Ready, Fire, Aim - Difference Maker Part 4
We all love to feel “ready” — ready to give, ready to go, ready to follow God’s plan. But what if waiting for perfect conditions is what’s actually holding us back?
This message you’ll discover:
✅ Why faith always moves before it sees
✅ How God has already prepared for good works
✅ The danger of waiting for “perfect timing”
✅ Real stories of life change and transformation from our Real Life family
✅ How you can step out in bold faith and help build not just a building — but a movement that changes lives for eternity
From Abraham leaving everything familiar… to Peter stepping out of the boat… to Joshua crossing the Jordan river — the Bible is full of people who didn’t wait for perfect clarity. They trusted God and moved first.
Faith doesn’t wait for perfect conditions — it steps into God’s promises today.
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Well, hey, good morning, real
life.
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We're so excited.
You are here in the house with
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us today or watching online.
Stand to your feet so that we
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can worship God together this
morning.
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Come on, do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
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I see.
Something storing 6 feet under,
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dead things coming back to life
again.
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I believe it's about to be
another resurrection.
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I see signs and I see wonders.
I see for something color dead
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things coming back to life
because I believe it's about the
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pain of the resurrection.
Come.
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On Let's get those hands
together today.
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Come alive.
Wake up, Sleeper.
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He is risen, we are risen with
him.
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Hallelujah, women's, women.
Be the great little party in it.
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Then things coming back to life
again.
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I believe he's about to be
another resurrection.
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Come alive.
Wake up, Sleeper.
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He is risen.
We are risen with him.
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Paradise from wind open he is
risen, we are rising with him.
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Over life with a sleeve.
He is rising, we are rising with
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him.
There a time long wind open.
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He is rising, We are rising with
him.
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Come on Church, there's
resurrection power in the house
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today.
Give them a shout of praise.
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Come on.
You see?
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What I see crave is empty.
Anything is possible.
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Do you?
See.
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What I see?
Do you see?
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What I see, do you see?
What?
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I see.
I see something.
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I see wonder.
I see what I see, I see coming.
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I hear the other.
You see what?
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I see northern strands and feet
under come alive.
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Wake of Sleeper.
He is risen.
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We are risen with him.
Where I die.
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Amen.
Give him a shout of praise this
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morning man.
I love in the scripture it says
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it's the same power that raised
Jesus from the dead that.
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Lives in US.
It's that resurrection power
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that not only gave us power over
death and Helen the grave, but
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it gives us the power we need to
conquer the powers and
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principalities we face every
day, the strongholds that hold
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us back from knowing God, from
sharing God's love, and from
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being His people. day-to-day.
That power is in us.
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So let's praise Him, the cross.
This is my beginning, the line
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drawn in the sand, the end of
all my striving.
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Now I am born again there.
Jesus was forsaken, so I will
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never be.
His grace is my salvation, the
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gift of God, the work of
Calvary.
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It is done, it is finished.
Christ has won, He is risen,
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grace is here, and love is
triumphed over, dead forever.
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The cross needs no addition.
His mercy is no please.
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His love is not in question.
The Son of God has spoken over
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me.
It is.
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Not Christ has won.
He is risen.
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This trial and all the.
Death forever, strongholds
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bowing to the Saviour,
resurrection power over every
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circumstance.
His word stands.
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Fine and forever it will not.
Be shaken because he.
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Alone is 1.
It also now the stronghold is
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bowing to the sand and
resurrection power over every
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circle shades his worst stands
final and forever.
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It will not be shaken till alone
as rolling all his life it is
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being as Christ has won, He is
rising.
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Grace is here, love is triumphed
over dead.
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The earth is finished.
It's mostly worth, and that's
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what gives.
It is worthy.
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Jesus.
Father, what a day that'll be
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when we get to stand together as
one, people singing to your
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praises.
Forever God, it's because you're
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alive, because you loved.
Us so much that came for us God.
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We can't do anything, but you
see, we crisis.
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Because how great the chasm that
lay between us, how high the
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mountain I could not climb.
In desperation, I turned to
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heaven and spoke your name into
the night.
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And then through the darkness,
your loving kindness tore
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through the shadows of my soul.
The work is finished.
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The end is risen Jesus Christ,
my living.
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To imagine.
So.
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Great of mercy, what heart could
I have them?
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Such boundless grace?
The God of ages step down from
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glory to bear my sin and bear my
shame.
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The cross has gone again, and I
am forgiven.
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The King of Kings falls with me
days.
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Old you live for Savior, how me
yours forever.
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Jesus Christ my living,
Hallelujah.
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And someone sent me free.
Hallelujah.
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Death has lost his dream.
All day you have broken.
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Every day there's salvation.
Your name, Jesus Christ, my
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life.
Then came the morning that
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sealed the promise.
When your.
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Very body.
Began to ream, and out of the
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silence the roaring lion declare
the grave has no.
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Claim.
On Hey, if that's your story,
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give him a shout today.
He's alive and he is arisen and
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he.
Came in the morning.
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Lift him up.
That's to the Paramus.
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You're.
Very
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bad has no power.
There's tears, as you know is
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the victor.
Hallelujah, praise the one who
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said we breathe.
Hallelujah that has lost his
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grip all day.
You have located me change.
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There's no nation.
Oh, say Hallelujah, oh
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Hallelujah, praise the world is
saying in green Hallelujah.
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And I've lost this green light.
You have broken every.
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Day.
There's salvation in your name,
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Jesus Christ, my baby heart.
God has not called us to fear in
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this moment.
He's not called us to be
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shackled by chains that hold us
down.
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He's not called us to be a
people who cannot stand without
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power because He's given us His
power.
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He's given us His strength, but
the power of His resurrection to
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go from this place as
worshippers to a Holy Father, to
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go from this place as a people
who are together standing on His
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word, to go from this place with
the power of the gospel and the
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power of His resurrection to
make a difference in this world.
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He's calling us out because He
is alive and we get to worship
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Him.
No.
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Oh, Hallelujah, there's the one
who sent me free.
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Hallelujah.
I thought this was a make.
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You have broken every chase.
There's some ocean.
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Oh, Jesus Christ, my leg.
My God.
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Today.
That living hope, I mean, that's
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what makes all the difference.
When we don't, we don't, we
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don't, we don't, we're not
living for somebody that was
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was, you know, dead and buried
and never came back.
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And Jesus, he did both of those
first two.
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But more importantly, man, he
was raised, he was raised just
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to newness of life and he
brought that newness of life to
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anybody and everybody that is
part of the family and the part
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of the Kingdom of God.
So can we give it up for God one
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more time, man?
Amen.
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Man, you guys are killing us
today, man Worshipping.
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I just love it.
Just living here.
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You guys give worship back to
God.
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I don't know if you guys know
this or not, man, but we have an
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awesome crew with us today
online.
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We got a lot of new people and a
lot of new people with us today.
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Can we show everybody this some
love?
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Give them a round of applause,
man.
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Thank you guys so much for
choosing to worship here at Real
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Life at this gathering Kentucky
Trail.
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Hey, take this opportunity.
Take the next 30 seconds and
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greet somebody around you.
All right, you guys can go ahead
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and catch a seat.
Man, we are so excited.
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You guys are here with us today.
Man.
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We've been praying for you guys
all week.
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As you guys are sitting down, I
want you guys to know that
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you're getting ready to sit on a
connection card.
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This connection card.
Now you guys see them week in
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and week out.
Man, we love it when you guys
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fill this out.
So if you call real life home,
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you feel this outlet us know
what's going on your life, Then
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maybe it's your prayer, maybe
some God's laid something on
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your heart.
Something's going on in your
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life or maybe maybe God showed
up in a way that you were just
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miraculous.
You have a praise, write those
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things down.
Our team loves to read these
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week in and week out.
Know what's going on your life.
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Stay connected and pray for you
individually.
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They look forward to getting
these week in and week out.
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If you're new or newer with us,
this card is for you as well.
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I'm going to make a promise.
We're not going to ask anything
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else from you today except this
one simple thing.
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Just give us an introduction.
We won't know who you are and if
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you fill out the top part of
that card, we're not going to do
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anything crazy.
You're not going to do anything
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weird.
We're not going to show your
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house.
We just want to have a way just
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to send you out some more
information this week about real
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life, about who we are, about
why we exist.
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And we would just love to send
that out to you.
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And as far as why we exist, we
believe this and we say this,
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We're a church on a mission.
And that mission is to see
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people far from God discover
their real life and purpose in
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Jesus.
So follow with me real quick.
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What does that mean, Mary?
It means this.
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If you live in this world and
you live in your day-to-day
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lives, whether it's job, school,
whatever it is, and you walk in
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and out of your daily routine
and you get punched in the face,
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right?
People are beating you down.
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Even in the best of days,
there's something that goes
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wrong.
And I, I see this week and week
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out, even on social media,
there's things that divide us
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that tear us apart.
But the beautiful thing about
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this gathering is that we're on
mission for God, and what unites
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us is bigger than what divides
us.
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And what unites us is to be on
mission for Jesus.
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And the blessing about being at
this gathering week in, week out
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is to see people give their
lives to God, give come back to
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what God's created them for.
And that's our prayer today is
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that somebody's walking in here
today that is far from God, and
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they're going to get reconnected
with God.
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So man, that's our mission.
That's why we exist, and that's
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why we do what we do.
So man, we're excited to see
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what God does in your guys's
life today.
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And you guys are here in the
middle of an awesome season.
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We're in the middle of probably
the biggest series we've ever
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done.
So for the last several weeks,
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if you guys have been here,
we're in the middle of a series
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called Difference Maker.
And this is for everybody.
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We don't have classes here.
We don't have groups, special
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people and not special people.
Everybody in this room is a
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difference maker.
And so it's been awesome.
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It's been awesome to see Pastor
Sean just lay out his heart for
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this next season for this church
because for the last eight
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years, then God has showed up
and used this church to bring
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hope and transformation just to
people that were far from God
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and God's calling to something
big.
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And we're in the middle of a
building initiative, but it's
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not about.
About a facility, it's not about
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a building, it is about building
a movement.
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And we all play a part of that
role.
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So I want you guys to lean in to
see what it looks like for God
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to remove obstacles out of our
way to make the impossible
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happen, and just to bring hope
and transformation,
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transformation to the next
generation by our faithfulness
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to what God's called us to in
this moment.
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So once you guys take this
opportunity, put your hands
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together for Pastor Sean as we
continue Difference maker.
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I'm going to get over my chair.
I was so excited.
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Bear the kick in the bucket.
Amen.
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It's perfect, man.
Well, good morning.
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I'm excited for today.
Thank you, Barry.
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You're the man.
Look at this guy.
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I'm going to wear this longer
than I need to.
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It's going to be good.
Well, I will start out just
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sharing a story, really what
makes real life different.
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And it's just the way the gospel
goes out through people.
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And this is how it just works.
This is the simplicity of this,
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how God made it.
But a few weeks ago, let's say
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like a month ago, there's a man
that started to come to our
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church.
He was invited by somebody that
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probably would not be connected
to most churches.
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It's one of those people that
just kind of doesn't fit in too
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much of A history.
This kind of situation.
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This man has been bringing this
person last last month.
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He drives quite a distance to
get here.
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And so we've reached out to our
welcome party, said, Hey, would
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you love to come out and our
welcome party if you've been
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invited, if you're not invited,
you are invited.
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If you're newer or new to real
life, we'd love you to come out.
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It's going to happen after the
gathering.
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So stay late, but invite them
out.
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And it's like, hey, if you need,
if you need a place to belong,
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you need to find some people and
you get connected, learn about
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our church.
We'd love to come out.
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And so we're inviting them.
And this man replies back to our
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to, to reaching out.
They texted us and they said,
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man, I really need Jesus.
I want, I want a star
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relationship with him.
I want to get baptized.
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I want to learn and I want to
spread his word.
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I'm like, that's a 10 out of 10.
Amen.
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Like this dude's hungry.
So the staff, the lady, she
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comes to me, she goes, hey, I'm
thinking, you know, we're going
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to get together.
And just now it's like, hey,
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I've I've got the person.
And so I called my man Rick.
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Rick is sitting up here in the
front row.
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If you know anything about Rick,
I'm like, hey, Rick, you want to
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go fishing?
And he's like, yeah.
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And, and you know, Rick's one of
those guys and when it gets
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frozen, he he has made a few
holes in the belt in the
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Cleveland Lake, which there are
signs now.
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So if you're in the parks and
Rec border, Belden, you didn't
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hear anything this morning.
But it was because of Rick,
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right?
He loves fishing.
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And I said, man, fishing for
men.
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And dude, Rick gets excited like
Rick walks the Lord, Amen.
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And so he goes, yeah, tell me
about this.
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So I tell me about this man.
I said this man is hungry for
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God.
I'm not sure he's saved.
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He wants to get saved.
So leave that boy to Christ.
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Show them through Scripture
about salvation.
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Teach them all the different
pieces.
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Walk through these different
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Going to take a few weeks, right
to seven, like hour a week.
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Teach about baptism.
He wants to get baptized.
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By the way, we're baptizing the
last Sunday of the year,
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December 28th, 8th.
This will be very new for us,
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but we want to baptize that last
Sunday, Amen.
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We've had a lot of people say,
hey, I want to get baptized.
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We want to do this.
I'm like, hey, you know what,
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there's probably no great time
that tomorrow, but we could do
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that the 28th, right?
And so we're excited for that.
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So if you're interested in
getting baptized, that'd be
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amazing.
But I told Rick, hey, walk him
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through scripture, let him know
who God is getting connected,
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like just build a relationship
with him.
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And that's just what God's
doing, Amen.
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This is just one Sunday.
And it's really because somebody
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brought somebody had
spiritualized to see brought the
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gospel and they've been working
together showing things to God,
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but bringing them here, which
has been fantastic.
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But the goals are bringing the
gospel out.
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Amen.
And we play a part of the story.
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So every the difference makers
just happens all through our
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church and we have so many
people like that.
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Now I think about his story.
How many of you guys would say,
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you know, if I was starting on
my walk with God, I would love
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to have a spiritual coach, a
spiritual mentor or somebody to
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help me in my first few steps
with Jesus.
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Show hands, show hands, right?
I mean, I remember when I first
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got saved, I would have loved to
know what I just got into.
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Amen.
Like I didn't know.
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I mean, I prayed the prayer.
I was in this choir room, in
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this little back choir room of
this Baptist Church.
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I had no idea what was doing,
but thank God there was a
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spiritual until they came along.
There was somebody that spent
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time with me and invested me.
I would not be following Jesus
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today if it wasn't for that
person.
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And so I would encourage you,
we're going to be leaning into
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this in this next season to find
spiritual mentors and coaches
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older in the faith that know God
and can teach younger people,
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new believers, how to walk with
Jesus.
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Anybody sound interested in
that?
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Because we're really calling you
guys to do that.
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Amen, Like we've been thinking
of this, praying through this,
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and it's going to be a ready
fire aim kind of situation.
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I promise you that, right?
Like we know enough to lead them
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to Christ and show these things.
Well, today we're jumping in.
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We got our 4th part of the
series, Difference Maker.
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If you got your booklet, we'll
be on page 20.
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If you're taking notes, if you
didn't get one, there's one,
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bring it every week.
But there's some out there.
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But page 20, I always believe if
you take notes, you get closer
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to seat in heaven.
Amen.
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So just get those notes going,
OK?
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It's going to be good.
But today we're leaning and we
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talk about a building and I'll
touch the building.
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We think about steel and put up
a structure.
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And I'll just remind you guys,
this is about souls.
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This is about the man we just
talked about.
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This is about people's stories
been written by God.
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This is not building a building.
It's about building a people.
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It's about building people that
transform by Christ.
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And it's very easy to go well, I
don't know about the building.
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It's like we don't care about
the building as much as we care
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about people.
The building is a is a means to
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an end.
Amen, It's a tool, it's a
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resource and we got to be
passionate about people.
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There's a lot of empty church
buildings.
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Amen.
There's a lot of buildings that
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5 or 10 or 30 people.
We're looking for a building of
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people and the the building
itself is a tool to get there.
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And so today I want to share a
story from somebody that has
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been in our church before we
officially launched.
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This person was actually in our
very first.
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I don't even call it like a, it
was like, I don't even call it
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like a meeting.
It was like, hey guys, you want
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to launch a church together?
Like it was that original
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meeting and this lady was in
there and she's been there since
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the very beginning.
And God has used her story and
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she's walked through some very
difficult seasons.
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And I want you to see the power
of community and the power of
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God through life.
Church with her story.
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So lean in.
My name is Tanya and this is my
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story.
I never thought I'd be the one
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to go through separation or
divorce or heartache.
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I went through a season where I
felt abandoned.
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That was extremely painful and
hurtful season of my life in
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which I was alone.
But it didn't stop there.
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My story didn't end being in the
community and my local church.
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Real life, I was seen by my
people from crying with me in
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the bathroom stalls right after
service, from delivering food to
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my front door before I need it.
I needed it.
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There have been different
instances of generosity from
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real life that have really
impacted my story and my walk
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before a snowstorm, I had a
knock on the door from the Goku
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Cheyas and they had just opened
their whole trunk and just
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brought food.
That moment I felt seen in a
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tangible way.
Not just I'm going to pray for
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you and we're not going through
part season, but we see you and
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then you couldn't get out with
three little kids before snow
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storm to the grocery store.
There's another instance, but I
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was able to show up at my very
close friend Christy Hardy's
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house and just cry on her couch
and she stopped what she was
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doing and just let me cry and
let listen to me.
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Another great moment is Scott
Jermaine came and took out a
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dead mice out of my washing
machine because I was too much
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of A scaredy cat.
Moments like that, that's not
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natural for people to give up
their time, their energy, and
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just to pause to listen, to care
on others in a tangible way or
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take out the dead mice in my
washer.
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The difference that changed who
I am today are people by showing
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God's love, by showing their
generosity and different moments
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of their life.
I would not be where I am today.
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God to use these people at real
life in my community, I found
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practices or disciplines of my
walk with God and it was not all
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at once.
It was slowly how God asked more
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of me.
It started out in the moments of
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horrific pain and abandonment
and sadness that turned into my
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daily prayer, God, I need you.
The next step was seems so
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simple but it's so big as
reading scripture.
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I joined three life groups to
surround myself with women that
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wanted to teach and encourage me
and was able to join a mission
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strip where I was able to stop
worrying about what was me and
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learning of other cultures and
giving my time and money and
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energy to something bigger
picture.
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In the last two years, I've been
able to leave some life groups
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and that's been huge because it
pushes me spiritually.
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Fasting's a big one.
I fast regularly.
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Putting these practices in my
life have really shaped my heart
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for God, my understanding of who
He is.
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My encouragement to you would be
if you are giving, don't stop.
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That time for that energy, that
lunch, that money, that gift, it
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makes a difference.
It is more blessed to give the
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receive.
People are watching.
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In my case, my kids see it.
They see when we stop and give
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somebody a meal, they see us
giving financially.
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They see us giving of our items
because somebody else needed a
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bed.
Hear that voice.
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It's the Holy Spirit that is
saying I want you to be blessed
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and you don't always see it
right away.
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My close spiritual mentors, they
didn't know what that was doing
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for my story.
They knew the Holy Spirit was
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encouraging them to give.
And because of that, I am where
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I am today.
So if I could encourage you,
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listen to the Holy Spirit.
Listen to that push.
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Because of the season I went
through and of your generosity
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and the church surrounding me, I
now help those in the community
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through my job, parents, as
teachers, and I'm able to be
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generous as well.
Because you gave.
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I found healing and hope and
there are so many more like me
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waiting for their forever to
change.
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Come on, where'd it go?
Real life?
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Come on.
I love it when the church gets
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it right.
Amen.
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Because there's a lot of stories
where it gets it wrong.
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There's a lot of people that
have come, a lot of churches
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that have said, man, I can't go
back.
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But I love it.
I love when the church.
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Where's Tanya, by the way?
She's somebody's, she's hiding
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in the 2nd row.
Give it up for Tanya one more
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time.
Thank you for sharing your
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story.
You know, and she mentioned this
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at the end, but there's so many
people that have setbacks.
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There's so many people that walk
through hard seasons like
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everybody has a plan to get
punched in the face.
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Amen.
Like it's doing great.
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And then life took a drastic
turn.
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And it's been our honor and
privilege to serve you and care
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for you.
And if so many people in our
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church have been praying for you
and supporting you, and I think
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we do even more, Amen.
Like part part of being a church
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is we see the needs of the
people that are in the house
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that know Jesus and we take care
of them.
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That's the priority order of
generosity.
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00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,520
You see all throughout
Scripture.
450
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,400
Like there should be nobody
hunger in our church, Amen?
451
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,000
Like somebody's homeless in our
church, somebody's broken our
452
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,800
church.
Somebody needs a hand up, like
453
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,640
just just meet it, Amen.
Like you don't have to call me,
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00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,600
you can.
It may be big enough, but it may
455
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,080
be something you say, Lord, what
should I do?
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And we help each other.
That's part of life groups.
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That's part of our community.
And that's the power of
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00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:47,720
community.
Amen.
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00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,120
The the thing that breaks my
heart about the story, it's not
460
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,720
your story, It's that so many
people have that story.
461
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,240
But what would it be like
without community?
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00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,200
Like you take the church out of
that story.
463
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,240
You take good friends out of
that story.
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00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,360
You take the gospel out of that
story.
465
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,720
You take mentors out of that
story.
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00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,000
You take people showing up and
loving on somebody outside of
467
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,040
that story.
What do you got left?
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00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,680
A very depressed, broken family
that's barely getting it by and
469
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,600
probably considering suicide and
running as far as I can from
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00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,400
God.
See it all the time.
471
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,280
One of the scariest things I
think about is people who walk
472
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,480
through hardships without Jesus.
You ever been there?
473
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,720
Like I'm old.
I was old enough when I got
474
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:28,840
saved.
I can't remember what it's like
475
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,080
to be lost.
Like I can remember what it's
476
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,720
like to do a chase down my own
things.
477
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,560
And it is desperate and it is
dark.
478
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,440
Amen And we get this, the
opportunity in our lifetime in
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00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:44,360
just a season, like in a little
dash in those 8090 maybe God
480
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,200
bless you, get those years to
make a difference in people's
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00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,720
lives by just pointing them as
one beggar to another where the
482
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,440
food's at.
Amen.
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00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,600
So God help us if we're going to
come here and not go out and
484
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,160
share it, Amen.
Like that's what it's all about.
485
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,840
And so I'm going to encourage
you guys to do something today
486
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,680
that maybe you've never done
before and it's going to be
487
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:10,960
taking a step of bold faith.
Bold faith, not easy, but bold
488
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,120
faith.
I'm going to give you a phrase
489
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,480
today.
I believe it can change not just
490
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,680
your life, but can change the
life of a church.
491
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,480
And you guys have all heard the
phrase ready, aim, fire, right?
492
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:19,840
Show of hands.
You all seen heard that ready
493
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,160
and fire.
If you've been the frontier
494
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,600
justice come on somebody Hogan's
alley.
495
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,800
Let's go old school, right.
Send me all like what?
496
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,120
Yeah, that's just age.
It's all right, right.
497
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,680
And you think about that.
It's like those situations ready
498
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,520
aim fire this perfect for those
because you have the perfect
499
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,760
conditions.
You have the perfect timing.
500
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,240
You got get a clear vision.
You know exactly what to do.
501
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:41,520
But who knows that's not
reality.
502
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,120
Come on.
When was the last time you had
503
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,280
the perfect conditions and the
perfect funds and the perfect
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00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,240
timing and everything is going
to work out magically.
505
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,760
And when you follow Jesus, it's
no different.
506
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,960
There's not a perfect time.
There's not a perfect reality,
507
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,160
it's not a perfect condition.
But God wants us to walk by
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00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,640
faith and not by sight.
It's only give you a different
509
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,280
phrase and it's really very
similar, but it's ready fire,
510
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,200
aim.
Everybody say it.
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00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:12,679
Ready fire, aim, ready fire aim.
Do not take this to front your
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00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:15,120
justice.
And said Pastor Sean said to do
513
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:20,080
this, OK, But when it comes to
faith, readiness is a lie.
514
00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,000
There's a readiness of the will
come on somebody.
515
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,639
There's a readiness of faith.
But there is a lack of
516
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:30,719
character, often times a lack of
skill set, a lack of competency,
517
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,719
a lack of a blueprint, a lack of
a plan, a lack of funds.
518
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,880
But we're called to take action.
Amen.
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00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,320
You cannot steer a ship that's
not in motion.
520
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,920
It cannot be moved.
And for most of us, we're
521
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,880
paralyzed by perfection.
It's fear.
522
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,239
I'm waiting for the perfect
moment with the perfect
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00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:54,080
conditions that in reality will
probably never show up.
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00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,080
Amen.
So I would encourage you guys to
525
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,800
take a bold step of faith to do
something a little different.
526
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,520
Ready fire aim.
It's readiness and willingness
527
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,000
over perfection.
And I'll tell you this, God
528
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,160
already has a perfect plan.
Amen.
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00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:17,600
You find this in the Ephesians
289 and you got to add in 10 and
530
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,920
this is so, so perfect.
And God, we're actually stepping
531
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,120
into his plan.
Just listen to this.
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00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,360
It says Ephesians 28.
It says for it's by what's it
533
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,000
say?
It's by what who said works?
534
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:29,840
That's right.
It's by grace, Amen.
535
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,560
There's nothing you can do to
have it.
536
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,920
It's the grace of God.
And look what it says you, you
537
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,000
have been saved through what?
Through faith.
538
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,760
It's it's your faith and God's
grace just comes to your life.
539
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:44,960
You don't deserve it.
That's what grace is.
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00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,680
It's unmerited favor that that
means we've robbed God, we've
541
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,800
stole from God.
My sin put Jesus on the cross,
542
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,800
but yet God gives me grace,
gives me salvation.
543
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,080
You can't earn it.
You can't keep it.
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00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:02,280
It's given by God, Amen.
That was a soft Amen for grace.
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00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,960
For it's by grace you've been
saved through faith and this
546
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,280
this important.
This is what this grace is not
547
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,240
from yourselves.
It's a gift of God.
548
00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:13,840
May suggest it's a free gift of
God.
549
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,360
Not by what I love people that
try to work their way to heaven.
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00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,720
It's like you know what you're
doing an awful lot of trying.
551
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:23,200
You do not need to try.
Amen.
552
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,160
I don't know how you get around
this verse.
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00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:26,600
If you're like man, I keep on my
good deeds.
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00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,640
Pray, chant, meditate, help the
old lady cross the street.
555
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,600
I gave some money, I came to
church, I read the Bible.
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00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,360
I did all this stuff that
doesn't mean anything.
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00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,920
It's God's grace, Amen.
You cannot earn it.
558
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,160
It is freely given to you.
Why?
559
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,200
So that no one can what you
know, we can boast.
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00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,600
No, no one can say.
Look, look how good I am.
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00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,960
You can't say I did it.
All you can say is he did it.
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00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:50,920
He did it.
He did it.
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00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,640
He did it.
I didn't deserve it.
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00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,440
I, I I'm just, I'm just a
servant of God.
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00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,520
I am so much a Sinner.
But Jesus, the man in the middle
566
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,480
of cross said I could come into
heaven.
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00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,440
Amen.
There's nothing to do about our
568
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:05,960
ability.
It is it.
569
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,320
Thank God, thank God, because I
don't have the ability and none
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00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,560
of us have the ability to be
perfect, but it's the grace of
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00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,400
God.
Now we've heard these verses
572
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,560
potentially, right?
Like these are basic salvation
573
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,240
verses.
If you don't know these verses,
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00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,840
you should memorize this passage
because I promise you they're
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00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,840
going to be somebody in your
life that needs to hear the
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00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,440
Scripture from your heart.
You may not quote it perfectly.
577
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,200
OK, you can do the preacher
version, you know, do what you
578
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,400
got, work what you got, but
share the Scripture.
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00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,920
But here's the point, verse 10,
it says for we are God's, what a
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00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,560
handiwork.
Now you think about this, we
581
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,240
start thinking about creation.
We start thinking like, oh, God
582
00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:43,320
instantly formed us and he did
and he knit us together and he
583
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,440
breathed in the breath of life.
So we became a living soul and
584
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,520
our first thing we saw, we
opened your eyes, was the face
585
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,240
of God.
That's all true, Amen.
586
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,440
That's all true.
How much is it true?
587
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,160
But that's not what I was
talking about in the Scripture,
588
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,640
which says we're as handiwork.
What's it say?
589
00:37:55,880 --> 00:38:00,760
Created in Christ Jesus?
When were you created in Christ
590
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,560
Jesus?
Because my Bible tells me that
591
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,400
we're dead in sin and then we're
enemies with God.
592
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,600
And then we met God's grace.
We were all things become new
593
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,320
and now we're created in Christ
Jesus.
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00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,400
Amen.
And so it says you're God's
595
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,160
handiwork created in Christ
Jesus.
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00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:23,480
He's talking about now, like
when you came to Christ, God
597
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,600
tore down every part of your sin
and gave you part of His
598
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,520
righteousness.
He gave you His righteousness
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00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,880
for your wrongs and He recreate
you.
600
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,000
He didn't upgrade you in Christ
Jesus, and now you're his
601
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,400
handiwork because Jesus is in
your life.
602
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,080
Amen.
That's what he's saying.
603
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,000
Yes, you're his handiwork
because we're God's creation,
604
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,040
but now we're created Christ
through grace.
605
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:48,720
Here's the purpose.
What does it say to do good
606
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,960
works?
Now we do works.
607
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,760
We don't work our way to God,
Amen.
608
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,880
We're not, we're not working our
way to to grace.
609
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,360
We're living from grace, not for
grace, Amen.
610
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,440
So now what?
So why you're created?
611
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,360
Because God wanted to have you
and His family to do good works.
612
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,840
We fell, we sinned, and God came
a plan, we had no plan, Amen.
613
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,120
And he came a plan to go to the
cross and die for us, and then
614
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,520
we accept His grace for free,
which has nothing to do about
615
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,520
our own ability.
And we humble ourselves and the
616
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,120
grace of God, the power of God,
the Holy Spirit of God comes to
617
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,960
life and we're saved.
Now we're created new in Christ
618
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,360
Jesus.
Why did God save you?
619
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,480
To do good works, Amen.
Over here, He's saved you good
620
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,120
works.
If you're not about doing good
621
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,320
works, what are you about?
Are you betting your life on
622
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,000
yourself or you're going to bet
your life on God?
623
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,440
Amen.
Like what are you doing with
624
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,560
this breath that God's given
you?
625
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:54,280
And look what he said he
prepared when which God
626
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:59,400
prepared.
Help me out when like tomorrow.
627
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:05,520
So so some point like in
eternity past, God created these
628
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,920
works that we're supposed to
step into for us to do.
629
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,920
Here's what this means.
And this is basic, but that
630
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,320
gives you bold faith.
Is that when you step out on
631
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,120
faith?
You're not creating your own
632
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,400
mission, Amen?
We've not come up our own
633
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:20,720
mission statement, real life
church.
634
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,080
We came up with a, it's the
Great Commission, Amen?
635
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:26,560
Like we're not recreating the
thing of God.
636
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,480
But when you step out on faith,
that's what you're doing.
637
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,360
You're stepping into what God is
doing already.
638
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,800
Come on somebody, that's good
news, Amen.
639
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,760
You show up to work and like
step in all these projects for
640
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,600
all these other people.
Well, we need to step into what
641
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,600
God's doing.
What that means is there's
642
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,440
divine appointments, there's
people, there's countries,
643
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,480
there's spaces, there's places,
there's a marriage, there's
644
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,920
kids, there's coffee shops,
there's people around you,
645
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,280
there's marketplaces, there's
businesses, there's things
646
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,840
already that God wants you to
step into that he's already
647
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,960
prepared in advance.
Amen.
648
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,200
That might I suggest that us
building a building is one of
649
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,680
them.
So we when we step out of faith,
650
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:10,920
we're not going well.
I hope it works out.
651
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,800
We're like, no, is God in it?
Amen.
652
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,120
That's what Ready fire AIM is
all about it.
653
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,600
It requires faith.
If we had all the funds and we
654
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,600
had all the people and we had a
building and all, like turnkey
655
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,880
ready to go and a blueprint, all
this stuff, would it require any
656
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,040
faith?
No.
657
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:29,400
What is God bless?
Yeah.
658
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,280
It didn't bless our ability
because we'd say look what we
659
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:34,920
did.
You couldn't do without me.
660
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,600
Hey, can you put my last name on
that building?
661
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,880
I'd love to have it.
I guarantee you none of you are
662
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:41,000
going to get a name on that
building.
663
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,880
Amen.
There's not a room that's going
664
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,640
to be like Sean Peach's room.
There's not going to be on the
665
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:48,920
pulpit.
You guys been in those churches?
666
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,840
Billy Sue donated $1,000,000,
Billy Sue's wing.
667
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,600
This ain't Children's University
Hospital, love the hospital,
668
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:57,600
right?
You don't get to put your name
669
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,160
on the tower.
This is about Jesus.
670
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,360
Amen.
And we give in faith to what God
671
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,560
has asked us to do.
There's this appointment that
672
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,000
God has ready for us.
And so I'm going to just give
673
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,200
you some people in the Bible
that were full of ready fire,
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00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,000
aim, faith, very firing faith.
We talked about this man early
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on in the series at week 1.
You guys remember our boy
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Joshua.
You guys remember Joshua, one of
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the 12 spies, He wants to go
into the promised land.
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And he was one with Caleb,
right?
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Him and Caleb only ones that
said, hey, what?
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We should go in.
Yeah, there's giants.
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Who cares?
God's with us.
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We cross the Red Sea.
We took Pharaoh out like when
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the world will be stopping here
for.
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But they took, they could vote.
They took a vote, the people
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gave bad reports, the people got
political and they were, they
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were full of fear.
And so the faiths that he
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couldn't do it.
And what they do then of
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wandering the wilderness,
remember how many years they
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wandered?
40 years.
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What was the purpose of
wandering?
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For every day the spy was in the
land, they would wander for
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another year until every person
over the age of 20 would die in
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the wilderness for the lack of
faith.
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You may not know this, but you
know who the last person to die
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was in that wilderness of that
generation?
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Moses, Moses, the man who should
have led the whole thing in
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spite, God put him in this place
where his whole rest of his life
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he would spend in the pain of
regret, which is far greater
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than the pain of failure.
By the way, Amen.
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God help me forget the end of my
life.
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And I say to myself, I wish I
would have God help me because
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that is most people, they're
afraid to step out on what God
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wants them to do.
This happened to Moses.
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He watched every person that he
led astray die in the wilderness
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and eventually died.
If you get a chance to read
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Deuteronomy, it's the last 30
days of his life.
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He writes so much.
The powerful truths there is to
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follow God.
He wrote a song you're supposed
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to teach your kids because he
recognized the generations have
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gone far from God.
He wants to teach them things of
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Scripture.
He tells Joshua who's going to
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take his place.
Be strong, be very courageous.
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The Lord's going to be with you.
Make sure you don't apart from
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these words, make sure you know
the Lord is behind you.
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He's never leave you or forsake
you.
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He's going to lead you into the
promised land.
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The moment then Moses dies and
then Joshua does something very
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special that we saw last week
didn't happen with Saul.
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Joshua talks to the Lord, he
goes to the Lord and he probably
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met the Lord at what place we
talked about last week.
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Where does the Lord speak to the
leadership at the mercy seat of
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God, Ark of the Covenant.
He would knelt down before it in
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the presence of God would have
spoke to him and said Joshua, he
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says the same thing Moses said
because that's what he told
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Moses early on too.
He said be strong and very
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courageous.
I'm with you.
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Make sure these words of these
of this law does not depart from
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your heart.
Meditate day and night and I'll
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be with you.
Do not be afraid.
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That's Joshua 17, Amen.
That's what he that's what he
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told him to do.
Do you know how long it takes
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Joshua between that verse when
he met the Lord at the mercy
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seat before he went into the
promised land here?
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To take a guess, Three days.
Three days.
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Yeah, I could do a lot in three
days, Amen.
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Do a lot in three days.
Matter of fact, when Joshua left
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that mercy seat, he turned
around.
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He said, hey, boys, come here 3
days from now.
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We're going to we're going to
leave right here and we're going
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to cross the Jordan and we're
going to go into the promised
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land.
So you start getting ready, you
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start praying it up, you get,
you get yourself together
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because we're going in.
And then Joshua, he learned a
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little something from Moses.
He sent 2 spies in, but he did
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it in secret.
He wouldn't look for no
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consensus.
Amen.
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Huge looking for faith.
He goes, why don't you go and
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check out Jericho?
Because if I remember right, 40
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years ago, that's that was a
pretty strong city.
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So why don't you give me a
little vibe of what's going on?
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So when we cross the Jordan
where so I have a little mental
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plan.
So he spends his spies in this
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Rahab, you guys know Rahab the
prostitute ends up the Hall of
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Fame of faith and all she did
was hide 2 spies.
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People got word.
They were deathly afraid that
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God's with those people, God's
with them.
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There's something crazy going on
with those people and they're
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supposed to come over here and
they're freaking out.
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They heard these spies are
coming in.
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Get them boys.
And they try to chase them down.
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The Rahab goes, they went that
way, but they didn't.
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They're under the roof.
They put the flax over him.
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And then she says, hey, I've
been merciful to you.
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You think you're merciful to me.
So, yeah, put that scarlet cord
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out your window and we'll
protect your family.
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But they better be in this house
because if not this house when
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we come, that's blowing your
hands because we're going to
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kill everybody else.
And they were afraid.
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Those boys ran back home, took
him two days.
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They went to Joshua said, Hey,
it's time.
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These people are, are deathly
afraid of us, of the living God.
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They've heard the stories of the
Red Sea crossing.
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And so they went in full of
faith, Amen.
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Here was their plan.
And the plan was like, I mean,
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we, we would never follow this
plan.
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This is, this is like one of the
dumbest plans, you know, like
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we, we would write a lot
differently if we're writing
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plans.
This is the temptation.
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This is human nature.
But he comes to the plan.
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He says, hey, the send the send
the Levites with the Ark of the
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covenant and they're going to go
in front of us.
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I want you guys hanging back
about 2000 feet because there'll
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be some power that's going to
happen that moment and we're
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going to send the Ark of the
covenant.
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First, I want you to pick up the
story.
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It's in Joshua 39.
Actually, let's start in three
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five.
It's not on the screen.
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I didn't sorry, guys in the
back.
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I the Lord told me to put it up
here, but I didn't go into So it
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says Joshua told the people,
consecrate yourselves.
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It's not up on the screen, but
can you say consecrate
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yourselves?
So before we win the battle,
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Joshua says what we're going to
do.
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This is the Lord's battle.
We're just going to give
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ourselves to the Lord.
You guys been praying and
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00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,400
fasting and said, Lord, we need
you.
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You're going to go bound in
front of us once your army going
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in front of us, want the power
of God that split the Red Sea to
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go in front of us.
We need you to win this battle.
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Want your army to win the
battle?
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Whatever you got to do, Lord,
risk, trust, you're going to do
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it.
That's what consecration means.
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00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:38,840
You know, I get to teach people
all the time.
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00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,280
They're like step up in church
leadership and preaching and
805
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,400
stuff and they get done.
It's like, how was it?
806
00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:47,320
I was like, was it the Lord's or
was it yours?
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That's really all that matters,
Amen, because it's not your
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00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,960
ability or inability, it's
God's.
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00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,840
And so when you step off the
stage, you say, Lord, do what
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00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:58,360
you can with it.
I'm I could have maybe done
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better.
It could have been worse, but
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00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,760
Lord, I trust you.
And then you go and you watch
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the Chiefs game, Amen.
Like, because the guys that
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00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:06,760
you're so worried, like, did I
do good?
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Is it enough?
Is it enough?
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The Lord's enough, Amen.
That's the confidence you have
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in the Lord.
And so he says, just conjugate
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yourselves for tomorrow.
The Lord look at this, we'll do
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amazing things among you
tomorrow.
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The Lord's going to do something
amazing.
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You guys believe that he can do
something amazing.
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Just get ready for a miracle
boys.
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It's going to happen and this is
the plane he tells them in verse
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9, Joshua said the Israelites
come here and listen to the
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words, the words of Lord your
God.
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This is how you will know the
living God is among you.
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That's always a good day.
But it's something that was
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supernatural happened in our in
our community and our family and
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somebody's life because this is
only proof that God could do it.
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This is salvation in a nutshell.
He says in that he will
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certainly drive out before you
the Canaanites, the Hittites,
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the Hittites, the Pezerites, the
Girishites, the Amorites, and
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the Jebusites.
Took me all week to do it.
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I'm just kidding.
The one thing I learned in Bible
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college.
Come on, somebody see the Ark of
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the covenant of the Lord of all
the earth will go into the
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Jordan ahead of you.
You guys remember what the Ark
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Covenant's all about, the power
and the presence and the
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provision of God we talked about
last week in that mercy seat on
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there.
And it's like the Lord is going
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00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,520
to go first into the battle,
Amen.
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That's how you know you're going
to win, by the way, because the
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00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,840
God's power's in it.
It's you're going to look at
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yourself and what you're doing
with your life.
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And it is this Sean Petrie's
power, is this manpower?
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00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,600
Is this my dream?
Is this my will?
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00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,160
Is this my direction?
Or is this the Lord's power?
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00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,480
Is this the Lord's direction?
Amen.
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And some of y'all are like
holding on to like the American
850
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,000
Dream or like your version of
how life should be.
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00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,520
That is, that is the saddest
place to be in life, by the way,
852
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,760
is a Jesus follower that holds
on to your own will.
853
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,680
You've never had your own will.
You only get your own will
854
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:05,440
because God gave it to you.
You can either step into his
855
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,720
dreams and his version.
It's like this when we go to God
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00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:12,440
and he's given us resource or
bank account or influence or
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00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,640
network or intellect or or
physical talents.
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00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,720
All these things we go to.
Lord, we don't go.
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00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:22,000
Lord, will you bless my plan?
Lord, I got a great blueprint
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for my life.
Can you go and sign off my
861
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,520
blueprint?
That's what we all desperately
862
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:26,840
want.
But what we need to do is go to
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00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:31,080
Lord, and it's like he's a king,
He's a savior, he's a warrior,
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he's a God of all gods, He
controls everything, create
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everything.
And we go to him and say, Lord,
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00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,560
what would you have me to do
with what you've given me?
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Amen.
That's a totally different place
868
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to be. 1 is you're a servant,
and the other is that you're
869
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your own king.
And we go as a servant to God.
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And this is what they asked him
to do.
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So they sent the ark of the
Covenant of Lord of all the
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earth going to Jordan ahead of
you.
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Now then choose 12 men from the
tribes of Israel, one from each
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tribe.
As soon as the priest will carry
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the ark of the Lord, the Lord of
all the earth, and set foot in
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the Jordan, its waters flowing
downstream will be cut off and
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00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:08,960
standing up in a heap.
Who knows?
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That would be an amazing thing.
I like to watch that.
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They haven't seen that yet.
And so when the people broke
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00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,960
camp across the Jordan, the
priest carried the ark of the
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00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,960
covenant, went ahead of them.
Now the Jordan is at its flood
882
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,520
stage all during the harvest.
Yet as soon as the priest who
883
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,960
carried the ark reached the
Jordan and their feet, what?
884
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,240
What's to say?
Touch the water's edge.
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00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,600
Now, I don't know if that means
their feet got a little wet,
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like you touch the water at the
edge or like right at the edge
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of the water.
But here's the point.
888
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,200
They were willing to get their
feet wet.
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00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,000
Amen matter of fact, they
weren't so sure how is it to go
890
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,720
down they they might have walked
in and drowned in the middle of
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00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:49,920
Jordan.
Think about it.
892
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:54,880
You're carrying a giant ark
covered in gold with golden
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00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,800
cherubim with stone tablets had
the 10 commandments.
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00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:02,120
This sucker is not light.
It's going to sink, Amen.
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00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,920
And so you're like by faith,
like I'm walking in hope it
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00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:12,000
parts come on somebody right.
I mean that's that's faith.
897
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,280
I mean somebody has to go first,
Amen.
898
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:16,600
I guarantee it.
If I was on the sidelines
899
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,680
watching, I'm like, yo, I'm so
glad those boys had some big
900
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,640
faith like I'm going to walk
behind them.
901
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,400
You know what I mean?
Like I don't know if I could
902
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,920
carry that in there, but
somebody has to go first.
903
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:29,240
Somebody has to get wet.
Somebody has to get willing to
904
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,600
to jump in like it ended a
foolish plan.
905
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,240
I mean about you.
If we lined up a war and we put
906
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,520
like we thought was the presence
of God in front of us, I might
907
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:43,640
be like you.
So sure, we've got some aircraft
908
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,480
carriers.
No, we just need God.
909
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:53,920
Amen.
And they step in verse 16.
910
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,680
The water from the upstream
stopped flowing.
911
00:52:55,720 --> 00:52:58,720
It piled up in a heap a great
distance away in a town called
912
00:52:58,720 --> 00:53:01,360
Adam in the vicinity of
Zarethan, while the water
913
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,400
flowing down the sea of Araba,
that is the Dead Sea, was
914
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,720
completely cut off.
So the people crossed opposite
915
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,280
of Jericho, it says the priest
who carried the ark of the
916
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,680
covenant of the Lord stopped in
the middle of the Jordan and
917
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:18,200
stood on what dry ground?
That's a miracle of God, Amen.
918
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,440
Those boys, they're not, they're
not down.
919
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,560
And this is a miracle.
When all of Israel passed by
920
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:27,920
until the whole nation, the
entire nation, how many hundreds
921
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:31,120
of thousands of people walked
across dry land because the
922
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:35,520
presence of God went first?
I completely crossed on dry
923
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:37,720
ground.
Can I encourage you to a couple
924
00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:42,560
things ready fire aim.
That's a step of bold faith.
925
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,960
Amen out about you.
There's only a few moments in my
926
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,960
life where I've had to say,
Lord, if you don't show up, I'm
927
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,600
going to drown.
If you don't show up, I'm not
928
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,880
going to make it.
We launched this church.
929
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,840
We had no idea.
You know, you know, the only 10%
930
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,160
of churches only survive in
elementary schools.
931
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,680
Hear that groove song.
I don't know what that was, but
932
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,800
to say if I look over in the
young or old, it's going to pin
933
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:16,080
my next comment, you know, but
think about this.
934
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:20,920
It takes a step of faith, Amen.
It takes a step of faith, like a
935
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:25,760
step of faith makes a way for
the power of God, like until we
936
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,360
move, why would we expect God to
do anything like if we're not
937
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,280
willing to go?
And and when I say willing, I
938
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,440
mean fire like ready is in the
mind.
939
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,440
Firing is an action, right?
And so if we're not willing to
940
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:45,240
cut a check or we're not willing
to show up or we're not willing
941
00:54:45,240 --> 00:54:48,960
to say, hey, I'm selling my
house to get there, by the way,
942
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,080
sold duplex, duplex to launch
the church.
943
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,760
Amen.
I said, oh, we need some extra.
944
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:58,240
We like to have this lighting.
Well, maybe we can just, we'll
945
00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:00,760
just, we paid off the van
already, but hey, just pull a
946
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,120
loan in the van.
We'll buy some lighting.
947
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,200
That's where I was at.
Do or die, Amen.
948
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,560
Like I believe in what we're
doing here, but somebody has to
949
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,160
say it's a step of faith.
Like you have to get a one way
950
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,720
ticket.
Some of y'all got a one way
951
00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:18,320
ticket.
Some of you know what it's like
952
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:22,200
to go into a foreign country or
to move and have no destination
953
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,560
in mind.
That's faith, Amen.
954
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,560
And God is not going to show up
and move until we're stepping
955
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:32,800
out and saying, yes, there's a
man not too far from here.
956
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,720
He's in Raytown.
He has a church and there's a
957
00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:37,800
property that came available and
he really wants it.
958
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:40,240
He's like, really wants it,
which is awesome.
959
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:42,480
And so he's on social media,
he's reached out.
960
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,400
He's like, hey, I need $1.5
million by the 17th of November.
961
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,960
I mean, I mean, God bless you.
I, I pray for him.
962
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:53,000
I hope he gets it.
Amen.
963
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,480
If church has the, the capacity
to do it, they can do it.
964
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,800
It'd be great thing.
Let me tell you something, I
965
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,800
would like to do it a little
differently, Amen.
966
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,840
I would like to be like, no, we
had this awesome initiative and
967
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,560
we by the faith, by the men of
God and people of God said, you
968
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,000
know what, we're ready.
We're going to step out with
969
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,040
that destination.
And when the opportunity comes,
970
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,200
like, oh, hey, guess what?
We've actually raised the money,
971
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,400
Amen.
Like, I mean, I mean, God could
972
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,120
use you either way.
God could do a miracle.
973
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,680
But I'm telling you, it'd be far
better for us to say, you know
974
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,320
what we are just putting out
there, then we're ready to go.
975
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,400
And we can only move with the
speed of which our people, that
976
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:35,080
God's people are willing to be
generous, Amen.
977
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,640
And then God also works in
divine flow and some miracles
978
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,200
through people, Amen.
But I'm just telling you it will
979
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,360
move at the pace we're willing
to step out and get a little wet
980
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,000
for him.
And it looks like I'm going to
981
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:51,120
be late on my time, which I
can't because I have a welcome
982
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:55,120
party today.
So I will bridge everything else
983
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,160
down as far as I can.
I was going to talk about Peter,
984
00:56:58,200 --> 00:56:59,760
but you knew about Peter as he
stepped out of the boat.
985
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:02,560
He was the only one stepped on
the boat.
986
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,040
By the way, you know Peter
walked on water, right?
987
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,120
It was a big storm that the
waves baffled the boat.
988
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:10,680
And then he saw, they thought I
saw a ghost and said his eyes
989
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:12,040
Jesus.
And so he said, Jesus, calm out
990
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:13,560
the water.
He said, OK, he steps on the
991
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:17,320
water and he sees the wind in
the rain and he was afraid and
992
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,280
he sank.
But then Jesus said something
993
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,240
very special.
He says, oh, you little faith.
994
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:26,400
Why do you doubt?
Because some people have the
995
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,040
faith to look the wind rained
and not sink.
996
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,840
Some people have the the faith
to look out and see a storm and
997
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,720
say God's going to do something.
Most of us don't.
998
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,240
Peter didn't.
Now he failed, right?
999
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:40,600
But he stepped on water, didn't
he?
1000
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,360
He is the only human outside of
Jesus, right?
1001
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,840
That whole thing here to, to
join the I walked on water club.
1002
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:50,280
Pretty good club to be in.
Amen.
1003
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,880
So we can say, oh man, Peter
failed man, blah, blah.
1004
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:54,640
You know what, at least he
stepped out of the boat.
1005
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,600
I'll tell you the real failure
was it was 11 people still
1006
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,880
sitting in the boat.
That was failure.
1007
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,480
Matter of fact, that's regret
because I'd be sitting there
1008
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,640
going, man, I wished I walked on
water that day.
1009
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,960
Like I wish I would have tried
like the worst that happens.
1010
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:10,520
I got a little wet.
Jesus rescued me, put his hand
1011
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:11,480
down and pull him back in the
boat.
1012
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:13,160
That had been pretty legit.
Amen.
1013
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,040
That been pretty legit.
Last person I was to talk about,
1014
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:17,800
which is going to be very
bridged down is a man named
1015
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:18,960
Abraham.
You guys know Abraham, Old
1016
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,360
Testament, he got a what?
The second everlasting covenant
1017
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,120
of God.
I'll make great people you, I'll
1018
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:25,840
bless those, I bless you.
I'll curse those who curse you.
1019
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,000
I'll make your name great.
You'll be the father of a great
1020
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:29,920
nation.
I'll go and he says this.
1021
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,280
I said you go from your country,
your people and your father's
1022
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,920
household.
You know, it's oftentimes that
1023
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,680
Abraham, like we think about how
he left the land to go
1024
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,360
somewhere, but he left his
family.
1025
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:42,880
He left his country.
He left his people around him.
1026
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:49,560
They settled in the promised
land or near the promised land.
1027
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:51,840
Can you imagine thinking about
this Abraham?
1028
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,440
He's very wealthy.
He's with his dad.
1029
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,560
He he lived in the early
calories, but they actually
1030
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,320
moved up to harem, which like
500 miles away.
1031
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:03,360
And he told his dad one day
because the Lord told him like,
1032
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:04,800
I got to go.
And he imagined that
1033
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,560
conversation with your dad.
I was just thinking like,
1034
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:08,720
because his dad stayed back, he
had to leave his father's
1035
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,320
household.
That was part of the of the of
1036
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,240
the command.
He imagined telling your dad,
1037
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,400
Hey, dad, I'm going to take my
my wife and all my kids and all
1038
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:20,160
these flocks, hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of sheep.
1039
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:21,760
I'm going to take all the
servants.
1040
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,680
I'm going to take my stuff and
we're heading out.
1041
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:27,080
Where are you going, son?
I don't know.
1042
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,760
What would your dad say?
That is the dumbest plan I've
1043
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:32,840
ever heard in the face of the
earth.
1044
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,720
Some of y'all have to tell your
kids that already, you know what
1045
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:36,800
I'm saying?
Like, what are you talking
1046
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,160
about?
I'm going to go somewhere like,
1047
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,520
well, the Lord's in it.
Is he is he in the that's a
1048
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,720
that's a really dumb plan, you
know, but the Lord's in it.
1049
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,400
And we're going to go, son,
you're going to go back home or
1050
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,080
the counties.
Oh, no, no, I'm going to go up
1051
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,040
to the Canaanites.
OK, nights.
1052
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,520
But why would you go up there?
You get across the desert, you
1053
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,560
get across mountains.
It's treacherous.
1054
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,520
Another 600 miles away.
He but he didn't know where he's
1055
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:00,440
going to go.
You didn't go.
1056
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,600
I mean, and I feel like
sometimes like we're in the
1057
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,960
season, like, man, if we had a
space picked out, right?
1058
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,400
Like it was a blueprint of a
building, right?
1059
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:09,560
Like we don't know where we're
going either.
1060
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,480
Amen.
Like we don't have a Fang
1061
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,160
sitting out there.
Now, we could.
1062
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,640
I mean, I mean, I like to think,
oh, yeah, that's going to be it.
1063
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,960
But you know what?
We we have to have the funds
1064
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:20,880
that get to the table.
Amen.
1065
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:24,280
That's what we're saying yes to,
but God has a place already
1066
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:24,880
picked out.
Amen.
1067
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,720
I'm not worried about that.
We're stepping on what God is
1068
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:28,880
doing already.
It's same thing everything.
1069
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:30,640
I'm like, I don't need to know
the destination because I know
1070
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,480
who's leading on the journey.
Like I know who's going to cross
1071
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:36,040
the Jordan.
I know, I know God's faithful.
1072
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:40,080
He doesn't lead us all this way
all these years to fail us now.
1073
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:44,000
He never is going to fail and we
just walk by faith, Amen.
1074
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:46,440
Faith looks like this Lord.
I'm just taking one step at a
1075
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:47,920
time.
I can see them barely edge of my
1076
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:49,560
toes.
That's all it is.
1077
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:51,640
Amen.
I've had people in my life I've
1078
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,840
met that are missionaries that
went to South America and they
1079
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:56,520
didn't even speak Spanish before
they went.
1080
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,040
They couldn't exchange their
money back in the day.
1081
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,520
Maybe had was it money orders?
Traveler's checks, That's what
1082
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:05,160
it is, Traveler's checks.
She had traveler's checks and
1083
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:08,000
she couldn't speak to the lady
and just got all she had to sign
1084
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:09,840
her name and she'd know to sign
her name.
1085
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:15,560
This is crazy.
And now she's a missionary
1086
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:19,560
that's changed the country.
It's crazy.
1087
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:21,520
I feel blessed to sit at the
table and lay like that.
1088
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:26,840
Oh, what faith you have.
Like most of us struggle to give
1089
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:31,840
anything, but to give your life
to Jesus, not just, oh, I need a
1090
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:33,240
ticket to heaven, thank you for
saving me.
1091
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,080
But to actually say every
breath, every tomorrow, my
1092
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:37,680
entire life.
Lord, what would you have me to
1093
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,720
do?
My hands are open.
1094
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:41,640
Lord, where do you want me to
go?
1095
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:43,640
What do you want me to go?
I own nothing.
1096
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:48,240
I'm a steward of everything.
I trust you on the throne.
1097
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,720
There's only oh, by the way, God
does not share his throne very
1098
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,040
well.
Amen.
1099
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:55,960
Scoot on in there.
That ain't going to work.
1100
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:58,400
He'll just move to somebody
else, Amen.
1101
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,600
The Bible says he takes
blessings from the unrighteous
1102
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:03,040
and he moves it to the
righteous.
1103
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:08,960
Hello, Moses, Joshua, Saul,
David, we've talked about it,
1104
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,240
Amen.
We need to be the type of people
1105
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,400
that God takes talent for
people, the talents in the
1106
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,720
Bible, he moves them from
somebody who doesn't invest them
1107
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,680
and use them for the Kingdom and
he gives it to us.
1108
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,560
I mean, I've been praying for a
church to be an 11 talent
1109
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:28,200
church, not a one talent church,
a good place to start, but A1
1110
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,920
talent person that's faithful to
God, God will take from other
1111
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,360
people and give to them.
That's biblical, Amen.
1112
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,600
That's not prosperity, that's
gospel.
1113
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:41,600
It's in the book.
And I think about Abraham not
1114
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:43,600
having a place, but he gave
himself to God.
1115
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,360
He'd stepped out on faith and
says this about him in the
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01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:51,120
Hebrews 11.
He says by faith Abraham when
1117
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:54,200
called to go to a place he would
letter later received his
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01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:58,120
inheritance was to say he obeyed
and obeyed and went.
1119
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,920
This is what this is right now.
It's a step of obedience, fire.
1120
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:07,720
And then God will direct our
steps ready fire aim even though
1121
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,560
he didn't know where he was
going.
1122
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:14,320
This is faith Hebrews 11/1
through three now faith is a
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01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,560
confidence in what we hope for
and assurance about what do not
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01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:19,560
see.
It's when you sit in that chair,
1125
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:21,280
you have confidence going to
hold you up.
1126
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,440
You've sat that chair so many
times you don't even think about
1127
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,760
anymore.
This is the faith.
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01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:29,560
This is what the ancients were
commended for.
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01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:30,680
This is what the ancients are
honored for.
1130
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:32,040
That's why I read these stories.
Amen.
1131
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,600
These are bold faith.
This was celebrated for we look
1132
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:36,440
back and say, man, that's a man
of God.
1133
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:38,520
Well, how do you know that
because they walk by faith,
1134
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,520
yapity yap all you want.
They stepped out.
1135
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:45,200
They did it and by faith we
understand the universe was
1136
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,480
formed by God's command so that
what is seen was not made out of
1137
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:51,800
what was visible.
That's amazing.
1138
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,120
The creator, the creation
demands a creator.
1139
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,640
Amen.
I was thinking there's a Ronald
1140
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:00,240
Reagan did something amazing.
He he said, I wish I had all the
1141
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:02,640
atheist over at the White House
and put together an exquisite
1142
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:07,640
meal, the finest foods, the most
amazing, just delicacies you
1143
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:10,880
could ever have, and then give a
speech and tell them there is a
1144
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:15,880
chef, Amen.
Like when you look at the night
1145
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:19,280
sky and you see the storms and
you think of the wonders of the
1146
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:20,640
world.
You saw this giant hurricane.
1147
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:26,000
You said, man, the power of God
and the same God that's control
1148
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,720
of all that thing, everything
you see, he can be trusted with
1149
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:31,680
your life.
Amen.
1150
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:33,880
That's what I see when I see the
creation.
1151
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,600
You have those mountain top
experiences.
1152
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:39,000
You go down and you just maybe
in the Rockies or we've traveled
1153
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,960
to Machu Picchu and you're just
like, wow, you turn the corner.
1154
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:44,200
The guy goes, this is those.
This is going to be an OG
1155
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,040
moment.
You turn the corner like, whoa,
1156
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:51,040
wow, I'm so small, but thank you
Jesus that I'm your handiwork
1157
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,760
that that I'm in your work.
Like this is what you're using
1158
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,200
today is US.
He's going to use us.
1159
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:00,280
Amen.
If you're willing to step out on
1160
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:04,640
faith and say yes, there are so
many people that we we know that
1161
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,120
needs Jesus in our city.
There's so many people just like
1162
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:08,640
Tanya.
They're walking through
1163
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:12,240
hardship.
What if, what if you would open
1164
01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:14,840
your hands and say, I'm going to
write the next generation of
1165
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,720
stories.
I'm going to be the person of
1166
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:21,000
faith that God help me that they
talk about in the future.
1167
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:23,520
Like we're going to be the
church that they look back and
1168
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,520
say, thank God they got it right
and we continue to do it right.
1169
01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:29,320
Amen.
To be led by the Spirit, to be
1170
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:34,280
humble, to make his name famous,
to lower ourselves and to be
1171
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:38,560
outrageously generous because we
trust God.
1172
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:42,160
So Father, come before you.
God help us to have open hands
1173
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:44,280
and open hearts.
How many would say as Jesus
1174
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:45,640
followers that God is speaking
to you?
1175
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:50,880
Just to be bold in faith that
we'd stop counting on ourselves,
1176
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,640
but start counting on God and
that we trust that we're as
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01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:56,240
handiwork and just like God to
control the universe is control
1178
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:59,120
of me.
And so God, I trust you and I
1179
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,520
know God's calling me to fire.
I need to step out.
1180
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:03,840
If that's you and the Holy
Spirit speaking you just raise
1181
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:06,560
your hand in this place.
Say that to you today to hands
1182
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:08,360
across all this room.
God, thank you so much for
1183
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:10,320
speaking in your power.
Thanks for these examples of
1184
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:12,280
faith, God.
We know these are humans, God,
1185
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,680
and what you did in their life
you can do in our life as well.
1186
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,600
But God, we give you glory.
God, we trust you.
1187
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:23,400
God, we humble ourselves to the
point where you're in charge.
1188
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:28,560
God teach us to obey, teach us
to follow, and teach us to walk
1189
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:32,440
by faith that we be a Church of
people that are healed and
1190
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:37,360
changed and the gospel goes out
not because of our ability, but
1191
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:39,400
because you are working through
US.
1192
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:42,080
I'll pray for one more good
people.
1193
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,360
That's just you.
They recognize you need Jesus.
1194
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,680
You heard the story, that free
gift to salvation that comes to
1195
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:49,600
you.
And today, if you need Christ,
1196
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,400
I'll tell you about Jesus.
He's a sinless Son of God down
1197
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:55,240
the cross for you.
He's the one that took
1198
01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:58,720
everything, every wrong, every
idle thought, everything that
1199
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:00,920
you came in your mind that's far
from God.
1200
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:05,200
All the pride, every part of
you, past, present and future.
1201
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,640
He died for those.
It is planned so He could give
1202
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:11,840
you His presence.
He can give you His grace.
1203
01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:14,080
He can give you a new identity.
He can give you the Holy Spirit.
1204
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:16,440
He can change you from the
inside out.
1205
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,480
Why?
Because He has something better
1206
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:20,960
planned for you.
It's called the abundant life.
1207
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:25,400
It's called His good works.
He wants to change your family
1208
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,360
legacy.
He wants to change a culture and
1209
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,840
a nation and a neighborhood.
He wants to change you today.
1210
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,160
He can do it through you when
you humble yourself, not because
1211
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:39,120
of your your ability because his
finished work on the cross.
1212
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:41,920
And so today if you need to call
to God and say thank you so
1213
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,920
much, what you did I could never
do in a million lifetimes.
1214
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:48,800
God, you're the one I need.
If that's you today and you need
1215
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:50,680
Jesus, we just raise your hands
place not going to make it weird
1216
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,040
to call you out, but if you need
Jesus a day, we should raise
1217
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,640
your hands.
I need Christ and walk your
1218
01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:57,200
relationship with him today.
So your hand.
1219
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:02,440
That's why we do this, the
gospel goes out.
1220
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:06,320
If that's you and you raise your
hand, just humble yourself and
1221
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:09,320
just crowd to God, thank you so
much for loving me, that you saw
1222
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:11,920
me and you loved me.
You died for me.
1223
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:14,760
Why was you yet Sinner?
God, I was helpless, I was
1224
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,720
stranded, I was broken, I was
doing my own thing, do my own
1225
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:19,319
direction.
But God, you cared enough for me
1226
01:08:19,319 --> 01:08:23,040
to send your Son to love me and
die for me and set me free from
1227
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:25,640
the power of sin.
Oh thank you Jesus, thank you
1228
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,800
Jesus come into my life and save
me, make me new and I pray in
1229
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,800
Jesus name and the church said
Amen.
1230
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:33,479
Come on, give it up for Jesus
today.
1231
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:37,600
Amen.
Amen.
1232
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,479
What a reminder of what bold
faith can do.
1233
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:43,920
It can make a difference in your
life, it can change a people, it
1234
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,960
can change a nation and it bold
faith is what will change the
1235
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:48,960
world.
And so if that's you today, you
1236
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:51,359
made that decision to say yes to
Jesus.
1237
01:08:51,359 --> 01:08:53,600
We are excited for you.
Let's give it up for them one
1238
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:58,160
more time.
And what God can do, I know he's
1239
01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:00,840
done so much in my life and we
believe he can do so much in
1240
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:02,600
yours.
And so we want to walk with you
1241
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,760
in this journey.
If you made that decision today,
1242
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:07,880
we would love to help you take
that next step.
1243
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:11,040
And one way you can do that, if
you take out that connection
1244
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,880
card on your chair, you can
check the box that says I'm
1245
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,840
committing my life to Jesus.
You can drop it in the bucket.
1246
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:18,359
You can take it out to the new
here booth.
1247
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:21,520
We want to send you a little
book called Begin this week to
1248
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:24,319
help you say, what is my next
step with Jesus?
1249
01:09:24,319 --> 01:09:26,760
But your journey with Jesus, it
starts today.
1250
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:29,399
It starts right now, so on your
way out of the worship center,
1251
01:09:29,399 --> 01:09:31,200
we have a red bag you can grab
that.
1252
01:09:31,359 --> 01:09:34,319
It's got a Bible in there, some
resources to help you grow and
1253
01:09:34,319 --> 01:09:36,840
take that next step to know
Jesus more.
1254
01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:39,880
And we would love nothing more
than to be walking alongside
1255
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:44,200
with you in this season for you.
I also want to talk to those of
1256
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:46,680
you who are newer at REAL Life
or new today.
1257
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:48,359
Thank you so much for being
here.
1258
01:09:48,359 --> 01:09:50,640
I hope that God spoke to you
today.
1259
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:52,359
I hope that you got a word from
him.
1260
01:09:52,359 --> 01:09:54,600
And I hope that he's moving in
your heart, that you were so
1261
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:57,040
welcomed and encouraged.
That's our heart for you today.
1262
01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,600
But we would love to see you
back again.
1263
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:01,720
And it would be awesome to see
you again, right?
1264
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:03,680
Would we love to see him back
again next week?
1265
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:06,800
Yeah, so awesome.
Hope you felt welcomed.
1266
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,640
The only thing we asked from you
today is we would love for you
1267
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:12,840
to introduce yourself to us.
And so same connection card on
1268
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:15,000
your chair.
If you check that box, it says
1269
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,200
it's my first time here, second
time here, just right.
1270
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,240
I'm newish in the little box
down there.
1271
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,840
We would love to connect with
you out at our new here booth.
1272
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:24,360
We have somebody there to greet
you who will welcome you.
1273
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:27,440
We have some gifts and just some
information to get you
1274
01:10:27,440 --> 01:10:29,360
connected.
But me and we would love to get
1275
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:32,360
to know you to get to see how
why God brought you here and how
1276
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:34,880
we can walk alongside you and
your journey in real life.
1277
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:37,960
And next, I just want to take a
moment.
1278
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,280
We're in a big season for real
life.
1279
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:43,800
We are taking a big step of
faith that requires a bold
1280
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:45,560
faith.
And so I want to take just a
1281
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:48,440
minute as we are leaning into
what this difference maker is
1282
01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:51,480
going to look like and be.
I want you to also take on a
1283
01:10:51,480 --> 01:10:55,040
chair nearby you is this
difference maker commitment
1284
01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:57,240
card.
I want you to find this card.
1285
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:00,400
I want you to put it in your
hand, take it out, hold it here
1286
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:03,920
because I want to take a moment
just to kind of explain how it
1287
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,800
works and how we're going to use
it as we get near to our
1288
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:09,360
commitment Sunday.
So while you have this card in
1289
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:12,400
your hand, I want you to check
out this video that it walks you
1290
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:16,760
through the commitment card.
Our primary goal and Difference
1291
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:18,720
Maker initiative is not about
dollars.
1292
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:20,840
It's actually all about
discipleship.
1293
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:24,840
It's about faith that our giving
is reflection of our heart.
1294
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:29,320
So we're asking you to step out
and bold faith as 100%
1295
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:32,960
participation together.
It'll take all of us linking
1296
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:35,240
arms and choosing to be a
difference maker.
1297
01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:38,240
On the back of your commitment
card, you'll see a different
1298
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:41,560
types of gifts that we believe
it will take for us to reach
1299
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:45,520
this God size goal.
Take your time, pray and see
1300
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,240
what the Lord would have you to
give.
1301
01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:50,440
And let me encourage you.
Let's take a bold step of faith
1302
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:52,520
together.
But listen, I don't want you to
1303
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:57,120
give a penny more than God asks
you to give, but also don't want
1304
01:11:57,120 --> 01:12:00,720
you to give a penny less.
I'm asking you to hear from God.
1305
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,000
Here's how the commitment card
works.
1306
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:05,000
There's a section on annual
giving.
1307
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:09,400
This is what you regularly give
in ties and offerings below that
1308
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,040
is expanded giving.
This is what you're prayerfully
1309
01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:15,840
commit to above and beyond in
the Difference Maker Initiative.
1310
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:19,520
This goes directly towards
reaching our $1 million goal
1311
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:23,200
over the next two years.
Add those numbers together and
1312
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:26,520
multiply by two and that's your
full 2 year commitment.
1313
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:30,080
There's also a powerful third
category.
1314
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:34,320
It's called stored resources.
And for some of us, generosity
1315
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,920
may not come only in regular
income or earned income, but
1316
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:41,080
from stocks, savings, and maybe
even stuff.
1317
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:42,880
Maybe it's an investment
account.
1318
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,840
Maybe it's a donor advised fund
or ACD or inheritance.
1319
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,840
Maybe it's land.
It could be a savings account
1320
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:53,360
that you've been storing up for
that next adventure or toy or
1321
01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:55,760
asset.
It could be a vehicle or
1322
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:58,760
something valuable God has
entrusted to you that in this
1323
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:03,000
moment could be released and
leveraged to fuel His Kingdom.
1324
01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:06,080
Imagine with me the impact if
each of us looked at every
1325
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:11,120
resource in our hands and asked
Lord, how can I use this to make
1326
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:14,120
an internal difference?
Now this where it gets really
1327
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:16,720
fun.
On Commitment Sunday, November
1328
01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:21,000
16th, we will come together as
one as a church family to turn
1329
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,040
our cards.
This will be a powerful moment
1330
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:25,960
of unity and faith as we place
our commitment cards for a Lord
1331
01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:29,400
together as one.
You can also turn your card in
1332
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,040
digitally.
Also filling out after November
1333
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:34,880
16th at one of our gatherings in
our giving buckets.
1334
01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:36,520
And this where it's really
exciting.
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On Celebration Sunday, December
14th, we'll give our first gifts
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toward Difference Maker.
This will be the day we give our
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stored resources and launch our
initiative.
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This will be the moment of
worship, a moment of joy, a
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moment of gratitude as we take
our very first step together in
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faith to raise money for our
first permanent home and write
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the next chapter of real life.
This is our moment to make a
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difference together, to move in
faith and generosity and
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boldness.
And listen, we all do our part.
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We won't just secure a building,
we'll build a home where
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prodigals return, we're lost
peoples forever changed, and
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where the gospel launches out to
the world for generations and
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generations to come.
So I invite you be bold and join
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us as we make a difference
together.
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I'm encourage you to take this
with you today.
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Take it home and pray and fast
and ask the Lord what He would
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have you to do.
He's going to give you a number.
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We can't give you a number.
I can't tell you what to do.
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Diane.
How much should I give?
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I don't know, you got to go to
the Lord with this, but the
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goal, like it said in there is
100% participation.
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Whatever we have in our hand,
God asked us with a bold faith
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to say yes to him.
And you know what?
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It's something that's really
cool is over the last couple of
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weeks, some of you had already
said yes to giving to God.
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Last week we had three brand new
givers to real life and the week
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before we had three more than
that.
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So last couple weeks, 6 new
people saying, you know what,
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yes, I want to be a part of what
God is doing here.
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I have a bold faith to say yes,
that he is calling me to be a
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part and to participate in this.
And so I want you to take this
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card two weeks from today is our
commitment Sunday where we're
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going to turn these cards in.
You have two weeks to pray, to
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fast, to ask of the Lord, say,
Lord, what would you have me do
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to be a part of prodigals coming
home?
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And so for each of you who
already gives it real life,
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thank you.
You saw the fruit of your giving
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today through Tanya's story.
And there's so many more stories
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like that.
But if you call real life home,
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there is a lot of ways that you
can give.
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They're on the slide behind me.
You can give them the buckets as
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they pass.
There's a box in the back you
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can give online, you can text to
give, but we pray that you will
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be prayerfully considering how
you can be a part of this
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difference maker initiative.
And lastly, if you or your
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family find yourself in
immediate need of food,
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clothing, or shelter, if you
would reach into the buckets as
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they pass by, grab any loose
cash that you see.
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We want to be a blessing to you
and your family during the
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season of need for you.
Thank you.
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Man, can we get it for God how
He's just moving in everybody's
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life today, whether you have a
story on a video or just you
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01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:17,760
share in a life group, man, we
love hearing those stories.
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Hey, I want to let you guys know
about something coming up.
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Awesome next week.
So this is a moment we love to
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do every year and it's going to
be child dedication Sunday.
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So what that looks like and what
that is, is this is an
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opportunity for for families to
come up on stage and just take
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their most precious resource,
that blessing that God's given
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them and that's their children.
And so this is for children of
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any age.
They don't have to be just for
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01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:39,520
babies.
But if you've never made that
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01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:41,280
step, we're talking about
generosity.
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01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:42,720
We talk about making a
difference.
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It starts at home, right?
And so whether it's my money or
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01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,440
my time, the most important
thing that guy gave me or my
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01:16:47,440 --> 01:16:50,040
children.
So that step of faith of coming
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01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:53,880
up here and having a team, Sean
and, and elders just pray over
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01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:55,600
you as a family for wisdom and
guidance.
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01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:58,880
And what an awesome opportunity
to give back to God what he's
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01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:00,240
giving you.
The most important thing in your
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01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,240
life that that you have is your
children.
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01:17:02,480 --> 01:17:03,960
So we'd love for you guys to
sign up.
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01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:06,560
You can go on the vents page.
You can hit this QR code and
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01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:09,960
that's it.
Next, next Sunday at here real
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life of both gatherings.
So hey, if you need prayer for
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any reason, we would love to
pray with you here, either as
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01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:15,960
individuals or family.
Can't wait to see you guys again
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01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,880
next week at 9:00 or 10:45.
And as always, remember, whoever
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01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,280
finds Jesus discovers real life
and purpose.
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01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:26,240
See you guys next week.
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