Just A Voice - Bring

0:06 Welcome to another inspirational podcast at Real Life, Church for more great content and updates, visit Real Life, Church kc.com, hey good morning and welcome to Real Life Church man. We are still expecting of all that God is going to do and this Replace today. So whether you're with us here at Kentucky Trail, are you are joining us online, go ahead and stand to your feet. We're going to worship God, they together today. So soon for like I did, I saw Darkness Run for Cover. Yes, I do.

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4:46 This morning. I'm so glad that, that is my story. The story of our savior that he died on the cross, so that we can have a story of life. And so, we're going to continue and praise our God today, because he is worthy. Rumors of the stories of the savior. Holiness with you and treasure for the traitor. No, wait.

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10:36 Don't let it be just words that you say. Me and shake up the ground today. Break down a wall or something that is holding This is my surrender. This is my survey.

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16:55 And he shows up, he can move there and you don't know what we are making room for God to move in this face. You may have noticed some extra chairs in here this morning. And we are expecting for all God is doing and want every person who walks in know, there's room for them here, room for them to experience. God, so find a seed. Come up front student. It's a lot of fun. Thank you guys for being here today. I'm excited to see you all excited to see you in the house today. And let's give a quick shout out to our friends who are real life church kc.com, all my Church online. Let him hear you today. Yeah, man, we're excited that you're joining with us. So hey, we're take a second before you sit down, reach out. Give somebody a high five, a fist bump, but wave smile, and then have a seat in just a couple minutes.

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18:56 And why do we do that? Why do we do all this? Because we believe that Souls matter to God, The Souls of people are so important and that is really it's our mission. It's why we exist for people who are far from God, to discover real life and purpose in. Jesus, man, God's heart is people loves people in the messy, the lost the broken, the hurting, those people who are just searching for something God loves those people. We love those people. We are those people. Those people, right? We are messy and God loves us and so we get to come together on Sundays. Just as a place where prodigals can come home, come here, get filled up and then scatter back out across our city to help people who don't know the love of God, help people who are far from, that is why we exist.

19:41 And so, I hope that you're encouraged and inspired by being here today. To leave this place on fire to be able to bring the people of God and we have these empty chairs. So thank you. For those of you who've been inviting, we have so much coming up with ease. Stir. And just it's an exciting time to be bringing somebody to sit alongside you next week because sometimes I think it's kind of hard maybe to bring her invite somebody with you, right? It feels weird, but I think that maybe it might be not as complicated as we make in. What if bringing somebody to Jesus wasn't about saying the right words or having the right strategy, maybe it's a lot simpler than that. And, you know, it might be that the most powerful Arsenal that you have in the toolbox of your weapons against, or Your weapons for bringing people to, Jesus is something that you already possess, it might be the simple way that you use your voice to show others. Jesus and so today, Sean is going to walk us through as we discover how God uses people.

20:37 Like John the Baptist and Andrew and John to Simply use their voice to help people, come to see Jesus. And so let's continue our series bring, that's what babe. Good morning, guys, how you doing? Does alive out there. Well, maybe we'll get a good week, praying. They really planting seeds for the gospel were in the series called bring it about, bringing people to Jesus. And today we're going to make it a loose complicate as possible and we'll get to the heart of the gospel. And I'll start with a question today ever been in a room with somebody that's famous me like an icon or maybe it has a lot of followers and you'd recognize and you couldn't help but to meet them maybe in that space maybe it's after a football game or backstage at the concert or maybe you're at the airport and a lot of people, a lot of people Famous the airport at the stall. Next to him, come on somebody, right? You couldn't help but shake their hand, right, I know about you but I've had this happen in my life until 15. I was in Colorado.

21:33 I was hoping buddy. Just launched a church on a Sunday. It was as cool thing. We end up by God's Providence at the red rocks and Denver and just so have to be worshipped in America. So here's Chris Tom and Louie Giglio Kari Jobe at Mar all these other guys, and this mazing concert venue. And we are the hotel and the next morning wake up and meantime, reporter luggage out of the front. And Lo and behold who's there? There's Kari Jobe and the crew eating the breakfast, right? And it's like, that'd be kind of weird like to go over. And so were like, hey, let's go for the door. You know, I'm not going to go bother people but on the way out the door, there's this little short guy. Come on somebody, and it was Chris Tomlin you stand right there. I was like, oh, this is awesome. So like, hey, babe, we gotta go meet Chris and you know, I'm going to die or not but she's a complete introvert. She really get bamboo shoved under her fingernails, then go meet Chris Tomlin, right?

22:19 And so I'm just like, no, no, no. We're going to do it. So I grabbed her hand like going to be Chris, right? So I'm like, hey Hey Chris. I'm Sean's wife. Diane and man, would incredible concert last night. It was awesome. And little small talk. I said you great job. And how do you, how do you the passion? Try all your songs niggers, man, I just got to give some credit to David. I think one day when I get in heaven, we have a little conversation about me stealing all his words, you know, I thought. Wow, he's thought about this a few times right? Gets all the time, right? And so, without missing a beat, I don't know what is wrong with me, but literally chrisstambo I'm like, Hey, where's Louie Giglio, right? I mean, he spoke last night, I love Lou. He's like, man, you know. Diane. She's like this like just like what an idiot right? He's like, he went home last night to Atlanta. I was like oh that's cool. It was great talking.

22:59 Chris, you know. And so I walk off and Diane. She's just next to me. She's just like, what an idiot. What is wrong with you? You know, like where's Louis right? And so I'll know again awkward, but I told Diana's it look who can say that they've met Chris Tomlin. Come on somebody, right? It was weird, but we can always say we did it, right? And so I would encourage you to think about this, if Jesus were to walk into To this gathering. At any moment, come down the aisle. What would it be? Like, what would it be like for you? Matter of fact, I think it's going to happen is you can say, forget this Pony preacher, come on somebody. The word of God is here. The presence of guys here, and you're going to get to Jesus. Amen. You're going to gathered around Jesus, matter of fact, I don't think you just go by yourself. I think in a grab the house and the Hand of your spouse with a lost or whatever, they think about God and you can just bring them to Jesus.

23:49 Amen. And there's gonna be a line forming Around Jesus. You're Bade, the kids program come on somebody. You're gonna go through the doors, break through security and get your kids. You're going to be on your phone. You're going to lift your voice and you're going to start calling people. Hey Mom, you got to get to real life. Today, Jesus is here in person. You're going to be in line or you start taking selfies with Jesus, right? Your hashtag presence of God and manuals here, you're going to have all this energy to share just all of a sudden. The news is going to spread the lines going to go out to the hub and announce the parking lot in the world. You know Jesus here that fast. Amen. That's would be like Jesus came in. We forget the entire Programs, the presence of God. And today's, just a reminder that Jesus is Alive, that he's to want you to bring people who maybe can't see him in this moment, we share the same passion, obviously walked in the room today.

24:35 Amen. It's a reminder of what it is to be a follower of Christ or minor. How to bring people to Jesus and not some like fake strategy or some phony. Like, oh, here's the words to say, here's the thing to do, but the heart of some of you is an evangelist. That's what today is all about and what it looks like for somebody when they actually beat Jesus, For the first time. And so I'm just praying that God moves in this room and more than that. I'm praying that you and be a part of the movement of God. This next two weeks that you'd be just focused and praying and planting seeds and investing, and inviting and Redemptive relationships to bring people to Jesus and let them get in his presence. Let them see who Jesus is and let God get into them because they can't help, but the humble ourselves and follow him. And so, they were start with a story another video. This is a young couple that just began a relationship. And ship with Jesus.

25:23 They've overcome skepticism and doubts. And really, the little things, the world puts out and have just taken a step of faith. And today, we're going to celebrate the voices that played a part of the story to find Jesus. So check this out. My name's Gavin Mackenzie in this is our story. When I was growing up, I thought there's it just doesn't make sense. A man died and came back to life it just doesn't make sense. But as I grew I just kind of grew further and further away from the church from God from Jesus because of that battle between logic and faith. I think it was just losing part of myself.

26:05 The parts that I enjoyed the fun parts of my life, it was a battle between that and logic. And at the end of the day, what I believed in as I Growing up, I went to church with my grandparents and my parents but after a while we kind of stopped going. So that was the time for me to kind of question Christianity. As a whole, I was wondering just different stuff. So I wanted to Branch off on my own and kind of learn at my own way, not the way my parents and my family. See it, my best friend was Logan growing up, and I spent countless nights hours days weeks at a time at Logan's house and And what Logan does on Sunday, he gets up at like 5:00 in the morning goes and sets up for real life. I'm like, Okay, Kevin you want to go with me to real life, set up with me, tear down with him, I guess, eventually, I kind of got tired of it because as a kid, I wasn't as into the faith last year.

27:03 Christmas Eve, I think I was on the wrong end of Noah's Ark because we went out having Christmas eve lunch with her family and we get back and And as we pull into the parking lot where like what is, there's water all over our parking lot, where did this come from and we get closer and see the patio it's just pouring and I'm thinking somebody's pipe busted. So I was all freaked out about water being everywhere sighs, you know, I was crying like an but I didn't really have The seeing how he was handling it. I wanted to handle it as well as he was and then we open the door and everything is ruined.

27:48 It's been running for hours but the pipe bursts between our floor and the upstairs floor and everything got ruined and I think it was a point for me to take me out of the logical, the physical mindset. None of this stuff matters. It's not the point of life. And so then I calling Insurance calling the apartment calling maintenance calling everybody. Nobody really had a good answer because it was Christmas Eve. Everybody was with their family. They weren't answering the phone insurance. They just gave me a claim and put a bunch of work on me. So that night, I decided to call the one line that I hadn't called, and I've sat down.

28:38 And I, she was asleep and I just laid next to him prayed, and I got I got a feeling of comfort and like I was forgiven, that was my sign. That was my goal against time to go back to church. Gavin if God is willing to let everything, you think you love get ruined. Maybe it's time to start loving something else. He really wanted to go back to real life. This these over these past few months, I was like okay that sounds like a cool church. I would enjoy going to. It just took me a while to really start to believe in it more. So, I've been trying to read the Bible and trying to just keep Christian values in my life.

29:20 I think God is trying to tell me that. What where do we need to work through? Is we need to have both of us against what we need, and have God on, you know, on our shoulders, helping us through. Nothing feels whole like your whole life, no matter what you do, how much money you make, how many girls you sleep, whatever it is. Nothing feels whole until you find God. You have to put logic aside. Coming to real life with Gavin, knowing the Hardy. So having someone I know they're kind of helped me because I'm more shy, but I'm just really grateful that I wasn't forced, but he greatly encouraged me to come to church. And when we got there, I just fell in love.

30:01 Everyone was so nice. You know, meeting, Sean, and Diane, and Brian. They all just so welcoming and it was really awesome to see and be a part of thankful for God, for fighting my apartment, I'm thankful for all the Earnings Logan, woke me up early even though I didn't notice it at the time he was he was teaching me the most important things. Logan brought me to church, Gavin brought me to church. Now we invite you to bring somebody to Come on, give it up for Gavin. Mackenzie how cool is that? There's one of the voices is life, right there weeks at your house Mary, it's amazing and I just love the story because you got a really growing up through normal education, right?

30:50 And playing those seeds of doubt and skepticism and this young man finds Jesus and he could point back to say, there's some voices in my life, the Hardy family. Let me crash there and mash out till Logan right for pouring, the him Logan, and he's at March Madness. That dog, right? Man, but can you get for the Hardy family for being a voice that pulling the Jesus? Come on. I think Barry was tearing up over there. I was sitting next to him, but man, it's cool to be a part of story, and I love how he called on Jesus and Jesus answered, amen. It's just how Jesus works. There was a calling him Lord shall be saved and in that moment, like, just desperation for the one thing you know can be sure isn't Jesus and how God is always faithful to show up. And today I believe some of you guys are going to put your faith in Jesus today.

31:34 I'll send you guys going to make that call. You pick up that phone, you're going to say, Jesus. I need you. If you have to do my own way of and follow my own path but today, I believe you were the one. True, Son of God and you gotta cross for my sins gonna change everything for you. What's really cool is Gavin in McKinsey. They were signed up to get baptized on Easter. Come all somebody is that amazing, man, it's full circle, but God is going to do. And so today we're going to celebrate and really, look at it talks about like to bring somebody to Jesus. What's the heartbeat have to have inside of you to get somebody to the Cross? Like what's the heartbeat of evangelist? We're all called to share Jesus. I'm not give you some kind of some Method, or strategy, or whatever, but we'll look at the heart of somebody that what they look like on the inside and get some of the Cross and what it looks like when somebody finds Jesus. And so, they were going to jump in, really, to a story of a man named John, the Baptist, John is a cousin of Jesus and he uses voice to point people to the cross. And so if you have your Bible and I hope you do, I don't you turn to John chapter 1 and it will be in verse 19. Will start out says this.

32:36 Now, this was John's testimony. Now, anytime you see the name John in the Book of John? He's not talk about. Self, he's talked about John the Baptist and so it says this was John the Baptist testimony. When the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. You think about these Jewish leaders? These are maybe the Temple Police, maybe part of the Sanhedrin, the family of the high priest, these people would hostile things of God, hostile, things of Jesus and they're definitely hostile to John the Baptist and so they sent them to ask. John the Baptist who he was, they say did not fail to confess but confessed freely this is John the Baptist he said I'm not the Messiah. They asked him, who are you? So are you Elijah? They would have known this out of Malachi chapter 4.

33:18 There's a prophecy that would say Elijah was going to come and John. The Baptist said he said, I am not Elijah but you know, in the New Testament that John the Baptist had the spirit of Elijah on him but he was not Elijah. He goes on to say, are you the prophet? Not, are you a prophet? But are you the prophets? And the referring back to Deuteronomy 18:15 ra says, this Prophet will rise up. His voice will rise and the word of God will come out as mouth. Mouth. And it's we're talking about Jesus, the Messiah, and so John the Baptist replies. No verse 22 says this finally. They said well, who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself? Who are you, what who sent you? Why are you on a mission?

34:01 What is going on in John, says something that's so profound is. So prolific is so important that even speaks to us today. John humbly replies, this he says, in the words of Isaiah, the prophet Prophet. See John the Baptist we're back to the scripture. So Jesus was done and he quotes Isaiah 40:3, like, almost verbatim and he says this, I am the what? I'm the I'm the voice, I'm just a voice, he didn't call himself, John the Baptist, even call myself a person. He said, I'm a voice calling in the wilderness to make straight the way for the Lord. Here's the first thing you're going to bring people to Jesus and play part of the story. You have to answer the question, who are you Are you a businessman?

34:44 Are you a concrete Guy? Come on, Barry? Right? Are you a pickleball player? Are you a son or a dad? Are you a hard-working American? What? What are you who are you? And so for John, the Baptist to answer this question, his reply was simply this I am a voice, that's all I am. I'm just the one that's going to point people to Jesus and I'm going to fade away Into Obscurity. I'm not even anything else. Do you recognize anything else about my life? I'm just a voice. That's going to point people to Jesus, to 9, and 12 the Messiah. I'm my whole life is leveraging for the kingdom of God. So people know his name and not my name.

35:25 I'm simply just a voice thing about this voice calling out in the wilderness. He was actually quoted a prophet in Isaiah 40 verse 3. He literally quoted another person who said this this was spoken to the to really the Jewish people that are in captivity in Babylon. He said that your A voice calling out in the wilderness. Make straight the way to the Lord. What's Happening Here is he's quoting this Prophet that said hey these Jewish people that are in captivity, they're being persecuted. They've been exiled out of their country in Babylon. I want you to make a straight path home through the Eastern desert. I want you to level out the sand dunes to bring these people out of captivity. You see, this is going I mean for John the Baptist this was so profound that he was going to level the ground. He's going to move barriers and obstacles and make a path of Freedom leads directly to Jesus.

36:17 And for us as Christians, is there any better terminology that we should have in our life to say that? We are making straight the path to the Lord? Amen. That removing barriers and obstacles and the things that stop people from seeing God including her own pride and we move out of the way just humbly say There's Jesus there's Jesus I'm going to make a path to the freedom found in Jesus and level the ground so people can find and know Jesus and lift my voice so people can find him. So who are you today? You're just You're just a voice. You're just a voice. It's more important than anything. You do is more important, they need toddler. You have it's more important than anything that you Proclaim is more important.

36:59 Your name on lights and your name being successful and people knowing you and erecting a statue that you're just a voice in this generation to point people. To Jesus, to lift the banner High men, to flatten the path of freedom to Jesus, remove, all obstacles for Freedom, so other people can know him. It says, in verse 24 says, now the Pharisees who had been since So, the question that I said, why do you baptize? If you're not the Messiah or Elijah or the prophet is that, baptized with water, John replied, but among you stands one who you do? Not know. He is the one who comes after me and says the straps of whose sandals. I am not worthy to untie. He imagined the humility for John to say this met. John the Baptist and I'm worthy to unstrap his sandals. So what you have to realize is this and that custom that culture, the job of and tying, somebody sandals was a job of a Slave.

37:50 Like you go into somebody's house in a slave with a strap, your sandals and take your sandals, off your feet, that was the job of somebody. Those are indentured servant and what John the Baptist saying is, I'm not even worthy to be a slave of the one that's to come. I'm not even worthy to be a slave of Jesus, because he is so great. He is so mad. He's so powerful. I'm not worthy but only by God's grace. Amen. That I could serve Jesus. It's all by God's grace, that I can baptize. So my God's grace, I can proclaim the voice that there is Jesus. Imagine humility would take to call yourself, unworthy to slave. I mean, James is half-brother. I'm a slave of Jesus, John the past, I'm not even worthy because it's late.

38:34 It says the first one, a, this all happened in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, which the Jordan River where John was baptizing, that's rights at verse. 29 says the next day. So with this is day one. Now, we're in the day to John saw All Jesus. Now this was the first time that John recognizes who Jesus is, he saw Jesus coming toward him and he said, look behold what to say the what the Lamb of God, Behold the Lamb of God who God who takes away the sin of the world made what an incredible introduction to Jesus. Amen. The Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, of all the things that John, the Baptist could have started out with. He says there's the That's going to come for the world. You think about the Lamb of God?

39:21 These people around him in that culture, or custom and culture would have understood what it meant to be a lamb of God. They understood that the lamb Was An Old Testament sacrifice every single day in the temple. They would take lamb and it killed lambs, and they would shed the blood over the altar in that shed blood would pay for the sins of God's people every single day. And what what simply saying is John, the Baptist, saying there's the Lamb of God, there's the innocent one of God. That there's the permanent. Perfect sacrifice for our sins. Amen. It's a very first thing. I'm John. The Baptist says, prepared the way playing the way he didn't know what was going to happen. Matter of fact, he had no idea that Jesus was the Messiah. He had no idea that the Messiah was in his family. I mean, he had no idea who's gonna prepare the way and then God was revealed to him and revealed to the nation of Israel.

40:10 He said this is the Lamb of God who's going to die for the sins of the world. I know what kind of In that we have for Jesus. But if you're going to bring people to Jesus, you have to recognize the sacrifice that Jesus made, amen. It never can leave your heart, you can never get past the cross. If your Christian walk is more about like Conformity and people looking a certain way and you forgotten about the cross of Jesus that's called religion that that's called Ferris itical, right? And we can never get past the point of that moment. We know Jesus died for me like Behold the Lamb of God, Amen. Like That's the name that we first know by Jesus, don't we? I mean, when you first came to Jesus, did you know him as a savior of the sacrificial?

40:54 One that died for you, we never get past that name of God, the Lamb of God, the anointed one that died for us, that his blood shed for us that paid the price for our sins that made us whole. We could never get past that moment where it clung to the Cross as on by God's grace that were alive today. Amen. So Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes Away The Sins. He removes it. He Bears, the sins. He carries off our since he lifts Away The Sins for us. This is exactly what John the Baptist came through. Was to Proclaim Jesus, his voice and lift up Jesus and then, Fade Into Obscurity. So, who are you today? You're a voice, a voice that recognizes the sacrifice of Jesus.

41:36 You're a needed voice in this culture. You know, your voice matters in this culture. You know, most people don't understand the things of God, they see churches, the kind of a relic and an Me and an outdated retreaded, institution of a dead God, but it's a good kind of thing to do, but that's not the truth. Amen. The with the presence of God that that shows as into people's lives and see them Souls change their sins, forgiven and people are in desperate need of relationship with Jesus. They need the Hope found in Christ and we are the voice with a mouthpiece. The soundtrack of pointing people to God. Because you realize the sacrifice that Jesus has made for us John. The Baptist goes on to say this in verse 30 says, this is the One, I meant when I said a man who comes after me has surpassed me, he's greater than he's a higher rank than me because he was before me that this man was before all things in the beginning, God, Jesus always was and is and is to come. He says, I myself did not know him but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel. He won the movement of God.

42:42 He started baptizing and leading the way and doing the things of God because he He wanted God to reveal himself to the nation and I just can't think of a better thing you should do in your Christian Life. The be the kind of person there's once the will of God and the presence of God to come and our generation. Amen, that we live in such a way, we're God, reveals himself, Revival breaks out, where people know Jesus, their lives are changed. We do all, we can to, to magnify, to lift up to point people to Christ, and our generation is see things change. For God, he won the move of God. Verse 32 says this, then John gave this test. John the Baptist gave this testimony. He said, I saw the Spirit came down from heaven as a dove and remain on him.

43:23 Remain on Jesus. Now this would be the really the remaining on Jesus, was this permanent possession that Jesus would have had that. This Holy Spirit would have just fallen on Jesus and would enjoy well, Jesus and a compass cheese and stay with Jesus every step of the way. He says, I myself did not know him but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me the man on whom you see the Spirit come. Come down here. Remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen and testify that this is God's chosen one and maybe you have your Bible open, you might see this as God's chosen, son. And what's amazing In this passage is that John the Baptist is baptizing with water but it's a picture of the one that said, come that's going to baptize was what the Holy Spirit. And for those of you guys do to get baptized in two weeks, for those who have been baptized, this is exactly what happened when you were baptized by water is a picture of what the Holy Spirit has already done in you.

44:23 Amen. Baptism by water is not salvation. It has zero to do with salvation, it really has to be about something will get to. It's really just a picture of the Holy Spirit coming into your life. The moment you called on Jesus. The moment you said, yes. Lord, I believe that you died on the cross for me. The Holy Spirit, invaded your life. Amen. It came into your life and what your life in a washed, your sin as white as snow as far as the East is from the west and it made you pure. And so when you get water, baptized what you're doing is you are just saying this is what God has done in sided with me, this is a picture of what's already taken place and ultimately as John the Baptist says right here he says I testify that this is God's chosen one. This is God's son that why I'm getting baptized, I'm sorry. I believe in Jesus and he is God's son. Amen.

45:13 You come out the waters. Like, Behold the Lamb, amen? Like this is all about Jesus, I'm Lynn for him. I'm on a shame for the cause of Christ. And so I would encourage you today. If you have not been baptized and, you know, Jesus made to get baptized, there is a cards and stuff on your seats around you and me just indicate let us know. Maybe you're baptized before. He knew Jesus. That's not the order of which the Bible talks about getting baptized is not something you do as a kind of rite of passage or confirmation or some kind of you know thing you do. Little baby. I would encourage you that you get baptized after news of Jesus. That's a picture of what God has done in you. If you get baptized for, you know, Jesus, it's really just getting wet. Come all somebody right. You just got wet and that's cool, right? But if you're curious or you have questions because I don't there's so much that goes around this and everything's you know individual stories just mark on there that you want to get baptized and will reach out to you begin this week and just just work with you talk to you see if it's something that it's a step you want to take or need to take and so we'd love to help you on that Journey. But there's nothing more exciting than really See, new Believers take that step, it's not just I know Jesus, but I'm on ashamed of Jesus because you've done something inside my heart inside my life.

46:19 So who are you today? You are a, your voice, your voice matters. It's the most important thing you can do is to share Jesus. Now, we live in a world that likes to say, hey, just by osmosis people know Jesus, because I'm a good person, I'm living it out. I go to church on Sundays or a Bible like my lifestyle evangelism is going. To lead people to Jesus and in yes, you should walk the walk right there. You talk talk, talk, talk, talk, right, but in a day, you have to Proclaim Jesus. Amen. You have to bring it up. Is it didn't happen by osmosis folks like you never be good enough? People go. Hey, tell us about your God. You know, you've got to share Jesus.

47:00 You gotta make this, a porn your life, to sure the be a voice for the cause of Christ. So, you are voice today, the recognize sacrifice of Christ verse 35 says this. Then the next day. This is the third day. John was there against John the Baptist with two of his disciples? This is amazing story. As soon as they saw Jesus passing by, he said, look the Lamb of God and the two disciples help me out. They what they they heard him say it's not when they saw Jesus but when they heard the voice of John, the Baptist They followed Jesus. This verse is so significant for us. This verse is beyond significant. Now, in fact, John the Baptist this woman the first time that he got to invite other people to Jesus. He imagined having a Ministry of just preparation. It's like Noah come all somebody right? You building the ark for 100, some years just preparing the way.

48:05 I mean he's baptizing, he's got followers. I mean he Must have purely. Convince these guys, the Messiah was coming because all John, the had all job as had to do, was point out and said, Behold the Lamb of God and these boys pack their stuff up and started stalking Jesus. Amen, that's the kind of guy John. The Baptist was he was full-on. He was all in like they knew he was a follower of God and he prepared the way for them to know Jesus. Now, what's interesting about the story is this is that these two followers, these two disciples, they didn't recognize God. They didn't recognize Jesus as the Son of God, didn't recognize Jesus as the Lamb of God, then recognize Jesus, as the ones going to die on the cross. For our sins, didn't recognize Jesus the Messiah, the anointed one.

48:51 The chosen one. They didn't recognize Jesus because they saw him. They recognize Jesus because John the Baptist, Told them. Amen. He told them do, we honestly believe that people are going to show up to God because they see us we get to help people understand like that's the work of God in their life. Like you got to get around people and you guys say Hey you know, I feel like Josh trying to show you something like what do you mean by that? They're not even Christians right? Well thank you guys trying to get your attention. What do you say that? Well if you ever thought about going to church like if you ever need a church, we have a church for you. Like I seems like you're struggling like I love you.

49:32 Like man, I just tell you what, made the difference in my life and maybe makes difference here life. I'm not really sure. But could we present Jesus and like a conversation, amen. Like we don't have some try silly, whatever thing. But we're just doing like with people. People need your voice, amen. Like there's nobody is going to show up to God without somebody going. We into this last week, with the passage in Romans 10, right? 14 and 15, how beautiful feet of those who proclaim, the good news of the Gospel, right? They're supposed to know unless somebody tell them house was telling was somebody sense. How beautiful are the feet of those? Who go with the gospel? That's what were called to do. Amen. So the question is a Christian is whose voice like where we taking her voice? I really kind of people that get back and say, to thank you. Jesus, you brought a few of my life, this stranger. I'm going to point in the Jesus.

50:23 And so, you guys had the opportunity last week to share. I was just bragging on Tim little bit. He was held me off my truck yesterday and he was telling me. He's like, man by six people. To real life and to Shared share a little bit at Bank of America Kamal. Somebody Bank of Doom, I mean, Bank of America, right? They love you so much. So take your money but I'll know if they help a lot, right? I love you. Make America right? But the reality the reality is this is he's just in there, just sharing Jesus and some people were interested in the one that he talked to said you don't thank you for inviting me to church because I've never in my entire life, been invited to church. Dude this is our city, right? This is our city, this isn't the Backwoods of Bangladesh, this isn't some crazy Mission work, this is Belton. Come on somebody, right?

51:12 Like how in the world I mean it wouldn't be that hard for us to get out there and invite every single person to God. Ultimately your goal is not to bring in the real life, your goal to bring the Jesus. Amen. And this game too. Presence, but you don't have to like, leading the Jesus. I feel like you just give them to the cross and died around God's presence enough that God's presence just gets in them because Jesus has a way of just capturing. It's amazing. Jesus hung out with Sinners all the time. They loved hanging out with Jesus. Jesus is not some stuck-up snooty whatever thing, right? Like he calls people that are in Desperate darkness and in need and he surrounds with his grace and then we could proclaim the gospel and he works in their heart and they get changed because the spirit God comes in them and they're baptized by the spirit of God. Like, John the Baptist talk about it. What greater message do we have?

52:01 We are a voice. Amen. Maybe we can take Jesus to Bank of America. We can take juices of scooters and Starbucks needs Jesus. Come on somebody, we know they need Jesus, right? I mean, you can go around the whole city, just just make a thing of it. Just be that guy that voice. You feels like you're caught crying on the Wilderness, right? Because you might feel like the only one by Mattel. You today, your voice matters more than you think. So, You're staying. Think about this if you're going to bring people to Jesus, not only do you have to ask the question who you are, that your voice it recognized, that the sacrifice Jesus made, you have to recognize that your voice is so important. You have to use your voice to bring people to Jesus. You have to have those moments in your life, where you say? I think God's, trying to get your attention. You can grab a stack of cards, come all somebody, and you could just humbly invite, somebody, you can go out and you can go on social media and You can share.

52:56 You can use that and leverage that. Imagine that Jesus walked in today. I bet your social media account people of different today. Come on somebody. I mean you might be hiding a little bit little quiet with Jesus. But today, if you walked in this room, it is going to be the headline. Come on somebody, it's not going to make. Local news is not going to make Kansas City news or United States news. It's gonna make World Wide News that Jesus was here. Amen. And that's the kind of movement that God is calling us to have with Jesus every single day of our life. How to make much of Jesus. You're like, that's weird. That's weird, that's weird, but that's the call of God. Amen. That we were voice and then we humbly Fade Into Obscurity.

53:37 I don't you, check this out. This is amazing. First 38, here's what happens when other people find Jesus. I'll say this about John, the Baptist real quick. This is the last time you see, John the Baptist meeting with these two disciples. This is the last time you see, John the Baptist, they were followers of John the Baptist, their Disciples of John the Baptist, but then became followers of Jesus. And John, the Baptist goes behind the curtain and disappears. Is that not the perfect picture? What is be Christian Life? Like at the end of the day? It's not like I'm not Sean, it was a great preacher. Oh man you were this cool books and manuscripts was awesome blah blah blah. It's like dude Jesus I just brought people to Jesus disappeared. Anytime you read about, John the Baptist in the Bible, anywhere in the Bible, he's always making much of Jesus. He's never boasted Thomas, L, not talking. All things that God is doing his life. He's just saying there's God, Behold the Lamb of God and then Fades Into Obscurity.

54:37 Verse 38 says this, those two disciples are stocking Jesus. This what happens for 38, Turning Around Jesus. He saw them, he saw these two disciples, They're following him. He says what do you want? I noticed you behind me, you know, Jesus has eyes of doctors head. Come on somebody. And I saw you and they said Rabbi which means teacher, what do you or where are you staying? And he said this, I love this. He said come he replied and you will see this is significant to note that any time somebody asked Jesus where he is going, it made calls on Jesus. The first thing you'll see Jesus do often, do he often says hey, we'll come and see for Jesus until the cleanup through mass or be perfect or they have to qualify themselves to be in his presence.

55:23 No, Jesus is a humble invite all the time. He says come and see just come and see. Come on with me because he knows if they get into his presence long enough that the presence of God is going to give in to them, amen. It is this going to happen, you see, Jesus. He says all the time, hey, come and see and then they get in the presence of God and God just doesn't work in their life and Jesus calls. Nice, as Follow Me, Be My disciple. Like, lay down yourself. He called him to higher calling, and then he does one of the highest Cause you never having a Christian. He looks at them and says now that you've come and now that you lay down your life as a disciple. Now, I want you to go until amen. And that's what this message is about. Those that are saying, you know what? God is calling me. He is sending you out to reach the world so he said, come and see for yourself and so when they saw where he was staying, they spent that day with him, and it was about what time.

56:13 Is about for an afternoon. Now, this is so significant that this this piece of scripture, that mentions the time you're going to realize that the next verse that, one of the disciples that's following Jesus is Andrew. He's one of the ones that's mentioned, but the second one is not mentioned in scripture. But there's no name. Like, who is this second disciple and what's so unique about this passage and you can't get past this because this is what happens when somebody meets Jesus, see, who else would have known. It was 4:00 in the afternoon with a bat. Jesus, who would have known that? well, the only person well-known that when the person who wrote the book, John, you know, John the Beloved jail, the one that Jesus loved, we don't know, John Wright that he took care of Mary right?

57:03 When Jesus crucified here, the same John that wrote the Book of John, the first second, third John, in Revelation, which understand about this. It was make it. So significant is that when John, that Jesus would have been like 30 ad somewhere around that in John didn't write this book until 90 ad. It's been 60 years since this boy that Jesus and he still remembers the exact moment in time that he met Jesus Is that incredible? And when you bring somebody to Jesus and yours a voice crying in the wilderness of your life. And so he meets Jesus, you have forever Frozen. A moment in time for them because they realized that they were a sinner in need of a savior, and they put my eyes on Jesus and God forgave them, and that moment changed their eternity.

58:00 That's a story. Read the Play. Amen. This is so significant for clock after and just read through that. Oh no, forever marked a turning. There's people in your life that you could pour into. And for 50 years later, they go man, that one Sunday or that time at that dinner in the dining room table, that moment that pipe burst in the house. Janki, the apartment building I was at God, broke a pipe like all the name of Jesus for the rest of his life. He's going to point that moment in time and we get to be people that make a path that level the grounds for people to call on Jesus. Amen. That's the Call. I mean, John the Baptist Mission complete. Come on somebody.

58:43 Like I pointed the way and then somebody followed Christ and they remember their entire lives and change them from the inside out. It doesn't get better than this can tell, your voice matters more than you think. Matter of fact, this is really cool is when you when you get the opportunity to bring somebody to Jesus most of the time, most often they bring somebody back with them. It's so incredible. Check it out in verse 40. It says Andrew this is the other one though. Following John. The Baptist who walked with Jesus. This is Simon Peters. Brother was one of the two who heard what John had said and followed Jesus. He had heard John. The Baptist Behold the Lamb of God and he went and stock. Jesus verse 41, says, this don't miss it.

59:24 It says, the first thing and your did was to what was to find his brother, Simon, and tell him. Tell him we have found the Messiah. This is the Christ and he brought him to Jesus and how incredible the first thing he spends a day with Jesus, a few hours with Jesus. I don't know what Jesus says, you know, it's not in the Bible, whatever. Jesus said to Andrew and John was so compelling was so heartfelt. It was so Soul shaping then when Andrew left that moment, he stalked down his brother Simon, he went everywhere to find Them really got him.

1:00:10 He grabbed by the arm and said you're gonna get your butt to Jesus. Come on somebody, he brought him to Jesus, it has so incredible. We we could never get past this in our Christian Life. We bring people to Jesus. No statistics say that most Christians will leave one person that Jesus and the entire lives one person. So you can be Krishna since you're 15 or 20 years old and spend their entire life with a different title than a voice, the different tile, the submission, who on the Wilderness and Proclaim, God. We get so wrapped up in all the minutiae, all the phony, right? All things that have pipes burst and break and we forget about Jesus. And so they just a reminder of what it is, where people find Jesus. They're so excited.

1:00:55 They found Jesus, that they Lily find the most important thing, some in their life. That's far from God, the brother, and then bring them to Christ. Goodnight credible that generational change. Amen, generational change without John the Baptist, you have no job, right? And God knew, and God used John's Voice without John the Baptist. You have. No Andrew, you know, Andrew, you have no Peter right in assignment. You have no church that launches because of a voice. Amen. God will use your voice. Just a single voice. This is probably the best part of the story. Verse for you to this, what happens when Simon meets Jesus verse 42, second half.

1:01:41 This is Jesus looked at Simon and said, you are Simon son of John summary version. Say son of Jonah. That's the Aramaic form of John says, you're a Simon son of John and you be called you will Be called cephas, which is Aramaic, which when translated is, Peter may think about this. The very first moment that Simon who is now drug by his brother to Jesus, the very first interaction that Jesus has, he looks over at Simon and says you, my friend, are given a new name, your name is Peter because of a purpose for your life. You can be a rock. You're gonna walk on water boy.

1:02:24 You're going to go out and make a difference. Difference. Cut that guy's ear off, right? The crowd that's going to take Jesus down and fusion throw after him. You give me the guy that's gonna deny me we restore, you know on you boy. We're going to change the world and relaunched the church first time he met. Mmm, is that incredible? I just can't think about. Wow, crazy is all the empty seats, right? All the people we walked by, everybody tried to the highway with and got Ari has a new name and a new purpose playing for this is an incredible.

1:03:04 Who are we? Today we're a voice and your voice matters more than you think. John the Baptist's rows of a voice in his generation and the winter security, but we're a voice. In season and out of season. Amen. We're a voice that maybe has little faith. We're a voice that struggling, we're voice, that has messed up lives, the voice to have an altogether. The, the voice that Satan wants to tell you to keep quiet. The rule says, your Relic or relevance were the voice that point people to Jesus. Amen. We're the voice that says God is a lamb, a died for us. We recognize the sacrifice he made and every moment, every chance we get, we point People to Jesus.

1:03:48 Amen. And we humbly our voices, humble enough to say, I'm not even worthy to untie the sandal of Jesus and I really be slave of Jesus. But by his grace I am saved. And so the day we're a voice that goes after people that we love it, people that we even don't love. Come on somebody, we should love and we bring in the Jesus and where the voice that sits back and watches. It multiplies disciples because those people are so excited. You know, somebody visits Church, they often come back with somebody else. Do you know that people don't come back alone? And so when you're like, making a difference, it may feel like a little conversation. You are, you're the voice of generational change. Amen.

1:04:34 You're the voice that is forever changed the course of history for that family. Maybe even for a city, or for a nation because you just stood up. So you're the voice that maybe feels like you're in the wilderness for the voice that makes a pathan. Jesus. And so, that's why I do all this remove obstacles for people to know Christ. And so today, I just want to know, are you ready to raise your voice in this generation? Amen. I read a lift. Your voice with thanks to Christ. Those are baby little timid and a little like Diane. You want some, you know, bamboo shoots under your fingernails before you get out there, right? You're introverted right? Bone encourage you. There's a way to share a man and it is moments where people all day long. You have moments.

1:05:14 So I'm not praying for a moment. I'm praying for bold. - I'm praying just to say, you know what, I'm just a voice today. It's going to humbly serve God and I can put my Name In Lights, can be servant. And the point people to Jesus and they follow Jesus, yes. I stayed off and then they return the cycle over and over and over Ray's. Definition The Voice, father, come before you gotta pray, got our church of rise up as a voice in our community that individuals today. Gotta pray for the speak to somebody day and it's been timid as put everything else in front of this has been keeping the voice quiet and hiding it under a basket. Basket.

1:06:01 The light is not shining today. I pray this rise up. People got a raise up, people gathered proclaim, the good news, the gospel everywhere they go. I pray that we would be able to bring people to Jesus got who is the person who life that you've called us to bring what lost siblings people in our block and her co-workers doing you bring today. And so you got it will pray for those that are speaking that you're speaking to data raise their voice up in this generation, just like you did in John the Baptist in danger of Peter gotten John. Can we play the Harvest story that pause the moment? I'm from people as they meet you that tourney be changed so that that's unions. They don't need to raise a voice higher. I got God speaking to me Holy Spirit speaking to me I've been on the back burner but Salman I'm a little front burner for Jesus like I gotta find some people. I've got a lift my voice up.

1:06:50 All the platforms are leveraged my life for Christ so that you use, raise your hand high, this place. Come on. These me, the gods of use my voice. Come on, put your hand up that you today sir. He is all around. Father. You see the hands? Got thanks for calling people. Not to be the voice just preparing Hearts God, just leveling out paths and is pulling people to you. Maybe it's on the maybe it's we were the garage working on my car or it's out in the world. God, maybe it's real. Pulping. Got you've just given a mouthpiece, God, we can lift up your voice this generation, but pray for one more group people and that's those of you that you're like, Simon somebody brought you here today. So maybe drug you here today. So missing you get to real life. You need to be a part of this.

1:07:30 Is in the realized today that God wants to give you a new name that I want to give you a purpose, a day. You realize who Jesus is, he's a lamb of God. They died on the cross for you. And today, you need new life in him. You need to, you need a word from the word today. You need to call on him. You made every phone call today. But today, you're gonna call him Jesus, instead of that you've need forgiveness and new life, also has a calls, him Lord should be saved for a given, it made new. So, that's you day that I be looking around. They need Jesus. We Salute Your Hand high this place. I need Jesus. Today, I'll put the hand up with that to you. I need Jesus. That's you down with you to pray this prayer and say, father God, thanks so much for sending Jesus for senior best design across for me. God God, thank you so much for being the Lamb of God. The sacrifice yourself.

1:08:20 You do it without protesting your suffering. Got the you do that. Protesting to sacrifice. For me God you've made me clean dealt with spirits come into my life. Wash away my sins white as snow. Got, thank you so much for loving me enough. It's in Jesus and raising voices in my life. It was so humbly point me to you. God, we love you and thank you. Pray? This in Jesus name and everybody said, amen. Come on scooter for God today. Come on. Made it if that's you today, you made that decision for Jesus. You pray that prayer what you to know that we are so excited for you. Congratulations, we are all in for you. We can't wait to see what's going to happen next in your life.

1:09:03 What God's got for you? So, if that's you today, whether you're in the online or you're with us in person, I've got a couple great next steps for you. The first one is let us know about your decision by texting our own next 29. 7000 what we want to do is when you fill out that information card, we want to bless you with this little book called begin. And it's got a big blessing and It's a great way to get you started off on the right foot. It's a short little book, but it's a great step to get you guys started off to follow. Jesus, become a disciple, become a follower, in the way that the Bible would have you. So when you fill that out, we would love to send that to you in the mail. If you were with this in person, the other thing we've got for you is on your way out. There's a red bag. So, grab one of those inside. There's a Bible. So I'll talk about having a Bible. Take it. Bring it back next week.

1:09:44 It's awesome. It's just how you find God's purpose for you and your life. And so take that their the re great resource in there. We're so excited for you. Thank you so much, and we're excited to partner with you and to see what God's got for you. I love how sean talked about your voice and there's a lot of different voices in here. Some of us have deep voices, some of us have High voices, some of us are quiet, some of us are loud, but can it tell no matter where you fall on that Spectrum, your voice is important. You guys going to use it in his Sovereign way, just to reach the circles that you have in your lives because there's people in your circles that none of us are ever going to meet. So the best way that you can use your voice in the next couple weeks is your and have an awesome. Opportunity just to lift that voice and reach into those circles and invite people out to Easter. And you can do that in several different ways and on your chairs for the chair next to theirs. These Easter cards, grab one of those you can just make a simple invite, just talk to somebody about hey, I know what's going on in your life guys, got something for you in that come hang out with this Easter, you can share the event on Eventbrite.

1:10:43 So there's so many ways that you can use your voice just to just to tie into people. And we're going to blow this place. Up is so exciting. I don't know. You guys can't. We're going to have three special Gatherings at 8:30, 10:00 and 11:30, just to make room for the new people that God is going to bring into the room. And we're not leaving the kids out there, going to have an awesome, an awesome, awesome time bacteria that got through own their own egg, hunt photobooth. So it is going to be cool what an awesome opportunity to invite families with with kids. So we can't wait to see how how God is going to use that. And bless that, one of the things we're going to do next week as we prepare for Easter, we're gonna do something called communion. It's a way that we can time too. The it's going to give us a time to sit and reflect on what God did for us in that moment leading up to his death burial and Resurrection, we can reflect on his suffering, what he did for us to bring Redemption into our lives.

1:11:32 So prepare your hearts next week for that as well as we all participate in communion. So, if you're new at real life, can I let you guys know? We don't want anything from you? We want something for you. This Gathering is our gift to you, but if you call yourself a member in your, your home here at your life, there's still three ways you can participate in generosity in the One is by going online at Real Life Church kc.com, you can take steam out, see four, three, two, one, or if you want to use cash or check, you can drop that in the box at the back or use one of these buckets. As it is, they come back also. As these buckets past, if your family find yourself in immediate need of food, clothing or shelter please reach in and grab any loose cash. Just you see just to help your family in the time of need.

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