1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:01,960 Well, hey, good morning, real life. 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:04,160 We're so excited. You are here in the house with 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,480 us today or watching online. Stand to your feet so that we 4 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:09,120 can worship God together this morning. 5 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:21,360 Come on, do you see what I see? Do you see what I see? 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:34,480 I see. Something storing 6 feet under, 7 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,640 dead things coming back to life again. 8 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,280 I believe it's about to be another resurrection. 9 00:00:50,880 --> 00:01:04,040 I see signs and I see wonders. I see for something color dead 10 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,640 things coming back to life because I believe it's about the 11 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:10,760 pain of the resurrection. Come. 12 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,600 On Let's get those hands together today. 13 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:21,680 Come alive. Wake up, Sleeper. 14 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:28,240 He is risen, we are risen with him. 15 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:49,440 Hallelujah, women's, women. Be the great little party in it. 16 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,640 Then things coming back to life again. 17 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,480 I believe he's about to be another resurrection. 18 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,040 Come alive. Wake up, Sleeper. 19 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:15,040 He is risen. We are risen with him. 20 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:31,520 Paradise from wind open he is risen, we are rising with him. 21 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:40,480 Over life with a sleeve. He is rising, we are rising with 22 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,000 him. There a time long wind open. 23 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:53,880 He is rising, We are rising with him. 24 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,840 Come on Church, there's resurrection power in the house 25 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,200 today. Give them a shout of praise. 26 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:08,690 Come on. You see? 27 00:03:09,010 --> 00:03:16,330 What I see crave is empty. Anything is possible. 28 00:03:17,170 --> 00:03:17,850 Do you? See. 29 00:03:18,650 --> 00:03:24,040 What I see? Do you see? 30 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:31,760 What I see, do you see? What? 31 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,760 I see. I see something. 32 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:40,960 I see wonder. I see what I see, I see coming. 33 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,800 I hear the other. You see what? 34 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:53,480 I see northern strands and feet under come alive. 35 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,200 Wake of Sleeper. He is risen. 36 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:06,480 We are risen with him. Where I die. 37 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:20,600 Amen. Give him a shout of praise this 38 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,320 morning man. I love in the scripture it says 39 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,280 it's the same power that raised Jesus from the dead that. 40 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:31,320 Lives in US. It's that resurrection power 41 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,280 that not only gave us power over death and Helen the grave, but 42 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:38,600 it gives us the power we need to conquer the powers and 43 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,360 principalities we face every day, the strongholds that hold 44 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,640 us back from knowing God, from sharing God's love, and from 45 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,360 being His people. day-to-day. That power is in us. 46 00:04:49,360 --> 00:05:05,720 So let's praise Him, the cross. This is my beginning, the line 47 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:14,280 drawn in the sand, the end of all my striving. 48 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:31,680 Now I am born again there. Jesus was forsaken, so I will 49 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:41,360 never be. His grace is my salvation, the 50 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,760 gift of God, the work of Calvary. 51 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:58,600 It is done, it is finished. Christ has won, He is risen, 52 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:11,160 grace is here, and love is triumphed over, dead forever. 53 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:24,720 The cross needs no addition. His mercy is no please. 54 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:37,360 His love is not in question. The Son of God has spoken over 55 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,520 me. It is. 56 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,440 Not Christ has won. He is risen. 57 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:21,310 This trial and all the. Death forever, strongholds 58 00:07:21,350 --> 00:07:29,440 bowing to the Saviour, resurrection power over every 59 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,360 circumstance. His word stands. 60 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:41,160 Fine and forever it will not. Be shaken because he. 61 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:47,280 Alone is 1. It also now the stronghold is 62 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:55,360 bowing to the sand and resurrection power over every 63 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:01,960 circle shades his worst stands final and forever. 64 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:14,520 It will not be shaken till alone as rolling all his life it is 65 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:21,240 being as Christ has won, He is rising. 66 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:29,120 Grace is here, love is triumphed over dead. 67 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:46,510 The earth is finished. It's mostly worth, and that's 68 00:08:46,750 --> 00:08:53,630 what gives. It is worthy. 69 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:42,620 Jesus. Father, what a day that'll be 70 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:48,220 when we get to stand together as one, people singing to your 71 00:09:48,220 --> 00:09:51,540 praises. Forever God, it's because you're 72 00:09:51,540 --> 00:09:55,980 alive, because you loved. Us so much that came for us God. 73 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,560 We can't do anything, but you see, we crisis. 74 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:10,600 Because how great the chasm that lay between us, how high the 75 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:20,440 mountain I could not climb. In desperation, I turned to 76 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:27,440 heaven and spoke your name into the night. 77 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:36,480 And then through the darkness, your loving kindness tore 78 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:44,400 through the shadows of my soul. The work is finished. 79 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:52,720 The end is risen Jesus Christ, my living. 80 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:03,120 To imagine. So. 81 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:09,440 Great of mercy, what heart could I have them? 82 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:17,160 Such boundless grace? The God of ages step down from 83 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:24,520 glory to bear my sin and bear my shame. 84 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,840 The cross has gone again, and I am forgiven. 85 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,560 The King of Kings falls with me days. 86 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,280 Old you live for Savior, how me yours forever. 87 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:53,600 Jesus Christ my living, Hallelujah. 88 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:04,000 And someone sent me free. Hallelujah. 89 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,960 Death has lost his dream. All day you have broken. 90 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:15,560 Every day there's salvation. Your name, Jesus Christ, my 91 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:26,320 life. Then came the morning that 92 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,760 sealed the promise. When your. 93 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:37,080 Very body. Began to ream, and out of the 94 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:45,600 silence the roaring lion declare the grave has no. 95 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,320 Claim. On Hey, if that's your story, 96 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,880 give him a shout today. He's alive and he is arisen and 97 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:54,400 he. Came in the morning. 98 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,560 Lift him up. That's to the Paramus. 99 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:00,280 You're. Very 100 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:20,360 bad has no power. There's tears, as you know is 101 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:26,040 the victor. Hallelujah, praise the one who 102 00:13:35,150 --> 00:13:41,430 said we breathe. Hallelujah that has lost his 103 00:13:41,550 --> 00:13:46,030 grip all day. You have located me change. 104 00:13:46,550 --> 00:13:56,520 There's no nation. Oh, say Hallelujah, oh 105 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:03,560 Hallelujah, praise the world is saying in green Hallelujah. 106 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:12,440 And I've lost this green light. You have broken every. 107 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,760 Day. There's salvation in your name, 108 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:35,480 Jesus Christ, my baby heart. God has not called us to fear in 109 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,320 this moment. He's not called us to be 110 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,160 shackled by chains that hold us down. 111 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,760 He's not called us to be a people who cannot stand without 112 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,360 power because He's given us His power. 113 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,680 He's given us His strength, but the power of His resurrection to 114 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:55,560 go from this place as worshippers to a Holy Father, to 115 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,800 go from this place as a people who are together standing on His 116 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,760 word, to go from this place with the power of the gospel and the 117 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,360 power of His resurrection to make a difference in this world. 118 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,400 He's calling us out because He is alive and we get to worship 119 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:19,440 Him. No. 120 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:52,520 Oh, Hallelujah, there's the one who sent me free. 121 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:58,560 Hallelujah. I thought this was a make. 122 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:04,600 You have broken every chase. There's some ocean. 123 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:11,000 Oh, Jesus Christ, my leg. My God. 124 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:28,320 Today. That living hope, I mean, that's 125 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,640 what makes all the difference. When we don't, we don't, we 126 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,960 don't, we don't, we're not living for somebody that was 127 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,480 was, you know, dead and buried and never came back. 128 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,760 And Jesus, he did both of those first two. 129 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,160 But more importantly, man, he was raised, he was raised just 130 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,040 to newness of life and he brought that newness of life to 131 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,640 anybody and everybody that is part of the family and the part 132 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,560 of the Kingdom of God. So can we give it up for God one 133 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,640 more time, man? Amen. 134 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,760 Man, you guys are killing us today, man Worshipping. 135 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,040 I just love it. Just living here. 136 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:55,160 You guys give worship back to God. 137 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,480 I don't know if you guys know this or not, man, but we have an 138 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,360 awesome crew with us today online. 139 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,840 We got a lot of new people and a lot of new people with us today. 140 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,320 Can we show everybody this some love? 141 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,560 Give them a round of applause, man. 142 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:07,760 Thank you guys so much for choosing to worship here at Real 143 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,319 Life at this gathering Kentucky Trail. 144 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,560 Hey, take this opportunity. Take the next 30 seconds and 145 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:50,830 greet somebody around you. All right, you guys can go ahead 146 00:17:50,830 --> 00:17:54,000 and catch a seat. Man, we are so excited. 147 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,280 You guys are here with us today. Man. 148 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,000 We've been praying for you guys all week. 149 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,040 As you guys are sitting down, I want you guys to know that 150 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,480 you're getting ready to sit on a connection card. 151 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,480 This connection card. Now you guys see them week in 152 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,560 and week out. Man, we love it when you guys 153 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,240 fill this out. So if you call real life home, 154 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,680 you feel this outlet us know what's going on your life, Then 155 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,640 maybe it's your prayer, maybe some God's laid something on 156 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:12,720 your heart. Something's going on in your 157 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,560 life or maybe maybe God showed up in a way that you were just 158 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,120 miraculous. You have a praise, write those 159 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:19,960 things down. Our team loves to read these 160 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:21,680 week in and week out. Know what's going on your life. 161 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,240 Stay connected and pray for you individually. 162 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,040 They look forward to getting these week in and week out. 163 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,400 If you're new or newer with us, this card is for you as well. 164 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:31,680 I'm going to make a promise. We're not going to ask anything 165 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,720 else from you today except this one simple thing. 166 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,560 Just give us an introduction. We won't know who you are and if 167 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,760 you fill out the top part of that card, we're not going to do 168 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:40,280 anything crazy. You're not going to do anything 169 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:41,360 weird. We're not going to show your 170 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:43,040 house. We just want to have a way just 171 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,400 to send you out some more information this week about real 172 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,240 life, about who we are, about why we exist. 173 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:49,880 And we would just love to send that out to you. 174 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,720 And as far as why we exist, we believe this and we say this, 175 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,400 We're a church on a mission. And that mission is to see 176 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,120 people far from God discover their real life and purpose in 177 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:00,080 Jesus. So follow with me real quick. 178 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,320 What does that mean, Mary? It means this. 179 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,760 If you live in this world and you live in your day-to-day 180 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,120 lives, whether it's job, school, whatever it is, and you walk in 181 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:10,280 and out of your daily routine and you get punched in the face, 182 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,160 right? People are beating you down. 183 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,360 Even in the best of days, there's something that goes 184 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,520 wrong. And I, I see this week and week 185 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,920 out, even on social media, there's things that divide us 186 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,520 that tear us apart. But the beautiful thing about 187 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,760 this gathering is that we're on mission for God, and what unites 188 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:26,920 us is bigger than what divides us. 189 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:29,560 And what unites us is to be on mission for Jesus. 190 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,520 And the blessing about being at this gathering week in, week out 191 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,000 is to see people give their lives to God, give come back to 192 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,200 what God's created them for. And that's our prayer today is 193 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,160 that somebody's walking in here today that is far from God, and 194 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:42,680 they're going to get reconnected with God. 195 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,120 So man, that's our mission. That's why we exist, and that's 196 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:47,440 why we do what we do. So man, we're excited to see 197 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,080 what God does in your guys's life today. 198 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,160 And you guys are here in the middle of an awesome season. 199 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,720 We're in the middle of probably the biggest series we've ever 200 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,080 done. So for the last several weeks, 201 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,280 if you guys have been here, we're in the middle of a series 202 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,760 called Difference Maker. And this is for everybody. 203 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,240 We don't have classes here. We don't have groups, special 204 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,920 people and not special people. Everybody in this room is a 205 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:06,680 difference maker. And so it's been awesome. 206 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,760 It's been awesome to see Pastor Sean just lay out his heart for 207 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,440 this next season for this church because for the last eight 208 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,960 years, then God has showed up and used this church to bring 209 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:18,400 hope and transformation just to people that were far from God 210 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:20,320 and God's calling to something big. 211 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,800 And we're in the middle of a building initiative, but it's 212 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,240 not about. About a facility, it's not about 213 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,440 a building, it is about building a movement. 214 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,480 And we all play a part of that role. 215 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,960 So I want you guys to lean in to see what it looks like for God 216 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,880 to remove obstacles out of our way to make the impossible 217 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,560 happen, and just to bring hope and transformation, 218 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,760 transformation to the next generation by our faithfulness 219 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,280 to what God's called us to in this moment. 220 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,440 So once you guys take this opportunity, put your hands 221 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,200 together for Pastor Sean as we continue Difference maker. 222 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,240 I'm going to get over my chair. I was so excited. 223 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,200 Bear the kick in the bucket. Amen. 224 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,920 It's perfect, man. Well, good morning. 225 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,320 I'm excited for today. Thank you, Barry. 226 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:01,680 You're the man. Look at this guy. 227 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,200 I'm going to wear this longer than I need to. 228 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,680 It's going to be good. Well, I will start out just 229 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,080 sharing a story, really what makes real life different. 230 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,880 And it's just the way the gospel goes out through people. 231 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,160 And this is how it just works. This is the simplicity of this, 232 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,680 how God made it. But a few weeks ago, let's say 233 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,760 like a month ago, there's a man that started to come to our 234 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,560 church. He was invited by somebody that 235 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,840 probably would not be connected to most churches. 236 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,280 It's one of those people that just kind of doesn't fit in too 237 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,560 much of A history. This kind of situation. 238 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,120 This man has been bringing this person last last month. 239 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:36,480 He drives quite a distance to get here. 240 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,200 And so we've reached out to our welcome party, said, Hey, would 241 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,760 you love to come out and our welcome party if you've been 242 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,520 invited, if you're not invited, you are invited. 243 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,480 If you're newer or new to real life, we'd love you to come out. 244 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:46,720 It's going to happen after the gathering. 245 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,280 So stay late, but invite them out. 246 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,120 And it's like, hey, if you need, if you need a place to belong, 247 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:53,520 you need to find some people and you get connected, learn about 248 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:54,640 our church. We'd love to come out. 249 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,960 And so we're inviting them. And this man replies back to our 250 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,080 to, to reaching out. They texted us and they said, 251 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,440 man, I really need Jesus. I want, I want a star 252 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,800 relationship with him. I want to get baptized. 253 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,200 I want to learn and I want to spread his word. 254 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:07,760 I'm like, that's a 10 out of 10. Amen. 255 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,040 Like this dude's hungry. So the staff, the lady, she 256 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,600 comes to me, she goes, hey, I'm thinking, you know, we're going 257 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,120 to get together. And just now it's like, hey, 258 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,840 I've I've got the person. And so I called my man Rick. 259 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:20,280 Rick is sitting up here in the front row. 260 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,080 If you know anything about Rick, I'm like, hey, Rick, you want to 261 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,000 go fishing? And he's like, yeah. 262 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,840 And, and you know, Rick's one of those guys and when it gets 263 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,760 frozen, he he has made a few holes in the belt in the 264 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,560 Cleveland Lake, which there are signs now. 265 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,200 So if you're in the parks and Rec border, Belden, you didn't 266 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,120 hear anything this morning. But it was because of Rick, 267 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:41,840 right? He loves fishing. 268 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,840 And I said, man, fishing for men. 269 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:47,320 And dude, Rick gets excited like Rick walks the Lord, Amen. 270 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:48,960 And so he goes, yeah, tell me about this. 271 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,240 So I tell me about this man. I said this man is hungry for 272 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,720 God. I'm not sure he's saved. 273 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,200 He wants to get saved. So leave that boy to Christ. 274 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,800 Show them through Scripture about salvation. 275 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:57,960 Teach them all the different pieces. 276 00:22:58,200 --> 00:22:59,400 Walk through these different things. 277 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,960 Going to take a few weeks, right to seven, like hour a week. 278 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,240 Teach about baptism. He wants to get baptized. 279 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,200 By the way, we're baptizing the last Sunday of the year, 280 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,680 December 28th, 8th. This will be very new for us, 281 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,600 but we want to baptize that last Sunday, Amen. 282 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,280 We've had a lot of people say, hey, I want to get baptized. 283 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,920 We want to do this. I'm like, hey, you know what, 284 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,720 there's probably no great time that tomorrow, but we could do 285 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,240 that the 28th, right? And so we're excited for that. 286 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:23,800 So if you're interested in getting baptized, that'd be 287 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,920 amazing. But I told Rick, hey, walk him 288 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,160 through scripture, let him know who God is getting connected, 289 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,320 like just build a relationship with him. 290 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,840 And that's just what God's doing, Amen. 291 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,680 This is just one Sunday. And it's really because somebody 292 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,040 brought somebody had spiritualized to see brought the 293 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:42,080 gospel and they've been working together showing things to God, 294 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,320 but bringing them here, which has been fantastic. 295 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,520 But the goals are bringing the gospel out. 296 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,880 Amen. And we play a part of the story. 297 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,200 So every the difference makers just happens all through our 298 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,520 church and we have so many people like that. 299 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,640 Now I think about his story. How many of you guys would say, 300 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,160 you know, if I was starting on my walk with God, I would love 301 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,720 to have a spiritual coach, a spiritual mentor or somebody to 302 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,720 help me in my first few steps with Jesus. 303 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,240 Show hands, show hands, right? I mean, I remember when I first 304 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,360 got saved, I would have loved to know what I just got into. 305 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,840 Amen. Like I didn't know. 306 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,400 I mean, I prayed the prayer. I was in this choir room, in 307 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,080 this little back choir room of this Baptist Church. 308 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,480 I had no idea what was doing, but thank God there was a 309 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,880 spiritual until they came along. There was somebody that spent 310 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,480 time with me and invested me. I would not be following Jesus 311 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,080 today if it wasn't for that person. 312 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,280 And so I would encourage you, we're going to be leaning into 313 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,120 this in this next season to find spiritual mentors and coaches 314 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:34,160 older in the faith that know God and can teach younger people, 315 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,600 new believers, how to walk with Jesus. 316 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:36,680 Anybody sound interested in that? 317 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,840 Because we're really calling you guys to do that. 318 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,200 Amen, Like we've been thinking of this, praying through this, 319 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,360 and it's going to be a ready fire aim kind of situation. 320 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,800 I promise you that, right? Like we know enough to lead them 321 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,280 to Christ and show these things. Well, today we're jumping in. 322 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,440 We got our 4th part of the series, Difference Maker. 323 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,400 If you got your booklet, we'll be on page 20. 324 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,720 If you're taking notes, if you didn't get one, there's one, 325 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,360 bring it every week. But there's some out there. 326 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,960 But page 20, I always believe if you take notes, you get closer 327 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:00,080 to seat in heaven. Amen. 328 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,000 So just get those notes going, OK? 329 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,120 It's going to be good. But today we're leaning and we 330 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:05,680 talk about a building and I'll touch the building. 331 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,640 We think about steel and put up a structure. 332 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,760 And I'll just remind you guys, this is about souls. 333 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,040 This is about the man we just talked about. 334 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,280 This is about people's stories been written by God. 335 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,640 This is not building a building. It's about building a people. 336 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,720 It's about building people that transform by Christ. 337 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,560 And it's very easy to go well, I don't know about the building. 338 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,040 It's like we don't care about the building as much as we care 339 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,480 about people. The building is a is a means to 340 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,600 an end. Amen, It's a tool, it's a 341 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,920 resource and we got to be passionate about people. 342 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,440 There's a lot of empty church buildings. 343 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,480 Amen. There's a lot of buildings that 344 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,720 5 or 10 or 30 people. We're looking for a building of 345 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,200 people and the the building itself is a tool to get there. 346 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,440 And so today I want to share a story from somebody that has 347 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,920 been in our church before we officially launched. 348 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,600 This person was actually in our very first. 349 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,600 I don't even call it like a, it was like, I don't even call it 350 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,440 like a meeting. It was like, hey guys, you want 351 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,520 to launch a church together? Like it was that original 352 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,680 meeting and this lady was in there and she's been there since 353 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,680 the very beginning. And God has used her story and 354 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,600 she's walked through some very difficult seasons. 355 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,880 And I want you to see the power of community and the power of 356 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,600 God through life. Church with her story. 357 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:18,320 So lean in. My name is Tanya and this is my 358 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:26,040 story. I never thought I'd be the one 359 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,760 to go through separation or divorce or heartache. 360 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,840 I went through a season where I felt abandoned. 361 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,880 That was extremely painful and hurtful season of my life in 362 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,240 which I was alone. But it didn't stop there. 363 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,080 My story didn't end being in the community and my local church. 364 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:50,600 Real life, I was seen by my people from crying with me in 365 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:55,200 the bathroom stalls right after service, from delivering food to 366 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,120 my front door before I need it. I needed it. 367 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,000 There have been different instances of generosity from 368 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,760 real life that have really impacted my story and my walk 369 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,760 before a snowstorm, I had a knock on the door from the Goku 370 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,960 Cheyas and they had just opened their whole trunk and just 371 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:16,200 brought food. That moment I felt seen in a 372 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:18,920 tangible way. Not just I'm going to pray for 373 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,360 you and we're not going through part season, but we see you and 374 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,600 then you couldn't get out with three little kids before snow 375 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,120 storm to the grocery store. There's another instance, but I 376 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:34,120 was able to show up at my very close friend Christy Hardy's 377 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:36,920 house and just cry on her couch and she stopped what she was 378 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,000 doing and just let me cry and let listen to me. 379 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,040 Another great moment is Scott Jermaine came and took out a 380 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,760 dead mice out of my washing machine because I was too much 381 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,200 of A scaredy cat. Moments like that, that's not 382 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,280 natural for people to give up their time, their energy, and 383 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,120 just to pause to listen, to care on others in a tangible way or 384 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,120 take out the dead mice in my washer. 385 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:05,400 The difference that changed who I am today are people by showing 386 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,640 God's love, by showing their generosity and different moments 387 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,240 of their life. I would not be where I am today. 388 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,400 God to use these people at real life in my community, I found 389 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,400 practices or disciplines of my walk with God and it was not all 390 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,080 at once. It was slowly how God asked more 391 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,440 of me. It started out in the moments of 392 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:29,680 horrific pain and abandonment and sadness that turned into my 393 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,440 daily prayer, God, I need you. The next step was seems so 394 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,360 simple but it's so big as reading scripture. 395 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:39,360 I joined three life groups to surround myself with women that 396 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,000 wanted to teach and encourage me and was able to join a mission 397 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,040 strip where I was able to stop worrying about what was me and 398 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:50,520 learning of other cultures and giving my time and money and 399 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,720 energy to something bigger picture. 400 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,200 In the last two years, I've been able to leave some life groups 401 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,320 and that's been huge because it pushes me spiritually. 402 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,120 Fasting's a big one. I fast regularly. 403 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,200 Putting these practices in my life have really shaped my heart 404 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,280 for God, my understanding of who He is. 405 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:12,880 My encouragement to you would be if you are giving, don't stop. 406 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:18,240 That time for that energy, that lunch, that money, that gift, it 407 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,320 makes a difference. It is more blessed to give the 408 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,080 receive. People are watching. 409 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,360 In my case, my kids see it. They see when we stop and give 410 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,880 somebody a meal, they see us giving financially. 411 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,840 They see us giving of our items because somebody else needed a 412 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,360 bed. Hear that voice. 413 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,480 It's the Holy Spirit that is saying I want you to be blessed 414 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,600 and you don't always see it right away. 415 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,200 My close spiritual mentors, they didn't know what that was doing 416 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,480 for my story. They knew the Holy Spirit was 417 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,680 encouraging them to give. And because of that, I am where 418 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,440 I am today. So if I could encourage you, 419 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,960 listen to the Holy Spirit. Listen to that push. 420 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,920 Because of the season I went through and of your generosity 421 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:06,160 and the church surrounding me, I now help those in the community 422 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,000 through my job, parents, as teachers, and I'm able to be 423 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,800 generous as well. Because you gave. 424 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,680 I found healing and hope and there are so many more like me 425 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,080 waiting for their forever to change. 426 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,440 Come on, where'd it go? Real life? 427 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,880 Come on. I love it when the church gets 428 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,680 it right. Amen. 429 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,240 Because there's a lot of stories where it gets it wrong. 430 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,240 There's a lot of people that have come, a lot of churches 431 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:42,720 that have said, man, I can't go back. 432 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,480 But I love it. I love when the church. 433 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,480 Where's Tanya, by the way? She's somebody's, she's hiding 434 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,840 in the 2nd row. Give it up for Tanya one more 435 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:50,720 time. Thank you for sharing your 436 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:56,120 story. You know, and she mentioned this 437 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,200 at the end, but there's so many people that have setbacks. 438 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:02,840 There's so many people that walk through hard seasons like 439 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,520 everybody has a plan to get punched in the face. 440 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,400 Amen. Like it's doing great. 441 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,440 And then life took a drastic turn. 442 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,760 And it's been our honor and privilege to serve you and care 443 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,200 for you. And if so many people in our 444 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,480 church have been praying for you and supporting you, and I think 445 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,720 we do even more, Amen. Like part part of being a church 446 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,000 is we see the needs of the people that are in the house 447 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,280 that know Jesus and we take care of them. 448 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:25,960 That's the priority order of generosity. 449 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,520 You see all throughout Scripture. 450 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,400 Like there should be nobody hunger in our church, Amen? 451 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,000 Like somebody's homeless in our church, somebody's broken our 452 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,800 church. Somebody needs a hand up, like 453 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,640 just just meet it, Amen. Like you don't have to call me, 454 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,600 you can. It may be big enough, but it may 455 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,080 be something you say, Lord, what should I do? 456 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:44,960 And we help each other. That's part of life groups. 457 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,920 That's part of our community. And that's the power of 458 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:47,720 community. Amen. 459 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,120 The the thing that breaks my heart about the story, it's not 460 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,720 your story, It's that so many people have that story. 461 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,240 But what would it be like without community? 462 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,200 Like you take the church out of that story. 463 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,240 You take good friends out of that story. 464 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,360 You take the gospel out of that story. 465 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,720 You take mentors out of that story. 466 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,000 You take people showing up and loving on somebody outside of 467 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,040 that story. What do you got left? 468 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,680 A very depressed, broken family that's barely getting it by and 469 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,600 probably considering suicide and running as far as I can from 470 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,400 God. See it all the time. 471 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,280 One of the scariest things I think about is people who walk 472 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,480 through hardships without Jesus. You ever been there? 473 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,720 Like I'm old. I was old enough when I got 474 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:28,840 saved. I can't remember what it's like 475 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,080 to be lost. Like I can remember what it's 476 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,720 like to do a chase down my own things. 477 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,560 And it is desperate and it is dark. 478 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,440 Amen And we get this, the opportunity in our lifetime in 479 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:44,360 just a season, like in a little dash in those 8090 maybe God 480 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,200 bless you, get those years to make a difference in people's 481 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,720 lives by just pointing them as one beggar to another where the 482 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,440 food's at. Amen. 483 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,600 So God help us if we're going to come here and not go out and 484 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,160 share it, Amen. Like that's what it's all about. 485 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,840 And so I'm going to encourage you guys to do something today 486 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,680 that maybe you've never done before and it's going to be 487 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:10,960 taking a step of bold faith. Bold faith, not easy, but bold 488 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,120 faith. I'm going to give you a phrase 489 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,480 today. I believe it can change not just 490 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,680 your life, but can change the life of a church. 491 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,480 And you guys have all heard the phrase ready, aim, fire, right? 492 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:19,840 Show of hands. You all seen heard that ready 493 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,160 and fire. If you've been the frontier 494 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,600 justice come on somebody Hogan's alley. 495 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,800 Let's go old school, right. Send me all like what? 496 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,120 Yeah, that's just age. It's all right, right. 497 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,680 And you think about that. It's like those situations ready 498 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,520 aim fire this perfect for those because you have the perfect 499 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,760 conditions. You have the perfect timing. 500 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,240 You got get a clear vision. You know exactly what to do. 501 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:41,520 But who knows that's not reality. 502 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,120 Come on. When was the last time you had 503 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,280 the perfect conditions and the perfect funds and the perfect 504 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,240 timing and everything is going to work out magically. 505 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,760 And when you follow Jesus, it's no different. 506 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,960 There's not a perfect time. There's not a perfect reality, 507 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,160 it's not a perfect condition. But God wants us to walk by 508 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,640 faith and not by sight. It's only give you a different 509 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,280 phrase and it's really very similar, but it's ready fire, 510 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,200 aim. Everybody say it. 511 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:12,679 Ready fire, aim, ready fire aim. Do not take this to front your 512 00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:15,120 justice. And said Pastor Sean said to do 513 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:20,080 this, OK, But when it comes to faith, readiness is a lie. 514 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,000 There's a readiness of the will come on somebody. 515 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,639 There's a readiness of faith. But there is a lack of 516 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:30,719 character, often times a lack of skill set, a lack of competency, 517 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,719 a lack of a blueprint, a lack of a plan, a lack of funds. 518 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,880 But we're called to take action. Amen. 519 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,320 You cannot steer a ship that's not in motion. 520 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,920 It cannot be moved. And for most of us, we're 521 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,880 paralyzed by perfection. It's fear. 522 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,239 I'm waiting for the perfect moment with the perfect 523 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:54,080 conditions that in reality will probably never show up. 524 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,080 Amen. So I would encourage you guys to 525 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,800 take a bold step of faith to do something a little different. 526 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,520 Ready fire aim. It's readiness and willingness 527 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,000 over perfection. And I'll tell you this, God 528 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,160 already has a perfect plan. Amen. 529 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:17,600 You find this in the Ephesians 289 and you got to add in 10 and 530 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,920 this is so, so perfect. And God, we're actually stepping 531 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,120 into his plan. Just listen to this. 532 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,360 It says Ephesians 28. It says for it's by what's it 533 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,000 say? It's by what who said works? 534 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:29,840 That's right. It's by grace, Amen. 535 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,560 There's nothing you can do to have it. 536 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,920 It's the grace of God. And look what it says you, you 537 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,000 have been saved through what? Through faith. 538 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,760 It's it's your faith and God's grace just comes to your life. 539 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:44,960 You don't deserve it. That's what grace is. 540 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,680 It's unmerited favor that that means we've robbed God, we've 541 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,800 stole from God. My sin put Jesus on the cross, 542 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,800 but yet God gives me grace, gives me salvation. 543 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,080 You can't earn it. You can't keep it. 544 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:02,280 It's given by God, Amen. That was a soft Amen for grace. 545 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,960 For it's by grace you've been saved through faith and this 546 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,280 this important. This is what this grace is not 547 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,240 from yourselves. It's a gift of God. 548 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:13,840 May suggest it's a free gift of God. 549 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,360 Not by what I love people that try to work their way to heaven. 550 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,720 It's like you know what you're doing an awful lot of trying. 551 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:23,200 You do not need to try. Amen. 552 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,160 I don't know how you get around this verse. 553 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:26,600 If you're like man, I keep on my good deeds. 554 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,640 Pray, chant, meditate, help the old lady cross the street. 555 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,600 I gave some money, I came to church, I read the Bible. 556 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,360 I did all this stuff that doesn't mean anything. 557 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,920 It's God's grace, Amen. You cannot earn it. 558 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,160 It is freely given to you. Why? 559 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,200 So that no one can what you know, we can boast. 560 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,600 No, no one can say. Look, look how good I am. 561 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,960 You can't say I did it. All you can say is he did it. 562 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:50,920 He did it. He did it. 563 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,640 He did it. I didn't deserve it. 564 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,440 I, I I'm just, I'm just a servant of God. 565 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,520 I am so much a Sinner. But Jesus, the man in the middle 566 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,480 of cross said I could come into heaven. 567 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,440 Amen. There's nothing to do about our 568 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:05,960 ability. It is it. 569 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,320 Thank God, thank God, because I don't have the ability and none 570 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,560 of us have the ability to be perfect, but it's the grace of 571 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,400 God. Now we've heard these verses 572 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,560 potentially, right? Like these are basic salvation 573 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,240 verses. If you don't know these verses, 574 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,840 you should memorize this passage because I promise you they're 575 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,840 going to be somebody in your life that needs to hear the 576 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,440 Scripture from your heart. You may not quote it perfectly. 577 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,200 OK, you can do the preacher version, you know, do what you 578 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,400 got, work what you got, but share the Scripture. 579 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,920 But here's the point, verse 10, it says for we are God's, what a 580 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,560 handiwork. Now you think about this, we 581 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,240 start thinking about creation. We start thinking like, oh, God 582 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:43,320 instantly formed us and he did and he knit us together and he 583 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,440 breathed in the breath of life. So we became a living soul and 584 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,520 our first thing we saw, we opened your eyes, was the face 585 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,240 of God. That's all true, Amen. 586 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,440 That's all true. How much is it true? 587 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,160 But that's not what I was talking about in the Scripture, 588 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,640 which says we're as handiwork. What's it say? 589 00:37:55,880 --> 00:38:00,760 Created in Christ Jesus? When were you created in Christ 590 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,560 Jesus? Because my Bible tells me that 591 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,400 we're dead in sin and then we're enemies with God. 592 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,600 And then we met God's grace. We were all things become new 593 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,320 and now we're created in Christ Jesus. 594 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,400 Amen. And so it says you're God's 595 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,160 handiwork created in Christ Jesus. 596 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:23,480 He's talking about now, like when you came to Christ, God 597 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,600 tore down every part of your sin and gave you part of His 598 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,520 righteousness. He gave you His righteousness 599 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,880 for your wrongs and He recreate you. 600 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,000 He didn't upgrade you in Christ Jesus, and now you're his 601 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,400 handiwork because Jesus is in your life. 602 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,080 Amen. That's what he's saying. 603 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,000 Yes, you're his handiwork because we're God's creation, 604 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,040 but now we're created Christ through grace. 605 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:48,720 Here's the purpose. What does it say to do good 606 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,960 works? Now we do works. 607 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,760 We don't work our way to God, Amen. 608 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,880 We're not, we're not working our way to to grace. 609 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,360 We're living from grace, not for grace, Amen. 610 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,440 So now what? So why you're created? 611 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,360 Because God wanted to have you and His family to do good works. 612 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,840 We fell, we sinned, and God came a plan, we had no plan, Amen. 613 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,120 And he came a plan to go to the cross and die for us, and then 614 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,520 we accept His grace for free, which has nothing to do about 615 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,520 our own ability. And we humble ourselves and the 616 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,120 grace of God, the power of God, the Holy Spirit of God comes to 617 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,960 life and we're saved. Now we're created new in Christ 618 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,360 Jesus. Why did God save you? 619 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,480 To do good works, Amen. Over here, He's saved you good 620 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,120 works. If you're not about doing good 621 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,320 works, what are you about? Are you betting your life on 622 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,000 yourself or you're going to bet your life on God? 623 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,440 Amen. Like what are you doing with 624 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,560 this breath that God's given you? 625 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:54,280 And look what he said he prepared when which God 626 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:59,400 prepared. Help me out when like tomorrow. 627 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:05,520 So so some point like in eternity past, God created these 628 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,920 works that we're supposed to step into for us to do. 629 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,920 Here's what this means. And this is basic, but that 630 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,320 gives you bold faith. Is that when you step out on 631 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,120 faith? You're not creating your own 632 00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,400 mission, Amen? We've not come up our own 633 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:20,720 mission statement, real life church. 634 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,080 We came up with a, it's the Great Commission, Amen? 635 00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:26,560 Like we're not recreating the thing of God. 636 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,480 But when you step out on faith, that's what you're doing. 637 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,360 You're stepping into what God is doing already. 638 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,800 Come on somebody, that's good news, Amen. 639 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,760 You show up to work and like step in all these projects for 640 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,600 all these other people. Well, we need to step into what 641 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,600 God's doing. What that means is there's 642 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,440 divine appointments, there's people, there's countries, 643 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,480 there's spaces, there's places, there's a marriage, there's 644 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,920 kids, there's coffee shops, there's people around you, 645 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,280 there's marketplaces, there's businesses, there's things 646 00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,840 already that God wants you to step into that he's already 647 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,960 prepared in advance. Amen. 648 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,200 That might I suggest that us building a building is one of 649 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,680 them. So we when we step out of faith, 650 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:10,920 we're not going well. I hope it works out. 651 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,800 We're like, no, is God in it? Amen. 652 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,120 That's what Ready fire AIM is all about it. 653 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,600 It requires faith. If we had all the funds and we 654 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,600 had all the people and we had a building and all, like turnkey 655 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,880 ready to go and a blueprint, all this stuff, would it require any 656 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,040 faith? No. 657 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:29,400 What is God bless? Yeah. 658 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,280 It didn't bless our ability because we'd say look what we 659 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:34,920 did. You couldn't do without me. 660 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,600 Hey, can you put my last name on that building? 661 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,880 I'd love to have it. I guarantee you none of you are 662 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:41,000 going to get a name on that building. 663 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,880 Amen. There's not a room that's going 664 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,640 to be like Sean Peach's room. There's not going to be on the 665 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:48,920 pulpit. You guys been in those churches? 666 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,840 Billy Sue donated $1,000,000, Billy Sue's wing. 667 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,600 This ain't Children's University Hospital, love the hospital, 668 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:57,600 right? You don't get to put your name 669 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,160 on the tower. This is about Jesus. 670 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,360 Amen. And we give in faith to what God 671 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,560 has asked us to do. There's this appointment that 672 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,000 God has ready for us. And so I'm going to just give 673 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,200 you some people in the Bible that were full of ready fire, 674 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,000 aim, faith, very firing faith. We talked about this man early 675 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,240 on in the series at week 1. You guys remember our boy 676 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:19,320 Joshua. You guys remember Joshua, one of 677 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,040 the 12 spies, He wants to go into the promised land. 678 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,880 And he was one with Caleb, right? 679 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,720 Him and Caleb only ones that said, hey, what? 680 00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:28,320 We should go in. Yeah, there's giants. 681 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:29,560 Who cares? God's with us. 682 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,080 We cross the Red Sea. We took Pharaoh out like when 683 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,600 the world will be stopping here for. 684 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,800 But they took, they could vote. They took a vote, the people 685 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,760 gave bad reports, the people got political and they were, they 686 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,600 were full of fear. And so the faiths that he 687 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,600 couldn't do it. And what they do then of 688 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,280 wandering the wilderness, remember how many years they 689 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,920 wandered? 40 years. 690 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,440 What was the purpose of wandering? 691 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,720 For every day the spy was in the land, they would wander for 692 00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:55,280 another year until every person over the age of 20 would die in 693 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:56,520 the wilderness for the lack of faith. 694 00:42:57,240 --> 00:42:59,160 You may not know this, but you know who the last person to die 695 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,800 was in that wilderness of that generation? 696 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:07,680 Moses, Moses, the man who should have led the whole thing in 697 00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:12,480 spite, God put him in this place where his whole rest of his life 698 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,800 he would spend in the pain of regret, which is far greater 699 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,400 than the pain of failure. By the way, Amen. 700 00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,680 God help me forget the end of my life. 701 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:27,120 And I say to myself, I wish I would have God help me because 702 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:31,160 that is most people, they're afraid to step out on what God 703 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:32,720 wants them to do. This happened to Moses. 704 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:36,800 He watched every person that he led astray die in the wilderness 705 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,680 and eventually died. If you get a chance to read 706 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,720 Deuteronomy, it's the last 30 days of his life. 707 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,120 He writes so much. The powerful truths there is to 708 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:45,560 follow God. He wrote a song you're supposed 709 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,680 to teach your kids because he recognized the generations have 710 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,960 gone far from God. He wants to teach them things of 711 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,320 Scripture. He tells Joshua who's going to 712 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,040 take his place. Be strong, be very courageous. 713 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,160 The Lord's going to be with you. Make sure you don't apart from 714 00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,400 these words, make sure you know the Lord is behind you. 715 00:43:58,400 --> 00:43:59,760 He's never leave you or forsake you. 716 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:01,680 He's going to lead you into the promised land. 717 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:06,240 The moment then Moses dies and then Joshua does something very 718 00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:10,200 special that we saw last week didn't happen with Saul. 719 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,040 Joshua talks to the Lord, he goes to the Lord and he probably 720 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,120 met the Lord at what place we talked about last week. 721 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,960 Where does the Lord speak to the leadership at the mercy seat of 722 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,160 God, Ark of the Covenant. He would knelt down before it in 723 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,200 the presence of God would have spoke to him and said Joshua, he 724 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,320 says the same thing Moses said because that's what he told 725 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,720 Moses early on too. He said be strong and very 726 00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:32,640 courageous. I'm with you. 727 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,640 Make sure these words of these of this law does not depart from 728 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,520 your heart. Meditate day and night and I'll 729 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,640 be with you. Do not be afraid. 730 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,120 That's Joshua 17, Amen. That's what he that's what he 731 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,560 told him to do. Do you know how long it takes 732 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,200 Joshua between that verse when he met the Lord at the mercy 733 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,360 seat before he went into the promised land here? 734 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:55,640 To take a guess, Three days. Three days. 735 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,240 Yeah, I could do a lot in three days, Amen. 736 00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:01,040 Do a lot in three days. Matter of fact, when Joshua left 737 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:02,320 that mercy seat, he turned around. 738 00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,880 He said, hey, boys, come here 3 days from now. 739 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,880 We're going to we're going to leave right here and we're going 740 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,600 to cross the Jordan and we're going to go into the promised 741 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,880 land. So you start getting ready, you 742 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,640 start praying it up, you get, you get yourself together 743 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,120 because we're going in. And then Joshua, he learned a 744 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,000 little something from Moses. He sent 2 spies in, but he did 745 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,800 it in secret. He wouldn't look for no 746 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:23,360 consensus. Amen. 747 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:25,680 Huge looking for faith. He goes, why don't you go and 748 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,320 check out Jericho? Because if I remember right, 40 749 00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,040 years ago, that's that was a pretty strong city. 750 00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,960 So why don't you give me a little vibe of what's going on? 751 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,920 So when we cross the Jordan where so I have a little mental 752 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:34,920 plan. So he spends his spies in this 753 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,640 Rahab, you guys know Rahab the prostitute ends up the Hall of 754 00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,160 Fame of faith and all she did was hide 2 spies. 755 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,800 People got word. They were deathly afraid that 756 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,000 God's with those people, God's with them. 757 00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,400 There's something crazy going on with those people and they're 758 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,400 supposed to come over here and they're freaking out. 759 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:52,520 They heard these spies are coming in. 760 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,000 Get them boys. And they try to chase them down. 761 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,800 The Rahab goes, they went that way, but they didn't. 762 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,360 They're under the roof. They put the flax over him. 763 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,520 And then she says, hey, I've been merciful to you. 764 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,320 You think you're merciful to me. So, yeah, put that scarlet cord 765 00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,920 out your window and we'll protect your family. 766 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,880 But they better be in this house because if not this house when 767 00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,960 we come, that's blowing your hands because we're going to 768 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,960 kill everybody else. And they were afraid. 769 00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,720 Those boys ran back home, took him two days. 770 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,520 They went to Joshua said, Hey, it's time. 771 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:26,400 These people are, are deathly afraid of us, of the living God. 772 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,040 They've heard the stories of the Red Sea crossing. 773 00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,040 And so they went in full of faith, Amen. 774 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:35,000 Here was their plan. And the plan was like, I mean, 775 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,400 we, we would never follow this plan. 776 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,080 This is, this is like one of the dumbest plans, you know, like 777 00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:42,280 we, we would write a lot differently if we're writing 778 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:43,800 plans. This is the temptation. 779 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,600 This is human nature. But he comes to the plan. 780 00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,560 He says, hey, the send the send the Levites with the Ark of the 781 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,400 covenant and they're going to go in front of us. 782 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,720 I want you guys hanging back about 2000 feet because there'll 783 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:55,880 be some power that's going to happen that moment and we're 784 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,000 going to send the Ark of the covenant. 785 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,520 First, I want you to pick up the story. 786 00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,560 It's in Joshua 39. Actually, let's start in three 787 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:03,000 five. It's not on the screen. 788 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:04,600 I didn't sorry, guys in the back. 789 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:08,880 I the Lord told me to put it up here, but I didn't go into So it 790 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,680 says Joshua told the people, consecrate yourselves. 791 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,720 It's not up on the screen, but can you say consecrate 792 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:16,640 yourselves? So before we win the battle, 793 00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:18,480 Joshua says what we're going to do. 794 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,000 This is the Lord's battle. We're just going to give 795 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,480 ourselves to the Lord. You guys been praying and 796 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,400 fasting and said, Lord, we need you. 797 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,680 You're going to go bound in front of us once your army going 798 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,800 in front of us, want the power of God that split the Red Sea to 799 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,160 go in front of us. We need you to win this battle. 800 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:33,160 Want your army to win the battle? 801 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:34,920 Whatever you got to do, Lord, risk, trust, you're going to do 802 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,000 it. That's what consecration means. 803 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:38,840 You know, I get to teach people all the time. 804 00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,280 They're like step up in church leadership and preaching and 805 00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,400 stuff and they get done. It's like, how was it? 806 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:47,320 I was like, was it the Lord's or was it yours? 807 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,680 That's really all that matters, Amen, because it's not your 808 00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,960 ability or inability, it's God's. 809 00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,840 And so when you step off the stage, you say, Lord, do what 810 00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:58,360 you can with it. I'm I could have maybe done 811 00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,320 better. It could have been worse, but 812 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,760 Lord, I trust you. And then you go and you watch 813 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,160 the Chiefs game, Amen. Like, because the guys that 814 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:06,760 you're so worried, like, did I do good? 815 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:08,480 Is it enough? Is it enough? 816 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,080 The Lord's enough, Amen. That's the confidence you have 817 00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:12,320 in the Lord. And so he says, just conjugate 818 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,960 yourselves for tomorrow. The Lord look at this, we'll do 819 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,440 amazing things among you tomorrow. 820 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:19,680 The Lord's going to do something amazing. 821 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,320 You guys believe that he can do something amazing. 822 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:23,640 Just get ready for a miracle boys. 823 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,560 It's going to happen and this is the plane he tells them in verse 824 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,600 9, Joshua said the Israelites come here and listen to the 825 00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,200 words, the words of Lord your God. 826 00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,480 This is how you will know the living God is among you. 827 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,280 That's always a good day. But it's something that was 828 00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,920 supernatural happened in our in our community and our family and 829 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,160 somebody's life because this is only proof that God could do it. 830 00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:48,240 This is salvation in a nutshell. He says in that he will 831 00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:51,000 certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, 832 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,440 the Hittites, the Pezerites, the Girishites, the Amorites, and 833 00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,880 the Jebusites. Took me all week to do it. 834 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,560 I'm just kidding. The one thing I learned in Bible 835 00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,920 college. Come on, somebody see the Ark of 836 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:09,400 the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the 837 00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,400 Jordan ahead of you. You guys remember what the Ark 838 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,760 Covenant's all about, the power and the presence and the 839 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,720 provision of God we talked about last week in that mercy seat on 840 00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:21,520 there. And it's like the Lord is going 841 00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,520 to go first into the battle, Amen. 842 00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,040 That's how you know you're going to win, by the way, because the 843 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,840 God's power's in it. It's you're going to look at 844 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,040 yourself and what you're doing with your life. 845 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,560 And it is this Sean Petrie's power, is this manpower? 846 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,600 Is this my dream? Is this my will? 847 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,160 Is this my direction? Or is this the Lord's power? 848 00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,480 Is this the Lord's direction? Amen. 849 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:46,920 And some of y'all are like holding on to like the American 850 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,000 Dream or like your version of how life should be. 851 00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,520 That is, that is the saddest place to be in life, by the way, 852 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,760 is a Jesus follower that holds on to your own will. 853 00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,680 You've never had your own will. You only get your own will 854 00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:05,440 because God gave it to you. You can either step into his 855 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,720 dreams and his version. It's like this when we go to God 856 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:12,440 and he's given us resource or bank account or influence or 857 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,640 network or intellect or or physical talents. 858 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,720 All these things we go to. Lord, we don't go. 859 00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:22,000 Lord, will you bless my plan? Lord, I got a great blueprint 860 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,160 for my life. Can you go and sign off my 861 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,520 blueprint? That's what we all desperately 862 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:26,840 want. But what we need to do is go to 863 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:31,080 Lord, and it's like he's a king, He's a savior, he's a warrior, 864 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,560 he's a God of all gods, He controls everything, create 865 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:35,360 everything. And we go to him and say, Lord, 866 00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,560 what would you have me to do with what you've given me? 867 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,040 Amen. That's a totally different place 868 00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:45,440 to be. 1 is you're a servant, and the other is that you're 869 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,320 your own king. And we go as a servant to God. 870 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:49,600 And this is what they asked him to do. 871 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,120 So they sent the ark of the Covenant of Lord of all the 872 00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,120 earth going to Jordan ahead of you. 873 00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,880 Now then choose 12 men from the tribes of Israel, one from each 874 00:50:57,880 --> 00:50:59,840 tribe. As soon as the priest will carry 875 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:03,640 the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, and set foot in 876 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,880 the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and 877 00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:08,960 standing up in a heap. Who knows? 878 00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,920 That would be an amazing thing. I like to watch that. 879 00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,200 They haven't seen that yet. And so when the people broke 880 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,960 camp across the Jordan, the priest carried the ark of the 881 00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,960 covenant, went ahead of them. Now the Jordan is at its flood 882 00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,520 stage all during the harvest. Yet as soon as the priest who 883 00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,960 carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet, what? 884 00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,240 What's to say? Touch the water's edge. 885 00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,600 Now, I don't know if that means their feet got a little wet, 886 00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,480 like you touch the water at the edge or like right at the edge 887 00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,320 of the water. But here's the point. 888 00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,200 They were willing to get their feet wet. 889 00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,000 Amen matter of fact, they weren't so sure how is it to go 890 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,720 down they they might have walked in and drowned in the middle of 891 00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:49,920 Jordan. Think about it. 892 00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:54,880 You're carrying a giant ark covered in gold with golden 893 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,800 cherubim with stone tablets had the 10 commandments. 894 00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:02,120 This sucker is not light. It's going to sink, Amen. 895 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,920 And so you're like by faith, like I'm walking in hope it 896 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:12,000 parts come on somebody right. I mean that's that's faith. 897 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,280 I mean somebody has to go first, Amen. 898 00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:16,600 I guarantee it. If I was on the sidelines 899 00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,680 watching, I'm like, yo, I'm so glad those boys had some big 900 00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,640 faith like I'm going to walk behind them. 901 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,400 You know what I mean? Like I don't know if I could 902 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,920 carry that in there, but somebody has to go first. 903 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:29,240 Somebody has to get wet. Somebody has to get willing to 904 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,600 to jump in like it ended a foolish plan. 905 00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,240 I mean about you. If we lined up a war and we put 906 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,520 like we thought was the presence of God in front of us, I might 907 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:43,640 be like you. So sure, we've got some aircraft 908 00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,480 carriers. No, we just need God. 909 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:53,920 Amen. And they step in verse 16. 910 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,680 The water from the upstream stopped flowing. 911 00:52:55,720 --> 00:52:58,720 It piled up in a heap a great distance away in a town called 912 00:52:58,720 --> 00:53:01,360 Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water 913 00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,400 flowing down the sea of Araba, that is the Dead Sea, was 914 00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,720 completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite 915 00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,280 of Jericho, it says the priest who carried the ark of the 916 00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,680 covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and 917 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:18,200 stood on what dry ground? That's a miracle of God, Amen. 918 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,440 Those boys, they're not, they're not down. 919 00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,560 And this is a miracle. When all of Israel passed by 920 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:27,920 until the whole nation, the entire nation, how many hundreds 921 00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:31,120 of thousands of people walked across dry land because the 922 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:35,520 presence of God went first? I completely crossed on dry 923 00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:37,720 ground. Can I encourage you to a couple 924 00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:42,560 things ready fire aim. That's a step of bold faith. 925 00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,960 Amen out about you. There's only a few moments in my 926 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,960 life where I've had to say, Lord, if you don't show up, I'm 927 00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,600 going to drown. If you don't show up, I'm not 928 00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,880 going to make it. We launched this church. 929 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,840 We had no idea. You know, you know, the only 10% 930 00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,160 of churches only survive in elementary schools. 931 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,680 Hear that groove song. I don't know what that was, but 932 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,800 to say if I look over in the young or old, it's going to pin 933 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:16,080 my next comment, you know, but think about this. 934 00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:20,920 It takes a step of faith, Amen. It takes a step of faith, like a 935 00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:25,760 step of faith makes a way for the power of God, like until we 936 00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,360 move, why would we expect God to do anything like if we're not 937 00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,280 willing to go? And and when I say willing, I 938 00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,440 mean fire like ready is in the mind. 939 00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,440 Firing is an action, right? And so if we're not willing to 940 00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:45,240 cut a check or we're not willing to show up or we're not willing 941 00:54:45,240 --> 00:54:48,960 to say, hey, I'm selling my house to get there, by the way, 942 00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,080 sold duplex, duplex to launch the church. 943 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,760 Amen. I said, oh, we need some extra. 944 00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:58,240 We like to have this lighting. Well, maybe we can just, we'll 945 00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:00,760 just, we paid off the van already, but hey, just pull a 946 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,120 loan in the van. We'll buy some lighting. 947 00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,200 That's where I was at. Do or die, Amen. 948 00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,560 Like I believe in what we're doing here, but somebody has to 949 00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,160 say it's a step of faith. Like you have to get a one way 950 00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,720 ticket. Some of y'all got a one way 951 00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:18,320 ticket. Some of you know what it's like 952 00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:22,200 to go into a foreign country or to move and have no destination 953 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,560 in mind. That's faith, Amen. 954 00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,560 And God is not going to show up and move until we're stepping 955 00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:32,800 out and saying, yes, there's a man not too far from here. 956 00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,720 He's in Raytown. He has a church and there's a 957 00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:37,800 property that came available and he really wants it. 958 00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:40,240 He's like, really wants it, which is awesome. 959 00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:42,480 And so he's on social media, he's reached out. 960 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,400 He's like, hey, I need $1.5 million by the 17th of November. 961 00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,960 I mean, I mean, God bless you. I, I pray for him. 962 00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:53,000 I hope he gets it. Amen. 963 00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,480 If church has the, the capacity to do it, they can do it. 964 00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,800 It'd be great thing. Let me tell you something, I 965 00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,800 would like to do it a little differently, Amen. 966 00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,840 I would like to be like, no, we had this awesome initiative and 967 00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,560 we by the faith, by the men of God and people of God said, you 968 00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,000 know what, we're ready. We're going to step out with 969 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,040 that destination. And when the opportunity comes, 970 00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,200 like, oh, hey, guess what? We've actually raised the money, 971 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,400 Amen. Like, I mean, I mean, God could 972 00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,120 use you either way. God could do a miracle. 973 00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,680 But I'm telling you, it'd be far better for us to say, you know 974 00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,320 what we are just putting out there, then we're ready to go. 975 00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,400 And we can only move with the speed of which our people, that 976 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:35,080 God's people are willing to be generous, Amen. 977 00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,640 And then God also works in divine flow and some miracles 978 00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,200 through people, Amen. But I'm just telling you it will 979 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,360 move at the pace we're willing to step out and get a little wet 980 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,000 for him. And it looks like I'm going to 981 00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:51,120 be late on my time, which I can't because I have a welcome 982 00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:55,120 party today. So I will bridge everything else 983 00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,160 down as far as I can. I was going to talk about Peter, 984 00:56:58,200 --> 00:56:59,760 but you knew about Peter as he stepped out of the boat. 985 00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:02,560 He was the only one stepped on the boat. 986 00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,040 By the way, you know Peter walked on water, right? 987 00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,120 It was a big storm that the waves baffled the boat. 988 00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:10,680 And then he saw, they thought I saw a ghost and said his eyes 989 00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:12,040 Jesus. And so he said, Jesus, calm out 990 00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:13,560 the water. He said, OK, he steps on the 991 00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:17,320 water and he sees the wind in the rain and he was afraid and 992 00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,280 he sank. But then Jesus said something 993 00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,240 very special. He says, oh, you little faith. 994 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:26,400 Why do you doubt? Because some people have the 995 00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,040 faith to look the wind rained and not sink. 996 00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,840 Some people have the the faith to look out and see a storm and 997 00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,720 say God's going to do something. Most of us don't. 998 00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,240 Peter didn't. Now he failed, right? 999 00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:40,600 But he stepped on water, didn't he? 1000 00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,360 He is the only human outside of Jesus, right? 1001 00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,840 That whole thing here to, to join the I walked on water club. 1002 00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:50,280 Pretty good club to be in. Amen. 1003 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,880 So we can say, oh man, Peter failed man, blah, blah. 1004 00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:54,640 You know what, at least he stepped out of the boat. 1005 00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,600 I'll tell you the real failure was it was 11 people still 1006 00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,880 sitting in the boat. That was failure. 1007 00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,480 Matter of fact, that's regret because I'd be sitting there 1008 00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,640 going, man, I wished I walked on water that day. 1009 00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,960 Like I wish I would have tried like the worst that happens. 1010 00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:10,520 I got a little wet. Jesus rescued me, put his hand 1011 00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:11,480 down and pull him back in the boat. 1012 00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:13,160 That had been pretty legit. Amen. 1013 00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,040 That been pretty legit. Last person I was to talk about, 1014 00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:17,800 which is going to be very bridged down is a man named 1015 00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:18,960 Abraham. You guys know Abraham, Old 1016 00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,360 Testament, he got a what? The second everlasting covenant 1017 00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,120 of God. I'll make great people you, I'll 1018 00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:25,840 bless those, I bless you. I'll curse those who curse you. 1019 00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,000 I'll make your name great. You'll be the father of a great 1020 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:29,920 nation. I'll go and he says this. 1021 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,280 I said you go from your country, your people and your father's 1022 00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,920 household. You know, it's oftentimes that 1023 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,680 Abraham, like we think about how he left the land to go 1024 00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,360 somewhere, but he left his family. 1025 00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:42,880 He left his country. He left his people around him. 1026 00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:49,560 They settled in the promised land or near the promised land. 1027 00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:51,840 Can you imagine thinking about this Abraham? 1028 00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,440 He's very wealthy. He's with his dad. 1029 00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,560 He he lived in the early calories, but they actually 1030 00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,320 moved up to harem, which like 500 miles away. 1031 00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:03,360 And he told his dad one day because the Lord told him like, 1032 00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:04,800 I got to go. And he imagined that 1033 00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,560 conversation with your dad. I was just thinking like, 1034 00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:08,720 because his dad stayed back, he had to leave his father's 1035 00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,320 household. That was part of the of the of 1036 00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,240 the command. He imagined telling your dad, 1037 00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,400 Hey, dad, I'm going to take my my wife and all my kids and all 1038 00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:20,160 these flocks, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of sheep. 1039 00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:21,760 I'm going to take all the servants. 1040 00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,680 I'm going to take my stuff and we're heading out. 1041 00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:27,080 Where are you going, son? I don't know. 1042 00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,760 What would your dad say? That is the dumbest plan I've 1043 00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:32,840 ever heard in the face of the earth. 1044 00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,720 Some of y'all have to tell your kids that already, you know what 1045 00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:36,800 I'm saying? Like, what are you talking 1046 00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,160 about? I'm going to go somewhere like, 1047 00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,520 well, the Lord's in it. Is he is he in the that's a 1048 00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,720 that's a really dumb plan, you know, but the Lord's in it. 1049 00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,400 And we're going to go, son, you're going to go back home or 1050 00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,080 the counties. Oh, no, no, I'm going to go up 1051 00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,040 to the Canaanites. OK, nights. 1052 00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,520 But why would you go up there? You get across the desert, you 1053 00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,560 get across mountains. It's treacherous. 1054 00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,520 Another 600 miles away. He but he didn't know where he's 1055 00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:00,440 going to go. You didn't go. 1056 01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,600 I mean, and I feel like sometimes like we're in the 1057 01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,960 season, like, man, if we had a space picked out, right? 1058 01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,400 Like it was a blueprint of a building, right? 1059 01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:09,560 Like we don't know where we're going either. 1060 01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,480 Amen. Like we don't have a Fang 1061 01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,160 sitting out there. Now, we could. 1062 01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,640 I mean, I mean, I like to think, oh, yeah, that's going to be it. 1063 01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,960 But you know what? We we have to have the funds 1064 01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:20,880 that get to the table. Amen. 1065 01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:24,280 That's what we're saying yes to, but God has a place already 1066 01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:24,880 picked out. Amen. 1067 01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,720 I'm not worried about that. We're stepping on what God is 1068 01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:28,880 doing already. It's same thing everything. 1069 01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:30,640 I'm like, I don't need to know the destination because I know 1070 01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,480 who's leading on the journey. Like I know who's going to cross 1071 01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:36,040 the Jordan. I know, I know God's faithful. 1072 01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:40,080 He doesn't lead us all this way all these years to fail us now. 1073 01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:44,000 He never is going to fail and we just walk by faith, Amen. 1074 01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:46,440 Faith looks like this Lord. I'm just taking one step at a 1075 01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:47,920 time. I can see them barely edge of my 1076 01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:49,560 toes. That's all it is. 1077 01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:51,640 Amen. I've had people in my life I've 1078 01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,840 met that are missionaries that went to South America and they 1079 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:56,520 didn't even speak Spanish before they went. 1080 01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,040 They couldn't exchange their money back in the day. 1081 01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,520 Maybe had was it money orders? Traveler's checks, That's what 1082 01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:05,160 it is, Traveler's checks. She had traveler's checks and 1083 01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:08,000 she couldn't speak to the lady and just got all she had to sign 1084 01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:09,840 her name and she'd know to sign her name. 1085 01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:15,560 This is crazy. And now she's a missionary 1086 01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:19,560 that's changed the country. It's crazy. 1087 01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:21,520 I feel blessed to sit at the table and lay like that. 1088 01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:26,840 Oh, what faith you have. Like most of us struggle to give 1089 01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:31,840 anything, but to give your life to Jesus, not just, oh, I need a 1090 01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:33,240 ticket to heaven, thank you for saving me. 1091 01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,080 But to actually say every breath, every tomorrow, my 1092 01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:37,680 entire life. Lord, what would you have me to 1093 01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,720 do? My hands are open. 1094 01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:41,640 Lord, where do you want me to go? 1095 01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:43,640 What do you want me to go? I own nothing. 1096 01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:48,240 I'm a steward of everything. I trust you on the throne. 1097 01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,720 There's only oh, by the way, God does not share his throne very 1098 01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,040 well. Amen. 1099 01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:55,960 Scoot on in there. That ain't going to work. 1100 01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:58,400 He'll just move to somebody else, Amen. 1101 01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,600 The Bible says he takes blessings from the unrighteous 1102 01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:03,040 and he moves it to the righteous. 1103 01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:08,960 Hello, Moses, Joshua, Saul, David, we've talked about it, 1104 01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,240 Amen. We need to be the type of people 1105 01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,400 that God takes talent for people, the talents in the 1106 01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,720 Bible, he moves them from somebody who doesn't invest them 1107 01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,680 and use them for the Kingdom and he gives it to us. 1108 01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,560 I mean, I've been praying for a church to be an 11 talent 1109 01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:28,200 church, not a one talent church, a good place to start, but A1 1110 01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,920 talent person that's faithful to God, God will take from other 1111 01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,360 people and give to them. That's biblical, Amen. 1112 01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,600 That's not prosperity, that's gospel. 1113 01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:41,600 It's in the book. And I think about Abraham not 1114 01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:43,600 having a place, but he gave himself to God. 1115 01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,360 He'd stepped out on faith and says this about him in the 1116 01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:51,120 Hebrews 11. He says by faith Abraham when 1117 01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:54,200 called to go to a place he would letter later received his 1118 01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:58,120 inheritance was to say he obeyed and obeyed and went. 1119 01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,920 This is what this is right now. It's a step of obedience, fire. 1120 01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:07,720 And then God will direct our steps ready fire aim even though 1121 01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,560 he didn't know where he was going. 1122 01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:14,320 This is faith Hebrews 11/1 through three now faith is a 1123 01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,560 confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what do not 1124 01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:19,560 see. It's when you sit in that chair, 1125 01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:21,280 you have confidence going to hold you up. 1126 01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,440 You've sat that chair so many times you don't even think about 1127 01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,760 anymore. This is the faith. 1128 01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:29,560 This is what the ancients were commended for. 1129 01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:30,680 This is what the ancients are honored for. 1130 01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:32,040 That's why I read these stories. Amen. 1131 01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,600 These are bold faith. This was celebrated for we look 1132 01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:36,440 back and say, man, that's a man of God. 1133 01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:38,520 Well, how do you know that because they walk by faith, 1134 01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,520 yapity yap all you want. They stepped out. 1135 01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:45,200 They did it and by faith we understand the universe was 1136 01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,480 formed by God's command so that what is seen was not made out of 1137 01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:51,800 what was visible. That's amazing. 1138 01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,120 The creator, the creation demands a creator. 1139 01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,640 Amen. I was thinking there's a Ronald 1140 01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:00,240 Reagan did something amazing. He he said, I wish I had all the 1141 01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:02,640 atheist over at the White House and put together an exquisite 1142 01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:07,640 meal, the finest foods, the most amazing, just delicacies you 1143 01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:10,880 could ever have, and then give a speech and tell them there is a 1144 01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:15,880 chef, Amen. Like when you look at the night 1145 01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:19,280 sky and you see the storms and you think of the wonders of the 1146 01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:20,640 world. You saw this giant hurricane. 1147 01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:26,000 You said, man, the power of God and the same God that's control 1148 01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,720 of all that thing, everything you see, he can be trusted with 1149 01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:31,680 your life. Amen. 1150 01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:33,880 That's what I see when I see the creation. 1151 01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,600 You have those mountain top experiences. 1152 01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:39,000 You go down and you just maybe in the Rockies or we've traveled 1153 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,960 to Machu Picchu and you're just like, wow, you turn the corner. 1154 01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:44,200 The guy goes, this is those. This is going to be an OG 1155 01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,040 moment. You turn the corner like, whoa, 1156 01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:51,040 wow, I'm so small, but thank you Jesus that I'm your handiwork 1157 01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,760 that that I'm in your work. Like this is what you're using 1158 01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,200 today is US. He's going to use us. 1159 01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:00,280 Amen. If you're willing to step out on 1160 01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:04,640 faith and say yes, there are so many people that we we know that 1161 01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,120 needs Jesus in our city. There's so many people just like 1162 01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:08,640 Tanya. They're walking through 1163 01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:12,240 hardship. What if, what if you would open 1164 01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:14,840 your hands and say, I'm going to write the next generation of 1165 01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,720 stories. I'm going to be the person of 1166 01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:21,000 faith that God help me that they talk about in the future. 1167 01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:23,520 Like we're going to be the church that they look back and 1168 01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,520 say, thank God they got it right and we continue to do it right. 1169 01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:29,320 Amen. To be led by the Spirit, to be 1170 01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:34,280 humble, to make his name famous, to lower ourselves and to be 1171 01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:38,560 outrageously generous because we trust God. 1172 01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:42,160 So Father, come before you. God help us to have open hands 1173 01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:44,280 and open hearts. How many would say as Jesus 1174 01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:45,640 followers that God is speaking to you? 1175 01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:50,880 Just to be bold in faith that we'd stop counting on ourselves, 1176 01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,640 but start counting on God and that we trust that we're as 1177 01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:56,240 handiwork and just like God to control the universe is control 1178 01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:59,120 of me. And so God, I trust you and I 1179 01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,520 know God's calling me to fire. I need to step out. 1180 01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:03,840 If that's you and the Holy Spirit speaking you just raise 1181 01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:06,560 your hand in this place. Say that to you today to hands 1182 01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:08,360 across all this room. God, thank you so much for 1183 01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:10,320 speaking in your power. Thanks for these examples of 1184 01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:12,280 faith, God. We know these are humans, God, 1185 01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,680 and what you did in their life you can do in our life as well. 1186 01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,600 But God, we give you glory. God, we trust you. 1187 01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:23,400 God, we humble ourselves to the point where you're in charge. 1188 01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:28,560 God teach us to obey, teach us to follow, and teach us to walk 1189 01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:32,440 by faith that we be a Church of people that are healed and 1190 01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:37,360 changed and the gospel goes out not because of our ability, but 1191 01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:39,400 because you are working through US. 1192 01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:42,080 I'll pray for one more good people. 1193 01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,360 That's just you. They recognize you need Jesus. 1194 01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,680 You heard the story, that free gift to salvation that comes to 1195 01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:49,600 you. And today, if you need Christ, 1196 01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,400 I'll tell you about Jesus. He's a sinless Son of God down 1197 01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:55,240 the cross for you. He's the one that took 1198 01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:58,720 everything, every wrong, every idle thought, everything that 1199 01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:00,920 you came in your mind that's far from God. 1200 01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:05,200 All the pride, every part of you, past, present and future. 1201 01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,640 He died for those. It is planned so He could give 1202 01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:11,840 you His presence. He can give you His grace. 1203 01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:14,080 He can give you a new identity. He can give you the Holy Spirit. 1204 01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:16,440 He can change you from the inside out. 1205 01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,480 Why? Because He has something better 1206 01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:20,960 planned for you. It's called the abundant life. 1207 01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:25,400 It's called His good works. He wants to change your family 1208 01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,360 legacy. He wants to change a culture and 1209 01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,840 a nation and a neighborhood. He wants to change you today. 1210 01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,160 He can do it through you when you humble yourself, not because 1211 01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:39,120 of your your ability because his finished work on the cross. 1212 01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:41,920 And so today if you need to call to God and say thank you so 1213 01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,920 much, what you did I could never do in a million lifetimes. 1214 01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:48,800 God, you're the one I need. If that's you today and you need 1215 01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:50,680 Jesus, we just raise your hands place not going to make it weird 1216 01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,040 to call you out, but if you need Jesus a day, we should raise 1217 01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,640 your hands. I need Christ and walk your 1218 01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:57,200 relationship with him today. So your hand. 1219 01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:02,440 That's why we do this, the gospel goes out. 1220 01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:06,320 If that's you and you raise your hand, just humble yourself and 1221 01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:09,320 just crowd to God, thank you so much for loving me, that you saw 1222 01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:11,920 me and you loved me. You died for me. 1223 01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:14,760 Why was you yet Sinner? God, I was helpless, I was 1224 01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,720 stranded, I was broken, I was doing my own thing, do my own 1225 01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:19,319 direction. But God, you cared enough for me 1226 01:08:19,319 --> 01:08:23,040 to send your Son to love me and die for me and set me free from 1227 01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:25,640 the power of sin. Oh thank you Jesus, thank you 1228 01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,800 Jesus come into my life and save me, make me new and I pray in 1229 01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,800 Jesus name and the church said Amen. 1230 01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:33,479 Come on, give it up for Jesus today. 1231 01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:37,600 Amen. Amen. 1232 01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,479 What a reminder of what bold faith can do. 1233 01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:43,920 It can make a difference in your life, it can change a people, it 1234 01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,960 can change a nation and it bold faith is what will change the 1235 01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:48,960 world. And so if that's you today, you 1236 01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:51,359 made that decision to say yes to Jesus. 1237 01:08:51,359 --> 01:08:53,600 We are excited for you. Let's give it up for them one 1238 01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:58,160 more time. And what God can do, I know he's 1239 01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:00,840 done so much in my life and we believe he can do so much in 1240 01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:02,600 yours. And so we want to walk with you 1241 01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,760 in this journey. If you made that decision today, 1242 01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:07,880 we would love to help you take that next step. 1243 01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:11,040 And one way you can do that, if you take out that connection 1244 01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,880 card on your chair, you can check the box that says I'm 1245 01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,840 committing my life to Jesus. You can drop it in the bucket. 1246 01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:18,359 You can take it out to the new here booth. 1247 01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:21,520 We want to send you a little book called Begin this week to 1248 01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:24,319 help you say, what is my next step with Jesus? 1249 01:09:24,319 --> 01:09:26,760 But your journey with Jesus, it starts today. 1250 01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:29,399 It starts right now, so on your way out of the worship center, 1251 01:09:29,399 --> 01:09:31,200 we have a red bag you can grab that. 1252 01:09:31,359 --> 01:09:34,319 It's got a Bible in there, some resources to help you grow and 1253 01:09:34,319 --> 01:09:36,840 take that next step to know Jesus more. 1254 01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:39,880 And we would love nothing more than to be walking alongside 1255 01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:44,200 with you in this season for you. I also want to talk to those of 1256 01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:46,680 you who are newer at REAL Life or new today. 1257 01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:48,359 Thank you so much for being here. 1258 01:09:48,359 --> 01:09:50,640 I hope that God spoke to you today. 1259 01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:52,359 I hope that you got a word from him. 1260 01:09:52,359 --> 01:09:54,600 And I hope that he's moving in your heart, that you were so 1261 01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:57,040 welcomed and encouraged. That's our heart for you today. 1262 01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,600 But we would love to see you back again. 1263 01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:01,720 And it would be awesome to see you again, right? 1264 01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:03,680 Would we love to see him back again next week? 1265 01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:06,800 Yeah, so awesome. Hope you felt welcomed. 1266 01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,640 The only thing we asked from you today is we would love for you 1267 01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:12,840 to introduce yourself to us. And so same connection card on 1268 01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:15,000 your chair. If you check that box, it says 1269 01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,200 it's my first time here, second time here, just right. 1270 01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,240 I'm newish in the little box down there. 1271 01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,840 We would love to connect with you out at our new here booth. 1272 01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:24,360 We have somebody there to greet you who will welcome you. 1273 01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:27,440 We have some gifts and just some information to get you 1274 01:10:27,440 --> 01:10:29,360 connected. But me and we would love to get 1275 01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:32,360 to know you to get to see how why God brought you here and how 1276 01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:34,880 we can walk alongside you and your journey in real life. 1277 01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:37,960 And next, I just want to take a moment. 1278 01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,280 We're in a big season for real life. 1279 01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:43,800 We are taking a big step of faith that requires a bold 1280 01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:45,560 faith. And so I want to take just a 1281 01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:48,440 minute as we are leaning into what this difference maker is 1282 01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:51,480 going to look like and be. I want you to also take on a 1283 01:10:51,480 --> 01:10:55,040 chair nearby you is this difference maker commitment 1284 01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:57,240 card. I want you to find this card. 1285 01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:00,400 I want you to put it in your hand, take it out, hold it here 1286 01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:03,920 because I want to take a moment just to kind of explain how it 1287 01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,800 works and how we're going to use it as we get near to our 1288 01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:09,360 commitment Sunday. So while you have this card in 1289 01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:12,400 your hand, I want you to check out this video that it walks you 1290 01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:16,760 through the commitment card. Our primary goal and Difference 1291 01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:18,720 Maker initiative is not about dollars. 1292 01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:20,840 It's actually all about discipleship. 1293 01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:24,840 It's about faith that our giving is reflection of our heart. 1294 01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:29,320 So we're asking you to step out and bold faith as 100% 1295 01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:32,960 participation together. It'll take all of us linking 1296 01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:35,240 arms and choosing to be a difference maker. 1297 01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:38,240 On the back of your commitment card, you'll see a different 1298 01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:41,560 types of gifts that we believe it will take for us to reach 1299 01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:45,520 this God size goal. Take your time, pray and see 1300 01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,240 what the Lord would have you to give. 1301 01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:50,440 And let me encourage you. Let's take a bold step of faith 1302 01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:52,520 together. But listen, I don't want you to 1303 01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:57,120 give a penny more than God asks you to give, but also don't want 1304 01:11:57,120 --> 01:12:00,720 you to give a penny less. I'm asking you to hear from God. 1305 01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,000 Here's how the commitment card works. 1306 01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:05,000 There's a section on annual giving. 1307 01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:09,400 This is what you regularly give in ties and offerings below that 1308 01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,040 is expanded giving. This is what you're prayerfully 1309 01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:15,840 commit to above and beyond in the Difference Maker Initiative. 1310 01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:19,520 This goes directly towards reaching our $1 million goal 1311 01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:23,200 over the next two years. Add those numbers together and 1312 01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:26,520 multiply by two and that's your full 2 year commitment. 1313 01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:30,080 There's also a powerful third category. 1314 01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:34,320 It's called stored resources. And for some of us, generosity 1315 01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,920 may not come only in regular income or earned income, but 1316 01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:41,080 from stocks, savings, and maybe even stuff. 1317 01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:42,880 Maybe it's an investment account. 1318 01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,840 Maybe it's a donor advised fund or ACD or inheritance. 1319 01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,840 Maybe it's land. It could be a savings account 1320 01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:53,360 that you've been storing up for that next adventure or toy or 1321 01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:55,760 asset. It could be a vehicle or 1322 01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:58,760 something valuable God has entrusted to you that in this 1323 01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:03,000 moment could be released and leveraged to fuel His Kingdom. 1324 01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:06,080 Imagine with me the impact if each of us looked at every 1325 01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:11,120 resource in our hands and asked Lord, how can I use this to make 1326 01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:14,120 an internal difference? Now this where it gets really 1327 01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:16,720 fun. On Commitment Sunday, November 1328 01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:21,000 16th, we will come together as one as a church family to turn 1329 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,040 our cards. This will be a powerful moment 1330 01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:25,960 of unity and faith as we place our commitment cards for a Lord 1331 01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:29,400 together as one. You can also turn your card in 1332 01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,040 digitally. Also filling out after November 1333 01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:34,880 16th at one of our gatherings in our giving buckets. 1334 01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:36,520 And this where it's really exciting. 1335 01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:40,480 On Celebration Sunday, December 14th, we'll give our first gifts 1336 01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,960 toward Difference Maker. This will be the day we give our 1337 01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:46,320 stored resources and launch our initiative. 1338 01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:49,200 This will be the moment of worship, a moment of joy, a 1339 01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:52,240 moment of gratitude as we take our very first step together in 1340 01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:55,840 faith to raise money for our first permanent home and write 1341 01:13:55,840 --> 01:14:00,000 the next chapter of real life. This is our moment to make a 1342 01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:03,880 difference together, to move in faith and generosity and 1343 01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:06,720 boldness. And listen, we all do our part. 1344 01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:10,160 We won't just secure a building, we'll build a home where 1345 01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:13,920 prodigals return, we're lost peoples forever changed, and 1346 01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:17,920 where the gospel launches out to the world for generations and 1347 01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:22,240 generations to come. So I invite you be bold and join 1348 01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,960 us as we make a difference together. 1349 01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,120 I'm encourage you to take this with you today. 1350 01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:34,560 Take it home and pray and fast and ask the Lord what He would 1351 01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:36,600 have you to do. He's going to give you a number. 1352 01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:38,880 We can't give you a number. I can't tell you what to do. 1353 01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:39,920 Diane. How much should I give? 1354 01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:43,480 I don't know, you got to go to the Lord with this, but the 1355 01:14:43,480 --> 01:14:46,920 goal, like it said in there is 100% participation. 1356 01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:50,360 Whatever we have in our hand, God asked us with a bold faith 1357 01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:52,160 to say yes to him. And you know what? 1358 01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,360 It's something that's really cool is over the last couple of 1359 01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:58,320 weeks, some of you had already said yes to giving to God. 1360 01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:01,920 Last week we had three brand new givers to real life and the week 1361 01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:04,120 before we had three more than that. 1362 01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:06,600 So last couple weeks, 6 new people saying, you know what, 1363 01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:09,360 yes, I want to be a part of what God is doing here. 1364 01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:13,080 I have a bold faith to say yes, that he is calling me to be a 1365 01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:16,080 part and to participate in this. And so I want you to take this 1366 01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:19,200 card two weeks from today is our commitment Sunday where we're 1367 01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:22,120 going to turn these cards in. You have two weeks to pray, to 1368 01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:25,040 fast, to ask of the Lord, say, Lord, what would you have me do 1369 01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:27,880 to be a part of prodigals coming home? 1370 01:15:28,480 --> 01:15:30,280 And so for each of you who already gives it real life, 1371 01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:32,600 thank you. You saw the fruit of your giving 1372 01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:35,160 today through Tanya's story. And there's so many more stories 1373 01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:37,120 like that. But if you call real life home, 1374 01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:39,000 there is a lot of ways that you can give. 1375 01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:41,560 They're on the slide behind me. You can give them the buckets as 1376 01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:43,760 they pass. There's a box in the back you 1377 01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:48,640 can give online, you can text to give, but we pray that you will 1378 01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:51,560 be prayerfully considering how you can be a part of this 1379 01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:54,200 difference maker initiative. And lastly, if you or your 1380 01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:56,280 family find yourself in immediate need of food, 1381 01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:58,720 clothing, or shelter, if you would reach into the buckets as 1382 01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:01,120 they pass by, grab any loose cash that you see. 1383 01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:03,880 We want to be a blessing to you and your family during the 1384 01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:05,560 season of need for you. Thank you. 1385 01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:11,280 Man, can we get it for God how He's just moving in everybody's 1386 01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:15,360 life today, whether you have a story on a video or just you 1387 01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:17,760 share in a life group, man, we love hearing those stories. 1388 01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:19,680 Hey, I want to let you guys know about something coming up. 1389 01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:22,280 Awesome next week. So this is a moment we love to 1390 01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:24,760 do every year and it's going to be child dedication Sunday. 1391 01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:27,520 So what that looks like and what that is, is this is an 1392 01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:31,560 opportunity for for families to come up on stage and just take 1393 01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:33,960 their most precious resource, that blessing that God's given 1394 01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:36,560 them and that's their children. And so this is for children of 1395 01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:37,840 any age. They don't have to be just for 1396 01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:39,520 babies. But if you've never made that 1397 01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:41,280 step, we're talking about generosity. 1398 01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:42,720 We talk about making a difference. 1399 01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:45,400 It starts at home, right? And so whether it's my money or 1400 01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,440 my time, the most important thing that guy gave me or my 1401 01:16:47,440 --> 01:16:50,040 children. So that step of faith of coming 1402 01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:53,880 up here and having a team, Sean and, and elders just pray over 1403 01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:55,600 you as a family for wisdom and guidance. 1404 01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:58,880 And what an awesome opportunity to give back to God what he's 1405 01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:00,240 giving you. The most important thing in your 1406 01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,240 life that that you have is your children. 1407 01:17:02,480 --> 01:17:03,960 So we'd love for you guys to sign up. 1408 01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:06,560 You can go on the vents page. You can hit this QR code and 1409 01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:09,960 that's it. Next, next Sunday at here real 1410 01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:11,920 life of both gatherings. So hey, if you need prayer for 1411 01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:13,760 any reason, we would love to pray with you here, either as 1412 01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:15,960 individuals or family. Can't wait to see you guys again 1413 01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,880 next week at 9:00 or 10:45. And as always, remember, whoever 1414 01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,280 finds Jesus discovers real life and purpose. 1415 01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:26,240 See you guys next week. This is the end of this podcast. 1416 01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:28,920 We hope you've enjoyed it. 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