When Nothing Else Is Working... God Is - Heaven Part 13

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Good morning class man.
It's going to be a good Sunday.

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I'll celebrate a few things.
One, this season of church has

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been so exciting just to see
heaven get into people.

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And what I mean by that is that
it's not only coming to Jesus,

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but this fire that those who are
in Jesus are living for heaven.

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And there's this passion around
that that's being shared and

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some humility and just some some
grind and just getting with

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Jesus.
And I'll just share with you, if

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people are heaven bound, I've
noticed in the season, if they

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get heaven into their bones,
they actually help other people

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get heaven found.
They actually have a way of

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saying you just need to have a
drink of the water.

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I've been drinking from that.
You got to get in the presence

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of Jesus.
And so since the beginning of

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the year, this is pretty cool.
So we're at what, 3 months in?

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We've had 27 people start a
relationship with Jesus since

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January 1st.
That's pretty good.

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Amen.
That's pretty good.

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I mean, this is just exciting.
Like God continues to move.

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This next week is Easter Sunday.
And it's always amazing that we

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get a chance to baptize and all
of these people come to Christ

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and people come to church.
We have 10 people, 11 people.

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I always look at Holly because
she last I heard was 10.

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But now it's 1113, right?
Whatever.

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Just I missed 12.
Apparently we have 11 people

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getting baptized next Sunday.
And what's amazing is we, we

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just baptized the very last week
of last year.

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So if you think about this
number 11 people were 12 weeks

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in the year.
That's almost somebody every

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single week that's deciding to
get baptized through our church.

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That's Amen, Amen.
Give it up for Jesus for that.

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That's just amazing.
So over the course of the

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series, this is the longest by
far series I've ever preached.

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I mean, after 12 weeks then,
right?

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I mean, I started this the
beginning of the year.

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It will end OK with eternity in
heaven.

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So you can be like, you're wrong
or right.

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We can talk later, you know what
I'm saying, But I've been

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passing out this book to
probably a dozen times or so to

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different people that are just,
I don't know, maybe we'll say

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they're staring down the barrel
of heaven like they're, they're

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in a spot where they're, they're
maybe are going through a hard

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season with health.
Or there's a family that passed

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away and they're they're doing
their funeral or sibling or I

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had a son that passed away gave
to a father.

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So many different scenarios.
And all I tell people I get in

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the book is can you just let me
know what God's showing you?

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Just give me some feedback.
And so you know, we're not

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hopefully do and almost
everybody's gotten back to me

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and it has given me feedback of
God moving in their life.

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I just want to share with
somebody reached out.

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This is randomly last week.
It just wasn't like send me some

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feedback.
Still this person to read in the

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book and this this is what they
said.

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It says take me a take me a
little longer than usual to read

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because I'm highlighting all the
scripture passages, rereading

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them, and writing notes about
them in my new Heaven Journal

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book.
I don't know what the Heaven

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Journal book is.
Maybe it comes with it.

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We'll have to find out.
But she's writing a Heaven

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Journal book, looking at the
Scriptures and taking notes.

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That's Amen, right?
That's amazing, since one thing

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I've noticed is that the book
has made it a little easier to

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understand more of what the
Scripture says.

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I think I was trying too hard to
understand the message Jesus was

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trying to convey.
In fact, I've gone back to read

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some parts of the Bible that I
found confusing and hard to

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understand just to discover
several aha moments.

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That's amazing.
And you know, I also encourage

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you as a pastor when when you
read the Bible, it is makes

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sense.
Like don't try to seek any other

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sense.
Like it's written to everyday

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people.
You do not need a degree or be a

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scholar or be educated.
I mean, it is made for everyday

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people.
Amen.

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And so you just get a little
piece of like, oh, wow, this is

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just, it's a lot simpler than I
thought.

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We don't need to overcomplicate
the Scripture.

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This is gold.
That's what she said.

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Reading the Bible now has
stirred an excitement in myself

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that have never really had
before.

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Not to say it wasn't excited.
It's just that now it seems

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easier.
Look at this.

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It's stirred an excitement in
myself that I've never really

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had before.
That's a good day, is it?

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Follow Jesus.
Amen.

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You're excited to walk with
Jesus, She said.

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Once I finished the Bible in its
entirety, there's a goal.

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Come on, somebody.
This being the third or fourth

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attempt.
Now I'm going to read it again

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because I believe I found it a
bit easier next time to

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understand, not to mention a
whole lot more enlightening.

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Amen.
It's pretty cool.

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So here's what I do.
I want to pass out one of his

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books today for somebody that's
like, hey, you know what?

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This series is blowing my mind.
I've just been really

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encouraged.
I want to go deeper in heaven.

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I want to just learn for myself,
you know, you may not be a

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reader and you're like, man, I'm
going to try it.

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You may be a prolific reader and
like want it.

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And so I'm going to do I'm going
to who?

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Who would like this book?
I'll give you.

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I'll give a copy out.
Just put your hand up real high.

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That's you.
OK.

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We'll go all, all in the back
because that's what we're going

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to do today.
So Holly can help me out.

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Well, you can tell us about when
we get there.

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She gone, right?
Oh, man.

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So you talk about getting heaven
to people.

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We have a great opportunity next
Sunday to bring heaven to

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people's lives.
It is just absolutely amazing.

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If you just invite somebody to
share the gospel, just ask

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somebody how how they will be
open.

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Hopefully.
Like, I mean, last year we do

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not like huge and like put a
bunch of marketing on stuff.

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We had just shy 600 people last
year, which is insane, which is

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insane.
So I don't know what's going to

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happen.
I think the 10:00 is going to be

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nuts.
So just throwing out there.

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If you want to come a different
time, that'd be helpful, right?

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But just getting heaven to
people.

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And this last week it was
exciting.

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I met with a developer in our
city and you know, I'm, I'm

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pastor.
We're in the middle of a, you

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know, building initiative,
right?

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So we're like wheel and deal,
right?

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So I see something happening.
It's like, hey, what's up?

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Like, let's sit down.
And, you know, we're talking

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about vision and direction and
what they're doing and, you

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know, all these different
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Learned a lot about this, the
mindsets on some things.

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And he asked the question, Hey,
tell him about your church.

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Well, let me tell you, yes, Sir,
you asked a good question.

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So I just start bragging about
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Amen.
That's about lives being

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changed.
People come out, addictions,

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people, the number of people
baptized last year, people come

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to Christ and we're set up and
tearing down and for eight

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years.
And this guy's like, dude, you

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guys are so committed.
Like, I can't believe the love

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you have for the city and having
almost 300 people every Sunday

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come out to your church.
I mean, it was just an exciting

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conversation.
And he shares his story and just

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that heavy side of religion,
legalistic church you grew up in

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really pushed a lot of rules and
just walked away from the church

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and found his own spiritual
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And so I got a chance to just
share Jesus, encourage him in

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faith and invite him out to you
start real life church.

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Amen.
As soon as we do just see what

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God's going to do.
You just you plant some seeds

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and I feel like there's
something special as a just a

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minister, not me, but all of us.
When you see somebody in their

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pain, like when you find the
struggle, like when you find

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that that drives them, when you
when you find the part that

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hurts, there's something
special.

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Not just you point them to
Jesus, but actually when you

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carry them to Jesus, when you're
praying for them, when you just

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don't give up on them.
When you get your phone out in a

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week and you're like, hey, man,
just been thinking about you.

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I'm praying for you.
Let's grab another coffee.

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Like when you minister for
somebody and there's something

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special as a body of Christ, we
get really, really good at and

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it's really shepherding people's
pain.

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We have to get really, really
good at realizing that what

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makes people tick where they're
hurting and then putting the

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right medicine of the gospel,
the good news of Jesus, the

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things of God on the spots and
people's lives that are hurting.

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Amen.
That's what church is all about.

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And so I just excited to to play
part of that story.

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And that's what Easter is.
So when you're working with

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somebody, don't make it
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You know, you're, you're
ministering somebody, just

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invite them out, speak into the
hurt, speak into their life and,

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and Share your story and talk
about how God made a difference

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and then say, you know, maybe
God can make a difference come

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out to church.
And most people give up on

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church to be honestly, they've
kind of given up on the idea of

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let's get together because I'm
done with people.

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But I don't think God is done
with the church yet.

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Don't think he's done with
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Maybe doing a lot differently
nowadays, but I think in our

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culture, people are very open if
we will just ask and just be

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humble about asking people.
So today my prayer is that you'd

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be so moved by heaven, you'll
bring others or carry others to

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Jesus.
You actually see this in the

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Bible.
It's found in Mark chapter 2,

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pretty amazing piece of
scripture.

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It says a few days later when
Jesus again entered, compared

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him, the people heard that he'd
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They'd gathered in such large
numbers, there's no room left,

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not even outside the door.
And he preached the word to

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them.
You know, it's always a really

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good idea when you get a crowd
together to share the word of

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God.
Amen.

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It made me feel like a little
awkward if you're not a

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preacher, but we all know enough
Bible, right?

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Just share Jesus, share the good
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This what Jesus does.
He got the crowd and he just

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preached the word to them.
Some of the men came bringing to

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him a paralyzed man.
Look at this carried by four of

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them.
And I'm just going to say is you

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just pick the story up at the
beginning here.

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I love it when men lead the way.
I love it and it's not an

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indictment against the women.
We have amazing women that lead

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the way and cure the torch.
Almost every person on our staff

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team over the years has been a
lady on our staff team.

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A lot of churches that way.
Women are make up 60% of the

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tents of churches.
And the reason I say that I love

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what men lead the way is because
most men don't just don't,

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they're like almost like
spiritually apathetic like this.

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The, the wife, the girlfriend,
the bringing them to church,

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right?
And it's just, it's just a

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rarity to find a man that has
his heart set on Jesus and chase

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after Jesus.
And I just started thinking

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like, well, how did this story
happen, right?

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Like there's a paralyzed man
that that gets to Jesus and it's

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these men brought.
So you got to think about this,

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this hot guys operate, right?
It was probably 1 dude that was

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walking down the street and he
saw that guy and he said, Hey,

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guys, guys, hey, come on, Hey,
everybody, come here, come here.

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Dude.
We got to get something.

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We got to figure this out.
Come on, let's go, let's go.

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It was probably one person that
had the idea, look, I got to get

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this out of Jesus and then
gathered a group of men to help

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move that person to Jesus.
Amen.

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They're probably one of the
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We saw a problem, which is this
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And some men got together and
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That's a good day.
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This is what men should be
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They should.
I just never imagined our

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church, like if every man just
had the ability to see people's

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hurt and then give them to
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I mean, unstoppable force of
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every man's like man, that's not
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I noticed that person's hurting
like it's I'll take some time,

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I'll get on the phone, I'll meet
up, I'll invite you in my life.

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I'll set your story if need be
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We can't just come to Jesus
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I just think even if half the
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you know, I see some people's
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I I recognize what God is doing.
There's a lot of wisdom in that

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and I'm not and dying, you guys,
but I'm Sean, I'm your friend.

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Come on, somebody, right.
But I think as guys, our culture

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has kind of set us up.
We stay really busy and focused

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and carry a lot of weight.
And oftentimes we miss the very

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thing that God wants us to do.
Just people around us enlisting

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others to heal other people's
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This is simplicity is that you
see whatever else saw and to do

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what no one else was doing.
It's just with compassion.

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And they picked up this guy's
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They did for this paralyzed man
what he could never do for

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himself.
He he never could get himself to

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Jesus.
It was going to be impossible

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for him, his own strength and
ability to actually get to the

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presence of God.
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Real love carries what most
others critique.

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Real love carries what most
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You think about this, Everybody
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Everybody's like, man, I hope
somebody picks them up or like,

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I'll tell you what, man, that
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I kind of noticed that and
everybody's got an opinion and

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everybody's got everybody knows
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him is is sin to whoever is the
world's good and is compassion

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to shut up and he doesn't give
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The love of God cannot be in
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It's how Jesus will move your
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Your call will always be shaped
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The more compassionate, the
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More compassionate, the bigger
the impact because you start to

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see with the very eyes that
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So real life truly carries what
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They love them where they're at,
they're served without

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conditions, and they step into
the very mess that most people

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want to avoid every single day.
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We'll go to verse 4 now.
Since they could not get him to

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Jesus because of the crowd, that
is where most people probably

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stop.
They couldn't get into Jesus.

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We did our best.
We'll pack it up.

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It's just too difficult.
It says they made a what an

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opening in the roof above Jesus
by digging through it and they

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lowered the mat the man was
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I, I love the passion of these
men because this took a little

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bit of like thought they, I
don't know how they, you know,

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like there's more than four of
these guys, by the way, because

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it says the guy, the man and
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So there's a group of guys that
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And everybody grabbed a corner
and they started going and

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there's always a giant crowd.
They're kind of pushing through

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and it's like, damn, forget
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What else can we do?
And those houses are built on

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the edge of, of hills.
So they're like, well, let's

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just go around the back and
we'll, we'll go up the hill and

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we'll just get out on the roof.
So lay them down here.

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Somebody find some ropes.
Maybe they tore their tunics,

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maybe some naked dudes on the
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I don't know what's happening
here.

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And they tied off.
I don't know how they figured

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out how to get rope.
And somebody's in the roof.

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Like he's right here.
I think he's here.

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He's right in this spot and
right above Jesus this side.

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No, there's some carpenters in
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Amen.
They tore off the roof and Jesus

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is right below him and then they
decided we'll just lower them

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down.
So there's got to be these 4

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ropes or how they roped them up
and they lowered them to Jesus.

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Imagine if these guys weren't
very good and it just drops in

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front of Jesus, right Doom.
Then it'd be that two miracles.

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You know what I'm saying?
It's just difficult stop right?

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But it's just amazing like all
the little facets you don't

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really see in the story until
you really have to think about

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what would that will intake,
what it look like in these

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thatched ribs right?
You heard the saying like it

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raining cats and dogs.
You guys heard that before this

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because these houses are on the
side of, of pitches and the

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animals get on top.
When it rains, it gets real

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heavy and the animals fall
through the ceiling into the

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floor.
And so these, these men knew

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like we can go through the
ceiling if need be, like it's

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not going to stop us.
So there's a bunch of people in

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the way like we're, we're, we're
going to make room.

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We're going to go a different
direction.

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And here's the point.
Even though they could not, they

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made an opening.
And then when you're, when

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you're like thinking about
winning a soul or like sharing

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Jesus, like we don't stop when
you've hit the first obstacle,

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like you don't stop because it's
difficult.

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You don't stop because of the
door shut.

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You find another way to get them
in the presence of Jesus.

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You know, sometimes the first
step, and I will gladly say the

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first step is not invite them to
church because you are the

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church.
You invite them to yourself and

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you say, why don't you come over
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Why don't you have a block
party?

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I was so bummed during the, the,
the, the community week at life

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groups that it was 31° high on
my day to do my community night

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because I'm like, I'm putting
inflatables out.

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I want the whole neighborhood to
show up.

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Amen.
And they, they, they get around

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the people, which is the church
and then they're open to go.

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Man, wow, I, I, I really
appreciate what you said or that

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was a light.
I never seen it that way before.

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Thanks for loving me.
You treat me better than my

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family does like, and then all
of a sudden like I'll be and

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they start coming together and
realizing there's so much power

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and being the body of Christ.
That makes sense.

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But we we give up to like, well,
I invite them out.

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It's like, what do you invite
them into?

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Are you inviting them into your
life?

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Or you say we'll come down to a
service.

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You notice the very beginning,
the message.

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I said I was really excited to
have this getting the people.

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I didn't say I was really
excited that people were coming

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to church.
There's a big difference.

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Like we can have a crowd of
people to come here and go great

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job preaching and they do the
same thing.

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It's like heaven has to get into
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Like the the power of God and
the president of the Holy Spirit

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of God to, to be changed by, by
the word of God, to just be a, a

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vessel like empty, like I'm the
clay and you're the Potter.

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Just mold me and shape me Jesus.
Like that's what we're talking

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about.
Verse 5 when they saw when Jesus

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saw their faith, somebody say
their faith.

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Yeah.
What?

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It wasn't to paralyze man's
faith.

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I mean, I, I'd love to know if
that guy actually wanted to get

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healed.
Right, I mean, he's like, don't

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take me.
No, he's just like the grumpy

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grandpa and you're like, no,
you're going to you need

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healing, brother.
Who knows, maybe he got yelled

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at by the grumpy paralyzed guy.
He's like, you know, I'm just

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going to get you to Jesus.
Like who knows exactly right.

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But Jesus saw their faith.
This is all the friends that

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were carrying him and stood
around him and he said to the

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paralyzed man's son, your sins
are forgiven.

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Is there any greater gift you
could ever get at all of

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eternity than your sins being
forgiven?

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I mean, what a gift of Jesus.
That man received heaven that

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day.
There's a part of him that was

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resurrected from the dead that
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There's there's a part of him
that's ever changed and eternity

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was given to him.
So Jesus recognized that these

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bold faith and their love for
this person that's compassion

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was worthy just to say I am
going to heal you from your

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sins.
And what you get real is about

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Jesus where Jesus is heaven is
that they're, they're

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synonymous.
Like he's the he is the one that

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can only give you heaven.
He is heaven, He is perfect, He

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is righteous.
And so you see this in the Bible

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in John 638 So sure, I have come
down from some of Jesus himself,

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for I've come down from where
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He was already in heaven and he
gave up all the riches, all the

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glory, all the power, and he
humbled himself and clothed

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himself into humanity, wrapped
himself in the flesh.

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He says not to do my will, but
to the will of him who what the

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will of him has sent me.
That is the that is the perfect

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picture of what looks like to
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Get in your life, by the way.
Well, it's no longer my will,

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but it's the will of God in my
life.

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There's this deep desire and
longing to please the Father and

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do his work and do his ways
because you've been radically

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changed and he is the son has
given you life you don't

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deserve.
And you humbly say Lord,

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whatever you want me to do, yes
and Amen.

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That blank contract, right?
You sign the bottom and you put

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it out in front of God and say
whatever, you're right, I'm

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going to go do that is what it
looks like for heaven to be

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inside of you.
And this is what Jesus, he came

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to our world to bring heaven to
us.

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And this is the mindset these
friends have.

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And there's maybe a lot of
reasons for it.

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It's all speculation, right?
Like why had this mindset?

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Because everybody else just
pressed in, but they decided to

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stop and bring this person to
Jesus.

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Their mindset was this, if I can
just get the paralyzed man into

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the presence of Jesus, because I
know that Jesus can actually

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heal this man, I, I know Jesus
can change his life.

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I, I, I know they don't need
more religion.

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Amen.
I know in our world, we, we

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don't need to give more people a
list of rules and what not to

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do.
We don't need to say, well,

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here's how you measure up, keep
up your good deeds, pray, chant,

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meditate, show up, read the
Bible, pray.

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Like, yes, some of those are
good things, but that's not the

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point.
The point is to to be with

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Jesus, that he will be our God
and we will be with him.

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That's the greatest promise of
heaven, Amen, is that we're in

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the presence of God and these
men just recognize they knew

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where Jesus was.
There's the peace of heaven,

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there's the healing of heaven,
there's the forgiveness and

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there's freedom of heaven.
What the world does not need for

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us to do is to give more like
good advice or, or pep talks or

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that boys, what it really needs
is the mercy and grace and

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freedom delivered through Jesus
and the Gospel.

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That's what the world's dying
for, literally dying for.

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There's so much depression,
there's so much pain that

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they're, they're lost.
There's no footing.

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There's, there's no, there's no
rock to stand on and they're

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wandering and you get to show
them Jesus.

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So we need to get people in the
presence of Jesus, like to get a

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word from the word like this
man, he got a word from Jesus.

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Son, your sins are forgiven.
That's a good word, Amen.

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How many guys had that word
before that?

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That's just like ever changing
all eternity.

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The word you hear from Jesus and
and you just need something from

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Jesus and he always knows what
to say.

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I mean, he's a healer, sick, the
living hope, the freedom from

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00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,560
sin.
And here's the thing, you got to

451
00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,720
get people in the presence of
Jesus, even if you have to do

452
00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,560
extreme things to get people to
Jesus.

453
00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,000
Some of us have to.
I mean, he makes it.

454
00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,880
What's crazy.
I could never be a missionary.

455
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,560
I can never, I could never, I
could never.

456
00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,440
It's like, what do you mean you
could never?

457
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,400
Like if God asks you to do
something extreme, are you not

458
00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,840
so willing to do it?
Is did did Satan call us to do

459
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,240
that?
Right?

460
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,560
Like you could never do this or
I could never leave life group.

461
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,000
I could never preach the gospel.
I can never share.

462
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,800
I can never pray in public.
I hear all these things all the

463
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,280
time.
I'm like, why not?

464
00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,320
If God is willing, we should be
too.

465
00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,640
Amen.
To tear the roof off to remove

466
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:42,440
obstacles, you know, I love the
front door is blocked and they

467
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:43,800
go around, they tear a hole in
the ceiling.

468
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,240
And here's the point.
Compassion doesn't wait for it

469
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,240
to be easy.
Compassion always makes a way.

470
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,120
Compassion always makes a way.
You realize about life is if you

471
00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:58,400
give up on people, you give up
on the on the belief in the hope

472
00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,360
and being part of the story that
may change their life.

473
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,600
If you write somebody out of of
your life, which is so sad to

474
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,240
see all the time, I'm never
going to talk to them again.

475
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,720
It's so dramatic, by the way,
like so selfish and we cut

476
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,320
people out instead of crossing
lines to bring them in.

477
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:17,240
It's about compassion.
Amen.

478
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,320
Compassion does what's not easy.
I had this shirt in that when I

479
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:26,880
was half the man I used to be.
It was a medium.

480
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,480
You don't want to wear it.
I'll, I can if you want to look

481
00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,920
like Tommy Boy.
Chris Farley coming up here.

482
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:41,680
I had this shirt and it said
awkward is awesome.

483
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,880
Awkward is awesome.
It was about sharing the gospel

484
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,760
because oh, we don't share it.
We don't bring it up.

485
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,920
It just makes it weird.
Well, thank you, Jesus that

486
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,200
somebody got a little weird for
me.

487
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,360
Thank you, Jesus that he got a
little weird for us.

488
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,320
Like it.
It's just awesome to to change

489
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,360
the culture and it takes like
one person to change the

490
00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:02,040
culture.
It really does.

491
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,320
Like, I know it's like all these
people never listen to us that

492
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,520
have you tried?
Have you tried?

493
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,080
I mean, it's just like, have we
made like fictitious persecution

494
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,160
to stop us from being the man
and woman God's call us to be?

495
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,040
Like, why are we so timid to not
just be a little more awkward?

496
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,200
The world is looking pretty
awkward to me, by the way.

497
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,280
You got people dressing like
whatever and things like this.

498
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:21,480
And like, they're, they're
willing.

499
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,080
They're willing.
And I, I, I think as Christians,

500
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,760
like maybe we just stand up a
little bit.

501
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,160
Amen, just go little awkward the
gospel, just bring it up and

502
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,440
maybe you barf it up and it's
weird and you tried and you're

503
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,480
like, hey, man, sorry, that was
the most terrible presentation

504
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,000
of the gospel ever, but man, God
would probably use it.

505
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,520
God has I I don't know how many
people have led to Christ.

506
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,120
It's got to be in the hundreds.
If not, that means a lot.

507
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,040
And I've had some terrible
presentations of the gospel and

508
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,520
thank God it's not me that saves
people.

509
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,560
Amen.
You're like, well, I can never

510
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,600
do what you do.
Oh, you could you're seeing my

511
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,800
thousandth attempt, right?
Like you're, you're seeing,

512
00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,960
you're seeing experience.
But here's here's what

513
00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:02,120
compassion does.
The hope of heaven pushes you

514
00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:04,840
past fear.
It pushes you past rejection.

515
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,480
It pushes you back past making
people happy.

516
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,280
It pushes you past being too
busy.

517
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,160
It pushes you past self
centeredness.

518
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,560
It just pushes pushes you back
from following your dreams and

519
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,200
not God because you see people
exactly where they're at.

520
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,080
Compassion finds a way to get
other people in the presence of

521
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,760
Jesus.
Go to verse 6 is going to kind

522
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,640
of do the antithesis of these
these friends.

523
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,320
So there's now some teachers of
the law.

524
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,320
These are the educated religious
kind of teacher pastor like

525
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,560
people in that generation.
They were sitting there.

526
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,480
So these people were in the
room.

527
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:39,120
These people took up space to
criticize what other people

528
00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:40,480
should mean.
They're getting healed and

529
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,200
they're thinking to themselves,
why does this fellow talk like

530
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,120
that?
He's blaspheming.

531
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,360
Who can forgive sins but God
alone?

532
00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:52,320
And they're mad because, like,
this guy's claiming to be God,

533
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,920
so he's a blasphemer because
he's saying he is God.

534
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,960
And immediately Jesus knew in
his spirit that this is what

535
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,520
they were thinking in their
hearts.

536
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,400
It should be humbling, scary and
exciting all at the same time

537
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,760
that Jesus knows your thoughts
and I'm the ones in your mind,

538
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,960
the ones in your heart like the
deeper things.

539
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,360
And Jesus responds to those idle
words in their hearts and he

540
00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:21,040
says this out loud.
And he said to them to their

541
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,800
absolute shock, why are you
thinking these things?

542
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,000
Can you imagine Jesus say that
to you?

543
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:35,040
What things Jesus, he says,
which is easier to say this

544
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:39,160
paralyzed man, your sins are
forgiven or to say get up, take

545
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:46,600
your mat and walk.
But I want you to know, look at

546
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,160
this is the point.
He's going to use this as a

547
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,240
lesson.
He's going to teach them

548
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,760
something.
He wants them to know that the

549
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:57,920
Son of man has what authority on
earth to forgive sins.

550
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,680
Everything he does from here on
out is to remind them and to

551
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:08,040
show them that he's the boss,
that he has all authority to do

552
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,360
whatever he wants to do,
including forgiving sins.

553
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,520
How do you guys know just that
one word of Jesus can change

554
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:14,520
everything?
How do you guys know that?

555
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,880
I mean, you look at all of the
gospels, right?

556
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:18,640
And, and you sleep on that
awesome pillow.

557
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,320
I got to find out what that
pillow's like in heaven.

558
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,120
Like I want that pillow and the
bomb of that boat and the storms

559
00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:24,360
raging.
The disciples are rowing.

560
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:26,000
Nothing happened.
He just goes up there and

561
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,400
they're all freaking out about
faith and he says peace be still

562
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,880
over nature and just OK boys,
hope you learned something and

563
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,880
goes back to sleep.
He says Lazarus come forth and

564
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,280
Lazarus comes out.
He says that the lady caught in

565
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,880
adultery as everyone to stone
her there draws a line to sand

566
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,720
and he he probably wrote the
name of all their, you know,

567
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,040
mistresses and other sins in the
past and they walk away and

568
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:52,760
Jesus says neither do I condemn
you.

569
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:54,840
That's hard to compassionate.
Amen.

570
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,440
Like you, you sinned against the
holy God.

571
00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,600
You've lived a life of cold
bakery.

572
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,480
You look nothing like God.
But the God, the universe has

573
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,000
enough grace to get down the
sand and tell you, I love you.

574
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,200
I don't condemn you go and sin
no more.

575
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,960
So she's not trying not to sin
because she's trying to God's

576
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,800
approval.
She's trying to not sin because

577
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:12,880
she knows how much God loves
her.

578
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,800
That's the grace of God.
And by that word, she has

579
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,120
changed.
I'm on the cross.

580
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:19,320
We'll sure we'll talk about this
next week.

581
00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:23,760
It is finished that sin is
finished, that the debt's been

582
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:28,000
paid, that every wrong is nailed
to the cross and Jesus has paid

583
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,400
the wrath for our sin and is con
conquered our sin and is done.

584
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,840
What about this today you lose
me on paradise.

585
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:40,880
In paradise, potentially the
first person that goes to heaven

586
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,960
with Jesus, Jesus dies and he's
like, yeah, you're a little bit

587
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,640
behind me.
You got here.

588
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,800
And the only way that that man
got into heaven because the

589
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,840
thing about the first person to
go into paradise with Jesus,

590
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,600
he's a man that looks nothing
like God, the least likely

591
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,880
person, the the biggest Sinner,
the person that was being

592
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:04,280
crucified because he's a thief,
a robber, just the most like

593
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,360
ridiculous person in the
society.

594
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,160
And Jesus says to debuting in
paradise because he has faith.

595
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,000
And the only way you got in is
because Jesus said he could come

596
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,760
in.
Amen, his authority to let

597
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,720
people in to heaven.
And so that's the point.

598
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,880
All these are authority.
No one else has the authority

599
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,880
but Jesus.
And so he says, son, your sins

600
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,920
are forgiven.
Only one person can do that.

601
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,960
And I know we there's a lot of
like methods like I'm a good

602
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,800
person or I try and I measure up
and there's this other thing.

603
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,920
There's no other God and there's
no other way to heaven but

604
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,600
Jesus.
It's just is what it is.

605
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,040
He's the only one that has the
authority to declare your sins

606
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,640
done halfway through 10 verse
10.

607
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,760
So he said to the man, so he's
already kind of chewing on these

608
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,080
religious leaders.
So he turns around with

609
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,040
authority.
He says to the man, the

610
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:56,280
paralyzed guy, he said, tell you
get up, take your mat and go

611
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,760
home.
And he reiterates it.

612
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:04,640
He got up, he took his mat, He
walked out in full view of them

613
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,520
all.
And the reason he's riding this

614
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,280
over and over again is because
they want to make it very clear

615
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,280
that you know that Jesus has the
authority not only to forgive

616
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,160
sins, but also to heal people.
This amaze everyone that and

617
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,000
they praise God saying we have
never seen anything like this.

618
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,040
That's how you know, it's a good
day at church, Amen.

619
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,120
Long as it's not like snakes
come out of stage, right?

620
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,520
We've never seen anything like
this.

621
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,360
But you've never seen the power
of God, man.

622
00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:33,920
I've never seen Tim like that
before.

623
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,080
Like let's because Tim is
different, Amen.

624
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,600
There's a Holy Spirit living in
Tim.

625
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,040
There's a difference in his
life.

626
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,840
It is amazing that when you
think about the miracle, the

627
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,960
miracle didn't just happen for
the purpose of the paralyzed

628
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,160
man, but the miracle actually
happened for the crowd.

629
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,320
Like the purpose was that they
know that Jesus has authority.

630
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,080
And so he said, I'm going to
heal this paralyzed man.

631
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,400
And so he gets up and walks.
He rolls up his bed and walks

632
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,480
out the crowd.
Nobody can mistake the fact that

633
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,520
Jesus in his word and his voice
had authority over human nature

634
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,520
and flesh in the Spirit of God.
It's pretty amazing if you think

635
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,640
about for the respect of the
friends that sometimes when you

636
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,160
carry others that that not only
they receive a miracle, but

637
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,960
other people see a miracle.
You know, when you have enough

638
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,920
compassion to walk long enough
with somebody in the season and

639
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,480
it to be the person that that
God let you kind of cross the

640
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,360
like a major milestone with
them, their life begins to

641
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,280
change.
Like you see somebody that once

642
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,520
was an alcoholic and you keep
praying and you keep having

643
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,480
compassion.
You don't like just cast about

644
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,200
your life and you serve people,
even though it's hard and they

645
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,840
walk on you and it doesn't work
and it's they have less

646
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,440
maturity.
I get it, you know, and you care

647
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,920
for them, but then you see Jesus
change your life out of a moment

648
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,840
of just your humility and just
grinding it out, which is behind

649
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,720
the scenes.
Nobody recognizes it's not very

650
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,680
sexy.
That's ministry, Amen.

651
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,800
And you do that and then all of
a sudden you see that their life

652
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,520
changes.
All of a sudden, every person

653
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,280
that meets that person from now
on, they are declaring a miracle

654
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,400
of God.
Man, I used to be.

655
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,160
Aren't you the alcoholic guy?
Aren't you that guy that lived

656
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,440
like that?
Aren't you that person that

657
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,840
you're so bitter?
Aren't you the person that hated

658
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,360
all that?
Aren't you that abuser?

659
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,000
Aren't you that real mean
person?

660
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,160
Yeah, but Jesus changed my life.
And every person from here on

661
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,280
forth, they're declaring the
miracle to the crowd in their

662
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,480
life.
That that's what you get to play

663
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,600
a part of.
And when you if you give up

664
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,480
because it's too hard, you're
giving up on the miracle, not

665
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,960
for them, but for others because
their testimonies also shapes

666
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,440
the next person.
There's a very amazing verse in

667
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,080
the Bible.
And I could probably preach this

668
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,440
verse like for the next year,
but it's Proverbs 11/30.

669
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,400
It says this is I'll do KJ to be
on this one.

670
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,160
But he that wins the souls is
wise.

671
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,040
The question I'll pose to you
and you can answer this probably

672
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:52,360
a billion ways, but what is the
wisdom required to win a soul?

673
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,880
What's the wisdom?
Because here's the thing, you

674
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,440
can go to church and know
everything you want to know

675
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,880
about God.
I got a lot of friends that,

676
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,360
that know a lot of things about
the Bible, but they don't have

677
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,920
any wisdom.
They, they, they know scripture

678
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,360
just like the Pharisees or maybe
like even Satan himself, but

679
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,440
they don't have any ability to
help anybody else see Jesus

680
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,720
there.
There's, there's wisdom to it's

681
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,480
just not head knowledge.
It's just like, well, I know the

682
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,960
Romans road or I know the part
of the Gospel.

683
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,040
OK, But the wisdom, what's the
actual wisdom?

684
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,920
I'll just give you some thoughts
just right out of this, this

685
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,880
story we saw.
Here's some wisdom #1 the first

686
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,520
thing about wisdom is to see the
miracle before it happens.

687
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,600
That's wisdom.
It's the wisdom to look at

688
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,000
somebody's life and to see the
potential.

689
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,320
It's the wisdom to recognize
that they're not just an

690
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,600
alcoholic, they're a son or
daughter.

691
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,320
They're king.
They're, they're not too far

692
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,520
gone for God's grace.
That's the wisdom.

693
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,440
The wisdom to see the version of
them that God so desperately

694
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,800
wants to have in their life.
That's what that's what the

695
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,440
prodigal father is doing, by the
way.

696
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,760
He's at the he's looking at the
window waiting for the sons and

697
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,560
daughters to come home and he
runs to them because you

698
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,520
recognize that there's parts of
people that are worth redeeming.

699
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,320
Amen.
That's that's wisdom.

700
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,600
It's wisdom to look at maybe
your prodigal daughter or son or

701
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,560
a family member.
And it takes wisdom not to live

702
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,520
in judgement or to cast stones
or to be like, well, I'm not

703
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,640
going to invite them anymore.
It takes wisdom to serve and

704
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,520
love people.
Amen.

705
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,240
And this is where it kind of
gets wrong.

706
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,400
But those people, they saw the
potential in the paralyzed man.

707
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,840
They knew that if I could give
him to Jesus, that that boy is

708
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,720
probably going to walk again.
That's, that's wisdom.

709
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,800
And here's the thing, The only
people who are not surprised

710
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,720
that the miracle happened in
that man's life were the people

711
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,240
that carried him to Jesus.
They were not surprised.

712
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,360
Everybody else is like, oh, this
is so amazing.

713
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,720
And the guys on the roof are
like, yeah, we told you, boom,

714
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,480
high 5 chest pump, right?
They knew, they knew.

715
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,640
And if you're a minister, right,
like you have the heart of

716
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,520
heaven and like the things of
God, you know, like you've seen

717
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,880
the glory of God and you just
want to get somebody to Jesus.

718
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,960
Second part of wisdom is to
thank God for people who carried

719
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,720
you.
Like none of us are self-made.

720
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,520
Somebody prayed us to heaven.
Somebody invited us to heaven.

721
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,480
Thank you, Tim, for pointing to
the man that prayed you to

722
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,360
heaven.
Exactly right.

723
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,560
You know, for all eternity
you'll be like thank you, Dan

724
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,400
for not giving up on me.
There's so many times as they

725
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,640
could have done that and you
know that.

726
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,480
But the grace of God, Amen, that
somebody prayed for you.

727
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,240
Somebody invited you.
Somebody, somebody, somebody

728
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,480
made a room for you.
They didn't say come to church.

729
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,680
I saved you a seat.
They said come to my family.

730
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,360
I'm not going to give up on you.
Be a part of my life.

731
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,760
I care about you like come to my
table.

732
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,720
I I had a man in my life.
He said, Sean, I will never let

733
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,560
you fail.
Wow.

734
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,320
When I was a teenager, he was
like a dad to me.

735
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,920
Like no matter what happens, as
far as you run, no matter what

736
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,600
happens, I'll always love you
because he had been down the

737
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,720
road.
He he knew how how how terrible

738
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,640
his life was a far from God.
He just knew that Gracie got so

739
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:00,840
good.
He still tells me, Sean, if you

740
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,320
make the wrong decision, there's
a couple options.

741
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,840
But if you make the wrong
decision, guess what, I'll still

742
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,240
love you.
That's a good man of God.

743
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,159
Amen.
It's just like we have to thank

744
00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:11,880
God for people that carried us.
So here's my challenge for you.

745
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:12,960
We're getting the Easter week
right?

746
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,000
And what greater thing could you
do is to get out your phone and

747
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,080
just text or call that person in
your life if they're still here

748
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,120
and say thank you so much for
investing in me because it

749
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,880
wasn't for you.
I was not where I am today.

750
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,440
That's a great phone call, by
the way.

751
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,480
Thank you, Jesus.
If you just text him, say hey,

752
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,440
you might even remember he's
been so long, right?

753
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:38,120
Or thank you Dad for put putting
all the time is then go in vain.

754
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,880
Or maybe they're not here
anymore and you can call up

755
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,920
their son or daughter or family
member and say, can I just tell

756
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,679
you a little bit about your old
man because your dad was a hero

757
00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:51,960
to me and just just honor and
brag on heaven.

758
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:54,520
And maybe there's nobody you
connected to and just go tell

759
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,080
somebody else.
And let me remind you, this guy

760
00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:00,320
named bitch like I I had nothing
in my life, but I had this guy

761
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:01,720
that loved me for no reason at
all.

762
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,920
I had, I mean, there's no reason
to invest in shopping tree, but

763
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,440
he loved me and he cared for me
and he opened his house to me

764
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,480
and he did all these amazing
things.

765
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,680
He's still one of the greatest
friends of my life.

766
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,040
He's never given up on me and
all those stupid things I've

767
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,360
done in my life.
He still loves me.

768
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,720
Amen.
The grace of God.

769
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,080
So they have the wisdom.
Know that you weren't yourself

770
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,120
made.
Who brought you there?

771
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,240
Listen, sometimes God moves in
someone else's life because you

772
00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:30,600
refuse to give up on them.
You refuse to quit.

773
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,560
You know, it may be years.
I mean, there's a lot of moms

774
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,800
and grandmas and, and
grandparents have prayed for

775
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,960
families for years for faith to
take effect.

776
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,680
So The thing is, the miracle
wasn't just in the man's life.

777
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,160
The miracle was in their faith.
I don't know how it works in

778
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,560
God's sovereignty and plan.
I don't know.

779
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,960
I don't, I don't even care.
But their faith played a part of

780
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,480
the story.
Amen.

781
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,440
I would like to think that if
you're a man or woman of God,

782
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,040
that God does more around you
just because you were there,

783
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,120
because the environment and
culture and the humility and the

784
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,920
holiness and the honor you bring
to God in your faith, that just

785
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,800
God just allows the Holy Spirit
to move through to other

786
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,960
people's lives and touches
people.

787
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:09,760
I'd like to think that God does
that.

788
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,040
He does it right here in the
Scripture.

789
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,000
The last part of wisdom, and
like I said there, there is 100

790
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,400
more or if not millions more
wisdom.

791
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,080
If you don't need the miracle,
make room for someone else who

792
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,040
does.
That room was full of Pharisees.

793
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,400
There was somebody who need to
get healed and they couldn't get

794
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,800
to Jesus.
And I was thinking about this

795
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,440
story.
How many people would have been

796
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,320
healed if Jesus would have been
more accessible because it

797
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,280
wasn't full of people take up
dead weight critics instead of

798
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,040
worshipping Jesus.
What kind of revival could have

799
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,920
started in that house if it
wasn't full of critics?

800
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,120
It was actually full of faithful
believers and then saw a

801
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,320
paralyzed man.
They said, hey guys, part the

802
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,560
way somebody needs to get to
Jesus.

803
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,720
So there's something about those
friends that we have to start

804
00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:57,840
understanding.
Those friends had one of three

805
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,400
options.
One, they already were healed by

806
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,720
Jesus themselves because heal
people heal people.

807
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,200
They just do.
So if Jesus has touched you, you

808
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,880
cannot help but to stop and help
someone else get to Jesus

809
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,400
because you already been touched
by him. 2 They're either really,

810
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:19,720
really wise like Simeon or Anne
or the OR the OR the the wise

811
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:22,320
men.
They just knew Scripture enough

812
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,600
to know that's the Messiah and I
don't even need to be touched

813
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,520
from the Messiah because I know
what he can do already.

814
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:28,680
So I'm going to take this band
with me.

815
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,920
Could have been that.
It could have been that they

816
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,680
already heard the stories.
There's other people that

817
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,920
already been touched by Jesus.
They've been coming down the

818
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,480
roads for weeks and months or
days and they heard about this

819
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,680
Jesus guy and how much he did
and what he did for this person.

820
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,480
And they just thought to
themselves, well, if he could do

821
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,800
it for them, he could do it for
me and sure, he could do it for

822
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,760
him.
So let's just grab him.

823
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:47,640
There's only three options.
Amen.

824
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,400
It wasn't like some experiment
like, well, let's go out of our

825
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,760
way and see if this works.
Nobody is that determined unless

826
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,840
they know full of faith.
Is there faith that healed them?

827
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,680
It's just thing about making
room for people, right?

828
00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:04,440
Like making room for the grace
of God and the forgiveness of

829
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,400
God and the compassion of God
and the love of God.

830
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,560
I'll tell you what it looks
like.

831
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,640
How many guys went to the Rolls
Parade 2015 November.

832
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,760
You guys remember that?
Let me go down the Rolls Parade.

833
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,520
All right.
Hope you had a better experience

834
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,040
than I did.
I end up we we've been up with

835
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:25,680
Josh and Carrie Cubbly, Chuck
and Jill.

836
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,800
We end up on Pershing and Maine,
which is right in the corner of

837
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,120
the Union Station.
It's in we're like between the

838
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,600
Marriott and the Union Station
and we're in this like cyclone

839
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,680
of death.
You want to call it?

840
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,320
OK.
And and we're like in this, I

841
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,160
don't know, we're up by the
gate, but they just get pushed

842
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,320
with the crowd.
And there's this Hispanic gang

843
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,120
and they jumped and crushed the
police car completely down to

844
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,720
nothing.
Just the whole thing crushed

845
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,320
some dude had like a heart
attack and Diamond trying to get

846
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,800
him to some medics.
And it was like crazy.

847
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,880
And we were like in the crowd
like, yeah, I've been 30 years,

848
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,680
right?
And this picture is what we saw.

849
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,680
This is it.
We saw confetti, some smoke,

850
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,240
some buildings.
And we're there for like 8 hours

851
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:12,120
and there was like 15 porta
potties for 2 million people.

852
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:17,040
You know what I mean?
The lines forever long it it it

853
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,040
one time I actually saw a
baseball healing balloon float

854
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,240
by, you know, the size of a car
just like float above the heads.

855
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,480
And that's what we saw.
You know, the reason that this

856
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,280
is all we saw, look at the
picture is because everybody

857
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,480
else picked up the most
important person in their life

858
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,160
and pulling their shoulders.
That's what you do.

859
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,800
Like we'd have a view because
they said, son, I'm not going to

860
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:46,160
be able to see it, but I want
you to see the miracle team of

861
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,800
2015.
I want you to a glimpse of the

862
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,840
team that made it with like
through all the crazy endings.

863
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,400
And it should have been that
way.

864
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,280
It was like angels in the
outfield kind of thing, right?

865
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,640
And they mail away and
everybody's so excited.

866
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,560
They put their kids up on their
shoulders so you can see a

867
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:00,840
glimpse.
We didn't see.

868
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:01,800
It didn't matter.
We saw.

869
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,120
The kids saw.
Amen.

870
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:04,960
There's just something is a
church.

871
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,200
If you get just low and you're
like, now I'm going to put some

872
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,640
of my shoulders so they can see
Jesus and be a slave to Jesus is

873
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,640
what James calls himself so
other people can see the glory

874
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,440
of God.
So it looks like our church to

875
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,160
be part of heaven being us.
Amen.

876
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,200
So we talked about Easter
Sunday.

877
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:26,200
I'm like, don't be surprised if
you carry somebody on your

878
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,320
shoulders next Sunday.
They come here that two things

879
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,080
will happen.
One, that they'll see a miracle

880
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,960
because God is going to move.
And two, that they very well and

881
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,840
be the miracle themselves.
That's good, man.

882
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,640
You can play part of that story.
We all can, Amen.

883
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,480
Just bring somebody to see the
power of God on display.

884
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,320
It's Easter, baby, He's risen.
What greater news could we ever

885
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,080
share?
And for somebody in that room,

886
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,080
the many people are going to
hear, son or daughter, your sins

887
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,240
are forgiven.
So Father, come before you.

888
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:04,000
We thank you so much, God, that
heaven is in US and that we have

889
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,120
the ability just to simply play
a part of the story.

890
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,880
God give us the wisdom of
winning souls as Jesus follows

891
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,320
the house.
Today I pray for great wisdom

892
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,480
with great patience, with great
love and compassion that our

893
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,640
church would go out and be the
hands of feet in Jesus, in the

894
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,480
highways and hedges, in the hard
places, in the difficult places,

895
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,680
in the places that most people
won't want to go.

896
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,680
The gospel will take effect and
miracles will happen because our

897
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:35,200
church wants to serve with
compassion those that need to

898
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,000
get to Jesus and help our church
to tear the roof off our city

899
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for you.
I pray for one group, people in

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the house, and that's those of
you that say, you know what, I

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need the miracle of God today.
There's probably somebody in

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this house that showed up and
you've yet to be saved by Jesus.

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You've yet to hear the word son
or daughter.

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Your sins have been forgiven and
today the Bible says the day of

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salvation.
If you need new life in Jesus

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that day, the Bible says he will
save you for your sin.

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He will cast your sins before
the east in the West.

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He will make you new and change
an inside out because he's full

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of love and compassion.
Even at your worst, God is

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always as best.
And so today if you need Jesus

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not be looking around like it
weird to call you out, but you

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need Jesus.
We just raise your hand high in

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this place.
I need a relationship with

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Christ today.
I'm not going to walk out of

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here without Jesus.
I need heaven and Jesus and they

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come together as a package.
How many guys does I need Jesus

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today across this space?
If that's you, I'm not going to

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call and make it weird.
Let's leave through a prayer.

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The prayer does not save you but
your heart towards him to say,

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Father God, thank you so much
for Jesus.

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Thank you so much for loving me
that you send your Son with

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authority to cast out my sin and
to love me deeply.

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God thank you for those that
carried me to you today.

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God I give you my life, I
surrender to you.

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I will live for your glory and
Share your story.

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I praise in Jesus name and the
church said Amen.

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Give it up to Jesus.
Amen.