WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.919 I want to talk to you guys this morning about for Christ and the gospel. 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:06.000 All right? 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:07.040 What are we doing? 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.820 We're doing it for Christ and the gospel. 00:00:10.300 --> 00:00:10.599 All right? 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:11.839 We've been sent. 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:13.380 Thursday was great. 00:00:13.540 --> 00:00:14.500 Thursday was encouraging. 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:16.059 Now what? 00:00:16.699 --> 00:00:17.059 All right? 00:00:17.500 --> 00:00:18.140 Now what? 00:00:18.820 --> 00:00:20.460 For Christ and for the gospel. 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:24.019 I'm going to start in Mark 10, 17-31. 00:00:24.219 --> 00:00:25.580 If you got that, you can look at it. 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.379 Mark 10, 17-31. 00:00:30.179 --> 00:00:31.780 And I got five points. 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:35.280 First one is leaving for Christ and the gospel. 00:00:35.700 --> 00:00:35.880 Okay? 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:36.820 We left. 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:38.620 We were sent out. 00:00:39.340 --> 00:00:39.640 Right? 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.240 And it was for Christ and the gospel. 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:46.920 We're going to see that in Mark 10, 17-31. 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:54.939 As he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him. 00:00:55.140 --> 00:00:56.519 This is Jesus, before Jesus. 00:00:56.859 --> 00:00:57.719 And asked him, 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:01.259 Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? 00:01:01.839 --> 00:01:03.000 And Jesus said to him, 00:01:03.420 --> 00:01:06.239 Why do you call me good? 00:01:06.739 --> 00:01:08.599 No one is good except God alone. 00:01:09.379 --> 00:01:10.239 You know the commandments. 00:01:10.459 --> 00:01:11.060 Do not murder. 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:12.319 Do not commit adultery. 00:01:12.539 --> 00:01:13.340 Do not steal. 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:15.140 Do not bear false witness. 00:01:15.340 --> 00:01:16.120 Do not defraud. 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:17.019 Honor your father and mother. 00:01:17.019 --> 00:01:17.739 And he said to him, 00:01:18.379 --> 00:01:21.159 Teacher, all these I've kept since my youth. 00:01:22.199 --> 00:01:25.259 And Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, 00:01:25.299 --> 00:01:26.280 You lack one thing. 00:01:26.939 --> 00:01:29.500 Go sell all that you have and give to the poor. 00:01:30.039 --> 00:01:31.280 You will have treasure in heaven. 00:01:31.739 --> 00:01:33.579 And come, follow me. 00:01:33.579 --> 00:01:35.799 Disheartened by the saying, 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.500 He went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:43.719 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:49.979 How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God. 00:01:49.980 --> 00:01:50.579 Okay? 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:54.600 And the disciples were amazed at his words. 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:56.800 But Jesus said to them again, 00:01:57.300 --> 00:02:00.640 Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God. 00:02:00.880 --> 00:02:03.180 It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle 00:02:03.180 --> 00:02:05.880 than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. 00:02:08.939 --> 00:02:11.360 And they were exceedingly astonished and said to him, 00:02:11.500 --> 00:02:12.560 Then who could be saved? 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:14.240 Jesus looked at them and said, 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:16.879 With man it is impossible, but not with God. 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:20.799 For all things are possible with God. 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:23.799 So, stop there. 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:26.799 Here we have a rich man comes. 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:27.219 Okay? 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:28.840 So we're talking about wealth. 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:29.639 Talking about riches. 00:02:30.219 --> 00:02:30.419 Right? 00:02:30.819 --> 00:02:31.759 He says, Hey, I'm good. 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:34.240 I'm good to go, Jesus. 00:02:34.379 --> 00:02:35.099 I got this. 00:02:35.579 --> 00:02:37.639 All the commandments, I'm good on all those. 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.599 He says, One thing you lack, sell everything you have. 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:43.079 So we're talking about money and possessions. 00:02:43.859 --> 00:02:44.039 Okay? 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:45.359 He says he was a rich man. 00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:46.620 Talked about possessions. 00:02:46.620 --> 00:02:49.640 He said, If you want to follow me, you've got to sell everything you have. 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:50.480 All right? 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.420 And then, you know, the disciples were astonished. 00:02:53.500 --> 00:02:54.500 Jesus says, This is difficult. 00:02:55.500 --> 00:02:55.680 Okay? 00:02:55.700 --> 00:02:59.159 So we're talking about, in order to enter the kingdom of God for a rich person, 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:00.280 they've got to sell. 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:01.599 They've got to get rid of stuff. 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:05.700 Then we see in verse 28, Peter began to say to him, 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.740 See, we have left everything and followed you. 00:03:09.259 --> 00:03:09.439 Okay? 00:03:09.460 --> 00:03:11.300 If we're keeping in the same vein right here, 00:03:11.300 --> 00:03:15.340 you would assume what he means is they've already gave up all their stuff. 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:16.140 Right? 00:03:16.260 --> 00:03:17.000 That would make sense. 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:17.280 Right? 00:03:17.640 --> 00:03:20.620 Because he's talking about the rich man and say you've got to get rid of stuff. 00:03:21.480 --> 00:03:24.219 And so if Peter says, Yeah, that's what we've done, 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:27.980 you'd think, Oh, he's talking about stuff and money. 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:28.620 Right? 00:03:28.620 --> 00:03:30.080 Next verse. 00:03:30.860 --> 00:03:36.480 Jesus said, Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house. 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:37.340 Okay? 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:38.259 That lines up. 00:03:38.640 --> 00:03:39.520 That goes with the wealth. 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:43.300 Or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children. 00:03:43.480 --> 00:03:43.700 Whoa! 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.300 Did he just change the subject there? 00:03:46.740 --> 00:03:48.020 I thought it was about money. 00:03:48.580 --> 00:03:50.120 I thought it was about wealth. 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:56.280 But he doesn't just say house and lands. 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:03.159 He says brothers, sisters, mother, father, or children. 00:04:04.939 --> 00:04:05.139 Okay? 00:04:05.460 --> 00:04:11.500 So when he's talking about the wealth that is necessary to give up for the kingdom, 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:14.259 he's not just talking about money. 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:15.960 Although he is. 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:18.899 He's talking about houses, lands, a wealthy person. 00:04:19.339 --> 00:04:24.160 He throws in there the wealth of family and friends. 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:25.180 Okay? 00:04:25.180 --> 00:04:27.720 Brothers, sisters, mother, father, or children. 00:04:28.500 --> 00:04:29.000 For what? 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:31.680 For my sake and for the gospel. 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:33.759 For Christ's sake and the gospel. 00:04:35.180 --> 00:04:37.540 And anyone who's done that, he says, will not. 00:04:38.860 --> 00:04:45.420 He says, Truly I say to you, no one who has left house or brother or sister or mother or father or children or lands, 00:04:45.420 --> 00:04:55.680 for my sake and for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mother and children and lands, 00:04:55.740 --> 00:05:00.180 with persecutions and in the age to come, eternal life. 00:05:00.180 --> 00:05:03.600 But many who are first will be last and last first. 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:11.980 So he says, so the reason I'm bringing this up is we got sent out on Thursday. 00:05:11.980 --> 00:05:17.120 Many, not most of you, shed a tear. 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.540 For some of you, you're giving up more than others. 00:05:21.700 --> 00:05:26.100 But in one sense, we didn't leave Bellicose because it was a bad church. 00:05:26.660 --> 00:05:28.620 We didn't leave it because we didn't like the people. 00:05:29.200 --> 00:05:31.340 We didn't leave it because we had no friends or family there. 00:05:31.339 --> 00:05:34.099 You left family. 00:05:34.719 --> 00:05:35.599 You left friends. 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:36.679 Okay. 00:05:37.159 --> 00:05:43.259 It wasn't just the call to do this church involved leaving. 00:05:44.259 --> 00:05:44.859 Okay. 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.519 Involved leaving things that you love and care about. 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:49.959 And that's difficult. 00:05:51.099 --> 00:05:57.279 In fact, Jesus says it's very difficult for a wealthy person to enter the kingdom of God. 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:01.120 You are wealthy with friends and family. 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:11.199 And so it's difficult to enter the kingdom when the cost for you to do what God's calling you to do 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:17.179 requires the sacrifice of being with the relationships you've built for how many years 00:06:17.179 --> 00:06:18.779 and now starting over again. 00:06:19.659 --> 00:06:21.199 But that's what's required. 00:06:22.039 --> 00:06:23.319 And you say, how do you do that? 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:27.939 How do I turn those tears of sadness to tears of joy? 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:30.439 Well, Jesus gives the reason. 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:34.060 He says, he doesn't just say, hey, get rid of this stuff. 00:06:34.339 --> 00:06:36.699 He says, for my sake and the gospel. 00:06:37.660 --> 00:06:42.439 If you forget why you're doing this, it's going to continue to be hard. 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.800 You're going to continue to shed tears. 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:47.980 And they're not going to be tears of joy. 00:06:48.620 --> 00:06:54.439 If you're doing this for any other reason, if you're doing this because, I just like small church. 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:56.879 Bellicose is getting a little too big. 00:06:57.660 --> 00:06:57.840 Okay. 00:06:58.080 --> 00:06:59.420 Getting a little too polished. 00:07:00.520 --> 00:07:03.840 You know, someone said to me the other day, it's too busy. 00:07:04.060 --> 00:07:05.860 It's getting to be too much like a business. 00:07:05.860 --> 00:07:08.800 I'm like, bro, we're not very polished. 00:07:09.020 --> 00:07:09.199 Okay. 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:13.520 You know, but it's like you have all these different things. 00:07:13.699 --> 00:07:17.360 If you're doing it for that reason, that ain't working. 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:20.100 Jesus lays it out. 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:25.340 The wealthy will not inherit the kingdom unless they give things up. 00:07:25.339 --> 00:07:33.899 And yes, it includes material wealth, but it also requires the giving up of close family and friends. 00:07:34.979 --> 00:07:36.279 And you're doing that. 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:37.659 And you need to remember. 00:07:38.139 --> 00:07:39.299 I want you to remember today. 00:07:39.599 --> 00:07:40.719 I want you to remember tomorrow. 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.219 I want you to remember every day from this time. 00:07:43.339 --> 00:07:44.379 When you get sad. 00:07:44.500 --> 00:07:45.459 When you get lonely. 00:07:45.779 --> 00:07:48.959 When we meet on a Sunday morning and you're like, eh. 00:07:51.419 --> 00:07:52.639 Not so great. 00:07:53.219 --> 00:07:54.319 Could have been better. 00:07:55.339 --> 00:07:56.379 Really fell flat. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:58.000 Kids were crazy. 00:07:59.539 --> 00:08:01.299 The grape juice went bad. 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:03.000 The bread was kind of stale. 00:08:04.339 --> 00:08:05.919 The singing out of key. 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:08.279 And yeah, the message is okay. 00:08:08.419 --> 00:08:09.599 It definitely could have been better. 00:08:10.500 --> 00:08:12.779 And we're meeting in a warehouse right now. 00:08:13.620 --> 00:08:19.319 And you might think, for Christ and the gospel. 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:21.639 For Christ and the gospel. 00:08:21.739 --> 00:08:22.599 That's what you got to remember. 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:23.779 Why am I doing this? 00:08:23.899 --> 00:08:25.319 I'm doing it for Christ's sake. 00:08:25.339 --> 00:08:26.719 For the gospel's sake. 00:08:27.039 --> 00:08:28.239 That's why I'm doing it. 00:08:28.659 --> 00:08:29.739 Why would I give this up? 00:08:29.859 --> 00:08:32.439 Because that's what's required for the kingdom. 00:08:33.059 --> 00:08:33.959 For Christ. 00:08:34.620 --> 00:08:35.579 And the gospel. 00:08:36.339 --> 00:08:37.259 That's not it though. 00:08:38.220 --> 00:08:42.919 He also says, you will receive a hundredfold now in this time. 00:08:43.139 --> 00:08:44.759 You might say, hey man, it's just about eternity. 00:08:45.299 --> 00:08:45.439 Right? 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:50.440 Chris, during our coming to the Lord's table, talked about eternity. 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:51.340 Rightly so. 00:08:51.820 --> 00:08:52.940 We should be fixed on that. 00:08:53.340 --> 00:08:56.120 But this promise is not just for eternity. 00:08:56.640 --> 00:08:59.280 It says in the age to come, eternal life. 00:08:59.780 --> 00:08:59.960 Right? 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:00.820 That's the promise. 00:09:01.180 --> 00:09:02.060 We can know that. 00:09:02.140 --> 00:09:03.300 That eternal reward. 00:09:03.299 --> 00:09:07.859 But it also says, you will receive a hundredfold now in this time. 00:09:08.259 --> 00:09:13.359 Houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions. 00:09:14.079 --> 00:09:14.279 Okay? 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:19.240 So you can expect, hey, you gave something up to come and be a part of this church. 00:09:22.439 --> 00:09:32.299 Believe that God is going to give you new houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands. 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:33.819 New family. 00:09:34.500 --> 00:09:35.139 New friends. 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:36.000 New relationships. 00:09:36.459 --> 00:09:37.399 He's promising it. 00:09:38.059 --> 00:09:40.879 And he said a hundredfold. 00:09:42.500 --> 00:09:43.439 I like that. 00:09:43.620 --> 00:09:44.600 That's a good promise. 00:09:45.459 --> 00:09:45.600 Right? 00:09:46.319 --> 00:09:52.419 You know, when Gina and I have planted a couple churches before this, every time there's a part of it that's exciting. 00:09:53.100 --> 00:09:57.779 But there's a part of it where it's like, oh, we're kind of starting from nothing. 00:09:58.379 --> 00:09:59.600 There's not much here. 00:10:00.179 --> 00:10:02.120 And there's some Sundays that's really exciting. 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:05.759 And some Sundays you're like, kind of miss something a little more established. 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:06.919 Kind of miss my friends. 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:10.299 Kind of miss something a little more polished, you know? 00:10:11.379 --> 00:10:15.799 And you've got to remember, this is unto something. 00:10:16.439 --> 00:10:17.659 God will provide that. 00:10:18.699 --> 00:10:22.199 And there were many times, and this is apostolic work. 00:10:22.479 --> 00:10:24.399 You are building something out of nothing. 00:10:24.819 --> 00:10:26.719 That is the nature of apostolic work. 00:10:27.339 --> 00:10:27.459 Okay? 00:10:28.699 --> 00:10:30.620 Apostles build what prophets see. 00:10:31.259 --> 00:10:34.139 Prophets can see something, but they can't necessarily build it. 00:10:34.139 --> 00:10:38.299 The apostolic builds what is being seen prophetically. 00:10:39.100 --> 00:10:39.259 Okay? 00:10:39.659 --> 00:10:45.860 And we need to be, as a church plan, an apostolic people that builds invisible things. 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:48.379 You have vision for a church. 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:49.559 You have vision for a family. 00:10:49.659 --> 00:10:51.679 You have vision for mothers and brothers and sisters. 00:10:52.179 --> 00:10:55.480 Houses, lands, like together, sharing in the life of God together. 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:59.779 You have vision for lost people coming into the kingdom and being those people. 00:11:00.060 --> 00:11:01.639 Being your new brothers and sisters. 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:04.060 You can't see it now. 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:08.019 There's going to be times when you're going to be discouraged because you can't see it. 00:11:08.220 --> 00:11:09.860 You're going to need to encourage your brother and say, 00:11:10.180 --> 00:11:12.539 Hey, do you remember what we did this for? 00:11:12.539 --> 00:11:14.279 It's for Christ in the gospel. 00:11:14.980 --> 00:11:16.439 It's for Christ's sake in the gospel. 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:19.379 And he promised that he was going to give us new family. 00:11:20.079 --> 00:11:23.219 Yeah, we left family and that was required for the kingdom. 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:24.539 To give that up. 00:11:25.019 --> 00:11:26.120 New family's coming. 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:29.059 And at the end of the day, eternal life. 00:11:30.339 --> 00:11:30.679 All right? 00:11:31.179 --> 00:11:32.199 That's the promise. 00:11:32.959 --> 00:11:34.000 You need to remember that. 00:11:34.079 --> 00:11:35.360 You need to remember that every day. 00:11:35.599 --> 00:11:36.860 You need to tell your spouse that. 00:11:36.939 --> 00:11:38.240 You need to tell the single people that. 00:11:38.299 --> 00:11:40.980 You need to remind each other that over and over and over again. 00:11:40.980 --> 00:11:42.740 This is for Christ in the gospel. 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:43.360 You're discouraged. 00:11:43.680 --> 00:11:45.379 This is for Christ's sake in the gospel. 00:11:46.340 --> 00:11:48.600 You got to tell yourself and you have mixed motives. 00:11:48.680 --> 00:11:49.860 When you have motives that are selfish. 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:51.139 What is this for? 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:52.840 It's for Christ's sake in the gospel. 00:11:53.300 --> 00:11:54.420 Do you hear me on this? 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:57.779 Every day from this point, you got to remember that. 00:11:58.060 --> 00:11:59.259 For Christ's sake in the gospel. 00:11:59.879 --> 00:12:01.320 For Christ's sake in the gospel. 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:02.420 Okay? 00:12:02.659 --> 00:12:03.759 That's the first point. 00:12:04.539 --> 00:12:05.360 Second point. 00:12:08.300 --> 00:12:10.759 We must have mission at the forefront. 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:12.139 Okay? 00:12:12.700 --> 00:12:15.560 Again, this isn't just so we can have another church. 00:12:15.680 --> 00:12:16.580 This isn't about you. 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:18.879 This isn't about some bless me club. 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:20.220 This isn't about comfort. 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:21.320 Okay? 00:12:21.740 --> 00:12:24.879 I know a lot of you are sitting in couches, but this is not about comfort. 00:12:25.500 --> 00:12:25.720 Okay? 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:28.519 Mission must be at the forefront. 00:12:29.100 --> 00:12:30.139 It's going to make you uncomfortable. 00:12:30.300 --> 00:12:31.300 It's going to make me uncomfortable. 00:12:31.500 --> 00:12:32.480 It's going to press us. 00:12:32.980 --> 00:12:34.200 It's going to push us. 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:36.080 Luke 19.10. 00:12:36.640 --> 00:12:37.180 Jesus said, 00:12:37.300 --> 00:12:41.320 The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. 00:12:41.820 --> 00:12:44.379 That has to be what we're aiming at right from the beginning. 00:12:44.900 --> 00:12:45.100 Okay? 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:49.340 We have to have our sights set, our focus set on mission. 00:12:50.259 --> 00:12:50.580 All right? 00:12:50.580 --> 00:12:55.259 You might have been involved in quote unquote missional communities before this that weren't 00:12:55.259 --> 00:12:57.860 missional because they had 50 people in them. 00:12:58.220 --> 00:12:58.740 No more. 00:12:59.520 --> 00:13:02.139 Missional communities will be missional in this church. 00:13:02.460 --> 00:13:05.660 And that's on every single one of you to make sure that that happens. 00:13:05.920 --> 00:13:06.660 No exceptions. 00:13:07.800 --> 00:13:08.040 Okay? 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:09.339 That has to happen. 00:13:09.959 --> 00:13:10.959 We're a church. 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:12.039 Right? 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:13.620 This isn't about us. 00:13:13.939 --> 00:13:15.519 It's for Christ and the gospel. 00:13:15.899 --> 00:13:19.000 If it's for Christ and the gospel, we must be on mission. 00:13:19.319 --> 00:13:21.299 We're seeking and saving lost people. 00:13:21.959 --> 00:13:23.219 You can seek a lot of things. 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:24.579 You can seek your own interests. 00:13:24.899 --> 00:13:25.860 You can seek comfort. 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:29.059 You can seek a new little small family of believers. 00:13:29.379 --> 00:13:32.879 Are you seeking ways to save the lost? 00:13:33.779 --> 00:13:34.719 Are you seeking that? 00:13:35.579 --> 00:13:36.879 Matthew 4.19. 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:37.879 Matthew 5.19. 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:42.980 Jesus said to these ones who would be his disciples, he said, follow me and I will make 00:13:42.980 --> 00:13:44.480 you fishers of men. 00:13:45.299 --> 00:13:45.500 Okay? 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:52.740 We need to be fishers of men where we are trying to catch lost souls and bring them into the 00:13:52.740 --> 00:13:53.460 kingdom of light. 00:13:54.179 --> 00:13:54.419 Right? 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:56.759 Are you going to be a fisher of men? 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:00.639 If you're not, hey, you got no business being here. 00:14:00.740 --> 00:14:05.480 This is not about anything like for Christ and the gospel. 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.440 We're going to be fishers of men. 00:14:07.740 --> 00:14:08.620 That's what this is. 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:09.480 All right? 00:14:10.100 --> 00:14:14.960 And that means you're going to have to, there's going to be things maybe that you didn't do 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:15.580 in the past. 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:16.560 Even this in this pyramid. 00:14:16.700 --> 00:14:18.720 Maybe you're someone who barely ever prays out loud. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:20.360 That needs to change. 00:14:21.420 --> 00:14:22.580 Like start now. 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:24.759 Step out of your comfort zone. 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.240 Don't just do what you've been comfortable with. 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.000 You're the person maybe who never did this. 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:30.680 Do it. 00:14:31.379 --> 00:14:33.460 You're the person who only did this. 00:14:33.659 --> 00:14:34.480 Do something else. 00:14:35.299 --> 00:14:38.860 Still do what you're called to do, you're gifted to do, but step out. 00:14:39.560 --> 00:14:41.060 We got to do whatever it takes. 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:41.940 Okay? 00:14:42.500 --> 00:14:43.500 To go and make disciples. 00:14:43.659 --> 00:14:45.240 Matthew 28, 18 to 20. 00:14:45.240 --> 00:15:05.860 We have to go. 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:11.480 That means the word go means wherever you're at, you have to move. 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:13.740 We have to go somewhere else. 00:15:14.379 --> 00:15:14.500 Okay? 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:16.759 Where you're at isn't good enough. 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:17.360 Okay? 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:19.580 That's literally and figuratively. 00:15:20.019 --> 00:15:20.220 Okay? 00:15:20.560 --> 00:15:23.740 You're in a place where you're not thinking about the lost. 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:25.139 You're not going after the lost. 00:15:25.139 --> 00:15:29.600 You're not reorientating your life around the kingdom of God and Christ and his gospel. 00:15:30.500 --> 00:15:32.920 Then you need to move out of that place. 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:34.600 It's time to go. 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:37.540 You might say, I don't know if I'm ready for this. 00:15:37.800 --> 00:15:38.360 Too late. 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:39.639 You already jumped out of the plane. 00:15:39.920 --> 00:15:40.720 You're already sent. 00:15:41.340 --> 00:15:41.580 Okay? 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:44.220 The parachute's going down. 00:15:44.460 --> 00:15:45.779 You can't go back up. 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:46.560 All right? 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:47.540 You've landed. 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:50.200 Go. 00:15:50.820 --> 00:15:51.620 Go what? 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:52.720 Go make disciples. 00:15:53.139 --> 00:15:53.960 That's our command. 00:15:54.340 --> 00:15:55.120 There's no exceptions. 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:57.259 It's not for some people and not other people. 00:15:57.340 --> 00:15:58.540 That's just for the evangelists. 00:15:58.820 --> 00:15:59.139 No. 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:00.580 It's for all of us. 00:16:00.940 --> 00:16:01.620 We got to go. 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:03.440 We got to go make disciples. 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.540 Because they have to hear. 00:16:07.280 --> 00:16:07.420 Right? 00:16:07.500 --> 00:16:08.960 Romans 10, 13 to 15. 00:16:09.380 --> 00:16:12.460 Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. 00:16:13.540 --> 00:16:17.480 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.380 And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? 00:16:21.379 --> 00:16:25.439 And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:28.879 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:30.720 You've been sent. 00:16:31.700 --> 00:16:33.120 What have you been sent to do? 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:35.299 You've been sent to preach the good news. 00:16:35.620 --> 00:16:39.340 How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news. 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:40.019 Okay? 00:16:40.740 --> 00:16:45.039 This church has to have, every single one of you needs to have beautiful feet. 00:16:45.659 --> 00:16:46.460 Do you hear me? 00:16:46.460 --> 00:16:48.620 Hey, everyone's got to have beautiful feet. 00:16:48.780 --> 00:16:49.820 How do you have beautiful feet? 00:16:50.780 --> 00:16:54.040 You're one who uses those feet to preach the good news. 00:16:54.800 --> 00:16:58.259 To go where lost people are at and preach the good news. 00:16:58.780 --> 00:17:02.139 The fact that he says, how can they believe unless they hear? 00:17:02.400 --> 00:17:06.420 You would think he would say, blessed are those with the lips that preach good news. 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:07.640 He didn't say lips. 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:09.220 That would make sense, wouldn't it? 00:17:09.220 --> 00:17:11.120 You're kind of thinking, wait a second. 00:17:11.660 --> 00:17:15.100 He's saying, if they don't, they can't believe unless they hear. 00:17:15.120 --> 00:17:17.600 And they can't hear unless someone preaches. 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:18.819 That comes from your mouth. 00:17:18.940 --> 00:17:19.900 That comes from your lips. 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.200 You'd think he would say something to the effect then. 00:17:22.539 --> 00:17:27.000 The next thing should be, how beautiful are the lips or the tongues that preach good news. 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:29.200 But then he switches to feet. 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:31.360 Why would he say that? 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:35.819 Because in order to preach the good news, you've got to move. 00:17:36.220 --> 00:17:37.360 You've got to use your feet. 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:39.059 You've got to go somewhere else. 00:17:39.139 --> 00:17:40.339 You've got to go where they are. 00:17:41.179 --> 00:17:45.159 We've got to find out where are the lost people that God is calling us to, 00:17:45.299 --> 00:17:46.819 and how are we going to get to them? 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:48.919 That's imperative. 00:17:49.299 --> 00:17:50.219 It's not optional. 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:51.679 That has to happen. 00:17:52.379 --> 00:17:53.779 We need beautiful feet. 00:17:54.399 --> 00:17:54.579 Right? 00:18:00.979 --> 00:18:02.319 This is our first Sunday. 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:03.259 Okay? 00:18:04.500 --> 00:18:07.299 This is a big deal in the sense that it's the first Sunday. 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.619 But it's not a big deal because this is not the beginning of Christ's church. 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:12.399 Okay? 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:18.959 You know, when I look back, I think it's really important that we start the church, 00:18:19.339 --> 00:18:20.899 the official start of it. 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:23.000 This is the trial run right here. 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:23.500 Okay? 00:18:24.399 --> 00:18:25.740 A little wonky a little bit. 00:18:25.779 --> 00:18:26.579 We're figuring it out. 00:18:26.719 --> 00:18:28.039 And that's why we do this. 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:28.619 This is great. 00:18:29.339 --> 00:18:32.819 I already have about five things that I want to do differently next time. 00:18:32.899 --> 00:18:33.099 Okay? 00:18:33.639 --> 00:18:34.240 That's great. 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:35.200 That's why we do this. 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:36.259 You probably have some too. 00:18:36.859 --> 00:18:37.079 Okay? 00:18:37.120 --> 00:18:38.000 That I haven't thought of. 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:38.579 Right? 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:40.400 This is not the big deal. 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:44.660 The big deal is May 1st when we launch two missional communities. 00:18:45.019 --> 00:18:46.299 Why is that a big deal? 00:18:46.859 --> 00:18:49.460 Because if we make the big deal the Sunday gathering, 00:18:49.740 --> 00:18:54.059 then the big deal of the church is the church gathering for themselves and for Jesus. 00:18:54.299 --> 00:18:54.599 No. 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:56.559 It's for Christ and the gospel. 00:18:57.240 --> 00:18:59.500 It has to be founded on mission. 00:18:59.919 --> 00:19:01.439 Someone says, when did Christ's church start? 00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:03.119 I'm going to say May 1st. 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:05.039 Someone said, when did Bellico start? 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:09.719 I say September 14th, 2011. 00:19:10.159 --> 00:19:12.619 Did we start meeting September 14th, 2011? 00:19:12.939 --> 00:19:15.699 No, we met in January of that same year. 00:19:16.159 --> 00:19:17.659 Well, why don't you say the church started then? 00:19:17.660 --> 00:19:21.800 Because we didn't start a missional community until September 14th, 2011. 00:19:22.840 --> 00:19:30.279 And if we, if it's important that built into the bricks of our foundational layer of our church 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:34.500 is mission, is the gospel, is the sending of us into the world, 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:38.700 is us proactively, intentionally saying, who are the people? 00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:42.460 Well, what are the places that we will be on mission to? 00:19:43.360 --> 00:19:44.920 And we're doing that. 00:19:45.380 --> 00:19:52.059 If we start this church and have a foundation of just us for us, 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:53.480 we're in big trouble. 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:57.660 And Christ does not get the glory. 00:19:58.500 --> 00:20:01.539 In order for Christ to get the glory, we need to be about what he's about. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:04.759 And Jesus came to seek and to save those who are lost. 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:13.059 And so, you have to be, we all have to be so infused with purpose right now. 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:16.619 And the purpose is for Christ and the gospel. 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:17.500 All right? 00:20:18.379 --> 00:20:19.440 Make no mistake. 00:20:20.059 --> 00:20:21.160 I love that we're doing this. 00:20:21.180 --> 00:20:21.599 And we did this. 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:22.279 We've been sent. 00:20:22.879 --> 00:20:25.140 But get ready for May 1st. 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:25.720 All right? 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:28.579 That's when we got two new missional communities starting. 00:20:29.019 --> 00:20:30.559 And let's go. 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:31.500 All right? 00:20:31.500 --> 00:20:35.240 That's when we're focusing on, okay, who are we going to reach out to? 00:20:35.460 --> 00:20:36.480 How are we going to get to them? 00:20:36.779 --> 00:20:37.680 How are we going to make a way? 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:41.960 How are we going to put time in our calendar for evangelism? 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:44.140 How are we going to connect with lost people? 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:49.059 How are we going to just build relationships and bring the gospel to lost people? 00:20:49.140 --> 00:20:50.519 How are we going to pray towards these things? 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:52.279 Like, that is imperative. 00:20:53.220 --> 00:20:53.400 Okay? 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:55.140 Number three. 00:20:57.060 --> 00:21:01.080 As I said before, they had to leave your wealth. 00:21:01.180 --> 00:21:03.620 Not just the physical wealth, but the relational wealth. 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:04.100 Okay? 00:21:05.040 --> 00:21:05.780 Third point. 00:21:06.100 --> 00:21:07.780 This needs to be continually costly. 00:21:08.800 --> 00:21:08.980 Okay? 00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:10.920 It's not just cost on the front end. 00:21:11.340 --> 00:21:13.259 It needs to be cost all the way through. 00:21:14.100 --> 00:21:14.380 All right? 00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:16.240 Acts 20, 24. 00:21:17.259 --> 00:21:19.700 Acts 20, one of my favorite chapters of the whole Bible. 00:21:19.700 --> 00:21:20.640 Paul says, 00:21:20.740 --> 00:21:25.660 I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, 00:21:25.660 --> 00:21:30.440 if only I may finish my course in the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:34.039 to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:38.059 He's saying, hey, if I'm not testifying to the gospel of the grace of God, 00:21:38.420 --> 00:21:45.180 my life is not valuable or precious to me unless it's being used for that. 00:21:46.120 --> 00:21:47.059 Do you hear that? 00:21:47.259 --> 00:21:48.779 Can you say that of yourself? 00:21:49.700 --> 00:21:50.100 Okay? 00:21:50.900 --> 00:21:52.900 Again, no coasting here. 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:55.019 No like, oh, this is cool, dude. 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:55.660 New. 00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:56.680 Novelty. 00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:57.840 New. 00:21:57.840 --> 00:21:57.880 New. 00:21:58.240 --> 00:21:58.680 Church. 00:21:59.360 --> 00:21:59.799 New. 00:21:59.940 --> 00:22:00.819 I love new. 00:22:00.980 --> 00:22:02.200 I love difference. 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:03.759 Okay? 00:22:04.380 --> 00:22:05.559 It's not about you. 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.700 It's about Christ and his gospel. 00:22:10.120 --> 00:22:15.120 Paul says, I don't account my life of any value nor as precious to myself. 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:19.679 Let me prophesy to you for a second. 00:22:20.479 --> 00:22:26.019 The difficulty you will have in the coming days and month will be directly correlated to 00:22:26.019 --> 00:22:29.000 how valuable and precious you deem your own life. 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:33.420 Because Jesus is demanding every bit of your life. 00:22:33.420 --> 00:22:40.279 And when you feel the pull where you're being stretched in a way that you don't want to go, 00:22:40.620 --> 00:22:49.460 ask yourself the question, is my life too valuable and too precious to me that I am not willing to give up what I have 00:22:49.460 --> 00:22:53.600 to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. 00:22:54.200 --> 00:22:55.660 It will pull you. 00:22:56.460 --> 00:23:00.380 It will pull at your affections for other things. 00:23:00.620 --> 00:23:05.740 If your life is valuable to you, is precious to you, 00:23:05.740 --> 00:23:11.720 then it will be very difficult to pull your clenched hands off of the things in your life 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:17.019 that God is calling you to sacrifice for the sake of the gospel of the grace of God. 00:23:18.460 --> 00:23:20.859 Hold lightly to everything you have. 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:22.259 Hold lightly to your stuff. 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:23.779 Hold lightly to your schedule. 00:23:24.779 --> 00:23:28.420 Hold lightly to your fun, your entertainment, your vacation, everything. 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:29.079 All of it. 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:30.940 It's all going to be on the altar. 00:23:32.140 --> 00:23:32.339 Right? 00:23:32.940 --> 00:23:33.980 This is the cost. 00:23:33.980 --> 00:23:36.620 This is the cost of gospel ministers. 00:23:38.360 --> 00:23:42.559 They say with joy, because they believe the gospel themselves, 00:23:43.420 --> 00:23:47.480 that I don't count my life of any value nor as precious to myself. 00:23:48.420 --> 00:23:52.539 Only I may finish my course in the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus 00:23:52.539 --> 00:23:54.799 to testify to the grace of God. 00:23:55.019 --> 00:23:56.660 You've received this ministry as well. 00:23:56.900 --> 00:23:58.680 You've been sent out by a church. 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:01.079 Don't think that that's just some formality. 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.740 That's God sending you. 00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:09.200 That was apostolic sending with true affection, true tears. 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:10.299 That was real. 00:24:10.700 --> 00:24:11.960 That's not a formality. 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.240 Take that not as man sending you. 00:24:15.579 --> 00:24:16.519 Who sent you? 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:17.740 God sent you. 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:19.039 Do you believe that? 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:27.339 Will you believe that when the sending and the requirement of sacrifice for the sake of Christ and the gospel 00:24:27.339 --> 00:24:30.400 requires you to give up something that's precious to you? 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:33.059 Will you remember that God is the one who sent you? 00:24:33.059 --> 00:24:35.700 You didn't choose to be a part of this. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:36.859 God sent you. 00:24:37.220 --> 00:24:38.259 Do you hear me on that? 00:24:38.879 --> 00:24:41.940 If you chose to do it, you can choose not to do it. 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:47.740 If God chose, if God sent you, then you don't say no to God. 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:49.839 You say, yes, sir. 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:52.879 I only want to please my commanding officer. 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:56.019 I don't want to be involved in civilian affairs. 00:24:56.819 --> 00:24:59.179 Whatever you have, Lord, it's all yours. 00:25:00.500 --> 00:25:03.019 1 Corinthians 9, 19 to 27. 00:25:03.459 --> 00:25:04.139 Paul again. 00:25:04.859 --> 00:25:08.980 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all. 00:25:08.980 --> 00:25:09.420 Why? 00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:14.079 That I might win more of them. 00:25:14.940 --> 00:25:15.900 What's the goal? 00:25:16.339 --> 00:25:17.380 Christ and the gospel. 00:25:17.700 --> 00:25:19.140 We got to win more souls. 00:25:20.099 --> 00:25:23.740 Like you need to have like souls need to be stamped to your eyeballs. 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:25.799 God, give me souls. 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:27.860 When you get up in the morning, pray. 00:25:27.980 --> 00:25:29.140 God, give me souls. 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:32.799 When you're going through your day, say, God, give us souls. 00:25:33.220 --> 00:25:36.140 When you're walking around the grocery store, say, God, give me souls. 00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:40.920 When you go to bed at night and you pray, say, God, give us souls. 00:25:42.600 --> 00:25:46.180 I want to make myself a servant to all that I might win more of them. 00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:50.220 You might say, all right, we'll see if we can get a few here or there. 00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:51.740 No, no contentment. 00:25:51.900 --> 00:25:52.520 I want more. 00:25:53.220 --> 00:25:54.420 I want more souls. 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:55.920 I want more of them. 00:25:55.980 --> 00:25:56.940 I'll do whatever I got to take. 00:25:57.020 --> 00:25:59.560 To the Jews, I became as a Jew in order to win Jews. 00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:03.180 To those under the law, I became as one under the law. 00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:08.220 Though not being myself under the law, that I might win those under the law. 00:26:08.740 --> 00:26:12.740 To those outside the law, I became as one outside the law. 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:16.220 Not being outside the law of God, but under the law of Christ. 00:26:16.580 --> 00:26:19.259 That I might win those outside of the law. 00:26:19.600 --> 00:26:21.320 To the weak, I became weak. 00:26:21.539 --> 00:26:22.880 That I might win the weak. 00:26:23.080 --> 00:26:24.120 You seeing a pattern here? 00:26:24.560 --> 00:26:27.799 Whatever I got to do to win souls. 00:26:28.560 --> 00:26:31.740 The Bible says in Proverbs, he who wins souls is wise. 00:26:31.740 --> 00:26:34.799 That's a prayer I pray often. 00:26:34.940 --> 00:26:37.960 God, give me the wisdom to win souls. 00:26:38.859 --> 00:26:39.019 Right? 00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:41.079 To the weak, I became weak. 00:26:41.120 --> 00:26:41.859 That I might win the weak. 00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:43.759 I become all things. 00:26:44.819 --> 00:26:45.599 All things. 00:26:45.900 --> 00:26:47.460 What do we have to do to win soul? 00:26:48.019 --> 00:26:49.339 Do we have to do some things? 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:49.859 No, no, no. 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:52.900 Paul says, I become all things. 00:26:53.380 --> 00:26:54.380 All things. 00:26:54.380 --> 00:26:56.440 To all people. 00:26:57.040 --> 00:27:00.680 That I, by all means, I might save some. 00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:03.400 It's for the sake of the gospel. 00:27:04.600 --> 00:27:05.000 Right? 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:05.860 Verse 23. 00:27:05.940 --> 00:27:07.260 I do it all for the sake of the gospel. 00:27:07.800 --> 00:27:08.480 Let me say that again. 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:10.020 I have become all things. 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:11.060 To all people. 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:13.660 That by all means, I might save some. 00:27:13.820 --> 00:27:16.720 I do it all for the sake of the gospel. 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:19.500 That I may share with them in its blessings. 00:27:20.140 --> 00:27:20.940 All things. 00:27:22.100 --> 00:27:22.960 All people. 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:24.299 All means. 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:26.339 Are you willing to employ all means? 00:27:27.460 --> 00:27:28.900 Are you willing to become all things? 00:27:30.180 --> 00:27:32.839 That you might win as many as possible for the sake of the gospel. 00:27:33.700 --> 00:27:35.680 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run? 00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:37.519 But only one receives the prize? 00:27:37.980 --> 00:27:39.460 So run that you might obtain it. 00:27:39.460 --> 00:27:44.380 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:45.240 You hear? 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:46.460 There's a lot of alls in here. 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:47.620 You hear this? 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:51.940 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. 00:27:52.259 --> 00:27:54.240 They do it to receive a perishable wreath. 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:55.819 But we an imperishable. 00:27:56.740 --> 00:27:56.900 Okay? 00:27:57.640 --> 00:27:58.160 These guys. 00:27:58.380 --> 00:27:59.779 You see what athletes do? 00:27:59.779 --> 00:28:00.720 I was meeting. 00:28:01.220 --> 00:28:03.640 Gene and I met with a professional athlete the other day. 00:28:03.940 --> 00:28:05.160 Here in Kansas City. 00:28:05.860 --> 00:28:08.920 And we're asking him all the things he does. 00:28:09.460 --> 00:28:12.799 Like what does a typical day look like as a professional soccer player? 00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:18.640 And half his day is just spent on stuff they do for their body. 00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:22.920 Like all just kinds of crazy training stuff. 00:28:23.660 --> 00:28:24.019 Diet. 00:28:25.900 --> 00:28:26.420 Icing. 00:28:26.940 --> 00:28:27.779 Light therapy. 00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:30.340 Every kind of therapy you can think of. 00:28:30.460 --> 00:28:31.940 That's like half their day. 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:33.620 And you think, wow. 00:28:34.420 --> 00:28:36.920 This guy does all kinds of stuff. 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:37.720 What? 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:37.839 What? 00:28:38.339 --> 00:28:40.700 For an imperishable, for a perishable wreath. 00:28:41.779 --> 00:28:43.120 Something that's not going to last. 00:28:43.500 --> 00:28:44.539 You might win the trophy. 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:46.019 That's it. 00:28:46.180 --> 00:28:46.740 You got it. 00:28:46.980 --> 00:28:47.440 It's done. 00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:53.140 But we, how much more should we be committed to something imperishable? 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:55.160 Something that lasts forever. 00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:56.799 Or something that's eternal. 00:28:58.100 --> 00:28:58.299 Okay? 00:28:58.299 --> 00:29:03.440 You look at that and you say, that's, some people say, oh, that's admirable. 00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:05.099 He's really passionate about that. 00:29:05.980 --> 00:29:12.240 Would someone look at your life and say that what you believe and the way you act is consistent? 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:23.579 Like if you believe in eternal life and eternal punishment, is the way you reach out to souls and care about souls, is it consistent? 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:25.700 Is your actions consistent with your beliefs? 00:29:26.120 --> 00:29:31.200 Is the way that you orientate your life consistent with what you believe about God and lost people? 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:36.080 Or would they look at it and say, they're kind of running aimlessly? 00:29:36.539 --> 00:29:45.840 Paul says, so, in light of the fact that we are going for an imperishable wreath, he goes, I do not run aimlessly. 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:51.019 I do not box as one beating the air, but I discipline my body and keep it under control. 00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:54.019 Lest after preaching to others, I should not be disqualified. 00:29:57.019 --> 00:29:59.339 That I should be disqualified. 00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:00.659 He's trying not to be disqualified. 00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:01.819 Okay? 00:30:02.299 --> 00:30:04.059 Run as though to get the prize. 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:04.839 Okay? 00:30:04.919 --> 00:30:08.919 Everyone's going to be able to run in different ways in this thing, in this church. 00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:09.559 Okay? 00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:10.799 What way are you running? 00:30:11.439 --> 00:30:12.480 Are you just running? 00:30:13.539 --> 00:30:15.099 Somebody's just like, yeah, I'm here. 00:30:15.099 --> 00:30:16.759 All right, get off my case, man. 00:30:17.099 --> 00:30:17.579 I'm running. 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:19.199 I'm doing the thing. 00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:19.919 I showed up. 00:30:20.139 --> 00:30:21.519 I left Bellicose. 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:22.879 I've already sacrificed. 00:30:23.779 --> 00:30:25.319 Like it was more comfortable there. 00:30:25.399 --> 00:30:26.419 I had more friends there. 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:27.119 Now I'm here. 00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:28.839 Get off my case, man. 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:31.000 I'm here. 00:30:31.919 --> 00:30:32.980 How are you running though? 00:30:33.919 --> 00:30:36.240 Are you running to get the prize or are you just running? 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:41.299 Is not Jesus worthy to run after the prize? 00:30:43.819 --> 00:30:44.659 Number four. 00:30:45.719 --> 00:30:47.199 We run with no fear. 00:30:47.859 --> 00:30:48.059 Okay? 00:30:48.379 --> 00:30:52.699 I would say one of the biggest weaknesses of this church up to this point has been fear. 00:30:55.219 --> 00:30:57.339 Our biggest weakness has been fear. 00:30:58.659 --> 00:30:59.779 Fear of the unknown. 00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:02.279 Fear of leadership. 00:31:03.659 --> 00:31:07.059 Fear of other people and their own weaknesses. 00:31:07.719 --> 00:31:08.759 Fear of our own weaknesses. 00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:09.379 Fear of the unknown. 00:31:09.379 --> 00:31:11.319 There's been fear in this church. 00:31:11.859 --> 00:31:12.039 Okay? 00:31:12.259 --> 00:31:14.379 I don't say that with any condemnation. 00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:17.359 I don't say that with any being upset. 00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:24.079 I do say it specifically because it's real and we should be acknowledging that and fighting 00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:24.660 after it. 00:31:24.660 --> 00:31:29.460 And I'm concerned that that same fear might creep into our evangelism. 00:31:29.460 --> 00:31:36.940 Because if the fear has been present in other areas, I'm afraid we might be afraid to preach the gospel. 00:31:36.940 --> 00:31:43.160 And you gotta say to yourself, never. 00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:43.860 We can't. 00:31:43.940 --> 00:31:44.680 We can't. 00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:51.460 If we have a church that's afraid to preach the gospel, we're not gonna have much of a church. 00:31:51.460 --> 00:31:53.500 All right? 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:57.460 If there's one thing we can't be afraid of, it's to preach the gospel. 00:31:59.259 --> 00:32:01.000 2 Timothy 1, 7-12. 00:32:01.420 --> 00:32:07.620 God gave us a spirit, not of fear, but of power and love and self-control. 00:32:08.840 --> 00:32:09.000 Okay? 00:32:09.360 --> 00:32:13.279 Therefore, whenever you see therefore, you look at what's before it to see what it's there for. 00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:14.360 All right? 00:32:14.860 --> 00:32:17.120 So he said, hey, you haven't been given a spirit of fear. 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:18.519 Why is that there? 00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:21.100 Because for the next thing then he says, 00:32:21.099 --> 00:32:26.059 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor me as prisoner, 00:32:26.159 --> 00:32:29.859 but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God. 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:30.919 Again, why? 00:32:31.139 --> 00:32:33.619 For the gospel, by the power of God. 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:35.279 You haven't been given a spirit of fear. 00:32:35.659 --> 00:32:36.719 You might say, but I'm afraid. 00:32:37.179 --> 00:32:38.799 Well, that's not what Jesus gave you. 00:32:39.819 --> 00:32:44.719 You're giving into your flesh, not taking the gift that God gave you, 00:32:44.919 --> 00:32:48.339 which is a spirit of power and love and self-control. 00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:52.619 Self-control meaning you can control whether or not you're going to give in to fear. 00:32:53.299 --> 00:32:54.639 You believe you've been given that? 00:32:55.179 --> 00:32:56.439 Are we going to act like that? 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.599 Therefore, I'm not ashamed of the testimony about our Lord. 00:33:00.959 --> 00:33:04.000 Do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor me of his prisoner, 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:06.839 but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, 00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:09.480 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:14.339 not because of our works, but because of his own purpose and grace, 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:17.359 which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 00:33:18.699 --> 00:33:22.859 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, 00:33:23.179 --> 00:33:26.559 who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.679 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, 00:33:30.159 --> 00:33:31.539 which is why I suffer as I do. 00:33:31.539 --> 00:33:37.299 But I'm not ashamed or I'm not afraid to talk about these things. 00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:39.879 Why? Why is he not ashamed? 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:42.759 For I know whom I have believed. 00:33:43.619 --> 00:33:45.200 I know whom I believed, 00:33:45.339 --> 00:33:50.279 and I'm convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me. 00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:50.940 Okay? 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:52.339 Do you know him? 00:33:52.339 --> 00:33:59.379 If you're not doubling down on knowing God, you will be ashamed. 00:34:00.099 --> 00:34:04.919 An ashamed person is someone who's not living in that awareness of who God is. 00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:06.059 Okay? 00:34:06.220 --> 00:34:07.019 I'm not ashamed. 00:34:07.139 --> 00:34:07.379 Why? 00:34:07.579 --> 00:34:08.779 Because I know whom I have believed. 00:34:09.699 --> 00:34:10.799 So I know whom I have believed. 00:34:11.860 --> 00:34:13.500 Romans 1, 15 to 16. 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:14.519 He says, 00:34:14.619 --> 00:34:17.500 I am eager to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. 00:34:17.900 --> 00:34:19.239 Are you eager to preach the gospel? 00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:22.259 If you're not, don't fake it. 00:34:22.839 --> 00:34:25.559 Don't feel so bad about it that you can't acknowledge it. 00:34:25.819 --> 00:34:26.979 Just be honest about it. 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:27.519 Tell someone, 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:29.339 Hey, I'm not eager to preach the gospel. 00:34:29.699 --> 00:34:30.859 And then let's pray for each other. 00:34:31.659 --> 00:34:34.619 God, give us eagerness to preach the gospel. 00:34:35.019 --> 00:34:35.399 Why? 00:34:35.859 --> 00:34:36.459 Verse 16. 00:34:36.579 --> 00:34:37.899 For I'm not ashamed of the gospel, 00:34:38.259 --> 00:34:41.000 for it is the power of God for the salvation of those who believe. 00:34:41.239 --> 00:34:44.539 If you've been given something that is powerful to save people, 00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:46.199 why would you be ashamed to use it? 00:34:46.500 --> 00:34:48.019 Why wouldn't you be eager to use it? 00:34:48.019 --> 00:34:50.179 It's because we forget what we have. 00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:55.380 We forget that it's not up to our ability to preach the gospel well. 00:34:55.619 --> 00:34:57.759 It's up to his ability to save well. 00:34:58.679 --> 00:34:59.619 Do you believe that? 00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:02.119 That the gospel is power in and of itself. 00:35:02.619 --> 00:35:04.079 I say, man, I don't feel too powerful. 00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:05.039 So what? 00:35:05.820 --> 00:35:09.079 You have the most powerful message on planet earth. 00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:10.239 The gospel. 00:35:10.759 --> 00:35:12.500 It's power in and of itself. 00:35:13.019 --> 00:35:14.480 Every time you preach it, 00:35:14.619 --> 00:35:15.980 even though it might feel dull, 00:35:15.980 --> 00:35:19.559 might feel like, oh, this is not working good. 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:21.780 It's not true. 00:35:22.860 --> 00:35:24.079 It is power. 00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:29.639 It is the power of God for the salvation of those who believe. 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:31.740 Do you believe that? 00:35:32.460 --> 00:35:34.219 Do you believe that when you preach it? 00:35:34.219 --> 00:35:41.419 Philippians 1, 12 to 14. 00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:42.399 I want you to know, brothers, 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:45.719 that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:48.899 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard 00:35:48.899 --> 00:35:52.679 and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. 00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:58.279 And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, 00:35:58.359 --> 00:36:01.799 are much more bold to speak the word without fear. 00:36:02.139 --> 00:36:04.199 How do you speak the word without fear? 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:05.819 You have to be confident in the Lord. 00:36:06.539 --> 00:36:08.079 You have to be confident in the Lord. 00:36:08.859 --> 00:36:10.440 Then you'll advance the gospel. 00:36:10.779 --> 00:36:12.039 You'll do things for Christ. 00:36:12.980 --> 00:36:15.539 Paul's example caused them to be confident in the Lord, 00:36:15.899 --> 00:36:19.199 and it made them much more bold to speak the word without fear. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:21.019 Where's your confidence? 00:36:21.019 --> 00:36:21.980 Is it in yourself? 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.940 Are you afraid because your confidence is in your own ability 00:36:25.940 --> 00:36:27.340 and your ability isn't that great? 00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:32.480 Or are you bold because your confidence is in the ability of the one you preach? 00:36:33.539 --> 00:36:34.519 It's in Christ. 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:37.860 You're confident in Christ, and you're as bold as a lion. 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:39.059 All right? 00:36:40.099 --> 00:36:41.800 Last thing, missional strategy. 00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:42.759 Okay? 00:36:43.500 --> 00:36:44.659 We've got to hit the ground running. 00:36:47.179 --> 00:36:48.139 May 1st. 00:36:48.259 --> 00:36:49.420 Start these missional communities. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:50.159 Right? 00:36:50.940 --> 00:36:52.440 We're going to try to do five things. 00:36:53.099 --> 00:36:53.259 All right? 00:36:53.299 --> 00:36:54.619 These five things we're going to do now. 00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:56.319 We're going to do them next week. 00:36:56.359 --> 00:36:57.460 We're going to do them next year. 00:36:57.519 --> 00:36:59.500 We're going to do them 10 years from now, Lord willing. 00:37:00.299 --> 00:37:00.619 Okay? 00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:04.399 We're going to pray for the gospel to be proclaimed and believed. 00:37:04.899 --> 00:37:05.119 Okay? 00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:06.259 Start with prayer. 00:37:06.940 --> 00:37:09.899 Are you praying for the gospel to be proclaimed and to be believed? 00:37:10.219 --> 00:37:11.219 We should be praying that. 00:37:11.879 --> 00:37:14.739 Two, we build new and existing relationships. 00:37:15.339 --> 00:37:15.679 All right? 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:20.579 We want to build into the—remember, everything we're doing now, you're building into the culture. 00:37:20.579 --> 00:37:30.239 All the things you love about Bellicose, the church you were sent out of, those were—the majority of those things were intentionally built in from the beginning. 00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:34.239 And now people come in who didn't build it enjoy that stuff. 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:36.179 You get to do that for this church. 00:37:36.839 --> 00:37:44.719 One of the things you want to do is we don't want to be one of those churches who has their quota of friends and doesn't want to meet new people. 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:52.919 We need, from this day forward and forevermore, to always be a church that is marked by selfless interest in other people. 00:37:53.459 --> 00:37:55.039 A new person walks in the door. 00:37:55.699 --> 00:38:01.039 The other person you're talking to should understand, hey, we want to make sure they feel welcome. 00:38:01.299 --> 00:38:05.899 We want to make sure that people feel befriended, kindness. 00:38:06.539 --> 00:38:10.139 We're always looking to build new relationships with people. 00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:12.359 You see a new person, I want to meet them. 00:38:12.359 --> 00:38:14.099 You say, I'm not that kind of person. 00:38:14.099 --> 00:38:15.279 You're a Christian. 00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:16.380 You are that kind of person. 00:38:16.819 --> 00:38:21.400 You are that kind of person because the one who lives in you is that kind of person. 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:22.699 Okay? 00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:27.319 So you've got to get over yourself if you're not an extroverted person. 00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:32.000 We have to constantly be on mission to build new and existing relationships. 00:38:32.139 --> 00:38:35.279 We're constantly building new and existing relationships for Christ and for the gospel. 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:38.159 So pray for the gospel you've proclaimed and believed. 00:38:38.460 --> 00:38:40.339 Number two, build new and existing relationships. 00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:43.739 Number three, you've got to preach it. 00:38:44.099 --> 00:38:47.599 Preach the gospel to strangers and those you're building a relationship with. 00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:50.819 It can't just be those you're building a relationship with. 00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:52.319 It shouldn't just be strangers. 00:38:52.500 --> 00:38:53.319 It should be both. 00:38:53.819 --> 00:38:57.519 There's going to be times when we go out and preach the gospel to strangers, people we don't know. 00:38:57.900 --> 00:39:03.159 There's going to be other times when there's people, neighbors, family members, specific people we're building relationship with. 00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:07.299 We're targeting that we're looking for opportunities to preach the gospel. 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:08.079 Okay? 00:39:08.179 --> 00:39:12.679 We're building relationship for more opportunities to speak the gospel into their life. 00:39:13.259 --> 00:39:13.460 A lot. 00:39:13.759 --> 00:39:17.019 Hey, when someone hears the gospel once and they get saved, that's great. 00:39:17.179 --> 00:39:18.899 But a lot of times it doesn't happen that way. 00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:21.460 A lot of times it has to be multiple times. 00:39:21.940 --> 00:39:22.119 Okay? 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:24.319 So we're looking for opportunities to keep doing that. 00:39:25.259 --> 00:39:29.359 Number four, we expose the people we're on mission to to the family of believers. 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:30.179 Okay? 00:39:30.539 --> 00:39:31.659 Meaning you're not doing it alone. 00:39:32.420 --> 00:39:39.920 Yes, there are going to be things that you're always, as a Christian, there will always be people you're on mission to that not everybody in the church is. 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:43.960 But when it makes sense, we want to bring other people in on that mission. 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:47.539 You know, hey, I got this guy at work I've been reaching out to. 00:39:47.820 --> 00:39:49.039 Well, you guys don't work with me. 00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:50.079 How are you going to get to know him? 00:39:50.740 --> 00:39:51.800 Let's figure that out. 00:39:52.720 --> 00:40:12.260 You know, let's invite them to this particular thing or let's go to where he is and let's bring a couple other people with it so that he starts meeting other Christians and sees the love we have for one another so that he can experience the love of God in what he sees in the love between us and towards him together. 00:40:12.260 --> 00:40:15.080 It's the kingdom of God and all of life together. 00:40:15.200 --> 00:40:16.780 We're not just all our individual missions. 00:40:16.900 --> 00:40:25.120 Yes, we all have individual people we're on mission to, but it's going to make sense here and there to bring other people to expose them to the family of believers. 00:40:26.040 --> 00:40:39.480 And when people see that, they're like, you know, there's no way someone's going to do what the Bible says when they say they're going to ask you for the reason for the hope that you have if they don't see on display the reason for the hope that you have. 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:43.659 And that is seen when they're exposed to the family of believers. 00:40:44.219 --> 00:40:46.719 And number five, make people into disciples who make disciples. 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:47.579 Okay. 00:40:47.820 --> 00:40:55.420 If a disciple is someone who makes, you know, if he said, go make disciples to disciples and the disciples you're making should be people who make disciples. 00:40:55.820 --> 00:40:58.740 And so we're constantly teaching people about Jesus constantly. 00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:03.079 We don't just win them to Christ and then say, okay, that's the pastor's job. 00:41:03.420 --> 00:41:04.579 No, that's our job. 00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:05.420 That's all our job. 00:41:05.420 --> 00:41:06.480 Right. 00:41:06.680 --> 00:41:07.599 Those five things. 00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:09.539 Pray for the gospel to be proclaimed and believed. 00:41:09.940 --> 00:41:11.380 Build new and existing relationships. 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:14.920 Preach the gospel to strangers and those we are building relationships with. 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.780 Expose the people we're on mission to, to the family of believers. 00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:20.360 And make people into disciples who make disciples. 00:41:21.139 --> 00:41:23.180 We need to be constantly doing that. 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:24.500 Constantly doing that. 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:33.220 So when we start meeting in these missional communities, you guys are going to need to talk about, okay, where are the existing people in places we're already involved with? 00:41:33.219 --> 00:41:34.819 And how can we be more intentional? 00:41:35.539 --> 00:41:37.359 Who are the new people we're going to reach out to? 00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:38.480 Okay. 00:41:38.579 --> 00:41:39.779 And how are we going to do it? 00:41:40.399 --> 00:41:41.299 How are we going to do it? 00:41:41.839 --> 00:41:43.239 We're going to take inventory of it. 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:46.459 We're going to figure out, okay, how are we going to eat? 00:41:46.539 --> 00:41:47.559 How are we going to do events? 00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:51.500 How are we going to serve and bless so that we can reach other people? 00:41:51.819 --> 00:41:55.719 That's going to require two questions all the time on constant repeat. 00:41:56.299 --> 00:41:59.199 What am I going to start doing and what am I going to stop doing? 00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:00.439 Okay. 00:42:00.980 --> 00:42:08.619 You're going to have times in your life you're going to think, okay, in order to do this, I'm going to have to stop doing something I was already doing and start doing something else. 00:42:09.419 --> 00:42:09.779 Okay. 00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:12.480 That's going to, that's going to be a constant question. 00:42:13.439 --> 00:42:15.960 And then sometimes you're going to just be doing what you're already doing. 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:17.859 You're just doing more gospel intentionality. 00:42:18.179 --> 00:42:20.259 Hey, we're already doing this. 00:42:20.319 --> 00:42:21.980 How come we're not being more missional in this? 00:42:22.699 --> 00:42:24.619 And we work on that together. 00:42:24.619 --> 00:42:38.339 In closing, Philippians 1, 3 to 5, I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you, all making my prayer with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. 00:42:38.659 --> 00:42:42.920 Remember, we're partners, but we're partners in the gospel. 00:42:43.460 --> 00:42:43.579 Okay. 00:42:43.859 --> 00:42:44.920 You're not doing this alone. 00:42:45.819 --> 00:42:46.900 You might say, well, I feel overwhelmed. 00:42:47.339 --> 00:42:48.480 Why are you doing it on your own? 00:42:49.339 --> 00:42:50.199 Doing it together. 00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:52.380 If you feel overwhelmed, tell somebody. 00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:54.400 You feel lonely, tell somebody. 00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:55.840 We're not alone here. 00:42:56.240 --> 00:43:00.280 You're going to feel more alone probably in this new church plant than you did in your old church. 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:02.000 That's, that's normal. 00:43:02.980 --> 00:43:04.460 Don't keep it to yourself. 00:43:04.640 --> 00:43:04.880 Partner. 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:06.420 You've got to partner together. 00:43:07.160 --> 00:43:08.500 You're going to need to be open about that. 00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:09.039 Do you hear me? 00:43:10.180 --> 00:43:11.000 Last verse. 00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:13.539 Oh, this is a great verse to close with. 00:43:13.980 --> 00:43:15.700 Philippians 1, 27 to 29. 00:43:16.099 --> 00:43:19.599 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ. 00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:33.460 So that whether I come and see you or I am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, striving side by side for the faith of the gospel. 00:43:33.460 --> 00:43:36.539 And not frightened in anything by your opponents. 00:43:37.260 --> 00:43:42.440 This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation and that from God. 00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:51.059 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ, you should not only believe in him, but also suffer for his sake. 00:43:51.059 --> 00:44:05.420 So whether I'm here or I'm absent, I want to hear that Christ Church is striving side by side, arms locked, for the faith of the gospel and for the sake of Christ. 00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:05.799 Amen? 00:44:07.019 --> 00:44:07.539 Amen. 00:44:08.279 --> 00:44:09.059 Father, I pray that you... 00:44:09.059 --> 00:44:09.059 00:44:09.059 --> 00:44:09.239 Amen. 00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:09.299 Amen. 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.299