People Make The Difference - Difference Maker Part 2

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Good morning, real life.
We are excited that you have

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come to worship with us this
morning.

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It's our privilege to join
together and just to lift up the

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praises to God.
So whether you're joining us

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here in person, we invite you to
stand on your feet.

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We're going to lift up some
shouts of praise to God this

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morning because it's because of
His love, His work on the cross,

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that our sins are gone.
So let's lift him up.

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It wasn't born nothing that you
shed your blood.

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So I'm going to live like my
shame is gone.

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Won't be shackled to the way I
was.

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So I'm going to live like my
chains are gone.

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Gone now my city's steady gone.
And I sing Hallelujah, time,

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time he is rising, it is time.
And I sing Hallelujah.

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So I'm going to shout like the
battles won.

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Hey, fall back there because the
time is up.

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So I'm going to live like the
stone is gone, gone now my I've

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seen his daily gone and I sing
Hallelujah done, done.

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He is arisen and he's done and I
sing Hallelujah is how great the

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power ever belongs.
Oh, oh, Oh yes, I am the

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righteousness of God.
Oh.

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Oh, singing out to him, cow,
great, the power of the blood.

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Oh, oh I am I the righteousness
of God.

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Oh, oh, oh, gone, gone now my
sin is dead and gone, and I sing

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Hallelujah, done, done He is
arisen it is done.

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And I sing Hallelujah, O and
gone, gone, gone.

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Now my sin is day God.
And I sing Hallelujah, done,

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done He is.
I'll give it up for Jesus this

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morning.
Come on, so good to worship with

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you this morning.
Come rest on us, come rest on us

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as the spirit was moved over the
water.

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Spirit, come over us, Come rest
on us, come rest on us.

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Calm down Spirit.
When you, when you made my heart

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hurt.
When you fill the room, you're

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here and I know you are moving.
I'm here and I know you will

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feel me.
Calm down, spirit.

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When you know you make my heart
# When you fill the room, you're

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here and I know you are moving.
I'm here and I know you'll feel

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me.
Come on, see.

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Fire and wind, Fire and wind
coming to it again.

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Hoping up the gates.
Let heaven on it come rest on

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us, come rest on us.
Fire and wind coming to it

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again, hoping up the gates.
Let heaven on it.

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Come rest on us, come rest on
us.

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Calm down, Spirit, when you
move, you make my heart # When

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you feel the room, you're here,
And I know you are moving.

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I'm here, and I know you will
feel me.

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Calm down, Spirit, when you
move, you make my heart # When

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you feel the room, you're here.
And I know you are moving.

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I'm here and I know you'll feel
me.

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Come, Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit, come rest on us.

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You're all we want.
You're all we want.

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Holy Spirit, come rest on us.
You're all we want.

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You're all we want.
Holy Spirit, come rest on us.

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You're all we want.
You're all we want.

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Holy Spirit, come rest on us.
You're all we want.

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You're all we want.
Calm down, Spirit.

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We When you move, you make my
heart # When you feel the room,

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you're here and I know you are
moving.

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I'm here and I know you will
feel me.

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Calm down, Spirit.
When you move, you make my heart

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# When you feel the room.
You're here and I know you are

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moving.
I'm here and I know you will

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feel me.
Calm down, Spirit.

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When you move, you make my heart
pound.

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When you feel the You're here
and I know you.

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I'm moving.
I'm here and I know you will

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fill me.
Holy Spirit hummus on us.

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You're all we want.
You're all we want.

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Holy Spirit hummus on us.
You're all we want.

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You're all we want.
Holy Spirit comest on us.

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You're all we want.
You're all we want.

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And Holy Spirit comest on us.
You're always we want, you're

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all we want Holy Spirit, you are
well kind, complete in this

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place and fill the atmosphere
cause your glory.

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God is what our hearts are going
to be over.

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Come play to this place and fill
the atmosphere.

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Your glory card is what our
hearts alone to be.

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All my come by your praises
Lord.

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Amen.
Lord Long.

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For your presence in this place
got in the name.

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In your name.
I want to take this moment to

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introduce you to a new song, and
it is called More Than Able.

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And it comes right out of the
Scripture in Ephesians 3 where

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it says when we lean in and we
plant our roots down deep in

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Jesus, that he can do
exceedingly, abundantly, more

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than we can ask or think.
And I think as we're leaning

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into this season of difference
maker for our church, there's

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not more than we could ask
because God, he can do above

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anything we can think.
So let's lean in.

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Let's worship Him.
So when did I start to forget

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all of the great things you did?
When did I throw away faith for

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the impossible?
And how did I start to believe

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that you weren't sufficient for
me?

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Why do I talk myself out of
seeing miracles 'cause?

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You are more than able 'cause
you are more.

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Than able.
You are more than anymore.

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You are more than able and do am
I to deny what the Lord can do?

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

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Oh I've got my confidence back
beside put my trust in the one

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who still does miracles.
You do miracles.

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You are more than able.
You are more than able.

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You are.
You are more than able.

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Because you are more than able.
Who am I to deny what the Lord

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can do?
Can you imagine with all of the

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

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and it's going to happen.
Just let the waymaker through.

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He's going to move.
He's going to move.

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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?
It's going to happen.

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Just let the waymaker through.
He's going to move.

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He's going to move.
Can you imagine with all of the

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

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It's going to happen.
Just let the waymaker move.

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He's going to move.
He's going to move because

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anything is possible and
anything is possible.

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Anything is possible.
We remind to deny what the Lord

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can do.
If anything is possible,

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anything is possible, anything
is possible to deny what the

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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

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can do?
You are more than anymore.

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You are more than able.
You are more than able you.

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Are more than able.
Who am I to deny what the Lord

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

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

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can do?
The God of the impossible, man,

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the God that shows up week in
and week out, no matter what

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state or what season you're in,
man, God is always here.

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God is always the God of the
possible man.

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Let's give I forgot one more
time, man.

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Love to hear you guys worship.
I want you guys to know there

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are a ton of new people here
today, man.

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Thank you guys for choosing to
gather with us online in person.

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Can we give those guys some
love?

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Just give them a round of
applause, man.

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If you guys know this or not,
winter's coming.

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Did you guys like that for a
little little cool?

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I'm man I'm not ready for.
I told Pastor Sean we're not

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ready for yet, but it's on the
way.

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So hey man, I want you guys to
find somebody, greet them, let

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them know how glad you are
seeing this morning.

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Right, you guys can go ahead and
grab a seat.

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Hey, as you guys are sitting
down, I want you guys to know

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that I am getting some feedback
here.

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You guys are getting ready to
sit on something awesome.

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It's called our connection card.
This connection card is an all

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play moment.
It's for everybody in the house.

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So let me tell you a little bit
about it.

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If you call real life home, we
love it when you fill out these

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cards.
Let us know what's going on in

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your life.
You put on some prayer requests,

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some praises.
We love to pray over these week

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in week out.
Our team really looks forward to

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it and they truly excited to see
what you guys have going on when

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you turn those in.
If you guys are new with this,

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I'm going to make a promise to
you and I'm going to ask

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anything else from you this week
except one simple thing.

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We just love for you to
introduce yourself to us.

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Let us know who you are, fill
out the information to the level

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that you're comfortable with.
We're not going to show up your

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door or anything like that, but
we want you to that we care

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about you.
We'd love to send you more

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information about real life this
week so you guys have an

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opportunity to turn those cards
in a little bit later in the

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gathering.
We do all of this week in and

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week out because we say that we
are a church on a mission is why

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we exist is why we do what we
do.

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That mission is to see people
far from Jesus discovered the

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real life of her.
They're far from God discovered

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the real life of purpose in
Jesus.

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What that means is this is like
when you guys walk through your

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daily life.
Is everything always perfect?

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Is it easy?
It's not right.

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And I get to talk to people at
work just on on the daily

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routine and they come in they're
like, man, my life is destroyed,

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it's broken.
What do I do next?

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That's why this real life church
is here, is to get people

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connected to what's next to find
their next step, to find that

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purpose, to find that mission
because you're never going to

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find that out in the world, but
you're going to find that in

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Jesus, in the pleasure and the
joy of us.

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What we do every week is we can
see people walk in here broken

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and destroyed and they walk out
with hope.

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They walk out with the knowledge
of that somebody cares about

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them, that Jesus loved them
enough to die for them.

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That's what the gospel is and
that's why we're on mission.

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And so it really leads in also
to what we're in the middle of

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this Difference Maker series.
And I'm so glad you guys are

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here.
We kicked it off last week.

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And so for the next 5 weeks,
we're going to lean into what

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really this church has always
been about, but we're going to

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put an exclamation point on it.
So for the last eight years, if

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you don't know our story, God
has used this body, this

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gathering to bring hope and
transformation throughout this

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community and really across the
world.

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But God has asked us to step
into a season for all of us to

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become difference makers.
And what that's going to look

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like is we're got being called
to not create a building, but to

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create a movement.
And we're hoping that God takes

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this tool of a building that
we're, we're, we're reaching for

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in, in, in building some
momentum to, to take that to

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change to the next generation.
It's what we're believing that

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God's going to remove obstacles.
We're believing in God to make

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the impossible happen.
We don't have the answers to

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everything, but we're looking to
the God that does.

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And so we're hoping and we're
praying and we're having faith

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that God will take every person
in this room individually to

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become difference makers, to
change the next generation, to

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see souls transform.
So once you guys take this

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opportunity, let's give a big,
huge, real life welcome and

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bring up Pastor Sean as we
continue Difference Maker.

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Hey, I don't even need that
today, Barry.

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Oh, man, they, they, they
upgraded me, baby.

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So it's good.
That's right.

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I don't know if that's going to
work out very well.

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So well, man, who's feeling
blessed today?

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Come on, somebody that song,
man, God is able.

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Was that good or what?
That was just something for your

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soul today.
It's it's refreshing to remember

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what the Lord can do and it's
possible to do anything.

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And so I'm going to celebrate a
few things.

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Oh, by the way, if you're like
what happened to Pastor Sean?

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I fought a bear, I killed a
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It got me a little bit.
I'm good.

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But yeah, three weeks out of
surgery from rotator cuff and

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it's going really well.
Amen.

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I'm blessed, so don't worry
about me, but just keep praying

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it's good.
So I got three more weeks in

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this bad boy.
Hopefully that's it and I'm good

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to go.
I'll slowly take a journey back.

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But today I want to celebrate a
few things.

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One last week we had five people
commit to life, to Jesus, Amen.

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That's amazing.
That's significant.

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It's about why we're doing a
building, why we have this

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initiative.
That's the best kickoff we could

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ever have, Amen.
Like that's why we're doing it.

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The building is a tool, right?
It's, it's, it's a, it's a means

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to an end the, the mission, the
movement.

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Like Barry talked about,
sometimes you put a building up,

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it's like we arrived.
It's like we just started Amen.

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Like it's about the gospel, it's
about souls.

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It's not about concrete and
steel.

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And so we're excited 5 people
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And I would encourage you guys,
I've really what it looks like

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today to be an everyday
difference maker.

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You know, we, we hear these
stories like these five people

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come to Christ.
Let me just tell you a little

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bit about how this, this usually
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It's, it's actually not a very
complicated formula.

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It's us going out and sharing
the good news of Jesus and the

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conversations around us.
And it doesn't mean we're just

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like preachers, like here's the
gospel, but you weave the gospel

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in the conversations and you see
people hurting, you see people

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in need, you see people broken,
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That's a holy moment, Amen.
That's a spiritual moment.

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And there's some people at our
church that like have spiritual

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eyes to see like you just walk
around.

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It's not like I go to church on
Sunday like I am the church and

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I just see what God's doing all
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I sense of spirit, I sense what
the enemy is up to and I'm just

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going to step on in.
And what those ladies in our

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church is Christy Hardy.
She just has a spiritual sense

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on her.
She's invited so many people

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who's been invited by Christy.
Just show of hands.

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Like, I mean, there's a lot of
you guys, right?

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I mean, a lot of people just
know Christy, if you don't know

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where she runs her kids, she's
married to Barry, you know,

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sorry, but she was out about 3
weeks ago, maybe a month ago,

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and she ran some people she
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And one of his name was Perla
and she divided Perla to church

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with her family and didn't know
what God's going to do.

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She shows up the next week and
that was a week Logan was

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preaching, not Logie, all right,
but he said he can do a good

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Logie, he's good at that.
Just don't do something.

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And that Logan's preaching and
guess what?

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Perla and her sister, her family
came to Christ.

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Amen.
Just because everyday roommaker

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just somebody saw somebody and
said man that God can make a

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difference your life.
It was just like come out to

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real life like how you doing
spiritual what's going on your

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life.
Hey, you know what's made a

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difference in my life?
It is Jesus.

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Can you just come with me?
I'll save you a seat like I'll

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sit with you.
Just just come on out and see

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what God can do.
She comes to Christ last week.

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You know what they did They're
so excited about Jesus.

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They invited somebody with them.
Amen.

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Like this is how the gospel
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It's just relationship circles.
And so sometimes you

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overcomplicate this for like
other spiritual, like spiritual.

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I don't even call that like
your, your spiritual pedestals.

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There's spiritual practitioners,
there's spiritual privilege.

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No Amen.
You have the same Holy Spirit as

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everybody else does.
The the ground of the cross is

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equal by the way it's level and
the power of God lives in you.

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I will encourage you to when
you're like living on mission,

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please don't say you're not
qualified or you're not good

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enough or you don't have don't
know enough.

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Can I tell you you you know
enough?

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Like just tell people what you
do know.

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Amen.
Like you don't tell what you

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don't know.
And then you Start learning.

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So if you know like A to G, tell
them about everything in front

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of it, right?
Don't worry about Z or like

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bury, like triple Z like the
dudes you know, watching all

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these things, right?
Like you don't have to tell

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people what you don't know, but
I encourage you to go out and

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share and see what God can do.
That's just a little story,

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right?
Everyday dress Baker, you can

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make a difference to all this.
Last week, those yard signs were

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like flying off the shelf.
They were going.

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I talked about how many people
come to church because they saw

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a sign and I really wasn't
planning on it.

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And then all of a sudden people
were taking signs.

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That's an introverted dream.
Amen.

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I mean, you don't have to do
nothing.

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You just like, hey, I put it out
and guess what?

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You got one more MO left in this
season, brother.

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Boom, 8 months of being a
witness, six months of being a

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witness.
Just stick it down in the yard,

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right And all of a sudden you're
proclaiming just the good news

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of Jesus and there's a place of
hope and people come because

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that Amen.
So there's some signs out there

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for you.
Take more than one right, put

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them out, give some friends.
Somebody actually left one last

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week and you know, like you're
always wondering like does

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somebody taking on tear down or
is this supposed to be here?

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Well, they weren't taking it
just got left out.

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So I brought it home and a God's
great sovereignty.

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There's a man came house
yesterday and said I meant to

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grab a sign last Sunday.
I said, well, did God set you up

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for a reason?
It's here in my garage.

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Here's your sign, right?
So, yeah, we went on a walk,

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five mile walk last night and
guess what?

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That sign was in the yard on
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Come on somebody, right?
And that's just a little

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everyday difference maker.
I want to encourage you guys as

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well.
There's a, a lady that goes to

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our church, loves our church,
loves Jesus and took everyday

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difference maker, not just here,
but across the world.

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And she's been in Thailand just
over three months and just got

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back this this last week.
She was really tired, but we're

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going to stop her.
And you, you know her.

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She comes here if you don't know
her, but her name's Rochelle

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Morlock.
And if she's watching online,

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I'll just come to the second.
But if you give up for Rochelle,

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Amen, let me know.
Your lover, turn the gospel out.

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Every difference maker across
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And I'm a big fan.
And that the gospel is not just

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for here, it's for all places.
And when you read the Great

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Commission, it's not, it's not
either or you can't be like,

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well, I just don't do missions
or like I'm the way out of

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missions.
I believe it's both ends.

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I believe the light shines
bright here and we take it

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somewhere else as well.
And so I believe you support

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local and you support across the
world that we stay and we go, we

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pray.
Some of you're supposed to go,

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some of you're called to go.
Amen, Amen.

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You better keep your hands open.
You got if you tell me no, I'm

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like, God's been working on you,
right?

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Like this is so we play a part
of the story.

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And so everyday difference
makers, man.

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And one of those ways to do that
is through fasting.

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And you guys have been fasting.
How many guys have been fasting

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last couple weeks?
You've tried at least once

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you've been doing it show of
hands.

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I mean, that is significant.
Can you guys give it up for

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everybody's fasting of the day,
by the way?

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I mean, that's a weird thing
like, but this should be normal.

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There should be normal language
in the Christian world and a

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church is that people prayer
fast for the will of God and the

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things of God and it makes an
amazing difference.

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And sometimes you forget like
the power of fasting.

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So I'm going to keep just kind
of plug in this a little bit and

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just pushing a little bit.
There's a story of a lady in the

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Bible named Hadessa.
Has anybody heard of Hadessa?

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My guess is you all have heard
of her at some level, but you

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don't know her Jewish name.
I was kind of said Yep, on that

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was kind of me in a little bit.
She has a Persian name.

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Maybe help out a little bit.
Esther.

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Her name's Esther.
And I always think it's

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interesting like we that the
Bible kept like their slave name

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or like, you know, Shadrach,
Meshach and Benigo that that's

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not their real names, right?
Like they've been renamed by the

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culture they're in.
And so Esther's story is quite

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amazing.
I'm not going to give it

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justice, just saying because I
don't have a ton of time to walk

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through the story, but I would
encourage you to read it.

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It'll take you about 30 minutes.
So if you find Psalms back up,

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go through Job, go back Esther's
story.

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It's 10 chapters and it's very,
very powerful.

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It's let me give you like the
big context and the power of

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prayer and fasting.
So Esther, she's a young teenage

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girl, OK?
She's not some mature person.

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She doesn't have all put
together, but she has great

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faith.
She's part of the remnant that

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came down from Babylon
captivity.

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Her her cousin Mordecai came
with her end up adopting her.

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And so she's just in this
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The Kingdom of Persia is
massive.

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It goes from Egypt, Turkey, all
the way east, all the way

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through India.
You're talking a huge amount one

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of the one of the greats, you
know, like you have the, the

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Greek Empire, the Roman Empire,
the Persian empires, one of

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those empires and the the king
Zarxies, his wife did not obey

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him, which I didn't blame her
because he's asking for some

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pretty inappropriate things.
And she says no.

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And he basically talks to his
counsel and they say, Hey, let's

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just there's a law that she
can't even talk to you unless

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you unless you actually invite
her to come in.

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And so he casts her outtakes
away her power.

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And so we need to find a new
queen.

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And Long story short, to bring
up Esther and God appoints her.

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Now Esther's a Jew, but nobody
knows she's Jewish.

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She's hid it.
And so there's this man named

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Haman.
Somebody say Haman, we're going

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to hate on this guy day, OK,
because he hated the Jews.

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He was upset.
Mordecai wouldn't respect him.

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He wouldn't bow down.
And so he said, hey, Mordecai,

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I'm not going to just kill you.
I'm going to kill every Jew in

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the Persian Empire.
We're talking about hundreds and

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hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of Jewish people.

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They're going to be killed.
And So what happens is this gets

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spread out to all the the the
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There's the edict that's put
out.

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The Haman had talked to king and
to make an edict kill everybody.

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And he did something very
special.

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He cast lots to pick the day of
which he'd kill him.

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It's what that means is they
have these stones or these

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sticks and they kind of throw
them out kind of like you play

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dice.
And then whatever number it was,

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I was like, OK, that's the day
we're going to do it.

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And so they cast lots to pick
the day.

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An actual day like this is the
edit goes out to 127

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territories, and that day you're
going to eradicate and

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distinguish every Jewish person
in our Kingdom.

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That's pretty crazy to think
about.

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And so Mordecai hears this.
And at this point, the nation is

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already fascinating.
The people are hearing this.

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They're carrying their clothes
and sackcloth and ashes.

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They're mourning and they're
fascinating for how to make a

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move.
Mordecai calls that or calls up.

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He didn't call her up, right?
Oh, Esther, maybe he did that,

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right?
But he gets a hold of Esther and

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he tells her about the plot.
And he says she goes, well, I'll

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talk to the king.
I'm going to be killed because

448
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,720
against the law.
And he said, well, maybe you put

449
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,000
in this position for just a time
as this, right?

450
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,040
Like maybe God put you here on
purpose.

451
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,120
And so she replies to him her
plan, and she asked me something

452
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:23,440
very special.
She asked me to fast.

453
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,920
So you can find this in Esther
chapter 4 verse 16, she said

454
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,760
this.
Go gather together all the Jews

455
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,880
who are in Sousa, which Sousa is
the base of the place where the

456
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,920
king is ruling from, and fast
for me.

457
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:39,640
And look at how long the fast
is.

458
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,200
Do not eat or drink for three
days, night or day.

459
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:46,200
That's a fast.
Amen.

460
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,880
I mean that ain't like the 12
hour window of not eating.

461
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,760
We're talking about full on God.
I need you or a backs against

462
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,160
the wall more than any of this
food in this water.

463
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,400
I need you to make a move.
I need you to deliver us.

464
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,880
I'm trusting you and they're
begging for God to make a move

465
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,480
and praying for her for a divine
favor with the king says I my

466
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,760
attendance will fast as you do,
which is a great leadership

467
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,320
principle by the way.
And when this is done, I will go

468
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,320
to the king even though is
against the law.

469
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,360
And if I perish, come on
somebody, I perish.

470
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:18,880
Like if I'm going out, I'm going
out, but I'm going to go out.

471
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,800
But the way that I believe God
has called me to go out.

472
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,920
And so God answers the prayer.
There's actually something very

473
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,640
special happens.
There's a dream, or it's not a

474
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,200
dream, but he keeps the king
awake.

475
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,600
He can't sleep and sort of
starts reading the Chronicles of

476
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,640
Anals, which is history book.
And he finds out that Mordecai

477
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,400
has actually saved his life.
The Mordecai found some spies

478
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,680
and he got them eliminated.
And so he starts to honor

479
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,840
Mordecai and ticks off Haman.
And it's all the backdrop of how

480
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,880
Esther meets with Haman
privately or his Arxes.

481
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,280
And he and he, she tells them,
hey, this is the man that set

482
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:49,920
the plot up that's even going to
kill me.

483
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,720
I'm a Jewish person.
And so she gives goes out the

484
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,080
next day, the third day, and she
stands in front of the king is

485
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,640
what it says in chapter 5, verse
one.

486
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,000
On the third day, Esther put on
her roller robes and stood in

487
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,960
the inner court of the palace.
That's a huge act of faith, by

488
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,640
the way, like you're going to go
somewhere where the last person

489
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,000
was cast out and you're most
likely going to be killed.

490
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,560
As she steps into this inner
court and in front of the King's

491
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:11,640
hall.
And the king was sitting on the

492
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,720
roll throne in the hall facing
the entrance.

493
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,920
And when she saw the Queen
Esther stay in the court, he was

494
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,000
what what's to say?
Yeah, He was pleased with her

495
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,880
and held out his her and the
golden scepter that was in his

496
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,280
hand, which was inviting her in.
And the the the favor of the

497
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,920
king was amazing.
King's archies told her, I'll

498
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,840
give you whatever you want, up
to half the Kingdom.

499
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:33,600
That's a good day.
Amen.

500
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,360
That's exactly what they've been
praying for, God's favor.

501
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:37,400
And she goes, I don't want the
Kingdom.

502
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,040
Matter of fact, I wouldn't even
question this.

503
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,960
You've made us slaves, but
they're going to kill us.

504
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,720
And who's in charge of this?
And she pointed out Heyman and

505
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,120
get and guess who got killed
that day?

506
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,320
Heyman.
And then Mordecai got promoted

507
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,320
to the second in charge of the
entire Kingdom.

508
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,840
And then out of that, they
warned the Jews of the fight.

509
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,360
The Jews fight back.
All of Heyman's kids get killed

510
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,600
and Mordecai steps in the place
of prominence.

511
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,560
You had no idea that fasting
could do that, Amen, That that

512
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,880
fasting could change A nation
like this is a a teenage girl

513
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,280
that changed.
That's an everyday difference

514
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,600
maker, by the way, Amen.
Like, like she had no idea that

515
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,240
that little step of faith, like
just walking into a hall and

516
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,000
going against the government,
that would never happen.

517
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,280
Amen.
Right.

518
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,200
Like that, that we would break
some rules for Jesus would be in

519
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,240
the will of God and be used to
save kingdoms.

520
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,560
I want to encourage you when you
fast, it can change your

521
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,760
marriage, it can change the
city, it can change this church,

522
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,760
it can change your family.
And in this case, it actually

523
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,400
changed a nation.
And so I'm encourage you guys to

524
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,640
faster in the season we talk
about building or have this

525
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:48,040
initial campaign to raise money,
this initiative so we can say

526
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,440
yes to a space because we're
asking for divine favor.

527
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,440
Amen.
We're asking for boldness.

528
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,000
We're asking to be in the right
rooms, but I don't want you to

529
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,880
miss this.
It's all about everyday people,

530
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,720
every one of us stepping into
our call and asking Jesus, what

531
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,480
would you have me do today?
Not just showing up on Sunday.

532
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,400
You know, I know a lot of
churches and they have great

533
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,080
buildings, but sometimes those
buildings are empty.

534
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,760
You ever been in the church?
There's an empty building.

535
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:15,840
I mean, you ever worked
somewhere?

536
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,440
I mean, I used to work at a
church and it's like, man, this

537
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,120
place could see the 800.
You know, that's like, I wish I

538
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,040
could take the pews out because
we're running too, right?

539
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,199
I mean, and and there's a lot of
big buildings that doesn't have

540
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:29,159
healthy ministry.
And the the point is this, if we

541
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:31,960
build a monument and we get back
and we go, man, look what we

542
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,560
did.
Whoo, those are the glory days.

543
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:40,040
Like don't waste our time, Amen?
Like, like it's a movement and

544
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,600
the building is a tool.
It's it's a means.

545
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,120
It's not, it's not really the
vision like the that's part of

546
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,199
the vision to get to where we're
going, but the vision is souls,

547
00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,719
Amen?
The division to see souls

548
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,080
change.
And I've been crowned to God

549
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,400
asking God to give us 10s of
thousands of souls, not

550
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,040
hundreds, not thousands, 10s of
thousands.

551
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,000
Like why not us?
Like why not in our generation

552
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,600
that we'd be a force for the
Kingdom of God because we were

553
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,080
everyday difference makers for
him.

554
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,440
It's really about stories,
right?

555
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,200
Like we talked about the stories
earlier of Perla and, and people

556
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:14,720
going out and just signs these
little things.

557
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,320
That's what the church is made
of, Amen.

558
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,400
And we can do that.
We'll qualify to do that.

559
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,000
And so I believe there's been
10s of thousands of stories as a

560
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,520
result of the space that we're
going to that God's going to

561
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,280
bring us to.
But I want to share with you one

562
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,200
of these stories that's already
happened that is so powerful.

563
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,520
And this is one of so many
stories, right?

564
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,520
We talk about 500 people come to
Christ so far.

565
00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:36,800
This is one of those stories.
So lean in and listen and ask

566
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,280
yourself how, what's the
everyday difference makers that

567
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,400
made this story possible?
Because you're going to see them

568
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:42,840
in the story.
So this is it.

569
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:48,640
Check it out.
I am this and this is my story

570
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:57,400
before real life, before coming
to Christ at all.

571
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:04,560
I battled depression since I was
a kid, full of anxiety, no self

572
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:10,520
worth, spent years trying to
find myself and figure out who I

573
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:17,200
was and as I got older I turned
to drugs obviously just made

574
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,360
everything worse.
Nothing ever worked.

575
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:25,200
Coming back to a point of even
being suicidal when I finally

576
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,120
had my breakthrough at a
concert.

577
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:33,880
All the sudden in the middle of
of this concert, I had the most

578
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,640
powerful, I don't know,
goosebumps all over my entire

579
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:43,280
body and that moment I had
actually heard God, he just said

580
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,400
come to me.
It was a couple months after

581
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,440
that is when I hit one of my
lowest lows.

582
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:54,960
Finally decided to push the
pride aside and go with what God

583
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,640
was telling me and find him.
I reached out to Kyle spread and

584
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,160
came to real life church.
The start of my transformation

585
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,600
where the real difference in my
life began.

586
00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:12,960
My daughter Luciana had been
asking me to go to youth group.

587
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:14,920
They eventually obviously took
her.

588
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,560
It was a worship night when we
like the first night that I took

589
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,800
her that I stuck around just to
just to see how, you know, this

590
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,280
whole youth thing was going and
how my daughter would do in it.

591
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:32,200
And as everybody is and going
around the room praying, I just

592
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:37,920
I completely broke down into
tears and couldn't help but feel

593
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:43,360
God's spirit just heavy on me.
After that night, I couldn't

594
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,800
help but to come back and there
was a joke that was made that

595
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,800
maybe I could step in and leave
with Kyle.

596
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,920
I contacted Sean and I said, you
know, that this was brought up.

597
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,160
You know, I was like, can we
maybe talk about that, because

598
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,720
something that I want to do is
help people and I feel like I

599
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:03,200
could, you know, help these
kids.

600
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,840
After that, Sean said, you know,
man, you got to meet me really

601
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,760
got to know Christ before you do
this.

602
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:14,240
So let, let let's let's meet up.
We met at Panera Bread.

603
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:19,080
There I was, Sean had me praying
in public and Panera declaring

604
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,480
that I had given my life to
Jesus Christ and he was my

605
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:27,240
savior and I had believed
everything that he had done for

606
00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:29,840
me.
And the story kind of goes from

607
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:34,720
there, you know, going into and
becoming the accused leader and

608
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,080
everything, the faith spreading
through my family.

609
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,880
I don't know, every time that I
was coming to church it was like

610
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,200
he was speaking directly to me
most times.

611
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,960
All the love and acceptance I
had felt from everybody in the

612
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,400
church and does everything about
it.

613
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:59,560
Finally find that person and me
that I had tried to find for so

614
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,040
many years.
Being able to express my

615
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:09,280
happiness and but but finally
express true happiness and in a

616
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:13,280
real way as kind of a roller
toaster, but not really like a

617
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:18,800
downward roller toaster.
There was no more depression, no

618
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,400
more feeling of being lonely as
like a weight lifted off of me

619
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,240
like I could I could finally
breathe.

620
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,280
I can find solace knowing that
God is with me and I can turn to

621
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,000
him.
I'm a completely different

622
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,680
person from just over a year
ago.

623
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,560
I would have never gotten to
experience any of this had I not

624
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,400
found my salvation.
I got baptized 2 months or so

625
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:45,880
after I found my salvation, but
not only did I get baptized, my

626
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,200
wife and my daughter got
baptized along with me.

627
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,680
I can't thank God enough, and I
can't thank this church enough

628
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:58,000
for having us all feel so loved
and accepted.

629
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,400
It's changed all of our lives so
much.

630
00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:06,000
Just a couple months ago my 7
year old got baptized as well.

631
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:11,080
If you've never seen or heard a
7 year old and come up with her

632
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,480
own prayer and it's one of the
cutest things ever.

633
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,800
I believe that it's important
for us as a church to be

634
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,000
difference makers and step out
and try to find a permanent

635
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000
space for us because they can
allow us to bring more people

636
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,320
in.
And have that many more people

637
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:33,000
come to Christ and more lost
souls just like me to find their

638
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,240
salvation.
If somebody like me can find

639
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:41,320
Jesus here, then imagine the
thousands more that could in our

640
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,920
first permanent home.
And I'm proof that this is a

641
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,440
place where prodigals can come
home.

642
00:40:51,880 --> 00:41:00,280
For them.
That story is so many levels of

643
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,280
go God, so many levels of
redemption and just coming off

644
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,160
all the things and you know
what, it's fun.

645
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,280
It's good to play part of the
story, a small part of the

646
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:09,920
story.
Amen.

647
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,760
Like you did you guys see this?
This isn't just a story of how

648
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,960
God can make a difference in
Lucas's life, although that is

649
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,520
the primary story.
Like that's the banner.

650
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,080
Like thank you, Jesus, what you
did, but behind the story,

651
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,400
there's a lot of small stories.
Did you guys pick up on the

652
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,760
small stories that he he was
hurting and he called his friend

653
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,640
Kyle.
Kyle and Mandy had been praying

654
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,800
for Lucas and inviting him to go
to church for over 15 years.

655
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,160
Like they never gave up on their
high school buddies, ran

656
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,400
together, all those different
things.

657
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:44,040
And Kyle and Mandy were broken
for him.

658
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,800
And so when he got into a spot
where he needed God and he need

659
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,800
to find an answer, who do you
call the everyday difference

660
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,680
maker in his life?
Amen.

661
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,360
The one that truly cared that
like never gave up was always

662
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,880
there, always encouraging.
And because that he invited him

663
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,000
out to to to the youth group.
But you notice who invited him,

664
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,960
his daughter.
Remember that his daughters beg

665
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,720
him to come to youth.
By the way, didn't know Jesus

666
00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:13,360
yet, but invited his her dad to
come out to youth and come and

667
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,120
he shows up and you see the
difference that happened.

668
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,760
There was a group of people that
have this thing called a youth

669
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,960
team, Amen, that actually have a
youth group and these people

670
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,560
come there and and their own
time and energy and it's it's

671
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,000
effort and they set up like we
set up here, not to this extent,

672
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,920
but they set up and they pray
for those kids and they have fun

673
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,640
with those kids.
I've I've broken my body for

674
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,080
teenagers in the past, right,
I've had broken ankles.

675
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,360
I have a skull fracture.
Great story, by the way.

676
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,080
We'll go there one day from
playing dodgeball with

677
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,480
teenagers, right, and I'm just
telling you like if something

678
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,720
special, just the power God
being released because people in

679
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:51,000
praying and caring and leading
and the whole team just weekly

680
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,320
just grind out for Jesus trying
to show these young people faith

681
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:55,160
in Christ.
Amen.

682
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,960
I mean, that's one little story
right behind the scenes.

683
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,440
Like no, they get credit, they
get credit How how about he's

684
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,760
back in this worship night.
Do you hear him say that he was

685
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,880
in this worship night?
That's a God moment.

686
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:09,680
We've done that one time, one
time like and we were back in

687
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,800
this conference room and I
believe Don was playing acoustic

688
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,880
guitar.
The lights are out and the

689
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,280
member of the Holy Spirit in
that space I'd have by people to

690
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,080
pray and many leaders prayed.
I don't think there was a maybe

691
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,320
there's one teenager.
I don't think there's any

692
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:22,440
teenagers that prayed that
night.

693
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,600
Maybe there's one, but there was
leaders that prayed and one of

694
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,200
those leaders, I'll never forget
it.

695
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,360
He actually just walked in.
I'm so glad that God brought you

696
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,400
in last, last second.
It's Brett White back here and

697
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,480
for the first time I feel right.
That was the first time you've

698
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:39,240
ever prayed out loud publicly.
That right Amen and you had

699
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:42,080
known that the prayer he was
praying would be a breakthrough

700
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,680
moment for Lucas praying over
what God could do in this

701
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,560
generation because you can see
the hope of the future in this

702
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,240
room and how desperate they need
God himself and not the world

703
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:55,320
that's pulling in all this stuff
and Lucas be actually begin to

704
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,600
cry in that space and he'd been
to shed tears and he kind of

705
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:00,800
moved his daughter kind of off
his lap and his tears are

706
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,000
dripping down his face onto me.
Don't when people know he's

707
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,520
crying.
He took him months and months

708
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,040
and months before he told me the
story.

709
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,160
And then he wants to serve at
youth ministry before he knows

710
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,680
Jesus.
Come on, somebody.

711
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,040
That's amazing.
It was like, OK, God, you're

712
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,160
obviously moving.
Let's go to Panera because

713
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,400
that's, that's what we need,
right?

714
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,240
And we just sat down and talked
through a story and all the

715
00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:23,440
things like many of you, there's
just stories.

716
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,520
I mean, conversations like, hey,
man, I grew up with this and

717
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,360
this and this and I just don't,
I don't know, man, my dad, like,

718
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,040
I don't know if I can really
trust, you know, God because

719
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,320
man, my family was so broken and
all of a sudden like God just

720
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,320
shows him and he comes to
Christ.

721
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,440
Do you see the difference makers
behind the story?

722
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,280
Like I'm just thankful to play a
part of the story.

723
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,480
It's the most fun when you're
part of the God's work is

724
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,480
getting a front row seat to the
things of God.

725
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,080
There's just something special
about seeing the stories and

726
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,640
knowing the people and the
people have been invited, how

727
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,480
things are working and just be
able to share the a little piece

728
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,960
and then seeing their life
changed.

729
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:00,640
And that's the stories we're
looking for.

730
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,080
Amen.
That's the stories we know God

731
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,720
will write.
Lucas is a story of a prodigal

732
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,680
that came home and we believe
our city is full of prodigals.

733
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,400
We we've prayed for our city
before we launched the church in

734
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,160
this city.
Like we want to be a movement of

735
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,720
God in our city and around the
world.

736
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,480
We believe this is the next step
to do that.

737
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,760
But I want to encourage you guys
in in the in the Bible, there is

738
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,760
and this is going to be kind of
like skipping a rock.

739
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,320
OK, so it's going to be a little
different type of message, but I

740
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,360
was going to encourage you guys
of the everyday difference

741
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,080
makers you see in Scripture.
It's just the ones we kind of

742
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,480
skip by.
You may go, I don't know who

743
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,840
that is or maybe I forgot about
that story, but just a small

744
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,200
acts and how they make big
extraordinary differences

745
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,520
because sometimes we think
there's this pedigree they must

746
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,200
have or some of this education
level or a stage in a

747
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,600
microphone.
Christianity really doesn't need

748
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,360
a stage in a microphone.
Amen.

749
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,800
Like it does really well without
it too.

750
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,280
Like this can be mistaken for a
church.

751
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,600
So we call it a gathering
because you guys gather together

752
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,960
and then we scatter out.
It's a 24/7 mission.

753
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,880
Amen, Amen.
Like most guys like just want to

754
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,280
like have a great Sunday.
It's like, no, I want to honor

755
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,160
God all days of my life and
receive ourselves be redemption

756
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,240
to the world, salt and light,
giving answers to those who are

757
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:17,680
broken all throughout the week.
We come back here to get

758
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,840
encouraged, refreshed and sent
out.

759
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,000
So let me give you some examples
in the Bible.

760
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,880
How about this?
This isn't John 6 and there's

761
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,080
not on the Scripture of this,
but just know they're at this is

762
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,640
the boy with a sack lunch
everyday difference maker.

763
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,920
Remember there's 5000 people.
It's not it's just the men, OK.

764
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,680
And and Jesus is telling the
disciples like how we get some

765
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,000
you need some food, how we going
to do it?

766
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,200
And this little boy gives 5 fish
and two loaves.

767
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,560
You guys know that story.
You know, it's one of the only

768
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,480
stories miracles of Jesus that's
recorded all four gospels.

769
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,160
That's how powerful it was.
But what made it so powerful?

770
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:53,560
It's because the 12 disciples
lacked the faith that God could

771
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,480
do the miracle and we just sang
a song that God is able.

772
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,840
Do you guys believe that today?
Like he can do the miracle and

773
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,360
this little boy full of faith
says here, you can do it.

774
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,520
And he did everything.
He says all I got Lord, but you

775
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,320
can do more with than I can.
And God multiplied it and broke

776
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:09,240
it.
Do you remember the end of the

777
00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:10,080
story?
What happened?

778
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,280
He sent out the 12 to pick up
the baskets.

779
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:18,240
That was the point of story.
He's like, look, boys, I did it.

780
00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,920
You're going to pick up every
one of those last piece of bread

781
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,200
and you're going to carry it to
the next city and don't forget

782
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,360
it.
His act of faith, Amen.

783
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,560
He's teaching them that's
significant.

784
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,120
God can do extraordinary things
when we open our hands to him.

785
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,240
You know, you don't have to have
a lot to be generous, Amen.

786
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,880
You don't have to have
$1,000,000 in the account.

787
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:37,320
You don't have to.
All things work together.

788
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,640
Like it's just open your hands
to what you have to God.

789
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,000
That's what God can do.
Think of a man named Andrew.

790
00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:46,480
Andrew is 1, is one of the
disciples, right?

791
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,160
But his story started out, he
was a follower, John the Baptist

792
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,480
and John the Baptist, he was a
forerunner.

793
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,680
He kind of proclaimed The Who
Jesus was.

794
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,440
And he just disappeared into the
limelight.

795
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,240
He went into obscurity.
And I do think there's a point

796
00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:00,480
in your Christian life where you
have to be OK with and believe

797
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,480
deeply.
It's OK to slip in, slip into

798
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,280
his obscurity because the story
was never about you.

799
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,960
It was about Jesus.
So it doesn't mean my name in

800
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,440
lights or real life name in
lights.

801
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,520
There's not going to be no name
in the church names in heaven,

802
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,120
by the way, but it's the name of
Jesus, Amen.

803
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,200
Just step back and say, OK, and
this is what John the Baptist

804
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:19,600
did so well.
And he pointed out and they

805
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:20,640
said, oh, there's followers of
Jesus.

806
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,080
He goes, that's good because I'm
not even worthy of laces,

807
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,200
sandals.
And the first thing that John

808
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,680
the Baptist said about Jesus was
behold, the Lamb of God.

809
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,040
The Lamb of God, like Jesus was
born to die.

810
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,560
And John the Baptist knew it.
He said, you need to follow him.

811
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,720
And so Andrew started stalking
him with this other disciple,

812
00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:39,360
which we know now is the one
writing John.

813
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,280
So John himself and Andrew
stalking him.

814
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,000
Emma's household days, kind of
weird introduction.

815
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,240
Like, what are you guys doing?
And he hangs out juice all day.

816
00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:46,720
And the first thing Andrew does
know, he does come.

817
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:48,720
You guys know?
Where's Andrew go?

818
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,760
Somebody say it.
Yeah.

819
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,320
Went to his brother Peter.
First thing Andrew does, he's

820
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,520
all day with Jesus and he gets
done with Jesus and he runs back

821
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,680
home and says he's Simon, Simon,
Simon.

822
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:02,440
We found the one been looking
for this Messiah.

823
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,320
I met him today.
You need to come with me.

824
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,960
And then Peter goes to Jesus.
I said Peter, Simon goes to

825
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,640
Jesus and the first thing that
Jesus does is so significant is

826
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,880
he looks at Simon and he says
you are no longer to be called

827
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,040
Simon, but your name would be
Peter.

828
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,560
Because on this rock, I'm going
to build my church.

829
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,800
That's the first moment ever.
Being Jesus, He gave him a new

830
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,040
name, a new identity, a new
purpose, a new calling.

831
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,200
He knew exactly what was up for.
And Peter would go on to be the

832
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,520
one that preached on Pentecost,
go on the one that plant the

833
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,520
churches in Rome and be a force
for the power of God in the New

834
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,680
Testament.
It's amazing, Amen.

835
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,120
But if it wasn't for Andrew,
there'd be no Peter.

836
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,280
If there wasn't for somebody
that just had a just a curiosity

837
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,760
enough to follow somebody and a
bold faith of a simple invite,

838
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:47,320
we can do that.
Amen.

839
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,080
You think about the Samaritan
woman at the well, right?

840
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:53,520
This this probably a prostitute
or been through this crazy

841
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,480
stories of being married, you
know, and at least five other

842
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,200
men in her life, right.
And Jesus sits down and he's the

843
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,560
first one to ever tell him that
tell anybody in the world that

844
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,520
he was the Messiah.
You're talking to him and he

845
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:06,960
says, I'm going to give you
living water.

846
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:10,160
And she tells her everything
she's done and give us living

847
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:11,760
water.
She recognized what Jesus is,

848
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:17,200
and she runs from that well to
her city and she says, guys,

849
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,520
I've got to introduce you to
somebody that told me that

850
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,760
everything I've ever done in my
life, this is the Messiah.

851
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,680
We can do that, Amen.
You don't have to have a degree

852
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,960
or any theology to know that
Jesus changed your life.

853
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,000
Matter of fact, I think the best
story is the one that you tell

854
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:33,840
about how your life's been
changed.

855
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:36,880
People need more like
Christianese, Amen.

856
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,080
They didn't know that God made a
difference in your life and he

857
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,560
saved you and he changed you and
you worship him.

858
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,800
And so she goes back and she
convinces these people the least

859
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,600
likely person by the way, in the
city that you would listen to.

860
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,480
It'd be like a homeless person
coming up to you and saying you

861
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,600
got to go check this guy out.
You'd be like kind of time for

862
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,640
that, right?
Like you're this the outcast.

863
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,360
And she convinces the city to go
find Jesus and says many came to

864
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:03,080
faith, Amen.
And everyday difference maker

865
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,480
like don't make don't act like
you're not qualified.

866
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,960
You are qualified by Christ, by
the Holy Spirit, Amen.

867
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,600
Like there's not these different
levels, like you're saved or not

868
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:16,760
saved, you're holy or unholy.
Like Jesus made you holy through

869
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,440
his Spirit.
And there's no small spirit.

870
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,160
You don't get a little tight to
the Spirit and then you start

871
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,760
doing better with your life and
he upgrades the Spirit of God,

872
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,680
Amen.
You don't earn your way to God.

873
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:28,640
Like that's religion.
It's two things that will pull

874
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:32,000
you away from God.
It's rebellion and religion.

875
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,040
And I can preach another message
on that tomorrow if you want me

876
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,560
to.
But OK, come back, Brett, I love

877
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:39,760
you.
How about Rahab?

878
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,280
We, we mentioned on the huddler,
this lady Rahab, she's a

879
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,280
prostitute.
She's in a foreign country.

880
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:45,960
These spies come in, she hides
them in the roof.

881
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,480
When they come in and take over
the nation, she puts a a cloth

882
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,920
out the window and it protects
her.

883
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,760
And just by faith, she protects
these spies and she's a

884
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:56,400
prostitute.
You know, she end up in the

885
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,200
lineage of Jesus.
Do you guys know that she was,

886
00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:02,200
she, she was in lineage of David
and through the lineage of

887
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:03,120
David, like we're talking
lineage.

888
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,440
I'm like, mom, you know, father,
son, father, son, right?

889
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,880
If you go to Matthew, she's,
she's in the lineage of Jesus, a

890
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,160
prostitute, Amen.
And, and her act of faith was

891
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,600
I'm going to hide you so you
don't get killed from the people

892
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,880
coming after you.
That was an act of faith.

893
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,800
By the way, most people don't
know this, but she's actually

894
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,040
listed in, in Hebrews 11.
Do you know what the Hebrews 11

895
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,480
is?
It's the Hall of Fame, baby.

896
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,400
That's the Hall of Fame.
That's the Hall of Fame of

897
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,040
faith.
Like the world wasn't worthy of

898
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:36,120
these people.
And Rahab is listed everyday

899
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:37,240
difference makers.
Amen.

900
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:39,360
Like we all could have done
that.

901
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,480
OK, how about Jokabed?
Anybody heard of Jokabed?

902
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:48,080
By the way, most of us have
probably never heard this name.

903
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,800
This is like one of the most
obscure people in the Bible, but

904
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:55,040
a great act of faith.
This is Moses's mom, Jokabed.

905
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,080
She looked at her son.
There was a law from the

906
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:03,240
Egyptians that every person that
that was a was a Jew, that the

907
00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:05,760
boys should all be killed,
thrown into the Nile River.

908
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,960
And she goes, there's something
different about my boy, which we

909
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,240
all should have as parents,
Amen.

910
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,560
And she took Moses and she put
them in a Reed basket and put

911
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,840
them in these on the Nile River.
And Pharaoh's daughter found

912
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:21,760
Moses and a God's sovereignty.
Mariam Jochabed's sister was

913
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,880
watching and just line it up.
We're like hey, this baby, I'm

914
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:31,040
this lady that can nurse him and
guess who nursed Moses joke Abed

915
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,920
his very mom nursed him after he
she saved his life and of course

916
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,600
Moses we don't know Moses should
probably get well know Moses,

917
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,440
but got the 10 commandments like
rescued the people from Egyptian

918
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:46,640
slavery like chose not to follow
the wealth of all of Egypt.

919
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,000
He was second in command, but
instead she was a suffer with

920
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,240
his people.
And you'd go on to write the

921
00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:56,760
first five books of the Bible.
Without his mom, there's no

922
00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:00,000
Moses, Amen.
But we can have that everyday

923
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,800
faith, right?
Like the Jogabed type of faith.

924
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,960
How about the friends that laid
down, lowered down, the

925
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,760
paralyzed man through the roof?
By the way, one of my favorite

926
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,080
stories ever in the Bible
because I had friends that

927
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:14,480
brought me to Jesus, right?
Somebody cared enough about me

928
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:16,840
spiritually to invite me to
church and to say no, You got to

929
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:17,920
go, man.
You got to go.

930
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:19,720
And these men, they picked up
this mat.

931
00:54:19,720 --> 00:54:21,720
This man was paralyzed.
You couldn't walk.

932
00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:23,760
And he just, they carried it.
I don't know if the guy wanted

933
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:24,760
to go or not.
Amen.

934
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,080
He didn't have a choice.
You're going to get to Jesus.

935
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,160
And the crowds are so big they
couldn't get to see him.

936
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,400
He was inside this house and
said, do we got an idea?

937
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,560
Let's just go up on the roof as
against the side of the hill.

938
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,360
We're going up on the roof and
we're going to just breakthrough

939
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,800
the roof.
So as Jesus preaching, the roof

940
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,880
starts coming and caving in and
Jesus like, all right, let's see

941
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:43,560
it.
And it'll lower this man down in

942
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,920
front of Jesus.
And Jesus says because of your

943
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,040
faith, these friends, your sins
are forgiven.

944
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,960
And these people get mad at him.
They're religious people.

945
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,200
And they said, who are you to
forgive sins?

946
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,600
And he goes, well, what's easier
to forgive sins or say take up

947
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,840
your mat and walk?
And that dude stood up, was

948
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,720
healed, rolled his mat up and
walked out the front door.

949
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,040
Amen.
That's the power, everyday

950
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,200
difference maker.
Just great friends.

951
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:06,520
You need to have friends, by the
way, like that.

952
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,160
And you need to be one of those
friends, like we have some in

953
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:10,440
our life that needs Jesus,
right?

954
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,040
Like, and we pray for them, we
care for them and there's divine

955
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:14,520
appointments and divine
opportunities.

956
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,000
And we say, you know what, I'm
going to get you to the feet of

957
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,560
Christ if we just get you in the
presence of God.

958
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,160
It's just simple.
That's what we do.

959
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,560
How about Philip on the
Ethiopian official, the

960
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:26,360
Ethiopian, the, the man from
Ethiopia, right?

961
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:30,440
He's in this chariot and he just
left this big feast and he, he's

962
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:32,480
on the way home.
He pulled over and the Spirit of

963
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,240
God, he goes to Philip, it says
run up to the chariot and he

964
00:55:35,240 --> 00:55:38,800
runs the chariot and this man's
reading Isaiah 54 and he's like,

965
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,040
there's a like a sheep led to
the slaughter.

966
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:42,480
And Philip goes, you know what
you're reading?

967
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,280
He goes, I have no idea.
Everyone felt like that when you

968
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:48,560
read the Bible, right?
I have no idea what I just read.

969
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,440
It's like it's easy to do
because there's so much there's

970
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,040
so many different stories and
way God's been working and he

971
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,320
goes, I just need to know.
And so he explains to him that

972
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:57,880
that's the sheep is Jesus,
right?

973
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:00,400
Behold, the Lamb of God.
This is Jesus who dies for our

974
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,040
sins.
He took our iniquity of us all.

975
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:05,440
He was bruised for our sins.
He was raised alive again.

976
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,920
He preached the Gospel and it's
this Ethiopian man comes to

977
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,960
Christ.
And what's amazing about the

978
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:15,440
story is he's probably the first
convert that is going to Africa,

979
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,160
Amen.
You think about one conversation

980
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:24,200
has the potential and did change
a continent, one conversation,

981
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,360
Amen.
And so you're like, oh, I'm just

982
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,240
telling somebody Jesus.
You have no idea who you're

983
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:30,880
telling about Jesus.
You have no idea.

984
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,400
There's a church, There's a
Macedonian church.

985
00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:37,680
It's in 2nd Corinthians 8, it's
in the Romans, it's in Acts as

986
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:39,120
well.
This masculine church.

987
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,000
It is something very special.
You may not know the story.

988
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,440
It's a very small, obscure
story, but it's very powerful.

989
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:47,840
They gave an offering and took
up money for the church in

990
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:49,800
Jerusalem.
That was that was in a famine,

991
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:52,440
that was in a plague and they
were suffering.

992
00:56:52,720 --> 00:56:54,360
And this is a Gentile church,
isn't it?

993
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,320
No Jewish people at all.
And they were poor.

994
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,400
They were, they were a broke
group of people.

995
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:05,280
And the Bible says they gave out
of what they had and beyond

996
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,640
their ability.
And they said, don't give.

997
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:11,800
And they said, we have a desire
to give to the church in

998
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:13,920
Jerusalem.
Don't rob us from that blessing.

999
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,320
We're going to do it.
And so Paul was so moved by

1000
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:19,360
their generosity that he wrote
to the Church of Corinth and

1001
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:23,920
told them, Hey, look, if you are
willing, will you have the same

1002
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:27,720
amount of desire as these guys?
Because it's not about the

1003
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:29,280
amount.
It's it's a it's about the

1004
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,600
desire.
And he even says the equality of

1005
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:36,240
the gift, like if they're
willing to give in their poor

1006
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,440
and their brokenness, would you
be willing to give in your

1007
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,400
excess, in your wealth?
And he says, this is this.

1008
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:42,560
I'll just have to read part of
it.

1009
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:46,400
I just got to do it.
He says this and I, I didn't put

1010
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:47,760
on the screen and saw our guys
in the back.

1011
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,920
But it says in verse 842, it
says for if the willingness is

1012
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:54,640
there talking to Church of
Corinth, the gift is acceptable

1013
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:58,960
according to what one has not
according to what 1 does not

1014
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,200
have.
That's good theology can talk to

1015
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:03,360
a lot of people.
It's like, well, I just don't

1016
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,000
have enough or, and I wish I
could because you know, it's

1017
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,240
like you're not called to give
what you don't have, Amen.

1018
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:15,400
And these this this this poor
like strapped church gives these

1019
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,440
credibly generous gift.
And then God and Paul, like

1020
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,280
teaching these people about
God's will is telling these

1021
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:26,400
other people, Hey, look, if your
desire matches the desire, but

1022
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,880
then I'm good, Amen.
That'd be pretty amazing.

1023
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,720
Like, so if you don't have a lot
in the church, guess what?

1024
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:36,240
You can set the example.
If you don't, if you don't have

1025
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,160
anything in your name, you'd be
like, hey, I gave $10, set the

1026
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,120
example.
I've been talking to teenagers

1027
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,160
like, hey, man, you got a lot,
right?

1028
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,480
If you only have $100 bank
account to give 10, that's

1029
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:47,000
generous.
Amen.

1030
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:49,120
And these people gave out their
excess.

1031
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:50,640
And I'm telling you, man, God
just shows up.

1032
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,560
There's been two times in my
life where I've given the last

1033
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:54,600
dollar I've ever had and I gave
it to church.

1034
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,240
And God has always shown up.
I've never missed a meal.

1035
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,040
Come on somebody, I've never
missed a meal.

1036
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,360
And God has always been so
faithful.

1037
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,160
And I think it's one of those
times like, if you don't have a

1038
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,280
lot, man, just give open your
hands.

1039
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,240
What do you have?
And say, Lord, can you multiply

1040
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,480
this, use this hand to him and
then we can brag on your story,

1041
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:15,840
say, see what God's doing here.
Will you guys step into the same

1042
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,840
level of generosity and faith?
Paul said the goal is equality.

1043
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,600
As is written, the one who has
gathered much did not have too

1044
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,960
much and the one who has
gathered little did not have too

1045
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,080
little.
Like we all were together on

1046
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:27,720
this.
Amen.

1047
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:30,480
And so, you know, you look at
the commitment card and you're

1048
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,880
like, man, there's a lot of big
numbers on here, right?

1049
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,080
I'm just down there, the down to
low.

1050
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:36,480
I don't know if my number is
even on the card.

1051
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,760
It's so small.
Like go God, be generous at what

1052
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,840
level you could be generous,
like have an act of faith

1053
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,440
wherever that act of faith is
now for some of your numbers on

1054
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,400
the card, for some of your
numbers not on the card the

1055
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,000
other way.
I'm just being real.

1056
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,680
Like I didn't put a line above
that, but you could say no, I

1057
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:56,840
could do that because it'd take
more than we're even asking for

1058
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,960
it to do all the grasping we're
trusting God to do.

1059
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:02,560
But the commitment card, we're
not going to collect it right

1060
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:05,560
now, obviously, So please don't
like fill it out to freak out.

1061
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,440
But down the road on the on the
series, last thing I want to

1062
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:14,120
tell you about you guys ever
heard of Billy Graham Little bit

1063
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,760
just a small guy, right?
Thank God for Billy Graham, by

1064
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:18,640
the way.
Thank God that somebody actually

1065
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,680
finished the race strong.
A lot of gays get that last lap

1066
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,080
and sometimes they're like
actually dead and then they

1067
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:25,800
still fall.
It's crazy.

1068
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:27,560
Billy Graham finished the race
strong.

1069
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:29,560
But here's a story that you may
not know about Billy Graham.

1070
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,240
Billy Graham is South Carolina's
15 or 16 years old, 1938.

1071
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,040
He's a teenager and he there's a
guy that's going to come in

1072
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,080
town, circuit, ride and preach
in his name, Mordecai Ham.

1073
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:42,160
Mordecai Ham is a fiery,
fundamental Baptist preacher.

1074
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:44,920
Like he's fire and brimstone
kind of guy.

1075
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,640
Billy Graham is like, I'm not an
interested man.

1076
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:50,160
Like, I don't want to go.
And his teenage friends are

1077
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,320
like, no man, you got to go.
You got to hear this guy.

1078
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,200
You got to hear this guy.
You know how teenagers are.

1079
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:55,800
They drag people with them,
right?

1080
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,200
And so these teenagers, by the
way, about to change the world,

1081
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:01,640
they, they dragged Billy Graham
to this crusade.

1082
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,520
It's called the Sawdust Crusade.
And they bring him to this tent.

1083
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,880
And the tent is packed full of
people because teenagers are

1084
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:08,720
what?
Late?

1085
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:10,760
They're late.
Who knows?

1086
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,560
Billy Graham was late to church.
Come on, somebody, right?

1087
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,160
And he was late.
And so it was packed out.

1088
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:18,480
And so they walk out.
They're like, there's no room.

1089
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,560
And so this group of teenagers
are leaving, and there's two

1090
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:22,720
ushers that chase down this
group of people.

1091
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:24,760
They say, hey, man, we'll make
some room for you guys.

1092
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:26,240
We'll make some room.
Come back, we'll get you.

1093
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:27,120
Come on, come on, come on, come
on.

1094
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:29,640
And they get these teenagers,
and they stuck them in the choir

1095
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:32,240
loft in the tent.
That means they're probably

1096
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:35,360
behind the Mordecai hand, right?
And this dude's preaching.

1097
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:37,640
And Billy Graham did not come to
Christ the first night of that

1098
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:41,480
revival, but he came back and he
came to Christ.

1099
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:45,080
Do you know that Billy Graham
preached in person, not as ISM

1100
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:48,280
number online to 100 and
525,000,000 people.

1101
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:53,640
That's a force of God.
It's amazing if 3 million people

1102
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,920
came to Christ.
Now think about this story and I

1103
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:57,080
think about everyday difference
makers.

1104
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,040
Everybody knows Billy Graham,
but they don't even know the

1105
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:03,840
names of the two ushers.
Those guys made an impact for

1106
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:04,520
eternity.
Amen.

1107
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:08,520
Those teenagers made an impact
for eternity, an everyday

1108
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,240
difference maker just by
inviting somebody, bringing

1109
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,760
somebody open the door, chasing.
No, no, we got room for you,

1110
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:14,680
man.
Take my seat.

1111
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:16,280
You've been to church.
That's been that.

1112
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:17,280
That's my seat.
Get out.

1113
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:20,400
You've been that church.
I've not been to that church.

1114
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:22,960
You know, you just look around.
You're like, why is everybody

1115
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:24,720
staring at me?
Am I miss the wrong place?

1116
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,360
I've been, I've been to churches
as a pastor.

1117
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:29,120
We're not a single person that
said hi to me.

1118
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:32,160
I was asking questions like,
what do you guys stand for?

1119
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,040
What are you guys doing?
Where's the bathroom if you know

1120
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:40,600
somebody's new when they ask
where the bathroom is, it's your

1121
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:43,320
first sign.
I'm not a single person gave me

1122
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:44,640
the time of day.
I really didn't even care.

1123
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,440
I was like why am I even here
but thank God for the people

1124
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:48,400
that do care.
Amen.

1125
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:50,960
They see what spiritual lies and
like no, come on in.

1126
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:52,400
Hey, how are you doing?
Hey, what's your story?

1127
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,720
Hey, what God bring you here?
What'd you came today for all

1128
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:58,120
these things, right and just
love on them and hear them out

1129
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:00,160
and just kindly point them to
Jesus.

1130
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:03,680
That's all it takes.
Now think about these ushers and

1131
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:06,000
they're probably older than
these teenagers, right?

1132
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:12,320
And they must have for surely
passed away some point before

1133
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:15,480
today.
It's been a long time, 1938.

1134
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,800
And I just think about them
being in heaven and probably the

1135
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:26,680
next sixty, 8090 years, 3
million people walk in the gates

1136
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,600
of heaven and they're there to
usher them in.

1137
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:32,880
And they say thank you.
You don't know who I am, but if

1138
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,880
it wasn't for you, I would not
know Jesus today.

1139
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:40,320
Can you imagine having 300
handshakes in heaven by opening

1140
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:42,960
a door?
By being faithful to small

1141
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:44,880
stuff?
That's amazing.

1142
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:47,040
Amen.
You've never heard of the Feast

1143
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:49,840
of Purim?
The feast of Purim?

1144
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,200
Most people never heard of it
unless you're Jewish.

1145
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:58,840
The word the word purr or poor.
It actually means a lot when we

1146
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:00,800
talk about casting lots.
Remember harem?

1147
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:02,800
The guy who hated the Jews cast
lots.

1148
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:07,240
Well, this feast is actually a
slap in the face to everything

1149
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:08,400
that harem was trying to
accomplish.

1150
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:11,520
And this man harem, he cast
lots, which was basically

1151
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:13,080
saying, oh, this is the day
they're going to die.

1152
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:18,440
And what what man thought?
Well, by chance, this is just

1153
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,080
the way it's going to go.
But God was in control.

1154
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:25,480
And so Mordecai, he did claimed,
he claimed there'd be a feast

1155
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,200
that take place called the Feast
of Forum that would take place

1156
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:33,920
on the very day that harem tried
to kill every single Jew.

1157
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:38,800
And that feast started in 473
BC.

1158
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:43,480
Do you know the Jewish people
still have that feast today that

1159
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:44,960
they actually read the story of
Esther?

1160
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:47,640
And every time they say the word
harem, they start stomping their

1161
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:51,240
feet screaming Boo.
That's pretty fun.

1162
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:58,200
And for 2500 years, just shy
about seven years or so they've

1163
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:01,800
been having this feast.
Isn't that amazing to think

1164
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,240
about?
Do do do you think that Esther

1165
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,920
at all had any idea that for
2500 years?

1166
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:08,600
What has been happening for a
millennia?

1167
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:13,080
Is anything last of the
millennia or two or two and a

1168
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:16,800
half a little girl's faith to
stand up to a king and say, can

1169
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,600
you save my people?
It's been celebrated for 2500

1170
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:24,280
years.
Everyday difference makers.

1171
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:26,240
And we can be that for our
generation.

1172
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:28,800
Amen.
It ain't rocket science.

1173
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:31,320
We don't have to make it super
crazy.

1174
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:35,440
Just very simply share Jesus.
There's people outside these

1175
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:37,720
doors.
Walmart and Target need Jesus.

1176
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,480
Amen.
And you sit down at coffee shops

1177
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,920
and you're on the phone and you
got an interruption and there's

1178
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:45,920
things that happen.
That's called ministry.

1179
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:48,960
And those people, if we could
just slow down a little bit and

1180
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,240
just get our eyes off of
ourselves and on to a lost and

1181
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:55,120
dying world, we will not have
just a building, We will have a

1182
01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:56,520
building full of ministry and
life.

1183
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,240
But if we get our eyes off of
the of the mission and we go, we

1184
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,520
got this amazing look what God
did, and it's a past tense look

1185
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:07,840
at the glory days of God.
We build a monument, we'll have

1186
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,600
an empty building that the city
came and sell.

1187
01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:13,920
It's the truth.
And so the strength of the

1188
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:16,200
building is a strength of its
ministry and a strength of its

1189
01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:18,840
people.
And so the call today is that we

1190
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:21,040
don't just think about building
a building because that's not

1191
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:25,480
the call is that we would
actually live on mission and

1192
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:29,200
that we would fill a building
with the work and the wonder and

1193
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:31,960
the worship of God because we go
out.

1194
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:36,200
Can you guys do that take that
challenge Who this week can you

1195
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,440
be an everyday you're a
difference maker for I've got

1196
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,400
family members that know Christ.
I've got neighbors new Christ.

1197
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:43,400
I've got people that I can share
with.

1198
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:45,640
And if you can see what
spiritual eyes this week.

1199
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:47,880
If you look at people and see a
sign on their head says bound

1200
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,600
for hell, you have a great start
of being a difference maker.

1201
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:54,320
There was a man, he was a, he
was an evangelist in England and

1202
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:56,560
he was a great evangelist.
People asked him, well, how you

1203
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:58,600
be, how you so successful, How
do you do this?

1204
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:00,480
And he took him to the window
and he said, tell me what you

1205
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:02,520
see.
And they said, oh, I see cars

1206
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:04,800
and I see businesses and I see
this down the other.

1207
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:08,760
He said, I see souls, I see
souls.

1208
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:13,520
And that's the difference.
It's souls, not concrete and

1209
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:16,160
steel.
It's not accolade, it's not your

1210
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:18,600
job, it's not building wealth.
It's souls.

1211
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,560
Amen.
And if you could just walk out

1212
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:23,320
this week and just see every day
a soul that needs something, a

1213
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,440
soul you can measure to, a soul
you can pray for.

1214
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:27,640
You can start wearing those
shirts that kind of get people

1215
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:30,400
to ask questions.
Like I'm not a fan like Rick

1216
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:32,680
wore the other day.
Like you could just kind of live

1217
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:35,040
out a mission, like your social
media.

1218
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:37,360
What a great place to start
living on mission.

1219
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:40,280
Some of you guys are missing.
I'll be real honest to you, some

1220
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,440
of you guys, more about your
opinions than about souls, about

1221
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,120
saying stuff that doesn't even
help anybody, especially

1222
01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:48,640
yourself.
You can just like minister, like

1223
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:51,520
digital platforms, like use the
things of that God's put in

1224
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:53,160
front of us to make a difference
in this generation.

1225
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:55,120
And you never know how God's
going to use that.

1226
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:57,600
You could be that person that
does something for somebody and

1227
01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:59,480
you never meet him again and you
get to heaven.

1228
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:01,600
You're like, brother, I had no
idea that you got 3 million

1229
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,560
people that come to Christ
because I just showed up to hold

1230
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:06,680
a door.
That's what I'm asking for.

1231
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:08,560
Amen.
Play part of the story.

1232
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:11,640
So Father, come before you.
God just help us be everyday

1233
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:13,760
difference makers.
I mean, the house would say, you

1234
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,520
know what the Spirit of God
speaking to me like I'd be more

1235
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:18,720
bold.
I'd have more faith.

1236
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:20,840
At least you trust the Lord in
the small stuff.

1237
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:22,680
I want to be an everyday
difference maker, but that's you

1238
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:23,920
just put your hand high this
place.

1239
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,560
So let the Lord know that's you,
God speaking to you.

1240
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,560
Come on, Lord, thank you so much
for speaking to these people.

1241
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:31,880
They got help us to remember
that we're qualified at the

1242
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,840
cross.
God, we're not behind that.

1243
01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:36,120
We don't have to be on a
pedestal.

1244
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:39,520
God, you've given us enough to
share God, it's not it's not a

1245
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:42,520
comparison game.
And so Lord, help us to show one

1246
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:46,080
other person another beggar
where the food is that help our

1247
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:48,439
our our building initiative not
to be about a building, but

1248
01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:52,279
about souls about people.
Remind us God, as we go out this

1249
01:08:52,279 --> 01:08:56,120
week, we have the power, the
greatest power given the gospel

1250
01:08:56,359 --> 01:08:59,800
to save in the name of Jesus,
the greatest name ever given

1251
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:03,520
every that every person's knee
shall bow in heaven on earth,

1252
01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:07,720
every single person that we have
the power in the name of Jesus.

1253
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:09,800
Help us to believe what we're
saying today that you were able

1254
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,880
to do miracles.
God used us to do a miracle and

1255
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,240
sometimes it's holding the door
and sometimes being bold in our

1256
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:17,319
faith.
God show us today what's one

1257
01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:21,439
person that we can, that we can
be a difference maker for God.

1258
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:26,240
Help our church not to just put
up steel, but to see souls

1259
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:30,920
changed, transformed like Lucas
and that we could multiply that

1260
01:09:31,319 --> 01:09:35,000
that we could exponentially see
more people come to Christ, grow

1261
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:39,080
in their faith and sent out.
That's the heart of this church.

1262
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:41,920
So thank you, Lord, we're
begging God, we're asking you

1263
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:46,640
help us to continue to fast and
pray and seek you, God, for our

1264
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:49,160
nation, for our church, for our
families.

1265
01:09:49,359 --> 01:09:51,720
God, we trust you.
I'll pray for one more group of

1266
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:53,319
people in the house.
That's those of you that say,

1267
01:09:53,319 --> 01:09:55,680
you know what I need.
Jesus, you talk about this lamb

1268
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:58,320
that came to die.
I see the faith in this church.

1269
01:09:58,480 --> 01:10:00,560
I may be invited.
You might be that person that's

1270
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:02,440
been welcomed here today and
you're wondering what's this all

1271
01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:04,520
about?
You've heard these stories of

1272
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:06,640
deliverance.
You're wondering, man, I did.

1273
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,240
I need that in my life.
I need deliverance in my life.

1274
01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:12,280
I heard Lucas's story.
I can relate to the depression,

1275
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,040
to the story, to the brokenness.
I'm the person that's been

1276
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:16,320
running.
I'm the prodigal.

1277
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:19,840
Here's where you know that that
God loves you.

1278
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:24,720
He loved you enough to have
somebody invite you here today.

1279
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:29,080
He loved you enough to send his
one only son to Donna Cross for

1280
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,640
your sins.
And it was your sins that put

1281
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:35,240
him on the cross as well.
They died for you because he

1282
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,000
loved you and he wants your
relationship with you.

1283
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:40,800
And the Bible says if you call
on Jesus under his name because

1284
01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:43,400
he died for your sins and
exchanged all of your wrongs for

1285
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:45,160
all his rights, they will come
into your life.

1286
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:47,920
The Holy Spirit will be in your
life in this moment and save you

1287
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:49,920
from your sin and make your
right with God.

1288
01:10:50,440 --> 01:10:52,520
You can be one of those people
that are delivered from your

1289
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:54,560
sin.
You're made new, you're made

1290
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:57,520
righteous, you're made whole.
And you have the greatest story

1291
01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:01,000
to ever share, the story of the
gospel, the story of God's work

1292
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,600
in your life.
And today, if you need Jesus, if

1293
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:07,040
you need forgiveness, you need
the hope that even Billy Graham

1294
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:09,880
had to step into.
You can have it today.

1295
01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:12,400
It's a free gift.
And so that's you.

1296
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,640
You say you need to say yes to
Jesus without him to be looking

1297
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:15,680
around.
Just put your hand high in his

1298
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:17,400
place and say, I messed me.
I need to say yes to Jesus

1299
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:19,160
today.
The relationship of Christ

1300
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:21,280
today.
Come on, see your hand.

1301
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:22,880
And Bill said he say yes to
Jesus.

1302
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:26,200
This is your hand and your hand
and your hand and your hand.

1303
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:29,080
Kind of like a revival going on
today.

1304
01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:32,440
So thank you, Lord, if that's
you and you need Jesus, I'm just

1305
01:11:32,440 --> 01:11:33,760
going to invite you to pray this
prayer.

1306
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:36,600
The prayer does not save you,
but it is your heart towards

1307
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:38,320
Christ.
It is your humility and your

1308
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:40,240
obedience.
And so they say, Father God,

1309
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:43,440
thank you so much for sending
Jesus to dine across for my

1310
01:11:43,440 --> 01:11:48,280
sins, to love me enough to come
to this world, to to the worst

1311
01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:52,120
neighborhood in the universe
that love me and dine across

1312
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,240
through my sins.
God know my sins put you there,

1313
01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:57,040
but thank you Lord for loving me
myself before you.

1314
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,440
God I I I'm not anybody special,
but today I know I'm your son,

1315
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,840
I'm your daughter.
I've been changed and God's you

1316
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:07,360
that gets the glories of God.
Use my life God to be a

1317
01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:10,280
difference maker.
God that you've you've given me

1318
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:13,280
a new testimony today, a new
name today a new purpose today,

1319
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:15,520
just like I went from Simon Witt
to Peter.

1320
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:19,200
God give me a new name today.
Remind me of my call where I'm

1321
01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:22,280
I'm going and I'm yours God.
Thank you for loving me God.

1322
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:25,520
I pray this in Jesus name.
The church said Amen come on, go

1323
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:31,840
God today, Amen, Amen come on.
That was I could have.

1324
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:36,160
Kept going just story after.
Story of just ordinary people

1325
01:12:36,480 --> 01:12:39,040
and how God does extraordinary
things through that.

1326
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:42,200
And some of you today, a lot of
you today recognized maybe some

1327
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:45,280
of the ordinary things that led
you here today to meet Jesus.

1328
01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:48,280
And if that's you and you raised
your hand and you prayed your

1329
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,400
that prayer this morning to
commit your life to Jesus, we

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01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:54,120
are so excited for you.
I mean, we want to come beside

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01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:56,840
you and read source you and help
you as you're starting your

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01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:58,600
journey with Jesus.
If you would just grab that

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01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:00,360
connection card that's on your
seat.

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01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,200
You can fill out the information
in the top section, but make

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01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:06,440
sure and check that box that
says I committed my life to

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01:13:06,440 --> 01:13:08,160
Jesus.
And you can drop that in the

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01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:10,920
giving buckets as I pass here in
just a few minutes.

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01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:13,760
But just by doing that allows us
to get you a couple of

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01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:15,560
resources.
The first one is a free book

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01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,840
we'll drop in the mail to get to
you.

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01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,240
It's a short read.
It's called begin, but it truly

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01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:23,880
is a really good resource for
you as you are taking the steps

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01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:26,520
with Jesus this week.
Also, if you prayed the prayer,

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01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:29,120
raise your hand here at Kentucky
Trail as you exit the worship

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01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:32,160
center right before the doors to
your left is a table with some

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01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,360
red bags.
Please, please grab one of those

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01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:37,440
inside as a free Bible for you.
There's a a letter from Sean

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01:13:37,440 --> 01:13:40,640
with some resources that we know
will just be a blessing to you

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01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:43,600
this week.
And hey, if you are newer with

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01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,560
us here at real Life church,
thank you so much for being here

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01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,600
today and just choosing to spend
your morning here with us, man.

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01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:53,240
We don't want anything from you
except just introduce yourself

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01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:54,840
to us.
And you can do that by grabbing

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01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:57,240
that same connection card.
Fill out your information there

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01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,800
and check first time here.
You can actually take that to

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01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:02,840
the new here booth as you leave
today outside the worship center

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01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:04,640
doors.
Just to your right is a new here

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01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,120
booth.
You can turn that in there.

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01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:09,080
Someone will be there love to
chat with you and just get you a

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01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:10,600
free gift.
Just our way of saying thank you

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01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:13,280
so much for being here this
morning and we'd love to see you

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01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,680
back next week as well.
Man.

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Week 2 of this message series,
man, it's just got my brain

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01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:22,480
going, but just reminders that
you can be a difference maker.

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01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:25,480
You can be an everyday
difference maker through your

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01:14:25,480 --> 01:14:28,760
faith and just sharing with
other people how Jesus changed

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01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:32,200
your life and man, through your
generosity and just saying God,

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01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:34,040
what do you have for me in this
series?

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01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:36,600
What are you asking me to do?
What step of bold faith are you

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01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:40,920
asking me through that to change
hundreds, thousands of lives

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01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:43,240
through this next chapter at
Real Life Church.

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01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:45,920
And we believe the best truly is
yet to come.

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01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:49,080
Sean had mentioned we had five
people except Jesus last week.

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01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,920
We had almost 500 this year.
Maybe we're believing for

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01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:56,600
thousands of people to come to
know Jesus through this next

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01:14:56,600 --> 01:15:00,360
chapter at Real Life Church.
And you got the Difference Maker

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01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:02,160
booklet, which you can look
through that, answer some

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01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:05,520
questions in there, take message
notes in there through this

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01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:06,960
series.
But you also got a commitment

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01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:08,560
card.
And we're not like Sean said,

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we're not filling that out
today.

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01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,600
We're not collecting those until
later in this series.

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01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:15,680
But now is the time to take the
card and to pray over it, to

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01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:19,400
fast over it, to ask God, what
part are you asking me to play?

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01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:23,640
What step of bold faith are you
asking me to take to be a part

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01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:26,760
of this initiative?
And often times, like Sean said

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to me, we just feel like I just
don't have enough.

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01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:33,360
I don't know what part I can
play in this, but I was reminded

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01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:36,160
as he was saying that of the new
song that we sang today where it

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01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,760
says who am I to deny what God
can do?

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01:15:39,480 --> 01:15:43,280
And that is so true.
Who am I to deny what God can do

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01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:47,000
through me saying yes and taking
an act of bold faith through

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01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:50,000
what He's asking me to do and
what part he has for me to play?

1394
01:15:50,480 --> 01:15:52,840
Who are we to deny what God can
do through that?

1395
01:15:53,440 --> 01:15:55,720
And so take that card and pray
over it and fast over that.

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01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:59,920
God, what do you have for me in
this chapter at Real Life

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01:15:59,920 --> 01:16:01,600
Church?
Hey, if you call Real Life

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01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,640
Church home, there are a lot of
ways that you can give here.

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01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:06,040
You can scan the QR code up on
the screen.

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01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:09,000
You can text to give.
You can drop cash or check in

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01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:11,640
the buckets as they pass here.
Also, there's a giving box in

1402
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,120
the back.
You can drop cash or check in if

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01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:16,480
that's more convenient for you.
And hey, if you or your family

1404
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:19,560
find yourself at any kind of
immediate need this week, food,

1405
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:22,600
clothing, shelter as the buckets
pass here in just a minute,

1406
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:25,240
please reach in there.
Just grab out any loose cash

1407
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:27,400
that you see.
We really do want to help you

1408
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:32,600
this week in your time of need.
Man, what an.

1409
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:35,520
Awesome time just to celebrate
the fact that God uses the.

1410
01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:38,080
Common God uses the ordinary God
uses the broken man.

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01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:41,200
I see across this room.
I see a room full of difference

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01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:42,800
makers.
So can we get it for God one

1413
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:46,000
more time before we get ready to
get out of here and go God?

1414
01:16:46,440 --> 01:16:48,880
Hey, couple things to mark on
your calendar before we do roll.

1415
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:52,960
So October the 26th, we're going
to have a super kids Sunday.

1416
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:55,160
So there's an opportunity for
your kids to come hang out,

1417
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:57,480
bring your favorite costumes.
There's going to be faith fun

1418
01:16:57,760 --> 01:16:59,640
candy.
They're going to get to read

1419
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:03,040
talk about the the real hero of
of the Bible and that's Jesus.

1420
01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:05,920
So mark that calendar.
And then October the 29th, real

1421
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:09,440
life youth, they're going to
have a talent show, costumes,

1422
01:17:09,440 --> 01:17:11,640
candy and again, this message of
hope and change.

1423
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:13,840
So you guys do not want to mess
this miss out on this.

1424
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,640
You go online or click this URL
code for some details.

1425
01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:18,880
So hey, if you guys need prayer
for any reason, we would love to

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01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,680
pray with you up here either as
individuals or as families.

1427
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:23,640
So anything you want to pray
about, we would love to pray

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01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,800
with you in which you guys can
next with the nine O'clock 6:45

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01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:29,520
As always, remember whoever
finds uses discovers real life

1430
01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:35,840
and purpose.
This is the end of this podcast.

1431
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:37,600
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have.

1432
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:40,200
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