Motivated By Faith - Difference Maker Part 3

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Hey, good morning, real life
Church.

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Awesome to see you today.
Literally, it's awesome to see

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you.
This is so cool.

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Will you go and stand to your
feet?

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And we're just going to start
off with some praise this

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morning.
We're going to sing to him.

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We're so thankful for all he's
done.

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So let's just sing out,
wandering into the night,

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wanting a place to hide this
weary soul, this Vagabond.

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I try with all my mind, but I
just can't win the fight.

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I'm slowly drifting a Vagabond
just when I ran out of the road.

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I met a.
Man, I didn't know.

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He told me that I was not.
You pick me up, You turn me

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around, You place my feet on
solid ground.

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I think the Master.
I think the Savior, because you

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heal my heart.
You change my.

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Name forever free.
I'm not the.

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Same.
I think the master, I think the

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Savior.
I thank God.

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Yeah.
There we go.

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Let's go.
Let's have some fun.

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Oh, I cannot deny what I've
seen.

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I've got no choice but to
believe my doubts are burning.

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Yeah, like ashes in the wind.
So, so long.

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To my old friends.
Burning in bitterness.

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You can't just keep it moving.
You ain't welcome here.

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Let's declare this.
From now till I walk the street

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to go, I'll sing up How you save
my soul.

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This wayward son is found the
way back.

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You pick me up, You turn me
around, You place my feet on

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solid ground.
I think the Master.

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I I think the Savior.
Because you heal my heart.

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You change my name forever Free.
I'm not the same.

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I think the Master.
I think the Savior.

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I thank God.
Yeah.

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Keep those hands going.
I love this part.

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We can declare this confidently.
Hell lost another one.

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We are free.
Come on, let's sing this.

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Lost another one.
I am free.

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Oh, I am free.
Yes, I am free.

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Hell lost another one.
I am free.

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Oh, I am free.
Yes, I am free.

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Come on.
Hell.

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Lost another one.
I am free.

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Oh, I am free.
Yes, I am free.

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Hell lost another one.
I am free.

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Oh, I am free.
Yes, I am free.

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Declare I lost the number one.
I am free.

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Oh, I am free.
Yeah, I am free.

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I lost the number one.
I am free.

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Oh, I am free.
Yes, I am free.

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I lost the number one.
I am free.

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Oh, I am free.
Yeah, I am free.

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I lost the number one.
I am free.

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Oh, I am free.
You picked me up.

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Turn me around.
You place my feet on solid

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ground.
I think the Master.

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I think the savior.
Because you heal my heart.

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You change my name forever.
Free I'm.

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Not the same.
I think the master, I think the

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Savior.
I thank God.

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I thank God, I thank God.
Come on.

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Are you thankful this morning?
Real life, Give it up for Jesus.

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Come on man.
I don't know about you, but I'm

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so thankful for what God has
done for me.

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And it doesn't take me very long
to look back and see all of the

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ways that He's shown up in my
life with His goodness, with His

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healing, with His faithfulness.
I mean, the longer I walk with

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Him, the sweeter it gets.
So let's continue to lift Him

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up.
This morning, when I was lost

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and all alone, your presence was
where I found home.

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You were there and you're here
right now when we see you in

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every heart and every love.
You never left me without hope.

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You were good and you're good
right now.

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So how quick is your
faithfulness?

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I've seen you breathe light
with.

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And so I pour out my praise
again.

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You're worthy God, you're worthy
of all of it.

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Your promise is never there.
I've got stories I live to tell.

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So I pour out my praise again.
Is you're worthy, God, You're

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worthy of all of it.
I believe he's worthy this

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morning.
Give him a shout as you left the

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throne and chose the cross, laid
down your life to rescue us.

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The Saviour there and the
Saviour now.

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But even death was not the end.
You conquered him so I could

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live.
Resurrecting dead.

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Resurrecting now, resurrecting
then, resurrecting now Is that

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witness your faithfulness.
I've seen you breathe my breath.

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And so I all of my brains, your
worthy got your worthy, your

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honor, your promise is never
fail.

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I've got stories I've been to
tell.

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So I all of my brains taking
your merry got your worthy, your

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honor, baby.
You're good and I went instead.

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You're strong and I've witnessed
it.

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You're constant.
I witnessed it and I'm confident

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that I'll see it again and
again.

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You love and I've witnessed it.
You healing, I've witnessed it.

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You save and I've witnessed it
and I'm confident that I'll see

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it again and again.
You're good and I've.

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Witnessed it.
You're strong and I've witnessed

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it.
You're constant.

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I'm witnessing and I'm confident
and I'll see it again and again.

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You love it.
I'm.

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Witnessing.
You heal it.

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I'm with.
This day you steal it.

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I'm with this day and I'll pop
the day and I'll see it again.

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I'll bring this your
faithfulness.

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I've seen you revive with that.
So I pour out my brains in your

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worthy, got your worthy of all
of it.

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Your promises never fail.
I got score means I live to

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tell.
So I pour out my brains in your

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worthy got your worthy of all of
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I'm broken on Witness death to
the harming of Witness death to

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the.
Lost out the winters.

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Death.
And I'll tell them this.

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I'll tell them when I will go to
my sin.

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On winners, death.
To the nations.

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On winners, death.
God, in this place, somebody

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brought your message to us, your
message of healing, your love,

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your faithfulness, God, somebody
brought it to us.

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And God, this is your call to go
out into our family, our city,

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to the world, God, to share the
love we've seen, to share your

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faithfulness.
God, 'cause I've witnessed your

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faithfulness, I've seen you
breathe life with.

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And so I pour out my grace
again, 'cause you're worthy,

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God, you're worthy of all
loving.

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Your promises never fail.
I've got stories I live to tell,

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so I.
Amen.

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You know, this season we're just
leaning into this idea of being

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a difference maker.
And one of the ways we can be

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bold and confident in that is
because we've witnessed all that

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he's done.
And more than that, we just have

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so many instances where he's
proven over and over again that

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he is more than able to provide.
And so we just declare that this

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morning.
Just invite you just to pour

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your heart out as you sing in
worship today.

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When did I start to forget all
the great things that you did?

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When did I throw away faith for
the impossible?

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How did I start?
To believe.

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You weren't sufficient for me.
Why do I talk myself out of

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seeking miracles?
You want more than able.

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You want more than 8?
You want more than able.

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You.
Want more than 8 able?

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Who am I to deny what the Lord
can do?

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It's easy for you.
Now I see all that I have and

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I've got my comfort is bad, so I
put my trust in the one room who

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still does miracles.
You are born and able.

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Who am I to deny what the Lord
can do?

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Can you imagine with all of the
faith in the room, what the Lord

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can?
Do.

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What?
The Lord just let the waymaker

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through.
He's going to move.

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He's going to move.
Can you see it?

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Can you imagine with all of the?
Faith in the room what the Lord

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can do what the Lord can do if.
It's going to happen.

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Just let the wave make.
It.

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Through.
It's going to move.

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It's going to move.
And Can you imagine all the

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faith in the room, what the Lord
can do, what the Lord can do,

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He's going to happen you.
Just let the wave make a move.

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He's going.
To move he's.

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Going to move.
Anything is possible to deny

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what the?
Lord can do.

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Anything.
Is possible?

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Anything is possible.
Anything is possible, but who am

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I to deny what the Lord can do?
Who am I to deny what the Lord?

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Can do who am?
I to deny what the Lord can do.

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Come on, let's.
See, we want more than any.

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You want.
You.

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Want more than a less you?
Want.

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Come on, Sing, you want more
than a more.

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You want more than a more.
To deny what the Lord can do.

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Who am I to deny what the Lord
can do?

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Who am I to deny what the Lord?
Can do and Amen.

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Amen.
Who believes that God is able,

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man?
The God that raised the dead,

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the God that heals sickness,
man.

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He does those things today, man.
So let's give it up for God one

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more time, can we, man?
Thank you guys so much for

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choosing to worship with us in
real life.

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Then we have a lot going on.
I don't know if you saw this or

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not.
Do you guys see all the little

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superheroes in the costumes
running around?

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Man, we are going to blow it out
back there.

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The kids are getting candy,
parents.

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You're welcome.
You guys excited.

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Hey, I, I did get some spiritual
advice today that I'm going to

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share with you guys.
So when my kids were younger,

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the tax man showed up, right?
And I would take the 10%.

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Well, we're going to be a little
more spiritual in real life.

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You guys know the story of
Nehemiah, the cup bearer.

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He had to take a sample so the
king didn't die from poison.

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So you guys tell your kids the
story of Nehemiah taking the

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poison or the opportunity to
take it.

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And you guys can do this for the
kids you're going to make.

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We want to make sure these
Reese's Cups aren't bad.

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So you guys take that
opportunity as parents to do

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that.
So hey, thank you guys so much

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for choosing to join to worship
with us today.

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I don't know if you guys know
this.

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Not man.
We have a ton of new people

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online with us and in person.
Can we give those people some

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love?
Yeah, lift it up.

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Hey, take this opportunity.
Take about 30 seconds to greet

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somebody around you.
All right, you guys go ahead and

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grab a seat.
It's a little different.

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Have the lights on in here
today, man.

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I can see everybody I know.
So this week when Pastor Sean's

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preaching to you individual, you
will know who he's looking at.

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You guys always think that we
know, but we don't.

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Hey, I want you guys to know
that you guys are sitting on a

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connection card, man.
This connection card is the way

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that we love to stay connected
with you in real life.

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If you go real life home, then
we love it when you grab it,

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fill it out.
Let us know what's going on your

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life, whether it's a prayer, a
praise, whatever it is, man,

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we'd love to get these and we
read over them and we pray over

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them every week.
Hey, if you guys are new or

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newer with us, we love it when
you fill out the top section of

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this.
And I'm going to make this

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promise to you.
We're not going to ask any other

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things from you today except
that one simple thing.

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Just introduce us by filling out
that connection card.

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And we just want to send you out
something this week, let you

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know a little bit about more who
we are in real life and just

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stay get you guys connected an
opportunity to to maybe be on

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mission with us here.
We'll let you guys know what to

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to do with those cards a little
bit later on in the gathering.

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And Speaking of mission, we
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a mission and that mission is to
see people far from Jesus

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discover the real life of
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And So what that simply means is
this is that we know just

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throughout the week, throughout
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that the world just destroys
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It takes you, beat you down,
throws you away and you walk

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away, feel it broken.
You don't have any purpose, you

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don't have any hope.
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more than able.
That's part of what he does is

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is that he brings you back to
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family.
When we give our lives to

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Christ, man, it is such a
blessing just to see people

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commit their lives week in and
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And you guys are going to hear a
little bit more of that and a

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little bit about just the people
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just weekend.
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be on mission.
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continue and our series
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And so for the last eight years,
God has blessed this church,

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this community by bringing hope
and transformation just to be

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being able to to bring that
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back to God.
But we believe that we're in the

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midst of our most important
series that we've ever gone

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through.
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maker.
And this is God's call for us to

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make that next step of faith,
right?

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To believe, for God to be more
than able to clear obstacles, to

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do the impossible.
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building initiative.
But this isn't about a facility,

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it's about a movement.
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gathering together and just
honing in, in, in coming in

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prayer and fasting just to put
our hearts before God to see

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what's next in this season.
So I want you guys just to be

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ready for the next, this next
message that's going to bring

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hope and transformation and the,
the, the prayer and the courage

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to change the next generation.
So I want you guys to take this

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opportunity, put your hands
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And as Pastor Sean comes up and
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Good morning guys.
Do you guys kind of brag what

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the Lord's been doing?
By the way, that last song, I

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don't ever plan these things.
This how God works it out.

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It's going to be perfect for
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Step out of faith, but I'm going
to celebrate a little bit.

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Is that good?
You're going to hear some

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amazing stories this last
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This is just amazing.
It's got a little revival going

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on with eight people commit
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Is that fantastic?
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the same before 3 weeks, we've
had 16 people commit their life

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to Jesus and we're talking about
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people come to Christ.
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that is the why.
That's the reason we do this.

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And so thank you, Jesus, Amen.
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everyday difference makers.
We talked about that last week,

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right?
Like going out and inviting and

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sharing, but not just saying
come and see, but to go and

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tell, to actually share the
gospel, to pray with somebody.

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Say I've been, I've been
thinking about you and you call

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somebody up or you're in line
with somebody and you're having

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a great conversation.
Instead of cutting off like,

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Hey, let's just talk some more
and just asking great questions

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and truly listening and that
soul to soul, there is very

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little community in the
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We all have friends, but we're
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It's just slowing down and say,
how can I pray for you?

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Or can I share something to you
that's changed, made difference

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in my life?
Or can I suggest something?

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Can I introduce you to someone
to, you know, share Jesus and

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then invite him, invite him to
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complicated, but it takes a step

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of faith.
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It takes gospel eyes and because
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we have just an amazing crew of
people that have been coming.

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That's why people are coming to
meet Jesus because you guys are

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out there making a difference.
And we have some awesome

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everyday difference makers in
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They're called life group
leaders and do a fantastic job.

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So get up for our life, Group
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Come on, let them know you love
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It's fantastic.
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story.
This season's been really good

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for our life groups, and so
we'll put this on the screen and

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this is Jana's group, Jana
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I don't know if they always meet
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Panera.
But what you don't see in the

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picture, there's actually, we
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There's a Bible down there in
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picture.
And that is very exciting for me

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as a pastor, when people are
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God and things just start to
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Amen.
There's some stripping away.

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And Jana reached out to me and
she reached out to many people

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and Holly's been traveling
around the groups and she has

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said this has been one of the
most refreshing, like shaping

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just challenging seasons for her
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ladies are in that group.
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And she said thank you for the
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confidence to these women and
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leader.
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stories.
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through is the story of Rahab.
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she's called Rahab the
prostitute and she's mentioned

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that numerous times and how God
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didn't define her future, her,
her trauma, the stuff she'd been

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through didn't find who she was,
just had a different identity

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for a better identity, a fresh
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love.
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makes us new and he's laser
seeing this thing and are being

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challenged and growing.
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for everyday difference makers
just bringing the word of God to

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people, even through our church.
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And we need more of that.
We need to get into the word and

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see we have a lot of people
coming out lately and we have

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something special.
If you've been, if you're new or

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newer to real life, I want to
invite you to something that's

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happening next Sunday.
You know what I mean by new or

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newer is maybe coming last few
months or maybe coming for even

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a long season and you're not
really connected.

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And I want to invite you out to
something we're calling a

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welcome party.
It's going to be next Sunday.

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It's going to be between the
gatherings and it's a place, if

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you're wondering like, can I
belong here?

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Why does this church even exist?
Like how did it come about?

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Like this portable crazy group
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Can I grow here?
Can I find my people?

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What are we all about?
I'll invite you out.

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We're going to have some
refreshments, some swag.

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Come on somebody.
And just going to hang out for

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about 30 minutes from the
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So if you come to the first,
just stay after.

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You can leave your kids back in
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If you come to the second next
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then leave it.
Drop your kids off early, come

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back there.
It's been a great time to hang

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out.
You don't have to sign up.

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You can check it out online, but
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Just show up, go for it and it
will help you guys get connected

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and grow.
It's easy to come and sit and

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that's not the type of church we
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We're called to live on mission.
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And so can you guys get for
everybody's new or new or let

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them know we love them and be a
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It'd be great.
So today we're diving in 3rd

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part of our series Difference
Maker, and hopefully you guys

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have got the booklet over the
last three weeks.

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There's a booklet we passed out
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If you haven't got it, you can
get it at the table on the way

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out.
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I don't know if you like mugs,
but in the mug is a decal which

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you can stick on your car only
if you drive like Jesus.

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Amen.
I'm like, I don't know whether

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this is going to represent us
good or bad, but we put them in

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the car.
But make sure you grab that as

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awesome as candy.
All things but take that booklet

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and I would encourage you to
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Don't just like, oh, I'll put on
the shelf, read through it and

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and understand exactly what this
difference maker is all about,

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what the goals are, where we're
going, What what's a one fund?

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Like?
How does this play a part?

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Like get to know all the details
because it's easy.

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Like up here.
I'm not going to walk through

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all the maybe all the questions,
but we have an extensive FAQ in

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the book and it answers a lot of
stuff.

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And it took a lot of time, the
energy put together because a

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lot of different thought
processes on this, but read

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through it, pray through it.
You can take notes.

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I think you're on page maybe 19
or 20 today.

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I should know this, but a story
or a story, a message called

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Motivated by Faith.
And so they just take some notes

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in there, but really dive into
what the Lord has.

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I'm going to give you an
overview again, if you heard a

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couple weeks ago, you've seen
this video already, but just

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remind you of really the goal
and the passion and why we're

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doing this difference maker
initiative so you can share the

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video.
We're doing the old school with

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the light switch, so it's going
to be good.

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Hey, real.
Family, friends, today we stand

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in the unique moment in our
story.

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Eight years ago we stepped out
in faith to launch real life

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church, and God has shown up in
extraordinary ways.

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Real life, you already are
living proof what God can do

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through ordinary people when
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We've seen marriages changed,
families changed, and eternity

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changed, and countless people.
And I believe with all my heart

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that God is not done yet.
There are prodigals in our city

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and around the world that God is
calling home.

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And this is an incredible
harvest on the horizon that we

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can play a part of.
And today, just like 8 years

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ago, we once again are in a
place.

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We get to write the next chapter
in our story.

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But here's the problem.
Prodigals lost people need

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somewhere to come home to.
It is somewhere to belong,

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somewhere to grow, and people to
believe in them.

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And listen, we've been purple
for 8:00 for years and being

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portable has been a huge
blessing.

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But let's be real, it has its
limits.

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And for instance, in our kids
ministry, it's tough to turning

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elementary school into a sacred
life giving space for children

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to encounter God.
The distractions are literally

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around every corner.
We also can't host things like

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kids camp or summer BBS because
we simply don't have the space.

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In addition to our youth group,
it's on the verge of outgrowing

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our Hope Center.
There's a space where teens are

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playing Nightscore in the air
and there's a worship team

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rehearsing at the same time.
It's amazing, it's beautiful,

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but it is absolutely chaotic.
And for adults, we would love to

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host marriage conferences.
We'd love to have weddings and

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dream team celebrations.
And the love, love, love to have

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a life giving, state-of-the-art
worship center to invite your

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family and your friends to
experience Jesus and share the

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gospel around the world.
As much as we love being

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portable, the truth is every
portable situation has a shelf

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life.
It has a time frame.

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And that's why after much
prayer, planning, discerning and

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leadership, I believe God is
calling us to secure our first

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permanent home.
Our vision is to purchase a

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facility somewhere between 15
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Places like the OfficeMax, the
Walgreens will allow us to

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double our capacity and give us
room to grow.

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A place where ministry happens
24/7.

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A place where we have long term
presence in our city and it

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tells our neighbors and tells
the world that we are here to

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stay.
It's a place for inviting

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culture.
The designated kids space where

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the kids eyes light up when they
walk in and everything points

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them to Jesus.
It's a space for youth, for

456
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,560
conferences, for weddings,
camps, worship, rehearsal, and

457
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,440
most importantly, disciple
making.

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And yes, no more set up and tear
down.

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I heard everybody say Amen.
Even our mail could finally be

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delivered to our church home.
This isn't about building a

461
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,800
monument.
It's about building a movement.

462
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,960
It's not about a facility.
It's about creating a launchpad

463
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,200
for the gospel, a hospital for
the hurting, and a home for

464
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,160
prodigals.
Psalm 78 says it best.

465
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,400
It says we will tell the next
generation the praiseworthy

466
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,440
deeds of the Lord, His power,
and the wonders He has done.

467
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,320
That's what the space
represents.

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00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,160
It's a place where the next
generation hears about and

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00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,480
learns to follow Jesus.
So here's the vision of the next

470
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,560
two years.
Our Difference Maker Initiative

471
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:35,400
aims to raise $1.9 million, now
900,000 that is simply

472
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,040
continuing to fund our ministry
fund already.

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00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,520
It funds everything you already
like and love about real life.

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It's not going anywhere.
But the additional 1,000,000

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00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:48,960
position us to say yes to an
opportunity when God opens the

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00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,600
door for a first permanent
space.

477
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,400
But here's the most important
part.

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Our primary goal is not a
financial number.

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It's asking for 100%
participation.

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00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,400
We want every person, every
family who calls real life home

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00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,600
to help write the next chapter
as a difference maker.

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So what does that mean for you?
I'm simply asking you to do

483
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,640
three things.
One, let's celebrate the moment

484
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,000
right now.
We're on the verge of something

485
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,400
amazing that the lead the way of
making a difference in thousands

486
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,320
and thousands of lives,
including your own family, your

487
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,320
friends, and your neighbors. 2
Commit to hear from God.

488
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,440
Ask him, what does faith look
like in me in this season?

489
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:36,200
How May God be calling you to
grow in generosity and trust?

490
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,680
And three, consider becoming a
difference maker with us.

491
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,400
Take time to pray.
Ask God what would he have you

492
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:48,320
to do to help reach this goal?
Friends, family, the ability to

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00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,080
say yes to our first permit
space.

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00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,240
Be the true difference maker for
us, not just for us, but for

495
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,920
you, for your kids, for our
city, and for generations and

496
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,720
generations to come.
So I'm simply inviting you to

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00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:04,800
pray, to dream, and to consider
how you can be a part of writing

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00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,200
the story because your faith,
because your generosity.

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00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,040
We can change people's forever,
and that's the bottom line.

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00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,640
That's what it's all about.
There's no other place I'd

501
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,880
rather be than with you leading
on mission in this season.

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00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,920
Will you join together with me?
I invite you to take time to

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00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,600
pray and to see God and join us
together as a difference maker

504
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,400
in pursuit of our first
permanent home.

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00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:39,000
God bless guys.
Come on.

506
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,480
Is that?
Exciting, gonna make Barry work

507
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,160
today.
Up and down, up and down.

508
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,280
Oh man, I, I think of this
vision and this season we're in

509
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,920
and I think how special it is
what God is leading us into.

510
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,520
This is like a holy moment for
us as a church.

511
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,040
I mean, eight years, all the
different things.

512
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,840
And to step out and say, Lord,
we're going to say yes to the

513
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,400
vision that you have that you
put in place already to do

514
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,880
something special.
And hopefully you at this point,

515
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,080
3 weeks in, you're starting to
have a little burning passion to

516
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,080
say yes to the Lord through
this, to get behind what God is

517
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,960
leading us into as a church, as
a church family, and to step out

518
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,360
on faith.
I know this as a pastor that has

519
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,800
had to preach about money and
giving and generosity for all

520
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,840
the years.
There's one thing I hear from

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00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,600
people quite often, and it's not
usually people who go to our

522
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,360
church, but people struggling in
the culture.

523
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,800
Maybe some people new to church,
they would say something like

524
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,320
this.
All the church wants is my oh,

525
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,600
they didn't say Jesus.
All the church wants me.

526
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:39,800
I know Jesus.
No, that's right.

527
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,040
All the church wants is my
money.

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00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,200
And we we feel this at times.
Maybe you like, man, I don't

529
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,920
know about this.
Like that'd be hard to give a

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00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,320
large gift.
I don't know what part of the

531
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,040
story that's that seems
difficult.

532
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,560
And we can almost feel like
under compulsion, like I've

533
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,920
really got to do this, but I
don't want to or do it

534
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,040
begrudgingly or do it hesitancy,
like I'm not so sure.

535
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,560
And I just want to remind you
guys today, my prayer is you

536
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,080
leave here knowing that when you
give and your generosity, it is

537
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,880
an act of worship.
It's not an act of duty.

538
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,920
This isn't a religious
organization where you give your

539
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,440
little peace or your thing so
you can make yourself right with

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00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,639
the Lord.
This is a place where we give,

541
00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:19,840
we lay down what we have our
best because we believe what

542
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,080
Jesus is doing.
And so it's an act of worship.

543
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,920
And I'm going to walk through
today and share a story with you

544
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,440
that those are going to be very
powerful.

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00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,080
It's a story of family in our
church that moved from that

546
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,520
hesitancy stage and holding on
and said yes to to giving.

547
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,639
And it's one of those giving
from stories like we talk a lot

548
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,199
about people who receive
generosity, but this story is

549
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,159
actually a story of somebody who
gave and what God did in their

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00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:43,679
life.
So why don't you lean in and

551
00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:46,960
watch this video and just see
all the little pieces of how God

552
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,520
changed their heart and the the
the results of their generosity.

553
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,239
So check this out.
My name is Mike.

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00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,280
My name is Kristen.
And this is our story.

555
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,520
Kind of going into a season of
like unknown chose to go down a

556
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,440
different career path.
I remember she asked, you know,

557
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,400
hey, we should give this amount
of money.

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00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,880
And my first thought was like
heck no like.

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00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,080
Hard.
Absolutely.

560
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,800
It was a hard no just because we
had no idea like what the next

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00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,920
step was going to be and how it
was going to play out.

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00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,160
Like me going back to school.
How everything went was very

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00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,440
different for me when we first
talked about it.

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00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,320
It was hard for me not to get
upset when you said no because

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00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,600
because of what that would mean
and.

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00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,720
It was during the service last
year and Sean had said that your

567
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:42,120
bank account is directly tied to
your heart.

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00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,240
That kind of really stuck out to
me.

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And after that service, I texted
her and I said, hey, let's go

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00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,240
for it.
I remember seeing her daughter

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00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:53,480
just worshipping during band
practice and it was just such a

572
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,520
cool feeling, like seeing her do
that.

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00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,920
And the Hope Center is not free.
It takes a lot of resources to

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00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,880
make that happen.
Takes a lot of time and the joy

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00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:08,040
of giving, knowing that that can
go towards that and just helping

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00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,440
shape young kids just strengthen
their relationship with God.

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00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:19,040
It was a lot on my end to have
to rely on God for the patients

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00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,880
that I needed to be able to
trust him that even though this

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00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,960
is something that I, I think we
can do and I think we should do

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00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:32,160
that, doing something without
you and doing something that

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00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,960
your whole heart isn't in,
that's not what he wants.

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00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:43,600
It was so amazing to see God's
faithfulness and how He worked

583
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:48,040
in your life and in your heart
to bring us on the same page for

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00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,280
this something that we are not
off and on.

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00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,240
I was definitely nervous at
first just not knowing like how

586
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,520
this 2025 was going to shape
out.

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00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,920
But as the year kind of
progressed, it's like everything

588
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,400
has worked out.
I feel like even better than

589
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,280
expected, you know, going to
school and not knowing how I'm

590
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,840
going to fit in there, how I'm
going to handle doing homework

591
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,640
again.
And God just kind of guided us

592
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,560
through this year, played a huge
part on the success we've had in

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00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,400
2025.
Knowing how our generosity

594
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,040
played a part on all these
stories.

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00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,480
It's it's really cool to be on
stage during, especially during

596
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:34,480
baptisms and seeing all these
families come up and just taking

597
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,320
a leap of faith and just showing
1 to proclaim, you know, to the

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00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,480
world that they want to get
baptized, you know, for Jesus

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00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:46,040
And just it's really cool seeing
them go underwater and then

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00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,360
coming up.
It's like a breath of life, you

601
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,920
know, it's the joy on their
face, in their families face as

602
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,480
well.
Just seeing that from the stage

603
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,600
is is pretty awesome.
I mean, it really feels like an

604
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,400
investment in this home that
we're becoming a part of, that

605
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,080
we're helping to build, that
we're getting to know all over

606
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,600
again.
I mean, even not having had a

607
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,040
church home for a really long
time.

608
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,240
Especially a church home that we
both liked being a part of.

609
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:14,400
That we were, yeah, that we both
felt comfortable with.

610
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,840
It was something we had really
been missing all along.

611
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,720
And then being able to pour
ourselves into that is a whole

612
00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:22,760
new level of reward and
blessing.

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00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,720
You were talking about this last
year.

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00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:27,640
Like, on paper, it doesn't work.
He makes it work.

615
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,720
I mean, looking back, it almost
doesn't make sense to invest in

616
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,640
anything else.
I feel like if you take that

617
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,320
leap of faith, you won't be
disappointed, you're not going

618
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,040
to regret it.
Just to see the the direction of

619
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,760
this church is going and to
being able to play a very small

620
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,680
part of that is really awesome.
For me, I think it was more

621
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,280
humbling than anything else,
just to be able to feel like I'm

622
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,520
where I need to be and I'm being
obedient.

623
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,880
I mean, the money will come from
anywhere.

624
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,280
He doesn't need my money.
When we make the sacrifices, he

625
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,400
uses that to transform us.
If you're watching this and

626
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,040
you're on the fence of giving,
just just go for it.

627
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,680
What's holding you back?
God's going to use that money to

628
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:11,200
change lives.
Ask Him to do something bigger

629
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,200
or better with that money.
This is what we were made for,

630
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,960
was to worship Him and to serve
Him and to use every good thing

631
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,080
that we have to pour back into
praise for Him.

632
00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:27,320
This could be your chance to
experience the joy of generosity

633
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,480
and make a difference together.
If God can use our gift, he can

634
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:39,140
use yours too.
Come on, give it up.

635
00:39:42,340 --> 00:39:44,660
Thank you Mike Christopher
sharing that story.

636
00:39:45,420 --> 00:39:46,820
We all walk through that season,
don't we?

637
00:39:47,420 --> 00:39:50,860
Like Lord, can I trust you?
And there, there is 2 distinct

638
00:39:50,860 --> 00:39:54,520
spots in a Christian's life,
those who see giving as worship

639
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,920
and those who don't know why
they should give.

640
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,360
And there's something about your
life when you can look at

641
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:00,920
yourself and say, Lord, you can
have it all.

642
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,720
Like, I'm trusting on you, I'm
counting on you.

643
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,800
But it's a real deal, isn't it?
Like he, he talked about that

644
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,040
moment.
If you listen to the video where

645
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,680
he's like, Nah, man, I'm good,
right?

646
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,880
I'm good.
You may look at that chart we're

647
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,680
looking at, right?
And go, I'm good.

648
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:19,920
And then you say, OK, Lord, like
what I have is actually what I

649
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,360
worship, what I spend it on.
Like where your heart, where

650
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,760
treasure is, your heart is also.
And that that's what spoke to

651
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:25,880
him.
He said, well, OK, Lord, let's,

652
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,760
let's test it.
Let's let's just see, let's just

653
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,400
step up faith, right?
And there is there is a risk to

654
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,840
it.
Like it's not called to be easy.

655
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,680
And you're going to find today
like a story or a walkthrough

656
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,520
where where things shift.
But there's something special

657
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,080
that happens even in their story
where like you, you sow seeds,

658
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,200
you plant seeds, you give
towards it.

659
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,720
And all of a sudden, everything
you look at looks at

660
00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:49,680
differently.
He saw he saw his kids

661
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,120
worshipping it.
It was really youth group like

662
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:53,760
when they played through and the
kids are worshipping it.

663
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,440
Like I played a part of that.
I sowed seeds in that.

664
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,440
Amen.
There's something special when

665
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,560
you like, I played a part of the
story, like moving from they to

666
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,800
we like, oh, they got it.
That's cool.

667
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,160
I'm excited to see how it turns
out.

668
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:06,920
And you know, I played a part of
that.

669
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,280
That's significant.
And they come up here on the

670
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,000
worship team and they're saying
and they see these stories of

671
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,560
people that have been prodigals
and addictions or just lost or

672
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,400
little children come into Christ
and saying, Lord, thank you.

673
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,280
I get to play a part of the
story that that's that's joy.

674
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,320
Amen.
And the Bible says that's the

675
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,240
only quote from Jesus that's
given past the Gospels and read

676
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:29,240
letters you'll find in Acts Paul
course.

677
00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:31,080
Jesus says better blessed is
more blessed.

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00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,480
They give than to receive that
there is no better joy or

679
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,920
greater joy than giving in your
life.

680
00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:39,640
Matter of fact, you think about
this.

681
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:44,240
I for me personally, I never
forget what I give, but I always

682
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:47,280
forget what I spend.
Totally different worlds.

683
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,960
And when I invest in the King of
God, I always look back.

684
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,520
I'm so glad I did and I wish I
had more to give.

685
00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:58,120
I wish I could do more.
I want that spot in my Christian

686
00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,680
life.
And today I want to encourage

687
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,320
you.
What will it look like for you

688
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,280
to step in and see what it's
like to give as an act of

689
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,880
worship, No obligation, not out
of duty or compulsion or because

690
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,200
it makes sense.
And this makes my great plan for

691
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,440
the year or looks like this.
But to say, Lord, what would you

692
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,280
have me to do?
We don't go to the Lord and say,

693
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:19,920
here's my plans.
We go to the Lord and say, what

694
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,160
are your plans?
How can I invest in the things

695
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,160
that matter to your heart and
the things that you want me to

696
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,960
give towards?
So I'm going to walk through a

697
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,440
story today, and this story is
probably lesser known, but it's

698
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,360
going to be very powerful.
And we're being First Chronicles

699
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,720
and so we'll be all throughout
First Chronicles.

700
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:38,800
But if you got your Bible, we'll
be in First Chronicles 10 when

701
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,080
we start off.
I'll give you kept some context.

702
00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:47,440
Saul is the the king of Israel.
He has turned his back on God.

703
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:50,680
He's walked away from God.
He's done everything but inquire

704
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,800
of God.
He's fighting the Philistines,

705
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,280
which seems to be a theme over
and over again.

706
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,840
And he's going to Babble.
He's going to lose his three

707
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,160
sons, get killed.
It's hard to watch Jonathan get

708
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:00,800
killed.
If you follow Jonathan, the

709
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,640
Bible, it's hard, hard to watch
me go down like that.

710
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,240
And then Saul gets killed.
He gets shot with some arrows.

711
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,760
He asked the seer like, just
kill me because they're going to

712
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,000
take me.
And he won't.

713
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,600
So he takes his sword and falls
on it.

714
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,320
And that's the end of Saul's
reign.

715
00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:15,600
And this is what it says about
Saul.

716
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,760
They're going to bring in David,
but this is what it says about

717
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,880
him.
First Chronicles, 1013, it says

718
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,920
Saul died because he was what?
What's it say?

719
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:29,520
He was what?
He was unfaithful to the Lord.

720
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,920
That is significant.
He he was taken out of this

721
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,880
human race because he stopped
chasing down God and following

722
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:39,600
him.
It says this, he goes further.

723
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,800
He said did not what keep the
word of the Lord.

724
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:44,840
I don't know if it's on there
yet.

725
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,320
Maybe it is.
Oh, it is on there.

726
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:48,840
There you go.
I didn't hear anybody go with

727
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:49,880
me.
So I was like, is it real?

728
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,760
He did not keep the word of the
Lord and look what he said.

729
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:57,240
It even consulted a medium for
guidance.

730
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,160
That's that's called tarot
cards, right?

731
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,120
It's called crystals.
It's called somebody reading

732
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,200
your palm and telling you what
direction to go.

733
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,640
He consulted the prophets of
Bao.

734
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,720
He went everywhere but to the
Lord.

735
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,200
And he started instead of
worshiping the Lord, he actually

736
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,720
started worshiping himself.
He actually built a statue of

737
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:18,240
himself, like Saul thought he
was the man and says this, and

738
00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:21,360
this may be the SAS part, he did
not inquire of the Lord.

739
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,520
So Lord put him to what to say.
Yeah, put him to death.

740
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,000
He's in the highest level
leadership in the entire nation

741
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,640
of Israel.
He didn't inquire the Lord, and

742
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,120
the Lord took him out and turned
the Kingdom over.

743
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,560
To who?
David, the son of Jesse.

744
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,600
Now, remember, David was
anointed.

745
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,000
He was a shepherd.
He was a little boy.

746
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,240
He's a teenager.
He's probably 1413, whatever.

747
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,040
And he was just on the backside
of a mountain taking care of

748
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,360
sheep, and they killed Goliath.
We'll Fast forward about 14

749
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,960
years or so.
This actually happens.

750
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,680
And so first Chronicles 13, so
Fast forward a few chapters, it

751
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,800
says this let us bring, now Dave
is in charge.

752
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:07,280
He says, let us bring the ark of
our God back to us for we did

753
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,680
not inquire of it during the
reign of Saul.

754
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,760
That's really crazy.
This is a crazy statement.

755
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,560
That would be saying, hey, Sean,
he preached the Bible, OK, for

756
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,080
14 years or wherever it's been,
and he never inquired.

757
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,440
The Lord never prayed, never saw
after God.

758
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,440
He led on the auspice of God,
but did not know God.

759
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,400
And so he raises up David.
He was anointed, but now he's

760
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,240
installed and one of the first
acts of David is to bring the

761
00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:40,600
Ark of the Covenant.
Now the Ark of the Covenant.

762
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,760
This is really significant.
The Ark of the Covenant is maybe

763
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,040
the greatest, if not the
greatest object in the entire

764
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,200
Old Testament.
Moses is an Exodus 25.

765
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,040
God gives them rules, and he
says, I want you to make this

766
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,080
Ark of the covenant.
It's going to be about four feet

767
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,120
long, 2 1/2 feet wide, 2 feet
tall.

768
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,360
It's going to be made of Acacia
wood, and inside of it you're

769
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,200
going to have the 10
commandments.

770
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,360
This represents God's word.
You have Aaron's staff, which

771
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,600
represents God's power, and
you're going to have a jar full

772
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,320
of mana, which represents God's
provision.

773
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,440
I want you to put that in the
ark, and then I want you to seal

774
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:13,560
it.
I want you to cover it with

775
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,800
gold, wrap the entire thing in
gold, and on top, I want you to

776
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,800
put these two angels on the
edges that face each other made

777
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,080
of solid gold.
And this is what?

778
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,760
This is what the Lord said to
Moses, Exodus 2522.

779
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,200
There above the cover between
the two cherubim, the 2 angels

780
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,920
there over the ark of the
covenant Law.

781
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:32,480
I will.
What's it say?

782
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,560
I will?
Yeah.

783
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,160
We'll meet with you.
I'm going to meet you in that

784
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,960
spot.
I'm going to give you all the

785
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:43,240
commands for the Israelites.
This is the spot, it's called

786
00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:47,280
the mercy seat of God.
This is where God's presence was

787
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,560
going to meet with the leader of
Israel.

788
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,480
He made it with Moses and then
it traveled in the wilderness

789
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,040
for 40 years.
And then it moved around in the

790
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,520
thing called a Tabernacle, which
is a is a tent that they put

791
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,480
together and built.
And as they traveled, they take

792
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,360
it with them.
It's the first horrible church.

793
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,600
Come on somebody.
You know what I mean?

794
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:09,960
This thing, it's almost 400
years now.

795
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,560
So it went with Moses, and then
it kind of got set aside.

796
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,720
And then Saul was established as
the first king that little

797
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:18,160
judges.
And then Saul is the first king,

798
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,880
and he was supposed to meet with
the Lord at the mercy seat.

799
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,400
He was supposed to inquire the
Lord and hear from him, but he

800
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,800
never did.
He never went to the Arctic

801
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,840
covenant.
This is significant when David

802
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:35,320
says that Saul never did this.
And so it's sat just idle, out

803
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,720
of sight, out of mind.
This thing went to Shiloh, to

804
00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:41,520
Bethel, and finally David's
bringing it close to Jerusalem.

805
00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:44,720
It's been 400 years.
So you think, what is David

806
00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:45,840
going to do with the Ark of the
Covenant?

807
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:50,080
What do you guys think?
Give me with the Lord to inquire

808
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:54,840
the Lord to hear from him.
No he doesn't.

809
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,360
He does nothing.
He brings it closer and does

810
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,680
nothing.
He does nothing.

811
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,400
He just waits and sits.
And here's the temptation when

812
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,920
it comes to following God, that
there is a scarecrow that God

813
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:11,160
puts in front of your bank
account.

814
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,960
There's a scarecrow that the
devil puts in front of

815
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:16,240
everything you hold in your
hand.

816
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,560
And the scarecrow says this.
You'll never have enough.

817
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,560
You need more to be secure.
When you get enough, you can

818
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,440
come in here, but don't use it.
Don't invest it.

819
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,480
Don't give it.
This is yours and you need to

820
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:30,800
keep it.
Hold on to it.

821
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,600
Life is the result of the
accumulation of everything you

822
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,760
have.
There's a scarecrow, and that

823
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,680
scarecrow sits there and we hold
on to it as if everything we

824
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,320
have is ours.
And we start holding on to our

825
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,600
own strength and ability.
And we don't acquire the Lord.

826
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,560
We don't say, Lord, what would
you have me to do?

827
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:50,320
And we do things in our power.
And the temptation is that when

828
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,000
you look at your life, that's
what happens to David.

829
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:58,480
It gets preoccupied with comfort
and it gets preoccupied with

830
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,720
your own ability instead of
gods.

831
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,440
And so this what happens as the
Ark of the Covenant sitting idle

832
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:08,200
that he's supposed to worship
and lead from First Chronicles

833
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:12,120
14, One says this now King
Harem, king of Tyre sends a

834
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,680
message to David along with
cedar logs, if you know what

835
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:19,680
cedar closet smells like, Right.
Stone Masons, carpenters.

836
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:20,960
Hmm.
I wonder what's about to happen

837
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,640
here to build a palace For who?
Who's it say?

838
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,800
Yeah.
For him being David, this is one

839
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,360
of those like friendships, like
hey, I'm going to pay you off,

840
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,400
right?
This is like, hey, if you want

841
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,360
to keep good, I'll send
everybody over there.

842
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,080
We'll build a palace where
buddies don't come in, right?

843
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,440
And so David, he is tempted and
look what happens.

844
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:45,280
Another chapter over First
Chronicles 15-1 after David had

845
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:53,160
what constructed buildings for
himself in the city of David.

846
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,240
This place is now fortified.
It smells good, it's all made of

847
00:49:57,240 --> 00:49:59,840
cedar.
He's got everything lined out.

848
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,600
He's in the life of the city.
It's fortified, it's beautiful,

849
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:09,800
it's exactly what he wanted.
After David constructed these

850
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:16,160
buildings, he prepared what to
say a place for the Ark of God

851
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:21,800
and pitched a tent for it.
That's interesting.

852
00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:23,840
That's how you know you have bad
worship.

853
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:29,080
After you build yourself a
palace, you give God a place.

854
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:31,800
That's how you know worship's
out of whack, isn't it?

855
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:34,480
Like when you spend way more
money in yourself when you're

856
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:39,000
not generous, when when you
don't even have a strategy to be

857
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,240
generous.
That's how you know you got bad

858
00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:43,640
worship.
This is being real.

859
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,720
Like we don't look at everything
as, Lord, this is yours.

860
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:48,800
How do you want me to leverage
it for your Kingdom?

861
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:53,000
Where's the best places to
invest for Kingdom impact?

862
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,160
If you don't think that way,
your worship is whacked.

863
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,360
Just being real.
And David builds a palace and he

864
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,160
puts the Ark of Covenant in a
place.

865
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:07,960
And what was that place?
A rusty rickety 5 year old 500

866
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,040
year old tent.
He didn't give a new tent.

867
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,960
He put up the old tent.
He just moved it around.

868
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,520
And I don't know why did he do
it?

869
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,160
Why would he do it?
He's preoccupied, right?

870
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,480
He had life like we do.
He had palaces to build and

871
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,360
places to go.
And maybe he was just accustomed

872
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:32,000
to being in a tent.
Maybe David was just used to,

873
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,960
just like that's the way it is.
It's always been that way.

874
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,640
It never dawned on him that it
should be something different.

875
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,440
It it didn't occur to him that
that this is a place where the

876
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,920
power and the presence and the
provision of God rests.

877
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,080
But of course he hasn't because
he's not been meeting with God.

878
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,960
He's not be sitting with God.
And so he gives God the

879
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,880
leftovers.
Now something happens in First

880
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,000
Chronicles 17, David hearts
begin to shift.

881
00:51:56,080 --> 00:52:02,360
Fast forward 17/1 after David
was what to say, settled in his

882
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:06,200
palace after he kicked up his
feet, got all the right paint

883
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:07,680
colors.
It's all furnished.

884
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,480
It's looking good man.
This is where it's at, he said

885
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,800
to Nathan the prophet, Here I am
living in the House of Cedar

886
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:18,360
while the Ark of the Covenant of
the Lord is under under a tent.

887
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,800
This is a famous passage.
It's also found in the first

888
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,560
Samuel.
He says, what am I doing here

889
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,040
living in this a fantastic life
with all this amazing

890
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,000
commodities and all the stuff I
have and I've accumulated all

891
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,520
the great wealth of the world
and the power and the presence

892
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,800
of God sits out in a rickety
tent.

893
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,960
What am I thinking?
And God does something very

894
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:38,840
special.
I don't have time to walk

895
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,080
through the whole chapter, but
does something very special.

896
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:46,400
In this moment of David's
humility, God gives him one of

897
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,040
the everlasting promises of God.
There's five everlasting

898
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,280
promises of God in the Bible.
He gave one to Noah.

899
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:53,720
I want to destroy the world, the
flood again.

900
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,000
You give one to Abraham where he
said to make you your name

901
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:58,920
famous and your people and your
people great.

902
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,120
And name shall be you.
Those who bless you, bless those

903
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,200
who curse or curse you.
You have you have you have

904
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,080
another covenant with the
Palestinian people.

905
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,360
You hear the divinic covenant
with God, an everlasting promise

906
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:12,280
that I'm going to rule and reign
from David's throne for all of

907
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,240
eternity.
Now David thought that was going

908
00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:17,440
to be his son to be one of his
boys, but it's actually going to

909
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:21,600
be who It's going to be Jesus
because Jesus is the line, the

910
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:26,000
tribe of David.
He's an offspring of David.

911
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,560
And then the last covenant is
the new covenant which Jesus

912
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,280
issued in So out of this moment
where David has humility, God

913
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,960
speaks and says,
congratulations, you figured out

914
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,640
this is about worship.
You got to do something with my

915
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,800
presence.
Go ahead and build it.

916
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,000
I'm so establishing an
everlasting covenant with you.

917
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:42,640
Now, what do you think David
did?

918
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,720
I'd like to say he built a
temple.

919
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,640
He he upgraded the presence of
God.

920
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:54,000
I would like to say that, but if
you go to study this, David does

921
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:59,920
nothing.
He does nothing for 30 years and

922
00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:01,200
this is where the story picks
up.

923
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,760
Fast forward now obviously he's
not been meeting with the

924
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,200
presence of the mercy seat of
God.

925
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,280
He's not inquiring Lord.
He has taken no thought of what

926
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,800
to do.
Zero thought in the Bible.

927
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,120
You read it, read First Samuel,
Second Samuel, First Chronicles,

928
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:16,280
Second Chronicles, 1st St.
Kings.

929
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,640
He does nothing.
That single plan put together to

930
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:24,560
put God's tent and make it a
palace or a temple.

931
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:31,320
First Chronicles 21, Satan rose
up against Israel and inside of

932
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,120
David.
That's how Satan works, by the

933
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:34,200
way.
He comes after the leader,

934
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,440
right?
So if you lead your home, if you

935
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:41,120
lead somewhere for Christ, he's
coming after you inside David.

936
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,760
And now he's vulnerable because
now they walk the Lord and he

937
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,880
says inside him to take a census
of Israel.

938
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:48,600
Now just read through this and
you're going to picture what

939
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,840
this means.
So verse 2 it says so David said

940
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,240
the Joab, the commander of the
troops, go and count the

941
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:54,800
Israelites from Beersheba to
Dan.

942
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:59,200
They report back to me so that I
may know like I got to know how

943
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:03,600
many there are some about
soldiers take a census of all my

944
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,160
ability.
But Joab replied, may the Lord

945
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:10,040
multiply troops 100 times over.
May the Lord the king or they're

946
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,640
not all Lord's subjects.
Why does my Lord want me to do

947
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,560
this?
Why should he bring guilt on

948
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:16,720
Israel?
Joab's like, let's not do this.

949
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,000
This is a terrible idea.
Like the Lord will take care of

950
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:21,720
it.
He'll multiply troops first

951
00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:22,720
four.
The King's word, however,

952
00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:25,080
overruled Joab.
And so Joab left and went

953
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:28,560
throughout Israel and then came
back to Jerusalem and Joab

954
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:30,640
reported the number of the
fighting men to David and all of

955
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:31,960
Israel.
There was, look at this,

956
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:36,520
1,100,000 men.
It's pretty good.

957
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:38,640
Amen.
I mean, I don't have that many

958
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:39,840
people.
I'm not even close.

959
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,040
I dream team is 150 something.
Come on, somebody.

960
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,480
You know what I mean?
Maybe you should stop counting,

961
00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:48,640
right?
There's 1,100,000 men who could

962
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:52,760
handle a sword, including
470,000 in Judah.

963
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,160
He's probably feeling pretty
confident right now.

964
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,040
He's going to whip any enemy
around him, and most of those

965
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,560
guys are right by him.
He's surrounded, he feels pretty

966
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,920
good.
But Joab did not include Levi

967
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,960
and Benjamin the number because
the King's command was repulsive

968
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:08,800
to them.
And they said there's no way

969
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,640
we're counting.
I'm not being a part of your

970
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,760
evil schemes.
This is a good picture going

971
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,000
against the government and even
godly people that should be

972
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,600
godly, right?
First seven says this command

973
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,320
was also evil on the side of
God.

974
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,920
So he what's it say he punished
them.

975
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:26,120
See, when you walk away from the
Lord and you're not in God's

976
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,200
presence, not only like worry
about your comfort, you also

977
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:33,120
start counting your ability.
You, you start looking at your,

978
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:36,560
your bank accounts and
retirement and assets and, and,

979
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,840
and work and all the things you
can accumulate and do.

980
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:40,800
And you say, well, Lord, listen,
I can do this.

981
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:45,360
I don't really need you.
Like I've got it, I've got it.

982
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:47,560
Who's in my hand?
I mean, how does David go from a

983
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:51,280
sling and a stone against the
power of living God, just a

984
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,880
stone to counting up millions of
soldiers?

985
00:56:55,960 --> 00:57:00,520
He lost God's presence and he
knows this is the exact reason

986
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,160
Saul was killed.
He's no different than Saul was

987
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,120
acting.
He took matters in his own

988
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,840
hands.
Verse 8.

989
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,760
Then David said to God, I've
sinned greatly by doing this.

990
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,080
Now I beg you, take away the
guilt of your servant.

991
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:15,480
I've done the very foolish
thing.

992
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:19,440
So Lord said to God, David sear,
go and tell David, this is what

993
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,840
the Lord says.
I'm giving you three options.

994
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,160
Who knows?
This is good parenting.

995
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:27,600
I'm going to give you 3 choices
right now and this is the way it

996
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,600
says choose one of the may carry
out against you.

997
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,880
Verse 11.
So Gad went to David and said to

998
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,080
him, this was the Lord says take
your choice.

999
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,440
Three years of famine, it's your
first option. 2-3 months of

1000
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,400
being swept away by your enemies
with the swords overtaking you

1001
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:45,400
or three, three days of the
sword of Lord, days of plague in

1002
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,000
the land with the Angel Lord
ravaging every part of Israel.

1003
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:51,040
Now then decide how I should
answer the one who sent me.

1004
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:54,040
And so David said to Gad, by the
way, I don't like any of those

1005
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,120
three choices.
Those are all bad choices.

1006
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,400
But David in his wisdom, he
says, I'm in deep distress.

1007
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,960
Let me fall into the hands of
the Lord.

1008
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:07,800
Listen to this for His mercy is
very great, like at least is a.

1009
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:09,760
Chance.
Because the Lord may have

1010
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,920
compassion, but do not let me
fall in the human hands.

1011
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:17,640
So Lord sends a plague on Israel
and 70,000 men of Israel fell

1012
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:24,520
dead and God sent what to say?
How many?

1013
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,960
Yeah, one.
God sends 1 Angel.

1014
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,160
It's probably Michael.
He's the warrior Angel.

1015
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:34,720
He shows up.
There's no negotiations.

1016
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:38,600
It's just what it is to destroy
Jerusalem.

1017
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:45,040
But as the Angel was doing so,
did anybody cry out in humility

1018
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:49,400
and ask God?
No, but the Lord saw it himself

1019
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:54,240
and relented concerning the
disaster and said the Angel who

1020
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:58,040
was destroying the people enough
would draw your hand.

1021
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:01,720
And the Angel Lord was there
standing at the threshing floor

1022
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:06,440
of Arona the Jebusite.
Verse 16.

1023
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,880
David looked up and saw the
Angel Lord standing between

1024
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,240
heaven and earth with a drawn
sword in his hand extending over

1025
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,360
Jerusalem.
Dude, is that a freaky sight?

1026
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,880
I mean, if you imagine looking
out at downtown Kansas City and

1027
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,360
an Angel standing by the city
with a sword drawn over it,

1028
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:22,760
70,000 people already been
killed.

1029
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:26,400
The Lord's hold back his hand.
This is only probably been 15

1030
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:30,400
minutes.
You would be about that tall,

1031
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:35,120
absolutely humbled.
And then David and the elders

1032
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,720
clothed the sackcloth.
They fell face down.

1033
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:40,960
This is this is there's just two
choices of God, right?

1034
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:47,480
Be humble or be humbled, Amen.
There's like two ways of doing

1035
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:48,880
it.
And David, at this moment, he

1036
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,600
gets humbled and he recognizes,
he starts doing math.

1037
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:56,320
I have 1.1 million soldiers and
that means nothing, means

1038
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,040
nothing.
I am nobody.

1039
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,960
Who in the world was I to think
that I had any control or any

1040
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:04,960
power that was anybody at all?
This one Angel can whip the

1041
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:07,360
entire human race out of
existence.

1042
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:09,280
This isn't God himself.
Amen.

1043
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,840
Imagine Jesus coming back.
But he does later on, right?

1044
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,080
But imagine that.
And so he is humbled.

1045
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:20,400
He is broken.
He he here's nothing left.

1046
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:24,400
His arrogance is stripped away.
And David said to the God in

1047
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:28,160
verse 17, was it not I who
ordered the fighting men to be

1048
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,160
counted?
I, the shepherd have sinned and

1049
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:32,600
done wrong.
These are but sheep.

1050
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,720
What have they done?
Lord my God, let your hand fall

1051
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:39,640
on me and my family, but do not
let this plague remain on your

1052
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:41,520
people.
He's taking full responsibility.

1053
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:43,920
Amen.
I sorry, Lord, for making about

1054
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:45,840
myself.
Sorry, Lord, for counting all

1055
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:47,480
these people up.
It's totally my, my fault.

1056
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:49,440
It's not their fault.
It's my sin.

1057
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,400
It's my responsibility.
I'm the one who turned my back

1058
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:53,640
on you.
I've not inquired of you.

1059
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,120
I've made the mistake of
counting and being comfortable.

1060
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,640
Take it on me, Lord, That's
repentance.

1061
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:01,400
Amen.
That there's something

1062
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:03,000
significant.
If you don't have repentance,

1063
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:04,000
you're not going to have
worship.

1064
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:08,720
And so David has a uh oh moment,
verse 18, that the Angel Lord

1065
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,320
ordered Gad to tell David to go
up and build an altar of the

1066
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,120
Lord on the threshing floor of
Arona the Jebusite.

1067
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,880
And so David went up in
obedience to the word.

1068
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:20,720
This might be the first time
he's done that in 30 years in

1069
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:24,560
obedience to the word that Gad
had spoken in the name of the

1070
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:26,920
Lord.
Verse 20, when Arona was

1071
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:31,520
threshing wheat, that boy was
unfazed by that Angel.

1072
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,800
Amen.
He's in there still doing some

1073
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,120
work.
Angel's up there with a sword.

1074
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,560
That boy didn't care.
Amen.

1075
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:41,920
He says he turns.
All the Angel and his four sons

1076
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:46,960
who are with him hid themselves.
So as kids ran hid, Arona just

1077
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:50,320
stood there.
Verse 21.

1078
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,800
Then David approached, and when
Arona looked at him and saw him,

1079
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,600
he left the threshing floor and
bowed down before David with his

1080
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,000
face to the ground.
This guy understood that this

1081
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,600
man was the king and he was
honoring him to worship him.

1082
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:03,880
And then David said to him, let
me have the side of your

1083
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,880
threshing floor so I can build
an altar to the Lord that the

1084
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:08,440
plague on the people may be
stopped.

1085
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,440
Sell it to me at the what?
What's it say?

1086
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:16,000
Y'all want the full price?
Like don't give me no discount.

1087
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:20,160
I'm not going cheap right now.
Verse 23 a Rona said to David,

1088
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,520
take it.
Let my Lord the king do whatever

1089
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:24,440
pleases him.
Look, I will give the oxen for

1090
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:27,400
the big offerings, the threshing
sledges for the wood, the weed,

1091
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:28,560
the grain for the grain
offering.

1092
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:30,960
I will give all this for you
also to be a blessing to you.

1093
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:32,680
I mean, this guy knew who to
worship, Amen.

1094
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,280
He recognized the king had a
need and the Romans like, just

1095
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:38,040
take it, it's all yours.
It's for God, it's for the king.

1096
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,400
Use it how you see fit.
And David and his humility and

1097
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,200
his brokenness, he's about to
give the one of the greatest

1098
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,840
acts of worship you're going to
see in the Bible in verse 24.

1099
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:52,040
But David replied to Arona, no,
I insist on paying the full

1100
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,320
price.
I will not take for the Lord.

1101
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:58,240
What is yours.
I'm not going to get I'm not

1102
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,640
getting any worship if you give
me this piece of property like

1103
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,440
I'm going to buy it.
I'm not going to sacrifice a

1104
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:09,320
burnt offering that what to say
that cost me nothing.

1105
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:12,600
I'm not going to give a gift
that didn't cost me anything.

1106
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:14,920
I'm not going to give you a hand
me down.

1107
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:19,160
Come on, somebody like I'm going
to give you something of

1108
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,880
significance.
And so he buys that threshing

1109
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:26,360
floor for the Lord.
He's going to pay full price and

1110
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:28,600
his humility goes on to verse
25.

1111
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:32,080
It says this.
And so David paid Arona 600

1112
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:35,760
shekels of gold for the site.
Now, this is amazing because

1113
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:36,960
this must have been in his
pocket.

1114
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:39,840
That's about one million U.S.
dollars.

1115
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:43,080
When you did math on that, he
paid $1,000,000 for a threshing,

1116
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:46,720
for a place where you separate
just the, the, the the grain

1117
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,080
from the rest of the stock.
He paid $1,000,000 for a flat

1118
01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,120
piece of stone.
That sounds like a really bad

1119
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,120
investment, doesn't it?
What were you doing buying that?

1120
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:57,520
It's also amazing he had
$1,000,000 on them, by the way.

1121
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:00,200
That's pretty cool.
I've never had that kind of

1122
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:01,840
pocket change.
I mean, I carry a couple

1123
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:04,000
hundreds every now and then.
Never carried a million.

1124
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:06,440
That sounds cool, right?
But I don't know if it would

1125
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:08,080
have cost 100 million, I think
you would have paid it.

1126
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:11,120
I think you would have given
anything and everything you had

1127
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,520
to to pay for that floor.
Here's the point.

1128
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:17,200
The greater the sacrifice, the
greater the worship.

1129
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:22,520
You guys getting that, the
greater the sacrifice, the

1130
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,760
greater the worship.
So here's the thing.

1131
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:30,080
When you give, you're not giving
money, you're giving honor.

1132
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,040
When you when you give, you're
giving away your control.

1133
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:37,720
Amen.
We don't like that, do we?

1134
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:41,440
We like to have it.
But see that when you say the

1135
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:43,760
Lord is everything you're you're
everything I need.

1136
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:45,680
I desire you.
Who am I to think that I could

1137
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:48,600
do this myself and I can have
all my abilities and my palaces

1138
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:50,320
and I'm doing it my way.
I haven't consulted you,

1139
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:51,920
inquired of you.
And all of a sudden he goes,

1140
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:56,120
what was I thinking in that
broken repentance, in that

1141
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:58,800
humility?
That's the greatest offer you

1142
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:01,120
can ever give you.
You've had a moment of life

1143
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:04,400
where you offer yourself to God.
We call it surrender.

1144
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,560
You're over that moment life
where you take a piece of paper,

1145
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:09,040
you sign the bomb and say, Lord,
whatever you want.

1146
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:13,840
You read that moment, your life
where it's not cheap.

1147
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:18,480
Like David didn't go cheap right
here, Amen.

1148
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,440
Like you're not called to go
cheap on the Lord because the

1149
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:25,280
Lord could do whatever,
whenever, however, with whatever

1150
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,760
he chooses to.
You're like, Lord, use me.

1151
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,040
I am a humble servant of yours.
And the Bible says when you're

1152
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:34,320
humble, God lifts you up.
Amen.

1153
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,080
That the first shall be last and
last shall be first.

1154
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:39,960
Like our economy doesn't work in
God's economy.

1155
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,960
Like it requires faith.
And David, for the first time in

1156
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:47,760
30 years, he activates his faith
and he gives a largest gift.

1157
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,120
He's going to give more.
He's going to give way more.

1158
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:51,160
By this time, this story is
done.

1159
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:54,200
And maybe it's one of those
prayer of Jabez that's found the

1160
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:58,520
first Chronicles as well.
Lord bless me, extend my

1161
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:02,880
territory and keeping me from
pain like he started to get it.

1162
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:05,680
He's starting to click like I
need God's power, God's

1163
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:08,360
protection, God's blessing.
I don't need what I have.

1164
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:09,920
I need what the Lord is going to
give me.

1165
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:13,560
I need him to direct my life.
I trust you, Lord, I'm counting

1166
01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:17,760
on you for the first time in 30
years or more.

1167
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:22,040
And so he paid $1,000,000.
And so David says verse 26 built

1168
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:23,920
an altar.
Lord there sacrificed burnt

1169
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:26,320
offerings and a fellowship
offering, and he called the

1170
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,600
Lord, and the Lord answered him
from from fire, from heaven on

1171
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,680
the altar of burnt offerings.
Then the Lord spoke to the Angel

1172
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:34,480
and he put his sword back in his
sheath.

1173
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,720
This entire time that angel's
been sitting there just ready to

1174
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:41,320
like take out the whole city of
Jerusalem and at the level of

1175
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:45,200
worship and humility and
sacrifice and repentance.

1176
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:49,840
The Angel, she is the sword.
And at that time when David saw

1177
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:51,960
the Lord had answered him on the
threshing floor of her own of

1178
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:55,800
the Jebusite, he offered
sacrifices there and humility

1179
01:06:55,800 --> 01:07:00,880
and brokenness out of his own
need, no longer counting his own

1180
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:05,760
ability.
Verse 29 this is story gets

1181
01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:08,120
crazy.
All right.

1182
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:11,800
This says the Tabernacle Lord
which Moses had made in the

1183
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,720
wilderness.
We talked about the whole time,

1184
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:17,240
the beginning.
Remember where it's in that on

1185
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:21,800
that tent, an altar of Brent
Offering where at the time the

1186
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:28,240
high priest at the high place of
Gibeon, he saw it says, but

1187
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:31,240
David could not go before it to
inquire of God.

1188
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:35,200
This is the first time we even
talked about inquire of God.

1189
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:38,360
If you read all First
Chronicles, this is the first

1190
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:41,800
time that any person in First
Chronicles has said, I'm going

1191
01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:44,680
to go inquire of God.
Now David's had a change of

1192
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:46,560
heart, Amen.
Mike had a change of heart.

1193
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:49,400
We talked about that.
Now David has a change of heart.

1194
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,960
Now he's like, I got to get back
to the mercy seat.

1195
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:53,480
I got to get back to God's
presence.

1196
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:57,480
I got to inquire of God and he
says I can't because the he was

1197
01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,760
afraid the sword of the Angel
Lord.

1198
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:02,360
He was afraid the sword of the
Angel Lord.

1199
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:04,840
Why would David be afraid of the
sword of the Angel Lord?

1200
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:13,320
This is a significant, very
significant moment because David

1201
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:19,840
had repented for the census, but
he hadn't repented for

1202
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:24,399
neglecting his house.
He had more work to do.

1203
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:28,000
He had more humility to give.
He used to hold all the things

1204
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:29,520
he's going.
Oh yeah, the 30 years ago we did

1205
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:33,080
have a conversation.
I did build all these palaces.

1206
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,720
I did spend all my money on
myself.

1207
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:39,240
And look what David says in his
most broken moment, humility.

1208
01:08:40,319 --> 01:08:45,160
Then David said the House of the
Lord God is to be where, where

1209
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:51,600
at is to be here is to be here.
He finally decided to build

1210
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,800
God's temple.
Amen.

1211
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:56,760
He finally decided to move.
Humility.

1212
01:08:56,760 --> 01:09:00,080
I'm done playing games.
I'm looking past the scarecrows.

1213
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:03,000
I'm done counting my ability.
I'm done building my comfort.

1214
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:07,600
And for the rest of David's
life, everything he does is

1215
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:13,760
about planning, securing,
funding, organizing for the

1216
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:15,800
building of the temple of God
that his son would build.

1217
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:18,960
Because God told him one to give
me him.

1218
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,359
He is too disobedient.
He'd killed too many men.

1219
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:24,880
He'd rage too much war and David
spent the rest of his life to

1220
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:26,720
build that temple.
That's really cool about the

1221
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:29,800
story you may not know is that
that side of the temple, that

1222
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:33,479
temple we built about 1000 BC,
that's that same temple that

1223
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:35,960
Jesus actually tear apart
because it is the whole, the

1224
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:38,920
whole holiest comes out.
But inside that temple, there's

1225
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:42,319
different courts and places.
And the closer you get in, the

1226
01:09:42,319 --> 01:09:44,120
further you get in the temple,
you get closer to the presence

1227
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:48,040
of God because at the middle of
the temple, the no man can go

1228
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:50,160
into it for once a year called
the high priest.

1229
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:54,720
There was a place called the
Holy of Holies, and the holies

1230
01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:56,680
of holies contain the presence
of God.

1231
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,640
I'm going to take guess what's
inside the Holy Holies.

1232
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:02,920
What is it?
You guys all hear it.

1233
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:06,680
I hear it.
The Ark of the Covenant, that

1234
01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:10,920
floor where David humbled
himself, that threshing floor

1235
01:10:11,480 --> 01:10:15,280
where he weeped and bought and
cried to God and repented the

1236
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:19,680
God was the very floor that he
would build and say that Ark of

1237
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:25,520
the Covenant is going to come
here to this very spot of

1238
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:30,560
humility, of brokenness, that
God's presence is going to meet

1239
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:34,560
me here and inquire the Lord, I
have forgotten this and I'm

1240
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:36,280
going to get my greatest act of
worship.

1241
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:42,000
It's pretty amazing, isn't it,
that God's presence, his

1242
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,200
greatest presence, because the
Old Testament, that was the

1243
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:49,480
greatest presence of God, meets
us in the places where we give

1244
01:10:49,480 --> 01:10:54,600
the greatest worship.
Come on, somebody that's good.

1245
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:57,880
Amen.
We give the greatest worship and

1246
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:01,320
God gives the greatest presents.
And this is exactly what

1247
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:03,920
happened to David.
That temple will be built by his

1248
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,280
son.
Now, here's the rest of the rest

1249
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:08,840
of the story.
First Chronicles is not written

1250
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:12,160
by anybody at David's day.
It's not written by Samuel.

1251
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:14,080
It's not written by Solomon or
one of his sons.

1252
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,080
It's written 500 years later by
a man named Ezra.

1253
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,680
Ezra was a man that came back
from the Babylonian captivity in

1254
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:23,960
the second wave, second rim that
people come back at the temple

1255
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,560
had been destroyed in 500 AD
ish.

1256
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:31,280
And he came back, he showed up
and they had put some of it

1257
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:32,560
together, but they put all that
together.

1258
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:35,160
It's still in disarray.
And the priests weren't doing

1259
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:39,000
they should do wasn't ornate
like it should be been torn down

1260
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:42,520
by the Babylonian captives or
the people that took captive the

1261
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:45,080
Babylonians.
And Ezra couldn't stand it.

1262
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:47,360
And the thing that made Ezra
stand out, the only thing that

1263
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:49,200
makes him stand out, he was a
man of the word of God.

1264
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:53,000
That's the only thing.
That's the only thing.

1265
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:56,320
He was a nobody.
But he had the word of God and

1266
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:57,200
he followed.
Everybody had it.

1267
01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:59,320
He followed it.
And so God put him in charge as

1268
01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:01,520
a priest.
And he wrote first Chronicles,

1269
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:03,040
everything we talked about
today.

1270
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:06,680
He wrote with a mission that
they would get back to

1271
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,720
worshipping God.
This house shouldn't be in

1272
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,840
disarray that they should
sacrifice.

1273
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:15,400
And he got their attention
because they came back home from

1274
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:17,160
the remnant.
He told them all and said, hey,

1275
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:19,480
if we're going to have a
meeting, you know all the men

1276
01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:21,600
that show up and the way he got
the men to get there, it wasn't

1277
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:22,880
Donuts.
Come on somebody.

1278
01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:26,280
He told me, he said if you want
to have a home, a piece of the

1279
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:29,760
property they've come back from,
you're not going to keep it

1280
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:32,600
unless you show up.
So you want to keep, you want to

1281
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:34,760
have somewhere to live, then
come to the meeting.

1282
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:38,440
At the meeting, you started
reading the Word of God and he

1283
01:12:38,440 --> 01:12:40,720
started sharing all these
stories about David and how he

1284
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:42,360
neglected and became about
himself.

1285
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:44,440
And he left the temple in
disarray.

1286
01:12:44,440 --> 01:12:48,240
And he shows David's humility
and his brokenness and his

1287
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:50,640
worship.
And he encouraged the people in

1288
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,640
that time for the second time to
rebuild the temple.

1289
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:57,080
Amen.
I kind of feel like we may be in

1290
01:12:57,080 --> 01:13:03,040
that third time, just the
repentance, the worship.

1291
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:06,440
Like when's the last time we
stopped counting on ourselves?

1292
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:10,600
We start counting on God.
Like when's the last time we

1293
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:14,480
said God by faith, I'm trusting
you, God don't want all of you.

1294
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:19,040
God, what am I thinking?
Like I get this little breath of

1295
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,400
life, this little dash, Is it
going to be like I get done?

1296
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:28,600
It's like good job made a sand
castle, made your own palace, or

1297
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:32,200
is it going to be Lord, thank
you.

1298
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,520
I trusted you while doing my
good and faithful servant.

1299
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:42,320
Like which one's going to be?
The greater the sacrifice, the

1300
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:46,480
greater the worship.
It's just how it works.

1301
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:50,960
When I was a pastor here, people
say I can't give or that's a

1302
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:54,280
lot, or I can't give X amount of
percent.

1303
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:57,720
I'm not talking about
percentages.

1304
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:02,720
I'm not talking about a number.
I'm talking about worship.

1305
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:06,320
Amen.
Worship.

1306
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:08,760
How much do you want to worship
the Lord?

1307
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:13,520
That's what it comes down to.
And so my prayer for you guys is

1308
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,520
open your hands, say Lord,
whatever you have me to give,

1309
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:18,840
I'm going to give it because
I've made the story about me.

1310
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,880
I don't do a very good job of
managing God's stuff, doing it

1311
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:25,120
my way, Lord, I want to do it
your way.

1312
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:27,080
And we all have a starting
point, Amen.

1313
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:31,040
And some of us like, hey, I can,
I can give to that.

1314
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:36,640
It's not my life, remember?
It's been at 18 years old, I had

1315
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:39,200
very little money.
I had started giving when I was

1316
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:40,840
15.
I had very little.

1317
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:44,080
I knelt down by this tree
outside of a camp and I didn't

1318
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:47,040
give my bank account.
I gave my future.

1319
01:14:48,440 --> 01:14:51,440
I gave my breath.
Lord, whatever you have me to

1320
01:14:51,440 --> 01:14:54,520
do, I'm going to give to you.
Every moment of my life is

1321
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:56,600
yours.
You tell me where to go.

1322
01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:59,360
You tell me where to speak.
You tell me what to do.

1323
01:14:59,880 --> 01:15:02,240
It's no longer about Sean's
dreams, it's about your dreams.

1324
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:07,440
That's worship, Amen.
You remember those moments and

1325
01:15:07,440 --> 01:15:08,680
this could be a moment today,
Amen.

1326
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:12,360
When we repent, we turn to God,
we surrender and we open our

1327
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,880
hands, say Lord, whatever you
want, I'm willing to give.

1328
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:17,680
So Father, come before you.
God humble us.

1329
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:20,680
God, thank you for the story of
David.

1330
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:23,320
We reminded that we can have
everything that will, but we

1331
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:26,400
miss you.
So they as Jesus followers.

1332
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,440
How many would say I didn't
inquire the Lord today.

1333
01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:33,160
I didn't humble myself today.
I want to give great worship to

1334
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:34,600
the Lord.
I need to spend some time to the

1335
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:35,800
Lord and find what that looks
like.

1336
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:39,240
I need to open my hands.
I need to see past the

1337
01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:40,640
scarecrow.
I need to stop making plans for

1338
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:44,200
myself and building palaces and
barns and places to lift up

1339
01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:45,920
myself or provide comfort
myself.

1340
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:47,560
I need to do something for the
Lord.

1341
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:50,560
How do you raise your hand high
and say that to you today?

1342
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That's speaking to you, Father.
Teach us that we can trust You

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01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:00,720
with everything.
It's not our life, it's not our

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01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,480
money, it's not our stuff, it's
not our time, it's not even our

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01:16:02,480 --> 01:16:04,720
breath.
God, teach us to give our breath

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01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:10,360
back to you, to worship you.
God, that you could give glory

1347
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:13,400
through our gifts.
The devil knows what we don't

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01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:18,360
give cannot be multiplied to see
souls and so God, I pray you'd

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01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:21,640
cause a revival in our hearts
God and we give we see souls

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01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,280
changed.
The Gospel going out, your

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01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:27,480
presence coming down that you'd
shape something in us that you

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01:16:27,480 --> 01:16:30,040
can be trusted.
And we have a journey of living

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01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:33,200
by faith that will not just
change others, but change

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01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:37,440
ourselves and every time we see
a move of God, say I play the

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01:16:37,440 --> 01:16:40,480
part of that.
My life was not about making my

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01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:41,880
name famous.
It was about making his name

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01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:43,480
famous.
God help us.

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01:16:43,480 --> 01:16:46,520
That's become true for us.
I pray for one more group of

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01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:47,480
people.
That's those you in the house to

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01:16:47,480 --> 01:16:50,560
say, man, I need this Jesus.
I need the one that's worthy of

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01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:54,040
my entire life.
I've been writing my own story,

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01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,800
doing it my way.
And just like David chose God

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01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,720
because he knew he'd be
merciful, when you choose God,

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01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:03,360
he is merciful to you.
The Bible says those who call

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01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:05,600
the name of Lord will be
forgiven from all their sin.

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01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:08,760
As far as he says from the West
being given a name, you'd be in

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01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:11,840
a purpose he'd be given gifting
from God, the presence of God,

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01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:16,600
the Holy Spirit of God and
they'll change you in an instant

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01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:19,800
because of your humility.
He'll change you and make your

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01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:22,200
right with him and give you his
righteousness and you're forever

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01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:28,240
forgiven and made free as a hand
or as a as a instrument in the

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01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:30,840
hand of Redeemer.
They can use your story to

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01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:34,200
continue to propagate the gospel
as a humble servant of the Lord.

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01:17:34,760 --> 01:17:36,240
The Bible says there's no other
name.

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01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:40,720
Do I mention where which men are
saved the name of Jesus and

1376
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,920
today something you call on
Jesus same name that David cried

1377
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:48,000
out to the same presence and
power and provision of God in

1378
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,360
that holy of holies.
That mercy seat in the ark of

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01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:54,280
the covenant lives in us that
know Jesus and you can have that

1380
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:56,640
today in your life.
And so if you can humble

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01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:58,960
yourself and call on Jesus for
the very first time.

1382
01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:02,240
If God's speaking to you and you
say yes to him.

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01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:04,480
We let him be looking around you
just raise your hand highest

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01:18:04,480 --> 01:18:05,680
place.
I need Jesus today.

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01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:08,560
I need to humble myself and get
right with God.

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01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:12,120
So your guys's hands, yes, I
need Jesus today.

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01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:17,320
So your hand, I'm going to lead
you to a prayer.

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01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:18,480
And the prayer does not save
you.

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01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:23,000
But it's that same humility that
David had, the same brokenness,

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01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:27,000
that same repentance.
It's not just a thought, it's an

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01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:28,640
action.
I'm doing it differently.

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01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:31,320
I'm done with the old man.
Lord, I need you.

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01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:34,240
We just pray this prayer and
just cry out to God and say

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01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:37,040
Father God thank you so much.
I've got to recognize my need

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01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:38,720
for you.
I'm a Sinner and need of a

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01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:40,720
savior.
I'm a broken man just like

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01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:42,880
David.
I've counted my own self.

1398
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:44,680
I've built my life on my own
ways.

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01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:47,760
I've followed my own direction.
I've consulted other mediums.

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01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,040
I've found other wisdom.
I've done my own thing.

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01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:53,480
But today I need you to lead my
life.

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01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:57,360
I surrender my life to you God,
I trust you.

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01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:00,320
Thank you for Jesus for dying
across my sins.

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01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:03,520
I praise in Jesus name, the
church said, Amen.

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01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:05,080
Come on, give some glory to God
today.

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01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:06,200
Come on, let's give some
worship.

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01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:15,960
Such a reminder that his
presence is worth any sacrifice.

1408
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:20,080
And some of you recognize today
all that Jesus did to sacrifice

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01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:22,640
himself for you.
And you raised your hand and you

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01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:25,200
committed your life to Jesus
today.

1411
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:28,160
And if that is you, if you
raised your hand, if you prayed

1412
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:32,040
that prayer today and we are so
excited for you, we're here for

1413
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:33,840
you.
We would love to help you and

1414
01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:37,440
support you and resource you as
you're taking this journey with

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01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:38,840
Jesus.
So if you would grab that

1416
01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:41,480
connection card, fill out that
information at the top there,

1417
01:19:41,480 --> 01:19:45,320
but make sure and check that box
that says I committed my life to

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01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:46,600
Jesus.
And you could drop that in the

1419
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:49,600
buckets as they pass here in
just a few minutes.

1420
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:52,520
But just by doing that allows us
to get you a few things.

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01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:54,440
We'd love to get you a free book
in the mail.

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01:19:54,440 --> 01:19:57,160
It's called Begin.
It's a short read, but it really

1423
01:19:57,160 --> 01:19:59,920
gives some really good practical
steps as you're starting your

1424
01:19:59,920 --> 01:20:02,320
journey with Jesus.
And also, if you pray that

1425
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,320
prayer and you're here with us
at Kentucky Trail, as you exit

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01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:08,360
the worship center, there is a
table with some red bags.

1427
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:10,520
Please feel free to grab one of
those red bags.

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01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:13,760
It has a Bible in it for you.
There's a list of some resources

1429
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:16,280
as well from Pastor Sean, but we
would love to get those to you

1430
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:19,680
just to be able to help you as
you are taking those first steps

1431
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:22,200
with Jesus.
And if you are newer in this

1432
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:24,480
space today, this is your first
time at real Life Church.

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01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:28,320
Thank you so much for coming and
spending the morning right here

1434
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:30,360
with us.
We don't really want anything

1435
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:33,160
from you this good morning
except for this and that's just

1436
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:36,240
to introduce yourself to us.
We would love to know that you

1437
01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:37,600
were here.
And so if you could grab that

1438
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:40,480
same connection card, fill out
your information there, but hold

1439
01:20:40,480 --> 01:20:42,080
on to that and take it to the
new here booth.

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01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:45,000
As you leave, it says you exit
those doors just to your right.

1441
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:47,040
There's a new here booth.
Somebody's there.

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01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,440
Would love to just talk with
you, get you a free gift.

1443
01:20:49,440 --> 01:20:52,640
Just our way of saying thank you
so much for being here with us

1444
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:55,200
today and we'd love to see you
back next week.

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01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:57,960
And then we have an opportunity
coming up in just a couple of

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01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:00,240
weeks.
I want to share with you, if you

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01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,080
have a kiddo and you're in this
space, if you have a family,

1448
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:05,920
maybe we have an opportunity for
you as parents to dedicate your

1449
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:09,560
kiddos right back to God.
Children are such a blessing

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01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:11,680
from the Lord.
And so we have an opportunity on

1451
01:21:11,680 --> 01:21:15,840
November 9th to be able to say,
hey, I'm choosing to raise my

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01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:18,400
kids to know Jesus, to love him
and to follow him.

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01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:20,520
And so if that's you, if you
haven't dedicated your kids,

1454
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,160
even if you just have questions
about that, feel free to scan

1455
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,760
that QR code or you can head to
our website and register there.

1456
01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:28,480
Just by doing that, somebody
from our team will reach out to

1457
01:21:28,480 --> 01:21:31,040
you love just to answer your
questions and help you every

1458
01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:33,920
step of the way.
And I want to highlight a few

1459
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:35,920
things through our difference
Maker initiative.

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01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:39,720
And man, just watching Mike and
Kristen's video was just so

1461
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:44,600
inspiring and moving just to
hear even the impact it's had

1462
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:46,600
just personally on them being
able to see.

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01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:49,560
He had mentioned watching his
daughter worship and seeing

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01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:52,440
things from the stage.
Everybody here, people raising

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01:21:52,440 --> 01:21:55,600
their hands and, and committing
their lives to Jesus.

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01:21:56,440 --> 01:21:58,640
And that's what it's all about.
I mean, having a permanent space

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01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:02,480
allows us to minister to so many
more kids, to so many more

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01:22:02,480 --> 01:22:06,480
youth, to families, to see more
prodigals come home to know

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01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:07,920
Jesus.
And that's what it's all about.

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01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:09,920
We truly believe that we're just
getting started.

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01:22:10,480 --> 01:22:13,680
We're believing to see 10s of
thousands of lives changed

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01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:17,920
through the gospel.
And this, this commitment card,

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01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:19,080
you should have gotten one of
these.

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01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:20,280
If not, we'd love to get you one
there.

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01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:23,480
It's at a table in the back.
But this is our act of worship.

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01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:26,360
This, this is all of us.
It takes all of us, not just

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01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,720
some of us, but it truly is
about 100% participation.

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01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:35,320
All of us trusting God through
faith, all of us trusting God

1479
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:37,760
with our generosity.
And so take this card and pray

1480
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:41,680
and fast over this and ask God,
man, what, what part do I play

1481
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:45,040
in moving us out of this
temporary space, out of this

1482
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:49,200
Tabernacle and into our first
permanent home?

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01:22:49,480 --> 01:22:50,920
And we're not going to collect
these today.

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01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:52,840
So no worries about that.
I don't need to fill that out or

1485
01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:55,120
worry about that.
But take this card and think

1486
01:22:55,120 --> 01:22:56,720
about the question that Sean
asked too.

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01:22:56,720 --> 01:23:00,760
What does it look like to give?
Not out of my own ability, not

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01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:03,840
out of what's in my wallet,
what's in my pocketbook, but to

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01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:08,040
give God's ability and how He
will provide with us through

1490
01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:10,840
that.
Not just to give gold or silver,

1491
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:13,960
but to give him bold faith
through this.

1492
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,480
And I want to celebrate too.
Man, we had three first time

1493
01:23:16,480 --> 01:23:19,080
givers last week.
Thank you so much for

1494
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:21,640
worshipping God through giving.
Can you give them a hand?

1495
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:25,200
That is so awesome and it's not
too.

1496
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,320
It's not too early.
It's not too late to give you if

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01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:29,360
you call real life church home,
there are many ways you can take

1498
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:31,160
part in that.
You can check out the screen

1499
01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:32,680
there.
You can scan that QR you can

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01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:34,800
text to give.
You can head on over to our

1501
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:36,560
website.
You can also just drop cash or

1502
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:38,320
check in the giving buckets as
they pass.

1503
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:41,600
There's also a giving box in the
back as well, if that is more

1504
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:44,560
convenient for you.
And as always, if you or your

1505
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:48,360
family find yourself in any kind
of immediate need today, food or

1506
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:51,200
clothing, shelter or whatever
that looks like for you as those

1507
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:54,120
buckets pass here in just a
moment, please, please to them

1508
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:55,800
grab any loose cash that you
see.

1509
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:58,000
We really do want to help you
and resource you this week.

1510
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:04,200
Man, what awesome day can we get
it for God and just the ability

1511
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:07,280
to just create and model a
difference makers here.

1512
01:24:07,480 --> 01:24:09,840
And I love that story, David.
Hey, lot of last couple things

1513
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:11,200
before it gets you guys out of
here.

1514
01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:14,760
So this Wednesday, real life
youth, 6th through 12th grade,

1515
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:16,840
man, they're going to kill it.
Going to have a real life youth

1516
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:20,200
event, Halloween event.
They're going to have games,

1517
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:21,960
candy.
I think there's a talent show.

1518
01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:24,920
So check out the QR going to
come online and find out some

1519
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:26,840
more information.
Love to have your kids there.

1520
01:24:27,440 --> 01:24:29,360
Last thing is this, I want to
remind you of what Pastor Sean

1521
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:31,320
was talking about earlier.
Next week we're going to have

1522
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:33,920
our first welcome party.
So for those of you that are

1523
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:36,920
newer and newer, and if you
wonder if that's you, that's

1524
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:38,560
you.
So come hang out with us next

1525
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:41,160
week between the gatherings.
This is for for anybody that is

1526
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,320
looking to get connected, people
that are looking just for

1527
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:46,520
answers about what real life's
really about just the time you

1528
01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:49,160
guys can hang out.
We would love to come for you

1529
01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:50,880
guys to meet some more
leadership, ask the questions

1530
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:53,120
you've got.
So we'll spend about 30 minutes

1531
01:24:53,640 --> 01:24:56,120
and have an awesome welcome
party next week.

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01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:58,400
So put that on your calendar.
If you guys do prayer for any

1533
01:24:58,400 --> 01:25:00,360
reason, we would love to pray
with you up here, whether it's

1534
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:02,720
as individuals or as families.
If we see you guys next week,

1535
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:05,600
9:00 or 10:45.
And as always, remember, whoever

1536
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,120
finds Jesus discovers real life
and purpose.

1537
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:14,200
See you next week.
This is the end of this podcast.

1538
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:16,840
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1539
01:25:16,840 --> 01:25:19,280
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1540
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