You Can’t Take It With You, But God Can - Heaven Part 9

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Man, today is just going to be a
really, really good day and I'm

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excited to share some amazing
things about heaven.

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Before we jump in, can you give
up everybody's new one more

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time.
Love them, they love them.

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I've seen some people back today
have been a while and man, it's

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really encouraging.
I've heard some great stories

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this morning already.
What God's doing this last week

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I was a group people I want to
just really thank just humbled

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by that.
God's used in big ways.

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It is launched into our 4th week
of life groups.

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And I've been so blessed for all
these life group leaders that

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have opened their homes and the
word of God.

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And there's this culture that's
happening in our church where

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there's men and women that are
open the word of God every week.

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I know it sounds crazy and
praying and memorizing scripture

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and just fighting forward for
the things of God struggling and

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obedience.
And it's been amazing just to be

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a part of that because our
church can just grow closer to

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Jesus, Amen.
And so I want to say thank you

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guys.
All life group leaders, open

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your homes, your hearts,
transparency, open your fridge,

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Amen, for a group.
So give for a life group

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leaders, Amen.
Come on, give an update for

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them.
I can't believe I'm saying this,

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but it's five Sundays till
Easter.

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We are not ready, but we're
always ready, right?

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I don't know.
I don't know how this guy just

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researched this, but the the
first Sunday after the first

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full noon after the spring
solstice is Easter.

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So the 5th of April is super
early, but we're excited about

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it and it's been one of those
Sundays that you should bring a

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friend.
And I really encourage you to

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start praying right now for
somebody you can be investing in

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and praying for that the hopes
they come and potentially if

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they don't know Jesus, know
Jesus.

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If not, maybe find a place we
can grow closer to Jesus.

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There's a lady in my life that
I've been just working with in a

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professional setting and I've
been inviting her out and she's

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mentioned a few times she'd come
and has not come, but she comes

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from a very hard situation to
have a church.

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They went every week.
I mean, it was like that setup

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team, right?
6:45 to two kind of hours and

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they got burned out.
It just kind of right footed

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Christian fellowship.
And so my heart breaks for her

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because I've been there.
I've been in some hard seasons.

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And so my goal is to have her
make it to Easter with her

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family and her whole family's
just been through all and kind

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of give it up on church.
And so I've been praying for

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her.
And so I'd invite you to pray

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for as well.
Her name is Heather and she's

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just an amazing lady.
Some of you might know her

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behind the scenes, but she's
fantastic.

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But it's just floating without a
church home, and God could use

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it, Amen.
So I encourage you guys who

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could be inviting and praying
for right now, and it could be

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as simple as this.
If you're at work and you're

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just listening to somebody.
And so would it help if I prayed

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for you, just be simple, like
it's not all or nothing.

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You have to lead somebody to
Jesus Amen.

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You just need to plant the
gospel and point in the Christ

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and so there's people all around
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I know for most of us we usually
buy about two people a year.

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OK so Easter is just be one of
those Sundays we're taught the

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resurrection power Christ you
see baptisms.

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It's one of things going to pull
back the curtain Holy Spirit

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moment and so encourage.
Last year we had just shy of

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600, which is pretty impressive
for our church.

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Like we've normally run about
two 5300 and we're blown away.

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We stripped back all our
marketing and we're like, see

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what God does.
And we were absolutely floored.

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And so it's just you guys
bringing people how it makes a

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difference.
One simple thing you can do.

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We have these amazing yard signs
out front.

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They cost $10.
I'm just kidding.

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They're free.
But if you want to put $10 in,

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we'll take that too.
But they're free anytime.

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They're out there every week.
And there's a man in our church.

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I don't know.
Where's he at?

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I'm going to find him somewhere.
Where's Toby?

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He's Toby.
He may be out there still.

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Where's he at?
Oh, he's hiding over here.

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So.
So, Toby, how long have you been

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coming?
Four months?

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Yeah, four months or so.
He was walking down, it was a

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sunset, OK, and and saw a sign.
He's like, Lord, I need a

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church.
Saw the sign, showed up the next

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Sunday.
Over the course last four

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months, he is jumped in in so
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He comes up to the office on
Tuesdays and says, what do you

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guys need?
And so he started.

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He's actually called some of
you, are you coming on Sunday

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and you're like, who is this
guy?

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You know?
But he's made himself available

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for the work of God.
He's showed me.

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He'll deliver the car we gave
away.

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He shows, he shows up the office
2/1 day, two days a week, just

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being a servant for God.
He's helping out with

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hospitality and with Brett White
and is actually taking on the

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whole second gathering some
point in the next few months.

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And so all because he saw a a
sign.

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And so you may think, man, I'm
an introvert.

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I can't make a huge difference,
man.

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We can't be the best kept secret
in town.

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Amen.
And so if you don't have to sign

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out, you want 2 signs take,
we'll buy some more, Amen and

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$10.
Come on, somebody.

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So anyway, I'm excited to preach
about having the day.

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You know, some, some of the
people like people are

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struggling.
Like is there more to talk

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about?
And I'm like, man, I'm just

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getting started, right?
There is so much to talk about.

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How many how many of this series
has just changed your

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perspective of heaven?
At some level you just say,

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like, man, there's there's
something different.

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And we've walked through some
seasons.

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I feel like maybe because I'm on
this series and my mind and

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hearts on this, but I've seen so
much pain and loss and things

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have happened and people have
been around this last week.

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There's a man I got to give
actually this book to called

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Heaven his son died 24 years old
and be able to minister to him.

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There's there's a man that's
dying that used to go to church

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and can't see Hospice House
dying even right now with brain

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cancer, all sorts of stuff 56
years old and it's just story

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after story after story.
And I thought they'll pass a

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book out like once a month.
I'm passing two or three books

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out a week.
I'm on Amazon.

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I'm just I just send them to
people mom passed away or

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sibling or helping somebody
who's walking through that

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season of dementia or all these
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And this this truth of scripture
has been minister to people in

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some very deep ways.
Amen.

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And I was going to dive into
some stuff that you may have not

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seen or ever like I don't have
heard before from scripture.

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And this will change how I
preach.

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This message day is going to be
some new things for me and I

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believe it's going to be some
very new things for you.

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But today's dedicated really to
those of us that feel like we're

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at the the nice guy finishes
last.

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Like you may have done all the
right things that didn't

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workout.
You may be the season in your

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business or maybe like if you
call vocational ministry and

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things are going well and the
rug rips out and like you just

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have to walk away.
This is one season, like, you're

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weary of doing good.
You may wonder, like, why are

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you showing up to work?
Like, is it all going to work

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out?
I think about last night even or

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Saturday night even into
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And I don't know.
I don't typically watch the

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news, but, you know, seeing what
happened in Iran.

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And I was like, man, like,
what's going on?

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And you start to think like,
that's it.

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Like, I could have been in the
airport in Dubai because I fly a

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lot.
And that could have been me,

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right?
Like, just wrong place, wrong

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time.
And is it worth, like, is it

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worth the effort of all the
things we do because you guys

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work hard.
You may be burned out.

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You're wondering, is it going to
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Like doesn't even matter
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And I think for a lot of us, we
kind of struggle finding our

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purpose in our job, in our work
and may lose sight of why we're

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here.
So people think like we in life

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and everything just slips into
oblivion like nothing on this

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earth truly matters, like our
labor is in vain.

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It's always been some extra time
today diving into this topic and

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it's it's a real interesting
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But the restoration, no, we
called the resurrection of our

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deeds, but the restoration or
the reconstitution that God is

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going to keep some of our works
and deeds.

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And so this is going to be a
whole new topic.

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How many of you heard a top I
mentioned on this topic before?

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Well, good.
So I can say anything I want.

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I was kidding.
It's in the Bible.

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It's in the Bible.
So turn to 1st Corinthians 15.

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We got it 1558.
This is what it says.

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It says, therefore, this is Paul
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My dear brothers and sisters,
help me out what to say?

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Stand firm.
You know most of the Bible is

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honestly written around these
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Stand firm in your faith.
Like be the voice between heaven

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and earth.
Like don't give up on what God

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is doing.
Look at the next line where it

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says let nothing what?
Be unmovable.

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Like just be stubborn for the
will of God.

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Like do what God's called you to
do, like live in the in between.

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Don't be weary.
It says always give yourselves

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how fully to the work of the
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This is really interesting.
Always give yourself fully man.

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That's a call like in everything
we do, give yourself fully to

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the work of Lord.
And so I think the first

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question you ask yourself is
I'm, I'm not doing the work of

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the Lord.
Like it's what I'm doing, the

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thing that God's asked me to do.
And I want to be really like set

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some boundaries here.
When we talk about this, we're

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not talking about, am I in
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Am I getting paid?
I think there's this thing in

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the Christian, in the American
church, like if you're not like

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going to Bible college or on a
platform and you're getting paid

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to do something for God, you're
really not doing full time

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ministry.
And I just want to encourage you

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to like debunk this completely
that we were all in full time

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ministry, Amen?
Like there's not a thing you can

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separate.
If the Bible says you eat or

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drink to all for the glory of
God, then everything you do is

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for the glory of God.
Jesus needs some amazing

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computer programmers, Amen.
Where would the church be today

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without the care of some good
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He's a mechanic.
I was kidding.

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Where would the church be today
without the gospel going out

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digitally?
Like where would the church be

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today without you version?
How many guys have the user in

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Bible app?
How many guys read the Bible on

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your phone?
How many do a a discipleship

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thing on your phone like a Bible
study or like you read the

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scripts to phone?
How many guys research a

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scripture through your phone?
I mean, we all do right?

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Like where would we be if there
wasn't computer programmers for

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Jesus?
Amen.

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Like you think about like
there's probably more people who

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have come to Christ because of
digital influence in the last 20

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years.
Then maybe in the last 2000.

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There's languages that have been
translated by just thousands of

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new languages being put out
across the world because nobody

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has the Bible in the language.
We used to have to go and all

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these things and all of a sudden
it's all coming together.

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I mean, you think about what we
do matters for Christ.

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It's it's not just you have to
serve as a leader in the church

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to be doing ministry.
I think sometimes like, well, if

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you don't hold a microphone and
you're not on stage and you

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don't, you're not professional
Christian, then we just kind of

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show up.
And that could not be farther

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from the truth, Amen.
Like, like we're all playing a

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major part, a lead story in what
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And it's your story, Amen?
Like you're not writing my

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story.
You're doing the task that God

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is assigned to you.
Paul himself, who wrote third

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New Testament, he was a tip
maker, you know that he, he

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travelled and built tents.
So he wasn't a burden on the

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church.
He was like the first portable

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guy.
Come on, somebody.

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I mean, he built the tent and
it's like, go, go, right.

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Like it's, this is what it is.
Like we leverage what we have

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for Jesus.
And it's not just we leverage it

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like, well, I want a business
and so I'll, I'll do some

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philanthropy work and that's for
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That's not true.
That part, yes, that kidney

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ministry, but the rest of your
business is ministry.

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Amen like somehow we're like you
didn't you didn't add value to

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people like when you roof their
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You didn't roof like for Jesus,
like you could roof a house for

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Jesus.
Your integrity and your

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character and how you lead it
speaks because I'm doing this

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for Christ.
I'm the roof this house just

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like it's Christ roof.
You can do that Amen and it's

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called integrity.
It's the the power of God

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through your business.
It doesn't have to be well, I do

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this extra things on the side
which you can.

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So when I think fully, that's
when I kind of describe this

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because this will come full
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What what I'm thinking is, is
that every person that you come

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in contact with in your life,
you point to Jesus.

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Like I think that's a big part
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It's not just the work of your
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but the work that God is doing
Kingdom work.

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It's it's about people, Amen.
Like we, we don't just rearrange

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chairs, like we're setting up
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And so when you run your
business or you're, you're

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serving your business, you're an
employee or you're walking

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through Walmart, God, God bless
you.

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You know, like every person you
get to point to Jesus.

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And in our world, like, I don't
know what it is, but like, for

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whatever reason, it's like black
or white, like, OK, I'm going to

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do nothing or I'm going to lead
him to Christ.

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You ever felt that way?
And I'm not qualified to do

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that.
Well, you are.

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You just don't know that yet.
But that's not the goal, OK?

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The goal isn't, I mean, you ask,
you want them to know Jesus, but

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your goal is to administer to
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You plant seed, you water seed,
and God grows.

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God grows.
You do not grow people.

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I love, I don't really love
going to churches that think

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they grow people.
I've been a part of those

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churches.
The churches that think they

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grow people, yell at people all
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certain way.
But God grows people.

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Amen.
I see the church like us as the

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body of Christ, The church
itself, we, we're like a, we're

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like a, we set up the garden,
like there's soil and there's

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seeds and there's water and then
God grows people and that takes

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the weight off my shoulders.
Like, man, I didn't lead into

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Jesus, man, I'm not doing good
work like I've got to do that

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person's really struggling to
sin and they got to get right

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the Lord.
That's the Holy Spirit's job.

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Amen.
So my job is a little different.

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And so just think about what
could it look like just to be a

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minister.
So here's some questions you

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asked about a little bit
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It's not very long listening to
somebody walk through a hard

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season.
If you just ask a question, how

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are you doing today?
And usually it's going to be

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like, I'm a fine service answer.
Is there anything you got you

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anything new or or like what's
on the hard you're struggling

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with?
And then if you know them at

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all, they'll start talking about
their family and things going

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on.
You just ask them, Hey, would it

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help if I prayed for you?
Not can I pray for you?

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Would it help?
I pray for you.

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And you simply just pray with
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Even if you don't pray in that
moment, you're praying for them.

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Like that's just something your
coworkers at work.

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You can add a little salt and
you just start praying for your

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coworkers.
Amen.

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You can just carry their culture
there.

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I love just this simple line.
It seems like you've got a lot

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on your mind.
It seems like you've got a lot

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on your mind and people just
tell you what's on their mind

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and you just say last two words
they finish with and they'll

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continually going.
You could do it for 20 minutes,

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right?
Like Lily, man, it's been a hard

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week.
A hard week.

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Oh yeah, duh, duh, duh.
I'm you.

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Lily.
Just be good at listening and

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then pray for people like just
don't make it about you.

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And you're going to see that
today.

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But give yourself fully so every
person you point to Jesus, Amen.

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Like what if you intentionally
like think that as leaving here

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today and every person you
intentionally walk by and is

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surrounded with you just give
them something towards Christ.

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It could be a smile.
It could be, hey, I just want to

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know God's love you.
I'm just doing this for Jesus.

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You're roofing a house, you're
running a business.

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Like, hey, the reason we work so
hard doing it right is because

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we know Lord just plant seeds,
Amen.

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Just make it about Christ.
One thing you can do is you can

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leverage, you can leverage your
career for Christ, not just show

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up 100 o'clock and come home and
separate your calling from your

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minute, from your work life, but
all of it's part of your

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calling.
And like I said, you got to ask

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yourself, Lord, is this where
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Like you got to know that you
got to trust the Lord that a lot

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of times you don't think that's
it, like we're always looking

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for the next thing, but grow
where you're planted right now,

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Amen?
Like God has put you there on

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purpose and you may be learning
a skill or something.

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You don't know why yet, but God
will use it.

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You learn in those seasons, you
don't necessarily feel like this

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is the thing, but God is going
to redeem and use things and

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teach you skills and mindsets
and shifts in that ministry.

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And so I would say when you're
at work and say, you say you own

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a company, how many, how many
guys actually own a company?

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Show of hands.
How many guys own a company real

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high.
Don't be ashamed of your

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company.
Come on, Somebody, somebody,

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some of the front rows of the
company.

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I believe you do, right?
He's like, I forgot that one,

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right?
It's easy, right?

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He's thinking about what Holly's
cooking up already at home.

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Got some ribs or something
right.

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But a lot of such companies
right?

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We, we, when you own a company,
you, you control the culture of

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your company.
Like you set it maybe not

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control, but you set the
culture, right.

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So let me just tell you some
like interesting things like I

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met a guy we're down in Houston
last week.

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A guy drove us to the airport
and I was just, you know, you

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want to talk about us?
And I was like, Hey, what's,

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what do you do and stuff?
And he installs like A's and,

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and and those words restaurants
and like for hotels and

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Starbucks and Bank of America
and does all these little

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pieces, all the refrigerations,
all these things.

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Major company, like the company
that owns Aramark, he does it

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for them as their whole thing.
So this isn't like a small

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company.
This is, this is hundreds of

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$1,000,000 company.
And I'm talking to he works a

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lot of blue collar guys still,
all the guys install and he

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says, you know, what's really
cool about our company is that

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every morning, and this is like
nationwide, if not worldwide, we

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have, we have a time of prayer
every morning across our

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company.
So we get every person in our

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company, every worker in our
company, every construction

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person in our company, they all
dial in, you know, where they

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call out and they all go on the
phone and they pray together for

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10 minutes.
That crazy.

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They're like, oh, wow.
So, so, so your work is your

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ministry.
When you own the business, you

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set the culture aim in.
There's another guy I met been a

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year ago at the same conference
and just blown by this guy.

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He owns AI don't know what he
call it.

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It's like a airplane repair
station in Fort Lauderdale

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called Banyan Airways and it's
the largest airplane repair

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station for like small planes,
you know, Cessna, stuff like

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that.
And he sells private Honda jets.

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I didn't know Honda sold a jet,
you know, and there's a long

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story of that, but he's largest
seller of Honda jets in the

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world.
And I was just, what is so

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different about your culture?
And he said, well, we do

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something really special every
Tuesday and Thursday.

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We have a we have two chaplains
on our staff team.

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They come in on Tuesday and
Thursday, both of them, and they

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walk around our entire work
area.

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And if they're mechanics, this
blue collar, come on somebody,

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they're spending wrenches on
airplanes and they walk around

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the floors for her employees and
they just minister to people.

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We got people here don't know
Jesus, stuff like that.

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But you know, they're not
pushing on people.

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But how can I pray with you?
What's God doing or how's your

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family?
And they just minister to people

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all day long.
I said, well, how's what's your

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turnover rate like?
He goes, people only leave when

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it's catastrophic.
Pretty crazy.

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He set the culture, Amen.
And in your business, you can

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set the culture.
Now most of us, a lot of us are

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employees, right?
We can shape the culture.

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Amen.
You, you can, you can bend it.

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Like did somebody tell you
couldn't pray, right?

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Did somebody tell you you
couldn't take an extra little

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minute and and have a
conversation?

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Did somebody tell you can have a
spiritual conversation?

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Did did somebody tell you you
can't just serve side by side

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and not soul to soul?
Did somebody stop you yet?

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Like we can do that, Amen.
It is an accident.

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You're in your workplace.
No, but sometimes we say, well,

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this is how I make my money and
then this is my ministry over

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here.
It's all the same, Amen.

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Give yourself fully to the work,
O Lord, And sometimes you have

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those seasons where you can do
something outside of like you

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can do something with that work,
right?

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Like my dad, who is a union
electrician 124.

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He was worked for somebody
before capital.

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I can't remember.
And they used to do this thing

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called Christmas in October and
we show up somewhere in Midtown

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of people in need and we'd go to
their houses and just pro bono,

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right.
And I was real young and he

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would, you know, reinstall a a
service entry or do do a panel

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or fix whatever electrical
thing.

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And they didn't know Jesus,
Amen.

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But they served like you, you
can do that with your business

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too.
You have this maybe extra time,

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you have skills and you can
leverage it for Christ.

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There's a man I'm going to meet
with on Tuesday and we'll get to

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the Bible, OK, But but there's a
man I'm going to meet with on

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Tuesday.
And this is so unique.

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I've never seen this before.
And I was like, yes, he, I don't

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think maybe he still is, but a
financial advisor.

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But at the time, this was like
probably early 2000.

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He, he, he moved to South Africa
because he felt God called him

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there to do ministry with these
people in South Africa.

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And so I was like, how did you
do this?

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He goes, well, I just didn't
tell my clients.

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I moved to South Africa and I
would minister during the day

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and because of time change, I
administered to my clients at

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night and then I would fly back
to the United States a couple

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times a year and they had no
idea that was in South Africa.

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Is that credible?
Now here's what's even fat

456
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crazy.
He's stateside now, but now he

457
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travels all across the, there
were three or four places in the

458
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world where he does this
ministry that we're looking to

459
00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:53,920
connect with, where it's
ministering to thousands and

460
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,520
thousands and thousands of
people.

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Because he just said, look, I'm
going to use my business as

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leverage for the Kingdom.
Is that cool?

463
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:03,280
You ever thought about that
before?

464
00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,240
This is mind blowing, right?
Like I could do all this for

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God.
So why do we leverage?

466
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Just we're going to get into it.
Why do we leverage?

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00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:12,200
And this is the next part of the
verse.

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OK, so we go all the way back to
way back to the last verse.

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It was a long time ago.
That's my cue for the guys on

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the screen so you can find it
still not there.

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We're getting it OK, right,
because you know OK, we give

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ourselves fully to work Lord,
because you know that you're

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what labor in the Lord is not in
what it's not in vain.

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It's not wasted like Jesus is
going to leverage everything for

475
00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,480
His Kingdom and you're going to
see a day that what carries over

476
00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:48,040
from earth to heaven is way more
than you think.

477
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And some of our deeds carry over
for eternity.

478
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,160
This is what JB Phillips says
about First Corinthians 15.

479
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:56,320
This is Zach's verse.
He puts it this way.

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Let nothing move you as you busy
yourself in the Lord's work.

481
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Be sure to know nothing you do
for Him is ever lost or wasted.

482
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,600
How would we show up every day
if we knew that what we could be

483
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,080
doing could be, could be done
and used for eternity?

484
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Will that, will that change how
we work?

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I get excited about that.
Amen.

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It just like man another day to
do something for eternity.

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Think about this.
Every Kingdom work will find its

488
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:30,360
place in the Kingdom of heaven.
Every Kingdom work, every public

489
00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:32,880
thing, but every private thing
as well.

490
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:37,120
There's going to be so many
stories of what people have done

491
00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:41,040
in obedience and sacrifice and
suffering.

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00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,400
Every honest intention, every
stumbling word of witness.

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00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,120
Thank you.
Jesus is going to be in heaven.

494
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,840
The resistance to temptation, a
motion of repentance, A struggle

495
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,760
towards obedience.
This Is Us.

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00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,280
Amen.
All these effort is not wasted.

497
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Every mumbled prayer, every
gesture of concern, literally

498
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,800
everything which flows out of
faithful relationship with Jesus

499
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,880
will find its place in heaven.
I'll show you First Corinthians

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3.
We're starting verse 5 says what

501
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,080
after all is Apollos.
That's a weird question because

502
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,040
you'd think it's a who, after
all, is Apollos, but what's

503
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,560
Apollos now?
Apollos, there's a church

504
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,640
started in Corinth and Paul
launched it and Apollos came

505
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,840
behind.
Paulus is a great orator, a

506
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,600
great speaker and people this
division that's happened to the

507
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,200
church, like I'm a Peter, I'm of
Apollos, I'm of Paul and really

508
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,440
they find out we're all of
Jesus, Amen?

509
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,360
But what is the Paul's after
all, and what is Paul?

510
00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:42,960
Look what it says only what the
only servants.

511
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They are not the King, they are
not the foundation, they are the

512
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,640
servants since through him you
came to believe as the Lord has

513
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:56,240
what assigned to each his task.
So that means there's a race we

514
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,440
each run.
What you do and what I do are

515
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,480
not called to be the same thing.
Like there's a task given, Amen?

516
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,800
So we're not going to compare
like, oh, what's your Sal?

517
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:05,760
Well, who makes more money to do
that?

518
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,680
And what's just over here?
Who's popular over there?

519
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,040
Who's who knows?
It's that person.

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00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,280
Oh, I don't have no foundation
because I'm not in that seat.

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00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,560
You've given a task, Amen.
But we like the spotlight.

522
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,360
But are we OK with ambiguity?
Do the task.

523
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,560
Verse six, I planted the seed.
So I'm appalled.

524
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,760
I planted the seed.
Apollos watered it, but God has

525
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:31,000
been making it grow.
Wow, this is amazing, he says so

526
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,120
neither the one who plants nor
the one who waters is what you

527
00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:37,840
ain't special.
So he's saying we can't take

528
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:42,040
credit for what Jesus doing.
He says, but only God who makes

529
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,480
things grow.
Listen, this you you can't take

530
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:51,800
credit for anything like your
best effort without God produces

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00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,640
nothing.
Amen.

532
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:56,960
That takes the weight off our
shoulders.

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00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,440
It's not about your performance.
It's about your humility and

534
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,000
letting God do the work.
You just show up.

535
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,800
You're faithful to the task that
God's given you.

536
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,160
Verse 8, it says the one who
plants and the one who waters

537
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,520
have one purpose and has to do
the task, and they will each be

538
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:18,400
what help me out, rewarded
according to their own labor.

539
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,840
I love that I'm not going to be
rewarded based on other people's

540
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,720
labor.
Amen.

541
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,800
I'm, I'm rewarded based upon my
effort, my ability, what God is

542
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,440
giving, my stewardship of the
things of the Kingdom.

543
00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:37,080
Verse 9 For we are what
coworkers in God's service.

544
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,480
You are God's field.
This is interesting.

545
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,680
You're God's field and God's
building.

546
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,360
When it says you're God's field,
it begs the question, who made

547
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:50,520
your field grow?
You did not grow yourself, God

548
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,320
grew you.
Amen.

549
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,120
It's it and you have no ability
to grow in the house.

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00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:56,880
You can only give all glory to
God.

551
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,160
And it says that you're God's
building, which is going to talk

552
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,920
about here in a second more in
depth, but it begs the question,

553
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:06,280
who built you?
I, I, I mean, I hate to say

554
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,320
this, but in ministry, I've been
around a lot of self-made

555
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,440
people.
And to be real honest with you,

556
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,120
there's no room in the level of
leadership for self-made people.

557
00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,960
It's only God made people.
Amen.

558
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,760
God is the builder and he builds
you.

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00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,600
He's the grower and you're his
field.

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00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,680
Verse 10, it says by the grace,
by the grace God has given me, I

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00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,240
laid a foundation as a wide wise
builder and someone else is

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00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,240
building on it.
So he's he's building the church

563
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,560
in Corinth.
And then Apollos came and built

564
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,080
upon the foundation.
He said we're working together

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00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:43,240
in tandem, but God grew it.
But each one should build with

566
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:47,080
care, for no one can lay any
foundation other than the one

567
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,240
already laid, which is Jesus
Christ.

568
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:55,320
Jesus is the foundation for all
of your good works and deeds.

569
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,240
It's not your ability.
It wasn't like you funded it and

570
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,120
you gave towards it and you put
your energy into it.

571
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:02,960
It's your creative design and
you dreamed.

572
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,680
Well, it's only God.
Amen.

573
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,960
Your gifts and talents and
calling and task is built on the

574
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:12,280
footing of the cross.
Like we're not that special to

575
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,480
think we're going to build it on
ourselves.

576
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,600
Verse 12, you can see our deeds
and rewards.

577
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,960
It says if anyone builds on this
foundation, foundation of

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00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:28,240
Christ, Lucas says using gold,
silver or costly stones and

579
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,120
wood, hay if you're old King
James, it says straw but

580
00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:34,680
stubble, right?
So their work shall be shown for

581
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,400
what it is because the day will
bring it to light.

582
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,360
Now what day is this going to
be?

583
00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:42,000
This is interesting like the
day.

584
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:47,680
This is the evaluation day of
our deeds and works some kind of

585
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,520
connect it to like the Bema seat
of Christ, where we as

586
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,080
Christians that know Jesus,
we're in heaven and God is going

587
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:59,440
to evaluate what we did.
So salvation is given, but these

588
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:05,160
rewards are really not even
earned because it's not your

589
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,520
ability, it's not based on you,
it's based on your obedience.

590
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,840
And So what you did for Christ
is going to be evaluated this

591
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,560
day and it's going to show what
it is to be brought to light.

592
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,600
It says to be revealed with
what?

593
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,920
Help me out with fire.
Anybody getting nervous yet?

594
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,520
When you read the scripture, it
will make you nervous and it

595
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,800
probably should to some level.
It'll reveal with fire and the

596
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,640
fire will test the what?
The quality of each person's

597
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,360
work.
This is such an interesting

598
00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:36,440
passage.
We're going to talk about a

599
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,920
little deeper.
What is this fire?

600
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:43,760
But at some point when we're in
heaven, our good deeds and our

601
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:48,920
not so good deeds are going to
go and God is going to evaluate

602
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:54,800
them and test them through fire.
The quality of the work is it,

603
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,960
is it gold, silver or precious
stone or wood, hay and stubble?

604
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,720
And we're going to talk about
what the difference is here in a

605
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,480
second.
But just know there's a day of

606
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,680
proving if this is from God or
not.

607
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,120
It's interesting.
The first time that God purified

608
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:11,880
the earth was in the flood.
The story, no, right?

609
00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,240
It says that every thought and
intention of the heart was

610
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,800
wicked beyond all deceit.
There's also a major thought

611
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,240
process that angels had
cohabitated with humans, and God

612
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,360
is purifying the earth from sin.
And from these angels he's

613
00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:29,480
Nephilim.
And so God sends this flood and

614
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,560
he saved some things, two by
two, all the animals, right?

615
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,400
Christie told me she goes, she
had a picture and it was a lion.

616
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,400
He said, hmm, that was good.
I had meat meals, two by two all

617
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:40,600
day.
There's just a lion sitting next

618
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:41,920
to the ark.
Oh, that's pretty good, you

619
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,040
know.
But he saves all the animals,

620
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,280
right?
And he saves Noah and his

621
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,440
family.
I believe there's eight people

622
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,400
he saves, right?
And the rest, the world just

623
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,000
purified because they're wicked
beyond all deceit.

624
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,720
And the second time God purifies
our works in the world is not

625
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,680
through water, it's through
fire.

626
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:01,680
It's pretty interesting, isn't
it?

627
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,600
Like how God is trying to create
righteousness.

628
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,400
And so he says it's about the
works.

629
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,720
He says verse 14, if what has
been built, what somebody say

630
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,040
survives, survives, this is
going to be very important for

631
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,440
this message.
If what has been built survives,

632
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,680
the builder will receive a what?
A reward.

633
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,880
Now we could go a long time on
the words.

634
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,280
You might have heard a message
on the rewards.

635
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,480
We could do one, but I'm not
going to go deep in the rewards,

636
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:29,960
but I want to talk about what
you do.

637
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,120
If it's for God, it's for his
glory.

638
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,960
It survives the fire.
It actually survives.

639
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:41,600
Amen says right there, verse 15.
If it is burned up, the builder

640
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,360
will suffer loss, but yet will
be saved, even though it's one

641
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,800
escaping through the flames.
So let's just talk through what

642
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,200
this looks like because this at
this point, how many guys are

643
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,880
sweating a little bit because
you're thinking about last week?

644
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,320
You're like, hmm, what did I do
for the Lord?

645
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,480
You know, So what?
What is this fire?

646
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,600
So this fire is God's holy
evaluation.

647
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:07,440
I want you to understand this is
not God's wrath, This isn't God.

648
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,240
This isn't like hell being cast
down on your deeds.

649
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,720
This is like your deeds getting
into God's presence.

650
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,160
If you want to call it a holy
exposure, like there's nothing

651
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,240
unrighteous that gets into
heaven from earth.

652
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,920
Like that's why our soul is made
righteous by Jesus and it goes

653
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,000
immediately to heaven.
Saw somebody last week they

654
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,800
thought wouldn't like the soul
sleep and I'm like, you don't

655
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,280
read the Bible.
You know, there's no soul sleep,

656
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,520
brother.
Like after the body present,

657
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,680
Lord, it just happens, man.
It's a continuation.

658
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,920
You're not like you don't
disappear for something, you

659
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,120
know, but we're right in heaven.
But everything in heaven is

660
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,640
righteous.
So imagine you put your

661
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,840
imperfect work and your broken
work and is it built on Christ

662
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,160
or built on yourself is on your
foundation or Christ foundation

663
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:56,000
and the presence of God, which
is an all consuming fire is on

664
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,120
top of your work.
Will it survive the presence and

665
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,000
holiness of God?
And we're cheering on like, yes,

666
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,880
Lord, I hope it does right,
because was this me or was this

667
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,960
you?
Like was I seeking you?

668
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,920
Was I humbled I was I living for
you?

669
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,000
What's done for Christ is set
apart for heaven.

670
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,520
What's done for our pride or ego
ourselves with Bishop is burned

671
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,360
up.
And so Paul classifieds them

672
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,200
gold, silver, precious stones
survive and wood, hay and

673
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,440
stubble are burned.
I had a youth leader when I was

674
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,200
growing up all the time.
He said don't be don't deal with

675
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:25,920
wood, Hey, and stubble, don't
build with wood and stubble just

676
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,880
beat in my head all the time,
right, Because we're always

677
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,000
tempted to do that, right?
The temporary, the now, the fun,

678
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,360
the easy.
And now what does Christ want?

679
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,120
I have to ask the question is
this for Christ?

680
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,080
And what's burned up disappears
forever.

681
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,200
And so that's the loss we suffer
when it says you'll suffer loss

682
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,440
like some of y'all grew up in
church.

683
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,240
We're like, go to heaven.
And they've got to wipes for

684
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,400
your tears, which is true, but
it's not yet because there's

685
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,520
going to be some tears when we
look at our works and some of

686
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,160
them don't make it.
Probably the majority of our

687
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,440
works won't make it because it
wasn't for Christ.

688
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,560
And we had this loss of like the
reward we could have got, the

689
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:06,440
impact it could have made, that
what could have been is now gone

690
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,840
and that what we had isn't there
for eternity.

691
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,600
There is that loss of like,
Lord, I, I missed it.

692
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,800
I missed it, Lord.
And we'll have to live with that

693
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:17,600
now.
It doesn't mean you're not

694
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,520
saved.
Amen because he himself is

695
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,360
saved.
But it says it's one that barely

696
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,520
escapes the flames.
But our salvation is on Christ.

697
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,360
So we're in heaven, but we're
watching awards and it it says

698
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:28,600
as one escaping through the
flames.

699
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,520
Now this is interesting because
you're like, dude, this sounds

700
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,360
pretty hard, you know, and what
it's saying is it's this picture

701
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,760
like if your house burned down
and you run out the front door

702
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,640
and your your clothes singed.
Like when I was building the

703
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,520
Hope Center, I was cutting the
lentil for the door with well, I

704
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,000
was holding the piece of metal
and Barry was cutting the lentil

705
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,600
and all the sparks were throwing
on me.

706
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,680
But I was looking at the way
because I don't get in my eyes

707
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,400
and I was like, man, it's
getting hot.

708
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,760
I looked over.
My arm is on fire, right?

709
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,920
And I still wear the jacket.
Come on, somebody, so I can show

710
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:03,080
off where I burn, you know?
But you just barely escape, you

711
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,320
know, you can smolder and you
can smell it, but you escape.

712
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,920
And it's like you leave the
house and you just have nothing.

713
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,000
But you're alive, right?
And it'll be those of us in

714
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,880
heaven.
They get there and we'll look at

715
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,800
this fire.
It'll consume almost everything

716
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:20,400
we did then we, maybe some of
us, like we knew Jesus, but we

717
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,600
weren't surrendered to Jesus
like God had asked us so many

718
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,160
times to just make a shift or to
be a part of that or change the

719
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,240
culture or find your identity or
step into your call or be

720
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,280
strong, courageous.
And we just stood back and we'll

721
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,720
sit there and we'll watch it,
but we'll be saved.

722
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,840
We'll be in heaven but have
nothing to show for it.

723
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,800
That's what I'm saying.
You you didn't bring anything

724
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,000
with you like you barely made it
here yourself.

725
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,120
And is the reality of like what
we do really, really matters.

726
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,880
And for so long, I think we've
reached this message that has

727
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,720
not been, I mean, guilty as
could be that the only things in

728
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,760
heaven are the Bible and souls.
You guys ever heard that before?

729
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,440
I mean, I've preached it a
million times, right?

730
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,880
That's the only thing that makes
it that's just not true.

731
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,560
Like you even have your works
have already made it into heaven

732
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:11,880
and then God has to evaluate
them.

733
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:17,159
What was your life about?
But God, he doesn't destroy the

734
00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:19,280
earth.
He destroys the things that

735
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,360
these displease him, that things
were done for his glory.

736
00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,040
But here's the exciting part.
Because with that you can be

737
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,000
negative, but he also can be
like, do you thank you, Jesus,

738
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,159
because I can build on your
Kingdom right now.

739
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,280
Like I can start putting some
treasure up in heaven.

740
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,960
Literally, literally, literally
treasure.

741
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,480
Like how many guys thought that
was just a figure of speech?

742
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:44,000
Like, oh, there'll be treasures
in heaven, like based on this,

743
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,840
Like you can bring it with you
for his glory.

744
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,560
And so it gets really exciting.
So your deeds survive.

745
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,880
The ones that do survive,
everybody say survive.

746
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,120
Notice he didn't say it was
destroyed.

747
00:34:56,639 --> 00:35:01,960
Why did God purify your deeds
just to destroy him?

748
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,320
He doesn't.
Amen.

749
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,120
They follow us to heaven.
Paul's talking not just about

750
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,760
the rewards, because that's what
we talk about all the time, but

751
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,840
what carries over to the next
life.

752
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,480
And scripture is clear, like in
some form or another that what

753
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,240
we do for Christ and it makes it
through the fire will last for

754
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,240
eternity.
So I'm supposed to imagine,

755
00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:25,880
because if, if this is the
standard, this changes

756
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:30,000
everything like like just
imagine, like a child writes a

757
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,920
note to Jesus.
Would that be in heaven?

758
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,880
And maybe it's destroyed like it
was like 2000 years ago or

759
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,800
something, right?
Or like 2000 years now or

760
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,160
something.
Maybe Jesus rewrites it in the

761
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,120
kids handwriting.
It's recreated.

762
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,720
Like I don't think he resurrects
it for say, but God can move

763
00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,600
molecules, Amen.
He moves the molecules of our

764
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,920
dead bodies and raises from the
dead.

765
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,200
Why couldn't he make the note
again?

766
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,440
And maybe some pure hearted,
faith filled child writes a note

767
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:55,960
to Jesus and God says, you know
what?

768
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,280
I'm going to put that in my
handwriting.

769
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,240
Or maybe it's in the child's.
Can God do that?

770
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,320
You think about this, Jesus is
working in his Father's workshop

771
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,680
and he's whittling or cutting
and building chairs and tables

772
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,240
and furniture.
A Carpenter would do.

773
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,920
Would it be insurmountable?
Think that those items are in

774
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,920
heaven, that God brings them
back together.

775
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,720
He is building a house, by the
way, Amen.

776
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:19,840
Do you think he may bring some
furniture?

777
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,280
Just kind of put some things in
there just just now?

778
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,320
You look like I'm crazy.
Like, is this guy crazy?

779
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:28,800
What about works of art and
literature?

780
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:30,960
Do you do you think like the
Chronicles and Arnie might make

781
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,080
it?
Just saying, why not?

782
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,080
It's rooting for God's glory,
Amen.

783
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:42,920
Do you think maybe like the
Jesus film could make it?

784
00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:46,600
Do you think maybe like your,
your, your Bible that's chocked

785
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,640
for your notes?
Do you think God may just be

786
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,920
like, Hey, I'm going to get you
back your your OG Bible and you

787
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,080
can see forever the praise
you'll give me for the story you

788
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,680
wrote as you struggle with that
time on earth.

789
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,480
That would be amazing.
Amen.

790
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,560
I mean, just think about the
level which God could do.

791
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,400
I mean, think about if God can
reconstitute and recreate and

792
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,200
bring things that make it
through the fire.

793
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:07,800
Could you bring back those
things you were holding

794
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,520
righteous all time?
So like you may have given a

795
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,920
flower arrangement to somebody
that was sick in the hospital

796
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,200
and that arrangement like
sparked some return to God or

797
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,120
some moment of righteousness.
He's brought somebody back to

798
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,000
the fullness of God because
you're mind with their purpose

799
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,960
and story.
And God just takes that flower

800
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,600
arrangement and says here, this
means that this can be on your

801
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,680
table.
Like why couldn't God do that?

802
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,920
Amen.
Or how about a song or a book

803
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,560
that was written for his glory?
But some of you guys written

804
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,800
some songs you'll never share
with anybody, right?

805
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,520
And you're like, oh, it's not a
big deal.

806
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,440
I'll never make it.
It's not going to sell anything,

807
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,880
but God sees it.
Some of you guys have some

808
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,840
amazing poetry, Amen?
And you have some amazing

809
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,400
writings, amazing thoughts, all
these things.

810
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,840
Why can't God bring him?
How about a blanket that was

811
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,800
made by your grandma and she
prayed over you as you're in the

812
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,320
womb of your, of her daughter,
right?

813
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,880
Or great or dog in law and she's
just weaving together,

814
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,240
crocheting this amazing blanket.
Why?

815
00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:01,840
Why couldn't God bring that
back, Amen?

816
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,320
I mean, I don't know what,
what's going to be on our fridge

817
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,960
in heaven, right?
There may be some things on your

818
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,200
fridge right now that's done for
the glory of God.

819
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,200
And it could be that picture of
this moment or it could be this

820
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,040
thing, something made in your
family or something your kid do

821
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,400
some some finger painting and
God says, dude, that's true.

822
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,440
My glory.
Why not Amen?

823
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,520
Like we, we, we have just
downplayed the resurrection to

824
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:30,720
like souls in the Bible and it's
so much bigger, Amen.

825
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,840
It's so much bigger.
You can go take a little

826
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,920
farther, not just even deeds,
but you, you can almost take it

827
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,600
to animals.
You really can.

828
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:41,960
Like, why couldn't God bring
back animals?

829
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,160
You actually see camels in
heaven, Isaiah 65.

830
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,720
Look it up.
There's camels in heaven.

831
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,160
Amen.
Why can't God bring all these

832
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,520
animals back?
I mean, you think about bringing

833
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,640
animals back.
So like, think about Genesis 3.

834
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,000
The serpent was craftier, more
craft than the other animal.

835
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:02,880
So were other animals crafty
too?

836
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,720
Like they had higher levels of
intelligence.

837
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:07,800
Maybe they have now.
I'm the serpent was pretty

838
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,960
intelligent, you know what I'm
saying?

839
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,200
He could talk and if you read
the Bible, it wasn't like he was

840
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:18,440
surprised.
She didn't seem too afraid that

841
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,520
the the animal spoke.
That wasn't too crazy for her.

842
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,840
So do do animals speak in
heaven?

843
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,440
Just throwing out there.
That would be crazy, wouldn't

844
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:26,960
it?
You actually see this in the

845
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,120
Bible.
How many how many guys know you

846
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:29,760
see an animal speaking in the
Bible outside the serpent?

847
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,080
You guys know this.
There's there's a story of of

848
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,320
Balaam and he's going from this
king.

849
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,840
I think it's Malik.
And he's either going to curse

850
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,400
Israel and he sends them on his
donkey and they're riding down

851
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,520
the road and this Angel Lord's
in the road, but Balaam can't

852
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,080
see it, but the donkey can.
The donkey sees the Angel and

853
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,560
he's like, I ain't not going
through that stubborn donkey.

854
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,120
And so Balaam starts beating
them and he tries to get him to

855
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:53,880
go this way and slams against
the wall and tries to go that

856
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,480
way and you won't do it and
tries to at least lays down

857
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,600
under the angel's feet like he
can't go.

858
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,160
Balaam had no idea there's Angel
Lord just standing right there.

859
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,400
And then God opens the Balaam's
eyes after where he does this

860
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,080
first.
Balaam beats the donkey three

861
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,040
times, by the way, and then he
opens the donkey's mouth and

862
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,160
this, I put this verse on the
screen says so cool, says the

863
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:16,280
Lord opened the donkey's mouth
and it being the donkey said to

864
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:20,160
Balaam, what have I done to you
to make you beat me these three

865
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,280
times?
What if your pet could speak?

866
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,600
You know, I mean, it's pretty
amazing there, there there's a

867
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,600
pastor.
I hope I don't offend anybody

868
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,760
about this, but it was a
fundamental church, fundamental

869
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,920
Baptist Church, right?
And he he he read this verse one

870
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,200
time he preached a whole mess
with this.

871
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,560
He said if God can use an ass,
he can use you.

872
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,360
I was like, thank you.
Don't want to say that, you

873
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,600
know, appreciate it, right, But
you think about this donkey like

874
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,360
are these the words of God that
he just gave the donkey or did

875
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,120
he just open his mouth and these
are the words of the donkey.

876
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,080
You got to think about it and do
we think like I just trying to

877
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,600
you say all he truittized
resurrection or something like

878
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,480
no, I think I'm elevating the
resurrection like I think I'm

879
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,960
elevating God's Kingdom, Amen.
Like this is way bigger thinking

880
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,040
than most of us have ever
imagined.

881
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:09,360
Here's the point I'm trying to
tell you regardless of the

882
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,920
animals, but the deeds God
rewards with eternal permanence.

883
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:17,920
What is precious to his heart.
It's a pretty cool reward, Amen.

884
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:21,040
And that we get to play a part
of that story and what's

885
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,360
precious to God's heart.
So words make worlds.

886
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,800
We talk about this, how many
guys are saying right now

887
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,320
dreaming of heaven, Me saying
that you missed it a few weeks

888
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,120
ago, dreaming of heaven.
I caught myself the other day.

889
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,760
I was like living the dream.
I was like, no, no, no, no,

890
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,160
dreaming of heaven.
Somebody asked me, I was doing

891
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,840
it at Lowe's dream, living the
dream.

892
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,880
No, I was dreaming of heaven.
It's like, what's wrong with

893
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,120
that guy dreaming of heaven,
man?

894
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,760
It's just one of the days, which
is every day looking forward to

895
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,560
heaven, man.
But words make worlds.

896
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,520
They've been.
If you look at the scripture,

897
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,160
you can no longer say things
that we've always said.

898
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:54,200
We say these things all the
time.

899
00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,040
You can't take it with you.
Really.

900
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,240
Like, I don't have to take it
with me because God already did,

901
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,680
Amen.
So there's no, there's no U

902
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,160
hauls attached to hers.
Have you heard that before?

903
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,200
No U hauls, right?
Well, why don't a U-Haul if

904
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,560
God's already going to bring it,
Amen.

905
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:20,480
Like I don't need to worry about
that.

906
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,480
Like, so thank God I don't want
to bring it.

907
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,240
There's too much to bring,
right?

908
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,920
I've heard this, man.
It won't matter in 100 years

909
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,960
anyway.
Won't matter how many years

910
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,520
were.
It's like, yeah, you're right.

911
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,400
It won't matter in 100 years
because it will matter for all

912
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,880
eternity.
Amen.

913
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,200
Like what you do actually
matters.

914
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,600
And sometimes you go to work,
you're like, oh, this is this.

915
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,280
And I, I, I can't stand this.
It's like, are you doing what

916
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,880
the Lord has you to do?
Is this the work he has for you?

917
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,160
And are you doing it always
fully for the work of Lord?

918
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,640
Because you may be surprised
when you get to heaven and

919
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,880
you're like, oh, I wish I would
have done it better.

920
00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:58,800
That's what he's saying.
You can't take it with you.

921
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,240
All his things in the Heaven
Bible and souls.

922
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,760
Barry did a great job preaching
the message years ago, maybe

923
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,600
took the Monopoly game.
You guys remember this, This is

924
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,000
all ends in the box, right?
And he put everything in the box

925
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,160
and the reference like with ends
in the coffin, right?

926
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,880
I started thinking about this
and I was I was a man.

927
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:17,280
And Barry, by the way, that was
a great message.

928
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:29,200
But what actually ends in a box?
What does your deeds in a box?

929
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,480
Do you really think everything
that we did on this earth just

930
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,520
just put in the six feet of dirt
and it's no more forever?

931
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,800
Do your deeds in a box.
Does your soul end in a box?

932
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:42,440
No.
That's right.

933
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,120
That isn't right.
Does your body end in a box?

934
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,560
Does it?
No, it it says in the Bible that

935
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,800
you're buried mortal and raised
to immortality.

936
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,360
You're a seed being planted
almost springtime.

937
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,320
Some of you guys, I know when
you put down these bulbs,

938
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,120
where's my gardeners where the
bulbs go down?

939
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,160
You plant the bulb, get some
beautiful come out of it.

940
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,440
Amen.
That's what the Bible says about

941
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,280
our bodies.
It's a seed being planted so

942
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:16,120
even your body doesn't end in a
box raised to immortality.

943
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,080
I'm like, there's a box end in a
box if it is used for God's

944
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:24,200
glory, Amen.
I'm just here to tell you, just

945
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,680
set the record straight.
I've changed my theology.

946
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:32,920
Nothing ends in a box, Amen.
Amen.

947
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,040
I mean, this is a different
level.

948
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,160
We've never thought this way,
never seen it this way.

949
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,640
Here's an amazing verse, and
I'll end with this because I

950
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,240
could go on really forever
because we'll be here forever.

951
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:49,200
Ephesians 210 blow your mind.
Feastin says we are God's

952
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:55,840
handiwork created in Christ
Jesus to do what good works not

953
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,640
not just our works, not just
what I want, not my Kingdom, but

954
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:07,640
good works, which what?
Who should say God prepared in

955
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,360
advance for us to do this is
insane.

956
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,240
So before we're born, maybe
before we knit together in the

957
00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:21,760
womb, and maybe even before the
foundation of the earth, God

958
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:26,640
gave us works to do, not just
salvation.

959
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,440
He gave us tasks.
He gave us roles.

960
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:36,040
He gave us thanks to spend our
life on, should say, invest our

961
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:40,000
life on.
And those works are prepared in

962
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,280
advance, and then God calls you
into them.

963
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,760
So the foundation of your works
is Jesus created the works.

964
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,080
The foundation you do in the
works is that Jesus died for

965
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,040
you.
And you build your works on

966
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:55,040
Jesus.
And then the works last forever.

967
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,720
And the foundation of the new
heaven, new earth, after God

968
00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:02,560
purifies the earth through fire.
And so from foundation to

969
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:07,160
foundation to foundation, Jesus
has placed you and put you here

970
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:13,480
on purpose to do his good works,
which by God's grace become our

971
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,560
deeds.
That's amazing, Amen.

972
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:22,760
If we would just stop trying and
just start trusting and say,

973
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,760
Jesus, what would you have me to
do with my life?

974
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,600
I don't care when, how much it
pays, or where we're going.

975
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,040
God am following you.
You might be surprised where you

976
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,720
take to heaven, Amen.
And so, Father, we come before

977
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:36,320
you.
I pray for our church to be bold

978
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:40,400
for you that every day, God, we
would have to evaluate.

979
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,040
Am I doing this fully for your
work, Jesus?

980
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,960
Always fully giving ourselves to
the work of the Lord, knowing

981
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:52,640
that our labor is not in vain.
God help us to wake up every day

982
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:57,520
knowing that what we're doing
isn't wasted, even though it's

983
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,600
hard and it's not seen and
that's not on Facebook with a

984
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,600
million likes.
I don't give the validation.

985
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,200
Nobody knows the story.
You see it for your glory, God.

986
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:12,680
So just give us boldness to step
into your works, which involve

987
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,840
people and culture and your
gospel and how we lead.

988
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,120
It matters.
This is slipping away, but that

989
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:22,040
lasts forever.
Give us that discernment and

990
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,760
that wisdom and that direction,
that confidence, that boldness

991
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,880
to do the things you call to do
God with this race, this little

992
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:32,240
dash called life.
Don't pray for those in the

993
00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:35,800
house that say I know Jesus and
you just said God, I want to be

994
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:40,600
fully devoted to your work.
You might have been run your own

995
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,720
direction, but your heart's just
calling out today.

996
00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:45,520
I'll be fully giving myself to
the work of the Lord today.

997
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,320
If that's you just put your hand
high and say that's me.

998
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,880
I want to fully give myself the
work of the Lord.

999
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,560
I don't just give partial
credit.

1000
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,160
I don't just do my thing.
One foot in the world, 1 foot in

1001
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:56,480
the other Kingdom.
I want to be all for the

1002
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,000
Kingdom.
God help us know what that is.

1003
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,720
God you've promised us we'll be
transformed.

1004
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,360
We know the perfect, good,
acceptable, pleasing will of

1005
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,840
God.
Then each of us you've given a

1006
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,960
task to give us those
confidence.

1007
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,360
Help us to wrestle out your will
and to be bold every day.

1008
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,840
This isn't worthless.
How I raise my kids and what's

1009
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,040
happening in secret and the
things I struggle with the

1010
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:18,320
things are taken away.
God, you're going to

1011
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,040
reconstitute and use these
things.

1012
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,040
It's way bigger than ever
thought I imagined.

1013
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,280
I pray for one of group people
in the house.

1014
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,360
That's those of you that say,
no, I I need this Jesus because

1015
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:32,240
right now my life is not built
on the foundation of Christ like

1016
00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:36,720
my life is all about me.
There's nothing I've done for

1017
00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:38,280
God.
I've never called on him.

1018
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,040
I don't know him.
And that's why we're here.

1019
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:44,120
That's why our church is here
because we're going to bring the

1020
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,520
footing of Christ to this city.
So you could know Jesus.

1021
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,280
And so today, if you need to
know Jesus, if you need to walk

1022
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:55,280
out of here forgiven under the
blood of Jesus as we sang the

1023
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,640
song, you're sitting as far as E
is from the West that Jesus died

1024
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:01,320
on the cross for you.
And those who know the name of

1025
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:02,960
Jesus are forgiven by blood
lame.

1026
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:07,760
Think how much Jesus must love
you if the trials of fire, pure

1027
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,840
fire works.
Think how much Jesus loves you

1028
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:15,760
that he would down a cross and
he would take the punishment for

1029
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,080
all of your sin.
Just to know you.

1030
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:23,480
If our works go through fire,
what did Jesus go through and

1031
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,760
the suffering he went through so
we could have his righteousness

1032
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:29,200
exchanged for our
unrighteousness.

1033
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:33,680
Thank you Jesus.
And so if you need Jesus also

1034
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,440
you call name of Jesus.
We saved, forgiven and made you

1035
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,280
today.
That's you and he's calling you

1036
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:39,400
and the Spirit of God is drawing
you.

1037
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:40,320
We just raised your highest
place.

1038
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,880
I need Jesus today and then walk
our relationship with Christ

1039
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,440
today.
See your hand name else I need

1040
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,800
Jesus today.
That's why we're here.

1041
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:53,240
See your hand, that's you.
Just pray this prayer, the

1042
00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:55,080
prayer and save you, but your
heart towards him say thank you

1043
00:49:55,160 --> 00:50:00,000
Jesus for dying across my sins.
God, thank you for your word.

1044
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:04,360
God I sense your spirit.
God I humble myself before you.

1045
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,800
God on build my life on you, not
on my ability but what you do on

1046
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,800
that cross.
God I'm a Sinner in need of a

1047
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,320
savior.
God my righteousness does not

1048
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,720
give me to heaven.
God know it to you, I lay down

1049
00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:17,040
my life before you.
God I will live for you.

1050
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:21,680
God I am today for the first day
ever fully giving myself to you.

1051
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,440
And I pray this in Jesus name
and the church said Amen.

1052
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:31,320
Give it a big forgotten Amen.
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1053
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,960
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1054
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