Uncharted - Your Breakout Year

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19:14 We are at church on Mission and you know, EC walk in here you probably overwhelmed by all the lights, all the pipe and drape everything that we do to make this. You know, this is our church every single week. And why do we do it? You know, why are we here? Why do we exist? Is because of this Mission, this mission right here behind me to see people far from God discover their real life and purpose in. Jesus and guys have you been enjoying this breakout Series? So far to start off the year? If you're like me, you come in every Sunday morning, you ready fired up? And then the Wii comes and you kind of maybe forget what those resolutions are what you're trying to accomplish. And so let's be reminded today that this is a, not an easy thing to do.

19:54 But if we continue to make those small changes in our lives, we will see our breakout, you really come to fruition. So, let's get over Pastor Sean, as we go into the word today. Come on. How you guys doing? Get a few Chiefs fans in the house. I see. Oh yeah, we'll see, no Donuts this year. It's all you have to say if your last year that stung. So anyway, man, are you guys feeling spirit guide your life this year so far? You feeling that the hand of God, just moving you a little bit. Maybe this Series has been just kind of wake-up call really, for me personally. And for all of us is diving into what it is to follow.

20:34 God, a different level. And if you've been with us for a little bit of time or be a new day, I mean, kind of lead you through been and it Started out really talk about ignition known your personal, call read Vigor and reigniting. The things of God in your life and talk about Paul and how God's hand was on him and he followed God's call to Gentiles and literally went before Kings and preached, the gospel, if you remember the story, we're back to David and Goliath. And how one man stepped on the battlefield and everything changed. Amen. And last week, man, going through, Daniel in the Lion's Den. Now one man marked by prayer and when a nation is against him, praise to God. And not only leads a nation and out of captivity. But the glory of God goes around the world. Amen. And so today, we've just woven through really kind of what it takes to take off and take flight and to be fueled in the air through prayer.

21:20 And I want to talk about today, something very specific. Something I think that just where we're at in this series ruled the boldness to go to somewhere that's Uncharted to break the limits of your circumstance and really today as Christians to break the limits of our current faith. And so they were going to talk about is to be Uncharted. You think about people, we offer are limited by voice. It's in our life, we've talked about that but also limited by your own failures and learned by our circumstances around us. And so I want to encourage you really the list of people that you're going to recognize that we're limited by circumstances, by their own failure by those around them and broke through the limits. And so, there's a few people, you might recognize the first is, this is Beethoven, he was told by his music teacher, that's composer.

22:02 He had no hope for that person was wrong. Right thing about Thomas Edison, his high school teacher told me that he was so stupid. The quote, he could not learn anything. And they think about him after it really 10,000 times of trying. He perfected the incandescent light bulb. Hallelujah, amen. Praise God, you know, changed our lives right now, fact. I think about him. It's like maybe just too stupid to quit on his dream. He's just too stupid to keep going after it. Not to be defeated by somebody else's voice in his life. You think about Walt Disney, Kansas City? Come on somebody. I know what editor said this to him of a newspaper, but he told Walt Disney had quote. No good ideas, dude. I know about you, but But there's probably none greater, they had ideas and creation than Walt Disney himself. You think about this Apollo missions that went to the moon, the chief engineer for the politicians was Warner Von Braun.

22:51 And he had failed, ninth grade algebra believe that he's probably bored. Come on somebody, right? But he could have been defeated. He could have given up. He could have been labeled a failure, but instead he got back up and kept pursuing, I learn this is pretty unique to Abraham Lincoln. He lost 18 elections on his journey become president. Now credible. I mean, I don't know about you but I wouldn't go. 18 times. Come on right but just to get up and go and just had a passion and a drive. Drove him through all of these failures. There's a little-known guy. You might know them if you're into science and all but name's Louise pasture and he's a French scientist. He came with the pasteurization process is a famous for the father of microbiology and he was told by his chemistry teacher in college that he was mediocre at best at chemistry.

23:34 I'm you think about these people and all the voices that could have just gotten off track or maybe their own failure? Or their own circumstance, but I don't know about you and what your experience is, but by love the incandescent light bulb. Come on somebody, I mean the Fifth Symphony. Come on! Some it dumb dumb dumb dumb that song probably came from when he got that bad news. They can't do anything. He's got motivated to write that song at that moment. Right? You know I'm saying just like that downtown to. Thank you. Goodbye. I mean just amazing, right? You think about the light bulb? I know, you know this but Thomas Edison has became the founder and CEO of what you currently know as General Electric. Thank God for GE that we Really have the wherewithal and the median to live in this generation. And how do we have? I love most Disney movies.

24:16 They've gotten kind of strange literally lately. You haven't seen it? That's okay. I know my kids they love spending five thousand dollars or their parents money to go to Disneyland and Disney World. Come on, somebody all the children said, amen. Praise God, you know, right? I love space exploration. I love watching people and just take Innovation and go into new boundaries and do limits and to push beyond the status quo and to see what has been accomplished his face. It's absolutely amazing. I'm about you had less pasteurize milk. Come on somebody. Hashtag Chateau. Come on. Where's my Chateau people? That's good. Just dying. That's great. Yep. It e granola woman over there. It's great you drive up and is like what's that bot? Au. Chateau people don't judge me. Come on somebody right. Drop a diesel but we have Chateau, it's great but I will tell you this year is your breakout year, but we got to move beyond the limits for God.

25:02 Amen. We gotta move into Uncharted Territory. I mean, we're not going to play it safe as Christians, you never change the role by playing it safe. Like we got to go to places that God is calling us to go. We gotta move when other people say. It's not possible when it's even beyond your own faith. You've got to take another step of Faith. Amen. When they say the fruit is out on the limb, you've got to go where God is calling you to go. Do you think the god of the universe created, you sent Jesus to be crucified on the cross and saved you in Porter's, Holy Spirit into, you generously to play it safe. Do you think he wants to be limited by other people's realities? Do you think he wants you to stay comfortable or to move into the places that he has for you? Here's what I know, one day.

25:47 Your legacy will built on the faith and the boundaries that you went into the one day. People are going to thank God for you. If you take the space of God's called you to take, if you take the ground that God's called you to take, you think about your life. I'm sure you're thankful for the people that went before you that had enough Faith to tell you about Jesus, amen. Cuz I'm sure it was awkward, right? It was weird how it went down the friends. Divide, your, maybe, your parents are or whatever. Right? I think about my story and just from a personal level thankful for those in my life, the honored God by taking off work on Sunday to show up and teach a nobody about somebody, come on about Jesus and they cared for me and love me to Jesus. And that was a talk about a youth group leader that has a full-time job somewhere else.

26:36 Working at his tail off in the business world, but take Take time off to pour into somebody like me. Now, there's nothing sexy about serving in youth group. Come on somebody. Yeah, I know you got some here, right? And what do you tell your friends on Sunday night, right? Hey, you wanna hang out? I know, man. I'm like, got this, I'm going this youth group. And I'm like, pulling his kids for Jesus like, okay, you know, whatever man, right. I mean, it's just weird, right? But the reality is, for those people. Pour your life into the forever change for the kingdom of God, Amen. It is going beyond the boundary. It's abnormal for people to take time out of their life. Give it to God, it is very abnormal but I believe people can thank God for their fourth grade. When you a call Sunday school, teacher or real-life kid leader that when they look back and say thank you Miss Christy. Thank you for those people who served for point in my life because wasn't for you I wouldn't be here today. There's so many you that have those stories, right? I mean people can thank God for the Hope Center. They got counseling and that freedom and they met adults that love God and love them and they're forever changed as teenagers because your youth groups going to meet there. Amen.

27:36 This was called by faith, not by sight. It makes no sense on a fan. Shal spreadsheet. There's a lot of better things to do. They're all too busy to do things, but the reality is, God is calling us to live by faith and what we can't see in him. So, I wonder how Mr day would leave here. And say, you know, I'll be bold, I'm a breakthrough year, I'm going to do things that go against the grain. I'm gonna move into uncharted waters. I'm going to step out in faith. That makes no sense that people around me, even my family and my enemies. It makes no sense. I'm going to follow God. Where is called me on, least willing today to say yes to Jesus at every single level. No longer limited by what they think of me or what if I mess up. So, what if you mess up? Come on somebody.

28:17 You learn from your failure. A man, I don't know what to say. You hear all the time, don't say well, you will learn what to say, right? You'll bar phone. Jesus out a little bit and then you get better right on too busy. It's like, do you got different values? You're not too busy to leave the cause of Christ. I've never done that before. No. No, you're going to learn some new ways to do it. Amen. We're gonna try some new things this year. Well, maybe when the kids leave home? No, no, they need it now a couple days ago. My daughter. She's four years old and she wanted to see mommy's wedding dress because they pulled the box out because we've warned that so many times, right? Essence that they end up. So they pulled the box out and go get some pictures and so Diane gets to the wedding book and, you know, dust that thing off, right? And so, flip through the pictures and you're seeing all these memories in a room and listening and just sharing stories and all this and no. And I just be real honest with you. We aren't getting any younger.

29:03 Come on, somebody. Have you gone back to your wedding pictures recently now, Diane she's exception. Also about it right but we're not getting any younger I'm like wow. Okay and we got to move in a direction. We have lived by faith. You know, it's been 15 years since that day and a lots changed, you know? I don't know you skipped like pant sizes and those years, you know I'm saying, like just I'll know you go from like, 32 up. It's just, there's not even whatever, right? Just what happens, we're not getting younger, but the reality is this, and I truly believe this, that so many of us are limited by fear or limb by circumstance or limited by our very faith that we almost Can limit the work of God and the kingdom of God into extinction by delaying and deferring, the mission that God has for us.

29:50 You think about it. If it's not us then who who who will carry the mantle of the cause of Christ forward in our generation. So I'm going to damn is zoom in and it's give you awesome because we resume in the Hall of Fame of Faith, Hebrews 11, if you're not familiar going to get familiar. I mean this, this is just as like the the Medal of Honor First, you know, the Purple Heart. This is it like this is like the men and women that led the way of ancient times with faith. And so I'll do a day, is this invite you guys to invite God to speaking to you today. So you guys can put your hands out be doing this through the series just to get in the presence of God knows going to pray over you and to invite God to speak into your life. Father, we come before you and I pray you speak a word in to us today.

30:32 God, that we live by bold faith. God, if you replace fear in our hearts your place the temporary, the sir From Stan's the voices, with the Eternal, with the Unseen. And today we live by faith. Not by sight. Not by fear, not by worry, not by yield now my own righteousness. God, but we just step-by-step follow you. So you got speak to us. God, you're surfing is here. So speak got here. My send me got wherever you call me to go. I'm willing to go and I pray this in Jesus name and the church said, amen. And so, we're going to dive in the Hall of Fame of faith and really there's so many Lessons of faith in here. I mean obviously we're not going to be able to go deep dive on all these but I encourage you, if you're looking for a word that's going to speak to your heart man get into Hebrews. 11 will jump in and verse 1 says this. Now, Faith is the confidence of the word confidence is simply trust in what we hope for and Assurance, this insurance is a positive belief, it's an affirmation vote and all the things of God.

31:34 And so now Faith is confidence will hope for and Assurance about, we have not seen, this is what the Ancients to talk. About the Ancients of Faith were commended for this is what these ancients were praised for. When you got done, the end of the race when you're going through the Gates of Heaven is like, man, this is it. You're a big Faith. This is why they were plotted this. Why they're saluted? This is why they got the Medal of Honor. This was it. They live by faith and so they were going to see the story of all these ancients woven together and rule the gold day is not to get Faith into your head. The goal today is get Faith. Great faith. Mountain-moving faith into our hearts, amen. There's a lot of many There's not a lot of people have great faith and so you can see over this chapter is going to be 23 times and it's more but just the phrase by Faith by Faith, by faith. This person that person, this person that person there's more stories of faith and the 23, but says this in verse 3, it says by faith, we understand that the Universe was formed at what helped me out at I God's commands by faith, we believe we didn't come out of some some premortal sludge that it wasn't an accident or just happened chance or some evolutionary moment of time.

32:41 But by faith we believe that God commanded he spoke the universe into existence. Now by happened chance and so that what was seen was not made out of what is visible. I love this, when God decided to create the universe to create the cosmos when God decided to create everything we know and see and look at he simply Lee spoke it into existence. A men, who knows when God speaks Everything Changes, like I don't limit the voice of God to you. I mean if God says left, it just turns left, he says, stars are stars his light. He says see he says, oh she says land, boom. It is something very specific for us though. He formed us out dirt and intimate, formed us, and gave us a living soul. And that's why we're the only thing create an image of God and we know God, there's a god-shaped hole in each of Our Lives.

33:26 The only God can fill separates us from all rest of creation. Verse 4 says this by faith Abel brought got a better offer than Cain did by faith. He was commended, he was applauded as a righteous when God spoke well of his offering maybe even a real story of Cain and Abel is the second generation of humanity and enables bringing a better offering to God than Cain is able to his first Roots. Remember that he took his the first of the flocks to give the very best to God and Kane. He decided to give God his leftovers, but Abel was being commended and came became very jealous. Ellis and says this, and by faith Abel still speaks even though he's dead, this is an amazing verse because you read this.

34:07 Like what in the world is this? Talk about that able still speaking today to happened. That story is King got jealousy, met a ball on the field and he killed, he took Abel out and he killed him and his blood was shed in Outfield. And it says this in Genesis 4:10, it says the Lord said to Cain, what have you done? Listen, your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Now, I love this verse because what's happened is that even though able is dead, which by the way, he's the first martyr for God. Amen is very interesting to think about, but it was the second generation that the first martyr, because Abel's, living by faith and was killed for his faith because he pleased God. And so, his blood is crying out. It's crying out for against Justice against sin and God of all God hears, the voice of Abel's blood is crying out. Even speaking till today.

34:57 Now, what's amazing about this is even if you die for your faith. I know we're going heavy, right? But if you had died for your faith, that got that the world may Kill the Messenger, but the message lives on, Amen. There's a reason they call it the voice of the martyrs because the blood still speaks Justice. And I think about the second generation is still crying out to God for justice against sin, and, and there's a great parallel. We're not gonna be able to get into it today, but God, but Jesus blood speaks a better word v, read Hebrews, 13. You're going to enjoy that. And we may get to that in our It's the series right Easter, but it's amazing to see how faith of able led to his voice. Still speaking long, past his life and the Legacy, we leave is really built on the foundation of faith that we live in every single day.

35:45 We make that choice. Hebrews 11:5 says, this by faith, Enoch was taken from this life. So he did not experience death, he could not be found. I love that. This is the way to go right here because God had taken him away. Now, I know if you're familiar with this story, there's two different times in the Bible, where somebody doesn't die, there's taken straight to heaven. And so Enoch is says in these translated to heaven, and he's just gone, and he's just amazing. And I know, you know, Elijah story, right? Like that Chariot of fire like rides up. That's the way to exit. Amen. That's the way to go, just skip the whole process, get the view, the world been cruising out to Heaven. I mean, this is it. So Enoch, he looks so much like heaven that he wasn't worthy to live on earth anymore. That's what it means to live by faith. Amen.

36:29 I'm yes, sir. Much of God in you. That guy was like, it's time to come home now. I think that should be, we should be the generation of the Chariot of fire. Amen. We should be the generation that God says, send down some chariots for those boys, because they've been living by faith so much. Let's go and take him up to heaven because we're Earth is even worthy of them. Get ahead of myself. But man, I really am. But I'm telling you living by faith. And then there he says this for he was taken, he was commended his applauded. You saluted as one who pleased God made the greatest honor, we get to have. In this life is to please God. Amen. Not to police people. People always gonna be able to share with you if they're not upset with you. Then you part of the problem. Come on somebody. It's true. You're pushing uphill.

37:11 You live in a fallen culture, you live under a Fallen Kingdom but we serve the king. And so we move forward in a direction. God is calling us to go. He was letting 6 and this is the first you got to put in your heart. This is really the disgrace of scripture. The faith it says without faith, it is what it is. It's impossible to please God, what that's saying is no matter what you do, no matter what you accumulate and my what you buy, then what you give the church, how much you read the Bible? Now about you, you pray or how much you come or whatever you do in life is all secondary. Could never please God compared to your faith. And so they good question is, where is your faith? That adds, how much is God, pleased by your faith, says this, because anyone who comes to him, must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who Earnestly seek him.

37:57 I think my earnestly seek Him, man. That's like intense conviction. It's like when you open the Bible and start reading it and you're like, this is so true. Come on, speak to me. God, yes, that's good. I'm gonna follow that and it doesn't just transform your mind. It transforms your life, it transforms your heart because you are trusting Jesus, because he is faithful. Amen. And so those who come by faith, please God. And so you may be wondering like, man, why don't I get off the ground? It may be because you've been doing it your own power and your own strength. And your own will but you need to live in the faith of God. I'll say this, there's a huge difference between faith and belief. You think about a smoker right? Habitual smoker? We all know we all know, we've been told a million times. It's on the box.

38:38 I mean these are ads campaigns against this right, the whole world used to smoke. You watch old Disney, movies, everybody smoking? Pinocchio, come on somebody, right? I mean, just what I once ashtrays and the planes, you know, I mean, just like all the things, right? But the whole world knows, you know, it's unhealthy to smoke, it can cause death we. Know that people believe that their stand that, but most people continue in that habit. If there'd been that habit, right? Like, they know better, you have family members of people, maybe it's yourself. Like, I've been trying to quit like, you know it but the faith is the action part of it, right? I mean, think about the demons, they believe. I mean, they tremble, they understand I'm the I'm wrong, but they don't have any faith. They'll follow God, they didn't change their allegiance, it didn't move them to other side of the equation.

39:23 And so belief and Faith are A little different like you can believe something, but do you have the faith? Did you have a bead Ian's? Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is? Come on somebody. You want to walk the walk, not just say the talk, right? And so you want to please God below. If you limit, you gotta live by faith, you get a journalist earnestly seek God. That means when you read the word of God, like, dude, this is so true. It doesn't matter. Whatever else is thinking, this is the way God has called me to go. It means that we are so passionate about God because the spirit God your life and say, hey God told me you some of us got say no to people. So I love you. I do love you. You'll feel that way, right? I love you, but I'm going to follow God's voice on this one. That's how we rise up. Amen. You gotta go against the culture if everybody agrees with you.

40:05 That looks like the world did. You probably should be doing something a little different and you go to God, you take a blank piece of paper and you sign name at the bottom say Okay, God, whatever you put on it. I'm going to go over boundary after cross over charred territory, God's not call you to play it. Safe, kind of tell you that. God not call you to be in the comfort zone of life. He didn't call it a float. I was said dead. Fish flows Downstream. Come on, somebody. You don't have to do anything to flow along with the world that God has called us to be countercultural by faith. Amen. Some of y'all, look at your family's like dude, I got to be that guy for my family. Like I'd be the generational change, it was for me and my house, I love you all. Mama serve the Lord, amen. So I'm going to go right? I know you left. I'm going right. All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna follow God with this. I'm going to take that that step. So we don't be friends, but the reality is only follow Jesus. Verse 7, says, it's by faith.

40:52 Noah we warned about things. Not yet seen it never rained before. Noah built a boat. Come on somebody. That's awkward a, right? The whole years you're building up about like, what is going on, it's going to rain. So what in the would talk about it says in what helped me out and what in Holy fear? Yeah, that's that's what that's how you go to God, right. Fear God not man, right? And holy reverence like okay the word of God says God speaking to me, I'm going to take it with him. I'll put all in on Jesus. I'm like, I'm like Nitro Circus done thinking, right? You, you're going for you taking the jump, you're taking a leap, that's what faith is. It's trusting, if I sit on the stool, I trust the fact that's going to hold me and when Jesus says, just we need to do, I'm just gonna trust the fact that's going to happen. Who knows?

41:35 God's promise is always come true. Amen. It's never, he's faithful and true. If he says it it's going to happen is we got speaks a word into your life. I've got nudges, you had rection, don't be afraid of failing, be afraid to stay in the same, you know, because God's in it and he's in a he want he wants to see you through. He says by faith and holy fear, he built an ark to save his family and by faith, he condemned the world and became heir of righteousness. You see a comparison between faith and righteousness. Here all the time, doesn't keeping with the Faith by faith Abraham. And this is a boy to study right here. By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place. He would later receive as inheritance obeyed and went even though help me out, he did not know where he was going. I love this.

42:19 This is maybe the greatest picture of faith. I mean, you have this. Basically God goes to Abraham and says, hey, I'm gonna make a great nation of you and he says, you're gonna leave the Earth of the Chaldeans and you're gonna go to a place that I will eventually show you. This man is extremely wealthy has extreme livestock. All these things packs, his family up intense. He starts going Going not even knowing the destination. None of you got in the car ever in your life maybe once right. And didn't know where you're going to go you know you knew for sure. You're going to Big Daddy Donuts to. Come on somebody, you knew for sure you're going to go to the scooters. But for him is like, I don't know. God, let's just start on this path together and by faith. He packed his stuff up and went and obeyed. God. He moved outside, the comfortable. I mean, in other words, he went past the reef. Come on somebody, right?

43:03 He moved Beyond Moana movement, right? Like I'm the pursue out the distance. And go, where God has called me to go? Can I tell you today? There's no military issue. Lazy Boy recliner 's. Come on somebody, you'll join the kingdom of God and get comfortable. You don't get the front line in a trench and expect it to be easy. When you take the ground that you need to take in your life, the ground that God's called you to take. It is a difficult Journey, like self crucifixion, self-emptying self-denial, losing yourself, emptying yourself to go back to Jeremy Camp. Look at album called, T, his wife died of cancer and he wrote this whole album of just Brokenness of crying out to God.

43:43 We got to the point of life, which is no longer about our ability or inability, but as about his ability, amen. And so we just follow God by faith. There's nothing to do about you. And then you're going to find, there's enough of God in you, to be the person that God has called you to be. It's not your ability. And so it says this verse 9 by faith, this is Abraham. He made his home in the promised land like a stranger and One country, he lived in tents as an Isaac and Jacob who were heirs with him from the same of the same promise. I love this. That boy didn't even build houses. Come on somebody. I mean this world was so temper for him. He has put a tent up. It was like well I'm just gonna pass through. I'm not going to call this home. I'm not going to get too grounded or too concerned about the things this world because I'm just passing through this foreign territory goes on the say.

44:30 This says for he was looking forward. I love this to the city with fountains whose architect Act and Builder is God. He knew he wasn't home until he saw those beautiful fountains and glory and the city that was built by Jesus. Whose architect was God. He said, this is my home. Amen. And maybe the problem was so much of our culture and maybe cultural Christianity is that we forgotten that this world is not our home. We are consumed about making this world so comfortable, they were forgotten the fact that it's not called to be comfortable that we will later head down one day in glory with amazing fountains and fruit from the tree. Come on somebody with those of the love Jesus and family and friends.

45:12 And then we take a rest. But on this side of Eternity, we were called to live as foreigners in a Strange Land by faith and by faith. Even Sarah. This is his wife who was past childbearing age, was in able to Bear children because she considered him a love this time of God. Faithful, who had made the promise, if you look at Jesus and he's calling to do something, he will, he will make a way. Amen. Even we don't feel like you have a way. It doesn't make sense. You don't have enough money. You're not prepared. You don't have a plan. It's not, you don't feel like you have the resourcing, you don't have enough in you, God Will Make A Way every single time, because it's God, Amen. That's just what he does. And so from this one, man, Abraham and he is good as dead in his old age.

45:58 Kim descendants. As numerous as the Stars the sky as countless as a sand of the seashore. Now I know about this but Abraham died, had a nation, a great nation, a huge nation of eight. People come all somebody that was his nation and he lived he lived for a promise. He looks forward to the promised. My fact, it says this and this is Tommy. All the people we talked about. It says, all these people we've mentioned, we're still living by faith. When they died did not receive the things those promised they were looking forward to a promise, looking out to a promise and Only saw them and welcomed them from a distance and this one who told themselves admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on Earth. And this is, this is where the call the Christian we shouldn't fit in.

46:40 If your goal is to fit in, you will not live by faith and not the things of God in your life. You're going to fit in with your friends. You have the wrong goal. Amen. I mean, you're called to be the outcast. You're called to be the weirdo. The Jesus freak. You called me. The guy that just like, what's up with that guy? And it honestly is so attraction. We're going to talk about what faith Looks like and this side of Eternity. But and then the fact this isn't my home, people say such things, they show that they're looking for a country of their own. If they had been looking thinking of a country, they had left that have found the opportunity to return. It is so easy to tell somebody who's going to go the distance and somebody's not because they're always looking over their shoulder back and what they used to have the New Testament says this, whoever puts her hands to the plow and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God. I mean your hands can be here, but if your hearts back they're going to find a way to go back, aren't you? We gotta move our heart from here on Earth and move our heart into heaven.

47:32 Amen. But this is our desire Heaven should be so close. I mean, I love that song homesick, right? Like I want to go home but God has me here but that's the heart of a Christian. So I'm just going to gather as much for the kingdom of God and live by faith the kingdom God and see what God will do for my life before I make it home. But this is not my home. I don't put down the deeper, it's Amen, I'm a foreigner, I'm a soldier and I just I'm just walking through step-by-step just going on, Okay, well that looks like the world but this isn't my home. People say such things. The looking for the country of their own, I don't belong here. I'm not going to get too comfortable instead their longing for a better country. There's something more out there, a Heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God for. He has prepared a city for them in heaven. I want to forget about this city of fountains. Amen.

48:20 The city that architect of God has built for us. This is where our heart is at, amen. I mean you put your hope in here. You're going to be sorely disappointed. Maybe the end game is heaven and this is our home. This is where we're moving to as Christians. Have you been around a person of great faith? If you've been around a person that just was like, wow, the spirit of God is on that person and I don't know if you had that in your life, maybe you've seen it on TV or like a video or maybe the Bible study by somebody or read a book by somebody, but you kind of get some picture of what a person of great faith. Looks like your sense that before that Spirit of God like it's anointing is on is on them. The kind of people that like it's always the movement.

49:01 God is kind of Falls over they go but the God is speaking through them like a vessel like the tip of the spear like an arrow shot into the culture. Have you been around these kind of people like you know you think of people like that, right? And I'm not going to make a living because they still have room to fall. That's what those are and say, right. But you think like Billy Graham, right? Like this is just just moved a nation like the platform of like a world scale to be used. By God, I think about men and people in our church like a local scale, or like a family scale, you think about person your family's like me, and that person they just bring up the level of spirituality, like this brings Jesus to our family. If it wasn't for that person, man, here's what, here's, I'll use this.

49:41 Grab those kind of people. I'm a word, you use to describe them and maybe you find this true for you. I've been around these people seeing him and like being the word, I think of is transcended. These kind of people transcend their culture. You know, they don't fit There's like what man. Like, how do you do that? Like I can't, I don't know Faith, but look how much sacrifice. Like, how did you come up with that? Like how in the world? You have the courage in the to step out? You look at those people, like they transcend, think about transcend, it means breaking the limit. It means Rising above and going beyond the range of the limits to transcends. I mean, you think about people in your life, if you've been around and seen those people.

50:23 It's like band. That's a foreign person in our family. Emily. Maybe you should be the fourth person or family. Men would be good thing to be the fourth person. Your family. Well, the foreign person our church that transcending the church, the kind of people like Jesus, that made Jesus show. But Sinners. What is thinners, do they do it? Most churches doing they run, they ran to Jesus. Amen. He was a friend of sinners that boys, a life of the party, no matter where he went. People went to him, he was trying to pray. He had a cut through the crowds and goal behind some rocks in the mound just to be quiet. So you can pray to God. Hit Ali crowd was always pursuing him because he was so attraction, 'l to Well, amen. Amen. I mean, we think about our lives. It's like a Maya transcended person. Can I be the kind of person that God's hand is all over. Shall be like person of faith that God's like, I'm picking that boy.

51:11 Like, that person loves me and secret. He's worked, tails off behind the scenes, he's full of Faith. He's the kind of person that trust me with a little. And now I can give that person more. They transcend people who changed Nations and changed countries and just on there. The prey of their news about David and Daniel. These ancients we've all these stories that transcended the Enoch transcended to translate up to heaven. I mean, the Earth didn't deserve that kind of faith and that kind of Heaven here on Earth. I just think God should help us to be transgender. People are generation. Amen. Amen. I'm usually that kind of people for our children and be transcended for our nation. I mean transcended, their our workplace people should know.

51:53 There's something different about that boy. I can't put my finger on because you can't put your finger on the band of God. But you do realize they're not from here but there's something so much greater about that, man, or woman of Jesus and everybody should see where you go. Should say, man, that person loves Jesus. And when you get closer to you, this is how, you know, somebody's transcended. When you get closer to them, you discover the heart of God. The kind of people when you sit down with and you're like, wow, I feel like I just met a little closer to Jesus. Today. They're the kind of people you don't get closer to and go, guys are phony. Does it kind of people get closer to me like, wow, how did you get where you're at today? How did, how did God move in your heart to get that level? And they're going to say the same thing to say today by faith. Amen! By Faith, by faith. It's not them.

52:34 It's God, Hebrews 11:17 by faith Abraham when God tested him offered Isaac. This is his son as a sacrifice. Who he who had one who had embraced the promises. This is Abraham embrace the promise of the of God in his life. He had deep conviction. He was full sinned. As Diane says, all times a team full sin. There was nothing happened, Alden for Jesus, was able was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him it is through Isaac that your Offspring will be reckoned. I mean think about this, you know the story. If you don't know it you got to look it up. You have Abraham who's really raising the knife to sacrifice his own son on the altar in place of another sacrifice because God said, hey, take your son up to sacrifice him because Isaac it almost become like an idol to Abraham.

53:27 He was testing Abraham to see his faith and so he gets up there and he raises the knife up willing to kill his son, who God told him the air of your generations and your legacy your nation is going to be killed. It made no sense. It doesn't make any rational sense. Does it make any sense? But Abraham, he Stood God, he had faith in God. That God would somehow make away. Love what happens here, Abraham reasons. And this is the type of reason that doesn't exist in 2023 and our education doesn't exist, our nation and doesn't exist anywhere. Besides the people of God who know that the word of God and people are faithful to God, Abraham reasoned with faith. He said that if God could even raise the dead and even at mayor speaking, he even did receive Isaac back from Death, Abraham believed so much that he just stabbed eyes.

54:14 Can I shake down the altar? That the only way this never work out is that God has raised him from the dead, his so much faith. That if I killed my own son, that got to bring it back to life. It's always going to work out and I think in this generation we've got to add Faith back in the equation. Amen, we gotta add Faith back into our reason. It's not unreasonable. It is actually the only thing that is reasonable. It takes more faith to be an atheist. It takes more faith to be a secular humanist. It takes more faith to wander apart from God. It takes more faith to do all those things. Then the trust God, and To serve God. Amen. Something like step on my toes. Look, the promises of God are so true. If he died racism a life, John 3:16 for God. So loved the world that he gave his only son one and only son KJV gave His only begotten son, that reference actually refers back to.

55:04 This is the only time you see in the Bible, the one only son be sacrificed if God can raise him from the dead. So just promise is always true. It's gospel. Truth by faith. Isaac blessed. Jacob. And Esau in regards to the Future by faith, Jacob, when he was dying. Each of Joseph's sons and worshiped as he leaned on top of his staff by faith Joseph when his when his end was near spoke about the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the barrel of his bones by faith. Moses has parents mom and dad, you don't see that in the picture on the wall of the Ark, you know, the the drawings. But Mom and Dad hid him for three months after his born, instead of having him killed tossin. So now they hit him because they saw, he was no ordinary child.

55:47 And they were what hell? No. They were not. They're not afraid of the king's edict. I'm gonna let you know. Today, we aren't the first generation that to pick from the faith in God, or fear of a king or culture. We're not the first generation of parents that have to fearlessly, protect our kids from the things of a king or a kingdom of a culture. Amen. We're not the first generation after to push up hill. Now, the first generation that's misunderstood, it has to do things in secret and had to fight the good fight of faith and have to War for the things of God. Whatever else is going left and said, no, no, I'm going to do. Going to do it the gods way. I'm going to fear God, not man. And look at this by faith, Moses because his parents had faith in God. Here's Moses, it's amazing Moses when he'd grown up because he had a chance at life because they feared God, I love looking his words.

56:37 Refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He refused it. He said no, thanks not for me. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God, rather than enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He chose He refused to be counted as a household of pharaoh and then he chose to be identified as a Hebrew and to follow the God of all gods and never forgot where he came from. Amen. He just chose to take to walk away from all these things. We have fortune and fame and money. All these things, the fleeting pleasures of sin and says, verse 26. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his Reward. He, he'd rather not sell out to the Egyptian dream. Here are not be comfortable, he really not. Just go with the flow and fit in his little good health, a fun life up in the palace and do what he wants to do. No, no, he's real.

57:34 He's identified with God, Amen. This is, what baptism is? I mean, you're literally saying, hey, I'm in for Jesus, I don't know what's gonna cost me, but I don't care because I know what God is already giving me another award that said heaven for me, I'm just going to follow God, I won't be on his side. I don't know, if you'll play dodgeball, what side of the fence? You're on your own? I'm going to go with Jesus. Amen. I know what kind of games you like to play, but there's not a game with God. So I'm going to go on God's side and God Honors that see Moses. No, that's what his home. He didn't sell out by faith. He left. Egypt. Not fearing the Kings anger. Come on somebody. I'm somewhat were so motivated about fear but the three at regards is we got a fear, the one who's worthy to be feared, not the person that can kill the body, but the the God of all gods that can kill the body and the Soul, right? We have a healthy reverence of God is the beginning of all wisdom.

58:26 And so we make a choice. It's like which direction to go, which we got. Hey, I'm going to follow the direction of God and he persevered because you saw that he was invisible course. He got a burning bush that helps a little bit. Come on somebody, right. But it wouldn't matter. People can see a burning bush, they can be Jesus, they still crucified him by faith. He kept the Passover, an application, the blood on the lintel. So that the story of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. And by faith, the people pass through the Red Sea as on dry land, but when the Egyptians tried to do so they were drowned. I want you to notice so far in this whole passes of Hebrews chapter 11, what didn't happen, what did they do? It wasn't by intelligence. Come on somebody. It wasn't by higher secondary, or higher education or the Agree or PhD.

59:08 It wasn't because their ability it was because of hard work. It wasn't because they were qualified. It wasn't because they're successful or famous or popular it wasn't because they're trying to make people happy. Amen. It wasn't because they're trying to boost up the culture and be in the Limelight. It wasn't because they're trying to keep their friends. It wasn't because they were fully resource for the vision. Amen. Somebody got a big Vision on how to get their God will figure it out. You just be faithful, right? It wasn't because their top of their class and it wasn't because they're fully prepared. If you're waiting for prepared, you've missed the entire opportunity, amen. You're missing it, you got to go now. Like there's a mission. It's Uncharted, you know, we put people on the moon with intelligence, not even a microwave today.

59:52 Come on somebody, right? We just find a way to push into the kingdom of God, by faith. The battles are won and fought by God from our knees. Junior, open the Bible. It's always interesting because, you know, when people open the Bible because it seems to be like a kind of Rarity for most people, but they opened the Bible is like me and God showed me something. And so his flipped it open and God Start speaking here. Notice that in your life, you can flip to any part of the Bible and God speaks to you even Leviticus. Come on, somebody like something just Man. Okay, God spoke to me, maybe a little struggle, right? But God speaks to, you is so happens. So many times. And, you know, if you crack the Bible open, he's probably trying to solve, right? It's just Brad, the middle of the spine, you know, Joe main guys are speaking, right, but here's the reality, as Christians see, most people like, pick a book, but as Christians, the book picked us.

1:00:37 Amen. It's a Living Word. And as you all know the word you want, Jesus is called the word just opened the Bible and started the word speak into your life. And so you get alone with God and say, okay, God, what you want me to do and those secret dark moments when nobody's around, that's your faith is built. A men like on the right here. This is, this is just like a spur on Moment. Like, This isn't a faith-building moment. You got to get face to face with Jesus. Amen. Like that's your responsibility. That's your part to play and God is willing to use you as a transcended person of great faith in your family, in your culture. If you are willing to fall deeply in desperately, in love with Jesus.

1:01:19 We live by faith, not by sight. He was 11:30 says, this by faith, the walls of Jericho fell after armies. Had marched around them for seven days immigrant trumpet. Come on somebody, right? Just like Katie to the ground right by faith. Look at this, I love this The Prostitute Rahab because she welcomed the spies was not killed. And those who were in or with those who are disobedient. I love that women made and Hall of Fame and Faith. Amen, there is great. Women of Faith. I can't tell. People, I talked to it's like my grandma showed me Jesus. My grandma brought me to church. My grandma pulled me to Christ. That is so many people's stories. And here you have recognized like there's when the faith all throughout history, all throughout the Bible, but even cooler than that, in the story of a prostitute, you have an ordinary or maybe less than order is people consider a broken empty, maybe leftover just Every day people.

1:02:16 Come on, somebody. Nothing special. And God uses her. Her faith to do extraordinary things for God. Amen. And so if you're looking around like a man, but if you do my past I don't I personally don't need no your pass to know Jesus who forgave your past? Amen. And so we got stop looking in the rearview mirror and being held on by this anchor. Oh, look what happened in my life? It's like glory to God because what much is much as much as forgiving. Then much is required. Amen. And so you can just go like, well, me and God just took down that big anchor. Praise God. Hallelujah. Ooh, I've got a story to tell and so you guys are blessed with the ability to share your story.

1:02:57 I once was a sinner, but God saved me. I once was blind, but now I see. Amen. And look at, look at Rahab and her story, it's like, man, if God can use her, by the way, so far down the list, you've had a murderer. You had people sleep with her, Daughters, you have a drunkards, you've had an another person who was killed by somebody. I mean, just if you don't know the Bible, I'm sorry because it is so real. Nobody, can nobody write this. If they're writing this, they don't. Okay, people are history, they cut out all that stuff in their family right? Come on is the perfect family right just like that picture. You just retake the picture. They just write how they want to ride it but this is the real deal and so we can have faith in God. Just ordinary people do extraordinary things for God. The key greeting is simply this by Faith by faith. I'm gonna tell you what.

1:03:44 Faith looks like your life and found in Titus. Chapter 3 verse 4 through 7, and this is the gospel. This is one of the greatest presentations of the Gospel. This is Paul speaking to your Protege like build them up, right? It says this but when the kindness and love of God, our savior appeared he saved us. Now, don't forget this. This is it not because of righteous things, we had done, you know, you're forgiven, not because that you are a good person you know you're not forgiven because you measure up. You're not forgiven because you're perfect. I've been giving it forgive me because you went to church and you read your Bible like the thief on the cross. He did nothing righteous, he probably never prayed before a meal, you probably know the name of God, and for just, but God's Divine Providence, he is hanging across next Tuesday, I'll see you in Paradise.

1:04:29 He says, you're forgiven, you're forgiven by this, look what it says now because of righteous things, you've done. But because of his Mercy, his Mercy, his Mercy. Mercy is when somebody shows up and they steal your truck, and then you hit you hand him. The next Keys, the next car. That's that's Mercy right. That Justice is when somebody steals your truck you just you take them out back you know I'm saying that's Justice Mercy is like oh you want the car o have this car too right and the grace of God is like oh hey don't worry. It's forgiving, you can have all this but just freely given no strings attached, Jesus on the seat, taking the execution for us. He takes her penalty or payment for our sin but because of his Mercy, he saved us through the washing of rebirth and the All by the Holy Spirit whom he poured out on us.

1:05:19 Help me out how us generously generously. Do you know you get a full dose of the Holy Spirit when you came to Christ and it wasn't because anything you did, what whether you killed people, you sold drugs with your complete lunatic, whether you treat you like trash, whether you personally let out of the divorce and it's all your fault. Where the person who did all this other stuff, it does not matter whatsoever. When you came to Christ he gave you the full dose. Matter fact, he didn't take a little eyedropper of the Holy Spirit and Go Peep. And when you grow a little more peep like you little bleep. No, no. He gave you the full dose of the Holy Spirit. He generously gave it to you. This was not to support that bag of chips. Come on somebody. Right? You know, so it gets smaller every day. It's like what in the world? This is the full bag of Jesus.

1:06:01 Amen. So I'm telling you this is you have all it takes inside of you through the Holy Spirit to be Transcendent in our culture. Amen. Amen. Jesus is the Christ Jesus. Our savior not you Christ in You haven't been Justified declared righteous by grace that we might become heirs having hope of eternal life, it's lacrosse that qualifies you to break the limits and we should by faith here, 11:32 and what, what more should I say? I do not have time, which I don't, but I don't have time to tell you about Gideon and Barak and Samson in jephthah. Now, if you don't know about Jessica ago, judge 11, been amazing story. This guy's like a wild Warrior kind of like Elijah kind of, dude, it's amazing. Of David and Samuel the prophets in through faith, look what happens through faith.

1:06:51 This is amazing. They conquered kingdoms administer Justice gained. What was promised? And we talked about this and shut the mouths of lions. Amen. They quench the fury of flames escaped. The edge of the sword and whose weakness was turned to strength. It wasn't about their ability, it was about their inability God, used their weakness and he became strong. It says this, that they became powerful and battle rather Foreigner. When the received back through dead raised to life. Again, there were others who were tortured refusing to be released that they may gain and even better. Resurrection. They say I'd rather die for Christ and denounce Christ. So I guess you have to take me out. There's so many Martyrs that say, you know what? That's where my house was sort of lure. This we're going to do and they died a death because it rather just sit there.

1:07:35 Say I'm a Christian and some facial cheers, which is mockings and flogging and even chains and imprisonment. And they were put to death by stoning and they were sold into two and they're killed by The Sword and the They went about in sheepskins and goatskins being destitute persecuted. In mistreated verse 38, probably most powerful phrase. The entire chapter 11 says us that the world was not worthy. Come on somebody. Let me that might be the greatest definition of Faith. Somebody who lives in such a way that the world was not worthy of their walk by faith, not by sight. Really, by faith. Push it into a generation like leaving the way. They don't make any sense to me, but I have to put my faith, you know, God called me to launch a church.

1:08:20 Okay, my faith launch the church. Is it going to work out? I've no idea. Come on somebody. You know I mean he's like he's got to do it. I don't know if you don't do it we're going to move somewhere else, right? We're just keep moving forward and thank God, try to go to Asia as well. That's not going to work out this way. Just by faith, it's a generation. It steps up. I mean how much faith on the scale that we have right? Let me know you marked by faith or Humana William of Faith. These people they honored God in the darkest days. They're persecuted in the darkness, they're outcasts, they were killed. They set such an example, the presence of God, the world didn't deserve such men and women. I think about these men and we talk about Enoch little bit that these what it means to be you to be not worth the world out. There were these kind of people, it's a lemon zest. There are So Much Heaven in them that the world to deserve their walk on earth.

1:09:12 He came aggen being so much like Jesus. That God just says the world isn't worthy of you. I mean, I want to go through that tunnel and having you know like one of the well, the archway is right, where the gates. These be like just pray to people go man. You want those wants the God just called you home because the world wasn't worthy of your walk. Amen, you changes in duration, you change the community, he laid out. Out there and you're the blood of your life. What you did lives on Beyond you because you can't silence the work of God. Amen. This is what God is calling us to do and we can rise up. Why Can't We Be The Chariot of fire generation? What is stopping us from? Pushing that direction who can stop the work of God. Amen.

1:09:58 Just us just ourselves. If God is willing, we move, we push we transcend in our culture. Verse 38 says, they wandered in deserts and mountains, live in caves and holes in the ground. They're all commended their clotted for their faith. Yeah. None of them received. What they've been promised last verse of chapter 11 since God had planned? God had a purpose and all of this pain. All the things was happening. Got in playing something better. There we come. The Picture for us. These people didn't live through the promise, they're still looking forward to it and they the will was worthy what they did there fighting for the things of God, but never received it because of us. Now, we enter the picture.

1:10:40 So that only together with us, these ancients of Faith would be made perfect with. This is simply saying, is this not Kingdom? We talked about that, that city of fountains member and architecture was God and the Builder, was God? Why hasn't that come yet? Why are we in the city of fountains? What, why are we there yet? And the simple answer is this because God wants us. Amen. He wants us, he is patiently enduring all this in all the chaos, all the Brokenness, all the things so that we could know him and together with these ancient of faith, we get to fulfill the promise, same in the God wants us to know him.

1:11:26 Think of second Peter 3. Nine. This is put this in your heart, in your mind. It says this, the Lord is not slow, in keeping his promise as some understand slowness. Instead, he is patient with you not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. What is simply saying, is this, is that everything up to this point? Every moment in time is created for this exact moment for you to know Jesus. Amen. Everything is pointed to this right now. This intersection for you to know God to tippity part of the story of God, either comes a day when you don't need Faith. There comes a day when your faith becomes side. Amen, we need to put your hands and put your head into the found of God's. Come on, somebody.

1:12:10 You to walk on the streets of gold where you don't have oil slicks because your car breaks down, come on. You don't change flat tires and Heaven into the centerpiece is Jesus and you fall before God, and you just dry out and thankful heart broken before him. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Jesus. Sis. This is why I lived a life of faith. My faith has now become site. Amen. Every day by faith, believing that God is right here. Next, use the air. I breathe. He's in the moments. He's here with us. It's a manual means God With Us. Jesus is name. Alone means he is with you. But think about this, God did not just die and his mom was created. Just so, you know him. He's also created so that others can know him as well, a man, so you can know him and make him known. So, you weren't great to be silent. Amen.

1:13:00 There's no faith in silence. Now, in fact, they call a sin of Silence. There's a lot of good people that believe in God, that sits silent but there's very few men and women that the boldness and courage to step out and open their mouths for the glory of God. Amen. And that's what's 123 is, it is the year where we break boundaries, it's the year we we come out with our faith. If there is a were done hiding in the corners, we're done being pushed. It back on and being down. I no longer afraid the King. Come on somebody, the lowercase k, right? I'm gonna walk in the glory of God and we made a faith person has Faith uncle in Beijing. I think about it.

1:13:41 Amen. It's make a post this and be cancelled culture, our church come outside, right? And I don't care, I keep telling Dynamic retread, I'm like a relic I'm like that old school leftover man of Faith. Like it's just there, I'm just being pushed into a corner all the time and then he culture and Society, it's like just like what an outdated thing. What is not outdated, it's really man, and we get to, we got to live it out, we got to live it out, not being rude or pushing down on people. We love people to Jesus. We don't expect them all to understand that our soldiers were foreigners. In this country, we transcend our culture where generation that the world wasn't worthy of that should be our generation. A men should put a sign above the door. The world is not worthy. That's what kind of men and women are. Its kind of children.

1:14:25 We raise, we didn't limit the call of God willing to a chair. Then charted territory with took grounds the gospel, we broke barriers, not because we're perfect. We're forgiven. And we're faith-filled for Jesus, Michelle, Knight scripture or out of here, but this is. You think about the guiding your face. Now, your spiritual life taking off Cutting out the voices fueled by the power of prayer marked by prayer and unchartered territory. This is the passage for you. It's Hebrews. 12 verse 1, through 3 and it says, simply says this, therefore, which is referring back to everything we just said, he was loving, right? Because all these Great Men of Faith, all these stories since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance, the race marked out for us. It was a race for you, the Jesus is marked out and you're called by faith to run that race like pushing to the Gates of Hell to pick up the laid-back lasered better, recliner and put up and just get rid of it and move forward to things of God, Amen. You have race.

1:15:27 They running towards fixing our eyes on, Jesus might be the greatest part of that passage. You're looking at Christ the entire time, the Pioneer and Perfecter of faith for the joy set, before Jesus, he endured the cross. Scorning its shame. He sat down at the right hand of the Throne of God. If you want your year and your life to make a difference, this is the virtue better putting hard because there's hard times and difficult seasons and says, verse 3 says, considered Jesus who endured such opposition from Sinners, that you will not grow weary and lose heart, if you want to give up, you look no further than the cross of Jesus, because it was worth, Jesus going all the way for us splitting every ounce of his blood so that we could know him.

1:16:09 It is worth me spending every ounce of my blood to serve him. Amen. This is called God by faith. We live our life. You want your life the matter Bill live it by faith not by sight father. Come before you better pray for a generation of transcended. People gather put you first before of faith today, my favorite group people that's in the house and those are seen it. What I know Jesus, but today I recognize that one playing it safe I've been playing inside of a box territory babe. I said Moses rules made my limit of my own smaller faith of the day. I'll have Faith in God. I'll be transcended person. I would take ground. I'll be that person for my family. I mean, I personally where God calls me to go, I'm going to live a life of great faith, transcend in my culture.

1:16:55 And I've been weary, I've been broken and I realized that they are looking at Jesus and he went all for me. So I'm going all for him and that you day, we just put your hand high and say, you know what? That's me. I'm a big faith today. I'm gonna go all in for Jesus. I'm a live on faith as hands. All across this room. I'll pray for your father. You see the hands got, make us to generation, but the world. Wasn't worthy. Let us get to heaven. One day. There was Chariots of Fire and that generation does the generation that stood up took round back. It was afraid. Most Fearless the culture. So God gives the boldness and the courage because we put our face to your face, the face into the Bible, and we saw you face to face and humble ourselves. We walk by faith, not by sight. We pray for one more group people. That's those.

1:17:37 You that walked in the day and say, no, I'm a man of no faith. I'm a woman of faith. I came in with very little faith that Nice face. But today, I recognize that Jesus is patiently waiting for me at this moment. In time is not an accident that somebody brought me here and it took faith in them. Invite me. And that they brought me into the word of God and I hear the voice of God speaking to me today. I want to know Jesus, oh, no, the Father, the author, and the finisher of Faith. I'll be in that city of fountains one day and that's you. And you want Jesus. We forgiven made new set free. If that's you just raise your hand high as I need. Jesus a day. Don't put your hand in the place. I'm gonna call you out, making weird with you. Jesus, come on.

1:18:18 That's you just prayed his prayers. He finally got thanks so much for sending Jesus to die and make it way by faith to you. God thank you for the spirit of God that you're going to Port generously upon me today. God, I want to follow, you, make me Transcendent in my culture today. I'm going to bring the good news to someone else, because if you use came to my home, it's your thank you for saving me and change me. And I pray this in faith in Jesus. It's in his name. We pray. Amen, come on. Let's give up for God today. Let me know you love them. Come on. I mean, if you prayed that prayer, we are so excited for you this week and I just want you to know that's not the end of your journey. In fact, it's quite the opposite. It's the beginning and all of Heaven is rejoicing for you right now.

1:19:01 So I want to give you some action steps. If that's you, I want to invite you to get your phone out and text are L next to 97,000, and when you do that, we just want to hit you up with some resources this week. And just just be available to answer any questions you might have about that next step of your journey, something else you could do on your way out. Out of the worship center today is that the back table you can grab a red bag and in that bag is a Bible, we just encourage you. Dive in Hebrews, would be a really cool place to start, just kind of following along with that message today. And again, there's just even more resources in there for you this week. You know, Shawn really called us this morning, to live a life, just transcended by faith. And we just one of the coolest ways we can do that.

1:19:43 Most practical ways is just to say, we're not going to be silent anymore. So I want you to look on your chair, you're going to see a red card. That looks like, So that's just a really practical cool tool that you can have in Your Arsenal. This week is your talking to people you can hand this to someone and just say, hey, you know, here's where I go, here's where I worship each week and get connected, and I just want to invite you to come out and join me, sometime and meet some people who God and just people that are here for you and you're going to know Jesus. You're going to hear about your purpose and all that good stuff. What's cool about these cards? There prayed over each week by the real-life staff and I just encourage you to also add to that and pray over these cards yourself this week and just pray that God will put people in your brain that you could be talking to.

1:20:25 And just if you really want to pulled prayer, you can say, God bring people in front of my path this week that I can talk to. So I said, courage, you to be inviting people out, bringing people out and that you will be bold by faith this week, man. One of the things I love about our church is just how generous you guys are. And, and you really set the pace and 2020 2022 and already here at the beginning of this year. One of the really cool ways you've done that. So our Hope Center, and I'm super excited to announce that we're going to really get to minister to the real-life youth. As they get to take over and really own that Hope Center on Sunday night starting. February 19th, can we give it a big for a real-life youth for all the adults that serve and just love on these kids, man, it's going to be awesome to have that anchor space that home. They can just call their own each and every week not putting anybody else out.

1:21:18 And so we're just excited for that. And hey, that doesn't just happen. That's because of your generosity. And I want to invite you to play a part of generosity at real life, not just for our real-life youth. But for all the other Ministries, all the other goals that we have here to reach our community for Christ. And so, of course, I'm talking to people who call real life home. If you're brand new with us today, welcome home. We love having you here, but I'm not going to call you to generosity just yet. In fact, this Gathering was our gift to you, but if you do call real life home, here's some ways. You can play a part. Real Life Church kc.com you can text any amount 8, 4 3, 2 1. We have a giving box in the very back where you can drop off envelopes cash, things like that and then our Usher's going to be coming by with the giving baskets and hey the giving buckets.

1:22:03 I should say, hey if you find yourself immediately in need of food, clothing or shelter, we just invite you to go ahead and reach in those buckets as they go by finding a loose cash. You see, and use that to bless you and your family this week. One more exciting thing I want you to check out this video as you. A little bit more about missions. Check it out. I want to give you a quick update on how your generosity is making a difference across the world. Through one of our global missions Partners in Colombia South America. The eec or Escuela de entrenamiento Cristiano is a in Residence discipleship training school where they take young people and put them into groups of small verbs, one-on-one, and life on life, discipleship.

1:22:57 That is changing the landscape of Columbia for Jesus under the leadership of you go and Juliana Rodriguez. The EC is a place where young people can know God, they can learn how to follow him and ultimately they can become leaders for the cause of Christ in Colombia. Many young people are at a Crossroads in their life and the EC helps them to come together with God to say, what does my life look like? And it's truly a transformational place where they can connect to the heart of God. You go shared with me recently that the work that we did. Last summer has allowed he and his family to move on site at the school and it's just been a huge blessing for his family. Not to travel back and forth across the country while school is in and out of session.

1:23:41 And he also shared, they are so excited because they've been able to add three full-time and one part-time staff member to help lead the school and they are. So expecting about all God is going to do in their next session which actually starts on February 17. When you give a real life, you are a part of making a difference through the See, not just in Bogota, But ultimately across the world. As many young people are making decisions to become Church Planters and work in the ministry across the world. So to all of you who give we thank you today. Some of you are thinking about breaking through the limits of this world has placed on you, maybe you're ready to take a big step of faith in something that God is calling you to. And so I want to challenge you that today, maybe that big step is to go with us to Colombia this year. I'm from August fit through a lemon three. Life is taking a team down to connect with the eec team to encourage their leadership and ultimately to see what God will do in the lives of us.

1:24:39 When we're fully surrendered to him to find out more, you can join us for a short informational meeting on February 5th right after the second Gathering here at Kentucky Trail. God changes the world one person at a time and I believe that he wants to use you to make a big impact across our world this summer. Some of you are going to experience Since God in a whole new way, this summer and I can't wait to see how God can use your life to impact generations to come. Keep going to see you next week and in Columbia have a great week, guys. He's excited for Missions.

1:25:21 I remember it was a video just like that last year that really called on Brooke and I his heart to a join the team in Columbia. And so I would encourage you all to Faithfully consider making room in both your budget and your calendar this year to join our team down in Bogota. So we'll be back next week, 9:30. And 11:00 here, Kentucky Trail and online. If you do need to prayer for any reason, we will have a team member right here off the stage and as always, whoever finds Jesus discovers real life and purpose. Next week.