1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son, 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: forgiveness of sins. Colossians one thirteen and fourteen. Thank you, 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: Father for delivering me out of the kingdom of darkness. 6 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: You purchased me out of the hands of the enemy 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: through the innocent blood of your sacrificial Lamb. My Lord 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: and Savior Jesus Christ, I have been legally transferred into 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: your kingdom. The transaction price was one life for another. 10 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: It was Christ's life in exchange for mine. Sat no 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: longer has any legal claim on me. Through your son's blood, 12 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: I have been redeemed, and all my sins are forgiven. 13 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: Ah Glory Selah. Think, meditate and well on that reality 14 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: for a minute. Amazing. The King of Heaven is governed 15 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: by the laws of justice and mercy. I have little 16 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: understanding of the magnitude of those kingdom principles, but I 17 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: am grateful. I can run to you, my dearest Father, 18 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 1: for protection and comfort. Thank you that my savior Jesus 19 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: loved me so much he laid down his life to 20 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: purchase me back from the grave to live forever with 21 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: him in his father's house in heaven. Because of his 22 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: death and resurrection, I can now call you my father too. 23 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 1: Thank you for writing my name in the Lamb's Book 24 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: of Life as a citizen of Heaven and not of 25 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: this earth in Jesus name, Amen. Thank you for listening 26 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: to today's daily Prayer for more in Man an incredible 27 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: message from our feature pastor stay tuned to pray dot 28 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: COM's Sunday service. 29 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 2: Did you have one of these growing up that you 30 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: would go to a certain wall, maybe in your house, 31 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 2: and you would mark how tall you were? Anybody had that, 32 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 2: like with his sharpie. My grandma had this at her 33 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: house and she had about twenty five grandkids, and we 34 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: would go over and we would use the sharpie and 35 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 2: we would all kind of take turns measuring My cousin Matt. 36 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 2: He pulled a prank one time that's now forever on 37 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 2: the walls of this house. He got on his tippy 38 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 2: toes and he reached real high, like as high as 39 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: he could, and then about halfway through he lost his 40 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,399 Speaker 2: tippy toes and it was like Matt was two different heights. 41 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 2: That particular that particular. You always thought it was cool 42 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 2: that I could go and compare myself to my older cousins. 43 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 2: We'd write the date and how old we were when 44 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 2: we wrote it, and so I'd be like, oh, well, 45 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 2: this is how tall they were when they were their age. 46 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: I think it's the thing. I'm going to be taller 47 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 2: than them. Didn't work out. Learn people grow at different 48 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: phases in life, but it was really cool to kind 49 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: of have that visual queue inside of the house to 50 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: say this is how I've been growing over time. It 51 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 2: works the same way kind of in our faith, like 52 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 2: we're supposed to grow, We're supposed to get taller, we're 53 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 2: supposed to get stronger in our faith. And the problem 54 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: is sometimes we end up in a situation where we 55 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 2: don't know what's going on, especially when it comes to 56 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 2: our faith. When you're new in relationship with Jesus, sometimes 57 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 2: it can be really hard to figure out what's going on. 58 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 2: I know, when I started my first job, I had 59 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: the coolest first job anybody could ever have. You want 60 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 2: to know what it was. I was an undercover agent 61 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: for the government. Is that not a cool job? Here's 62 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 2: how it happened. I actually was preaching the Gospel. I 63 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 2: started preaching the gospel at about age fourteen, and I 64 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 2: got a little bit of a travel circuit where I 65 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: would go from church to church church and preach. And 66 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: when I was sixteen, I was preaching in this church 67 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 2: on Sunday night and the next day I get a 68 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 2: call and they said, Tyler, this is the government. We 69 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 2: heard about your sermon. We need you. And I'm like, 70 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: am I about to preach the Gospel to the state 71 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: of Missouri. I didn't know what was going on. They 72 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: invited me to a meeting and a nondescript office building 73 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 2: in a town about thirty five minutes from where I 74 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 2: grew up, and they invited me to have a job 75 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 2: where I was an undercover agent and we would go 76 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: from store to store to store to store people that 77 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 2: sold tobacco when I would attempt to buy tobacco undercover. 78 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 2: And it was kind of a divine assignment in my 79 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 2: life because the way that it worked was this officer 80 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 2: would come and pick me up at my house and 81 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: then we'd go to a car rental place. And it 82 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 2: was cool because I got to be in so many 83 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: different cars as a teenager and kind of check out 84 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 2: all the different cars. I even co request like I'd 85 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 2: look around the parking lot be like, hey, next time, 86 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 2: can you see if we could get this car? But 87 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: that so I got to try out a lot of cars. 88 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: But that officer was actually a general Baptist pastor, and 89 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 2: we would spend ten hours a day sometimes from little 90 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 2: gas station to a little convenience store at a little 91 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 2: gas station, and he would teach me things about the 92 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: Word of God. We also listened to a lot of 93 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 2: Rush Limbaugh, and I really regret that I am. I 94 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 2: could be a political commentator if I needed to be, 95 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 2: because I have hours and hours and hours of Rush 96 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 2: Limball in my ear. At the beginning of this job, 97 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 2: I wasn't very good at it because there's a whole 98 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 2: protocol you have to follow. I have to go in 99 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 2: a certain time he's in the store hiding. I'd have 100 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 2: to say certain things. There was certain things that if 101 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 2: I didn't say it right, it didn't count, And then 102 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 2: we'd have to write a report every single time when 103 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 2: we got in the car. I'd have to remember every 104 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 2: single thing that was said, the person's name, what color 105 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 2: shirt they were wearing, what size their shirt was, if 106 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 2: they had a tattoo, any other distinguishing factors. And that's 107 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 2: fine if you're doing that one time, but after you've 108 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 2: been to your eleventh Casey's General Store in a day, 109 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 2: they kind of all start blurring together. And another part 110 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 2: of my job was map quest and this praise the 111 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 2: Lord for Google Maps, Am I right? 112 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 3: Like, go Lee? 113 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 2: How did I make it? We'd prent off a map 114 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,799 Speaker 2: and my job was to figure out where these little 115 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 2: obscure stores were, and I'd like, I think we turned 116 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 2: down this road, and I think we'd do this road, 117 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 2: and then I'd have to go find these stores. I 118 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 2: got really good at reading maps, and by the time 119 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 2: that I was eighteen, I literally did this job until 120 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 2: the day before I was eighteen. I got to miss 121 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 2: school sometimes to go do it, and they called it 122 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 2: job shadowing. How cool is that? They tasked me with 123 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 2: recruiting somebody to come and replace me, and I recruited 124 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 2: my little cousin. He happened to be exactly two years 125 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 2: younger than me, and he took over the job, and 126 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 2: in the beginning he wasn't very good at it. He 127 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 2: was actually horrible at it at the beginning. And the 128 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 2: officer that I was working with, he called me, He's like, 129 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 2: can you give him some pointers? And I remember what 130 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 2: it was like when I started. I didn't know how 131 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 2: to do anything. I didn't know how to write a report, 132 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 2: I didn't know what I was looking for. I didn't 133 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 2: know how to read map quest. And then I got 134 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 2: to teach him how to come along and do the 135 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 2: job that I was doing. In other words, it was 136 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,119 Speaker 2: me who was young in a job that became old 137 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 2: in a job having to teach now the person who 138 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 2: was young in the job. When it comes to our faith, 139 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 2: a lot of times it's the same way. If you're 140 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 2: in this room and you're older in your faith, you 141 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 2: bear a responsibility to carry the torch to the glory 142 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 2: of the Lord to the next generation. And if you're 143 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 2: in this room today and you've been in this service 144 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 2: for ten years and you've been reading your Bible and 145 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 2: you've been serving the Lord, and you're setting next to 146 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: somebody who's been coming for two weeks and they're trying 147 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 2: to figure out the difference between Chronicles and Corinthians, or 148 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 2: sanctification and salvation, or water baptism and spirit baptism, you 149 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 2: actually have a responsibility to help them come along on 150 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 2: that journey. Now here's the beautiful thing about Freedom Church. 151 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,679 Speaker 2: Our church, like we just read in our mission statement, 152 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: exists so that we can reach people to know God 153 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 2: like we actually want to make it as easy as 154 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 2: possible for people to come in here an encounter with 155 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 2: the Lord, hear about his goodness, and then go on 156 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 2: a journey where they become sanctified in every area of 157 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 2: their life. And that's a very difficult task to do 158 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 2: because we have people in the room who's been here 159 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 2: for twelve years, and we have people in the room 160 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 2: who's been here for two weeks. And how do you 161 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 2: preach a message that can speak to both of those people. 162 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 2: It can be really hard, And so we sort of 163 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 2: arrive at this big idea that the most important thing 164 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 2: that we can emit from a stage on a Sunday 165 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 2: like this is that you would experience the love of God, 166 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 2: that you would encounter his power, and you would encounter 167 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 2: his presence, and when you leave, maybe you'd be able 168 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 2: to tell somebody I don't know everything they were talking about, 169 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 2: but I felt the spirit of God there and I 170 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 2: want to come back. So when we go on a 171 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 2: journey and we start discipling people, we want to make 172 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 2: it as easy as possible, but we don't want to 173 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 2: keep it at that level of being easy. The Bible 174 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 2: actually says you can start off by drinking milk, but 175 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 2: you need to switch to meat. Then we won't give 176 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 2: you the me of the word of the Lord. So 177 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 2: we tell you things like how you should start reading 178 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 2: the Bible, and so you like flip it open to 179 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 2: some random page and you're like, annoyed, Aaron consecrate them 180 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 2: as a priest? What does that even mean? And so 181 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 2: you don't know where to begin. And then maybe you've 182 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 2: heard somebody say maybe you should start in the Book 183 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 2: of John, and so you open up to the Book 184 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 2: of John and you read a passage like this in 185 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 2: chapter fifteen, verse four, remain in me, and I will 186 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 2: remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if 187 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 2: it's severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful 188 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 2: unless you remain in me. And so you read that 189 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 2: and you're like, I don't. What does that mean? Remain 190 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 2: in me? And I'm going to remain I don't. It's 191 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 2: hot sometimes it can be hard. What does it mean 192 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 2: to remain in me? And I'm trying this idea of 193 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 2: following Jesus. What does that mean? Does that mean that 194 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 2: I put an air tag on him somehow? And I 195 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 2: get to sort of see where he shows up. This 196 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,719 Speaker 2: one time I ministered to this to this young man, 197 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 2: and he accepted Christ as a savior. And he was 198 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 2: very smart. He came from a great family. His grandpa 199 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 2: was a quarterback in the NFL, and both of his 200 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 2: parents were supermodels. He could have not hit a better 201 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 2: genetic lottery than what he had, But he had never 202 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 2: been to church. So when he received Christ, he had 203 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 2: never heard of Daniel and the lions Den. He'd never 204 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 2: heard of David and Goliath. He was brand new to 205 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: learning about faith. And so I met up with him 206 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 2: at a restaurant. I'm kind of like trying to give 207 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 2: him the basics of our faith and he's like, you're 208 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 2: gonna be so proud of me, And I'm like, what'd you do? 209 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 2: He said, I said that prayer that you prayed with me, 210 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: you know, the one that I asked God to forgive 211 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 2: you my sense? He said, I said it with my cat. 212 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 2: He's like, you do what he said? Yeah, his cat's 213 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 2: name was Winter. He's like, Winter, close your eyes, repeat 214 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 2: after me and you know. The funny thing about this 215 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 2: is the next Sunday. This was a church that we 216 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 2: were going to that they sometimes let people get up 217 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 2: and share testimonies. He got up and shared the testimony 218 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 2: of his cat is now saved and somewhere I have 219 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 2: evidence of this. I couldn't. I have a picture of 220 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: his cat, like I think him praying for the cat. 221 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 2: I couldn't find it, but I found I wrote on 222 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 2: his Facebook posts. I'm trying to encourage him. Check this out. 223 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 2: I said, Mark, I'm really proud of you for sharing 224 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 2: the cat story with the church. That's something I could 225 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 2: have never done. It's the best way I thought that 226 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 2: I could encourage you. That was over a decade ago. 227 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 2: I found that Facebook post that, uh yeah, that said 228 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 2: that I really could have never done it. You know, 229 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 2: they say all dogs go to heaven. We're still not 230 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 2: sure about cats. We haven't. We haven't figured that out. 231 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 2: And so we open up scripture and we see Paul 232 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 2: writing this letter to the church and Calissa and this 233 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 2: church and calisay is like incredible. We don't know all 234 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 2: the details about what's happening, but here's what I'll tell you. 235 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 2: The guy who started it, his name's Epiphrass, and at 236 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 2: this point, to my knowledge, Paul's never been to caliss A, 237 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: but likely what happened is Epiprass visited the church in Fhesy, 238 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 2: which you've read the Book of Ephesians. It's an incredible 239 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 2: book and it talks about spiritual warfare and the you know, 240 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 2: putting on the armor of God and how we've been 241 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 2: adopted into the kingdom. And so Epiphras goes and he 242 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 2: spends some time in that church, and then he goes 243 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 2: back to his own city and he's like, man, there 244 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 2: has to be a church in my city like that. 245 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 2: I'm going to start a church like that in my city. 246 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 2: And the problem is that he didn't have a lot 247 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 2: of training. He was new in his faith. He'd just 248 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 2: heard the gospel from the Ephesians. They didn't have the 249 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 2: canonized scripture like we had, and so Paul hears about 250 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 2: them and he hears good things. He's not sure everything 251 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 2: that's going on, but he hears good things. And so 252 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,359 Speaker 2: he said, I'm going to write a letter to Epiphras 253 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 2: and I'm going to just help get him straight before 254 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 2: the Lord about what he's doing with his church planning 255 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 2: endeavor and so that's where we pick up the scene 256 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 2: in the Book of Colossians. And I want to read 257 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 2: through maybe the first ten or eleven verses with you today, 258 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 2: actually starting verse three. And there's some prince that I 259 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 2: think that we can kind of glean from to help 260 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 2: us grow in our faith. So this is what it says. 261 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 2: In verse three. It says, we always pray for you, 262 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 2: and we give thanks to the God, the Father of 263 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 2: our Lord, Jesus. And I just want to highlight that 264 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 2: word pray. In fact, I would maybe encourage you to 265 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 2: underline it, because something that we see again and again 266 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 2: and again and again when Paul's trying to encourage people 267 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 2: to grow in their faith is that it's rooted in prayer. 268 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 2: And here's what I'll tell you in this room today. God, 269 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 2: here's your prayers. It could be a big thing or 270 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 2: a small thing. God, here's your prayers. You might be 271 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 2: in this room and you have a cancer diagnosis. God, 272 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 2: here's your prayers, and he is a healer. You might 273 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 2: be in this room today you're not sure how you're 274 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 2: going to pay that bill. God, here's your prayers. And 275 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 2: he paves his streets in gold, and he is Jehovah, Jirah. 276 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 2: He is a provider. He's going to take care of you. God. 277 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 2: Here's your prayers. Man, you'll never believe this as a 278 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 2: past or. Something that happened to me about a year ago. 279 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 2: I lost my Bible. And this, to me, this Bible 280 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 2: is really special because it's the one I always use 281 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 2: when I preach, and I always go like when I'm preaching, 282 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 2: and I take like an ink pen and you guys 283 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 2: can see, like I mark it up and I write 284 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 2: little notes and it helps me sometimes like when I 285 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 2: go to preach you know the passage again, I can 286 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 2: kind of you know, reflect and say, like, oh what 287 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 2: I to preach on that? Maybe I go find the 288 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: sermon from that. So I was very disappointed when I 289 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 2: lost this Bible, and I went on a journey of praying. 290 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 2: And then a couple of weeks ago, I was at 291 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 2: a conference. I was there kind of working the conference 292 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 2: and interviewing some of the speakers, and there's a very 293 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 2: well known speaker who lost his Bible, and I made 294 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 2: a video about it. You want to see, all right, 295 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 2: check it out. I have loved the Bible for as 296 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: long as I can remember. And how cool would it 297 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 2: be that God would call me into ministry to preach 298 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 2: the Bible, and not only preach the Bible, but I 299 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 2: got to go to school and get a degree in 300 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 2: the Bible, which is why when I lost mine, I 301 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 2: was very upset, and I have been praying for a 302 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 2: very very long time that that Bible would be brought 303 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 2: back to me. Well, Max, thank you so much for 304 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: your impact on start conference. And again we hear what 305 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 2: guys doing your heart to share and the themes? Do 306 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 2: you see this guy his name is Max Locato, and 307 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 2: he happens to be one of the most prolific Christian 308 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 2: authors of all time. He has a similar problem as me. 309 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 2: He happened to lose his Bible on the day that 310 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 2: I was with him. 311 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 4: I was listening to that powerful message from Aaron, and 312 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 4: when he began teaching out of John chapter eight, reached 313 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 4: down into satchel for my Bible and it. 314 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 5: Wasn't there, and neither. 315 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 3: Was my message. 316 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: And I realized. 317 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 2: I turned to Steve and to Dave. 318 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 5: I said, I loved my Bible and my sermon in 319 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 5: the hotel room. What am I going to do? And 320 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 5: so Dave said, what you can use my Bible? 321 00:15:58,320 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 2: It has pictures. 322 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 5: He gave me that line. We hustled over to the hotel, 323 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 5: and I want to show you something so you'll know 324 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 5: just what a nitwith stands before you. In the opening 325 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 5: to my Bible, I have a list of every time 326 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 5: that I have lost and found this very bible. You 327 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 5: can't read it, don't worry, don't try. But I just 328 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 5: wanted to show you. Here's a couple of them. Lost 329 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 5: and found in the same day June thirtieth, two thousand 330 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 5: and six, flight from Louisville to Chicago. 331 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 2: December first. 332 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 5: Left in the backseat of a car service in Atlanta, 333 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 5: January fifteenth, two thousand and seven. It was buried in 334 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 5: my briefcase. Found it two weeks later, jen March sixteenth, 335 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 5: two thousand and seven, left on a table at a 336 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 5: woman of Faith conference. Found it the next day in 337 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 5: the Lost and Found And this just goes on and 338 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 5: on and on, and so I guess I'm going to 339 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 5: add another one left in hotel. Kind of scatterbrained. Sometimes 340 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,959 Speaker 5: I forget the main thing, which is really where I'm 341 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 5: going to end up with my message today, and that 342 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 5: is keeping the main thing, the main thing. But I'm 343 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 5: glad I have my Bible. 344 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 2: Me too, Max, me too. Something inside of me lit 345 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 2: up When Max began to share that he had lost 346 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 2: his Bible so many times. It was almost like I 347 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 2: had this faith that a prayer of mine was about 348 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 2: to be answered. Just a couple of days later, I 349 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 2: got this text from Pastor Josh and he had a 350 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 2: picture of my Bible. He was holding my Bible. Of course, 351 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 2: I'd text back and say, yes, where was it? And 352 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,159 Speaker 2: I get a text back from Josh that had a 353 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 2: picture of right here this parking ticket. He just said, 354 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 2: I figured, and he. 355 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 3: Said, in the shed? 356 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 2: How is my Bible in the shed? I don't even 357 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 2: remember going to the Freedom Church shed more than one 358 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,479 Speaker 2: time in my life, and I could promise you I 359 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 2: was carrying, having things, not doing a Bible study. I'll 360 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 2: say two things. One Nashville takes their parking tickets seriously. 361 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 2: And number two, I still don't know how it got 362 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 2: in the shed, but I do feel like the Lord 363 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 2: answered my prayer. Missing September twenty twenty four, found October 364 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five and Freedom Church storage shed. And when 365 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 2: I got that parking ticket, I said, ooh, I'm going 366 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 2: to put it in my bible. I will not forget 367 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 2: to pay it. Then I forgot to pay it, and 368 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 2: I don't think the police believe me when I said 369 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 2: it's in my Bible and I lost my Bible. Did 370 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 2: you see that picture when I was just a little 371 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 2: guy and I was holding up a Bible. I lost 372 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 2: that Bible too, and I had left it at a 373 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 2: friend's house, like in middle school. And a few years ago, 374 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 2: they sent me a Facebook message and said, what's your address? 375 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 2: We have something we want to send you. And I 376 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 2: got my precious moment's Bible and the mail. How cool 377 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:20,440 Speaker 2: is that? And really I haven't read it that much 378 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 2: because I was just a kid, and it's the new 379 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 2: King James version. I didn't really understand it, but I 380 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 2: had it, and I had actually bought an exact replica 381 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 2: of my Bible, but I didn't want to use it 382 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 2: yet because I still was in faith that I was 383 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 2: going to get my Bible back. It took I don't 384 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 2: know why it took thirteen months, but I got my 385 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 2: Bible back and I'm glad to have it back. And 386 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,199 Speaker 2: thank you Pastor Josh. Maybe he hit it in the 387 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 2: storage shed and was waiting till Max Locato gave me faith. 388 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,439 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I've never done a 389 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 2: Bible study in the storage shed. Maybe we should start. 390 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 2: Maybe the Lord's saying, hey, gather around in the storage shed. 391 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 2: We we can pray in there. I don't know what. 392 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 2: I don't know what was going on, but I'm glad 393 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 2: to have I'm glad have my Bible back. Here's what 394 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 2: I want to let you know, God, here's our prayers. 395 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 2: And maybe the most important thing about us growing and 396 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 2: our faith is prayer. Did you know our church praise 397 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 2: about everything. We've added a couple amazing new staff members 398 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 2: to our church land and who's overseeing our student misery, 399 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,439 Speaker 2: He's doing an amazing job. We prayed for months and 400 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 2: months and months and months, LaToya, who's overseen our groups. 401 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 2: These are amazing people. And this is these are people 402 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 2: that we prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed that 403 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 2: God would send us the right people into our church 404 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 2: the right time to help our church grow in all 405 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 2: the ways that we need to grow. Another thing, you 406 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 2: would not believe how much time prayer and thought went 407 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 2: into the new sort of like development that we've had 408 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 2: over in the other wing of the building. I want 409 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 2: to show it to you. Have you've seen it at 410 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 2: night Carlos came out with his drone and actually, isn't 411 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 2: that cool? And you can see our high five values 412 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 2: on the side of the on the side of the church. 413 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 2: Costs money to do that, but it did. It elevated. 414 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 2: It elevated the feel of our church. People drive by, 415 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 2: they know what we stand for. It feels like a 416 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 2: welcoming church. It increased our size. So now when we 417 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 2: do our Next Steps class, we have an area just 418 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 2: completely dedicated to that and we we're gonna start doing 419 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 2: it at nine am instead of having to do it 420 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 2: after service like we have been doing it. Just it 421 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 2: gave us more opportunity to reach people, and that was 422 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 2: birthed in prayer, that was bathed in our church praying 423 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 2: about these decisions that we're making. Listen, I don't know 424 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,360 Speaker 2: what big things on your table on your play, these 425 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 2: decisions that you're having to make, but I can promise 426 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 2: you this. When you spend time in prayer with God, 427 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 2: it gets your heart in tune with Heaven. It's about 428 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 2: connecting to God in such ways. Sometimes what happens is 429 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 2: there's petitions and requests that God's hears and we've seen 430 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 2: a lot of people in our church receive healing in 431 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 2: their body. But even more than that, sometimes there's things 432 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 2: that we're carrying and ideas that we have that are 433 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 2: not from the Lord. In prayer actually shakes off our 434 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 2: own ambitions and it puts heavenly ambitions on us. That's 435 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 2: the safest place to be is right in the heart 436 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 2: of God's will for us, And the best place place 437 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 2: for you to get there is actually it's actually through prayer. 438 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 2: Let's keep reading this. In Verse four and five says 439 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 2: we've heard about your faith in Jesus and your love 440 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 2: for God's people, which comes from the confident hope of 441 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 2: what God's reserved for you in heaven. Three words we 442 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 2: see again and again and again in scripture, faith, hope, 443 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 2: and love. Faith is our expectation that impossible things are 444 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 2: possible through a God who parts the Red sea. Love 445 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 2: is this response that we feel to the creator of 446 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 2: the universe wrapping himself in flesh and giving himself as 447 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 2: a paid sacrifice so that we can walk with him 448 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 2: and talk with him and know him. And that the 449 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 2: curse that Ading and Eve sort of subjected to the 450 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: DNA of humanity can be broken, and we respond to 451 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 2: that by worshiping the Lord. And hope is this grateful 452 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 2: expectation that on this life and beyond we have hope 453 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 2: with God. We have like first Thessalonian says, when somebody 454 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 2: passed away, we grieve differently because we have a hope 455 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 2: of where they're at in the future. So those three 456 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 2: words show up again and again and again and again 457 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,880 Speaker 2: in Scripture. Then it says this the good news came 458 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 2: to you. It's going out all over the world. It's 459 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 2: bearing fruit, and it's changing lives, just as it changed 460 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 2: your life from the day that you first heard and 461 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 2: understood the truth of God's wonderful grace. It's changing lives. 462 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 2: It's the gospel, the scripture, prayer, what we do in 463 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 2: here on a Sunday morning. It actually changes and transforms lives. 464 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 2: Like there's a reason you're here. There's a reason you 465 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 2: keep coming because there's a spiritual component of who you are, 466 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 2: and you're getting that fed and it propels you every 467 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 2: single day into your life to live on mission for 468 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,360 Speaker 2: the Kingdom. Sometimes I don't know why this happens. Sometimes 469 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 2: for some people, change happens instantly, and for other people 470 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 2: it happens over time. And I used to always question, 471 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 2: why is this process of sanctification happening over time? I'd 472 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 2: rather it just be instant. But when we go on 473 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 2: a process of sanctification, which means we become Christ centered 474 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 2: in every domain in our life, we actually get to 475 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 2: know God better and better. We get to know God 476 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 2: better and better and better and better and better and better. 477 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 2: And you say, I didn't know I had that in me. 478 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 2: And I had that in me, and I don't want 479 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 2: that in me. So anything that's in me that's not 480 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 2: of you, God, purge it out of me, because I 481 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 2: want to be just like You, better and better and 482 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: better and better. I want to be better and better 483 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 2: and better. And that says this. I want to skip 484 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 2: down to verse nine because we're talking about prayer, and 485 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 2: even at the beginning of this, what we see happening 486 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 2: is Paul saying to prayer over Epiphras. So he says this, 487 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 2: we've not stopped praying for you since we heard about you. 488 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 2: And we ask God to give you complete knowledge of 489 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 2: His will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. 490 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 2: And then the way that you live will always honor 491 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: God and please the Lord and your lives will produce 492 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 2: fruit of every kind and all the while you will 493 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 2: grow as you learn to know God better and better. 494 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 2: And we also pray that you'll be strengthening with His 495 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 2: glorious power, that you may have all the endurance and 496 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 2: patience that you need. May you be filled with joy 497 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:02,360 Speaker 2: and always thinking the Father. There's three quick principles out 498 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 2: of that prayer that I want to share with you today. 499 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 2: And then I have some very practical things that I 500 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 2: want to encourage you as you're on a discipleship journey 501 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 2: with the Lord that you can go on. And the 502 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,199 Speaker 2: first principle is this is that your belief will affect 503 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 2: your behavior. One thing that we can talk about when 504 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,199 Speaker 2: it comes to belief is what kind of worldview do 505 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 2: you have. You can have a personal worldview, which means 506 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 2: your experiences dictate the way that you view the world, 507 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 2: or as Christians, what we actually should have is a 508 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 2: biblical worldview, which means I may have an experience that 509 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 2: makes me think differently, but if it's not in the 510 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 2: Word of God, then I correct my thinking to what 511 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 2: the Bible says. I want to have a biblical worldview 512 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 2: of my belief in that my belief that God is real, 513 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 2: my belief that Jesus died on a cross for our sins, 514 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 2: my belief that the Holy Spirit lives inside of me, 515 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 2: my belief that this is the inspired word of God, 516 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 2: and this is elevated above everything else that affects my behavior. 517 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 2: And this is actually a blueprint for any situation that 518 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 2: you have in your life. You want to be a 519 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 2: good business person, read the Book of Every single day 520 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 2: you're feeling downtrodden in your soul, open the Book of Psalms. 521 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 2: They're meant to be prayed. There's something for you in 522 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,439 Speaker 2: this book, no matter what you're going through. It's the 523 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 2: most timeless piece of literature that's ever existed. It's actually 524 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 2: unbelievable that God could write something two thousand, in some 525 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 2: cases four thousand years ago and we can open it 526 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 2: up today and it says if it was written yesterday 527 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 2: by one of the most famous authors in history. It 528 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 2: is unbelievable. How powerful this thing is that we have, 529 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 2: and some of us just ignore it. Here's the second principle. 530 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 2: Your trust will affect your behavior. Oh, this one is 531 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 2: so hard, because, especially when we're going through difficult circumstances, 532 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 2: your trust will affect your trajectory. Especially when we're going 533 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 2: through difficult circumstances, we lose our trust in God. And 534 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 2: you know how I know this. I see so many 535 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 2: people they come to the altar, they lay their problems 536 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 2: at the altar, but when they leave church, they pick 537 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,360 Speaker 2: their problems back up with them and walk out with them. 538 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 2: And what are you trying to say? You're trying to say, Hey, 539 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 2: I trust in myself more than I trust in God. 540 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 2: I felt like that song that came out trust in 541 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 2: God was like an anthem for this generation. It was 542 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 2: like God was singing over us in a way that 543 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 2: we get to give it back to him that say, 544 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 2: I'm gonna put my trust in him, even when I 545 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 2: don't see it, even when it doesn't look good, I'm 546 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 2: going to put my trust in him. Hey, my skills 547 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,719 Speaker 2: and talents and gifts are just an extension of who 548 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,199 Speaker 2: He's created me to be. I'm not good because of me. 549 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 2: I'm good because He's good and He's in me. That's 550 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,479 Speaker 2: what it means to trust God. And so your trust 551 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 2: in God will affect your trajectory. Here's the final principle 552 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 2: that I want to share with you today. Your confidence 553 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 2: will affect your outcome. When you have confidence in God, 554 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 2: when you have belief that God's going to show up, 555 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 2: when you can declare things and know in your heart 556 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 2: that they're going to happen, it changes things and it 557 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 2: affects the outcome. I have confidence in God because I've 558 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 2: seen him be faithful. Just this morning, before service start, 559 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 2: I pray with someone that helps helps our service. He 560 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 2: heard his back. He had a disc injury. Well, just 561 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 2: two weeks ago we prayed for some I had a 562 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 2: disc injury. We prayed for him. They went back to 563 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 2: the doctor. The doctor said they're good, that they were healed. 564 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 2: I have listen. I have confidence that the same God 565 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 2: who did that can do it again. That the testimony 566 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 2: of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. I'm going to 567 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 2: live in that moment believing that God can do impossible things. 568 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 2: I have confidence that God is good, that he is 569 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,360 Speaker 2: for me and not against me, that I'm the head 570 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 2: and not the tale, that I'm a victor, that I'm 571 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 2: more than a conquering it. I have confidence in God. 572 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 2: That's the way I want to be. Just some really 573 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 2: practical things. As we're talking about growing that I want 574 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 2: you we're just going to read them because it's kind 575 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,359 Speaker 2: of a long list of things, and I want to 576 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 2: encourage you to do some of these things. These are 577 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 2: I call these disciplines of our faith. And sometimes it 578 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 2: can be really hard when we're trying to determine how 579 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 2: do we know what we're supposed to be doing when 580 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 2: we become a Christian, when we become a believer. So 581 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 2: here's some disciplines that we have in our faith. Bible 582 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 2: reading and study, regularly engaging with the Word of God, prayer, 583 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 2: personal prayer and corporate prayer. Worship, singing songs even when 584 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 2: you're not in this room to the Lord, not just 585 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 2: because you like the melody, but because God is worthy 586 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 2: of our affection. Fasting, abstaining from food every time in 587 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 2: the Bible, fastenings food. And I know people don't like 588 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 2: when I say that because they like to give up 589 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 2: social media. If social media a problem in your life, 590 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 2: just delete the app every time in scripture, fastings food 591 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 2: and some of you you have health problems, and I 592 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 2: get it. There's Daniel fast, there's this fast, give up sugar. 593 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 2: There's all different ways to do it, but it's abstaining 594 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 2: from food every time. In scripture, giving in generosity, tithes, 595 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 2: offering acts of charity. These are core to who we're 596 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 2: supposed to be as believers serving others, church attendants and fellowship. 597 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 2: You know that every time it rains, our church attendants drops. 598 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 2: I mean, if you had tickets to the Titans and 599 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 2: it rain, you ain't gonna be missing. I'll tell you 600 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: that is because it started sprinkling a little bit outside. 601 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 2: But the moment that there's a cloud in the sky, 602 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 2: people are like, I'm just gonna watch online. And God 603 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 2: bless all the people who run our live stream. It's needed. 604 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 2: I love it. They do an excellent job. We have 605 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 2: people from all over the world who watch our church 606 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 2: every single week online, so God bless them. I'm so 607 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 2: glad that we have this. But if you're five miles 608 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 2: from this church and you're watching our service from your 609 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 2: pajamas because you couldn't get yourself out of bed to 610 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 2: get here, then that would be something that you should 611 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,479 Speaker 2: take before the Lord and say, Lord, is it your 612 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 2: perfect will for me to sit home and watch service 613 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 2: in my pajamas today? Or can you give me a 614 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 2: little bit of boost with the Holy Spirit to do 615 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 2: what I need to do, to get out of bed, 616 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 2: to go fellowship with God's people, to be in the 617 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 2: House of God, to feel the presence of the Lord, 618 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 2: because don't you know, it's different when you're in this room. 619 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 2: It feels different when we're in this room. I preached 620 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago about Sabbath and rest. We 621 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 2: need to be taking our sabbath and resting. Confession and repentance. 622 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 2: James Chapter five says, if you confess your sins to 623 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 2: one another, says the prayer of someone living right with 624 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 2: God is a force to be reckoned with, and that 625 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 2: comes through confessing and repentance, evangelism and witness. You have 626 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 2: a responsibility to be a message carry of the Gospel 627 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 2: everywhere you go. The scripture actually says preachers like me, 628 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 2: our job is to teach you what to do, and 629 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 2: you're supposed to go do it throughout the week. That's 630 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 2: what Ephesian's four says. Your is to carry the torch 631 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 2: of the Gospel every single day into your life meditation 632 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 2: and reflection on His word, obedience, which means when God 633 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 2: tells you to do something, you do it instantly. Gratitude 634 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 2: and thanksgiving, community and accountability, stewardship, managing your time, talent, 635 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 2: and treasures in a way that honors God, where you 636 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 2: say all of it belongs to him. Those are just 637 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 2: very practical disciplines of our faith. And if you're in 638 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 2: this room today and you want to have a relationship 639 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 2: with God that is honoring in every single way. As 640 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 2: I read that list, there may have been something that 641 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 2: spoke to you and you could have got defensive. You're like, 642 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 2: I don't know about that. I say take it before 643 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 2: the Lord. If you're defensive about something I just said, 644 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 2: I'll say take it before the Lord. And maybe I 645 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 2: said something in this room today and I went through 646 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 2: that list, and when I said it, you didn't feel shame, 647 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 2: but you felt conviction. And that conviction is going to 648 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 2: inspire you to join a connection group, to join a 649 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 2: surf team, to open up the Bible, to spend time 650 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 2: in prayer and fasting. Can we go back to that 651 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 2: picture of me as as a little kid. I don't 652 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 2: know I was preaching back then. I don't know what 653 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 2: I was wearing a suit. I'm holding that Bible, but 654 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 2: I didn't really understand it. And I want to tell 655 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 2: you just one final quick story of how the Bible 656 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 2: changed my life. When I was in eighth grade, the 657 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 2: summer before my ninth grade year, I had this group 658 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 2: of friends and we were just doing what eighth graders 659 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 2: going into ninth grade do, having fun. And we would 660 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 2: go out in the middle of the woods in cam 661 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 2: and grew up like in the Mark Twain National Forest 662 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 2: in Missouri, and we would go camping. And when we 663 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 2: were out there, we had some older brothers. They would 664 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 2: bring alcohol. Sometimes. I started drinking alcohol my summer before 665 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 2: my ninth grade year. I didn't be honest, I didn't 666 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 2: really like it, but I was doing it. I was 667 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 2: participating in it. And I always say that summer we 668 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 2: live like kings because we would be dropped out and 669 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 2: we would go camping. We'd have the best time. And 670 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 2: it was the weekend before school starting that August, and 671 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 2: I couldn't find any willing participant to drive me down 672 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 2: five miles of gravel and drop me off in the 673 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 2: middle of the forest with my friends. I wasn't old 674 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 2: enough to drive myself, and my aunt, she agreed she 675 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 2: would take me and drop me off. Seems crazy now 676 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 2: that people do this, but it's the way I grew 677 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 2: up and I grew up in a very rural community 678 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 2: of about one hundred people, so people do stuff like this. 679 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 2: But you know, she said, I'll take you out there, 680 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 2: I'll drop you off with your friends, but first you 681 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 2: have to do something. You have to come to this 682 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 2: back to school rally with me at church before you go. 683 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 2: I'm like, I love church. I'm like, sure, I'll go 684 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 2: with you. And when I got to that, it was 685 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 2: like a youth service. When I got to that youth service, 686 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 2: they were giving away an iPod, which was crazy because 687 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 2: all I had was a walkman and I had long 688 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 2: bus rides and we'd hit a bump and it would 689 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 2: skip and the batteries would fall out, and my headphones 690 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 2: were terrible. And I saw Steve Jobs say you could 691 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 2: put a thousand songs on it, which was infathomable to me. 692 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 2: And I had Limeware, so I knew how to download them. 693 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 2: I mean, I was like, I'm gonna enter that drawing, 694 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 2: I'm gonna pray to the Lord of the Harvest that 695 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,840 Speaker 2: he's gonna pull my name out of that. And so 696 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 2: I'm like putting up with this service and they're like 697 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 2: they call my name, They're like Tyler, And I took 698 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 2: off like I had just won the World Cup. I 699 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,479 Speaker 2: was running around that church. I was like, alayay lay lay. 700 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 2: And when I got to the stage, I didn't win 701 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,279 Speaker 2: the iPod. I actually won something better. At first I 702 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 2: thought it was just a magazine, but it was actually 703 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 2: a magazine Bible. It had this guitar on the front 704 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,280 Speaker 2: of it and it said girls spill it all cars, 705 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 2: cash and money. I'm like, is that allow in church? Like? 706 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 2: Why I went to church? They sang hymnals and I'm 707 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 2: was like, are you allowed to talk like this in church? Like? 708 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 2: And when I opened it up, it was the New 709 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,880 Speaker 2: Testment of the Bible that was written for teen boys, 710 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 2: and it was in a version of the Bible, unlike 711 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 2: the Precious Moments, no offense against them. Didn't really ever 712 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 2: understand this Bible. I'm glad I have it, but it 713 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 2: was the first time that I had my hands on 714 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 2: the Word of God that I understood. And I took 715 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,920 Speaker 2: it everywhere with me. I took it to school every 716 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 2: single day, and I read it and I read it 717 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 2: and I read it and I read it and I 718 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 2: read it and I read it and I read it 719 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,879 Speaker 2: until it fell apart. And then I got another one, 720 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 2: and I read it, and I read it, and I 721 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 2: read it, and I read it, and I read it 722 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 2: and I read it and I read it and I 723 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,920 Speaker 2: read it until it fell apart. And the next thing 724 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 2: I know, I'm standing in a creek with dozens of 725 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 2: my friends baptizing them. And the next thing I know, 726 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,880 Speaker 2: I'm hosting a prayer service at my school. Listen, would 727 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,600 Speaker 2: you guys stand with me all across this room? 728 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 3: Listen? 729 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,400 Speaker 2: God actually desires that you would grow in Him to 730 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 2: know Him better and better and better and better. And 731 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 2: can I say something to you in this room today? 732 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 2: It does doesn't matter what you're going through. There is 733 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,320 Speaker 2: a good God who loves you, who has a solution 734 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 2: for you. In the middle of it. There's a trajectory 735 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,279 Speaker 2: on your life that is good and pleasing to God. 736 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,400 Speaker 2: He wants to take you places you never dreamt where possible, 737 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 2: and it's not possible except through Him. Come on, That's 738 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 2: what's on the other side of our discipleship journey with Him. 739 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,440 Speaker 2: We can be a mirror image of the creator of 740 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 2: the Living God everywhere we go. Who wants to grow 741 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,320 Speaker 2: with God, who wants to grow with God, who wants 742 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 2: to get better and better and better and better all 743 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,439 Speaker 2: cross the room. Would you raise your hands to Heaven 744 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,759 Speaker 2: with me as we begin to pray. Jesus, we love you, 745 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,960 Speaker 2: We thank you that you're in this room today, that 746 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,200 Speaker 2: we have a moment where we can encounter you, we 747 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 2: can encounter your goodness. And I pray that the spirit 748 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 2: of God begins to rush across this room. And Lord, 749 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,280 Speaker 2: there are some people today that are dealing with conviction 750 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 2: over some of the things that we just talked about, 751 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 2: that there's something in them that they know they need 752 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 2: to hand over to you. And in the mighty name 753 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 2: of Jesus, I just declare every attack from the enemy 754 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,320 Speaker 2: must go. So we rebuke every attempt from the devil 755 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 2: to steal, kill, or destroy from their destiny. And we 756 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:09,280 Speaker 2: declare life and abundant life to them in every single way. 757 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,840 Speaker 2: And Lord, would you capture a group of people today 758 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,400 Speaker 2: in Galaton, Tennessee that we would be so passionate about 759 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 2: your word that we don't want to put it down. 760 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,280 Speaker 2: And the words of your scripture jump off the pages 761 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,919 Speaker 2: into our hearts, and it changes us and it makes 762 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,920 Speaker 2: you like us. And Jesus, I pray that on the 763 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,120 Speaker 2: other side of this there's thousands and thousands and thousands 764 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 2: and thousands of lives impacted. That the revival that we 765 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 2: get an opportunity to be a part of right now 766 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five is expanded because good godly people 767 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,360 Speaker 2: in this room take up a mantle of sanctification and 768 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,040 Speaker 2: want to follow after you. We thank you Jesus that 769 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,760 Speaker 2: we can be rooted in you. We give you, Jesus 770 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,640 Speaker 2: all the glory, all the honor, all the praise. Come on, 771 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,720 Speaker 2: can we take a second and give God some praise 772 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:52,319 Speaker 2: in this. 773 00:37:52,400 --> 00:38:03,920 Speaker 6: Room we're gonna worship? 774 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 2: Can we sing loud to the Lord? Says? Nothing else? 775 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:21,320 Speaker 3: Caught up? You? 776 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,479 Speaker 2: Come on, connect with the Lord? 777 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:24,359 Speaker 3: How does this won? 778 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 7: See? Fee? 779 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:29,360 Speaker 3: Come on? 780 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 2: Every voice in. 781 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:31,759 Speaker 3: Here caught up me? 782 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,920 Speaker 8: Never one love moment. 783 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:50,280 Speaker 3: I'm not here for bless. 784 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:51,720 Speaker 2: Come on tell him Jesus, you don't. 785 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 8: Jesus you me. 786 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 3: What then? Name eating? 787 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:04,719 Speaker 2: Come on? Tell him? 788 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:15,759 Speaker 3: I just want You're just I'm sorry. I'm sidy. 789 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:24,279 Speaker 8: When I've just gone through the motion, unsord, We're not 790 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,760 Speaker 8: just sing not a song. 791 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,440 Speaker 3: So take me back to every stone. 792 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:46,560 Speaker 8: I open up my heartty, I'm sidy. When I've come 793 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:53,960 Speaker 8: and buy a gant, I'm sid, we're not poot god 794 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,200 Speaker 8: the yard now. 795 00:39:55,719 --> 00:40:01,360 Speaker 9: So take me back to every start? Are you being 796 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:08,520 Speaker 9: up behind to I'm kind of be in your present. 797 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:19,080 Speaker 9: I'm kinda being your priend. I just want to see me. 798 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:31,120 Speaker 7: Your fee. I'm kinda be this wo oo don want. 799 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:35,799 Speaker 7: I'm not here. 800 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:47,200 Speaker 3: No, I'm not here for pressing. Jesus. You don't know me. 801 00:40:51,600 --> 00:41:05,960 Speaker 3: But inthing then you you I just want had just 802 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:17,640 Speaker 3: worn nothing else, nothing else, nothing else We do? 803 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,160 Speaker 8: D just was. 804 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:30,880 Speaker 3: Nothing else, nothing else, nothing else? 805 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:31,880 Speaker 8: Will do. 806 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:34,200 Speaker 7: D just. 807 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:46,440 Speaker 3: Nothing else, nothing else, nothing else, nothing else? Can we 808 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:47,359 Speaker 3: play his head? 809 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:48,360 Speaker 7: D just. 810 00:41:55,120 --> 00:42:01,759 Speaker 10: Nothing else, nothing else? One my time, my choice, my 811 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,160 Speaker 10: hing chute. 812 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:42,800 Speaker 3: I chose nothing else? 813 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 1: You do. 814 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,640 Speaker 3: You robbing mad? It's nothing else? 815 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:49,720 Speaker 8: Dude. 816 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,920 Speaker 3: Oh we give you a heart till lie and tell 817 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:59,640 Speaker 3: everything you hopping hast. 818 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,239 Speaker 2: I just was. 819 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 3: Nothing else, nothing else, nothing else. Swells it to our 820 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:16,880 Speaker 3: chest