritually speaking, this is a great 314 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:49,920 investment to see God move and change our city and change us. 315 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,640 So I'd encourage you to just play part of the story. 316 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,080 If you've not yet, it's not too late. 317 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,600 Nobody's judging, nobody's hating, but I just want you to 318 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,360 know I love part of the story. And you can make that difference 319 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:00,280 to move that number, like right there. 320 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,760 Come on, somebody right. So next week we're going to view 321 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,000 the story. It's going to be great. 322 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,320 So we'll, I'm talking too much about already, But today we're 323 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,080 diving into 4th part or 4th part, a four part series called 324 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,000 Here I am to worship. Do you guys remember the song 325 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,120 Here? I'm to worship Show of hands. 326 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:19,720 Remember that song? If you don't know the song, 327 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,480 that's cool. Say what? 328 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,680 Oh, come on up here, Holly. So you can sing it for us. 329 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,120 So this is like came out. The song came out in 2001. 330 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:31,360 It's written by Tim Hughes. It was written like 99. 331 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,960 Took him like a couple years to really get it nailed down, put 332 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,280 it out. And this is like that season 333 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,840 where worship music was like awkward and weird. 334 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,960 At least it was for me and then became really good. 335 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,280 And that like was there's, there's like numerous songs like 336 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:49,000 turn the hinge on like worship style and, and the music. 337 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 And this was very reflective song. 338 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,040 It's a very like responsive song. 339 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,360 It's just all of us just Lord, like I'm just here to worship. 340 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,320 And he pictures these different things about the song that why 341 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,560 we worship. And one of the things in the 342 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,600 song it, it, it starts out the the the light of the of what's 343 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,320 light of the the world stepped down into to darkness. 344 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:16,080 Hello, it's Christmas. Like it, it, it's just, why do 345 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,240 we worship? It's because the God of all 346 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,000 gods, the God of the universe, Jesus himself, stepped out of 347 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:25,080 heaven and eternity into our eternity, into the worst 348 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,360 neighborhood and became God with us it it and became as a 349 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,680 sacrifice for our sin, our Emmanuel, Amen. 350 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:33,600 So they were going to worship Jesus. 351 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,520 Amen. That's what Christmas season is 352 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,200 all about. Just focusing back on the birth 353 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,520 of Christ and truly his love for us. 354 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,720 And this whole thing is going to be a response that my prayer 355 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,280 throughout this whole series is that you have these moments, not 356 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,400 just a moment, but you leave here and be moments during the 357 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,880 message, during the works, during your time that you would 358 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:54,200 just open your hands and say, Lord, here I am the worship. 359 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,000 And not just your hands, but your heart, like all of you 360 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,600 getting in front of Jesus and then saying, Lord, whatever it 361 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,560 is yesterday, man, I want to follow you. 362 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,160 And so we're going to be in the Bible there. 363 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,400 Luke chapter 1, If you got your Bible or if you got your Bible, 364 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,320 hold your Bible up. You got your Bible. 365 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,000 Make sure you bring your Bible. Amen. 366 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,960 You might have on your phone. We love you, but I would 367 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,360 encourage you bring a Bible. I saw somebody said this in our 368 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:18,720 men's text group. It said, man, if you're going to 369 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,480 find a church, don't want to find, don't find one close to 370 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,160 your house. Find one close to Scripture. 371 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,760 I thought, dude, that is a quote. 372 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,520 That is a great quote because there's a lot of just just a lot 373 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:29,960 of things I see. I'm like, man, what is that? 374 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,120 You know, And it should just look like the Bible. 375 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,040 And so we're going to be Luke chapter 1 and be diving in. 376 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,480 But a lot of you guys participate. 377 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,320 It makes more fun. Just going to tie into the 378 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,680 message, but how many guys just show hands are control freaks, 379 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,680 Show hands, show hands. Yeah. 380 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:45,800 You know, you are a little bit, right? 381 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,360 Like just there's a certain way, right. 382 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,000 Like if you have to have the GPS in your hand, you know, like you 383 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,760 always have to drive some of y'all looking at your spouse 384 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,800 right now, like put two hands up, you know, I mean, it's just 385 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,120 you to the T and Dime's looking at me. 386 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:07,200 I'm a recovering control freak. Pray for your pastor, pray for 387 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,840 Diane, right? And it's easy to like take 388 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,800 control. Like just you have a plan, you 389 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,840 have a destination, you have a way, like all these things. 390 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,120 And then the Lord's always interrupting our way for a 391 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:20,080 better way. Amen. 392 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,960 But if but but we're really good at like hedging and planning and 393 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,320 pursuing and dilly dallying into our own vision and scheming. 394 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,000 But the Lord has a plan and we've got to be open to God's 395 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,080 plan. And so we're going to look at 396 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,440 how to let go through control and how to follow God's plan in 397 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,440 Luke chapter one, verse 26. Holly read these verses earlier 398 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,080 on the world's smallest Bible. I'm so glad she could read it up 399 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,960 here, but it said this verse 26, in the sixth month of 400 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,360 Elizabeth's pregnancy. OK, who's Elizabeth? 401 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:50,880 Who's the baby that Elizabeth's going to have? 402 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,160 John the Baptist, OK, says God sent the Angel Gabriel. 403 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,080 This is a messenger Angel, Nazareth, a village in Galilee, 404 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,400 to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to 405 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,840 a man named Joseph. A descendant of who? 406 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:06,960 Yeah. King David. 407 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,160 We're going to come back to that a little bit. 408 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,880 Says Gabriel appeared to her and said, this is this is the words 409 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,160 greetings favored woman. That's a good start. 410 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,480 A lot of things angels say in the Bible doesn't go that well, 411 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,680 right? But greetings favored woman. 412 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:28,040 The Lord is with you. I mean, this God with us, 413 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,200 Emmanuel, the Lord's with you. I mean, God has just put this 414 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,760 Theo so perfectly. And her response is like so many 415 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,080 of us, and I've been this season so many times, confused and 416 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,200 disturbed. Mary tried to think what the 417 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,080 Angel could mean. Confused. 418 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,560 And have you guys been confused and disturbed by what happens in 419 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,240 your life? I mean, I don't know if you 420 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,880 think it's going well or you had something working out and then 421 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,360 the Lord throws A curveball. Like if you think you're stepped 422 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,840 to the plate and you've read the pitch and you're going to swing 423 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,760 for the fences and God's like whoop and he puts a curveball in 424 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,960 and it doesn't go to plan and you're confused. 425 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,280 You're like, Lord, why would this happen? 426 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,960 And for some of you guys, just as a pastor, I mean, these these 427 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,160 last weeks have been a little crazy. 428 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,720 Like there's been moments for some of our church where your 429 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,520 breath has been taken away, like where the world stands still, 430 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,320 like you don't know, like what's going to happen next. 431 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,360 We we've had people commit to difference maker and then all 432 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,600 their HPC goes out. You know, there's a sag in your 433 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,720 sewer line. Worst words everyone of you 434 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,080 hear, right? We're going to tear across your 435 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,600 whole basement. It's going to cost a lot of 436 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,200 money and you're like, Lord, what are you doing? 437 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:31,840 Like I thought I was going this direction or there's a health 438 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,560 concern or the it's just relational things. 439 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,120 I mean, Thanksgiving and Christmas. 440 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,040 I mean, it's, I don't know, it's great at moments. 441 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,680 And it's also like kind of disappointing. 442 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,800 You're like, what in the world is going on with the Jerry 443 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:45,920 Springer episode right now, right? 444 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,000 I mean it just like it has all these different things and 445 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,840 you're like, Lord, and this disturbs an interesting word 446 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,840 because to be disturbed with Lord, I don't think I've ever 447 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,040 thought about this. To actually be disturbed, Lord, 448 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,080 I don't understand. I don't like it. 449 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,800 It doesn't fit in at all with anything. 450 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,080 Even believe right now about you. 451 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,200 This isn't making any sense. You guys ever been there before? 452 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,200 I mean it, it's easy to step in and I can't handle this. 453 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,440 I'm overwhelmed. This bothers me. 454 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,080 There, there. There's some seasons of 455 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:16,440 unsettling, which I think God allows us to see where we're at. 456 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,640 It's like a test of faith. And for Mary, she hears his 457 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,880 words and she's like, I don't have a clue what you're about to 458 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,360 do. This makes no sense. 459 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,840 And it's actually kind of disturbing when you've been 460 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,720 talking to me. It's amazing her what the Angel 461 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,120 says to her, verse 30, the Angel says, don't be. 462 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:33,920 That's the line we need to hear today. 463 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,680 Amen. Don't be afraid because 464 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,200 oftentimes we think what happens in our life, like the Lord is 465 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,200 trying to like almost punish us, or the Lord's trying to, or like 466 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,880 maybe you're scared by the Lord. You should never be scared what 467 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,280 the Lord's doing, Amen. But it's easy like, Oh no, 468 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,760 because my plans are being wrecked right now and we're 469 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,000 scared, but the guy's not trying to scare us. 470 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,520 He's trying to shape us, Amen. He's trying to remind us of the, 471 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,520 the priorities and, and worship and what really matters. 472 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,600 And sometimes we we get out of sync with our version of reality 473 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,400 and we get scared, but we we don't have to be scared. 474 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,480 The Lord Amen. And so the angels comes out. 475 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,680 Don't be afraid. Mary, the Angel told her for you 476 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,360 have found favor with God. And it's interesting if you know 477 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,280 anything about Mary, she's young, she's her name. 478 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,680 She's not famous. She has nothing going for her in 479 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,720 a sense of the world. But you're going to learn about 480 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:24,840 her character here in a little bit. 481 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,240 And that's why she found favor is because she's humble and 482 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,640 she's she's low and she seeks after God. 483 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,640 She knows scripture. She's searching for God. 484 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,160 First 31 says you'll, you will conceive and give birth to a son 485 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,080 and you will name him Jesus. Jesus. 486 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,440 Jesus means the one who saves. It's pretty amazing. 487 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,520 Like when you call on Jesus, Jesus save me, you're saying the 488 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,080 one who saves save me. That's what you're like being 489 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:52,400 saved. Just saying the name of Jesus, 490 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:57,520 Jesus you saved just at the name of Jesus because it means to 491 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,680 save. And this is who the Angel says 492 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,680 you're going to have a son that's going to be the one 493 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,080 that's going to save. Amen. 494 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,320 Verse 32. He'll be very great and that's 495 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,320 an understatement and will be called the Son of the Most High. 496 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,600 The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David, 497 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,320 and he will reign over Israel. How long? 498 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,920 Forever. And his Kingdom will never end. 499 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,720 Exclamation point, the Angel is excited and is sharing this 500 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:32,920 news. And we talked about this a 501 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,720 little bit earlier when we had this series with difference 502 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,120 maker that this Davidic covenant. 503 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,800 Remember David, he, he said, hey, man, I built this palace 504 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,760 for myself, but there's this Tabernacle on the hill. 505 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,000 Who am I to build my home when his house sits in shambles? 506 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:53,000 And then God was so pleased, he said, I'm going to build my 507 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,520 Kingdom through line of David forever. 508 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,520 Now David thought maybe my son or something, we're going to 509 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,960 live forever. That wasn't the case, right? 510 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,920 That there's going to be somebody born that's going to 511 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,640 fulfill that covenant and it's going to reign in David's line 512 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,080 forever. And here is the fulfillment of 513 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:09,880 that covenant. Amen. 514 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,440 That's a huge deal. And then Mary asked the Angel 515 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,080 the response. We would all probably ask like 516 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,960 how is this even possible? Like what in the world is going 517 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,199 on? This doesn't make any sense. 518 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,679 And she says I'm a virgin. The Angel replied, the Holy 519 00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,760 Spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high will 520 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,960 over shadow you. So the baby to be born will be 521 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:40,320 what holy and he will be called the Son of God. 522 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,960 You know, if you ever think about Jesus, he didn't possess a 523 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,360 sin nature like we do. Like the sin nature is passed 524 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,360 down from the lineage of a man, like Adam sinned and therefore 525 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,600 all humanity is laced with sin. And since Jesus didn't have an 526 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,520 earthly father in conception, he doesn't carry the sin nature, 527 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,760 Amen. And it is important to 528 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,440 understand that there is a time in humanity before sin nature 529 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,680 was in it. Like we like Adam had a time 530 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,880 period with Eve before they had sin nature, Amen. 531 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:14,240 And so we can go back to like, that's what it the first Adam 532 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:17,000 was like, and that's what Jesus is called the second Adam, he 533 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,440 came to reverse the curse. But it's interesting. 534 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,080 Wouldn't it be interesting? Mary just said, Hey, this is 535 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:25,320 really convenient timing for me. I mean wouldn't be amazing, like 536 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:29,160 like a door doors Angel, you know, like I appreciate you 537 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:33,520 coming, but I'm awful busy, man. Like, you know, it just this 538 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,480 thing about like I forgot my wedding dress. 539 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,440 I'm not really going to be pregnant during my wedding. 540 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,560 Like I've got a plan. Like am I married? 541 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,280 Like what about my my fiance, like my five year vision, man, 542 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,400 my five year plan. It just doesn't fit in, but just 543 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,840 come back once I get my life figured out, like I'll give and 544 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,600 my fines just look good, right? Like I'll serve when it's more 545 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,560 convenient time. And it's just complete opposite 546 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,640 for her response. Like for us, it's really kind of 547 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,040 hard to let go of control. She was in the right heart and 548 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,880 the right space. It was easy for her to let go of 549 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,680 control because she's been doing it day in and day out. 550 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,920 It's interesting. She got a direct word from God 551 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,600 through an Angel and she surrendered to it. 552 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,120 But it's really difficult to do that still, because we have this 553 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,960 word and it's still very difficult at times to say yes 554 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:27,080 and Amen, right? Like we can know it, we can 555 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:31,000 memorize it, and then we can be like, but Lord and we go 556 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,560 somewhere else, right? We have seasons of disobedience. 557 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,760 And for, for Mary, she just said yes and Amen. 558 00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:37,600 Like she opens up the things of God. 559 00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:39,880 And I would encourage you like there's things we know to be 560 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,160 true in Scripture and we need to say yes and Amen and go in on 561 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,000 them like whatever area of life that's far from God, a place of 562 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,480 your life that needs to be surrendered. 563 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,920 It, it could be anything. It could be financial, it could 564 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,560 be sexual. It it it could be just a vision 565 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,240 that's just yours. You know what you're holding on 566 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:57,240 to. It could relationship you 567 00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:58,880 restore. There's all these things. 568 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,760 But the Lord wants us to come below him as a servant, like 569 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,880 you're going to see Mary do and just say yes, Lord, I want to 570 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,880 worship and follow you. It's it's easy to hear the word, 571 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:13,120 but it's difficult. I often times to obey it and the 572 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,160 call is to obey. Amen. 573 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:19,080 Because you know your life is better, God's plan is better and 574 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,120 his ways are better than your ways. 575 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,200 And Mary just knows this and you're going to see this. 576 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,000 She's going to just respond in amazing way. 577 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:29,760 Verse 38, Mary responded, she, she said, I am what to say the 578 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:34,320 Lord's Wow, have you ever called yourself that before? 579 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,680 Ah, most of us don't like the word like I'm a servant, right? 580 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,240 Like we, we don't like people like we like to other people to 581 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:46,280 serve us right, but to to serve someone else. 582 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,440 Like Lord, I'm just here. Whatever you need, Lord, I will 583 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,040 do it. She says, may everything you've 584 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,080 said about me come true. And then the Angel left her. 585 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,240 Like that's all the Angel need to hear. 586 00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:00,960 Amen, Amen. Count me in. 587 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,080 Whatever you need. I'll do whatever it is, whatever 588 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,160 it is, Lord, Yes and Amen, whatever the matter. 589 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:07,160 I don't need the rest of the story. 590 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:08,960 I have a lot of questions, but I trust you. 591 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,080 Whatever it is she she's going to pay the she's going to pay a 592 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:13,280 price. She doesn't know what it's going 593 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,760 to cost her yet. You ever signed up with a 594 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,400 contract not know what the contract is? 595 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:19,840 That's what she's doing. She's just signed her name. 596 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,240 I'm all in Lord, I trust you. It says this in the ESP a little 597 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:26,080 different version, the other one's NIV, but it says then Mary 598 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:32,480 said, behold, the maidservant, Lord Lucas says, let it be to me 599 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:38,840 according to your your word, just just at your word. 600 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,080 I trust you. Just let it be to me according 601 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,560 to your word and that that's a sentence of worship. 602 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,240 Amen. Like it, it's open handed, just 603 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:49,880 just whatever it is, Lord, like I don't, I all my plans are just 604 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,160 completely wrecked right now. Like everything I was thinking 605 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,800 would happen in the next week and six months and really the 606 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,920 rest of my life has been rewritten. 607 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,200 But whatever it is, write it your way. 608 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,720 This is the ultimate surrender statement in the Bible. 609 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,880 Let it be for me according to your word, that that's something 610 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:09,960 we need to pray every day. Amen. 611 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,240 Just trust and obey. This is Mary's act of worship. 612 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:17,560 It's a surrendering yes if you don't call it that, and I would 613 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,200 encourage you guys, surrender begins with trusting God's word, 614 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:24,720 just taking God at his word. You know, you can know 615 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:27,200 everything you know about the Bible or about Jesus by just 616 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,600 saying yes to his word. If you read a scripture and it 617 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,040 says flee youthful lust, you say yes to Amen. 618 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,880 Doesn't mean you're perfect, but it means Lord, I'm going to 619 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,960 trust you with this. How's my marriage? 620 00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:39,800 What's it should look like? Lord, I trust you. 621 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,840 This amazing thing, ChatGPT. Come on, somebody you can be 622 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,920 like, tell me what the Bible says about dah dah, dah dah. 623 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,160 And it does a pretty good job. Hasn't been tainted too much 624 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,760 yet, but it may be well. But I'm just telling you, you 625 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,320 can learn everything in your life for life. 626 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,920 And God, this as first Peter says and just open this word, 627 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,960 Lord, show me and that you just go to it with open hands. 628 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:02,320 Amen. It's always interesting to me 629 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,440 when people pick out parts of the Bible they really love and 630 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,760 then they follow it and there's parts that they can't quite 631 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,640 swallow and they're like, I can't do that. 632 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,960 It doesn't really work that way. Like God does not share his 633 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:17,680 throne very well. Like he kind of just like he 634 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:20,040 just shows you. I would encourage you to just 635 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,640 put your life under Jesus. This ultimate statement of 636 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,440 surrender. Look at her, like her, His word 637 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,360 in her life released control for herself. 638 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,120 She lost her reputation. I mean, Can you imagine walking 639 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:37,120 around pregnant, not married and going, oh, I guess you all 640 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,800 figured it out. No, the Lord did it. 641 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,920 It was the Lord who is going to believe you. 642 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:44,960 Most people won't. Amen. 643 00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:48,920 You start following God is very few people go Oh, good job. 644 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,880 Most people start throwing stones and kind of looking down 645 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:52,880 to you and thinking you're weird. 646 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,160 I was called a Jesus freak all my way through high school. 647 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:56,920 Once I met the Lord. You're a Jesus freak. 648 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,600 I'm like, cool. Sounds good, man. 649 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,600 That's a that's an awesome book album, everything. 650 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:03,880 Let's do it. You know, they get relabeled. 651 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:05,680 Her plans for marriage got shifted. 652 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,600 I mean, an Angel had to intervene just to to keep her 653 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,120 fiance around, right? Like she didn't know how that 654 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,800 was going to go out. Her future was just messed up 655 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,040 and she lost control. That her comfort, her timing. 656 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,880 This doesn't fit anything. But she just said yes, Lord, if 657 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,760 you think about worship, you know, we can make the mistake of 658 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,480 bowling worship down to three songs on Sunday morning. 659 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,840 Like we, we can say, oh, well, how, how was the worship? 660 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,920 How'd it go in the worship? You know, and and it's like, 661 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:38,880 it's it's more than a song. It's another great song, right? 662 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,760 Heart of worship, if you didn't know, I just talking to die 663 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,960 about this. But Tim Huser wrote here in the 664 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:49,480 worship took a big spot in Matt Redmond's life and wrote other 665 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,040 songs. So hard to worship and hearing 666 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,360 worship. I mean, like, come on, dude. 667 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,480 Like they're, they're like the same song, you know, same feel 668 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,680 everything about it, but it's more than the song. 669 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:02,760 It's surrender. Amen. 670 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,360 Like, like we come here and, and not just come here, but like our 671 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,280 life is surrendering constantly to Jesus. 672 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:10,520 We have to give our will up every day. 673 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,120 By the way, if you're like me at all, like, I mean, I like it my 674 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,640 way and I have a plan and then I have to pay attention to what 675 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,240 the Lord's doing. I have to intentionally spend 676 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:23,400 time with Jesus. If your life isn't going 677 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,440 anywhere with Jesus, you're like showing up to church and like, 678 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:26,880 man, I don't feel like it's going anywhere. 679 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,040 Could I encourage you? It's because you're probably not 680 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,240 listening to Jesus. You've got to get your ear to 681 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:34,080 the Scripture. You've got to put your heart on 682 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,600 the Holy Spirit. You've got to think deeply about 683 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:37,600 what the Lord's asking you to do. 684 00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,440 You've got to pray and seek after, get wisdom from people, 685 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,720 move. The Bible calls circumspectly, 686 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,960 which means with wisdom. And you just need to say yes, 687 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:49,400 Lord, it's not about coming and performing a Christian duty. 688 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,440 Most of Christianity in America is adding things to your life. 689 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,440 Come and sing, come read your Bible, pray together, join a 690 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,560 men's group, go live group, add, add, add, add. 691 00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,640 Real Christianity is about subtraction. 692 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:05,640 Less of me, Lord, here I am. I worship you, Lord. 693 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,800 You can have my life, Lord. It's not about me, Lord, I want 694 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:09,920 this. But Lord, is that from you? 695 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,600 If it's not, I don't want it. Lord, you're subtracting your 696 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,440 will and your way and replace it with God's way. 697 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,840 And that's when you start getting that fire inside your 698 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,320 soul. Amen. 699 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,360 It's no longer it's like a Christian duty or I show up on a 700 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,440 Sunday. It's no Lord, I want all of you 701 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,760 every day. I want all of you and you are so 702 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,680 good. Your promises are so true and I 703 00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,280 follow you. When's the last time that you 704 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,640 didn't just lift your hands in worship, but you lifted your 705 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,440 heart and worship? Because it's one thing to hourly 706 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,560 have a symbol and, and, and to do this, but what's another 707 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,200 thing to say? No, truly, all of myself is 708 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:47,480 yours, Lord, And I try to get with in that posture as much as 709 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:52,560 possible, as much as possible. Like if I can make it through a 710 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,560 whole day and not say, Lord, my life is yours, I will take 711 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,800 control of that day. Just naturally. 712 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,280 It's like human nature, Shawn's way. 713 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,120 And that's why I love having the worship, but like at least a 714 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,520 little bit before I speak because it changes my heart. 715 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,280 Amen. So I I need to remind myself 716 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,920 that's what the the songs do is they remind me of some truth I 717 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,520 need to be living for and I just open my hands, my heart to 718 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:19,720 Jesus. But when's the last time you did 719 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:21,440 that? You know, in life you don't 720 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,680 always have the power to to decide everything around you 721 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,440 really have no power, right? But you can't surrender. 722 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,120 Like I've got to the point where like suffering and pain and loss 723 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,840 and and just things that are weird things that disturb you. 724 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,240 And I always just look, say, Lord, you're doing something. 725 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,720 I trust you. I don't know what you're doing, 726 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,040 but man, I know it's going to be good. 727 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:44,880 Amen. You've got to get to that point 728 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,720 in your Christian walk where you just know everything from God is 729 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:48,680 good. Everything is God is good. 730 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,040 And so I just trust them. Even the hard seasons, even the 731 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:52,920 difficult seasons, even when it doesn't make sense, it takes 732 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,360 your breath away. I was like, Lord, I would never 733 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,320 write this story this way, but I know you have a reason beyond I 734 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,440 can even understand or see, and I just trust that you're writing 735 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,000 a masterpiece. I was thinking like a big puzzle 736 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,120 the Lord's putting together. And sometimes you're like the, 737 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:10,240 the this black dark kind of stormy piece and he, God snaps 738 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:12,480 it in and you're like, Oh no, but you don't really realize 739 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,480 It's just like this amazing, like sunrise coming out behind 740 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,200 the storm that God is going to put together next. 741 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:20,280 But I trust that. Amen. 742 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,040 Because I just walk to God long enough to know how the book goes 743 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,080 and who his character is and how much I can trust him. 744 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:29,360 And so I just worship even in the darkness. 745 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,520 It's amazing too because one act of worship can actually cause 746 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,040 other people's surrender into worship as well. 747 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,720 And this is what you see with Mary, which is just amazing. 748 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,800 The verse 39, it says at that time, it says Mary got ready. 749 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:46,040 The first miracle on the bottom is good, I'll stop, I'll stop. 750 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,040 I'm a married man for at least another 3 minutes. 751 00:45:56,040 --> 00:46:01,480 At that time, Mary got ready and hurried to a town and the Hill 752 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,920 Country of Judea. I'm still trying to get past 753 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,040 that. I won't say that again. 754 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,760 But this town, you might read that and like, oh, wow, that's 755 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,760 really cool. But that town's 80 to 100 miles 756 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,960 away where she's at. Like, you know, that for her 757 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:21,800 would be like walking 10 miles a day or 20 miles a day for four 758 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,160 days. Like, this isn't just like, oh, 759 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,240 she just ran to, you know, Elizabeth's house. 760 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:30,160 Like, that's a journey that she's going to go on because 761 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,200 she's so excited for what God has just done. 762 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,360 Verse 40 says where she entered. OK, so she went to this country 763 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,280 and then she went 40 miles where she entered Zachariah's home and 764 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:41,680 greeted Elizabeth. She didn't even care about 765 00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:42,960 Zachariah. You know, he's probably not 766 00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,600 home. And then when Elizabeth heard 767 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,480 Mary's greeting, Lugo says the baby, this is John the Baptist. 768 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:52,320 What to say? Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it? 769 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,400 Like, like, like here's this this not fetus. 770 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:04,800 Come on somebody, a baby who heard Mary in the womb and and 771 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:11,680 leaped with joy and Elizabeth's filled with what Holy Spirit. 772 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,880 That's what happens when God shows up like Mary brought the 773 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,200 the the son of God Jesus himself into Elizabeth's president who'd 774 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,680 been waiting for this moment as well. 775 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,240 And this is just don't miss this, that John the Baptist, an 776 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:27,080 unborn baby. It is truly in the New 777 00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:33,800 Testament, the first act of worship, truly the first act of 778 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,280 worship leapt for joy, right? There's a leaping of joy. 779 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,760 This this unborn baby recognizes this is the Messiah. 780 00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:47,080 That's amazing to me. It's it's the innocence in the 781 00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,360 power and there's so much scriptural theological truth of 782 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,200 how we should live in our time by the fact a baby recognizes 783 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:58,800 Jesus. That's just unreal to me to see 784 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,360 this, but we can read that verse and skip by and totally forget 785 00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,680 about that first after worship. It's actually fulfillment of 786 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,320 prophecy in Malachi 3 verse one. So the last book of the Old 787 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,800 Testament says I will send a messenger who will prepare the 788 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,280 way before me. This is talking about John the 789 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:17,240 Baptist. Then suddenly the Lord you are 790 00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:21,080 seeking will come to his what? His temple. 791 00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:23,600 So, so Jesus is going to come to his temple. 792 00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,280 The messenger of the covenant whom you desire will come, says 793 00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,320 the Lord Almighty. What's the temple? 794 00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:35,040 Well, the temple, the Holy Spirit is what us did Jesus go 795 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,160 to the temple of the Old Testament and say, this is my 796 00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,760 temple. No, this is talking about the, 797 00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,080 this is talking about the incarnation. 798 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:46,600 There is the Son of God now in the womb of Mary. 799 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,760 This is a direct fulfillment of that prophecy. 800 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:50,960 Amen. It's like God kind of wrote 801 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:51,960 this. It's crazy. 802 00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,200 And then Elizabeth to response. She's like in a loud voice. 803 00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,080 She exclaims. So now she's just excited just 804 00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:01,800 immediately. And and what's the what's the 805 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:06,920 first thing it says? Help me out, blessed, Blessed. 806 00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,600 You got to do a loud voice. By the way, what'd she say? 807 00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:15,280 All right, we're getting there. Blessed, are you among women in 808 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,560 what? Blessed, Blessed some y'all 809 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:24,360 going to do. Blessed are you my women, bless 810 00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:27,360 your heart. Blessed is this child. 811 00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,200 Blessed is this child you bear. Exclamation point. 812 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,960 But why am I so favored that the mother of my Lord, talking about 813 00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:40,440 Jesus, should come to me just so humbling that God's presence 814 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,200 would even come into her. So as soon as the sound of your 815 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:48,640 greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 816 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:55,400 You're getting better. Thank you. 817 00:49:55,400 --> 00:50:00,560 That was good if you don't know Jesus today, we're always not 818 00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,800 this weird, but today it's going to be weird. 819 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:07,440 OK, blessed is she who has believed in the Lord believe 820 00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:13,400 that the Lord would what fulfill his promises to her. 821 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:18,080 She she's excited and this is a like a think about blessed, 822 00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:22,800 blessed, blessed right. This is the longest blessing in 823 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,040 the New Testament you get from a woman. 824 00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:30,480 Blessed, blessed, blessed. It's all about worship and glory 825 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,800 and magnification. Just all to Jesus. 826 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,640 Amen. And God records it in scripture 827 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,880 for all of attorney. And Mary's surrender caused joy 828 00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:44,320 to Elizabeth and John the Baptist and caused blessing from 829 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,800 Elizabeth. Mary's choice impacted other 830 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:51,720 people immediately with worship from others. 831 00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,800 This becomes one of the longest passages by woman in New 832 00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,160 Testament. Second longest speech that's 833 00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:58,440 recorded from a woman in New Testament. 834 00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,840 The next one, lo and behold, comes right after it. 835 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:03,880 Because this is how God's going to do it. 836 00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,080 And I was to encourage you before moving to the next piece 837 00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:10,280 of Scripture that your surrender will often impact other people's 838 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,400 surrender and worship. Like, like, think about it. 839 00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,960 If you're a dad and you surrender to Jesus, there's a 840 00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,480 high likelihood that your whole family surrenders to Jesus. 841 00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,400 If you're a man of God, there's a very likely chance that your 842 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,920 spouse and your kids are going to follow Jesus just because you 843 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,160 chose to worship and follow Jesus. 844 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,280 That's impact, Amen. And that you're late and you 845 00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,240 follow Jesus, you have impact on your children. 846 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,440 And as a business leader or an employee, you follow Jesus at 847 00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,120 your workplace. Other people around you will 848 00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:43,120 start to surrender to Jesus, find Jesus and worship Jesus 849 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,080 because you're a witness for Christ, Amen? 850 00:51:47,240 --> 00:51:50,920 Like our decisions in really affect other people all the 851 00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,160 time. Like if you don't like what's 852 00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:55,000 happening around you, a lot of times we got to change what 853 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,960 we're doing inside of us. Like we got to become somebody 854 00:51:57,960 --> 00:51:59,600 different. It's like when you have your 855 00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,040 first kid and you're all like, Dang it, you're going to be too 856 00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:07,000 much like me, right? She's punching, right? 857 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,360 Because there's just parts to me that don't look like Jesus. 858 00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,560 Amen. And so I had the I had the hard 859 00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:13,360 work of saying yes to Amen every day. 860 00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,600 So I become the man of God that God is calling us, calling me to 861 00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,520 be right. But your surrender kind of lock 862 00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,440 other people's future. So then Mary, she responds and 863 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:24,640 she responds with something that is really known as Mary's song. 864 00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:29,520 I don't even think she meant this to be like recorded down 865 00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,000 and put together as a song, but it is a song. 866 00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:36,360 It's like a doxology. It just is like outpouring. 867 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,920 You think about your mentor, your friend, She's older 868 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,840 Elizabeth, like she's walking the Lord. 869 00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,120 She's married. She's got a husband that serves 870 00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:44,960 in a temple. Like she's looking up to 871 00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,920 Elizabeth, right. And Elizabeth just looks here 872 00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:48,280 and says bless, bless, bless, bless. 873 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:51,080 And she's so excited. And then Mary, in response, she 874 00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,240 just cries out. It becomes this doxology, this, 875 00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:56,760 like worship song out of her lips. 876 00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,920 And it's absolutely amazing. It starts in verse 45. 877 00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:06,240 And Mary said, my soul what? Yeah, glorifies in the other 878 00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:10,640 version, it says magnifies like I'm just lifting up the Lord. 879 00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:15,240 It says my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. 880 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,640 In in church history, they took that word magnifies and they 881 00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,080 actually said this song is actually known in church history 882 00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:25,240 in church history as the magnificent like this is the 883 00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:30,680 magnificent song and for thousands of years now this is 884 00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,920 what church history has said about this song. 885 00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,680 This song magnifies the Lord Jesus. 886 00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:41,080 It says for he has been mindful of the humble state of his. 887 00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,880 What? It's pretty interesting to me 888 00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:47,800 that the Lord is mindful of the humility of mankind. 889 00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:52,960 Like it's not about anything else, It's not about status, 890 00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,440 it's not about relationship, it's not about occupation, it's 891 00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:58,040 not about being known, it's not about popularity, it's not about 892 00:53:58,040 --> 00:53:59,960 obscurity, it's not about anything else. 893 00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:02,520 It's just about humility. And the Lord sees that. 894 00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,680 Amen. That's good news for all of us 895 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,440 because all of us can be in that posture. 896 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,280 We all can be less of me, more of you, Lord. 897 00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:14,000 And the Lord sees us and He blesses us. 898 00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:18,680 It says from now on all generations will call me 899 00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,200 blessed. And you might think, well, 900 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:22,880 that's really prideful. Kind of feels that way when you 901 00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,120 read it like, oh man, I'm blessed. 902 00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,280 But it it's a state of humility. It's actually prophetic is what 903 00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,200 she said. Because she's saying that Jesus 904 00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,200 is going to bless all people. She's already thinking about 905 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,640 future generations, future nations, future kingdoms, 906 00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,400 thinking about eternity, thinking about knowing sin is 907 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,600 going to be abolished, knowing this is the chosen of God that 908 00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,800 reverses the curse. She's thinking the future. 909 00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,480 This is a missionary statement. This is a prophetic word. 910 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,760 And she says they're going to look at me and say you're so 911 00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:57,120 blessed because you got to carry the blessed One, Jesus himself, 912 00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,360 who's going to bless all people because the name of Jesus, we've 913 00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,440 all been changed, Amen. And Mary got to play a small 914 00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:04,840 part of the story and that's who she's humbled. 915 00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,360 Thank you, Lord, I got to play a small part of the story. 916 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,600 You see Mary's song, it's really all about God. 917 00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,920 She goes on verse 49 says the mighty One has done great things 918 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:17,680 for me. Holy is his name, his mercy 919 00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:21,320 extends to those who what Yeah, fear him. 920 00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,800 We can do that too as well. Like we we can fear the Lord. 921 00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:29,760 It doesn't nothing matters. Bank accounts, education level, 922 00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:33,400 socio economic status does nothing else matters, but we can 923 00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,080 fear the Lord. It's it's a great reminder of 924 00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,520 what we can the store we can play a part of it says from 925 00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:42,000 generation to generation, we can still fear the Lord. 926 00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:43,280 That's us. Amen. 927 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,600 So if you're fearing the Lord today, guess what, the Lord's 928 00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:51,520 hands upon you, his, his, his, his blessing is on you and says 929 00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,400 this verse 51, and I want you to see this. 930 00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:55,760 This is a very interesting part of this. 931 00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:00,360 Mary sees herself as a part of something that many theologians 932 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:04,480 have called the great reversal. This last part of this song is 933 00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:05,520 amazing. They're going to see these 934 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,200 opposites. It says he has performed verse 935 00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,560 3051. He has performed mighty deeds 936 00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,600 with his arm. He has scattered those who are 937 00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:17,120 proud in their inmost thoughts. That's pretty good. 938 00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:18,920 You know, sometimes you think evil is winning. 939 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:23,080 You watch the news, right, and you think evil is just going to 940 00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,560 conquer the world or you get kind of downhill from your 941 00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:28,640 friend group or or an outside of a job situation or something 942 00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:30,720 happens and you think, man, there's so many psalms in this 943 00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:33,000 too, like the the evil and the wicked triumph. 944 00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,040 But do they? They do for a season in their 945 00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:38,920 own little world and their sandcastle. 946 00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:44,320 But ultimately God, he humbles the proud and this is what he 947 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,920 says right here that God has scattered those who are proud in 948 00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,280 their utmost thoughts. Verse 52, look at the the 949 00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,840 dichotomy. He has brought down rulers from 950 00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,040 their Thrones. Talk about these prideful rulers 951 00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,760 and he has what lifted up the it's pretty good. 952 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,000 Amen. Like that's how God's economy 953 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:04,600 works. Like in the world's economy, 954 00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,840 like, oh, you get a head dog eat dog, cheat the corner, take the 955 00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,000 corner, pause brass get the promotion go. 956 00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,080 But in God's economy, he takes the humble and he goes, guess 957 00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:16,080 what, I'm going to promote the humble and lift them up and this 958 00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:17,920 person just going to scatter like chaff. 959 00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,840 It's amazing. And and she's blown away by 960 00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:24,400 God's choice, like she's a nobody in her own society, 961 00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,800 right? But guess what, she knows the 962 00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,000 Lord, she fears the Lord, she worship the Lord, she knows 963 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,840 Scripture and she says this verse 53 and he has filled, 964 00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:37,720 listen, filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the 965 00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,280 rich away. How so? 966 00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:42,560 So the hungry are get filled with the things of God. 967 00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,280 They can't afford a meal, but the wealthy people have 968 00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,000 everything they're leaving empty. 969 00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,120 This sounds familiar. This is true even today. 970 00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,720 Wealth does not make you happy or filled with things of God. 971 00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:56,760 It just makes you more what you are right? 972 00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,800 And this is how God works and she does not wealthy, she's 973 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:02,960 hungry. But God has done this dichotomy, 974 00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:03,960 so it's called the great reversal. 975 00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,040 She's worshiping God for his different economy. 976 00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,840 Verse 54, it says he has helped the servant Israel remembering 977 00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,880 to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as 978 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:18,920 he promised our ancestors. This is pretty amazing because 979 00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,920 she's she's referring all the way back to the Abrahamic 980 00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,440 covenant in Genesis 12 one and two. 981 00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,400 She's going all the way back and this just doxology just crying 982 00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,800 out to the Lord. You see that Paul does this and 983 00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,040 Romans 11 very last part of Romans 11, he just cries out to 984 00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,040 the Lord. Thank you for your mercies. 985 00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:37,280 And here she's just crying out and she just remembers like 986 00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,440 Davidic covenant, Abrahamic covenant, Psalm 103, Psalm 138, 987 00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,480 Psalm 34. She literally, if you study this 988 00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:49,440 Scripture, she has 12 other passages in the Old Testament 989 00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:53,040 that she has alluded to or directly quoted. 990 00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:57,040 That's pretty amazing, isn't it? Like how many of us have the 991 00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:59,920 Lord spoke to us, we bust out a song and we've been able to 992 00:58:59,920 --> 00:59:01,960 quote 12 different pieces of the Bible and just say thank you, 993 00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:05,120 Jesus and worship. This tells us two things about 994 00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:07,640 Mary. One, she knew scripture. 995 00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:10,400 She'd have a lot of money, but she knew scripture. 996 00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:13,960 Amen. She'd have a big name for 997 00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:17,600 herself, but she was humble. And not only did she know 998 00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:22,520 Scripture, she filtered every experience in her life through 999 00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:26,400 Scripture. If there's one thing you get 1000 00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:30,320 from the message day is to filter everything in your life 1001 00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,160 through Scripture. She immediately recognized this 1002 00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:35,960 is from the Lord. I'm in CERN of this. 1003 00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:39,720 I see the promise fulfilled. I recognized that this baby is a 1004 00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,560 promise of fulfillment of Scripture from Abraham, from 1005 00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,800 Psalms all the way till now. Thank you Lord and she cries 1006 00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,760 out, I don't know about you. This song you remember this is 1007 00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:52,560 impromptu, right? It took two years to write here 1008 00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:57,720 I am to worship it. It took 20 seconds to write the 1009 00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,240 one of the greatest songs in all the history. 1010 01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,120 Amen. Because it was already in her. 1011 01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,880 She always just saying what she already knows to be true. 1012 01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,920 She sang from her spiritual memory. 1013 01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:13,040 It's pretty good. Amen. 1014 01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:18,840 And you will always default to filtering our life, the thing 1015 01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:22,920 that is in our heart, we have to change our filter. 1016 01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,200 Like my life is not any easier or better than anybody else's, 1017 01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,520 but I do have a filter through Jesus. 1018 01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:33,920 Amen. And your life could be changed 1019 01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:37,120 just by changing your filter of worship, change your 1020 01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:40,760 understanding of scripture. So in this Mary did not invent a 1021 01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,840 song. She simply sang scripture. 1022 01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,800 And this is, I believe you defeat a lot of things in your 1023 01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:54,240 life, anxieties, fears, doubts, insecurities, worries, habits, 1024 01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,760 habitual sin. I think it's nothing more than 1025 01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,120 writing a song full of Scripture for your own heart and fighting 1026 01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,920 to follow that song every day, Amen. 1027 01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:07,440 Like you've got to replace it with the truth. 1028 01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,960 This is now the longest New Testament passage by woman in 1029 01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,560 all the New Testament. That's pretty good, Amen. 1030 01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:18,200 And you think about this, This passage is 100% Scripture and 1031 01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:22,600 it's 100% worship. And God said, yeah, we'll put 1032 01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,680 that in the book. Amen. 1033 01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:27,120 We're going to ask ourselves, is that my life? 1034 01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,720 Is it full of Scripture? Is, is my life a response and 1035 01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,840 worship? Am I humble enough to say yes, 1036 01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,360 Lord, like I'm going to go first. 1037 01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:37,960 Lord, I don't know. Everybody's going to judge me. 1038 01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:39,880 It's going to look weird. But Lord, you're not. 1039 01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:43,000 I live for you. We need, we need to have this 1040 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,320 posture in our hearts every single day. 1041 01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:45,800 And a matter of fact, you actually can. 1042 01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,360 It's just so interesting that the words that Mary used, if you 1043 01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,920 look back to verse 38, then Mary said, behold, the maidservant, 1044 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,280 the Lord, and she said this word. 1045 01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:59,760 She said, let it be to me according to your word. 1046 01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,760 This is interesting because it's it's it's a moment of surrender. 1047 01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:08,360 Like she could have easily said, let me be got a lot of things 1048 01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,320 going on. I love you, but I got some stuff 1049 01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:14,480 I'm doing right now. Just let me be I've got I've got 1050 01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,160 to build this thing over here. This relationship's kind of 1051 01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:18,320 sideways. I'm always really going to think 1052 01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:20,800 about that, you know, so I've got to kind of get that squared 1053 01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:23,240 up. So let me be Lord, be close 1054 01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:25,560 handed. If we're real honest, this is 1055 01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:26,840 probably most of our lives, right? 1056 01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:30,040 Instead she says the very opposite thing. 1057 01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:35,360 So let me be in defiance. She says, Lord, let it be to me 1058 01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,720 according to your word. That's what makes a worship 1059 01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,920 Amen. She surrenders. 1060 01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,440 This is really interesting, like the word Amen. 1061 01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,360 You know we say like in Jesus name, Amen, right? 1062 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:51,840 That's how we pray. Pray to the Father through the 1063 01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:55,640 Holy Spirit, through the sun, the Trinity in our prayer, and 1064 01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,520 we end it with Amen. Why do we say Amen? 1065 01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:04,120 Yeah, we don't say Amen because it's a fun word, right? 1066 01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:08,680 We don't just add it in. Not our favorite 4 letter word, 1067 01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:10,360 right? Amen. 1068 01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:14,160 Amen. Why do we do that? 1069 01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:17,960 That that word has meaning it, it means to. 1070 01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:22,040 So let it be so let it be. So we pray, we're praying 1071 01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,760 through the power of Holy Spirit and we always add Amen. 1072 01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:28,360 We always throw it in like Amen. It doesn't mean it means Lord, 1073 01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:32,680 we trust you, like have your way, we surrender to you. 1074 01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:37,160 I want your way in my life now, Lord, like I don't even know the 1075 01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,120 direction. Like I'm praying, I'm trying to 1076 01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:40,680 figure out, I think this is what it is. 1077 01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:45,200 But so let your will be done. Like every time we pray, we're 1078 01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,160 saying yes to Amen. And when you pray and you're 1079 01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,120 faking it, you're not saying yes, Amen, right? 1080 01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:52,440 That's just, that's just another 4 letter word. 1081 01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:56,400 But in your heart, if you're like Amen, just say Amen. 1082 01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:59,520 Amen is worship. Amen. 1083 01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:05,280 It's just worship. Just the word Amen is worship. 1084 01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:09,600 And I'll prove it to you. DMI 8 Ezra opened the book. 1085 01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,200 This is you. Don't you'll go back to it real 1086 01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,120 quick. Ezra comes back from the second 1087 01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:15,560 remnant of Babylon. They've been taken captive of 1088 01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:17,600 the disobedience. He comes back home. 1089 01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:19,360 Nehemiah's are there. They're trying to build the 1090 01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,440 walls. But Ezra comes back and goes, 1091 01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:26,160 hey, this temple is barely functional and the worship is 1092 01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:28,720 frankly pathetic. He's upset. 1093 01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,080 He's a priest, he's nobody like he's not a warrior. 1094 01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:33,520 But he comes back and said, I'm going to bring this temple back 1095 01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:34,920 to where I should go. I'm going to get the worship of 1096 01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:36,640 the people. Should go and says you open the 1097 01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:40,000 book, the book they've not been reading the Old Testament, the 1098 01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:42,120 law. She opens the book of Moses and 1099 01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:45,040 this is what it says. All the people could see him 1100 01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:46,880 because he was standing above them. 1101 01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:49,520 If you don't know the story here, but they're built this big 1102 01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:53,200 wooden platform and put a little platform on top of it. 1103 01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:55,240 It was like the OG pulpit. I don't know. 1104 01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:57,400 And they put in front of everybody and he stood up on 1105 01:04:57,400 --> 01:04:59,320 there. He opened the Bible and it says 1106 01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:04,440 this, it said to people and he stood up and then Ezra, praise 1107 01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:08,560 the Lord the great God, and all the people lifted their hands 1108 01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:16,040 and responded how it's probably better than that, right? 1109 01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:19,480 He opened the Bible and he's like, here it is. 1110 01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:20,920 We've kind of walked away from it. 1111 01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:23,080 Lord your great Lord, your mighty. 1112 01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:27,080 They stood to their feet. Cue my church stood to their 1113 01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,800 feet, cueing my church. They stood to their feet. 1114 01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,040 They stood to their feet. What they do. 1115 01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:36,640 Yeah, there it is. Right. 1116 01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,880 And they get excited and they give versions. 1117 01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:40,480 Amen. Amen. 1118 01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:42,120 Amen, Amen. Let it be. 1119 01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:44,320 Let the word of God be. Let the things be. 1120 01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:46,560 Let the Scripture be true. We want to follow your way, 1121 01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:48,240 Lord. Like we should get excited when 1122 01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:51,080 the Bible gets opened. Like, oh, wow, that's the Bible. 1123 01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:54,080 That's the power, man, like that's the power of God, the 1124 01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:56,960 royal power of God coming into our church, coming to your life. 1125 01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:00,240 It's your signpost, it's your substance, it's your provision, 1126 01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,920 it's your, it's everything. And they just heard the word of 1127 01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:06,520 God that has been destitute for them for for a long time. 1128 01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:10,760 And they heard this preach and they said Amen, Amen and Amen. 1129 01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:13,320 And they did something really crazy, which I'm not going to 1130 01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:14,720 ask you to do, but you can if you want to. 1131 01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:20,240 It says, then they bow down and worship the Lord with their 1132 01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,000 faces to the ground. It's really interesting because 1133 01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:24,360 you stand up and you lift your hands. 1134 01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,720 It's it's a sign of surrender and it's also a sign of worship. 1135 01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:32,360 But when you bow down, it's just a sign of surrender. 1136 01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,160 I mean, you're just like Lord. And there's moments like you 1137 01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:40,880 have to crawl under your desk, get next to your bed and say, 1138 01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:42,760 Lord, I have nothing left but you. 1139 01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:47,200 I trust you, I worship you. And I believe today could be one 1140 01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:50,360 of those days for you, like maybe the first time ever that 1141 01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,760 you truly worship the Lord. Matter of fact, you say the word 1142 01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:53,600 Amen. It's actually really cool 1143 01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:55,160 because you're not just saying a word, you're actually saying a 1144 01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:58,280 name. Revelation 314 says these are 1145 01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:02,120 the words of the what of the Amen. 1146 01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:05,880 You see, it's a capital letter. That's that's Jesus name. 1147 01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:09,640 So, so when you say Amen, you're saying so let it be, but you're 1148 01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:14,240 all saying Jesus, let it be. Isn't that amazing? 1149 01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:17,160 How many guys do that? When you prayed, you're actually 1150 01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:19,480 praying through Jesus name, literally when you say the word 1151 01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:23,800 Amen, it's crazy. And so we say yes Lord, it's a 1152 01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:27,160 sign of worship. And so the question is, what are 1153 01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:30,000 you trying to control that God wants you to surrender today in 1154 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,960 worship? What part of your life are you 1155 01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,600 holding on to that you need to surrender to God? 1156 01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:39,280 Where's the area that God is speaking to you and maybe for a 1157 01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:42,240 long time is asking to say, you know, it's time to go. 1158 01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:46,720 I have the plan for you and you may be putting off or maybe 1159 01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:48,560 there's something happened this week and you're like, man, I 1160 01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:50,480 don't understand it, but your Lord, I still trust you. 1161 01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,560 Like what's that one area to say yes to Jesus in? 1162 01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,280 And today our response is simply here I am. 1163 01:07:56,920 --> 01:08:00,920 Come on, somebody to worship. That's why I came today. 1164 01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:03,440 I didn't come to hear some great message. 1165 01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:05,760 And here because I came because I worship you, Jesus. 1166 01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:08,640 And that's how we came today. If you didn't come today, that's 1167 01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:11,560 how we're going to leave today. And so, Father, we just open our 1168 01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:15,400 hands, not our fists, but we open our fists to your hands to 1169 01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:17,399 worship you. How many of church today would 1170 01:08:17,399 --> 01:08:19,720 just raise their hands and just worship and say, Lord, I need to 1171 01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:23,120 get better worshiper, I need to surrender to you. 1172 01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:24,319 There's something I'm holding on to. 1173 01:08:24,319 --> 01:08:26,720 I've got 99%, I'm surrender, but there's 1%. 1174 01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:28,240 I'm holding on to God. But I'm going to give you that 1175 01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:32,279 area. I trust you, let it be to me 1176 01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:36,240 according to your word. And so God, we worship you, God, 1177 01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:41,640 we give you glory, we magnify your name. 1178 01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:44,359 We came here for no other reason but to make your name more 1179 01:08:44,359 --> 01:08:47,640 famous. Less of me, Lord, more of you. 1180 01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:52,920 God, thank you for choosing me for anything and everything good 1181 01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:54,600 that's ever happened. God, you get the glory. 1182 01:08:57,279 --> 01:09:00,680 God, who am I to take a piece of glory? 1183 01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:05,880 God, I fear you. I worship you. 1184 01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:10,200 I home myself before you. God know you see me. 1185 01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:14,080 Thank you Lord, thank you for Jesus, the name that saves above 1186 01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:19,760 all names. For some of you, this is all 1187 01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:22,800 new. For some of you, this is the 1188 01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:25,319 first time in your life you've heard this story about Jesus. 1189 01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:30,600 And today you recognize that that one to save made a way for 1190 01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:32,920 you. That we're not here just setting 1191 01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,399 up to have religion, we're here because of Jesus. 1192 01:09:36,359 --> 01:09:38,800 For some of you, today you say yes to Christ. 1193 01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:41,760 For some of you maybe to get on your knees and bow down and say 1194 01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:45,479 Lord, I've made everything about myself to put myself in the 1195 01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:48,600 throne in the driver's seat, but today I need to put you in the 1196 01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:51,680 driver's seat. I need to give you the glory. 1197 01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:55,600 God, your way is better and I trust you today. 1198 01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:59,160 This Jesus, the one who saves, the Bible says came 2000 years 1199 01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:03,320 ago down a cross for your sins and has made a way for you to be 1200 01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:06,440 forgiven through the cross. The Bible says you believe in 1201 01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:10,640 Jesus just like Mary knew what happened, that you be set free 1202 01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:15,560 for your sin and made free through the blood of Jesus who 1203 01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:19,400 paid for your sin in full so you could truly come into God's 1204 01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:21,560 presence as a son and daughter of the King. 1205 01:10:22,440 --> 01:10:24,920 And so today if you need new life in Jesus, very first time 1206 01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:27,400 you surrender to him. If that's you, we just lift your 1207 01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:29,400 hands high and surrender us. I need Jesus today. 1208 01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:33,800 I worship you today. I'm open my hands to you today 1209 01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,520 for the first time in my life. I'm giving you everything Lord, 1210 01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:40,520 I'm not holding back. Your way is so much better if 1211 01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:42,360 that's you just pray this prayer with me. 1212 01:10:42,360 --> 01:10:43,960 The prayer does not save you but your heart towards him. 1213 01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:47,600 Say thank you Jesus for loving me enough to die on a cross. 1214 01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:51,680 You'd come as a baby in a Manger and make a way for me to know 1215 01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:52,120 you. God. 1216 01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:54,160 Thank you for down across my sin. 1217 01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:55,760 God, I'm a Sinner and need of a savior. 1218 01:10:55,760 --> 01:11:01,360 Thank you Jesus for saving me, the one who saves. 1219 01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,800 Save me in the name of the one who saves. 1220 01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:09,720 And the church said, Amen. Come on, give some glory to God 1221 01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:10,360 today. Amen. 1222 01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:16,720 You guys keep you seated. Thank you guys. 1223 01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:21,600 Man, what just a powerful it's a powerful message and reminder 1224 01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:23,480 today just of worship and surrender. 1225 01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,320 And then some of you surrendered your life to Jesus today for the 1226 01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:29,760 first time. And if that is you, we are truly 1227 01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:31,800 so excited for you as you're taking this next step with 1228 01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:33,200 Jesus. And we would love just to walk 1229 01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:34,760 alongside you and help you in that. 1230 01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:36,920 If you would grab that connection card that's on your 1231 01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:39,680 seat, fill out your information on that there in the top and 1232 01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:42,640 check that box that says I committed my life to Jesus. 1233 01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:45,240 And you can drop that in the giving buckets as they pass here 1234 01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:47,720 in just a few minutes. Just by doing that allows us to 1235 01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:49,800 get a couple things to you. And the first one is a free 1236 01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:51,800 book. It's called begin short read, 1237 01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:54,480 but a really powerful one that we know will be a blessing to 1238 01:11:54,480 --> 01:11:55,640 you. Also as you leave today. 1239 01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:56,920 There's a table with some red bags. 1240 01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:59,600 There's a Bible and some other resources in there as well. 1241 01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:02,200 Please grab one of those as you exit today as well. 1242 01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:05,080 And if you are new with us at Real Life Church, this is your 1243 01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:08,440 first time here. Thank you so much for being here 1244 01:12:08,440 --> 01:12:11,080 today and choosing just to spend your morning here at Real Life 1245 01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:13,000 Church. I know that God had something 1246 01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:16,080 for you today and when we would love nothing from you this 1247 01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,080 morning except for this. And that's just to introduce 1248 01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:20,560 yourself to us. And you can do that simply just 1249 01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:22,880 by grabbing that same connection card on your seat. 1250 01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:25,320 Fill out your information on that and check that First Time 1251 01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:28,200 Here box and you can drop that and then give in buckets as 1252 01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:29,360 well. Or you can hold on to it and 1253 01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:32,120 take it to the new here booth. As you leave today, there'll be 1254 01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:35,280 somebody there that would love just to take your card and do 1255 01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:37,200 some selves to you and get you a free gift. 1256 01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:40,560 I just our way of saying thank you so much for being here with 1257 01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:42,160 us today. And hey, we'd love to see you 1258 01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:45,280 back next week right here at 9:00 and 10:45. 1259 01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,800 Man, next week really is going to be just one of those Sundays 1260 01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:49,840 you're not going to want to miss. 1261 01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:53,200 It's really kicking off a new season at real life church and 1262 01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:56,680 that is celebration Sunday. Man, next week we're going to 1263 01:12:56,680 --> 01:12:59,520 show here's some significant numbers, we're going to share 1264 01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:02,960 some stories of bold faith. We get to share all sorts of 1265 01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:07,440 stats on participation and all that God has done through this. 1266 01:13:07,440 --> 01:13:10,440 And ultimately we get to share the number of pledge towards 1267 01:13:10,440 --> 01:13:11,960 difference maker. And so you're not going to want 1268 01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:14,600 to miss that as well. Also next Sunday, celebration 1269 01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:17,200 Sunday, that's really our time, our first time together as the 1270 01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:20,360 body of Christ to give to really kick off this difference maker 1271 01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:21,800 initiative. And so we're asking that you 1272 01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:23,640 bring your stored resources gift. 1273 01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:27,040 Maybe it's just your best one time gift to really kick off 1274 01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:31,160 this pledge together. I also to just want to give just 1275 01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:33,640 a little bit of clarity when you give towards Difference Maker 1276 01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,760 online, when you give online towards that, if you want to 1277 01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:39,280 give towards your pledge in the Difference Maker initiative in 1278 01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:42,080 the drop downs there, when you click the drop down, you want to 1279 01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:44,840 choose that top option there. That's the ministry fund. 1280 01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:48,320 The Ministry Fund really is a combination of our pledges and 1281 01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,080 expected giving kind of all wrapped up in one. 1282 01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:53,040 And if you have questions on that, you can see me after the 1283 01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:54,800 gathering. But just wanted to give a little 1284 01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:58,360 bit of clarity on that. I mean, every week we are seeing 1285 01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:01,560 commitment cards come in of people pledging to be difference 1286 01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:03,440 makers. And so if that's you, I just 1287 01:14:03,440 --> 01:14:06,920 want to say a heartfelt thank you so much for pledging to be a 1288 01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,840 difference maker in this next season, in this next chapter of 1289 01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:12,520 real life church. And then there are a lot of 1290 01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:13,840 things you can give your money to. 1291 01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:15,800 There's a lot of ways you can spend it. 1292 01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:17,320 Some of it's worth it, some of it's not. 1293 01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:20,280 I was just thinking, man, I can buy a pizza for my family. 1294 01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:22,160 It's gone in like 2 minutes flat. 1295 01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:26,760 Worth it maybe in the short term, but man, this is something 1296 01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:30,080 that's worth it. Man, it is worth it to see two 1297 01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:32,160 to three people come to know Jesus every week. 1298 01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,640 It's worth it to see 50 people baptized this year. 1299 01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:38,120 Man, it's worth it to see potentially 100 people baptized 1300 01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,200 next year. Truly is an eternal return on 1301 01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:42,360 investment. When people raise their hands, 1302 01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:45,000 when they get dunked under the water and come back out and we 1303 01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:47,680 celebrate, man, that is credit to your account. 1304 01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:50,360 And it truly is about 100% participation. 1305 01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:53,840 All of us saying yes to being difference makers really in this 1306 01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,120 next season, in this next chapter at real life church. 1307 01:14:56,480 --> 01:14:58,720 So I also want to invite you, if you haven't turned a card in 1308 01:14:58,720 --> 01:15:00,880 yet, man, today's a great day to do that. 1309 01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:03,400 You can grab, there's physical commitment cards on your seat. 1310 01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:06,480 You can also scan that QR code that's up on the screen and 1311 01:15:06,480 --> 01:15:09,680 that'll take you to a digital commitment card as well. 1312 01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:12,400 And hey, if you call real life church home, there's a lot of 1313 01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:15,200 ways that you can give today. You can check out the screen 1314 01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:18,120 there, you can text, you can scan the QR code. 1315 01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,640 You can head to our website. You can drop cash or check in 1316 01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:22,280 the buckets as they pass as well. 1317 01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:24,440 There's also a giving box right in the back as you leave. 1318 01:15:24,440 --> 01:15:27,040 You can drop cash or check in there or your card as well, if 1319 01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:31,000 that is more convenient for you. And as always, especially in the 1320 01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:34,040 season, if you or your family are in any kind of immediate 1321 01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:37,760 need this week, food or clothing or shelter, whatever that looks 1322 01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:40,200 like for you and your family, would you please reach into the 1323 01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,560 bucket as they pass and grab any loose cash that you see just so 1324 01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:45,760 that we can bless you, that we can help you in your time of 1325 01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:46,600 deed. Let's pray. 1326 01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:50,040 Father, thank you so much God, just for this just powerful 1327 01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:53,600 reminder of worship and of true surrender and what that looks 1328 01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,720 like. God, I pray just for the the 1329 01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:58,040 gifts given today, God, that you would bless it, Father, that you 1330 01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:03,240 would multiply as we just desire God to see more soul saved, to 1331 01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:05,640 see the lost come home and ultimately to find their real 1332 01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:08,280 life and purpose in you. And so God, we give today back 1333 01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:09,920 to you. We love you, we praise you, it's 1334 01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:12,280 in Jesus, Jesus name we pray, Amen. 1335 01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:15,920 Amen. What a blessed day. 1336 01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:18,160 Before you guys get out of here, I have a couple things for you 1337 01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:21,320 to mark your calendars. First of all, I want to see all 1338 01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:24,200 of you bring all your friends and all your family, anybody 1339 01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:27,720 that you can think of, invite them out for our Christmas Eve 1340 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:29,840 service. We're going to have a service at 1341 01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:32,520 2:00 and 4:00 PM and I'd love to see all of you out there with 1342 01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:34,440 all the guests that you can muster up. 1343 01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,560 And then for the parents in here, if you are the parent of a 1344 01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:40,880 6th through 12th grader, we a few days after for that are 1345 01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:42,920 going to be celebrating the new year, New Year's Eve. 1346 01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:45,480 We are going to main event. Then we're going to come back to 1347 01:16:45,480 --> 01:16:48,440 the Hope Center, celebrate with ice cream and watch the ball 1348 01:16:48,440 --> 01:16:49,760 drop. And this is big. 1349 01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:53,240 If you are interested in having your student go, please sign 1350 01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:56,120 them up as soon as possible. You can scan the QR code. 1351 01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:58,840 It's only $40 that covers transportation, all the games. 1352 01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:01,680 We're going to do a main event dinner, ice cream after. 1353 01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:03,720 It is a bargain. Please help me out. 1354 01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,000 It is going to help me get a head count as soon as possible. 1355 01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:08,000 Love to see all the students out there. 1356 01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:11,280 And then for all the guys out here this Saturday we are going 1357 01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:14,960 to have our men's breakfast with our fearless leader, Scott 1358 01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:16,280 Jermaine. We're going to talk about how 1359 01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:19,720 the year 2025 impacted us. We're going to have breakfast, 1360 01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:21,280 We're going to have good conversation and we're going to 1361 01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:24,360 get in our Bibles is going to be a great morning. 1362 01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:26,640 And then if you guys don't mind, I'd like to end today kind of 1363 01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,880 how we've been going the whole time and end in some worship in 1364 01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:33,160 2nd Corinthians 120. It says for all the promises of 1365 01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:35,600 God find their yes in him. Think about it. 1366 01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:40,720 Jesus is our yes from God. That is why through him that we 1367 01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:44,000 utter our Amen to God for his glory. 1368 01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:47,360 In Psalm one, O 648 says, blessed be the Lord, the God of 1369 01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:50,520 Israel from everlasting to everlasting and let all the 1370 01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:56,120 people say, help me out. Amen, praise the Lord. 1371 01:17:56,440 --> 01:17:58,280 If you need prayer to talk to a pastor, there's going to be 1372 01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:00,520 somebody down here for you. I'd love to see all of you again 1373 01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:04,160 next week at 9:00 or 10:45. And remember, whoever finds 1374 01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:07,120 Jesus discovers real life and purpose. 1375 01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:12,320 Have a good week. This is the end of this podcast. 1376 01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:15,000 We hope you've enjoyed it. If you have, be sure to hit the 1377 01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:17,400 subscribe button so you don't miss another inspirational 1378 01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:19,400 podcast. For more great content and 1379 01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:21,920 updates, visit Real Life Church KC dot. 1380 01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:22,320 Com.