1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,960 Good morning, real life. We are excited that you have 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:04,680 come to worship with us this morning. 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:07,520 It's our privilege to join together and just to lift up the 4 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,760 praises to God. So whether you're joining us 5 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,160 here in person, we invite you to stand on your feet. 6 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,160 We're going to lift up some shouts of praise to God this 7 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:19,520 morning because it's because of His love, His work on the cross, 8 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,520 that our sins are gone. So let's lift him up. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,600 It wasn't born nothing that you shed your blood. 10 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,800 So I'm going to live like my shame is gone. 11 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,920 Won't be shackled to the way I was. 12 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,880 So I'm going to live like my chains are gone. 13 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:59,480 Gone now my city's steady gone. And I sing Hallelujah, time, 14 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:07,080 time he is rising, it is time. And I sing Hallelujah. 15 00:01:18,930 --> 00:01:21,610 So I'm going to shout like the battles won. 16 00:01:22,890 --> 00:01:29,290 Hey, fall back there because the time is up. 17 00:01:29,370 --> 00:01:35,840 So I'm going to live like the stone is gone, gone now my I've 18 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:43,360 seen his daily gone and I sing Hallelujah done, done. 19 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:59,400 He is arisen and he's done and I sing Hallelujah is how great the 20 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:10,120 power ever belongs. Oh, oh, Oh yes, I am the 21 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:18,800 righteousness of God. Oh. 22 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:24,120 Oh, singing out to him, cow, great, the power of the blood. 23 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:35,840 Oh, oh I am I the righteousness of God. 24 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:57,920 Oh, oh, oh, gone, gone now my sin is dead and gone, and I sing 25 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:08,200 Hallelujah, done, done He is arisen it is done. 26 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,680 And I sing Hallelujah, O and gone, gone, gone. 27 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,880 Now my sin is day God. And I sing Hallelujah, done, 28 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:59,440 done He is. I'll give it up for Jesus this 29 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,080 morning. Come on, so good to worship with 30 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:31,640 you this morning. Come rest on us, come rest on us 31 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,600 as the spirit was moved over the water. 32 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:44,800 Spirit, come over us, Come rest on us, come rest on us. 33 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,360 Calm down Spirit. When you, when you made my heart 34 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,320 hurt. When you fill the room, you're 35 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:58,200 here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will 36 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,360 feel me. Calm down, spirit. 37 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,640 When you know you make my heart # When you fill the room, you're 38 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,960 here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you'll feel 39 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:22,520 me. Come on, see. 40 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:28,720 Fire and wind, Fire and wind coming to it again. 41 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:34,760 Hoping up the gates. Let heaven on it come rest on 42 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:41,560 us, come rest on us. Fire and wind coming to it 43 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,000 again, hoping up the gates. Let heaven on it. 44 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:51,720 Come rest on us, come rest on us. 45 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:57,880 Calm down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart # When 46 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:02,080 you feel the room, you're here, And I know you are moving. 47 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,920 I'm here, and I know you will feel me. 48 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:11,240 Calm down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart # When 49 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,680 you feel the room, you're here. And I know you are moving. 50 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,320 I'm here and I know you'll feel me. 51 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:36,080 Come, Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, come rest on us. 52 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,160 You're all we want. You're all we want. 53 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:54,160 Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. 54 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:06,480 You're all we want. Holy Spirit, come rest on us. 55 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:16,120 You're all we want. You're all we want. 56 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,760 Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. 57 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:28,080 You're all we want. Calm down, Spirit. 58 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:32,560 We When you move, you make my heart # When you feel the room, 59 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,680 you're here and I know you are moving. 60 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,240 I'm here and I know you will feel me. 61 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,480 Calm down, Spirit. When you move, you make my heart 62 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,160 # When you feel the room. You're here and I know you are 63 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,760 moving. I'm here and I know you will 64 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,720 feel me. Calm down, Spirit. 65 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,320 When you move, you make my heart pound. 66 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,440 When you feel the You're here and I know you. 67 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,080 I'm moving. I'm here and I know you will 68 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,760 fill me. Holy Spirit hummus on us. 69 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,640 You're all we want. You're all we want. 70 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:27,560 Holy Spirit hummus on us. You're all we want. 71 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:39,400 You're all we want. Holy Spirit comest on us. 72 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:44,440 You're all we want. You're all we want. 73 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:56,800 And Holy Spirit comest on us. You're always we want, you're 74 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:09,160 all we want Holy Spirit, you are well kind, complete in this 75 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:14,760 place and fill the atmosphere cause your glory. 76 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:22,040 God is what our hearts are going to be over. 77 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:40,880 Come play to this place and fill the atmosphere. 78 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:47,800 Your glory card is what our hearts alone to be. 79 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:52,680 All my come by your praises Lord. 80 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:57,440 Amen. Lord Long. 81 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,280 For your presence in this place got in the name. 82 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,600 In your name. I want to take this moment to 83 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:10,480 introduce you to a new song, and it is called More Than Able. 84 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,000 And it comes right out of the Scripture in Ephesians 3 where 85 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,720 it says when we lean in and we plant our roots down deep in 86 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,320 Jesus, that he can do exceedingly, abundantly, more 87 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,200 than we can ask or think. And I think as we're leaning 88 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,760 into this season of difference maker for our church, there's 89 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,880 not more than we could ask because God, he can do above 90 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:30,840 anything we can think. So let's lean in. 91 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:43,880 Let's worship Him. So when did I start to forget 92 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:54,440 all of the great things you did? When did I throw away faith for 93 00:10:54,440 --> 00:11:03,680 the impossible? And how did I start to believe 94 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,720 that you weren't sufficient for me? 95 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:18,200 Why do I talk myself out of seeing miracles 'cause? 96 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:31,600 You are more than able 'cause you are more. 97 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:43,880 Than able. You are more than anymore. 98 00:11:50,400 --> 00:12:00,040 You are more than able and do am I to deny what the Lord can do? 99 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:12,200 It's easy for you and now I see all that I have. 100 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:22,640 Oh I've got my confidence back beside put my trust in the one 101 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:27,760 who still does miracles. You do miracles. 102 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:43,120 You are more than able. You are more than able. 103 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:52,840 You are. You are more than able. 104 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:07,240 Because you are more than able. Who am I to deny what the Lord 105 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:13,080 can do? Can you imagine with all of the 106 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:18,880 faith in the room, what the Lord can do, what the Lord can do, 107 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,680 and it's going to happen. Just let the waymaker through. 108 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:28,600 He's going to move. He's going to move. 109 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:35,160 Can you imagine with all of the faith in the room, what the Lord 110 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:40,520 can do, what the Lord can do? It's going to happen. 111 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,160 Just let the waymaker through. He's going to move. 112 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:52,560 He's going to move. Can you imagine with all of the 113 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:57,760 faith in the room, what the Lord can do, what the Lord can do? 114 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,800 It's going to happen. Just let the waymaker move. 115 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:09,280 He's going to move. He's going to move because 116 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:15,680 anything is possible and anything is possible. 117 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:26,120 Anything is possible. We remind to deny what the Lord 118 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,760 can do. If anything is possible, 119 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:44,920 anything is possible, anything is possible to deny what the 120 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:50,360 Lord can do. Who am I to deny what the Lord 121 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:55,160 can do? Who am I to deny what the Lord 122 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:08,360 can do? You are more than anymore. 123 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:30,360 You are more than able. You are more than able you. 124 00:15:37,540 --> 00:15:45,020 Are more than able. Who am I to deny what the Lord 125 00:15:45,020 --> 00:15:49,040 can do? Who am I, I to deny what the 126 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:55,040 Lord can do? Who am I to deny what the Lord 127 00:15:55,040 --> 00:16:06,120 can do? The God of the impossible, man, 128 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,560 the God that shows up week in and week out, no matter what 129 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,200 state or what season you're in, man, God is always here. 130 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,600 God is always the God of the possible man. 131 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,960 Let's give I forgot one more time, man. 132 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,480 Love to hear you guys worship. I want you guys to know there 133 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,840 are a ton of new people here today, man. 134 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,360 Thank you guys for choosing to gather with us online in person. 135 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:25,720 Can we give those guys some love? 136 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,120 Just give them a round of applause, man. 137 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:29,640 If you guys know this or not, winter's coming. 138 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,280 Did you guys like that for a little little cool? 139 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,000 I'm man I'm not ready for. I told Pastor Sean we're not 140 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,320 ready for yet, but it's on the way. 141 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,040 So hey man, I want you guys to find somebody, greet them, let 142 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:40,360 them know how glad you are seeing this morning. 143 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,760 Right, you guys can go ahead and grab a seat. 144 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,240 Hey, as you guys are sitting down, I want you guys to know 145 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:19,920 that I am getting some feedback here. 146 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:22,520 You guys are getting ready to sit on something awesome. 147 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,720 It's called our connection card. This connection card is an all 148 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,319 play moment. It's for everybody in the house. 149 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:28,920 So let me tell you a little bit about it. 150 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,200 If you call real life home, we love it when you fill out these 151 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:32,560 cards. Let us know what's going on in 152 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:34,920 your life. You put on some prayer requests, 153 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,560 some praises. We love to pray over these week 154 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:39,440 in week out. Our team really looks forward to 155 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,920 it and they truly excited to see what you guys have going on when 156 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,000 you turn those in. If you guys are new with this, 157 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,840 I'm going to make a promise to you and I'm going to ask 158 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,400 anything else from you this week except one simple thing. 159 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,880 We just love for you to introduce yourself to us. 160 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,480 Let us know who you are, fill out the information to the level 161 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,520 that you're comfortable with. We're not going to show up your 162 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,880 door or anything like that, but we want you to that we care 163 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:00,120 about you. We'd love to send you more 164 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:03,120 information about real life this week so you guys have an 165 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:05,920 opportunity to turn those cards in a little bit later in the 166 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,080 gathering. We do all of this week in and 167 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,560 week out because we say that we are a church on a mission is why 168 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,160 we exist is why we do what we do. 169 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,480 That mission is to see people far from Jesus discovered the 170 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:18,440 real life of her. They're far from God discovered 171 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,280 the real life of purpose in Jesus. 172 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,720 What that means is this is like when you guys walk through your 173 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,960 daily life. Is everything always perfect? 174 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:27,160 Is it easy? It's not right. 175 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,600 And I get to talk to people at work just on on the daily 176 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,600 routine and they come in they're like, man, my life is destroyed, 177 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,360 it's broken. What do I do next? 178 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,320 That's why this real life church is here, is to get people 179 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,280 connected to what's next to find their next step, to find that 180 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,840 purpose, to find that mission because you're never going to 181 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,680 find that out in the world, but you're going to find that in 182 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,960 Jesus, in the pleasure and the joy of us. 183 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,120 What we do every week is we can see people walk in here broken 184 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:54,480 and destroyed and they walk out with hope. 185 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,280 They walk out with the knowledge of that somebody cares about 186 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,880 them, that Jesus loved them enough to die for them. 187 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:02,320 That's what the gospel is and that's why we're on mission. 188 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,000 And so it really leads in also to what we're in the middle of 189 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,960 this Difference Maker series. And I'm so glad you guys are 190 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,440 here. We kicked it off last week. 191 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,640 And so for the next 5 weeks, we're going to lean into what 192 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,040 really this church has always been about, but we're going to 193 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,520 put an exclamation point on it. So for the last eight years, if 194 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,240 you don't know our story, God has used this body, this 195 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,760 gathering to bring hope and transformation throughout this 196 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,400 community and really across the world. 197 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,080 But God has asked us to step into a season for all of us to 198 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,480 become difference makers. And what that's going to look 199 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,320 like is we're got being called to not create a building, but to 200 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,720 create a movement. And we're hoping that God takes 201 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,400 this tool of a building that we're, we're, we're reaching for 202 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,080 in, in, in building some momentum to, to take that to 203 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,480 change to the next generation. It's what we're believing that 204 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,360 God's going to remove obstacles. We're believing in God to make 205 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:51,840 the impossible happen. We don't have the answers to 206 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,280 everything, but we're looking to the God that does. 207 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:57,720 And so we're hoping and we're praying and we're having faith 208 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,760 that God will take every person in this room individually to 209 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,120 become difference makers, to change the next generation, to 210 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:06,480 see souls transform. So once you guys take this 211 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,320 opportunity, let's give a big, huge, real life welcome and 212 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,560 bring up Pastor Sean as we continue Difference Maker. 213 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,560 Hey, I don't even need that today, Barry. 214 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,000 Oh, man, they, they, they upgraded me, baby. 215 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,880 So it's good. That's right. 216 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:25,320 I don't know if that's going to work out very well. 217 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,480 So well, man, who's feeling blessed today? 218 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,080 Come on, somebody that song, man, God is able. 219 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,680 Was that good or what? That was just something for your 220 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,440 soul today. It's it's refreshing to remember 221 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,480 what the Lord can do and it's possible to do anything. 222 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,240 And so I'm going to celebrate a few things. 223 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,760 Oh, by the way, if you're like what happened to Pastor Sean? 224 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,040 I fought a bear, I killed a lion. 225 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,640 It got me a little bit. I'm good. 226 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,880 But yeah, three weeks out of surgery from rotator cuff and 227 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,160 it's going really well. Amen. 228 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,560 I'm blessed, so don't worry about me, but just keep praying 229 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,280 it's good. So I got three more weeks in 230 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,240 this bad boy. Hopefully that's it and I'm good 231 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,160 to go. I'll slowly take a journey back. 232 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,400 But today I want to celebrate a few things. 233 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,840 One last week we had five people commit to life, to Jesus, Amen. 234 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,720 That's amazing. That's significant. 235 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:12,600 It's about why we're doing a building, why we have this 236 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,160 initiative. That's the best kickoff we could 237 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,480 ever have, Amen. Like that's why we're doing it. 238 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,880 The building is a tool, right? It's, it's, it's a, it's a means 239 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,040 to an end the, the mission, the movement. 240 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,520 Like Barry talked about, sometimes you put a building up, 241 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,520 it's like we arrived. It's like we just started Amen. 242 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,000 Like it's about the gospel, it's about souls. 243 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,400 It's not about concrete and steel. 244 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,480 And so we're excited 5 people come to Christ last week. 245 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,600 And I would encourage you guys, I've really what it looks like 246 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,720 today to be an everyday difference maker. 247 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:44,200 You know, we, we hear these stories like these five people 248 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:45,560 come to Christ. Let me just tell you a little 249 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,680 bit about how this, this usually happens. 250 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,720 It's, it's actually not a very complicated formula. 251 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,280 It's us going out and sharing the good news of Jesus and the 252 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,640 conversations around us. And it doesn't mean we're just 253 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,200 like preachers, like here's the gospel, but you weave the gospel 254 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,040 in the conversations and you see people hurting, you see people 255 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,760 in need, you see people broken, and you step in. 256 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,520 That's a holy moment, Amen. That's a spiritual moment. 257 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,120 And there's some people at our church that like have spiritual 258 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:14,760 eyes to see like you just walk around. 259 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,760 It's not like I go to church on Sunday like I am the church and 260 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:19,280 I just see what God's doing all the time. 261 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,280 I sense of spirit, I sense what the enemy is up to and I'm just 262 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,280 going to step on in. And what those ladies in our 263 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,040 church is Christy Hardy. She just has a spiritual sense 264 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,800 on her. She's invited so many people 265 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,360 who's been invited by Christy. Just show of hands. 266 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:33,360 Like, I mean, there's a lot of you guys, right? 267 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:35,160 I mean, a lot of people just know Christy, if you don't know 268 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,760 where she runs her kids, she's married to Barry, you know, 269 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:44,560 sorry, but she was out about 3 weeks ago, maybe a month ago, 270 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,080 and she ran some people she knew. 271 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:50,120 And one of his name was Perla and she divided Perla to church 272 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:52,880 with her family and didn't know what God's going to do. 273 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,840 She shows up the next week and that was a week Logan was 274 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:00,200 preaching, not Logie, all right, but he said he can do a good 275 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,080 Logie, he's good at that. Just don't do something. 276 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:03,880 And that Logan's preaching and guess what? 277 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,560 Perla and her sister, her family came to Christ. 278 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,000 Amen. Just because everyday roommaker 279 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,840 just somebody saw somebody and said man that God can make a 280 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,520 difference your life. It was just like come out to 281 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,280 real life like how you doing spiritual what's going on your 282 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,040 life. Hey, you know what's made a 283 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,440 difference in my life? It is Jesus. 284 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,720 Can you just come with me? I'll save you a seat like I'll 285 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,120 sit with you. Just just come on out and see 286 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:27,360 what God can do. She comes to Christ last week. 287 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:29,760 You know what they did They're so excited about Jesus. 288 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,960 They invited somebody with them. Amen. 289 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,720 Like this is how the gospel goes. 290 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,360 It's just relationship circles. And so sometimes you 291 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:41,760 overcomplicate this for like other spiritual, like spiritual. 292 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,080 I don't even call that like your, your spiritual pedestals. 293 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,080 There's spiritual practitioners, there's spiritual privilege. 294 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,200 No Amen. You have the same Holy Spirit as 295 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,520 everybody else does. The the ground of the cross is 296 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,720 equal by the way it's level and the power of God lives in you. 297 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,360 I will encourage you to when you're like living on mission, 298 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,360 please don't say you're not qualified or you're not good 299 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,480 enough or you don't have don't know enough. 300 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,760 Can I tell you you you know enough? 301 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:10,600 Like just tell people what you do know. 302 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,400 Amen. Like you don't tell what you 303 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,360 don't know. And then you Start learning. 304 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,360 So if you know like A to G, tell them about everything in front 305 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,920 of it, right? Don't worry about Z or like 306 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,600 bury, like triple Z like the dudes you know, watching all 307 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:24,800 these things, right? Like you don't have to tell 308 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,680 people what you don't know, but I encourage you to go out and 309 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,000 share and see what God can do. That's just a little story, 310 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,400 right? Everyday dress Baker, you can 311 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,840 make a difference to all this. Last week, those yard signs were 312 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,320 like flying off the shelf. They were going. 313 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,280 I talked about how many people come to church because they saw 314 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,240 a sign and I really wasn't planning on it. 315 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,760 And then all of a sudden people were taking signs. 316 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,120 That's an introverted dream. Amen. 317 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,240 I mean, you don't have to do nothing. 318 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,320 You just like, hey, I put it out and guess what? 319 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,840 You got one more MO left in this season, brother. 320 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,080 Boom, 8 months of being a witness, six months of being a 321 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,760 witness. Just stick it down in the yard, 322 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,200 right And all of a sudden you're proclaiming just the good news 323 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,760 of Jesus and there's a place of hope and people come because 324 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,800 that Amen. So there's some signs out there 325 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,240 for you. Take more than one right, put 326 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,640 them out, give some friends. Somebody actually left one last 327 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,880 week and you know, like you're always wondering like does 328 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,080 somebody taking on tear down or is this supposed to be here? 329 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,240 Well, they weren't taking it just got left out. 330 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,320 So I brought it home and a God's great sovereignty. 331 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,600 There's a man came house yesterday and said I meant to 332 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,520 grab a sign last Sunday. I said, well, did God set you up 333 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,080 for a reason? It's here in my garage. 334 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,520 Here's your sign, right? So, yeah, we went on a walk, 335 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,040 five mile walk last night and guess what? 336 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,480 That sign was in the yard on sunrise. 337 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,480 Come on somebody, right? And that's just a little 338 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,120 everyday difference maker. I want to encourage you guys as 339 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,640 well. There's a, a lady that goes to 340 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,400 our church, loves our church, loves Jesus and took everyday 341 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,800 difference maker, not just here, but across the world. 342 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,320 And she's been in Thailand just over three months and just got 343 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,760 back this this last week. She was really tired, but we're 344 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,920 going to stop her. And you, you know her. 345 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,480 She comes here if you don't know her, but her name's Rochelle 346 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,360 Morlock. And if she's watching online, 347 00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:58,320 I'll just come to the second. But if you give up for Rochelle, 348 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:01,720 Amen, let me know. Your lover, turn the gospel out. 349 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,400 Every difference maker across the world. 350 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,400 And I'm a big fan. And that the gospel is not just 351 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,560 for here, it's for all places. And when you read the Great 352 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,400 Commission, it's not, it's not either or you can't be like, 353 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,760 well, I just don't do missions or like I'm the way out of 354 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,600 missions. I believe it's both ends. 355 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,040 I believe the light shines bright here and we take it 356 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,400 somewhere else as well. And so I believe you support 357 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,760 local and you support across the world that we stay and we go, we 358 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,040 pray. Some of you're supposed to go, 359 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,200 some of you're called to go. Amen, Amen. 360 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,920 You better keep your hands open. You got if you tell me no, I'm 361 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,600 like, God's been working on you, right? 362 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,720 Like this is so we play a part of the story. 363 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:39,720 And so everyday difference makers, man. 364 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,280 And one of those ways to do that is through fasting. 365 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,400 And you guys have been fasting. How many guys have been fasting 366 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,040 last couple weeks? You've tried at least once 367 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,200 you've been doing it show of hands. 368 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,240 I mean, that is significant. Can you guys give it up for 369 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:49,720 everybody's fasting of the day, by the way? 370 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,120 I mean, that's a weird thing like, but this should be normal. 371 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,880 There should be normal language in the Christian world and a 372 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,960 church is that people prayer fast for the will of God and the 373 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,920 things of God and it makes an amazing difference. 374 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:03,920 And sometimes you forget like the power of fasting. 375 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,120 So I'm going to keep just kind of plug in this a little bit and 376 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:09,200 just pushing a little bit. There's a story of a lady in the 377 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,040 Bible named Hadessa. Has anybody heard of Hadessa? 378 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,640 My guess is you all have heard of her at some level, but you 379 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,480 don't know her Jewish name. I was kind of said Yep, on that 380 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,000 was kind of me in a little bit. She has a Persian name. 381 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,400 Maybe help out a little bit. Esther. 382 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,280 Her name's Esther. And I always think it's 383 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,560 interesting like we that the Bible kept like their slave name 384 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,160 or like, you know, Shadrach, Meshach and Benigo that that's 385 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,680 not their real names, right? Like they've been renamed by the 386 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,800 culture they're in. And so Esther's story is quite 387 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,160 amazing. I'm not going to give it 388 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,600 justice, just saying because I don't have a ton of time to walk 389 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,840 through the story, but I would encourage you to read it. 390 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,840 It'll take you about 30 minutes. So if you find Psalms back up, 391 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,080 go through Job, go back Esther's story. 392 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,200 It's 10 chapters and it's very, very powerful. 393 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,760 It's let me give you like the big context and the power of 394 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,680 prayer and fasting. So Esther, she's a young teenage 395 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,200 girl, OK? She's not some mature person. 396 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:04,840 She doesn't have all put together, but she has great 397 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,360 faith. She's part of the remnant that 398 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:08,040 came down from Babylon captivity. 399 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,640 Her her cousin Mordecai came with her end up adopting her. 400 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,480 And so she's just in this Kingdom of Persian. 401 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:15,920 The Kingdom of Persia is massive. 402 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:18,920 It goes from Egypt, Turkey, all the way east, all the way 403 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,400 through India. You're talking a huge amount one 404 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,280 of the one of the greats, you know, like you have the, the 405 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,600 Greek Empire, the Roman Empire, the Persian empires, one of 406 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,560 those empires and the the king Zarxies, his wife did not obey 407 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,000 him, which I didn't blame her because he's asking for some 408 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,440 pretty inappropriate things. And she says no. 409 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,800 And he basically talks to his counsel and they say, Hey, let's 410 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,280 just there's a law that she can't even talk to you unless 411 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,920 you unless you actually invite her to come in. 412 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,360 And so he casts her outtakes away her power. 413 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:47,560 And so we need to find a new queen. 414 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,400 And Long story short, to bring up Esther and God appoints her. 415 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,440 Now Esther's a Jew, but nobody knows she's Jewish. 416 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,160 She's hid it. And so there's this man named 417 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,360 Haman. Somebody say Haman, we're going 418 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,080 to hate on this guy day, OK, because he hated the Jews. 419 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,200 He was upset. Mordecai wouldn't respect him. 420 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,360 He wouldn't bow down. And so he said, hey, Mordecai, 421 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,560 I'm not going to just kill you. I'm going to kill every Jew in 422 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,800 the Persian Empire. We're talking about hundreds and 423 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,880 hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Jewish people. 424 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,760 They're going to be killed. And So what happens is this gets 425 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,760 spread out to all the the the area. 426 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,120 There's the edict that's put out. 427 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,480 The Haman had talked to king and to make an edict kill everybody. 428 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:24,960 And he did something very special. 429 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,680 He cast lots to pick the day of which he'd kill him. 430 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:30,800 It's what that means is they have these stones or these 431 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,680 sticks and they kind of throw them out kind of like you play 432 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,520 dice. And then whatever number it was, 433 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,960 I was like, OK, that's the day we're going to do it. 434 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,680 And so they cast lots to pick the day. 435 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,040 An actual day like this is the edit goes out to 127 436 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,160 territories, and that day you're going to eradicate and 437 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,680 distinguish every Jewish person in our Kingdom. 438 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,280 That's pretty crazy to think about. 439 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,200 And so Mordecai hears this. And at this point, the nation is 440 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,760 already fascinating. The people are hearing this. 441 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,360 They're carrying their clothes and sackcloth and ashes. 442 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,400 They're mourning and they're fascinating for how to make a 443 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,480 move. Mordecai calls that or calls up. 444 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,720 He didn't call her up, right? Oh, Esther, maybe he did that, 445 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,520 right? But he gets a hold of Esther and 446 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,840 he tells her about the plot. And he says she goes, well, I'll 447 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,680 talk to the king. I'm going to be killed because 448 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,720 against the law. And he said, well, maybe you put 449 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,000 in this position for just a time as this, right? 450 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,040 Like maybe God put you here on purpose. 451 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,120 And so she replies to him her plan, and she asked me something 452 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:23,440 very special. She asked me to fast. 453 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,920 So you can find this in Esther chapter 4 verse 16, she said 454 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,760 this. Go gather together all the Jews 455 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,880 who are in Sousa, which Sousa is the base of the place where the 456 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,920 king is ruling from, and fast for me. 457 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:39,640 And look at how long the fast is. 458 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,200 Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. 459 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:46,200 That's a fast. Amen. 460 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,880 I mean that ain't like the 12 hour window of not eating. 461 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,760 We're talking about full on God. I need you or a backs against 462 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,160 the wall more than any of this food in this water. 463 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,400 I need you to make a move. I need you to deliver us. 464 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,880 I'm trusting you and they're begging for God to make a move 465 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,480 and praying for her for a divine favor with the king says I my 466 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,760 attendance will fast as you do, which is a great leadership 467 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,320 principle by the way. And when this is done, I will go 468 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,320 to the king even though is against the law. 469 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,360 And if I perish, come on somebody, I perish. 470 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:18,880 Like if I'm going out, I'm going out, but I'm going to go out. 471 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,800 But the way that I believe God has called me to go out. 472 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,920 And so God answers the prayer. There's actually something very 473 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,640 special happens. There's a dream, or it's not a 474 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,200 dream, but he keeps the king awake. 475 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,600 He can't sleep and sort of starts reading the Chronicles of 476 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,640 Anals, which is history book. And he finds out that Mordecai 477 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,400 has actually saved his life. The Mordecai found some spies 478 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,680 and he got them eliminated. And so he starts to honor 479 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,840 Mordecai and ticks off Haman. And it's all the backdrop of how 480 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,880 Esther meets with Haman privately or his Arxes. 481 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,280 And he and he, she tells them, hey, this is the man that set 482 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:49,920 the plot up that's even going to kill me. 483 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,720 I'm a Jewish person. And so she gives goes out the 484 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,080 next day, the third day, and she stands in front of the king is 485 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,640 what it says in chapter 5, verse one. 486 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,000 On the third day, Esther put on her roller robes and stood in 487 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,960 the inner court of the palace. That's a huge act of faith, by 488 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,640 the way, like you're going to go somewhere where the last person 489 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,000 was cast out and you're most likely going to be killed. 490 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,560 As she steps into this inner court and in front of the King's 491 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:11,640 hall. And the king was sitting on the 492 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,720 roll throne in the hall facing the entrance. 493 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,920 And when she saw the Queen Esther stay in the court, he was 494 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,000 what what's to say? Yeah, He was pleased with her 495 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,880 and held out his her and the golden scepter that was in his 496 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,280 hand, which was inviting her in. And the the the favor of the 497 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,920 king was amazing. King's archies told her, I'll 498 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,840 give you whatever you want, up to half the Kingdom. 499 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:33,600 That's a good day. Amen. 500 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,360 That's exactly what they've been praying for, God's favor. 501 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:37,400 And she goes, I don't want the Kingdom. 502 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,040 Matter of fact, I wouldn't even question this. 503 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,960 You've made us slaves, but they're going to kill us. 504 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,720 And who's in charge of this? And she pointed out Heyman and 505 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,120 get and guess who got killed that day? 506 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,320 Heyman. And then Mordecai got promoted 507 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,320 to the second in charge of the entire Kingdom. 508 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,840 And then out of that, they warned the Jews of the fight. 509 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,360 The Jews fight back. All of Heyman's kids get killed 510 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,600 and Mordecai steps in the place of prominence. 511 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,560 You had no idea that fasting could do that, Amen, That that 512 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,880 fasting could change A nation like this is a a teenage girl 513 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,280 that changed. That's an everyday difference 514 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,600 maker, by the way, Amen. Like, like she had no idea that 515 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,240 that little step of faith, like just walking into a hall and 516 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,000 going against the government, that would never happen. 517 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,280 Amen. Right. 518 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,200 Like that, that we would break some rules for Jesus would be in 519 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,240 the will of God and be used to save kingdoms. 520 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,560 I want to encourage you when you fast, it can change your 521 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,760 marriage, it can change the city, it can change this church, 522 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,760 it can change your family. And in this case, it actually 523 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,400 changed a nation. And so I'm encourage you guys to 524 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,640 faster in the season we talk about building or have this 525 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:48,040 initial campaign to raise money, this initiative so we can say 526 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,440 yes to a space because we're asking for divine favor. 527 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,440 Amen. We're asking for boldness. 528 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,000 We're asking to be in the right rooms, but I don't want you to 529 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,880 miss this. It's all about everyday people, 530 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,720 every one of us stepping into our call and asking Jesus, what 531 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,480 would you have me do today? Not just showing up on Sunday. 532 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,400 You know, I know a lot of churches and they have great 533 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,080 buildings, but sometimes those buildings are empty. 534 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,760 You ever been in the church? There's an empty building. 535 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:15,840 I mean, you ever worked somewhere? 536 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,440 I mean, I used to work at a church and it's like, man, this 537 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,120 place could see the 800. You know, that's like, I wish I 538 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,040 could take the pews out because we're running too, right? 539 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,199 I mean, and and there's a lot of big buildings that doesn't have 540 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:29,159 healthy ministry. And the the point is this, if we 541 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:31,960 build a monument and we get back and we go, man, look what we 542 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,560 did. Whoo, those are the glory days. 543 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:40,040 Like don't waste our time, Amen? Like, like it's a movement and 544 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,600 the building is a tool. It's it's a means. 545 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,120 It's not, it's not really the vision like the that's part of 546 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,199 the vision to get to where we're going, but the vision is souls, 547 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,719 Amen? The division to see souls 548 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,080 change. And I've been crowned to God 549 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,400 asking God to give us 10s of thousands of souls, not 550 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,040 hundreds, not thousands, 10s of thousands. 551 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,000 Like why not us? Like why not in our generation 552 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,600 that we'd be a force for the Kingdom of God because we were 553 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,080 everyday difference makers for him. 554 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,440 It's really about stories, right? 555 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,200 Like we talked about the stories earlier of Perla and, and people 556 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:14,720 going out and just signs these little things. 557 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,320 That's what the church is made of, Amen. 558 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,400 And we can do that. We'll qualify to do that. 559 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,000 And so I believe there's been 10s of thousands of stories as a 560 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,520 result of the space that we're going to that God's going to 561 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,280 bring us to. But I want to share with you one 562 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,200 of these stories that's already happened that is so powerful. 563 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,520 And this is one of so many stories, right? 564 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,520 We talk about 500 people come to Christ so far. 565 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:36,800 This is one of those stories. So lean in and listen and ask 566 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,280 yourself how, what's the everyday difference makers that 567 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,400 made this story possible? Because you're going to see them 568 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:42,840 in the story. So this is it. 569 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:48,640 Check it out. I am this and this is my story 570 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:57,400 before real life, before coming to Christ at all. 571 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:04,560 I battled depression since I was a kid, full of anxiety, no self 572 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:10,520 worth, spent years trying to find myself and figure out who I 573 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:17,200 was and as I got older I turned to drugs obviously just made 574 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,360 everything worse. Nothing ever worked. 575 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:25,200 Coming back to a point of even being suicidal when I finally 576 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,120 had my breakthrough at a concert. 577 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:33,880 All the sudden in the middle of of this concert, I had the most 578 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,640 powerful, I don't know, goosebumps all over my entire 579 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:43,280 body and that moment I had actually heard God, he just said 580 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,400 come to me. It was a couple months after 581 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,440 that is when I hit one of my lowest lows. 582 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:54,960 Finally decided to push the pride aside and go with what God 583 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,640 was telling me and find him. I reached out to Kyle spread and 584 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,160 came to real life church. The start of my transformation 585 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,600 where the real difference in my life began. 586 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:12,960 My daughter Luciana had been asking me to go to youth group. 587 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:14,920 They eventually obviously took her. 588 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,560 It was a worship night when we like the first night that I took 589 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,800 her that I stuck around just to just to see how, you know, this 590 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,280 whole youth thing was going and how my daughter would do in it. 591 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:32,200 And as everybody is and going around the room praying, I just 592 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:37,920 I completely broke down into tears and couldn't help but feel 593 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:43,360 God's spirit just heavy on me. After that night, I couldn't 594 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,800 help but to come back and there was a joke that was made that 595 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,800 maybe I could step in and leave with Kyle. 596 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,920 I contacted Sean and I said, you know, that this was brought up. 597 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,160 You know, I was like, can we maybe talk about that, because 598 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,720 something that I want to do is help people and I feel like I 599 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:03,200 could, you know, help these kids. 600 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,840 After that, Sean said, you know, man, you got to meet me really 601 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,760 got to know Christ before you do this. 602 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:14,240 So let, let let's let's meet up. We met at Panera Bread. 603 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:19,080 There I was, Sean had me praying in public and Panera declaring 604 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,480 that I had given my life to Jesus Christ and he was my 605 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:27,240 savior and I had believed everything that he had done for 606 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:29,840 me. And the story kind of goes from 607 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:34,720 there, you know, going into and becoming the accused leader and 608 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,080 everything, the faith spreading through my family. 609 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,880 I don't know, every time that I was coming to church it was like 610 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,200 he was speaking directly to me most times. 611 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,960 All the love and acceptance I had felt from everybody in the 612 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,400 church and does everything about it. 613 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:59,560 Finally find that person and me that I had tried to find for so 614 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,040 many years. Being able to express my 615 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:09,280 happiness and but but finally express true happiness and in a 616 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:13,280 real way as kind of a roller toaster, but not really like a 617 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:18,800 downward roller toaster. There was no more depression, no 618 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,400 more feeling of being lonely as like a weight lifted off of me 619 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,240 like I could I could finally breathe. 620 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,280 I can find solace knowing that God is with me and I can turn to 621 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,000 him. I'm a completely different 622 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,680 person from just over a year ago. 623 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,560 I would have never gotten to experience any of this had I not 624 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,400 found my salvation. I got baptized 2 months or so 625 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:45,880 after I found my salvation, but not only did I get baptized, my 626 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,200 wife and my daughter got baptized along with me. 627 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,680 I can't thank God enough, and I can't thank this church enough 628 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:58,000 for having us all feel so loved and accepted. 629 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,400 It's changed all of our lives so much. 630 00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:06,000 Just a couple months ago my 7 year old got baptized as well. 631 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:11,080 If you've never seen or heard a 7 year old and come up with her 632 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,480 own prayer and it's one of the cutest things ever. 633 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,800 I believe that it's important for us as a church to be 634 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,000 difference makers and step out and try to find a permanent 635 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000 space for us because they can allow us to bring more people 636 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,320 in. And have that many more people 637 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:33,000 come to Christ and more lost souls just like me to find their 638 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,240 salvation. If somebody like me can find 639 00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:41,320 Jesus here, then imagine the thousands more that could in our 640 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,920 first permanent home. And I'm proof that this is a 641 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,440 place where prodigals can come home. 642 00:40:51,880 --> 00:41:00,280 For them. That story is so many levels of 643 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,280 go God, so many levels of redemption and just coming off 644 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,160 all the things and you know what, it's fun. 645 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,280 It's good to play part of the story, a small part of the 646 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:09,920 story. Amen. 647 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,760 Like you did you guys see this? This isn't just a story of how 648 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,960 God can make a difference in Lucas's life, although that is 649 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,520 the primary story. Like that's the banner. 650 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,080 Like thank you, Jesus, what you did, but behind the story, 651 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,400 there's a lot of small stories. Did you guys pick up on the 652 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,760 small stories that he he was hurting and he called his friend 653 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,640 Kyle. Kyle and Mandy had been praying 654 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,800 for Lucas and inviting him to go to church for over 15 years. 655 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,160 Like they never gave up on their high school buddies, ran 656 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,400 together, all those different things. 657 00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:44,040 And Kyle and Mandy were broken for him. 658 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,800 And so when he got into a spot where he needed God and he need 659 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,800 to find an answer, who do you call the everyday difference 660 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,680 maker in his life? Amen. 661 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,360 The one that truly cared that like never gave up was always 662 00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,880 there, always encouraging. And because that he invited him 663 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,000 out to to to the youth group. But you notice who invited him, 664 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,960 his daughter. Remember that his daughters beg 665 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,720 him to come to youth. By the way, didn't know Jesus 666 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:13,360 yet, but invited his her dad to come out to youth and come and 667 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,120 he shows up and you see the difference that happened. 668 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,760 There was a group of people that have this thing called a youth 669 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,960 team, Amen, that actually have a youth group and these people 670 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,560 come there and and their own time and energy and it's it's 671 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,000 effort and they set up like we set up here, not to this extent, 672 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,920 but they set up and they pray for those kids and they have fun 673 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,640 with those kids. I've I've broken my body for 674 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,080 teenagers in the past, right, I've had broken ankles. 675 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,360 I have a skull fracture. Great story, by the way. 676 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,080 We'll go there one day from playing dodgeball with 677 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,480 teenagers, right, and I'm just telling you like if something 678 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,720 special, just the power God being released because people in 679 00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:51,000 praying and caring and leading and the whole team just weekly 680 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,320 just grind out for Jesus trying to show these young people faith 681 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:55,160 in Christ. Amen. 682 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,960 I mean, that's one little story right behind the scenes. 683 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,440 Like no, they get credit, they get credit How how about he's 684 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,760 back in this worship night. Do you hear him say that he was 685 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,880 in this worship night? That's a God moment. 686 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:09,680 We've done that one time, one time like and we were back in 687 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,800 this conference room and I believe Don was playing acoustic 688 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,880 guitar. The lights are out and the 689 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,280 member of the Holy Spirit in that space I'd have by people to 690 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,080 pray and many leaders prayed. I don't think there was a maybe 691 00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,320 there's one teenager. I don't think there's any 692 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:22,440 teenagers that prayed that night. 693 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,600 Maybe there's one, but there was leaders that prayed and one of 694 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,200 those leaders, I'll never forget it. 695 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,360 He actually just walked in. I'm so glad that God brought you 696 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,400 in last, last second. It's Brett White back here and 697 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,480 for the first time I feel right. That was the first time you've 698 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:39,240 ever prayed out loud publicly. That right Amen and you had 699 00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:42,080 known that the prayer he was praying would be a breakthrough 700 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,680 moment for Lucas praying over what God could do in this 701 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,560 generation because you can see the hope of the future in this 702 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,240 room and how desperate they need God himself and not the world 703 00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:55,320 that's pulling in all this stuff and Lucas be actually begin to 704 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,600 cry in that space and he'd been to shed tears and he kind of 705 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:00,800 moved his daughter kind of off his lap and his tears are 706 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,000 dripping down his face onto me. Don't when people know he's 707 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,520 crying. He took him months and months 708 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,040 and months before he told me the story. 709 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,160 And then he wants to serve at youth ministry before he knows 710 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,680 Jesus. Come on, somebody. 711 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,040 That's amazing. It was like, OK, God, you're 712 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,160 obviously moving. Let's go to Panera because 713 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,400 that's, that's what we need, right? 714 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,240 And we just sat down and talked through a story and all the 715 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:23,440 things like many of you, there's just stories. 716 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,520 I mean, conversations like, hey, man, I grew up with this and 717 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,360 this and this and I just don't, I don't know, man, my dad, like, 718 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,040 I don't know if I can really trust, you know, God because 719 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,320 man, my family was so broken and all of a sudden like God just 720 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,320 shows him and he comes to Christ. 721 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,440 Do you see the difference makers behind the story? 722 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,280 Like I'm just thankful to play a part of the story. 723 00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,480 It's the most fun when you're part of the God's work is 724 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,480 getting a front row seat to the things of God. 725 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,080 There's just something special about seeing the stories and 726 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,640 knowing the people and the people have been invited, how 727 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,480 things are working and just be able to share the a little piece 728 00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,960 and then seeing their life changed. 729 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:00,640 And that's the stories we're looking for. 730 00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,080 Amen. That's the stories we know God 731 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,720 will write. Lucas is a story of a prodigal 732 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,680 that came home and we believe our city is full of prodigals. 733 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,400 We we've prayed for our city before we launched the church in 734 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,160 this city. Like we want to be a movement of 735 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,720 God in our city and around the world. 736 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,480 We believe this is the next step to do that. 737 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,760 But I want to encourage you guys in in the in the Bible, there is 738 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,760 and this is going to be kind of like skipping a rock. 739 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,320 OK, so it's going to be a little different type of message, but I 740 00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,360 was going to encourage you guys of the everyday difference 741 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,080 makers you see in Scripture. It's just the ones we kind of 742 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,480 skip by. You may go, I don't know who 743 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,840 that is or maybe I forgot about that story, but just a small 744 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,200 acts and how they make big extraordinary differences 745 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,520 because sometimes we think there's this pedigree they must 746 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,200 have or some of this education level or a stage in a 747 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,600 microphone. Christianity really doesn't need 748 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,360 a stage in a microphone. Amen. 749 00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,800 Like it does really well without it too. 750 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,280 Like this can be mistaken for a church. 751 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,600 So we call it a gathering because you guys gather together 752 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,960 and then we scatter out. It's a 24/7 mission. 753 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,880 Amen, Amen. Like most guys like just want to 754 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,280 like have a great Sunday. It's like, no, I want to honor 755 00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,160 God all days of my life and receive ourselves be redemption 756 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,240 to the world, salt and light, giving answers to those who are 757 00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:17,680 broken all throughout the week. We come back here to get 758 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,840 encouraged, refreshed and sent out. 759 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,000 So let me give you some examples in the Bible. 760 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,880 How about this? This isn't John 6 and there's 761 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,080 not on the Scripture of this, but just know they're at this is 762 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,640 the boy with a sack lunch everyday difference maker. 763 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,920 Remember there's 5000 people. It's not it's just the men, OK. 764 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,680 And and Jesus is telling the disciples like how we get some 765 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,000 you need some food, how we going to do it? 766 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,200 And this little boy gives 5 fish and two loaves. 767 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,560 You guys know that story. You know, it's one of the only 768 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,480 stories miracles of Jesus that's recorded all four gospels. 769 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,160 That's how powerful it was. But what made it so powerful? 770 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:53,560 It's because the 12 disciples lacked the faith that God could 771 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,480 do the miracle and we just sang a song that God is able. 772 00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,840 Do you guys believe that today? Like he can do the miracle and 773 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,360 this little boy full of faith says here, you can do it. 774 00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,520 And he did everything. He says all I got Lord, but you 775 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,320 can do more with than I can. And God multiplied it and broke 776 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:09,240 it. Do you remember the end of the 777 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:10,080 story? What happened? 778 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,280 He sent out the 12 to pick up the baskets. 779 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:18,240 That was the point of story. He's like, look, boys, I did it. 780 00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,920 You're going to pick up every one of those last piece of bread 781 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,200 and you're going to carry it to the next city and don't forget 782 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,360 it. His act of faith, Amen. 783 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,560 He's teaching them that's significant. 784 00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,120 God can do extraordinary things when we open our hands to him. 785 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,240 You know, you don't have to have a lot to be generous, Amen. 786 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,880 You don't have to have $1,000,000 in the account. 787 00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:37,320 You don't have to. All things work together. 788 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,640 Like it's just open your hands to what you have to God. 789 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,000 That's what God can do. Think of a man named Andrew. 790 00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:46,480 Andrew is 1, is one of the disciples, right? 791 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,160 But his story started out, he was a follower, John the Baptist 792 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,480 and John the Baptist, he was a forerunner. 793 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,680 He kind of proclaimed The Who Jesus was. 794 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,440 And he just disappeared into the limelight. 795 00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,240 He went into obscurity. And I do think there's a point 796 00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:00,480 in your Christian life where you have to be OK with and believe 797 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,480 deeply. It's OK to slip in, slip into 798 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,280 his obscurity because the story was never about you. 799 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,960 It was about Jesus. So it doesn't mean my name in 800 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,440 lights or real life name in lights. 801 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,520 There's not going to be no name in the church names in heaven, 802 00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,120 by the way, but it's the name of Jesus, Amen. 803 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,200 Just step back and say, OK, and this is what John the Baptist 804 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:19,600 did so well. And he pointed out and they 805 00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:20,640 said, oh, there's followers of Jesus. 806 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,080 He goes, that's good because I'm not even worthy of laces, 807 00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,200 sandals. And the first thing that John 808 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,680 the Baptist said about Jesus was behold, the Lamb of God. 809 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,040 The Lamb of God, like Jesus was born to die. 810 00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,560 And John the Baptist knew it. He said, you need to follow him. 811 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,720 And so Andrew started stalking him with this other disciple, 812 00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:39,360 which we know now is the one writing John. 813 00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,280 So John himself and Andrew stalking him. 814 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,000 Emma's household days, kind of weird introduction. 815 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,240 Like, what are you guys doing? And he hangs out juice all day. 816 00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:46,720 And the first thing Andrew does know, he does come. 817 00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:48,720 You guys know? Where's Andrew go? 818 00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,760 Somebody say it. Yeah. 819 00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,320 Went to his brother Peter. First thing Andrew does, he's 820 00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,520 all day with Jesus and he gets done with Jesus and he runs back 821 00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,680 home and says he's Simon, Simon, Simon. 822 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:02,440 We found the one been looking for this Messiah. 823 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,320 I met him today. You need to come with me. 824 00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,960 And then Peter goes to Jesus. I said Peter, Simon goes to 825 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,640 Jesus and the first thing that Jesus does is so significant is 826 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,880 he looks at Simon and he says you are no longer to be called 827 00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,040 Simon, but your name would be Peter. 828 00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,560 Because on this rock, I'm going to build my church. 829 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,800 That's the first moment ever. Being Jesus, He gave him a new 830 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,040 name, a new identity, a new purpose, a new calling. 831 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,200 He knew exactly what was up for. And Peter would go on to be the 832 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,520 one that preached on Pentecost, go on the one that plant the 833 00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,520 churches in Rome and be a force for the power of God in the New 834 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,680 Testament. It's amazing, Amen. 835 00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,120 But if it wasn't for Andrew, there'd be no Peter. 836 00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,280 If there wasn't for somebody that just had a just a curiosity 837 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,760 enough to follow somebody and a bold faith of a simple invite, 838 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:47,320 we can do that. Amen. 839 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,080 You think about the Samaritan woman at the well, right? 840 00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:53,520 This this probably a prostitute or been through this crazy 841 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,480 stories of being married, you know, and at least five other 842 00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,200 men in her life, right. And Jesus sits down and he's the 843 00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,560 first one to ever tell him that tell anybody in the world that 844 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,520 he was the Messiah. You're talking to him and he 845 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:06,960 says, I'm going to give you living water. 846 00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:10,160 And she tells her everything she's done and give us living 847 00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:11,760 water. She recognized what Jesus is, 848 00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:17,200 and she runs from that well to her city and she says, guys, 849 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,520 I've got to introduce you to somebody that told me that 850 00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,760 everything I've ever done in my life, this is the Messiah. 851 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,680 We can do that, Amen. You don't have to have a degree 852 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,960 or any theology to know that Jesus changed your life. 853 00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,000 Matter of fact, I think the best story is the one that you tell 854 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:33,840 about how your life's been changed. 855 00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:36,880 People need more like Christianese, Amen. 856 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,080 They didn't know that God made a difference in your life and he 857 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,560 saved you and he changed you and you worship him. 858 00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,800 And so she goes back and she convinces these people the least 859 00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,600 likely person by the way, in the city that you would listen to. 860 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,480 It'd be like a homeless person coming up to you and saying you 861 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,600 got to go check this guy out. You'd be like kind of time for 862 00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,640 that, right? Like you're this the outcast. 863 00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,360 And she convinces the city to go find Jesus and says many came to 864 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:03,080 faith, Amen. And everyday difference maker 865 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,480 like don't make don't act like you're not qualified. 866 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,960 You are qualified by Christ, by the Holy Spirit, Amen. 867 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,600 Like there's not these different levels, like you're saved or not 868 00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:16,760 saved, you're holy or unholy. Like Jesus made you holy through 869 00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,440 his Spirit. And there's no small spirit. 870 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,160 You don't get a little tight to the Spirit and then you start 871 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,760 doing better with your life and he upgrades the Spirit of God, 872 00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,680 Amen. You don't earn your way to God. 873 00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:28,640 Like that's religion. It's two things that will pull 874 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:32,000 you away from God. It's rebellion and religion. 875 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,040 And I can preach another message on that tomorrow if you want me 876 00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,560 to. But OK, come back, Brett, I love 877 00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:39,760 you. How about Rahab? 878 00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,280 We, we mentioned on the huddler, this lady Rahab, she's a 879 00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,280 prostitute. She's in a foreign country. 880 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:45,960 These spies come in, she hides them in the roof. 881 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,480 When they come in and take over the nation, she puts a a cloth 882 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,920 out the window and it protects her. 883 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,760 And just by faith, she protects these spies and she's a 884 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:56,400 prostitute. You know, she end up in the 885 00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,200 lineage of Jesus. Do you guys know that she was, 886 00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:02,200 she, she was in lineage of David and through the lineage of 887 00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:03,120 David, like we're talking lineage. 888 00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,440 I'm like, mom, you know, father, son, father, son, right? 889 00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,880 If you go to Matthew, she's, she's in the lineage of Jesus, a 890 00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,160 prostitute, Amen. And, and her act of faith was 891 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,600 I'm going to hide you so you don't get killed from the people 892 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,880 coming after you. That was an act of faith. 893 00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,800 By the way, most people don't know this, but she's actually 894 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,040 listed in, in Hebrews 11. Do you know what the Hebrews 11 895 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,480 is? It's the Hall of Fame, baby. 896 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,400 That's the Hall of Fame. That's the Hall of Fame of 897 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,040 faith. Like the world wasn't worthy of 898 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:36,120 these people. And Rahab is listed everyday 899 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:37,240 difference makers. Amen. 900 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:39,360 Like we all could have done that. 901 00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,480 OK, how about Jokabed? Anybody heard of Jokabed? 902 00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:48,080 By the way, most of us have probably never heard this name. 903 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,800 This is like one of the most obscure people in the Bible, but 904 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:55,040 a great act of faith. This is Moses's mom, Jokabed. 905 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,080 She looked at her son. There was a law from the 906 00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:03,240 Egyptians that every person that that was a was a Jew, that the 907 00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:05,760 boys should all be killed, thrown into the Nile River. 908 00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,960 And she goes, there's something different about my boy, which we 909 00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,240 all should have as parents, Amen. 910 00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,560 And she took Moses and she put them in a Reed basket and put 911 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,840 them in these on the Nile River. And Pharaoh's daughter found 912 00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:21,760 Moses and a God's sovereignty. Mariam Jochabed's sister was 913 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,880 watching and just line it up. We're like hey, this baby, I'm 914 00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:31,040 this lady that can nurse him and guess who nursed Moses joke Abed 915 00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,920 his very mom nursed him after he she saved his life and of course 916 00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,600 Moses we don't know Moses should probably get well know Moses, 917 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,440 but got the 10 commandments like rescued the people from Egyptian 918 00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:46,640 slavery like chose not to follow the wealth of all of Egypt. 919 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,000 He was second in command, but instead she was a suffer with 920 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,240 his people. And you'd go on to write the 921 00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:56,760 first five books of the Bible. Without his mom, there's no 922 00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:00,000 Moses, Amen. But we can have that everyday 923 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,800 faith, right? Like the Jogabed type of faith. 924 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,960 How about the friends that laid down, lowered down, the 925 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,760 paralyzed man through the roof? By the way, one of my favorite 926 00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,080 stories ever in the Bible because I had friends that 927 00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:14,480 brought me to Jesus, right? Somebody cared enough about me 928 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:16,840 spiritually to invite me to church and to say no, You got to 929 00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:17,920 go, man. You got to go. 930 00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:19,720 And these men, they picked up this mat. 931 00:54:19,720 --> 00:54:21,720 This man was paralyzed. You couldn't walk. 932 00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:23,760 And he just, they carried it. I don't know if the guy wanted 933 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:24,760 to go or not. Amen. 934 00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,080 He didn't have a choice. You're going to get to Jesus. 935 00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,160 And the crowds are so big they couldn't get to see him. 936 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,400 He was inside this house and said, do we got an idea? 937 00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,560 Let's just go up on the roof as against the side of the hill. 938 00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,360 We're going up on the roof and we're going to just breakthrough 939 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,800 the roof. So as Jesus preaching, the roof 940 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,880 starts coming and caving in and Jesus like, all right, let's see 941 00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:43,560 it. And it'll lower this man down in 942 00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,920 front of Jesus. And Jesus says because of your 943 00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,040 faith, these friends, your sins are forgiven. 944 00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,960 And these people get mad at him. They're religious people. 945 00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,200 And they said, who are you to forgive sins? 946 00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,600 And he goes, well, what's easier to forgive sins or say take up 947 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,840 your mat and walk? And that dude stood up, was 948 00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,720 healed, rolled his mat up and walked out the front door. 949 00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,040 Amen. That's the power, everyday 950 00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,200 difference maker. Just great friends. 951 00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:06,520 You need to have friends, by the way, like that. 952 00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,160 And you need to be one of those friends, like we have some in 953 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:10,440 our life that needs Jesus, right? 954 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,040 Like, and we pray for them, we care for them and there's divine 955 00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:14,520 appointments and divine opportunities. 956 00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,000 And we say, you know what, I'm going to get you to the feet of 957 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,560 Christ if we just get you in the presence of God. 958 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,160 It's just simple. That's what we do. 959 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,560 How about Philip on the Ethiopian official, the 960 00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:26,360 Ethiopian, the, the man from Ethiopia, right? 961 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:30,440 He's in this chariot and he just left this big feast and he, he's 962 00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:32,480 on the way home. He pulled over and the Spirit of 963 00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,240 God, he goes to Philip, it says run up to the chariot and he 964 00:55:35,240 --> 00:55:38,800 runs the chariot and this man's reading Isaiah 54 and he's like, 965 00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,040 there's a like a sheep led to the slaughter. 966 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:42,480 And Philip goes, you know what you're reading? 967 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,280 He goes, I have no idea. Everyone felt like that when you 968 00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:48,560 read the Bible, right? I have no idea what I just read. 969 00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,440 It's like it's easy to do because there's so much there's 970 00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,040 so many different stories and way God's been working and he 971 00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,320 goes, I just need to know. And so he explains to him that 972 00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:57,880 that's the sheep is Jesus, right? 973 00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:00,400 Behold, the Lamb of God. This is Jesus who dies for our 974 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,040 sins. He took our iniquity of us all. 975 00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:05,440 He was bruised for our sins. He was raised alive again. 976 00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,920 He preached the Gospel and it's this Ethiopian man comes to 977 00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,960 Christ. And what's amazing about the 978 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:15,440 story is he's probably the first convert that is going to Africa, 979 00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,160 Amen. You think about one conversation 980 00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:24,200 has the potential and did change a continent, one conversation, 981 00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,360 Amen. And so you're like, oh, I'm just 982 00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,240 telling somebody Jesus. You have no idea who you're 983 00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:30,880 telling about Jesus. You have no idea. 984 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,400 There's a church, There's a Macedonian church. 985 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:37,680 It's in 2nd Corinthians 8, it's in the Romans, it's in Acts as 986 00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:39,120 well. This masculine church. 987 00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,000 It is something very special. You may not know the story. 988 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,440 It's a very small, obscure story, but it's very powerful. 989 00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:47,840 They gave an offering and took up money for the church in 990 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:49,800 Jerusalem. That was that was in a famine, 991 00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:52,440 that was in a plague and they were suffering. 992 00:56:52,720 --> 00:56:54,360 And this is a Gentile church, isn't it? 993 00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,320 No Jewish people at all. And they were poor. 994 00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,400 They were, they were a broke group of people. 995 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:05,280 And the Bible says they gave out of what they had and beyond 996 00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,640 their ability. And they said, don't give. 997 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:11,800 And they said, we have a desire to give to the church in 998 00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:13,920 Jerusalem. Don't rob us from that blessing. 999 00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,320 We're going to do it. And so Paul was so moved by 1000 00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:19,360 their generosity that he wrote to the Church of Corinth and 1001 00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:23,920 told them, Hey, look, if you are willing, will you have the same 1002 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:27,720 amount of desire as these guys? Because it's not about the 1003 00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:29,280 amount. It's it's a it's about the 1004 00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,600 desire. And he even says the equality of 1005 00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:36,240 the gift, like if they're willing to give in their poor 1006 00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,440 and their brokenness, would you be willing to give in your 1007 00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,400 excess, in your wealth? And he says, this is this. 1008 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:42,560 I'll just have to read part of it. 1009 00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:46,400 I just got to do it. He says this and I, I didn't put 1010 00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:47,760 on the screen and saw our guys in the back. 1011 00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,920 But it says in verse 842, it says for if the willingness is 1012 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:54,640 there talking to Church of Corinth, the gift is acceptable 1013 00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:58,960 according to what one has not according to what 1 does not 1014 00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,200 have. That's good theology can talk to 1015 00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:03,360 a lot of people. It's like, well, I just don't 1016 00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,000 have enough or, and I wish I could because you know, it's 1017 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,240 like you're not called to give what you don't have, Amen. 1018 00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:15,400 And these this this this poor like strapped church gives these 1019 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,440 credibly generous gift. And then God and Paul, like 1020 00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,280 teaching these people about God's will is telling these 1021 00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:26,400 other people, Hey, look, if your desire matches the desire, but 1022 00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,880 then I'm good, Amen. That'd be pretty amazing. 1023 00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,720 Like, so if you don't have a lot in the church, guess what? 1024 00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:36,240 You can set the example. If you don't, if you don't have 1025 00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,160 anything in your name, you'd be like, hey, I gave $10, set the 1026 00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,120 example. I've been talking to teenagers 1027 00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,160 like, hey, man, you got a lot, right? 1028 00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,480 If you only have $100 bank account to give 10, that's 1029 00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:47,000 generous. Amen. 1030 00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:49,120 And these people gave out their excess. 1031 00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:50,640 And I'm telling you, man, God just shows up. 1032 00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,560 There's been two times in my life where I've given the last 1033 00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:54,600 dollar I've ever had and I gave it to church. 1034 00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,240 And God has always shown up. I've never missed a meal. 1035 00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,040 Come on somebody, I've never missed a meal. 1036 00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,360 And God has always been so faithful. 1037 00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,160 And I think it's one of those times like, if you don't have a 1038 00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,280 lot, man, just give open your hands. 1039 00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,240 What do you have? And say, Lord, can you multiply 1040 00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,480 this, use this hand to him and then we can brag on your story, 1041 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:15,840 say, see what God's doing here. Will you guys step into the same 1042 00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,840 level of generosity and faith? Paul said the goal is equality. 1043 00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,600 As is written, the one who has gathered much did not have too 1044 00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,960 much and the one who has gathered little did not have too 1045 00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,080 little. Like we all were together on 1046 00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:27,720 this. Amen. 1047 00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:30,480 And so, you know, you look at the commitment card and you're 1048 00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,880 like, man, there's a lot of big numbers on here, right? 1049 00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,080 I'm just down there, the down to low. 1050 00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:36,480 I don't know if my number is even on the card. 1051 00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,760 It's so small. Like go God, be generous at what 1052 00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,840 level you could be generous, like have an act of faith 1053 00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,440 wherever that act of faith is now for some of your numbers on 1054 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,400 the card, for some of your numbers not on the card the 1055 00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,000 other way. I'm just being real. 1056 00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,680 Like I didn't put a line above that, but you could say no, I 1057 00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:56,840 could do that because it'd take more than we're even asking for 1058 00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,960 it to do all the grasping we're trusting God to do. 1059 01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:02,560 But the commitment card, we're not going to collect it right 1060 01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:05,560 now, obviously, So please don't like fill it out to freak out. 1061 01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,440 But down the road on the on the series, last thing I want to 1062 01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:14,120 tell you about you guys ever heard of Billy Graham Little bit 1063 01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,760 just a small guy, right? Thank God for Billy Graham, by 1064 01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:18,640 the way. Thank God that somebody actually 1065 01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,680 finished the race strong. A lot of gays get that last lap 1066 01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,080 and sometimes they're like actually dead and then they 1067 01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:25,800 still fall. It's crazy. 1068 01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:27,560 Billy Graham finished the race strong. 1069 01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:29,560 But here's a story that you may not know about Billy Graham. 1070 01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,240 Billy Graham is South Carolina's 15 or 16 years old, 1938. 1071 01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,040 He's a teenager and he there's a guy that's going to come in 1072 01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,080 town, circuit, ride and preach in his name, Mordecai Ham. 1073 01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:42,160 Mordecai Ham is a fiery, fundamental Baptist preacher. 1074 01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:44,920 Like he's fire and brimstone kind of guy. 1075 01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,640 Billy Graham is like, I'm not an interested man. 1076 01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:50,160 Like, I don't want to go. And his teenage friends are 1077 01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,320 like, no man, you got to go. You got to hear this guy. 1078 01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,200 You got to hear this guy. You know how teenagers are. 1079 01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:55,800 They drag people with them, right? 1080 01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,200 And so these teenagers, by the way, about to change the world, 1081 01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:01,640 they, they dragged Billy Graham to this crusade. 1082 01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,520 It's called the Sawdust Crusade. And they bring him to this tent. 1083 01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,880 And the tent is packed full of people because teenagers are 1084 01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:08,720 what? Late? 1085 01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:10,760 They're late. Who knows? 1086 01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,560 Billy Graham was late to church. Come on, somebody, right? 1087 01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,160 And he was late. And so it was packed out. 1088 01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:18,480 And so they walk out. They're like, there's no room. 1089 01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,560 And so this group of teenagers are leaving, and there's two 1090 01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:22,720 ushers that chase down this group of people. 1091 01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:24,760 They say, hey, man, we'll make some room for you guys. 1092 01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:26,240 We'll make some room. Come back, we'll get you. 1093 01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:27,120 Come on, come on, come on, come on. 1094 01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:29,640 And they get these teenagers, and they stuck them in the choir 1095 01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:32,240 loft in the tent. That means they're probably 1096 01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:35,360 behind the Mordecai hand, right? And this dude's preaching. 1097 01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:37,640 And Billy Graham did not come to Christ the first night of that 1098 01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:41,480 revival, but he came back and he came to Christ. 1099 01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:45,080 Do you know that Billy Graham preached in person, not as ISM 1100 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:48,280 number online to 100 and 525,000,000 people. 1101 01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:53,640 That's a force of God. It's amazing if 3 million people 1102 01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,920 came to Christ. Now think about this story and I 1103 01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:57,080 think about everyday difference makers. 1104 01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,040 Everybody knows Billy Graham, but they don't even know the 1105 01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:03,840 names of the two ushers. Those guys made an impact for 1106 01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:04,520 eternity. Amen. 1107 01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:08,520 Those teenagers made an impact for eternity, an everyday 1108 01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,240 difference maker just by inviting somebody, bringing 1109 01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,760 somebody open the door, chasing. No, no, we got room for you, 1110 01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:14,680 man. Take my seat. 1111 01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:16,280 You've been to church. That's been that. 1112 01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:17,280 That's my seat. Get out. 1113 01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:20,400 You've been that church. I've not been to that church. 1114 01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:22,960 You know, you just look around. You're like, why is everybody 1115 01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:24,720 staring at me? Am I miss the wrong place? 1116 01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,360 I've been, I've been to churches as a pastor. 1117 01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:29,120 We're not a single person that said hi to me. 1118 01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:32,160 I was asking questions like, what do you guys stand for? 1119 01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,040 What are you guys doing? Where's the bathroom if you know 1120 01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:40,600 somebody's new when they ask where the bathroom is, it's your 1121 01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:43,320 first sign. I'm not a single person gave me 1122 01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:44,640 the time of day. I really didn't even care. 1123 01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,440 I was like why am I even here but thank God for the people 1124 01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:48,400 that do care. Amen. 1125 01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:50,960 They see what spiritual lies and like no, come on in. 1126 01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:52,400 Hey, how are you doing? Hey, what's your story? 1127 01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,720 Hey, what God bring you here? What'd you came today for all 1128 01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:58,120 these things, right and just love on them and hear them out 1129 01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:00,160 and just kindly point them to Jesus. 1130 01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:03,680 That's all it takes. Now think about these ushers and 1131 01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:06,000 they're probably older than these teenagers, right? 1132 01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:12,320 And they must have for surely passed away some point before 1133 01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:15,480 today. It's been a long time, 1938. 1134 01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,800 And I just think about them being in heaven and probably the 1135 01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:26,680 next sixty, 8090 years, 3 million people walk in the gates 1136 01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,600 of heaven and they're there to usher them in. 1137 01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:32,880 And they say thank you. You don't know who I am, but if 1138 01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,880 it wasn't for you, I would not know Jesus today. 1139 01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:40,320 Can you imagine having 300 handshakes in heaven by opening 1140 01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:42,960 a door? By being faithful to small 1141 01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:44,880 stuff? That's amazing. 1142 01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:47,040 Amen. You've never heard of the Feast 1143 01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:49,840 of Purim? The feast of Purim? 1144 01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,200 Most people never heard of it unless you're Jewish. 1145 01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:58,840 The word the word purr or poor. It actually means a lot when we 1146 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:00,800 talk about casting lots. Remember harem? 1147 01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:02,800 The guy who hated the Jews cast lots. 1148 01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:07,240 Well, this feast is actually a slap in the face to everything 1149 01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:08,400 that harem was trying to accomplish. 1150 01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:11,520 And this man harem, he cast lots, which was basically 1151 01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:13,080 saying, oh, this is the day they're going to die. 1152 01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:18,440 And what what man thought? Well, by chance, this is just 1153 01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,080 the way it's going to go. But God was in control. 1154 01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:25,480 And so Mordecai, he did claimed, he claimed there'd be a feast 1155 01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,200 that take place called the Feast of Forum that would take place 1156 01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:33,920 on the very day that harem tried to kill every single Jew. 1157 01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:38,800 And that feast started in 473 BC. 1158 01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:43,480 Do you know the Jewish people still have that feast today that 1159 01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:44,960 they actually read the story of Esther? 1160 01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:47,640 And every time they say the word harem, they start stomping their 1161 01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:51,240 feet screaming Boo. That's pretty fun. 1162 01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:58,200 And for 2500 years, just shy about seven years or so they've 1163 01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:01,800 been having this feast. Isn't that amazing to think 1164 01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,240 about? Do do do you think that Esther 1165 01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,920 at all had any idea that for 2500 years? 1166 01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:08,600 What has been happening for a millennia? 1167 01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:13,080 Is anything last of the millennia or two or two and a 1168 01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:16,800 half a little girl's faith to stand up to a king and say, can 1169 01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,600 you save my people? It's been celebrated for 2500 1170 01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:24,280 years. Everyday difference makers. 1171 01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:26,240 And we can be that for our generation. 1172 01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:28,800 Amen. It ain't rocket science. 1173 01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:31,320 We don't have to make it super crazy. 1174 01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:35,440 Just very simply share Jesus. There's people outside these 1175 01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:37,720 doors. Walmart and Target need Jesus. 1176 01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,480 Amen. And you sit down at coffee shops 1177 01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,920 and you're on the phone and you got an interruption and there's 1178 01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:45,920 things that happen. That's called ministry. 1179 01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:48,960 And those people, if we could just slow down a little bit and 1180 01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,240 just get our eyes off of ourselves and on to a lost and 1181 01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:55,120 dying world, we will not have just a building, We will have a 1182 01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:56,520 building full of ministry and life. 1183 01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,240 But if we get our eyes off of the of the mission and we go, we 1184 01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,520 got this amazing look what God did, and it's a past tense look 1185 01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:07,840 at the glory days of God. We build a monument, we'll have 1186 01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,600 an empty building that the city came and sell. 1187 01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:13,920 It's the truth. And so the strength of the 1188 01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:16,200 building is a strength of its ministry and a strength of its 1189 01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:18,840 people. And so the call today is that we 1190 01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:21,040 don't just think about building a building because that's not 1191 01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:25,480 the call is that we would actually live on mission and 1192 01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:29,200 that we would fill a building with the work and the wonder and 1193 01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:31,960 the worship of God because we go out. 1194 01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:36,200 Can you guys do that take that challenge Who this week can you 1195 01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,440 be an everyday you're a difference maker for I've got 1196 01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,400 family members that know Christ. I've got neighbors new Christ. 1197 01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:43,400 I've got people that I can share with. 1198 01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:45,640 And if you can see what spiritual eyes this week. 1199 01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:47,880 If you look at people and see a sign on their head says bound 1200 01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,600 for hell, you have a great start of being a difference maker. 1201 01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:54,320 There was a man, he was a, he was an evangelist in England and 1202 01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:56,560 he was a great evangelist. People asked him, well, how you 1203 01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:58,600 be, how you so successful, How do you do this? 1204 01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:00,480 And he took him to the window and he said, tell me what you 1205 01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:02,520 see. And they said, oh, I see cars 1206 01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:04,800 and I see businesses and I see this down the other. 1207 01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:08,760 He said, I see souls, I see souls. 1208 01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:13,520 And that's the difference. It's souls, not concrete and 1209 01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:16,160 steel. It's not accolade, it's not your 1210 01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:18,600 job, it's not building wealth. It's souls. 1211 01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,560 Amen. And if you could just walk out 1212 01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:23,320 this week and just see every day a soul that needs something, a 1213 01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,440 soul you can measure to, a soul you can pray for. 1214 01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:27,640 You can start wearing those shirts that kind of get people 1215 01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:30,400 to ask questions. Like I'm not a fan like Rick 1216 01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:32,680 wore the other day. Like you could just kind of live 1217 01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:35,040 out a mission, like your social media. 1218 01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:37,360 What a great place to start living on mission. 1219 01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:40,280 Some of you guys are missing. I'll be real honest to you, some 1220 01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,440 of you guys, more about your opinions than about souls, about 1221 01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,120 saying stuff that doesn't even help anybody, especially 1222 01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:48,640 yourself. You can just like minister, like 1223 01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:51,520 digital platforms, like use the things of that God's put in 1224 01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:53,160 front of us to make a difference in this generation. 1225 01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:55,120 And you never know how God's going to use that. 1226 01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:57,600 You could be that person that does something for somebody and 1227 01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:59,480 you never meet him again and you get to heaven. 1228 01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:01,600 You're like, brother, I had no idea that you got 3 million 1229 01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,560 people that come to Christ because I just showed up to hold 1230 01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:06,680 a door. That's what I'm asking for. 1231 01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:08,560 Amen. Play part of the story. 1232 01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:11,640 So Father, come before you. God just help us be everyday 1233 01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:13,760 difference makers. I mean, the house would say, you 1234 01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,520 know what the Spirit of God speaking to me like I'd be more 1235 01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:18,720 bold. I'd have more faith. 1236 01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:20,840 At least you trust the Lord in the small stuff. 1237 01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:22,680 I want to be an everyday difference maker, but that's you 1238 01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:23,920 just put your hand high this place. 1239 01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,560 So let the Lord know that's you, God speaking to you. 1240 01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,560 Come on, Lord, thank you so much for speaking to these people. 1241 01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:31,880 They got help us to remember that we're qualified at the 1242 01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,840 cross. God, we're not behind that. 1243 01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:36,120 We don't have to be on a pedestal. 1244 01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:39,520 God, you've given us enough to share God, it's not it's not a 1245 01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:42,520 comparison game. And so Lord, help us to show one 1246 01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:46,080 other person another beggar where the food is that help our 1247 01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:48,439 our our building initiative not to be about a building, but 1248 01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:52,279 about souls about people. Remind us God, as we go out this 1249 01:08:52,279 --> 01:08:56,120 week, we have the power, the greatest power given the gospel 1250 01:08:56,359 --> 01:08:59,800 to save in the name of Jesus, the greatest name ever given 1251 01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:03,520 every that every person's knee shall bow in heaven on earth, 1252 01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:07,720 every single person that we have the power in the name of Jesus. 1253 01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:09,800 Help us to believe what we're saying today that you were able 1254 01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,880 to do miracles. God used us to do a miracle and 1255 01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,240 sometimes it's holding the door and sometimes being bold in our 1256 01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:17,319 faith. God show us today what's one 1257 01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:21,439 person that we can, that we can be a difference maker for God. 1258 01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:26,240 Help our church not to just put up steel, but to see souls 1259 01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:30,920 changed, transformed like Lucas and that we could multiply that 1260 01:09:31,319 --> 01:09:35,000 that we could exponentially see more people come to Christ, grow 1261 01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:39,080 in their faith and sent out. That's the heart of this church. 1262 01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:41,920 So thank you, Lord, we're begging God, we're asking you 1263 01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:46,640 help us to continue to fast and pray and seek you, God, for our 1264 01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:49,160 nation, for our church, for our families. 1265 01:09:49,359 --> 01:09:51,720 God, we trust you. I'll pray for one more group of 1266 01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:53,319 people in the house. That's those of you that say, 1267 01:09:53,319 --> 01:09:55,680 you know what I need. Jesus, you talk about this lamb 1268 01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:58,320 that came to die. I see the faith in this church. 1269 01:09:58,480 --> 01:10:00,560 I may be invited. You might be that person that's 1270 01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:02,440 been welcomed here today and you're wondering what's this all 1271 01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:04,520 about? You've heard these stories of 1272 01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:06,640 deliverance. You're wondering, man, I did. 1273 01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,240 I need that in my life. I need deliverance in my life. 1274 01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:12,280 I heard Lucas's story. I can relate to the depression, 1275 01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,040 to the story, to the brokenness. I'm the person that's been 1276 01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:16,320 running. I'm the prodigal. 1277 01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:19,840 Here's where you know that that God loves you. 1278 01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:24,720 He loved you enough to have somebody invite you here today. 1279 01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:29,080 He loved you enough to send his one only son to Donna Cross for 1280 01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,640 your sins. And it was your sins that put 1281 01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:35,240 him on the cross as well. They died for you because he 1282 01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,000 loved you and he wants your relationship with you. 1283 01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:40,800 And the Bible says if you call on Jesus under his name because 1284 01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:43,400 he died for your sins and exchanged all of your wrongs for 1285 01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:45,160 all his rights, they will come into your life. 1286 01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:47,920 The Holy Spirit will be in your life in this moment and save you 1287 01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:49,920 from your sin and make your right with God. 1288 01:10:50,440 --> 01:10:52,520 You can be one of those people that are delivered from your 1289 01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:54,560 sin. You're made new, you're made 1290 01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:57,520 righteous, you're made whole. And you have the greatest story 1291 01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:01,000 to ever share, the story of the gospel, the story of God's work 1292 01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,600 in your life. And today, if you need Jesus, if 1293 01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:07,040 you need forgiveness, you need the hope that even Billy Graham 1294 01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:09,880 had to step into. You can have it today. 1295 01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:12,400 It's a free gift. And so that's you. 1296 01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,640 You say you need to say yes to Jesus without him to be looking 1297 01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:15,680 around. Just put your hand high in his 1298 01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:17,400 place and say, I messed me. I need to say yes to Jesus 1299 01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:19,160 today. The relationship of Christ 1300 01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:21,280 today. Come on, see your hand. 1301 01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:22,880 And Bill said he say yes to Jesus. 1302 01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:26,200 This is your hand and your hand and your hand and your hand. 1303 01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:29,080 Kind of like a revival going on today. 1304 01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:32,440 So thank you, Lord, if that's you and you need Jesus, I'm just 1305 01:11:32,440 --> 01:11:33,760 going to invite you to pray this prayer. 1306 01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:36,600 The prayer does not save you, but it is your heart towards 1307 01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:38,320 Christ. It is your humility and your 1308 01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:40,240 obedience. And so they say, Father God, 1309 01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:43,440 thank you so much for sending Jesus to dine across for my 1310 01:11:43,440 --> 01:11:48,280 sins, to love me enough to come to this world, to to the worst 1311 01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:52,120 neighborhood in the universe that love me and dine across 1312 01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,240 through my sins. God know my sins put you there, 1313 01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:57,040 but thank you Lord for loving me myself before you. 1314 01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,440 God I I I'm not anybody special, but today I know I'm your son, 1315 01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,840 I'm your daughter. I've been changed and God's you 1316 01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:07,360 that gets the glories of God. Use my life God to be a 1317 01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:10,280 difference maker. God that you've you've given me 1318 01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:13,280 a new testimony today, a new name today a new purpose today, 1319 01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:15,520 just like I went from Simon Witt to Peter. 1320 01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:19,200 God give me a new name today. Remind me of my call where I'm 1321 01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:22,280 I'm going and I'm yours God. Thank you for loving me God. 1322 01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:25,520 I pray this in Jesus name. The church said Amen come on, go 1323 01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:31,840 God today, Amen, Amen come on. That was I could have. 1324 01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:36,160 Kept going just story after. Story of just ordinary people 1325 01:12:36,480 --> 01:12:39,040 and how God does extraordinary things through that. 1326 01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:42,200 And some of you today, a lot of you today recognized maybe some 1327 01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:45,280 of the ordinary things that led you here today to meet Jesus. 1328 01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:48,280 And if that's you and you raised your hand and you prayed your 1329 01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,400 that prayer this morning to commit your life to Jesus, we 1330 01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:54,120 are so excited for you. I mean, we want to come beside 1331 01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:56,840 you and read source you and help you as you're starting your 1332 01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:58,600 journey with Jesus. If you would just grab that 1333 01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:00,360 connection card that's on your seat. 1334 01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,200 You can fill out the information in the top section, but make 1335 01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:06,440 sure and check that box that says I committed my life to 1336 01:13:06,440 --> 01:13:08,160 Jesus. And you can drop that in the 1337 01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:10,920 giving buckets as I pass here in just a few minutes. 1338 01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:13,760 But just by doing that allows us to get you a couple of 1339 01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:15,560 resources. The first one is a free book 1340 01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,840 we'll drop in the mail to get to you. 1341 01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,240 It's a short read. It's called begin, but it truly 1342 01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:23,880 is a really good resource for you as you are taking the steps 1343 01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:26,520 with Jesus this week. Also, if you prayed the prayer, 1344 01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:29,120 raise your hand here at Kentucky Trail as you exit the worship 1345 01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:32,160 center right before the doors to your left is a table with some 1346 01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,360 red bags. Please, please grab one of those 1347 01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:37,440 inside as a free Bible for you. There's a a letter from Sean 1348 01:13:37,440 --> 01:13:40,640 with some resources that we know will just be a blessing to you 1349 01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:43,600 this week. And hey, if you are newer with 1350 01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,560 us here at real Life church, thank you so much for being here 1351 01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,600 today and just choosing to spend your morning here with us, man. 1352 01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:53,240 We don't want anything from you except just introduce yourself 1353 01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:54,840 to us. And you can do that by grabbing 1354 01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:57,240 that same connection card. Fill out your information there 1355 01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,800 and check first time here. You can actually take that to 1356 01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:02,840 the new here booth as you leave today outside the worship center 1357 01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:04,640 doors. Just to your right is a new here 1358 01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,120 booth. You can turn that in there. 1359 01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:09,080 Someone will be there love to chat with you and just get you a 1360 01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:10,600 free gift. Just our way of saying thank you 1361 01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:13,280 so much for being here this morning and we'd love to see you 1362 01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,680 back next week as well. Man. 1363 01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:19,000 Week 2 of this message series, man, it's just got my brain 1364 01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:22,480 going, but just reminders that you can be a difference maker. 1365 01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:25,480 You can be an everyday difference maker through your 1366 01:14:25,480 --> 01:14:28,760 faith and just sharing with other people how Jesus changed 1367 01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:32,200 your life and man, through your generosity and just saying God, 1368 01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:34,040 what do you have for me in this series? 1369 01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:36,600 What are you asking me to do? What step of bold faith are you 1370 01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:40,920 asking me through that to change hundreds, thousands of lives 1371 01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:43,240 through this next chapter at Real Life Church. 1372 01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:45,920 And we believe the best truly is yet to come. 1373 01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:49,080 Sean had mentioned we had five people except Jesus last week. 1374 01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,920 We had almost 500 this year. Maybe we're believing for 1375 01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:56,600 thousands of people to come to know Jesus through this next 1376 01:14:56,600 --> 01:15:00,360 chapter at Real Life Church. And you got the Difference Maker 1377 01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:02,160 booklet, which you can look through that, answer some 1378 01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:05,520 questions in there, take message notes in there through this 1379 01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:06,960 series. But you also got a commitment 1380 01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:08,560 card. And we're not like Sean said, 1381 01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:10,240 we're not filling that out today. 1382 01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,600 We're not collecting those until later in this series. 1383 01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:15,680 But now is the time to take the card and to pray over it, to 1384 01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:19,400 fast over it, to ask God, what part are you asking me to play? 1385 01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:23,640 What step of bold faith are you asking me to take to be a part 1386 01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:26,760 of this initiative? And often times, like Sean said 1387 01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:29,480 to me, we just feel like I just don't have enough. 1388 01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:33,360 I don't know what part I can play in this, but I was reminded 1389 01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:36,160 as he was saying that of the new song that we sang today where it 1390 01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,760 says who am I to deny what God can do? 1391 01:15:39,480 --> 01:15:43,280 And that is so true. Who am I to deny what God can do 1392 01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:47,000 through me saying yes and taking an act of bold faith through 1393 01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:50,000 what He's asking me to do and what part he has for me to play? 1394 01:15:50,480 --> 01:15:52,840 Who are we to deny what God can do through that? 1395 01:15:53,440 --> 01:15:55,720 And so take that card and pray over it and fast over that. 1396 01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:59,920 God, what do you have for me in this chapter at Real Life 1397 01:15:59,920 --> 01:16:01,600 Church? Hey, if you call Real Life 1398 01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,640 Church home, there are a lot of ways that you can give here. 1399 01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:06,040 You can scan the QR code up on the screen. 1400 01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:09,000 You can text to give. You can drop cash or check in 1401 01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:11,640 the buckets as they pass here. Also, there's a giving box in 1402 01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,120 the back. You can drop cash or check in if 1403 01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:16,480 that's more convenient for you. And hey, if you or your family 1404 01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:19,560 find yourself at any kind of immediate need this week, food, 1405 01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:22,600 clothing, shelter as the buckets pass here in just a minute, 1406 01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:25,240 please reach in there. Just grab out any loose cash 1407 01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:27,400 that you see. We really do want to help you 1408 01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:32,600 this week in your time of need. Man, what an. 1409 01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:35,520 Awesome time just to celebrate the fact that God uses the. 1410 01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:38,080 Common God uses the ordinary God uses the broken man. 1411 01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:41,200 I see across this room. I see a room full of difference 1412 01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:42,800 makers. So can we get it for God one 1413 01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:46,000 more time before we get ready to get out of here and go God? 1414 01:16:46,440 --> 01:16:48,880 Hey, couple things to mark on your calendar before we do roll. 1415 01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:52,960 So October the 26th, we're going to have a super kids Sunday. 1416 01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:55,160 So there's an opportunity for your kids to come hang out, 1417 01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:57,480 bring your favorite costumes. There's going to be faith fun 1418 01:16:57,760 --> 01:16:59,640 candy. They're going to get to read 1419 01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:03,040 talk about the the real hero of of the Bible and that's Jesus. 1420 01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:05,920 So mark that calendar. And then October the 29th, real 1421 01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:09,440 life youth, they're going to have a talent show, costumes, 1422 01:17:09,440 --> 01:17:11,640 candy and again, this message of hope and change. 1423 01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:13,840 So you guys do not want to mess this miss out on this. 1424 01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,640 You go online or click this URL code for some details. 1425 01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:18,880 So hey, if you guys need prayer for any reason, we would love to 1426 01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,680 pray with you up here either as individuals or as families. 1427 01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:23,640 So anything you want to pray about, we would love to pray 1428 01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,800 with you in which you guys can next with the nine O'clock 6:45 1429 01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:29,520 As always, remember whoever finds uses discovers real life 1430 01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:35,840 and purpose. This is the end of this podcast. 1431 01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:37,600 We hope you've enjoyed it if you have. 1432 01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:40,200 Be sure to hit the subscribe button so you don't miss another 1433 01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:42,920 inspirational podcast. One more great content and 1434 01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:45,760 updates. Visit reallifechurchkc.com.