Why Does My Work/Life Feel So Unfulfilling? - The Elephant in the Room

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Well, hey, good.
Morning, real life.

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Hey, we're so excited you are
here in the house worshipping

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with us today.
Whether you are here with us in

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person or you're watching
offline, stand to your feet.

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We're going to worship God.
Together this morning you see my

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big dream, the mountain you see
a.

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Mountain and as I walk through
the shadow, your love surrounds

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me.
There's nothing to fear now for

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I you say.
When?

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I fight out, flying on my knees
with my hands lifted high.

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Oh God, the battle belongs to
you, and every fear out they

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ain't your feet.
I'll sink through the night.

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Oh God, the final belongs to
you.

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And if you are for me, you can
be against me.

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For Jesus, there's nothing
impossible.

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Do you believe that today?
Come on.

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When all I see are the end
shapes, you see the beyond day.

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Thank you, God.
When all I see is a cross God,

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you see the ante too.
So when I fight, I'll fight on

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my.
Knees.

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With my hands lifted high.
Oh God the battle belongs to

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you.
Every fear I make your.

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Feet.
I'll sink through.

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The night, oh God, battle
belongs to you.

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Almighty Fortress, you go before
us.

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Nothing can stand against the
power of our God.

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You shine in the shadow, you win
every battle.

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Nothing can stand against the
power of our God In Almighty

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Fortress you go before us.
Nothing can stand against the

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power of our God.
You shine in the shadow, you win

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every battle.
Nothing can stand against the

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power of our God in Almighty
fortress you go before us.

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Nothing.
Nothing can stand against the

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power of our God.
You shine in the shadow, You win

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every battle.
Nothing can stand against the

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power of our God.
So when I fight, I'll fight on

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my knees with my hands lifting
high.

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For God, the battle belongs to
you.

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Every fear.
I lay in.

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Your feet I'll sing through the
night.

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Oh.
God, the battle.

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Belongs to you.
Oh.

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God, the battle belongs.
To you.

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Come on, get back some praise
this morning.

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That's right.
Come on.

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So much comfort just in knowing
that he fights our battles for

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us, that he's with us through
all that stuff.

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Christ is my firm foundation,
the rock on which I stay, and

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everything around me is shaking.
I've never been more glad that I

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put my faith in Jesus 'cause
He's never let me down.

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He's faithful through
generations, so how would he

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feel?
Now he wants.

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He won't, and I've still got joy
in chaos and I've got peace.

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That makes no sense.
So I won't be going on and I'm

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not helped by my own strength
because I built my life on Jesus

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and he's never let me down.
He's faithful in every season.

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So I would heave him out.
He won't.

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He won't won't.
He won't help.

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He won't fail.
He won't.

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He won't.
He won't fail.

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He won't fail.
Christ is my firm foundation,

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the wrong kind of which I stay.
When?

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Everything around me is shaking.
I've never been more than glad

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that I put my faith in Jesus.
He's never let me down.

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He's faithful through
generations.

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So I would he fail now He won't.
He won't go.

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He won't fail, He won't fail.
Never fail me, God, you won't

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fail me.
Now rain came.

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Came and went blue and my house
was built on you.

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I'm safe with you and I'm gonna
make it through.

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Came and went blue and my house
was built on you.

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I'm safe you and I'm gonna make
it through.

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Rain came and went, blew and my
house was built on you.

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I'm safe with you and I'm gonna
make it through.

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Yeah, I'm gonna make it through
'cause I'm standing.

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Strong on you?
Yes, I'm going to make it

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through 'cause my house is built
on you.

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Christ is my firm foundation,
the rock corner which I stand

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when everything around me is
shaking.

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I'm never been more glad, but I
put my faith in Jesus 'cause

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he's never let me down.
He's faithful through

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generations and so I will eat
them now.

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He won, He won.
He won't fail.

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He won't fail.
He won't.

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He won't won't.
He won't fail.

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He won't fail.
No, he.

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Won't.
Amen.

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If you believe that this morning
he'll never, ever fail, give him

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a shout.
This grander earth is quake

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before move by the sound of his
voice and sees that are shaken

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and stirred can be calmed and
broken from my regard.

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He's threw it all, threw it all.
My eyes are on you and threw it

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all, threw it all it is well.
And threw it all, threw it all.

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My eyes are on you and it is
well with me.

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Far be it for me to not believe
even when my eyes can see, and

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this mountain lands in front of
me will be thrown into the midst

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of the sea.
Do you believe it?

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This morning they threw it all,
threw it all my eyes are on you

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and threw it all, threw it all
it.

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Is well and.
Threw it all, threw it all.

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My eyes are on you.
And trust in him.

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The waves in wind.
Still know his name so let go

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my.
Soul and trust.

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In.
Him the waves in.

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Wind still know his name, so let
go my soul and.

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Trust in him, the waves in wind.
Still know is there the waves in

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wind.
Still know is there.

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It is Where?
Where my soul singing after him,

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and it is a with my soul.
It is a with my my soul.

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It is a well.
It is a well with my soul.

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Oh, it is a Wellness well.
With my soul because of who you

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are or.
It is away with my soul, all

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you've done, or it is away.
Cuz threw it all, threw it all.

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My eyes are on you and threw it
all.

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Threw.
It all it.

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Is well Lord.
And threw it all.

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Threw it all.
My eyes are on you.

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Man can weave it up for God this
morning and I love those words

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and I and I know there's people
in here walking today with winds

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and waves and storms of life is
crashing in on you, but turn

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your eyes on Jesus.
And my prayer for you today is

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that you meet Jesus in the midst
of your storm and you're

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comforted and you're healed.
And man, you're just restored to

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the hope that God's got for you
in the gospel.

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Let's give it up for God one
more time, Can't we?

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Man, I love worship with you
guys.

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Man, you guys are killing us
today, man, I didn't, I know.

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It's just a blessing to God that
we worship this way.

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So man, thank you guys so much
for just giving your hearts to

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God.
Hey, once you guys take this

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opportunity, we have a lot of
new people with us today that

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are online and in person.
Can we show those guys some love

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as well?
Just give them some round of

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applause.
Hey, once you guys take 30

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seconds to greet somebody around
you.

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The.
All right, you guys can go ahead

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and be seated.
Hey, I want you to know we've

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got something awesome for you
guys today.

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We've been praying for you guys.
We've been praying for this

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gathering all week.
And on your chair there's a

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connection card.
This connection card is for

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everybody.
This is an allscape moment, as

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our pastor Sean loves to say, if
you call real life home, we love

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it when you fill this outlet us
know what's going on in your

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life.
Maybe you've got a prayer

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request, then maybe you've got a
praise.

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Maybe God showed up in your in
your life this week and

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something you've been praying
for.

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So we love to hear about those.
Write those down, send them in.

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We love to look at those we pray
over week in and week out.

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If you're new with us, we're so
excited that you chose to join

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with us in this gathering.
I'm going to make a promise to

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you.
We're not going to ask anything

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else from you all day, but for
this one small thing, we just

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want to know who you are, which
we would love it if you would

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introduce yourself to us.
And the connection card is the

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best way that you can do that.
And the reason that we collect

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these is we want to send you out
some more information about real

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life.
We're not going to show up your

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door.
We're not going to do anything

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weird, but we want you to know
that we love you, that God loves

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you.
And maybe this is the spot that

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God's called you to come in and
be on mission with us.

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And so we'd love to say that
we're a church on a mission.

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And that mission is to see
people far from far from God,

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discover the real life and
purpose in Jesus.

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What that simply means is it's
like in the song, right?

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The winds in the way, the storms
of life, it beats people down,

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it breaks people.
But our joy, our love, our

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mission is we get to see people
commit their lives to Jesus week

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in and week out.
And so we love to be on mission

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here and we pray that you jump
in and are on mission with us.

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Before we do anything else,
before we get Pastor Sean up

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here, one awesome announcement.
If you are a real life youth or

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a parent of a real life youth,
6th through 12th grade, we're

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inviting you out to our second
annual sporting event.

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The So we have a very generous
family that has donated some

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tickets.
And so this is the second time

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we're doing it being second
annual, right?

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And so we want your kids to get
signed up early.

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There's limited spacing and this
is for your kids, their friends

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and real life elite leaders.
So it's an awesome opportunity

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to go have a great time as as a
youth group.

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So love for you guys to check
that out.

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So today we're continuing our
series The Elephant in the room.

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And if you guys missed the last
week, you need to go back and

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check it out.
But the elephant in the room is

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this, it's the question that you
think you're the only one

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asking, right?
It's the deep dark thing that

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you're ashamed to ask.
You know, where's God where I

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heard, you know, why does God
ask me to do this?

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What does this mean in my life?
You know, where's the purpose?

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And, and I don't understand, but
I'm afraid to ask.

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And we all have those elephants
in the room.

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But I can tell you one thing,
you're not the only person

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asking that.
And so in this series, we're

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really diving into what God has
for us from from the Scriptures.

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There's no church cliches here,
just some some good honest

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biblical truths.
So I want you guys to take this

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opportunity as we continue
Elephant in the Room and just

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show some love to Pastor Sean as
he comes up.

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Hey, thanks, guys.
Well, good morning.

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Happy Labor Day weekend.
Oh, wow.

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We can do better now.
Good morning.

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That's what I call Labor Day.
It was like, yeah, good morning,

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pastor.
I like some as like a smoker

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voice or something happened
there.

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So could you give one more time?
Everybody's new and newer today.

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Let them know you love them.
Come on, one more time.

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I want to honor somebody today.
Very special.

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This is just a unique Sunday.
I'll be last Sunday here for a

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while.
George, may we stand up?

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Where's Jordan?
He's like, don't do this to me.

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So Jordan, he is going to Spain
to play for the national

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basketball team and he leaves
tomorrow.

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So give it up for Jordan.
So we're proud of you, Jordan.

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I've had a privilege, the honor
privilege of being this young

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man's youth pastor, pastor and
known him for a long time.

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And his family, Scott and Dana,
we get for Scott and Dana as

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well.
They've raised some good kids,

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man, and we're just we're proud
of you, Jordan.

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We're proud of what God's doing.
And I heard this.

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This is what I'm most proud of.
Scott was actually bragging on

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you this morning.
You probably you probably didn't

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figure that, but he said that
you actually just finished up

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sometime last week.
You read the entire Bible and

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you journaled all the chapters
of the Bible of this last year.

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Is that amazing?
Go God give it up.

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Come on, dude, That's probably,
I don't know, one to million.

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I don't know.
There's not very many people

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would ever do that, especially
at your age in the school and

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being an athlete and all the
things you're competing with

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that time.
So I'm looking for what God's

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going to do in Spain and we're
praying for you.

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We love you.
Give her more time, love, know

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we love him.
Come on man, thanks for

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following Jesus, man.
It's it's it's fun to watch.

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So a couple things for jump in
one, we've got baptism coming up

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on our birthday, 8th birthday,
September 21st.

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And I would encourage you to
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It is a significant step in your
spiritual life.

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And if you know Jesus and yet to
get baptized, I was gonna

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explain but why it's so
important and what God's asking

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us to do outside of really
knowing Jesus, getting baptized

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is the second most spiritual
step you can take the most

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significant spiritual step you
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And Jesus actually asked us to
get baptized.

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He says go therefore in the
world, make disciples of all

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nations, baptizing them and name
of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

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And so when you get baptized,
it's a picture of what Jesus has

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done in your life.
Matter of fact, it's significant

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for you to be unashamed what
Christ has done.

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You're sharing your story with
the world that I was buried is a

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picture of Jesus being buried
dead and arose again, the power

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of sin.
And so it's a picture of what

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Christ has done in your life.
And so you want to be a disciple

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of Jesus.
One of the marks of the disciple

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is to get baptized.
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And a lot of people miss this.
How many guys have been

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baptized?
Show of hands.

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So I'm preaching to the choir,
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But there's some you're like,
come on, right?

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And in the Spirit, God's asking
like take a step of obedience.

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And the Bible says it's, it's
interesting.

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If you confess me before men,
I'll confess my father.

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But if you don't confess me
before men, I won't confess to

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my father.
It's very interesting.

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There's something special when
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faith.
And so I encourage you to do

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that.
I don't think it plays a part of

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your salvation, but I think it's
very special to get in that

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water and let the world know
you're unashamed of Jesus.

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Amen.
So we're excited for you guys.

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Didn't get baptized yet.
This is your chance.

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We baptized twice a year.
We do the whole thing up.

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It's a giant pool in the middle
and it's a lot of fun to walk

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through the steps.
But get signed up today.

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Today we, we jump into our
second part of series, the

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elephant in the room, and this
is a be a fun series because

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we're walking through taboo
questions and some of these

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questions we we, we dance around
and some are like so heartfelt

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and so heavy that we probably
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And we as questions, we always
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We have questions about doubts
like if I doubt God, if I doubt

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his plan, if I doubt it's who's
real?

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Do I go to heaven?
Am I saved?

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Like is, is hell a real place?
Like we, we walk through this

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God really do these things.
Why are Christians so

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judgmental, right?
I mean, kind of, you know, you

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walk this season like, I can't
believe Christians would do

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this.
And you kind of walk away from

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gobble because you see how
Christians act sometimes you

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look out and you're like, but
why are Christians so divided

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over politics and the things of
the world?

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And these are questions that we
we typically don't ask.

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And a day is going to be a very
interesting, heartfelt question.

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And it deals with Labor Day of
all things.

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And it's a really this idea,
what if or what do we do when

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we're can't find meaning and
purpose and what we do for our

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work or in life?
You're not going to probably ask

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our spouse or really anybody,
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I'm not really feeling it Like
what, what do we do?

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We kind of feel numb to the
world or numb to our job.

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Ever just gone through the
motions and punch the clock and

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it's just year after year or a
season of just, I mean, I can't

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believe I'm still doing this.
It's frustrating.

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God, why am I in this season?
And so there you go walk through

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what's the purpose in work?
What, what's got up to, why

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would I walk through this?
Is it meaningless?

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And if you start thinking about
your life and futility, it can

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be kind of meaningless pretty
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It can feel that way.
And so on my prayer day is that

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you will find significance.
You find purpose.

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You'd have this aha moment,
Jesus, where he purposes your

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work, where you have a higher
calling than just showing up to

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punch a clock that's more than a
paycheck.

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It's Kingdom minded.
And so to redefine our purpose

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today, it's always intriguing to
think about why holidays exist.

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Labor Day, I had to research
this.

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I've never actually researched
why does Labor Day exist?

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That sounds kind of interesting.
Amen.

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I know you all Googled it, You
know, Chachi PT, they're like,

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oh, maybe what's going on with
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And I learned something.
It's so interesting.

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Back in the 1800s, late 1800s,
it had been the industrial

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revolution.
People are are working

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endlessly.
There's no laws for labor and

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children are going to factors
and working at a young age.

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People are working 12 to 1618
hour days, seven days a week and

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with the threat of being fired
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And these unions are being
formed and there's protest,

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people actually getting killed
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And eventually labor laws come
to pass in Grover Cleveland in

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the 1890s.
Basically in in to to

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memorialize.
This sets up what we know today

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as Labor Day, not just to honor
the work or the labor, but to

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honor the laborers doing the
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Now, how about you?
But who's thankful for Labor

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Day?
Amen.

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I mean, that's a different take
on it usually thinks, oh, it's

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end of summer, it's a fun
holiday, we really appreciate

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our workers, but to actually
honor people and say we're not

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going to take advantage of you.
And I just thought for the Lord

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Jesus Christ, thank you that we
will have a Labor Day, Amen.

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Like we've never had to do labor
with Jesus.

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Jesus finished all the work on
the cross, Amen.

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And so we just get to take a
part of that.

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And God does not put us through
all this religion, but

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relationship with him.
But what do you do when life

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feels a little meaningless when
you have to work 12 to 16 hours

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a day?
Imagine go back to eighteen

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1800s and that would be kind of
meaningless to be in a factory

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and put a nut on a bolt 12 hours
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That seemed pretty meaningless.
So wouldn't it?

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And this isn't really anything
new.

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Matter of fact, Solomon, he
talked about this quite a bit.

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Solomon got the gift of wisdom
from God, one of the wealthiest

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people, if not the wealthiest
personnel of history says in

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Ecclesiastes 227.
He says, so I hated life because

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the what?
What's it say?

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Yeah, the work, the labor that
is done under the sun was what?

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What to say?
Grievous to me.

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But why is it grievous?
Listen, this, he said.

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All of us meaningless.
I chasing after the wind.

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I hated all the things I had
told for under the sun because I

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must look at this, leave them to
the one who comes after me.

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And who knows where that person
will be.

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Wise or foolish, who knows
they're going to take care of it

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like I spent all this time and
energy to build this.

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And who knows where the next
person is going to do?

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Yet they will have control over
all the fruit of my toll into

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which I poured my effort and
skill in the sun.

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And this too is what to say
meaningless.

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What do you do in life and work
is meaningless and he's just

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figuring it out.
It's meaningless.

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And so my heart began to despair
over all my tollsome labor under

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the sun for a person may labor
with wisdom, knowledge and skill

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that that's what we want.
And then they must leave all

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they have to it one to another
who has not told for it.

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So like this is inheritance in a
nutshell.

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And it like you get to leave
your heritage like you didn't

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work for any of this.
What are you really going to do?

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This is the end of life.
I just, you know, basically

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here's a paycheck that goes to
my heirs.

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This is it.
This, this is this is

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burdensome.
He says this too is meaningless.

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And he says it's a great
misfortune.

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It's really interesting how he
says that.

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And he asked this question in
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It says, what do people get for
all the total and anxious

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driving with which they labor
under the sun?

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It says all their days their
work is grief and pain.

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This is really exciting.
Even at night, their minds did

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not rest.
This too, is what meaningless.

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It ever felt this way, just real
honest.

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Ever felt this way before?
Real honest, just real honest.

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Yeah.
I mean, I, I, I feel like this

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is one of those like questions
that we have a lot that we don't

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ask.
And I've definitely had seasons

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where I was like, why am I doing
not ministry, but why am I doing

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this?
I, I was a general contractor

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and I finally was like, the
Lord's not called me this like

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this isn't what I'm supposed to
be doing.

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Is it was total some, but
there's purpose in that.

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It wasn't my purpose.
But you think about this.

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I've had sayings.
I think this is a jerryism.

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This is my father-in-law.
He'll he'll say stuff like in

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100 years won't matter anyway.
Amen.

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It's just like, it's kind of
meaningless.

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Like what, You know, it doesn't
really matter, right?

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The next generation's really not
going to appreciate that as much

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as we did and saw his mind say,
look at the words, use

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frustration, grieved, despair,
great misfortune.

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Here's the big truth today
without purpose, work and life

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are meaningless.
They're they're useless.

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They feel wasted.
There's there's not a purpose to

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tie what we're doing what we're
doing to back to then it feels

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useless like you're in this rat
race in this cycle who, how many

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guys know purpose matters?
Amen.

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I know purpose matters.
There's a greater purpose matter

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of fact in our church.
We say it's every week, twice a

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week we talked about in the
welcome, but our mission

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statement and at the end we, we
say real life and do it again

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now real life.
And there you go, right.

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We, we, we, we say it every
week, right.

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Like, oh, we do say every week.
It's so important to our lives

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that we actually talk about in
our mission statement of church.

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Then they find real life.
What's real life?

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They find real life.
The only real life is found in

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Jesus.
So one that find Jesus and two,

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they find purpose.
They find their purpose in

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Jesus.
It's one thing to know Jesus.

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Nothing, no, why another thing
to, to, to, to surrender,

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understand his plan.
You know, it's been said this, I

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don't know who put this
together, but the 2 greatest

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days of your life, right?
The day you're born and the day

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you figure out why.
Why?

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Why am I here?
What is the point of all of

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this?
Check out this picture.

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I'll give you illustration of
purpose.

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All right?
This is a Lego truck.

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A transformer Lego truck.
Now, I built this.

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It took me 5-6 hours.
That's exciting.

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You know what really makes it
exciting is I'm colorblind.

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Come on somebody.
And these aren't Legos, these

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are Phacos.
You know what I'm saying?

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The off brand that the Chinese
brand that comes in and that you

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can't read the thing that you
know and it will do at the

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bottom.
She has shown your pace every

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page and you're just discouraged
because it's 105 steps, 768

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pieces, microscopic and blue and
everything looks the same.

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And and you know why I built
this?

453
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,320
Let me know why I built this.
You said because Diane wanted me

454
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:04,240
to build a Lego transformer for
that is not correct, right?

455
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,320
Oh no, no, Levi wanted me to
build this.

456
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,560
It wasn't because I like Legos
and it wasn't because I have

457
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:12,520
time.
Amen.

458
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,920
I did not have time to take two
nights out of my week to build

459
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,200
this Lego transformer.
I'm telling you and and and and

460
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,400
it's supposed to like have
another thing a dude, all the

461
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,800
instructions since it's in
Chinese, I didn't know you can

462
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,480
either build the truck or the
dude.

463
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,520
They don't transform.
It's a non transformer.

464
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,440
OK, so it took me 7 hours to
figure out this is a waste of

465
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,360
time.
And as soon as I built it, Levi

466
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:40,720
goes.
That took a long time.

467
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:47,200
Dad, where's my transformer guy?
He's in there and he's going to

468
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,200
stay in there because there's no
I'm ever going to do this again.

469
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,560
Was like, I should get a super
glue out and glue this truck

470
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,320
together, dip it in some kind of
glue like I'm never doing this

471
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:58,840
again.
I was just waiting for the knock

472
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,680
off the table immediately and
I'm like oh what boobs dad I

473
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:02,600
was.
Like.

474
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,880
No right?
But why did I build this?

475
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,800
I didn't I didn't build it
because I wanted to build it.

476
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:08,800
I didn't build because I like
Legos.

477
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,159
I don't like Transformers.
I really don't care for the

478
00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:12,320
movie series, to be honest with
you.

479
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,120
It's cool, but not for me.
Like I don't like any.

480
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,239
I don't spend time on it.
But I did it for Levi.

481
00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:20,719
Levi to get home from from from
school or from, you know,

482
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,840
grandparents.
And is it done yet, Dad?

483
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,320
Is it done yet?
We work on that dad yet.

484
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,639
I'm like not enough time.
And he just like he just wanted

485
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:29,120
so bad and he has so much
excitement and joy.

486
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,560
Ever seen a little kid smile and
light up?

487
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,040
I mean, he was gonna say I'm a
sucker, right?

488
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,440
Like, I'm gonna say yes.
So I'm like, OK.

489
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,040
And it's pain and suffering.
I'm just telling you.

490
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,679
Everybody's walked by and he
complained.

491
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:41,520
Dad's taking forever.
I'm like, you're telling me,

492
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,320
son.
You're telling me, right?

493
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,040
There's a purpose.
Purpose matters.

494
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,960
Amen.
There was a deep meaningful why

495
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,760
behind the what.
There was a meaningful why

496
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,679
behind building this.
If I built that and I didn't tie

497
00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:56,560
it back to Levi and I did it
myself, you guys would think I'm

498
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,960
weird.
Weird.

499
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,200
Now some of y'all build these
things I've insulted to you,

500
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,160
right?
But you think I'm weird.

501
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,160
But what do you do when life
feels meaningless?

502
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,520
What do when work feels
meaningless?

503
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,680
You got a member of your
purpose.

504
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,840
And there's a great passage on
purpose.

505
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,760
And I was reminded this week as
I was reading through the Bible

506
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,640
with some of our men.
But John Chapter 9, if you got

507
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,320
your Bible, John Chapter 9,
there's a story of a blind man

508
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,840
who receives sight and gets
healed where we right at the

509
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,160
beginning, John Chapter 9 verse
one.

510
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,040
And this is one of the most
profound pieces of scripture

511
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,240
that has spoke to me in my life.
It says this, it says as he went

512
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:34,000
along, as Jesus went along, he
saw a man.

513
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,120
What's it say blind?
And it's from birth.

514
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,200
This man was was born blind.
He didn't go blind.

515
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,960
So his life would have been a
life of a beggar.

516
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,440
He would have been a poor, he
would have been on the streets,

517
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,240
you couldn't afford a wage, you
couldn't do a job.

518
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,360
He would just have to beg and
beg and beg.

519
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,200
And that was his life until
Jesus found him.

520
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:02,400
It says this, his disciples
asked Jesus, Rabbi, teacher, who

521
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,440
sinned, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind.

522
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,080
And there's always an assumption
with suffering.

523
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,800
We talked about this a little
bit last week, but there's

524
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,800
always an assumption of
suffering that's caused by sin.

525
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,960
There's always assumption that
somebody did something wrong,

526
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,720
somebody's at fault for
somebody's life looking so bad

527
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,800
or so horrible or so tragic that
there there must be somebody to

528
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,480
blame for that person being born
blind.

529
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,960
If he sinned for his mother and
dad stand or some of his family

530
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,240
saying that he has some kind of
consequence to his life, it'd be

531
00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:43,520
unfathomable that God himself
would actually allow us to be

532
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,000
broken and be frail.
It'd be outside their mindset to

533
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,840
even think this way that he'd be
born blind with this complete

534
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,600
opposite.
God is actually in charge of our

535
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,240
suffering, yet actually put this
whole story together.

536
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,480
That's what Jesus says to him.
He says neither this man nor his

537
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,000
parents send it's been shocking
statement to disciples, said

538
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,520
Jesus.
But this what's it say?

539
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,280
This this happened somebody say
happened.

540
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,280
Yeah, this happened.
This was put together so that

541
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,280
here's the purpose that the
works of God might be what

542
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:23,400
displayed that this happens on
purpose so that the works of God

543
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:29,520
will be on display in him.
This verse blew my mind when I

544
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,520
first read the book of John at
17 years old.

545
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,400
This verse was it was
catastrophically different from

546
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,480
my life because I at that point
I Lily didn't understand why I

547
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:38,480
was going through.
I was going through.

548
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,280
I didn't understand that God had
a hand in the story that there's

549
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,880
a greater purpose, like your
life is not accident, man.

550
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,640
Your job and where you work and
all the things you told through

551
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,720
doing the dishes, doing the
laundry, having their family,

552
00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:53,080
the kids, where you live, all
these things.

553
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:57,280
God has ordained these things.
God has put you in these places,

554
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,680
Amen.
It's not an accident and there's

555
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,880
a purpose to your life, just
like the purpose is blind man's

556
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,640
life.
You might look at the blind man,

557
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,040
say man, that guy got dealt a
really bad hand of cards, like

558
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,360
life just happened to him and
his environment dictate his

559
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,400
life, like he was just a victim,
like he was downhill from

560
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,680
uncontrollables.
It was somebody else's fault.

561
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,600
It was it was somebody else.
There's an accident.

562
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,960
It was on purpose and it wasn't
a result of sin.

563
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,360
It was actually a result of
God's sovereign, selective hand

564
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,560
that he was born blind, that God
had put him in this situation so

565
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,560
that he might get the glory and
the power for what he's going to

566
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,680
do in his life, like God put him
in this season so he could

567
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,840
redeem it and use it to bring
himself glory.

568
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,120
Jesus knew his life would be
hard.

569
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,920
Jesus knew that he would suffer.
Jesus knew that he would spend

570
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,240
time being a beggar.
If you read the story, he's old

571
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:53,680
enough to not live at home.
So all John Chapter 9 you can

572
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,120
read going through it.
It's like 45 verses a day.

573
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,400
But he he actually lives.
He lived at home and he's

574
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,560
outside the home.
He's is of age.

575
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:04,240
His parents won't even testify
about him being blind.

576
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,080
And so this man is not young and
he knew he'd spend his life in

577
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,760
hardship.
And here's the reason there was

578
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,160
a bigger purpose.
There was a mission to his life.

579
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,560
Amen.
There's something greater than

580
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:21,320
the suffering that Jesus and his
his sovereignty knew that with

581
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,440
the glory that he would show and
the works to be done in him

582
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,760
would be displayed to a lost and
dying world.

583
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,600
And somehow it would be more
effective in his brokenness than

584
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,920
in His victory.
Like the redemption of his story

585
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,760
would bring glory to God in such
a way it was worth the man being

586
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,880
born blind.
Look at verse 6.

587
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,280
And after saying this, Jesus
spat on the ground.

588
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,360
That's fun.
And he made some mud with saliva

589
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:50,040
and put it into the man's eyes.
Now, it's interesting because

590
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,120
when God created us as humans,
he actually created us out of

591
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,840
the dust of the earth and he
formed us and instantly designed

592
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,560
us and he breathed into us the
breath of life.

593
00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:03,160
It's that same dirt that Jesus
spits into any And you know, you

594
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,280
might think he might actually
like put together eyes with clay

595
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,440
or just mold them up and then
smeared him on this man's eye

596
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,120
sockets or put him in the eye
sockets.

597
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,200
Who really knows, right?
And he put it in his eyes and he

598
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,400
said go.
He told him wash in the pool

599
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:22,240
Salome, which means since
somebody say sent since because

600
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:25,520
he's going to be a messenger for
the things of God, he says So

601
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,360
the man went and washed and came
home seeing.

602
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,960
Now at this point he's actually
never seen Jesus.

603
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:36,800
He never actually saw Jesus.
He left with mud on his eyes to

604
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,320
go to the pool and to wash.
And later, only later will he

605
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,760
see Jesus.
And we serve a God that does

606
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,040
miracles in the mundane.
This man was sitting and Jesus

607
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,640
found him.
This man didn't see Jesus.

608
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,520
This man didn't ask for Jesus.
He was sitting at the perfect

609
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,720
moment for Jesus to come by and
do a miracle.

610
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:57,880
Do you know that Jesus
positioned your life?

611
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,400
Amen.
He's not an accident where

612
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,120
you're at.
He's placed you and He's

613
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:06,280
perfectly designed you and your
story, the family you're born

614
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,320
into, the circumstances you grew
up with.

615
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,520
He's perfectly designed your
story so that God can get the

616
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,920
maximum amount of glory from
your life.

617
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,360
Amen.
He's using all these things to

618
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,240
bring himself glory.
And listen this, he didn't just

619
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:26,520
give the man sight, He actually
gave the man purpose to give him

620
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,640
purpose.
The golden miracle wasn't that

621
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,480
he just see.
The golden miracle is that the

622
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,520
Gods works will be on display,
Amen.

623
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,600
So he didn't just give him sight
to see.

624
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,000
He didn't do a miracle in his
life.

625
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:38,920
And thank you Jesus, what a
great story.

626
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,360
He actually did a miracle.
So he live on mission.

627
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,360
He did a miracle so he could
proclaim that to other people.

628
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,320
He could go out and say he did
proclaim this.

629
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,880
He said I once was blind, but
now I see that that's a

630
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,360
proclamation of God's glory,
Amen.

631
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,200
And the whole rest of his life
he's going to go around and tell

632
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,920
the whole world that I was a
blind man, I was a beggar on the

633
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,840
street.
But Jesus, the Messiah, the

634
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,480
Christ healed me.
That's the glory of God.

635
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,680
And it's the reason it's so
powerful in the New Testament,

636
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:14,440
in this story, is that only one
person and all of history could

637
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:18,480
ever give sight to the blind,
and that was the Messiah,

638
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,360
Christ.
That means the Messiah anointed

639
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:25,480
1 the chosen one of God, the one
prophesied in Genesis 315, the

640
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,200
one that there was to come.
They didn't know it was going to

641
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,160
be Son of God, but he is the Son
of God.

642
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,600
And so this, this blind man,
this beggar who receives his

643
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,720
sight isn't just clearing a
miracle of God, He's actually

644
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:40,960
declaring the identity of God.
He's saying no, no, no, that

645
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:46,040
Jesus is the Messiah because he
did something to me only God can

646
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,200
do.
He's literally a picture.

647
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,640
He is the living proof of the
living God.

648
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,720
Amen.
He is living proof of a living

649
00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,960
God.
His story is saying only Jesus,

650
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:05,040
God himself, the Messiah could
have done the work and nobody

651
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,680
could ever do this.
He actually says this later on

652
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,280
in in in Chapter 9.
It says verse 32.

653
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,840
It says nobody has ever heard of
opening the eyes of a man born

654
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,040
blind like this blind man like
no one's heard of this.

655
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,400
If this make we're not from God,
he could do nothing.

656
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,080
What he's saying is like
Abraham, Moses, the prophets,

657
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,960
there's nobody that's ever done
this miracle.

658
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,120
You see a lot of crazy miracles,
Old Testament, Amen.

659
00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:34,800
There's a lot of crazy miracles
and Isaiah, it mentions that

660
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,680
this person will give sight to
the blind, the Messiah, and so

661
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,000
is a picture of Jesus.
Matter of fact, you search the

662
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,960
New Testament, you have
disciples that heal people who

663
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,040
are blind but make them walk.
So you don't really have any

664
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,800
specific story of a disciple
healing somebody's blind.

665
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,840
It's it's crazy.
Like it was just a picture.

666
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:57,200
It was a sign that Jesus was the
Son of God.

667
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,160
He's the Messiah.
He's a chosen one for us.

668
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,040
And so this means living proof
of a living God.

669
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,680
Amen.
Amen.

670
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,400
Y'all with me now.
It's just significant.

671
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:14,040
The miracle is not just for you,
the miracles for others to see

672
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,640
God through.
You see, this blind man wasn't

673
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,200
supposed to have sight for
himself.

674
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,320
He's actually helping other
people have sight, the spiritual

675
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:26,560
blinds to see the things of God.
He's there to declare God's

676
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,440
glory.
Like I said, when I was 17 years

677
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,200
old, I've read this for the very
first time and I grew up in a

678
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,360
broken home.
I grew up, I saw my dad, you

679
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:38,200
know, every other weekends.
I grew up with step siblings.

680
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,080
You saw my picture last week.
I think that's last week, week

681
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,200
before last week.
Elblers together.

682
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,600
I'm not going to put it back up.
Don't you dare do that.

683
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,240
I never probably got there.
It's probably back in the folder

684
00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:51,840
there, right?
You saw my family, right.

685
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:53,680
And you know, at 17's
interesting age because you

686
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,720
start thinking about the future
quite a bit, like you're getting

687
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,120
close to graduate high school.
Like what's my life?

688
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,760
Can you be out?
Like I'm going to make a bunch

689
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,120
of money.
Like what?

690
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,320
What do I go to college?
Like is it about money is why?

691
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,360
Why is this hardship?
You start seeing the news and

692
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,680
it's making a little more sense
and you start realizing your

693
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,720
family wasn't like the like a
nuclear family, you know?

694
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:14,360
And you're like, why did this?
How did this?

695
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,360
And you start wondering like,
what's the point of life?

696
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,160
Like, am I going to really spend
the next 40 years like slaving

697
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,120
and making a paycheck just to
maybe get sick and not enjoy it

698
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,320
Like you like I'm starting
thinking about this stuff like

699
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,720
17 and, and wondering like all
these purpose questions and I

700
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:30,960
read this passage and just stuck
out to me like there's a reason

701
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,760
I'm here.
Like I have a purpose.

702
00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:36,800
Like it's not an accident that
I'm in a blended family in

703
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,000
Raytona Beach.
Come on with somebody.

704
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:40,960
That's Raytown, by the way,
right?

705
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,600
Maritona Beach.
Like it's just not an accident

706
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,280
that I'm in this, in the place I
am with the last name I have,

707
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:48,840
with the family I have and the
friends I have.

708
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,800
It's not actually God has put me
on purpose so I can declare his

709
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,040
works.
That's refreshing.

710
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,480
Amen.
Like this is not an accident

711
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,720
like I'm not coming out some
cesspool and all the evolved and

712
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:02,280
what's the point of life?
Like I don't know just enjoy all

713
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,280
you can because once it's over
it's over.

714
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,640
Like it was so significant to my
life that I knew I had to live

715
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,480
my life for God because he'd
give me such purpose like what

716
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,480
it look like my life to display
his glory and it begin this

717
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,480
battle of my soul for the next
year.

718
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:20,360
Whether I should go off and be a
doctor, go pre Med or I should

719
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,880
go into what I've considered
full time ministry.

720
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,240
And I was I was fighting back
and forth and it went down to

721
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:28,080
the very end.
I changed, I changed schools

722
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,480
about two weeks before school
started and it was crazy.

723
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:35,280
But that that's because of this
scripture that was in my mind.

724
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,880
I found my purpose.
It was the second day, right?

725
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,800
Greatest of your life.
So what do you do in life feels

726
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,280
meaningless.
And I think you got to go back

727
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,400
to your purpose that God's work
is greater than our work.

728
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,360
Doing God's work is greater than
doing our work.

729
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,680
It's not about just running
cable or flying UAVs.

730
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:55,920
Come on, somebody right here,
this guy's about to change the

731
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:56,840
world.
His name's Adam.

732
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,120
And there's some drones that may
be flying out for Amazon that

733
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,600
will go over your house and
hover.

734
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,280
If you see that at all.
He's the guy to go talk to.

735
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,280
And you think I'm joking, but
I'm dead serious.

736
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,000
It's happening, dude, it's
happening literally changed the

737
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,040
world.
Thank you for doing what you do,

738
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,680
Adam.
I appreciate that, but it's just

739
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,120
not about that, right?
It's a bigger point to this

740
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:17,760
whole thing.
And this is what it says in John

741
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,120
Chapter 9.
This is what Jesus was teaching

742
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,560
the disciples at the beginning
of this this whole thing.

743
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,880
We healed the blind man.
John Chapter 9, John Chapter 9,

744
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,720
verse 4, it says as long it is
this day, we somebody say, we

745
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:33,400
say we all right, as long as
they we must do the works of

746
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:34,000
him.
Thank you.

747
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,320
We must do the works of him who
sent me.

748
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,560
Night is coming when no one can
work so much crucifixion.

749
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,600
So Jesus, he's actually
including his disciples.

750
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,440
He's not just him doing the work
of the Father.

751
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,440
It's including disciples.
It's really the point of our

752
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:53,440
life that we do the work of the
Father that sent Jesus.

753
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,080
Who knows?
You're in your Father's

754
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,680
business, Amen.
That's who you work for.

755
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,280
You're doing the works of the
Father.

756
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:04,160
When Jesus talks, he's actually
taking conversations that he had

757
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:09,360
around the throne of God and he
speaks to us the words of the

758
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:14,040
Father in heaven around the
throne about he's doing and his

759
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,480
purposes in his ways.
That's amazing to think about.

760
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,480
Like you're part of a way bigger
company than Amazon, Amen?

761
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,320
You're part of the company.
What God is doing this with the

762
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,120
Father's work and our work is do
the work of the Father who sent

763
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,200
Jesus.
It's way bigger than a paycheck.

764
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,800
We got to make a paycheck, Amen?
I mean, that's what earthly is

765
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,040
about.
You got toil, you got all these

766
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,040
things, but it's more than a
paycheck.

767
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,160
There's something way deeper
than this punching the clock,

768
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,920
put in the four O 1K going to
retire.

769
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,120
I talked to so many people.
I've talked to a man.

770
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,440
He, he owned like everything on
the South side of College Blvd.

771
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,880
between Null and Row.
He was a anesthesiologist and

772
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,520
and he went into commercial
business and he's still working.

773
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,760
He's still working and he's
upper 70s.

774
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,720
And I asked him, I said you
could retired like you're 40.

775
00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:00,280
You know, you could retire when
you're 50.

776
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,160
You could do all this stuff.
And he said, hey, you know what,

777
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:04,960
You're right.
Like, I wish I would have gone

778
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,640
back 40 years ago and had a
vision for my life, for

779
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,240
retirement.
And so I just keep working.

780
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,480
He's like, just to kind of what
I do.

781
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,880
It's just, it's just amazing
because we have just kind of

782
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,080
settled into like, that's the
life I'm going to have.

783
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:19,840
But what's the purpose beyond
that?

784
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,800
Amen.
Maybe maybe the purpose is to

785
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:27,120
fund missions or to be on
mission or just share the

786
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:28,760
gospel.
These are all purposes we should

787
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,080
live out every single day of our
life.

788
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,040
You might ask why work is
unfulfilling.

789
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,120
It's because we mistake work for
purpose.

790
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,200
We mistake work for purpose.
And God could use your work and

791
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,960
maybe your work has a purpose,
like maybe it ties more directly

792
00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:45,000
and maybe God put you there to
be a light.

793
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,440
Amen.
And the gospel or, or to, to.

794
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,160
I always think if you're going
to do something you do with all

795
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,360
your might, like like whatever
your hand puts to do with all

796
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,240
your might, like you're working
to the Lord, Amen.

797
00:49:57,720 --> 00:49:59,360
I always think like if you're
roofing a house, you should roof

798
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:03,440
it like it's Jesus house, Amen.
Like you, you should do

799
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,120
everything for the glory of God.
So it's not just like they're

800
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:07,840
spiritual and secular.
I don't want you to get that

801
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,200
idea, but like you're doing it
for the glory of God.

802
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,000
But it may not, but it's tied
back to the fact that people get

803
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,800
glory through that.
Why do you roof the house so

804
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,600
well?
Oh, because I love Jesus and you

805
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,680
get to Share your story with
people around you and point

806
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,040
people to Christ as
relationships.

807
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:23,880
You build.
It's not just about roofing,

808
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,360
it's about the relationships.
But you, we, we say this often,

809
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,080
you know, people ask you, hey,
what do you do?

810
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,160
And we, we tell them like
earthly answers, which makes

811
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,800
sense, but we don't really tie
it back to the bigger purpose.

812
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,680
She'll say, what do you do is
say, oh, I'm a nurse, you know,

813
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,720
I work construction, You know,
I, I, I clean, I'm a, I'm a

814
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,200
custodian.
Like we fill in the blank.

815
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,480
Like people ask immediately, You
tell them a job title, you tell

816
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,600
them the earthly job title.
Some of you guys are teachers,

817
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:53,920
like I said, to pick on the
Amazon drunk guy here in the

818
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,600
front, right.
Quite a bit, right?

819
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:56,960
But these are all earthly
titles.

820
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:58,720
They're man made titles.
These are smaller purposes and

821
00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:01,520
they're awesome purposes, Amen.
Like we need every one of these,

822
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:07,360
Amen, Amen.
Some of us need to I won't I'll

823
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:13,360
stop interesting day yesterday,
but here's what God calls us.

824
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,320
Here's our heavenly purposes.
All right, I'll I'll give you 3

825
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,720
big heavenly purposes.
There's way more than this and

826
00:51:18,720 --> 00:51:21,560
one is we're ambassador for
Christ, we're bashed for Christ.

827
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:25,240
2nd Corinthians 517.
This is a famous passage by Paul

828
00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,280
says, therefore, if it was in
Christ our new creation, the new

829
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,040
has come, the old is gone, the
new is here.

830
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,160
That sounds the moment you come
to Christ, the moment you start

831
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,920
relationship with Jesus that
you're a new man, a new woman,

832
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,400
the old is gone.
I love it that Jesus doesn't

833
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,600
upgrade your life.
He tears down the old one and

834
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,080
brings a new one.
Amen.

835
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,720
You don't get little tweaks.
You don't paint the cabinets.

836
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:48,240
No, no, you're a new person in
Christ and says all this is from

837
00:51:48,240 --> 00:51:51,200
God who reconciled us to himself
through Christ.

838
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,000
And look at this.
He gave us the ministry of what?

839
00:51:55,720 --> 00:51:59,600
The ministry of reconciliation.
He gave us the ministry of

840
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,560
sharing good works and being a
light man.

841
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,440
You quit smoking.
Yeah, I don't smoke.

842
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,360
I heard you maybe a little bit.
That's good.

843
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,560
But it gives a ministry to bring
people back to himself.

844
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:17,800
Like like God didn't move.
We moved.

845
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,360
That's why we're reconciled back
to God and we have the ministry

846
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,560
of sharing the gospel so that
other people can get back in a

847
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,520
relationship with Jesus.
That that's why we're here.

848
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,560
It's a purpose that God was
reconciled the world to himself

849
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,200
in Christ.
This is the message you preach.

850
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,760
So we tell people God was
reconciled the world to himself.

851
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,600
We down the cross, but we did
not counting people's sins

852
00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:38,680
against them.
Who's playing for that verse

853
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:43,000
Amen that we don't have a Labor
Day with Jesus.

854
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,560
Like I said earlier, we don't
have to earn our way back to

855
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,120
God.
God is actually carries a big

856
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,760
eraser and we know Jesus and we
make mistakes.

857
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,920
He forgives us all says we
confess our sins faithful and

858
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:54,680
just forgive our sins and
cleanse us from all

859
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,000
unrighteousness like we came to
Christ.

860
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,320
We just said we were confessing
our need for him.

861
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,680
Lord, I need you, Lord, forgive
me.

862
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,040
And he took that eraser out and
he washed away as far as the

863
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,400
east is from the West.
And every time we mess up, God

864
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,440
erases.
Sometimes you think God's out to

865
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,800
get us and we're not good enough
for God.

866
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,160
But God is not sitting there
going in heaven and he's writing

867
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,160
down all this of your sins and
going, man, I'm going to get

868
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,880
you.
He's not that kind of God, Amen.

869
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:24,080
He's a grace filled God and he
is reconciling us back to him.

870
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:25,000
This is the message of you to
preach.

871
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:26,280
That's a great message to
preach.

872
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,320
He's committed to us.
So not only did he give us, he's

873
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,600
committing to us the message of
reconciliation.

874
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,720
He's saying it's no longer mine.
I'm leaving.

875
00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:37,120
I'm going back to heaven.
It is yours to preach.

876
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,440
Amen.
I mean, I always think God help

877
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:41,160
me.
Oh, thank you.

878
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,400
I didn't even see you over here.
That was tricky, Rick.

879
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,160
Nice work, my friend.
You're a good man, Rick.

880
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:55,200
I like that.
I'll probably trip on it later.

881
00:53:56,720 --> 00:53:59,680
It's a trap.
But He gave us the ministry of

882
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,120
reconciliation, verse 20.
We are there for Christ.

883
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:04,600
Ambassadors.
Who are we?

884
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,000
Christ ambassadors?
We're diplomats for Christ.

885
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,920
We're ambassadors for Christ.
That means we speak on behalf of

886
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:13,320
Christ.
We're sharing things with

887
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:14,800
Christ.
He's not here to share.

888
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,160
We are sharing for Him as the
God.

889
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:18,520
We're making His appeal through
us.

890
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,880
We implore you on Christ's
behalf to be reconciled to God.

891
00:54:22,240 --> 00:54:24,080
God made him.
This is it.

892
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:29,800
Who had no sin to be sin for us,
so that in him we might be the

893
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:33,600
righteousness of God.
That's the message we preach.

894
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,840
Amen.
And so while you're spinning and

895
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,320
you're toiling and you're
thinking, oh man, well,

896
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,240
everything owns you to go to the
next generation.

897
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:42,080
And I don't know if it really is
going to matter if we have

898
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,000
excellence and it's kind of hard
to get a bed to go to work and

899
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,520
you gotta go wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait.

900
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:50,080
I'm not showing up to do it.
Just a job that's important.

901
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,680
I'm actually here because I'm an
ambassador for Christ.

902
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,880
Amen.
The gospel has to go into every

903
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:01,120
little place where you work,
play, live, study everything.

904
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,840
The gospel goes with you.
So not only ambassador, you're

905
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:06,800
actually salt and light.
Matthew 514.

906
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:08,640
This is the Beatitudes, Jesus
sermon, the mount.

907
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,560
He said you're the salt of the
earth.

908
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,600
But if salt loses its salt in
this, how can it be made salty

909
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,640
again if it's no longer good for
anything except be thrown out

910
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,880
and trampled in her foot?
I learned something about salt

911
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:21,840
this week.
This is going to be really

912
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:25,880
interesting.
There's a man in my group named

913
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,920
Jamie Montgomer.
You guys know Jamie, He's in.

914
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,920
He's actually not here today.
All right, now we can say we

915
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:36,200
want to.
He he read a book on the history

916
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,680
of salt.
I said, dude, you're a boring

917
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,480
dude, man.
He said it was really

918
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:43,640
interesting.
I was really curious.

919
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,920
Tell me something about salt.
I don't know, He said.

920
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:49,240
You know what's crazy is they
used to pay people with salt.

921
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,600
A Roman soldier would get paid
in salt sometimes, like when

922
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,120
this time period salt was
valuable.

923
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,160
Like nowadays we don't think
anything of it, you know, just

924
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:00,600
get the shaker out filled up.
You buy, you know, buy the ton,

925
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,760
right?
We just put on the road and it's

926
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,960
icy out, right.
But but salt like it was

927
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,240
significant.
Like you need it to be healthy.

928
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,800
And so they would actually get
paid in salt off and they'd

929
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:12,360
store salt.
He told me in Civil War they'd

930
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,680
just be salt like carts for
people to have enough salt for

931
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,600
their bodies.
It was crazy.

932
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,520
But the thing like that salt was
significant in that time period.

933
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,680
And if you lose your salt in
this, what good is it like if

934
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,520
you're not getting the salt that
you're supposed to get?

935
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,960
Like salt was valuable is a
preservative.

936
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,960
It was a flavor.
He told me that salt is actually

937
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,240
why you have salad named after
salt to keep its flavor, to keep

938
00:56:35,240 --> 00:56:37,280
it to last.
I was like, OK, dude, you're

939
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,200
blowing my mind now.
Like he's going through all this

940
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:40,840
different things, right?
It's like, I'm not.

941
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:41,920
What's the name of that book
again?

942
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,000
I didn't go there, right?
I just got the Cliff notes from

943
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,560
him Is perfect.
They said this.

944
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,200
You're the lie of the world.
We're 14.

945
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,360
A town built on a hill could not
be hidden.

946
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,080
I always think about Bogota,
Colombian, as a town on the

947
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,400
hill.
You get out and like the, the

948
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,440
mountains and you get little
houses or little villages.

949
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,880
I mean, it's just a such amazing
picture that when you turn a

950
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,120
light on it don't matter if
you're 20 miles or 10 miles or

951
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,200
five miles.
You know, there's a, there's a

952
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,560
city there, there's a house
there and you can see it, it,

953
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,560
it's something we don't really
think about here in the States a

954
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,760
lot because you don't have this
kind of rolling valleys and

955
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:16,960
stuff.
You just kind of see

956
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,640
subdivisions, but out in
different areas of the world,

957
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,960
there's villages in the night.
He says neither do people light

958
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,760
a lamp and put it under a bowl.
Instead, they put it instead on

959
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,800
a stand.
They elevate the light so it

960
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,400
gives light to everyone in the
house.

961
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:32,440
They elevate it at their
workplace.

962
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,920
They elevate with their family.
They elevate it wherever they

963
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:38,600
play, elevate at school.
They elevate it so people can

964
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:39,480
see a light.
Amen.

965
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,560
Amen.
Like your goal is to be light,

966
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:48,240
to be salt, to preserve the
things of God and to shine out

967
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:53,280
God's glory and God's work so
that people can see him and know

968
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,400
him.
He says, therefore let your

969
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,600
light shine for others that they
may see your good deeds and

970
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,880
glorify your Father in heaven.
That's a purpose.

971
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,360
Amen.
If you're discouraged, I would

972
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,240
encourage you, baby, to get your
eyes more on Jesus because it's

973
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:09,520
easy to go.
Well, I can't get these

974
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,440
deadlines and all this is
stressful and we're so looking

975
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,720
down at all the things, you
know, like, oh, there's there's

976
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:17,040
my you know, there's this
account.

977
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,840
There's an all all man so busy,
so busy, so busy.

978
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,520
Why?
What's Jesus want you to do?

979
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:28,720
Share the Gospel, shine a light,
be different for the things of

980
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,600
Christ.
Maybe it's add to change, right?

981
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:32,600
Negativity.
There shouldn't be a bunch of

982
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:33,840
negativity in the Christian
life.

983
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:37,400
Like it just shows like there's
some room to grow.

984
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,560
Amen.
Last thing is this your disciple

985
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:44,200
maker Matthew 28, 18 says, then
Jesus came to them and said all

986
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:47,840
authority in heaven and on earth
have been given to me.

987
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,280
This is one of the last things
that Jesus says to the disciples

988
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,800
for you to act rightful
ascension.

989
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:57,520
He says, therefore, go and make
disciples of all nations.

990
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:03,720
Go and make what make disciples
if if, if you're if you're can't

991
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,520
find your purpose in me in life.
Like Solomon, he was like, he

992
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,560
was so discouraged.
Like, I'm just gonna hand off

993
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:14,240
everything.
What are you leaving disciples?

994
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,920
Disciples.
If your life isn't invested in

995
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,560
disciples, it would probably
feel pretty meaningless.

996
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,200
If your life wasn't about the
things of Christ going to the

997
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,560
next generation, it'd feel
pretty futile.

998
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,840
Like, what would be the point?
That's why I kind of love this

999
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,280
story over here.
I mean, Scott and Jordan, the

1000
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,280
family, right?
Like, dude, God's got them.

1001
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,080
This guy's reading the Bible,
praying, seek care of things

1002
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:40,360
like God.
That is reassuring and that's

1003
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:41,800
the gospel going forward.
Amen.

1004
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,920
As we talk about the future and
what it looks like, it means

1005
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,880
that we're making disciples of
the next generation.

1006
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,280
They're pouring all of the
things of God in our life into

1007
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,120
somebody else.
That is significant.

1008
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:55,840
That's the purpose.
You guys ever thought about

1009
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:57,000
starting a Bible study at your
work?

1010
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:00,920
You guys ever thought about
asking different questions like,

1011
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,320
hey, man, I heard heard that I
saw on Facebook, man, how can I

1012
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,400
pray for you?
Like, hey, what?

1013
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:10,160
What's God showing you?
Just building spiritual,

1014
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,440
redemptive relationships with
people around you.

1015
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:14,160
This might be brand new to think
for.

1016
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,840
Like, you know, we're really,
really good at our jobs, but

1017
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,960
we're really, really good at our
job, our Heavenly Father's job

1018
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:25,600
to make disciples.
That's what we got to focus in

1019
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:29,440
on because that's a life worth
living and a life worth dying

1020
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:32,400
for.
So Jesus died for to make

1021
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,720
disciples.
This passage is about making

1022
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,080
disciples.
We go so we can make disciples.

1023
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,120
We baptized because we made
disciples.

1024
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,080
We teach because we made
disciples.

1025
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,360
Go and make disciples with all
nations.

1026
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,040
That's every person.
That's your workplace.

1027
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,120
And I promise you, I ain't show
up to your work.

1028
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,840
Amen.
I'm going to be around all your

1029
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:52,320
friends.
I'm gonna hang with your fried

1030
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:53,920
night buddies.
That's your place to make

1031
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:56,240
disciples.
Live on a mission where you go

1032
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,880
every place you step foot,
baptizing the Father, Son, the

1033
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:00,960
Holy Spirit and teach them to
obey you.

1034
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:02,840
Teach you obedience, not just
thanks God, but teach them to

1035
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,720
follow God, obey God and
everything.

1036
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:09,440
I've command you and surely I'm
with you always to the very end

1037
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,800
of the age.
What a great promise.

1038
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,120
Never forget who you really are.
When somebody says, hey, what do

1039
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:16,960
you do for a living?
I always love this.

1040
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:20,040
Imagine an airplane.
It's a great captive audience,

1041
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:21,840
Amen.
And they always ask the same

1042
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:23,600
questions.
It's never anything new.

1043
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,040
Nowadays it's more like earbuds
and nobody talks.

1044
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,040
But if you start talking to say,
what do you do?

1045
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:31,160
Seems like the first or second
question.

1046
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:33,600
And usually you tell somebody,
hey, you know what?

1047
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:35,560
Actually, I work in my father's
business.

1048
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,400
It's an international company
kind of worldwide, Amen?

1049
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,680
Like it actually helps people
discover real life and purpose.

1050
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:44,520
It's a pretty cool company.
It's a lot of fun.

1051
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,880
Matter of fact, I'm actually an
ambassador.

1052
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:50,200
Oh, really?
Wow, that's so exciting.

1053
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:51,440
Wow.
Tell me more about that.

1054
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,120
Well, I don't, I don't mind.
I will.

1055
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:54,800
I think I'll, you know, I got 3
hours on this flight.

1056
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:55,760
Thank you for asking.
Right.

1057
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:58,600
It may be a little cheesy, but
that that's the point.

1058
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,520
Like we are ambassadors.
We are disciple makers.

1059
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,120
Like it's way bigger, it's way
bigger.

1060
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:08,120
It's way bigger than just all I
got to get A to B get my job

1061
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,960
list done, be transactional, get
my stuff put together, notice

1062
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:14,600
slow down.
Who in your life can you pour

1063
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:18,760
into to build disciples?
I'm not sure who I'm poured into

1064
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:22,280
is my kids, but put put that
thing back on the screen by my

1065
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:26,400
awesome truck.
So proud of this truck, right?

1066
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,040
You know it's never going to be
the same, right?

1067
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,440
This is a good illustration of
hanging it to a teenager and

1068
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:31,880
start driving.
It's just never going to come

1069
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,560
back the same way you left it,
right?

1070
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:36,040
But you know why?
Why do this?

1071
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:40,520
Because you know, it's not just
all I built a truck because he

1072
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:42,800
was excited.
What I was excited about was

1073
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:46,040
spending time with my son.
He's 4, right?

1074
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,040
And he didn't sit next to me for
six hours.

1075
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,800
OK, But he came next to me.
Dad is already blah, blah.

1076
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,080
And I can just start telling him
the things of God.

1077
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:55,880
I can say, hey, leave a story.
What's that?

1078
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:58,120
So.
Well, I once was blind.

1079
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:00,400
Come on.
Somebody.

1080
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:06,240
I once was blind, son.
Yeah.

1081
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,560
I was a 15 man.
Didn't go to church, grew up in

1082
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,800
a family, didn't follow Jesus.
You're so lucky to know Jesus,

1083
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:13,160
man.
I found Jesus and changed my

1084
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:16,720
life.
Now I see, just slow down for

1085
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:19,640
that relationship, Amen.
And you can do that.

1086
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:21,720
Everywhere you go, you work on
something.

1087
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,880
Hey, man, I'm going to tell you
a story, man.

1088
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:26,640
I think you know, it's a great
storyteller.

1089
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:29,040
Bill Hardy was a great
storyteller.

1090
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:32,360
That boy could tell a story.
If you don't know Bill, Bill,

1091
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,680
Bill went on the Lord a few
months ago, and he always had

1092
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:38,080
time for a story.
He didn't always have time for

1093
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:39,840
work.
He did work hard, but he

1094
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:41,640
interrupted your work to tell
some stories, Amen.

1095
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:44,360
And those stories always are
redemptive.

1096
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:48,320
It always went back to the
things of God, always challenge

1097
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:50,240
you spiritually, always
encourage you deeply.

1098
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:51,880
That's what it looks like to
make disciples.

1099
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,920
Amen.
And this week, if you could just

1100
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,160
say, I can't find meaning and
purpose in my work, well, maybe

1101
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:59,640
it's because you've been living
for work and not for Jesus and

1102
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:01,600
say, what does it look like to
to encapsulate my word for the

1103
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:03,800
things of Christ?
Yes, with excellence, yes, with

1104
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:05,480
passion.
But I've got coworkers in the

1105
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,040
Christ.
I need people to be some

1106
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:08,840
encouragement.
Am I praying for these people?

1107
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:10,720
Am I loving those people?
We're looking to start a Bible

1108
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:12,200
study.
Invite them to your house,

1109
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:13,520
invite them to the things of
God.

1110
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,040
Our job as a church is not to
get people to church and to get

1111
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:18,000
them to Jesus.
Amen.

1112
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,200
There will not be a banner in
heaven that says real life

1113
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,320
church.
There will not be a name in

1114
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:24,720
light that says Sean Petrie.
There will be a name that says

1115
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:26,800
Jesus.
There will be a throne.

1116
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:31,280
He sits on it and so our job is
to scatter out throughout the

1117
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:35,240
week and live on mission for
Christ and come back and gather

1118
01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:38,040
and celebrate what God's done.
That's why we're here.

1119
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:40,240
That's the purpose.
That's what makes life

1120
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,200
meaningful.
Being come back and say, man,

1121
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:43,560
you know what, God did something
amazing.

1122
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,160
I saw this person hear the
gospel be praying for him.

1123
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,320
He may come to Christ.
I'm trying to share these things

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with them.
Hey, I'm linking about sort of

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01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:52,440
Bibles with my kid like I want
to walk through where should I

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01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,040
start because I'm living on
mission with my family.

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01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:56,760
These are the conversations we
want to have a church.

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01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,200
Amen, like we don't want to talk
about football.

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01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,200
Amen.
We want to talk about the things

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01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:06,400
that matter, the deep things of
God that once was blind, but now

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01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:10,160
I see, Father, come before you
can help us to purpose our

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01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:12,640
labor.
Remind us for Our Calling.

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01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:15,880
Maybe that you're speaking to
some people in the room today

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01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,320
For those of you that are so you
know what, I need to purpose my

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01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:21,760
life.
I need to purpose my work.

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01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:24,600
I've just drifted into my own
routines.

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01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:28,600
But the day I realized that God
has put me on purpose here with

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01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:31,040
a purpose to share his life, to
be an ambassador, to be a

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01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:34,040
stopmaker, to bring in light to
share my story.

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01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:37,560
If that's you and God speaking
to you, to live out your purpose

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01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:40,240
and your calling in these
different areas, raise your hand

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01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:42,720
high, says me.
God speaking to me to live on

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01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:47,520
mission everywhere I go.
Come on, God sees the hands.

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01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:52,560
He knows the hearts that help us
to be ambassadors, to be

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01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:56,760
reconciler speakers, to share
the good news.

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01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:58,440
You're not counting our sins
against us.

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01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,840
Help us have the boldness and
the courage to share the deeper

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01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:06,360
things in life, to slow down and
to share the stories of God with

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01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,200
our children, with our
coworkers, with our friends,

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01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,520
with their family.
And we would just put our light

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01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,160
up on a light stand, a lamp
stand for the world to see, to

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01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:19,320
be on display.
Just amazing about the blind

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01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,720
man.
He never asked to be healed.

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01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:26,840
He never asked to be healed.
It's because God had purposed

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01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,760
him to be healed.
Maybe today you need to find

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01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,520
your purpose.
Maybe today for the very first

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01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,880
time, you recognize who Jesus
really is.

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01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:38,520
And the Bible says the day is
the day.

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01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:41,400
Salvation.
You heard about Jesus not

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01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:43,800
countering sins against us
because Jesus the only one who

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01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,960
can erase sins, the sinless Son
of God who came 2000 years ago

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01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:49,600
down across for us.
The Bible says today if you call

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01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:52,200
name of Jesus, you be saved,
forgiven and made new.

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01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:55,840
The Bible said right earlier,
first Sin Corinthians 217, First

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01:06:55,840 --> 01:07:00,720
Corinthians 2/5/17 that the old
has gone, the new has come, your

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01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:02,440
new creation in Christ.
And today if you need to be new

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01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:05,520
in Christ, that means you find
your purpose in Christ, your

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01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:07,720
identity in Christ, your name in
Christ.

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01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:10,240
You'll be given a ministry of
reconciliation that's actually

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01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,040
coming to save you.
It's supposed to go through to

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01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,000
the world.
If you'd be saved by Jesus, if

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01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,640
that's you without me looking
around, would you just raise

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01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:20,080
your hand, hand high?
So I need Jesus, I need, I need

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01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:22,920
my purpose.
I recognize a sinless Son of God

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01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:25,640
who died on the cross for me
that's you.

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01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:28,080
Those are the called out and
make it weird but that's you

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01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:29,440
need Christ.
Just put your hand in the hair.

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01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:38,880
See your hand that you need
Christ just call it to him.

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01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:43,480
I believe through a prayer.
The prayer does not save you but

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01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:45,680
your heart towards him.
This crowd say Father God, thank

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01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,560
you so much that you have
purposed me.

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01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:52,080
You love me enough to send your
son to down across from me.

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01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:55,240
He erased my sins as far as the
east is from the West God.

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01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:58,840
And I recognize today I'm a
Sinner in need of a savior and

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01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:00,560
I've been living my own path, my
own direction.

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01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:02,840
I've been struggling trying to
maybe figure it out or been

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01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:03,920
prideful.
Look at me.

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01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:06,160
But today I recognize the story.
It's all about you.

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01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:08,480
This story is about your glory.
It's about your work.

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01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:12,800
And today I can proclaim for the
first time in my life that was

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01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:16,359
spiritually dead.
But the day I was blind and

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01:08:16,359 --> 01:08:18,680
leaving here today and I can
see.

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01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:22,720
So thank you Jesus for saving me
and I praise in Jesus name and

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01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:25,200
the church said Amen.
Come on, give some glory to God

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01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:26,240
today.
Let them know you love him.

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01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:32,680
What a powerful word today.
Just a reminder on our purpose

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01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:35,960
and where our purpose is found,
not in what we do, but in whose

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01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:38,080
we are.
And some of you have prayed that

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01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:41,000
prayer and found your purpose in
real life in Jesus today.

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01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:43,600
If that is you, we are so
excited for you.

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01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,279
We would love just to walk
alongside you this week to

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01:08:46,279 --> 01:08:48,120
resource you with a couple of
things.

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01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:50,760
So if you would grab that
connection card that is on your

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01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:53,880
seat, fill out your information,
but make sure and check that box

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01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:55,920
that says I committed my life to
Jesus.

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01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:58,000
And you can drop that in the
giving buckets here in a few

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01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,399
minutes.
But by doing so, it allows us to

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01:09:00,399 --> 01:09:02,439
get you 2 things.
And this is the first one is

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01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:03,800
this.
It's a free resource.

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01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:05,399
I will drop it in the mail
tomorrow.

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01:09:05,399 --> 01:09:09,200
It's a book called Begin short
read, but a powerful one really

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01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:11,439
will be a blessing for you as
you're taking these next steps

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01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,960
with Jesus this week.
Also, if you pray that prayer

1214
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:16,600
and you're right here at
Kentucky Trail, as you leave the

1215
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:19,359
worship center, there is a table
with some red bags inside.

1216
01:09:19,359 --> 01:09:22,160
Those bags are free Bible and
some other resources that we

1217
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,760
would love to get to you today.
And once again, we are just so

1218
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:27,800
excited that you chose to make
that decision today.

1219
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,960
We love that you committed your
life to him today.

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01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,800
And hey, Next up is fall life
groups.

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01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,680
Hey, they are starting very
soon.

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01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,479
They start meeting next Sunday,
September 7th.

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01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:40,479
I know summer's winding down for
all of us.

1224
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:42,439
Kids are back in school,
routines are in place.

1225
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:44,840
This is a great time and
opportunity to really get

1226
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:48,680
connected and to get plugged in
with the people of God.

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01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:51,479
And so I want to ask this, how
many of you do you raise your

1228
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:54,920
hand if you have been
encouraged, if you have been

1229
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:57,720
challenged, if you have been
changed by attending a life

1230
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:01,720
group, turn around and look at
all these hands.

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01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:05,720
Well, that is real community.
That's what community looks

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01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:08,400
like.
It's real people just doing life

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01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:10,800
together, growing deeper in
their faith together.

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01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:12,960
And that's why life groups
exist.

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01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:14,680
And so I want to challenge you
with this.

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01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:17,320
Maybe in your mind you're
already saying, I don't really

1237
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:20,800
know a lot of people here.
I've never joined a life group

1238
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:22,520
before.
I don't really know where I

1239
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:26,440
would have fit in.
But that is exactly why life

1240
01:10:26,440 --> 01:10:29,520
groups exist.
That is your community for

1241
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:32,720
people to do life shoulder to
shoulder with and to know

1242
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:34,200
people's names and to get
connected.

1243
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:36,920
That's why we do life groups
here at Real Life Church and we

1244
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:39,000
would love to have you in a life
group this fall.

1245
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:41,440
There are so many ways that you
can check them out.

1246
01:10:41,440 --> 01:10:44,440
You can go online to see them.
You can go out in the Hub.

1247
01:10:44,440 --> 01:10:46,440
There's a life group board that
has all of them on there.

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01:10:46,440 --> 01:10:49,760
You can scan the QR and sign up.
Once again, They start meeting

1249
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:53,120
next Sunday, September 7th.
If you have questions about life

1250
01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:54,200
groups, I'll be hanging out
there.

1251
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:56,080
Come hit me up.
I'd love to talk to you, help

1252
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,200
you find a life group, life
group that would be a good fit

1253
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:01,920
for you.
Hey, if you are new with us

1254
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:04,200
today, thank you so much for
being here.

1255
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,320
We truly are so glad that you're
here.

1256
01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,040
We've been praying for you this
week.

1257
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,000
We've been planning for you,
preparing this gathering just

1258
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:13,440
for you and with you in mind.
And so thank you so much for

1259
01:11:13,440 --> 01:11:15,560
being here.
We don't want anything from you

1260
01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:17,320
except for this.
And that was just for you to

1261
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:20,160
introduce yourself to us.
You can do that by grabbing that

1262
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:22,720
same card, fill out your
information on there, check

1263
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:24,960
first time here and you can take
that out to the new here booth

1264
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,120
as you leave.
We do have a free gift that we

1265
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:30,000
would love to get to you just as
our way of saying thank you for

1266
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:31,640
being here with us.
And we would love to see you

1267
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:34,640
back next week right here at
9:15 or 10:45.

1268
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,360
And thank you again so much for
being here.

1269
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:40,240
Hey, I want to share and say
thank you so much to those of

1270
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:42,200
you who give here at Real Life
Church.

1271
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:45,520
I was just looking last week at
a report and so far this year,

1272
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:49,760
we've had 61 people come to know
Jesus because of your giving.

1273
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:51,960
That is huge.
That's right.

1274
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:53,880
Give it up.
That's amazing.

1275
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:59,120
Your generosity is making an
eternal impact.

1276
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:02,200
And every time you get here,
it's so much more than just

1277
01:12:02,440 --> 01:12:05,160
allowing us to turn the lights
on to rent this space.

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01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:10,240
To me, it truly is allows us.
It fuels a ministry, it changes

1279
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:13,640
the lives, it opens the door for
more people to come to know

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01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:16,480
Jesus.
And that's exactly what it's all

1281
01:12:16,480 --> 01:12:18,680
about.
I want to share what we believe

1282
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:20,080
about money here at Real Life
Church.

1283
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:22,640
It's a simple principle, but
man, it's powerful and it's

1284
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:24,000
called the funnel.
And that's this.

1285
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:27,600
You give to God first and that
honors God, shows that you trust

1286
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:28,640
him.
Hey God, I'm going to give to

1287
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,280
you first before all the other
things get in the way.

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01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:33,640
You invest 2nd and that builds
wealth.

1289
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:35,240
That's like the parable of
talents.

1290
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,880
It's using what we have and
multiplying it to be able to

1291
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:40,560
give back to Him.
And then you live on the rest.

1292
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:42,960
And that builds contentment,
just says, hey, God, I trust you

1293
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,560
with what you've given to me.
And I'm content with what I

1294
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:48,480
have.
And it truly, at the end of the

1295
01:12:48,480 --> 01:12:50,960
day, is about so much more than
money.

1296
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:54,600
It's about souls.
It's not just a financial plan.

1297
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:57,880
It is a discipleship plan.
Because man is our generosity,

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01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:00,800
heroes, our impact.
Gross and at the end of the day

1299
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:04,600
that is what it's all about so I
invite you I encourage you today

1300
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:06,880
to take part in that If you call
real life church home, there are

1301
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,600
so many ways you can take part
in that check out the screen

1302
01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:11,160
there.
You can go to our website

1303
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:13,960
reallifechurchkc.com.
You can text any amount you can

1304
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:16,360
scan the QR.
The buckets are going to pass

1305
01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:18,560
here in just a few minutes.
You can drop cash or check in

1306
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:21,400
those or you can drop it in the
giving box in the back.

1307
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:24,440
And as always, if you're your
family, find yourself in any

1308
01:13:24,440 --> 01:13:28,080
kind of need this week, food,
clothing, shelter, would you

1309
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:30,360
please, please reach into the
buckets here and just a minute

1310
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:33,440
as they pass and grab any loose
cash that you find there.

1311
01:13:33,440 --> 01:13:36,000
We really do want to bless you
this week.

1312
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:40,840
Man, what awesome day.
Who's thankful for what God's

1313
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:42,320
doing.
And get rid of these elephants.

1314
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:45,320
I got kicked over your water,
Sean.

1315
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:48,160
I didn't even see it was there.
Hey, before we get out of here,

1316
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:50,160
I want to let you guys know
about something awesome.

1317
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:52,240
So real life is having a
birthday.

1318
01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:55,280
We are turning a man.
And God is so good, isn't it?

1319
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:58,120
Yeah, give it up for God.
So we celebrate every time.

1320
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:00,040
If you've never been to one of
birthday parties, we celebrate

1321
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:02,480
with baptisms and we just blow
the walls out.

1322
01:14:02,480 --> 01:14:05,600
So that's coming on the 21st.
But for our dream team, or maybe

1323
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:07,600
you're looking at serving and
jumping our dream team.

1324
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:09,760
We have an awesome party on the
16th.

1325
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:12,160
It's a Tuesday.
We want to invite you guys to

1326
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:15,600
come hang out with us.
It's it's at Jerry's house in

1327
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:16,920
Raymore.
We'll get you some directions.

1328
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,520
But we have a whole hog roast,
S'mores, yard games.

1329
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:22,240
It's just going to be a party.
Great time to make some memories

1330
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,360
and just hang out.
So we'd love for you guys get

1331
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:27,040
these things on your calendar.
And we want to just blow this

1332
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,480
out for our 8th birthday party.
Hey, if you guys need prayer for

1333
01:14:29,480 --> 01:14:30,960
any reason, we'll have somebody
up here.

1334
01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:33,680
We'll pray with you guys either
as individuals or families, you

1335
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:35,120
know, whatever makes sense for
you guys.

1336
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:37,800
And we can't wait to see you
guys again next week at 9:15 or

1337
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:39,840
10:45.
And as always, remember, whoever

1338
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,280
fights Jesus discovers real life
and purpose.

1339
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,600
This is the end of this podcast.
We hope you've enjoyed it.

1340
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:02,480
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01:15:02,480 --> 01:15:04,320
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