You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bring

0:06 Welcome to another inspirational podcast at Real Life. Church for more great content and updates, visit real life, church kc.com or hear the room. I advise you to stay. And your feet right now, as we get ready to worship God in a big way today. Let's have some fun and let's sing it to him. I was buried beneath my shame who could carry that kind of way. It was my too.

1:00 Till I met together real life, come on. It was not till I've been in an hour.

2:53 U-Haul. And where I'm going. Maybe you can relate to this. Let's sing about it.

4:29 Come on Real Life Church. Let him hear it this morning if you want to shout the beginning, one with God, the most high. Hidden glory and creation.

5:12 Now we've is Fielding in our Christ. What a beautiful name. It is what a beautiful name in the name of Jesus Christ. What? A beautiful name. It is. Nothing compares to this. What a beautiful name it is the name of Jesus. Did he what his name is Jesus.

6:07 She was great love was great. What a wonderful name is good.

6:57 We were still Sinners are seeing was great. I gave you ultimate sacrifice and sent his son Jesus to die, on the cross to forgive us of all of our sins, all of our death, Serving and loving and God he was So Graceful to prop my response to that is just so that's it.

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10:27 I'd love to hear you guys worship. You just a beautiful thing just to hear you guys. Praise the beautiful name of God, right? Can we get him for god? Let's hear it, you know. Today we're going to slow down. We're walking into the week that precedes Easter and it's just a time to remember why we call his name. Beautiful. It's what he did for us. It's what he gave up. And so we're going to do something and we're going to have a time of remember. So we're going to do that through something called communion. So you guys could take a moment and have a seat as we as we prepare our hearts. So about two thousand years ago, Jesus was walking into his passion week, you guys notice The Passion of the Christ in his a week, full of suffering and pain. But he did it with a purpose and he did it with the boldness and he did it with faith willingness and he went through that pain and suffering to bring the Perfect final sacrifice that allows us to call allows us to be called forgiving. And you did that because he loves us, he wants to establish a relationship and bring us.

11:31 Us back into his kingdom. And so I want to start off by reading a few chapters or not few chapters. A few verses from a prophet named Isaiah and Isaiah prophesied about what the Messiah would do in. Jesus was a filled these words so read with me and Isaiah chapter, 53 says, but he was pierced for our transgressions and I want to pause there for just a second. When I when you hear the word pierced, I want you guys to think of the nails that went in Jesus, hands and feet in the spear. That went in a side. This case. A cost, and he was crushed for our iniquities. Iniquity is think of this, it's our sin. It's everything that we've done wrong, it's everything, that we've turned to the left when we should have gone, right. The things that God has called us to do and we turn our back on it and we didn't pursue those things. He says the punishment that brought us peace was on him. And by his wounds, we are healed by the thing that Jesus went through.

12:30 We have our salvation and we all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us has turned to our own way and the lord has laid on him. The iniquity of us, all Jesus bore our transgressions, the things that we did our personal health, God placed on Jesus, In This Moment In This crucifixion, and he continues in 53:12. He says this. He says, he poured out his life unto death and he was numbered with the transgressors, the It's endless Lamb of God, was hung between two guys that were thieves. He was there as a common criminal, that's what he was numbered with for. He bore the sin, the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors and who the transgressors are. We'd like to put our fingers at everybody else has done something wrong.

13:23 But really the transgressors. Are you and me each one of us has our part of why Jesus had to do what he did. And again, he did it willingly. So communion really is a time of remembrance and Jesus instituted. It isn't gave this to us. It's an ordinance of the church. It's not a Sacrament, it doesn't save. It doesn't give us extra Grace but it's a symbol of what Jesus did in his body giving up a broken body and his blood. So they're symbols. And so would you guys stand with me? We're going to read a couple more scriptures in a minute and I'm going to invite the community to come forward, but close your eyes for a minute. And this is a moment between you and God settle your hearts.

14:03 Know that this is something that was done for you. He's God cares about you, God loves you. You guys continue reading with me Paul in Corinthians, chapter 11, 23 24. This is in the, this is the night before Jesus, crucifixion. It's his last moments, he's in the upper room. It's the last supper is with his disciples. It says this that the Lord Jesus on the night. He was betrayed took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it. And said, this is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Me in this mist of the Last Supper, the last time that he was going to spend time together with the people that the guys that had followed him and been with him for the last three years.

14:50 This is the last thing that he's telling them. And a few short hours, Jesus would ultimately go through something that none of us can even imagine his body was broken. His beard was ripped out. A crown of thorns was shoved onto his head. He was beaten with a whip, That wasn't just a whip. It was a whipped filled with glass with rock. Ultimately he was nailed a stew that cross he was tortured in that week. All because of our transgressions but more importantly, because he loved us and it continues in verse 25. It says this in the same way. After supper, he took the cup saying this cup is the New Covenant in my blood. Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me. This is the, this is the last part of it. Jesus shed blood was the final payment. It was the final sacrifice.

15:45 It was the culmination of the whole sacrificial system. The Jews had in the Old Testament because they would come to Jerusalem to sacrifice and their sins were covered temporarily by the sacrifice of whatever animal they were sacrificing, but Jesus shed blood was the final, perfect sacrifice that took away the Brokenness to hurt the iniquities. The transgressions that we had our lives. Yes. And now we become forgiven. We're called redeemed were called Sons and Daughters because of Jesus blood. One of the last things that Jesus says in Matthew 26:28. So this is the blood of my Covenant, which is poured out for the many for the Forgiveness of sins.

16:26 This is where our for forgiveness, comes from the New Covenant. We're no longer those transgressors. We are no those longer. The lost sheep, we can be called the family of God, because of what he did for us. So this moment is time of communion are for those of us that have follow Jesus have put him first called him Lord. And so, this time of remembrance, it's time of humility at the time of thankfulness. So in a short moment, I'm going to pray and we're gonna have you guys. After I pray come down your Center aisles. What you'll do is, you'll take a bread, you'll dip it either in the wine or the grape juice and you'll eat this in remembrance of what Jesus did for you. You so, would you guys take this moment and pray with me, Father, we come before you and got, we read the words that we read your scriptures and we understand what Jesus went through, but it's still hard for our hearts and our minds to comprehend. Just the love that put him there. The perfect sinless, Lamb of God, who did no wrong. The creator of the universe, the one that has set. The foundations of the universe came to the slowly place and Born and lived a perfect life just to redeem us. Make us whole.

17:44 He came to fix the things that were lost when Adam said and now the restored in your work of Jesus and his sacrifice God, thank you for that help us. As we take this time of communion and we take this act and we do it in reverence and thankfulness and humility. And God thank you for pursuing us. God and I pray that you put a vision in our hearts to never forget what you've done for us. And share that with those that are around us and bring the hope that you have to the world that you've called us to God. We lift up all these things. We pray, all these things in your name. Amen. As the song. Praise God, leads you come forward. In the crushing, in the present.

19:01 You are making. In the soil. Now, surrender, you are breaking new ground. So are you two when I trust you? I don't need to understand. Make Me Your Vessel. Make me an offer. Make me whatever you want me to be.

19:48 I came here with nothing. All you have given me? Jesus bring you on out of me. In the crushing, in the pressing. You are making. In the soil. I Surrender. She were breaking because you were breaking new ground.

20:39 So There is no.

22:30 Here with nothing but given me. Jesus bring new and cheese.

24:15 You want me to be? I came here with nothing, but all you have given me. Jesus brings us friend new eyes. Amen. Girl, you got some praise this morning and what a powerful reminder communion is on this Palm Sunday because that wine or that grape juice that we just have with the bread that blood that was spilt on the cross.

25:07 It happened on Friday, right, but we know the story, we know what happened three days later. Resurrection. Sunday morning, Jesus rose. As from the grave and conquered death. And that's what it's all about. That's what we're celebrating next week on Easter Sunday and it is so good to see you all here this Sunday. As we begin passion week, welcome to real life church and I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you yet. My name is Brad, and I served on the connection team here, and I'm just so glad that you are joining us here. This morning, we do have a very special group joining us as well. They're not here in person but they're joining us digitally Real Life Church online. We make them feel welcome, that's her back to the camera. And then just make it loud in here this morning.

25:48 As he has a kind of wind it down, turn to your left or your right. Say hi to your neighbor and then go ahead and buy your seat. All right, it's guys are finding your seats. I'm going to go ahead and address the elephant in the room, or should I say all the elephants on your seats? This new kind of paper card. I know it's either going back to to the paper days.

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27:13 So for those that are new and also for those that are here for a long time, you guys know that we are a church on Mission and that mission is to see people far from God, discover their real life and purpose in Jesus, and that is the truth. We all have a purpose. Our souls were created for a reason but it is often times that we don't really know what that purpose might be. And so we hope that through, you know, this series that we started this year. Whether it's the the breakout year 2023 are. Now this brain series, we're just trying to find people and help ourselves. We realize what that real life and purpose is in Jesus. So we are concluding our bring Series today. Pastor Sean's going to be bringing us a message of encouragement and and conviction to really, you know, especially as we look towards Easter Sunday thinking about those people in our circles in our communities, that need Jesus. Because the truth is the easiest thing that we can do is just get them in the room.

28:07 God will do the work it. We plant the seeds, God will do the watering and he's going to do that next Sunday for so many people. So, Pastor, John's going to come to the stage. Give us our last year, message on the brink series and will give it up for him. Guys have a good day and how so far is celebrating Jesus. And man, I hope you got a great week just pointing people to Jesus with your voice, like John the Baptist just going out and just to sharing the gospel this week had a fun opportunity. My neighbors, don't know Jesus and God put me there on purpose and so I get to go out and hang out the neighbors and he was didn't have time to do it but it worked out and I'm on the driveway and do were talking about Jesus for like an hour and a half. We went from every religion, the world and just kept playing the seeds of the gospel.

28:52 And It's fun being this conversation. It has been this conversation this week, a little bit, it's just fun. You just to see what God's going to do. And we've been praying for a neighbor's for a long time and just guys is given to open doors so just be praying for them but I'm just asking a simple question a day. It's gonna sound like chill Pursuit, but it's going to get there soon to come all the way around, but is it may know the first words ever spoken recorded on a feature film. The first words record on the feature film, anybody this is before our day. This before, everybody's day, this is about 100 years. As ago, that was pulling a film and the sentence is so important because it changed everything in the entertainment industry. And you know, it babe. I know do believe, I know who I'm talking about today, but 100 years ago, it was 1927, little man named Al Jolson and a movie called The Jazz Singer and he made this. See some of the the the fine wine people in the house. Come on somebody.

29:46 Recognizing we're talking about today and he's looking around of me but throughout he said this It's so pertinent for today. So relevant, he said wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet. Just heard that line, right? And he repeats this and he says, wait a minute. You haven't heard nothing yet. And the reality is 100 years later, it could be more true as you go to AMC, theater with a Dolby Surround Sound the seat and vibrates, you know, the sound of people getting killed the dinosaurs, you know, I'm talking about. I mean, just like yes we have anything and everything changed that that would that was the end of an era of silent movies. People, you still a little bit and to thank him on the screen with the words and you read it. Wow, exciting. And they go back and act, you know, whatever? Right, her Lloyd Buster Keaton.

30:27 All the classics before your day, who even knows I'm talking about right now. One person? Yes, you saved yourself all of you right now but thank God that you actually record on feature film everything changed and really one sentence, everything changed. That was the end of that complete era. The reality is this, when you follow Jesus, just one sins from Jesus will change everything for someone's life. I don't remember what Jesus spoke to you, and you found Jesus that you're forgiven. Your shame is rolled away that your made Anew. We bring somebody to Jesus. Everything is eternally different forever. Different, Maybe we have the honor and privilege as ambassadors for Christ that we get to carry a message that were Fishers of Men, it would to bring people into the presence of Jesus. And so today is really all about stopping and nothing. As we talk about the passion we should have to bring people. To Christ has an amazing story of walking, the Bible, but to introduce today we have a video.

31:22 This is a man that's really been hurt by Church. Like so many of us have walked away from God, walked away from the things of Christ in the church and God used a little miracle. If through his family for him to forgot to give attention and he came back to God and the same voice was used to bring this man back to church. And so, once you check this video out, Hi. I'm Dennis Reimer. And this is my story and I'm sticking to it. I'm grew up. I would sprinkle it as a child as far as my baptism and I was confirmed of Faith at the time. I was only 14 years old and I really didn't know what I was doing.

32:04 And as I got older, I turned 18 and my church. That I was confirmed in wanted to know how much money I wanted to do. And I told him, you know, I didn't know, I just got out of high school so came down to where I'm kind of embarrassed my parents, by saying, well, I didn't want to. Part of the country club and needless to say, they didn't no longer want to be in their church because they wanted to be to pay to pray. So I kind of gave up on that one and then I fell in love for the first time and that was kind of cool because I asked God to give me someone is I wasn't having much luck in my whole life. He gave me a girl. I broke up with her or she broke up with me actually and I kind of went berserk and cast out of God and everybody else. And I just went Haywire till I met my wife, she kind of calm me down when she finally started, going back to her church. I kind of fell in with that for a while and I thought I had found God and I was doing real well, got baptized and everything and then things changed. It became another situation where there's another church that wanted.

33:14 All they wanted, was my money. And I said something to the effect that it was like another church that was doing it, something on television and the pastor came over and Basically said if I didn't sit in his church, I wasn't gonna go to God's kingdom and well I didn't think that was right either. So estimate father Flanagan and Mother Teresa we're going to be in God's kingdom after all the good they did and they're Catholics they weren't sitting in his church which irritated him so he ended up giving me a two-day notice afterwards saying he didn't want me no longer in his church. Well I got to kind of set up with churches about this time and I did just fell away from God all together.

33:55 I felt that a religion was just, you know, a joke, my wife and I didn't go to church for the longest time and then a granddaughter came healing and she had leukemia And she almost died twice and so I went into the chapel at Children's Mercy and I made a deal with God, I said God you know I know I have been away from you in a long time and I'm sort of like the prodigal son but I'm asking you to make me a deal. Take my life instead of hers and For some reason, he answered my prayer and she's now 20 years old and she's doing real good.

34:45 I've never, I've never loved a child so much. And you know, and she was diagnose that took the wind out of my sails. And I've promised that I was going to taken try to be more God's servant. I was doing real good for about five years. And then I had my first heart attack and I think God was trying to wake me up and say, hey, You know, I have fulfilled my deal now, it's your turn to fulfill years. Well, after that I Braden, you know he got me through that one, about two more heart. I'm a slow learner. I had two more heart attacks than I had. Heart failure. I've had every time, I feel like I'm crossing the line and going on the other side to her, Satan knows just what buttons to push something happens.

35:33 I've had two detached retinas where when I go to take it in, Gone blind. Had he not saved it for 13 hours. I would have been blind. I think, the last major thing was about four years ago. I broke my hip after that, and the pain I had been in. I said to myself, you know, I it's time to start working and living towards Godly light so covid, hit. And then there was no church. So I went to, they had the church in my sons. Yes, Raj. So my granddaughter Haley. She asked my wife to come and naturally. I was going to go to, I started listening and I'm starting to relive all.

36:19 The things that what I had learned before and I was really learning a lot of the things real life and started to make sense to me. I got to meet a few, people wasn't a big Gathering and once Church started coming back, I decided to come over and go to the Real Life Church. Service was the best thing I've ever done. I've people greeted me and they were real people. They didn't cast judgment on me because I was poor or if I was rich or whatever, they just cared about what I did and it's not paid to pray. Yes, you give freely but that's everything you do is up to you. And now my doctors tell me, I should have been dead five years ago, but because the grace of God, I'm still here and I'm going to do something about it.

37:07 It. So now what I'm trying to do is let other people know that God is real and God, Kim performed Miracles and do things. And I guess is my mission now is to help other people. God used my son daughter-in-law and the grandkids get me back on the right. Track Haley was the main source in actually Lexi because they did it. Inadvertently brought me back because I looked at them, They were they were hope for the future. Our lives are so easily it can snap at any time and we could be gone just them helping me.

37:47 See? That it's not too late. And that's how, you know, I was brought back in the church. So now I'm asking all of you to step out on faith and step out on your own power and you guys bring some people in is it's going to be a blessing to you as well as the People, you bring it. Come on, give it up for Dennis. Dennis has a hard time watching this video but man, it's good, isn't it may just be in a real and sharing what God has done is life and it's amazing. I love how you said. He's a, he's a slow learner. He told me earlier he takes 90 minutes to watch 60 Minutes, you know?

38:32 So I love you. Dennis. And it's amazing that really, that his story of Faith. Most likely played a story and his granddaughter being healed. The story of going to God and asking God to change her life. Probably played his part of the story, but God did and ultimately God didn't just change her physically. God changed, Dennis's, heart changed him on the inside. Amen, and that's the story. What happens when we bring people to Jesus, but God does things. And so I want to say thank you really to Ryan Michelle, Lexi Haley, the family and ultimate in Jesus, for what he's done. So come on, let's give it up for all them. They probably story bringing You're Ryan.

39:14 It opened up his garage, had a TV that came down from the ceiling looked like, had a baptism in there with a earlier. I saw like a pool or something like that. Some kind of Coca-Cola bin or something, but man, it's cool that was all play a little piece of story and God continues to use it. So I don't say, thank you. Dennis for sharing your story, and I think it's touching people more than we even know. And so they won't talk about what it means to bring some be in the presence of Jesus like what happens inside their life, like when we get somebody into his presence and really just like we talked about here today Ministry everything can change. Just one sentence for these people. And so we're going to pick up really with left off last week and the story last week, we're in John, but we're gonna jump over the Book of Mark and be in chapter 1 and verse 14. It says this it says after John was put in prison, this is still talking about John.

39:59 The Baptist is in John the Beloved disciple but when John the bastard put in prison he was calling out rebuking one of the leaders Herod Antipas and he was having incest with his cousin herodias and eventually led to him being beheaded. And so like I said earlier last week, John John really was just a voice his point. People to Jesus and then went totally Into Obscurity. But when John was put in the prison, Jesus went to Galilee. He went to this these neighborhoods, you into this northern part of Israel, that was populated full of people and begin proclaim, the good news. Now, this is how his ministry started. He said this, the time has come. When we talk about the word time, there's not about the exact like at 7:45, he sum of the moments. The word, therefore Greek is queiroz. They say that this moment of time has come We saying is God is near.

40:45 There's any moments in your life that God is immune to work. In to move in says the kingdom of God has come near repent and believe the good news. Now, this is kind of like, really what it is to follow. Jesus on a day-to-day basis, isn't it? You turn from yourself, repent. And turn back to God. And in the reality, is, this is we're all called to recognize these moments day to day Moment, by moment that God wants to speak to us, that the gods going to use all these things to draw us to him thing about Genesis story. Sudden you have leukemia in his granddaughter. The recognizes this this a moment. Now, I got to give this to goddamn a turn for myself. He turned back to Jesus. Amen, every moment of your day ever.

41:25 Even right now, as we speak, God is speaking to you. And so the reality is this, we are going to bring people to Jesus. The first thing I do is realize, the kingdom of God is near the king, of God is closer than you could imagine. We got to get past the point of saying, man, when I passed away, I go to Eternity, spent eternity with Jesus. Has no your life with Jesus started. We met Jesus. Amen. An attorney is right now. Amen. It's in this moment. Like you don't die and go to turn to you. You're a Jesus right now on mission for him. So, we got to get past this whole like, well, wait till that happens with God. Then we get right now, got his clothes, got his near ghosts of work inside your heart. And we're just constant cycle as a follower of Jesus to turn from our own ways and turn to God. Amen.

42:10 That this called the cycle, making this, what we do is walk away from Ourselves. Jonna, the Baptist said in John 3:30. He said he must increase. And I must decrease, he must become greater, and I must become less. It's kind of like Homer Simpson's kind of Fades out, right? Shut the bushes. He's gone. Right? That's that's what is the follow Jesus. Let's not make him my name. Great is making his name, great and just getting out of the way, and God is speaking through this. And so, here he is. Jesus says this Verse 16 says, Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee. He saw Simon, his brother, Andrew casting net into the lake for, they were fishermen. Now this is Simon and Andrew talked about last week member a major stock Jesus and then John was there. This is the same and room and so they had met Jesus already. Peter had been Simon the given the name. He called Peter.

43:01 The Rock. Never that new name. New purpose and then life got hard. John, the Baptist got arrested this is one of their their mentors, the rabbi their spiritual leader. He's been arrested put in prison. Susan, and all the sudden they walk away from Jesus. These men are back to business as normal, they're back with their Nets, their back fishing. They're going back to what they once had. I know if you've been there before the season your life, or maybe you're in that season where you're passionate about God, you brought your Bible everywhere. You're praying all the time, your church every Sunday, your leave for the cause of Christ wherever you're at, and then it got hard. You who knows? Ministries? Hard, who has fallen God is hard. Who knows is why attacks that happened?

43:42 When you're falling? A lot of wounds that happened in Ministry. Your been stabbed in the back by a friend, your been given some to somebody. They didn't say. Thanks maybe tread on the gift or abused, your grace and and as a Christian, it's easy to get offended, it's easy to wounded, it's easy at her, it's easy to walk away from the things of God, and this will refine the disciples. The ruler. First thing I did is I met Jesus to change your life and got hard and they quit. I think about John the Baptist and he had such a good perfect. Illustration of what this looks like. I mean, John, the Baptist honestly much about him but he Ever performed a sign like it, never America will never heal anybody he to do anything that made anything about himself and ultimately John the Baptist ask him. Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?

44:22 He proclaimed. Clearly, he said, I am not the Messiah. You have been a seizure. Your life. You're trying to fix yourself. This is your life try to fix. Everybody else just solve the problem. So I put all the pieces together so the fall apart like going to be the hero may be the savior of the day, here's John. The Baptist says, I am not the Messiah. First thing I realized this is We are not the Messiah. Amen. Amen. We will have it all together. We can't figure it out. We can't do it on our own, the kid doing power and own strength, and our own way. And so he stepped back and just give it to God. Verse 17 says this, Jesus sees Andrew and Simon, they're out there fishing and he says, come follow me, Jesus said, and I will send you out to fish for fish for the Fisher people, but Jesus gives them immediate Edit call.

45:14 He sees them kind of doing their own work doing their thing. Now using a permanent called, This is a danger, in Simon of the first two disciples ever call to follow Jesus. Jesus, recognized the potential, you recognize your own way and he says, I want you to follow me. They use them as such a clear call. He says I will make you Fishers of people. It is amazing. The first thing that Jesus called them to do. Will ultimately the overarching thing of their they will do their entire lives was to fish for people. There wasn't any other calling? Not a factor. I think about this. I don't think it's anything greater in your life that you can live for or you can die for there to be a Fisher for people. This is exactly what Jesus has called us to do.

45:56 In fact, the only reason we're left here on this side of Eternity, is that we can bring people to Jesus and says, says this and 18 says that once Andrew and Simon, they left their Nets left their livelihood unless it was comfortable, but was easy, was predictable. What they were good at what they can make money at, and they followed. Jesus verse 19 says this and when they go a little farther, Jesus, he saw Janet, James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother, John, and a boat preparing their nests. Now, this is the same John that met Jesus for the first time. It's my last week, right? And six years later, he remembers 4 p.m. in the afternoon when he first met Jesus. Now, here's here they are worried and Afraid and discourage and they're back to business as As normal preparing their nets for another night of fishing verse 20 says, without delay, Jesus called them and they left their father Zebedee in the boat that poor guy came.

46:52 All somebody, right? See you later. And they and and the hired men and they follow them. So no James. And John had some business was a family business, they probably own the boats, they had some amount of wealth The Prestige or probably known the city. There's a lot riding on the shoulders or take over the business and they left everything including their father and they followed Jesus. So, sad thing is this we're going to bring people to Jesus, you have to recognize your call. We have to be willing to let some things go to leave, some things behind and even some people behind for your call. Amen, preacher. Somebody like that sounds good. That sounds real good. But God is calling you to go. Find a fishing hole for people that's calling leave.

47:35 What's comfortable and what's normal? They had gotten out Kali to business, as normal. You had. Look at your day, look your time. Look, you're doing in your life. Ask yourself one of the world. Do I need to stop doing for the cause of Christ? Because he's calling you away from some things as a follow. Jesus to go Reach people to be on Mission and the reality is this, that so many of us are so scared of Letting Go that we hold onto the world. So, There's no room for Jesus. I would encourage you to do something very full of faith and just open your hands and say yes, Jesus, wherever you call me, I'm willing to go, I'm not saying you're going to be a missionary in Africa but maybe you will be amen. Some of y'all done that, and that's what God's calling you. We have to be more of a sending agency than a seating agency, like we can just come here and fill chairs. Some of you are going to get out of the premortal sludge of sitting and be like, dude, I'm gonna go do some for Christ. Amen.

48:23 The gods call me across the street. He's calling me to bring that person. That looks nothing like In Munich on my house and hang out and eat at my table and I get to Point them to Jesus. God, just going to use my life. How you want to be saying this song I'm a vessel make me vessel use may want to mate with it, call of surrender. Thank God is going to use that today, so these men are called to be Fishers for men, I believe that's still a call we have today. 2,000 years later says, in mark 19. 119 says they came to Capernaum. Now, Capernaum is a city in the north side of the Sea of Galilee. It's a populated city, saw thoroughfare. And major highway runs through it. This is a fishing town. This is all. R Commerce around fishing. It says, when the Sabbath came, now, this is a, this would been Saturday, and there's a bunch of rules.

49:03 They couldn't follow, but Jesus, he went into the synagogue or at that time, he called the church, but the synagogue and began to teach and the people were, what held me out? They were, they were amazed at his teaching, they were dumbfounded. There were all struck. Just like some of you guys are right now. Come on, somebody. I'm just kidding. And tell the people were amazed at his teaching because he taught them as one who had Authority. He taught them. Is if he wrote the book, he taught them as, if he hung the Stars, he laid the foundation. He taught him as, if he was there. When his all pinned, he taught them to Authority because he was the authority. He says now as a teacher of the law, he didn't teach him as somebody that else would tie the synagogue that studied the Old Testament, or Moses, or the regulations, or the traditional. Of Law and just then it says, in verse 23, just then there was a man in synagogue who was possessed by an imp your spirit and cried out.

50:00 What do you want with us? Jesus of Nazareth. Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. The Holy One Of God. Now isn't it interesting? I found this complete. Interesting uses first message. He just said this is what it's all about. The kingdom of God is near his first Saturday. He's teaching in the synagogue and the very first thing that happens use preaches a Interrupts them. Come on somebody. I mean this this is impressive. I mean, why now of all the times y now this demon interrupt Jesus when he could have talked to Jesus. Any other moment, all of a sudden the kingdom of God has got to Unleashed into Humanity. The demons know it. He was a demon said he said, are you going to destroy us?

50:42 He said some the Jesus because he knew the power of God. Amen he knew that this is a Jesus that fact frame the Earth who's a Jesus that holds all things. Troll things and he had to ask the question. Have you come to kill us all? Because I know you can you also knew who Jesus was? He says you're the Holy One Of God. It's interesting to me as Jesus preached his first message that the first entity to recognize who Jesus was his power, his strength in his nature of being God wasn't his disciples. It was a demon. Think about that as you step out in your call, you start to follow Christ, third thing going to bring people to God. You could recognize the first person or entity to recognize that you're on Mission as a fisherman.

51:29 Is it going to be somebody else? It's going to be a demon. There's about that year. Without any of follow Christ is going to be easier and better thought about that. A lot of people do they like not following Christ assumed you hard, bro, if it gets hard, that's means you're doing something, because you are taking some spiritual ground from the enemy. Amen. In his truck broke down this week, right? It means Bill stacking up. He's getting kind of hard and demons want to scream out right now in the middle message, right? This is Jesus opening day. This is launch day for Jesus. There's a A demon that wants to shut it down. I'm just telling you you start following Christ. Expect interruptions, amen. Expect some obstacles, expected, not to look anything like you look like they're guess what God is about to do his best work?

52:14 Amen. Isn't work through you because he the say knows the power you had within you. When you bring somebody to Jesus say knows that you're pushing back the kingdom of hell, he knows that you have something more in you than he can stop. You of the power and the presence of God, this is what Jesus said to him verse 25. He Be quiet. In other words. Shut up, amen. Some is gonna memorize this verse don't use on your parents, right. Be quiet said, Jesus sternly. He said, I wanna hear your self-defense. I don't hear any other words. This is not the right time to talk. This is my kingdom cells going to go. He says come out of him and the a spirit shook, the man violate and came out with a shriek and the people were also amazed that they ask each other. What is this?

53:00 It's a new teaching with authority. He is He has given orders to in pure spirits and they obey him and the news about or the news of him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee, just one sentence from Jesus, cast out a demon, just one sentence from Jesus set free, a man that was demon-possessed this the beginning of Jesus reputation and Renown and fame being spread across the area. Verse 25 says this. As soon as it left the synagogue, they went with James and John, to the home of Simon and Andrew now. About this this incredible. Remember, just last week, we talked about how Andrew and John were stocking Jesus, and he went to his home where he was staying. It's amazing.

53:41 It didn't take very long for Jesus to end up at their house. Did it your think about that you started following Jesus in the dark? You don't know, be able to know that you're following Jesus and then take long before, he started telling everyone, your fam bout, Jesus and do the Bible says that home and started praying at home and sort of bringing people to God because all of a sudden, God is just moving in your life. Don't take for it. Long. Does it verse 3 says, this Simon Simon's mother-in-law to say, know that Peter was married was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. And so he went to her took her hand and helped her and the fever left her and she began to wait on them. She began to serve them just the presence of Jesus. She was healed and changed that evening after Sunset. Remember this was a Sabbath day.

54:25 There's a lot of rules and regulation made by man and they couldn't work, it couldn't do things, but that night when the sun went down, the side was over the people. They brought to Jesus all the sick and the demon possessed, that's impressive. This city is around 15,000 people and they're all going to Andrew in Simon's house. All these people like me just get my sick neighbor, but I get my six son, but yet my sick mother in law of and get my friend down the street at this demon-possessed person, at least get them to the presence of Jesus. Jesus can change him since Verse 33, the whole town gathered at the door. Could you amazed at that?

55:08 And that's the way church should become all somebody, right? I'm the whole town came to be in the presence of Jesus and be healed. It's amazing. This fishing Town. Those fishing for fish. Is now a fishing Town fishing for people that saw Jesus changed the city and Jesus healed, many, that were at various diseases. And he drove out many demons. And he would not let the demons speak, because they knew who he was. I love that demon muzzled or Jesus. The demons. Come on somebody. I'm he put them on their stuff. He bound them tight. He knew they're going to talk smack. He knew they're going to reveal things that shouldn't reveal the mystery of God quite yet. And so, he just shut him up. Who knows God's in control a men that God has a path in the plan that purpose and nobody is going to stop that the Demons of self obey.

55:49 Jesus verse 35, says this very early in the morning while still dark Jesus. Got up left the house went off to a solitary place and he This is foundational as a follower of Christ. Here's, here's Jesus. He has this amazing night members after dark. They all went to his house and he probably spent all night. Healing people just kept coming and coming, and coming and cast out demons and that is disciples. Fell asleep, with seems to be a tradition of Christians in general. Come on somebody, right? You see that with all the cycles of the garden? They didn't change at all. Jesus would just disappear out into the Wilderness and the solitary place he would pray.

56:31 You get connected to God, if we're going to make it past the 40, second Sprint, for the things of Christ, we have to do through God's power. Amen. I mean if you want to burn out, don't pray. If you want to do in your Manpower, I won't see here in a month. We'll see you in things of Christ because you're doing all on your own strength. And so Jesus models himself just as a Son of God, this relationship with his father and his get reduced strength. Think about when he prayed. He didn't pray leading into the event. He didn't pay me. Tori, healed, 15,000 people. Jesus prayed after I tell you, we probably more per after Easter than into Easter. Amen. Who knows? You get wounded when you're in leadership, they were when you when you go for the cause of Christ and you see things and who knows that the critics say a little longer than the people cheering you on, you've been around the block or time with you right now. I think you have to take some of those wounds and some of the things happier life, he's got to get a loan to savior, is let him say that you're a child of God, your daughter, the king, your son, the king that you're forgiven and chosen. And you Our enough and I am enough for you and get healed up amen.

57:35 This what Jesus models for us and we're going to bring people to Christ. You better be man or woman of prayer. First dinosaur, 36 says this Simon's companions went to look for it and when they found him they exclaimed everybody's looking for you. Where did you go? I've had this is sorry. This is Simon Peters. First leadership exercise in the Bible First Time The Bible seemed leading anything and the first thing you do is you woke up late, you couldn't find Jesus and he's like oh no, I left everything. And I also left Jesus like where in the world is he and so he began to wake her up because his sister Peter is a big loud mouth and shakes her butt out of bed and he shows. Let's go on a search party for Jesus to find the presence of God. Very first thing that Pierre doesn't seem very significant, but it is because he's the one that's has his voice spoken up. He wants to bring people back to Jesus. Verse 38 says, Jesus replied to Peter. He said let us go somewhere else, so nearby Village, so I can preach there also, because this is why I've come here as this city knows about.

58:31 Out. Why I'm here. So the time has come, you know, repent believe. It came Guys, near, they know all these things. It's time to go out. It's time to go somewhere else because I know exactly what I'm doing. And so we travel through Galilee, this upper region of Israel and being preaching, a synagogues and driving out demons. They're probably in the synagogue's. Let's be real right verse 40 says, this, a man with Leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees. If you are willing, you can make me clean in Jesus. Filled with compassion, he reached out his hand He touched them in. Is that I am willing be clean. It's amazing. In just one sentence. This man be cleansed from leprosy. Be cleansed from the skin disease. He's battled his entire life.

59:12 He said, Jesus sent him away and wants with a Stern warning, strong morning, he said, see you don't tell anyone this but go show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifice that Moses commanded for your cleansing as a testimony to them. What he didn't want to do is let everybody know that he just cleans his leprosy. He said go back fall the old Testament way of getting cleansed in Leviticus 14, and let it just fall the system, so that everybody's a know that I just healed a leper. But instead look at the man does instead, he went out and began to talk freely to being sprayed lose, he couldn't contain the joy that, that man over there. Just the next town over healed, my leprosy, as a result, the missis Jesus could no longer enter a town openly because, but stayed outside in lonely places. But check this out.

1:00:00 It says you have two people with What? They still came, they still came to him from everywhere. Get the picture. Jesus, his reputation is growing. He cast out demons. He heals lepers. He just touches him in there. Fevers gone. He cast out demons. He's preaching. A synagogue has Authority and power and now he came and being a city's. He hides on the outskirts in the lonely places and still everybody from everywhere. Still trying to get to the presence of God. Here's the real T. If we're going to bring people to Christ, we have to recognize ourselves at the most attraction or thing. Tractive thing. We have is the presence of Jesus in our life, that's the most. So tractional thing if you think people are coming to this church because I am an amazing speaker.

1:00:49 Come on somebody, you are wrong. You think people come to this church because of worship is on fire, which it is, but this not just that it's the presence of God. Amen. It's a tractional and so As a person for you to witness, somebody might say well how the right words to say here all the time. I don't know, I'd say I'm going to mess it up. I don't know enough. Well the reality is you have Jesus you have the most attraction 'l thing you could ever have the spirit of God Lives in You. Jesus lives in you and all you have to do is just get out of the way. Like literally I'm not even tell you what you say. It doesn't matter. The Holy Spirit. She will give you the words if you want to tell us about Jesus just walk across the street and start talking and all of a sudden Jesus in the country conversation, if that's on your Heart.

1:01:32 It's just going to happen. That's what's going to happen, but it's not about you. Like the neighbor might say, well, I've see you over there that part of last week you're laying the front lawn had too much to drink. Don't act like it's not you. Come on somebody. I stare at the Sheep long enough to know, right? I know, I know but the reality is this, you could just simply say to people hey, you know what? I'm so glad that you recognize that because you're just not about me. I've messed up so much or some things. My life look. Nothing, like, God and you get pulling the Jesus. Amen. I'm not giving you excuses, sin, but I'm just telling you, you can have the confidence in the boldness to share Christ, because it's not my victory. It was Jesus Victory. That's the story of our lives that we don't Point people to something.

1:02:15 We did, we points. I think that was finished for us on the cross, the final permanent victory of our sin Jesus and we can boast and our defeat amen. We can say, I mess up, I'm not perfect. I'm sorry for all the times. I blotted out at all right? And then, but Jesus has changed my life. I'm trying to like him. Follow the 10%. Me looks like Christ and don't fall. 90% them look like Jesus. Amen. I keep falling Christ together on a journey together. I'm not the Savior an Aquos. I'm just a voice point of Christ and added, humility and Brokenness. And the God will lift you up. Lift your voice up and point people to him. So I don't have all the right words or the right strategy, but I know it just takes you open your mouth and saying things through Christ and it's amazing with the opportunity.

1:02:59 We have in front of you, if we would just step into them, right? I mean I'm just telling you to so many conversations that God brings in their life all the time and I was like, man that was a great opportunity to share Jesus. With that person, you talk to him for two hours and then say anything, could this have been God's? Good. Didn't he what you mean? Like, I just got to get my life really? Lee, I'm fond use my life. You're a Christian. Do you have Hangouts for 20 years? I've known you a Christian, this credibly, see, a stuff all the time. We should be the kind of people that we know everybody stayed their soul. Amen. Well yes, yes, sign of their head, right? Like Bound for heaven, Bound for hell. You recognize who people are and that gives you compassion because we've messed up, right? I mean we can't live this offended Christian life but everybody else or hate.

1:03:45 We've offended Jesus, but Jesus died for us and so we patiently endure, right? Those around us because there's people that have that, you don't like, come on somebody, right? And they need Jesus. And we deploy a part of the radical transformation, and guess what he will, he will, he will surprise you. And so the reality is this. We need to recognize that we had to have the presence of God in our life. I think the end of day you got you got to come to statement, it's really simple, just stop making it about you. Just stop making it about you. You know that's apply to every leader. It has ever spoken or shared or LED. Something you always look back and go. Oh I wish it would have are you didn't say that Rider man, laid an egg right? You know, I get I get the privilege do this every week, right?

1:04:28 And I know what is good, right? I just tried out, you know, I drive slow through the parking lot, you know. And they know is goes bad, you roll the window up, you you little faster, right? But then in the day I'll walk on the stage and as his word Consecrate. I just give it to God. I said, God just use that. Like, in my own weakness, your roommate strong. Like I did the best I could, and I'm going to leave the rest to you, Jesus. Like I can't wander around life going. Oh, is it good enough? Was it this enough? It's like, no God. You've got this. Amen. I trust you with this and so I don't live in fear, or, in boasting or insecurity or weakness. It's like he know God, you do what you do and although I do the best I can do and I laid out a line for you and then just Wait for you to move and that's the fun.

1:05:14 We used to have every single week every single day, really, when we talk about Jesus because you never feel like you did a good job. Amen, man. Look at me, I let that guy to Christ. It's like how that happened? Let's talk to you guys for listening to crisis week and he's like I had no idea how that happened, right? We were talking about fireworks and then we talk about dying from fireworks and then we talked about what happened with died and then we talked about Jesus and they would be saved. Which is all his heart and God brought around. Amen, gasoline, the match Jesus out all came together. I just just worked out. But Mark chapter 2 says this this about how much passion she have to share. Jesus, nothing's gonna stop us from doing this. But says, in chapter 2 verse 1, says a few days later, remember Jesus is extremely popular at the time when Jesus, again entered Capernaum where he's been gone weeks and all these Villages, he's been the outskirts and darkness. Now he's back in the city, it's going to get crazy everybody. Knows he's the Healer they can change lives. The people heard that he come home back to this probably Peter dangerous home, they gathered in such large numbers, that there is no room left, not even outside the door, he preached the word to them and some men came bringing to him a paralyzed man carried by four of them.

1:06:32 There's a group of men, there's four of them in the middle and all struggling to bring this paralyzed man in the presence of Jesus and since it could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd. There's so many people like sardines, packed, around the door, around the home me last time, there's 15,000. How many people you think are here now? They can't get the presence of Jesus. It says these men. They made an opening in the roof above Jesus, by digging through it and they lowered the mat. The man was laying on into the presence of Jesus. Now, I want you to get your head in the mindset of these four people because I read all the scripture up this point because this was going on their heads.

1:07:13 Look man, I've heard about this guy. Jesus heals lepers. He, he forgives sins. This boy, casts out demons and I can't wait to go to church today. Buzzer to cast out a demon. The church like this is pretty with authority on the road. There, this is paralyzed, man. This man that they don't stop and help will not get to the presence of Jesus and how it broke down. But one of those men said, you know what we should do. Just everybody get a corner. We're going to carry this band of Jesus. I don't know if it's For miles, before hundred meters. How far They Carried him to the presence of God, but whatever obstacles are in the way. It didn't matter. You didn't I look like fools. Amen.

1:07:54 Do you have? The proper equipment to carry some. Not a matte. Look like idiots, luckylove past this person by unwilling to carry themselves, but they're willing to do it. They show up to his house and so full of people that he can't get to Jesus. The kitten was your way through a crowd, even though get a paralyzed, man. That was willing to open the door for a pathway to And so, this blue collar, man, decided Blue Collar, right? Somebody decided had the audacity to Courage, the gut, the grit, the faith. A lot of words, like putting are thinking of, but I can't say to get on the roof and just tear it off to get the presence of Jesus. I mean, can you imagine the boldness that you interrupt, the message of Jesus was preaching stomp on the roof?

1:08:40 Taryn back, all the sticks, this compacted clay. A which was hard. It's like a rock. They start beating it up out their hands though, this piece of dirt be thrown down on the people in the in the house and Jesus with a positive message by this point because it's obviously so distracting. And he would have said this is about to be the greatest illustration of message of all time and just wait for this person to pop his head through. And there was some dude. What's up everybody? All right, some dude, proud that you made a hole in the roof. They stopped beating more and more, the roof apart until you got a hole. Big enough to lower entire man. So six foot. Footlong two-foot-wide, whoever the and they could these ropes on the mat and then lower them into the presence of Jesus. Dude, that's great.

1:09:23 That's passion. Let's Go full of Faith. They didn't care what Jesus was saying. They care. They're interrupting the message, they just knew. If I just get this man, it's just one sentence with a savior. Everything is about to change for him. Verse 5 says this, when Jesus saw their faith not just the paralyzed man's faith. We saw All their faith, their faith said Son. Your sins are forgiven it incredible. This is the first time in the New Testament. You see Jesus forgiving sins. This was a new thing. He casts out demons, he healed people, but this time he said, your sins are forgiven that he made him whole.

1:10:04 Do you realize this paralyzed, man, who thought he was paralyzed? Because he did something wrong, but he thought his sin caused him to be a quadriplegic or to be. Wised, he thought he deserved this but he earned this. His life was so miserable. This is my Penance, this is why I deserve it. So, Jesus knew like I'm gonna tell this boy, he's made whole today. Amen, he forgave him. I think about that story of faith of the others with him, that made him whole. I mean, could it possibly be that the faith of Dennis? Healed his granddaughter. Could it possibly be that he begged God for his life?

1:10:46 He would follow him. The God just maybe struck a little bit of a deal. He had the faith that God can do it. God is always work that way. And I was saying it, I'll often times like healing and miracles happen to us have eternity, but the reality is we play a part of the story, more than we think. So many times in the Bible is like I can't get cast out this demon. I can do this. You guys will some things only come through prayer and fasting is the presence of God. What do you want to see this change? So maybe didn't activate the holy spirit's power of healing. But says there's a Verse 6, he says, now, some teachers of law were sitting there thinking themselves. I love that Jesus read people's minds.

1:11:27 He says, why does this fellow talk like this? He's blaspheming slender God. Who can forgive sins, but God alone, right? Question didn't like the answer, right? And immediately, Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts. They said to them, I'm sure by complete and utter surprise. And she said, why are you thinking these things? Which is easier to say this paralyzed, man, your sins are forgiven. Bruce a good up, take your mat and walk chewing things easier. So Jesus he says this but I want you to know today that the son of man has Authority on Earth to forgive sins.

1:12:09 If this boy picks up his math and he walks out of this room, then you have no doubt in your mind that I'm the Son of God. And I forgave his sins. Amen. The be no doubt in your mind. I mean, it's so much easier, obviously have some healed and forgive sins, but a trick question, right? And so Jesus, he said to the man I tell you get up, take your mat and go home and this boy got up took his math and I love it. He strutted across the room and front of everybody. Amen. I'm he was been like, yeah, I was healed today. All y'all didn't make room for me.

1:12:50 Watch me walk out of here. Make way. I'm going home and that moment every realized that this truly is the son of man. This is some God, there's no one coming. Son of man comes from, Daniel chapter 7, it's a reference to the Messiah, the come. So he says the son of man. He's referring to something. Everybody know In this passage, it says this, this amazed everyone and they praised God saying, we have never seen anything like this. Like I tell you today in 2023, Two thousand years later. They ain't seen nothing yet. You ain't seen nothing yet. Do you think God still wants to move today? There's people to be healed today. There's people either the stone and the way of Shame rolled off their life today that there's people need to get to heaven today.

1:13:44 There's some people that are walking, we walk by all the time that we just stopped. Just have a hard heart conversation and carry them to Jesus. They would get Share the good news of Christ. Do we should be okay with being interrupted and the line at Target. Come on somebody, right? We should just move aside and make room just playing on two hours a day that you're going to invest in the kingdom of God, by being interrupted with the people that come to you. In the end the day, you can find it like a spot in your life, isolated way and you can pray to God and say thank you. Jesus will work. We're doing got restore me and give me strength of them are 0 because our somebody that's going on, Matt that in to get To Jesus now, will rip the roof off this place if I have to. So this week, I just got to know who's on your heart. That needs to get to Jesus.

1:14:32 Who's not going to get there without you saying something. I'ma tell you, so I'm not sure what your house. Come on somebody don't show up this week, your house no and nobody else will give you are there. Amen! God gave a witness to your home and got your witness here, block and get which the city. That's us. That's where called who is God. Going your heart to bring it to Jesus. We can't think of somebody, he's praying ass and Godzilla. Give you somebody before. You hit the parking, lot of the restaurant. You go to the be somebody tell about Jesus, the same thing. Is this, how far are you willing to go? How hard are you willing to go after to bring somebody to Jesus? How far are you willing to carry if we were in the parade? How L Dash? This is your faith, right?

1:15:15 But like, how bowl is your faith? I hope next week that this package place. So packed out, that one of y'all going to get on the roof and you start tearing a hole through here. We're going to get a bill. Come on somebody. Right. But someday, I'll get to do that. And that's what that's what you have to do for the cause of Christ. Like, there's nothing greater really one thing. Great in your life, you should live for and I'll gladly hand this hope this somebody else. I'll go do something else but there's nothing greater in your life. The calling to be a fisher of you guys. Ready to tear the roof off this place. Come on, Father God, we come before you got to ask our church, to be the church, just the people of God humbly out of the way, but we're not qualified. I good enough but got you So God, we ask you to move through us God, through the mouthpiece, to the voice that points.

1:16:01 This brings people God to you and you do the work. I'll pray for our church today, those who say, you know, what I've been about business as usual. I've been going through the motions. I've been going back to my net, something about the business of all my heart and stock my fears all about the things of this world. So full the world, I hardly room for Jesus. But today, I recognize obvious Fisher for men, some things that leave behind Some relationships that lie behind the day of moving forward. Things are Christ. If that's you day and you feel God's calling use the person in your life, you will to step up with passion to reach people at, that's the call you feel from God. Today, We Salute, Your Hand high, this place to that's me, come onto your hands across the room or across the room. Father, thank you so much for moving for speaking today, through your word.

1:16:46 And I prayed give boldness to those are speaking to you because you give courage reminding them that the first people in life. They're going to recognize this call is Be somebody that's gonna be friendly. - did you give us strength and courage that they push and take ground from the enemy? Well, he gets difficult just let them know her mind them that's because this is a spiritual battle field, not a playground. So God help us to pursue and see people change and say for you, I'll pray for what we're group people in the house. And that's those, you may feel like the paralyzed man, be feel like your sins have held you back that maybe you're out today because you're done things wrong in your life that you've been all about maybe trying to her Earn your way back, maybe you feel defeated or overwhelmed and you've just held back by mistakes and you don't think there's any room for Grace, but the day you recognize, that Jesus has the authority to forgive you and forgive sin in your life. You just need Jesus.

1:17:39 And so today, if you want to relationship with Jesus, the Bible says he calls him. Lord be saved. Forgiven and Maiden do mr. Vitti. Jesus day. If that's you then be looking around. You should Lift Your Hand high as I need Jesus today, and Jesus changed my life. I see your hand down, man. Let's see your We'll send in Jesus today and God's moving across this room. That's you. I'm leading a prayer is prayer to save you, but she's your heart towards God. It's her surrender. Say, father God, thanks so much for sending Jesus to come and tell the world about himself. They for diamond cross for me, God made some mistakes, my life got a came at him up but the day you can speak a word in my life. God you forgiven me, my sins are forgiven.

1:18:22 I made whole A, I can stand up in the calling of God and I can walk out of this place, the mission to reach people, because you are with me, be forgiven me made me whole. So God, let's give the Lord and give the praise and pray this in Jesus name and the church said, amen. Come on. You have to Jesus. He left the god. Well, hey, if you raise your hand, if you prayed that prayer today, we are just so excited for you. We just want to say congratulations and give you a couple. Next steps you can take Take right now. So as Brandon showed us earlier this morning, everyone's got one of these communication cards on their chair. And on there, you're going to see a box that says, I committed my life to Jesus. So if that was you today, I want you to check that box. I want you to put in your information because we want to mail you a free resource this week. We're going to mail you a book.

1:19:16 It's called begin and it's real shorts only about 100 pages long, but it's going to be an awesome launch point for you. You, as you take this next step on your journey with Jesus. We love to bless you with that this week. And another thing you can do, on your way, out the door. You'll see a table in the back with some red bags, grab one of those in, there's a Bible and you can just dive into God's word as this afternoon and just see what he has for you today. And there's also more resources in there. May not know about you guys, but I thought Shawn just preached down the house today, God's using him in a mighty way. As he asked, that's right. Give it up for God.

1:19:57 And Sean is being able to be used by God. And he really just encourage us to be passionate this week about bringing people and I love that line. You ain't seen nothing yet. If you're anything like me, I had my fingers and toes crossed that Sean was going to give us a but baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet. Maybe if we ask him in the hub, he can bless us with that. But but for real guys, next week is the week, right? It's Easter Sunday, probably the The one of the best Sunday's of the entire year to bring someone, we want to make it as easy as possible for you. So also on your chair, you'll see some invite cards, you can just pass out to anybody. You know, the drive-thru neighbors, co-workers, family friends, just let them know. We're here.

1:20:40 Let them know. We're praying for him and we're excited to see them and just I just hope you'll be praying for Easter next week. We are excited to offer three Gathering time. So if you're a creature of habit like like myself, You might need to change your alarm in your phone this week because next week, we're going to meet at 8:30, 10:00 and 11:30. So make sure you're prepared for that. And one of the thing we want to ask you to do is want to ask you to scan this QR code up here on the screen behind me. If you haven't yet and just let us know what Gathering you plan on coming to. That's going to let us really be prepared to make room here in the Gathering space and also back in kids.

1:21:23 So we're going to tear the roof off next week. We're gonna have so much fun in here. But man, your kids are going to have a powerful morning as well. Each one of those Gatherings, we're going to have an Easter egg hunt. There's going to be eggs with toys in them and goodie bags. Your kids are actually going home this week with invite cards of their own and they're going to get a special prize if they bring someone next week. So, just encourage the kids to, you know, we just want to bless everyone in Cass County that wants to come through our doors next week, really want to make it a big week. So those cards like I It's about. Don't forget to follow us on Facebook and social media of your choice and share those events. And when you let us know which Gathering you're coming, too, they'll be a link for the Eventbrite and there's a even a way for you to share that as well to make it super easy for someone. So he's he's the name of the game just something super practical that we can make this place comfortable warm and inviting for everyone.

1:22:17 That's important to you that you want to bring next week. Well guys, I want to walk you through a couple. No more things you could do on this communication card. You see, there's some other boxes that you can check. Feel free to check as many as you'd like. By the way, maybe you've been, maybe you made a decision today, or since we've last on baptisms and you're ready to make that bold statement of faith, we are doing baptisms next week, and if you are interested in doing that, it is not too late. Go ahead and check off that box and and put your information on here. Maybe you've been thinking, you know, I don't know if I have the time or this is the right. Season to be like fully on the Dream Team yet but but you can just give God a Sunday. Again, the the name of the game, you know, like Sean said you know we may we be so packed out that we have to drill a hole in the roof, right.

1:23:05 Maybe you can give some of your Sunday morning next week to just help out by serving for one week only. There's a box on here for that but maybe you're ready to put some Roots down and join the Dream Team and actually discover your purpose. We have a crash course coming up and there's a box for that as well. So wherever you are at this moment, Moment in this season, there's a box for it. We would love to hear from you this week. Now, you may be wondering Drew, where do I put these cards? Well, our wonderful Usher's are going to be coming down in a moment and they're going to be passing the giving buckets, and you can just throw that card right there in the bucket as it passes. Speaking of the buckets guys, your generosity is making a huge difference at Real Life Church. It's because of your generosity that we get to celebrate big next week as 15 people.

1:23:51 As of this moment are signed up For baptisms, you guys excited for baptisms for Easter Sunday, man, I tell you what, well, the cool thing is is we've got so much more room for so many more people. I cannot stress this enough, it is not too late to make that bold statement of faith, with baptisms, if that's you, check the box. And let us know if you're brand-new with us this week. Again, I say, welcome, we're honored, you're here. And I just want to let you know that we don't want anything from you this morning. This Gathering was our gift to you. You and we just hope you had a great time here with us. We don't want something from you. We want something for you. But if you do call real life home, here's three ways that you can give we have real-life church kc.com.

1:24:35 You can text any amount to 8, 4, 3, 2, 1, are you can drop cash or envelopes and the giving box in the back or in these buckets as they pass by. If you find yourself an immediate need today of food or clothing or shelter, we just invite you to reach in and grab any loose cash. You see to take care of those immediate. Needs as a bucket. Spaz. Will you check out this video? Hey, guys. Hey, I want to personally invite you out to Easter at real life church on Sunday, April 9th. There, we have incredible Sunday. It's gonna be so much fun for you and your family, may God's grace. Desire is for you to find real life in purpose in Jesus.

1:25:18 This is why Jesus rolled the stone away on Easter Sunday. She have new life and purpose and him. So I invite you and your entire family to check out Real Life Church. And on Easter Sunday. That's right. We are going to have Gatherings with Incredible worship and songs that bring hope we are going to have inspiring words, straight from the Bible. And we have something extra special for your kiddos during each one of our gathering times. We are going to have an outdoor Easter egg hunt. Your kids are going to be able to hunt for prize filled eggs. We're going to send each kid home with a goodie bag and special gift for our first time guests and visitors that on Sunday.

1:25:58 It's going to be awesome. You have to be so much fun. So invite you to bring your entire family. We have multiple Gathering options on April 9th. I can't wait to meet you guys and see you guys here at Real Life Church on Easter Sunday be there. Alright, had times are up there on the screen 8:00, 8:30 to 10:00 11:30. Cannot screw that up. We'll see you next week, Easter Sunday, we will be starting a brand new series the songs that bring hope where we find out the hope that Jesus offers us every single day. So as you all remember, whoever finds Jesus covers real life and purpose have a great Easter week guys.