People Make The Difference - Difference Maker Part 2

0:00 Good morning, real life. We are excited that you have come to worship with us this morning. It's our privilege to join together and just to lift up the praises to God. So whether you're joining us here in person, we invite you to stand on your feet. We're going to lift up some shouts of praise to God this morning because it's because of His love, His work on the cross, that our sins are gone. So let's lift him up. It wasn't born nothing that you shed your blood. So I'm going to live like my shame is gone.

0:40 Won't be shackled to the way I was. So I'm going to live like my chains are gone. Gone now my city's steady gone. And I sing Hallelujah, time, time he is rising, it is time. And I sing Hallelujah. So I'm going to shout like the battles won.

1:22 Hey, fall back there because the time is up. So I'm going to live like the stone is gone, gone now my I've seen his daily gone and I sing Hallelujah done, done. He is arisen and he's done and I sing Hallelujah is how great the power ever belongs. Oh, oh, Oh yes, I am the righteousness of God. Oh.

2:19 Oh, singing out to him, cow, great, the power of the blood. Oh, oh I am I the righteousness of God. Oh, oh, oh, gone, gone now my sin is dead and gone, and I sing Hallelujah, done, done He is arisen it is done.

3:08 And I sing Hallelujah, O and gone, gone, gone. Now my sin is day God. And I sing Hallelujah, done, done He is. I'll give it up for Jesus this morning. Come on, so good to worship with you this morning. Come rest on us, come rest on us as the spirit was moved over the water.

4:35 Spirit, come over us, Come rest on us, come rest on us. Calm down Spirit. When you, when you made my heart hurt. When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will feel me. Calm down, spirit. When you know you make my heart # When you fill the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you'll feel me. Come on, see.

5:22 Fire and wind, Fire and wind coming to it again. Hoping up the gates. Let heaven on it come rest on us, come rest on us. Fire and wind coming to it again, hoping up the gates. Let heaven on it. Come rest on us, come rest on us. Calm down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart # When you feel the room, you're here, And I know you are moving.

6:03 I'm here, and I know you will feel me. Calm down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart # When you feel the room, you're here. And I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you'll feel me. Come, Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. You're all we want.

6:46 Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. You're all we want. Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. You're all we want. Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. You're all we want. Calm down, Spirit.

7:28 We When you move, you make my heart # When you feel the room, you're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will feel me. Calm down, Spirit. When you move, you make my heart # When you feel the room. You're here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will feel me. Calm down, Spirit. When you move, you make my heart pound. When you feel the You're here and I know you. I'm moving. I'm here and I know you will fill me. Holy Spirit hummus on us.

8:13 You're all we want. You're all we want. Holy Spirit hummus on us. You're all we want. You're all we want. Holy Spirit comest on us. You're all we want. You're all we want. And Holy Spirit comest on us. You're always we want, you're all we want Holy Spirit, you are well kind, complete in this place and fill the atmosphere cause your glory.

9:16 God is what our hearts are going to be over. Come play to this place and fill the atmosphere. Your glory card is what our hearts alone to be. All my come by your praises Lord. Amen. Lord Long.

9:57 For your presence in this place got in the name. In your name. I want to take this moment to introduce you to a new song, and it is called More Than Able. And it comes right out of the Scripture in Ephesians 3 where it says when we lean in and we plant our roots down deep in Jesus, that he can do exceedingly, abundantly, more than we can ask or think. And I think as we're leaning into this season of difference maker for our church, there's not more than we could ask because God, he can do above anything we can think. So let's lean in. Let's worship Him. So when did I start to forget all of the great things you did? When did I throw away faith for the impossible? And how did I start to believe that you weren't sufficient for me?

11:10 Why do I talk myself out of seeing miracles 'cause? You are more than able 'cause you are more. Than able. You are more than anymore.

11:50 You are more than able and do am I to deny what the Lord can do? It's easy for you and now I see all that I have. Oh I've got my confidence back beside put my trust in the one who still does miracles. You do miracles. You are more than able. You are more than able.

12:45 You are. You are more than able. Because you are more than able. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Can you imagine with all of the faith in the room, what the Lord can do, what the Lord can do, and it's going to happen. Just let the waymaker through. He's going to move. He's going to move.

13:29 Can you imagine with all of the faith in the room, what the Lord can do, what the Lord can do? It's going to happen. Just let the waymaker through. He's going to move. He's going to move. Can you imagine with all of the faith in the room, what the Lord can do, what the Lord can do? It's going to happen. Just let the waymaker move. He's going to move. He's going to move because anything is possible and anything is possible.

14:19 Anything is possible. We remind to deny what the Lord can do. If anything is possible, anything is possible, anything is possible to deny what the Lord can do. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? You are more than anymore.

15:17 You are more than able. You are more than able you. Are more than able. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Who am I, I to deny what the Lord can do? Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? The God of the impossible, man, the God that shows up week in and week out, no matter what state or what season you're in, man, God is always here.

16:11 God is always the God of the possible man. Let's give I forgot one more time, man. Love to hear you guys worship. I want you guys to know there are a ton of new people here today, man. Thank you guys for choosing to gather with us online in person. Can we give those guys some love? Just give them a round of applause, man. If you guys know this or not, winter's coming. Did you guys like that for a little little cool? I'm man I'm not ready for. I told Pastor Sean we're not ready for yet, but it's on the way. So hey man, I want you guys to find somebody, greet them, let them know how glad you are seeing this morning.

17:13 Right, you guys can go ahead and grab a seat. Hey, as you guys are sitting down, I want you guys to know that I am getting some feedback here. You guys are getting ready to sit on something awesome. It's called our connection card. This connection card is an all play moment. It's for everybody in the house. So let me tell you a little bit about it. If you call real life home, we love it when you fill out these cards. Let us know what's going on in your life. You put on some prayer requests, some praises. We love to pray over these week in week out. Our team really looks forward to it and they truly excited to see what you guys have going on when you turn those in. If you guys are new with this, I'm going to make a promise to you and I'm going to ask anything else from you this week except one simple thing. We just love for you to introduce yourself to us. Let us know who you are, fill out the information to the level that you're comfortable with. We're not going to show up your door or anything like that, but we want you to that we care about you. We'd love to send you more information about real life this week so you guys have an opportunity to turn those cards in a little bit later in the gathering. We do all of this week in and week out because we say that we are a church on a mission is why we exist is why we do what we do.

18:13 That mission is to see people far from Jesus discovered the real life of her. They're far from God discovered the real life of purpose in Jesus. What that means is this is like when you guys walk through your daily life. Is everything always perfect? Is it easy? It's not right. And I get to talk to people at work just on on the daily routine and they come in they're like, man, my life is destroyed, it's broken. What do I do next? That's why this real life church is here, is to get people connected to what's next to find their next step, to find that purpose, to find that mission because you're never going to find that out in the world, but you're going to find that in Jesus, in the pleasure and the joy of us. What we do every week is we can see people walk in here broken and destroyed and they walk out with hope.

18:54 They walk out with the knowledge of that somebody cares about them, that Jesus loved them enough to die for them. That's what the gospel is and that's why we're on mission. And so it really leads in also to what we're in the middle of this Difference Maker series. And I'm so glad you guys are here. We kicked it off last week. And so for the next 5 weeks, we're going to lean into what really this church has always been about, but we're going to put an exclamation point on it. So for the last eight years, if you don't know our story, God has used this body, this gathering to bring hope and transformation throughout this community and really across the world. But God has asked us to step into a season for all of us to become difference makers. And what that's going to look like is we're got being called to not create a building, but to create a movement. And we're hoping that God takes this tool of a building that we're, we're, we're reaching for in, in, in building some momentum to, to take that to change to the next generation. It's what we're believing that God's going to remove obstacles. We're believing in God to make the impossible happen. We don't have the answers to everything, but we're looking to the God that does.

19:54 And so we're hoping and we're praying and we're having faith that God will take every person in this room individually to become difference makers, to change the next generation, to see souls transform. So once you guys take this opportunity, let's give a big, huge, real life welcome and bring up Pastor Sean as we continue Difference Maker. Hey, I don't even need that today, Barry. Oh, man, they, they, they upgraded me, baby. So it's good. That's right. I don't know if that's going to work out very well. So well, man, who's feeling blessed today? Come on, somebody that song, man, God is able. Was that good or what? That was just something for your soul today. It's it's refreshing to remember what the Lord can do and it's possible to do anything.

20:37 And so I'm going to celebrate a few things. Oh, by the way, if you're like what happened to Pastor Sean? I fought a bear, I killed a lion. It got me a little bit. I'm good. But yeah, three weeks out of surgery from rotator cuff and it's going really well. Amen. I'm blessed, so don't worry about me, but just keep praying it's good. So I got three more weeks in this bad boy. Hopefully that's it and I'm good to go. I'll slowly take a journey back. But today I want to celebrate a few things. One last week we had five people commit to life, to Jesus, Amen. That's amazing. That's significant. It's about why we're doing a building, why we have this initiative. That's the best kickoff we could ever have, Amen. Like that's why we're doing it.

21:18 The building is a tool, right? It's, it's, it's a, it's a means to an end the, the mission, the movement. Like Barry talked about, sometimes you put a building up, it's like we arrived. It's like we just started Amen. Like it's about the gospel, it's about souls. It's not about concrete and steel. And so we're excited 5 people come to Christ last week. And I would encourage you guys, I've really what it looks like today to be an everyday difference maker. You know, we, we hear these stories like these five people come to Christ. Let me just tell you a little bit about how this, this usually happens. It's, it's actually not a very complicated formula. It's us going out and sharing the good news of Jesus and the conversations around us. And it doesn't mean we're just like preachers, like here's the gospel, but you weave the gospel in the conversations and you see people hurting, you see people in need, you see people broken, and you step in.

22:06 That's a holy moment, Amen. That's a spiritual moment. And there's some people at our church that like have spiritual eyes to see like you just walk around. It's not like I go to church on Sunday like I am the church and I just see what God's doing all the time. I sense of spirit, I sense what the enemy is up to and I'm just going to step on in. And what those ladies in our church is Christy Hardy. She just has a spiritual sense on her. She's invited so many people who's been invited by Christy. Just show of hands. Like, I mean, there's a lot of you guys, right? I mean, a lot of people just know Christy, if you don't know where she runs her kids, she's married to Barry, you know, sorry, but she was out about 3 weeks ago, maybe a month ago, and she ran some people she knew. And one of his name was Perla and she divided Perla to church with her family and didn't know what God's going to do.

22:52 She shows up the next week and that was a week Logan was preaching, not Logie, all right, but he said he can do a good Logie, he's good at that. Just don't do something. And that Logan's preaching and guess what? Perla and her sister, her family came to Christ. Amen. Just because everyday roommaker just somebody saw somebody and said man that God can make a difference your life. It was just like come out to real life like how you doing spiritual what's going on your life. Hey, you know what's made a difference in my life? It is Jesus. Can you just come with me? I'll save you a seat like I'll sit with you. Just just come on out and see what God can do. She comes to Christ last week. You know what they did They're so excited about Jesus. They invited somebody with them. Amen.

23:33 Like this is how the gospel goes. It's just relationship circles. And so sometimes you overcomplicate this for like other spiritual, like spiritual. I don't even call that like your, your spiritual pedestals. There's spiritual practitioners, there's spiritual privilege. No Amen. You have the same Holy Spirit as everybody else does. The the ground of the cross is equal by the way it's level and the power of God lives in you. I will encourage you to when you're like living on mission, please don't say you're not qualified or you're not good enough or you don't have don't know enough. Can I tell you you you know enough? Like just tell people what you do know. Amen. Like you don't tell what you don't know. And then you Start learning.

24:14 So if you know like A to G, tell them about everything in front of it, right? Don't worry about Z or like bury, like triple Z like the dudes you know, watching all these things, right? Like you don't have to tell people what you don't know, but I encourage you to go out and share and see what God can do. That's just a little story, right? Everyday dress Baker, you can make a difference to all this. Last week, those yard signs were like flying off the shelf. They were going. I talked about how many people come to church because they saw a sign and I really wasn't planning on it. And then all of a sudden people were taking signs. That's an introverted dream. Amen. I mean, you don't have to do nothing. You just like, hey, I put it out and guess what? You got one more MO left in this season, brother. Boom, 8 months of being a witness, six months of being a witness. Just stick it down in the yard, right And all of a sudden you're proclaiming just the good news of Jesus and there's a place of hope and people come because that Amen. So there's some signs out there for you. Take more than one right, put them out, give some friends. Somebody actually left one last week and you know, like you're always wondering like does somebody taking on tear down or is this supposed to be here?

25:11 Well, they weren't taking it just got left out. So I brought it home and a God's great sovereignty. There's a man came house yesterday and said I meant to grab a sign last Sunday. I said, well, did God set you up for a reason? It's here in my garage. Here's your sign, right? So, yeah, we went on a walk, five mile walk last night and guess what? That sign was in the yard on sunrise. Come on somebody, right? And that's just a little everyday difference maker. I want to encourage you guys as well. There's a, a lady that goes to our church, loves our church, loves Jesus and took everyday difference maker, not just here, but across the world. And she's been in Thailand just over three months and just got back this this last week. She was really tired, but we're going to stop her. And you, you know her.

25:52 She comes here if you don't know her, but her name's Rochelle Morlock. And if she's watching online, I'll just come to the second. But if you give up for Rochelle, Amen, let me know. Your lover, turn the gospel out. Every difference maker across the world. And I'm a big fan. And that the gospel is not just for here, it's for all places. And when you read the Great Commission, it's not, it's not either or you can't be like, well, I just don't do missions or like I'm the way out of missions. I believe it's both ends. I believe the light shines bright here and we take it somewhere else as well. And so I believe you support local and you support across the world that we stay and we go, we pray. Some of you're supposed to go, some of you're called to go. Amen, Amen. You better keep your hands open. You got if you tell me no, I'm like, God's been working on you, right?

26:35 Like this is so we play a part of the story. And so everyday difference makers, man. And one of those ways to do that is through fasting. And you guys have been fasting. How many guys have been fasting last couple weeks? You've tried at least once you've been doing it show of hands. I mean, that is significant. Can you guys give it up for everybody's fasting of the day, by the way? I mean, that's a weird thing like, but this should be normal. There should be normal language in the Christian world and a church is that people prayer fast for the will of God and the things of God and it makes an amazing difference. And sometimes you forget like the power of fasting. So I'm going to keep just kind of plug in this a little bit and just pushing a little bit. There's a story of a lady in the Bible named Hadessa. Has anybody heard of Hadessa? My guess is you all have heard of her at some level, but you don't know her Jewish name. I was kind of said Yep, on that was kind of me in a little bit. She has a Persian name.

27:20 Maybe help out a little bit. Esther. Her name's Esther. And I always think it's interesting like we that the Bible kept like their slave name or like, you know, Shadrach, Meshach and Benigo that that's not their real names, right? Like they've been renamed by the culture they're in. And so Esther's story is quite amazing. I'm not going to give it justice, just saying because I don't have a ton of time to walk through the story, but I would encourage you to read it. It'll take you about 30 minutes. So if you find Psalms back up, go through Job, go back Esther's story. It's 10 chapters and it's very, very powerful. It's let me give you like the big context and the power of prayer and fasting. So Esther, she's a young teenage girl, OK? She's not some mature person.

28:03 She doesn't have all put together, but she has great faith. She's part of the remnant that came down from Babylon captivity. Her her cousin Mordecai came with her end up adopting her. And so she's just in this Kingdom of Persian. The Kingdom of Persia is massive. It goes from Egypt, Turkey, all the way east, all the way through India. You're talking a huge amount one of the one of the greats, you know, like you have the, the Greek Empire, the Roman Empire, the Persian empires, one of those empires and the the king Zarxies, his wife did not obey him, which I didn't blame her because he's asking for some pretty inappropriate things. And she says no. And he basically talks to his counsel and they say, Hey, let's just there's a law that she can't even talk to you unless you unless you actually invite her to come in.

28:44 And so he casts her outtakes away her power. And so we need to find a new queen. And Long story short, to bring up Esther and God appoints her. Now Esther's a Jew, but nobody knows she's Jewish. She's hid it. And so there's this man named Haman. Somebody say Haman, we're going to hate on this guy day, OK, because he hated the Jews. He was upset. Mordecai wouldn't respect him. He wouldn't bow down. And so he said, hey, Mordecai, I'm not going to just kill you. I'm going to kill every Jew in the Persian Empire. We're talking about hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Jewish people. They're going to be killed. And So what happens is this gets spread out to all the the the area. There's the edict that's put out. The Haman had talked to king and to make an edict kill everybody. And he did something very special.

29:25 He cast lots to pick the day of which he'd kill him. It's what that means is they have these stones or these sticks and they kind of throw them out kind of like you play dice. And then whatever number it was, I was like, OK, that's the day we're going to do it. And so they cast lots to pick the day. An actual day like this is the edit goes out to 127 territories, and that day you're going to eradicate and distinguish every Jewish person in our Kingdom. That's pretty crazy to think about. And so Mordecai hears this. And at this point, the nation is already fascinating. The people are hearing this. They're carrying their clothes and sackcloth and ashes. They're mourning and they're fascinating for how to make a move. Mordecai calls that or calls up. He didn't call her up, right? Oh, Esther, maybe he did that, right? But he gets a hold of Esther and he tells her about the plot. And he says she goes, well, I'll talk to the king. I'm going to be killed because against the law. And he said, well, maybe you put in this position for just a time as this, right?

30:16 Like maybe God put you here on purpose. And so she replies to him her plan, and she asked me something very special. She asked me to fast. So you can find this in Esther chapter 4 verse 16, she said this. Go gather together all the Jews who are in Sousa, which Sousa is the base of the place where the king is ruling from, and fast for me. And look at how long the fast is. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. That's a fast. Amen. I mean that ain't like the 12 hour window of not eating. We're talking about full on God. I need you or a backs against the wall more than any of this food in this water. I need you to make a move. I need you to deliver us.

30:57 I'm trusting you and they're begging for God to make a move and praying for her for a divine favor with the king says I my attendance will fast as you do, which is a great leadership principle by the way. And when this is done, I will go to the king even though is against the law. And if I perish, come on somebody, I perish. Like if I'm going out, I'm going out, but I'm going to go out. But the way that I believe God has called me to go out. And so God answers the prayer. There's actually something very special happens. There's a dream, or it's not a dream, but he keeps the king awake. He can't sleep and sort of starts reading the Chronicles of Anals, which is history book. And he finds out that Mordecai has actually saved his life. The Mordecai found some spies and he got them eliminated. And so he starts to honor Mordecai and ticks off Haman. And it's all the backdrop of how Esther meets with Haman privately or his Arxes.

31:45 And he and he, she tells them, hey, this is the man that set the plot up that's even going to kill me. I'm a Jewish person. And so she gives goes out the next day, the third day, and she stands in front of the king is what it says in chapter 5, verse one. On the third day, Esther put on her roller robes and stood in the inner court of the palace. That's a huge act of faith, by the way, like you're going to go somewhere where the last person was cast out and you're most likely going to be killed. As she steps into this inner court and in front of the King's hall. And the king was sitting on the roll throne in the hall facing the entrance. And when she saw the Queen Esther stay in the court, he was what what's to say? Yeah, He was pleased with her and held out his her and the golden scepter that was in his hand, which was inviting her in. And the the the favor of the king was amazing. King's archies told her, I'll give you whatever you want, up to half the Kingdom.

32:32 That's a good day. Amen. That's exactly what they've been praying for, God's favor. And she goes, I don't want the Kingdom. Matter of fact, I wouldn't even question this. You've made us slaves, but they're going to kill us. And who's in charge of this? And she pointed out Heyman and get and guess who got killed that day? Heyman. And then Mordecai got promoted to the second in charge of the entire Kingdom. And then out of that, they warned the Jews of the fight. The Jews fight back. All of Heyman's kids get killed and Mordecai steps in the place of prominence. You had no idea that fasting could do that, Amen, That that fasting could change A nation like this is a a teenage girl that changed. That's an everyday difference maker, by the way, Amen. Like, like she had no idea that that little step of faith, like just walking into a hall and going against the government, that would never happen.

33:21 Amen. Right. Like that, that we would break some rules for Jesus would be in the will of God and be used to save kingdoms. I want to encourage you when you fast, it can change your marriage, it can change the city, it can change this church, it can change your family. And in this case, it actually changed a nation. And so I'm encourage you guys to faster in the season we talk about building or have this initial campaign to raise money, this initiative so we can say yes to a space because we're asking for divine favor. Amen. We're asking for boldness. We're asking to be in the right rooms, but I don't want you to miss this. It's all about everyday people, every one of us stepping into our call and asking Jesus, what would you have me do today? Not just showing up on Sunday.

34:04 You know, I know a lot of churches and they have great buildings, but sometimes those buildings are empty. You ever been in the church? There's an empty building. I mean, you ever worked somewhere? I mean, I used to work at a church and it's like, man, this place could see the 800. You know, that's like, I wish I could take the pews out because we're running too, right? I mean, and and there's a lot of big buildings that doesn't have healthy ministry. And the the point is this, if we build a monument and we get back and we go, man, look what we did. Whoo, those are the glory days. Like don't waste our time, Amen? Like, like it's a movement and the building is a tool. It's it's a means. It's not, it's not really the vision like the that's part of the vision to get to where we're going, but the vision is souls, Amen? The division to see souls change. And I've been crowned to God asking God to give us 10s of thousands of souls, not hundreds, not thousands, 10s of thousands.

34:58 Like why not us? Like why not in our generation that we'd be a force for the Kingdom of God because we were everyday difference makers for him. It's really about stories, right? Like we talked about the stories earlier of Perla and, and people going out and just signs these little things. That's what the church is made of, Amen. And we can do that. We'll qualify to do that. And so I believe there's been 10s of thousands of stories as a result of the space that we're going to that God's going to bring us to. But I want to share with you one of these stories that's already happened that is so powerful. And this is one of so many stories, right? We talk about 500 people come to Christ so far. This is one of those stories. So lean in and listen and ask yourself how, what's the everyday difference makers that made this story possible? Because you're going to see them in the story. So this is it.

35:42 Check it out. I am this and this is my story before real life, before coming to Christ at all. I battled depression since I was a kid, full of anxiety, no self worth, spent years trying to find myself and figure out who I was and as I got older I turned to drugs obviously just made everything worse. Nothing ever worked. Coming back to a point of even being suicidal when I finally had my breakthrough at a concert.

36:28 All the sudden in the middle of of this concert, I had the most powerful, I don't know, goosebumps all over my entire body and that moment I had actually heard God, he just said come to me. It was a couple months after that is when I hit one of my lowest lows. Finally decided to push the pride aside and go with what God was telling me and find him. I reached out to Kyle spread and came to real life church. The start of my transformation where the real difference in my life began. My daughter Luciana had been asking me to go to youth group.

37:13 They eventually obviously took her. It was a worship night when we like the first night that I took her that I stuck around just to just to see how, you know, this whole youth thing was going and how my daughter would do in it. And as everybody is and going around the room praying, I just I completely broke down into tears and couldn't help but feel God's spirit just heavy on me. After that night, I couldn't help but to come back and there was a joke that was made that maybe I could step in and leave with Kyle. I contacted Sean and I said, you know, that this was brought up.

37:53 You know, I was like, can we maybe talk about that, because something that I want to do is help people and I feel like I could, you know, help these kids. After that, Sean said, you know, man, you got to meet me really got to know Christ before you do this. So let, let let's let's meet up. We met at Panera Bread. There I was, Sean had me praying in public and Panera declaring that I had given my life to Jesus Christ and he was my savior and I had believed everything that he had done for me. And the story kind of goes from there, you know, going into and becoming the accused leader and everything, the faith spreading through my family.

38:39 I don't know, every time that I was coming to church it was like he was speaking directly to me most times. All the love and acceptance I had felt from everybody in the church and does everything about it. Finally find that person and me that I had tried to find for so many years. Being able to express my happiness and but but finally express true happiness and in a real way as kind of a roller toaster, but not really like a downward roller toaster. There was no more depression, no more feeling of being lonely as like a weight lifted off of me like I could I could finally breathe.

39:24 I can find solace knowing that God is with me and I can turn to him. I'm a completely different person from just over a year ago. I would have never gotten to experience any of this had I not found my salvation. I got baptized 2 months or so after I found my salvation, but not only did I get baptized, my wife and my daughter got baptized along with me. I can't thank God enough, and I can't thank this church enough for having us all feel so loved and accepted. It's changed all of our lives so much. Just a couple months ago my 7 year old got baptized as well.

40:06 If you've never seen or heard a 7 year old and come up with her own prayer and it's one of the cutest things ever. I believe that it's important for us as a church to be difference makers and step out and try to find a permanent space for us because they can allow us to bring more people in. And have that many more people come to Christ and more lost souls just like me to find their salvation. If somebody like me can find Jesus here, then imagine the thousands more that could in our first permanent home. And I'm proof that this is a place where prodigals can come home.

40:51 For them. That story is so many levels of go God, so many levels of redemption and just coming off all the things and you know what, it's fun. It's good to play part of the story, a small part of the story. Amen. Like you did you guys see this? This isn't just a story of how God can make a difference in Lucas's life, although that is the primary story. Like that's the banner. Like thank you, Jesus, what you did, but behind the story, there's a lot of small stories. Did you guys pick up on the small stories that he he was hurting and he called his friend Kyle. Kyle and Mandy had been praying for Lucas and inviting him to go to church for over 15 years.

41:37 Like they never gave up on their high school buddies, ran together, all those different things. And Kyle and Mandy were broken for him. And so when he got into a spot where he needed God and he need to find an answer, who do you call the everyday difference maker in his life? Amen. The one that truly cared that like never gave up was always there, always encouraging. And because that he invited him out to to to the youth group. But you notice who invited him, his daughter. Remember that his daughters beg him to come to youth. By the way, didn't know Jesus yet, but invited his her dad to come out to youth and come and he shows up and you see the difference that happened. There was a group of people that have this thing called a youth team, Amen, that actually have a youth group and these people come there and and their own time and energy and it's it's effort and they set up like we set up here, not to this extent, but they set up and they pray for those kids and they have fun with those kids. I've I've broken my body for teenagers in the past, right, I've had broken ankles.

42:37 I have a skull fracture. Great story, by the way. We'll go there one day from playing dodgeball with teenagers, right, and I'm just telling you like if something special, just the power God being released because people in praying and caring and leading and the whole team just weekly just grind out for Jesus trying to show these young people faith in Christ. Amen. I mean, that's one little story right behind the scenes. Like no, they get credit, they get credit How how about he's back in this worship night. Do you hear him say that he was in this worship night? That's a God moment. We've done that one time, one time like and we were back in this conference room and I believe Don was playing acoustic guitar. The lights are out and the member of the Holy Spirit in that space I'd have by people to pray and many leaders prayed. I don't think there was a maybe there's one teenager. I don't think there's any teenagers that prayed that night.

43:22 Maybe there's one, but there was leaders that prayed and one of those leaders, I'll never forget it. He actually just walked in. I'm so glad that God brought you in last, last second. It's Brett White back here and for the first time I feel right. That was the first time you've ever prayed out loud publicly. That right Amen and you had known that the prayer he was praying would be a breakthrough moment for Lucas praying over what God could do in this generation because you can see the hope of the future in this room and how desperate they need God himself and not the world that's pulling in all this stuff and Lucas be actually begin to cry in that space and he'd been to shed tears and he kind of moved his daughter kind of off his lap and his tears are dripping down his face onto me. Don't when people know he's crying. He took him months and months and months before he told me the story.

44:06 And then he wants to serve at youth ministry before he knows Jesus. Come on, somebody. That's amazing. It was like, OK, God, you're obviously moving. Let's go to Panera because that's, that's what we need, right? And we just sat down and talked through a story and all the things like many of you, there's just stories. I mean, conversations like, hey, man, I grew up with this and this and this and I just don't, I don't know, man, my dad, like, I don't know if I can really trust, you know, God because man, my family was so broken and all of a sudden like God just shows him and he comes to Christ. Do you see the difference makers behind the story? Like I'm just thankful to play a part of the story. It's the most fun when you're part of the God's work is getting a front row seat to the things of God.

44:49 There's just something special about seeing the stories and knowing the people and the people have been invited, how things are working and just be able to share the a little piece and then seeing their life changed. And that's the stories we're looking for. Amen. That's the stories we know God will write. Lucas is a story of a prodigal that came home and we believe our city is full of prodigals. We we've prayed for our city before we launched the church in this city. Like we want to be a movement of God in our city and around the world. We believe this is the next step to do that. But I want to encourage you guys in in the in the Bible, there is and this is going to be kind of like skipping a rock. OK, so it's going to be a little different type of message, but I was going to encourage you guys of the everyday difference makers you see in Scripture. It's just the ones we kind of skip by. You may go, I don't know who that is or maybe I forgot about that story, but just a small acts and how they make big extraordinary differences because sometimes we think there's this pedigree they must have or some of this education level or a stage in a microphone. Christianity really doesn't need a stage in a microphone. Amen.

45:51 Like it does really well without it too. Like this can be mistaken for a church. So we call it a gathering because you guys gather together and then we scatter out. It's a 24/7 mission. Amen, Amen. Like most guys like just want to like have a great Sunday. It's like, no, I want to honor God all days of my life and receive ourselves be redemption to the world, salt and light, giving answers to those who are broken all throughout the week. We come back here to get encouraged, refreshed and sent out. So let me give you some examples in the Bible. How about this? This isn't John 6 and there's not on the Scripture of this, but just know they're at this is the boy with a sack lunch everyday difference maker. Remember there's 5000 people. It's not it's just the men, OK.

46:33 And and Jesus is telling the disciples like how we get some you need some food, how we going to do it? And this little boy gives 5 fish and two loaves. You guys know that story. You know, it's one of the only stories miracles of Jesus that's recorded all four gospels. That's how powerful it was. But what made it so powerful? It's because the 12 disciples lacked the faith that God could do the miracle and we just sang a song that God is able. Do you guys believe that today? Like he can do the miracle and this little boy full of faith says here, you can do it. And he did everything. He says all I got Lord, but you can do more with than I can. And God multiplied it and broke it. Do you remember the end of the story? What happened? He sent out the 12 to pick up the baskets.

47:14 That was the point of story. He's like, look, boys, I did it. You're going to pick up every one of those last piece of bread and you're going to carry it to the next city and don't forget it. His act of faith, Amen. He's teaching them that's significant. God can do extraordinary things when we open our hands to him. You know, you don't have to have a lot to be generous, Amen. You don't have to have $1,000,000 in the account. You don't have to. All things work together. Like it's just open your hands to what you have to God. That's what God can do. Think of a man named Andrew. Andrew is 1, is one of the disciples, right? But his story started out, he was a follower, John the Baptist and John the Baptist, he was a forerunner. He kind of proclaimed The Who Jesus was. And he just disappeared into the limelight.

47:55 He went into obscurity. And I do think there's a point in your Christian life where you have to be OK with and believe deeply. It's OK to slip in, slip into his obscurity because the story was never about you. It was about Jesus. So it doesn't mean my name in lights or real life name in lights. There's not going to be no name in the church names in heaven, by the way, but it's the name of Jesus, Amen. Just step back and say, OK, and this is what John the Baptist did so well. And he pointed out and they said, oh, there's followers of Jesus. He goes, that's good because I'm not even worthy of laces, sandals. And the first thing that John the Baptist said about Jesus was behold, the Lamb of God. The Lamb of God, like Jesus was born to die. And John the Baptist knew it. He said, you need to follow him. And so Andrew started stalking him with this other disciple, which we know now is the one writing John.

48:39 So John himself and Andrew stalking him. Emma's household days, kind of weird introduction. Like, what are you guys doing? And he hangs out juice all day. And the first thing Andrew does know, he does come. You guys know? Where's Andrew go? Somebody say it. Yeah. Went to his brother Peter. First thing Andrew does, he's all day with Jesus and he gets done with Jesus and he runs back home and says he's Simon, Simon, Simon. We found the one been looking for this Messiah. I met him today. You need to come with me. And then Peter goes to Jesus. I said Peter, Simon goes to Jesus and the first thing that Jesus does is so significant is he looks at Simon and he says you are no longer to be called Simon, but your name would be Peter. Because on this rock, I'm going to build my church.

49:19 That's the first moment ever. Being Jesus, He gave him a new name, a new identity, a new purpose, a new calling. He knew exactly what was up for. And Peter would go on to be the one that preached on Pentecost, go on the one that plant the churches in Rome and be a force for the power of God in the New Testament. It's amazing, Amen. But if it wasn't for Andrew, there'd be no Peter. If there wasn't for somebody that just had a just a curiosity enough to follow somebody and a bold faith of a simple invite, we can do that. Amen. You think about the Samaritan woman at the well, right? This this probably a prostitute or been through this crazy stories of being married, you know, and at least five other men in her life, right. And Jesus sits down and he's the first one to ever tell him that tell anybody in the world that he was the Messiah. You're talking to him and he says, I'm going to give you living water.

50:06 And she tells her everything she's done and give us living water. She recognized what Jesus is, and she runs from that well to her city and she says, guys, I've got to introduce you to somebody that told me that everything I've ever done in my life, this is the Messiah. We can do that, Amen. You don't have to have a degree or any theology to know that Jesus changed your life. Matter of fact, I think the best story is the one that you tell about how your life's been changed. People need more like Christianese, Amen. They didn't know that God made a difference in your life and he saved you and he changed you and you worship him. And so she goes back and she convinces these people the least likely person by the way, in the city that you would listen to.

50:48 It'd be like a homeless person coming up to you and saying you got to go check this guy out. You'd be like kind of time for that, right? Like you're this the outcast. And she convinces the city to go find Jesus and says many came to faith, Amen. And everyday difference maker like don't make don't act like you're not qualified. You are qualified by Christ, by the Holy Spirit, Amen. Like there's not these different levels, like you're saved or not saved, you're holy or unholy. Like Jesus made you holy through his Spirit. And there's no small spirit. You don't get a little tight to the Spirit and then you start doing better with your life and he upgrades the Spirit of God, Amen. You don't earn your way to God. Like that's religion. It's two things that will pull you away from God. It's rebellion and religion.

51:33 And I can preach another message on that tomorrow if you want me to. But OK, come back, Brett, I love you. How about Rahab? We, we mentioned on the huddler, this lady Rahab, she's a prostitute. She's in a foreign country. These spies come in, she hides them in the roof. When they come in and take over the nation, she puts a a cloth out the window and it protects her. And just by faith, she protects these spies and she's a prostitute. You know, she end up in the lineage of Jesus. Do you guys know that she was, she, she was in lineage of David and through the lineage of David, like we're talking lineage. I'm like, mom, you know, father, son, father, son, right? If you go to Matthew, she's, she's in the lineage of Jesus, a prostitute, Amen. And, and her act of faith was I'm going to hide you so you don't get killed from the people coming after you. That was an act of faith.

52:17 By the way, most people don't know this, but she's actually listed in, in Hebrews 11. Do you know what the Hebrews 11 is? It's the Hall of Fame, baby. That's the Hall of Fame. That's the Hall of Fame of faith. Like the world wasn't worthy of these people. And Rahab is listed everyday difference makers. Amen. Like we all could have done that. OK, how about Jokabed? Anybody heard of Jokabed? By the way, most of us have probably never heard this name. This is like one of the most obscure people in the Bible, but a great act of faith. This is Moses's mom, Jokabed. She looked at her son. There was a law from the Egyptians that every person that that was a was a Jew, that the boys should all be killed, thrown into the Nile River.

53:05 And she goes, there's something different about my boy, which we all should have as parents, Amen. And she took Moses and she put them in a Reed basket and put them in these on the Nile River. And Pharaoh's daughter found Moses and a God's sovereignty. Mariam Jochabed's sister was watching and just line it up. We're like hey, this baby, I'm this lady that can nurse him and guess who nursed Moses joke Abed his very mom nursed him after he she saved his life and of course Moses we don't know Moses should probably get well know Moses, but got the 10 commandments like rescued the people from Egyptian slavery like chose not to follow the wealth of all of Egypt.

53:46 He was second in command, but instead she was a suffer with his people. And you'd go on to write the first five books of the Bible. Without his mom, there's no Moses, Amen. But we can have that everyday faith, right? Like the Jogabed type of faith. How about the friends that laid down, lowered down, the paralyzed man through the roof? By the way, one of my favorite stories ever in the Bible because I had friends that brought me to Jesus, right? Somebody cared enough about me spiritually to invite me to church and to say no, You got to go, man. You got to go. And these men, they picked up this mat. This man was paralyzed. You couldn't walk. And he just, they carried it. I don't know if the guy wanted to go or not. Amen. He didn't have a choice. You're going to get to Jesus.

54:28 And the crowds are so big they couldn't get to see him. He was inside this house and said, do we got an idea? Let's just go up on the roof as against the side of the hill. We're going up on the roof and we're going to just breakthrough the roof. So as Jesus preaching, the roof starts coming and caving in and Jesus like, all right, let's see it. And it'll lower this man down in front of Jesus. And Jesus says because of your faith, these friends, your sins are forgiven. And these people get mad at him. They're religious people. And they said, who are you to forgive sins? And he goes, well, what's easier to forgive sins or say take up your mat and walk? And that dude stood up, was healed, rolled his mat up and walked out the front door. Amen. That's the power, everyday difference maker. Just great friends. You need to have friends, by the way, like that. And you need to be one of those friends, like we have some in our life that needs Jesus, right?

55:10 Like, and we pray for them, we care for them and there's divine appointments and divine opportunities. And we say, you know what, I'm going to get you to the feet of Christ if we just get you in the presence of God. It's just simple. That's what we do. How about Philip on the Ethiopian official, the Ethiopian, the, the man from Ethiopia, right? He's in this chariot and he just left this big feast and he, he's on the way home. He pulled over and the Spirit of God, he goes to Philip, it says run up to the chariot and he runs the chariot and this man's reading Isaiah 54 and he's like, there's a like a sheep led to the slaughter. And Philip goes, you know what you're reading? He goes, I have no idea. Everyone felt like that when you read the Bible, right? I have no idea what I just read. It's like it's easy to do because there's so much there's so many different stories and way God's been working and he goes, I just need to know. And so he explains to him that that's the sheep is Jesus, right?

55:57 Behold, the Lamb of God. This is Jesus who dies for our sins. He took our iniquity of us all. He was bruised for our sins. He was raised alive again. He preached the Gospel and it's this Ethiopian man comes to Christ. And what's amazing about the story is he's probably the first convert that is going to Africa, Amen. You think about one conversation has the potential and did change a continent, one conversation, Amen. And so you're like, oh, I'm just telling somebody Jesus. You have no idea who you're telling about Jesus. You have no idea. There's a church, There's a Macedonian church. It's in 2nd Corinthians 8, it's in the Romans, it's in Acts as well. This masculine church.

56:39 It is something very special. You may not know the story. It's a very small, obscure story, but it's very powerful. They gave an offering and took up money for the church in Jerusalem. That was that was in a famine, that was in a plague and they were suffering. And this is a Gentile church, isn't it? No Jewish people at all. And they were poor. They were, they were a broke group of people. And the Bible says they gave out of what they had and beyond their ability. And they said, don't give. And they said, we have a desire to give to the church in Jerusalem. Don't rob us from that blessing. We're going to do it. And so Paul was so moved by their generosity that he wrote to the Church of Corinth and told them, Hey, look, if you are willing, will you have the same amount of desire as these guys? Because it's not about the amount. It's it's a it's about the desire. And he even says the equality of the gift, like if they're willing to give in their poor and their brokenness, would you be willing to give in your excess, in your wealth? And he says, this is this.

57:41 I'll just have to read part of it. I just got to do it. He says this and I, I didn't put on the screen and saw our guys in the back. But it says in verse 842, it says for if the willingness is there talking to Church of Corinth, the gift is acceptable according to what one has not according to what 1 does not have. That's good theology can talk to a lot of people. It's like, well, I just don't have enough or, and I wish I could because you know, it's like you're not called to give what you don't have, Amen. And these this this this poor like strapped church gives these credibly generous gift. And then God and Paul, like teaching these people about God's will is telling these other people, Hey, look, if your desire matches the desire, but then I'm good, Amen. That'd be pretty amazing.

58:30 Like, so if you don't have a lot in the church, guess what? You can set the example. If you don't, if you don't have anything in your name, you'd be like, hey, I gave $10, set the example. I've been talking to teenagers like, hey, man, you got a lot, right? If you only have $100 bank account to give 10, that's generous. Amen. And these people gave out their excess. And I'm telling you, man, God just shows up. There's been two times in my life where I've given the last dollar I've ever had and I gave it to church. And God has always shown up. I've never missed a meal. Come on somebody, I've never missed a meal. And God has always been so faithful. And I think it's one of those times like, if you don't have a lot, man, just give open your hands. What do you have? And say, Lord, can you multiply this, use this hand to him and then we can brag on your story, say, see what God's doing here. Will you guys step into the same level of generosity and faith? Paul said the goal is equality.

59:19 As is written, the one who has gathered much did not have too much and the one who has gathered little did not have too little. Like we all were together on this. Amen. And so, you know, you look at the commitment card and you're like, man, there's a lot of big numbers on here, right? I'm just down there, the down to low. I don't know if my number is even on the card. It's so small. Like go God, be generous at what level you could be generous, like have an act of faith wherever that act of faith is now for some of your numbers on the card, for some of your numbers not on the card the other way. I'm just being real. Like I didn't put a line above that, but you could say no, I could do that because it'd take more than we're even asking for it to do all the grasping we're trusting God to do.

1:00:00 But the commitment card, we're not going to collect it right now, obviously, So please don't like fill it out to freak out. But down the road on the on the series, last thing I want to tell you about you guys ever heard of Billy Graham Little bit just a small guy, right? Thank God for Billy Graham, by the way. Thank God that somebody actually finished the race strong. A lot of gays get that last lap and sometimes they're like actually dead and then they still fall. It's crazy. Billy Graham finished the race strong. But here's a story that you may not know about Billy Graham. Billy Graham is South Carolina's 15 or 16 years old, 1938. He's a teenager and he there's a guy that's going to come in town, circuit, ride and preach in his name, Mordecai Ham. Mordecai Ham is a fiery, fundamental Baptist preacher.

1:00:42 Like he's fire and brimstone kind of guy. Billy Graham is like, I'm not an interested man. Like, I don't want to go. And his teenage friends are like, no man, you got to go. You got to hear this guy. You got to hear this guy. You know how teenagers are. They drag people with them, right? And so these teenagers, by the way, about to change the world, they, they dragged Billy Graham to this crusade. It's called the Sawdust Crusade. And they bring him to this tent. And the tent is packed full of people because teenagers are what? Late? They're late. Who knows? Billy Graham was late to church. Come on, somebody, right? And he was late. And so it was packed out. And so they walk out. They're like, there's no room. And so this group of teenagers are leaving, and there's two ushers that chase down this group of people.

1:01:23 They say, hey, man, we'll make some room for you guys. We'll make some room. Come back, we'll get you. Come on, come on, come on, come on. And they get these teenagers, and they stuck them in the choir loft in the tent. That means they're probably behind the Mordecai hand, right? And this dude's preaching. And Billy Graham did not come to Christ the first night of that revival, but he came back and he came to Christ. Do you know that Billy Graham preached in person, not as ISM number online to 100 and 525,000,000 people. That's a force of God. It's amazing if 3 million people came to Christ. Now think about this story and I think about everyday difference makers. Everybody knows Billy Graham, but they don't even know the names of the two ushers. Those guys made an impact for eternity. Amen.

1:02:05 Those teenagers made an impact for eternity, an everyday difference maker just by inviting somebody, bringing somebody open the door, chasing. No, no, we got room for you, man. Take my seat. You've been to church. That's been that. That's my seat. Get out. You've been that church. I've not been to that church. You know, you just look around. You're like, why is everybody staring at me? Am I miss the wrong place? I've been, I've been to churches as a pastor. We're not a single person that said hi to me. I was asking questions like, what do you guys stand for? What are you guys doing? Where's the bathroom if you know somebody's new when they ask where the bathroom is, it's your first sign. I'm not a single person gave me the time of day. I really didn't even care. I was like why am I even here but thank God for the people that do care. Amen.

1:02:48 They see what spiritual lies and like no, come on in. Hey, how are you doing? Hey, what's your story? Hey, what God bring you here? What'd you came today for all these things, right and just love on them and hear them out and just kindly point them to Jesus. That's all it takes. Now think about these ushers and they're probably older than these teenagers, right? And they must have for surely passed away some point before today. It's been a long time, 1938. And I just think about them being in heaven and probably the next sixty, 8090 years, 3 million people walk in the gates of heaven and they're there to usher them in.

1:03:30 And they say thank you. You don't know who I am, but if it wasn't for you, I would not know Jesus today. Can you imagine having 300 handshakes in heaven by opening a door? By being faithful to small stuff? That's amazing. Amen. You've never heard of the Feast of Purim? The feast of Purim? Most people never heard of it unless you're Jewish. The word the word purr or poor. It actually means a lot when we talk about casting lots. Remember harem? The guy who hated the Jews cast lots. Well, this feast is actually a slap in the face to everything that harem was trying to accomplish. And this man harem, he cast lots, which was basically saying, oh, this is the day they're going to die.

1:04:13 And what what man thought? Well, by chance, this is just the way it's going to go. But God was in control. And so Mordecai, he did claimed, he claimed there'd be a feast that take place called the Feast of Forum that would take place on the very day that harem tried to kill every single Jew. And that feast started in 473 BC. Do you know the Jewish people still have that feast today that they actually read the story of Esther? And every time they say the word harem, they start stomping their feet screaming Boo. That's pretty fun. And for 2500 years, just shy about seven years or so they've been having this feast. Isn't that amazing to think about? Do do do you think that Esther at all had any idea that for 2500 years?

1:05:06 What has been happening for a millennia? Is anything last of the millennia or two or two and a half a little girl's faith to stand up to a king and say, can you save my people? It's been celebrated for 2500 years. Everyday difference makers. And we can be that for our generation. Amen. It ain't rocket science. We don't have to make it super crazy. Just very simply share Jesus. There's people outside these doors. Walmart and Target need Jesus. Amen. And you sit down at coffee shops and you're on the phone and you got an interruption and there's things that happen. That's called ministry. And those people, if we could just slow down a little bit and just get our eyes off of ourselves and on to a lost and dying world, we will not have just a building, We will have a building full of ministry and life.

1:05:57 But if we get our eyes off of the of the mission and we go, we got this amazing look what God did, and it's a past tense look at the glory days of God. We build a monument, we'll have an empty building that the city came and sell. It's the truth. And so the strength of the building is a strength of its ministry and a strength of its people. And so the call today is that we don't just think about building a building because that's not the call is that we would actually live on mission and that we would fill a building with the work and the wonder and the worship of God because we go out. Can you guys do that take that challenge Who this week can you be an everyday you're a difference maker for I've got family members that know Christ. I've got neighbors new Christ.

1:06:41 I've got people that I can share with. And if you can see what spiritual eyes this week. If you look at people and see a sign on their head says bound for hell, you have a great start of being a difference maker. There was a man, he was a, he was an evangelist in England and he was a great evangelist. People asked him, well, how you be, how you so successful, How do you do this? And he took him to the window and he said, tell me what you see. And they said, oh, I see cars and I see businesses and I see this down the other. He said, I see souls, I see souls. And that's the difference. It's souls, not concrete and steel. It's not accolade, it's not your job, it's not building wealth. It's souls. Amen. And if you could just walk out this week and just see every day a soul that needs something, a soul you can measure to, a soul you can pray for.

1:07:25 You can start wearing those shirts that kind of get people to ask questions. Like I'm not a fan like Rick wore the other day. Like you could just kind of live out a mission, like your social media. What a great place to start living on mission. Some of you guys are missing. I'll be real honest to you, some of you guys, more about your opinions than about souls, about saying stuff that doesn't even help anybody, especially yourself. You can just like minister, like digital platforms, like use the things of that God's put in front of us to make a difference in this generation. And you never know how God's going to use that. You could be that person that does something for somebody and you never meet him again and you get to heaven. You're like, brother, I had no idea that you got 3 million people that come to Christ because I just showed up to hold a door. That's what I'm asking for.

1:08:06 Amen. Play part of the story. So Father, come before you. God just help us be everyday difference makers. I mean, the house would say, you know what the Spirit of God speaking to me like I'd be more bold. I'd have more faith. At least you trust the Lord in the small stuff. I want to be an everyday difference maker, but that's you just put your hand high this place. So let the Lord know that's you, God speaking to you. Come on, Lord, thank you so much for speaking to these people. They got help us to remember that we're qualified at the cross. God, we're not behind that. We don't have to be on a pedestal. God, you've given us enough to share God, it's not it's not a comparison game. And so Lord, help us to show one other person another beggar where the food is that help our our our building initiative not to be about a building, but about souls about people. Remind us God, as we go out this week, we have the power, the greatest power given the gospel to save in the name of Jesus, the greatest name ever given every that every person's knee shall bow in heaven on earth, every single person that we have the power in the name of Jesus.

1:09:07 Help us to believe what we're saying today that you were able to do miracles. God used us to do a miracle and sometimes it's holding the door and sometimes being bold in our faith. God show us today what's one person that we can, that we can be a difference maker for God. Help our church not to just put up steel, but to see souls changed, transformed like Lucas and that we could multiply that that we could exponentially see more people come to Christ, grow in their faith and sent out. That's the heart of this church. So thank you, Lord, we're begging God, we're asking you help us to continue to fast and pray and seek you, God, for our nation, for our church, for our families.

1:09:49 God, we trust you. I'll pray for one more group of people in the house. That's those of you that say, you know what I need. Jesus, you talk about this lamb that came to die. I see the faith in this church. I may be invited. You might be that person that's been welcomed here today and you're wondering what's this all about? You've heard these stories of deliverance. You're wondering, man, I did. I need that in my life. I need deliverance in my life. I heard Lucas's story. I can relate to the depression, to the story, to the brokenness. I'm the person that's been running. I'm the prodigal. Here's where you know that that God loves you. He loved you enough to have somebody invite you here today. He loved you enough to send his one only son to Donna Cross for your sins. And it was your sins that put him on the cross as well. They died for you because he loved you and he wants your relationship with you.

1:10:37 And the Bible says if you call on Jesus under his name because he died for your sins and exchanged all of your wrongs for all his rights, they will come into your life. The Holy Spirit will be in your life in this moment and save you from your sin and make your right with God. You can be one of those people that are delivered from your sin. You're made new, you're made righteous, you're made whole. And you have the greatest story to ever share, the story of the gospel, the story of God's work in your life. And today, if you need Jesus, if you need forgiveness, you need the hope that even Billy Graham had to step into. You can have it today. It's a free gift. And so that's you. You say you need to say yes to Jesus without him to be looking around. Just put your hand high in his place and say, I messed me. I need to say yes to Jesus today. The relationship of Christ today. Come on, see your hand.

1:11:21 And Bill said he say yes to Jesus. This is your hand and your hand and your hand and your hand. Kind of like a revival going on today. So thank you, Lord, if that's you and you need Jesus, I'm just going to invite you to pray this prayer. The prayer does not save you, but it is your heart towards Christ. It is your humility and your obedience. And so they say, Father God, thank you so much for sending Jesus to dine across for my sins, to love me enough to come to this world, to to the worst neighborhood in the universe that love me and dine across through my sins. God know my sins put you there, but thank you Lord for loving me myself before you. God I I I'm not anybody special, but today I know I'm your son, I'm your daughter. I've been changed and God's you that gets the glories of God. Use my life God to be a difference maker. God that you've you've given me a new testimony today, a new name today a new purpose today, just like I went from Simon Witt to Peter.

1:12:15 God give me a new name today. Remind me of my call where I'm I'm going and I'm yours God. Thank you for loving me God. I pray this in Jesus name. The church said Amen come on, go God today, Amen, Amen come on. That was I could have. Kept going just story after. Story of just ordinary people and how God does extraordinary things through that. And some of you today, a lot of you today recognized maybe some of the ordinary things that led you here today to meet Jesus. And if that's you and you raised your hand and you prayed your that prayer this morning to commit your life to Jesus, we are so excited for you. I mean, we want to come beside you and read source you and help you as you're starting your journey with Jesus. If you would just grab that connection card that's on your seat.

1:13:00 You can fill out the information in the top section, but make sure and check that box that says I committed my life to Jesus. And you can drop that in the giving buckets as I pass here in just a few minutes. But just by doing that allows us to get you a couple of resources. The first one is a free book we'll drop in the mail to get to you. It's a short read. It's called begin, but it truly is a really good resource for you as you are taking the steps with Jesus this week. Also, if you prayed the prayer, raise your hand here at Kentucky Trail as you exit the worship center right before the doors to your left is a table with some red bags. Please, please grab one of those inside as a free Bible for you. There's a a letter from Sean with some resources that we know will just be a blessing to you this week. And hey, if you are newer with us here at real Life church, thank you so much for being here today and just choosing to spend your morning here with us, man.

1:13:49 We don't want anything from you except just introduce yourself to us. And you can do that by grabbing that same connection card. Fill out your information there and check first time here. You can actually take that to the new here booth as you leave today outside the worship center doors. Just to your right is a new here booth. You can turn that in there. Someone will be there love to chat with you and just get you a free gift. Just our way of saying thank you so much for being here this morning and we'd love to see you back next week as well. Man. Week 2 of this message series, man, it's just got my brain going, but just reminders that you can be a difference maker. You can be an everyday difference maker through your faith and just sharing with other people how Jesus changed your life and man, through your generosity and just saying God, what do you have for me in this series?

1:14:34 What are you asking me to do? What step of bold faith are you asking me through that to change hundreds, thousands of lives through this next chapter at Real Life Church. And we believe the best truly is yet to come. Sean had mentioned we had five people except Jesus last week. We had almost 500 this year. Maybe we're believing for thousands of people to come to know Jesus through this next chapter at Real Life Church. And you got the Difference Maker booklet, which you can look through that, answer some questions in there, take message notes in there through this series. But you also got a commitment card. And we're not like Sean said, we're not filling that out today. We're not collecting those until later in this series. But now is the time to take the card and to pray over it, to fast over it, to ask God, what part are you asking me to play?

1:15:19 What step of bold faith are you asking me to take to be a part of this initiative? And often times, like Sean said to me, we just feel like I just don't have enough. I don't know what part I can play in this, but I was reminded as he was saying that of the new song that we sang today where it says who am I to deny what God can do? And that is so true. Who am I to deny what God can do through me saying yes and taking an act of bold faith through what He's asking me to do and what part he has for me to play? Who are we to deny what God can do through that? And so take that card and pray over it and fast over that. God, what do you have for me in this chapter at Real Life Church? Hey, if you call Real Life Church home, there are a lot of ways that you can give here.

1:16:03 You can scan the QR code up on the screen. You can text to give. You can drop cash or check in the buckets as they pass here. Also, there's a giving box in the back. You can drop cash or check in if that's more convenient for you. And hey, if you or your family find yourself at any kind of immediate need this week, food, clothing, shelter as the buckets pass here in just a minute, please reach in there. Just grab out any loose cash that you see. We really do want to help you this week in your time of need. Man, what an. Awesome time just to celebrate the fact that God uses the. Common God uses the ordinary God uses the broken man. I see across this room. I see a room full of difference makers. So can we get it for God one more time before we get ready to get out of here and go God?

1:16:46 Hey, couple things to mark on your calendar before we do roll. So October the 26th, we're going to have a super kids Sunday. So there's an opportunity for your kids to come hang out, bring your favorite costumes. There's going to be faith fun candy. They're going to get to read talk about the the real hero of of the Bible and that's Jesus. So mark that calendar. And then October the 29th, real life youth, they're going to have a talent show, costumes, candy and again, this message of hope and change. So you guys do not want to mess this miss out on this. You go online or click this URL code for some details. So hey, if you guys need prayer for any reason, we would love to pray with you up here either as individuals or as families. So anything you want to pray about, we would love to pray with you in which you guys can next with the nine O'clock 6:45 As always, remember whoever finds uses discovers real life and purpose. This is the end of this podcast.

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