1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,760 Hello, there we go. Good morning and welcome to real 2 00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:05,760 life church when we are so excited to worship God with you 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,840 this Christmas season. So go ahead and stand to your 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,360 feet this morning. We're going to worship him big, 5 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:29,140 together, joyful. And triumphant. 6 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:57,920 Oh, come ye to bear the hell, come and behold him born the 7 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:06,440 King of angels. Oh come, let us enjoy Him. 8 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:17,520 Oh, come, let us enjoy. Oh, come, let us adore him, 9 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:26,400 Christ the Oh come on, ye faithful. 10 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:40,920 Come, let us adore him. Oh come on, ye faithful, come, 11 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:50,760 let us adore Him and sing choirs of angels. 12 00:01:51,640 --> 00:02:06,000 Sing in exultation, or sing all ye citizens of Him number. 13 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:17,520 Glory to God, glory in the highest. 14 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:29,480 Oh, come, let us adore Him. Oh, come, let us adore Him. 15 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:48,200 Oh come, let us adore Him the oh come on, ye paper, Come let us 16 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:58,760 adore him. Oh come on, ye paper, Come let 17 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:04,440 us adore him. Hosting Hallelujah. 18 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:15,800 Come let us adore him hosting Hallelujah. 19 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,560 Come let us adore him. Yes, we. 20 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:50,560 Born this happy morning, Jesus to thee be all glorying in for 21 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,160 of the Father, now in flesh up here. 22 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:08,560 Oh, come, let us adore Him. Oh come, let us adore him. 23 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,920 Oh come let us adore. Him. 24 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:21,519 Christ the Lord, let's lift him up this morning. 25 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:31,640 Oh come all ye favour come, and us adore him. 26 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:42,720 Oh, come on, ye favor come and us adore him. 27 00:04:45,160 --> 00:05:02,440 Ho say Hallelujah, is he alone is worthy Hosting Hallelujah, He 28 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,840 alone is worthy. You invent us to come. 29 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:19,040 Come on the people, come. Let us adore him hosting. 30 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:26,280 Hallelujah this. He alone is worthy. 31 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,360 Come on, you've got some praise this morning after he alone. 32 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,920 He's worthy of our worship this morning. 33 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,520 Light of the world, treasure, heaven. 34 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:59,840 Brilliant life is just no way to rescue Joy the Father. 35 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:07,760 Reach through the darkness, shine across the earth, send the 36 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:17,280 shadows to flood the light of the world. 37 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:26,760 From the beginning, the tragedies of time with no match 38 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:33,080 for your love. From great heights of glory you 39 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:39,720 saw my story got you into you. And begin. 40 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:51,360 One over. Sing Hallelujah, sing 41 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:59,360 Hallelujah, Sing Hallelujah for the things he has done. 42 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:08,600 Come and assure him. Bow down before him. 43 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,360 Sing Hallelujah to the light of the world. 44 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:31,080 If I eat up the crowning, A Manger born for the coast to 45 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:36,480 suffer to sea high king of heaven. 46 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:45,600 Death is the poorer we are the ancient by the price that he 47 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:53,480 paid. Sing Hallelujah, sing 48 00:07:54,120 --> 00:08:01,360 Hallelujah, sing Hallelujah for the things he has done. 49 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,920 Come and adore him. Bow down. 50 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:14,040 Before him, sing Hallelujah to the light of the world. 51 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:34,679 The light of the world. Soon we'll be coming. 52 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:45,600 With fire in his eyes, he wore in some Hazel the clouds the 53 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:58,520 straight to the where he shall be forevermore, oh forevermore. 54 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:08,800 Sing Hallelujah, sing Hallelujah, sing Hallelujah. 55 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:19,720 Or the things he has done. No man, the door meltdown before 56 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,960 him. Sing Hallelujah to the light of 57 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:25,480 the world. He's. 58 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:37,200 The light of the world, light in the. 59 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:42,560 Door. Amen. 60 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,200 So in Matthew chapter 2 in verse one, it says after Jesus was 61 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:55,880 born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, 62 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:00,240 Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked where is the 63 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,360 one who has been born King of Jews? 64 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,000 We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him. 65 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,920 When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed in all Jerusalem 66 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,640 with him. When he called together all the 67 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,400 people's chief priests and teachers of the Law, he asked 68 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,200 them where the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem and Judea. 69 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,880 They replied, For this is what the prophet has written. 70 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,440 But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least 71 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,200 among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who 72 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,240 will shepherd my people Israel. Then Herod called the Magi 73 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,600 secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had 74 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,960 appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and 75 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,440 said, go and search carefully for the child. 76 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:47,000 As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and 77 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,320 worship him. But after they had heard the 78 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:54,080 king, they went on their way, and the star that they had seen 79 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,600 when it's rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the 80 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,520 place where the child was. And when they saw the star they 81 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,160 were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw 82 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,720 the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and 83 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,480 worshipped him, and then they opened their treasures and 84 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,320 presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. 85 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,840 You know, every week we have an opportunity to gather together 86 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:26,480 and worship to offer ourselves as gifts to Christ, to see Him 87 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,640 to be overjoyed, filled with the people together to celebrate 88 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,400 what God has done. And we get the chance for our 89 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,520 response to be just like those magi as they came following his 90 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,200 star to say, Lord, I bow myself down. 91 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:41,440 It's a picture of yielding myself. 92 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,480 I surrender myself. I give myself to you and then to 93 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,360 give gifts to say, God, Ioffer you. 94 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,680 All I have is yours. And so as we continue in worship 95 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:52,960 today, my prayer is that all of our hearts will be bowed to 96 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,240 Jesus today, yielded to him for all that he has done for us. 97 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:13,680 Because where? Would I run? 98 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,440 But to. The throne of Mercy and where 99 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,560 would I kneel but have this cross of? 100 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:28,920 Grace. And tower grant the love a 101 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,960 strong hand that holds us beautiful. 102 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:44,640 It's so beautiful. So here I bound to lift you 103 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:57,840 high. Jesus be glorified in all things 104 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:11,200 for all my life. I am yours forever, Yours 'cause 105 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:19,200 there is a kid who bore the scars of healing, and there is a 106 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:28,080 Son who came in grace and truth in tower great, the love that 107 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:36,560 carries us to kindness. Wonderful, so wonderful. 108 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:50,960 So here I bow to live, lift you high, Jesus, being alone, 109 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:59,800 fighting all things for all my life. 110 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:15,040 I am yours forever. Yours you got here and now be 111 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,800 lived in high. And right here. 112 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:28,920 And now, beloved, I, God of heaven, and there, God, who 113 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:33,440 brought me back to life, I am yours. 114 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:46,440 I'm forever yours, oh God, here and now be live behind and right 115 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:56,720 here and now be the love if by God of heaven and earth, God who 116 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:05,720 brought me back to life. I am yours forever yours with to 117 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:10,760 hide God here, I'm out to. Live. 118 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:25,960 If you hide and Jesus beloved, fighting all things for all my 119 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:44,360 life, I am yours, forever yours. So here I bow to live too high. 120 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:56,880 Jesus be. Glorified in all things for all 121 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:09,200 my life, I am yours forever. And Amen, Amen. 122 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,240 Man, just that idea of coming and bowing down and knowing that 123 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,240 you're God's and really God is yours. 124 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,240 And that opportunity to exalt God. 125 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,440 Man, Jesus is the only name under heaven where we're saved 126 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,120 and just give honor back to him. What a great opportunity to do 127 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,600 that with you guys in concert in this gathering. 128 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,160 So let's get up. Let's give it up for a guy one 129 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,120 more time, can't we? Man? 130 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,640 I love worship with you guys. Man. 131 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,240 It's been a beautiful day coming in. 132 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,160 I know you guys were warm and everything, but man, we are so 133 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,000 excited just to choose to you guys shows worship with us here 134 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,640 at Real Life this morning on this beautiful sunny day. 135 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,280 Hey, we've been praying for you. I don't know if you guys know 136 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,760 this tonight we have a lot of new people that are with us in 137 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,320 person and online. Can we show those guys some 138 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:50,800 love? Give them a round of applause, 139 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:52,400 man. Thank you guys so much for being 140 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,040 here today. Hey, won't you guys take 30 141 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,040 seconds and find somebody around you and just give them a good 142 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:36,640 rating? All right, you guys can go ahead 143 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,000 and be seated. Hey, you guys are sitting down. 144 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,760 What you guys know that you're getting ready to sit down? 145 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,320 An awesome card and that is our connection card. 146 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,400 This is for everybody in the house today. 147 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,640 We love it when you guys fill these out. 148 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,960 So if you call real life home, let us know what's going on in 149 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,760 your life. Maybe guys showed up in Iraq 150 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,800 this way. You had a an awesome answer to 151 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:54,040 prayer. We'd love to hear about that. 152 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:55,680 Maybe something rough's going on this week. 153 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,080 Job, health, whatever, we love it when you send your prayer 154 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,560 requests and so we can pray over those individually for you. 155 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,640 Our team looks forward to getting these, and we'd love to 156 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,320 stay connected to what's going on in your life. 157 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,720 If you're new again, we've been praying for you. 158 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,040 Thank you so much for being here. 159 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,640 We won't ask anything else from you today except for this one 160 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,360 small thing. Just give us an introduction. 161 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:16,920 We want to know who you are, and we do that because we want to 162 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,560 get you connected to what's going on here. 163 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,360 Let you know who we are, why we do what. 164 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:22,680 We'd love to send you out some information this week. 165 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,800 We're not going to show up at your door or anything but like 166 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:27,360 that, but we want you to know that God loves you, who we love 167 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:30,080 you and man, and just let you know who we are in real life. 168 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,160 And I will give you a little glimpse of that right now. 169 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:34,200 Real life is a church on a mission, right guys? 170 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,000 And that mission is to see people far from God discover 171 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,080 their real life and purpose in Jesus. 172 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,200 Man, we got it over here. We got them trained. 173 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:43,600 I love it. It's not training, it's who we 174 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:44,840 are. It's what we believe in. 175 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,760 That's why we show up, why we do everything that we do throughout 176 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,240 the week. It's because we want to be on 177 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,760 mission for what God has in our lives. 178 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:54,480 And I don't know about you guys. We call this real life for a 179 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,280 reason. There's no shine here. 180 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,320 There's no smoke and mirrors. We call it how it is. 181 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,120 And I was listening to a pastor this week and he says so many 182 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:03,840 churches fail. They're, they're people because 183 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,400 they, they, they give them this the shiny package. 184 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,840 And then when stuff falls apart, they haven't prepared them with 185 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,480 the gospel. And the gospel is this is that 186 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,600 Jesus came, lived and died and was resurrected for you. 187 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,760 No matter what stage of life for you're in, no matter if you're 188 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,360 on the mountaintop or in the valley, God is there for you. 189 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,200 And so the gospel isn't just for when everything's going right. 190 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,320 It's there for when everything's going wrong as well. 191 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,080 We have people come in every week where their lives are 192 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,080 falling apart, they've got kicked in the teeth, nothing is 193 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,000 going right. And like Pastor Sean talked 194 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,440 about last week, you know the end of the rope and they can't 195 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,360 do it on their own. And you're not called to. 196 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,480 You're called to be on mission with Jesus and the joy of what 197 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,320 we get to do here in real life is to get people connected to 198 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,760 their purpose. And awesome week every week is 199 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,920 that we see people make that commitment to Jesus and their 200 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,960 lives are radically changed. So we love it when you guys are 201 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,640 on mission with us. You guys are here for an 202 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,000 awesome, awesome Sunday. This is celebration Sunday. 203 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,840 Are you guys ready to celebrate? And you guys are going to see 204 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,280 some awesome metrics. And these aren't just metrics. 205 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,520 These aren't just the the what do we call them, Sean? 206 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,000 The three BS. But budgets and buildings, 207 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,760 right? And put it crudely, and that's 208 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:09,360 what we, a lot of times we focus on. 209 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,240 But really what they are is their stories. 210 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,760 They're people's lives. That's what we care about. 211 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,880 So whether it's fascism, we can celebrate or people committing 212 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,640 their lives to Christ, where people are becoming difference 213 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,240 makers. And you guys get to hear an 214 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,920 awesome number today, that of what you guys have committed in 215 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,760 generosity to difference makers. Man, that's what we're going to 216 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,680 celebrate today. So you guys, buckle up, you're 217 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,400 going to hear something awesome. But we're going to do that 218 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,760 shared through the story of the wise men. 219 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,440 Diane read a passage of scripture about the Magi, and 220 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,280 these weren't kings. You know, Sean's going to talk 221 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:39,880 about the song. The song's messed up. 222 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:42,080 These weren't kings. These were kingmakers. 223 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,280 And they traveled over 1000 miles to come worship Jesus. 224 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,480 And they didn't come empty handed, became full of 225 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,120 generosity. And you guys are so much like 226 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:54,000 those wise men because real life has gone a distance to be where 227 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,440 you're at right now. And you guys through the 228 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,520 Difference Maker Initiative and your generosity has just been 229 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,920 incredible. And guys going to use what you 230 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,440 guys have done to further his mission. 231 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,720 And so we're getting ready to celebrate. 232 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,240 So once you guys put your hands together for Pastor Sean is we 233 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,720 get your kickoff celebration Sunday. 234 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:20,040 The guys ready to celebrate. I love you guys, man. 235 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,520 Oh, I just know today is going to be one of those Sundays. 236 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:28,400 Look back and say that Sunday was the Sunday that changed 237 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,520 everything. Like trajectory changing. 238 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:34,280 There's a moment somewhere in the future you can be like, man, 239 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,520 what's that building we're at? Oh yeah, Kentucky Trail 240 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,240 elementary. Remember Kentucky Trail that's 241 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,160 going to happen this Sunday. You're going to see this 242 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,800 difference in every story. Sprinkle in different difference 243 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:48,560 maker all day today in the and I've just over just ecstatic 244 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,320 because it's even the stuff I'm going to learn right now is 245 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,240 really cool. But we're going to just sprinkle 246 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,160 in stories, engagement stories and then at the end we're going 247 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,440 to reveal our total all in number, which is going to be 248 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:00,480 amazing. You guys are going to be really, 249 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,320 really excited. But couple things celebrate one, 250 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:05,640 we had two people come to Christ last Sunday. 251 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,640 Amen. It's always deciding one person 252 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,640 comes to Christ. All of heaven shouts and 253 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,640 rejoices and man, I just love that heaven is busy all the time 254 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,200 shouted rejoice and our people come to Christ. 255 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,240 It's our goal to keep heaven cheering. 256 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,720 Amen populated heaven. It's just absolutely amazing. 257 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,880 So thank you guys bringing people, inviting people. 258 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,120 This is a great season to do that. 259 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,080 I'll encourage you if you came to Christ or if you've never 260 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,160 been baptized, but you know Jesus, you got baptized even 261 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,320 before you do Jesus. But if you've never been 262 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,880 baptized afternoon Jesus. I would encourage you guys to 263 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,320 get baptized if we were baptizing the last Sunday of the 264 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,520 year, the 28th and it's a picture of what Jesus did for 265 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,560 us. Death buried in death, 266 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,200 resurrected new life. It's really the life of 267 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,320 obedience towards Christ. And so I encourage you if you've 268 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,600 not been baptized yet, get signed up. 269 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,120 We have 11 people signed up already. 270 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,120 Amen. That's good news. 271 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:57,760 Come on somebody that is not insignificant. 272 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,240 Our goal this year is may we let's try 50 like Lord, how can 273 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,240 we get to 50? We've been strategically working 274 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,960 behind the scenes with new, new believers and different things 275 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,480 and just trying to just see if we can increase that. 276 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,080 And we are 12 away from 52 weeks out. 277 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,240 And so this we'll baptize more just as it is than any of your 278 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,120 real life. But it's like Lord, we see 50, 279 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:22,560 we see 50. If not, we trust you. 280 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,760 But we're we've been just praying and searching, seeking 281 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,360 after a lot of strategy, different things because it 282 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,920 that's what Jesus majors, Amen. I mean, you said go, which is 283 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,600 measurable and baptized. And so these are the metrics and 284 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,960 to see people baptized like to this level, it isn't like you're 285 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,240 finding people from other churches. 286 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,840 These are conversions. These are people who don't know 287 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,600 Jesus that find Jesus and decide to follow Jesus all inside the 288 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,880 window of a year at a church. It's a significant number and so 289 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,560 just be proud of yourselves for what God's doing. 290 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,080 But if you know somebody or maybe you're a candidate for 291 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,240 baptism, if you sign up, we're going to help you through that. 292 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,080 There's a card on your chair for that, the 28th. 293 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,440 So I'll talk about just just for a second, this is the end of 294 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,600 your social. So our stuff is set up. 295 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,280 The school lets us keep stuff up for like before Christmas to 296 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,600 like the 5th or whatever, the Sunday, the 4th of, of January. 297 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:12,960 And so we're like, hey, we used to take off that week like 298 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,360 Sabbath, but like, why take off the week? 299 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:16,360 The stuff is here. Amen. 300 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,360 Like what were we thinking for the six years we did that? 301 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,200 So now we take off like 4th of July, right like y'all went out, 302 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,000 blew some stuff up, but let's get together and have a fun 303 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,080 time. So we're it's really like a 304 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,200 hangout. It's a social, it's a family 305 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,880 gathering. It's at 10:00, which won't 306 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,520 affect you guys right, because you know, maybe late, but it's a 307 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,080 10 plan on a couple hours, but it's it's going to hang it out. 308 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,960 It's a family gathering. We have food. 309 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,040 I think we're doing charcuterie, drinks, tables, chairs and just 310 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,200 a big hangout. We're sharing story stats, 311 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,320 baptism commissioning, which is man, I wish this word was like 312 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,760 more regular culture. It's going to be this year 313 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,200 coming 26, but commissioning people to scatter on a mission 314 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:04,240 for Jesus to to take to take spiritual accountability in 315 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,640 different areas. And So what we're going to 316 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,200 really Commission people in this season we've worked towards is 317 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,280 people commissioned to build disciples in disciple makers. 318 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,760 And you're going to see stories of people that we've worked with 319 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,520 the last year on the stage. And we're going to share those 320 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,000 stories and hear what God's going to do in 26. 321 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:23,080 But we're really strategic this year, Like how can we get more 322 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,800 people to live on mission where the work live and play and study 323 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,320 and just give you some rhythms? But we're it's going to be 324 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,400 really good. But anyway, you're going to see 325 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:31,800 that word, but it'd be a fun time. 326 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,280 Amen. And there's food and it's free. 327 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:37,840 So come on out. He loves free food. 328 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,680 OK, perfect. It's going to be good. 329 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,440 Second part of the series, Hear in the worship. 330 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:45,480 Did you guys get a chance to listen to hear in the worship at 331 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,560 all? I noticed in this gathering 332 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,080 there was not as many people that knew the song. 333 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,400 I asked the first gathering. It was like, yeah, everybody 334 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,920 almost. But this gathering was like, I 335 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,720 don't know about that. I would encourage you to listen 336 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,320 to it. And the heart of that song is to 337 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,120 get to Jesus and just to worship Jesus, to worship bow down and, 338 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:06,240 and to, to say, here is my king, right? 339 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,280 And there's worship. You are my God and my king. 340 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,680 And you're going to see it today, the story of the wise 341 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,120 men. Now, Diane, read the whole 342 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,080 story. Well, most of the story, Barry 343 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,800 kind of alluded to it, but we're going to dive through the story 344 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,680 of the wise men and the real heart. 345 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,800 They, they, they didn't just give worship, they did just give 346 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,280 gifts. They actually changed the 347 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:28,360 trajectory of humanity through Jesus through their gift, like 348 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:31,640 in so many ways that there's so many levels of the story that we 349 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,000 may not have seen or heard. So I would encourage you to lean 350 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,320 in and maybe take some notes because God's going to show you 351 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:37,440 some new stuff through this story. 352 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,640 So we're going to be in Matthew chapter 2. 353 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,040 Oh, by the way, somebody left this Bible last week. 354 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,800 Let me recognize this Bible. Anybody see that? 355 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,080 It's, it's worn thin. You know, it's got small words. 356 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,960 So you got to be young. Come on, somebody, but I will, I 357 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,200 will say, whoever's Bible this is, I'm very proud of you 358 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,920 because there is tons of notes. You're not a person who carries 359 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,120 a Bible. You're the person who reads the 360 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:04,320 Bible and studies it. Amen. 361 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,480 So I want to get this back to that person. 362 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,080 So I don't know, I guess I'll go to my office. 363 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,040 I hope they recognize it's here because otherwise it's just, 364 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,000 I'll put it here in case you're like, that's mine. 365 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,240 But I don't want to stand up and make it weird. 366 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,760 But it'll be over there for you. Amen. 367 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,600 So Matthew chapter 2, it says after Jesus was what? 368 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,440 After he's born in Bethlehem, Judea, after he's born. 369 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,680 So I hate to do this, but this is just going to throw a wrench 370 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,120 in all your nativity scenes. But the wise men were not there 371 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:36,400 at Jesus birth. OK? 372 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,360 So if you're going to put those wise men out about a year from 373 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:45,320 now, yeah, if you guys could drive, if you could drive like 374 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:51,560 to maybe West Virginia, then you'd be where they should be 375 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,040 about now. So you go and put them out there 376 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,160 1000 miles away during the time of King Herod. 377 00:27:58,600 --> 00:27:59,920 We'll talk about him today a little bit. 378 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,560 The magi that these wise men, we'll talk about them as well 379 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,800 from the East, came to Jerusalem and asked where is the one who 380 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:14,960 has been born king of the Jews? This question may not have been 381 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,200 asked by any other group of people than these magi like to 382 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,520 think about how do they get to the point to ask the question 383 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:27,160 where is this king that was born king of the Jews like that is an 384 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,880 amazing place for them to come to and you realize they had 385 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,800 studied scripture and knew that there was a sign that happened. 386 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,840 This is how they knew. They said we saw what's it say 387 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:43,040 his star this talk about Jesus. Now, I don't know what happened 388 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,960 to your birth, but Jesus got a *. 389 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:51,640 Sometimes you get the like a cigar, come on somebody or a, or 390 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,280 a bubble gum cigar, right? But he got a star. 391 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,360 And when it rose, they recognize there's a new star. 392 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,920 What's this new star? Hey, the scripture says. 393 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,160 And they began to study and understand that this is actually 394 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,400 a king that has come. It's a supernatural star. 395 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,120 The star actually moves. It actually stops over his 396 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:15,840 house, but it's a * and it says this we saw the star when it 397 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,680 rose and have come to what? Yeah, worship him that that's 398 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:26,640 the that is really truly the only way that you should come to 399 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:31,840 Jesus is with worship. Like we don't come with demands. 400 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,040 We don't come to try to tell them how to do things. 401 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,200 We come and say we trust and worship you and these magi. 402 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,680 For them to come and worship is a whole nother level when you 403 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,680 understand who they are. So let me just walk through a 404 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:45,560 little bit. Who these guys are? 405 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,120 They come from Persia or Arabia. How many magic were there? 406 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,640 People assume there's three because there's three. 407 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,880 What? There's three gifts, right? 408 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,560 Like it never says in the story how many wise men there are, but 409 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,640 we assume, oh, there's 33 gifts. But that is most likely not the 410 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,360 case. There's probably a whole 411 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,600 entourage of people with these magis, their spouses, their 412 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,720 families, their servants. They would usually travel with 413 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,800 military, like military personnel. 414 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,200 And this could not just be in the dozens, This could be in the 415 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,840 hundreds of people that showed up to Jerusalem. 416 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,400 This would been the big thing you're seeing like Aladdin where 417 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,000 he comes into the city. You know what I'm talking about. 418 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,360 I'm not saying that elephants and maybe not that Far East, you 419 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,880 know what I mean? But like they, they came in to 420 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,280 that city and the city knew that they were there. 421 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,640 And like I said, what's really amazing about they were traveled 422 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,640 around 1000 miles just to get into the presence of Jesus and 423 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,880 to worship him, bow down and worship him and then give him 424 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,920 gifts is even further sign of worship. 425 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,720 Like in other words, the wise men really went the distance. 426 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,160 Like most people. You don't see the story of a 427 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,160 Jewish person that should have been worshipped like they're in 428 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,400 the backyard. You would have thought there 429 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,360 have been other people, but the story of these wives been coming 430 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,520 was a story of traveling distance, understanding 431 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,560 scripture and coming to worship Jesus. 432 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,920 And I think about what they did is really in our season of our 433 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,160 church is what has been happening in our season. 434 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,480 Like this 2025 season, we've gone some distance like we had, 435 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,640 we set out a goal this year, like we would like to raise 436 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,320 $1,000,000 towards our first permanent space. 437 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,800 Now in January, we had raised zero money. 438 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,200 We had zero plan. We had a hopeful plan, right? 439 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,040 And we met with some people, but there's nothing really put 440 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,120 together. And this year has been a season 441 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,120 of faith. It's been a season of meetings. 442 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,720 It's been a season of pacesetters and pacesetter 443 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,280 events and advance commitment nights and one-on-one 444 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,560 conversations and then launching difference maker, building all 445 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:47,320 these things like praying, believing, trusting, bold faith. 446 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,080 I've been bold and courageous, right falling the Lord, like 447 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,000 just all these things have been stretching expands. 448 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,560 That's the season we've been in. Amen. 449 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,960 And it's been a distance. Like if you if you're around my 450 00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,320 staff team right now, we're like Christmas. 451 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,440 What, like we legit started Christmas last Sunday. 452 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,680 Most people start Christmas like 3 or 4 months ago. 453 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,760 We're like, all right, Christmas is Christmas, but difference 454 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,400 makers been the thing, right? And like, I'm not trying to kill 455 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:17,920 my staff team, Amen or they're trying to kill me, right? 456 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:19,800 But it's still going to be good, right? 457 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,920 But I just want to do is celebrate some of the moments 458 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,680 that brought us this place where we are today to celebrate. 459 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,880 And so there's some moments. I'll give you some numbers every 460 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,400 say 100. So 100% is this number. 461 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,520 And this is a significant number because it represents all of our 462 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,120 leadership, 100% of our leadership. 463 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:45,880 So staff, elders, our board members, our main oversight like 464 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,440 overseer, Dream Team leaders have all pledged for difference 465 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,360 maker. That's significant. 466 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,920 Amen Because you're not in a church where it's like, well, 467 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,440 these guys got a vision and those guys got their other 468 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,480 vision. We're all together in one. 469 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,640 Amen So, so it means if we win, we win if we lose or lose, but 470 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,840 we're all doing it together. But we're not going to lose 471 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,000 because we're Jesus. Amen. 472 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:14,160 We're following his footsteps. 72 You might say, what's 7272 is 473 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,880 the amount of families. Let's take that back. 73 because 474 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:24,440 it changed, changed a little bit ago. 73 is the number of 475 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,800 families and individuals who have committed and pledged to 476 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,200 difference maker. Thank you guys that have done. 477 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,760 Can we give a big hand to people who participate in this? 478 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:38,000 Do you remember the goal out front was 100% participation, 479 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,840 right? Like it's like the number is a 480 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,280 number, but if we all get behind it in faith, like God is going 481 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,360 to make a move and someone say thank you guys who have pledged 482 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:49,040 and said, yes, we could not do this without all of your 483 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,200 guesses. It just takes all of us. 484 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,600 And it's not about the amount, it's about us doing it together 485 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,600 in faith. It's a faith family. 486 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,040 And so I want to say thank you guys for jumping in to be a part 487 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:04,600 of this next number 22. So we have 22 first time donors 488 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,000 in our church. Now we'll say out of 22, there's 489 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,159 been eight that have given very, very, very sporadically over the 490 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:13,600 years. They're pretty much like, I 491 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,280 don't know, I don't want to say the word nominal number. 492 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,880 It's just very small number for what it is. 493 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,639 But they stepped up and there's 22 really first time donors that 494 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:24,920 pledged to difference maker. That's pretty amazing. 495 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,440 Amen. I mean they went from like, hey, 496 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,560 we are not involved to like we're jumping in. 497 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,880 And what's really cool about the number, you may not know this if 498 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,800 you've never given here or you're in that new giver level. 499 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,199 Everything you put on that Difference Maker card, it didn't 500 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:38,960 go back to our ministry fund budget. 501 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,320 That's all one fund, right? But you've never given before. 502 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,400 And so all that money goes to the expanded giving for our 503 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,000 building. So everything you gave as a new 504 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,080 person is directly affecting and propelling our difference maker 505 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:56,520 initiative to find a first pair of space. 506 00:34:56,639 --> 00:34:59,040 So Amen, Amen. That that, that. 507 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,800 By the way, that number is just shy of $170,000. 508 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,800 That's a pretty significant number. 509 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,320 So thank you. You guys move the needle. 510 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:10,160 That's 17% of that. 1,000,000 would be a credit to first time 511 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,640 givers. It's pretty good. 2100, let me 512 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,320 say 2100. This number, I will never forget 513 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,920 this number. It reminds me of launch. 514 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,680 We, we launched our church the very first Sunday. 515 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,680 There was a teenager that gave $300 on launch Sunday. 516 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,040 It it was by far, I believed up to to this point, we've been the 517 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,400 largest faith give number we've ever had. 518 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,800 Because when a young person gives a number, it's not like 519 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,160 they have that kind of money, right? 520 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:40,040 This number 2100 is it comes from a 16 year old teenager in a 521 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,400 youth group wrote 2100 dollars. That's pretty significant. 522 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,360 Amen. Because when you're like 40 or 523 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,480 50 or 60, you may have had the opportunity to put something in 524 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,240 savings or you might have a big boy job a little bit, maybe not 525 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:54,280 a big boy, maybe right on the level right, maybe a little 526 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,040 more. But for a teenager to save 2100 527 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,000 flip burgers or whatever they're trying to do, it is significant. 528 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,520 And what's interesting about it, it's not last fruits. 529 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,000 It's first fruits that that young person is not giving out 530 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,800 of excess. That young person is giving out 531 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,680 of want and desire. And so to me, I looked at that 532 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,360 young person and I'm like, thank you Jesus for bold faith. 533 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,160 And I know just from your heart of making that pledge that God 534 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,920 is going to do great things in that young person's life because 535 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,880 that is so abnormal for not just anybody, but especially for a 536 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,360 young person to say, I'm going to go on for Jesus. 537 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,280 So thank you Jesus. Amen. 538 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,120 Number six, let me say 6. This number represents single 539 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:43,560 moms that gave Pledge to Difference Baker. 540 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,360 And it's not to say single dads aren't significant, but I just 541 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,120 think there's something special about these single moms. 542 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:54,600 And these are people like some of them are looking to rub 2 543 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,760 nickels together and protect their family financially. 544 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,840 And looked at our church and looked at their kids and they 545 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,960 said, I want a church that my kids are going to know and 546 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,680 follow Jesus. And there's some men in their 547 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,960 life that can show them the things of God. 548 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,280 And they committed. And I saw some of these people 549 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:20,640 drop cards in this basket and it was hard for me to want to 550 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:26,240 accept it because we take care of those people, but God takes 551 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:28,760 care of them. And so I don't rob a blessing 552 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,360 from somebody. I know that because Jesus 553 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,520 watched the, the, the widow put the bite in. 554 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,280 I'm not there yet, but that's what Jesus heart was. 555 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,160 And so I don't, I don't ever tell people they should never 556 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,440 give because they were on hard times or life is crazy. 557 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,040 I just think you got to trust the Lord. 558 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,720 The Lord always provides. And these six single moms 559 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:53,520 pledged just under $60,000. That's bold faith, Amen. 560 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,280 That's bold. That's like man, look what God 561 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,840 can do and this believe in what God's doing here. 562 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,880 So thank you for not taking the easier out. 563 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,040 Thank you for stepping on a journey of 1000 miles. 564 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,200 Thank you for having boldness and courage to not to just to go 565 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,920 halfway. You're not even falling a star. 566 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,520 That'd be cool and make it easier. 567 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,280 Like there's a star, but you're falling a vision from God, Amen, 568 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,720 and just stepping out in the journey that God has. 569 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:20,440 So I appreciate you guys that stepped out in that moment. 570 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,920 So thank you guys looking back to the wise men. 571 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:27,800 So Matthew chapter 2, verse 3, when King Herod heard this about 572 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,080 this child that's going to be born to come in to worship him. 573 00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:34,000 He was what, what's it say disturbed? 574 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,960 And what you see about this word disturbed is a little different 575 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,360 than the word that Mary was disturbed. 576 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,880 Remember that last week, But she was disturbed because she's like 577 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:40,480 God. What are you up to? 578 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,160 Herod's disturbed for a whole other reason. 579 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:51,200 He's disturbed about a like he of power insecurity, fear he he 580 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,320 he's disturbed because he thinks his throne's going to be taken 581 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,440 away from him. And it's interesting about the 582 00:38:55,440 --> 00:39:01,080 story goes on it says and all what to say Jerusalem with him. 583 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,160 And this is how you get the first indication that these 584 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,360 aren't just three people that show up, little quiet guys from 585 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:13,040 Persia that sneak into Jerusalem and say here, Jesus, because all 586 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,120 of Jerusalem was disturbed. So you have this entourage, this 587 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,760 caravan, this large group of people that's from a foreign 588 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:24,720 territory, that their main objective as a magi was to 589 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:28,960 basically accept and establish kings. 590 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,680 And so they're looking outgoing. Why are they here and who are 591 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,480 they going to put in as king? And they would have been a real 592 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,320 threat to King Herod. He should have been disturbed. 593 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,320 Now, it's not too crazy. He's disturbed because if you 594 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,720 know history, he had murdered his wife. 595 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,320 He had killed his father-in-law. He had actually killed his three 596 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,760 sons and had murdered hundreds and hundreds of leaders around 597 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,560 him because he was worried that they were going to have a coup 598 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:59,040 and take away his power. That dude is disturbed, but to 599 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:00,760 have the whole city go, what's going on? 600 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,400 There was a ruckus when they came in town. 601 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:05,720 These people look differently, they dress differently, they 602 00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:08,880 talk differently, and there's a king they're going to establish 603 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,880 like that is crazy. Think about a magi, A magi's 604 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,120 job. First of all, the magi weren't 605 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,240 kings. So you see the song We 3 Kings? 606 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,520 There's nothing right about that song. 607 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,320 The title is trash. There's not 3. 608 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,360 They're not kings and they weren't at Jesus birth. 609 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,480 Sorry, you know. Great song, but nothing to do 610 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,280 about the Bible, right? The spoiler alert, yeah. close 611 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,440 your eyes, close your. The magi were this, there were 612 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,680 educators of kings. They're advisors to kings. 613 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,320 They were interpretive dreams. They were keepers of the ancient 614 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,000 prophecy and texts. That's why they knew about the 615 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,200 prophecy, about the Messiah, about Jesus. 616 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,520 And this is their ultimate job was to select and confirm kings. 617 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:56,200 So in ancient Persia, where they're from, there was not a 618 00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,840 single king that was ever established on into a throne 619 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,480 that was not first selected and affirmed and put in place by the 620 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,520 Magi. And so when they came, they, 621 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:12,000 they didn't come just to, to, to find a king. 622 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,240 They, they come to make a king in an earthly standard. 623 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,360 They're, they're not like, oh, there's kings here. 624 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,440 Like, oh, hey, are you, you fit the qualifications. 625 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,200 You're in the process. Hey, this is the guy. 626 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,840 This is who we believe should be the person, and they establish 627 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,560 them. Now with Jesus it's totally 628 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,880 different because when the magi showed up, they didn't establish 629 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,160 Jesus, a king even. That's their role. 630 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,200 They knew from the Scripture that there was a king of kings 631 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,000 that was coming to be in the Manger, and they saw that star. 632 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,920 They recognized that our job has been to establish kings, but the 633 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,160 king has shown up. Not any king, not a king, but 634 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,480 the king has showed up and we're going to come to worship. 635 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,120 That's pretty amazing. Amen, that God would use these 636 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,920 people just to bring glory and worship to Jesus. 637 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,240 And they followed that star to worship him. 638 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,520 That's how I knew he was born. I always think about, they 639 00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,200 always baffled me that more people didn't like follow the 640 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,880 star because there's a need about the star is it's for all 641 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:04,760 humanity. Amen. 642 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,160 Sometimes we think like Jesus is playing a sick game of hide and 643 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,840 seek, you know, like, where's your presence? 644 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,520 And oh, I don't know, I got to be good enough. 645 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:13,960 Maybe he'll reveal some truth to me. 646 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:18,640 No, Jesus wants to give you all of himself, like He is all 647 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,840 available to all humanity. He wants every person to know 648 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,400 Him fully. It's us that have moved, not 649 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,600 him. And so he gave a star for all of 650 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,160 humanity. Recognize that the King has 651 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,160 come, He has arrived here on earth. 652 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:33,600 It's just these Mads that show up. 653 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,200 Now I think about on your birthday. 654 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:39,280 I know what you get for your last birthday, but to have a 655 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:40,440 star is pretty amazing. Amen. 656 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,200 You can buy a star, I think it's like 5 or 15 bucks depending on 657 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,800 the size of your star. But Jesus actually got a star, 658 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:48,560 like a real star, which is pretty cool. 659 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,040 I don't know what happened to your last birthday, but my last 660 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,840 birthday party I went to was this family right here, Carson 661 00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:00,160 and Owen, the twins. They had their birthday party at 662 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:06,680 Extreme Wrestling in Raytown off of Woodson and 63rd Raytona 663 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,120 Beach baby. And it was something else. 664 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:10,520 Brother. Let me walk in. 665 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,160 There's MC Cable hanging down from the ceilings. 666 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,040 Drew knew was great when there's like electrical tape on all the 667 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,160 the sides of the the ropes, you know, like this is top notch, 668 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,960 you know what I'm saying? It was it was like this is going 669 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,680 to be great. And it was it was fun. 670 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,640 The kids are clothes lying people. 671 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,040 They jump off the Reds, they're Spearing people. 672 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,840 Just every young man's dream, you know, just smash things, 673 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:34,800 people, people get hit in the head. 674 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,960 It was just great. And but it got kind of weird. 675 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,920 But the last 15 minutes or so, they did like an exhibition 676 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,280 round. And I'm going to say there was 677 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:48,360 not enough spandex, you know what I'm saying? 678 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,280 Like it was like, hmm, probably should think about extending 679 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,320 that, you know? And, you know, you, you, you see 680 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,640 like The Rock and those guys. And that, by the way, it's that 681 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,440 kind of wrestling, like WWE kind of style. 682 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,640 This isn't like real wrestling. Hard to hit. 683 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:02,760 It's a good kind. Yeah. 684 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,080 You see The Rock. It's like, you know, at least 685 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,720 you're in shape, you know? But these guys, it wasn't pecs, 686 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:11,320 right? It was Cellulite, you know what 687 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:12,520 I mean? It was rough. 688 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:18,080 And I don't know why I'm on this right now, but Jesus got a star. 689 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,520 Amen. Jesus got a star. 690 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:24,400 The the best part about this birthday party, Chuck had 691 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:29,080 dropped off his grandkids and went out shopping, not knowing 692 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,560 really what was happening. He came in right during the 693 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,840 exhibition match. It was great. 694 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,360 He opened the door. I was sitting there and he 695 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,520 looked at the people wrestling and he looked over at me and he 696 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:45,080 goes, are you for real right now? 697 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:50,360 And it chucks over like gouging his eyes out, you know, Oh man, 698 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,640 it was great. But anyway, Jesus got a star. 699 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,840 Come on, somebody. Jesus got a star. 700 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,240 And here's the point of the whole thing about the star. 701 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,240 The wise men, they saw what everybody else saw. 702 00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:03,920 If we talk about this during the Difference Maker series and they 703 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:09,040 did what no one else was willing to do Amen. 704 00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,800 Like somebody. Oh, a new star, cool Netflix 705 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,520 show, those guys. Like that's significant. 706 00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:19,120 I've actually heard about that and they studied the scripture. 707 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,040 They understand it means to think about they have to go 708 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:22,840 through would have been Micah 5:00. 709 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,920 They have to understand Daniel, they have to go through Psalm 710 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:29,400 22, Isaiah 56, that the prophet from Balaam about the star 711 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:30,640 rising. They'd have to know every one of 712 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,160 these scriptures and just put it together and say no, God's on 713 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,200 the move. That's amazing. 714 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,680 We have the ability to know God, and they saw that they do what 715 00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,240 no one else is doing, which is if you follow the culture, it's 716 00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:43,360 very likely you're going to miss the things of God. 717 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,440 And there's a difference maker. You guys have seen things, the 718 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,760 same things that most people have seen, but are doing things 719 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,640 differently than they do with spiritual eyes. 720 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:54,960 You're seeing what God is doing here in real life. 721 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:59,600 And so here's #50 percent, 50% there. 722 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,760 There are at least two people I know of that have committed and 723 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,080 pledged 50% of their annual income for the next two years. 724 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,480 The difference maker. That's significant. 725 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:16,680 That's faith, Amen. And it's it was younger people 726 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,520 that stepped in and said, I'm going to do this. 727 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,040 And so can we give up for those two people? 728 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,440 Damn, what an act of faith, Amen. 729 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:28,040 When you think about it, they see what God's doing here and 730 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,040 they believe like the salvations, the baptism, the 731 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:31,680 stories of transformation. And so I'm going to keep you 732 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,760 behind that. And it's first fruits like God's 733 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,320 just going to carry them. And you shouldn't not ever leave 734 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,480 that stage of life where you just fully trust Jesus. 735 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,920 The Magi were king makers, but we get to make the king famous 736 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,880 and our generation so didn't. Their generation did all they 737 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,360 could to bring themselves to the point where they saw Jesus 738 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,600 himself. It was not enough to stand by 739 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,240 and they got into his presence and they worshipped him. 740 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,480 I've seen some of you guys make the king famous and for 741 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:01,960 somebody, it's been like a hard season. 742 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:06,600 Like I've seen numerous people in my church that have walked 743 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,880 through very difficult seasons at prior churches that were like 744 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,920 this to this whole season. When you start talking about 745 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:18,520 money and campaigns, initiatives, and you've been 746 00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,600 down the road with a church that's not done so well or even 747 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,200 treated poorly, you're like, think I'm good. 748 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,920 And those people that I try to be with that didn't want to be 749 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,240 with me. I know you're all shocked, you 750 00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:32,600 know, and they're like, man, I'm not, I can't get behind that. 751 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,240 Tell Sean like we're I'll I may give. 752 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:37,240 I'm not sure. And I saw people that walk 753 00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:39,120 through some very difficult seasons at churches that were 754 00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,880 just, I literally was looking at the list. 755 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,040 I'm like, I don't think I can even call this person because I 756 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,080 just know they've been hurt so bad that this probably is not 757 00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:52,040 the perfect conversation. And to my surprise and my lack 758 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:56,320 of faith, these people gave. These people stepped up and 759 00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,680 gave. And I was like, I wrote notes to 760 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,560 him. I said, thank you for giving the 761 00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,440 church its fourth chance, hopefully not its last chance. 762 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,320 And it's our job to do it right. And I appreciate you believe in 763 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,440 what God's doing, but never, ever, ever substitute the power 764 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,800 of God for a power person. Because like if you put 765 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,600 somebody's voice and it drives your life, you give them power, 766 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,800 that means you've taken Jesus off the throne and you worship 767 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,120 somebody else in fear. And I've been there. 768 00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,200 So that's a word for those that may be burned down in church. 769 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,080 But man, thank you for stepping in, Amen. 770 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:32,360 And our job as a church is to be healthy and let God move and get 771 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:36,880 out the way, Amen. So I got good, good men around 772 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,680 me, good people around me. I tell them if you start getting 773 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,680 selfish, just come up here and slap me in the face like that's 774 00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:43,400 a roll. Amen. 775 00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,040 I got people around me that have to do that, just like you. 776 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,000 I know how this goes, you know, and just to keep on the straight 777 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:54,040 and narrow, I'll say this. We had eight people, families 778 00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,960 that come from they're in fixed income situations that gave 779 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:02,000 towards difference maker gave just shot or just over 130,000 780 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,880 towards this. And I'll say thank you guys. 781 00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,760 They're in fixed incomes because you know, you're really like 782 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,080 practical, like you've already set a budget. 783 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,680 This might be vacation. This may be like a lifestyle 784 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:12,840 change. Maybe out of the savings you 785 00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,120 would have done things. It's a difficult season to to be 786 00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:17,800 generous because you can't create more revenue. 787 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,840 So thank you guys that are in retirement, that fixed incomes 788 00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:22,120 that stepped in. Amen. 789 00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:26,360 So give it up for those guys. Thanks for seeing what everyone 790 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,040 sees and doing what no one else does. 791 00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:33,240 Matthew 24 it says when Herod, he, Herod had called together 792 00:49:33,240 --> 00:49:35,760 all the chief priests or people's chief priests, Ivan his 793 00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:39,240 and the teacher of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was 794 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:40,960 reborn. He had no idea. 795 00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:44,320 Verse 5 it says in Bethlehem, Judea, they replied, for this is 796 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:48,960 what the prophet has written. So he quotes Micah 5/2 and 5/4. 797 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,440 He says, But you, Bethlehem and the land of Judah are by no 798 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:54,000 means least among the rulers of Judah. 799 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:59,760 For out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people 800 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,200 Israel. This is Jesus, Amen, the great 801 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:08,960 shepherd who is going to die as a lamb for his sheep. 802 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:11,000 Like this is an amazing prophecy. 803 00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:12,840 So this gets subscribed to Herod. 804 00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,360 So Herod does this verse 7. Then Herod called the Magi 805 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,000 secretly. He didn't want the world to know 806 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,040 he's got a plan here and he found out from them the exact 807 00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:24,720 time the star had appeared. Now this is real interesting 808 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:28,000 because the Magi could have lied about this little white lie to 809 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,040 kind of like protect Jesus. And if you know the rest of the 810 00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,360 story, Herod's going to have everybody who's younger than two 811 00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,200 is a male in Bethlehem, around Bethlehem. 812 00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,120 He'd have them slaughtered to try to protect his throne. 813 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,800 And so if they would have said, oh, it happened six years ago, 814 00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:43,040 then Herod would have been six years down, right? 815 00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,520 And so there was just some honesty in this. 816 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,360 And so he tells them the date or when they saw the star, verse 8, 817 00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,880 and they sent them to Bethlehem and said, go and search 818 00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,600 carefully for the child. And as soon as you find him, 819 00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,000 just let me know, report to me. So I too may go and what? 820 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:01,560 Worship him. Worship him. 821 00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:02,760 Yeah, this. He's not going to worship him. 822 00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,760 I was just lying to him. He is this the first plot? 823 00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:11,240 This is a king, by the way, that's trying to kill a toddler 824 00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,400 Jesus. And then pretty amazing that 825 00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:19,320 kings on the earth are already coming after Jesus. 826 00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:28,400 Verse 9 after they had heard the king being the magi, they went 827 00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:32,560 on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead 828 00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:38,400 of them until it what? It stopped over the place where 829 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,800 the child was. You got to know this moment's 830 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,040 full of anticipation, full of excitement. 831 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,560 You've been traveling with these gifts and all this time to see 832 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:51,720 Jesus and it's finally come to a stop. 1st 10 when they saw the 833 00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:53,080 star. Who knows? 834 00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:54,120 That's a good moment. Amen. 835 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:56,920 I don't know how many of you ever seen a star up close and 836 00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,440 personal, but they did. This is their record. 837 00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,080 Like, I saw a star and they were what? 838 00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:09,440 That was pretty weak. They were overjoyed. 839 00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,760 Amen. They were so excited that this 840 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,640 is the place where the King is at. 841 00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:19,440 We've arrived and on coming to the house, not the Manger, the 842 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:20,800 house. He's a toddler, right? 843 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,240 Less than two. They came to the house and they 844 00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:26,600 saw the child with his mother Mary. 845 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,320 So they saw Jesus. And the moment they see Jesus, 846 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:34,320 they bowed down and what? And worshipped him. 847 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:38,680 This is a fantastic moment. Like, you know, they make movies 848 00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,520 like David and all these other things, right? 849 00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:45,040 They should make a movie called Magi because this is the essence 850 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:48,680 of the gospel that we are just going to come and we're going to 851 00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,120 worship Jesus. They knew this wasn't a baby or 852 00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,440 a child or a toddler. This is the king of all kings 853 00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:59,200 and they brought their gifts to Jesus. 854 00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,240 What's amazing about the wise men is they worship Jesus before 855 00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:05,240 they saw the full picture. Like we get to look back at 856 00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,320 Jesus and we've seen the crucifixion and we see him with 857 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,480 the disciples. We see the miracles, we see all 858 00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,280 these things. We see the resurrection, the 859 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:13,720 Holy Spirit, the birth of the church. 860 00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,520 We see the early disciples, like we get the full picture. 861 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,000 But those magi, they had a handful of verses and had a 862 00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:24,760 heart full of faith, Amen. And we, we need to be those kind 863 00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:27,720 of people. We just get so excited about 864 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:29,560 Jesus. They didn't have that full 865 00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:33,000 picture, but they gave before they saw the miracle. 866 00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:34,680 And I think about difference makers. 867 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,880 You guys have given before the miracle like we have. 868 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,760 Like even the right now we have a pledge for an amount. 869 00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:48,400 We don't have a building, we don't have the land, we don't 870 00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:51,280 have a blueprint. We don't have an architect or an 871 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,480 engineer. We know a lot of them, but we 872 00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,800 stepped out in faith. Amen. 873 00:53:57,720 --> 00:53:59,360 There'll be a generation behind us. 874 00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:03,200 They'll say, man, isn't that crazy that those guys gave 875 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,040 before there was even a thing. That's crazy. 876 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:11,280 Like most people are raising money for a first initiative. 877 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:15,280 Would you put a thing on that? It's like giving skyrockets. 878 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:17,840 We're talking about an opportunity in front of us which 879 00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,000 God will provide. Amen. 880 00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,360 He will provide. And so you guys are blessed. 881 00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,960 You're worshiping and giving ahead of the miracle. 882 00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,200 And for some people that gave in the in this difference maker, it 883 00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:29,680 was like the epitome of what this looks like. 884 00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:35,160 So number six, let me say 6, there are 6 people that have 885 00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:39,720 given to this difference maker initiative that have been coming 886 00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:42,800 for less than three months. That's pretty significant. 887 00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:47,760 And this number is just shy of $60,000. 888 00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,520 And all of that would go directly towards that space. 889 00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,000 But you talk about giving by faith, like you just started 890 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,520 showing up. There was one person in 891 00:54:54,520 --> 00:55:00,520 particular that came the week before commitment Sunday and 892 00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,000 gave and pledged on commitment Sunday. 893 00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,600 Is that crazy? I mean, we're likely to get a 894 00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,680 phone call back in a week. And he turned to commitment card 895 00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,320 and said, I'm all in for what God's doing here. 896 00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,920 I believe in what you're doing. That's significant. 897 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,480 Amen. Like you don't have people like 898 00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,400 that that show up to your church, but God's been sending 899 00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,520 people. It's just confirmation what God 900 00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,080 is doing. We've had 10 young people, I say 901 00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:28,000 young, below age of 55. I'm scared the number keeps 902 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:32,320 rising as I get a little older anyway. 903 00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,640 But below the age 30, we've had 10 people commit to difference 904 00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:39,440 maker and they've committed just over $120,000. 905 00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,920 That's pretty good, Amen. So you're like, man, you know, 906 00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,400 young people like they're in it, they're on it, and so they're 907 00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:50,400 giving full of faith. Last verse Matthew 211 says then 908 00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,560 after they bowed down, they worshipped the King of kings. 909 00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,320 That says this. Then they opened their treasures 910 00:55:56,720 --> 00:56:01,880 and presented him being Jesus with the gifts of gold, 911 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,000 frankincense and myrrh. It's pretty amazing. 912 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,040 Amen. Let me imagine that moment. 913 00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:09,560 They've traveled with all these items. 914 00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:11,720 I don't know how much there are of each item. 915 00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,000 And maybe they're outside on donkeys or somebody's been 916 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,320 carrying him or they, they're carrying him. 917 00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,520 And there's just this moment they they worship, they bow 918 00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,040 down. And then they said, oh man, I 919 00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:22,400 can't, I'm so excited. Let me give this gift. 920 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,640 And they open it up and they unfold it right in front of this 921 00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:30,600 toddler and they give this gift of gold to Jesus the King. 922 00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:34,560 That's pretty good. I think Barry mentioned that his 923 00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,200 gold may come from Babylon, which may have been stolen from 924 00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,560 the temple. And it's like giving God's gold 925 00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,080 back to God. It's pretty good. 926 00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,120 Amen. Not that he didn't own it all 927 00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,920 anyway. This is act of worship, but 928 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,200 they're saying you, you, these are gifts fit for a king, this 929 00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,160 gold. And that's what some of you guys 930 00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:53,440 have done Difference maker as well, right? 931 00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:58,280 And then this frankincense, like what a weird gift frankincense 932 00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:01,000 is this incense that was put in the temple and the priest would 933 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:05,480 burn it and rise up and it would have this pleasing aroma to God. 934 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,760 And that Jesus is our high priest. 935 00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:13,800 That they understand that Jesus is going to be the one that is 936 00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:15,360 the mediator between God and man. 937 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:19,000 That there is Jesus would be tempt in all ways, yet without 938 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,480 sin that that he he would be the one that we would pray through 939 00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:26,720 to the father like there's only one way the way truth and life. 940 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:30,000 His name is Jesus Amen. He's only which you're saved and 941 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,880 you look at his who he is. They recognize that that just 942 00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,960 from scripture. They said get the gold somebody 943 00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:39,080 find some frankincense because we're going to go visit the king 944 00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:42,600 who's going to become a priest for all humanity that they could 945 00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:46,040 know God himself some pretty wise men, Amen. 946 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,800 The last gift of myrrh, which is a weird gift because it's a 947 00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,040 burial spice. So bringing a barrel spice to 948 00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,880 this toddler, if you tried to pull it off this Christmas, you 949 00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:59,080 might get punched, right? Like who would ever do that? 950 00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,000 It'd be like giving an urn to your toddler. 951 00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,760 You know, here I mean it, it, it makes no sense. 952 00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:06,480 But they understood because they read Psalm 22 and they 953 00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,680 understood that he'd be crucified or, or he'd be put on 954 00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,840 a tree and killed. They understood all these props, 955 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,960 Isaiah 56 that the sheep's can lead to a slaughter. 956 00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:18,400 They'd be unrecognizable as a human to be disfigured. 957 00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,800 They'd be pierced. Like they recognize that this 958 00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,680 man is going to die for the sins of humanity, and they're going 959 00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,120 to take this gift of myrrh and say, use this. 960 00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,360 Now, I don't know, this is complete speculation, but I like 961 00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,120 to think that somehow in God's Providence and his sovereignty 962 00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:37,440 in his way, that that gift of myrrh somehow end up with Joseph 963 00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:40,640 Arimathea and they took Jesus to the tomb. 964 00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:46,400 Amen. You know, God orchestrated that. 965 00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,480 And so these wise men just understood Scripture so well. 966 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,520 They didn't worship him with practical gifts and gifts that 967 00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:59,280 represent who he is, a king, a priest, a sacrificial lamb, the 968 00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,960 Messiah, the Savior of the world. 969 00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:04,960 What's interesting about the gifts you may not know. 970 00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:10,480 Well, first of all, let's say this, how crazy is it that the 971 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:13,040 first gifts ever good that Jesus did not come from the Jewish 972 00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:18,560 leaders? How crazy, because you would 973 00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:22,160 have thought there's got to be a Pharisee, there's got to be a 974 00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:25,400 rabbi or a disciple that's these disciples would memorize the 975 00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,000 first five books of the Bible. By the time they're eight, they 976 00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:29,320 memorize the whole Old Testament time. 977 00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:31,560 They're 14. There's got to be somebody in 978 00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,720 the Jewish culture that recognizes that this star is 979 00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,880 Jesus, a star, and they're coming to worship him, but it's 980 00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,640 not. It gives us hope, Amen. 981 00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:46,400 Like we're Gentiles and these Gentiles, they read the 982 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,760 Scripture for themselves, good plan by the way, and they 983 00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:51,320 recognize that Jesus wasn't showed up with gifts. 984 00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:53,400 Thank you Jesus. The first gifts given to him 985 00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:58,680 came from some wise Gentiles. It's significant for us because 986 00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:01,920 any one of us can open this book and fully know and understand 987 01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:05,440 who God is. So thank you Jesus for setting 988 01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,160 that table. But these gifts are so 989 01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:09,640 incredible. This gift of gold. 990 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:14,360 You may understand this when. Herod went to kill everybody's 991 01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,040 under 2. That's a male in Bethlehem and 992 01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:18,400 around the city of Bethlehem. Do you guys remember what Jesus 993 01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:20,960 family did? Joseph, Mary and Jesus remember 994 01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:24,600 what they did? They did flood where they 995 01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,920 flooded Egypt. How do you think they funded 996 01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:30,760 that trip? These people are poor. 997 01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:35,720 They didn't have a space to have a baby Jesus born in a Manger. 998 01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:39,280 The only way they fund the trip is because a wise man who read 999 01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,400 the scripture came and worshipped Jesus as a king and 1000 01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,680 laid their best gold down at his feet. 1001 01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,960 And the family said thank you so much and I recognize what Jesus 1002 01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:51,280 was and Herod said I'm going to eradicate Jesus. 1003 01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:55,400 They said no, we got a gift and that God called him to Egypt. 1004 01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:57,240 They used that money to flee to go to Egypt. 1005 01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,800 They had no idea as a wise man that when they gave that not 1006 01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,480 only saved Jesus life, they actually saved ours. 1007 01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:06,080 That's pretty good. Amen. 1008 01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,880 And you don't know when you give God something, how God is going 1009 01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:13,120 to use it. And I think about our space and 1010 01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:16,360 what we're doing as a difference maker and truly at the essence 1011 01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:21,040 of what we're doing is to protect the gospel and to see 1012 01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:25,360 humanity saved. Like we cannot get past that. 1013 01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,600 Like to have a place that we're not going to be shut out of 1014 01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,360 where the gospel can go out, disciples are made and protects 1015 01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:37,440 that and the future of the prosperity of the church and 1016 01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:42,280 that people come to Christ through that place is the point 1017 01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:45,120 of why we gave. So I want to do is just walk 1018 01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:46,960 through a few stories and then we're going to reveal the 1019 01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:49,120 number. You guys are going to have fun. 1020 01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:50,760 It's going to be exciting, you're going to cheer. 1021 01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,880 Amen. It's going to be great, but let 1022 01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,920 me just share a few stories. We had two men in the church, 1023 01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:00,040 young men in the church who gave sacrificially and have given 1024 01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:04,080 pledge to give over $25,000 apiece towards difference maker. 1025 01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,280 That blew my mind. You know, when I see names, I 1026 01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:10,520 see card. I'm like, do that, that that's, 1027 01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:14,400 that's a lot for a person in that situation. 1028 01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:19,080 We we had families fill out cards, then then fill another 1029 01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,960 card out or scratch the number and put a bigger number. 1030 01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:25,000 It was so fun to watch some of the families that just recognize 1031 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:26,560 like, man, I can bring more to this. 1032 01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:29,120 And we've been playing a little safe and they just said, Sean, 1033 01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:32,880 hey, we turn number in, but this is new number because the vision 1034 01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:35,680 is bigger than we, we, we know it's going to take more and we 1035 01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,320 know when you step up in generosity to do this, I'm like, 1036 01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,600 thank you, Jesus, Amen. That's just bold faith. 1037 01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:48,120 We our youngest pleasure. We had 14 a fortune year old 1038 01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:49,680 that pledged to give the difference maker. 1039 01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,600 Amen. Found out a little bit ago we 1040 01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,000 had somebody who's nine years old pledged difference maker. 1041 01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:59,880 That's pretty cool. Faith like a child like I 1042 01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:01,680 thought, man, you know, our kids can be a part of it. 1043 01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:05,960 Hey, dollar a week, right? And they can play that part like 1044 01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:07,400 man, I play part of the story, right? 1045 01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,760 We, we had a family turn the card in last week with tears in 1046 01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,040 their eyes because they've been listening the whole series and 1047 01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:17,480 they're like holding on, you know, and they're like, you 1048 01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,200 know, taxes. I mean, all, you know, property 1049 01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,320 tax, all the things are coming and life's this and that, like 1050 01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:24,080 all the stuff we face every day. And that generosity instead of 1051 01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:29,080 being number one on like the budget or the plan is like, like 1052 01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,040 most people, right? It's like 5-6 or ten or like 1053 01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:33,960 100th and they got the points. Like, you know, I really need to 1054 01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,680 move that up like it's not getting the priority. 1055 01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:40,000 And so they just in tears like hand the card in to our staff 1056 01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:41,840 team and said we're getting right here. 1057 01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:45,000 Like we've been putting this off and we know God's calls to do 1058 01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:46,560 this like we're in and they give the card. 1059 01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:47,360 That's good. Amen. 1060 01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:51,280 Like you're seeing people's faith level change. 1061 01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:57,400 We, we had a lady two weeks ago. I just found out about this this 1062 01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:59,120 week and I didn't didn't make sense to me. 1063 01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:01,200 They told me in the meeting and then later on I was like, oh, 1064 01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:06,320 OK, this is not making sense. But I'd given her last money 1065 01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:10,080 like all lasts of her money here at real life two sides ago. 1066 01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:14,200 I had no idea and it handed in the giving bucket and said I 1067 01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,040 don't know Lord, what to do. This is all I got left. 1068 01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:17,440 I just trust you and just dumped it in. 1069 01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:20,520 And they wrote on a card last Sunday. 1070 01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:23,240 This is a Fast forward. The next Sunday they wrote on a 1071 01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:26,240 card and they said, hey, I gave my last amount of money to 1072 01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:27,520 church. I didn't know what to do. 1073 01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:32,520 And then God showed up and some of my life gave me and they 1074 01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,000 wrote the amount of money this last week. 1075 01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,680 I did the math on it. It's 30 five times what they put 1076 01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:41,840 in the giving buck bucket is what that person bless them 1077 01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:44,280 with. Now, I'm not saying God does 1078 01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,120 that for everybody. So I'm not like a crystal 1079 01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,480 cathedral kind of preacher, but I will say God does do that. 1080 01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:54,240 Amen. Like you could never out give 1081 01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:56,360 God. And there has been numerous 1082 01:04:56,360 --> 01:05:00,880 times in my life where I have given my very last sent and God 1083 01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:03,640 has always showed up. So thank you Jesus for being 1084 01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:04,280 faithful. Amen. 1085 01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:11,200 We had a guy last week that told our team, hey, I'm going to give 1086 01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:15,440 some gold. I've never had anybody give me 1087 01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:18,520 gold. I've never thought about what 1088 01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:21,200 are you doing, right? I know some people that collect 1089 01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:23,520 silver coins, gold coins, they usually put them in their safe 1090 01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:25,840 at home because it's a doomsday. Preppers, come on somebody 1091 01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:28,760 right, because you're, you know, electronic stuff and your cotton 1092 01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,200 stuff isn't backed by nothing. So once it goes downhill, it's 1093 01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:32,560 nothing. So when you think about that 1094 01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:36,160 gold, some people call gold God's money and that gold 1095 01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:39,880 represents more than just money. It represents independence, 1096 01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:46,120 freedom, security, power, independence, right like that 1097 01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:50,240 that's usually hold that tight. And for this person was like, 1098 01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,160 I'm gonna bring some gold towards difference maker. 1099 01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:56,480 I thought, well, there's no better Sunday to bring some 1100 01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:59,040 gold. Then we talk about the wise men 1101 01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:00,960 bringing some gold. Amen. 1102 01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:04,560 And so God just brought the story all the way around. 1103 01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:06,920 And so I'm very proud of what God did that We're going to 1104 01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:10,160 reveal the number. The number is total pledge, OK, 1105 01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:13,400 plus expected giving. So if you didn't fill a card out 1106 01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,120 and people give, it's going to be added in there. 1107 01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,280 And so I want to have a big excitement with this. 1108 01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:19,200 We're going to countdown. There's a video just in 1109 01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:21,640 countdown from five once you cheer on the countdown, and then 1110 01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:22,800 we're going to reveal the number. 1111 01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:26,120 You guys ready? You guys ready some of y'all 1112 01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:27,720 like I didn't get it behind that, but we're going to do it 1113 01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:29,440 anyway. Y'all ready here we go play the 1114 01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:44,920 video all right 543210 early number oh man legit we got 1115 01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:46,760 nothing. So this was supposed to be 1116 01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:48,600 really cool and may happen some moment, right? 1117 01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:55,200 But there's confetti cans up here, but they didn't go off. 1118 01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:58,360 So yeah, sorry, didn't make it to the first family. 1119 01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,560 Oh, nice. Going to go, Holly. 1120 01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:05,200 She's still going. Nice, nice. 1121 01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:09,200 That one was kind of aimed at me, dude. 1122 01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:10,400 Nice work. Nice work. 1123 01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:13,800 There's still this one. Didn't go. 1124 01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:19,240 It's all right, TuneIn, you come back next year. 1125 01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:20,680 We're going to get that figured out. 1126 01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:27,640 So listen, this so $1,861,000, is that amazing? 1127 01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:34,640 Hey, man, it's amazing. All right, so we've actually got 1128 01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:38,760 to change the number because somebody, you know, had to say, 1129 01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,960 hey, I'm going to give some more this last gathering, actually 1130 01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,840 two people. So, so this number, I tried to 1131 01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:54,360 do math on this, it'd be 1,000,890, $8000. 1132 01:07:55,640 --> 01:08:01,440 We set a goal, 1.9 million and we're $2000 away from 1.9 1133 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:03,440 million. Is that crazy? 1134 01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:11,840 Ah, man, I need more faith. There you go. 1.9 million. 1135 01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:15,160 There you go, Jerry. I knew somebody was going to do 1136 01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:15,680 it. Jerry. 1137 01:08:16,279 --> 01:08:20,720 Jerry, 1.9 million. So this this is what this means. 1138 01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:24,000 This is so significant because we we set a goal like we're 1139 01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:26,920 going to raise 1.9900 thousand is our regular ministry budget 1140 01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:29,600 makes the one fund and a million is 1,000,000 above that. 1141 01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:33,920 So officially, as of this moment, we have pledged $1 1142 01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:38,120 million towards the building towards the dude. 1143 01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:42,760 Fantastic. So I would say first of all, 1144 01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:45,560 thank you Jesus. Like I'm not the, the 9 lepers 1145 01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:46,640 do. We're one leper church. 1146 01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:51,040 And thank you to those who fasted and prayed for this 1147 01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:54,120 moment and for the people in church to to grow in faith and 1148 01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:56,520 grow in generosity and for God's game to come to earth and for 1149 01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:58,800 God to use us. It's that that made the 1150 01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,200 difference. Like I've so many people say, 1151 01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:02,080 man, I know we're going to do this. 1152 01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,279 Like I don't know how we're going to do it, but God can do 1153 01:09:04,279 --> 01:09:07,359 it. It's just so much faith on this 1154 01:09:07,359 --> 01:09:11,120 number, $1 million raised. So thank you guys. 1155 01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:15,640 That Saul, what everybody else can see and literally have done 1156 01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:19,720 what no one else is going to do. It's so powerful, it's so 1157 01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:23,520 amazing and it's so humbling because this number, when I sat 1158 01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,560 down with different generosity coaches and people that looked 1159 01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:30,040 at our finances, I thought if you were to raise $720,000, 1160 01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,520 you'd be doing pretty good. They said the North End of your 1161 01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:36,479 number may be 900. That we've had some really, 1162 01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:39,319 really, really generous, like first line donors. 1163 01:09:40,359 --> 01:09:42,279 I'm like, well, it's going to be kind of hard to get into a 1164 01:09:42,279 --> 01:09:47,000 building in our area if we can't raise at least 1,000,000 because 1165 01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,319 there's nothing for sale for anywhere close to 1,000,000. 1166 01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:52,640 Like I need something. So Lord, we're going to try 1167 01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:54,800 1,000,000 and the Lord showed up. 1168 01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:58,400 Amen. And we will blow people on the 1169 01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:01,040 water. We tell them like yo church 1170 01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:02,600 raised $1,000,000 towards our first building. 1171 01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:06,600 It's amazing. I told you this was the Sunday I 1172 01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:10,080 told you like you like remember what those guys gave with faith? 1173 01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:11,680 There wasn't nothing, just a dream. 1174 01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:16,160 We we, we literally have a dream and nothing and then something's 1175 01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:18,880 going to happen and be like that took more faith that season took 1176 01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:20,880 more faith than another season our church and then you guys got 1177 01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:23,840 this other grand work. So thank you Jesus, Amen. 1178 01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:26,560 Thank you Jesus, God, we come before you. 1179 01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:30,000 We we praise you God that we have hit the number that you 1180 01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:32,120 gave us. Why are we surprised? 1181 01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:35,000 We are not surprised. Lord, we trust you. 1182 01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:38,200 Thank you for the faithfulness of our people that you have 1183 01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:40,880 given here God that we have bold faith. 1184 01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:44,960 God, we just worship you. God, we bow down, we worship, we 1185 01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:48,040 trust God, we follow. Thank you Jesus. 1186 01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:50,920 Thank you, Jesus, we give glory to you. 1187 01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,600 You are a king and you've ruled all. 1188 01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:56,120 God, you own everything and we trust you. 1189 01:10:56,160 --> 01:11:00,000 I want to pray for one specific group, people in the room today, 1190 01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,160 and that's those of you who may not know Jesus yet. 1191 01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:05,320 You've watched these stories, you've heard the stories, these 1192 01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:08,600 radical people giving all this money for something they deeply 1193 01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:12,880 believe in because it's true. And you recognize that Jesus is 1194 01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:18,040 not just a fable or a story, but a God that is real and active 1195 01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:21,480 and sits on the throne. And he came and was born in 1196 01:11:21,480 --> 01:11:26,400 humanity to die for you. And today, if you need Jesus, 1197 01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:29,800 this is the day of salvation. The Bible says it's been a call 1198 01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:31,840 to Christ. Forgive us the sins to be made 1199 01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,600 new from the inside out. If you need Christ today, if 1200 01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:36,840 that's you that ain't be looking around, raise your hands high in 1201 01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,520 this place. I need Jesus to worship Jesus 1202 01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:43,720 for the first time I'm over not just my hands but my heart to 1203 01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:45,440 you that's you just praise prayer. 1204 01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:47,320 The prayers not save you but your heart towards him say 1205 01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:51,480 Father God thank you so much for these crazy people of faith for 1206 01:11:51,480 --> 01:11:53,280 showing me today. There's something so much bigger 1207 01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:55,640 than my eyes have never seen you give me spiritualize at sea 1208 01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:59,640 today God I'm following you in faith because I've seen the 1209 01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:02,760 faith of these people. I'm trusting that your son died 1210 01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:05,680 across from you got to put faith in you, a crowd to you and I 1211 01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:09,880 praise in Jesus name, the name has given his birth the save of 1212 01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:13,000 the world to come save me today and I pray this in Jesus name, 1213 01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:15,800 Amen. Give some glory to God today, 1214 01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:20,040 Amen. Come on, thank you Jesus man. 1215 01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:24,000 What is a powerful Sunday today and just a reminder to be people 1216 01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:28,920 who see what everybody else sees, but does what nobody else 1217 01:12:29,440 --> 01:12:31,640 it does. Man, what an encouraging word 1218 01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:35,160 this morning. Hey, some of you saw Jesus, his 1219 01:12:35,160 --> 01:12:37,480 love for you today for the very first time, recognizing he's 1220 01:12:37,480 --> 01:12:39,920 calling you home. If that's you and you pray that 1221 01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:42,840 prayer, you raise your hand to commit your life to Jesus. 1222 01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:45,680 Man, we are so excited for you. We know there are just great 1223 01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:48,000 things ahead for you and we would love just to come 1224 01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:50,200 alongside you and to resource you in that way. 1225 01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,440 So if you would grab that connection card that's on your 1226 01:12:53,440 --> 01:12:56,200 seat there, you can fill out the information there at the top and 1227 01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:58,640 then just make sure and check that box that says I committed 1228 01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,080 my life to Jesus. And you can drop that in the 1229 01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:03,960 giving buckets as they pass here in just a few minutes. 1230 01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:06,240 And man, just by doing that, we would be able just to get you a 1231 01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:08,520 couple things. The first one is a free book and 1232 01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:10,440 to drop in the mail. We'll drop that tomorrow. 1233 01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:13,760 But it is a short read. It's called Begin, but really it 1234 01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:16,720 is packed with some powerful truths and really will help you 1235 01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:19,920 on your next steps with Jesus. And if you pray that prayer, 1236 01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:22,320 you're right here at Kentucky Trail as you exit the worship 1237 01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:24,720 center, there is a table with some red bags as well. 1238 01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:27,000 Inside those red bags is a free Bible. 1239 01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:30,520 A few other resources that we know will just be a blessing to 1240 01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:33,400 you today as well. And if you are newer with us, if 1241 01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:36,280 this is your first Sunday at real Life church, man, you got 1242 01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:40,000 it all such amazing stories of of how God is moving confetti 1243 01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:41,480 cannons. Man, it's a great day. 1244 01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:43,680 We're still glad you chose to spend your morning right here 1245 01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:46,120 with us. We would love nothing from you 1246 01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:48,640 today except for this and it's just to introduce yourself to 1247 01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:50,480 us. And you can do that by grabbing 1248 01:13:50,480 --> 01:13:52,880 that same connection card that is on your seat there. 1249 01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:55,680 Fill out information that top section and just check that box 1250 01:13:55,680 --> 01:13:58,760 that says first time here. You can also you can take that 1251 01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:01,360 to the new here booth as you exit the worship center just to 1252 01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:02,840 your right. There's a new here booth there. 1253 01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:04,800 Somebody will be there with a smiling face. 1254 01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:06,840 Would love to take that card to get you a free gift. 1255 01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,280 Just our way of saying thank you so much for being here. 1256 01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:13,160 And we would love to see you back here next week with us. 1257 01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:16,880 And man, what just or just an amazing Sunday. 1258 01:14:16,880 --> 01:14:19,960 I just get goosebumps and chills as I'm sitting there hearing all 1259 01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,920 these numbers and somebody chiming in another 2000. 1260 01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:27,000 Man, God is just so, so good. And just what a powerful day 1261 01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,480 today is. I mean, I really want you to 1262 01:14:29,480 --> 01:14:33,240 know that you should be so, so proud of yourselves for really 1263 01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:37,280 stepping in the gap, for saying I am all in, for pledging to be 1264 01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:40,640 difference makers in this season, not just for us, but for 1265 01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:43,800 the people that are going to know Jesus ahead of us for 1266 01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:46,720 generations to come. I know Jesus through you guys 1267 01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:48,920 saying yes and pledging to be difference makers. 1268 01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:52,720 So thank you so much. And man, today is celebration 1269 01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:56,120 Sunday and really this is an opportunity for us to give our 1270 01:14:56,120 --> 01:14:59,480 first and our best gifts to Jesus, just like the wise men, 1271 01:14:59,480 --> 01:15:02,320 we're going to bring him and lay him down at the feet of Jesus. 1272 01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:04,800 And So what does that look like? That really is your stored 1273 01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:07,520 resources gift on your commitment card there. 1274 01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:09,040 So that can look like a lot of different things. 1275 01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,840 Some maybe it's investments, it's stocks. 1276 01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:15,680 I know some people sold some things, maybe it's savings 1277 01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:16,920 account, whatever that looks like for you. 1278 01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:20,200 Some people even literally bringing gold today. 1279 01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,720 So whatever that looks like, that's what we're asking today 1280 01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:27,120 to give for that. I do want to say if you are part 1281 01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:30,240 of that, of your pledge for Sword Resources is giving stock, 1282 01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,840 you can head to our website. It's just real life church 1283 01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:36,720 kc.com/give. When you get there, they'll be a 1284 01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,120 button there that says give stock. 1285 01:15:38,120 --> 01:15:40,160 You can click on that. We have a third party that we 1286 01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:42,880 work through and so they have a process that's super simple. 1287 01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:45,440 It'll walk you through step by step to be able to to do that. 1288 01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:49,680 Also, if you want to give a non cash gift for that, you can do 1289 01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,480 that as well. Maybe that's items you wanna 1290 01:15:52,480 --> 01:15:56,480 donate, a boat to the difference maker, a car or property, 1291 01:15:56,480 --> 01:15:57,520 whatever that looks like for you. 1292 01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:00,760 There's all of that information on the website as well. 1293 01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:04,360 I also, we don't always talk about all of the details about 1294 01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:07,280 giving, but we're going to go there for a few minutes just as 1295 01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:09,480 we walk through because it really will make a difference as 1296 01:16:09,480 --> 01:16:11,600 we're leading into this difference Maker initiative. 1297 01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:16,360 So today is the day, if you have a new number that you are 1298 01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:20,120 regularly going to be giving as part of your expanded giving for 1299 01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:23,400 the Difference Maker pledge, today is that day to go in and 1300 01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:26,160 adjust that number, whatever that looks like for you. 1301 01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:30,080 I also want to give a plug as well if you, this is an 1302 01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:32,760 encouragement to set up procuring giving, especially if 1303 01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:35,360 you give by card. And that is because of this, 1304 01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:37,760 there are some processing fees that are attached to that. 1305 01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:41,560 And so when you go in and you ACH that gift, it actually takes 1306 01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:44,840 that 2 to 3% that we give to the credit card company, brings it 1307 01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:47,240 right back to the difference maker initiative. 1308 01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,920 And so it really does make your money go further. 1309 01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:51,440 So I encourage you to do that as well. 1310 01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:54,400 If you're a recurring donor and you have a new recurring number 1311 01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:57,560 for this pledge and you can head on over to that same website, 1312 01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,040 reallifechurchkc.com and click on give. 1313 01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:04,320 You can go in there as well. You can log into your profile as 1314 01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:05,800 well. You can update that number. 1315 01:17:06,160 --> 01:17:08,640 You can see all of the details. Your pledge will be in there as 1316 01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:09,880 well. So you can kind of see your 1317 01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:14,120 numbers and where you're at over these next two years. 1318 01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:18,440 Also, if you give online here at Real Life Church, when you go to 1319 01:17:18,440 --> 01:17:21,920 give, there are a lot of options in the drop down menu for you to 1320 01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,440 be able to choose. You want to make sure if you're 1321 01:17:24,440 --> 01:17:27,280 giving towards difference maker that you choose that top line. 1322 01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:31,600 It says ties slash difference maker and it's our ministry one 1323 01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:33,920 fund. And really that one fund is just 1324 01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:38,040 a combination of both pledges and expected giving. 1325 01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:40,520 So if you want what you give online to go towards your 1326 01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:42,120 pledge, make sure and choose that option. 1327 01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:44,840 And once again, you can see your pledge, it's in there as well. 1328 01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:47,760 Kind of your progress on that. We'll also over the next couple 1329 01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:50,760 years be reaching out at once, 1/4 with a statement kind of a 1330 01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:53,080 thing. So you can track that as well. 1331 01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:56,920 I also want to say there's room for you to step in as well. 1332 01:17:57,160 --> 01:18:00,680 There's no reason we cannot raise more than 1.9 million. 1333 01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:02,840 So if you've not turned in a commitment card and maybe you're 1334 01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,960 feeling today like this is the day I need to do it, I want to 1335 01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:08,720 play part of this story. I want to tell you that it is 1336 01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:11,280 worth it. And I was just telling Graham, 1337 01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:14,440 he was sitting beside me. We were talking about giving and 1338 01:18:14,440 --> 01:18:18,000 I said, man, whatever you give to this, think about when there 1339 01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:22,640 is a building that we're going to and you can say I played a 1340 01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:25,560 part in that. My birthday money went to that 1341 01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:27,400 man. It is so worth it. 1342 01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:30,640 And so I don't want you to miss out on this opportunity to play 1343 01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:32,960 a part of the story. So there is still time. 1344 01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:34,760 There is commitment cards on your seat. 1345 01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:37,680 You can fill it out today, drop it in the giving bucket as it 1346 01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:39,000 passes here in just a few minutes. 1347 01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:41,520 You can also scan that QR code that's on that side. 1348 01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:43,920 It takes you to a digital commitment card if you want to 1349 01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,720 do that as well. And so the buckets are going to 1350 01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:49,040 pass here. If you call real life church 1351 01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:51,160 home, you can see all the ways to give there as well. 1352 01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:54,440 You can check all of those out. And as always, if you or your 1353 01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:57,960 family find yourself in any kind of immediate need today, this 1354 01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:00,480 week, whether it's food or clothing, maybe it's shelter, 1355 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:02,960 whatever that looks like for you, would you please reach into 1356 01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:05,920 those giving buckets as they pass and grab out any loose 1357 01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:07,800 cash. You see, so we can be a blessing 1358 01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:10,040 to you and your family. Let's pray. 1359 01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,760 God, I just thank you, Father, just for who you are and just 1360 01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:17,280 your goodness to us. God, you're so faithful and God, 1361 01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:20,800 you have just exceeded expectation even. 1362 01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:24,680 Father, thank you for calling us to bold faith in this initiative 1363 01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:26,080 guide. We pledge to be difference 1364 01:19:26,080 --> 01:19:28,000 makers to move your Kingdom forward. 1365 01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:30,560 And so God, I just pray over this, offering God over these 1366 01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:33,720 stored resources, gifts. God, I know, I know you're going 1367 01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:35,800 to bless it, Father. And we are so expected for all 1368 01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,920 you're going to do through this. And so God, we today, we give 1369 01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:41,440 you all the glory. It's in your holy name that we 1370 01:19:41,440 --> 01:19:42,960 pray. Amen. 1371 01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:48,680 Hey, man, what a day after Jerry threw out his number, I was 1372 01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:51,680 really expecting the second two cannons to go off and that 1373 01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:53,240 didn't. That didn't happen, but it's OK. 1374 01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:56,000 It was still a phenomenal day. I'm so proud to be a part of 1375 01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,400 this with all of you guys. Before you guys jump out of 1376 01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:00,160 here, I have a couple announcements for your calendar. 1377 01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:02,320 Christmas Eve. We're celebrating here at Real 1378 01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,920 Life at 2:00 and 4:00 PM. Invite your friends, invite your 1379 01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:08,800 family, invite any creatures that you might know, invite 1380 01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:11,800 anybody that you can think of that would join you here on 1381 01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:13,760 Christmas Eve. I would love to see all of you 1382 01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:15,200 and all the people you can muster. 1383 01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:19,160 To all the parents in the room right now, I'm talking first to 1384 01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:21,040 the parents of 6th through 12th graders. 1385 01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:23,680 I would love to see your students join us for our New 1386 01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:25,960 Year's Eve celebration at Main Event. 1387 01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:28,600 Scan the QR code, get registered as soon as you can. 1388 01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:30,280 It's $40. That covers dinner, that covers 1389 01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:32,560 all the fun we're going to have, covers ice cream that we're 1390 01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:35,040 going to have, and maybe more confetti cannons to celebrate 1391 01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:36,000 the ball drop. I don't know. 1392 01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:39,600 That was a lot of fun. But yeah, if you have a student 1393 01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:41,800 in that age range, you get them signed up as soon as you can. 1394 01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:44,520 That helps me out a lot and I'd love to see all your students, 1395 01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,760 younger children, parents in here. 1396 01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:51,640 Next week is going to be the RO Kids Sunday. 1397 01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:54,920 A lot of singing, a lot of fun. If you were here last year, you 1398 01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:56,840 know that this is not a Sunday that you want to miss, 1399 01:20:57,040 --> 01:20:59,040 especially if Piper is given another solo. 1400 01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:02,960 I don't know what the plans are, but out of fear of that, I would 1401 01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:04,960 say don't miss next week. It is going to be awesome. 1402 01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:07,200 If you have not registered your kid yet, it's not too late. 1403 01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:09,120 Go ahead and get him registered as soon as you can though, 1404 01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:12,320 because let us know what time, what gathering they're coming to 1405 01:21:12,600 --> 01:21:14,520 get that knocked out. And I would love to see all of 1406 01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:17,120 your kids out here singing on the stage next week. 1407 01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:19,720 It is going to be awesome. And let's leave here in worship 1408 01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:21,720 today kind of how we've been carrying ourselves so far. 1409 01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:27,520 Psalm 96, eight says ascribe to the Lord the what the glory do 1410 01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:30,360 his name bring an offering and come into his courts. 1411 01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:34,080 Revelation says worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive 1412 01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:38,000 power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and 1413 01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:40,120 praise. If you need to talk to somebody 1414 01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:41,880 or if you need prayer, if you need to talk to a pastor, 1415 01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:43,600 there's going to be somebody down here to pray with you, to 1416 01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:45,680 talk to you. I'd love to see all of you here 1417 01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:47,720 again next week at 9:00 or 10:45. 1418 01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:51,520 And remember, whoever finds Jesus discovers real life and 1419 01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:53,160 purpose. I'll see you guys next week. 1420 01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:56,920 This is the end of this podcast. We hope you've enjoyed it. 1421 01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:59,800 If you have, be sure to hit the subscribe button so you don't 1422 01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:01,640 miss another inspirational podcast. 1423 01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:04,640 For more great content and updates, visit Real Life Church 1424 01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:05,880 KC. Dot com.