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Why Your Faith Is Boring (And How To Fix It) - January 25, 2026 · REZ CHURCH Podcast

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Morning, we put the seats really close together so y'all could
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get warm. Husbands, this is your
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opportunity to get a snuggle in. I'm just telling you, somebody
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said it's cold. I said if your favorite football
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team was playing today, you'd be there with snow on your head.
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So ain't that cold. My name's Daniel.
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I'm the lead pastor here at Res Church.
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Welcome to the Junketique Outlet thrift store.
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If you're unfamiliar with this place, this is a a dream that
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has come true that was born from a yard sale, a Calvary Bible for
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many years and now the profits from this organization go to
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missions and missions organizations and missionaries
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and partners all over the world to further Kingdom purposes.
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There's a, there's a famous line in the story Lord of the Rings
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where there's a there's this council that gets together
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trying to figure out how to accomplish this impossible task
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of destroying this ring of Sauron.
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And there's these little weak little hobbits that look kind of
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like kids and, and they volunteer and the council looks
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at them kind of condescendingly. And there's a famous line where
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one of them looks at the little hobbits and he goes, 1 does not
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simply walk into Mordor. Translation.
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You can't do this. Who are you?
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I want you to keep that in mind as we read today's text.
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In our story, we're finishing up a series called Sent this idea
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that when you were saved, you were also commissioned.
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When God took you from spiritual death to spiritual life, he
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actually gave you a purpose. And so we're going to finish
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this series in Luke 10, starting in verse 17.
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We'll be reading Luke 1017 through 23 today.
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If you have your Bible, join with me.
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We're going to finish off a story of these 72 disciples that
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are coming back here. Here we go, verse 17 to 72
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returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to
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us in your name. And he says Jesus, he said to
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them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
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Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents
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and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing
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shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in
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this that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that
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your names are written in heaven.
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In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, I
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thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have
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hidden these things from the wise and understanding and
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revealed them to little children.
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Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
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All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one
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knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is
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except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal
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him. And then turning to the
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disciples, he said privately, Blessed are the eyes that see
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what you see. For I tell you that many
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prophets and kings desire to see what you see and did not see it
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and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.
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Blessed be the word of God. If you're picking up on our
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story, in week 472 disciples were sent out all into the
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countryside to preach and proclaim the gospel.
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And and now they're coming back since 72 came back and returned
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with what's that word? Joy.
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Just like everyone who showed up in the cold today, joy, we came
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back with joy and said, Lord, even the demons is subject to us
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in your name. Now I want you to think about
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the story. We're not talking about the 12
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apostles and we know their names and they wrote books and they're
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famous. We're talking about 72 regular
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people with very little training sent out pretty unprepared, no
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defenses, no money, no preparation, no equipment to
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preach. What was the very controversial
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message to what turned out to be a very stubborn people who would
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eventually kill Jesus for that message?
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And on this trip, if you're a planner right now, you're
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thinking so much could go wrong on this trip.
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They witnessed such supernatural power.
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Did all they do, They come back and they go there's that scene
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in the one of the spider man movies where the first time he
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uses his power and he's like, whoa.
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And they come back and go whoa, healing miracles, casting out
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demons. What like what you know, maybe
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you're here today or, or you're listening to the live stream,
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but you're thinking like the the the very idea of miracles, the
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very idea of demons is like a bit overwhelming.
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You know, it's just, let's allow me to at least finish the story
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'cause I get it, it was for me too.
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Of this is, there's a lot here and maybe you don't think much
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of the spiritual world, but almost every human being can
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admit that there are many things about this universe that we do
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not understand and cannot explain.
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And so if you'll stay curious for a few minutes, maybe as we
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finish the story, we can address some of those doubts.
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These disciples return from this journey.
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They're overjoyed at what happened.
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And I want you to think about a trip that they took with no
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prep, no money, no defenses, no help, and came back overjoyed.
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And here's what I would tell you that is so from my experience,
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that is so representative of life in line with God.
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When you're living a life pursuing God, it begins to feel
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this way when you're willing to risk everything, including their
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lives for Jesus. Apparently that's joyous.
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Not easy, not comfortable, might be cold under the tent, but
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amazing, satisfying Christian. Did you want to know for for
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many of us Christians, why your faith is boring?
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You're not actually following Jesus.
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You, you proclaim Jesus, but are you really pursuing him because
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he's moving And often where Christ is leading us into unsafe
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spaces. And the moment that Christians
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stop pursuing, we start plopping.
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Do you know what I mean by plopping?
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Plopping down in pews and chairs, Plopping down in
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routines and and comfortable friend groups that haven't
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changed in years. Plopping, getting comfortable.
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It's like, it's like playing with the wrapping paper and
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missing the gift. Christian, you can't plop and
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pursue. You can plop or pursue, but you
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have to pick one. Look around you real quick.
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Look around you. Go ahead, Look at all those
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beautiful people. One of the reasons that I wanted
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to do a church service here in a parking lot under a tent is
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guess what? You're not sitting in the same
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seat you sit in every Sunday now.
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Some of you actually sat in the same section of chairs that you
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do in the sanctuary. You made me chuckle.
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You made me chuckle. I was like, man, we do like our
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routines. I wanted you to sit in a
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different seat because the Christian life is about pursuit,
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not about getting comfortable. The disciples came back from
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this uncomfortable mission overjoyed because Jesus LED them
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into a crazy moment. And they said yes, The Bible
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says that where Jesus is, there is life, There is contentment,
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there is satisfaction when we are connected to the vine.
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That's Jesus. We can bear much fruit, but the
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Spirit is moving and we better be obedient.
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And if not, it's going to get boring because the Spirit's
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moving, and if we're not, we get left behind in an empty
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building. That's what the famous quote
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from Bono. He said.
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Religion is what you get when the Holy Spirit has left the
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building. Christian religion is what you
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get when you plop all of the moral fibers of Christianity.
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But Christ is on the move and the spiritual life and vitality
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will get sucked out of the room when we get cozy and
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comfortable. So this point number one is you
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can plop or pursue, but you can't do both.
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Pastor Francis Chan says it this way.
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He says the core problem isn't the fact that we're lukewarm,
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half hearted, or stagnant Christians.
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The crux of it all is why we are this way, and it is because we
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have an inaccurate view of God. We see him as a benevolent being
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who is satisfied when people managed to fit him into their
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lives in some small way. And we forget that God never had
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an identity crisis. He knows that He's great and
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deserves to be the center of our lives.
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And if he's at the center, then you and I, we, we've got to get
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our minds around this concept that we are sent.
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They finish this line, they come back over, join and say, look,
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Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.
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Say they're throwing out demons, that they have experienced
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supernatural power and they're in awe of it.
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And Jesus affirms this. He says, and and he said to
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them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
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Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents
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and scorpions and all over the power of the enemy, and nothing
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shall hurt you. Theologians are kind of split on
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what this means when he talks about seeing Satan fall like
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lightning. But the most common of the
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opinions is that he's referring to the fact that when they begin
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to do spiritual work, Jesus could actually see the spiritual
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impact against the enemy. That even though they're all out
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over the countryside, that Christ could actually see the
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impact of their work on Satan. You know, the Bible says that
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the primary conflict of this world is not political.
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It's not racial, it's not gender based or economic.
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It's not ice in Minnesota or an invasion of Greenland or
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conflict in Iran. The primary battle of this world
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is spiritual. That's what Ephesians 6 tells
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us, the apostle Paul says. For we do not wrestle against
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flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,
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against the cosmic powers, over this present darkness, against
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the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
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Now you may be listening and thinking, like when first demons
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and now spiritual warfare. Like really, I get it.
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It's OK to have doubts, even listen, even if you're not sure
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about the supernatural. I just want you to think what
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what if the principle of it is true?
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What if, what if who you Love Actually matters more than you
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know? And we're going to keep looking
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at that. Jesus is affirming the impact of
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their mission. Hey, I saw what happened in the
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spiritual realm because you were obedient.
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They saw some supernatural things.
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Jesus saw the impact and greater effects of it.
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And for you, Christian, when you obediently step into God's call
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and God's mission, we're going to impact far more than the
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physical, more than the temporal.
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We shake the foundations of Satan's realm, you and I,
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Christian, we, we get to push back the darkness of this
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reality just a little bit more when we're obedient.
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You didn't get called to foster that child simply for the impact
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of that child. You didn't get called to feed
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the hungry just for that one meal they need right now.
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All of those things are good. But when we obey the call of
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Christ through outreach, through proclamation of the good news,
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through the living out of the gospel, we participate in an
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ancient battle and we make a difference.
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You make a difference, believer. You can shake the very
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foundations of hell when a whole people turns toward the darkness
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of this world and begins to shine for Christ.
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When we say yes to adopting that child, to praying for our Co
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worker, to speaking into the life of a friend with the truth
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of the gospel, Satan shutters. Last week there was a guy named
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Jose and he got his name written on a little ping pong ball in
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the ping pong wall, a white one because someone invited him to
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church. And then someone got to write
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his name on an orange ball because he showed up.
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And then by the end of the service, someone got to write
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his name on a paintball because he surrendered his life to
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Christ. And in the same way that Jesus
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is saying, hey, you saw some of the supernatural impact of the
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things you were doing when you were being obedient, and I saw
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more. What I want to tell you is that
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we see some of the impact of this, but but when someone gives
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their life to Christ, hell shakes and demons flee and Satan
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grits his teeth. We don't even see all of it yet.
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And that type of power that they're experiencing in this
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moment as they come back joyous, I'll be honest, it's a it's
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addictive. It's so attractive that Jesus
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actually follows it up with a warning.
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He says, yes, I saw what you did.
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Yes, I saw the impact. I gave you that power.
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Say me to push back against the enemy, but don't get caught up
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in the power because it'll make you prideful like Satan.
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And don't forget the big picture that it's not about me, it's
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about the King. I want you to say that with me,
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Church, it's not about me, it's about the King.
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Let's say it together, It's not about me, it's about the King
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and His name is Jesus. So don't lose sight of who we do
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this for and why it matters. If you know Christ, if you have
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surrendered your life to Christ, you've found the greatest
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treasure ever and your eternity is guaranteed and your salvation
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is sealed and you have but a few days or years left to shape what
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all of eternity will look like. He chose you to send you.
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That's our big idea. He chose you to send you?
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Yeah. I worked as a, a volunteer, a
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teacher, and then a volunteer elder and then a volunteer
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pastor at my last church for, for many years.
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And then I came to this church and I worked here for about 7
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years as just a volunteer discipleship pastor and
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associate pastor. And, and I, and I was working
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for free. But I mean, in reality, I wasn't
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really working for free. I was enrolled in the ultimate
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retirement plan where stocks can never crash, thieves can never
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steal, and I just want to invite you to participate in the same
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retirement plan. When we get to please our King,
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there is great satisfaction in our lives as we serve, but also
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we are storing up treasure in heaven where neither moth nor
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rust destroy. And so I want to look at in our
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in our last moments today, how we go about doing that.
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We know why to please God, but how do we do that and pick this
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up in verse 21 in that same hour.
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This is Jesus. He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit
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and he said I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that
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you have hidden these things from wise and understanding and
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you've revealed them to little children.
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I'm not sure if I should be offended.
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I'm pretty sure that Jesus just said that God hid the knowledge
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of Christ from the wise and the understanding of this world, and
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he only revealed Jesus to little children.
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So if we know Christ, that makes us little children little
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children. You don't think Jesus is trying
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to insult you in this moment? I think He's trying to explain
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something to you and I don't want you to miss it.
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He makes the same point in Matthew 18.
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I want you to read it this way. In Matthew 18 verses 2 through
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4, Jesus says and calling to him a little child, He put him in
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the midst of them. And he said, truly, I say to
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you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never
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enter the Kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like
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this child is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.
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What, what part of childlike faith is it that we need?
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Well, it's, it's right there in the text.
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It's humility. You have to humble yourself.
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You see, a child knows where the authority and the power and the
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strength comes from. A child knows that it's Dad that
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gets the tough stuff done. So Jesus is telling you and I
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something really insightful. He said if you want to
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experience supernatural power and miracles of the Father, you
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need to come like children because it's not us, it's Him.
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And so you need to cling to Him, you need to be infatuated with
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Him, you need to be captivated by Him, you need to be in love
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with Him, you need to be dependent on Him.
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You need to believe in Him like children believe in their
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parents. You ever asked a child what can
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God do and just start to chuckle when you laugh at all their
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outlandish comments? Well, God could, and it's some
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massive thing that makes you smile and laugh.
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And I just want you to realize that they have it right and we
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might be a little cynical. Remember the hobbits?
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The unlikely weak little heroes. Far too often we become cynical
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and we're the people looking down our noses and thinking you
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have to be powerful to do something great for God.
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No, you don't. You just have to believe.
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Our problem isn't that we lack power or money or people or
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strategy. God has all of those things.
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Our problem is that we dream too small for such a big God church.
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We want to believe in the Father like little children do.
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I want to live in a space where either God shows up in power or
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I look foolish and silly because a child doesn't care about
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looking foolish or silly. Believe like a child.
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That's the first step to getting to participate in this mission
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from this text Believe like a child verse 23.
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Then turning to the disciples, he said privately, blessed are
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the eyes that see what you see Rez church.
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Blessed are the eyes that see what you're getting to see in a
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move of God right now. For I tell you, many prophets
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and kings desire to see what you see and did not see it and to
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hear what you hear and did not hear it.
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So first point is come like a child.
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The second is to be remembered as faithful.
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Let me ask you this. What were the names of the 72
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people that were sent out and did all these miracles?
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Nobody knows. Nobody knows their names.
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We don't have any other names at all.
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They did miracles. They healed people.
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They cast out demons. And we don't know their names.
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They're not written in this book.
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They're written somewhere else. They're written in the Book of
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life. See, we aren't working to be
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noticed. We're serving so that maybe
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Jesus gets noticed. Our mission is not to have our
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names remembered here on earth, but simply to be remembered as
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being faithful. What's it going to look like,
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Rez? To look faithful?
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To be remembered as faithful in the days or years that you have
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left here before God calls you to heaven.
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What's it going to look like? Galatians 6, 9, and 10 says it
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this way. This is the apostle Paul again
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writing to another church. It says, and let us not grow
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weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not
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give up. So then, as we have opportunity,
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let us do good to everyone and especially to those who are of
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the household of faith Church. We are the hands and feet of
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Christ. We are the hope of the world.
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Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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That's what Colossians one says, that Jesus could transform us to
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live so differently. Other people would notice that
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the whole plan to reach a broken world was you.
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It's dangerous, it's treacherous, it's exhausting,
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but there exists nothing, nothing in this universe that is
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more satisfying, that will bring more peace and contentment in
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your life, that will be more impactful, more eternal, than to
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gather together and burn brightly for Christ while we
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serve others. Because you've been given all
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authority and all power and all wisdom.
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And our response is simply to get up and follow Jesus
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desperately with childlike faith and don't give up doing good.
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And if we will do this, the very gates of hell will tremble and
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shake. Satan will be terrified that a
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bunch of kids in Bakersfield said yes to Christ.
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I believe we can change the world, not because we have any
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particular power to do so, but He does.
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So I want to give you an opportunity to start believing
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like a child today. Would you learn today to be a
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kid? You're right.
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Here's your opportunity to start believing like a child.
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It's this simple. Here's the first one.
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Pray for something impossible. Everyday.
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Pray for something impossible. Secondly, invite someone that
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you're scared to invite or that you've given up on.
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And 3rd sign up for something you do not want to do or think
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that you can't pray for something impossible every day.
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A couple years ago, we were in like year seven of the Kern
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County drought. I don't know if you remember
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that one fun times. And I was in prayer with the
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Lord and I had really been struggling with just kind of
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getting my arms around the calling here.
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And I finally got to the point where I was talking to the Lord.
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I said, man, I, I, I surrender wanting to move somewhere that's
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not brown and dead. I'm going to do whatever you
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want me to do. I'm going to stay here.
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I'm going to embrace what you're asking me to do.
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I'm going to be obedient. But God, would you, would you
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just make it green here? And so I remember having this
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conversation with the Lord and just just getting to talk to him
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and feeling like, man, this is so good.
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And I went back in the office afterwards and I said, hey guys,
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y'all better check your umbrellas 'cause this fall it's
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going to rain like crazy. And everyone laughed at me.
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You're 7 of a drought, right? And I was like, no, you don't
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understand. I I asked dad for it and that
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year we had a record rainfall. Who looks foolish now?
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Ask God, Pray for something impossible everyday.
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Stop dreaming small. He doesn't invite someone you're
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scared to invite or written off. Listen, you don't have to
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convince them to come. You just have to invite them.
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God does all the convincing. Third, sign up for something
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that you do not want to do. Could be scooters or think that
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you can't do. Sign up for something mildly
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scary. Serving, going on mission,
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learning something new, a group, leading a group, starting a
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group. There's so many different things
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right after the service. We're going to give you
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opportunity to serve in a bunch of different ways here in this
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community. Go try something new.
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In fact, one of the things we've been talking to you a lot about
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is that there's a an evangelism workshop coming up on February
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7th. Raise your hand if you've
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already signed up for that. I'll look around.
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Don't want to miss out. There are 100 of us, just over
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100 of us now signed up. And so we want you to come sign
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up and join us there. It's always a little bit weird
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when we roll in and like, most of the churches there have three
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people and then we come up with like 100.
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It's a little bit like growing up in East Bakersfield.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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We just come in like, oh, it's Rez.
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There's all of us and what's up, dude?
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Yeah, what's up? It is, it is a little, it is a
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little fun. I'm sure everyone else is
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intimidated, but you won't because there'll be a lot of us.
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Sign up for something that you haven't tried.
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Sign up for an evangelism workshop.
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But I don't want you to forget this.
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This is the point of today. He chose you to send you.
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He never chose you to plop. He didn't chose you to choose
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you to get comfortable. He chose you to send you on
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mission. And so you're never going to be
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fully satisfied in Christ until you actually begin to get your
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hands and your heart and your mind around that calling that He
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has on your life. That's why it's the job of
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pastors to equip the Saints for works of service.
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Say me, that's you. That's why we want to keep
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giving you opportunities to find out what is that calling look
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like? What is God calling me to do?
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Before we finish our services, we wrap this up and, and we all
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run out and go serve together or take a tent down or stack chairs
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or go to the the homeless center we're going to go to in a
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minute. Maybe there's a few of you here
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or watching our live stream that have begun to realize you need
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some of the hope that we keep talking about and you don't have
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it. You know, if you're new to this
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whole Bible thing, it is completely OK to be searching.
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But I want you to consider, in our story, why would 72 very
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average people risk everything and come back overjoyed?
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Maybe because we are more than simply biology and reasoning and
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intellect. And maybe that brokenness that
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you feel has an actual answer. Today, Jesus offers you real,
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everlasting hope. The Bible says that every person
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is born under the curse of sin, that the first people on earth
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rebelled against God, and now all of us are born hopeless and
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in need of something that we can't provide for ourselves.
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So God, loving us even though we were his enemies, sent his Son
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Jesus to live a perfect life of obedience that we can't live.
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He was killed on a cross by religious people, but in doing
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so, he sacrificed himself for us and he rose three days later,
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conquering sin and death forever.
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The Bible says that salvation is found in no other name than
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Jesus. And so if you want that hope,
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you must surrender your life, your will yourself to Jesus, the
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King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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And he says that if you will acknowledge with your words and
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believe in your heart that he is King, you will be saved.
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So I want to give you that opportunity today.
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Will you? Will you bow your heads and
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close your eyes with me as we we finish this service?
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If you're listening to this today and and you've come to the
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point where you would surrender your life to Christ, I want you
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to simply repeat this prayer after me.
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Jesus, I can't save myself. I surrender to you.
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I ask you to save me and adopt me into your family.
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Be my Lord. Please, Jesus, if you prayed to
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surrender your life to Jesus for the first time right now, would
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you be brave and raise your hand for me to see?
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Thank you. I see you.
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Thank you can put your hands down.
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Maybe you're here today. You've come to realize that you
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aren't living on mission for Christ.
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Your life is better defined as plopping than pursuing, and it's
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been dominated by your own plans and your own wisdom and your own
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desire. And you want to turn away from
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the worries and distractions of this world, and you want to live
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a life sold out and on fire for Christ.
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You want to commit to making changes in your life that allow
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for discipleship and community and a charging after Jesus in
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your daily life. And if that's you, I just want
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you to raise your hand right now for me to see.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. See, you put your hands down in
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Jesus name, Amen. All right, He saved you to send
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you. For those of you who just
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committed your life to Christ for the very first time, welcome
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to the family. In just a moment as we respond
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to this sermon, we're going to sing a song.
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Our per team's going to be up here and we're going to pray
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with you. If you just made a commitment to
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Christ for the first time. There's a table in the back
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right there. She's waving her hand.
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Say hi. She's beautiful, says I raised
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my hand. We want you to go back there and
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tell someone that you made a commitment to Christ.
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We'd love to talk to you about what's next.
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We have a gift for you. We want to celebrate with you.
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If you just made a commitment to go hard after Christ, we want to
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pray for you. There could be a bunch of people
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up here to pray. Just come up here and pray with
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us if you need prayer for any reason.
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We cherish opportunities to pray with you and for you.
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Let's stand to sing You. Move as the Lord leads you.
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Love you church.